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Re:BrilliantiTunes won't run on hardware that was "designed for Windows 98"TM... it's a real slow hog. Do yourself a favour by not installing that slow POS.
If you want an itunes-a-like (without the store and iPod stuff, but pretty fast) try Musik for windows and linux.
The store is cool though... too bad you'll never be able to use it without upgrading your knackered hardware and painfully out of date OS.
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Re:linux only?
MLDonkey can connect to FastTrack too. Mainly being developed for Linux/Unix, but is also compiled and running on Windows and even MacOS X.
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Re:In other news...
There's an excellent graphical frontend for giFT: Apollon, which uses the qt libraries. After using it, even kazaalite seems confusing and bloated!
On the other hand, I've had troubles connecting to the OpenFT network (read: I cannot connect). Perhaps it's just me...
Anyway, the links:
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Re:GiFT
giFToxic is a Gtk2 frontend (development seems to have stalled); giFT and giFT-FastTrack are needed to use it with FastTrack.
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Still using Kazaa to access FastTrack?Check out MLDonkey. Here's the description from one of their sites:
MLdonkey is a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client. Originally, it was the first open-source client to access the eDonkey network . The protocol was reverse-engeneered using an efficient protocol sniffer, Pandora .
Currently, with eDonkey , it supports several large networks, such as Overnet , Bittorrent , Gnutella (Bearshare, Limewire,etc), Gnutella2 (Shareaza), Fasttrack (Kazaa, Imesh, Grobster), Soulseek (beta), Direct-Connect (alpha), and Opennap (alpha). Networks can be enabled/disabled, searches are performed in parallel on all enabled networks, but each file is only downloaded from one network (wait for next release !), but from multiple clients concurrently.
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Re:thats one way
What about giFT-fasttrack?
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mklivecd
Of course.
A seperate project related to Mandrake and Live CDs is livecd, which has some tools available for making Mandrake-based Live CDs.
mklivecd is a simple tool to generate a live CD, and it is included in Mandrake 9.2 contribs. Basically, you can do something like this to try it out:
# urpmi mklivecd
# mklivecd livecd.iso
There are some issues, which have been addressed in the CVS version.
Also new in CVS is a seperate minimal CD-to-HD installer.
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Re:GUI toolkit libraries
> As to Mozilla/Gecko, I'm not sure but I know there is a GtkMozEmbed and I doubt the API is significantly different to GtkHtml.
Erm, there is quite a large difference between just embedding a widget and having a web browser. gtkhtml and gtkmozembed provide a quick API to embed a html widget into an app, but last time I checked, the app had to do a lot of logic to make everything work together. This would be the equivalent of khtmlwidget then, not khtmlpart, which is actually used by applications.
I think the LOC argument is best supported from people who've actually ported code between gtk and Qt, and vice versa. The kvim authors wrote a piece about this a while ago, and I found the same thing to be true, when I ported xchat's xtext text widget to Qt (see here compared to here).. they are nearly functionally equivalent, but one is less than one half the size of the other =) -
Re:GNOME _still_ isn't integrated
kmail and konqueror in kde 3.2 are much better than they used to be. Between Evolution and kontact/kmail, I'd have to say that they are _extremely_ close in features. Between Konqueror and Epiphany, I'd have to say that Konqueror is better, but khtml is still not as good as gecko is (but khtml feels a LOT faster, probably thanks to Safari)
As for Gaim, Kopete (also new in KDE 3.2) is pretty close to Gaim in featureset. As for xchat, konversation is pretty nice (beats the crappy ksirc), and is included in kdeextragear, and there is even a kde xchat frontend in development (vertigo)
The only exception still is GIMP. There is good news here as well, as Krita (f/k/a, krayon, kimageshop), is back in development. Architecturally, it's quite similiar to GIMP, but it's just lacked developers for the last year, until recently. -
Re:What's the best laptop for running Linux?
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AegisCheck this version control comparison for more options.
Personally I prefer Aegis. It's a bit more complicated to use than CVS (well, aegis is MUCH easier to install than subversion), but takes care about way more situations for you.
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Spyware/malware infests more than just P2PWhile most P2P apps are riddled with the stuff (kudos to Shareaza and MLDonkey for steering clear of it), malware can crop up in some surprising places. I once downloaded a Windows Theme from DebbiesThemes. It came packaged in an
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Re:Right on.
Check out the giFT project...
It's a flexible p2p platform, which has several front ends:
Qt-based Apollon [screenshot],
Gtk-based giFToxic [screenshot],
and curses-based giFTcurs [screenshot].
Also has Mac & Windows clients, check the gift page for more info.
It can connect to various networks via plugins, currently there are plugins for:
OpenFastTrack network [included with gift],
the Gnutella network [included with gift],
and the FastTrack network (the Kazaa network!) [download
The FastTrack (kazaa) plugin was recently developed, as they had to crack the encryption on the login process which had kept them out for some time.
I personally use Gnutella, OpenFT, and FastTrack plugins with Apollon for KDE. It very sweet, I get fast downloads, fast searches, easy to use UI.
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Re:This may have happened already
On the other hand:
giFT-fasttrack
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Re:well it it true
The current plan at yellowTAB is to transition slowly from the BeOS code to code from the OpenBeOS project, which is currently moving at its own pace, and released under the MIT licence (tagged as Free by gnu.org). Btw, there are already parts of OpenBeOS in Zeta. So it's already a bit free
There are also other projects to "clone" the BeOS: BlueEyedOS (BeAPI on top of Linux), BeFree, a fork of the former, and other AtheOS derivatives, but IMO none are close enough to the spirit of the BeOS. OpenBeOS chose to get its own kernel (forked from NewOS, from an Ex-Be engineer), and aims at source and binary compatibility. -
Re:Don't let the source code compilation scare you
Another route is Knoppix with KDE CVS. Never tried it though, YMMV, yada yada...
Btw I don't think KDE should take all the honour for Konstruct. After all it was "inspired by GARNOME" - good to see idea exchange across the major Free desktops. -
Re:Live CD with this alpha release?Have you checked out dragos? What is DragOS? It is yet another distro based on Knoppix, but DragOS features CVS version of KDE.
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Live CD with this alpha release?
I think it would be advantageous to provide a Live CD with the alpha/beta releases, so that people can get into debugging the code straight away (I for instance, cannot download, compile and use KDE easily due to disk space, bandwidth problems. I could however, use a Knoppix version with the alpha release to test around).
Searching around shows the DragOS Project, but I haven't had time to check it. Does anyone know of similar efforts?
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mldonkey, forget kazaa
Baaah, who cares about kazaa when you have mldonkey, which can connect to kazaa and pretty much all the other p2p networks...
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How to protect your PC from RIAAI don't condone copyright violations but I think people should be able to protect their PC's data from unauthorized intrusions from RIAA and associated companies (or anyone else for that matter).
If you're concerned about others violating your privacy or intruding via your favorite P2P program, check this out:
If you run Windows only, check out PeerGuardian. Be warned that the application hogs a lot of CPU.
If you have a Linux firewall like iptables, then you're in luck. Simply download PeerGuardian's list of known IPs to block and convert it using ipblacklist_convert perl script.
And please keep in mind that music and software piracy will only give companies like RIAA an excuse to limit our freedoms. Stop stealing.
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Did you know that Halliburton (who reportedly still pays VP Cheney around $160,000 in deferred compensation) will gain more than $1.7 billion from Iraq's reconstruction with a sizable portion of that in NO-BID contracts where other companies didn't even get a chance to bid?
Did you know Halliburton has sizable litigation against it for asbestos-related injuries and could benefit from worker's compensation reform which is coincidentally being promoted by the Bush/Cheney administration in the name of economic recovery?
Get informed and understand the smart--not public & seemingly irrational--reasons behind political decisions so that you too can profit from the real genius of politicians. Then donate your profits gained by this in your investment decisions to organizations that push for campaign finance reform instead of bitching about politicians in general or the right-wing or the left-wing. How can you lose if campaign finance reform causes politicians to represent the vast majority of Americans rather than the few special interests who contribute to campaigns?
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GPL StringsConsidering M$ everyone could only play Open Source Sounds on this strings
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Re:A thought...
cdrecord for windows
Unxutils for windows (Includes tar, no cygwin, native)
zsh for windows (no longer maintained)
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Re:KDE and Germany
As others have noted, they have funded Kroupware and gnupg. The German Ministry for the Economy has also funded BerliOS, an ad-free SourceForge replacement and news portal. There are plenty of public school and university projects, effectively funded by the government, and there's a heavily funded education software project which seems to be more concerned with remaining heavily funded than with presenting any concrete results, though. All in all, Germany is very OSS friendly, which may have something to do with the fact that Redmond is not within our present borders.
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Voting with $
I recently moved into a house with an odd design which made connecting remote computers to the central router difficult using wires. My (iBook) laptop had no problems because it was able to go wireless, so I decided to go with a wireless solution for my Linux desktop. I had no idea what I was getting into.
I figured the easiest solution would be a USB based device, so I looked around and found a table of USB 802.11b driver support under Linux. At first, I went to a local store and bought a device that the table said was supported. I got it home and ugh, it barely worked. Under Linux the driver was awful. To see if it was maybe the card itself I tried it under Windows. It barely worked there, hanging the machine when I tried a throughput test.
So I sent that back and ordered an SMC card which was supposed to have vendor-supplied drivers. I got it home, plugged it in, and tried to install the drivers. No luck. It turns out they were binary-only drivers for specific old RedHat kernels. So I emailed SMC for support. A week later someone got back to me to say that my issue had been escalated. A week after that I got a tar file in the mail. It turns out what I received was simply a forked and slightly modified version of the code on a Sourceforge project. But, surprise, surprise, it didn't work either.
More investigations led me to an alternate driver. Using the mailing list associated with this project, thanks to Joerg Albert I was able to determine that my device has a hardware configuration which is apparently very rare and needs special firmware. Once I got that, after about 3 weeks of effort, I had working 802.11b access under Linux.
At the end of this I'm annoyed with SMC. I am glad that they acknowledge that Linux exists, on the other hand, they were completely useless when it came to actually supporting their product.
In the end I guess I voted well with my dollars, supporting a company that provided minimal efforts to support Linux rather than one that refuses to even admit it exists. But I also provided $$ to a company that is deceptive about their hardware being truly supported under Linux. It was also pretty annoying that to get the thing to work required taking some random firmware file (in the form of a C header file with a massive data array) and randomly trying it to see if it would work.
It's sad when voting with your dollars is like other kinds of voting, where you vote against somebody because they're worse than the person you're voting for.
What's more frightening is that in a month or so I'm scheduled to find a way to get a mini-PCI 802.11b card working for an embedded Linux system running on an ARM processor. If getting a system with a fairly standard connector was this difficult on a desktop machine, I'm dreading trying to get a card with an obscure interface working on non-i386 CPU. Wish me luck.
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Get pre-compiled here!
No, thats wrong.
Simply get the binaries pre-compiled for your platform, sire.
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Re:Still isn't available for Linux though...
They just had a release, actually. There's also a giFT-FastTrack plugin, but I can't get it to compile on my Mandrake 9.1 box. It complains in linking that it can't find
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Re:Still isn't available for Linux though...
May I point you to giFT-FastTrack?
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Re:Sponsorships!
Thanks for your tip, but things are not very easy, especially when you are still in the development stage. I'm still looking for sponsorship to finish a project on UML modelling for PHP and databases, and haven't found a good partner yet. I started at the SourceAgency, but it seems they don't want to talk to me. From there I went to Free-IT und now to Maguma. I really miss the SourceXchange at the moment...
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Looong IP-Numbers
Oh Boy! don't Mix up your IP with you GPG-Sig
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rejoice
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Re:Value-added
Argh, don't bother using Kazaa Lite under wine on Linux. You don't have enough time or hair, believe me. Get giFT, toss in the FastTrack plugin, and you're all set. Gnutella, OpenFT, and FastTrack, all with one daemon.
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Re: It seems more like...
It's only the OpenOffice.org Quickstarter.
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Re:Huh?
What are the best XML-Handling-Libraries ?
(It's still a little awkward to programm...)
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Try star by J�rg Schilling
Some people have already mentioned Amanda.
In addition to amanda, I have good luck with star coded by Jörg Schilling. star is very feature-rich, fast, standards compliant and has been around since 1985. Give it a try!
The star-users mailing list is here . You can also look at the man page and finally download it -
Try star by J�rg Schilling
Some people have already mentioned Amanda.
In addition to amanda, I have good luck with star coded by Jörg Schilling. star is very feature-rich, fast, standards compliant and has been around since 1985. Give it a try!
The star-users mailing list is here . You can also look at the man page and finally download it -
No one distro to rule them all?Disclaimer: I posted this previously here, but the conversation has already fizzled out and I'm sort of hooked on this topic, personally. So in response to the original question:
Do you figure that Linux should just pick a default window manager now and build upon that to allow a seamless interface from those coming from Windows XP to Linux?
I think the KDE/Gnome unification project is a step in that direction (IMHO the right step). Next I'd like to see a list of basic applications that make up the base Linux distribution. NOTHING FANCY. Windows has things like the Notepad, Imaging and the Calculator.
What do you think those applications do? Are they easy to use? Wouldn't just about every user be able to figure out what they are and how you use them?
With Linux Notepad is called VI and in the 4 years I've used Linux I still haven't figured out how to use it. So the first thing I do is install Nano, which I know to do because I've installed Debian (which I uninstalled because the tulip driver that came with it at the time was not compatible with my Linksys ethernet card, which requires the tulip driver, but like a different tulip driver). Of course I need to install Ncurses first because Nano wont install without it. But my system comes with Ncurses, its fairly common. But its the wrong version. So before I edit I install both.
Seems like a lot of work just because the average distribution doesn't think like a light load computer user.
Simple, useful applications like Nano (based on my old good friend, Pico!) are fairly common. It shouldn't be THAT difficult to put together a short list of basic applications that would define the base Linux operating system. Name them SANELY (Nano sounds cute, but it needs to sound something like what it is). Include command line applications and X applications. KISS, but cover your bases. Not with extra apps, just look at Windows if you need to know what your average new user needs. Plan on something going wrong, "you don't need Nano, VidConfigureX will configure that for you!" just doesn't cut it.
Linux configuration is getting pretty close to standardized, why does every distribution contain a custom tool set? I'd like to learn this once and I cant see a good technical reason that I can't. Make one skinnable, so distros can make it fit nicely into their vision, but make it consistent.
Adopt a single installation scheme. Everyone knows VISE and it does the trick. Custom packaging is great, their will always be someone smarter out their with a better way. But I'm a big fan of the Loki installer, because it works and because it looks good and makes me feel like I know what's going on. Those things are important.
I don't think any single thing I've mentioned doesn't already exist. I just doesn't exist in any one place. That's ironic because where talking about market penetration without even talking advantage of what we've already got.
Give me a basic distro with what I've mentioned above. Add a package management system like portage and unite Gnome and KDE and you've got a desktop revolution.
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Re:Who is going to lead the way?
Do you figure that Linux should just pick a default window manager now and build upon that to allow a seamless interface from those coming from Windows XP to Linux?
I think the KDE/Gnome unification project is a step in that direction (IMHO the right step). Next I'd like to see a list of basic applications that make up the base Linux distribution. NOTHING FANCY. Windows has things like the Notepad, Imaging and the Calculator.
What do you think those applications do? Are they easy to use? Wouldn't just about every user be able to figure out what they are and how you use them?
With Linux Notepad is called VI and in the 4 years I've used Linux I still haven't figured out how to use it. So the first thing I do is install Nano, which I know to do because I've installed Debian (which I uninstalled because the tulip driver that came with it at the time was not compatible with my Linksys ethernet card, which requires the tulip driver, but like a different tulip driver). Of course I need to install Ncurses first because Nano wont install without it. But my system comes with Ncurses, its fairly common. But its the wrong version. So before I edit I install both.
Seems like a lot of work just because the average distribution doesn't think like a light load computer user.
Simple, useful applications like Nano (based on my old good friend, Pico!) are fairly common. It shouldn't be THAT difficult to put together a short list of basic applications that would define the base Linux operating system. Name them SANELY (Nano sounds cute, but it needs to sound something like what it is). Include command line applications and X applications. KISS, but cover your bases. Not with extra apps, just look at Windows if you need to know what your average new user needs. Plan on something going wrong, "you don't need Nano, VidConfigureX will configure that for you!" just doesn't cut it.
Linux configuration is getting pretty close to standardized, why does every distribution contain a custom tool set? I'd like to learn this once and I cant see a good technical reason that I can't. Make one skinnable, so distros can make it fit nicely into their vision, but make it consistent.
Adopt a single installation scheme. Everyone knows VISE and it does the trick. Custom packaging is great, their will always be someone smarter out their with a better way. But I'm a big fan of the Loki installer, because it works and because it looks good and makes me feel like I know what's going on. Those things are important.
I don't think any single thing I've mentioned doesn't already exist. I just doesn't exist in any one place. That's ironic because where talking about market penetration without even talking advantage of what we've already got.
Give me a basic distro with what I've mentioned above. Add a package management system like portage and unite Gnome and KDE and you've got a desktop revolution.
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Re:your xml
What is the major advantage of an XML-Database ??
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Re:wow
sounds like the name of an aztec god
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Re:IBM Developer Kit: Tested Linux Distributions
What ar the differences between the Blackdown, IBM & Sun versions ??
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Glossary
Would be nice if the terms & abbreviations are explained at the end of the text
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Ogg on Consumer Electronic
I hope this leads to an Ogg support on Consumer Electronics generally. Like on DVD-Players (which just support mp3 now).
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Re:As we often say to contributors:
Let me respond to your posting and try to work out a list of sites. As you say, gnusoftware.org is down and has been for quite some time. The links on opensource.org aren't a great deal of use but I did find O'Reilly OSDir's Windows section with 18 apps listed, and BerliOS's Windows category with 11 projects. OSSBlacksheep is just a CD you can buy with some free software for Windows - similar to some mentioned on Slashdot recently.
More useful than these is the old favourite Cygwin, a Unix-on-Win32 layer with gcc and tools, and its offshoot Mingw (aka Ming, Mingw32, Minimalist GNU-Win32) which is a native gcc and toolchain, without a Unix emulation layer. You can use Cygwin to port lots of Unix apps, and you can use Mingw to build the Win32 ports of things like perl and Mozilla. Actually I don't think you need both since Cygwin's gcc can build native executables too, but Mingw is slightly 'cleaner' if you have no need for emulated symlinks and other cruft.
Hmm, what else can I think of? Well a lot of the big applications like Emacs and Mozilla have native Win32 ports. Don't forget the old DOS stuff, DJGPP which is a GNU-based development environment for DOS - everything except fork()!. There used to be a rival called EMX but it seems to have faded away.
You're right that allowing Windows free software on Freshmeat but not Windows proprietary software is something of a double standard; but then so is allowing PalmOS (a wholly proprietary platform and not Unix). I don't think anyone expects Freshmeat to hold to a particular set of principles, it's above all a practical and useful site. So allowing Windows software but only when it is free might be a pragmatic compromise.
Maybe one day, one of the Freshmeat staff will be forced to use a Windows box for a few months, and then I'd expect a Windows section to appear pretty rapidly
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Re:Nice features
> Gnome 2.2
Have Red Hat still a castrated Version of KDE ??
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PHP & XULIs there a (larger) web-application which uses XUL generated by php ?
I Just found small things like single forms.Those apps would have the advantage that you can combine a usable & nice looking GUI with a web application (which can be used from everywhere.)
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Re:Thanks, but no thanks.
It starts to become ridiculous.
What's the failure-rate at this speed ??
I don't think it make sense if the CDROM-drive takes more time to focus the cd than the CDRW-drive took to burn the CD
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DVD Ripping Guides in Linux
Too see how things have changed
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Not GForce
That schouldn't inflict with GForce.
Which is:
- A driver for a force feedback joystick
- A well know graphic card
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Weather prediction ?
Is hard to imagine that this Computer was used for weather prediction.
Those tasks usually require large amounts of data to be processed
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Minor stuff
Mostly minor & annoying stuff is fixed.
ActiveQt: fortunately not on unix
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