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I found this with google, a linux pam module to login with a spoken password. May even be doable from a livecd. http://cscience.org/~lucasvr/projects/voiceauth.ph p

Or is it a "good, fast, cheap, pick two, tough shit" situation?

Yes, but it's more like a "open, popular -- pick one" situation. A friend of mine is a GP32 developer. The architecture is completely open, he bought it to hack on it more than to play with it. In fact, he's now maintaining the Linux kernel port for the specific ARM architecture of the GP32 port.

And yes, nobody else had a GP32 in his town when he bought it (or in his state, maybe even country(!), for that matter). But he found a very exciting user and developer community on the internet. So the installer base in [whatever specific place you are] is not that relevant.

Still, after seeing the GP32, I was almost tempted to buy one for myself (but I was broke at the time). Chances are, if you buy one, your friends might follow suit.

And emulators work like a charm, so there's no shortage of games, especially if you're into the classics. ;)

I re-encoded it with mencoder and Rodrigo Gressler was kind enough to put it up on his website:

http://cscience.org/~ffishman/Linus-dunked-big.men coder.avi

Enjoy.

Felipe

I re-encoded it with mencoder and Rodrigo Gressler was kind enough to put it up on his website:

http://cscience.org/~ffishman/Linus-dunked-big.men coder.avi

Enjoy.

Felipe

Although having package databases (such as the rpm and deb systems use) is great, there should definitely be seperation between system packages and additionally installed software. There needs to be a standard installer and database for user-installed applications such as word processors, email clients and games, and it should be seperate from the rpm or deb databases used for system software such as lilo, init and cron. This will make it much easier for home users to know what applications they have installed on their PC, and to easily uninstall them if necessary, without knowing some arcane commands and weird package names.

I aggree with him about the problem of maintaining a system without having to worry about where is some package installed, or from what package is the xyz file. Although even with Windows you can't figure out from what program is some random DLL in the Win/System directory, there is a good solution for GNU/Linux.

There is a relative new GNU/Linux distribution called by GoboLinux. GoboLinux was born in order to provide an alternative approach for the default directory tree found in (any) distributions.
How can it do that? It maintains all the programs in a special directory called by 'Programs', such as /Programs/Program_name/Version/{bin,include,info,m an,etc,...}. So, there is a 'System/Links/{Executables,Headers,Libraries,Manua ls}' directory which will symlink to every executable, header, lib and man pages of any program you wish to install. There are some scripts which help you to keep this tree organized, so you don't need to specify prefixes and symlink your applications by hand.

This is the best approach I ever had find about directory trees, so I encourage anyone to try it out, or even just read more about it.
The GoboLinux distribution and related information is hosted at http://www.cscience.org/~gobo/ .

A few weeks ago I had an idea of making a page with Linux tips and stuff, based on my own experiences -- I switched to a Linux-only configuration this year (was a long time DOS [and consequently Windows] user), so I think passed recently through all those things the poster was referring to.

I have already got together some material: some random tips on configuration and programs and a few little scripts (even some "one-liners") I came up with that really ease my life in the command line.
And of course, if anybody would like to help me out on this I'd appreciate a lot!

Check it out: Living with Linux

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