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Ok, there are guys out there who know how to install and play Q3A in Linux... here is one geek who doesn't!! So, before trying other cool cool games, I'd like to try Q3A first!!! Anybody volunteering to help me???

Cerberos
Arachne

Ok, there are guys out there who know how to install and play Q3A in Linux... here is one geek who doesn't!! So, before trying other cool cool games, I'd like to try Q3A first!!! Anybody volunteering to help me???

Cerberos
Arachne

If you read the bottom of the article, they said they're working on getting Linux support as soon as they can, so I don't think they're trying to snub Linux users (although, how hard can it be to support Linux?).

Seems to me that what is really needed, rather than a flood of complaining mail, or legal threats, is that some individual or group that has successfully connected Linux boxen to DSL or Cable put together a setup package that can be used by such vendors (with a little customization such as adding their own DNS IP's, etc).

Such a package would AFAIK include (but not be limited to):

• Making sure that the kernel supports Ethernet in general and the NIC used in particular.
• Make sure that DHCP is supported.
• Modify configuration files to start the Ethernet and DHCP clients on boot.
• Start the connection immediately (without rebooting, which should impress these M$ weenies no end).
• Provide simple (WIMP + CLI) ways to connect or disconnect at the will of the user/admin of the system.

• Installing/Configuring Linux
• Getting started with the Ada Programming Language.

... they should use the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, which includes /opt, if they want their distro to be interoperable. Most of the distros are already doing this.

A list, please. Or email me info on individual distros which comply (or don't) to the FHS and I will compile the list and post it.

For starters, RH seems to be ignoring the FHS entirely. All releases of GNOME RPMs that I have seen also ignore it. SuSE (from reports on this thread) seems to be complying at least partially, but I would like more data. Caldera (a year ago) was not complying, I have no later data. I have no real data on any other distros put out since the FHS (or even the original FSHS).

May Gates be missing from all your worlds,
== Buz :) Buz Cory of BuzCo Systems -- New York NY USA
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• Installing/Configuring Linux
• Getting started with the Ada Programming Language.

... they should use the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, which includes /opt, if they want their distro to be interoperable. Most of the distros are already doing this.

A list, please. Or email me info on individual distros which comply (or don't) to the FHS and I will compile the list and post it.

For starters, RH seems to be ignoring the FHS entirely. All releases of GNOME RPMs that I have seen also ignore it. SuSE (from reports on this thread) seems to be complying at least partially, but I would like more data. Caldera (a year ago) was not complying, I have no later data. I have no real data on any other distros put out since the FHS (or even the original FSHS).

May Gates be missing from all your worlds,
== Buz :) Buz Cory of BuzCo Systems -- New York NY USA
write for FREE help with:

• Installing/Configuring Linux
• Getting started with the Ada Programming Language.

... Traditionally /local and /opt are for local and optional software installed by the user.

Try making that:

Traditionally /usr/local is for things created or modified locally (by the administrator or users) and /opt is for optional software not part of a standard system.

IMHO, RedHat is doing it entirely wrong. This is one of the things I detest about them. The are doing a lot of things right, but building good distros is not one of them.

Most of what RH puts in /usr should be in /opt. This includes things like perl, python, tcl/tk, any language not native to the OS or required to compile anything in {,/usr}/{,s}bin. IMHO, even X really belongs in /opt, but long tradition puts it in /usr.

In other words, /opt/bin should be larger than /usr/bin, and probably /opt/lib (for such things as the various graphics and language libs) should probably be larger than /usr/lib. And both of them should consist entirely of symlinks pointing pack to the package directories. I even use this method in /usr for such thing that I build myself. Instead of copying or moving the executable or library to the installed location, I use symlinks.

Actually, there is just as big a problem w/ Caldera (as of early '98). Dunno about Debian, Yggdrasl or SuSE. Slackware had so many deficiencies in '94 (when I first started running Linux) that I have not even looked at it since.

Probably things like KDE, GNOME, window managers, etc should be under X (wherever it is, on my system it is a separate partition with symlinks to the standard locations). Am very displeased with the GNOME putting everything in /usr, especially with their inconsistent naming. If every GNOME app or utility started out gno... it would not be such problem, but they still should be in /opt and the desktop, WM, and libs in /X.

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• Installing/Configuring Linux
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looks like the 1st part of the review was generated by reading the packaging (what apps are bundled etc).

The rest is a pretty bland and dry review...nothing new.

What do you want here, some kind of highly creative description or new things that no-one else has written about, raves about features of Linux that have not been mentioned before? These things would not be appropriate for a review unless they first appeared in RH-6.0.

The main purpose of a review like this is to provide a basis for comparison against other, similar, releases of Linux. This he does very well (IMHO) "> Buz Cory at buzco.ddns.org
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• css1 -- has not worked stably or reliably in any version of NetScape-4.x. It worked briefly on Navigator-4.6 but mostly gets ignored. Some may say it is dead, as far as I can see, it has simply not worked reliably on *any* Linux browser that is otherwise useful.

  All work on my web site has ceased until I get a browser that will recognize and properly support css1. Then I can use HTML-4.0 for all new pages and gradually convert old pages to HTML-4.0. If it breaks IE, that's fine. If M$ can't or won't implement industry standards that are several years old working, that's their (and their foolish customers') problem, not mine. I, for one, do not care at all about XSL, nor for the moment about XML; and all my pages are and will remain Java-free.

• Java junk -- Java and JavaScript are inherently insecure on the InterNet. I have no use for sites that insist that I enable one or the other to view it. I will not run any browser that does not let me disable them.

  NetScape-4.5 has disable options, but the JavaScript button, at least, does not work. The ideal browser, for me, would not in any way depend on Java, would use plug-ins for it and simply ignore all Java stuff if the plug-ins were not present.

• Installing/Configuring Linux
• Getting started with the Ada Programming Language.

It's hard to stay motivated when my friends are already out there earning money. And many of my classes are pure drivel. Even the CS class I'm currently taking is bullshit ... assembly programming for Motorola 68k. I couldn't think of a worse platform to be learning. I don't doubt the value of a little ASM, but for god's sake, we might as well be learning how to program PDP-11's.

Ironically, I'm skipping class at this very moment. And my grades have always suffered from the time I devote to hacking my own projects (I'm writing a Slashdot-like clone in Python.) Damn. I need to study for my ASM test this wendsday...

It's hard to stay motivated when my friends are already out there earning money. And many of my classes are pure drivel. Even the CS class I'm currently taking is bullshit ... assembly programming for Motorola 68k. I couldn't think of a worse platform to be learning. I don't doubt the value of a little ASM, but for god's sake, we might as well be learning how to program PDP-11's.

Ironically, I'm skipping class at this very moment. And my grades have always suffered from the time I devote to hacking my own projects (I'm writing a Slashdot-like clone in Python.) Damn. I need to study for my ASM test this wendsday...