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Oh yeah, every year for the last several years. Examples follow"

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Sun dominate the Enterprise users and Microsoft dominate the low-end users with their software, one is trying to acquire knowledge from another. Very simple, even a penguin can see this.

The lack of ACLs is a major impediment to uptake of Linux in the business community.

"The business community" finds file systems confusing, so they stick everything into one giant directory with nearly worthless filenames. When they want to share a file with someone else they stumble around until they figure out how to turn on sharing and disable any sort of security.

ACLs are great, but most users, including most businesses, wouldn't know what to do with them. Clueful users are the exception, not the rule. Furthermore, anyone with enough of a clue to 1. seriously consider Linux and 2. understand and desire ACLs certainly has enough of a clue to discover that Linux has ACLs.

I don't believe that there is space in the x86 market for another payware OS besides Windows nowadays. I think BeOS and Solaris x86 are proof of that.

Just store your pr0n on an encrypted filesystem.

Obviously this article was too interesting/pertinent for linux.com, which continues to be the most boring Linux site on the internet.

(NewsForge and Slashdot *and* Linux.com are both part of OSTG.)

step one is the browser.
you can win this one on the positive user experience front when they experience less pop-ups, spyware and the ilk.

step two is the applications.
you'll win this battle with allies in the finanace department. they'll love not shelling out the big bucks for ms office licenses.

step three is the os.
Win the battles to win the war.

Rocks provides an easy way to build a Beowulf cluster. See http://www.rocksclusters.org/.

You can build a working cluster, starting with the hardware and installation CD-ROMs, in minutes; see http://servers.linux.com/servers/04/08/27/1943227. shtml?tid=29&tid=94 for one account.

Disclaimer: I work with the folks who created Rocks.

Well, here's the problem: Anandtech has been around forever and has a lot of readers. They don't have a lot of readers because they write good reviews, they have a lot of readers because they have a lot of content and have been around a long time.

I regularly request review hardware for reviews on The Jem Report and Linux.com, but IF I get anything, it's the second batch of samples that comes in a month or more after Anadtech and THG and the other lame gamer/OCer sites get them.

The problem is, the manufacturers think that the OCers and gamers are the whole market. With the exception fo VIA and ATI, hardware companies think Linux doesn't matter.

Some hardware companies (crApple) won't send anything unless they are assured a "win" in the benchmark tests. I told them I was going to test a G5 using BSD and GNU/Linux variants to gauge 64-bit performance and they said they would not send out any hardware to people who would not use OSX as the test platform.

I did do some pretty comprehesive testing on AMD64 vs. 1386 on FreeBSD, if it matters to you.

-Jem

Yeah yeah... this is gonna sound harsh...

But really... is the 80 column limit that important to you?

You know that you can bump up the number of columns on console displays, right?

Read here :)

There are also a number of tools available to put code in a form that you find agreeable.

>You don't want a compiler on most servers.

I hope you mean for space reasons.

Anyone that says having a compiler installed is a security threat, has no idea what he is talking about.

Not true. It's generally a good idea to keep devel packages and any unnecessary compilers (or -any- unnecessary software) off your production servers. It's not a security threat, as in it will increase your changes of being hacked. It's simply about attempting to minimize damages in the event that it does happen. Having a working compiler and the development libraries provides additional firepower to the attacker (or possibly a disgruntled local user with an account on the system). Not having devel libs or a compiler can help to minimize the damages. It may not be much, but a compiler in most (though not all) cases, is extraneous software that should simply be left off production servers.

Any custom software packages created for a production server, should first be compiled on a developmental or test server, packaged as a binary, and then installed on the production server. This is simply a good standard practice. In fact, I believe there was even an article posted in the last day or so that mentioned this...

Ah, here it is: What you shouldn't put into production.
(See the section entitled "Eliminate unnecessary software")

--
Evan

Did you read this? Why Dell is scurrying to cover its tracks in Linspire deal

I, for one, link Linux.

Svetoslav Slavtchev has written a HOWTO that is part of the LDP. Link to the HOWTO.

These days you might as well use the 2.6 kernel for new setups, but if you really want to use 2.4 or are modifying an older system, the Backstreet Ruby patch is a backport for 2.4. Link to Aivil's Backstreet Ruby mirror

...And for those that are interested and would like to learn more, but are finding it hard to get started, check out these excellent CLI for Noobies articles by Joe Barr. (Scroll to the bottom, start at "CLI for noobies: alias cat and pipe meet grep " and work your way up.)

Two words...

Spy-Ware

That said, if it's a stardard EXE I don't see how it would run on linux. :D And since Linux doesn't have an autorun annoyance... I mean feature, we'd have to consciously install it.

Once again, the solution is... Don't use M$ Windows. (Sorry Mac people, I have had no recent experience with a Mac to make a comment on it.

This one puzzles me because it's so geeky and yet so tastefully done. It's like someone spending $100K to hire an artist, do preprint work, and print up a large poster just to say, "We Code in Perl".

iirc Apple built a *lot* of software with Pascal. The main alternatives were BASIC and 6502 / 68000 assembler, as C had not caught on in a critical mass sort of way (talking late 70s-mid 80s here.)

Perhaps the equivalent today would be the profitless spending of $$$ to build websites declaring your affection for a certain system or language.

But where does the problem have to be fixed? That's like saying Fedora Core 2 sucks because it includes GNOME 2.6. By your logic, the way to fix Linux would be to ditch X.

Get your mind out of its rut. Linux isn't the only platform that uses X. Any Unix that runs X will exhibit the same behavior. Would you be making the same complaint if the original poster had said he was running FreeBSD?

Isn't that the guy, who didn't manage to install JDS on four different PCs? Not a great base for a article about JDS.

I also like what he writes about himself: Using subtle clues and hints in his first-person narrative to imply emotion and intention, Jem Matzan's critically acclaimed writing style is truly unique among fiction authors. Jem's extraordinary characters and distinct dialogue decorate his fantasy universe while coaxing readers' imaginations into providing the specifics.

Even if he managed to get his JDS article published on linux.com, there are better articles on this topic there. This one is about JDS1, but because the changes happend under the hood, it's still valid for JDS2.

Isn't that the guy, who didn't manage to install JDS on four different PCs? Not a great base for a article about JDS.

I also like what he writes about himself: Using subtle clues and hints in his first-person narrative to imply emotion and intention, Jem Matzan's critically acclaimed writing style is truly unique among fiction authors. Jem's extraordinary characters and distinct dialogue decorate his fantasy universe while coaxing readers' imaginations into providing the specifics.

Even if he managed to get his JDS article published on linux.com, there are better articles on this topic there. This one is about JDS1, but because the changes happend under the hood, it's still valid for JDS2.

...Considering how they licensed their Gnome-based Java Desktop System. And that software was LGPL to begin with! Pray tell, what kind of god-awful monstrocity of a license are they going to come up with Solaris!?

I recall a review on Linux.com a few weeks ago, of this software.

Apparently the underlying core of JDS hasn't changed since the original release, its just an interface and client software refresh. This meant it wouldn't install on many modern machines due to an outdated - by Linux standards - kernel 2.4.19

Like real live operating systems.

Using the tput command, you can be portable and get great results every time!

But the people pointing out the one-sided reporting on Slashdot are right.

SuSE 9.1 beta does not come with the latest Gnome (2.6) it comes with Gnome 2.4 because 2.6 was released too late to make it into SuSE 9.1 beta. However, Gnome 2.6 will likely be available from SuSE as a separate download.

Don't you remember Joe Barr's pathetic whining about Gnome and SuSE 9.1 beta in his Quick Look article. Possibly the worst review ever written.

Just use the Chicago one, add ideas (but not language) from the Apple style guide where relevant, and sprinkle it with the Jargon file for that UNIXy flavor.

In all seriousness, the LDP has a style guide, but it looks somewhat thin to me (I haven't read it through though, in best /. style). Publications style guides are for projects that do real documentation. That kind of documentation tends to be unpopular with FOSS, because it requires a level of feature stability that's not common in FOSS, and a certain amount of hierarchical management that's definitely not popular with FOSS. Besides, most people who participate in FOSS are doing so to scratch a development itch, and have a cavalier attitude about documentation. I'd suggest looking more toward a publisher like O'Reilly for a model of how to write documentation.

Either he is pushing a personal vendetta against Redhat, or he is writing what he is paid to.

Either he is pushing a personal vendetta against Redhat, or he is writing what he is paid to.

The command line can be simple to understand... but as far as single-threaded... there are command line programs that are multi-threaded and if you are just talking about multitasking, that can be done too.

CLI for noobies: background foreground suspend

Not according to this livecd review... Between Knoppix, MandrakeMove, and Slax, which were chosen as the most newbie-friendly LiveCDs (and what are live cds for other than convincing newbies?) MandrakeMove was favored by a test group with no linux experience.

The Devil Vs. GOD - now that sure would make an interesting court case !

You want your MyDoom link to Linux? Here it is:

MyDoom

It's a pun. Get it?

With ide-scsi, you can do everything you need to do with the drive, I don't see why you can't just use that mode all the time.

It's the first I heard of it as well. Doing a quick google, there's some information about the ide-scsi issue here but it doesn't say how easy/difficult/transparent it is to set up cd-burning without it.

I've been using ide-scsi to burn cds in 2.5 and 2.6 without any problems (and can't recall seeing any (OBSOLETE) notices beside the driver, either) ... but apparently there were bugs/difficulties/ideological issues involved.

Oddly enough, the worst troll ever doesn't get better by being repeated.
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This is why we must consider: who had something to gain from the disasterous crimes of September 11th? Obviously not Osama Bin Laden, who would net no financial windfall from the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Although he has loudly applauded the "terrorist" acts of September 11th and even tacitly taken credit for them, there is no reason to believe that he is anything more than a bandwagon jumper. Being blamed for the destruction of the World Trade Center has done more for his image than any amount of militant Islamic rhetoric.

But if not Bin Laden, then who?

It so happens that on December 11th, "coincidentally" 2 months after the tragedy, Credit Suisse First Boston quietly agreed to pay out US$100 million in order to settle an 18 month old investigation into its handling of certain high-profile technology IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). One of the most controversial amongst these being the IPO of VA Linux Systems, Inc. (LNUX) .

VA Linux Systems, Inc., now known as VA Software, is widely derided as a poster child of the dot-com bust, though inexplicably still in business. At the time of the IPO, VA Linux (Software) shares opened trading at nearly 10 times their $30 offer price, closing the first day of trading at $239.25. This meteoric rise made many early investors rich, strangely on account of a company which purports to sell a hobbyist operating system which can be obtained for free on the Internet. "The VA Linux initial public offering is a prime example of market manipulation in an IPO by investment banks, their customers and the issuing firm," said Steven Schulman, a partner in the law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, which specializes in filing shareholder suits.

"Because certain favored customers of the investment banks agreed to buy shares in a new issue at inflated prices in the aftermarket (in return for getting an allocation of the shares at the initial offering price) the share prices to which the IPO eventually soared were actually driven by artificial market forces," continues Schulman.

But what does the VA Software (Linux) IPO have to do with the attacks on September 11th, and what has that to do with the Credit Suisse settlement? Well, considering that VA Linux (Software) got CSFB into trouble in the first place, it stands to reason that the VA Linux (Software) Board of Directors were complicit in the stock fraud from beginning to end. As the investigation progressed against CSFB, the unscrupulous VA Software/Linux executives, their pockets bulging with filthy lucre plundered from trusting, hard-working investors, must have realized that their days in the country club were numbered if the SEC discovered their wrongdoings.

The SEC, or Securities Exchange Commission, is a federal regulatory agency, and cannot be bribed. Therefore, with a possible stint in federal prison looming large, Larry Augustin and the rest of the crooks, including outspoken gun violence advocate Eric S. Raymond, decided to undertake more active means to halt the investigation.

The Plan

It so happened that all the evidence in the CSFB/VA Linux investigation was held at the SEC Northeast Regi

But, I dual boot into debian and I've never managed to get the second monitor working in X. sigh.

BSD is an operating system, so it actually can't run under WinXP. It gets to run all by itself.

You could install it on another partition and actually dual boot BSD and Windows (dual booting is where you have two operating systems on the same machine, side by side). You can only run one operating system at a time, though.

You can download the latest FreeBSD ISO (bootable CD image) from here

Also, has anyone ever noticed that antimicrosoft.com takes you to Linux.com

It looks like Smart Dust

The primary reason Smart Dust wouldn't be a good fit (aside from the relatively high cost of deploying it, compared to using a cheaper, less miniaturized commercial solution) is the power problem. A big challenge for networking researchers involved with this type of sensor net is that each dust "mote" has very limited power reserves, which once consumed are typically not replenishable. (There have been ideas tossed around about recharging by harvesting solar or vibrational energy, but those are just idle speculation at the moment.) This is great for something like a battlefield network, which only needs to be up for the duration of your conflict, but is unsuitable for a persistant network.

It looks like Smart Dust.

But why to make such thing global? And i think there isn't computer power to process or store such amount of information.

From the website: Memtest86 is released under the terms of the Gnu Public License (GPL).

That's what I meant!

I guess there's no incompatibility between commercial and GPL. it's just that GPL projects are usually on .org and not .com appart maybe from that one ^_^

> Shit, USB barely even works as intended on most OSes

You mean, like Linux? I personally have absolutely no problem with USB devices on Windows XP Professional.

Bitch and moan all you like, but can you hot-plug a usb mouse in a laptop running XFree and be able to use it immediately without quitting/restarting XFree and/or editing XF86Config? Thought so.

I know you are trying to be funny, but if you look at windows security now verses 5 years ago you will find that its drastically improved.

Windows ATM will most likley be based on Windows XP/Embedded, which Microsoft are selling for around $3 a processor. Linux would probably cost much more than that because the bank would need to customize it for their needs and also need to pay experts to keep them running.

Windows ATM on the other hand needs no kernal patches ever time a problem is found you can just download a hotfix from their site, this requires no experts and lowers the TCO. This might also be scriptable with WSH (windows scripting host). Microsoft are not stupid if they are making a windows version for ATMs they will *Make sure* it is 100% secure.

Obvously their reputation would be at steak.

... but we should really be debating how we get this right on an OSS platform. If I put RedHat9 next to Windows Server 2003 I have significantly more updates to apply to my Linux box.

I think most of the people don't mind updates/patches, but when it comes to stopping all the services, closing all connections and rebooting and doing all that few times, it becomes annoying. I though only use LFS based system on desktop stuff, not running any servers, but IIRC and AFAIK a restart of server/service (only matter of seconds) is needed with Debian, Redhat and others.

-rzei

The exact same response found in the link provided in this new story can also be found in the final link update in the old story. See Update: 08/22 18:26 GMT by M: ESR responds. Hence this is a duplicate.