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Well actually, you're wrong.

[] global users.. 61438 max.. 80102 (58085 invisible, 67 operators)
[] local users... 32351 max.. 38435 (52.7%)

From twisted.ma.us.dal.net. We've been holding > 25k users on a consistent basis the past few weeks since many other servers are missing. Our record is 38435 simultaneous users.

Also see the article about us on linux.com.

It talks about a DALnet server running stable on 38.000 connections. I found this link on deamonnews a BSD site, and like them I'm quite curious about how well linux 2.4 networking works compared to the latest FreeBSD. The article is here

BTW, the loopback encrypted filesystem has been working great in my 2.2.16 kernel, I *highly* recommend encrypting your hard drives (what if your computer gets stolen?) If yer interested, see the HOWTO

• Have you or anyone else at LinuxPPC thought about how to make Linux on the Mac as competitive (with the proprietary software bundled with Macs) and useful in the accessibility arena as in all others?
• Do you agree with the idea that in order to ensure widespread use of Linux for the Mac (e.g., in schools) you should consider accessibility?
• What could you reasonably do to increase the accessibility of your distro?
• Do you agree with the idea that in order to fully live up to the notion of "free as in speech software for everyone" we must include non-sighted and otherwise disabled users?

The various man pages, HOWTO's, etc. are generally very good, but they're not necessarily completely up to date. If you check the video card HOWTO's you'll see that the 3Dfx-HOWTO was last updated in February of 1998. So, it can be nice to get current information.

Use the power of the net. Think about it almost everyone is able to connect to the Internet for at least some period of time now you want to do a broadcast great webcasting is cheap and easy get yourself some bandwidth(which in comaparison to radio broadcast gear is not that much) and then cruise on over to this to learn how to broadcast to everyone who wants to listen to you. Is it radio? No of course not. Is it a good way to get your message out without having to go through the government? Yup that it is.

Linux.com has weekly newbie articles. Also Linux Journal occassionaly has some worthy newbie articles. Of course, nothing beats handing out RedHat cds and making 'em install linux at home.

as others have said, its just a text file...edit it.

to take it another step..read this
That will get rid of all the crap on the tool bar. Also edit the Netscape.ad file (forget where it is), to make a ton of changes to the way netscape looks, and feels.

Your Linux news sites on OSDN are Linux.com and NewsForge. Slashdot is just News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.

And yes, both BSD and LSD came out of Berkeley.

Honestly after the first paragraph of install instruction I am intimidated.
Add to this that the whole linux comunity doesn't seem to concerned about the desktop market anymore.

Hmm, I think that "Linux community" is getting harder to define as we pass 15 million (estimated) users.
As to your "newbie" problems, you should try the friendly faces of your local Linux Users Group. If you get someone to help you with an initial install of Debian GNU/Linux, you will find installing and updating software on it a breeze.
- Derwen

poor Vinod - we know what hapenned to him. He got hired by Linux.com! so now the poor bastard has both MSFT *and* VA stock! must be rough.

NASDAQ is back up. Big time.

Linux.com front page:

Linux.com Feature Story: Another Halloween Document

Ryan Gordon strikes again with another work of satire! Another 'leaked memo' from Microsoft on Hallowe'en, to celebrate the infamous 'Halloween Document' of years past. While clearly a work of satire, this one is sure to inspire some heated discussion. Check it out! By the way, that's Ryan juggling in today's Photo Of The Day.


Next please.

Read the preface to the article here
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Who the heck moderated this thing up as Informative? It has one link!! To a well-known OS's website, no less!

Here, I'll be more informative:

Linux.com
Linux Kernel
Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Securityfocus.com

Woo-hoo! Now I'll just kick back, relax, and watch the karma roll in...

I wrote an article on it for O'Reill yNe t

As usual, @Home is full of it and needs to hire people who know what the hell they are doing.

America is built on the strength of its corporations. The question is, what are corporations built on? The answer is operating systems. Ordinary operating systems. Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, Windows 2000 and Windows ME. Operating systems like yours. Operating systems like mine.

As I speak, there is a new and ominous danger facing our corporations. It is a danger facing every CEO, CTO and CIO. And only a handful of Americans even know it's out there.

It hides inside the computer of your co-worker, your bowling buddy, even your trusted family physician. It's sitting on your PTA board. It's waiting in the hallways of your neighborhood parish. It may even be watching your children as they sleep.

What menace am I speaking of? The greatest scourge of the twenty-first century. My friends, I'm talking about mutants.

The versions of Windows we all use have been replaced, with tragic consequences. There is a growing number of operating systems out there that are impure at their most basic level. They are not, technically speaking, Windows.

The threat that these operating systems pose to our way of doing business cannot be underestimated. It touches every facet of our daily jobs. And unless we take a stand now, our corporations will face an uncertain future where the rules of the game are not dictated by us. A world where no computer runs Windows: not your server, not your workstation, not even the proprietary architecture of your own laptop.

So who will save us? The listless bureaucracy that we call our government is asleep at the wheel. By failing to defend our "right to innovate", the President has neglected the first business of government -- protecting the rights and liberties of American corporations. Thus, we must take matters into our own hands.

That's why we've created the mutation advertisement: to inform our customers about the true nature of this mutant menace, and to give us a weapon in our battle for the preservation of our innovation rights. Only browse our web site to avoid propaganda for mutant operating systems. Use any and all resources at your disposal to disparage, discredit and belittle suspected mutant operating systems wherever you may hear of them.

Require the use of our operating systems now. Tomorrow, it will be too late.

--- Stolen from MutantWatch and mangled.

America is built on the strength of its corporations. The question is, what are corporations built on? The answer is operating systems. Ordinary operating systems. Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, Windows 2000 and Windows ME. Operating systems like yours. Operating systems like mine.

As I speak, there is a new and ominous danger facing our corporations. It is a danger facing every CEO, CTO and CIO. And only a handful of Americans even know it's out there.

It hides inside the computer of your co-worker, your bowling buddy, even your trusted family physician. It's sitting on your PTA board. It's waiting in the hallways of your neighborhood parish. It may even be watching your children as they sleep.

What menace am I speaking of? The greatest scourge of the twenty-first century. My friends, I'm talking about mutants.

The versions of Windows we all use have been replaced, with tragic consequences. There is a growing number of operating systems out there that are impure at their most basic level. They are not, technically speaking, Windows.

The threat that these operating systems pose to our way of doing business cannot be underestimated. It touches every facet of our daily jobs. And unless we take a stand now, our corporations will face an uncertain future where the rules of the game are not dictated by us. A world where no computer runs Windows: not your server, not your workstation, not even the proprietary architecture of your own laptop.

So who will save us? The listless bureaucracy that we call our government is asleep at the wheel. By failing to defend our "right to innovate", the President has neglected the first business of government -- protecting the rights and liberties of American corporations. Thus, we must take matters into our own hands.

That's why we've created the mutation advertisement: to inform our customers about the true nature of this mutant menace, and to give us a weapon in our battle for the preservation of our innovation rights. Only browse our web site to avoid propaganda for mutant operating systems. Use any and all resources at your disposal to disparage, discredit and belittle suspected mutant operating systems wherever you may hear of them.

Require the use of our operating systems now. Tomorrow, it will be too late.

--- Stolen from MutantWatch and mangled.

I think that soon people will start realizing what's going on. The only way for this revolution to continue is by contributing to it rather than creating separate paths.

As events like these at MIT show, and as slashdot quickly approaches a quarter of a million users, it's time for a slashdot reunion. Below is enclosed a list of the first 50 users, the folks who really know what it means to say, "I remember the good ol' days." How many of these users are still active? Reply, and show your true colors. The who replies with the lowest userid gets a prize! CmdrTaco (1) email: malda@slashdot.org
Hemos (2)
drendite (3) email: reishus@utdallas.edu
CowboyNeal (4) email: pater@slashdot.org
samzenpus (5)
jgoldsch (6)
CLorox (7) email: clorspam@marblehead.com
Emmett Plant (8) email: emmett@slashdot.org
keith (9) email: kcalder at andrew.cmu.edu
ximenes (10) email: sak8@po.cwru.edu
velkro (11) email: root@localhost
RAD Kade 1 (12) email: kmradlof@nospam@colby.edu
TechNoir (13) email: technoir@linux.com
Christopher Bibbs (14)
DeadBeef (15) email: spam@osoal.org.nz
Tom Rothamel (16) email: tom-slashdot@onegeek.org
Rolf W. Rasmussen (17) email: rolfwr+slashdot@ii.uib.no
davidu (18) email: davidu@angrywhitemale.com
steffenz (19)
Pug (21) email: pug007@sgi.net
jdesbonnet (22)
bounce@vegas.net (23)
Dorkman (24)
geNeV (25)
psychonut (26) email: lfd@NOSPAMsnip.net
francais (27) email: my1stname@mylastname.org
version conflict (28) email: cat /proc/kcore >> /dev/audio
jk (29) email: hns@scurvy.org
IAN (30)
Vadim Grinshpun (31) email: vg23@nospam.cornell.edu spidey (32)
ccg (34) email: ccg_spam at yahoo.com (just change 'at')
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smartax (37) email: br+slashdot@mindshark.com
David Rolfe (38) email: fromslashdot@shro0m.cx
Beirne (39)
michiel (41)
magg (42) email: mSaPgAgM@mail.com
Zack (44) email: zallison@rice.edu.spam
Ryan Kirkpatrick (45) email: slashdot@rkirkpat.net
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By your logic, if the GNU/Linux® System is a direct rip-off of the UNIX® System, then it's no better than piracy...
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It looks like the site in question has been slashdotted.
Please refer to the archival mirror here.

In any discussion of plagiarism, people should wonder who is being hurt by the "theft" of the idea, in this case the layout (and, apparently, the icons - I couldn't verify that because the hobbes site was /.'ed). My answer is that no one was hurt.

I think it's more of an ethical issue. I've put some of the work I've done online, both for my easy access from other locations and in the hope that it can be of some help to other people having to do similar work. I wouldn't have a problem with someone reading my work and learning, then writing something on the same topic. I wouldn't even mind if someone read through my work, typing it in thier own words as they go (but I'd like a bit of credit). But if someone copy-and-pasted my work into 'Microsoft Word' and just changed a few words, I would be annoyed. Sure, I havn't lost anything, but that isn't the point: This person will appear to have skills in the involved discipline (in this case graphics) when in fact he doesn't.

It wouldn't be hard to design some new graphics, with his own style. If that was too hard, it certainly wouldn't be difficult to put just a little line of text on the front page saying 'This layout was inspired by Linux.com'.

I don't see why he couldn't do this. It wouldn't be hard to do. But he didn't.

Michael

...another comment from Michael Tandy.

The Linux.com legal statement is here.

I am not a lawyer, but I don't see anything in there about the bitmaps on the site. All that is mentioned are the articles. If Linux.com decides to take some action against this guy they are probably going to be on some shaky legal ground.

One more thing, if I use Slashcode to develop a site like /., I would credit Slashcode not every site that uses it (including /.).

-D-

• www.map.com
• www.weather.com
• www.linux.com (might have better guessed .org here ;-)

I keep a minimum of bookmarks, for those sites I really visit a lot. For everything else I guess URLs or use Google/Deja/Yahoo/etc.

And I NEVER guess a .us domain.

You could use http://www.linuxnewbie.com/. http://www.linux.com/ seems to be very newbie oriented too.

If you're having problems with legibility with your X server, you may well have the DPI set wrongly. It defaults to 75dpi if you don't set it, which is often wrong for modern, high-res screens. (eg. my 15 inch 1280x1024 display is about 120DPI)

See the tip on linux.com about it.

Make sure to read the comment by Andreas Plesch on the tip as well, as a better method for setting the DPI is given than the original suggestion.

This time it's brought to us by OSDN, VA Linux, and all the assorted sites like Linux.com, Themes.org, SourceForge, ThinkGeek and what have you.

So, you mean it is sponsored by VA Linux.

This is a good step for Linux.
Companies like Helix, Chilliware and MountLinux are trying to put a pleasant face on some arcane tools.
Nothing wrong with that...nothing at all.
A cool article recently on LinuxGram talks about that, note the title of it...this is what we need, more companies doing apps, especially if we ever want to throw Linux on our parents/grandparents/kids machines.



"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)

He didn't explain it fully in his answer.

With your example you still have multiple individual computers connected to a central server that store /home and /usr

But with linuxNOW it doesn't sound like you have a central computer just a bunch of computer that are connected. Some of the data may be stored on your buddies computer down the hall. If you access the same data a lot it would move itself over to your hardrive.

This is what I understand at least.

check out these other articles aobut it:
http://www.linux-mag.com/online/pro geny_01.html
http://www.linux.com/interviews/2000071 2/63/

http://slashdot .org/article.pl?sid=00/04/27/0858200&mode=thread
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/17660.html
http://www.geeknews.org/news/fe b00/newsitem090.html
http://www.palmstation.com/ view_article.py?article=1786
http://www.pdabuzz.com/Features/Yopy.html
http://slashdot .org/article.pl?sid=00/02/27/1027237&mode=thread
http://www.pcworld.com /pcwtoday/article/0,1510,15486,00.html
http://www.ch ip.de/PC2D/PC2DB/PC2DBA/pc2dba.htm?id=323&ressort= 20 (German)
http://www.twomobile.com/new_032200_y opy.html (obviously they didn't credit the source of the pictures and video footage!)
http://ore illy.linux.com/pub/a/network/2000/05/05/magazine/L inuxPDA.html
http://www.handheldmed.com/code/news /yopi1.htm
http://www.gnn.de/0005/7603.html (German)
http://www.p cwelt.de/content/news/newprodukte/2000/05/xn090500 003.html (German)

http://www.sem.samsung.co.kr/ eng/product/digital/pda/
http://www.gmate.co.kr

http://www.palmtopmagazin.de/board/linux Discussion about Linux-PDAs (German)
http://www.palmtopmagazin.de/news/linux Linux-PDA news (German)
http://www.theyopy.de German Yopy fan site
http://www.handhelds.org Linux-Development for Compaq iPaq
http://www.yopy.org Another Yopy fan site

Check this out. I've had it working flawlessly for a while now. There isn't much out there that isn't more proven or secure than ssh. Give it a try, it's the best of what's out there.

Of course Linux reviews aren't payed for. I listened to many reviewers before I purchased Slackware 7.0, and as a new user, I have yet to find myself being dissapointed. As you can see by the article here Most of the problems that people have with Linux stem from the user, not the software... Linux reviews don't need to be payed for. The software speaks for itself.

< australian tour guide accent >This rather nasty looking fellow here is know as "homus-wienieus" or weenie head for those of you who don't speak latin. Mostly you'll see them hanging around in alt.advocasy.* </australian tour guide accent >

For example, my Helix Gnome review was me downloading the distribution over my 56K modem and having a go at it. I had no contact with anyone at Helix Code.

If they want to see irresponsible journalism, perhaps they should read the stories they just wrote.

These kinds of accusations make me ill. I believe I've just read my last ZDNet article, and I don't think I'll be visiting TUCows anytime soon. I urge everyone to write to the respective editors of these "publications" and calmly voice your disgust.

For example, my Helix Gnome review was me downloading the distribution over my 56K modem and having a go at it. I had no contact with anyone at Helix Code.

If they want to see irresponsible journalism, perhaps they should read the stories they just wrote.

These kinds of accusations make me ill. I believe I've just read my last ZDNet article, and I don't think I'll be visiting TUCows anytime soon. I urge everyone to write to the respective editors of these "publications" and calmly voice your disgust.

sheer amount of perversion and degredation available on the net

sheer amount of perversion and degredation available on the net

I think some of us finally after laughing loudly at first, then more and more quietly, at joke after stupider joke, are realizing that maybe Slashdot should change. Maybe the Linux community as a whole should change (Linux.com has up stupid polls too, missing a chance at getting actual valuable feedback from the community). Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's destined to stay the way it is. But if it is to change, that change will be to grow up. Then again.. serious news at Slashdot? Maturity from editors? (besides Jamie, she's the mature one) Maybe not in my lifetime.

Another good url is: ccdecoder which is my decoder for information stored in the vertical blanking interval of a standard cable system -- use this and you can pull channel info, program info and webtv urls (assuming you have a bttv tuner card in your computer capable of capturing the vbi). Also, check out FAME which an mpeg2 encoder (needs work though).

I'll be very interested in helping out any project to create a free tivo clone.
- MbM

I believe that this may be what you're looking for. Get a 486, install mpg123 and those scripts and just insert your CDR of MP3s and it'll play. Works great and it's cheaper than something like these MPTrip Discmans which are $115, which isn't too bad but you can't beat free =).
-Antipop

You can do this easily already. All you need is a 486, a soundcard, and a CD drive. Put good 'ole Linux on it and use these scripts. Take a CDR with MP3s burned on it and put it in and listen. You can just run a standard audio cable from the speaker out on the soundcard to the AUX in on your stereo and you have a perfectly good MP3 player. I'm sure it wouldn't be a big deal to mount it in your car. It's a heck of a lot cheaper than $250 for this thing.
-Antipop

For more here's a few good sites that list distros. That's how I usually find new ones.

linuxlinks.com

Linux Weekly News

linux.com

About Linux
Linux is a free, Unix-like operating system (fundamental software) that has been developed by a loose-knit team of talented programmers working all over the world. Linux works on almost every kind of computer in existence, and provides a robust platform for a wide variety of applications.

Linux has blossomed to an estimated user base of 10-15 million since being created by Linus Torvalds in 1991.

IT analysts International Data Corporation (IDC) have predicted that Linux commercial shipments will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 25% until 2003 which is more than double the combined rate for all other server operating environments. For more information about Linux, please refer to: http://www.linux.com and http://www.xfree86.org

• Linux.com (27 Apr)
  
• Adrenaline Vault (25 Apr)
  
• Games weekly (23 Apr)
  
• casManG's (April 10?)
  
• Intelligamer (April 10?)
  
• Computer Game Online (Feb)
  

And a couple of fan sites:

• Station Terminus (Joe Shodan)
  
• Terminus (hosted at A Talent For War)
  

Oh, and it isn't massively multi-player, and that's a *good* thing:
they've gone for allowing people to create their own servers, and for
a gameplay model that seamlessly moves from single player to
multiplayer, whilst retaining lots of depth. Very ambitious, and it
looks really successful. I'm impressed.

Although I saw one comment mention Terminus, I think it deserves MUCH more than that.

Terminus is a persistent universe RPG, in space. It is a 3D simulation set in our Solar System, two hundred years in the future. It is scheduled for release on 6 June 2000, for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.

For more on Terminus, check out Station Terminus.
There's an awesome preview at The Adrenaline Vault.
Here's another at Linux.com.
Lastly is the website of Vicarious Visions, the developer of Terminus.

Terminus was at the E3 (or, at least, was supposed to be) - I don't know why the writer of this article didn't see it / didn't mention it.
It hasn't gotten a whole lot of press, but it's been mentioned in quite a few game mags out there. I, for one, am going to buy this game the day it comes out - both to support games on Linux, and because it looks like a lot of fun.

-lw

I have this working under Linux and Netscape 4.7 right now. The below URL gives the details:

http://www.linu x.com/tuneup/database.phtml/X11/Netscape/000932.ht ml

I can scroll the pages with the wheel, and use the middle button to open a new page on a link.

HTH, HAND

It might be interesting to see how Microsoft reacts to this. I understand they offered a great deal of money for linux.com when it was for sale. I was recently at the Boeing/Microsoft technical lookahead and they see Sun as their primary competitor. Perhaps Unix.com is in their strategic plan. Sounds like Sun should be the primary customer for this...
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Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux
* Education
* Integration
* Support

Unless it is the opposite...

Cheers,

--fred

Half-a-thousand people had probably posted this already, but linux.com run an article on this very subject at http://www. linux.com/multimedia/multimedia.phtml?function=dis part&id=70.

1) Red Hat isn't a good company because they comply with the GPL. If they didn't comply with the GPL, their company would be sacked, and their employees burnt at the stake. Not to mention, their company would be sitting beneath 6 miles of lawsuits from the x-number of thousands of people who give them a product to sell. Myself included. I may not have any mission critical code in Red Hat's distrib, but my contribution to the distribution itself is fairly large -- 11 MB.

2) Slashdot was doing fine (some would argue, better) without support from Andover, or VA. They arent necessary to Slashdot's existance, and never were.

3) Before VA got smart and decided to purchase Andover, they were planning on building a Freshmeat clone, to compete with it for community mindshare, and ultimately push Patrick and his project out of existance by sheer force. Rather than allow or encourage Freshmeat to prosper, they wanted it to destroy it and replace it with something they had direct control over. Don't believe me? Read this press release from August '99. Don't be surprised if its gone by the time you read this. By August '99, Freshmeat was already the established watering hole for new software in the Linux community. What reason, other than greed, would VA want to reproduce what already existed?

ColdStorage never saw the light of day. Think about it---why pay your employees to build a site from scratch and spend alot of time and effort trying to compete when you can just buy your competition outright? Sound familliar?

4) Making money in the Linux community does make you evil, if you have to answer to anyone but the community. VA answers to a board of directors, now. Not the community. Same story with Red Hat. Their job is to turn a profit however they can--and thats their only job. Thats the only thing they need to care about, and consequently, that is the only thing they care about.

It is a fundemental betrayl of the very principles which made Linux even possible in the first place. Cooperation, mutual respect, and community effort. Not competition, hidden motivations, and monopolization of utilities. When one company owns what you read, what you download, and what you use, its time to ask questions. If you dont, you are doing a grave disservice to yourself. If VA truly is a good-natured company, they will stand the test of time.

I don't see that as being the case, here.



Bowie J. Poag
Project Founder, PROPAGANDA For Linux (http://metalab.unc.edu/propaganda)