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Not to complain too much, it's a great site when it has what you need. But sometimes what you need isn't there, even if there's a whole catagory for it. I know how the archive's supposed to work, but in some places it's a bit spotty. I hope that the staff could devote some time to adding programs themselves while they're launching a new archive.

The download version is just a minimal install to get you up and running. You can then use the Deb package manager to add anything else you want. This way the ftp site only has to handle the actual distribution (Which I am told is just 31M) and you can get your deb packages (which aren't controlled by Corel) from 100's of sites distributing the bandwidth requirement.

This makes a lot more sense than RedHat that has 450M ISO image, which has a lot of rpm's that you either never end up installing (i.e. HowTos in 30 different languages) or that end up being out of date by the time do want to install them.

By the way, expect the distro to be mirrored on LinuxBerg RSN!

These take a radically different approach to file updates by logging modifications for files in a log and later at some time checkpointing the logs.

Reading is roughly as fast as traditional file systems that always update the files directly. Writing is much faster as only updates are appended to a log. All this is transparent to the user. It is in reliability and particularly in checking file system integrity that these file systems really shine. Since the data before last checkpointing is known to be good only the log has to be checked, and this is much faster than for traditional file systems.

Note that while logging filesystems keep track of changes made to both data and inodes, journaling filesystems keep track only of inode changes.

I guess I'm lucky. My ISP not only supports linux but hosts www.linuxberg.com.

I've recently tried out Loki's latest Myth II demo , and it's one of the best games ever written for Linux. I was amazed and shocked, but the best thing about this game is not the game itself, but the fact how smooth and playable it is under Linux/XFree86. I never thought that such level of control and performance was possible in X. Myth II grabs the whole screen intelligently and goes into full screen mode without any flicker. Mouse movement cannot not move you out of focus, only exit brings you back to 'normal X'. Still the game has the performance of native SVGALib apps. I wish Loki good luck - both in their Open Source, and game-porting projects. They really have proved that Linux can be an excellent gaming platform.

As for other services, I just use ICQ. I generally use Licq (homepage), but there exist a number of other clients. I've found that I like Licq the best. Linuxberg (homepage) has a lot of chat programs as I recall.

Hope this helps.

you can try out http://www.linuxkb.com/ (not up yet, coming soon) and http://linuxkb.cheek.com/ which are two Linux Knowledge Base projects.

For more info see the Linux Documentation Project. I personally like to access the LDP through http://howto.linuxberg.com/ because I find it easier to navigate.

It's just that you never hear about these Mac-like windowmanagers in the press because they're all getting excited about a Windows-like desktop system. But they're out there.
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I have to agree that I don't like wm.themes.org at all. The old one had far more themes (more than 1000) on plenty of topics. There will be plenty of annoyed theme builders out there (including me, who had a few on there).

Perhaps they will slowly bring the other themes back on line... and then get rid of that confusing search system - and those useless 'what is on my desktop today' screenshots.

www.linuxberg.com has a theme archive almost as good as it used to be (but it has no preview thumbnails). I think the soul of wm.themes.org has been lost. Maybe from the ashes something better will arise... but I wouldn't place money on it.

Mike

Since WINS is essentially Microsoft's name for their version of NBNS (see RFC1001 and RFC1002), it's probably covered under DHCP's NBNS option (code 44) [see section 8.5]. If that doesn't work, send bug reports to Microsoft :-)

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Since WINS is essentially Microsoft's name for their version of NBNS (see RFC1001 and RFC1002), it's probably covered under DHCP's NBNS option (code 44) [see section 8.5]. If that doesn't work, send bug reports to Microsoft :-)

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Since WINS is essentially Microsoft's name for their version of NBNS (see RFC1001 and RFC1002), it's probably covered under DHCP's NBNS option (code 44) [see section 8.5]. If that doesn't work, send bug reports to Microsoft :-)

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Sure, there are mirrors--they are listed on Loki's site, which keeps getting /.'ed like crazy. But here are the FTP sites listed:

ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/Loki/

ftp://happypenguin.org/pub/loki/myth2/

ftp://download.linuxlords.com/pub/de mos/myth2/

Loki is going to be adding more as time goes by. If you have a good connection free, e-mail them and let 'em know...and if you have a spare Origin2, send it to 'em, too--their server needs a break... :-/

Kinda sucks, too. Spent all that effort redoing the Loki site, and nobody gets to see it. *sigh*

Ethelred

Probably the first thing to go check is the assorted howto's about setting this up. Howto.linuxberg.com is a good place to go. As far as specific hardware, look for network cards with the boot rom, or have a floppy drive and one disk to get things going on boot.

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tunelinux seems a bit sparse on content. It seems more like a template for a new site, than a ready to launch site. The links I followed all seemed to point to simple descriptions of the various daemons and architectures. They could have seeded it with at least the Apache Performance notes or the more specific OS performance notes already published on the main Apache site. Not to mention the fact that they could have perused the contents of the many howtos listed at Linuxberg among many other places. It looks like a good starting point though, and I'm sure it will become a useful resource once more content is provided. It is a nice design, but "Content is King."

tunelinux seems a bit sparse on content. It seems more like a template for a new site, than a ready to launch site. The links I followed all seemed to point to simple descriptions of the various daemons and architectures. They could have seeded it with at least the Apache Performance notes or the more specific OS performance notes already published on the main Apache site. Not to mention the fact that they could have perused the contents of the many howtos listed at Linuxberg among many other places. It looks like a good starting point though, and I'm sure it will become a useful resource once more content is provided. It is a nice design, but "Content is King."