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Where does it assume a majority of the students are Linux users? It's just saying the Linux users at the school won't have the same options the Windows users will.

You, however, implicate all of the Linux users as being pirates with "Any of the minority of the students that use Linux should just stick to pirating."

There are people who run Linux exclusively, and who do not pirate (Me being one of them), although I don't attend your university, I believe there is at least one such person who does. I'd recommend the Linux users just use irate, and avoid the RIAA entirely.

I got fed up with banner ads, so I wrote my own filter software[1]. Remember, the Linux slogan is not it's better than XYZ, it is do it yourself ;)

[1] webcleaner

Wow verse finally hit slashdot...

So what is verse?

Verse is a network protocol that is designed to let any apps talk to each other in real-time over a IP network. So if one app changes the data all other apps gets the changes sent to them in real-time. This means that multiple apps, people and developers can collaborate. its all Free BSD and portable.

Verse support can be given both existing and new applications.

It has been around for quite some time. I and i friend was hired to write verse a few years back. (at II) it is one of few apps written from the ground up as open source and the people who wrote it got funded to do it.

Verse used to be on source forge but is now living on at blender.org

Loq Airou, Nil salentinn, and connector are very recently added apps and you can find some screen shots here and here

Ton (head of the blender foundation) wants to base Blender 3 on verse technology.

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Although the DriverLoader apparently supports these cards, please support these companies in either helping develop Linux driver support or releasing specifications (both of which Intel and Broadcom adamantly refuse to do) by

a) purchasing their products when you have a choice (e.g. buy Pentium-M instead of Centrino and add on a third-party wireless card, and don't buy 802.11g products from Linksys or Dell which use Broadcom), and

b) Use the open-source drivers rather than emulating windows drivers, let the chip (Atheros and Globespan/Virata nee Intersil) and the card companies know that you appreciate their linux support. Report bugs and feedback to the open source projects, too.

It's nice to have something like this around as a stopgap way to load drivers for hardware made by manufacturers with poor linux support, and even as a way for manufacturers to ship initial drivers for linux inexpensively for them (and claim "linux support out of the box"), but it is no substitute for published specs and real drivers (which, with published specs, the companies don't even have to develop themselves).

If you guys are so up in your panties about this move, go elsewhere for support. You can get updates elsewhere. I've successfully been maintaining servers in the 30 or 40 just using apt-get and kickstart -- for free.

Get started here:

Freshrpms.net
DAG RPMS
ATrpms
newrpms
KDE For Redhat/Fedora
JPackage
CCRMA (Karma)
Gstreamer
Kernel 2.6.0-test

And if you want up2date style GUI, get synaptic from ATrpms.

Although the post by Emmanual Dreyfus indicates that XDarwin is essentially a test case, this is a rather important test case. If you can run XDarwin, you're just a short hop away from having all of the X11 apps along with it. Also, imagine a package system like the fink working equally well on OSX and NetBSD. You could develop on OSX with its comfortable GUI and deploy to NetBSD with its comfortable price.

The flag icon for Slashdot's 'United States' section is missing its first stripe - the stripe that represents Delaware, the first state admitted to the Union. While a simple oversight could be forgiven, it should be known from here on out that Slashdot is in fact aware of the missing stripe, and even worse, refuses to do anything about it!

This vulgar flag desecration and rabid anti-Delawarism must be put to a stop. Let the Slashdot crew know that we will not accept a knowingly mutilated flag or the insinuation that Delawarians deserve to be cut out of the union. I ask you, what has Delaware done to deserve this insolence, this wanton disregard, this bigotry?

This intentional disregard of a vital national symbol is unpatriotic. Why, the flippant remarks CmdrTaco made about our flag border on terrorism! I urge you to join the protest in each 'United States' story. Sacrifice your karma for your country by pointing out this injustice. Let's all work together to get our flag back. Can you give your country any less?

i would recommend you do 2 things:

1. install X11 on OS X. This is just Apple's version, there's also the XonX project. I'd recommend Apple's version for now. If you have Panther, it is located on CD #3, there's an X11.pkg file, dlb-click on that, or you may tell the panther installer to install it for you if you check the appropriate box in a "Customize..." Install.
2. Install Fink.

from this point, just about any unix/linux/open-source app you can think of is available to you to run under OS X, either from any terminal, or thru X11. For a while and since Mac OS 10.1, i've had a slew of X11 apps running on my mac, the whole Gnome desktop and all its goodies, and Gimp, to name a few.

Enjoy :)

You mean like this?

Name's iTerm not iShell, but you were close :)

One can create photo galleries, use advanced groupware applications, browse anything on your computer, be it a camera or a network share from the same interface, have a music player that fits in appearance with the rest of the GUI, and oh yeah, works on everything, from a Sun Ultra 2, to a PC, to a Mac G3. Yeah, there are a few niche applications where a mac may be good in, but for The Rest of Us, Linux is where it's at.

Oh yah, my sexy homepage will also replace news channels :)

Yes.

Could somebody check fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo DRIVE: on Longhorn? It should tell the NTFS version. Linux knows 1.2, 3.0 and 3.1.

Try synce.

Maybe you should check out Quanta Plus. (Yeah, site is ugly... it works great, though.) I've seen a lot of people say things like "Quanta Plus allowed me to switch to Linux!" Oh, and it got that Star Trek guy, that everybody(?) likes, to be able to dump Windows.

>>I frequently wish I had a spare machine to try out my wilder ideas on.

You can create a second system within your current one if you've got enough hard drive space.

See:
chroot
User Mode Linux

Hope that helps.

Does anyone own a Zaurus? How useful are they really?

I own a Zaurus SL-5500: the "original" US market unit (as opposed to the original developer's unit, the SL-5000, which was basically the same thing with half the RAM). I'll say this: you can have it... when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Two reasons it rocks:

• The keyboard. The primary reason this is 10x more efficient than (most) palm devices: I can type very quickly on the build-in "hidden" keyboard. Yes, the Zaurus has something like PalmOS's Graffiti. In fact, the Z's recognizer is more sophisticated and accurate, and can learn any strokes you teach it. I still use the keyboard.
• Linux. No, I do not use my Z as a "hacking tool" or "geek toy" primarily. I've written a test app for it or so, but that's it. (Doing so is incredibly easy, actually, but I haven't had a lot of time to spend on it.) I bought my Zaurus as a PDA, and that's what I use it for. Since I use Linux exclusively on the desktop, having it on the PDA is extremely natural, not to mention making things extremely flexible. I find syncing silly. I prefer ssh, scp, or (with the newer ROM) smbclient (which is like a braindead ftp, but it works). If I needed syncing, I would use rsync. It just fits very naturally into my work environment.

Some people complain about the PIM apps; the quality varies. The Todo List and Address Book aren't great, but I don't use the former and the latter is sufficient. The Text Pad, however, is pretty handy, and Opera (which even renders slashdot well!) and Hancomsheet (a fully-blown spreadsheet!) are killer apps for me.

The only reason I don't upgrade to a CL-760 is the fact I can't justify the cost: my Z works great as-is. With the work on OpenZaurus and Opie, the PIM issues are being solved, and I have little chance of being left with a "dead" platform.

I've never used the RaQs, but I run my ISP using ISPMan. It's a pretty good system that uses the components I like: Postfix, Cyrus, Apache, Pure-FTPD and LDAP.

The Xbox-linux project

Its time to promote open source, and for people to improve it.

Photoshop = Gimp, the lastest version is much improved, with a DECENT GUI, masking layers, the beginings of CMYK support and much much more. There is no need to complain about the gimp, and if you need a feature that is not there, Then you can help. Also check out the gegl project, which will add much wanted stuff such has weird colourspaces and 48-bit support

Illistrator = Karbon. Sodipodi is nice, but its designed as an SVG editor only, Karbon has a more illistrator like interface and supports more file formats. As usual, give feedback, its how open source improves.

InDesign = Scribus. A powerful DTP application, its a lot to explain on this page, so go and read the page and don't forget to help.

GoLive = Quanta. Quanta is the best OpenSource Website creator. Support for wysiwyg is in the CVS, so help them out ;).

I use these tools everyday and FOR PRODUCTION work, remember don't complain on slashdot about $APP dosen't have $FEATRURE. Either help fix it if you can program, or submit a feature request in bugzilla. I have several times and gotten the features I wanted. So, if you are tired of Adobe lock in, then help open source.

Go to qtcomponents.sf.net and download the plugin. iTunes added some .ogg files to my library and I was able to play them with it.

Aztec:
K-3D

Aztec:
K-3D

There is better alternative to Nagios. It's called Zabbix. Check screenshots! The software is very simple to use and allows to see performance graphs of any resolution (up-to 1 sec). Also, it has excellent notification possibilities. We are using it here to monitor network of more than 40 servers (HP-UX, Solaris) running all sorts of applications (Oracle, SAP, Domino). I've spoken to the author, v1.0 will be released very soon ;)

There was Xtunes once, which mimicked iTunes in most of the features (sans the Music Store).

It was in http://xtunes.sf.net/ but it seems to have entered some closed testing program or other. I might be wrong and the program might be named similarly somewhere else, but it was almost identical (a little less round around the edges)

That's because you're using 0.66. Why don't you try upgrading?

The gaim folks added the new MSN protocol in 0.69 and currently 0.71 is the latest release.

It connects to MSN now assuming you have the mozilla-nss or the gnutls package installed.

I loaded Gaim for the first time this morning, and I was unable to log into MSM using my hotmail.com account. I loaded Firebird so I could visit Gaim's website to see if this was a known problem, and my homepage told me all I need to know.

This isn't a major problem, there are plenty of other IM clients and networks, the problem is getting all my Windows and Mac using friends to move over to using them.

I am not bitter though, after all its their network, bandwidth and development time, but perhaps its time to renew my interest in Jabber and see exactly what it can do....

Andrew McCall.

Ayttm (shameless plug) works. So does Gaim (AFAIK) (ok, it's here...) and most major open-source MSN clients (since a few weeks at least, they use the new protocol). The ban isn't really a ban, that's really mainly a security improvement.

Ayttm (shameless plug) works. So does Gaim (AFAIK) (ok, it's here...) and most major open-source MSN clients (since a few weeks at least, they use the new protocol). The ban isn't really a ban, that's really mainly a security improvement.

>what's the problem with just using the GIF format?

GIF only offers binary transparency and 256 colors. PNG/MNG offers 256
levels of transparency and millions of colors. For a comparison of
PNG and GIF handling of a simple drop shadow, look at
pmt.sf.net/opossum
You probably won't be able to see the JNG images there, but they
are visually indistinguishable from the PNG.

Like talkagent ?

I wish someone could help me with the project....

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OK, computer

this has been on the feature list for some time now. not really a big thing if you're current with openMosix development. hopefully i can port PlumpOS to X-box if it isn't very complicated, or try to support it in the next release of PlumpOS.

Have you thought about implementing your own copy of Sourceforge or (the much easier-to-install version) GForge ??

Switches won't help you!

Or, just leave it to the community to do what they do best: provide drivers that are more efficient and more stable than anything some random company would halfheartedly put out in an attempt to win over a few thousand more sales.

No, only that the latest release of mplayerosx can't play it. We still have the options of compiling a newer mplayer ourselves, using WMP, RealOne or viewing the Quicktime version posted here somewhere. You know, mplayer under OS X isn't much different from mplayer for linux, apart from the Win32 codec support.

Freenet

It's designed for this, why not use it?

The web contains an ocean of interesting video content, its just poorly organized. The Irate project for audio shows a way to harvest legal music content, the same can/will be done for video. I run a site that aggregates links to interesting video around the 'net.

With the BBC putting their archives online and the archive.org saying they will provide infinite storage and bandwidth for multimedia content, legal content for these devices is no problem.

WHY did they make another wheel for their "K"ar. Gnome has had SVG support for ages with librsvg! Heck I can even have SVG wallpapers on gnome! I often draw SVG diagrams with SODIPODI and libsrvg renders them fine, while KSVG makes them look like whats in the toilet.

Once again, reinventing wheels is whats killing opensource on the desktop!

That would be User Mode Linux.

I can't believe people don't know about this program. It's great for all kinds of diagrams. I mostly use it for UML diagrams and E/R database diagrams. Being a programmer, that's the type of stuff I do.

Get it here: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/

It works with windows or linux, you just needs the gtk. And if you use gaim for windows, then you've already got it.

http://gaim.sf.net IYDAK

Dual head .. he he, I have several monitors connected to one machine, and two more left and right connected via synergy ..

There are so many uses I couldnt possibly list them. Lets see ..

One monitor displays network statistics, one system logs, one my media player, one the playlist (!) and I usually have remote logins to other machines ...

The other day I was playing Grand Theft Auto, and had maps to all the cities displayed, with detail on certain areas .. the cheats in another window [i suck] ...

This is work and play, but one day I'll look forward to just having one 5 foot by 7 foot LCD on the wall ...

Oh, and by the way, there are going to be some serious limitations found as more and more people use multiple monitors, besides the programs that are designed by default to run on one screen, alot of programs allow you to detatch certain windows, but wont let you move them off of that particular desktop!

Or, I love having to move certain programs to their monitor, over, and over, and over ...

Anyway, there are many monitoring applications, and some information just wont fit on one screen .. no matter the resolution.

I have a pair of 17" TFTs on my desk* and I found that my productivity dropped like a rock because the first thing I did was install the GLMatrix mode** for xscreensaver - now I just sit there for hours on end thinking how cool it looks.

* 2 computers linked with synergy - acts like one computer with two screens, but you can tie one up with heavy cycles and leave the other free for browsing etc. Works cross platform Linux/OSX/Win as well.

** Looks like the bit from the opening credits of Matrix 2 - way cooler than the old 2D xmatrix module.

I must say i like Filezilla for FTP.
It does SFTP as well and is GPL.

AVG is total rubbish compared to Avast!, which is also free for personal use. Highly recommended.

I also recommend the image viewer IrfanView, the Filezilla ftp client and server, Audacity, The GIMP for Windows, the ConText text editor, the KiXtart scripting tool, GAIM for Windows, and that's just for starters.

AVG is total rubbish compared to Avast!, which is also free for personal use. Highly recommended.

I also recommend the image viewer IrfanView, the Filezilla ftp client and server, Audacity, The GIMP for Windows, the ConText text editor, the KiXtart scripting tool, GAIM for Windows, and that's just for starters.

AVG is total rubbish compared to Avast!, which is also free for personal use. Highly recommended.

I also recommend the image viewer IrfanView, the Filezilla ftp client and server, Audacity, The GIMP for Windows, the ConText text editor, the KiXtart scripting tool, GAIM for Windows, and that's just for starters.

Outside of Office software, Audacity is a great free audio editor

SciTE or the java-based Jedit are good text editors.

The GIMP is a good image editor, available here for Windows.

Mozilla or one of its components for mail/web browsing

For media playing you might want to try Zinf (formerly FreeAmp), Foobar2000 (nice light weight music player), WinAMP for Windows. MPlayer is a good video player for Linux (and Windows) and XMMS is a capable music player for Linux.

Celestia is a nice space exploration program.

Jabber is good for instant messaging or Trillian or GAIM if you need to chat on MSN, AIM, ICQ etc.

GNUCash is a capable accounting program.

Oh yeah, and for email, I suggest setting up an IMAP server on an old machine and using that to store your email. This can be quite difficult, though allows you to browse your email from Linux and Windows. Thunderbird is rock solid and good even though only in the early stages of development.

Outside of Office software, Audacity is a great free audio editor

SciTE or the java-based Jedit are good text editors.

The GIMP is a good image editor, available here for Windows.

Mozilla or one of its components for mail/web browsing

For media playing you might want to try Zinf (formerly FreeAmp), Foobar2000 (nice light weight music player), WinAMP for Windows. MPlayer is a good video player for Linux (and Windows) and XMMS is a capable music player for Linux.

Celestia is a nice space exploration program.

Jabber is good for instant messaging or Trillian or GAIM if you need to chat on MSN, AIM, ICQ etc.

GNUCash is a capable accounting program.

Oh yeah, and for email, I suggest setting up an IMAP server on an old machine and using that to store your email. This can be quite difficult, though allows you to browse your email from Linux and Windows. Thunderbird is rock solid and good even though only in the early stages of development.

Mozilla Firebird
Mozilla Thunderbird
OpenOffice.org
AVG Anti-Virus
Gaim
VLC Media Player
Spybot Search & Destroy