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Re:System Requirements by Anonymous Coward · 2008-05-03 00:52 · Score: 0 · on Slackware 12.1 Released

I was also wondering, as the Installation Help page still talks of boot and root disks, yet the download mirrors no longer host .i and .s boot disk images. While browsing I found README_PXE.TXT which explains the installation options:

The number of available options for booting your Slackware installer is similarly limited: either you boot your computer from the bootable first CDROM of the Slackware CD set, or from the DVD, or using a USB stick. There is even loadlin, the DOS based Linux starter, but lets not concern ourselves with the past today. Slackware 12.0 abandoned the floppy boot altogether.

In other words, a floppy disk drive is no longer required and, in fact, no longer supported! The closest I could find to floppy disk-boot support (I'm trying to install to an old laptop) was ETHERBOOT_README.TXT, which states:

With this, all that was required of a given client machine was a functional floppy drive, ONE floppy disk, & BIOS support for floppy boot. Pretty straightforward.

In conclusion, it's definitely not for the faint-hearted. Maybe I'll just try floppy disks from Slackware 11.0 and see if I can perform the equivalent of a dist-upgrade to version 12.1... HTH, - Oli

Re:System Requirements by Anonymous Coward · 2008-05-03 00:52 · Score: 0 · on Slackware 12.1 Released

I was also wondering, as the Installation Help page still talks of boot and root disks, yet the download mirrors no longer host .i and .s boot disk images. While browsing I found README_PXE.TXT which explains the installation options:

The number of available options for booting your Slackware installer is similarly limited: either you boot your computer from the bootable first CDROM of the Slackware CD set, or from the DVD, or using a USB stick. There is even loadlin, the DOS based Linux starter, but lets not concern ourselves with the past today. Slackware 12.0 abandoned the floppy boot altogether.

In other words, a floppy disk drive is no longer required and, in fact, no longer supported! The closest I could find to floppy disk-boot support (I'm trying to install to an old laptop) was ETHERBOOT_README.TXT, which states:

With this, all that was required of a given client machine was a functional floppy drive, ONE floppy disk, & BIOS support for floppy boot. Pretty straightforward.

In conclusion, it's definitely not for the faint-hearted. Maybe I'll just try floppy disks from Slackware 11.0 and see if I can perform the equivalent of a dist-upgrade to version 12.1... HTH, - Oli

Re:ancient text-based games by Anonymous Coward · 2007-08-15 04:55 · Score: 0 · on Crowther's Original Adventure Source Code Found

Linux port. :-)

Re:This is irritating by rm69990 · 2005-09-17 16:30 · Score: 1 · on Dell Releases First Consumer Product with Mandriva

Since going to www.mandrivalinux.com and clicking download is apparently too difficult, I'll provide a link :)

http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en/ftp.php3

http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/Mandrakelin ux/official/iso/10.2/x86_64/

Simply use urpmi to download any packages missing since it is only one CD. You are actually using less bandwidth that way, since you are only downloading the packages you need.

something about OO.o source by bogaboga · 2005-09-03 07:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on OpenOffice Goes LGPL

This is definitely off-topic but I am ready for the modding anyway.

I recently downloaded OpenOffice.org from http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/appl/openoffice/st able/2.0beta2/OOo_2.0beta2_src.tar.gz. After extracting it, I could not see the "configure" script! Therefore, I could not install the beast! Neither do they have Debian packages. I was stuck and decided to delete every thing.

Question is: What should I have done here to get it installed?

A few on #java from Quakenet by AIM_is_t3h_sux · 2005-06-28 23:46 · Score: 1 · on Eclipse 3.1 Released

A few generous people on Quakenet offered these to the public-

Here is one for win32 users.

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/softeng/eclipse/I20050627-1 435/eclipse-SDK-I20050627-1435-win32.zip

There's also a magnet link (which is supported by most peer to peer programs such as Limewire and Ares) located at

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:BW6W3QUP7CD23KZRGZG4BK7M4LX2 WB K3

If those don't work try using Net magnet 4.0.

One of those links takes you directly to a win32 download. However, for the Linux developers as well (there are a few different variations of it in the directory so please select one to your liking)

NOTE: These also have variations of eclipse for the Mac and win32 users as well.

http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/appl/eclipse/eclip se/downloads/drops/R-3.1-200506271435/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/eclip se/R-3.1-200506271435/

Happy coding all!

Working mirrors by JavaRob · 2005-06-28 15:53 · Score: 3, Informative · on Eclipse 3.1 Released

I had the page up to the mirrors, then even the routing pages died (so I had to extract that actual mirror link from the full URL...); anyway, here's one mirror that's zipping along for me. And I will post this reply as soon as my download finishes...

win32 zip at mirror.reachable.ca

You can figure out the base directory from that if you want it for another platform.

And a few more that I haven't tested, in various countries (trying to pick the ones that look the toughest):

gulus.USherbrooke.ca
mirrorservice.org
eclipse.objectweb.org
software-mirror.com
sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

Final note: some of these are definitely hosed; the first seems to work. Gotta hand it to the Canadians -- they're the ones staying up.

Re:mirror list by ManxStef · 2005-06-28 13:30 · Score: 3, Informative · on Eclipse 3.1 Released

mirror list by thedude13 · 2005-06-28 09:18 · Score: 5, Informative · on Eclipse 3.1 Released

Ubuntu rocks by koody · 2005-04-08 01:32 · Score: 5, Informative · on Hoary Hedgehog Ubuntu 5.04 Released

Download the torrent

New stuff include

Gnome 2.10.1, which makes the desktop a lot faster than before
X.org
Simplified update- and package management
Much faster boot process
Better laptop support (ie suspending, hibernating, processor frequency scaling)
Kickstart support for automated largescale installations
Live CD and Install CD both use the new debian installer infrastructure
UTF-8 by default
A program for collecting information about what hardware works and what doesn't
Kubuntu - complete KDE 3.4 based version of Ubuntu

Stuff people are going to bitch about

No graphical installer. The current installer is extremely simple and has been streamlined even further in this release. A graphical installer is planned for the next version (Breezy Badger).
No menu editor installed. One can always edit the files by hand, or install kmenu or something similar for gnome. The official gnome menu editor just didn't finish in time.
No DivX or MP3 support. These are simple to add though and anyone coming from debian will probably already know of the Marillat repositories. Just look at the instructions in the wiki or use Hoary After-Install helper or another script to do the dirty work for you.

OSDir has published a lot of screenshots of Ubuntu.

Oh and if you are interested to know if your laptop or other piece of hardware is supported, some info can be found in the wiki on the Hardware support-page

Primary mirrors

Other mirrors

Australia Canada Croatia Czech Republic France Germany Germany Ireland Italy Lithuania Namibia Netherlands Norway Portugal Portugal South Africa Spain Switzerland United Kingdom United Kingdom United Kingdom United States United States United States

Re:Who is this aimed at? by rich99 · 2005-02-14 10:54 · Score: 1 · on Ubisoft and Quebec to Create GameDev Courses

The masters will be offered in the Sherbrooke University in Quebec: http://www.usherbrooke.ca/

I am currently studying in Quebec city in the province of Quebec in Canada and most people have a hard time speaking or understanding english although many of our books are written in english. It is the same situation in Sherbrooke where the Ubisoft campus will be located so it is pretty sure that the courses will be in french.

reference in french.

Re:You can't possibly be a developer by Minna+Kirai · 2004-07-27 05:09 · Score: 1 · on Open Source a National Security Threat

If you think that it's as hard to check code for correctness as it is to write the code in the first place, you can't be a developer, or you're not thinking clearly.

That crack makes it seem like YOU'RE not really a developer... at least not of any kind of software that would lend insight on national security demands.

A good design jumps out at you when you see it,

Wrong. A secure design does NOT jump out at you. Subtle flaws in rarely-exercised capabilities aren't easy to spot. Are you claiming that you can just glance over the SSH source code and tell me that I should never use the "-1" commandline option, because that'll invoke a predictable CRC sequence?

History has proven you wrong. The amount of published software that has turned out to be flawed has empirically demonstrated (as if there was any doubt) that perfection is harder than adequacy.

Come to Canada instead by s20451 · 2003-08-22 08:40 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Top University Rankings for 2004 Released

C'mon up to Canada for your education. The tuition is about half (or less) of what it is in the states, if you're gay you can get married, and we're about to decriminalize marijuana.

Better yet, you don't have to pay to see our rankings:

1 Toronto
2 Queen's
*3 McGill
*3 Western
5 UBC
6 Montreal
7 Alberta
8 Sherbrooke
9 Ottawa
10 McMaster
11 Dalhousie
12 Saskatchewan
13 Laval
14 Calgary
15 Manitoba

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