Slashdot Mirror
CollegeLinux Released to the Public
YOU ARE SO FIRED! writes "It seems that the Swiss Robert Kennedy College (with the aptly named website) has released CollegeLinux, a Linux distribution based off of Slackware, to the public. If only my employees could've used this in school - I wouldn't have to fire them so much! See the interview with the dean of the school for more information."
http://www.pchopper.com/mirror/linux/
It's implemented in XFree 4.3. Besides, resolution wasn't the problem (it could be changed, very quickly and easily), root window size was.
Look into MAS if the currently 'common' interfaces don't work, I think you'll like it (MAS should become more common as time passes and it replaces the other sound servers).
Carnegie Mellon University has had its own Red Hat-based distro for at least 5 years now, called Andrew Linux.
Enjoy!!!
http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/collegelinux/
31 people regularly point & click my G-spot
screen shots at
ss1
ss2
ss3
Also be sure to check out the latest release of Dropline GNOME--it now works with CollegeLinux and adds a beautiful GNOME 2.2-based desktop and XFree86 4.3 to a great base system. Details and downloads can be found at www.dropline.net/gnome.
http://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution= college
Because it's got the best foundation of Linux code!
;-D) for this and that file. It's always in the same spot. I feel that Red Hat and other newer players in the Linux game move things around just a bit too much.
I've used it for 8 years going on 9 and have no complaints. I know where everything is and don't have to root around (no pun intended
I like Slackware. It's stable, free, and intuitive.
But it's a matter of choice. Linux is Linux, and it's all good.
31 people regularly point & click my G-spot
I'm not sure you've actually used a Mac. There is an extremely limited amount of MacOS supported hardware. Let's compare:
Video Cards that are supported under MacOS X:
Nvidia GeForce4 MX, Ti
ATI Rage, Rage Pro, Rage Pro Turbo
ATI Radeon 7xxx, 8xxx, 9xxx (I'll be generous and give MacOS X the 9700, but I don't think ATI supports the 9700 under MacOS X yet)
Video Cards that are supported under Linux:
Nvidia Riva 128, TNT, TNT2
Nvidia GeForce2, GeForce2 MX
Nvidia GeForce3, GeForce3 Ti
Nvidia GeForce4 MX, GeForce4 Ti
ATI Mach64
ATI Rage, Rage Pro, Rage Pro Turbo
ATI Radeon 7xxx, 8xxx, 9xxx (some cards better supported than others)
Matrox Millennium, Millennium 2, Mystique
Matrix G100, G200, G400, G450, G550
Matrix Parhelion
Intel i810, i820, i845, i850G, etc
All SiS video cards
Most S3/Via video cards
A few other oddball chipsets
Let's try SCSI controllers.
SCSI Controllers supported under MacOS X
Atto U3D (Ultra 160)
Adaptec PowerDomain Ultra160 series
Adaptec PowerDomain Ultra Narrow series
QLogic (?? not sure which ones)
SCSI Controllers supported under Linux
All Adaptec SCSI controllers
All DPT SCSI controllers
All AMI SCSI controllers
All LSILogic/NEC SCSI controllers
All QLogic SCSI controllers
All Atto SCSI controllers
Dozens of oddball SCSI controllers
How about serial ATA controllers, sound cards, or combo Firewire/USB2.0 cards?
Nah. I think I've basically proven my point.
The only manufacturers who are dragging their feet on Linux support are ATI (uuggghhh... ATI sucks), Logitech (still no webcam drivers for Linux... I chucked my Logitech webcam a long time ago), AMD, and a few extremely minor companies who produce crappy USB/Firewire peripherals. Yes, MacOS does have much better support wrt USB/Firewire peripherals. I have trouble making my USB compact flash reader work with Linux. It's supported under XP and MacOS, though.
Seriously, this is not a troll. I feel that it's silly to go around saying that MacOS X has more drivers than Linux. It's a ridiculous claim that is easily proven false.
I own a Blue & White PowerMac (450 MHz G3) that's got an ATI video card and Adaptec SCSI controller. For a while, I had delusions of upgrading my PowerMac, like you can upgrade a PC. Not so. My choices are limited to an ATI Radeon 7000 PCI video card (no AGP slot on older PowerMacs) or an overpriced Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI controller. Good luck finding Atto or Qlogic SCSI controllers.
After doing a lot of research, I discovered that my PCI slots are basically useless. I can't put in a sound card, TV card, GeForce4 MX video card (because you can't buy them... they are Apple OEM only!), DVD decoder card, or anything else that I put in my Linux PC.
Macs are just not very upgradable. Once you buy a Mac, your upgrade options basically consist of an ATI video card or Adaptec SCSI controller. That's it. Once you buy both of them, you can add more hard drives. Whoop-de-doo.
I should probably rewrite this post so that it doesn't read so much like flamebait or a troll, but I'm too lazy.
I went to college, heck it was eight or ten of the best years of my life! (you degree collectors out there know what I'm talking about) I don't see anything particularly collegiate about this distribution... no more than any other distro. CollegeLinux seems to be to Slackware what Knoppix is to Debian. Nothing spectacular or collegiate.
Go Penguins!
I own a Blue & White PowerMac... After doing a lot of research, I discovered that my PCI slots are basically useless. I can't put in a sound card,
Ummm, I don't have a history of being a pro-Apple person, but even *I* know that the high end PCI sound cards generally plug into a Mac or a PC and with the right software do a hell of a good job of sound editing. I just downloaded and archived all the latest drivers for my Delta 66 sound card last week and MacOS is well supported.
If you mean you can't go into CompUSA and buy commodity-crap sound cards and schlepp 'em into your Mac, that might be a different story.