Heh, It's kinda fun to use Linux on portable devices. I got an old HP Jornada 690e (sh3 133 mhz 32 mb sdram) running JLime. Once you get Linux running on it, the configurations possibilities are almost infinite. I installed many lite versions of the software I run on my desktop and plus some weird stuff for pocket devices like Apache.
You're right Hermano.:)
The same situation happens here in Brazil. The strange thing is that games get overpriced because of ridiculous high fees imposed by the government. These fees are imposed to protect national companies, but there aren't any game companies here... we don't produce games! So, I wonder why games importing suffer the highest taxes...
Despise his work for Microsoft that guy developed brilliant systems. Microsoft's way is evil shit and all that stuff... but in the end I think that we're all geeks and/or scientists and we should forget this software wars sometimes and work together for a common good and Gray's work with scientific databases is a common good.
I would not work with him developing a Microsoft product for example, but I would be honoured by joining him in some scientific research;
Well, I don't usually post because of my poor english... but sometimes I must reply. Sorry for the bad english.
Yeah, I got one of that WRT54G from linksys, but it happens to be a v5 router preloaded with vxWorks proprietary operational system. Linksys' WRT54G and WRT54GS v5, v5.1 and v6 versions got less flash (2 mb flash memory and 8 mb of ram instead of 4 mb flash and 16 mb ram from other versions), It's possible to load a very minimal OpenWRT firmware into it, but it wont give you all advantages that you got with more storage.
The best model for using OpwnWRT are the "L" series (WRT54GL) that according to Linksys, are built specially for the Linux modding comunity.
Well... I almost forgot the tell that the author in TFA didn't mention many things that could have softed his experiences.
1 and 2-Gentoo is Time Consuming to Install
Yes and no. If you run a lot of servers, you can build things like stage4 (ok, this should work with every distro) and catalyst installation images, where you kinda build your own distro.
3-Gentoo's Stability Strategy: Update Everything
No and no. Now we can see that the author didn't RTFM. Portage is very well documented. Everyone Gentoo user knows that profiles don't get replaced if you edit the RIGHT configuration files. That's why there are files like/etc/make.conf and/etc/portage/package.*. Information you put there wont change! If you edit the system defaults used by portage, it will be replaced by an update.
The author mentions something about configuration files being replaced. That's another wrong comment. There are system protected directories that don't get replaced, and a tool called etc-update to manage the updated files and content that you want update.
4. Gentoo's Security Strategy: Update Everything
Try the server and hardened profiles.
As you can see the author didn't read the basic documentation for the system he's using. IMHO, that's stupid.
I run a site with 10 Gentoo Hardened servers. No big deal... never had a prob with them.
They're easy to maintain. Gentoo got lots of tools that help the admin tasks, like glsa-update, catalyst, etc-update and portage itself. Most software installations and upgrades are smooth. The Gentoo Hardened provide me with stable release circles and many security features that gives you headaches to implement on other distros. In fact, most tasks that I would spend ~20 minutes working with other distros I spend ~10 minutes on Gentoo. Go on and try to install djbdns on Debian and them do the same with Gentoo.
I don't use portage directly. A script updates portage tree, sends me a mail with the glsa advisories and I run glsa-update, build the binaries and install them on the servers.
I even have more trouble with a Mandriva 2005 (!) server that I'm forced to maintain because of a stupid old ERP system. This ERP was crashing under Gentoo and the developer claimed that his system only runs perfectly on Madriva or Conectiva. I installed Mandriva and the software keep crashing. After so much work learning how his own software works, he discovered that the problem was with the database... some underground software named Advantage Database System or so on. Well... the Mandriva server was running fine and I choose to keep it, because the developer would blame Gentoo on every problem with his crappy software.
TFA is about bullshit... posted by people who don't really understand how GNU/Linux works and people who flame things without really knowing the subject. Gentoo is such a great project... such as Debian and many others alike.
Sorry for poor english. I had to express myself and talk about my experiences with Gentoo.
I'm accessing the intarnet through a direct dedicated connection.
This is the most ridiculous action that I ever know. A shame that our democracy and freedom of speech is a joke.
She (Daniela Cicarelli) works for MTV, and my tinfoil hat tells me that they support her in this for they maintain a crappy videoclip site called "MTV Overdrive".
FTA:
"According to Nathanael Greene, an ethanol specialist with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), in New York City, coal-produced ethanol shipped a long way to its final destination and derived from corn grown with techniques that release a lot of carbon dioxide from the soil can actually have carbon impacts that might be worse than gasolines.
Nice to see "The Omnivorous Engine" in TA. There are a lot of brilliant minds here. Ethanol is cheap and it's very common here.
The only problem comes from the use of natural gas, since most of it comes from Bolivia, and we're having some problems with their new government claiming that Petrobras (government-owned Brazilian oil) has no right over their natural gas.
And of course... we're also self-sufficiency in petroleum.:)
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So, Telecommuting does not work for programmers? Yeah... as if the hundreds of Linux programmers work in one big office.
Heh, It's kinda fun to use Linux on portable devices. I got an old HP Jornada 690e (sh3 133 mhz 32 mb sdram) running JLime. Once you get Linux running on it, the configurations possibilities are almost infinite. I installed many lite versions of the software I run on my desktop and plus some weird stuff for pocket devices like Apache.
You're right Hermano. :)
The same situation happens here in Brazil. The strange thing is that games get overpriced because of ridiculous high fees imposed by the government. These fees are imposed to protect national companies, but there aren't any game companies here... we don't produce games! So, I wonder why games importing suffer the highest taxes...
Despise his work for Microsoft that guy developed brilliant systems. Microsoft's way is evil shit and all that stuff... but in the end I think that we're all geeks and/or scientists and we should forget this software wars sometimes and work together for a common good and Gray's work with scientific databases is a common good.
I would not work with him developing a Microsoft product for example, but I would be honoured by joining him in some scientific research;
Well, I don't usually post because of my poor english... but sometimes I must reply. Sorry for the bad english.
Yeah, I got one of that WRT54G from linksys, but it happens to be a v5 router preloaded with vxWorks proprietary operational system. Linksys' WRT54G and WRT54GS v5, v5.1 and v6 versions got less flash (2 mb flash memory and 8 mb of ram instead of 4 mb flash and 16 mb ram from other versions), It's possible to load a very minimal OpenWRT firmware into it, but it wont give you all advantages that you got with more storage.
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The best model for using OpwnWRT are the "L" series (WRT54GL) that according to Linksys, are built specially for the Linux modding comunity.
Don't buy v5 or v6 if you want to use OpenWRT.Consult this page before acquiring a router: http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware?action=sh
Well... I almost forgot the tell that the author in TFA didn't mention many things that could have softed his experiences.
/etc/make.conf and /etc/portage/package.*. Information you put there wont change!
1 and 2-Gentoo is Time Consuming to Install
Yes and no. If you run a lot of servers, you can build things like stage4 (ok, this should work with every distro) and catalyst installation images, where you kinda build your own distro.
3-Gentoo's Stability Strategy: Update Everything
No and no. Now we can see that the author didn't RTFM. Portage is very well documented. Everyone Gentoo user knows that profiles don't get replaced if you edit the RIGHT configuration files. That's why there are files like
If you edit the system defaults used by portage, it will be replaced by an update.
The author mentions something about configuration files being replaced. That's another wrong comment. There are system protected directories that don't get replaced, and a tool called etc-update to manage the updated files and content that you want update.
4. Gentoo's Security Strategy: Update Everything
Try the server and hardened profiles.
As you can see the author didn't read the basic documentation for the system he's using. IMHO, that's stupid.
I run a site with 10 Gentoo Hardened servers. No big deal... never had a prob with them.
They're easy to maintain. Gentoo got lots of tools that help the admin tasks, like glsa-update, catalyst, etc-update and portage itself. Most software installations and upgrades are smooth. The Gentoo Hardened provide me with stable release circles and many security features that gives you headaches to implement on other distros. In fact, most tasks that I would spend ~20 minutes working with other distros I spend ~10 minutes on Gentoo. Go on and try to install djbdns on Debian and them do the same with Gentoo.
I don't use portage directly. A script updates portage tree, sends me a mail with the glsa advisories and I run glsa-update, build the binaries and install them on the servers.
I even have more trouble with a Mandriva 2005 (!) server that I'm forced to maintain because of a stupid old ERP system. This ERP was crashing under Gentoo and the developer claimed that his system only runs perfectly on Madriva or Conectiva. I installed Mandriva and the software keep crashing. After so much work learning how his own software works, he discovered that the problem was with the database... some underground software named Advantage Database System or so on. Well... the Mandriva server was running fine and I choose to keep it, because the developer would blame Gentoo on every problem with his crappy software.
TFA is about bullshit... posted by people who don't really understand how GNU/Linux works and people who flame things without really knowing the subject. Gentoo is such a great project... such as Debian and many others alike.
Sorry for poor english. I had to express myself and talk about my experiences with Gentoo.
They have PPC chips. That makes them more interesting, at least from my point of view, than the average x86 Via 1ghz.
Not so small (118mm x 153mm x 38mm), but more sexy.
http://www.genesippc.com/efika.php
* Freescale MPC5200B PowerPC SoC up to 400MHz
* 118mm x 153mm x 38mm
* 128MB 266MHz DDR RAM
* 44-pin IDE connector
* 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet
* 2x USB ports
* 1x RS232 Serial port
* Stereo Audio out, Microphone and Line-input
* 33/66MHz PCI with optional 90 AGP riser slot
* RoHS Compliant
Interesting. Is it something like Gentoo Portage?
(Please don't hurt me... I know portage was inspired in some FreeBSD system).
I'm accessing the intarnet through a direct dedicated connection. This is the most ridiculous action that I ever know. A shame that our democracy and freedom of speech is a joke. She (Daniela Cicarelli) works for MTV, and my tinfoil hat tells me that they support her in this for they maintain a crappy videoclip site called "MTV Overdrive".
FTA: "According to Nathanael Greene, an ethanol specialist with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), in New York City, coal-produced ethanol shipped a long way to its final destination and derived from corn grown with techniques that release a lot of carbon dioxide from the soil can actually have carbon impacts that might be worse than gasolines.
Ethanol from CORN is a bad idea. Here we make ethanol from sugarcane.
Nice to see "The Omnivorous Engine" in TA. There are a lot of brilliant minds here.
:)
Ethanol is cheap and it's very common here.
The only problem comes from the use of natural gas, since most of it comes from Bolivia, and we're having some problems with their new government claiming that Petrobras (government-owned Brazilian oil) has no right over their natural gas.
And of course... we're also self-sufficiency in petroleum.
... like asking theis laptops back:
b ack
http://marshallk.com/microsoft-wants-its-laptops-
I thougt that "third world" was a cold war thing.
I hope everything turns well for him. Reiserfs is a great product.