Take a look at the newly released Athlon64 3000+ processor which is compatible with the same socket as Athlon64 3200+. Both chips are 2.0GHz, but the 3000+ has 512KB L2 cache instead of 1024KB L2. The price is around around $220 vs $420, which is a significant difference.
I personally bought the 3200+ two months ago, but I totally would have been happy with the 3000+.
Several influential members in the Fedora team are interested in working on development of Fedora AMD64. Please join fedora-devel-list and join is if you are interested too.
I have been using StarOffice 7 for several days now on my home Windows and Linux computers. I am impressed by the speed improvements over OOO-1.0.2 shipped in Red Hat Linux, and the extra features beyond OpenOffice 1.1 are worth the money to me. Overall I feel it is far more polished and enjoyable to use than StarOffice 6, which itself wasn't bad.
Unfortunately, StarOffice 7 does not solve the single greatest problem, the fact that it does not automatically create a profile when run by a new, instead users need to go through the "Workstation Install" process which is too complicated for end-users.
At my workplace (medium sized high school in Hawaii) OpenOffice 1.1 and StarOffice 6 was previously judged as "acceptable" for campus wide deployment, but unfortunately due to this problem alone they went with buying Microsoft Office XP for many new desktop machines this year.
While it is easy to script automatic profile generation using the autoresponse config file method like the ooffice script distributed in Red Hat or Mandrake, I do not understand why Sun does not consider the lack of automatic profile generation in a user account to be a problem. Using it on a new user account is way too complicated compared to Microsoft Office or Abiword on Windows or Linux.
Only two simple changes are needed to make this situation acceptable: 1) Like Microsoft Office, the StarOffice menu options should go into the program menu of Windows and Gnome/KDE globally for all users. 2) When run, it should automatically create the user profile without any prompts.
I have been using Arjan's 2.6 kernel RPMS from here. test1 was working fine, but test2 and test3 have this mysterious hard lockup problem after a few hours of uptime and moderate CPU load. Has anyone seen this problem? Already known reported bug?
The RELEASE-NOTES of this technology preview appears to be almost exactly that of Red Hat Linux 9. Check out the discussion on AMD64-list for more details of what this Linux is capable of. Or rather, read the List Archives.
I personally ordered two Opteron servers this week. I plan on building an e-mail server and K12LTSP server using modified Red Hat Linux. My findings of success/failure when I figure out AMD64 Linux quirks will be posted to AMDMB.com in the coming weeks. (Also check out our Athlon Linux forum.)
From the AMD64-list discussion so far, there are only a few details:
* Kernel and all applications 64-bit compiled. This includes support for the larger memory address space and 16 registers. (SPEED!)
* AMD64 Linux *can* run 32-bit applications, unfortunately you would need 32-bit shared libraries that were not included in this technology preview. They said that they will be included in a possible future shipping distribution. I personally will try to research how to find/build these 32-bit shared libraries for myself, although I suspect it will show up on amd64-list soon enough.
* Existing 32-bit closed source programs like Macromedia Flash plugin 6.0 for Linux may work with 32-bit shared libraries, but not while running within 64-bit compiled Mozilla. You would need 32-bit compiled Mozilla. Bummer.
Hi, I am the maintainer of the Macromedia Flash Player RPMS for Linux. The RPM packages have been updated a few days ago, available in apt and urpmi repositories for various Linux distributions.
The site has instructions for Gentoo and Debian Linux installation too.
Mike Harris of Red Hat mentioned that the XFree86 project is looking for a designer for good alpha blended mouse pointers. I don't know if this is still the case.
Updated Mirror List
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· Score: 4, Interesting
This is a more complete mirror list. Mirrors will hide and unhide as they become full. Please e-mail me if you find additions or corrections for this list.
People are heartily sick of the ceaseless but apt-get is sooo cool repetition that goes on
Not for long. The Fedora project aims to bring a Debian-like community of packages and apt-get to Red Hat Linux. We are early in specification stages at the moment, but developers (NOT USERS YET!) are welcome on our mailing lists.
I personally feel that Fedora will be very influential for the Linux community in the future. Why? Please read my 1st Fedora draft proposal.
Huh? No, I meant Macromedia is in a new beta period for their Flash players for all three platforms, and for the first time the codebase for all three are identical and equally supported. They put a very large amount of resources into Linux this time in order to catch up.
They were very negligent of the Linux community in the past, but this is a positive sign.
According to the field of Microeconomics no firm will be able to maintain high profit margins in the long term unless they are a monopoly (or similar things like oligopoly w/ collusion.) In a real competitive market with low costs of entry, other firms will see Microsoft with such high profits and have incentive to enter the market, undercutting Microsoft. As the result of new firms entering, prices go down to a point of "normal or zero economic profit." This is how the competitive market works.
Microsoft is able to maintain such high profit margins because of their monopoly market position. Little other market factors would allow sustained high profit in the long term.
Sorry this is a bit-off topic, but I was concerned when I tried to browse the site linked in this news.
Windpower demo for Kids on Windpower.org rejects the Mozilla user agent by name, basically saying "Netscape 6 is broken, get Internet Explorer". It is quite apparent that this is in error because that site works fine in Konqueror. These scattered sites are a serious problem to alternate web browser adoption. When people try Mozilla for the first time, they expect all sites to work without problems. One of the greatest problems they run into is when sites like this reject their visit.
Several months ago I discovered that my local bank was rejecting the Mozilla user agent by name at their online banking site. My LUG began a small letter writing and phone call campaign. After we spoke with a bank vice president, they were concerned enough to make sure that our needs were taken care of in their planned site rewrite coming later this month. I have confirmed with their site designer that their new site works properly with alternative web browsers.
I have begun the "BrowserAdvocacy" discussion mailing list for the purpose of organizing advocacy campaigns in identifying these sites, analyzing the problem, and politely contacting the sites with reasoning and suggested fixes. Please join if you wish to help in this project, or if you know of sites that reject alternate web browsers like Mozilla/Galeon/Opera/Konqueror by name.
I am looking for a volunteer to organize the web page of this project. This webmaster would simply need to keep a scoreboard showing the current status of the sites that we target. Please post to the list if you are interested in helping. Once we have some formal guidelines and infrastructure in place, I plan on making a formal announcement on Slashdot. (I hope my server can handle it!)
Thanks,
Warren Togami
Mid-Pacific Linux Users Group
http://www.mplug.org
I'm currently taking ICS312 at the University of Hawaii where we are required to use Microsoft Assembler (MASM) and this exact book for our coding projects. This book comes with MASM 6.15 for Windows, and MASM 6.14 for DOS.
I am wondering if anybody has any experience with MASM, especially attempting to run it on any DOS running within a virtual machine. I am trying to create an easy platform for Linux and Mac students in my class in order to learn ASM without the need for Windows (grader will only test our project assignments in MASM).
http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2
I had attempted to run MASM on FreeDOS running on the Bochs Pentium Emulator in Linux, but it crashed. You can read about these problems at this address.
I am not fully understanding about the capabilities of MASM in FreeDOS, especially within a Bochs environment. I suspect that Bochs or FreeDOS cannot support some features that MASM needs, or some of the coding requirements needed for my class this semester. I realize this question is a bit vague, though I would appreciate any insight into these problems.
Alternatively, would there be any other 99.9%+ MASM compatible assembler that is free or Linux based? What problems may I run into with the other assemblers?
Somebody else had mentioned trying DRDOS because that has become free (beer or speech?). Does anyone have any experience with DRDOS and MASM instead? Where can I get this?
Thanks,
Warren Togami
warren@togami.com
Mid-Pacific Linux Users Group
http://www.mplug.org
p.s. http://www.mplug.org/archive/2002/bochs_win98_inst all.php
Here's one cool though unrelated screenshot of Bochs running the Win98 Installer in Linux. Bochs isn't nearly as fast or stable as VMWare, but it is free and Open Source, and runs on other platforms like PowerPC.
Because the GPL (General Public License) allows all software licensed under it to be sold, this may mean that "freely distributable" MP3 players cannot be licensed under the GPL. Arland says he is not familiar with the GPL; that Thomson laid down its licensing terms long ago, and that if Thomson's terms are not compatible with the GPL today, then they never were.
Arland says Thomson not only allows but encourages the use of MP3 technology in free client-side players, that "it is in our best interest to have as many freely distributed MP3 players as possible" available to users, because this helps keep MP3 popular. He also says Thomson has no plans to start charging royalties to producers of freely-distributed MP3 player software, and that "it would not be in our best interests to do so." But, he says several times -- using slightly different words each time -- the second you sell software or hardware that contains Thomson's patented technology, the company wants money, and this is not negotiable, GPL or no GPL.
IANAL, but it appears that a BSD licensed equivalent of mpg321 and XMMS plugin would have no legal problems with distribution from a 3rd party non-profit site?
The Open Source community should check on this possibility. If this is found to be legal, then it may be fairly simple for a single non-profit site to have downloads of MP3 capable software taylored for each popular Linux distribution.
Sure, that isn't perfect, but better than nothing.
Slashdot Mirror
Are you an anarchist or something? Compare the files with the main mirror.
I personally bought the 3200+ two months ago, but I totally would have been happy with the 3000+.
Also check out Fedora Core 1 preview release of AMD64. Official test1 release should be coming soon because they fixed the last blocker bug in pango.
Several influential members in the Fedora team are interested in working on development of Fedora AMD64. Please join fedora-devel-list and join is if you are interested too.
I have been using StarOffice 7 for several days now on my home Windows and Linux computers. I am impressed by the speed improvements over OOO-1.0.2 shipped in Red Hat Linux, and the extra features beyond OpenOffice 1.1 are worth the money to me. Overall I feel it is far more polished and enjoyable to use than StarOffice 6, which itself wasn't bad.
Unfortunately, StarOffice 7 does not solve the single greatest problem, the fact that it does not automatically create a profile when run by a new, instead users need to go through the "Workstation Install" process which is too complicated for end-users.
At my workplace (medium sized high school in Hawaii) OpenOffice 1.1 and StarOffice 6 was previously judged as "acceptable" for campus wide deployment, but unfortunately due to this problem alone they went with buying Microsoft Office XP for many new desktop machines this year.
While it is easy to script automatic profile generation using the autoresponse config file method like the ooffice script distributed in Red Hat or Mandrake, I do not understand why Sun does not consider the lack of automatic profile generation in a user account to be a problem. Using it on a new user account is way too complicated compared to Microsoft Office or Abiword on Windows or Linux.
Only two simple changes are needed to make this situation acceptable:
1) Like Microsoft Office, the StarOffice menu options should go into the program menu of Windows and Gnome/KDE globally for all users.
2) When run, it should automatically create the user profile without any prompts.
Why is this a difficult concept?
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5
I have been using Arjan's 2.6 kernel RPMS from here. test1 was working fine, but test2 and test3 have this mysterious hard lockup problem after a few hours of uptime and moderate CPU load. Has anyone seen this problem? Already known reported bug?
I have been using gcc 3.2.x for a while too, but there were recently problems with gcc 3.3 with the kernel.
Suitable for kernel yet?
ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/temp/usenix-slashdot/us enix.mp3
Mirror of MP3 just in case of Slashdotting.
I personally ordered two Opteron servers this week. I plan on building an e-mail server and K12LTSP server using modified Red Hat Linux. My findings of success/failure when I figure out AMD64 Linux quirks will be posted to AMDMB.com in the coming weeks. (Also check out our Athlon Linux forum.)
From the AMD64-list discussion so far, there are only a few details:
* Kernel and all applications 64-bit compiled. This includes support for the larger memory address space and 16 registers. (SPEED!)
* AMD64 Linux *can* run 32-bit applications, unfortunately you would need 32-bit shared libraries that were not included in this technology preview. They said that they will be included in a possible future shipping distribution. I personally will try to research how to find/build these 32-bit shared libraries for myself, although I suspect it will show up on amd64-list soon enough.
* Existing 32-bit closed source programs like Macromedia Flash plugin 6.0 for Linux may work with 32-bit shared libraries, but not while running within 64-bit compiled Mozilla. You would need 32-bit compiled Mozilla. Bummer.
The solution is obvious, distribute BitTorrent via BitTorrent and Slashdotting wouldn't be a problem.
Wait a minute...
I converted the security patch to a unidiff and applied it to Red Hat's latest sendmail errata SRPM for Red Hat Linux 8.0. Use at your owk risk.
Hi, I am the maintainer of the Macromedia Flash Player RPMS for Linux. The RPM packages have been updated a few days ago, available in apt and urpmi repositories for various Linux distributions.
The site has instructions for Gentoo and Debian Linux installation too.
High concentration of oxygen I think, in a form safer than traditional rocket fuel.
Mike Harris of Red Hat mentioned that the XFree86 project is looking for a designer for good alpha blended mouse pointers. I don't know if this is still the case.
http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/phoebe_mirrors.html
For those of you looking for the vserver with security contexts patch for 2.4.20.
I was kidding about the elitism, and I realize it is too early for most people to see the impact that Fedora will have. You will see in a few months.
Not for long. The Fedora project aims to bring a Debian-like community of packages and apt-get to Red Hat Linux. We are early in specification stages at the moment, but developers (NOT USERS YET!) are welcome on our mailing lists.
I personally feel that Fedora will be very influential for the Linux community in the future.
Why? Please read my 1st Fedora draft proposal .
Mailing Listsr a-announce
http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/fedor a-devel
http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/fedo
Huh? No, I meant Macromedia is in a new beta period for their Flash players for all three platforms, and for the first time the codebase for all three are identical and equally supported. They put a very large amount of resources into Linux this time in order to catch up.
They were very negligent of the Linux community in the past, but this is a positive sign.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/spe cial/beta/
It works great!
As for Shockwave, it works great if you install the Windows version with CodeWeavers CrossOver plugin.
According to the field of Microeconomics no firm will be able to maintain high profit margins in the long term unless they are a monopoly (or similar things like oligopoly w/ collusion.) In a real competitive market with low costs of entry, other firms will see Microsoft with such high profits and have incentive to enter the market, undercutting Microsoft. As the result of new firms entering, prices go down to a point of "normal or zero economic profit." This is how the competitive market works.
Microsoft is able to maintain such high profit margins because of their monopoly market position. Little other market factors would allow sustained high profit in the long term.
Not too surprising, the site was made last year and rejects Netscape 6 by name. Netscape 6 did indeed suck... Mozilla just wasn't ready back then.
Windpower demo for Kids on Windpower.org rejects the Mozilla user agent by name, basically saying "Netscape 6 is broken, get Internet Explorer". It is quite apparent that this is in error because that site works fine in Konqueror. These scattered sites are a serious problem to alternate web browser adoption. When people try Mozilla for the first time, they expect all sites to work without problems. One of the greatest problems they run into is when sites like this reject their visit.
Several months ago I discovered that my local bank was rejecting the Mozilla user agent by name at their online banking site. My LUG began a small letter writing and phone call campaign. After we spoke with a bank vice president, they were concerned enough to make sure that our needs were taken care of in their planned site rewrite coming later this month. I have confirmed with their site designer that their new site works properly with alternative web browsers.
I have begun the "BrowserAdvocacy" discussion mailing list for the purpose of organizing advocacy campaigns in identifying these sites, analyzing the problem, and politely contacting the sites with reasoning and suggested fixes. Please join if you wish to help in this project, or if you know of sites that reject alternate web browsers like Mozilla/Galeon/Opera/Konqueror by name.
I am looking for a volunteer to organize the web page of this project. This webmaster would simply need to keep a scoreboard showing the current status of the sites that we target. Please post to the list if you are interested in helping. Once we have some formal guidelines and infrastructure in place, I plan on making a formal announcement on Slashdot. (I hope my server can handle it!)
Thanks,
Warren Togami
Mid-Pacific Linux Users Group
http://www.mplug.org
I am wondering if anybody has any experience with MASM, especially attempting to run it on any DOS running within a virtual machine. I am trying to create an easy platform for Linux and Mac students in my class in order to learn ASM without the need for Windows (grader will only test our project assignments in MASM).
http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2
I had attempted to run MASM on FreeDOS running on the Bochs Pentium Emulator in Linux, but it crashed. You can read about these problems at this address.
I am not fully understanding about the capabilities of MASM in FreeDOS, especially within a Bochs environment. I suspect that Bochs or FreeDOS cannot support some features that MASM needs, or some of the coding requirements needed for my class this semester. I realize this question is a bit vague, though I would appreciate any insight into these problems.
Alternatively, would there be any other 99.9%+ MASM compatible assembler that is free or Linux based? What problems may I run into with the other assemblers?
Somebody else had mentioned trying DRDOS because that has become free (beer or speech?). Does anyone have any experience with DRDOS and MASM instead? Where can I get this?
Thanks,
Warren Togami
warren@togami.com
Mid-Pacific Linux Users Group
http://www.mplug.org
p.s.t all.php
http://www.mplug.org/archive/2002/bochs_win98_ins
Here's one cool though unrelated screenshot of Bochs running the Win98 Installer in Linux. Bochs isn't nearly as fast or stable as VMWare, but it is free and Open Source, and runs on other platforms like PowerPC.
The Open Source community should check on this possibility. If this is found to be legal, then it may be fairly simple for a single non-profit site to have downloads of MP3 capable software taylored for each popular Linux distribution. Sure, that isn't perfect, but better than nothing.