ACL support was added to the kernel in Red Hat Limbo beta which will likely become Red Hat 8.0. They also include the command line tools to manipulate the ACL's.
I know that this concept may be unpopular to some, but before I get moderated down please hear this out. This could possibly be good for us, for two key reasons.
1. With file sharing networks flooded with fake songs from RIAA brand name artists, it will become annoyingly difficult to pirate RIAA music. While illegal data becomes very difficult to find, notice that this does not detract from our ability to trade LEGITIMATE data. Legitimate independent labels can still be easily searchable. 2. If no technological means can be found to curb rampant piracy, they will resort to dumb laws (DMCA, CBDTPA) and Microsoft Palladium to stop it. This would be a terrible hit to the American economy as well as cause serious trouble for Open Source Software.
One of Transgaming's primary reasons for their inability to use the LGPL is because of their copy protection code. They say that it would violate the DMCA if it were released, and it touches so many places of the Wine code that it would be extremely difficult to cleanly seperate into another library.
I personally support Open Source, but it seems that the problem here is the stupid US law and not entirely Transgaming.
What about this case?
FUD Re:Transgaming and open source...
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This is FUD.
Transgaming plans on releasing many pieces to the X11 Wine branch for two good reasons.
1. It costs more to maintain these many code deltas from the main (Rewind) tree. If they are general bug fixes that aren't strategic like DirectX or InstallShield, they want to release it to X11 so they don't have to use resources to keep maintaining it. 2. For strategic pieces like COM for InstallShield, they plan on trading those pieces for other LGPL Wine pieces that they need. For example, if they want a certain LGPL piece, they may consider licensing their own ASPL piece if that LGPL piece is also made X11. Everyone benefits.
I personally support both Transgaming and CodeWeavers financially. I hope both succeed and continue to improve Wine for everyone.
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IMHO, X11 license is much better for Wine because it is a lot less scary for business use of Wine. For example, Corel would have never used Wine to port WordPerfect and CorelDraw to Linux if it were under LGPL back then. Although LGPL is compatible with most possible business uses of WINELIB, it makes it impossible in certain cases like Transgaming's patches to make games with CD copy protection work. They CANNOT releases these patches due to the DMCA. =(
Corel understood open source, and released all of their changes to Wine back to the X11 tree. And the man behind Corel Wine was Gavriel State, the same man behind Transgaming WineX.
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It seems that everyone missed the biggest new feature of this official release. This is the first official release of WineX with DirectX 8.0 support, meaning the newest games have a chance to work.
Well, I feel that judging by the amount of good work coming out of Mandrake that I can download in their latest distributions every 6 months, it is money well spent.
I personally never buy the box set because I don't need the included limited support and I rather give cash directly to the company. In buying boxes part of my money went into overhead of packaging, shipping and sometimes middle-men retailers like CompUSA or K-Mart, not to mention adding to pollution.
Despite this, box sets are often useful for newbies because of the included manuals and months of phone in installation support. After this point I can educate them about their new software and they will no longer need boxed sets.
Some people don't like the idea of "donating" to a publically traded company. I tend to think of it not so much a "donation" but rather
1. My thanks to the great work done by the Mandrake developers. 2. My investment in the future. Mandrake developers contribute heavily to Open Source. By giving them money, I invest in the future of Open Source Software. No matter what occurs in the future, their work will always exist for free and open usage. 5 years from now, I wont have to buy it again from a proprietary vendor.
If you aren't comfortable with the $60 yearly subscription (or you can't spare $60 right now) please consider one-time donations at this page: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/donations/
You can even choose an individual open source project that you want your financial contribution will go toward development. Choices include KDE, Gnome, Kernel, PowerPC port, Sparc port, Alpha port among many others.
I just subscribed for $10 a month ($120 yearly). I use mainly Red Hat on my servers and I currently pay them $15 a month, but I really appreciate the cutting edge stuff that Mandrake continues to do with every release. I've been playing with Mandrake Cooker and 8.2 test releases on my laptop computer and I am truly amazed by the improvements from only 6 months ago.
I encourage everyone who appreciates Mandrake's good work to contribute. For only $5 a month, you get the membership to Mandrake Club where you have special downloading and voting priveledges. Well, that stuff doesn't matter to me, what matters most is that Mandrake gets the thanks that they deserve.
I've noticed this on one XP Home and one XP Professional computer, but whenever it runs a Sun Java 1.3.1_02 application like Mindterm or applets on a web page, the computer freezes for a few seconds when runs somewhat slowly thereafter. The exact same Java applications running on Windows 2000 with same JRE version is speedy and without this horrible lag. Could Microsft have deliberately crippled Windows XP with respect to Sun Java?
Your network setup sounds to be nearly identical to mine. I made this custom script here based upon an earlier Starcraft NAT iptables script that allows me to play Starcraft on Battle.net with full capabilities between my Wireless and Wired NAT segments.
Edit that script to match your own network setup and run it after your iptables firewall script. I personally use MonMotha's iptables script. I wrote this little guide here in setting it up.
http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php?BasicFirewa llRouter
The main drawback of course would be that changing iptables rules would be a painful process of rebooting and maybe 30 seconds of downtime (in an optimally configured setup).
There has to be a simple way to hack the kernel to "revive" from runlevel 0 with certain key presses locally?
If so, this would make another powerful method of running production Linux firewalls. IMPOSSIBLE to root remotely, and you can change iptables rules without downtime locally.
The Gentoo site says a simple workaround where you add "nopentium" to your kernel options at bootup and it will avoid the bug condition. Alan Cox is currently working on adding auto-detection of this bug in the kernel, so we wont have to worry about it soon.
And yes, this is the same Athlon Windows 2000 AGP bug that was discovered and patched last year with that registry key. They just didn't realize that it also effected Linux until now. I now realize that was the cause of my TuxRacer crashes with my nVidia card on my Athlon computer.
Macromedia's Flash Plugin is horribly broken when using Linux thin clients with both LTSP.org and Solucorp's XTerminals package. It causes all versions of Mozilla to segfault by the 1st or 2nd page that uses Flash. Netscape works sometimes, but is unstable and crashes with segfaults too. Konqueror either locks up, or crashes displaying the KDE segfault dialogue window.
Strangely, Opera 6.0 beta 1 and beta 2 seem mostly stable with Macromedia's plugin, however I can't use Opera due to lack of Japanese input support and I rather not buy 50 licenses of Opera for the thin clients.
Has anyone found a workaround for this problem? Macromedia hasn't released an update for their plugin since January 2001, and several KDE and Linux Terminal Server folks have reported this problem to Macromedia without hearing anything in return.
OSS used to crackle horribly on both my SB Live and integrated AC97 audio chip. I installed the latest ALSA beta and it works very cleanly now. It works for me.
Does anyone know the reason why they haven't included ALSA in the main kernel yet?
I finally switched my Red Hat 7.2 and recompiled KDE with Alsa support, and things are SO MUCH nicer than free-OSS. I can finally use Real Player or Quicktime Player (via CrossOver) seemlessly with KDE. No more fussing with artsdsp to get Real Player to work, or terminate artsd in order for Wine audio to play.
This concept of modular robots and the word "Swarm" sounds so much like the Replicators on Stargate SG-1. We better hope they don't develop self-replication and a hive mind.
http://www.scifiguide.net/stargate/s4/401.html Stargate SG-1 Episode "Small Victories" where they meet the Replicators, an evil group of robots that destroy entire worlds and civilizations, eating the raw materials to replicate, while absorbing the technology and using the shells of the conquered ships to find more civilizations and more advanced technology to absorb. Kind of like the Borg, but even more sinister in that they cannot be corrupted or reasoned with.
You can watch a DivX of the episode at SG1Archive http://www.sg1archive.com between season three final episode and season four 1st episode.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but is not MAC based security easily circumvented by simply changing the MAC address on your card? It is very easy to do with Linux and/or some vendor supplied setup programs.
Slashdot Mirror
Read about it in the RELEASE-NOTESe ta/limbo/en/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES
ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/redhat/linux/b
1. With file sharing networks flooded with fake songs from RIAA brand name artists, it will become annoyingly difficult to pirate RIAA music. While illegal data becomes very difficult to find, notice that this does not detract from our ability to trade LEGITIMATE data. Legitimate independent labels can still be easily searchable.
2. If no technological means can be found to curb rampant piracy, they will resort to dumb laws (DMCA, CBDTPA) and Microsoft Palladium to stop it. This would be a terrible hit to the American economy as well as cause serious trouble for Open Source Software.
One of Transgaming's primary reasons for their inability to use the LGPL is because of their copy protection code. They say that it would violate the DMCA if it were released, and it touches so many places of the Wine code that it would be extremely difficult to cleanly seperate into another library.
I personally support Open Source, but it seems that the problem here is the stupid US law and not entirely Transgaming.
What about this case?
This is FUD.
Transgaming plans on releasing many pieces to the X11 Wine branch for two good reasons.
1. It costs more to maintain these many code deltas from the main (Rewind) tree. If they are general bug fixes that aren't strategic like DirectX or InstallShield, they want to release it to X11 so they don't have to use resources to keep maintaining it.
2. For strategic pieces like COM for InstallShield, they plan on trading those pieces for other LGPL Wine pieces that they need. For example, if they want a certain LGPL piece, they may consider licensing their own ASPL piece if that LGPL piece is also made X11. Everyone benefits.
I personally support both Transgaming and CodeWeavers financially. I hope both succeed and continue to improve Wine for everyone.
IMHO, X11 license is much better for Wine because it is a lot less scary for business use of Wine. For example, Corel would have never used Wine to port WordPerfect and CorelDraw to Linux if it were under LGPL back then. Although LGPL is compatible with most possible business uses of WINELIB, it makes it impossible in certain cases like Transgaming's patches to make games with CD copy protection work. They CANNOT releases these patches due to the DMCA. =(
Corel understood open source, and released all of their changes to Wine back to the X11 tree. And the man behind Corel Wine was Gavriel State, the same man behind Transgaming WineX.
It seems that everyone missed the biggest new feature of this official release. This is the first official release of WineX with DirectX 8.0 support, meaning the newest games have a chance to work.
How do you keep the reactor of the submarine or the aircraft carrier from irradating the crew?
I'm sure they have figured that out long ago.
Well, I feel that judging by the amount of good work coming out of Mandrake that I can download in their latest distributions every 6 months, it is money well spent.
I personally never buy the box set because I don't need the included limited support and I rather give cash directly to the company. In buying boxes part of my money went into overhead of packaging, shipping and sometimes middle-men retailers like CompUSA or K-Mart, not to mention adding to pollution.
Despite this, box sets are often useful for newbies because of the included manuals and months of phone in installation support. After this point I can educate them about their new software and they will no longer need boxed sets.
Some people don't like the idea of "donating" to a publically traded company. I tend to think of it not so much a "donation" but rather
1. My thanks to the great work done by the Mandrake developers.
2. My investment in the future. Mandrake developers contribute heavily to Open Source. By giving them money, I invest in the future of Open Source Software. No matter what occurs in the future, their work will always exist for free and open usage. 5 years from now, I wont have to buy it again from a proprietary vendor.
If you aren't comfortable with the $60 yearly subscription (or you can't spare $60 right now) please consider one-time donations at this page:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/donations/
You can even choose an individual open source project that you want your financial contribution will go toward development. Choices include KDE, Gnome, Kernel, PowerPC port, Sparc port, Alpha port among many others.
I just subscribed for $10 a month ($120 yearly). I use mainly Red Hat on my servers and I currently pay them $15 a month, but I really appreciate the cutting edge stuff that Mandrake continues to do with every release. I've been playing with Mandrake Cooker and 8.2 test releases on my laptop computer and I am truly amazed by the improvements from only 6 months ago.
I encourage everyone who appreciates Mandrake's good work to contribute. For only $5 a month, you get the membership to Mandrake Club where you have special downloading and voting priveledges. Well, that stuff doesn't matter to me, what matters most is that Mandrake gets the thanks that they deserve.
I've noticed this on one XP Home and one XP Professional computer, but whenever it runs a Sun Java 1.3.1_02 application like Mindterm or applets on a web page, the computer freezes for a few seconds when runs somewhat slowly thereafter. The exact same Java applications running on Windows 2000 with same JRE version is speedy and without this horrible lag. Could Microsft have deliberately crippled Windows XP with respect to Sun Java?
Your network setup sounds to be nearly identical to mine. I made this custom script here based upon an earlier Starcraft NAT iptables script that allows me to play Starcraft on Battle.net with full capabilities between my Wireless and Wired NAT segments.
Edit that script to match your own network setup and run it after your iptables firewall script. I personally use MonMotha's iptables script. I wrote this little guide here in setting it up. http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php?BasicFirewa llRouter
The main drawback of course would be that changing iptables rules would be a painful process of rebooting and maybe 30 seconds of downtime (in an optimally configured setup).
There has to be a simple way to hack the kernel to "revive" from runlevel 0 with certain key presses locally?
If so, this would make another powerful method of running production Linux firewalls. IMPOSSIBLE to root remotely, and you can change iptables rules without downtime locally.
The Gentoo site says a simple workaround where you add "nopentium" to your kernel options at bootup and it will avoid the bug condition. Alan Cox is currently working on adding auto-detection of this bug in the kernel, so we wont have to worry about it soon.
And yes, this is the same Athlon Windows 2000 AGP bug that was discovered and patched last year with that registry key. They just didn't realize that it also effected Linux until now. I now realize that was the cause of my TuxRacer crashes with my nVidia card on my Athlon computer.
So does Opera 6 preview in Linux.
Macromedia's Flash Plugin is horribly broken when using Linux thin clients with both LTSP.org and Solucorp's XTerminals package. It causes all versions of Mozilla to segfault by the 1st or 2nd page that uses Flash. Netscape works sometimes, but is unstable and crashes with segfaults too. Konqueror either locks up, or crashes displaying the KDE segfault dialogue window.
Strangely, Opera 6.0 beta 1 and beta 2 seem mostly stable with Macromedia's plugin, however I can't use Opera due to lack of Japanese input support and I rather not buy 50 licenses of Opera for the thin clients.
Has anyone found a workaround for this problem? Macromedia hasn't released an update for their plugin since January 2001, and several KDE and Linux Terminal Server folks have reported this problem to Macromedia without hearing anything in return.
It seems that a patch against 2.4.15-pre9 was released, but the web page wasn't updated. You can get it from here. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/ preempt-kernel/2.4/
OSS used to crackle horribly on both my SB Live and integrated AC97 audio chip. I installed the latest ALSA beta and it works very cleanly now. It works for me.
Does anyone know the reason why they haven't included ALSA in the main kernel yet?
I finally switched my Red Hat 7.2 and recompiled KDE with Alsa support, and things are SO MUCH nicer than free-OSS. I can finally use Real Player or Quicktime Player (via CrossOver) seemlessly with KDE. No more fussing with artsdsp to get Real Player to work, or terminate artsd in order for Wine audio to play.
I've been experiencing this behavior in 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 on my 1.2GHz and 768MB system...
http://www.scifiguide.net/stargate/s4/401.html
Stargate SG-1 Episode "Small Victories" where they meet the Replicators, an evil group of robots that destroy entire worlds and civilizations, eating the raw materials to replicate, while absorbing the technology and using the shells of the conquered ships to find more civilizations and more advanced technology to absorb. Kind of like the Borg, but even more sinister in that they cannot be corrupted or reasoned with.
You can watch a DivX of the episode at SG1Archive http://www.sg1archive.com between season three final episode and season four 1st episode.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but is not MAC based security easily circumvented by simply changing the MAC address on your card? It is very easy to do with Linux and/or some vendor supplied setup programs.
20 years of development, and the Linux kernel 2.4.x is not yet considered "stable" by Debian.