I can't see the slashdoted page but if you have a mailserver and are using maildirs (qmail) ReiserFS is a good choice because you will have alot of small files. Reiser can use the space on your disk fully and are not limited to "at least as big as the blocksize".
I have a mailserver which have about 20GB mail with Reiser. With Ext3 it would be over 30GB.
if you like the advantages of compiling, use it, but if you hate compiling, no real reason to install it in the first place IMO.
Gentoos strongest advantage is not that you compile your own stuff with l33t compiler settings, thats just the bonus.
The real advantage is that you with the use of USE flags can configure your packages at compiletime. Thats something only a source distro can offer.
Advantage number two is the ease of making own ebuilds. They are just a small shellscript, anybody who is interessted could probably pick it up in a day or two.
uncomplicated upgrades. This is the only reason I switched all servers where I work over to gentoo. We need some special builds and such. I don't have time to download/compile by hand. Of all distros I have used Gentoo is the easiest to maintain and keep up to date.
It would be nice with a more enterprise geared gentoo though. It is very fast with upgrades to new packages, might break something. Doesn't happen often but if it does it's often easy to fix.
For the desktop there is no competition. Gentoo is the easiest "bleeding edge distro" to maintain. Alot of unstable packages to test out. And no need to go fully unstable if you only need a few packages.
Now I have about 10 different gentoo boxes at work to take care of. Every friday it takes about an hour of work to upgrade them. Could probably handle 20-30 with not much more time spent.
Yep, thought ya did. Why didn't you take your money elsewhere?
Mostly because those drivers aren't needed for a very usable system, the open source ones work well. But if I can no longer install a debian and have a desktop I think linux is toast.
Linux need to stay away from vendor lockins, and being dependent on a hardware company to release drivers is a form of lockin. They also tend to only release for i386, which from a company standpoint probably make sence but Linux is known and loved for being able to run on whatever box you come up with and drivers are needed for other platforms too. Not to mention a port would in most cases take a day.
Linux is an open source system, you should be able to run a fully usable linux system using nothing but open source components.
That is a hard requirement for Linux success, in the past, now, and in the future.
For example if 3D desktops becomes the standard open source 3D driver will need to be developed, if the gfx companies don't like that we need to take our money someplace else.
For the record I do run nvidia binary driver today.
I have never used a DTP in my life but I was abe to put together a christmas song list with it too. It wasn't professional looking though. But functional. My point is the program was pretty is to pick up.
I would love to see Tim buton take on a game->movie conversion. He as done a great job with comic->movie in batman and his theatrical style would probably fit right in.
Thats not PHPs fault. You can write database independent code in PHP to. $shrtFunc = $DB->get_ctype().'_query'; $res = @$shrtFunc($sql, $DB->get_conn());
This are a couple of lines from the database library I use. As you can see the value returned from $DB->get_ctype() can i our case be either mysql or sybase. And it's very easy to add support for more.
I don't think there should be much of a problem doing this on the free *nixes anyway.
2*VGA 2*mouse 2*keyboard
Start one X with one vga, mouse keyboard. Doesn't sound like rocket science. And I don't see why you would need any special hardware (like this) for it either.
I have a sony CD player in my home. I would be thrilled to buy music that only worked on my sonybranded player. And two other sonybranded players of my choice. Plus one kind of a sony handeld.
And the same can be seen the othe way around to. There are quite a few things in XP that have been in Gnome for some time, like the ability to group in the taskbar. As far as I know you can't have more than one panel in XP yet, but looking at the screenshots from longhorn it seems you can there (And the ability to run programs in the panels), this is something Gnome and KDE have done for years. In XP you can have multiple desktops I think (also something at least taken from *nix), don't know about OSS on that one. I've also heard the never windows is going to have a new command linus interface, and OSS is much better than any closed source offering there.
Everybody borrows from eachother, not just Linux. I'm sure MS looks at the good things from Gnome/KDE and copy those too.
Neither OS or Linux qualifies as UNIX as you have to be certified for that though. And there are quite a few differences beetwen different unixes too you know.
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I can't see the slashdoted page but if you have a mailserver and are using maildirs (qmail) ReiserFS is a good choice because you will have alot of small files. Reiser can use the space on your disk fully and are not limited to "at least as big as the blocksize".
I have a mailserver which have about 20GB mail with Reiser. With Ext3 it would be over 30GB.
if you like the advantages of compiling, use it, but if you hate compiling, no real reason to install it in the first place IMO.
Gentoos strongest advantage is not that you compile your own stuff with l33t compiler settings, thats just the bonus.
The real advantage is that you with the use of USE flags can configure your packages at compiletime. Thats something only a source distro can offer.
Advantage number two is the ease of making own ebuilds. They are just a small shellscript, anybody who is interessted could probably pick it up in a day or two.
Visual basic is still an unfinished POS, therefore I conclude BASIC is zero years old.
If they can't write a script to lower the priority of a program I don't think they are ready for headless computing.
uncomplicated upgrades.
This is the only reason I switched all servers where I work over to gentoo. We need some special builds and such. I don't have time to download/compile by hand. Of all distros I have used Gentoo is the easiest to maintain and keep up to date.
It would be nice with a more enterprise geared gentoo though. It is very fast with upgrades to new packages, might break something. Doesn't happen often but if it does it's often easy to fix.
For the desktop there is no competition. Gentoo is the easiest "bleeding edge distro" to maintain. Alot of unstable packages to test out. And no need to go fully unstable if you only need a few packages.
Now I have about 10 different gentoo boxes at work to take care of. Every friday it takes about an hour of work to upgrade them. Could probably handle 20-30 with not much more time spent.
Yep, thought ya did. Why didn't you take your money elsewhere?
Mostly because those drivers aren't needed for a very usable system, the open source ones work well. But if I can no longer install a debian and have a desktop I think linux is toast.
Linux need to stay away from vendor lockins, and being dependent on a hardware company to release drivers is a form of lockin. They also tend to only release for i386, which from a company standpoint probably make sence but Linux is known and loved for being able to run on whatever box you come up with and drivers are needed for other platforms too. Not to mention a port would in most cases take a day.
Linux is an open source system, you should be able to run a fully usable linux system using nothing but open source components.
That is a hard requirement for Linux success, in the past, now, and in the future.
For example if 3D desktops becomes the standard open source 3D driver will need to be developed, if the gfx companies don't like that we need to take our money someplace else.
For the record I do run nvidia binary driver today.
I have never used a DTP in my life but I was abe to put together a christmas song list with it too. It wasn't professional looking though. But functional. My point is the program was pretty is to pick up.
I would love to see Tim buton take on a game->movie conversion. He as done a great job with comic->movie in batman and his theatrical style would probably fit right in.
You mean like slashdot I presume.
This baby lacks a Mr. Fusion.
Time to call the libyans. I'm going to send them a bomb full of pinball parts.
Thats exactly what you can do in PHP too you know. The code was taken from a database class.
to large file support
This is NFS version 2. Both Linux and solaris support NFS v3 but if you roll your own kernels don't forget to enable version 3.
It's like they say. Windows is easy until something breaks. Then you are screwed.
Thats not PHPs fault. You can write database independent code in PHP to.
.'_query';
$shrtFunc = $DB->get_ctype()
$res = @$shrtFunc($sql, $DB->get_conn());
This are a couple of lines from the database library I use. As you can see the value returned from $DB->get_ctype() can i our case be either mysql or sybase. And it's very easy to add support for more.
Apple has themselves pretty much nailed the unixparadigm on the comandline 100% using Free software. Why shouldn't free software copy Apple.
It's a give and take world.
The software is fully tied to Windows XP
I don't think there should be much of a problem doing this on the free *nixes anyway.
2*VGA
2*mouse
2*keyboard
Start one X with one vga, mouse keyboard.
Doesn't sound like rocket science. And I don't see why you would need any special hardware (like this) for it either.
Me too.
I have a sony CD player in my home. I would be thrilled to buy music that only worked on my sonybranded player. And two other sonybranded players of my choice. Plus one kind of a sony handeld.
Yeah.. That sound like a CD I'm going to buy.
Apple DRM stinks.
It's called kernel32.dll. It has mucho functionality for ordinary users.
They obviously forgot to reboot after those kernelpatches!
And the same can be seen the othe way around to. There are quite a few things in XP that have been in Gnome for some time, like the ability to group in the taskbar. As far as I know you can't have more than one panel in XP yet, but looking at the screenshots from longhorn it seems you can there (And the ability to run programs in the panels), this is something Gnome and KDE have done for years. In XP you can have multiple desktops I think (also something at least taken from *nix), don't know about OSS on that one. I've also heard the never windows is going to have a new command linus interface, and OSS is much better than any closed source offering there.
Everybody borrows from eachother, not just Linux. I'm sure MS looks at the good things from Gnome/KDE and copy those too.
Do you think it would be legal to attach a sticker to a CD "TOS: Don't copy", of course not. Why do you think it should be legal in this case.
Can you explain how this could possibly be copyright violation. It's a chunk of code, that what it is.
Neither OS or Linux qualifies as UNIX as you have to be certified for that though. And there are quite a few differences beetwen different unixes too you know.
I would.
If somebody gave me a G5 I would certanly run Linux because thats what I know. And I don't need photoshp or MS office so I don't care about OS X.
I just want the speediest X and Linux is far better than Darwin.