> William Gates Jr has built > a very successful busines
Not to be a pedantic, but I think the Gates you're looking for is William Gates III. Wm Gates Jr is his lawyer father, who probably is as responsible for the success of MSFT as his son...
By the way, yes Theo can be a bit of a prick, but he's going after putting out simply the best version of BSD Unix around. It's why I've bought every release since the mid-2.x...
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And Python and essp. Perl just plain drools...
Ruby will be easy for any Perl user to learn, and it really is OO from the bottom up, not just bolted on like Perl's so-called OO.
And Ruby's OO makes much more sense than Java's and Python's OO. I can't explain it, but I can't think OO in Java or Python, and I can in Ruby.
BellSouth.net also requires either a Win or Max box to register (they won't take them over the phone), but once registered they'll give you the numbers you need to get on with any platform. I've been using BS.N for over three years with Linux and FreeBSD, and other than not getting any phone support I have no complaints.
BS.N does have several support newsgroups where I can give and get better support, anyway. Lots of fellow Unix-like users with BS.N.Only new issue I face with them is I can't get ADSL installed from them without a Win/Mac box, so I have to whip one up just long enough to psych out the install tech. Then it's back to pure Linux and FreeBSD for me, baby!
Slackware definately belongs in that group with RedHat and Debian. goto slackware.com and find out. Pat V has continued to do a hell of a good job trying to keep SW free.
>How about the original Turbo Pascal for CPM and then Turbo Pascal for DOS?
How about it?: subscribe to the newsgroup comp.os.cpm, and there you'll find a fellow with a site that has TP/CPM, TP/CPM86, and a bunch else ready for download. CP/M ain't exactly dead yet, despite rumors to that effect. (Borland denies ever selling such a product now, it seems.)
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>The various Linux distros, on the other hand, are >all rooted in the same code base, are largely >compatible with each other (bar a few different >directory placings & choice of package >management, etc)
The biggest argument these days seems to be in the use of/opt and/usr/local, and sometimes/usr/opt. Otherwise as a Slackware user myself I've had great success installing *everything*, unlike occasions in the past of failures with Solaris and AIX, not to mention NT and 95/98.
What's the diff between the pre10 release and this full release? I have pre10 going here, but uname reports it as just "2.0.37". Should I DL this, or is there a patch to bring it to current?
Leave those (dns) processes alone. They came from NS. You can kill them, but they'll just come back like a bad stomach virus. They should disappear when you exit NS properly, but sometimes they hang around after NS dies a fiery death. My 0 1 (two bit)
>(Like Tom's hardware guide, assuming the page didn't attempt to set a cookie 50 times on each >page... does anyone else find that annoying? Once is enough isnt it?).
So?! Just ln -s/dev/null ~/.netscape/cookies and accept all the cookies you could want, and never be annoyed again by either the dialog boxes or the fscking cookies!
(Er, you are running Unix/Linux/FreeBSD, aren't you? Oh, well, never mind...)
Your comment is my situation: I live in Orlando, Florida, home of "The Ears!" I and most Central Florida residents are constantly besieged by sales pitches that include vacation days at Disney World and Universal Studios. But: We Live Here! Many of us are within a half-hours drive to WDW and the tourist district, and we even have friends who can get us in for free or at a -big- discount. If not, FL residents get residency discounts and special offers. So WDW vacations in a sales pitch fall on deaf "ears" here...
It's always good to see my favorite distro reviewed, as it seems to get left out of a lot of other reviews. SW is one of the very oldest, and in some way, hoariest of the Linux distros, but it does remain the favorite of Linux hackers. But there are some nits to pick about the review:
1) The kernel in SW 3.6 is only at the 35th patchlevel, not the 36th. SW, however, has been the easiest to bring up to even the most recent kernels, even over RedHat. 2) While you can buy it from Walnut Creek for $40, there is the subscription rate which is pretty reduced. However LinuxMall has it for $15.Great price: great mailorder firm...:-) 3) SW -will- install with 4megs of memory and can be made to live in as little as 20megs of disk space. The posted minimums are just more sane. 4) SW has always been panned for the bootdisk issue: gawd why are there so many?! For an important reason. As Linux people (and Unix people) you should -know- your computer, inside and out. You should know all about your cards, their IRQs, your video ram, everything. Then try to install and run Linux. I don't know how many times RedHat's one size fits all kernel has failed on older or "different" equipment. SW hails back to the day (during the early kernels) when you and your friends would compile specials kernels for each other based on knowing the insides of your computer. Get one box going and the rest would follow. Have fun and learn. Drink beer afterwards.
As always, good job! to Pat V and the Walnut Creek group.
>Do not read any slashdot comments with the words >"good times" in the subject box!
"By opening this software diskette envelope you are agreeing to the End User License contained within it. If you do no agree to the End User License, please return the package immediately." "Sorry, sir, we don't accept opened software packages for return..."
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> William Gates Jr has built
> a very successful busines
Not to be a pedantic, but I think the Gates you're looking for is William Gates III. Wm Gates Jr is his lawyer father, who probably is as responsible for the success of MSFT as his son...
By the way, yes Theo can be a bit of a prick, but he's going after putting out simply the best version of BSD Unix around. It's why I've bought every release since the mid-2.x...
And Python and essp. Perl just plain drools...
Ruby will be easy for any Perl user to learn, and it really is OO from the bottom up, not just bolted on like Perl's so-called OO.
And Ruby's OO makes much more sense than Java's and Python's OO. I can't explain it, but I can't think OO in Java or Python, and I can in Ruby.
BellSouth.net also requires either a Win or Max box to register (they won't take them over the phone), but once registered they'll give you the numbers you need to get on with any platform. I've been using BS.N for over three years with Linux and FreeBSD, and other than not getting any phone support I have no complaints.
BS.N does have several support newsgroups where I can give and get better support, anyway. Lots of fellow Unix-like users with BS.N.Only new issue I face with them is I can't get ADSL installed from them without a Win/Mac box, so I have to whip one up just long enough to psych out the install tech. Then it's back to pure Linux and FreeBSD for me, baby!
Slackware definately belongs in that group with RedHat and Debian. goto slackware.com and find out. Pat V has continued to do a hell of a good job trying to keep SW free.
>How about the original Turbo Pascal for CPM and then Turbo Pascal for DOS?
How about it?: subscribe to the newsgroup comp.os.cpm, and there you'll find a fellow with a site that has TP/CPM, TP/CPM86, and a bunch else ready for download. CP/M ain't exactly dead yet, despite rumors to that effect.
(Borland denies ever selling such a product now, it seems.)
>The various Linux distros, on the other hand, are >all rooted in the same code base, are largely >compatible with each other (bar a few different >directory placings & choice of package >management, etc)
/opt and /usr/local, and sometimes /usr/opt. Otherwise as a Slackware user myself I've had great success installing *everything*, unlike occasions in the past of failures with Solaris and AIX, not to mention NT and 95/98.
The biggest argument these days seems to be in the use of
What's the diff between the pre10 release and this full release? I have pre10 going here, but uname reports it as just "2.0.37". Should I DL this, or is there a patch to bring it to current?
Leave those (dns) processes alone. They came from NS. You can kill them, but they'll just come back like a bad stomach virus. They should disappear when you exit NS properly, but sometimes they hang around after NS dies a fiery death. My 0 1 (two bit)
>(Like Tom's hardware guide, assuming the page didn't attempt to set a cookie 50 times on each >page... does anyone else find that annoying? Once is enough isnt it?).
/dev/null ~/.netscape/cookies and accept all the cookies you could want, and never be annoyed again by either the dialog boxes or the fscking cookies!
So?! Just ln -s
(Er, you are running Unix/Linux/FreeBSD, aren't you? Oh, well, never mind...)
Your comment is my situation: I live in Orlando, Florida, home of "The Ears!" I and most Central Florida residents are constantly besieged by sales pitches that include vacation days at Disney World and Universal Studios. But: We Live Here! Many of us are within a half-hours drive to WDW and the tourist district, and we even have friends who can get us in for free or at a -big- discount. If not, FL residents get residency discounts and special offers. So WDW vacations in a sales pitch fall on deaf "ears" here...
It's always good to see my favorite distro reviewed, as it seems to get left out of a lot of other reviews. SW is one of the very oldest, and in some way, hoariest of the Linux distros, but it does remain the favorite of Linux hackers. But there are some nits to pick about the review:
:-)
1) The kernel in SW 3.6 is only at the 35th patchlevel, not the 36th. SW, however, has been the easiest to bring up to even the most recent kernels, even over RedHat.
2) While you can buy it from Walnut Creek for $40, there is the subscription rate which is pretty reduced. However LinuxMall has it for $15.Great price: great mailorder firm...
3) SW -will- install with 4megs of memory and can be made to live in as little as 20megs of disk space. The posted minimums are just more sane.
4) SW has always been panned for the bootdisk issue: gawd why are there so many?! For an important reason. As Linux people (and Unix people) you should -know- your computer, inside and out. You should know all about your cards, their IRQs, your video ram, everything. Then try to install and run Linux. I don't know how many times RedHat's one size fits all kernel has failed on older or "different" equipment. SW hails back to the day (during the early kernels) when you and your friends would compile specials kernels for each other based on knowing the insides of your computer. Get one box going and the rest would follow. Have fun and learn. Drink beer afterwards.
As always, good job! to Pat V and the Walnut Creek group.
>Do not read any slashdot comments with the words >"good times" in the subject box!
"By opening this software diskette envelope you are agreeing to the End User License contained within it. If you do no agree to the End User License, please return the package immediately."
"Sorry, sir, we don't accept opened software packages for return..."
- and send him a link to this! I think he'd get a big blast out of seeing his beloved bird...