I had filtered out micheal from slashdot because of his stupid paranoid rants, and now he goes and posts something useful and I almost miss it. Micheal please do us a favor...if you're going to post crap like "the DoS of Yahoo! was a government conspiracy!" and "John Carmack is violating your civil rights!", then please pass on useful information to another poster so we don't have to deal with your crap in order to hear Linus.
Thats funny...Mandrake was one of the distros my friend tried, (along with Red Hat, Corel, and Caldera), and among those, he ranked Mandrake absolute last. I don't know what rankled him so much...my guess is that there are still a few bugs to work out in their graphical configuration tools.
I didn't know that such obvious things could be considered "bugs," especially since they've been there for so many prior revisions. Regardless, if everything really is fixed in 6.2 then great; congratulations on providing the best, easiest to manage and (hopefully) most secure Linux out there...it will certainly be installed on this machine (aged 5.2 box which I don't have the patience to upgrade).
And as long as I have your ear, consider making Sawmill the default window manager. Thats just an opinion of course.
I was setting up a web server this weekend and I found it quite unsettling how much work it takes just to get a standard Red Hat 6.1 install to have decent security. When I think of all the people I know using Red Hat to connect to the labs and use X programs at home, I'm genuinely frightened by what a script-kiddie heaven this school will be. Obviously Red Hat 6.2 will solve some problems with updated packages (at least until the next round of bugs are found), but I'll be willing to bet that the same ol' Red Hat "features" will still be leaving machines wide open.
And furthermore, are they are EVER going to put/usr/local/bin in PATH and/usr/local/lib in/etc/ld.so.conf??? Get with the program people. My friend went through about 5 Linux distributions last week, and out of them all he liked Red Hat the best because so much software is compatible with it "out of the box," but man, some of the stuff they do is so brain-dead, it just really irks me. </RANT>
When you can order all the parts online, assemble them yourself, not pay any sales tax and not get ripped off paying too much for crappy hardware anyway.
"...Linus Torvalds, here are your thirty kajillion IPO dollars. Have a nice day. "
Personally, I like my PC with its real mouse and real keyboard...not that I wouldn't find a use for a webpad, but I wouldn't want to play counter-strike on one.
The new ones lock X up solid whenever I run a 3D app. I deleted the old drivers and now they're no longer availiable on nvidias ftp...if anyone can findthem I'd be grateful...thanks.
You know, for those of us who have our default threshold set at 1, the only time we have to hear about these retarded things is from pointless posts like yours.
I remember when I first got on the net www.playboy.com was just a collection of static pages with some photos of naked women on them. Of course, it was impossible to download the photos because your net connection was too slow, but it makes me nostalgic to think of those simple page layouts that have since been completely obliterated.
You're not listening. Loki is distributing the Quake 3 Linux retail box. The binaries which Id puts on its web site are free, and have nothing to do with Loki.
LOKI is not going to be releasing Linux binaries anytime soon; Id Software is beause they ported the game. And for the record, you should have waited for the Linux release like Carmack requested.
A good 2D/3D card for Linux users is the Voodoo3 3000. It works in 3D in Linux and the X server is in the XFree86 3.3.5 SVGA driver. Regardless of what you may think of 3dfx or their cards, the voodoo3 is still very fast. A TNT2 Ultra of course is faster and does 32 bit color, but you'd have to wait to get good 3D performance in Linux.
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I had filtered out micheal from slashdot because of his stupid paranoid rants, and now he goes and posts something useful and I almost miss it. Micheal please do us a favor...if you're going to post crap like "the DoS of Yahoo! was a government conspiracy!" and "John Carmack is violating your civil rights!", then please pass on useful information to another poster so we don't have to deal with your crap in order to hear Linus.
-W.W.
Thats funny...Mandrake was one of the distros my friend tried, (along with Red Hat, Corel, and Caldera), and among those, he ranked Mandrake absolute last. I don't know what rankled him so much...my guess is that there are still a few bugs to work out in their graphical configuration tools.
-W.W.
I didn't know that such obvious things could be considered "bugs," especially since they've been there for so many prior revisions. Regardless, if everything really is fixed in 6.2 then great; congratulations on providing the best, easiest to manage and (hopefully) most secure Linux out there...it will certainly be installed on this machine (aged 5.2 box which I don't have the patience to upgrade).
And as long as I have your ear, consider making Sawmill the default window manager. Thats just an opinion of course.
-W.W.
I was setting up a web server this weekend and I found it quite unsettling how much work it takes just to get a standard Red Hat 6.1 install to have decent security. When I think of all the people I know using Red Hat to connect to the labs and use X programs at home, I'm genuinely frightened by what a script-kiddie heaven this school will be. Obviously Red Hat 6.2 will solve some problems with updated packages (at least until the next round of bugs are found), but I'll be willing to bet that the same ol' Red Hat "features" will still be leaving machines wide open.
And furthermore, are they are EVER going to put
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-W.W.
When you can order all the parts online, assemble them yourself, not pay any sales tax and not get ripped off paying too much for crappy hardware anyway.
-W.W.
"...Linus Torvalds, here are your thirty kajillion IPO dollars. Have a nice day. "
Personally, I like my PC with its real mouse and real keyboard...not that I wouldn't find a use for a webpad, but I wouldn't want to play counter-strike on one.
-W.W.
This is a joke post, right?
The new ones lock X up solid whenever I run a 3D app. I deleted the old drivers and now they're no longer availiable on nvidias ftp...if anyone can findthem I'd be grateful...thanks.
-W.W.
You know, for those of us who have our default threshold set at 1, the only time we have to hear about these retarded things is from pointless posts like yours.
-W.W.
I remember when I first got on the net www.playboy.com was just a collection of static pages with some photos of naked women on them. Of course, it was impossible to download the photos because your net connection was too slow, but it makes me nostalgic to think of those simple page layouts that have since been completely obliterated.
-W.W.
Wouldn't these babies make an awesome beowulf cluster???
:o
Wait a minute, each one is like a beowulf cluster
-W.W.
You're not listening. Loki is distributing the Quake 3 Linux retail box. The binaries which Id puts on its web site are free, and have nothing to do with Loki.
-W.W.
LOKI is not going to be releasing Linux binaries anytime soon; Id Software is beause they ported the game. And for the record, you should have waited for the Linux release like Carmack requested.
-W.W.
A good 2D/3D card for Linux users is the Voodoo3 3000. It works in 3D in Linux and the X server is in the XFree86 3.3.5 SVGA driver. Regardless of what you may think of 3dfx or their cards, the voodoo3 is still very fast. A TNT2 Ultra of course is faster and does 32 bit color, but you'd have to wait to get good 3D performance in Linux.
-W.W.