The -mjc branch has included this in -mjc3 and will include it in the soon-to-be-released 2.4.18-pre8-mjc if you don't really need the radical changes in 2.5.x.
I try to include as many hardware fixes as I can so that it is easier for users with said hardware. It's possible that I might start offering separate XFS patches (thanks to Shawn Starr) and powerpc patches (mvista, benh, and friends) that apply on top of -mjc.
But RedHat's insecurities exist in most other distributions. RedHat also fixes these bugs fairly fast.
Sure, RedHat has had screwups, but it's more the default-install weenies that come over from the M$ world that are the insecurity problem than the OS itself. Don't blame either RedHat or M$ for their users.
Mandrake is slowly gaining newbies more than RedHat. That said, Mandrake is going to be more insecure in your view as less and less bother with updates. Sounds fishy to me.
Microsoft should not be blamed if this is a hardware issue, especially overheating. Microsoft may have designed the initial machines and the software, but it's Flextronics that manufactures them. Also, I wonder if this is related to the Delays they were denying?
I've had four drives die. Two DTLA-307060s and two DTLA-307015s. two of those were from IBM direct. They're hard down in the case and the case is sitting on a concrete vibrationless floor. All drives in any condition when I insert certain CDs into my Yamaha CRW2100E squeak, groan, and reset a zillion times. I've tried different power cables, different IDE controllers, different computers, everything. I have two drives that are in need of RMA. These things are FAST, but not very reliable. I'm just hoping my new UltraStar is better.... but I would like to return or exchange these drives.
I live here:)
I'm transferring into a public school too, I wonder if we will be allowed to try this out?
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Uh, RH and Mandrake use RPM (RedHat Packaging Format), so you have to find those for your installs, Slackware uses.tgz, which is a tarball of sorts, Debian uses.deb, which is their own format, Stampede uses.slp, and so on. These are a bit of a pain without Alien, which can convert between those formats. But there are several differences: 1.) Stability 2.) Ease-of-use/maintenance 3.) Feature set and a few other things.:-)
Not every distro, or version of a distro, is stable. take RH6.0, for example. it was buggy as hell. plus, it seems pretty old now to me, as I needed to get the source and recompile for lots of new packages and/or install other new packages.
Not every distro is easy to use. Debian and slackware are a lot more on the technical side, where RH and Mandrake are meant for Linux "newbies".
And lastly, the feature set. Slackware comes with some different default configurations and some software that others lack, and vice versa could be said for RH and Mandrake, and Debian.
Those are the main differences, but there are many others.
Greetings Earthlinks... I'm a Freshman at the University School of Nova Southeastern University. it's a division of a large private school, and so we get pretty nice hardware for the most part (PII 450s are the fastest... We've P133s for the library and 486/66's for the teachers), but I'm pushing linux in the ACM chapter I founded this year. We were just chartered friday, as a matter of fact. We've a Celeron 333 @ 450 in the library as a server, running a mux of Mandrake 7.0, Debian, and TurboLinux 6.0. It is soon going to serve an attendance sheet so our school saves about 40 lbs of paper every day, and it will become an integral part of the school soon. Here's how I did it: I was lazy. sounds funny, but I just kept complaining that the computer people weren't helpful enough and they hired a new person to take care of the library. I got active. I tought the new computer lady about linux and showed her how I hid it on the PII450 in the back room last year (RedHat 5.2 - installed lilo to the partition and used a boot disk I hid... we all know you gotta be lookin for it to find it;-)). I tought her more and started this ACM chapter. (USNSUSCACM... long ass acronym: "University School of Nova Southeastern University Student Chapter of the Association for Computing and Machinery") Work! It took me months to do anything and we're still getting there... I'm making a deal with Inprise (borland) to help us teach the C++ teacher to use linux... We're going to set up a network of Linux, SunOS, and Windoze computers for a demo for next year most likely... and we're selling pizza to buy a LVD RAID dual Xeon server with which to set up the 486s w/ remote X sessions / NFS. Life is finally good, but it's takin' a damn long time. always remember to question, for questioning will lead you to the solution. "What do they gain from using M$?" "How can I set it up so that they gain more by using linux?" "What do I need to do to assure that they will be able to do what they want with the systems easily?" "How can I set it up so that it's supereasy to get on, do work, and get off?"... but most importantly, "How can we make it work enough to not just make people happy, but to blow their socks off and ACTUALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE?" remember - in the world of marketing a product to replace one currently in use, if you don't impress 100%, it's gonna be damn difficult to get them to buy into it.
Do believe his quote was "40k of RAM should be good enough for anybody. Anyways, the reason why KDE and GNOME are bloated is because they're concerned about features and usability first. A WM should be fast, yes, but it should be usable. Speed in KDE and GNOME is falling behind because there are more developers interested in features than speed developing for these WMs; take a look at E and tell me if that's not eyecandy.;-) Welp, the speed comes next. that's the way the kernel's been for a while, and that's the way most stuff is as far as open source. Make it work first, then speed it up, as it's rarely finished being developed. Micro$oft has a similar idea, but it's more that optimization is last, so that they can make it usable first, and dumb it down a bit to run well on the faster desktops. I've been using my PII266 since the day Integrated Electronics (Intel...) put them in boxes for the public, and it's done well. E was really slow at 10, 12, 14, and it's speeding up a little at 16, because it's under constant development. it's fine for me w/ this box. Microsoft stops developing and only starts bugfixing after the release of their product. Most software companies are like this and Open Source is the exception, and that's why linux seems to get faster on my PII and P166 every time I upgrade stuff... I'm worried about M$, they're digging a big hole for themselves with overpricing... if they do fall they will slow processor and RAM sales dramatically as open source most likely will be the "NeXT Step" (pardon the pun). if your machine is too slow, optimize the source! or, wait for the next version to do it for you... I've seen it, too. 2.2.4 is WAAAY slower than 2.3.36 or 2.3.45...
This is turning out to be a programming language war, majorly. Don't bring perl into a discussion about java, man. You're using it as a scapegoat. programming language wars == off topic.
Speaking of evolvable code, what ever happened to software FPGAs? I'd like to get my hands on some of that... Anyways, I've an idea. Why not include information on the overall objective of the code into the FPGA?
Waitaminute. The idea behind the GUI configurator is to make it easier for a newbie. Would you see a converted M$ user, like, a 10 year old kid, running or having a shell on an AIX box? I really don't think so.
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The -mjc branch has included this in -mjc3 and will include it in the soon-to-be-released 2.4.18-pre8-mjc if you don't really need the radical changes in 2.5.x.
I try to include as many hardware fixes as I can so that it is easier for users with said hardware. It's possible that I might start offering separate XFS patches (thanks to Shawn Starr) and powerpc patches (mvista, benh, and friends) that apply on top of -mjc.
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preview anyone? :)
On Another Note, I'd like to try this thing.
It's nifty.
But RedHat's insecurities exist in most other distributions. RedHat also fixes these bugs fairly fast.
Sure, RedHat has had screwups, but it's more the default-install weenies that come over from the M$ world that are the insecurity problem than the OS itself. Don't blame either RedHat or M$ for their users.
Mandrake is slowly gaining newbies more than RedHat. That said, Mandrake is going to be more insecure in your view as less and less bother with updates. Sounds fishy to me.
Cygwin. Great stuff. allows you to run a great deal of GNU and other software on win32. :-)
Well, Opera with "Identify as MSIE 5.0" mode does not work for me...
Microsoft should not be blamed if this is a hardware issue, especially overheating.
Microsoft may have designed the initial machines and the software, but it's Flextronics that manufactures them.
Also, I wonder if this is related to the Delays they were denying?
Here's some useful links on good-sized DOS RAMdisks. fu_rd19iXMSDSK W0rm [boot]Disks. Have fun kiddos.
Yep. It's not Mozart. It's WozArt. :-D
a copyrighted number. I entered:
134123174892718957182751275812
and it said it was an Opus Number.
Also done by Crease, a local band in South Florida.
I've had four drives die. Two DTLA-307060s and two DTLA-307015s. two of those were from IBM direct. They're hard down in the case and the case is sitting on a concrete vibrationless floor. All drives in any condition when I insert certain CDs into my Yamaha CRW2100E squeak, groan, and reset a zillion times. I've tried different power cables, different IDE controllers, different computers, everything. I have two drives that are in need of RMA. These things are FAST, but not very reliable. I'm just hoping my new UltraStar is better.... but I would like to return or exchange these drives.
Windows... Doesn't that belong in the Netcraft article?
asdf This text pasted here for the heck of it. darn you /.
Wonder why you're such a pain sometimes.
Cool, sure. Battery life? hell. WinBook does the same thing... 1.5 hours or so last WinBook I saw in PeeCeeWorld.
Seeing as Mandrake, LinuxPPC, YDL, and Black Lab are based on RedHat's packages and packaging system, where is RedHat in this area?
Sidenote - Last I checked, FireWire = IEEE1394, which is a standard. Apple didn't invent it.
I live here :)
I'm transferring into a public school too, I wonder if we will be allowed to try this out?
's McFatter Vocational/Technical magnet. email me. :)
Uh, RH and Mandrake use RPM (RedHat Packaging Format), so you have to find those for your installs, Slackware uses .tgz, which is a tarball of sorts, Debian uses .deb, which is their own format, Stampede uses .slp, and so on. These are a bit of a pain without Alien, which can convert between those formats. But there are several differences: :-)
1.) Stability
2.) Ease-of-use/maintenance
3.) Feature set
and a few other things.
Not every distro, or version of a distro, is stable. take RH6.0, for example. it was buggy as hell. plus, it seems pretty old now to me, as I needed to get the source and recompile for lots of new packages and/or install other new packages.
Not every distro is easy to use. Debian and slackware are a lot more on the technical side, where RH and Mandrake are meant for Linux "newbies".
And lastly, the feature set. Slackware comes with some different default configurations and some software that others lack, and vice versa could be said for RH and Mandrake, and Debian.
Those are the main differences, but there are many others.
Check out Everybuddy.
Greetings Earthlinks... I'm a Freshman at the University School of Nova Southeastern University. it's a division of a large private school, and so we get pretty nice hardware for the most part (PII 450s are the fastest... We've P133s for the library and 486/66's for the teachers), but I'm pushing linux in the ACM chapter I founded this year. We were just chartered friday, as a matter of fact. We've a Celeron 333 @ 450 in the library as a server, running a mux of Mandrake 7.0, Debian, and TurboLinux 6.0. It is soon going to serve an attendance sheet so our school saves about 40 lbs of paper every day, and it will become an integral part of the school soon. Here's how I did it: I was lazy. sounds funny, but I just kept complaining that the computer people weren't helpful enough and they hired a new person to take care of the library. I got active. I tought the new computer lady about linux and showed her how I hid it on the PII450 in the back room last year (RedHat 5.2 - installed lilo to the partition and used a boot disk I hid... we all know you gotta be lookin for it to find it ;-)). I tought her more and started this ACM chapter. (USNSUSCACM... long ass acronym: "University School of Nova Southeastern University Student Chapter of the Association for Computing and Machinery") Work! It took me months to do anything and we're still getting there... I'm making a deal with Inprise (borland) to help us teach the C++ teacher to use linux... We're going to set up a network of Linux, SunOS, and Windoze computers for a demo for next year most likely... and we're selling pizza to buy a LVD RAID dual Xeon server with which to set up the 486s w/ remote X sessions / NFS. Life is finally good, but it's takin' a damn long time. always remember to question, for questioning will lead you to the solution. "What do they gain from using M$?" "How can I set it up so that they gain more by using linux?" "What do I need to do to assure that they will be able to do what they want with the systems easily?" "How can I set it up so that it's supereasy to get on, do work, and get off?"... but most importantly, "How can we make it work enough to not just make people happy, but to blow their socks off and ACTUALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE?" remember - in the world of marketing a product to replace one currently in use, if you don't impress 100%, it's gonna be damn difficult to get them to buy into it.
Do believe his quote was "40k of RAM should be good enough for anybody. Anyways, the reason why KDE and GNOME are bloated is because they're concerned about features and usability first. A WM should be fast, yes, but it should be usable. Speed in KDE and GNOME is falling behind because there are more developers interested in features than speed developing for these WMs; take a look at E and tell me if that's not eyecandy. ;-) Welp, the speed comes next. that's the way the kernel's been for a while, and that's the way most stuff is as far as open source. Make it work first, then speed it up, as it's rarely finished being developed. Micro$oft has a similar idea, but it's more that optimization is last, so that they can make it usable first, and dumb it down a bit to run well on the faster desktops. I've been using my PII266 since the day Integrated Electronics (Intel...) put them in boxes for the public, and it's done well. E was really slow at 10, 12, 14, and it's speeding up a little at 16, because it's under constant development. it's fine for me w/ this box. Microsoft stops developing and only starts bugfixing after the release of their product. Most software companies are like this and Open Source is the exception, and that's why linux seems to get faster on my PII and P166 every time I upgrade stuff... I'm worried about M$, they're digging a big hole for themselves with overpricing... if they do fall they will slow processor and RAM sales dramatically as open source most likely will be the "NeXT Step" (pardon the pun). if your machine is too slow, optimize the source! or, wait for the next version to do it for you... I've seen it, too. 2.2.4 is WAAAY slower than 2.3.36 or 2.3.45...
This is turning out to be a programming language war, majorly. Don't bring perl into a discussion about java, man. You're using it as a scapegoat. programming language wars == off topic.
Speaking of evolvable code, what ever happened to software FPGAs? I'd like to get my hands on some of that... Anyways, I've an idea. Why not include information on the overall objective of the code into the FPGA?
Waitaminute. The idea behind the GUI configurator is to make it easier for a newbie. Would you see a converted M$ user, like, a 10 year old kid, running or having a shell on an AIX box? I really don't think so.