The Linux desktop offers very little that could be considered plug-and-play. Linux drivers, the software that connects a computer with peripherals like printers and CD burners, are in short supply. Want to use a digital camera? Don't bother with Kodak if you're running Linux. Iomega is a bit friendlier, offering drivers for 14 of 51 products listed on its drivers Web page - but that compares to 42 Mac drivers and 45 for Windows. UMAX scanners? Not from UMAX, though some third-party drivers are out there, if you have the time and the will to find them. Creative's Soundblaster? A few are available, but you'll have to hunt down the company's software developer Web page.
Funny, I got every one of these to work. SCSI UMAX scanner, Plextor SCSI CDR, and SCSI ZIP drive. SB Live OSS drivers, and serial camera with gphoto. The deskjet printer was the only difficult part, but I got it working with lpd and gs after lots of trial and error.
Hell, the scanner was easier to set up in Linux than under NT! I'll take a generic driver any day over a thourougly broken exe installer.
And why not just use ispell for the spell checking job?
I haven't noticed corruption, but it is inaudible. It started at 2.4.11, in the -ac branch too, I'm still trying to figure it out. I am running 2.4.13 SMP now, using the SPDIF interface. My es1371 still works great.
They were available, but mixed in with several hundred other patches for windows, media player, excel, etc. I think that shows another problem with M$'s patch system.
If they would release service packs at regular intervals (once a year maybe?), it would help. The last NT4 service pack was 6a, and that was in 1999. If you build a new NT4 machine, you have to look through all the patches from 2000 and 2001, about 100 each year.
pcmcia-cs-3.1.29 compiled fine for me on 2.4.10. I am using the wvlan_cs driver.
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Should I or should I not make symlink to/usr/src/linux/include/[linux|asm|scsi] from/usr/include? This used to be the way to go from the beginning of linux up till somewhere in the 2.2 kernel. Then it was said that you should just leave the glibc includes where they are.
That's what I do on my Debian stable system, and Slackware 8 came like that. Can't hurt to try it, I also symlink/usr/include/asm to/usr/src/linux/include/asm.
With respect to the Mozilla team - nobody asked for an XUL-wowzers-skinnable application platform to replace the desktop. All we wanted was a web browser. And when it took over 2.5 years for you to develop it, most of us got tired of waiting and went with IE on our Windoze boxen.
I do wish they waited on themes and junk until the browser was solid, waiting 30 seconds to a minute for it to start is a drag. It is great though, who cares what month 1.0 comes out, it still gets better with each release. I've been using it primarily since 0.9.x.
Their client already does this, the issue is if I ssh into a machine, then ssh from there to another, then my key timings might be followed. My solution is to type asynchronously, pause for a random interval between each character, or each group of characters.
I started using Slack last month, the install was so clean. No sendmail, no logrotate, I could do whatever I wanted with it.
I love Debian too, I run that on my desktop that runs X and gnome and all that other junk, but sometimes package manglement can get in the way.
I agree, it wouldn't be that hard, make it a 2 lead cable (like the lights and stuff on your case uses to connect to your motherboard). I've seen this in Data Express SCSI caddies, you can use it to set the SCSI ID.
I think that's what he's doing, and wants to run an X app as root from an xterm.
Why not put xhost +localhost in your.xinitrc, then set your DISPLAY in/root/.profile? Or if you su -m, you keep your environment, does that keep $DISPLAY?
Does VMware express come with vmware-config.pl? If it does there's not really a problem there, just compile your own VMware modules, I had a few issues with 1 or 2 of the 2.4 test releases last year but VMware-2.0.4-1118 has worked fine for me with every stable release in 2.4.x.
I was going to post this but I see you beat me to it.
I killed my old IBM keyboard and recently ordered one from them. They didn't have it with the IBM logo, this has a Unicomp logo, but it's pretty much the same board. Same colors, same layout (pipe where it should be, no windoze keys, no goofy power management keys). The keys themselves are one piece units as opposed to my IBM which had the characters on one piece of plastic that snapped into another that actually was the key. These are harder to get out, the little caps don't go flying all over when I punch it:)
I might take it apart and build it into the IBM case, I bet it will fit.
No I didn't say use the code from LINT, but use this the same way FreeBSD users use LINT. I use it if I need to enable some crazy option not in the standard FreeBSD kernel configuration, like if I have this NIC that just won't work right, I'll look in LINT for more help.
Even just looking at the page for this project gives me some ideas, like SGI's asynchronous I/O would be cool for a tmp filesystem or something.
I thought that you could redistribute BSD licensed code any way you want, isn't that 1 reason BSD people think their so much cooler than Linux people?
I try do avoid `executing anything` in PS1. If your DNS is broken, and you have something like `whoami`@`hostname -s` in your prompt it will slow you down. \h isn't too bad, where I can't use that I set hostname -s to a variable once then call it later in PS1 or PROMPT_COMMAND (xterm title). The only thing I execute for each prompt is `whoami` so it's accurate after I su -m root.
Maybe he's just lazy, I used to run NT inside VMware through a remote X session just because the machine with Vmware had a modem and I got tired of moving it to another system whenever I needed to dial into an NT site.
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You need Linux 7.1 or better, like Slackware 8.0 for example ;)
Funny, I got every one of these to work. SCSI UMAX scanner, Plextor SCSI CDR, and SCSI ZIP drive. SB Live OSS drivers, and serial camera with gphoto. The deskjet printer was the only difficult part, but I got it working with lpd and gs after lots of trial and error.
Hell, the scanner was easier to set up in Linux than under NT! I'll take a generic driver any day over a thourougly broken exe installer.
And why not just use ispell for the spell checking job?
Ha got it, chmod 666 /dev/sound/* (I use devfs too, so I don't know what these were before).
I haven't noticed corruption, but it is inaudible. It started at 2.4.11, in the -ac branch too, I'm still trying to figure it out. I am running 2.4.13 SMP now, using the SPDIF interface. My es1371 still works great.
Can't do either because of the version of rpm needed!
Guess I'll stick with xmms, are you listening, Nullsoft?
Why not distribute it in tar.gz format, so everyone can enjoy it?
Now I have to learn how to use alien >:|
They were available, but mixed in with several hundred other patches for windows, media player, excel, etc. I think that shows another problem with M$'s patch system.
If they would release service packs at regular intervals (once a year maybe?), it would help. The last NT4 service pack was 6a, and that was in 1999. If you build a new NT4 machine, you have to look through all the patches from 2000 and 2001, about 100 each year.
pcmcia-cs-3.1.29 compiled fine for me on 2.4.10. I am using the wvlan_cs driver.
That's what I do on my Debian stable system, and Slackware 8 came like that. Can't hurt to try it, I also symlink /usr/include/asm to /usr/src/linux/include/asm.
I do wish they waited on themes and junk until the browser was solid, waiting 30 seconds to a minute for it to start is a drag. It is great though, who cares what month 1.0 comes out, it still gets better with each release. I've been using it primarily since 0.9.x.
Their client already does this, the issue is if I ssh into a machine, then ssh from there to another, then my key timings might be followed. My solution is to type asynchronously, pause for a random interval between each character, or each group of characters.
Unless you aren't using X, in which case this feature belongs in bugzilla (see thread on how mozilla considers features bugs).
I started using Slack last month, the install was so clean. No sendmail, no logrotate, I could do whatever I wanted with it. I love Debian too, I run that on my desktop that runs X and gnome and all that other junk, but sometimes package manglement can get in the way.
I agree, it wouldn't be that hard, make it a 2 lead cable (like the lights and stuff on your case uses to connect to your motherboard). I've seen this in Data Express SCSI caddies, you can use it to set the SCSI ID.
Why not put xhost +localhost in your .xinitrc, then set your DISPLAY in /root/.profile? Or if you su -m, you keep your environment, does that keep $DISPLAY?
Does VMware express come with vmware-config.pl? If it does there's not really a problem there, just compile your own VMware modules, I had a few issues with 1 or 2 of the 2.4 test releases last year but VMware-2.0.4-1118 has worked fine for me with every stable release in 2.4.x.
That won't work try something like root@[127.0.0.1]
Now THIS post is redundant.
I assume http://www.linuxhardware.org%3C/a means http://www.linuxhardware.org ;)
I killed my old IBM keyboard and recently ordered one from them. They didn't have it with the IBM logo, this has a Unicomp logo, but it's pretty much the same board. Same colors, same layout (pipe where it should be, no windoze keys, no goofy power management keys). The keys themselves are one piece units as opposed to my IBM which had the characters on one piece of plastic that snapped into another that actually was the key. These are harder to get out, the little caps don't go flying all over when I punch it :)
I might take it apart and build it into the IBM case, I bet it will fit.
Even just looking at the page for this project gives me some ideas, like SGI's asynchronous I/O would be cool for a tmp filesystem or something.
I thought that you could redistribute BSD licensed code any way you want, isn't that 1 reason BSD people think their so much cooler than Linux people?
It's still *NIX to me.
Anybody else thinking of using this like FreeBSD's LINT kernel? You can look at it to find something new, then apply that to a stable kernel for use.
I try do avoid `executing anything` in PS1. If your DNS is broken, and you have something like `whoami`@`hostname -s` in your prompt it will slow you down. \h isn't too bad, where I can't use that I set hostname -s to a variable once then call it later in PS1 or PROMPT_COMMAND (xterm title). The only thing I execute for each prompt is `whoami` so it's accurate after I su -m root.
There's the BSOD one with the xscreensaver deb package. It flashes panics from different OS's (windows BSOD, NT BSOD, oops, sad macintosh, etc).
Maybe he's just lazy, I used to run NT inside VMware through a remote X session just because the machine with Vmware had a modem and I got tired of moving it to another system whenever I needed to dial into an NT site.