I have 4 Gb RAM in my MacBook. Ububtu runs just fine under VMWare Fusion, as does XP. I don't usually run two VM's at the same time, but I've tried it with four running, and the machine was usable.
My Microsoft powered Comcast DVR is very unstable. It spontaneously reboots three of four times a week, and regularly becomes utterly unresponsive (generally when the thing is fast forwarding - maybe that's a nefarious scheme to make me quit skipping commercials). About ten percent of my recorded programs get interrupted by something or other. This thing doesn't provide anything close to the user experience that a Tivo does; it's not even close.
You make a valid point about the GPG signatures. There's a problem with the test versions of Fedora, however. Most of the packages in development directories are not signed. That shouldn't bother the users of the official releases, though.
I run YellowDog on my iBook for the same reasons as you do, and the only downside is that the silly modem doesn't work, making it necessary to boot into OS X when travelling without an ethernet or wireless connection to the Internet. Other than that, though, it's been mostly YellowDog, because I'm way more familiar with Linux.
I've been using Cloudscape 4.0 in a web environment for a couple of years now, with no database failures of any sort. Cloudscape has a good selection of utilities (bulk loader, CLI and GUI, etc.) It's picky about ANSI SQL, and it supports most of the SQL that I'm interested in, like nested queries, stored procedures, etc. I'm using it as an imbedded database (just presenting data, not writing anything while in production), so I can't speak to the speed in an OLTP environment, but for my purposes, I'm absolutely delighted with it.
Take a look at their MyBus website, where you'll find this link to their "Variable Message Sign" project. There's a fairly complicated software stack behind this, and I have no idea what they'd charge you for it. Also, a real-time data feed from the transit fleet is required, which is a huge, expensive requirement. Good luck!
Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.6
Release : 1.435
Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description:
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.
This update includes a fix for the local DoS as described in
http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_cra sh/index.html
...
Likewise. A yum upgrade went very well. I upgraded to the appropriate "redhat-release" rpm, then did a yum upgrade overnight. I had to install the 'prelink' rpm afterwards, but there was virtually no complaining from anything in the system that I recall. I was impressed!
Be wireless. I have a bluetooth mouse, but I also need a bluetooth keyboard for when I'm not on the road. I haven't found a laptop yet that a has a keyboard that keeps me happy. The mouse, however, is small enough to be taken almost everywhere.
That's a damn fine point. I know that she has been chased of a couple of servers due to the slashdotting. The bandwidth has to be costing someone some cash.
Her efforts in putting together this site, with the participation of so many knowledgeable contributers is fascinating, and I'm sure it's valuable to those who oppose SCO's legal antics. I find the site to be generally "wide and deep" (thanks, Darl), and I'll wager that the people at SCO take very little humor from it. I wonder if the legal teams at IBM and Red Hat find it interesting? It's seems that there's a huge amount of free legal and technical research being undertaken.
Pamala Jones has my early vote for "Linux Booster of the Year for 2003".
Corel tried to deliver a Java based WordPerfect Office, but it lived on the client. I understand that the performance was so miserable that the attempt was scrapped after a couple of beta's.
Has RedHat gone insane? Do they not realize people count on linux in an enterprise environment, where anything beyond a few minutes downtime is very bad??
Nope, but I'll wager that they want to encourage you to purchase one of their new Enterprise offerings.
I renewed my Mandrake membership last week, did you?
Yup. I've installed various versions of Mandrake Linux on quite a few pc's (friends, mostly, but some at work, too). None of them, unfortunately, pay Mandrake anything. "Hey, it's free software, isn't it?" So I do. One day I'll convince them
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This looks remarkably like ServerStudioJE, which is a database administration tool for Informix databases, which incidentally, IBM now owns. I find it to be an excellent application!
The next question is, "Where does the router get the time, and how often does it sync?" I imagine that routers have to be very accurate with regards to time, but I don't have access to any documents.
Sun, IBM, Oracle and Apache started the race (after 9/11) somewhat in front of Microsoft in terms of security, didn't they? Maybe they don't really need to put people through this crap.
Slashdot Mirror
I have 4 Gb RAM in my MacBook. Ububtu runs just fine under VMWare Fusion, as does XP. I don't usually run two VM's at the same time, but I've tried it with four running, and the machine was usable.
Pogo Linux has some nice gear for cheap.
My Microsoft powered Comcast DVR is very unstable. It spontaneously reboots three of four times a week, and regularly becomes utterly unresponsive (generally when the thing is fast forwarding - maybe that's a nefarious scheme to make me quit skipping commercials). About ten percent of my recorded programs get interrupted by something or other. This thing doesn't provide anything close to the user experience that a Tivo does; it's not even close.
Ha! Nicely done! I wish I had some mod points...
You make a valid point about the GPG signatures. There's a problem with the test versions of Fedora, however. Most of the packages in development directories are not signed. That shouldn't bother the users of the official releases, though.
Damn nice idea, though.
Hmmm. You'll be extra patched, all right.
I run YellowDog on my iBook for the same reasons as you do, and the only downside is that the silly modem doesn't work, making it necessary to boot into OS X when travelling without an ethernet or wireless connection to the Internet. Other than that, though, it's been mostly YellowDog, because I'm way more familiar with Linux.
I've been using Cloudscape 4.0 in a web environment for a couple of years now, with no database failures of any sort. Cloudscape has a good selection of utilities (bulk loader, CLI and GUI, etc.) It's picky about ANSI SQL, and it supports most of the SQL that I'm interested in, like nested queries, stored procedures, etc. I'm using it as an imbedded database (just presenting data, not writing anything while in production), so I can't speak to the speed in an OLTP environment, but for my purposes, I'm absolutely delighted with it.
Here's [PDF file] a good article about the technology.
sudo yum -y update kernel*
is pretty easy.
Here's the email I got from Red Hat:
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-171
2004-06-14
Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.6
Release : 1.435
Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc.
This update includes a fix for the local DoS as described in http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_cra sh/index.html
...
Likewise. A yum upgrade went very well. I upgraded to the appropriate "redhat-release" rpm, then did a yum upgrade overnight. I had to install the 'prelink' rpm afterwards, but there was virtually no complaining from anything in the system that I recall. I was impressed!
Try reading the instructions here: HOWTO: Fedora Core 1 with kernel 2.6 Worked like a charm for me!
Be wireless. I have a bluetooth mouse, but I also need a bluetooth keyboard for when I'm not on the road. I haven't found a laptop yet that a has a keyboard that keeps me happy. The mouse, however, is small enough to be taken almost everywhere.
Great, well reasoned response!
That's a damn fine point. I know that she has been chased of a couple of servers due to the slashdotting. The bandwidth has to be costing someone some cash.
I'll cough up some cash.
Her efforts in putting together this site, with the participation of so many knowledgeable contributers is fascinating, and I'm sure it's valuable to those who oppose SCO's legal antics. I find the site to be generally "wide and deep" (thanks, Darl), and I'll wager that the people at SCO take very little humor from it. I wonder if the legal teams at IBM and Red Hat find it interesting? It's seems that there's a huge amount of free legal and technical research being undertaken.
Pamala Jones has my early vote for "Linux Booster of the Year for 2003".
But you saw the date on this notice, right (January 25th, 2003)? I looks like it's safer today than it was then, but the point is good.
Corel tried to deliver a Java based WordPerfect Office, but it lived on the client. I understand that the performance was so miserable that the attempt was scrapped after a couple of beta's.
Nope, but I'll wager that they want to encourage you to purchase one of their new Enterprise offerings.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS
Yup. I've installed various versions of Mandrake Linux on quite a few pc's (friends, mostly, but some at work, too). None of them, unfortunately, pay Mandrake anything. "Hey, it's free software, isn't it?" So I do. One day I'll convince them
This looks remarkably like ServerStudioJE, which is a database administration tool for Informix databases, which incidentally, IBM now owns. I find it to be an excellent application!
The next question is, "Where does the router get the time, and how often does it sync?" I imagine that routers have to be very accurate with regards to time, but I don't have access to any documents.
Try this link for some nice laptops that you can buy without an OS. They even has a Linux forum. Nice people, nice laptops!
Sun, IBM, Oracle and Apache started the race (after 9/11) somewhat in front of Microsoft in terms of security, didn't they? Maybe they don't really need to put people through this crap.