I haven't seen anyone else mention this... Unless he's planning to go through the Open Group's UNIX certification tests and trademark licensing ($BIGNUM), he needs to make a name change. They've been very picky about the use of 'UNIX' in the past, because of the trademark protection regulations. I'd suggest something like Mental Linux (since he's are basing it off Linux + LSB etc.) IMHO, I think that his development skills would probably be better focused on being a Debian developer or such. In fact, 'MentalUNIX' sounds like a perfect Debian: full LSB compliance (which Debian is aiming for), using any package format (it is possible to use rpm's (man alien) or rolling your own (man stow) in Debian but it's not perfect)...
I was quite happy to hear he uses Debian. When I read the post about what one CD you'd take, during the question session, my answer was 'a Debian cd'. As long as I had gcc, perl, and vi I could be completely satisfied.;)
I mastered lilo early in my linux-using days. However, recently I looked at grub on my debian-unstable box and found it to be highly superior to lilo.
1) grub can look inside filesystems (much like the freebsd loader you talked about, of which I have no experience with)
2) grub gives you a command line: almost a shell, with tab-completion of filenames and devices, and a featureful list of operations you can perform, many of which I have not learned yet
3) grub has a built in menu system to boot from: it is quite easy to set up a boot menu with grub, even with colors (ooh)
4) grub, as of the last time I checked (recently), could see inside fat, ext2, and ffs. I'm sure support for more is on the way.
5) grub is an official part of the GNU Project.. now we know it can't get better than that!;)
One of my favorite things to do with grub is make a boot disk with it (directions in the documentation) Thus you can pop a disk in and boot any OS on the computer, boot sector or no..
I wish that Debian would change to grub as the default bootloader. I haven't touched lilo since I started using grub. Mandrake installs grub by default (as of 7.0 I believe.. I only watched a friend installing it). I'm not aware of any other distro using grub.
booting linux using grub:
(at the grub command line, assuming your kernel is on/dev/hda1 in/boot/vmlinuz)
# kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz
# boot
grub is the way to world peace. All other bootloaders are only mild attempts to be like grub! grub IS THE STANDARD BOOT LOADER! THE STANDARD! (ref. 'ed is the standard text editor')
My college (Henderson State University) has contracted with Mascot Networks to do a campus portal type setup. This is a timely story for me and my friends here who don't like the whole idea. I just happened to read the Campus Pipeline story the week before my college announced the whole Mascot deal. HSU dumped their student directory database to Mascot, so that signing on would be easier. All you have to do is type in your first and last name and birthdate and you get a form filled screen, some of which is already filled in with your address, major, and picture (!) A group of us were highly upset over this obvious breach of privacy; however a law known as FERPA gives colleges the right to do several things with your directory information. However, FERPA was written in 1974; back then the only thing people were worried about was phone books. The law was not written with the Internet in mind and it is obvious to anyone who reads it.
Now, I don't dislike what Mascot can do for our college; I've looked at the page they did for us (what I can look at anyway, I refuse to sign up because of their terms of services.. another rant) and I like the idea. However my college decided to make it an 'opt-out' idea. I think it would have been much better implimented as an 'opt-in' where students could sign in and put whatever information they liked instead of having it done for them.
I also think it is a horrible idea to contract out this type of service. The reason my school and so many others go for it, though, is because they are small and do not have the manpower to do this type of thing themselves. I work for my school's Computer and Communication Services and I can tell you how it is to be in an understaffed department. So can you blame the schools? I don't really know. All I know is that I don't like my name and address and picture given out to some company without my permission or without notifying me beforehand. This whole experience has left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
My advice to other college students would be to go to your school's registrar's office and see what they consider 'directory information' and what they say they can do with it. If you don't like it, you *can* have your information removed.
My university (Henderson State University) has not banned Napster yet, luckily. However, while last year we were openly networked (I had a static IP, for instance, and a linux server under a domain name from a friend) this year they put the dorms behind a Microsoft Proxy Server firewall. In other words, you have to use their Winsock Proxy Client to use anything besides HTTP proxying on the network. It blows if you use Linux. They did it in response to rampant IRC serving last year by a few of my friends. They sucked up major bandwidth:) Now if our college had installed SOCKS 5 I would be perfectly happy, however MS Proxy only supports SOCKS 4 (no UDP, thus no ICQ) but I have a plan. I've put up a Windows SOCKS5 server in my room on an old P100. The SOCKS5 requests from my box go through the winsock proxy client on the Windows box and out through the proxy to the Net. Thus I can use Linux through this hack for just about anything.
I can think of hardly anything that has been *banned*.. we still play Halflife, Starcraft, etc on the Net. Napster works. ICQ works. Pretty much just doing the serving thing has been banned, since we're firewalled. Our Computer Services department also has some sort of contract with MS.. so NT goes up more and more each day.. luckily Computer Science just moved the entire programming curriculum over to Unix....
I have to say, when I saw this article, the first thing I thought of was the Ensoniq AudioPCI I have in my computer. It is a very good sound card, and it's PCI, and I got it from 20 bucks from a friend who works at a computer shop (along with the rest of the computer *grin*) The Linux driver support is excellent; although the card does not do native MIDI, it has two DSP's, and the Windows drivers use one DSP for PCM and the other for MIDI. Under Linux, you can use both DSP's for whatever you want (/dev/{dsp0,dsp1}). I had xmms and an emulator going at once, one time:) If you want MIDI with it, use Timidity. Glancing through the comments, overall people seem to agree with my choice:)
I have that card in my system.. 8 mb, agp 2x, it's a nice decent card for 2D, and a good first step for, say, a Voodoo2. Thanks to the XSuSE people for doing this, else my X would be really sucky. From reading docs, it seems that the VGA16 server won't work with it at all so without this I was screwed. Oh and for all you people wanting hardware vendors to cooperate (which includes myself), SiS mentions Linux and I think even helped developed or gave specs to SuSE and XFree86. So buy more SiS stuff:)
Seeing you mention your user number prompted me to think, "what is mine?" So I checked and I'm Official Slashdot Addict #132.. I didn't know I was that far up.. but now that I think about it I think I signed up the first day the user system was available.
... must have grabbed this from me and forwarded it to you.:) Just yesterday I was poking around. I had just done an apt-get upgrade (I run Debian, unstable) and noticed that gtk-engines-gtkstep had been updated. See, before, the theme had been almost- NeXTish but not quite; the scrollbar buttons were at the ends instead of both at one end. Well this new update fixed that, so I was quite happy. Glowering in my fully NeXTiszed GTK apps I began to ponder on my environment. I run WindowMaker (always have.. remember d/ling and compiling it back in my RH days..) and I've got the mandatory ASClock running. "How nice it is" I thought. Then the thought occured to me, to write a page telling people what they should do to recieve NeXT enlightenment in X. Then I check/. and see this. How appropriate:) I don't know if there are any other pages like this but I thought I'd write a "How to NeXTify your X" page. What to get and where, how to set it up.. mainly the former though:) If anyone is interested in helping, or has any information on NeXT apps, please drop me a line.
Oh and if you are interested, you can find the archives for the debian-boot list at the Debian mailing list archive page. They had an example boot disk made (it would show you the copyright screen but had no hard disk support or such so that it wouldn't actually do anything) but I can't remember the address for that.
> That's exactly what it's good for. Have you seen a fully graphical, > one-floppy linux install? You will.
Yes you certainly will, if you use Debian in the future. As we speak the Debian boot-floppies team is working on a graphical installation disk set for a future release of Debian. It won't exactly be one-floppy (it's hard to fit the 2.2 kernel and the root.bin ramdisk on one floppy) but it will certainly be much nicer than the old newt-based install.
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I haven't seen anyone else mention this... Unless he's planning to go through the Open Group's UNIX certification tests and trademark licensing ($BIGNUM), he needs to make a name change. They've been very picky about the use of 'UNIX' in the past, because of the trademark protection regulations. I'd suggest something like Mental Linux (since he's are basing it off Linux + LSB etc.) IMHO, I think that his development skills would probably be better focused on being a Debian developer or such. In fact, 'MentalUNIX' sounds like a perfect Debian: full LSB compliance (which Debian is aiming for), using any package format (it is possible to use rpm's (man alien) or rolling your own (man stow) in Debian but it's not perfect)...
;)
I was quite happy to hear he uses Debian. When I read the post about what one CD you'd take, during the question session, my answer was 'a Debian cd'. As long as I had gcc, perl, and vi I could be completely satisfied.
I mastered lilo early in my linux-using days. However, recently I looked at grub on my debian-unstable box and found it to be highly superior to lilo.
;)
/dev/hda1 in /boot/vmlinuz)
1) grub can look inside filesystems (much like the freebsd loader you talked about, of which I have no experience with)
2) grub gives you a command line: almost a shell, with tab-completion of filenames and devices, and a featureful list of operations you can perform, many of which I have not learned yet
3) grub has a built in menu system to boot from: it is quite easy to set up a boot menu with grub, even with colors (ooh)
4) grub, as of the last time I checked (recently), could see inside fat, ext2, and ffs. I'm sure support for more is on the way.
5) grub is an official part of the GNU Project.. now we know it can't get better than that!
One of my favorite things to do with grub is make a boot disk with it (directions in the documentation) Thus you can pop a disk in and boot any OS on the computer, boot sector or no..
I wish that Debian would change to grub as the default bootloader. I haven't touched lilo since I started using grub. Mandrake installs grub by default (as of 7.0 I believe.. I only watched a friend installing it). I'm not aware of any other distro using grub.
booting linux using grub:
(at the grub command line, assuming your kernel is on
# kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz
# boot
grub is the way to world peace. All other bootloaders are only mild attempts to be like grub! grub IS THE STANDARD BOOT LOADER! THE STANDARD! (ref. 'ed is the standard text editor')
My college (Henderson State University) has contracted with Mascot Networks to do a campus portal type setup. This is a timely story for me and my friends here who don't like the whole idea. I just happened to read the Campus Pipeline story the week before my college announced the whole Mascot deal. HSU dumped their student directory database to Mascot, so that signing on would be easier. All you have to do is type in your first and last name and birthdate and you get a form filled screen, some of which is already filled in with your address, major, and picture (!) A group of us were highly upset over this obvious breach of privacy; however a law known as FERPA gives colleges the right to do several things with your directory information. However, FERPA was written in 1974; back then the only thing people were worried about was phone books. The law was not written with the Internet in mind and it is obvious to anyone who reads it.
Now, I don't dislike what Mascot can do for our college; I've looked at the page they did for us (what I can look at anyway, I refuse to sign up because of their terms of services.. another rant) and I like the idea. However my college decided to make it an 'opt-out' idea. I think it would have been much better implimented as an 'opt-in' where students could sign in and put whatever information they liked instead of having it done for them.
I also think it is a horrible idea to contract out this type of service. The reason my school and so many others go for it, though, is because they are small and do not have the manpower to do this type of thing themselves. I work for my school's Computer and Communication Services and I can tell you how it is to be in an understaffed department. So can you blame the schools? I don't really know. All I know is that I don't like my name and address and picture given out to some company without my permission or without notifying me beforehand. This whole experience has left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
My advice to other college students would be to go to your school's registrar's office and see what they consider 'directory information' and what they say they can do with it. If you don't like it, you *can* have your information removed.
I'm quite aware, in fact I'm doing it now (in win2k)
It's icq in linux that has the problem.
My university (Henderson State University) has not banned Napster yet, luckily. However, while last year we were openly networked (I had a static IP, for instance, and a linux server under a domain name from a friend) this year they put the dorms behind a Microsoft Proxy Server firewall. In other words, you have to use their Winsock Proxy Client to use anything besides HTTP proxying on the network. It blows if you use Linux. They did it in response to rampant IRC serving last year by a few of my friends. They sucked up major bandwidth :) Now if our college had installed SOCKS 5 I would be perfectly happy, however MS Proxy only supports SOCKS 4 (no UDP, thus no ICQ) but I have a plan. I've put up a Windows SOCKS5 server in my room on an old P100. The SOCKS5 requests from my box go through the winsock proxy client on the Windows box and out through the proxy to the Net. Thus I can use Linux through this hack for just about anything.
I can think of hardly anything that has been *banned*.. we still play Halflife, Starcraft, etc on the Net. Napster works. ICQ works. Pretty much just doing the serving thing has been banned, since we're firewalled. Our Computer Services department also has some sort of contract with MS.. so NT goes up more and more each day.. luckily Computer Science just moved the entire programming curriculum over to Unix....
I have to say, when I saw this article, the first thing I thought of was the Ensoniq AudioPCI I have in my computer. It is a very good sound card, and it's PCI, and I got it from 20 bucks from a friend who works at a computer shop (along with the rest of the computer *grin*) The Linux driver support is excellent; although the card does not do native MIDI, it has two DSP's, and the Windows drivers use one DSP for PCM and the other for MIDI. Under Linux, you can use both DSP's for whatever you want (/dev/{dsp0,dsp1}). I had xmms and an emulator going at once, one time :) If you want MIDI with it, use Timidity. Glancing through the comments, overall people seem to agree with my choice :)
I have that card in my system.. 8 mb, agp 2x, it's a nice decent card for 2D, and a good first step for, say, a Voodoo2. Thanks to the XSuSE people for doing this, else my X would be really sucky. From reading docs, it seems that the VGA16 server won't work with it at all so without this I was screwed. Oh and for all you people wanting hardware vendors to cooperate (which includes myself), SiS mentions Linux and I think even helped developed or gave specs to SuSE and XFree86. So buy more SiS stuff :)
Seeing you mention your user number prompted me to think, "what is mine?"
So I checked and I'm Official Slashdot Addict #132.. I didn't know I was that far up.. but now that I think about it I think I signed up the first day the user system was available.
As for deleting, there is no way I know of.
... must have grabbed this from me and forwarded :) /. and see :) :)
it to you.
Just yesterday I was poking around. I had just
done an apt-get upgrade (I run Debian, unstable)
and noticed that gtk-engines-gtkstep had been
updated. See, before, the theme had been almost-
NeXTish but not quite; the scrollbar buttons were
at the ends instead of both at one end. Well this
new update fixed that, so I was quite happy.
Glowering in my fully NeXTiszed GTK apps I began
to ponder on my environment. I run WindowMaker
(always have.. remember d/ling and compiling it
back in my RH days..) and I've got the mandatory
ASClock running. "How nice it is" I thought.
Then the thought occured to me, to write a page
telling people what they should do to recieve
NeXT enlightenment in X. Then I check
this. How appropriate
I don't know if there are any other pages like
this but I thought I'd write a "How to NeXTify
your X" page. What to get and where, how to set
it up.. mainly the former though
If anyone is interested in helping, or has any
information on NeXT apps, please drop me a line.
James
Ah. As I don't keep up with RH and SuSE I didn't
know this. I believe the person who wrote the
vgafb driver is a Debian developer though...
Oh and if you are interested, you can find the
archives for the debian-boot list at
the
Debian mailing list archive page.
They had an example boot disk made (it would show
you the copyright screen but had no hard disk
support or such so that it wouldn't actually do
anything) but I can't remember the address for
that.
> That's exactly what it's good for. Have you seen a fully graphical,
> one-floppy linux install? You will.
Yes you certainly will, if you use Debian in the
future. As we speak the Debian boot-floppies team
is working on a graphical installation disk set
for a future release of Debian. It won't exactly
be one-floppy (it's hard to fit the 2.2 kernel
and the root.bin ramdisk on one floppy) but it
will certainly be much nicer than the old newt-based install.