I agree that the Redhat/Mandrake relationship is very cool. Its nice to see two companies who have a slightly overlapping userbase compete and use each other's innovations in a friendly way. Its good for their users (duh), and its good for the companies as well. Redhat is getting $5/month from me that they wouldn't be getting before, and my brother the Mandrake user is signed up for the Mandrake Club. Everybody wins in the end.
It seems that a few people here on/. are put off by all of the "splintering" in the different distros. But if the companies work together, and don't do stupid crap like patent "Online Linux Update Services" all of the distros will become better. Certainly a good thing for the GNU/Linux community.
Gentoo uses their own program which acts like Ports. Its called Portage, and I think its written in Python. Right now they have almost 1200 packages in the/usr/portage tree. Its quite an impressive application. One of the cool things I have noticed is that when you merge the Linux kernel sources, it will also go and get the preemtible kernel patch, the low latency patch, and the XFS stuff, and it'll patch the kernel automatically! It also does a great job of finding dependencies, and you can even specify what a given package should compile in, for instance if you want to merge vim, it will tell you it needs XFree86 (if you don't already have it merged). If you don't want it, you can take X out of the USE variable, and it will compile vim without X. Very flexible.
Actually, I'd have to disagree with the parent post. You should NOT depend on 2.5.x for everyday usage, especially on a production server. You should build it on your home machine or test box and run it for a while to help iron out the bugs. This new-fangled Open Source thing only works if the end users hold up our end of the bargain. They release early and often, and we build and test it. If it doesn't work, try to submit a bug report and help out as best you can, then you can move back to your 2.4.x kernel with a clean concience.
Its not really fair to compare the G4 and the P4, since the G4 was aimed at competing with the P3.
The article wasn't really a shootout of the two processors. The G4e was simply used as a point of reference as to how a normal processor does things compared to the way Intel does things to crank up the Mhz. The G4 seems to me to be a great reference when analyzing things like the P4s insanely deep pipelining and such.
I can't believe the parent was modded up as insightful....such an obvious joke, too.
Re:Does it cut out the WTC out of the skyline?
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There's nothing cooler than a 1st gen Monte with the 350 ripped out and a Rat 454 or 396 shoved under the hood. Damn cool cars, I tells ya. I used to own a '72, 350 4bbl Holley, Posi-Traction, bright yellow, and a lot of neat guages inside (all factory). The only things I added were the carb and a warm cam, and that thing could burn 'em like none other. heh, cars were much better in the good old days.
Heh, maybe everybody who submits a story should make it confusing like this one. That way, more/.ers would have to actually follow the links and read the stories before commenting;^)
Re:2.4.10 and the defeat of uptime...stupid xfs
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Actually, I'm compiling with the 2.4.10-pre13 patch, just to see if it works, and it compiled just fine. Now I just hope it boots ok...
Dear God! Those are some terrible themes! The grand prize winner is one of the ugliest themes I have ever seen. Jeez, what an ugly shade of green, and the wallpaper is just cheesy. I'm gonna be sick.
Seriously, though, there mustn't have been very many entries if those are the ones they picked.
Hours of wholesome fun.
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That was awesome when that one team on Junkyard Wars built a trebuchet. I can't fully recall, but didn't they use a pneumatic tire as sort of a rolling pivot point? And then they made all sorts of different angled ends for it to get the release angle just right (I think, or maybe it was the other team)
Anyways, my point is, I would like to build one out of scrap and then use it to pummel the neighborhood.
Speaking of which, if your wonderful object oriented system lets you reuse code, rather than reimplement it, why does KDE choose to define its own KMenuBar class, rather than just using the default Qt one?
I was considering putting one of these little puppies together after reading a previous article about it, but it seems that the displays are not widely available. Anybody know where they are available?
I saw this and I thought 'wow, a club for attractive smart people'. But no, its only for girls. So I am going to start my own club, called SuperAttractiveGuysWhoCanDoMath.com
To join, you must be an attractive male who can complete one (or both) of the following tasks:
find an algorithm which successfully solves the halting problem.
pay me $20us.
Apply below. And remember, not only am I the president, but I am a client.
--iceburn
Re:First ontopic post? Informative even?
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I had the same problem! I just sent them an email asking what's going on, so I'll wait and see what happens.
Fugazi has been doing shows exclusively under $10 their entire career. They exist on t-shirt sales.
Actually, Fugazi doesn't sell shirts or stickers. They released one shirt throughout their carreer that said on the front simply "This is not a Fugazi shirt" and they are almost impossible to find. They made a couple of stickers, but those are rare, too. They make the bulk of their money touring and on CD sales. For $8 per ticket and CD's running for about the same price, they are not rich. But I don't think they want to be. IMHO, the biggest problem with popular music is that the "Musicians" are more about buisiness than music. It is an Industry after all, not art.
--iceburn Ok, I'm done bitching...now back to your regularly scheduled life.
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opensesame like in Sesame Street, with Big Bird.
Sesame sure is a weird word.
It seems that a few people here on /. are put off by all of the "splintering" in the different distros. But if the companies work together, and don't do stupid crap like patent "Online Linux Update Services" all of the distros will become better. Certainly a good thing for the GNU/Linux community.
Ok, now I'm done stating the obvious!
vim junkies will probably say the same thing about emacs, but I don't think they'll mean it in the same way as the emacs fanatics ;)
Gentoo uses their own program which acts like Ports. Its called Portage, and I think its written in Python. Right now they have almost 1200 packages in the /usr/portage tree. Its quite an impressive application. One of the cool things I have noticed is that when you merge the Linux kernel sources, it will also go and get the preemtible kernel patch, the low latency patch, and the XFS stuff, and it'll patch the kernel automatically! It also does a great job of finding dependencies, and you can even specify what a given package should compile in, for instance if you want to merge vim, it will tell you it needs XFree86 (if you don't already have it merged). If you don't want it, you can take X out of the USE variable, and it will compile vim without X. Very flexible.
Actually, I'd have to disagree with the parent post. You should NOT depend on 2.5.x for everyday usage, especially on a production server. You should build it on your home machine or test box and run it for a while to help iron out the bugs. This new-fangled Open Source thing only works if the end users hold up our end of the bargain. They release early and often, and we build and test it. If it doesn't work, try to submit a bug report and help out as best you can, then you can move back to your 2.4.x kernel with a clean concience.
The article wasn't really a shootout of the two processors. The G4e was simply used as a point of reference as to how a normal processor does things compared to the way Intel does things to crank up the Mhz. The G4 seems to me to be a great reference when analyzing things like the P4s insanely deep pipelining and such.
I can't believe the parent was modded up as insightful. ...such an obvious joke, too.
There's nothing cooler than a 1st gen Monte with the 350 ripped out and a Rat 454 or 396 shoved under the hood. Damn cool cars, I tells ya. I used to own a '72, 350 4bbl Holley, Posi-Traction, bright yellow, and a lot of neat guages inside (all factory). The only things I added were the carb and a warm cam, and that thing could burn 'em like none other. heh, cars were much better in the good old days.
That post is not Offtopic. Its also not a Troll and not Flamebait. There should be a -1 Stupid.
Heh, maybe everybody who submits a story should make it confusing like this one. That way, more /.ers would have to actually follow the links and read the stories before commenting ;^)
Actually, I'm compiling with the 2.4.10-pre13 patch, just to see if it works, and it compiled just fine. Now I just hope it boots ok...
Don't forget "Hacker". Funny stuff.
Dear God! Those are some terrible themes! The grand prize winner is one of the ugliest themes I have ever seen. Jeez, what an ugly shade of green, and the wallpaper is just cheesy. I'm gonna be sick. Seriously, though, there mustn't have been very many entries if those are the ones they picked.
Indeed. I call it "File 13".
That was awesome when that one team on Junkyard Wars built a trebuchet. I can't fully recall, but didn't they use a pneumatic tire as sort of a rolling pivot point? And then they made all sorts of different angled ends for it to get the release angle just right (I think, or maybe it was the other team) Anyways, my point is, I would like to build one out of scrap and then use it to pummel the neighborhood.
Man what I wouldn't do for a glass of Chimay blue label right now...
Yup. Bud Light Bob has a kind of a ring to it, don't you think?
Just another reason to homebrew. It's much cheaper, too. Check out Northernbrewer
-iceburn- Sitting quietly, doing nothing. Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
It is called inheritance.
iceburn
Yeah, but if you'd learn his anatomy, you could repair his lungs and liver.
To join, you must be an attractive male who can complete one (or both) of the following tasks:
find an algorithm which successfully solves the halting problem.
pay me $20us.
Apply below. And remember, not only am I the president, but I am a client.
--iceburn
I had the same problem! I just sent them an email asking what's going on, so I'll wait and see what happens.
Actually, Fugazi doesn't sell shirts or stickers. They released one shirt throughout their carreer that said on the front simply "This is not a Fugazi shirt" and they are almost impossible to find. They made a couple of stickers, but those are rare, too. They make the bulk of their money touring and on CD sales. For $8 per ticket and CD's running for about the same price, they are not rich. But I don't think they want to be. IMHO, the biggest problem with popular music is that the "Musicians" are more about buisiness than music. It is an Industry after all, not art.
--iceburn
Ok, I'm done bitching...now back to your regularly scheduled life.