I'd send this to ask slashdot but I'd never see it again if I did.
I have thought that it would be neat to have a LCD display, instead of this big 17" monitor. Now that I am making some money, and could afford it, I am wondering which ones Linux supports?
What LCD displays does Linux support? I am thinking of 17" LCD 1024x768, 16bit color minimum.
Does anyone know if SGI machines have LCD's that work with Linux yet?
I guess the question is how important is getting technical support these days?
Well lets see. With Linux you send an email to a mailing list and in most cases you get a response within a day (or same day) and often a solution to you problem or someone experiencing the same problem willing to work with you to solve it.
With most technical support you pay for the product, you pay for the support, then you pay for the phone call and have to press lots of buttons to get support (try calling M$ tech support). Then the solution can often be somewhat costly. Often it is just a matter of downloading a new patch or verion of the software (what I had to do for my scanner with NT). Sometimes it is you must buy this to fix the problem.
Also with Linux for $50 you get the operating system which can be used on SMP, you get a desktop enviroment with X, you get Apache, you can get office tools, and lots of utilities. You get a C/C++ compiler and perl, Fortran, and lots more.
If windows 2000 doesn't cost $2000 and it were to sell for $50 and has all this and included MS Office, and Dev Studio, and IIS, and a built in scripting language, and all that Linux has and 200 days of uptime it may be worth buying.
Fact is the only reason anyone is tied to Microsoft is becuase we almost all use Office and Word. If there was a version of Word that ran under UNIX and LINUX I think we'd all stop using Microsoft products.
It is to IBM's benifit to make Linux do well. If Linux and UNIX looses out to NT there will only be Intel hardware around, and many companies will looses in teh server makret. However if Linux can in keeping up with the UNIX tradition blow away NT benchmarks, there large hardware companies (IBM, Solaris, HP, SGI) can still sell there hardware, with Linux. Linux will benifit from the support and they benifit as they have to do less for the OS. (Kernel changes mainly). This is sort of a symbiotic relationship I think.
That looks about as difficult as NT / 95 install, and it looks like it ahs a little tetris game to boot (no pun intended). The only drawback I saw was that there is no custom install, for experts.
Has anyone tested this system? How is Caldera, compared to other distros? ie bug fixes and such?
There is a saying you get what you pay for. WIth Linux you pay a LOT less than what you'd pay for NT. Linux = $50 for a web / file server, where as NT = $$$$ for IIS and NT Server edition, I believe th at the server edition is $500 to $1000 plus IIS which has major security holes in it I might add, costs several hundred or so. Solaris also costs money too. Windows 2000 also uses some of FreeBSD's TCP/IP code. So wake up and smell the UNIX. UNIX is way better than NT and it is only a matter of time before Linux kicks NT's ass off the planet.
I just want to know if this new AMD chip will have SMP, I'd lvoe to have a dual 600Mhz AMD system, although I do not know what I'd do with it yet.. maybe some Distributed net stuff;-)..
After watching the Pitrates of Silicon VAlley, and also some other shows that they have had about Gates and Apple and Xerox, and the history of computing, it dawned on me. Todays Windows, (and MAC) were both spawend out of two men, who wanted to have this so they took it. Not for the benifit of computing, but rather for there own benifit. The I have to have it syndrome.
1 If xerox was not so short sited and simple minded bask then they would probably have been where Microsoft is today. Or atleast had a role in software development.
2 If Apple never took the idea, Microsoft may have, but then again we may all be using OS/2 today.
3 Our entire computing today is based on 1 mans idea (Bill Gates). Basically what he (and M$) think computing should be. They were never concerned about the end user, but in the "end" dollar, and in beating out each other. He didn't care and still doesn't that Mac's and *NIX are better than windows, he only cares that Windows has the software.
If UNIX didn't split where would it be today? We could be all running OS/2 or X.
In comes open source and GNU/Linux. WE need this. Why? Open source Linux allows developers to develop a system that is stable. If Windows went open source it may become a better system, by allowing developers to fix the bugs that they find, and improve the code. Linux seems to be uniting the various UNIXes to come to standards. Let's hope that one UNIX will emerge. Linux is also making people re-do there thinking on computing. Programs do not have to be commercial closed source to be good, they have to be writtin by people who enjoy what they are doing not people who are interested in how much money they can make from it.
Linux is a system that is more democratic, of the people, by the people, for the people. Not of a company, by a company for the world.
Patents themselves can bring monopolies, and such, and cause buisness to go out out of business or change there business practices. Cyrix is an example of this where it could not compter with Intel and AMD. The current patent laws in the US do not allow for patenting of software persay, but do permit the patenting of a software method if the claims speficy that there is hardware involved. This then gives the patent owner a 20 year (up to 20) 'hold' on the market. Since technology changes so much after 20 years the market for that product may be obsolete, especially in the software industry, and computer industry.
Patents on software is a VERY bad thing. A large company with a software patent prevents anyone else in useing that tech for 20 years without the permission of the patent holder. A good example of this is NES and there patented technology. They are now saying that emulators are against the law and violating there patents.
1) Patents should only hold for a few years, like 2 to 5 years not 20.
2) Patents should NOT be given on methods, algorythms, software, but ONLY on hardware. Physical hardware as patents were intended over 100 years ago. ( I think they have been out there that long).
We as a species will hopefully grow, and the need for patents and money will disappear as we evolve.
get one from 3com or another company that is supported. If they do not support linux then you can either boycott them as I have or reverse engineer the driver, and go thru a few cams.
I have not had any real problems with 2.2.9. My machine has been doing okay with it. Any problems that I have had were there in 2.0, but I found out they were BIOS related... first?
The company I am working for, is going to start there next app in Java. I have not heard all the details, but I know that there are many companies out there that are using Java now. Oracle is one I believe.
However many companies are moving to web based technology which Linux is an area that Linux excels at. Programs like kpackage and kfm allow a user to visit a web site select a package and view its contents, without installing it. Can Microsoft do that? No and Java wont help. API's like QT and GTK make writing GUI apps really easy.
Microsofts days are numbered. I do not believe that Windows 98 did as well as windows 95, adn that windows 2000 will far as well as either of them, unless it is really really something. With Intel soon (I hope) to be releasing a 64 CPU, and Windows 2000 not being 64bit OS they will have to play catchup to create a 64 bit OS. Linux has this. This is when Microsoft will fall. Why run 32 bit OS on 64 bit processor? By this time the Linux 'kinks' will be resolved. Linux will have an easy install (I never thought it was that difficult thou). Linux will have an easy desktop enviroment ( I should say easier, if not several choices of them). Linux will have great SMP (I think it is already working prety good. )
ditto.. I just can't get some apps to work right because of setup issues. I have not been able to get aol instant messanger to work right so I went to there tik version.
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where is the changelog ?? I want to know what has changed. 300k probably not much. I knew this would be out soon.
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Designed by a Sunnyvale, California, company and manufactured by multinational Philips, TiVo records video on a computer hard disk instead of tape. Thanks to the Linux operating system, the platform TiVo runs on, and a development called "QuickView" from hard disk maker Quantum, the hard disk in TiVo can read and write simultaneously. The result: TiVo will let you back up and begin watching a program at any point, while it's being recorded.
hey I resemble that remark, my name is Joe. hehehe
yes I have noticed that GNOME crashes more than most programs, it is trying to do more I/O than most other window manager too, it seems. GNOME tracks the mose movements I believe, and mouse overs and such. It has never crashed my system thou. Just X
I have thought about using debian, and may it they up to 2.2.x soon, and I find out how to do.deb's.
I switched to RH 5.1 then upgraded to 5.2 then 6.0 as I found out that RH is contributing to the community, and giving back. They are on our side. THey are of course a business and want to make money, but so do most ofther distros. I see them a sa good thing right now. Besides, it is our code, it is not like they can take it away from us.
Can you imagine what would happen if someone put a fully implemented GUI like Apple on a UNIX box (not talking about kde's mac look either). Make a *nux box as easy to use as the Macs are supposed to be. Not only would it have the stability of UNIX but it woud have the ease of use of Mac. If there was software to go along with that, software that would be able to read M$ formats correctly, it would have a chance at putting M$ out of business.
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I'd send this to ask slashdot but I'd never see it again if I did.
I have thought that it would be neat to have a LCD display, instead of this big 17" monitor. Now that I am making some money, and could afford it, I am wondering which ones Linux supports?
What LCD displays does Linux support? I am thinking of 17" LCD 1024x768, 16bit color minimum.
Does anyone know if SGI machines have LCD's that work with Linux yet?
I guess the question is how important is getting technical support these days?
Well lets see. With Linux you send an email to a mailing list and in most cases you get a response within a day (or same day) and often a solution to you problem or someone experiencing the same problem willing to work with you to solve it.
With most technical support you pay for the product, you pay for the support, then you pay for the phone call and have to press lots of buttons to get support (try calling M$ tech support). Then the solution can often be somewhat costly. Often it is just a matter of downloading a new patch or verion of the software (what I had to do for my scanner with NT). Sometimes it is you must buy this to fix the problem.
Also with Linux for $50 you get the operating system which can be used on SMP, you get a desktop enviroment with X, you get Apache, you can get office tools, and lots of utilities. You get a C/C++ compiler and perl, Fortran, and lots more.
If windows 2000 doesn't cost $2000 and it were to sell for $50 and has all this and included MS Office, and Dev Studio, and IIS, and a built in scripting language, and all that Linux has and 200 days of uptime it may be worth buying.
Fact is the only reason anyone is tied to Microsoft is becuase we almost all use Office and Word. If there was a version of Word that ran under UNIX and LINUX I think we'd all stop using Microsoft products.
Hmmm, another project ot take on.
It is to IBM's benifit to make Linux do well. If Linux and UNIX looses out to NT there will only be Intel hardware around, and many companies will looses in teh server makret. However if Linux can in keeping up with the UNIX tradition blow away NT benchmarks, there large hardware companies (IBM, Solaris, HP, SGI) can still sell there hardware, with Linux. Linux will benifit from the support and they benifit as they have to do less for the OS. (Kernel changes mainly). This is sort of a symbiotic relationship I think.
now take redmond on.....
It seems there only defense agains any threat these days is tying it into the operating system.
gee if they have stomped out all there competition where will they get there ideas from?
I hope it gets a new GUI front end for Linux.. maybe gtk or Qt.... I'd do it but am to busy at this point.
has this guy looked at the caldera install. Hey RH 6.0 is not that difficult. Guess next year he'll be writing that article.
That looks about as difficult as NT / 95 install, and it looks like it ahs a little tetris game to boot (no pun intended). The only drawback I saw was that there is no custom install, for experts.
Has anyone tested this system? How is Caldera, compared to other distros? ie bug fixes and such?
There is a saying you get what you pay for. WIth Linux you pay a LOT less than what you'd pay for NT. Linux = $50 for a web / file server, where as NT = $$$$ for IIS and NT Server edition, I believe th at the server edition is $500 to $1000 plus IIS which has major security holes in it I might add, costs several hundred or so. Solaris also costs money too. Windows 2000 also uses some of FreeBSD's TCP/IP code. So wake up and smell the UNIX. UNIX is way better than NT and it is only a matter of time before Linux kicks NT's ass off the planet.
I just want to know if this new AMD chip will have SMP, I'd lvoe to have a dual 600Mhz AMD system, although I do not know what I'd do with it yet.. maybe some Distributed net stuff ;-)..
I think that Linux and open source is needed.
After watching the Pitrates of Silicon VAlley, and also some other shows that they have had about Gates and Apple and Xerox, and the history of computing, it dawned on me. Todays Windows, (and MAC) were both spawend out of two men, who wanted to have this so they took it. Not for the benifit of computing, but rather for there own benifit. The I have to have it syndrome.
1 If xerox was not so short sited and simple minded bask then they would probably have been where Microsoft is today. Or atleast had a role in software development.
2 If Apple never took the idea, Microsoft may have, but then again we may all be using OS/2 today.
3 Our entire computing today is based on 1 mans idea (Bill Gates). Basically what he (and M$) think computing should be. They were never concerned about the end user, but in the "end" dollar, and in beating out each other. He didn't care and still doesn't that Mac's and *NIX are better than windows, he only cares that Windows has the software.
If UNIX didn't split where would it be today? We could be all running OS/2 or X.
In comes open source and GNU/Linux. WE need this. Why? Open source Linux allows developers to develop a system that is stable. If Windows went open source it may become a better system, by allowing developers to fix the bugs that they find, and improve the code. Linux seems to be uniting the various UNIXes to come to standards. Let's hope that one UNIX will emerge. Linux is also making people re-do there thinking on computing. Programs do not have to be commercial closed source to be good, they have to be writtin by people who enjoy what they are doing not people who are interested in how much money they can make from it.
Linux is a system that is more democratic, of the people, by the people, for the people. Not of a company, by a company for the world.
IMHO... my 2 cents...
Patents themselves can bring monopolies, and such, and cause buisness to go out out of business or change there business practices. Cyrix is an example of this where it could not compter with Intel and AMD. The current patent laws in the US do not allow for patenting of software persay, but do permit the patenting of a software method if the claims speficy that there is hardware involved. This then gives the patent owner a 20 year (up to 20) 'hold' on the market. Since technology changes so much after 20 years the market for that product may be obsolete, especially in the software industry, and computer industry.
Patents on software is a VERY bad thing. A large company with a software patent prevents anyone else in useing that tech for 20 years without the permission of the patent holder. A good example of this is NES and there patented technology. They are now saying that emulators are against the law and violating there patents.
1) Patents should only hold for a few years, like 2 to 5 years not 20.
2) Patents should NOT be given on methods, algorythms, software, but ONLY on hardware. Physical hardware as patents were intended over 100 years ago. ( I think they have been out there that long).
We as a species will hopefully grow, and the need for patents and money will disappear as we evolve.
get one from 3com or another company that is supported. If they do not support linux then you can either boycott them as I have or reverse engineer the driver, and go thru a few cams.
I have not had any real problems with 2.2.9. My machine has been doing okay with it. Any problems that I have had were there in 2.0, but I found out they were BIOS related... first?
I did not see anything about color.. I want color..and I don't want windows CE either...
The company I am working for, is going to start there next app in Java. I have not heard all the details, but I know that there are many companies out there that are using Java now. Oracle is one I believe.
However many companies are moving to web based technology which Linux is an area that Linux excels at. Programs like kpackage and kfm allow a user to visit a web site select a package and view its contents, without installing it. Can Microsoft do that? No and Java wont help. API's like QT and GTK make writing GUI apps really easy.
Microsofts days are numbered. I do not believe that Windows 98 did as well as windows 95, adn that windows 2000 will far as well as either of them, unless it is really really something. With Intel soon (I hope) to be releasing a 64 CPU, and Windows 2000 not being 64bit OS they will have to play catchup to create a 64 bit OS. Linux has this. This is when Microsoft will fall. Why run 32 bit OS on 64 bit processor? By this time the Linux 'kinks' will be resolved. Linux will have an easy install (I never thought it was that difficult thou). Linux will have an easy desktop enviroment ( I should say easier, if not several choices of them). Linux will have great SMP (I think it is already working prety good. )
ditto.. I just can't get some apps to work right because of setup issues. I have not been able to get aol instant messanger to work right so I went to there tik version.
where is the changelog ?? I want to know what has changed. 300k probably not much. I knew this would be out soon.
Designed by a Sunnyvale, California, company and manufactured by multinational Philips, TiVo records video on a computer hard disk instead of tape. Thanks to the Linux operating system, the platform TiVo runs on, and a development called "QuickView" from hard disk maker Quantum, the hard disk in TiVo can read and write simultaneously. The result: TiVo will let you back up and begin watching a program at any point, while it's being recorded.
hey I resemble that remark, my name is Joe. hehehe
yes I have noticed that GNOME crashes more than most programs, it is trying to do more I/O than most other window manager too, it seems. GNOME tracks the mose movements I believe, and mouse overs and such. It has never crashed my system thou. Just X
I have thought about using debian, and may it they up to 2.2.x soon, and I find out how to do .deb's.
until then it is the hat..
int freemem = 1, *bill;
char *windows;
do {
windows = (char *)calloc( 1024, sizeof( char ) ) ;
if ( winmem == NULL ) {
freemem = 0;
} printf("haha %s", (char)bill);
}while (freemem == 1);
I wonder if yo have a dual slot 1 MB if you can make it a quad cpu MB with that?
I switched to RH 5.1 then upgraded to 5.2 then 6.0 as I found out that RH is contributing to the community, and giving back. They are on our side. THey are of course a business and want to make money, but so do most ofther distros. I see them a sa good thing right now. Besides, it is our code, it is not like they can take it away from us.
I guess I have seen T2 to many times! An evil AI coudl wipe us all out of existance.
Can you imagine what would happen if someone put a fully implemented GUI like Apple on a UNIX box (not talking about kde's mac look either). Make a *nux box as easy to use as the Macs are supposed to be. Not only would it have the stability of UNIX but it woud have the ease of use of Mac. If there was software to go along with that, software that would be able to read M$ formats correctly, it would have a chance at putting M$ out of business.