No, seriously, web site operators are DESPERATE for advertising dollars. An excellent example is this need for advertising dollars is this page. (For full effect please turn on all javascript stuff and turn off junkbuster/privoxy etc.)
The above page actually invites you to PAY $3.00/mo. to avoid the pop-ups. Now I'm not dissing the above site for trying to stay afloat, I'm dissing people who refuse to use anything but IE+M$ for their web browsing.
I didn't even know there was so much stuff on that page (ie. privoxy + mozilla etc.)
And to think that/.'ers whine about the amount of advertising they see. At least I'VE got two news portals to live by. Gee, maybe I ought to send the privoxy guys the $3.00.
Okay, maybe RH 6.2 isn't exactly the funnest bestest OS ever but RH (for about two more weeks) is supporting it and it wasn't the GF that 7.0 was. So, if you can track down a supported (read OLD) NIC, do a network install THEN install all the patches RH has provided. You'll wind up with a fairly modern system, you can compile some light web browsers (such as links & dillo.) you can run lyx, latex & tex (if you've got patience & disk space.) and maybe even quake (bleh, quake on a non-TFT display.) I've got two 486 notebooks (20 Mb of RAM and 300-500 Mb of disk) and they did quite well. . . until I tried wireless networking (boy does a PCI bus make a difference there)
Still, Debian, slackware etc Linux is your best bet.
Just like Loki software is dead, no more games, the entire "linux game industry" collapsed when loki went away. All those great developers disappeared off the face of the earth never to think about a penguin again. Dan Vogel (the Really Smart Guy who ported UT to OpenGl) just disappeared, oh yeah except he ported UT2003 to OpenGL and got a Linux installer on the retail media. Loki is all gone, they've gone to the great icculus.org in the sky.
Yes Mandrake is dead, the IT (Ironed Tee shirts) pissed off all the money and Mandrake is dead. Oh, there's still that 10-12 guys who put together the release candidates, and the betas. The guys who are busting their humps as we speak to put together the hippest easiest bestest distro ever to be released. Yes it's dead, RedHat 8.0 just cleaned it out. Nobody needs Little Mandrake anymore, nobody ever cared about DRI working immediately after installation, and EVERYONE is listening to ogg media instead of MP3's. Sure Mandrake is dead, nobody even cared that Redhat 8.0's kernel didn't work right with WineX.
Dead dead dead, nobody needs an easy to use, easy to install, distro which can be installed on a computer with XP pre-installed without having to destroy the XP partition.
Everyone is pure, everyone runs Pure Linux, nobody needs games, nobody dual-boots, nobody is a noob, nobody needs to RTFM.
I renewed my Mandrake membership last week, did you?
Check out these guys. They have a pretty good variety of notebooks, the OS is optional, they are VERY highly rated in www.resellerratings.com and even host a linux forum for folks using something else.
I popped over to mplayerhq.hu, read the stuff, downloaded the CVS version of MPlayer, AND all the codecs they are providing from their site and I watched the Return to Castle Wolfenstein trailer, for the first time, under linux.
One player to play them all: MPlayer.
One stop for all your movie needs: mplayerhq.hu
I hope I don't wind up in jail for violating the DMCA and whatever else.
Just from personal experience, Mandrake 9.0 installs 3D acceleration for the following video cards I own: ATI Rage 128, 3Dfx Banshee and my Matrox G200. They all work fine and will play _most_ 3D games, both native ports as well as under transgaming winex. No tweeks, no hassles, no downloading the latest whatever from wherever, it just installs and works.
Of course for REAL gaming (UT 2003), you're pretty much stuck with closed source drivers (c'mon S3, be nice to the DRI.)
I've been using NVIDIA cards (TNT & GeForce 2) for years and they really work wonderfully. NVIDIA really has their stuff together, providing the widest OS support I know of.
I'm going to get a laptop before too long and I'm quite pleased that there is at lease one alternative with pixel shaders. At least ATI is TRYING, that is a helluva lot more than SIS is doing with their 350 video chipsets.
SIS is not a linux friendly vendor (especially compared to NVIDIA and ATI.) SIS is loath to build its own drivers and is also stingy on providing specification to open source developers. For more information about SIS video and linux see this page http://www.winischhofer.net
When I was a teenager, my father (a nuclear physicst) took a group of boyscouts on a merrit badge "expedition", we were "prospecting for uranium".
Back in the bad old days, there were tests done using mock-up weapons equipped with DEPLETED uranium (U-238). The experiments consisted of a fairly authentic weapon with a real primary (the high explosive part which "squishes" the fissionable materals together.)
The weapons did NOT have real uranium, rather U-238 (the stuff they use on armor piercing shells.) When they detonated the mock-up, the weapons usually blew all apart throwing chunks of U-238 all around the country-side.
My dear old dad, being a wise-ass, took us out with several geiger-counters looking for the U-238.
As I recall, we found a rock which seemed "hot", we began digging under the rock, getting closer and closer to the source of what seemed to be setting off the counters when my dad told us to stop. Not because of the radiation, rather the damn rock was likely to roll over and crush the lot of us.
He ended our field trip by letting us push the rock over into the hole we had excavated; great fun.
I went to the download page and discovered that the rpms were ONLY in i386 packages, no re-linkable source distro.
In the past I've always downloaded the NVIDIA src RPMS and just done a "rpm --rebuild . .." This allows me to build the NVIDIA drivers for any distro I'm using OR any tweeked kernel I'm using.
Restricting the users to the distro's stock kernel kinda sucks.
But it doesn't suck nearly as bad as having NO support whatsoever.
Thanks ATI, you just made the decision for my next notebook considerably more difficult.
Last X-mas, I had THREE kids (males 8, 12, 15) satying with me. Being a gamer and a linux geek, I set up several games on my four computers and the kids went nuts. They'd never experienced a LAN party so it was pretty cool to them. Needless to say, I didn't have $1200 worth of XP licenses on my four computers so we had to make do with Linux, native ports and wineX.
What I really found interesting was that after the kids had opened their presents (including a new PS2) they just set it all aside and went back to playing Unreal Tournament. They didn't really care WHAT friggin OS is on the damn computer, only that it works and does what they want.
Kids are remarkably flexible and have much more open minds than most of us slashdotters. They haven't been jaded by politics, economics, and corporate bad behavior.
Besides, whenever my niece comes over for a visit she always wants to play Tuxracer.
You can pre-ordre it from tuxgames.
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If you want to send Epic a message that you appreciate native linux ports for games, order your game from tuxgames. You get the game and the latest linux binary.
I am a linux fan (I use it at work and at home exclusively) and a gamer. I cannot afford to use windows XP for the simple reason that I am a tinkerer. Almost every time I buy a new piece of hardware, all my computers fly into a cloud of parts and condense back into better optimized computers. Having to grovel to Microsoft everytime I move a motherboard or change a video card isn't worth it to me. It REALLY isn't worth having to give Microsoft another $300 every time they think I'm a pirate just so I can play a $35 game.
I'll spend the money on the hardware but, to me, Microsoft isn't worth it. If the choice comes down to spending $300 on XP or $300 on faster hardware which will make up for any slowdowns in WineX, it's pretty obvious which way I'll go.
It's time to renew my subscription. Pay up or shut up, money makes things happen and Linux'ers tend to be pretty cheap.
Listen folks, not everyone who buys stuff from WalMart is an idiot. I for one would much rather help a rookie with a pre-installed box rather than try to explain everything I'm doing while they watch me install.
Imagine someone who is used to spending $2000 on every new computer and who is a little curious about linux. He/she doesn't necessarily want to blow up his windows box but for $300 can experiment all he wants and won't hurt a thing.
A few years ago a freakin' motherboard & CPU was $300. Besides, how far does someone have to go to find a Linux savvy person.
This setup is perfect for someone who wants to play with linux but doesn't want to try to figure out what hardware works and what doesn't. The hardware and software works out of the box and that is a GOOD THING.
Stop bickering and buy all three (or join the club). Nothing speaks louder than $$$$. I find it more satisfying and interesting to TRY all three, then choose. RedHat will listen more to a registered user who PAID for a distro & said "I like mandrake better". All three are sisters and all are working for a greater good. Besides, it doesn't hurt knowing all three. Pay up, it does the companies good and it does YOU good.
Watch DVDs on your spiffy monitor with your cheapo DVD player and your 5 chanel sound WITH your computer turned off (no CSS cops, no BSA) with one of these Okay, it's still not five chanel but for $100 bucks it beats a TV and who really needs a TV
You really can't compare PCtel and NVIDIA, PCTel only had some interest when Corel was trying to make a cheap Linux machine. PCTel hacked some stuff together but ultimately their stuff and Corel failed. It is still possible to use PCtel modems under Linux (i86 only) by getting the closed source drivers from:http://www.medres.ch/~jstifter/pctel/. I've had mixed success dialing into one of these modems but they work quite nicely connecting to ISP's etc.
NVIDIA has worked hard getting high quality drivers out to the diverse linux population which are easy to install and use. NVIDIA tries hard PCtel allowed Jan Stifter to continue using his NDA and to develop the PCTel drivers.
Kudos to NVIDIA and Jan Stifter. I just wish that PCTel would acknowledge that significant hardware decisions (which notebook computer to buy) are based on which stupid winmodem the customer will have to fool with to get it working. Jan does good work and his drivers are easy to install.
From what I understand, there are only three or so notebook MANUFACTURERS. Dell, Sony etc. take these notebooks, slap their trademarks all over kick up the price by 50%-150% and force you to pay the M$ tax.
Scan http://powernotebooks.com to build your own.The above link has a perfect score in http://www.resellerratings.com (makes me a _little_ nervous) but they have a nice range of books from minimal SIS chipset based to the lateses P-4 DDR units with 64Mb DDR radeon video. All in the $800-$1700 (US dollar) range.
For a narrower range of notebooks but with better prices, pop over to http://www.mwave.com and poke on notebooks in their catalog. mwave has very good ratings in http://www.resellerratings.com (more realistic IMHO) and will let you configure your notebook without the M$ tax.
I just got an athlon 1.4 GHz and the freaking heat sink is the size of a softball and the CPU fan makes more noise than a Pratt & Whitney JT-8D jet engine. I'd KNOW when the fan stopped blowing.
Neil is one of the best quake/quakeII/Half-Life mappers there are. His levels are innovative and always a hoot. Some of this is due to Daily Radar PAYING him to do some mapping. Hell I got a subscription to PC Gamer just to make sure I get his stuff without having to wait a month for it to get posted on Daily Radar. What am I going to do if I want to rescue Private Monkey? I'd include a URL for the games but it's gone. His site is http://planethalflife.com/manke
For the last few years, I've used metrolink's multi-headed server. For $40 it was a steal (at least compared to XiGraphics $350 server and the multi-headed stuff on our RS/6000's.) It was easy to set up, install and reletively stable. It didn't work perfectly though, it left the mouse pointer behind on one of the screens and got "weird" on some scrollbar functions.
I compiled and installed XFree86 on my RH-6.1 system and, using xf86config, got my first head going in a few short minutes.
I then read _gasp_ the manual page for XF86config which told me everything I need to do to set up the multi-headed stuff.
The documentation (if you bother to read it) is well written and very usable.
Once I got the multi-headed stuff going add +xinerama to/etc/X11/gdm-conf and _poof_ I could drag stuff from screen to screen to screen.
I now have a three headed beast with one AGP Matrox G200 and two Matrox Millenium II PCI cards. Performance is completely acceptable and it is really cool that I can define different monitor types per head.
My G200 is driving a 21" while the two Millenium II's are running old Viewsonic 7's.
The Xinerama feature is SOOOOO handy. I can drag unimportant stuff to the outboard monitors and use the big central for the important stuff.
XFree86 4.0's performance and flexibility is FAR superior to ANY other multi-headed X-server I have used.
If you can't read a man page and don't need Xinerama (oh yeah and have lots of monitors laying around) Metrolink is a good way to go.
Still, reading a man page is not too much to pay.
Oh yeah, the RPM's for RedHat are available via rawhide.
How many will they have to give away so they can "compete". Remember M$ Media and IE. Now X-box, maybe it will also play playstation AND nintendo but NOT the other way around. Curious. . .
I've got a NEMA enclosure with a 40 Mhz. 486, hard disk running some serial devices. It's mounted on a telephone pole and has run reliably for years. The only failure I've had was the power supply and the CMOS battery. We built a sheet metal "shade" for the enclosure but in 100 F heat the inside temperature never went above 140 and it's never failed due to cold. It is in Northern New Mexico so it gets a pretty wide range of temperatures.
As for modern equipment, a lightly loaded AMD k6-2 with a heat sink will probably do the job forever; just don't build any kernels on the damn thing during a heat wave.
At present the only way to play glquake is on a voodoo2 equipped machine. glquake has never been released compiled with glibc.
Glide has only been compiled against glibc for banshee & voodoo3.
Since only 3dfx has allowed ONE guy (Daryll Strauss) to build Glide, and he hasn't been able to build Glide for libc, will quake be released compiled with glibc or (better yet) GPL'd?
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No, seriously, web site operators are DESPERATE for advertising dollars. An excellent example is this need for advertising dollars is this page. (For full effect please turn on all javascript stuff and turn off junkbuster/privoxy etc.)
/.'ers whine about the amount of advertising they see. At least I'VE got two news portals to live by. Gee, maybe I ought to send the privoxy guys the $3.00.
The above page actually invites you to PAY $3.00/mo. to avoid the pop-ups. Now I'm not dissing the above site for trying to stay afloat, I'm dissing people who refuse to use anything but IE+M$ for their web browsing.
I didn't even know there was so much stuff on that page (ie. privoxy + mozilla etc.)
And to think that
Okay, maybe RH 6.2 isn't exactly the funnest bestest OS ever but RH (for about two more weeks) is supporting it and it wasn't the GF that 7.0 was. So, if you can track down a supported (read OLD) NIC, do a network install THEN install all the patches RH has provided. You'll wind up with a fairly modern system, you can compile some light web browsers (such as links & dillo.) you can run lyx, latex & tex (if you've got patience & disk space.) and maybe even quake (bleh, quake on a non-TFT display.) I've got two 486 notebooks (20 Mb of RAM and 300-500 Mb of disk) and they did quite well. . . until I tried wireless networking (boy does a PCI bus make a difference there)
Still, Debian, slackware etc Linux is your best bet.
Good luck.
Just like Loki software is dead, no more games, the entire "linux game industry" collapsed when loki went away. All those great developers disappeared off the face of the earth never to think about a penguin again. Dan Vogel (the Really Smart Guy who ported UT to OpenGl) just disappeared, oh yeah except he ported UT2003 to OpenGL and got a Linux installer on the retail media. Loki is all gone, they've gone to the great icculus.org in the sky.
Yes Mandrake is dead, the IT (Ironed Tee shirts) pissed off all the money and Mandrake is dead. Oh, there's still that 10-12 guys who put together the release candidates, and the betas. The guys who are busting their humps as we speak to put together the hippest easiest bestest distro ever to be released. Yes it's dead, RedHat 8.0 just cleaned it out. Nobody needs Little Mandrake anymore, nobody ever cared about DRI working immediately after installation, and EVERYONE is listening to ogg media instead of MP3's. Sure Mandrake is dead, nobody even cared that Redhat 8.0's kernel didn't work right with WineX.
Dead dead dead, nobody needs an easy to use, easy to install, distro which can be installed on a computer with XP pre-installed without having to destroy the XP partition.
Everyone is pure, everyone runs Pure Linux, nobody needs games, nobody dual-boots, nobody is a noob, nobody needs to RTFM.
I renewed my Mandrake membership last week, did you?
Check out these guys. They have a pretty good variety of notebooks, the OS is optional, they are VERY highly rated in www.resellerratings.com and even host a linux forum for folks using something else.
I popped over to mplayerhq.hu, read the stuff, downloaded the CVS version of MPlayer, AND all the codecs they are providing from their site and I watched the Return to Castle Wolfenstein trailer, for the first time, under linux.
One player to play them all: MPlayer.
One stop for all your movie needs: mplayerhq.hu
I hope I don't wind up in jail for violating the DMCA and whatever else.
Way to go, MPlayer folks.
Just from personal experience, Mandrake 9.0 installs 3D acceleration for the following video cards I own: ATI Rage 128, 3Dfx Banshee and my Matrox G200. They all work fine and will play _most_ 3D games, both native ports as well as under transgaming winex. No tweeks, no hassles, no downloading the latest whatever from wherever, it just installs and works.
Of course for REAL gaming (UT 2003), you're pretty much stuck with closed source drivers (c'mon S3, be nice to the DRI.)
I've been using NVIDIA cards (TNT & GeForce 2) for years and they really work wonderfully. NVIDIA really has their stuff together, providing the widest OS support I know of.
I'm going to get a laptop before too long and I'm quite pleased that there is at lease one alternative with pixel shaders. At least ATI is TRYING, that is a helluva lot more than SIS is doing with their 350 video chipsets.
SIS is not a linux friendly vendor (especially compared to NVIDIA and ATI.) SIS is loath to build its own drivers and is also stingy on providing specification to open source developers. For more information about SIS video and linux see this page http://www.winischhofer.net
When I was a teenager, my father (a nuclear physicst) took a group of boyscouts on a merrit badge "expedition", we were "prospecting for uranium".
Back in the bad old days, there were tests done using mock-up weapons equipped with DEPLETED uranium (U-238). The experiments consisted of a fairly authentic weapon with a real primary (the high explosive part which "squishes" the fissionable materals together.)
The weapons did NOT have real uranium, rather U-238 (the stuff they use on armor piercing shells.) When they detonated the mock-up, the weapons usually blew all apart throwing chunks of U-238 all around the country-side.
My dear old dad, being a wise-ass, took us out with several geiger-counters looking for the U-238.
As I recall, we found a rock which seemed "hot", we began digging under the rock, getting closer and closer to the source of what seemed to be setting off the counters when my dad told us to stop. Not because of the radiation, rather the damn rock was likely to roll over and crush the lot of us.
He ended our field trip by letting us push the rock over into the hole we had excavated; great fun.
I went to the download page and discovered that the
." This allows me to build the NVIDIA drivers for any distro I'm using OR any tweeked kernel I'm using.
rpms were ONLY in i386 packages, no re-linkable source distro.
In the past I've always downloaded the NVIDIA src RPMS and just done a "rpm --rebuild . .
Restricting the users to the distro's stock kernel kinda sucks.
But it doesn't suck nearly as bad as having NO support whatsoever.
Thanks ATI, you just made the decision for my next notebook considerably more difficult.
Last X-mas, I had THREE kids (males 8, 12, 15) satying with me. Being a gamer and a linux geek, I set up several games on my four computers and the kids went nuts. They'd never experienced a LAN party so it was pretty cool to them. Needless to say, I didn't have $1200 worth of XP licenses on my four computers so we had to make do with Linux, native ports and wineX.
What I really found interesting was that after the kids had opened their presents (including a new PS2) they just set it all aside and went back to playing Unreal Tournament. They didn't really care WHAT friggin OS is on the damn computer, only that it works and does what they want.
Kids are remarkably flexible and have much more open minds than most of us slashdotters. They haven't been jaded by politics, economics, and corporate bad behavior.
Besides, whenever my niece comes over for a visit she always wants to play Tuxracer.
If you want to send Epic a message that you appreciate native linux ports for games, order your game from tuxgames. You get the game and the latest linux binary.
I am a linux fan (I use it at work and at home exclusively) and a gamer. I cannot afford to use windows XP for the simple reason that I am a tinkerer. Almost every time I buy a new piece of hardware, all my computers fly into a cloud of parts and condense back into better optimized computers. Having to grovel to Microsoft everytime I move a motherboard or change a video card isn't worth it to me. It REALLY isn't worth having to give Microsoft another $300 every time they think I'm a pirate just so I can play a $35 game.
I'll spend the money on the hardware but, to me, Microsoft isn't worth it. If the choice comes down to spending $300 on XP or $300 on faster hardware which will make up for any slowdowns in WineX, it's pretty obvious which way I'll go.
It's time to renew my subscription. Pay up or shut up, money makes things happen and Linux'ers tend to be pretty cheap.
Listen folks, not everyone who buys stuff from WalMart is an idiot. I for one would much rather help a rookie with a pre-installed box rather than try to explain everything I'm doing while they watch me install.
Imagine someone who is used to spending $2000 on every new computer and who is a little curious about linux. He/she doesn't necessarily want to blow up his windows box but for $300 can experiment all he wants and won't hurt a thing.
A few years ago a freakin' motherboard & CPU was $300. Besides, how far does someone have to go to find a Linux savvy person.
This setup is perfect for someone who wants to play with linux but doesn't want to try to figure out what hardware works and what doesn't. The hardware and software works out of the box and that is a GOOD THING.
Stop bickering and buy all three (or join the club). Nothing speaks louder than $$$$. I find it more satisfying and interesting to TRY all three, then choose. RedHat will listen more to a registered user who PAID for a distro & said "I like mandrake better". All three are sisters and all are working for a greater good. Besides, it doesn't hurt knowing all three. Pay up, it does the companies good and it does YOU good.
Watch DVDs on your spiffy monitor with your cheapo DVD player and your 5 chanel sound WITH your computer turned off (no CSS cops, no BSA) with one of these Okay, it's still not five chanel but for $100 bucks it beats a TV and who really needs a TV
You really can't compare PCtel and NVIDIA, PCTel only had some interest when Corel was trying to make a cheap Linux machine. PCTel hacked some stuff together but ultimately their stuff and Corel failed. It is still possible to use PCtel modems under Linux (i86 only) by getting the closed source drivers from:http://www.medres.ch/~jstifter/pctel/. I've had mixed success dialing into one of these modems but they work quite nicely connecting to ISP's etc.
NVIDIA has worked hard getting high quality drivers out to the diverse linux population which are easy to install and use. NVIDIA tries hard PCtel allowed Jan Stifter to continue using his NDA and to develop the PCTel drivers.
Kudos to NVIDIA and Jan Stifter. I just wish that PCTel would acknowledge that significant hardware decisions (which notebook computer to buy) are based on which stupid winmodem the customer will have to fool with to get it working. Jan does good work and his drivers are easy to install.
From what I understand, there are only three or so
notebook MANUFACTURERS. Dell, Sony etc. take these notebooks, slap their trademarks all over
kick up the price by 50%-150% and force you to pay the M$ tax.
Scan http://powernotebooks.com to build your own.The above link has a perfect score in http://www.resellerratings.com (makes me a _little_ nervous) but they have a nice range of books from minimal SIS chipset based to the lateses P-4 DDR units with 64Mb DDR radeon video. All in the $800-$1700 (US dollar) range.
For a narrower range of notebooks but with better prices, pop over to http://www.mwave.com and poke on notebooks in their catalog. mwave has very good ratings in http://www.resellerratings.com (more realistic IMHO) and will let you configure your notebook without the M$ tax.
I just got an athlon 1.4 GHz and the freaking heat sink is the size of a softball and the CPU fan makes more noise than a Pratt & Whitney JT-8D jet engine. I'd KNOW when the fan stopped blowing.
Until AMD starts sticking the extremely popular processor ID#, Intel may be the only chip "allowed" to run the "reliable" Micro$oft OS's.
We're all looking forward to that day, aren't we?
Hmmm: Intel == Windows.
AMD == Free O/S ?
Neil is one of the best quake/quakeII/Half-Life mappers there are. His levels are innovative and always a hoot. Some of this is due to Daily Radar PAYING him to do some mapping. Hell I got a subscription to PC Gamer just to make sure I get his stuff without having to wait a month for it to get posted on Daily Radar. What am I going to do if I want to rescue Private Monkey? I'd include a URL for the games but it's gone. His site is http://planethalflife.com/manke
Bummer.
It's that GUI that M$ keeps denying.
For the last few years, I've used metrolink's multi-headed server. For $40 it was a steal (at least compared to XiGraphics $350 server and the multi-headed stuff on our RS/6000's.) It was easy to set up, install and reletively stable. It didn't work perfectly though, it left the mouse pointer behind on one of the screens and got "weird" on some scrollbar functions.
/etc/X11/gdm-conf and _poof_ I could drag stuff from screen to screen to screen.
I compiled and installed XFree86 on my RH-6.1 system and, using xf86config, got my first head going in a few short minutes.
I then read _gasp_ the manual page for XF86config which told me everything I need to do to set up the multi-headed stuff.
The documentation (if you bother to read it) is well written and very usable.
Once I got the multi-headed stuff going add +xinerama to
I now have a three headed beast with one AGP Matrox G200 and two Matrox Millenium II PCI cards.
Performance is completely acceptable and it is really cool that I can define different monitor types per head.
My G200 is driving a 21" while the two Millenium II's are running old Viewsonic 7's.
The Xinerama feature is SOOOOO handy. I can drag unimportant stuff to the outboard monitors and use the big central for the important stuff.
XFree86 4.0's performance and flexibility is FAR superior to ANY other multi-headed X-server I have used.
If you can't read a man page and don't need Xinerama (oh yeah and have lots of monitors laying around) Metrolink is a good way to go.
Still, reading a man page is not too much to pay.
Oh yeah, the RPM's for RedHat are available via rawhide.
Gee I hope I didn't sound too stupid.
How many will they have to give away so they can "compete". Remember M$ Media and IE. Now X-box, maybe it will also play playstation AND nintendo but NOT the other way around. Curious. . .
I've got a NEMA enclosure with a 40 Mhz. 486, hard disk running some serial devices. It's mounted on a telephone pole and has run reliably for years. The only failure I've had was the power supply and the CMOS battery. We built a sheet metal "shade" for the enclosure but in 100 F heat the inside temperature never went above 140 and it's never failed due to cold. It is in Northern New Mexico so it gets a pretty wide range of temperatures.
As for modern equipment, a lightly loaded AMD k6-2 with a heat sink will probably do the job forever; just don't build any kernels on the damn thing during a heat wave.
At present the only way to play glquake is on a voodoo2 equipped machine. glquake has never been released compiled with glibc.
Glide has only been compiled against glibc for banshee & voodoo3.
Since only 3dfx has allowed ONE guy (Daryll Strauss) to build Glide, and he hasn't been able to build Glide for libc, will quake be released compiled with glibc or (better yet) GPL'd?