No, MySQL AB did not stop providing binaries. The Debian folks were building their MySQL packages by themselves all the time before, MySQL AB has never provided DEBs for download. And as you can read on the MySQL 5.0 Download pages:
In contrast to the
MySQL Enterprise Server,
which receives both monthly rapid updates and quarterly service pack releases,
there is no specific schedule for when a new version of the MySQL Community
Server is released. While every bug fix that has been applied to the Enterprise
Server will also be available in the subsequent Community Server release, there
will be source-only releases in between full (source and binary) Community
builds. So while the latest published community sources will always be
available from the Source Downloads Section, the binaries
listed on this page may be from a previous release. In any case, full binaries
for all our supported operating systems are and will remain conveniently available
from this page.
What I am missing in GTK is font antialiasing.
I have toyed around with this in KDE2 and it
looks so much better! In fact, it made
me switch over to KDE2 completely.
See
Keith Packard's page for a HOWTO on how to
install it and sample screen shots. This is a
must have.
SuSE appears to be the first big Linux vendor to have announced a distro to be shipped with the still-cute 2.4 Linux kernel as default.
This is not correct, 2.2 will still be the default. However, the user can select 2.4 during
the initial installation, and can choose the kernel version on bootup.
I've read for a while now that they are working on it. It's just sort of disappointing I'll
have to wait even longer before I can get SuSE on my couple Sparcs that are lying
around.
We are already showing it off on our booth at Linux World San Jose. And SuSE Linux for Sparc will definately be out before SuSE Linux for x86-64.
That's why I think there should be Distro certified hardware instead. (for example, SuSE supported would have a chameleon)
JFYI: SuSE already does this for quite a while (about a year). See our Hardware - Certification pages for more info about this. I can assure you - we bang those boxes hard, it is not just a simple test installation.
They got Alan Cox, and many of the other kick-ass kernel developers. Red Hat has much better/harder core hackers than SuSE.
Oh really? Do Names like Andrea Arcangeli (Kernel), Jaroslav Kysela (ALSA), Andre Hedrick (IDE), Kurt Garloff (SCSI), Thorsten Kukuk (NIS, glibc) or Andreas Schwab (glibc) sound familiar to you? They all work for SuSE...
> S.U.S.E. uses a large part of RH code base with out any support.
Where did you find this information? I'd like to see some facts about this statement. SuSE started business in 1992 and developed it's distribution on the base of the Jurix distribution. The only "code base" that has been taken is the RPM package manager.
> find it amusing that S.u.S.E. always seems to > come out with a new version very shortly after > Red Hat comes out with another version... > and always with a slightly bigger version > number...
Maybe this stems from the fact, that SuSE (the dots are gone) was already shipping distributions, when Red Hat didn't even exist? SuSE started business in 1992...
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No, MySQL AB did not stop providing binaries. The Debian folks were building their MySQL packages by themselves all the time before, MySQL AB has never provided DEBs for download. And as you can read on the MySQL 5.0 Download pages:
In contrast to the MySQL Enterprise Server, which receives both monthly rapid updates and quarterly service pack releases, there is no specific schedule for when a new version of the MySQL Community Server is released. While every bug fix that has been applied to the Enterprise Server will also be available in the subsequent Community Server release, there will be source-only releases in between full (source and binary) Community builds. So while the latest published community sources will always be available from the Source Downloads Section, the binaries listed on this page may be from a previous release. In any case, full binaries for all our supported operating systems are and will remain conveniently available from this page.
What I am missing in GTK is font antialiasing. I have toyed around with this in KDE2 and it looks so much better! In fact, it made me switch over to KDE2 completely. See Keith Packard's page for a HOWTO on how to install it and sample screen shots. This is a must have.
Yes, OpenSSH and OpenSSL incl. apps linked against OpenSSL are now included. Finally...
This is not correct, 2.2 will still be the default. However, the user can select 2.4 during the initial installation, and can choose the kernel version on bootup.
Well, they do: SuSE Linux 7.1 will use the init scheme defined in the LSB spec.
We are already showing it off on our booth at Linux World San Jose. And SuSE Linux for Sparc will definately be out before SuSE Linux for x86-64.
That's why I think there should be Distro certified hardware instead. (for example, SuSE supported would have a chameleon)
JFYI: SuSE already does this for quite a while (about a year). See our Hardware - Certification pages for more info about this. I can assure you - we bang those boxes hard, it is not just a simple test installation.
...and SuSE does not have any exclusive
reseller for any country.
SuSE's X-Configuration Tool SaX is GPLed. See /usr/doc/packages/sax/LICENCE for info.
Screenshots are here!
More info about Applix's TM/1 can be found at
http://www.applix.com/applix ware/linux/prodovertm1.cfm
They got Alan Cox, and many of the other kick-ass kernel developers. Red Hat has much better/harder core hackers than SuSE.
Oh really? Do Names like Andrea Arcangeli (Kernel), Jaroslav Kysela (ALSA), Andre Hedrick (IDE), Kurt Garloff (SCSI), Thorsten Kukuk (NIS, glibc) or Andreas Schwab (glibc) sound familiar to you? They all work for SuSE...
> isn't sAx not open source?
/usr/doc/packages/sax/LICENCE again.
Read
> S.U.S.E. uses a large part of RH code base with out any support.
Where did you find this information? I'd like to see some facts about this statement. SuSE started business in 1992 and developed it's distribution on the base of the Jurix distribution. The only "code base" that has been taken is the RPM package manager.
Check the SuSE FAQ for further info.
> find it amusing that S.u.S.E. always seems to
> come out with a new version very shortly after
> Red Hat comes out with another version...
> and always with a slightly bigger version
> number...
Maybe this stems from the fact, that SuSE (the dots are gone) was already shipping distributions, when Red Hat didn't even exist? SuSE started business in 1992...