SuSE backported a crapload of stuff. Significantly, I think they backported preemption and the new vm, but I'm not sure.
Mind you, by backporting, I mean applying patches. They didn't do it themselves, and its something you can do with any 2.4 kernel.
Hypothetically, though, you should see better performance with the 2.6 kernel under higher loads, though.
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Nonsense.
You are talking out of your ass.
Drumroll....Point by Point: We can all agree that windows always does work better. I use only linux (aside from at school) so don't start flaming me, but as far as I can tell. Windows actually is much more easy to use,install, customize, and all around run. You haven't said anything yet Don't talk to me about the millions, exageration, of patches you have to download in order to make it remotely stable. Last time I installed RedHat 9 it told me to download 90+ patches within "up2date", which is not very different. You best be patching Windows. It takes less than 5 minutes for your box to be compromised. A brand new windows box put on the internet will start rebooting every sixty seconds without security precautions. This won't happen to you in linux. Additionally, the box is plenty stable, without a single patch. The only except to this that I can remember is the recent Mandrake debacle that screwed up some CDrom drives. The patches are generally security updates, or new features, or driver updates, from people like Nvidia. And tell me, honestly, with all truth. When just starting out, as a newbie Linuxer, what one was it easiest to install java on? Windows or Linux? (and get it working in Mozilla). Substantially easier in SuSE Linux. Why? Because it comes pre-installed. In Mozilla, Konqueror, Epiphany, etc. .. I hate it when people talk about how Linuz is SO MUCH FUCKING SUPERIOR to Windows. No, for a regular,commercial, customer, it's a fucking nightmare. But if you have the patience, and certain built up anger/loathing for Microsoft, then Linux is beautiful. Nonsense. My pre-setup SuSE boxes are substantially easier for my parents and sisters to use than the Windows crap laying around here.
They are amazed that my boxes rarely (hardware problems sometimes, like defective ram) crash, never require anti-virus vigilance, and have SO MUCH fucking software built in.
Linux boxes, when properly configured, come far close to computing 'appliances' than Windows boxes. Their behavior is far, far more regular. Windows boxes, on the other hand (although things have substantially improved since the Win95 days) are far more erratic.
Windows XP still tends to get stale. Things slow down over time. Stuff gets corrupt.
God help you if you get a nefarious virus.
Especially if you don't have access to a broadband connection. Just my two cents, or in conversion to CAN. that would be about 3.14 cents.
To add further irritation the machine crashed after a few months of uptime...and when it came backup something had magically re-broken the ram disk. I tried to track this down through crontab and the rc scripts but no luck (possibly partly due to my unfamiliarity with the SUSE setup). Now I just have a cron entry that copies the fixed image back every hour....not a really sensible or reliable solution!
I don't believe you.
SuSE 9.1 came out much less than a month ago.
So unless you were in the beta (in which case bugs are to be expected), you are talking out of your ass.
Perhaps you mean SuSE 9.0
Which was kinda of buggy---- But I use it on 4-5 machines.
There is a better scenario for the hypothetical American 'vigelante militia' to matter.
A civil war.
If 1/3 of the states were to go all states rights based upon some sort of tyrannical censorship law (think West Coast v. the rest of the U.S), and a couple of high population, high incoming states were on both sides, the more libertarian set, with more liberal gun laws, will have a significant advantage.
As much as I'd hate to see an American civil war, it CAN'T hurt to have ~100 million* 5% in armed, untrained militia.
You just can't capture an area like that. Look at Iraq. Almost impossible to hold.
And we are gonna leave Iraq soon--- We aren't there as conquerors.
If 1/2 the U.S. was invading another 1/2, it would be ALL about conqueroring.
Here are my requirements (given that I will be running linux): 1. Must do ACPI suspend, S1+S3 2. Must have a good 3D video card, Radeon 9600/Geforce FX GO 5650 or up. 3. Decent battery life would be nice. 4. Integrated bluetooth+Intergrated 802.11b
Don't tell me to get a powerbook. I have a 12" G4 laptop DVI. I want linux, with suspend. Can't do that on the powerbook. Mac OSX is wonderful. Yes, yes. I want a linux laptop with suspend.
Don't want to do suspend to disk, I want the thing to resume in 5 seconds or less.
A unit that is in the correct price range for me, and meets my other requirements, is the Dell Inspiron 9100. But, does ACPI suspend work on it?
I'm guessing not, since Dell has a horrible record about Linux suspend.
So---HP and Compaq have similar models, in a similar price range (can't remember the model numbers), but remember--- i want a good, fast, opengl card. I believe that each (sorta)company has one system with either a radeon 9600 or a Geforce FX go 5650.
Do those two models suspend correctly?
Anyways, I'm open to suggestions. But I can't afford an Alienware, or a Voodoo Laptop.
If I'm gonna spend 3 grand, I'll get the 17" powerbook.
Ideally, I can spend about $1500, and get what I want. If the Inspiron 9100 suspended correctly, it would fit the bill nicely.
This thing is a brick in linux, because of power management.
APM works, sorta. Resume from suspend fails about 30% of the time. 20% of the time, resume works okay, but the system is really slow, and the fan stays on 'high' (really noisy) speed.
ACPI is broken. Battery, buttons, temperature, etc. . . can work, if you use a modified DSDT. S1,S3 don't work. S1 doesn't resume, S3 doesn't turn the screen backlight off. S4,S4b resume about 60% of the time, but it already takes so long to come back up I might as well do a proper shutdown.
BOOO. I WANT A LINUX LAPTOP THAT GOES INTO S3 or S1 PERFECTLY!@!!!!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
I know, I know, I should get a powerbook. In fact, I own a powerbook g4 12" DVI. But I lent it to my sister, 'cause her laptop died.
Don't get me wrong, OS X is awesome. intergrated bluetooth rocks. Lots of great things about this laptop.
But I can't install linux on it and have working power management. I like linux. I know my way around linux. I like hacking around on linux.
Seriously, though. The weapon does not always have to be bigger.
Sounds to me like a hafnium bomb might actually be smaller. Study of new technology (hafnium technology?) can result in miniturization of weaponry, or in advances in totally unreleated fields.
What if there is a cure for cancer in hafnium? What if there is a new power source? (Unlikely)What if it lets us develop antigravity?
There is no such thing as Pandora's box.
There are dangerous demons out there, but the solution is not to ignore them. Rather, the solution is to win.
2006. Thats..... Carry the 1, multiply by 3, cross out this, that and the other...
Two years away. So the BRAND NEW, top of the line system that I cobbled together, with a 3400+ Athlon 64, a gig of ram, and a Radeon 9800Pro, will barely satsify the minimum requirements of Longhorn?
Thank God I gave up paying the Windows Tax, and I pity all the companies who haven't switched to a more sane operating system.
Suse 12, or whatever the hell they release in 2006, will run just fine on my system.
Now that I have an income, however, it is much easier to track down games at the store than it is to find them online.
Still, I ALWAYS had rules on my pirating.
If I pirated a game, and liked it, I purchased it. 'Nuff said.
I downloaded Master of Orion 3. It sucked. I deleted in two days.
Total Annihilation was pirated too. I liked it so much that I purchased 3 copies (got boxed sets for my friends), the expansion packs (core contingency), and even purchased TA: Kingdoms solely on the strength of TA. (Kingdoms sucked, but thats besides the point).
I feel like I should get more of an opportunity to try out games before I buy them.
Sure, pirating is wrong. If the stores allowed me to play those games for 15-30 minutes before I selected them, however, I would never pirate games.
Lately, however, I've been too lazy. I purchased Universal Combat on a whim, as well as Command and Conquer generals.
I still have ABSOLUTELY no 'ethical' objection to piracy.
But if you are a game developer, rest assured, that if I like your game, I will buy it, possibly buy copies for my friends (Savage: Battle for Newerth had me buy 5 CD keys *evil grin*), and generally evangelize your product.
My machine would be SO much more responsive if it didn't swap.
cat/proc/sys/vm/swappiness 60
hmm...lets bump that down to 0 echo 0 > swappiness
lets check the swap we are using.... top Swap: 0k total, 0k unused, 0k free
DoH! My machine botched a software suspend, and my swap is screwed.
Oh well....Most 'Swapping' is perceptual. Pick a moderate swappiness value, and your system WILL actually be faster. The 1/4 second or so you loose upon bring OpenOffice back from the disk is more than made up for by all the cache you regain.
IMHO, the only disk 'thrashing' that is annoying has little to do with swap, and much more to do with webbrowser cache to disks, etc. . .
They can't exactly say: "Uhh . . . . We screwed up. SCOX is a waste of money. They don't have anything, and they have never had anything."
They invest with OPM (other people's money) after all. Instead, in a fairly civilized and classy fashion, Baystar says: "SCOX has violated our agreement. We don't think that SCOX is approaching this case in the correct fashion. Of course, if they had done what we had told them to, they would be wildly succesful, but since they haven't we want our money back, and then we should go our seperate ways. Unless, of course, they make these [impossible] changes, after all, we aren't bad guys"
No offense, you aren't being as bad of some of the people replying to you.
ETHIOPIA IS NOT A CRAZY UNSTABLE NATION FULL OF WARLORDS. ETHIOPIA IS NOT A CRAZY UNSTABLE NATION FULL OF WARLORDS. ETHIOPIA IS NOT A CRAZY UNSTABLE NATION FULL OF WARLORDS.
Thank you, had to get that out of my system.
All of you, talking about the Ethiopian warlords----
GET A FRIGGING CLUE
The government is extremely stable. And pro-capitalist. And understands the nature of the problems the country is facing.
The people of Ethiopia also understand the need for development.
And not robber-baron style of development, either. They get it, they really, really do, when I was there for a bit, speaking with all levels of individuals, from the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, to Industrialists, lowly taxi drivers, farm laborers, and even Tribal leaders.....
THEY GET IT.
That country is hobbled, because it was an Empire under a backwards ruler till the 70s, then a crazy, totalitarian communist government till the 90s.
Then they got into an unfortunate war of succession.
They've had, what, 6 years of peace?
You expect them to repair 100 of years of damage in SIX FRIGGIN' YEARS?????!
Ethiopia is populated with intelligent, caring, educated individuals.
What they don't have is capital, or organization.
(That means jobs, and corporations, for those of you who refuse to see what I am saying).
It is a nation rich in resources, which hasn't had much time to get it together yet.
Trust me, they will, on their own.
But faster if the rest of the world invests.
And in MY HUMBLE OPINION, open source is high on the list of priorities. Why? Because corporations will be able to equip the employees in Ethiopia with perhaps 10 times the number of computers they would otherwise be able to afford (under traditional, MS'ian licensing scheme).
And many of those systems can be recycled from 'waste' piles of wasteful nations like the U.S.
Ethiopian no longer wants food aid.
Trust me, everyone from the Deputy Prime Minister to 14 yr old farm labor told me that, face to face.
What they want is jobs, and opportunity.
Stability is not the problem. War is not the problem. Crime is not the problem.
Capital is. And Open Source reduces the cost of capital.
I don't know what I am getting on this rant. Not like I'll even have much to do with Open Source in Ethiopia. We are going to farm there.
But it pains me to see this impression of Ethiopia as a war-torn battleground, of despondents.
That is simply no longer the case.
It is a beautiful nation, with a proud people, who are looking to join the developed world.
Try and visit there before you talk about 'their' problems.
And don't be afraid of being a tourist. Your tourist dollars will go FAR for the street vendors that you are buying stuff from.
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Brilliant!
This is a REALLY good idea.....
I think I might just have to do that.
They are giving us an excellent, unadulterated 'spam-feed'.....
This will make my baysean filtering atleast 2x as good!
If your laptop is running one of those scary ex-S3 now via chipsets (Prosavage, TwisterK, etc. ..) xig.com's Summit Accelerated-X servers will support it.
Both of these are nice products:)
Plus, there is a DRI server for those graphics cards now, but you have to run Xfree 8.6 4.2
I'm only familar with Nvidia, ATI, S3, and Matrox chipsets in laptops, but I haven't come across one that I couldn't get work.
Actually, thats a lie. Trident cards blow chunks. They work in 2D, however, and I can't imagine anyone wanting to do OpenGL on one.
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Suggestion about media player:
Go to packman (don't remember the link, but its all over the thread)
Get Mplayer. Get Kmplayer.
Get all the mplayer dependencies.
It works better than Kaffiene , IMHO
Sorry, I got a little defensive :)
:)
.0 releases are always a little bit sketchy
I really like SuSE
I've had good experiences with it, and I have it installed on several machines in my household, my laptop, and my desktop at the office.
Perhaps 9.1 has fixed the problems you referred to....
Their
hehe...
In my book, easy install is Linux Live.
*evil grin*
This is true.
SuSE backported a crapload of stuff. Significantly, I think they backported preemption and the new vm, but I'm not sure.
Mind you, by backporting, I mean applying patches. They didn't do it themselves, and its something you can do with any 2.4 kernel.
Hypothetically, though, you should see better performance with the 2.6 kernel under higher loads, though.
Nonsense.
. ,commercial, customer, it's a fucking nightmare. But if you have the patience, and certain built up anger/loathing for Microsoft, then Linux is beautiful.
You are talking out of your ass.
Drumroll....Point by Point:
We can all agree that windows always does work better. I use only linux (aside from at school) so don't start flaming me, but as far as I can tell. Windows actually is much more easy to use,install, customize, and all around run.
You haven't said anything yet
Don't talk to me about the millions, exageration, of patches you have to download in order to make it remotely stable. Last time I installed RedHat 9 it told me to download 90+ patches within "up2date", which is not very different.
You best be patching Windows. It takes less than 5 minutes for your box to be compromised. A brand new windows box put on the internet will start rebooting every sixty seconds without security precautions. This won't happen to you in linux. Additionally, the box is plenty stable, without a single patch. The only except to this that I can remember is the recent Mandrake debacle that screwed up some CDrom drives. The patches are generally security updates, or new features, or driver updates, from people like Nvidia.
And tell me, honestly, with all truth. When just starting out, as a newbie Linuxer, what one was it easiest to install java on? Windows or Linux? (and get it working in Mozilla).
Substantially easier in SuSE Linux. Why? Because it comes pre-installed. In Mozilla, Konqueror, Epiphany, etc. .
I hate it when people talk about how Linuz is SO MUCH FUCKING SUPERIOR to Windows. No, for a regular
Nonsense. My pre-setup SuSE boxes are substantially easier for my parents and sisters to use than the Windows crap laying around here.
They are amazed that my boxes rarely (hardware problems sometimes, like defective ram) crash, never require anti-virus vigilance, and have SO MUCH fucking software built in.
Linux boxes, when properly configured, come far close to computing 'appliances' than Windows boxes. Their behavior is far, far more regular.
Windows boxes, on the other hand (although things have substantially improved since the Win95 days) are far more erratic.
Windows XP still tends to get stale. Things slow down over time. Stuff gets corrupt.
God help you if you get a nefarious virus.
Especially if you don't have access to a broadband connection.
Just my two cents, or in conversion to CAN. that would be about 3.14 cents.
Another Troll Bites the Dust
To add further irritation the machine crashed after a few months of uptime...and when it came backup something had magically re-broken the ram disk. I tried to track this down through crontab and the rc scripts but no luck (possibly partly due to my unfamiliarity with the SUSE setup). Now I just have a cron entry that copies the fixed image back every hour....not a really sensible or reliable solution!
I don't believe you.
SuSE 9.1 came out much less than a month ago.
So unless you were in the beta (in which case bugs are to be expected), you are talking out of your ass.
Perhaps you mean SuSE 9.0
Which was kinda of buggy---- But I use it on 4-5 machines.
There is a better scenario for the hypothetical American 'vigelante militia' to matter.
A civil war.
If 1/3 of the states were to go all states rights based upon some sort of tyrannical censorship law (think West Coast v. the rest of the U.S), and a couple of high population, high incoming states were on both sides, the more libertarian set, with more liberal gun laws, will have a significant advantage.
As much as I'd hate to see an American civil war, it CAN'T hurt to have ~100 million* 5% in armed, untrained militia.
You just can't capture an area like that. Look at Iraq. Almost impossible to hold.
And we are gonna leave Iraq soon--- We aren't there as conquerors.
If 1/2 the U.S. was invading another 1/2, it would be ALL about conqueroring.
Nice screenshots.
.)
:) I thought mine was snazzy, but yours looks great.
Tell me, though. How did you get the stippled menu bar (Session, Edit, View, etc. .
This isn't a standard menu applet for the panel, is it?
I would really like it if I could get my standard menu applet for the panel to look like that.
In fact, I really like your desktop
I would really appreciate it if you could tell me about the menu bar.
Thanks,
WhiteWolf
Hmmm.... This sounds very promising....
:)
I guess I had only been looking at the Yellow Dog pages as to whether or not suspend to ram would work.
Would an airport regular card work in my powerbook? I got an airport extreme card (because thats what was avaliable on the refurbished site). Hmm...
Food for thought, anyways
I want a linux laptop.
Here are my requirements (given that I will be running linux):
1. Must do ACPI suspend, S1+S3
2. Must have a good 3D video card, Radeon 9600/Geforce FX GO 5650 or up.
3. Decent battery life would be nice.
4. Integrated bluetooth+Intergrated 802.11b
Don't tell me to get a powerbook. I have a 12" G4 laptop DVI. I want linux, with suspend. Can't do that on the powerbook. Mac OSX is wonderful. Yes, yes. I want a linux laptop with suspend.
Don't want to do suspend to disk, I want the thing to resume in 5 seconds or less.
A unit that is in the correct price range for me, and meets my other requirements, is the Dell Inspiron 9100. But, does ACPI suspend work on it?
I'm guessing not, since Dell has a horrible record about Linux suspend.
So---HP and Compaq have similar models, in a similar price range (can't remember the model numbers), but remember--- i want a good, fast, opengl card. I believe that each (sorta)company has one system with either a radeon 9600 or a Geforce FX go 5650.
Do those two models suspend correctly?
Anyways, I'm open to suggestions. But I can't afford an Alienware, or a Voodoo Laptop.
If I'm gonna spend 3 grand, I'll get the 17" powerbook.
Ideally, I can spend about $1500, and get what I want. If the Inspiron 9100 suspended correctly, it would fit the bill nicely.
This thing is a brick in linux, because of power management.
APM works, sorta. Resume from suspend fails about 30% of the time. 20% of the time, resume works okay, but the system is really slow, and the fan stays on 'high' (really noisy) speed.
ACPI is broken. Battery, buttons, temperature, etc. . . can work, if you use a modified DSDT.
S1,S3 don't work. S1 doesn't resume, S3 doesn't turn the screen backlight off. S4,S4b resume about 60% of the time, but it already takes so long to come back up I might as well do a proper shutdown.
BOOO. I WANT A LINUX LAPTOP THAT GOES INTO S3 or S1 PERFECTLY!@!!!!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
I know, I know, I should get a powerbook. In fact, I own a powerbook g4 12" DVI. But I lent it to my sister, 'cause her laptop died.
Don't get me wrong, OS X is awesome. intergrated bluetooth rocks. Lots of great things about this laptop.
But I can't install linux on it and have working power management. I like linux. I know my way around linux. I like hacking around on linux.
But on my laptop, I NEED power management.
Also...
Bigger weapons mean bigger Fireworks!
Fireworks=more chicks.
More Survival!
Seriously, though. The weapon does not always have to be bigger.
Sounds to me like a hafnium bomb might actually be smaller. Study of new technology (hafnium technology?) can result in miniturization of weaponry, or in advances in totally unreleated fields.
What if there is a cure for cancer in hafnium? What if there is a new power source?
(Unlikely)What if it lets us develop antigravity?
There is no such thing as Pandora's box.
There are dangerous demons out there, but the solution is not to ignore them. Rather, the solution is to win.
These cannot be the real stats necessary.
..... Carry the 1, multiply by 3, cross out this, that and the other...
2006. Thats
Two years away. So the BRAND NEW, top of the line system that I cobbled together, with a 3400+ Athlon 64, a gig of ram, and a Radeon 9800Pro, will barely satsify the minimum requirements of Longhorn?
Thank God I gave up paying the Windows Tax, and I pity all the companies who haven't switched to a more sane operating system.
Suse 12, or whatever the hell they release in 2006, will run just fine on my system.
I've pirated games in the past.
Still do, sometimes.
Now that I have an income, however, it is much easier to track down games at the store than it is to find them online.
Still, I ALWAYS had rules on my pirating.
If I pirated a game, and liked it, I purchased it.
'Nuff said.
I downloaded Master of Orion 3. It sucked. I deleted in two days.
Total Annihilation was pirated too. I liked it so much that I purchased 3 copies (got boxed sets for my friends), the expansion packs (core contingency), and even purchased TA: Kingdoms solely on the strength of TA. (Kingdoms sucked, but thats besides the point).
I feel like I should get more of an opportunity to try out games before I buy them.
Sure, pirating is wrong. If the stores allowed me to play those games for 15-30 minutes before I selected them, however, I would never pirate games.
Lately, however, I've been too lazy. I purchased Universal Combat on a whim, as well as Command and Conquer generals.
I still have ABSOLUTELY no 'ethical' objection to piracy.
But if you are a game developer, rest assured, that if I like your game, I will buy it, possibly buy copies for my friends (Savage: Battle for Newerth had me buy 5 CD keys *evil grin*), and generally evangelize your product.
I thought---Damn... This is true
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness
My machine would be SO much more responsive if it didn't swap.
cat
60
hmm...lets bump that down to 0
echo 0 > swappiness
lets check the swap we are using....
top
Swap: 0k total, 0k unused, 0k free
DoH! My machine botched a software suspend, and my swap is screwed.
Oh well....Most 'Swapping' is perceptual. Pick a moderate swappiness value, and your system WILL actually be faster. The 1/4 second or so you loose upon bring OpenOffice back from the disk is more than made up for by all the cache you regain.
IMHO, the only disk 'thrashing' that is annoying has little to do with swap, and much more to do with webbrowser cache to disks, etc. . .
I don't think that BayStar believes.
They are an investment fund.
They can't exactly say: "Uhh . . . . We screwed up. SCOX is a waste of money. They don't have anything, and they have never had anything."
They invest with OPM (other people's money) after all.
Instead, in a fairly civilized and classy fashion, Baystar says:
"SCOX has violated our agreement. We don't think that SCOX is approaching this case in the correct fashion. Of course, if they had done what we had told them to, they would be wildly succesful, but since they haven't we want our money back, and then we should go our seperate ways. Unless, of course, they make these [impossible] changes, after all, we aren't bad guys"
No No No....
We need to transfer our conciousness to machines....
Then 300 million years would be a *short* period of time.
I want to live to see things change on a geological scale, don't you?
Mars, obviously
*evil grin*
Poor agriculture?
Not because of the environmental conditions.
There is desperate poverty, but all the 'alternative' revolutionary governments have already come and gone.
People want change+stability, and the current government is strongly in control of the reins of power.
Food does get to those people.
It just that food doesn't help them next year.
Sure, they need the food now, so they don't starve.
But there are no rampaging warlord in Ethiopia. UN Food programs actually distribute food to people who are starving.
I've seen it, and can atest to it.
What they need is jobs. Trust me, that's what they are asking for.
No offense, you aren't being as bad of some of the people replying to you.
ETHIOPIA IS NOT A CRAZY UNSTABLE NATION FULL OF WARLORDS. ETHIOPIA IS NOT A CRAZY UNSTABLE NATION FULL OF WARLORDS. ETHIOPIA IS NOT A CRAZY UNSTABLE NATION FULL OF WARLORDS.
Thank you, had to get that out of my system.
All of you, talking about the Ethiopian warlords----
GET A FRIGGING CLUE
The government is extremely stable. And pro-capitalist. And understands the nature of the problems the country is facing.
The people of Ethiopia also understand the need for development.
And not robber-baron style of development, either. They get it, they really, really do, when I was there for a bit, speaking with all levels of individuals, from the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, to Industrialists, lowly taxi drivers, farm laborers, and even Tribal leaders.....
THEY GET IT.
That country is hobbled, because it was an Empire under a backwards ruler till the 70s, then a crazy, totalitarian communist government till the 90s.
Then they got into an unfortunate war of succession.
They've had, what, 6 years of peace?
You expect them to repair 100 of years of damage in SIX FRIGGIN' YEARS?????!
Ethiopia is populated with intelligent, caring, educated individuals.
What they don't have is capital, or organization.
(That means jobs, and corporations, for those of you who refuse to see what I am saying).
It is a nation rich in resources, which hasn't had much time to get it together yet.
Trust me, they will, on their own.
But faster if the rest of the world invests.
And in MY HUMBLE OPINION, open source is high on the list of priorities. Why? Because corporations will be able to equip the employees in Ethiopia with perhaps 10 times the number of computers they would otherwise be able to afford (under traditional, MS'ian licensing scheme).
And many of those systems can be recycled from 'waste' piles of wasteful nations like the U.S.
Ethiopian no longer wants food aid.
Trust me, everyone from the Deputy Prime Minister to 14 yr old farm labor told me that, face to face.
What they want is jobs, and opportunity.
Stability is not the problem. War is not the problem. Crime is not the problem.
Capital is. And Open Source reduces the cost of capital.
I don't know what I am getting on this rant. Not like I'll even have much to do with Open Source in Ethiopia. We are going to farm there.
But it pains me to see this impression of Ethiopia as a war-torn battleground, of despondents.
That is simply no longer the case.
It is a beautiful nation, with a proud people, who are looking to join the developed world.
Try and visit there before you talk about 'their' problems.
And don't be afraid of being a tourist. Your tourist dollars will go FAR for the street vendors that you are buying stuff from.
Brilliant!
This is a REALLY good idea.....
I think I might just have to do that.
They are giving us an excellent, unadulterated 'spam-feed'.....
This will make my baysean filtering atleast 2x as good!
Finish perfecting XP?
.
Are you kidding??
They need to finish perfecting 95 first, then start to get 98/SE/ME done, then get 2000 out of beta, then try and desperately lockdown XP.
Seriously, MS operating systems never get finished. . .
They simply get discarded.
Not true.
I'd bet the $90 that is the cost of a Professional copy of SuSE that you could learn linux, no problem.
See, SuSE comes with 2 FANTASTIC manuals. An Install book, and a Users guide.
Their graphical installer is great too-- It just sorta works out the box. Shrinks your NTFS partition and everything.
The installed SuSE help system contains the majority of the manual as well.
Which NIC? Which Video card?
.) xig.com's Summit Accelerated-X servers will support it.
:)
May I recommend Linuxant.com's Driverloader?
If your laptop is running one of those scary ex-S3 now via chipsets (Prosavage, TwisterK, etc. .
Both of these are nice products
Plus, there is a DRI server for those graphics cards now, but you have to run Xfree 8.6 4.2
I'm only familar with Nvidia, ATI, S3, and Matrox chipsets in laptops, but I haven't come across one that I couldn't get work.
Actually, thats a lie. Trident cards blow chunks. They work in 2D, however, and I can't imagine anyone wanting to do OpenGL on one.