I'm building a.com that's got some insurance-covered items for sale. In order to pay by insurance, the customer (under the old law) would have had to MAIL IN their "release of beneifits" insurance form. Laziness would stop most people right there. Now that this is in place, we'll be evaluating the best digital sig solution to implement.
The Kernel DOES NOT need to fork over this. If someone did fork the kernel, it's only because they can't design the patch good enough.
If the patch is getting rejected by Linus, it's not because he favors 386's over 40k bogoMips. It's because it is bad design. Besides, if they want to make changes to the kernel that help some people (but hurt the majority), they need to design it in a way that it can be a compile-time feature. In the same way that 1GB or 2GB support is a compile-time option right now.
Of course, it's always easier said than done. Another solution would be to forever maintain a big-iron-patch.tgz. But the reason they want to fork the kernel is because it's probably too hard to maintain a patch like that. Another solutions would be to start another branch (alpha, MIPS, intel, and BIG-IRON), but it includes more than cpu stuff so that would be an issue.
What parts of Rawhide have been left out of 7.0? None? From everything I've read, it looks like this will be the most stable RH release ever. It's great to have support for the new Mylex RAID cards (AcceleRAID 352) with the new 2.2.17. I'll also enjoy testing 2.4.x
With SSL in the public domain, and C2Net (makers of #1 popular Stronghold) purchased by RedHat, what will happen to Stronghold? Will Stronghold be released open source? (please say yes).
Haven't heard of any good comparisons yet, but we could start an opensource project to put comparisons on the web! It could a slashcode site with all the comments being potential contributions to the main essay.
I think it would be a great idea, and a great resource.
Check out BuildKernel, it's an automated bash shell script that can download and install your kernel. If you don't want to configure your kernel, it can use your old.config file from your current kernel. Check out http://users.dhp.com/~whisper/ buildkernel/index.html.
Here is the e-mail I recieved from John Taschek
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I recieved the e-mail below after writing a 2-page e-mail to John Taschek (yesterday, Monday), and referring him to the letter that Keven reichard wrote (http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/1 783/1/). Return-Path: Received: from relayer.zd.com (relayer.zd.com [155.40.130.200]) by stars.eocwa.org (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA22016 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 15:18:12 -0700 Received: from mailer.zd.com ([155.40.32.223]) by relayer.zd.com (PMDF V5.2-32 #37280) with SMTP id for danb@eocwa.org; Mon, 1 May 2000 18:11:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mailer.zd.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.2 (693.3 8-11-1998)) id 852568D2.0079C07D ; Mon, 01 May 2000 18:09:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 14:09:37 -0700 From: john_taschek@ziffdavis.com (ATTN! John's new address is john_taschek@ziffdavis.com) Subject: Re: Recommended reading... To: Dan Browning Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline X-Lotus-FromDomain: ZIFF-DAVIS@INET Dan -
Thanks--he sent his message directly to me. I think he is confused about the column though. The column's intent is to prevent open source software from becoming commercialized. It seems that the best of open source, especially the newest products, have been taken over. I see this as a threat to the movement. I also see all those sendmail, bind, etc. references as rather old. The question is what has open source been doing lately. Perhaps PHP is the best example, but I still see that most businesses would rather run Oracle, Microsoft, etc. as the app tier. jt
Contrary to above post, all government (agency or grant-funded non profit) auctions MUST be publicly advertised (at least in local newspaper). A client of ours who is a non-profit funded by government grants had a public auction for a dozen 286 and 386's, with about 30 vga monitors. Even though we advertised (acording to law), very few showed up and a lot of it went to the dump.
But yeah, real-life auctions are the best place to pick up $25 486's and $50 pentium systems (at least, in the Portland, OR area).
Actually, some of the changes in linuxconf are activated immediately (e.g. adding users) without letting you click on "see what's being done". The way I think is the best is AIX's smit configurator. At any screen, you press F6 to see a list of the shell commands that relate to what you are configurating ("#useradd jond -g 500...").
I've seen a lot of quality software come from Santa Cruz Operation, but until recently it's mostly been proprietary, closed-source software.
Given Linux's shortcommings in system configuration and system backup software in comparison to SCO's high quality implemenatations, what possibility is there that SCO will open the source for it's configurator and backup software? Other software?
Linux does have Linuxconf, but it lacks many features present in commercial unicies like the ability to see the shell command that relates to the current visual configuration command. And the open source backup software offerings for Linux aren't very mature. Well, that's compared to products like Veritas backup exec.
I really was mostly wondering if SCO had software projects that it was planning to open source in the future, what they were, and when, possibly?
What about commercial companies secretly pilfering code from GPL and LGPL stuff and throwing into their bins and selling it? A very Microsoft-esque thing to do, but who could stop (or even notice) it? Others have said that NAT (network address translation, read "masquerading") in Windows 2000 might have lifted a little bit from linux.src.tgz. But who can audit the code?
Though I know VMWare would never do such a thing, I just thought I'd bring it up to see what you guys thought of the possibility.
Too bad lawyers don't donate their time and expertise like OS programmers do! -Dan (danpbrowning@email.com)
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I'm building a .com that's got some insurance-covered items for sale. In order to pay by insurance, the customer (under the old law) would have had to MAIL IN their "release of beneifits" insurance form. Laziness would stop most people right there. Now that this is in place, we'll be evaluating the best digital sig solution to implement.
The Kernel DOES NOT need to fork over this. If someone did fork the kernel, it's only because they can't design the patch good enough.
If the patch is getting rejected by Linus, it's not because he favors 386's over 40k bogoMips. It's because it is bad design. Besides, if they want to make changes to the kernel that help some people (but hurt the majority), they need to design it in a way that it can be a compile-time feature. In the same way that 1GB or 2GB support is a compile-time option right now.
Of course, it's always easier said than done. Another solution would be to forever maintain a big-iron-patch.tgz. But the reason they want to fork the kernel is because it's probably too hard to maintain a patch like that.
Another solutions would be to start another branch (alpha, MIPS, intel, and BIG-IRON), but it includes more than cpu stuff so that would be an issue.
What parts of Rawhide have been left out of 7.0? None? From everything I've read, it looks like this will be the most stable RH release ever. It's great to have support for the new Mylex RAID cards (AcceleRAID 352) with the new 2.2.17. I'll also enjoy testing 2.4.x
With SSL in the public domain, and C2Net (makers of #1 popular Stronghold) purchased by RedHat, what will happen to Stronghold? Will Stronghold be released open source? (please say yes).
Haven't heard of any good comparisons yet, but we could start an opensource project to put comparisons on the web! It could a slashcode site with all the comments being potential contributions to the main essay.
I think it would be a great idea, and a great resource.
Internet Relay Chat is a much better-designed chatting and instant-chatting protocol than all these instant messegers (ICQ/AIM/etc.).
Long Live IRC!
Check out BuildKernel, it's an automated bash shell script that can download and install your kernel. If you don't want to configure your kernel, it can use your old .config file from your current kernel. Check out http://users.dhp.com/~whisper/ buildkernel/index.html.
I recieved the e-mail below after writing a 2-page e-mail to John Taschek (yesterday, Monday), and referring him to the letter that Keven reichard wrote (http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/1 783/1/). Return-Path:
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Dan -
Thanks--he sent his message directly to me. I think he is confused about the column though. The column's intent is to prevent open source software from becoming commercialized. It seems that the best of open source, especially the newest products, have been taken over. I see this as a threat to the movement. I also see all those sendmail, bind, etc. references as rather old. The question is what has open source been doing lately. Perhaps PHP is the best example, but I still see that most businesses would rather run Oracle, Microsoft, etc. as the app tier.
jt
Contrary to above post, all government (agency or grant-funded non profit) auctions MUST be publicly advertised (at least in local newspaper). A client of ours who is a non-profit funded by government grants had a public auction for a dozen 286 and 386's, with about 30 vga monitors. Even though we advertised (acording to law), very few showed up and a lot of it went to the dump.
But yeah, real-life auctions are the best place to pick up $25 486's and $50 pentium systems (at least, in the Portland, OR area).
Actually, some of the changes in linuxconf are activated immediately (e.g. adding users) without letting you click on "see what's being done".
The way I think is the best is AIX's smit configurator. At any screen, you press F6 to see a list of the shell commands that relate to what you are configurating ("#useradd jond -g 500...").
I've seen a lot of quality software come from Santa Cruz Operation, but until recently it's mostly been proprietary, closed-source software.
Given Linux's shortcommings in system configuration and system backup software in comparison to SCO's high quality implemenatations, what possibility is there that SCO will open the source for it's configurator and backup software? Other software?
Linux does have Linuxconf, but it lacks many features present in commercial unicies like the ability to see the shell command that relates to the current visual configuration command. And the open source backup software offerings for Linux aren't very mature. Well, that's compared to products like Veritas backup exec.
I really was mostly wondering if SCO had software projects that it was planning to open source in the future, what they were, and when, possibly?
Can overseas companies order direct from VALinux.com?
Though I know VMWare would never do such a thing, I just thought I'd bring it up to see what you guys thought of the possibility.
Too bad lawyers don't donate their time and expertise like OS programmers do!-Dan (danpbrowning@email.com)