Correct: RC builds are not announced or mirrored worldwide. They're candidate images for testers to work with. They are publically available, though - anyone who's interested in helping can be a tester.
Here's the thing: it's not solely a matter of principle. Fedora has to play by a harder set of rules than Ubuntu. Fedora is backed by a public company, based in the US, so they answer to US law and Red Hat stockholders. And under US law, CYA just isn't enough, especially when there's multi-billion-dollar global megacorps who will take any opportunity they can find to sue you into oblivion.
Everyone would dearly love to be able to include mp3 codecs and ffmpeg and all that non-Free stuff. But they can't. So Red Hat and Fedora keep fighting the good fight - lobbying against software patents, pushing for open standards - and still people give them shit because they have to click two places instead of one to get MP3 support.
Right, but the fact that it's partially closed source, and thus not in the upstream kernel, means that it doesn't get anywhere near the same rigorous review & testing that upstream kernel drivers get. Hence: bugs ahoy. Especially nasty security ones.
It's pretty obvious that he does this *just* to piss off Mac-using Slashdot readers.
Yet Another Slashdot Troll, only this one isn't very funny or inventive. Getting himself on the front page was pretty impressive though.
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The Itanium itself is dog-slow. However the original poster's claim:
Did someone mention "clockspeed is not everything"? It you look at (non x86-based MPP) super-computers, I'd bet none of them runs with CPUS faster than 1 GHz, yet each processor is often an order (or two) of magnitude faster.
Check the floating point numbers - A 1GHz Alpha (EV68) outperforms a 2.2GHz Xeon in both SPECfp and SPECfp Rate:
L.Ron Bumquist of the ETLA Group today announced that he had found a major vulnerability in nearly all home security systems. If the security system is made from delicious Norwegian Jarlesburg cheese instead of wires and computer chips and stuff, a potential burglar could enter the house undetected.
This is why any reasonable TCP stack uses good random number generators (like our friends/dev/random and/dev/urandom) for choosing and incrementing TCP sequence numbers.
> I was in a meeting with Compaq sales reps
Here's the problem - these are sales reps. Sales reps are scum. They eat, sleep, live, and dream about Sales. Linux is free, hence it fails to register with them.
While the sales reps are laughing about these commie hippies and their "free" operating system, Compaq also employs several Ph.D's and other brilliant folk who work on just that - Linux on the iPAQ.
Maybe it won't be sold with Linux and a cute little penguin sticker on it, but there are plenty of people working very hard to make sure that it will be able to run Linux just fine.
Linux on the iPAQ still needs a good amount of work. Most (nearly all) normal X apps are WAY too big for a 320x240 screen, and most window managers are designed for computers with a mouse and keyboard. When all you have is a pen, all you can do is click and drag. The RTC on the iPAQ *almost* works. Right now it doesn't, so everyone's iPAQ thinks it's December 31, 1969. There's still some bugs with the audio driver, but as of a couple weeks ago IR is working again.
The point of getting Debian usable on the iPAQ is not so you can have all the whiz-bang-cool X apps and things like that - it's the ability to have a full-fledged development environment on the machine *and* the ability to do native compilation. This will accelerate development of handheld linux (pocketlinux? LinCE?) and is generally a Good Thing, even if it isn't that sexy.
The iPAQ isn't a MIPS machine. It runs on a 200MHz StrongARM (SA110) processor, just like the Netwinder. There is no NetBSD port for the Netwinder OR the iPAQ.
I work at DEC^H^H^HCompaq. We have one of these bad-boys in a lab, and I have to walk by it a lot. It's this fairly massive thing, the size of 3 or 4 fridges all in a row. They're bluish, and the heart of the beast is identifiable by the LED display that sits at about eye height, saying things like:
AlphaServer GS320
16 processors configured
And so on. I adore it. And every once in a while, when nobody's looking..
I give it a hug.
Once, I was talking to a co-worker about it. "You know the Wildfire in the lab?" I asked.
"The what now?" he replied. So I told him about the Wildfire. Later that day, we were walking through the lab, past it.
He gave it a hug.
If anyone else wants to send the wildfire a hug, let me know.
I work at Compaq, in the Alpha Linux group, and I've played with the iPAQ handheld.. there's no MS Linux anywhere around here. Never heard of it. Pretty sure it's a complete fabrication. So please.. ignore the troll. Move along. Thank you.
See, reading this, I really thought that on the space shuttle, a rogue Ritz (or perhaps a Wheat Thin) had somehow gotten into the communications hardware and somehow messed stuff up. I envisioned shuttle astronauts trying desperately to pull out a Saltine that had gotten wedged into a radio transmitter. Hoo boy did I laugh!
Then I realized it was a 'cracker' in the slashbot-speek sense - someone who does naughty things with computers. Much less funny.
I really, really think that "cracker" is a stupid and confusing thing to call "evil hackers". Personally I think all news organizations should start calling such people "hax0rs".
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Correct: RC builds are not announced or mirrored worldwide. They're candidate images for testers to work with. They are publically available, though - anyone who's interested in helping can be a tester.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA is a good place to start if you're interested in testing Fedora.
Otherwise, the next major public release is F9 final, scheduled for May 13.
Yeah. It'd be great, if it wasn't illegal.
Here's the thing: it's not solely a matter of principle. Fedora has to play by a harder set of rules than Ubuntu. Fedora is backed by a public company, based in the US, so they answer to US law and Red Hat stockholders. And under US law, CYA just isn't enough, especially when there's multi-billion-dollar global megacorps who will take any opportunity they can find to sue you into oblivion.
Everyone would dearly love to be able to include mp3 codecs and ffmpeg and all that non-Free stuff. But they can't. So Red Hat and Fedora keep fighting the good fight - lobbying against software patents, pushing for open standards - and still people give them shit because they have to click two places instead of one to get MP3 support.
Way to focus on the big problems, people.
There was never any talk about yum-based upgrades. Upgrading a live system is total insanity.
You're probably thinking of PreUpgrade, which is like a yum-based upgrade but without the insanity.
See the interview here for more info:
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/04/15/interview-fedora-developers-seth-vidal-and-will-woods/
Right, but the fact that it's partially closed source, and thus not in the upstream kernel, means that it doesn't get anywhere near the same rigorous review & testing that upstream kernel drivers get. Hence: bugs ahoy. Especially nasty security ones.
See also: nvidia.
This bug is in the "madwifi" atheros driver, which is:
- dependent on a closed-source kernel module
- not in the upstream kernel
- not included by default in most distributions (e.g. Fedora/RHEL, SuSE, Debian).
It *is* in Ubuntu, but has been fixed in Edgy since February 1.So here's what the headline should have been:
Closed-Source Drivers Harder To Maintain, Less Secure
The ipw2100/ipw2200 driver is in the kernel package.
The firmware is freely available from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ or the livna repo.
HTH HAND kthxbye.
Not only that, but in FC6 you can enable Livna right in the installer. So your system will have MP3/DVD/etc. support right at first boot.
Just point it at http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/[arch] and those packages will magically appear as install options. Yay!
(link: http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/)
If you enjoyed this story, you can also have it in Microsoft, AOL, or Google flavor.
Bah. Pundits. Get a real job.
It's bated breath. BATED! Meaning "stopped" or "held", like "abated". NOT BAITED!
What the hell would "baited breath" even MEAN? STOP SAYING THAT!
I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
ahahhahhahahhaha IT IS SOOO FUNNY BECUZ U SED "CRACK" LIEK 6 TIEMS!!!!! CRAK IS GAURNETEEED 2 BE FUNNI!!~! LOLOL!!!!
stuff like this makes me punch kittens.
LCD display? Liquid Crystal Display display?
michael, you're going on The List, along with people who say "SAT Test" and "HIV Virus" and "GUI Interface" and "ATM Machine" and "NIC Card".
It's pretty obvious that he does this *just* to piss off Mac-using Slashdot readers.
Yet Another Slashdot Troll, only this one isn't very funny or inventive. Getting himself on the front page was pretty impressive though.
The Itanium itself is dog-slow. However the original poster's claim:
Check the floating point numbers - A 1GHz Alpha (EV68) outperforms a 2.2GHz Xeon in both SPECfp and SPECfp Rate:
SPECfp2000:
AlphaServer ES45 Model 68/1000: 960
Dell Precision WorkStation 530 (2.2 GHz Xeon): 802
SPECfp2000 Rate:
AlphaServer ES45 Model 68/1000: 21.1
Dell Precision WorkStation 530 (2.2 GHz Xeon): 13.6
Both of these are quad-processor machines, yet the Alpha's floating-point rate is 155% that of the Xeon at less than half the clock speed.
Clockspeed is irrelevant. Especially when the architecture is flawed.
..including the patch for this bug. get it here
The IBM Microdrive is a CF form factor hard drive with sizes from 350MB to 1GB. Maybe that's what you found in your pocket?
Or maybe it was a USB hard drive?
Or maybe, since it has onboard ethernet, you could just have it nfs mount its root directory?
tell HORATIO; length(hevN+Rth) > philosophy->dreams;
Oh, this wasn't a perl poetry contest? Sorry...
L.Ron Bumquist of the ETLA Group today announced that he had found a major vulnerability in nearly all home security systems. If the security system is made from delicious Norwegian Jarlesburg cheese instead of wires and computer chips and stuff, a potential burglar could enter the house undetected.
/dev/random and /dev/urandom) for choosing and incrementing TCP sequence numbers.
This is why any reasonable TCP stack uses good random number generators (like our friends
This story is nigh-on useless. Ignore it.
> I was in a meeting with Compaq sales reps
Here's the problem - these are sales reps. Sales reps are scum. They eat, sleep, live, and dream about Sales. Linux is free, hence it fails to register with them.
While the sales reps are laughing about these commie hippies and their "free" operating system, Compaq also employs several Ph.D's and other brilliant folk who work on just that - Linux on the iPAQ.
Maybe it won't be sold with Linux and a cute little penguin sticker on it, but there are plenty of people working very hard to make sure that it will be able to run Linux just fine.
Linux on the iPAQ still needs a good amount of work. Most (nearly all) normal X apps are WAY too big for a 320x240 screen, and most window managers are designed for computers with a mouse and keyboard. When all you have is a pen, all you can do is click and drag. The RTC on the iPAQ *almost* works. Right now it doesn't, so everyone's iPAQ thinks it's December 31, 1969. There's still some bugs with the audio driver, but as of a couple weeks ago IR is working again.
The point of getting Debian usable on the iPAQ is not so you can have all the whiz-bang-cool X apps and things like that - it's the ability to have a full-fledged development environment on the machine *and* the ability to do native compilation. This will accelerate development of handheld linux (pocketlinux? LinCE?) and is generally a Good Thing, even if it isn't that sexy.
pictures of an iPAQ running the handhelds.org distro are on this page.
If you're lazy, the pictures are here, here, here, here, and here.
The iPAQ isn't a MIPS machine. It runs on a 200MHz StrongARM (SA110) processor, just like the Netwinder. There is no NetBSD port for the Netwinder OR the iPAQ.
So no, NetBSD has not been there OR done that.
I work at DEC^H^H^HCompaq. We have one of these bad-boys in a lab, and I have to walk by it a lot. It's this fairly massive thing, the size of 3 or 4 fridges all in a row. They're bluish, and the heart of the beast is identifiable by the LED display that sits at about eye height, saying things like:
AlphaServer GS320
16 processors configured
And so on. I adore it. And every once in a while, when nobody's looking..
I give it a hug.
Once, I was talking to a co-worker about it.
"You know the Wildfire in the lab?" I asked.
"The what now?" he replied. So I told him about the Wildfire. Later that day, we were walking through the lab, past it.
He gave it a hug.
If anyone else wants to send the wildfire a hug, let me know.
I work at Compaq, in the Alpha Linux group, and I've played with the iPAQ handheld.. there's no MS Linux anywhere around here. Never heard of it. Pretty sure it's a complete fabrication. So please.. ignore the troll. Move along. Thank you.
See, reading this, I really thought that on the space shuttle, a rogue Ritz (or perhaps a Wheat Thin) had somehow gotten into the communications hardware and somehow messed stuff up. I envisioned shuttle astronauts trying desperately to pull out a Saltine that had gotten wedged into a radio transmitter. Hoo boy did I laugh!
Then I realized it was a 'cracker' in the slashbot-speek sense - someone who does naughty things with computers. Much less funny.
I really, really think that "cracker" is a stupid and confusing thing to call "evil hackers". Personally I think all news organizations should start calling such people "hax0rs".
You listening, New York Times? j00 b3tt3r b3!@$
EOD! TS2! TWINE! TND! IMHO!
just because you're a geek.. that doesn't mean you have to abbreviate EVERYTHING.
ok?