I hate any web site that doesn't resize to my screen... at 1280x1024 it doesn't even fill half my screen, what makes them think that my screen resolution is 800x600? I don't know why these companies can't afford web designers that know what they're doing! Even/. resizes perfectly to whatever resolution I'm using, sheesh!!!
Anyway, now that my pet peeve is out of the way at least the registration forms that I have become familiar with appear to be there and basically unchanged.
Must be your ISP. I have a T1 at work and a 56k modem at home... either way I find that slashdot loads quickly, even though I am using a customized slashdot.
I wish I had the chance to work on a million+ hit web site but so far i haven't been exposed to it. At the other end of the spectrum, I have setup a 386 with 8 MB of ram and a 90 MB drive... it acts as a firewall for 50 PC clients and blows the doors of the Windows solution that was there before (both speed and reliablity). My stripped down Debian install uses only 33 MB of disk space! I would think that efficiency on low end hardware should translate into good performance on high-end equipment as well.
Hello? I've been running 2.2.x on Debian for a few months now (some of the prereleases). If we're counting BETAs then Debian has it, if we're counting stable then it's totally ready... I'm running many servers totally based on the stable distro (2.1 aka slink) with the 2.2 kernels.
It bothers me that the free (and IMO best) distro is consistantly ignored.
Let's hope that this article is right, but since Reuter's can't even get the name of Corel's CFO right, who knows!? I think if this merger were to take place it would be very bad news for the Linux support Corel has been promising.
Corel realizes that OS competition means increased software competition, does Adobe know this? If everyone in the commercial sector uses MS OSes the ability to sell software plummets, except for Microsoft... anyways, getting off topic!
I appreciate sites that render well from lynx which I use a lot when admining non-X Linux boxes. The new site also looked good and loaded fast in Netscape. He made a lot of improvements to the site from the brief look I got. Most of the pages had become static which I think is essential if you intend to allow for growth.
I read the first ~70 comments here and everyone apperently likeed the new site also. It's unfortunate that scoop reacted the way he did, he must have received a lot of extremely insulting emails.
My one comment is this: FM is a very popular site. Perhaps it's time for scoop to start making money with this. I remember reading when linux.org was having problems that the site owner was earning $500-$600/day from the site. I would think that freshmeat must have some good earnings potential also.
I don't like advertising banners and book sales all over sites but if that's what it takes for scoop to make a buck at it, please do it! A new sendmail release... automatically link to the bat book @amazon. Working yourself to the bone for nothing gets disheartening, especially when the critics start to attack.
Anyway, FM is a very valuable and well built site. Somehow, we gotta get this guy earning bucks at what he does!!!
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Anyway, now that my pet peeve is out of the way at least the registration forms that I have become familiar with appear to be there and basically unchanged.
I wish I had the chance to work on a million+ hit web site but so far i haven't been exposed to it. At the other end of the spectrum, I have setup a 386 with 8 MB of ram and a 90 MB drive ... it acts as a firewall for 50 PC clients and blows the doors of the Windows solution that was there before (both speed and reliablity). My stripped down Debian install uses only 33 MB of disk space! I would think that efficiency on low end hardware should translate into good performance on high-end equipment as well.
Hello? I've been running 2.2.x on Debian for a few months now (some of the prereleases). If we're counting BETAs then Debian has it, if we're counting stable then it's totally ready ... I'm running many servers totally based on the stable distro (2.1 aka slink) with the 2.2 kernels.
It bothers me that the free (and IMO best) distro is consistantly ignored.
Let's hope that this article is right, but since Reuter's can't even get the name of Corel's CFO right, who knows!? I think if this merger were to take place it would be very bad news for the Linux support Corel has been promising.
Corel realizes that OS competition means increased software competition, does Adobe know this? If everyone in the commercial sector uses MS OSes the ability to sell software plummets, except for Microsoft ... anyways, getting off topic!
I saw, I liked.
... automatically link to the bat book @amazon. Working yourself to the bone for nothing gets disheartening, especially when the critics start to attack.
I appreciate sites that render well from lynx which I use a lot when admining non-X Linux boxes. The new site also looked good and loaded fast in Netscape. He made a lot of improvements to the site from the brief look I got. Most of the pages had become static which I think is essential if you intend to allow for growth.
I read the first ~70 comments here and everyone apperently likeed the new site also. It's unfortunate that scoop reacted the way he did, he must have received a lot of extremely insulting emails.
My one comment is this: FM is a very popular site. Perhaps it's time for scoop to start making money with this. I remember reading when linux.org was having problems that the site owner was earning $500-$600/day from the site. I would think that freshmeat must have some good earnings potential also.
I don't like advertising banners and book sales all over sites but if that's what it takes for scoop to make a buck at it, please do it! A new sendmail release
Anyway, FM is a very valuable and well built site. Somehow, we gotta get this guy earning bucks at what he does!!!