If only Sega had managed to port Zero Wing to the Dreamcast...it really could have been the killer app they needed.
You know the drill..."All your Dreamcast are belong to us!!"
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It seems the NSA has plans to offer kernel code to implement mandatory access controls, a level of system control which goes beyond the normal user-based permissions...
...and a special unkillable kernel-level daemon that sends back the URLs of any good free pr0n sites that you find to NSA headquarters. everyone knows that all their encryption cracking research is mostly aimed at getting at usernames and passwords for the best spank-sites.
considering they really don't have to spend much on R&D except for say RPM.... What else has Redhat done?
they pay the salaries of quite a few full time developers who work on relatively minor things like the linux kernel, GNOME, and hardware detection and configuration routines. isn't Alan Cox paid by Red Hat for his kernel work?
i knew i would leave someone out. the point is...in the german market, once you combine the market shares of SuSE (as you mention), and (insert two other major distros like RedHat or Mandrake), how much of the market is actually left for the other distros? in practical terms i don't think a truly large amount of diversity really exists.
while diversity is good for the community, in practical terms there really are only a handful of distributions. once you account for the 'market share' of (for argument's sake) red hat, mandrake, and caldera (say), what's left? the remaining 50 distros all together probably account for less than just red hat or mandrake does.
does anyone have any vaguely reliable statistics on how many people are using what (and i know that's going to be close to impossible)?
It frightens me to realize that all this
stuff we thought was so cool just a few years ago is now part of the net's history and lore. Tell your grandkids that
you were there when...
...when Windows 2015 wasn't just another linux distribution,but with a better web browser (it can't be unbundled, or it stops working).
i guess this means that the previously sold-out metallica/dr. dre double header on sealand will be cancelled. do you know how hard it was to get tickets?
download and install the updated logrotate package from the 7.1 updates directory. it's a known problem, and it solved my 7.1 logrotate issues. the problem is fixed in 7.2.
i wonder what will happen as the human race expands into the outer reaches of the solar system. do you think any company will really want to be known as "the dot in.uranus?"
a geforce2 mx is pretty limited by memory bandwidth, so its not surprising that a DDR Radeon beats it. i bet your Radeon was a lot more expensive than your 32MB GeForce MX too...
Matrox couldn't really be considered to be on par with ATI and nVidia...their G400/G450 design isn't looking so flash compared to the others...open source drivers can buy you only so many warm-fuzzies, when you're getting the FPS crap smacked out of you by your 12 year old next-door neighbour's closed-source driver 64MB GeForce2 Ultra.
Directly from the Ultra 5 product page:
A21UJCY-256-EPROMO
Ultra 5, Model 400, 400MHz UltraSPARC IIi, 256MB DRAM, Onboard PGX24 graphics, 7200rpm 20GB EIDE hard disc, 48x CD-ROM. AUD $5000
Thats a CD-ROM, not a DVD, that's an ATI Rage II graphics chip, not something high end and that's AUD $5000, not AUD $2500.
The only place I've pulled anything is directly from Sun's Australian on-line catalogue. It's not my fault if those specs smell like they've come from someone's ass...it's because they're directly from Scott McNealy's ass, not mine.
He's still right. Behind every great piece of open-source software are a bunch of programmers being paid by a corporation, university or non-profit to work on software between the hours of 9am and 5pm.
Show me a coder who really codes for free, and I'll show you a derelict bum without a house, decent clothing, healthcare, and food, let alone a computer.
i believe that the T1 would be best put to use as a source of high quality streaming pr0n, to make semen collection for fertility analysis all the more efficient.
oh yeah...and some of those plastic waterproof keyboard overlays.
I think you're pretty close to the mark. Debian has some really good stuff going for it, like the packaging system, the huge collection of.debs and the extra attention payed to security holes/bug fixes/overall tightness.
however, i get the feeling that the people who wrote the installer process just simply could not give a fuck about people who really can't afford to waste days trying to get Debian to work on anything more exotic than your average desktop PC.
Take the RAID experience as an example...if you want to setup a Linux server with a RAID 1 root partition, you have to jump through all sorts of ugly hoops to get it done with Debian...screwing about with single disk installs, marking disks as bad, rebuilding arrays etc etc. With Mandrake, installing the main filesystem directly onto a RAID 1 partition is a default part of the graphical installation!
The hardware RAID fuckup is another example...the Mylex AcceleRAID drivers (DAC960) are part of the standard kernel driver set. Mandrake and others had the foresight to include this driver in their initial setup kernel image, so that it was possible to install onto an array controlled by the Mylex card straight off. Why was it so hard for Debian to do a few time saving things like this?
When you're doing this for a job, you just don't have time to waste making up for the deficiencies of a really really bad installer. A general contempt for users is what it comes down to in the end...why the hell do I have to waste hours and hours doing this shit when other distros get it right in the first 5 minutes of the install?!?!?!
Everyone says this about RPMs, but it doesn't have to be this way. look at the urpmi set of tools that are included with Mandrake. urpmi automatically takes care of RPM dependencies, and can be pointed at a variety of package sources (eg: local directory, NFS mount, FTP site) just like apt-get can be.
Why doesn't anyone ever mention urpmi in these package manager flaming threads?!?! Are any Mandrake users out there using urpmi, or is everyone stuck at 'rpm -Uvh'?
Yes you are right. The only thing that comes close to Slackware for being totally 31337 is Debian of course. This was proven to me earlier in the week when I installed Mandrake 7.2 on a new system equipped with a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 card in 18 minutes.
Fear not!! I was in no danger of being sucked into the lameness of Mandrake. Our Debian surfin' sysadmin came along, wiped Mandrake, and then spent the rest of the week being 31337 with the Debian installer that didn't work and didn't recognise the Mylex card.
He got it in the end...after spending about 3 days reading DejaNews and formatting specialised boot floppies with specialised kernels on them. Damn it was an 31337 experience!!! I felt like a fool for using Mandrake all this time that completed the whole installation in 18 minutes. Never, never again!!!!!
clock sopeed might not be king, but you gotta admit...it's a tough sell putting a 500MHz G4 system up against a 1.2GHz Athlon. thank god apple didn't rely on a company as disinterested in the desktop processor market as motorola to do their industrial design.
cost of 256MB RAM upgrade, 1GHz Athlon CPU and Asus A7V motherboard to run StarOffice at the same speed as MS Office on a Celeron 400: a fucking shitload.
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oh...did you think i was being sarcastic?
You know the drill..."All your Dreamcast are belong to us!!"
they pay the salaries of quite a few full time developers who work on relatively minor things like the linux kernel, GNOME, and hardware detection and configuration routines. isn't Alan Cox paid by Red Hat for his kernel work?
We've got loads of them running, and didn't need to pay a dime in licensing fees.
wow...that's just like our copies of Visual Studio and Office!!!
i knew i would leave someone out. the point is...in the german market, once you combine the market shares of SuSE (as you mention), and (insert two other major distros like RedHat or Mandrake), how much of the market is actually left for the other distros? in practical terms i don't think a truly large amount of diversity really exists.
does anyone have any vaguely reliable statistics on how many people are using what (and i know that's going to be close to impossible)?
well this would certainly give new meaning to the oft muttered phrase "the network is performing like shit today"...
at first glance i'd be damned if that wasn't a perl shopping cart app.
i guess this means that the previously sold-out metallica/dr. dre double header on sealand will be cancelled. do you know how hard it was to get tickets?
download and install the updated logrotate package from the 7.1 updates directory. it's a known problem, and it solved my 7.1 logrotate issues. the problem is fixed in 7.2.
i wonder what will happen as the human race expands into the outer reaches of the solar system. do you think any company will really want to be known as "the dot in .uranus?"
The article doesn't say much about the actual quality of this assembly versus the Celera version. Has anyone seen both data sets to make a comparison?
Not all gene assemblers are created equal...
a geforce2 mx is pretty limited by memory bandwidth, so its not surprising that a DDR Radeon beats it. i bet your Radeon was a lot more expensive than your 32MB GeForce MX too...
unless their crack dealin' daddy bought it fo dem
Matrox couldn't really be considered to be on par with ATI and nVidia...their G400/G450 design isn't looking so flash compared to the others...open source drivers can buy you only so many warm-fuzzies, when you're getting the FPS crap smacked out of you by your 12 year old next-door neighbour's closed-source driver 64MB GeForce2 Ultra.
Check out Sun Australia's Online Catalogue
Directly from the Ultra 5 product page:
A21UJCY-256-EPROMO
Ultra 5, Model 400, 400MHz UltraSPARC IIi, 256MB DRAM, Onboard PGX24 graphics, 7200rpm 20GB EIDE hard disc, 48x CD-ROM. AUD $5000
Thats a CD-ROM, not a DVD, that's an ATI Rage II graphics chip, not something high end and that's AUD $5000, not AUD $2500.
The only place I've pulled anything is directly from Sun's Australian on-line catalogue. It's not my fault if those specs smell like they've come from someone's ass...it's because they're directly from Scott McNealy's ass, not mine.
He's still right. Behind every great piece of open-source software are a bunch of programmers being paid by a corporation, university or non-profit to work on software between the hours of 9am and 5pm.
Show me a coder who really codes for free, and I'll show you a derelict bum without a house, decent clothing, healthcare, and food, let alone a computer.
i believe that the T1 would be best put to use as a source of high quality streaming pr0n, to make semen collection for fertility analysis all the more efficient.
oh yeah...and some of those plastic waterproof keyboard overlays.
I think you're pretty close to the mark. Debian has some really good stuff going for it, like the packaging system, the huge collection of .debs and the extra attention payed to security holes/bug fixes/overall tightness.
however, i get the feeling that the people who wrote the installer process just simply could not give a fuck about people who really can't afford to waste days trying to get Debian to work on anything more exotic than your average desktop PC.
Take the RAID experience as an example...if you want to setup a Linux server with a RAID 1 root partition, you have to jump through all sorts of ugly hoops to get it done with Debian...screwing about with single disk installs, marking disks as bad, rebuilding arrays etc etc. With Mandrake, installing the main filesystem directly onto a RAID 1 partition is a default part of the graphical installation!
The hardware RAID fuckup is another example...the Mylex AcceleRAID drivers (DAC960) are part of the standard kernel driver set. Mandrake and others had the foresight to include this driver in their initial setup kernel image, so that it was possible to install onto an array controlled by the Mylex card straight off. Why was it so hard for Debian to do a few time saving things like this?
When you're doing this for a job, you just don't have time to waste making up for the deficiencies of a really really bad installer. A general contempt for users is what it comes down to in the end...why the hell do I have to waste hours and hours doing this shit when other distros get it right in the first 5 minutes of the install?!?!?!
Everyone says this about RPMs, but it doesn't have to be this way. look at the urpmi set of tools that are included with Mandrake. urpmi automatically takes care of RPM dependencies, and can be pointed at a variety of package sources (eg: local directory, NFS mount, FTP site) just like apt-get can be.
Why doesn't anyone ever mention urpmi in these package manager flaming threads?!?! Are any Mandrake users out there using urpmi, or is everyone stuck at 'rpm -Uvh'?
Yes you are right. The only thing that comes close to Slackware for being totally 31337 is Debian of course. This was proven to me earlier in the week when I installed Mandrake 7.2 on a new system equipped with a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 card in 18 minutes.
Fear not!! I was in no danger of being sucked into the lameness of Mandrake. Our Debian surfin' sysadmin came along, wiped Mandrake, and then spent the rest of the week being 31337 with the Debian installer that didn't work and didn't recognise the Mylex card.
He got it in the end...after spending about 3 days reading DejaNews and formatting specialised boot floppies with specialised kernels on them. Damn it was an 31337 experience!!! I felt like a fool for using Mandrake all this time that completed the whole installation in 18 minutes. Never, never again!!!!!
31337 Debian and Slackware all the way!!!!
clock sopeed might not be king, but you gotta admit...it's a tough sell putting a 500MHz G4 system up against a 1.2GHz Athlon. thank god apple didn't rely on a company as disinterested in the desktop processor market as motorola to do their industrial design.
and don't forget...
cost of 256MB RAM upgrade, 1GHz Athlon CPU and Asus A7V motherboard to run StarOffice at the same speed as MS Office on a Celeron 400: a fucking shitload.