Maybe some people want to test it before possibly buying. Maybe some of those people are also impatient. (Yes, I know that in reality majority of the downloaders don't fall into the first category.)
So some company works hard to make a distibution one of the best out there, and you can't have the decency to either pay them for their hard work, or wait two weeks to freeload.
Mandrake is one of the greatest supporters of free software, and I don't mean the software you can get without paying someone, I mean open source software. They only allow open source software in the main distibution and support many open source projects.
Man I must be the luckiest person alive, every time I change my video card Bioware must recompile the Neverwinter Nights program just for me! I have never had NWN crash on me. All through the betas it has been stable. I think you are making shit up.
Have you even tried the Linux beta? I will tell you right now the beta plays better than most final release games I have seen. Give it a try, see for yourself.
I can play quake 3 and monitor my FPS. It never drops below 125 FPS. That is what I have it capped at because there is no need for it to be higher. So you are wrong.
They block Vonage.com from some places, so it would make sense they block Net2phone also. I had Vonage, and it worked great for about 2 weeks, but then stopped working. All of my traffic from my house went out just fine, *except* for port 5060 traffic, which was being NAT'd by one of their routers. I called and complained, and after being escalated to tier 3 techs, someone fixed it while I was on the phone with him. A week later, the same thing. Vonage got involved and called them and it was fixed. A couple more weeks and it was broken again. I cancelled my Vonage service.
ATT Broadband has a similar "competing" service. I would assume they are trying to stamp out any competition. Since these calls eventually hit a POTS line, wouldn't it be a felony to tamper with the communication?
Had I the time and the money, I would probably hire a lawyer and sue them just to piss them off. But unfortunately, I have not the money nor the time to do so.
Maybe you should call ATT and explain to them that since these calls hit the POTS system, that blocking their communication is a felony and if they don't fix it you will report them. Or hell, just report them anyway and see what happens.
It's possible that the settings are hidden. Try "man ata" and see if it shows the settings like it does on freebsd, and then try setting them with sysctl.
I know they bought the calendering stuff from a company called Steltor. Actually they just bought the company.
We were going to purchase Steltor Corporate Time at one point. We did not get the money to do it though.
The product was really nice, real-time calenders, MySQL backend. Mac, Windows, Outlook, and Linux clients. It did not do email, but there is no rule that says email and calendering have to be in the same program.
If you can afford it I am sure that the Oracle Suite is really nice.
All you have to do is put in the resolutions that you want to try to run your monitor at and it will ask the monitor if it can do them. The first listed resolution is the default, it will do the max refresh that the monitor can do at that resolution.
The answer to a lot of what you are asking is being addressed by Linux Mandrake. The new DrakConf tool that comes with Mandrake 7.0 gives you the ability to change your X resolutions with ease. In fact you can run it as a user and it just prompts you for the root password. The default install of KDE that comes with Mandrake has an icon for DrakConf right on the desktop. The program does a lot more than just change resolutions too. It alows you to add users, change services, do package management, configure printers, configure network, and run linuxconf if you can't get it with the tools that are available in DrakConf. In fact DrakConf sounds a lot like a Control Panel under windows that everyone is talking about in this thread. Also the documentation that comes with Linun Mandrake is some of the easiest to read I have found. Fully intergrated with the KDE Help system. Maybe more people should be checking out Linux Mandrake and what they are doing for Joe User.
I have not personally used the drivers for ATI cards, but I have used the ones for the Matrox G400. The G400 works excellent for me. On the mailing lists it sounds like the ATI drivers are coming along really nicely. From what I can tell AGP and DMA is working great. They are actaully working on a beta realease to be anounced Real Soon Now (TM). I would say that if you have the card you will not be disappointed in the performance you will get with the drivers.
One thing you do want to do though is read all the information they have on the Utah-GLX site. It does a really good job of telling you how to set everything up.
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Except kvim.
HA!
smeat!
Maybe some people want to test it before possibly buying. Maybe some of those people are also impatient. (Yes, I know that in reality majority of the downloaders don't fall into the first category.)
Then wait two freakin weeks.
smeat!
Great let's reward companies for doing the right thing by stabbing them in the back, brilliant logic.
So they release the GPL ISOs, to a limited distribution channel, ie MandrakeClub. This is the reward that they get?
You can't wait two weeks until the general release happens? Or purchase a MandrakeClub subscription to legitimately download it early?
It makes no sense, you want to use Mandrake Linux, but you don't want the company to survive so you can continue using it?
Bunch of impatient freeloaders.
smeat!
So some company works hard to make a distibution one of the best out there, and you can't have the decency to either pay them for their hard work, or wait two weeks to freeload.
Mandrake is one of the greatest supporters of free software, and I don't mean the software you can get without paying someone, I mean open source software. They only allow open source software in the main distibution and support many open source projects.
smeat!
Wow you mean exactly like every SRPM in existance?
smeat!
I tried out "A Tale In The Desert" and it has a free 24 hours of playing trial with no credit card required.
I highly recommend the game.
smeatIf you think this is a good idea check out "A Tale In The Desert"
I have been playing it the last couple weeks. It has the coolest player run legal system.
smeat!Man I must be the luckiest person alive, every time I change my video card Bioware must recompile the Neverwinter Nights program just for me! I have never had NWN crash on me. All through the betas it has been stable. I think you are making shit up.
smeat!
Have you even tried the Linux beta? I will tell you right now the beta plays better than most final release games I have seen. Give it a try, see for yourself.
smeat!
I can play quake 3 and monitor my FPS. It never drops below 125 FPS. That is what I have it capped at because there is no need for it to be higher. So you are wrong.
They block Vonage.com from some places, so it would make sense they block Net2phone also. I had Vonage, and it worked great for about 2 weeks, but then stopped working. All of my traffic from my house went out just fine, *except* for port 5060 traffic, which was being NAT'd by one of their routers. I called and complained, and after being escalated to tier 3 techs, someone fixed it while I was on the phone with him. A week later, the same thing. Vonage got involved and called them and it was fixed. A couple more weeks and it was broken again. I cancelled my Vonage service.
ATT Broadband has a similar "competing" service. I would assume they are trying to stamp out any competition. Since these calls eventually hit a POTS line, wouldn't it be a felony to tamper with the communication?
Had I the time and the money, I would probably hire a lawyer and sue them just to piss them off. But unfortunately, I have not the money nor the time to do so.
Maybe you should call ATT and explain to them that since these calls hit the POTS system, that blocking their communication is a felony and if they don't fix it you will report them. Or hell, just report them anyway and see what happens.
HEY that is EVIL PhysicsGenius Troll to you buddy!
smeat!
I am using Mandrake 9.0 RC2 and it has an init script for lisa.
smeat!
It's possible that the settings are hidden. Try "man ata" and see if it shows the settings like it does on freebsd, and then try setting them with sysctl.
I know they bought the calendering stuff from a company called Steltor. Actually they just bought the company.
We were going to purchase Steltor Corporate Time at one point. We did not get the money to do it though.
The product was really nice, real-time calenders, MySQL backend. Mac, Windows, Outlook, and Linux clients. It did not do email, but there is no rule that says email and calendering have to be in the same program.
If you can afford it I am sure that the Oracle Suite is really nice.
smeat!
All you have to do is put in the resolutions that you want to try to run your monitor at and it will ask the monitor if it can do them. The first listed resolution is the default, it will do the max refresh that the monitor can do at that resolution.
For your reference.
XFree86 4.0 and above has always been able to do this. That is 2 year old news, come on!
smeat!
How do *YOU* know that? I'll bet you are on the watchlist.
smeat!
The new version of licq supports encryption. It uses the openssl libs to do it. It is only between other licq clients though. Pretty neat really.
http://www.licq.org
The answer to a lot of what you are asking is being addressed by Linux Mandrake. The new DrakConf tool that comes with Mandrake 7.0 gives you the ability to change your X resolutions with ease. In fact you can run it as a user and it just prompts you for the root password. The default install of KDE that comes with Mandrake has an icon for DrakConf right on the desktop. The program does a lot more than just change resolutions too. It alows you to add users, change services, do package management, configure printers, configure network, and run linuxconf if you can't get it with the tools that are available in DrakConf. In fact DrakConf sounds a lot like a Control Panel under windows that everyone is talking about in this thread. Also the documentation that comes with Linun Mandrake is some of the easiest to read I have found. Fully intergrated with the KDE Help system. Maybe more people should be checking out Linux Mandrake and what they are doing for Joe User.
I have not personally used the drivers for ATI cards, but I have used the ones for the Matrox G400. The G400 works excellent for me. On the mailing lists it sounds like the ATI drivers are coming along really nicely. From what I can tell AGP and DMA is working great. They are actaully working on a beta realease to be anounced Real Soon Now (TM). I would say that if you have the card you will not be disappointed in the performance you will get with the drivers.
One thing you do want to do though is read all the information they have on the Utah-GLX site. It does a really good job of telling you how to set everything up.
The solution I found was to get the newest lynx rpm and install that.
Worked great after that.
I guess they messed up on the compile or something.
Or you can use the source rpm too.
Did you also email mandrake with a bug report???
The True Type Fonts in Mandrake 6.0 work great. Set up by default and everything.
If you can get a copy I highly recomend it.
Bret
That command doesn't work with true type fonts.
You have to use ttmkfdir. But that messed up my system just like the other guys.
I am havin the same problem.
You can always comment out the ttf line in your XF86Config file. But that is just a temp solution.
That will get the Xserver up and goin.
If you have any luck gettin it to work email me at bbaptist@rocketmail.com, if you don't mind.