I've lurked around here quite a bit without posting; this seemed like a good opportunity to break that streak.
Many, like myself, didn't know Joel, but we used Debian and benefitted from the hard work that he put into it. It seems very appropriate for this release to be dedicated to him, as it sounds like it will lend itself to a great out-of-the box user experience. Joel's friends and family have my deepest condolences.
To Joel: Thanks for all of the hard work and your dedication to the community in spite of this disorder, You'll be greatly missed. --
I've already setup one OpenBSD box on my network as the gateway/firewall (IPNAT is great for this), and might be considering putting FreeBSD 4 on my workstation. Before I do this, I'd like to know how robust the SMP support in FreeBSD is when compared to that of the current Linux kernels (2.2.14/2.3.* series?). I heard once (a while ago) that the FreeBSD SMP kernel is similar to the SMP kernel from Linux 2.0.*, and it isn't quite as efficient/well-suited for SMP as Linux. Is this still the case? Does anyone have any first-hand experience with SMP between the two? Any problems?
Our family has also utilized the Gorilla Rack solution, although we have another implementation of them. We've taken a couple of them and replaced one of the particle board shelves with a table top (purchased from office supply place) that has two slits cut in it along the edges to fit snugly inside of the main vertical supports and extend outward to form a desk/workstation. Very solid and lots of space to store stuff. --
Nah, I'd say the problems lie in those companies that can't afford wetware and expect an "easy to use" gui-based OS to compensate for their decision to hire "air"ware. --
I might be looking at purhchasing an Athlon system or two, but before I do so I'd like to find some benchmarks of them running common Linux/Unix tasks, not benchmarks from a gamer's standpoint. Does anyone know of a site has Athlon kernel compile times/raytracing times/etc, or can anyone provide benchmarks based upon their own personal experiences?
I'm somewhat predisposed to buying an Athlon over a P3, but it'd be nice to have some more evidence to support this decision. --
Aside from the stuff I found at www.thinkgeek.com or the Palm/Visor, and a RAID of 18 GB U2W drives, all I really want is... THE PERFECTLY-TWEAKED FVWM2 CONFIG. I know this may be asking a little much of Santa, but I think he can deliver on it. --
Hmmmm, I don't know about you but I can tell he's lying. Using my Telepathy-over-IP (patent pending) I can sense that his roomate's computer is getting exactly 5.6 fps more than his running the same benchmark...
*sarcasm off*
How many games have you played under Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris/Irix/whatever ? Have you thoroughly benchmarked all the possible hardware/driver combinations under Linux using each game? How do you know that "There is no possible way that Linux is faster." What studies of the kernel architecture for each OS have you done that I can refer to in order to find truth in your statement?
Most of the/. community is not here to try and moderate you down and bash on you just because the majority of us use an operating system(s) currently engaged with Microsoft products in a stuggle for market share. You haven't even been moderated down yet, what makes you think we want to do that? Your opinion is as free as anyone else's, but that gives you no right to personally insult others and refute their claims without evidence to prove your points.
You may choose to insult me as you did the previous poster, daring the moderators to "hurt" your posts in some masochistic manner, but all of this would only serve to make us think less of you and what you have to say. --
He said that Q3 runs smoothly on NT, how would that lead you to believe that he was using a "POS" video card? There are other things that can cause an operating system to crash besides a poorly-designed kernel architecture that allows video drivers to bring a system to its knees. Perhaps you should consider whether or not your opinion is valid to anyone other than yourself and your "cult-friends" when you present it in a manner which only serves to agitate and demean others. I myself have had the q3demotest running on a win95 box, and it ran fine with a v3-2000 until the system crashed. I know this isn't an NT box which so many herald as being uncrashable, but it still reflects poorly upon the software manufacturers responsible for the OS and video drivers. If a comparable configuration in Linux would run the game as well or 5-10 fps lower I would choose the unix configuration, because I value being able to play (smoothly, at least) more than being able to boast about the extra 2.3 fps that I get over my neighbor and how that makes all the difference in the world. --
I'll second the advice of the previous replier and recommend typing 'man patch'. If it's anything like any of the other kernel patches, you're going to cd to/usr/src and type 'patch -p(0 or 1) --
I believe the original comment poster was referring the current state of XFS on linux (?), as it must be compiled as a module. Feel free to correct me on this, though. --
I got to play with a Dreamcast last week at a Best Buy and was pretty impressed by its capabilities. I got to play the boxing game that's being released today, and the motion and control looked fluid and didn't show any signs of chopiness. The Dreamcast has the horsepower to rule the console market (at least until the PS2), but it's the games that will make the system last. If Sega can get some sports games on this puppy I think it'll stand a much better chance than the PSX.
On a side note, what PowerVR chip does the Dreamcast use? I know that 3dfx sued Sega after they decided to use a PowerVR chip, but I'd like to know what chip it was...
Are the modems on the VAIOs also compatible with Linux? I'll be in the market for a Linux-friendly notebook in a little while, and it would be handy to have a modem in it that functions well with something other than Windows.
Linux DVD player + VAIO laptop with 14" LCD and DVD == Total Action Satisifaction:)
I've used a TNT and a V3 in the same box, and they both seem to be pretty quick in 2d. Q3Test is really only playable with the V3, though. I'm hoping that XFree4.0, and possibly this 3dfx DRI will change the Free Un*x 3d landscape...
I remember when I got a Super Soaker XP-Something or another and gained a new appreciation for the work that Laramie had put into their products. I squirted everybody that I could, and became a proficient sprinter at the same time. I became dissatisfied with the performance of the weapon after a short while, and proceeded to modify it. It turns out, that on this particular model there was a two-part nozzle that had a little cone-shaped piece of plastic in the middle that forced the water out at greater pressures. I decided to remove this and see what happened. Needless to say, the distance on my shots decreased from about 35' to 15', and my endurance in water battles was greatly diminished, but there's nothing better than jumping out of some bushes at someone and emptying your whole tank of water on them in under 5 seconds. Kind of like the "Sawed-off shotgun" approach to water battles...
All of you who don't have to sit through a season watching the Twins play budget-ball should consider yourselves lucky, regardless of who's representing who in the All-Star game... I'd be overjoyed if our Twinkie's owner wasn't such a total tight-wad and decided to allow us be just a little more competitive with the rest of the league. So enjoy your high-priced baseball for all it's worth, baseball could be much much worse for those of you in the Northeast.
I agree that Gravity's Rainbow was difficult to read if you approach it as you would approach most novels that have a very linear and well-defined plot. It took me a while to get through the first 400 pages of GR, but once I started letting the parts of the book flow and meld together and stopped trying to always keep track of each character's exact situation the reading went much more quickly and I enjoyed the book a great deal more. Granted, this approach doesn't lend itself very well to memorizing facts about the story, and I did have to page back through the book to look up things that I might have missed, but this technique seemed to work very well for me and gave me a glimpse at what Pynchon was trying to get across to his readers. I would recommend this book to others, but only if you don't mind the prospect of 800+ pages of weird and convoluted writing.
I have a SuperMicro P6DGE with a single P2-333 oc'ed to 416 that has been very stable for me ever since I bought it in March. I would definitely recommend this board to anyone else looking for an SMP config, but make sure that the case you choose for such a system is large enough to accomadate the motherboard and has adequate cooling for your system's components.
I've been using a Supermicro P6DGE with a single PII-333 oc'ed to 416 for about 2 months now, and it works just fine. I just wish I could get my stupid processor up to 500...
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I've lurked around here quite a bit without posting; this seemed like a good opportunity to break that streak.
Many, like myself, didn't know Joel, but we used Debian and benefitted from the hard work that he put into it. It seems very appropriate for this release to be dedicated to him, as it sounds like it will lend itself to a great out-of-the box user experience. Joel's friends and family have my deepest condolences.
To Joel: Thanks for all of the hard work and your dedication to the community in spite of this disorder, You'll be greatly missed.
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I've already setup one OpenBSD box on my network as the gateway/firewall (IPNAT is great for this), and might be considering putting FreeBSD 4 on my workstation. Before I do this, I'd like to know how robust the SMP support in FreeBSD is when compared to that of the current Linux kernels (2.2.14/2.3.* series?). I heard once (a while ago) that the FreeBSD SMP kernel is similar to the SMP kernel from Linux 2.0.*, and it isn't quite as efficient/well-suited for SMP as Linux. Is this still the case? Does anyone have any first-hand experience with SMP between the two? Any problems?
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Our family has also utilized the Gorilla Rack solution, although we have another implementation of them. We've taken a couple of them and replaced one of the particle board shelves with a table top (purchased from office supply place) that has two slits cut in it along the edges to fit snugly inside of the main vertical supports and extend outward to form a desk/workstation. Very solid and lots of space to store stuff.
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I dumped core and broke my woody...
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Nah, I'd say the problems lie in those companies that can't afford wetware and expect an "easy to use" gui-based OS to compensate for their decision to hire "air"ware.
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I might be looking at purhchasing an Athlon system or two, but before I do so I'd like to find some benchmarks of them running common Linux/Unix tasks, not benchmarks from a gamer's standpoint. Does anyone know of a site has Athlon kernel compile times/raytracing times/etc, or can anyone provide benchmarks based upon their own personal experiences?
I'm somewhat predisposed to buying an Athlon over a P3, but it'd be nice to have some more evidence to support this decision.
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Aside from the stuff I found at www.thinkgeek.com or the Palm/Visor, and a RAID of 18 GB U2W drives, all I really want is ...
THE PERFECTLY-TWEAKED FVWM2 CONFIG.
I know this may be asking a little much of Santa, but I think he can deliver on it.
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Whoops, if the reply to the above post is correct, my statement is waaaaay out of line. I hope this preemptive apology will do the trick...
Anonymous counter-troller, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you weren't the original poster.
slinks away to hide under a rock
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Hmmmm, I don't know about you but I can tell he's lying. Using my Telepathy-over-IP (patent pending) I can sense that his roomate's computer is getting exactly 5.6 fps more than his running the same benchmark...
r ? Have you thoroughly benchmarked all the possible hardware/driver combinations under Linux using each game? How do you know that "There is no possible way that Linux is faster." What studies of the kernel architecture for each OS have you done that I can refer to in order to find truth in your statement?
/. community is not here to try and moderate you down and bash on you just because the majority of us use an operating system(s) currently engaged with Microsoft products in a stuggle for market share. You haven't even been moderated down yet, what makes you think we want to do that? Your opinion is as free as anyone else's, but that gives you no right to personally insult others and refute their claims without evidence to prove your points.
*sarcasm off*
How many games have you played under Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris/Irix/whateve
Most of the
You may choose to insult me as you did the previous poster, daring the moderators to "hurt" your posts in some masochistic manner, but all of this would only serve to make us think less of you and what you have to say.
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He said that Q3 runs smoothly on NT, how would that lead you to believe that he was using a "POS" video card? There are other things that can cause an operating system to crash besides a poorly-designed kernel architecture that allows video drivers to bring a system to its knees.
Perhaps you should consider whether or not your opinion is valid to anyone other than yourself and your "cult-friends" when you present it in a manner which only serves to agitate and demean others.
I myself have had the q3demotest running on a win95 box, and it ran fine with a v3-2000 until the system crashed. I know this isn't an NT box which so many herald as being uncrashable, but it still reflects poorly upon the software manufacturers responsible for the OS and video drivers. If a comparable configuration in Linux would run the game as well or 5-10 fps lower I would choose the unix configuration, because I value being able to play (smoothly, at least) more than being able to boast about the extra 2.3 fps that I get over my neighbor and how that makes all the difference in the world.
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I'll second the advice of the previous replier and recommend typing 'man patch'. If it's anything like any of the other kernel patches, you're going to cd to /usr/src and type 'patch -p(0 or 1)
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Uhhh, I'm sure we can dig up at least 3^3 window managers for X. And variety is good.
3-Button Mice are good.
3 browsers (popular) Netscape, Mozilla, Lynx.
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I believe the original comment poster was referring the current state of XFS on linux (?), as it must be compiled as a module. Feel free to correct me on this, though.
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Whoops, this:
"I think it'll stand a much better chance than the PSX."
should say:
"I think it'll stand a much better chance than the Saturn."
sorry about that...
I got to play with a Dreamcast last week at a Best Buy and was pretty impressed by its capabilities. I got to play the boxing game that's being released today, and the motion and control looked fluid and didn't show any signs of chopiness. The Dreamcast has the horsepower to rule the console market (at least until the PS2), but it's the games that will make the system last. If Sega can get some sports games on this puppy I think it'll stand a much better chance than the PSX.
On a side note, what PowerVR chip does the Dreamcast use? I know that 3dfx sued Sega after they decided to use a PowerVR chip, but I'd like to know what chip it was...
Are the modems on the VAIOs also compatible with Linux? I'll be in the market for a Linux-friendly notebook in a little while, and it would be handy to have a modem in it that functions well with something other than Windows.
Linux DVD player + VAIO laptop with 14" LCD and DVD == Total Action Satisifaction:)
I've used a TNT and a V3 in the same box, and they both seem to be pretty quick in 2d. Q3Test is really only playable with the V3, though. I'm hoping that XFree4.0, and possibly this 3dfx DRI will change the Free Un*x 3d landscape...
I believe that He's using BOCHS to run Win95 in this shot...
I remember when I got a Super Soaker XP-Something or another and gained a new appreciation for the work that Laramie had put into their products. I squirted everybody that I could, and became a proficient sprinter at the same time. I became dissatisfied with the performance of the weapon after a short while, and proceeded to modify it. It turns out, that on this particular model there was a two-part nozzle that had a little cone-shaped piece of plastic in the middle that forced the water out at greater pressures. I decided to remove this and see what happened. Needless to say, the distance on my shots decreased from about 35' to 15', and my endurance in water battles was greatly diminished, but there's nothing better than jumping out of some bushes at someone and emptying your whole tank of water on them in under 5 seconds. Kind of like the "Sawed-off shotgun" approach to water battles...
All of you who don't have to sit through a season watching the Twins play budget-ball should consider yourselves lucky, regardless of who's representing who in the All-Star game... I'd be overjoyed if our Twinkie's owner wasn't such a total tight-wad and decided to allow us be just a little more competitive with the rest of the league. So enjoy your high-priced baseball for all it's worth, baseball could be much much worse for those of you in the Northeast.
I agree that Gravity's Rainbow was difficult to read if you approach it as you would approach most novels that have a very linear and well-defined plot. It took me a while to get through the first 400 pages of GR, but once I started letting the parts of the book flow and meld together and stopped trying to always keep track of each character's exact situation the reading went much more quickly and I enjoyed the book a great deal more. Granted, this approach doesn't lend itself very well to memorizing facts about the story, and I did have to page back through the book to look up things that I might have missed, but this technique seemed to work very well for me and gave me a glimpse at what Pynchon was trying to get across to his readers. I would recommend this book to others, but only if you don't mind the prospect of 800+ pages of weird and convoluted writing.
I have a SuperMicro P6DGE with a single P2-333 oc'ed to 416 that has been very stable for me ever since I bought it in March. I would definitely recommend this board to anyone else looking for an SMP config, but make sure that the case you choose for such a system is large enough to accomadate the motherboard and has adequate cooling for your system's components.
To restate the sentiments of those who posted above me, THANK YOU!, and "you truly are the Man!"
I've been using a Supermicro P6DGE with a single PII-333 oc'ed to 416 for about 2 months now, and it works just fine. I just wish I could get my stupid processor up to 500...
Actually, on single-texturing the Banshee is somewhat faster, since its default clockspeed is higher.