I have tried several times few months ago to write a small report and give it to a user with Office 97 - he couldn't open it.
Worse - some versions of Office 97 don't read other office 97 docs! try to send an english docs that was written with Hebrew/Arabic support to a user with Office 97 - he won't be able to read the docs (comes messy)
Oh, I (and lots of other people) wish there was such a converter. I emailed PowerQuest about adding ReiserFS support for Partition Magic - but so far, I didn't get any answer from them
Although it wasn't on the official Linux kernel 2.3/2.4.xtest - it was used quite extensivley by people, and the main download site of sourceforge - got all the partitions with ReiserFs - so when you do CVS check in/out, or downloading from sourceforge - you're downloading from a ReiserFS built machine - with quite big hard disks - 750GB
Yes, but frame buffer gives you less then minimum of what your graphics card have. Stuff like hardware drawing acceleration, hardware cursor, video, 3D, and other features are not supported at all..
So yes, it's nice for a simple graphics appplication, but nothing more then that...
I can't imagine ANY serious Linux distributor that will put 2.4.0 on it's new version of Linux..
I guess that everyone will wait until at least something like 2.4.2 or 2.4.3 to put those kernels as default - and even then - you'll have on the 2nd (or the 3rd) CD the 2.2.X kernel to fall back to..
I would really suggest to people who wants to use ReiserFS to wait for kernel 2.4.1 and enjoy the benefits of bug fixes + ReiserFS in 1 complete stock kernel...
The S/390 port was started by volunteers which, indeed, did it on their spare time..
At the same time, few engineers from IBM heard about the idea and started to port Linux to S/390 without telling anyone outside IBM and THAT's the port that everyone knows about (it includes a proprietary network driver).
If I'm not mistaken, there is a story about it in Salon's archives.
The program got a built-in search engine, and from GUI aspect, I think a collapse tree is very confusing. The tree is "folded", so you can either "open" the tree or use the search engine..
According to Matrox, the binary only part cannot be open sourced due to third party licenses, as well as Macrovision implementation - which cannot be revealed yet.
However, they're planning to release more documents for their cards..
I have Matrox G400 here (Dual head) and I Geforce at work. Although the NVidia driver is way faster in 3D - it crashes a lot, and leave you with a graphical screen - and you have to reboot in order to exit this mode..
I really don't understand how can they make it work at all..
by blocking *.mp3 to be copied? so we'll call it *.mpeg3. by not letting you copy DivX movies? rename it. These format doesn't add some "copy protections" on the files...
What else? Windows Media files? bullshit. I can immitate today a "windows player" which is actually a script file that pulls the data and identify itself as a WMA player. It's not that hard..
I really don't understand this purposal. Are they that naive? it will be hacked within 1 week and there will be Windows/Linux/other-os's patches/firmwares/drivers that will bypass this stupid copy-protection.
Then why bother?
They tried it in the 80's (copy protection on 5.25" floppies), in the 90's (remember Dongles?) and it was hacked all over and appeared then on BBS's, and now with the net it will take much shorter time - all you need is 1 or 2 15 years old bored kid and he'll hack it...
The Nautilus is not just a file manager, but also a package installer..
I think you can port the file manager part quite easily, but the package installer (it downloads the packages from their database) is a whole new ball game, and unless somone wants to put all the effort (and it's a HUGE effort) to create a new database with all the packages - then chances are slim..
On this issue, Keith from the X core dev. team has hacked QT libraries which actually shows you EVERYTHING on KDE.
Which means - once this extension will be officially released (probably in XFree 4.0.2) - and TrollTech will add Keith's modifications - then you could use the anti-aliasing fonts - but it won't be worth to lots of people here..
Why? cause only Matrox graphics card got this hardware accelerated. Others (for now) if they want to use it will need to use software rendering - which is VERY slow.
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Not correct..
I have tried several times few months ago to write a small report and give it to a user with Office 97 - he couldn't open it.
Worse - some versions of Office 97 don't read other office 97 docs! try to send an english docs that was written with Hebrew/Arabic support to a user with Office 97 - he won't be able to read the docs (comes messy)
You can get the latest KDE for compaq Tru64 Unix from ftp.kde.org.
You can also find KDE 2.0.1 for AIX, SGI, HP-UX, Solaris, S/390, SCO, *BSD, and ofcourse - all Linux packages...
Donno about Gnome. I'm not following it.
Oh, I (and lots of other people) wish there was such a converter. I emailed PowerQuest about adding ReiserFS support for Partition Magic - but so far, I didn't get any answer from them
Please send it to the mailing list, with a detailed report, and a log from your /var/log/messages with the part that went wrong.
Someone will look at it over there. Mailing to Linus won't help you since he got nothing to do with AMI Megatrend..
Although it wasn't on the official Linux kernel 2.3/2.4.xtest - it was used quite extensivley by people, and the main download site of sourceforge - got all the partitions with ReiserFs - so when you do CVS check in/out, or downloading from sourceforge - you're downloading from a ReiserFS built machine - with quite big hard disks - 750GB
Yup. The newest LILO (26.1?) supports booting from ReiserFS partition. Check freshmeat.net
Yes, but frame buffer gives you less then minimum of what your graphics card have. Stuff like hardware drawing acceleration, hardware cursor, video, 3D, and other features are not supported at all..
So yes, it's nice for a simple graphics appplication, but nothing more then that...
I can't imagine ANY serious Linux distributor that will put 2.4.0 on it's new version of Linux..
I guess that everyone will wait until at least something like 2.4.2 or 2.4.3 to put those kernels as default - and even then - you'll have on the 2nd (or the 3rd) CD the 2.2.X kernel to fall back to..
I would really suggest to people who wants to use ReiserFS to wait for kernel 2.4.1 and enjoy the benefits of bug fixes + ReiserFS in 1 complete stock kernel...
Actually, I heard that Linuxcare Australia are working on porting Linux to Ex000 machines.
Not sure though...
Seems that the facts are mixed here...
The S/390 port was started by volunteers which, indeed, did it on their spare time..
At the same time, few engineers from IBM heard about the idea and started to port Linux to S/390 without telling anyone outside IBM and THAT's the port that everyone knows about (it includes a proprietary network driver).
If I'm not mistaken, there is a story about it in Salon's archives.
> There's actually some evidence that they are using GTK...
Nop. QT 2 is being used.
As I said in another post - the GUI will be skinnable and you will have the option to use the Aduva Manager with a standard GUI.
The program got a built-in search engine, and from GUI aspect, I think a collapse tree is very confusing. The tree is "folded", so you can either "open" the tree or use the search engine..
It will be skinnable in newer versions, so you will have this GUI, as well as the standard GUI that you're used too.
Kerberos is still open - widely open...
Just because Microsoft has filled few places with their proprietory extentions - that doesn't make an open protocol proprietary...
Ask Redhat - they install kerberos as default if memory serves correct..
Nop.
The binary only part of matrox drivers has now been compiled on Alpha also, so Alpha users can use Dual head now..
According to Matrox, the binary only part cannot be open sourced due to third party licenses, as well as Macrovision implementation - which cannot be revealed yet.
However, they're planning to release more documents for their cards..
I have Matrox G400 here (Dual head) and I Geforce at work. Although the NVidia driver is way faster in 3D - it crashes a lot, and leave you with a graphical screen - and you have to reboot in order to exit this mode..
Sigh...
I really don't understand how can they make it work at all..
by blocking *.mp3 to be copied? so we'll call it *.mpeg3. by not letting you copy DivX movies? rename it. These format doesn't add some "copy protections" on the files...
What else? Windows Media files? bullshit. I can immitate today a "windows player" which is actually a script file that pulls the data and identify itself as a WMA player. It's not that hard..
I really don't understand this purposal. Are they that naive? it will be hacked within 1 week and there will be Windows/Linux/other-os's patches/firmwares/drivers that will bypass this stupid copy-protection.
Then why bother?
They tried it in the 80's (copy protection on 5.25" floppies), in the 90's (remember Dongles?) and it was hacked all over and appeared then on BBS's, and now with the net it will take much shorter time - all you need is 1 or 2 15 years old bored kid and he'll hack it...
lame corps.. go figure
Linux will be one of the first OS's to have this protocol support..
The Nautilus is not just a file manager, but also a package installer..
I think you can port the file manager part quite easily, but the package installer (it downloads the packages from their database) is a whole new ball game, and unless somone wants to put all the effort (and it's a HUGE effort) to create a new database with all the packages - then chances are slim..
Not the drive - the controller.
Heh :)
/. community would be interested, then I post it..
:)
I'm already 2 years posting stories in slashdot..
I don't post as frequent as hemos or cmdrtco, but when I find a good story which I think that the
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They started to build KDE 2.1 which will be backward compatible with KDE 2.0
Yes, you're point is correct, but..
:)
On this issue, Keith from the X core dev. team has hacked QT libraries which actually shows you EVERYTHING on KDE.
Which means - once this extension will be officially released (probably in XFree 4.0.2) - and TrollTech will add Keith's modifications - then you could use the anti-aliasing fonts - but it won't be worth to lots of people here..
Why? cause only Matrox graphics card got this hardware accelerated. Others (for now) if they want to use it will need to use software rendering - which is VERY slow.
So, Matrox users - smile
I suggest you take a look here
Although it is not ready for prime time - it shows good signs of progress, and I expect the next release to have IMAP support.