Last time i checked, Redhat Mandrake SuSE is commercial, and a lot of others.
Last time I checked every program that Redhat and Mandrake write for their distributions is under the GNU GPL. SuSE make an exception with their YAST, so I don't run SuSE.
There's nothing wrong with people making money from free software, as song as it remains free. As one slashdotter put it, free software is the only one that deserves to be paid for.
Talking of stability, remember that ReiserFS spent a whole year in SuSE and half an year in Mandrake before being inserted into the official kernel.
I'm using ReiserFS from the first 2.4.1 and quite happy with it. I'm still glad to see other alternatives added, though, and from what I've read Phase Tree is the most interesting thing yet to come but obviously still in an early stage.
Don't know first hand about XP but I had to install W2k at my previous job. In order to work with ATA100 I needed a disquette from the manufacturer. Mandrake 8.0 had all that was needed on its own disks.
But here comes the interesting part. The disk had come tied to an IDE interface. When I changed it to ATA100 all I had to do in Linux was to boot from the floppy and then change all the places where hda was mentioned in/etc/fstab to hdg. (I didn't have to guess the proper letter; it was displayed during the bootup.) W2K had to be _reinstalled_.
How about that for easiness of (re)installation)?
As far as XP goes I heard a funny story from a friend who administers Windows machines. He said they demanded their own DNS and refused to work with a standard DNS server. Know anything about that?
I run Mandrake 8.0 and it really achieves perfect compatibility with RedHat 7.1. I have 3 RedHat CDs from a magazine and every program that I didn't have on Mandrake I took from Red Hat without any problems. These include TFTP server (the Mandrake version was broken), DDD, Ethereal (from the RedHat's Power Tools).
There are many other distros (like SuSE and Caldera) that use rpm packages but from what I hear, it's a real PITA to try and install a RedHat rpm with them.
I hope there will be the same compatibility between Mandrake 8.1 and RedHat 7.2.
Patch if you're on 2.4.6 and use iptables.Our sysadmin even posted a cry for help on the kernel mailing list but they didn't even reply to tell him that that was not the place for that.
Or, The Coroner's Toolkit written by Dan Farmer (Earthlink) and Wietse Venema (IBM) will show you not only files that were written but also those that were deleted after the instalation and could even undelete them for you. Unfortunately, I don't think they have covered ReiserFS, but their kit works for many other filesystems, including ext2. Their kit was intended for post mortem examinations of compromised systems but should work in this case as well.
You can also type:
# find/etc -mmin 10 to see all the files that were changed in/etc in the last ten minutes.
I guess I'll be the n-th person to point here
where it says:
Licensing
The product is free and there is no software enforcement that restricts distribution. The product is issued under a standard Sun Binary Code License.
There was a Framemaker beta like 5.5 or something for Linux but later they anounced that it won't become a real product because of not enough interest.
My only guess would be that you hate msft in the guts. Of all the programming books that you could have recommended, how could you suggest Writing Solid Code?
I have the book and I read it more than once. There is nothing there that you wouldn't be able to find in hundreds of other books. BTW, people that still use Hungarian notation for variable naming must be rare that COBOL programmers.
The most important thing is to have/home in a separate partition. That way you can experiment with all kind of distributions, always reformat/, but retain all your stuff. swap should be separate too, of course. And remember, Linux lives quite happily in extended partitions. You can have only four primary but you can have up to seven separate partitions (if I'm not mistaken) in every one of them if you turn it to extended. By doing this you don't lose performance or stability.
With the new lilo (or if you prefer the grub) you can boot from any cylinder so you don't need separate/boot anymore.
I've been using ReiserFS that comes with Mandrake 7.2 for three months now both with 2.2.17/18 and 2.4pre-sthg, now stable. My only concern was that I wasn't able to use a standard kernel. Now I can't wait for 2.4.1.
If I choose to give, instead of my phone number, the place that it first appears in PI, is it likely that it will have more digits than the numer itself or less?
Am I the only one who has the feeling that the Cracked story was published on the net before? I didn't remember the details but I knew was what going to happen all along.
It makes sense when you read for example the explanation why MySQL is free (personal use only) for Linux, and not for Windows. The reason is that you pay much more to be able to develop anything on Windows. Your OS costs money, the compiler, debugger and all other development tools usually cost something so developing free (beer) software for Windows could be qualified perhaps as sponsoring Microsoft.
I don't know anything about Python except that it uses whitespace for blocks. The funny thing is that I have to maintain two huge Perl scripts written by a guy who doesn't care at all about indentation. I am sure that if there's hell he'll be forced to write in some language like Python until the end of times in order to pay for his deeds. I would choose the self imposed discipline any day of the week but some people just need it fixed in the language otherwise they won't bother.
The Internet access is supposed to cost $5 per month - and possibly less in low-wage Countries
Could you tell me when is this supposed to happen? I work in a small company in Bulgaria (this is on the Balkan Peninsula, Europe), and we pay $300 per month for the Internet connection and another $35 for the leased line. This isn't much but we only get 14400 bps for the whole LAN of nine PCs, three Macs and a Linux server (This sounded a bit like The Last Supper, didn't it?:)).
The ISPs say that it's the connection to the USA that is expensive but I think that those prices are much smaller in the Central and West European countries.
Linux & OSS have a lot more people working on it that MS does
I was thinking of this today and my guess is that there actually are more people writing code for the Win32 platforms if you count the shareware writers (and you can't possibly leave them out). They produce some great programs as well.
Linux has the advantage, though, that not everyone has to start a project from scratch because all the code written before you is already there, and thus the wheel is being reinvented far less often. So the total number of programs for Linux is smaller but the good pieces are more likely to be kept alive, no matter what their original author goes to next.
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StarOffice is ported to Linux. I don't know whether it counts because it was already ported when Sun bought it. I was never able to install it to Linux because it wanted glibc 2.0.7 and didn't like glibc 2.1. I searched through deja news but never found a remedy.
I was planning to use StarOffice to convert the office computers gradually from Win95 to Linux. It turned out though that because of a bug StarOffice was useless to write in cyrillic in Win95. I wrote them twice explaining the bug but I only got automated answers from which it was clear that their software didn't recognise to whom of their staff to address the problem. It's been several years since I last touched C code but I don't think that I would need more than a day to find and correct the bug if I had the source. Two or three hours if not distracted, I guess.
Guys like gates, love them or hate them, usually aren't motivated by money...
I think guys like him are mostly motivated by being more succesful than the others and because they only measure success through the money they accumulated, I bet he's happy for every cent more that he gets. Of course, he can't spend them, and it even seems that he's going to give to charity most of them. But he would still try and get as much money as he can even if only to set a bigger record and to prove to the world and to his father that he really make it.
So the end result is that he's in for the money after all.
Small code is indeed a beauty in itself. I remember an assembler and a debugger for DOS that were each around 20 K (uncompressed!). I can't recall their names unfortunately. IIRC the author was an Intel engineer.
The documentation warned not to blink during compilation or otherwise you'd miss the whole process. Mind you, it meant 80286. If one worked on 8088 there was less to miss in a single blinking of an eye.
My onboard AGP SiS 6326 (8MB RAM) supports both bitblt and imageblt. accel does create problems so it's disabled. All this is true for 3.3.3.1, 3.3.5 and now for 3.9.16 which I got brave enough to compile it a fortnight ago.
The experimental X server looks quite stable to me but indeed for my particular video chip there isn't noticable improvement and only 4 MB of its RAM are supported.
"The Man does not care about you! You are not interesting to the Man! The Man consider the lint on his Armani suit to be more important than your entire existence, the existence of your parents, and those of your future children, spouses, and pets! You are a nobody! Wake up and get a life!"
Ok, we do consider ourselves more important than we actually are but you make the same mistake by placing superhuman powers in the hands of the Man. The thing is that the Man cannot enter your head and even if he could that woudn't help him much in case you're a looney. So the Man _has to_ screen everyone because he simply isn't able to distinguish the resolved ones from the talkers.
Today I'm a college nut who talks about drawning the capitalist pigs in a bloodbath. Everyone is laughing at me. Tomorrow I find another nut who gives me money to buy me bombs. I blow up a shopping centre. Who could have anticipated that?
Everyone knows how huge the Internet is. So an uneducated guess would be that it would be difficult and expensive to watch it all. But it would require less manpower than to open everyone's letters in a single city.
So what we have here is both the necessity to screen the data flow in order to catch at least a small percentage of the active terrorists, for example, and the technology to do it quite efficient and in real time. What government, which can afford it, would miss the opportunity?
Now comes the scary part. After all the job is done by humans and you happen to be in their perimeter of interest just because you constantly tell jokes about revolutions. Ah, but how would the Man be able to tell how serious you are unless you are scrutinized more closely? So there.
The way DOS systems go, you need Zip, RAR, ACE, ARJ, LZH, TAR/gzip, and a few others to be able to download any piece of software at random off the net and stand a chance of decompressing it...
Actually any decent ZIP program decompresses most if not all of these whereas gzip and bzip behave rather snobbishly talking only to themselves.
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Last time I checked every program that Redhat and Mandrake write for their distributions is under the GNU GPL. SuSE make an exception with their YAST, so I don't run SuSE.
There's nothing wrong with people making money from free software, as song as it remains free. As one slashdotter put it, free software is the only one that deserves to be paid for.
Talking of stability, remember that ReiserFS spent a whole year in SuSE and half an year in Mandrake before being inserted into the official kernel.
I'm using ReiserFS from the first 2.4.1 and quite happy with it. I'm still glad to see other alternatives added, though, and from what I've read Phase Tree is the most interesting thing yet to come but obviously still in an early stage.
Perhaps this is Linus' way of saying: "Ok, Alan, I'm sorry about the VM. Are we even now?"
Ok, I'll bite.
/etc/fstab to hdg. (I didn't have to guess the proper letter; it was displayed during the bootup.) W2K had to be _reinstalled_.
Don't know first hand about XP but I had to install W2k at my previous job. In order to work with ATA100 I needed a disquette from the manufacturer. Mandrake 8.0 had all that was needed on its own disks.
But here comes the interesting part. The disk had come tied to an IDE interface. When I changed it to ATA100 all I had to do in Linux was to boot from the floppy and then change all the places where hda was mentioned in
How about that for easiness of (re)installation)?
As far as XP goes I heard a funny story from a friend who administers Windows machines. He said they demanded their own DNS and refused to work with a standard DNS server. Know anything about that?
I would surely vote Catch 22 as the best book written in the 20th century.
He died less than two years ago.
I run Mandrake 8.0 and it really achieves perfect compatibility with RedHat 7.1. I have 3 RedHat CDs from a magazine and every program that I didn't have on Mandrake I took from Red Hat without any problems. These include TFTP server (the Mandrake version was broken), DDD, Ethereal (from the RedHat's Power Tools).
There are many other distros (like SuSE and Caldera) that use rpm packages but from what I hear, it's a real PITA to try and install a RedHat rpm with them.
I hope there will be the same compatibility between Mandrake 8.1 and RedHat 7.2.
Do you believe that Americans are behind the attack? Because it's only you who put the month in front of a date.
Muslisms even have their own calendar that has nothing to do with Jesus' resurrection.
Patch if you're on 2.4.6 and use iptables.Our sysadmin even posted a cry for help on the kernel mailing list but they didn't even reply to tell him that that was not the place for that.
You can also type:
# find /etc -mmin 10 /etc in the last ten minutes.
to see all the files that were changed in
Licensing
The product is free and there is no software enforcement that restricts distribution. The product is issued under a standard Sun Binary Code License.
Now who'll come up to explain what that means?
There was a Framemaker beta like 5.5 or something for Linux but later they anounced that it won't become a real product because of not enough interest.
My only guess would be that you hate msft in the guts. Of all the programming books that you could have recommended, how could you suggest Writing Solid Code? I have the book and I read it more than once. There is nothing there that you wouldn't be able to find in hundreds of other books. BTW, people that still use Hungarian notation for variable naming must be rare that COBOL programmers.
The most important thing is to have /home in a separate partition. That way you can experiment with all kind of distributions, always reformat /, but retain all your stuff. swap should be separate too, of course. And remember, Linux lives quite happily in extended partitions. You can have only four primary but you can have up to seven separate partitions (if I'm not mistaken) in every one of them if you turn it to extended. By doing this you don't lose performance or stability.
/boot anymore.
With the new lilo (or if you prefer the grub) you can boot from any cylinder so you don't need separate
I've been using ReiserFS that comes with Mandrake 7.2 for three months now both with 2.2.17/18 and 2.4pre-sthg, now stable. My only concern was that I wasn't able to use a standard kernel. Now I can't wait for 2.4.1.
If I choose to give, instead of my phone number, the place that it first appears in PI, is it likely that it will have more digits than the numer itself or less?
Am I the only one who has the feeling that the Cracked story was published on the net before? I didn't remember the details but I knew was what going to happen all along.
It makes sense when you read for example the explanation why MySQL is free (personal use only) for Linux, and not for Windows. The reason is that you pay much more to be able to develop anything on Windows. Your OS costs money, the compiler, debugger and all other development tools usually cost something so developing free (beer) software for Windows could be qualified perhaps as sponsoring Microsoft.
I don't know anything about Python except that it uses whitespace for blocks. The funny thing is that I have to maintain two huge Perl scripts written by a guy who doesn't care at all about indentation. I am sure that if there's hell he'll be forced to write in some language like Python until the end of times in order to pay for his deeds. I would choose the self imposed discipline any day of the week but some people just need it fixed in the language otherwise they won't bother.
Could you tell me when is this supposed to happen? I work in a small company in Bulgaria (this is on the Balkan Peninsula, Europe), and we pay $300 per month for the Internet connection and another $35 for the leased line. This isn't much but we only get 14400 bps for the whole LAN of nine PCs, three Macs and a Linux server (This sounded a bit like The Last Supper, didn't it? :)).
The ISPs say that it's the connection to the USA that is expensive but I think that those prices are much smaller in the Central and West European countries.
Linux & OSS have a lot more people working on it that MS does
I was thinking of this today and my guess is that there actually are more people writing code for the Win32 platforms if you count the shareware writers (and you can't possibly leave them out). They produce some great programs as well.
Linux has the advantage, though, that not everyone has to start a project from scratch because all the code written before you is already there, and thus the wheel is being reinvented far less often. So the total number of programs for Linux is smaller but the good pieces are more likely to be kept alive, no matter what their original author goes to next.
StarOffice is ported to Linux. I don't know whether it counts because it was already ported when Sun bought it. I was never able to install it to Linux because it wanted glibc 2.0.7 and didn't like glibc 2.1. I searched through deja news but never found a remedy.
I was planning to use StarOffice to convert the office computers gradually from Win95 to Linux. It turned out though that because of a bug StarOffice was useless to write in cyrillic in Win95. I wrote them twice explaining the bug but I only got automated answers from which it was clear that their software didn't recognise to whom of their staff to address the problem. It's been several years since I last touched C code but I don't think that I would need more than a day to find and correct the bug if I had the source. Two or three hours if not distracted, I guess.
Guys like gates, love them or hate them, usually aren't motivated by money...
I think guys like him are mostly motivated by being more succesful than the others and because they only measure success through the money they accumulated, I bet he's happy for every cent more that he gets. Of course, he can't spend them, and it even seems that he's going to give to charity most of them. But he would still try and get as much money as he can even if only to set a bigger record and to prove to the world and to his father that he really make it.
So the end result is that he's in for the money after all.
Small code is indeed a beauty in itself. I remember an assembler and a debugger for DOS that were each around 20 K (uncompressed!). I can't recall their names unfortunately. IIRC the author was an Intel engineer.
The documentation warned not to blink during compilation or otherwise you'd miss the whole process. Mind you, it meant 80286. If one worked on 8088 there was less to miss in a single blinking of an eye.
My onboard AGP SiS 6326 (8MB RAM) supports both bitblt and imageblt. accel does create problems so it's disabled. All this is true for 3.3.3.1, 3.3.5 and now for 3.9.16 which I got brave enough to compile it a fortnight ago.
The experimental X server looks quite stable to me but indeed for my particular video chip there isn't noticable improvement and only 4 MB of its RAM are supported.
"The Man does not care about you! You are not interesting to the Man! The Man consider the lint on his Armani suit to be more important than your entire existence, the existence of your parents, and those of your future children, spouses, and pets! You are a nobody! Wake up and get a life!"
Ok, we do consider ourselves more important than we actually are but you make the same mistake by placing superhuman powers in the hands of the Man. The thing is that the Man cannot enter your head and even if he could that woudn't help him much in case you're a looney. So the Man _has to_ screen everyone because he simply isn't able to distinguish the resolved ones from the talkers.
Today I'm a college nut who talks about drawning the capitalist pigs in a bloodbath. Everyone is laughing at me. Tomorrow I find another nut who gives me money to buy me bombs. I blow up a shopping centre. Who could have anticipated that?
Everyone knows how huge the Internet is. So an uneducated guess would be that it would be difficult and expensive to watch it all. But it would require less manpower than to open everyone's letters in a single city.
So what we have here is both the necessity to screen the data flow in order to catch at least a small percentage of the active terrorists, for example, and the technology to do it quite efficient and in real time. What government, which can afford it, would miss the opportunity?
Now comes the scary part. After all the job is done by humans and you happen to be in their perimeter of interest just because you constantly tell jokes about revolutions. Ah, but how would the Man be able to tell how serious you are unless you are scrutinized more closely? So there.
The way DOS systems go, you need Zip, RAR, ACE, ARJ, LZH, TAR/gzip, and a few others to be able to download any piece of software at random off the net and stand a chance of decompressing it...
Actually any decent ZIP program decompresses most if not all of these whereas gzip and bzip behave rather snobbishly talking only to themselves.