CUPS is a printer queue system (the best IMO, right now).
OMNI is a development model (in C++) for easily write printer drivers.
It is based on Ghostscript (ghostscript 6.5x already have the omni driver in it). And drivers written with omni works like a plugin system to ghostscript.
This means that you don't have to repatch and recompile ghostscript to add a new printer.
Foomatic (http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html) al ready supports OMNI, which means that it is able to produce the correct driver for your prefered spooler (CUPS, lpd, lprng, gnulpr, pdq, staroffice,...)
To complete OMNI (and foomatic and cups) is already supported in (AFAIK) the Conectiva Linux snapshot (http://distro.conectiva.com.br e apt-getable from ftp://ftp.nl.linux.org/pub/conectiva/snapshot) and in the Mandrake Linux Cooker distribution.
That said, I have being using Star Office since version 3.x and many, many people have being using it as a replacement for windows and even moving to Linux because of it.
However the #1 reason is its costs, the #2 is because it runs on Linux (for those like me it is the #1 reason).
However it have many problems, it is a memory hog, slow and fat program that badly do what MS Office does.
Star Office 6.0, OTOH, is the turn around of this issues. It is based in gtk+ (in Linux), each application __is__ a separated application, it is fast and more confortable for a M$ Office user.
This is the biggest chance for Sun to take a big piece of the market share from M$ regarding Office suits.
How ever this will be blown away if charged for use as a commercial app. Most people still afraid of what will come out of it because of bad experience with SO 5.x. And they will not pay for it.
Sun should wait for the 7.0 version to do it at least.
yes, I am glad I can keep using Open Office builds.
It is commom to see that the stock kernel has lots
of missing patchs to increase stability and as pointed out by
Rik van Riel which was posted here in slashdot, Linus rejects
random patchs which cause some areas of the kernel to not be "as good as it should".
The VM is one part which Linus just got random
patchs from Riel and rejected some of them randomically which made the VM suck so hard in
earlier stock 2.4 kernels.
OTOH, kernels shiped from distributions includes
(at least it should) the missing parts and should
be better than the stock kernel from kernel.org .
I don't use Mandrake to tell how good their
kernel is or is not. But I use
Conectiva Linux and I know how good their kernel package is.
Their kernel includes missing fixes that do not get over the stock kernel.
Better of all, their kernel maintainer is
Marcelo Tosati
who maintains the stable kernel tree now.
I think that we will see an improvement into new
2.4 releases.
The latest 2.4.17 kernels from Conectiva can be found in here .
This happened a few times. Connectiva, Stormix, Corel, all essentially Debian forks. Y'know what happened? Corel sucked (And nobody was surprised), but Stormix and Connectiva remained compatible. In fact, it was common for Connectiva users to upgrade straight from an existing Debian install to a Connectiva release, or vis versa.
Sorry to boil down your dreams, but Conectiva
(and not Connectiva) was never compatible with Debian and/or debs.
It is a rpm based distribution which was initially
based on redhat but got its own personallity developing its on tools and using great tools
already developed.
and don't forget that Z-80 was used in
MSX, MSX-2, MSX-2+ and lots of
xmame^H^H^H^H^Harcades games as the main processor,
dual processor (SMP?!?), co-processors for some
others 32bit processors (68000) and even as the
sound processor.
This can be checked when you start a game in xmame.
Now, what makes Linux difficult? First, there is partitioning your hard drive and installing file systems in preparation for the install.
Conectiva had work with Andrew Clausen,
parted
Author to make repartitioning and automatic repartitioning in the Installation really clean for the new user.
While I'm rambling on, let me tell you where I see *real* problems with Linux. The problem is with user interface consistency.
Some distributions try to force the user into one or too GUI (usually kde and gnome).
Conectiva has created the xscripts interface.
A really simple interface that let any window manager (I did it for staroffice without a wm too)
to be shown in the KDM login screen or be called from the console. So the user has a choice from
KDE, gnome, enlightenment, windowmaker, blackbox, xfce, sawmill, qvwm,...
But that as it was commented above, this might make the user feel lost. quite right. But
Debian has developed a MENU system. This let all aplications in one interface see the same applications over the wms menu system across them all.
I have noted that the window user likes to start with qvwm before going to KDE, gnome,... This let he finds all applications he needs in any place. Also qvwm is one of the fastest wm around, so a user who has a poor hardware configuration would enjoy it too ( I would prefer myself blackbox;).
Another great thing Conectiva is doing is in
Linuxconf development. Conectiva has a full team
of developers developing Linuxconf, creating modules, finding bugs and helping improving it. So, you can do almost anything from it.
Anxious readers should check the following file in a hex editor in WindowsXP Release Candidate 2: go to \WINNT\AppPatch (or the directory AppPatch under whatever %systemroot% is pointing to) and open the binary file apphelp.sdb. The proscribed applications should be clearly readable.
Does this mean that future games will be hardware specific?
Well, Not a long time ago, we just had 3dfx (and glide) as the only option for 3D games.
Even if there were other 3d hardware and other tecnologies (OpenGL and the rising Direct3D), glide (and 3dfx) was the default choice.
1) Hypocrisy?
by Hobbex
How can IBM reconcile its spoken commitment to Linux and Free software software with its center-stage activity in projects like CPRM on harddisks and SDMI for music?
That's exactly what M$ is trying to do.
To associate Open Source and Free Software with
no copyright.
1) Content has nothing to do with OpenSource.
2) OS/FS means that the author want to share its
work with everyone, this does not mean that he has given up his rights!
"The people that make above a dollar a day, under three dollars a day, generally have some electricity. They've got television sets that run on car batteries, or they will have a little generator."
Where did he get this info from?
* Some one making $30 to $90 a month barelly can
survive. So this guy has money to buy batteries
(or take somewhere to recharge), or even worse,
in the middle of a Petroleum crisis which the whole world is (gas price here in Brazil is going to the stars) this guy with $30~$90 still have enougth to buy gas to his genarator in order to wathc TV!
"Each part of the community has to do some different part of it. You would not come to Sun for good taste in designing attractive programs. We can make sure the networking works. All of our partners, meaning all of the high-tech companies in the world, ought to contribute their engineering knowledge,"
...and in a never-seen-before move every tech company in the world would forget about its difference and unity to help the poor people in far away places without looking for profits.
Gage said he has discussed the plan with the chairman of Sony and the president of the World Bank and decided that at least 100,000 modified consoles should be installed in schools and people's homes in poor country's
At what cost???
The only kind of money the World bank "borrows" to
poor countries is charged in an interest rate that can never be paid back.
Sorry if I sound down. But it sounds too nice to be true.
Of course, if something like that ever happen I would feel really good knowing it. And Linux would grow with it.
Now on the other side, this is already happening in some places.
For example, The Linux distibution company Conectiva
already gives parts of its profits selling the Conectiva Linux Box to CDI.
CDI is a non profit organization to help the democratization of tecnology among poor people/schools. Good to see that some one at least is doing something.
Package management is a wonderful thing, but it does have some drawbacks.
Package management is used to ensure that the rights libraries needed for your app (server) to work. If you think that the package you are using is bloated, does not provide the functionality that you need or even does not exist in your distribution. You should create the package yourself.
Unfortunally very fewer distributions can satisfy every kind of user, so if you knows how to create a package for your distro, you can fill the gap.
Just to note RPM
has been made the
officialLSB packaging tool,
Slashdot Mirror
For those of you already running Conectiva Linux, it is aptgetable already.
/etc/apt/sources.list file:
If you run the CL snapshot version just:
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade
If you just want to get the kde stuff:
Add this to your
rpm ftp://ftp.nl.linux.org/pub conectiva/snapshot/conectiva main kde
and then run:
# apt-get update
# apt-get install task-kde
If you want to fully upgrade to the snapshot version:
add this line instead:
rpm ftp://ftp.nl.linux.org/pub conectiva/snapshot/conectiva main extra orphan gnome experimental games kde
and then:
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Enjoy!
So, to stream videos you need to pay for the tools.
What about streaming live audio like radios?
What does it needs?
Does Daewin Streaming Server do it all?
Well, I am glad that here in Brazil the .us
dubs did not changed the dialogs as in the
and the nudety was not cuten or edited.
The author is (unfortunally) either confused or lying
.
(even if it is the make a better picture of linux).
"purchased the Linux version of Quake, and Quake II, and other games."
There have never being AFAIK, a retail version of quake I and
quake II for Linux.
just the binaries were downloadable from ftp.idsoftware.com
The no free version will probably be something like the ESP Print PRO modified for MAC OSX,
Note that the ESP Print PRO is like CUPS on esteroids . http://www.easysw.com/printpro/ and
it is based on CUPS.
ESP Print PRO also provides over 3000 high quality drivers.
As with apple if any company using a *nix based system would like to get high quality drivers and
support cups, should take a look at this.
You are mixing the cases.
l ready supports OMNI, which means that it is able ...)
CUPS is a printer queue system (the best IMO, right
now).
OMNI is a development model (in C++) for easily
write printer drivers.
It is based on Ghostscript (ghostscript 6.5x already
have the omni driver in it). And drivers written
with omni works like a plugin system to ghostscript.
This means that you don't have to repatch and
recompile ghostscript to add a new printer.
Foomatic
(http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html)
a
to produce the correct driver for your prefered
spooler (CUPS, lpd, lprng, gnulpr, pdq, staroffice,
To complete OMNI (and foomatic and cups) is already
supported in (AFAIK) the Conectiva Linux snapshot
(http://distro.conectiva.com.br e apt-getable from ftp://ftp.nl.linux.org/pub/conectiva/snapshot) and in the Mandrake Linux Cooker distribution.
"Star Office 5.x sucks compared to MS Office."
That said, I have being using Star Office since
version 3.x and many, many people have being using
it as a replacement for windows and even moving to
Linux because of it.
However the #1 reason is its costs,
the #2 is because it runs on Linux (for those like
me it is the #1 reason).
However it have many problems, it is a memory hog,
slow and fat program that badly do what MS Office
does.
Star Office 6.0, OTOH, is the turn around of
this issues. It is based in gtk+ (in Linux),
each application __is__ a separated application,
it is fast and more confortable for a M$ Office
user.
This is the biggest chance for Sun to take a
big piece of the market share from M$ regarding
Office suits.
How ever this will be blown away if charged for
use as a commercial app. Most people still afraid
of what will come out of it because of bad
experience with SO 5.x. And they will not pay
for it.
Sun should wait for the 7.0 version to do it at
least.
yes, I am glad I can keep using Open Office builds.
just wondering the effect of power and UPS failing.
All DRAMS being erased...
"Among those you will find a rootless X Server, GTK+/Gimp/X11Amp ports ..." .
Interesting to note that X11Amp has being dead for some years in favor of XMMS.
IMHO, the real problem is the stock kernel.
It is commom to see that the stock kernel has lots
of missing patchs to increase stability and as pointed out by
Rik van Riel which was posted
here in slashdot, Linus rejects
random patchs which cause some areas of the kernel to not be "as good as it should".
The VM is one part which Linus just got random
patchs from Riel and rejected some of them randomically which made the VM suck so hard in
earlier stock 2.4 kernels.
OTOH, kernels shiped from distributions includes
(at least it should) the missing parts and should
be better than the stock kernel from kernel.org .
I don't use Mandrake to tell how good their
kernel is or is not. But I use
Conectiva Linux and I know how good their kernel package is.
Their kernel includes missing fixes that do not get over the stock kernel.
Better of all, their kernel maintainer is
Marcelo Tosati
who maintains the stable kernel tree now.
I think that we will see an improvement into new
2.4 releases.
The latest 2.4.17 kernels from Conectiva can be found in here .
I am working in a set of tools to replace (and work with) adduser, deluser, moduser, addgroup, delgroup, modgroup and so far.
Unfortunally I had other priorities and the development is slow.
If you cannot find anyother replacements and still interested, let me know.
My e-mail address is raul_nospam_please@dias.com.br
BTW, the reason I started with it was because I couldn't find either descent tools to work with
PAM_LDAP too.
There isn't a dkpg package in Conectiva.
Conectiva is not compatible with Debian package
format and cannot mix rpms with dkpg.
Sorry to boil down your dreams, but Conectiva
(and not Connectiva ) was never compatible with Debian and/or debs.
It is a rpm based distribution which was initially
based on redhat but got its own personallity developing its on tools and using great tools
already developed.
and Zanac I and Zanac II was one of my favorite :)
shooting games
and don't forget that Z-80 was used in
MSX, MSX-2, MSX-2+ and lots of
xmame^H^H^H^H^Harcades games as the main processor,
dual processor (SMP?!?), co-processors for some
others 32bit processors (68000) and even as the
sound processor.
This can be checked when you start a game in xmame.
It is interest to note in the Hancom WebSite that the Hancom 2.0 is using:
Quata as HancomWebBuilder 2.0
Kivio as HancomEnvision 2.0
Rekall as HancomEasyDB 2.0
Aethera as HancomQuicksilver 2.0
A little look up into the Kompany page talks about the patnership.
Anyways, just watch out for not buy the same app twice.
Well, do you know that game you have being thinking about buying?
Don't think!
Go buy it!
Just my experience with CL 7.0:
... ... This let he finds all applications he needs in any place. Also qvwm is one of the fastest wm around, so a user who has a poor hardware configuration would enjoy it too ( I would prefer myself blackbox ;).
Now, what makes Linux difficult? First, there is partitioning your hard drive and installing file systems in preparation for the install.
Conectiva had work with Andrew Clausen, parted Author to make repartitioning and automatic repartitioning in the Installation really clean for the new user.
While I'm rambling on, let me tell you where I see *real* problems with Linux. The problem is with user interface consistency.
Some distributions try to force the user into one or too GUI (usually kde and gnome).
Conectiva has created the xscripts interface. A really simple interface that let any window manager (I did it for staroffice without a wm too) to be shown in the KDM login screen or be called from the console. So the user has a choice from KDE, gnome, enlightenment, windowmaker, blackbox, xfce, sawmill, qvwm,
But that as it was commented above, this might make the user feel lost. quite right. But Debian has developed a MENU system. This let all aplications in one interface see the same applications over the wms menu system across them all.
I have noted that the window user likes to start with qvwm before going to KDE, gnome,
Another great thing Conectiva is doing is in Linuxconf development. Conectiva has a full team of developers developing Linuxconf, creating modules, finding bugs and helping improving it. So, you can do almost anything from it.
From the text:
Anxious readers should check the following file in a hex editor in WindowsXP Release Candidate 2: go to \WINNT\AppPatch (or the directory AppPatch under whatever %systemroot% is pointing to) and open the binary file apphelp.sdb. The proscribed applications should be clearly readable.
I just wander what is in there....
Anyone with a copy of winXP would check this?
Does this mean that future games will be hardware specific?
Well, Not a long time ago, we just had 3dfx (and glide) as the only option for 3D games.
Even if there were other 3d hardware and other tecnologies (OpenGL and the rising Direct3D), glide (and 3dfx) was the default choice.
At least IIS servers would shrink its market share.
I know some IIS ISPs which are down with the web servers.
That's a good way to share technology and sabotage your enemy at the same time.
Make them use Microsoft.
disclaimer: no offense intented
1) Hypocrisy?
by Hobbex
How can IBM reconcile its spoken commitment to Linux and Free software software with its center-stage activity in projects like CPRM on harddisks and SDMI for music?
That's exactly what M$ is trying to do.
To associate Open Source and Free Software with no copyright.
1) Content has nothing to do with OpenSource.
2) OS/FS means that the author want to share its work with everyone, this does not mean that he has given up his rights!
First, let me say this is a terrific idea, but:
...and in a never-seen-before move every tech company in the world would forget about its difference and unity to help the poor people in far away places without looking for profits.
"The people that make above a dollar a day, under three dollars a day, generally have some electricity. They've got television sets that run on car batteries, or they will have a little generator."
Where did he get this info from?
* Some one making $30 to $90 a month barelly can survive. So this guy has money to buy batteries (or take somewhere to recharge), or even worse, in the middle of a Petroleum crisis which the whole world is (gas price here in Brazil is going to the stars) this guy with $30~$90 still have enougth to buy gas to his genarator in order to wathc TV!
"Each part of the community has to do some different part of it. You would not come to Sun for good taste in designing attractive programs. We can make sure the networking works. All of our partners, meaning all of the high-tech companies in the world, ought to contribute their engineering knowledge,"
Gage said he has discussed the plan with the chairman of Sony and the president of the World Bank and decided that at least 100,000 modified consoles should be installed in schools and people's homes in poor country's
At what cost???
The only kind of money the World bank "borrows" to poor countries is charged in an interest rate that can never be paid back.
Sorry if I sound down. But it sounds too nice to be true.
Of course, if something like that ever happen I would feel really good knowing it. And Linux would grow with it.
Now on the other side, this is already happening in some places.
For example, The Linux distibution company Conectiva already gives parts of its profits selling the Conectiva Linux Box to CDI.
CDI is a non profit organization to help the democratization of tecnology among poor people/schools.
Good to see that some one at least is doing something.
Package management is a wonderful thing, but it does have some drawbacks.
Package management is used to ensure that the rights libraries needed for your app (server) to work. If you think that the package you are using is bloated, does not provide the functionality that you need or even does not exist in your distribution. You should create the package yourself.
Unfortunally very fewer distributions can satisfy every kind of user, so if you knows how to create a package for your distro, you can fill the gap.
Just to note RPM has been made the official LSB packaging tool,