Looking at the 300 or so copies of MS-related virus crap caught by my procmail filters in the past day, I'm starting to think that internet licences are a good idea...
I wish this guy would tell us what CPU he's using. There's a hell of a lot of difference between the low-cache and high-cache CPUs (yes, these will work in a u5 as well as a u10). Looks like he's using a low-cache one, where there's not as much difference (and where the 64bit penalty isn't as noticeable).
With linux on sparc64, typical applications are 30% slower when running in 64bit userland mode as opposed to 32bit userland mode. There are of course exceptions...
Stage 3 + GRP + kernel from another box. Took about three hours to install, which was actually faster than the equivalent GNU/Debian GNU/Sparc install. Also, Gentoo supports the 170 CPU just fine.
I have a real sparc 5 (not an ultra 5), and a sparcstation 20, an ultra1 and an ultra10 as well. All running a bleeding edge Linux distro. What's the point of this article? These boxes are common as mud and very well supported...
That's, what, 24 hours or so from the attack to a full patch to a previously unknown exploit being released? Gotta give those Gentoo guys some credit, that's damned impressive...
Nope. packages is offline because of a totally unrelated bug. Seems it has a memory leak somewhere that.23 isn't happy with, so it's offline 'till someone tracks it down.
Kylix didn't sell because it was a pile of crap. I used to do a lot of stuff with Delphi (paid lots of money to Borland too), but when I ditched Windows I felt no incentive to carry on with Kylix. I tried the Open Edition, and it wasn't a patch on Delphi. Klunky, buggy, lousy unportable code. Not worth it.
I tried a free trial of it a while ago (came on the front of a magazine). It was usable, but not as good as OpenOffice. Unfortunately, after installing it, I was unable to print anything from any application, and opening Control Panel would cause a system crash. It seems that the program was installing dodgy system controls. Hopefully that's fixed now... I'm MS-free now, though, so I guess I'll never know...
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I take it this is aimed at the upper-middle-class white american market?
I was testing out mozilla's gopher:// handler. It actually works :)
Looking at the 300 or so copies of MS-related virus crap caught by my procmail filters in the past day, I'm starting to think that internet licences are a good idea...
Why not? It's funny.
It is available in all non-DEPRECATED distros.
I wish this guy would tell us what CPU he's using. There's a hell of a lot of difference between the low-cache and high-cache CPUs (yes, these will work in a u5 as well as a u10). Looks like he's using a low-cache one, where there's not as much difference (and where the 64bit penalty isn't as noticeable).
With linux on sparc64, typical applications are 30% slower when running in 64bit userland mode as opposed to 32bit userland mode. There are of course exceptions...
Nope. The Sparc 5 doesn't have a framebuffer card, the SparcStation 5 does. Although, you could of course *put* a framebuffer in a Sparc 5.
Stage 3 + GRP + kernel from another box. Took about three hours to install, which was actually faster than the equivalent GNU/Debian GNU/Sparc install. Also, Gentoo supports the 170 CPU just fine.
I have a real sparc 5 (not an ultra 5), and a sparcstation 20, an ultra1 and an ultra10 as well. All running a bleeding edge Linux distro. What's the point of this article? These boxes are common as mud and very well supported...
That's ugly. I'd like one, but does it ship with a can of spray paint to get rid of the huge red blob? Looks like an angel or something...
It took them weeks to realise that they'd been owned and months to fix anything. I think they need a few lessons from the Gentoo people...
Damn, I have mod points, but there's still no -1, lame attempt at being funny failed.
It was.
Well, Gentoo does, for one...
That's, what, 24 hours or so from the attack to a full patch to a previously unknown exploit being released? Gotta give those Gentoo guys some credit, that's damned impressive...
Nope. packages is offline because of a totally unrelated bug. Seems it has a memory leak somewhere that .23 isn't happy with, so it's offline 'till someone tracks it down.
This one's been in development for a while, and will be going live soon probably. Read GLEP 14,
This wasn't a remote root exploit. It was a local root exploit, and OpenBSD has had several of those.
Are we commemorating its death or something?
Kylix didn't sell because it was a pile of crap. I used to do a lot of stuff with Delphi (paid lots of money to Borland too), but when I ditched Windows I felt no incentive to carry on with Kylix. I tried the Open Edition, and it wasn't a patch on Delphi. Klunky, buggy, lousy unportable code. Not worth it.
But does it support more than one CPU yet?
I tried a free trial of it a while ago (came on the front of a magazine). It was usable, but not as good as OpenOffice. Unfortunately, after installing it, I was unable to print anything from any application, and opening Control Panel would cause a system crash. It seems that the program was installing dodgy system controls. Hopefully that's fixed now... I'm MS-free now, though, so I guess I'll never know...
And of course, if they don't provide the information, it goes to a criminal case... Where they are protected :)
Please don't reproduce. Oh wait, no danger of that...