How is JunOS being derived from FreeBSD bad for users? It isn't.
On the other hand, people that use Juniper routers now get a good operating system they are familiar with and tools that don't suck, rather than yet another reinvention of the wheel. (Presumably, I've never used Juniper routers)
The tunnel brokers will give you your own/64 allocation for free. That is 2^32 times as many ips as there are theoretically availably on the ipv6 internet. All for you to piss away on a home lan of 7 computers if you want.
I have gotten two/64 allocations from someone who got alot more of them from sprint. One I'm using for a handful of machines, the other I'm not using at all.
So it isn't hard to get LOTS of addresses at all. Arin will probably hold off on giving them out to individuals like you and me, but they'll give enormous piles to the large isps and they probably won't have much trouble giving you FAR more ips than you need.
What worries me more is the consumerist trend for the internet. The way download speed is far, far larger than upload speed, the way AUPs don't let you run servers. Seems like a trend, deliberate or not, transforming the Internet into something a little more one sided like Television, where there is a clear division between who produces content and who consumes content. Thats a whole other discussion though... don't mod me down for being off topic, just ranting.
Gentoo runs pretty will on amd64. I'm running it right now.. the compiler works fine, XFree is up with drivers that Nvidia specifically released for amd64 (but they won't accelerate 32bit GL or do xv), mplayer and most everything I've tried to build and use has worked just fine.
I'd be inclined to side with Atheros if only because I hate Broadcom. Atheros actually makes effort to get their chipsets supported on OSS operating systems, Broadcom does not.
It's fun to hack it in a way that's not really possible with Pocket PC. Completely pointless as it kippers the personal organiser functionality of the unit - but good geek fun nonetheless
Did you look at the Opie or GPE screenshots?
I ran Familiar 0.6 on my old iPaq and it was perfectly fine for organizing. All graphical, had calendar apps and contacts and everything that PocketPC has. Comes with a better drawing app, has an apt-workalike with some nifty apps and games. Konqueror browses much better than IE also, imho.
Why can't Linux be used for games? In the cases where a port of a Windows game has been done, the Linux version runs a little faster and with less administrative hassle.
No dll hell, no fumbling with DirectX versions, no bluescreens or corruption, no goofy cd checks, game preferences stored in your home dir.
Its quite a nice experience to play in Linux. Not to mention its inconvenient to reboot for a quick 15 minute deathmatch or something.
There were a few internal Loki "infrastucture" projects that weren't released, like OpenNL (DirectPlay like thing, Network Library).
No Loki games are going to be open sourced, but I hope their source is preserved by someone. It'd be nice to see Deus Ex revived some day, I really wanted that one game.:(
I've got a dual AthlonMP system running on a Tyan Thunder K7, which uses the AMD 760MP chipset. I had been having what seemed to be video related issues with it, and was told by an Nvidia employee that my particular board seems to have stability issues when the AGP bus is under a heavy load.
Since then, I have disabled AGP altogether with the Nvidia drivers (`Option NvAgp "0"` in my XF86Config) and I am stable as a rock, although I have lost a bit of 3D performance.
Then this bug surfaces. I hope they resolve it, so I can get my AGP performance back. Until then, I suggest you disable AGP like I did to maintain your stability.
The worst part of this is that trying to be a Linux gamer will be alot harder, since there's almost nothing coming down the pipeline anymore. I really don't want to use Wine or WineX if I can avoid it. In my experience, Loki's ports have been superior to, if not equal to, the Win32 port's quality.
Maybe I will just because a bitter ex-gamer, and only play Doom 3 (which will by then, probably be the only newish commercial Linux game). Serious Sam will be nice too, but by the time its done, it probably won't be big in the lanning scene, which is where I do most of my gaming.
Well, thats sort of a good thing to do unless you end up running Linux so you can turn around and use VMWare or MOSL to run anything else remotely useful or productive.
Then you become a poser, just running Linux to be cool or l33t while you must defer to another OS like Windows or MacOS to actually do anything.
Of course, I run Linux but I don't have much of a need for Windows or MacOS. The best thing to do is try to push Apple into releasing Quicktime clients for Linux (actually, I don't like the QT program itself, so I'd rather have the next option I'm about to list) or release their Sorenson codec, or whatever it is that everybody uses for QT movies, so other people can build OSS apps to playback those movies, like what people have done for MP3 or MPEG.
Unfortunately, the Dreamcast only has 16mb of ram.
This is really annoying, because with the distro from m17n.org I tried, I only had about 1.4mb free on bootup. I got infinite swap or something whenever I tried compiling something, so I couldn't really do anything terribly useful.
Hopefully, this one can get the memory trimmed down a bit further.
Well, I'd consider this news story to be a bit more important than the one about the general test release, due to all of the political and financial issues surrounding commercial Linux games.
As it is, the Linux port of Wolfenstein is just going to be a free unsupported thing, like Quake 1 and Quake 2 for Linux were.
Its too bad they are hurting so badly, they had some cool Unix stuff at Linuxworld.
At their floor area, they had one of the lead programmers of their Unix project there to give us a demonstration of their modified Unix kernel.
Basically, they added Linux syscall support to their Unix kernel. Whenever a Linux binary is loaded, it is automatically chrooted to/linux and operates out of there. The Unix kernel implements the Linux syscalls itself, so under high loads it ends up performing alot better than native Linux, or at least, thats what their graphs showed.
The thing that is the worst about all of these companies hurting financially is that some genuinely cool tech is lost when they go bust.
Stored procedures reside on the server, so they can be executed locally on the SQL server, rather than over the network from another server (if thats how you have things arranged).
You can also tie stored procedures in with normal SQL queries, which makes them feel alot cleaner to use.
There's a guy that goes to my LUG who works for SGI, some sort of promotional manager or something.
He told us SGI is very dedicated to Linux because it provides a standardized OS across platforms, which is what alot of their customers have wanted over the years.
Its also supposed to play into their Intel strategy, because as a customer grows, and moves up SGIs product line, they pretty much just need to recompile their apps to have them run on the faster hardware.
I suspect that Sgi will like having the rendering move onto Linux, although they may dislike having Sgi boxes replaced by IBM boxes.
Speak of the Devil, just caught this on Linuxgames:
Loki Software President Scott Draeker sent in the following regarding the bankruptcy report:
People should not confuse this with a Chapter 7 liquidation, where you close the doors and sell off the assets. That is not what we have done.
We filed a Chapter 11 reorganization. This will allows us to deal with our creditors fairly and equitably and at the same time continue to operate the company. We are still shipping products and porting new games and expect to be doing so for a long, long time.
Its sad to see them go out for doing such good work, damn this economic crunch!
I myself own 10 Loki games and I've enjoyed each one.
They said awhile ago that they had lots of capital secured for a situation like this, and they weren't going away soon
I just hope they stick around and pull out of this bankruptcy, I'm really looking forward to Deus Ex. I put off playing the Windows version with expectations of the Linux port.
I've bought 6 eBooks for my Compaq iPaq, and I've only got 1 left to read.
My only problem is that the selection seems to suck a bit, but thats my only gripe.
I don't think it'd be particularly pleasant to sit at a desk and read an eBook on a desktop, or even a laptop, for that matter.
But, my iPaq is portable enough, is the right size, and Microsoft Cleartype kicks ass on LCDs too.
The main killer is the selection. There's only a handful of scifi novels on Barnes and Noble's website, and the non-fiction books are just a random spattering of self help books and stuff.
I'm thinking that this could backfire against Microsoft, at least in the short term.
I've read that when Microsoft has guys that help customers deploy Microsoft solutions, they use Samba if they need to integrate with a Unix network.
If Samba didn't exist, Microsoft would have lost the sale to that customer, because they'd have to either go whole-hog with Microsoft, or nothing at all. Chances are, most would stick with nothing unless their Unix boxes were too old.
Also, alot of non-Microsoft systems out there will be using Samba to server files to the Microsoft workstations. If the version of Windows after XP (Blackcomb?) didn't support SMB, I doubt the IT department would want to roll it out right away.
Not to mention that Microsoft would be forcefully obsoleting their own user base. Thats not something they are known to do willfully, witness the sufferings of people dealing with Win9x.
If Microsoft tried to do this, I expect that it would be a slow and gradual process, similar to the phasing out of WINS in favor of DNS with Windows 2000.
The Toshiba Satellite 2805 series has been very good to me.
I used to have a Toshiba Satellite 2805-S201. It was of quality manufacture, and everything worked with Linux perfectly. Except for the modem.
Now, I have a 2805-S402. Updated hardware from my S201. It now has a P3-850, a Geforce2Go, a DVD/CDRW, a Smartmedia drive, a larger screen, and an i815 based motherboard.
The onboard nics on these laptops are Intel Etherexpress 10/100 based, so the Linux kernel's driver works fine on them.
The i.Link port on my 402 also seems to be supported by the kernel, although I don't have an Firewire devices to test with it.
ALSA will drive the sound controller perfectly fine (Yamaha YMF-752).
The GeForce2Go recently became supported under Linux with the latest 12.50 Linux drivers from NVIDIA. Yea, the GLX module is closed source, but its better than being stuck with a Rage 128.
The 2805 series also comes with subwoofers in all the models.
On the whole, this series seems very, very Linux friendly from what I've seen. In fact, there is Toshiba laptop support in the Linux kernel, although last time I checked, it couldn't handle all of the goodies in the 2805 series. Toshiba is also very good about putting out drivers for all of the stuff under Windows 2000 also.
Otherwise, go with an IBM. They seem to be going out of their way to build machines that are Linux compatible. Heck, ESR uses an IBM Thinkpad X20, along with an Apple iBook.
The only problem with the Satellite 2805s is that they seem to be excessively heavy by some people's standards (I think they're just wimps), and the shells may not be as aesthetically pleasing or shapely as competing notebooks.
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How is JunOS being derived from FreeBSD bad for users? It isn't.
On the other hand, people that use Juniper routers now get a good operating system they are familiar with and tools that don't suck, rather than yet another reinvention of the wheel. (Presumably, I've never used Juniper routers)
The tunnel brokers will give you your own /64 allocation for free. That is 2^32 times as many ips as there are theoretically availably on the ipv6 internet. All for you to piss away on a home lan of 7 computers if you want.
/64 allocations from someone who got alot more of them from sprint. One I'm using for a handful of machines, the other I'm not using at all.
I have gotten two
So it isn't hard to get LOTS of addresses at all. Arin will probably hold off on giving them out to individuals like you and me, but they'll give enormous piles to the large isps and they probably won't have much trouble giving you FAR more ips than you need.
What worries me more is the consumerist trend for the internet. The way download speed is far, far larger than upload speed, the way AUPs don't let you run servers. Seems like a trend, deliberate or not, transforming the Internet into something a little more one sided like Television, where there is a clear division between who produces content and who consumes content. Thats a whole other discussion though... don't mod me down for being off topic, just ranting.
Gentoo runs pretty will on amd64. I'm running it right now.. the compiler works fine, XFree is up with drivers that Nvidia specifically released for amd64 (but they won't accelerate 32bit GL or do xv), mplayer and most everything I've tried to build and use has worked just fine.
This is a good summary from a high level.
Seems kind of odd that someone submitted a news story that is an exact copy of an OSNews one. And it is sad that it made it to the front page.
Well hey, good way to get free karma.
I'd be inclined to side with Atheros if only because I hate Broadcom. Atheros actually makes effort to get their chipsets supported on OSS operating systems, Broadcom does not.
It's fun to hack it in a way that's not really possible with Pocket PC. Completely pointless as it kippers the personal organiser functionality of the unit - but good geek fun nonetheless
Did you look at the Opie or GPE screenshots?
I ran Familiar 0.6 on my old iPaq and it was perfectly fine for organizing. All graphical, had calendar apps and contacts and everything that PocketPC has. Comes with a better drawing app, has an apt-workalike with some nifty apps and games. Konqueror browses much better than IE also, imho.
Why can't Linux be used for games? In the cases where a port of a Windows game has been done, the Linux version runs a little faster and with less administrative hassle.
No dll hell, no fumbling with DirectX versions, no bluescreens or corruption, no goofy cd checks, game preferences stored in your home dir.
Its quite a nice experience to play in Linux. Not to mention its inconvenient to reboot for a quick 15 minute deathmatch or something.
There were a few internal Loki "infrastucture" projects that weren't released, like OpenNL (DirectPlay like thing, Network Library).
:(
No Loki games are going to be open sourced, but I hope their source is preserved by someone. It'd be nice to see Deus Ex revived some day, I really wanted that one game.
I've got a dual AthlonMP system running on a Tyan Thunder K7, which uses the AMD 760MP chipset. I had been having what seemed to be video related issues with it, and was told by an Nvidia employee that my particular board seems to have stability issues when the AGP bus is under a heavy load.
Since then, I have disabled AGP altogether with the Nvidia drivers (`Option NvAgp "0"` in my XF86Config) and I am stable as a rock, although I have lost a bit of 3D performance.
Then this bug surfaces. I hope they resolve it, so I can get my AGP performance back. Until then, I suggest you disable AGP like I did to maintain your stability.
The worst part of this is that trying to be a Linux gamer will be alot harder, since there's almost nothing coming down the pipeline anymore. I really don't want to use Wine or WineX if I can avoid it. In my experience, Loki's ports have been superior to, if not equal to, the Win32 port's quality.
Maybe I will just because a bitter ex-gamer, and only play Doom 3 (which will by then, probably be the only newish commercial Linux game). Serious Sam will be nice too, but by the time its done, it probably won't be big in the lanning scene, which is where I do most of my gaming.
Well, thats sort of a good thing to do unless you end up running Linux so you can turn around and use VMWare or MOSL to run anything else remotely useful or productive.
Then you become a poser, just running Linux to be cool or l33t while you must defer to another OS like Windows or MacOS to actually do anything.
Of course, I run Linux but I don't have much of a need for Windows or MacOS. The best thing to do is try to push Apple into releasing Quicktime clients for Linux (actually, I don't like the QT program itself, so I'd rather have the next option I'm about to list) or release their Sorenson codec, or whatever it is that everybody uses for QT movies, so other people can build OSS apps to playback those movies, like what people have done for MP3 or MPEG.
Unfortunately, the Dreamcast only has 16mb of ram.
This is really annoying, because with the distro from m17n.org I tried, I only had about 1.4mb free on bootup. I got infinite swap or something whenever I tried compiling something, so I couldn't really do anything terribly useful.
Hopefully, this one can get the memory trimmed down a bit further.
Well, I'd consider this news story to be a bit more important than the one about the general test release, due to all of the political and financial issues surrounding commercial Linux games.
As it is, the Linux port of Wolfenstein is just going to be a free unsupported thing, like Quake 1 and Quake 2 for Linux were.
Its too bad they are hurting so badly, they had some cool Unix stuff at Linuxworld.
/linux and operates out of there. The Unix kernel implements the Linux syscalls itself, so under high loads it ends up performing alot better than native Linux, or at least, thats what their graphs showed.
At their floor area, they had one of the lead programmers of their Unix project there to give us a demonstration of their modified Unix kernel.
Basically, they added Linux syscall support to their Unix kernel. Whenever a Linux binary is loaded, it is automatically chrooted to
The thing that is the worst about all of these companies hurting financially is that some genuinely cool tech is lost when they go bust.
There were a few APs at Linuxworld, about 11 or 12 networks when I scanned, I think only a couple had an real security.
The OSDN booth had a wide open AP that I was able to use to get net access while I was hanging around nearby.
I was checking Slashdot, almost caught a breaking story for First Post, while I was in the audience listening to CmdrTaco's Q&A session.
Hopefully, from now on there will be more and more open APs at conventions so I can get net access at random places on the floor.
I read something about the Linux kernel summit a while back, saying that hibernation support was on the plate for v2.5.
What?!
8 entire tenths of a second?
But I want it now!
Stored procedures reside on the server, so they can be executed locally on the SQL server, rather than over the network from another server (if thats how you have things arranged).
You can also tie stored procedures in with normal SQL queries, which makes them feel alot cleaner to use.
There's a guy that goes to my LUG who works for SGI, some sort of promotional manager or something.
He told us SGI is very dedicated to Linux because it provides a standardized OS across platforms, which is what alot of their customers have wanted over the years.
Its also supposed to play into their Intel strategy, because as a customer grows, and moves up SGIs product line, they pretty much just need to recompile their apps to have them run on the faster hardware.
I suspect that Sgi will like having the rendering move onto Linux, although they may dislike having Sgi boxes replaced by IBM boxes.
Speak of the Devil, just caught this on Linuxgames:
Loki Software President Scott Draeker sent in the following regarding the bankruptcy report:
People should not confuse this with a Chapter 7 liquidation, where you close the doors and sell off the assets. That is not what we have done.
We filed a Chapter 11 reorganization. This will allows us to deal with our creditors fairly and equitably and at the same time continue to operate the company. We are still shipping products and porting new games and expect to be doing so for a long, long time.
Loki made great ports.
Its sad to see them go out for doing such good work, damn this economic crunch!
I myself own 10 Loki games and I've enjoyed each one.
They said awhile ago that they had lots of capital secured for a situation like this, and they weren't going away soon
I just hope they stick around and pull out of this bankruptcy, I'm really looking forward to Deus Ex. I put off playing the Windows version with expectations of the Linux port.
I don't have any problems.
I've bought 6 eBooks for my Compaq iPaq, and I've only got 1 left to read.
My only problem is that the selection seems to suck a bit, but thats my only gripe.
I don't think it'd be particularly pleasant to sit at a desk and read an eBook on a desktop, or even a laptop, for that matter.
But, my iPaq is portable enough, is the right size, and Microsoft Cleartype kicks ass on LCDs too.
The main killer is the selection. There's only a handful of scifi novels on Barnes and Noble's website, and the non-fiction books are just a random spattering of self help books and stuff.
I'm thinking that this could backfire against Microsoft, at least in the short term.
I've read that when Microsoft has guys that help customers deploy Microsoft solutions, they use Samba if they need to integrate with a Unix network.
If Samba didn't exist, Microsoft would have lost the sale to that customer, because they'd have to either go whole-hog with Microsoft, or nothing at all. Chances are, most would stick with nothing unless their Unix boxes were too old.
Also, alot of non-Microsoft systems out there will be using Samba to server files to the Microsoft workstations. If the version of Windows after XP (Blackcomb?) didn't support SMB, I doubt the IT department would want to roll it out right away.
Not to mention that Microsoft would be forcefully obsoleting their own user base. Thats not something they are known to do willfully, witness the sufferings of people dealing with Win9x.
If Microsoft tried to do this, I expect that it would be a slow and gradual process, similar to the phasing out of WINS in favor of DNS with Windows 2000.
The Toshiba Satellite 2805 series has been very good to me. I used to have a Toshiba Satellite 2805-S201. It was of quality manufacture, and everything worked with Linux perfectly. Except for the modem. Now, I have a 2805-S402. Updated hardware from my S201. It now has a P3-850, a Geforce2Go, a DVD/CDRW, a Smartmedia drive, a larger screen, and an i815 based motherboard. The onboard nics on these laptops are Intel Etherexpress 10/100 based, so the Linux kernel's driver works fine on them. The i.Link port on my 402 also seems to be supported by the kernel, although I don't have an Firewire devices to test with it. ALSA will drive the sound controller perfectly fine (Yamaha YMF-752). The GeForce2Go recently became supported under Linux with the latest 12.50 Linux drivers from NVIDIA. Yea, the GLX module is closed source, but its better than being stuck with a Rage 128. The 2805 series also comes with subwoofers in all the models. On the whole, this series seems very, very Linux friendly from what I've seen. In fact, there is Toshiba laptop support in the Linux kernel, although last time I checked, it couldn't handle all of the goodies in the 2805 series. Toshiba is also very good about putting out drivers for all of the stuff under Windows 2000 also. Otherwise, go with an IBM. They seem to be going out of their way to build machines that are Linux compatible. Heck, ESR uses an IBM Thinkpad X20, along with an Apple iBook. The only problem with the Satellite 2805s is that they seem to be excessively heavy by some people's standards (I think they're just wimps), and the shells may not be as aesthetically pleasing or shapely as competing notebooks.