Quicktime in Linux?! Is this legal? Has Apple sanctioned this? What about the people who own the rights to codecs, such as the Sorenson codec. It seems like something would have to be reverse engineered...
Good article, but what can I do, the end user, to get around some memory management and scheduling issues? I don't know nearly enough to do any kernel tweaking and tailoring for my processor architecture and hardware configuration. Is it unwise to run a desktop system without swap space? I was thinking of giving the performance of my system a boost by leveraging the low RAM prices and eliminating the swap partition. Other/.'s and I have experienced swap space usage during times when some physical RAM was free. Is the kernel thinking "Well, these pages are *so* old and inactive enough that I'll just stick them in swap, regardless of the current system state"? It sounds like paragraphs 16 and 17 attempts to explain this but it flies over my head. Since you can buy 1GB of EEC PC133 RAM for about $150, I was thinking of buying 3GB of RAM, investing in some type of power backup and running my entire system in RAM. Can you do this?
Despite this major issue, a Linux based system is still more stable and in most cases faster than Windows 2000. Also, like the article mentions, take into account that Linux runs many different types of processors. Linux on SPARC is good and 21264 Alpha performance is mind-blowing. Keep up the good work.
Why didn't they use mirrors? I'm sure they could get people to help out.
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I was going to mod this down when I read the bashing. Then, I was going to mod it up when you said the magic word, "simple". Then I decided to just reply. There's more going on here than GNOME and KDE. Check out GNUstep.
I'll like you to find posts of people complaining that Winamp is not available for Linux. Then, I'd like you to find posts of the same people dismissing it in favor of something else
I think that was one of the things causing some MM problems under heavy loads. Have they gotten rid of this yet? I think it was gone just after 2.4.10. But, I don't like the sound of "resurrect oom handling" in the 2.4.11 changelog.
"consumer-usable" Unix has been around since the first stable builds of UNIX itself (not access to systems that ran it, but usability). It's very easy to use. About 15 years of marketing from our friends at Microsoft, Apple and others have told us otherwise.
"What happened to my freedom of speech?" You lost it when you agreed to the license, obviously.
If i want to say that Microsoft Sucks, shouldn't I have the right to say so? According to the terms of this agreement, apparently not.
"This just shows how much of a monopoly microsoft has;" No, it does not. Other actions do that, such as denying people the right to compete.
"they cearly are controlling what people have to say about them" If by "people", you mean the fools who agreed to the contract then, yes.
The whole point is that you agree to this.
(Assuming this article is accurate, I see posts already that deny the exsistance of this clause.)
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US citizen? Want to pick a fight worth fighting?
Contact your government representatives, tell them your opinon on the DMCA, copyright law, software patents, crypto regulations.... I could go on...
I don't tire of it either. But what do you expect Apple and other for-profit companies to do? Their number one priority at all times is making money for themselves and their investors. They simply aren't concerned with anything else. Don't take it personally. The user Linux user base on Apple hardware is far too small for them to care.
Now when someone says "curl" do they mean Curl(tm)
the scripting language, cURL, the tool for getting files referenced in a URL, or curl, del cross a vector field?
A couple of years ago, RMS switched support from GNUstep to GNOME. Most of GNU seemed have followed, as GNUstep participation and user base appears to be slipping while GNOME popularity has taken off. What kind of user interface and development environment do you favor? GNOME\KDE? *step? Something else entirely?
Why?
Soon, the internet will be commercialized. But I don't care, my school is on Internet2.
No AOL, no porn, no pop-up ads and I can go back to using lynx.
It appears you're in a similar market as I am. One that is slowly disappearing. Mid-range and entry level workstations and parts are going... (People assume a powerful PC will replace a workstation but it does not.) Alpha is dead. (Death by Intel.) SGI is dying. IBM's RS/6000 never got low enough. If you want to buy a complete workstation the only thing I can suggest is Sun's Blade Workstation. You seem pretty bent on getting a PPC based solution. Forget Apple, they're not going to play ball. They want to sell shiny systems at a niche price. Better start bugging IBM about those PowerPC based hardware kits.
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Quicktime in Linux?! Is this legal? Has Apple sanctioned this? What about the people who own the rights to codecs, such as the Sorenson codec. It seems like something would have to be reverse engineered...
Despite this major issue, a Linux based system is still more stable and in most cases faster than Windows 2000. Also, like the article mentions, take into account that Linux runs many different types of processors. Linux on SPARC is good and 21264 Alpha performance is mind-blowing. Keep up the good work.
Interesting. However, unlike Red Hat, SuSE does not provide ISO's of their distribution for free download.
Why didn't they use mirrors? I'm sure they could get people to help out.
I was going to mod this down when I read the bashing. Then, I was going to mod it up when you said the magic word, "simple". Then I decided to just reply. There's more going on here than GNOME and KDE. Check out GNUstep.
I'll like you to find posts of people complaining that Winamp is not available for Linux. Then, I'd like you to find posts of the same people dismissing it in favor of something else
-Chris
Has anyone tried putting Darwin 1.4.1 on older PowerPC's, such as the 6100?
-Chris
Have you tried here?
http://www.suse.com/~jeffm/
I think that was one of the things causing some MM problems under heavy loads. Have they gotten rid of this yet? I think it was gone just after 2.4.10. But, I don't like the sound of "resurrect oom handling" in the 2.4.11 changelog.
-Chris
What's RDU? I'm in the northeast US.
I don't get it. Alpha? Intel didn't make Alpha.
-Chris
Usually, leases are not signed upon purchase of software.
But I have yet to see any justification that adding features is 'bad'
I don't see any hypocrisies... If you add features with the intent to snuff out competition, that's illegal.
"consumer-usable" Unix has been around since the first stable builds of UNIX itself (not access to systems that ran it, but usability). It's very easy to use. About 15 years of marketing from our friends at Microsoft, Apple and others have told us otherwise.
...and OS X is the closest thing Apple has right now to it (A/IX doesn't count)
What's "A/IX"? Is it anything like A/UX?
"What happened to my freedom of speech?"
You lost it when you agreed to the license, obviously.
If i want to say that Microsoft Sucks, shouldn't I have the right to say so?
According to the terms of this agreement, apparently not.
"This just shows how much of a monopoly microsoft has;"
No, it does not. Other actions do that, such as denying people the right to compete.
"they cearly are controlling what people have to say about them"
If by "people", you mean the fools who agreed to the contract then, yes.
The whole point is that you agree to this. (Assuming this article is accurate, I see posts already that deny the exsistance of this clause.)
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US citizen? Want to pick a fight worth fighting? Contact your government representatives, tell them your opinon on the DMCA, copyright law, software patents, crypto regulations.... I could go on...
I don't know what iMac you were using, but they work perfectly in the slots.
I don't tire of it either. But what do you expect Apple and other for-profit companies to do? Their number one priority at all times is making money for themselves and their investors. They simply aren't concerned with anything else. Don't take it personally. The user Linux user base on Apple hardware is far too small for them to care.
It looks like I need to pay for this document.
Anyone know anything for the New York metropolitan area? Specifically, I'm looking for an old RS/6000 laptop.
-Chris
Now when someone says "curl" do they mean Curl(tm) the scripting language, cURL, the tool for getting files referenced in a URL, or curl, del cross a vector field?
bkuhn,
A couple of years ago, RMS switched support from GNUstep to GNOME. Most of GNU seemed have followed, as GNUstep participation and user base appears to be slipping while GNOME popularity has taken off. What kind of user interface and development environment do you favor? GNOME\KDE? *step? Something else entirely? Why?
-Chris
Soon, the internet will be commercialized. But I don't care, my school is on Internet2. No AOL, no porn, no pop-up ads and I can go back to using lynx.
It appears you're in a similar market as I am. One that is slowly disappearing. Mid-range and entry level workstations and parts are going... (People assume a powerful PC will replace a workstation but it does not.) Alpha is dead. (Death by Intel.) SGI is dying. IBM's RS/6000 never got low enough. If you want to buy a complete workstation the only thing I can suggest is Sun's Blade Workstation.
You seem pretty bent on getting a PPC based solution. Forget Apple, they're not going to play ball. They want to sell shiny systems at a niche price. Better start bugging IBM about those PowerPC based hardware kits.
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I would really like to be able to put together a good, non-intel machine for doing simulations...
Alpha.
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