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Re:Debian: The Universal Operating System
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Debian GNU/Solaris
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You should really reinvestigate Cygwin. It is vastly superior to MSFU. It does have x.org as an option; fully ported, not just libs. I believe apt and dpkg work quite well also. Of course, Cygwin setup.exe does a good job of managing packages too. I bet you could even work it out so X and whatever window manager you choose could be the default shell. I know KDE is mostly ported, a good portion of Gnome, XFCE, openbox, window maker, etc..
I would say inpossible since modern Windows installations only support FAT32 and NTFS. Why would you want your Windows system installed on anything but NTFS anyway? NTFS offers all the features of the others in it's own way. It's not like it's a subpar filesystem.
Windows already "natively" supports alternative file systems via IFS. It's just that someone needs to write a file system driver for whatever file system is desired. There is a ext2 IFS driver available at http://www.fs-driver.org/ There are other drivers out as well, some not as complete as others. Being that MS provides IFS and a development kit, I would think it should up to the filesystem developers to provide the driver to Windows.
I have thought since before the movie was announced that it needed to be made as a SciFi mini-series. You just can't make real sense of it all, without all of it. A single movie will just not be enough. And I am really interested in how the books intro will fit into the movie. I mean they do have to explain to those new to the genre how to get the hell off the planet, right?
It would be nice if distribution makers stopped calling their distributions Blah Linux, and started calling them Blah OS. It will be worse on commercial software developers for sure. And it could be bad for small niche open source apps. But, the benefits would be huge. I have seen many times people complain that they can't install a Mandrake RPM properly on Red Hat and vice versa. You shouldn't be able to. They are different OSs. SuSE OS, powered by Linux is more correct than SuSE Linux.
As a user experienced with a cable companies(Time Warner) VoIP offering and with Vonage, I can clearly(pun) state that Vonage wins hands down. Odd since it is still carried over Time Warners cable network. I really put the blame on the cruddy Scientific Atlanta equipment they chose to use. I went through three "modems" in the course of a month. I quit after the third died, went with Vonage that same night, and I haven't looked back. The calls are ten times clearer on Vonage.
From past experience the upgrade version is only media. No manuals and no installation support. But, it's not like someone that has been using SuSE for any time really needs those things anyway.
Which wireless adapter do you have in your HP? Mine has one of those dang Broadcom adapters. It's the only hardware on this system not directly supported. I could use the Linuxant driver loader, but I would really like to have a fully 64-bit OS for my 64-bit proc. The Linuxant loader uses the Windows driver which is only 32-bit. At this point I can only guess 32-bit driver loaded through/with Linuxant driver loaded will not load in a 64-bit kernel.
Any standard package that you don't independently update will stay at the latest SuSE released update for the distribution version installed. Once SuSE releases a distribution, they do not do any major version updates to it that aren't needed for security.
I thought it was just early when I received an e-mail yesterday stating it had been released and pointing me to the SuSE store. They only show 9.1. Since it still only shows 9.1, it looks like someone at Digital River is slacking.
Also notice that Amazon says you get a $35 discount. The show the retail price of the full version for the upgrade, then show the actual price of the upgrade as their discounted price.
In a work environment, why do admins leave it accessable on the machines at all?
Because our bosses would just tell us to re-enable it when the Land Rover New Zeland website doesn't work, because they don't like the X5. You make it sound as if the admins have complete and total control. We do have complete and total access and configurability in most cases, but someone higher up with less IQ generally calls the shots. All most admins can do is recommend and implement, not actually make the decision to stop or start using a particular peice of software, no matter what it's faults are.
You should be able to customize what is on the knoppix cd fairly easy already. If you look at the Knoppix cheatcodes, for manipulating hardware detection, there is a note in there about remastering the cd:
If you wish to remaster the CD, please don't forget to specify
-b KNOPPIX/boot.img for the german version of the bootfloppy, or
-b KNOPPIX/boot-en.img for the english version, as option to mkisofs. Otherwise your CD won't be bootable. The directory KNOPPIX, containig the compressed filesystem file "KNOPPIX", must be located in the top level directory of the CD.
So, just take the knoppix ISO, copy to disk and modify away. Then use mkisofs with the -b flag to make your new custom ISO.:)
How is his suggestion theft? For every simultaneous copy being played of a given CD, there is a physical CD bought and paid for not in use.
In other words, the physical media is still payed for, it's just not being used. The digital copy is. And only one digital copy is allowed to be used in the system at a time per physical media purchased.
I have to agree with this post mostly. IMO, the Tivo is a far superior product. I'm not sure why these cable companies don't work out some deal to license the technology.
I started my DVR experience with a DishPVR from Dish Network. I had never even seen a Tivo and thought the DishPVR sucked horribly. I changed over to TW Digital and a Tivo. I and my wife loved every minute of it save one hitch. I hated having the separate units. TW would occassionally reset the digital receiver and Tivo would record nothing somehow thinking it was still getting a signal. So, when TW released the Digital DVR here in Memphis, I put the Tivo to the side thinking this would solve my problem. It did to an extent. You could turn the digital box off yourself and it would still record your shows.
This thing has major issues though. Try recording two or three shows back to back all on the same channel, then jumping in half way through the first show to go ahead and start watching it. When the first show ends, in real time, you are jumped to the second show no matter where you are in watching the first, time shifted. Kinda ruins the time shifting ability there. Starting a show 20 - 30 minutes late is great for skipping commercials but still ending the night mostly on time. It also has issues with corruption. I had scheduled four shows back to back. It got all of the first and third show, said it had all the other two, but in reality only had one minute of each. Where did the rest go? No clue.
To conclude, my experience with the SA 8000 made me switch back to Tivo and completely drop digital cable. I never really watched premium channels anyway, but now I have what I want. TW can't crew up any recordings by resetting the box, and my Tivo has yet to screw anything up.
But, obviously, someone wants the telemarketers and spammers services. Otherwise they would not be in business as they would have no one paying them to telemarket or spam in the first place.
Bam! There is one of the biggest problems with this world. The other is the "it doesn't involve me, but I sticking my nose in it anyway" syndrome.
How the hell do you balance these two large crowds out? Those that don't care as long as it doesn't affect them and those that want to be up in everyone's business?
No just for hobbiest or geeks.
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Gentoo is a great distribution. I use SuSE as my daily workstation just for the simplicity, but if I were in a more open and willing IT situation, I would seriously consider Gentoo in that environment as well. Gentoo's Portage system is it's main strength and potential advantage to IT departments. It does mean a little long term thinking in regards to the ease of network administration it could bring. But standardizing on fewer hardware platforms in business also makes life easier. Using a custom, local portage tree within an organization, and custom ebuilds, an IT department could keep complete, tight control on their software library, nothing is there that would prevent you from having a portage tree with custom binary packages to make initial installation and updates quick. And the power of profiles adds in deciding what a system requires, you could nearly deploy servers with a custom stage3 install, a custom profile, and 'emerge system'. Workstations, anything. It would take quite a bit of initial work for an IT organization to switch to a system like this, but I would love to see it in action. I could only image the ease of administering it.
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zimbra
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are worth looking at.
The link in your post only displays a blank page for me. Here is the Google cache of the page in question.
You should really reinvestigate Cygwin. It is vastly superior to MSFU. It does have x.org as an option; fully ported, not just libs. I believe apt and dpkg work quite well also. Of course, Cygwin setup.exe does a good job of managing packages too.
I bet you could even work it out so X and whatever window manager you choose could be the default shell. I know KDE is mostly ported, a good portion of Gnome, XFCE, openbox, window maker, etc..
I would say inpossible since modern Windows installations only support FAT32 and NTFS. Why would you want your Windows system installed on anything but NTFS anyway? NTFS offers all the features of the others in it's own way. It's not like it's a subpar filesystem.
Windows already "natively" supports alternative file systems via IFS. It's just that someone needs to write a file system driver for whatever file system is desired.
There is a ext2 IFS driver available at http://www.fs-driver.org/ There are other drivers out as well, some not as complete as others.
Being that MS provides IFS and a development kit, I would think it should up to the filesystem developers to provide the driver to Windows.
have no choice but to dump Microsoft completely if Microsoft demands such terms
Looks like we now need a +1 "Should Be True" moderation.
I have thought since before the movie was announced that it needed to be made as a SciFi mini-series. You just can't make real sense of it all, without all of it. A single movie will just not be enough.
And I am really interested in how the books intro will fit into the movie. I mean they do have to explain to those new to the genre how to get the hell off the planet, right?
OS.
Linux is a kernel.
It would be nice if distribution makers stopped calling their distributions Blah Linux, and started calling them Blah OS.
It will be worse on commercial software developers for sure. And it could be bad for small niche open source apps. But, the benefits would be huge.
I have seen many times people complain that they can't install a Mandrake RPM properly on Red Hat and vice versa. You shouldn't be able to. They are different OSs.
SuSE OS, powered by Linux is more correct than SuSE Linux.
As a user experienced with a cable companies(Time Warner) VoIP offering and with Vonage, I can clearly(pun) state that Vonage wins hands down. Odd since it is still carried over Time Warners cable network.
I really put the blame on the cruddy Scientific Atlanta equipment they chose to use. I went through three "modems" in the course of a month. I quit after the third died, went with Vonage that same night, and I haven't looked back. The calls are ten times clearer on Vonage.
According to the blurb about Evolution 2.0 from this page, http://www.novell.com/products/evolution/, connector is part of it, not a separate component.
From past experience the upgrade version is only media. No manuals and no installation support. But, it's not like someone that has been using SuSE for any time really needs those things anyway.
Which wireless adapter do you have in your HP? Mine has one of those dang Broadcom adapters. It's the only hardware on this system not directly supported. I could use the Linuxant driver loader, but I would really like to have a fully 64-bit OS for my 64-bit proc. The Linuxant loader uses the Windows driver which is only 32-bit.
At this point I can only guess 32-bit driver loaded through/with Linuxant driver loaded will not load in a 64-bit kernel.
Any standard package that you don't independently update will stay at the latest SuSE released update for the distribution version installed.
Once SuSE releases a distribution, they do not do any major version updates to it that aren't needed for security.
I thought it was just early when I received an e-mail yesterday stating it had been released and pointing me to the SuSE store. They only show 9.1.
Since it still only shows 9.1, it looks like someone at Digital River is slacking.
Also notice that Amazon says you get a $35 discount. The show the retail price of the full version for the upgrade, then show the actual price of the upgrade as their discounted price.
Updates for each version of SuSE have always been in separate repositories. If you want to stick to standard packages, you'll have to upgrade.
Probably never. Seems manufacturers are eager to support Linux on the server, but it appears the desktop is still out of scope for them.
It already is, isn't it?
Somebody had to.
Can I just say:
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Whew. Thank you. I desperately needed that.
In a work environment, why do admins leave it accessable on the machines at all?
Because our bosses would just tell us to re-enable it when the Land Rover New Zeland website doesn't work, because they don't like the X5.
You make it sound as if the admins have complete and total control. We do have complete and total access and configurability in most cases, but someone higher up with less IQ generally calls the shots. All most admins can do is recommend and implement, not actually make the decision to stop or start using a particular peice of software, no matter what it's faults are.
You should be able to customize what is on the knoppix cd fairly easy already. If you look at the Knoppix cheatcodes, for manipulating hardware detection, there is a note in there about remastering the cd:
:)
If you wish to remaster the CD, please don't forget to specify
-b KNOPPIX/boot.img
for the german version of the bootfloppy, or
-b KNOPPIX/boot-en.img
for the english version, as option to mkisofs. Otherwise your CD
won't be bootable. The directory KNOPPIX, containig the compressed
filesystem file "KNOPPIX", must be located in the top level
directory of the CD.
So, just take the knoppix ISO, copy to disk and modify away. Then use mkisofs with the -b flag to make your new custom ISO.
How is his suggestion theft? For every simultaneous copy being played of a given CD, there is a physical CD bought and paid for not in use.
In other words, the physical media is still payed for, it's just not being used. The digital copy is. And only one digital copy is allowed to be used in the system at a time per physical media purchased.
I have to agree with this post mostly. IMO, the Tivo is a far superior product. I'm not sure why these cable companies don't work out some deal to license the technology.
I started my DVR experience with a DishPVR from Dish Network. I had never even seen a Tivo and thought the DishPVR sucked horribly. I changed over to TW Digital and a Tivo. I and my wife loved every minute of it save one hitch. I hated having the separate units. TW would occassionally reset the digital receiver and Tivo would record nothing somehow thinking it was still getting a signal. So, when TW released the Digital DVR here in Memphis, I put the Tivo to the side thinking this would solve my problem. It did to an extent. You could turn the digital box off yourself and it would still record your shows.
This thing has major issues though. Try recording two or three shows back to back all on the same channel, then jumping in half way through the first show to go ahead and start watching it. When the first show ends, in real time, you are jumped to the second show no matter where you are in watching the first, time shifted. Kinda ruins the time shifting ability there. Starting a show 20 - 30 minutes late is great for skipping commercials but still ending the night mostly on time. It also has issues with corruption. I had scheduled four shows back to back. It got all of the first and third show, said it had all the other two, but in reality only had one minute of each. Where did the rest go? No clue.
To conclude, my experience with the SA 8000 made me switch back to Tivo and completely drop digital cable. I never really watched premium channels anyway, but now I have what I want. TW can't crew up any recordings by resetting the box, and my Tivo has yet to screw anything up.
But, obviously, someone wants the telemarketers and spammers services. Otherwise they would not be in business as they would have no one paying them to telemarket or spam in the first place.
As long as...., it doesn't really matter to me.
Bam! There is one of the biggest problems with this world. The other is the "it doesn't involve me, but I sticking my nose in it anyway" syndrome.
How the hell do you balance these two large crowds out? Those that don't care as long as it doesn't affect them and those that want to be up in everyone's business?
Gentoo is a great distribution. I use SuSE as my daily workstation just for the simplicity, but if I were in a more open and willing IT situation, I would seriously consider Gentoo in that environment as well.
Gentoo's Portage system is it's main strength and potential advantage to IT departments. It does mean a little long term thinking in regards to the ease of network administration it could bring. But standardizing on fewer hardware platforms in business also makes life easier. Using a custom, local portage tree within an organization, and custom ebuilds, an IT department could keep complete, tight control on their software library, nothing is there that would prevent you from having a portage tree with custom binary packages to make initial installation and updates quick. And the power of profiles adds in deciding what a system requires, you could nearly deploy servers with a custom stage3 install, a custom profile, and 'emerge system'. Workstations, anything.
It would take quite a bit of initial work for an IT organization to switch to a system like this, but I would love to see it in action. I could only image the ease of administering it.