Re:Check out the Preemptible Kernel patches...
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These sound real good. Is there a reason that these patches are not the default behavior? Is there a downside to having a premptible kernel? Everyone that runs these patches says that they are awesome.
I'm assuming that its not in 2.4 because it probably changes alot of things and needs to be done in 2.5.
on a related topic, I see the 7.2 directory on ftp.redhat.com.... pretty soon we'll be enjoying ext3 goodness out of the box. w00t!
Palm is just not exciting anymore
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Unfortunately, Palms do their jobs too well. They just work. I have no need to upgrade my HS Visor Deluxe anytime soon. It's a PDA that synchs between all my boxen, keeps my calendar, and keeps notes for me.
Someone mentioned that PocketPCs are pushing 200-300mhz... because they NEED to to do all that crap that they're pushing. Only an MS designed POCKET ORGANIZER would need 200mhz and 64MB of RAM.
Right now, Palm is the Unix of PDAs, works, doesn't look sexy, just works. If I want an MP3 player, I'll buy one, I don't need a PDA/phone/mp3 player/tricorder/geiger counter with battery life measured in hours.
On the other hand, that doesn't give Palm/Handspring an excuse to sit around and not innovate... I mean come on, anyone else think that since the M* series that Palm has lost it?
The latest Nautilus builds I have tried with the merges from the Red Hat guys have been AWESOME. Still needs some work, but it has come a long way towards becoming everyday usable.
Work with KDE instead of against it - Why all the hate between these 2 groups?
Why do people say this? I don't get it. I don't see Gnome developers trolling KDE, I don't see KDE developers trolling GNOME. What do I see? Users trolling for their preferred choice. Its not like KDE guys are making KDE apps not work in GNOME or vise versa.
Everyone talks about this huge war and how only one can survive... give me a break people, the only ones damaging BOTH desktops are the people that are supposed to be pushing for open standards and competion! Don't believe me, then read the crap in this thread.
Why? Just go into the control panel and switch to enlightenment! It's wm independant, but it has to come with something!
It's easier to download an enlightenment rpm and have it appear in the control panel than it is for me to download seperate gnome rpms for whatever window manager I want.
I'm ex-military. When I was in, I was a commissioned officer. As such, I was expected to earn a master's degree in *something*, and fill a number of other career checkboxes. Failure to do so would make me ineligible for promotion to Major, and therefore ineligible to serve 20 and get a pension.
As an ex-Army Captain I can see where you are coming from. The loyalty expectations are even worse in the military from my experience. Coming from an organization that prides itself on loyalty and self-less service, yet any mention about considering civilian employment gets you 'blacklisted' and shipped on over to the thought police. When I resigned my commission I had to see the post commander(!) of my installation in order to explain why "America's Best Leaders" were leaving the military. They basically shoved us in a room and questioned our commitment to this country and that "GenX"-ers have no idea what it means to serve. My performance reports were marked "2", even though I was told I deserved a "1", but they wanted to save the rating for someone who would need it later on down their career. My PCS award was downgraded because even though I earned it, it 'wouldn't make a difference, since I was getting out'.
(Disclaimer - these are small complaints in the big picture, serving your country is a rewarding experience and I wouldn't trade it for anything.)
However, I find it silly to expect that I can walk away from my job anytime, leaving my employer with ruined plans and wasted money but they must give me advanced notice before letting me go.
Keep thinking that way and you'll get burned. They'd lay you off without telling you if they could. How many of the dot-bomb guys found out they were let go because their email all of a sudden stopped working?
Here's how I see it as a tech worker that recently found work after trying all the normal avenues:
I don't want job security THAT much. If I am busy and getting paid what I am worth, I will be happy.
Most of the time, I will get bored with your company and move on when another opportunity arrives because of:
a) Dumb company practices, policies.
b) Clueless managers.
c) Clueless coworkers that make my job 2x harder.
I totally do nothing but contract work now with some friends with our own small LLC run out of a basements and cell phones. We literally walk into office buildings and go to individual companies and ask if they need something done. We do it until it's done, and get paid.
If they like the work, They owe me nothing, I owe them nothing. I move on to next company. Rinse and Repeat as often as necessary. Simple business transaction. And its not like there is a shortage of work.
Around here (Troy,MI) there are tons of businesses that need IT work done, and are willing to pay for it, yet all these IT companies are going under and laying people off, and you know what? Most of them are clueless "tech workers" with either no skills, or deadends. It does suck for them. I'm sorry that they decided to only learn FORTRAN because it made them good money at the time and demand is now down so they get laid off. I'm sorry that you only know VBScript, it's not going to get the servers/firewall up, NBX working, and database running. How many "tech workers" do you know that actually LOVE tech and learning the stuff as much as the average/. person? (for lack of a better example)
If you need work, link up with a few friends and do it freelance at night/weekends. If you are smart and know your shit, you're going to get it done twice as fast as some 'solutions' company and get paid directly without hassle. Use the benfits of an LLC to negotiate a good health care plance. A few friends of mine were laid off when a IT firm went under, they all got together and contract themselves as a team, and now they have TOO much work...
Everyone might say "the tech sector is down", but AFAIK, people still need to use computers to conduct business - We all are still working in the trenches getting work done for people while HP/Compaq and others are walking around with their heads up their asses....
Observes Microsoft's Aldridge: "Trying to market yourself as the MP3 of video is not going to endear you to content owners."
In other words: Microsoft is your true solution for legitimate video and audio codecs. If you any other codec, then we'll assume you're a pirate, because why would you need another codec when you have DRM/XP/Passport enabled technologies?
Because anything not blessed off by the RIAA/MPAA is automatically copyright infringement. I honestly think this is what they think....
The arrogance of these people is really sickening.
While visiting a friend for an extended stay, he lent me his Book PC to anything I needed to do. I thought "Thanks, he won't lend me a laptop or anything, I get stuck with a 'convergence' crap box that probably sucks." I was extremely surprised about how easy and fun this little thing is.
Add a processor, mem, and drive, and it's good to go. Great form factor and most everything is built into the mobo, sound, USB, ethernet, and even a TV out. The intel iCrap chipset needs to go, but other than that, a BookPC with a Happy Hacker keyboard look great and run linux extremely well (except for the modem).
If they only had one for Athlon chips, you'd have an extremely capbale '2nd computer'. I'm going to pick one up the second they have better video cards.
I'm glad we finally get an interview with bero, one of the most underrated hackers out there imo, i've always been fascinated with the Bero Linux distribution from a while back and everything he's done with RH so far.
I would have asked some other questions, so since we all know he reads slashdot I have a few questions:
1) You apparantly host dot.kde.org and post regulary, though RH 'sponsors' GNOME. Anyone at redhat have any comments towards you? Hate mail? Unexpected nerf ambushes? Do they sign you up for GNOME mailing lists? Do they make fun of the 'KDE guy in the corner'? (BTW, this is what makes open source so cool, the freedom to choose what you want).
2) Any of the ideas from bero linux make their way into the main RH distro? I know Mandrake did, but since RH is mostly conservative, I'd like to hear your opinion.
3) Does it piss you off that every complaint about the gcc in RH is answered on your website and you have to post the URL for the last 2 red hat releases including the betas? (that must suck).
4) You get paid to work on Linux, that rocks! What do you think needs the most attention?
5) Any chance that prelinking stuff will make KDE2.2? How about any of the other RH packages?
Thanks, and thanks for the kde daily builds... they rock.
Lots of downloadable utilities to make any window transparent. It's even built into the operating system, rather than the ugly hack ...
hmmm... I just used the option in the gnome-terminal... without downloading anything!? If it's built into the operating system why do you have to DL something? Sounds like your solution is the "ugly hack".
One of the guys I work with saw my box at work, saw transparent windows, and told me "I don't care what it takes, I want transparent windows". I gave him the standard warnings (no photoshop, word, etc. etc.) but he didn't care. I chuckled to myself, because that's what caught my intertest in linux in the first place. (e.themes.org, I think even all ye console purists can agree that the right E screenshot can convert anyone.)
This is what I learned, in a nutshell of course:
1) Teach them to use the console method first, then, when they've done it a while, show them the GUI way, that way they'll learn how it works.
2) The multi-user thing coming from windows is kind of hard to get over. "Why do I have to be root to install this?"
3) Guy calls it all linux, not GNOME, KDE, Red Hat, Ximian, mozilla.... this was weird to me, because I've being doing it so long, because when he got frustrated, it was like "fscking linux" instead of "fscking gnome, unstable mozilla, stupid rpm." It takes a while to explain how all those things interact and come shipped with a distro, remember they are used to everything coming from one vendor. "No, you can't update KDE with Red Carpet", "Oh, that sucks..."... you get the idea.
4) He needs to know his hardware, regardless of distro - everyone knows this, I hope.:)
5) After he got a hold of it, he found linux easy to use and maintain (I used Ximian GNOME in this case). Because it's different doesn't make it hard. Once you get them to 'think outside the box' (hate to use that phrase), learning linux can be easy and fun.
6) Nothing will help you learn linux faster than teaching someone. I consider myself an average linux guy, this experience taught me alot, and in the end, we all want to learn something, right?
7) The most important IMHO: The simple things are hard, the hard things are easy. Yes, you don't need to defrag, virus scan, worry about privacy issues, 'registration', or worry about BSODs, but yes, it will take us 2 hours to get yout ghetto ass CD burner working right.....
While Mono sounds neat and a great way for 'open source hackers to fight back', I can think of alot of issues with Ximian Gnome that need to be fixed.
It seems to me like Miguel and Co. never really finish anything before moving on to something else. Red Carpet still has some issues, Evolution isn't even close to being done, MonkeyTalk is/was awesome, but try finding a Ximian guy in there sometime, just don't bother the other _4_ users in there all asking for support.
Example: Red Carpet is STILL stuck with mozilla.9.1, but if I get.9.2 and install manually, nautilus stops working, but if I install the new nautilus, it won't unless I downgrade back to mozilla.9.1, and it keeps telling me stuff isn't installed that is... I don't understand how apt does this so well, yet this slick looking "super update" tool from insists that my stuff is broken. And you just know somebody is going to start using --force and --nodep and screw stuff up even more.
Anyway, I digress. Just because.NET is the new Microsoft plan doesn't mean we have to be scrambling to get ahead of them.
This reminds me of the big 'Push' craze. "Everyone stop what you're doing, push is the future! The regular internet will die!" Who cares, keep doing what we're doing, making a better OS for US, not for the MASSES.
Please, Ximian, make a good, stable desktop with updates and stuff that works. Just because MS, CNET/ZDNN think that.NET is awesome, doesn't mean it will be, I mean shit, this stuff is still vaporware....
This really irks me about my PS2. For some reason, the thing just will not boot games anymore. DVD movies work fine, and regular CD games work fine, but no DVD games will boot.
I read somewehre that this means the DVD laser is misaligned and that this is not covered under warranty. Anyone care to comment? It's three months old and never been dropped, this totally sucks...
Re:Mandrake is a company that understands desktop
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Mandrake is definately better than Red Hat for the desktop. It's enhancement utilities (such as DrakFont) makes it MUCH more pleasurable to use for everyday use on my desktop
This is by no means a Troll, I have been using Mandrake since 6.x and continuously find myself switching back to Red Hat. Mandrake is bleeding edge and all, but it has a real QA issues that absolutely suck. I couldn't believe 8.0 was released, especially with all the problems that plagued the beta. Stuff just stops working in Mandrake, in both KDE and GNOME, and it was beginning to drive me insane. The RH stuff is older, but it works better. While Mandrake does have some things that make it a better 'desktop experience', there is nothing I can do in Mandrake that I can't do in RH. Mdk just makes it easier, and that's fine because that's their market anyway.
Now, DrakFont is definately awesome, and I applaud them for continuing to push the envelope. MandrakeFreq is an excellent idea, as well as cooker, but I will continue to use RH until I actually find a stable version of Mandrake.
Regardless, the developers are kick ass guys and have done tons for the community and have kept their stuff GPL, so regardless of what you think of their distro, they definately get a Good Luck(tm) from me....
All they are going to do is wrap a customized installer around someone else's hard work.
Gee, like they do with the kernel, X, mozilla, samba, kde, and gnome? Like what every distro does? Why should this be any different?
They're adding value to customers who want a DB with support. This is open source, they can do this, and I bet $20 that the Postgre team is happy to be part of the package, since this will expand their market and get more people interested in postgre...
I think short term WineX will help Linux by not making people's current game collections useless.
Long term, we need to support native apps. I'm not talking 'binaries will be available soon' or 'get the patch' or 'wait for loki' stuff... I'm talking a hybrid CD that will work on my linux box as well as it does on my win box. When this starts to happen, we'll be better off. Emulation or intercepting of APIs or whatever can only hurt Linux. Remember what happened to OS/2, it ran win3.1 apps better than win3.1/95... so people had no incentive to write native apps...
From what I've read, Neverwinter Nights will be crossplatform on one disc, I'll be buying it. Hopefully we can convince game companies that cross platform games CAN be successful.
I don't know how hard it would be to set up a paypal account, but I'd donate to linuxiso, I know www.shugashack.com set up a paypal account and basically saved his site, but then again, he has tons of regular readers.
Your site provides a neat service, what would be REALLY great is if everyone who donates get's 'special access' or something > RH7.1 is available for 'gold members', anonymous users must wait three days... or something like that. And if you're like me when a new distro comes out, I'll have card in hand to get into an ftp site, maybe the rush of people donating to get in on a fresh.iso will cover a 48-72 hour Rackspace expansion.
I tried Progeny Beta 3 but unfortunately, ppp didn't work 'out of the box', I guess I just used to being pampered, anyone know if there is a 'dial-up workstation' option during install?
Like most organizations, the Army is made up of independent little cells. I am in the the Army, web page's etc. etc., and I use mpegs for my videos. It depends on who did the site.
Just because some guy copped out and used QT doesn't mean that everyone in the Army is forcing QT down your throat....
They do get the real firepower, after this phase. This part of the DCX is called force-on-force, whic means large simulated tanks battles. Simulated as in laser tag type stuff, not virtual whatever. After a week of training, the unit moves on to a live fire week, where they really get to blow shit up.....
The cost of the software is minimal compared to the cost of the whole aircraft. Just think about it, this is the US Military, the simplest things are expensive. American Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen's lives depend on this stuff, it has to work. If there is a reason on why the cost is justifiable, this is it.
Plus, how would you feel if you were a Marine:
"Hey, you and all your buddies get in this thing so we can take you somewhere, it might crash, you might all die, but don't worry about it, the cost of the software wasn't worth your life."
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These sound real good. Is there a reason that these patches are not the default behavior? Is there a downside to having a premptible kernel? Everyone that runs these patches says that they are awesome.
I'm assuming that its not in 2.4 because it probably changes alot of things and needs to be done in 2.5.
dude, that page is a year old!
.... pretty soon we'll be enjoying ext3 goodness out of the box. w00t!
on a related topic, I see the 7.2 directory on ftp.redhat.com
Unfortunately, Palms do their jobs too well. They just work. I have no need to upgrade my HS Visor Deluxe anytime soon. It's a PDA that synchs between all my boxen, keeps my calendar, and keeps notes for me.
... because they NEED to to do all that crap that they're pushing. Only an MS designed POCKET ORGANIZER would need 200mhz and 64MB of RAM.
... I mean come on, anyone else think that since the M* series that Palm has lost it?
Someone mentioned that PocketPCs are pushing 200-300mhz
Right now, Palm is the Unix of PDAs, works, doesn't look sexy, just works. If I want an MP3 player, I'll buy one, I don't need a PDA/phone/mp3 player/tricorder/geiger counter with battery life measured in hours.
On the other hand, that doesn't give Palm/Handspring an excuse to sit around and not innovate
Nautilus shouldn't suck
... give me a break people, the only ones damaging BOTH desktops are the people that are supposed to be pushing for open standards and competion! Don't believe me, then read the crap in this thread.
The latest Nautilus builds I have tried with the merges from the Red Hat guys have been AWESOME. Still needs some work, but it has come a long way towards becoming everyday usable.
Work with KDE instead of against it - Why all the hate between these 2 groups?
Why do people say this? I don't get it. I don't see Gnome developers trolling KDE, I don't see KDE developers trolling GNOME. What do I see? Users trolling for their preferred choice. Its not like KDE guys are making KDE apps not work in GNOME or vise versa.
Everyone talks about this huge war and how only one can survive
Why? Just go into the control panel and switch to enlightenment! It's wm independant, but it has to come with something!
It's easier to download an enlightenment rpm and have it appear in the control panel than it is for me to download seperate gnome rpms for whatever window manager I want.
I'm ex-military. When I was in, I was a commissioned officer. As such, I was expected to earn a master's degree in *something*, and fill a number of other career checkboxes. Failure to do so would make me ineligible for promotion to Major, and therefore ineligible to serve 20 and get a pension.
As an ex-Army Captain I can see where you are coming from. The loyalty expectations are even worse in the military from my experience. Coming from an organization that prides itself on loyalty and self-less service, yet any mention about considering civilian employment gets you 'blacklisted' and shipped on over to the thought police. When I resigned my commission I had to see the post commander(!) of my installation in order to explain why "America's Best Leaders" were leaving the military. They basically shoved us in a room and questioned our commitment to this country and that "GenX"-ers have no idea what it means to serve. My performance reports were marked "2", even though I was told I deserved a "1", but they wanted to save the rating for someone who would need it later on down their career. My PCS award was downgraded because even though I earned it, it 'wouldn't make a difference, since I was getting out'.
(Disclaimer - these are small complaints in the big picture, serving your country is a rewarding experience and I wouldn't trade it for anything.)
However, I find it silly to expect that I can walk away from my job anytime, leaving my employer with ruined plans and wasted money but they must give me advanced notice before letting me go.
Keep thinking that way and you'll get burned. They'd lay you off without telling you if they could. How many of the dot-bomb guys found out they were let go because their email all of a sudden stopped working?
Here's how I see it as a tech worker that recently found work after trying all the normal avenues:
/. person? (for lack of a better example)
I don't want job security THAT much. If I am busy and getting paid what I am worth, I will be happy.
Most of the time, I will get bored with your company and move on when another opportunity arrives because of:
a) Dumb company practices, policies.
b) Clueless managers.
c) Clueless coworkers that make my job 2x harder.
I totally do nothing but contract work now with some friends with our own small LLC run out of a basements and cell phones. We literally walk into office buildings and go to individual companies and ask if they need something done. We do it until it's done, and get paid.
If they like the work, They owe me nothing, I owe them nothing. I move on to next company. Rinse and Repeat as often as necessary. Simple business transaction. And its not like there is a shortage of work.
Around here (Troy,MI) there are tons of businesses that need IT work done, and are willing to pay for it, yet all these IT companies are going under and laying people off, and you know what? Most of them are clueless "tech workers" with either no skills, or deadends. It does suck for them. I'm sorry that they decided to only learn FORTRAN because it made them good money at the time and demand is now down so they get laid off. I'm sorry that you only know VBScript, it's not going to get the servers/firewall up, NBX working, and database running. How many "tech workers" do you know that actually LOVE tech and learning the stuff as much as the average
If you need work, link up with a few friends and do it freelance at night/weekends. If you are smart and know your shit, you're going to get it done twice as fast as some 'solutions' company and get paid directly without hassle. Use the benfits of an LLC to negotiate a good health care plance. A few friends of mine were laid off when a IT firm went under, they all got together and contract themselves as a team, and now they have TOO much work...
Everyone might say "the tech sector is down", but AFAIK, people still need to use computers to conduct business - We all are still working in the trenches getting work done for people while HP/Compaq and others are walking around with their heads up their asses....
Observes Microsoft's Aldridge: "Trying to market yourself as the MP3 of video is not going to endear you to content owners."
In other words: Microsoft is your true solution for legitimate video and audio codecs. If you any other codec, then we'll assume you're a pirate, because why would you need another codec when you have DRM/XP/Passport enabled technologies?
Because anything not blessed off by the RIAA/MPAA is automatically copyright infringement. I honestly think this is what they think....
The arrogance of these people is really sickening.
While visiting a friend for an extended stay, he lent me his Book PC to anything I needed to do. I thought "Thanks, he won't lend me a laptop or anything, I get stuck with a 'convergence' crap box that probably sucks." I was extremely surprised about how easy and fun this little thing is.
Add a processor, mem, and drive, and it's good to go. Great form factor and most everything is built into the mobo, sound, USB, ethernet, and even a TV out. The intel iCrap chipset needs to go, but other than that, a BookPC with a Happy Hacker keyboard look great and run linux extremely well (except for the modem).
If they only had one for Athlon chips, you'd have an extremely capbale '2nd computer'. I'm going to pick one up the second they have better video cards.
The mozilla nightly's expire after thirty days. They are nightly builds for a reason.
I'm glad we finally get an interview with bero, one of the most underrated hackers out there imo, i've always been fascinated with the Bero Linux distribution from a while back and everything he's done with RH so far. I would have asked some other questions, so since we all know he reads slashdot I have a few questions:
... they rock.
1) You apparantly host dot.kde.org and post regulary, though RH 'sponsors' GNOME. Anyone at redhat have any comments towards you? Hate mail? Unexpected nerf ambushes? Do they sign you up for GNOME mailing lists? Do they make fun of the 'KDE guy in the corner'? (BTW, this is what makes open source so cool, the freedom to choose what you want).
2) Any of the ideas from bero linux make their way into the main RH distro? I know Mandrake did, but since RH is mostly conservative, I'd like to hear your opinion.
3) Does it piss you off that every complaint about the gcc in RH is answered on your website and you have to post the URL for the last 2 red hat releases including the betas? (that must suck).
4) You get paid to work on Linux, that rocks! What do you think needs the most attention?
5) Any chance that prelinking stuff will make KDE2.2? How about any of the other RH packages?
Thanks, and thanks for the kde daily builds
Lots of downloadable utilities to make any window transparent. It's even built into the operating system, rather than the ugly hack ...
... I just used the option in the gnome-terminal ... without downloading anything!? If it's built into the operating system why do you have to DL something? Sounds like your solution is the "ugly hack".
hmmm
One of the guys I work with saw my box at work, saw transparent windows, and told me "I don't care what it takes, I want transparent windows". I gave him the standard warnings (no photoshop, word, etc. etc.) but he didn't care. I chuckled to myself, because that's what caught my intertest in linux in the first place. (e.themes.org, I think even all ye console purists can agree that the right E screenshot can convert anyone.)
.... this was weird to me, because I've being doing it so long, because when he got frustrated, it was like "fscking linux" instead of "fscking gnome, unstable mozilla, stupid rpm." It takes a while to explain how all those things interact and come shipped with a distro, remember they are used to everything coming from one vendor. "No, you can't update KDE with Red Carpet", "Oh, that sucks..." ... you get the idea.
:)
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This is what I learned, in a nutshell of course:
1) Teach them to use the console method first, then, when they've done it a while, show them the GUI way, that way they'll learn how it works.
2) The multi-user thing coming from windows is kind of hard to get over. "Why do I have to be root to install this?"
3) Guy calls it all linux, not GNOME, KDE, Red Hat, Ximian, mozilla
4) He needs to know his hardware, regardless of distro - everyone knows this, I hope.
5) After he got a hold of it, he found linux easy to use and maintain (I used Ximian GNOME in this case). Because it's different doesn't make it hard. Once you get them to 'think outside the box' (hate to use that phrase), learning linux can be easy and fun.
6) Nothing will help you learn linux faster than teaching someone. I consider myself an average linux guy, this experience taught me alot, and in the end, we all want to learn something, right?
7) The most important IMHO: The simple things are hard, the hard things are easy. Yes, you don't need to defrag, virus scan, worry about privacy issues, 'registration', or worry about BSODs, but yes, it will take us 2 hours to get yout ghetto ass CD burner working right
While Mono sounds neat and a great way for 'open source hackers to fight back', I can think of alot of issues with Ximian Gnome that need to be fixed.
.9.1, but if I get .9.2 and install manually, nautilus stops working, but if I install the new nautilus, it won't unless I downgrade back to mozilla .9.1, and it keeps telling me stuff isn't installed that is ... I don't understand how apt does this so well, yet this slick looking "super update" tool from insists that my stuff is broken. And you just know somebody is going to start using --force and --nodep and screw stuff up even more.
.NET is the new Microsoft plan doesn't mean we have to be scrambling to get ahead of them.
.NET is awesome, doesn't mean it will be, I mean shit, this stuff is still vaporware ....
It seems to me like Miguel and Co. never really finish anything before moving on to something else. Red Carpet still has some issues, Evolution isn't even close to being done, MonkeyTalk is/was awesome, but try finding a Ximian guy in there sometime, just don't bother the other _4_ users in there all asking for support.
Example: Red Carpet is STILL stuck with mozilla
Anyway, I digress. Just because
This reminds me of the big 'Push' craze. "Everyone stop what you're doing, push is the future! The regular internet will die!" Who cares, keep doing what we're doing, making a better OS for US, not for the MASSES.
Please, Ximian, make a good, stable desktop with updates and stuff that works. Just because MS, CNET/ZDNN think that
This really irks me about my PS2. For some reason, the thing just will not boot games anymore. DVD movies work fine, and regular CD games work fine, but no DVD games will boot.
...
I read somewehre that this means the DVD laser is misaligned and that this is not covered under warranty. Anyone care to comment? It's three months old and never been dropped, this totally sucks
Mandrake is definately better than Red Hat for the desktop. It's enhancement utilities (such as DrakFont) makes it MUCH more pleasurable to use for everyday use on my desktop
....
This is by no means a Troll, I have been using Mandrake since 6.x and continuously find myself switching back to Red Hat. Mandrake is bleeding edge and all, but it has a real QA issues that absolutely suck. I couldn't believe 8.0 was released, especially with all the problems that plagued the beta. Stuff just stops working in Mandrake, in both KDE and GNOME, and it was beginning to drive me insane. The RH stuff is older, but it works better. While Mandrake does have some things that make it a better 'desktop experience', there is nothing I can do in Mandrake that I can't do in RH. Mdk just makes it easier, and that's fine because that's their market anyway.
Now, DrakFont is definately awesome, and I applaud them for continuing to push the envelope. MandrakeFreq is an excellent idea, as well as cooker, but I will continue to use RH until I actually find a stable version of Mandrake.
Regardless, the developers are kick ass guys and have done tons for the community and have kept their stuff GPL, so regardless of what you think of their distro, they definately get a Good Luck(tm) from me
All they are going to do is wrap a customized installer around someone else's hard work.
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Gee, like they do with the kernel, X, mozilla, samba, kde, and gnome? Like what every distro does? Why should this be any different?
They're adding value to customers who want a DB with support. This is open source, they can do this, and I bet $20 that the Postgre team is happy to be part of the package, since this will expand their market and get more people interested in postgre
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If you would check out www.iomega.com instead of relying on c|crap, you'd know that there's a 1394 and SCSI module available
I think short term WineX will help Linux by not making people's current game collections useless.
... I'm talking a hybrid CD that will work on my linux box as well as it does on my win box. When this starts to happen, we'll be better off. Emulation or intercepting of APIs or whatever can only hurt Linux. Remember what happened to OS/2, it ran win3.1 apps better than win3.1/95 ... so people had no incentive to write native apps ...
Long term, we need to support native apps. I'm not talking 'binaries will be available soon' or 'get the patch' or 'wait for loki' stuff
From what I've read, Neverwinter Nights will be crossplatform on one disc, I'll be buying it. Hopefully we can convince game companies that cross platform games CAN be successful.
I don't know how hard it would be to set up a paypal account, but I'd donate to linuxiso, I know www.shugashack.com set up a paypal account and basically saved his site, but then again, he has tons of regular readers.
... or something like that. And if you're like me when a new distro comes out, I'll have card in hand to get into an ftp site, maybe the rush of people donating to get in on a fresh .iso will cover a 48-72 hour Rackspace expansion.
Your site provides a neat service, what would be REALLY great is if everyone who donates get's 'special access' or something > RH7.1 is available for 'gold members', anonymous users must wait three days
I tried Progeny Beta 3 but unfortunately, ppp didn't work 'out of the box', I guess I just used to being pampered, anyone know if there is a 'dial-up workstation' option during install?
Like most organizations, the Army is made up of independent little cells. I am in the the Army, web page's etc. etc., and I use mpegs for my videos. It depends on who did the site.
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Just because some guy copped out and used QT doesn't mean that everyone in the Army is forcing QT down your throat
They do get the real firepower, after this phase. This part of the DCX is called force-on-force, whic means large simulated tanks battles. Simulated as in laser tag type stuff, not virtual whatever. After a week of training, the unit moves on to a live fire week, where they really get to blow shit up .....
The cost of the software is minimal compared to the cost of the whole aircraft. Just think about it, this is the US Military, the simplest things are expensive. American Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen's lives depend on this stuff, it has to work. If there is a reason on why the cost is justifiable, this is it.
Plus, how would you feel if you were a Marine:
"Hey, you and all your buddies get in this thing so we can take you somewhere, it might crash, you might all die, but don't worry about it, the cost of the software wasn't worth your life."