Linux is the building block for an Application's environment. Linux gets better with age and the User Interface gets easier with every successive release of Gnome, KDE, the various windowmanagers, and the X Window System. Linux truely isn't what the end-user interacts directly with: the end-user takes advantage of stable programs.
Microsoft designed its own Windows operating system ontop of DOS because they are a bunch of cheap bastards that think compatibility with the old DOS-mode 1980's WordProcessors and cruddy SVGA programs and games is a feature and Microsoft implies stability in their advertizing, but dump any promise of stability in their End User License Agreement. Linux is the opposite, but simply can't guaruntee stability on certain combinations of hardware. I must admit that the latest batch of discension among newly converted-to-Linux users can be credited to RedHat. RedHat deserves a pat on their back. Mandrake too for following RedHat closely as they took the long walk off the short bridge...a pat on the back for losing any "won-over people" because RedHat chose to corrupt the Linux building block mechanism by using GCC version 2.96!
Do you know how many tech support problems I help answer on www.linuxquake.com/messageboard are from RedHat and Mandrake users? I find it hillarious that Mandrake based their 8.x releases on RedHat's 7.x releases. Sure it is stable to a certain point; but I can't overlook that RedHat killed alot of people's ideals of what a Linux operating system could do for them because by using GCC over version 2.95, many programs, like the simple yet convenient MPlayer, have a difficult time compiling with certain optimizations. Thankyou RedHat for using GCC 2.96 and thankyou Mandrake for being a mirror image of RedHat's crusty ass.
The point is this... When I tried RedHat 5.2 over 2.5 years ago, I was impressed. I was impressed becaus my measely non-MMX Pentium 150MHz computer/with 48MB of RAM got some deserved stability and bugfixes as opposed to Microsoft Windows 95. That old computer/with RedHat Linux 5.2 proved to me a better edu-tainment tool than Microsoft Windows of any release, and I enjoyed fast and stable multi-tasking. Thanks goto RedHat for their earlier works. My old computer, to date, can be found at my local computer-equipment preservation archive, buried under 7 billion tons of landfill. Now that RedHat has the greatest software to work with, they fucked up their distro's build. The 7.x series is bad. In numerology, 7 is supposedly a magic number for perfection. RedHat demonstrated such perfection. RedHat demonstrated poor leadership and management in their release and have lost my advocacy for their product. Also, I never liked the name of their company because it instilled the thoughts of a "Russian American's" Linux(Red Commy bastards). I now advocate SuSe Linux Professional edition version 7 simply because that distro is automated better than RedHat's 7.x distro, includes more software and better documentation for the same cost as RedHat's distro, and because SuSe was built using GCC version 2.95.2; which means it retains Linux as the most stable desktop to date.
However, I advocate SuSe for regular family users. My desktop system, on the other hand, was built under plan of LinuxFromScratch and I wouldn't dare install any other modern-ized distro on it. All the Linux distros are too bloated and will overwhelm my computer's harddrive. I can care less about eye-candy, but I advocate SuSe to families just because of the modern eye-candy and its stability and large applications selection. However, though I advocate SuSe for making such a greate distro, their installer is real nice and offers 100% installation of all their software easily and efficiently at only 6 GB. You heard me correctly, six gigabytes! SuSe is a nice distro and they must be installing six gigabytes of something good. How does it compare with Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX? BLOATED! My favorite distro offers you to install BLOAT, but it doesn't have to be that way... Still, there is that little twitch in the end-user's brain that says he needs 100% installed and this is what he gets, 6GB of bloat!
What this means to someone migrating from MS Windows is alot of stability(pun intended). If you know what Operating system is stable, easy to use, has a nice file-managing GUI, a beautiful desktop, and is really stable and compiles programs perfectly, then the MS Windows users WILL convert to that operating system in a heartbeat! Software is software and they see something new, fun, and pretty! When they discover it offers a large list of commercial games and free games, they'll wallow in stable-happiness bliss.
I just got back from Fry's electronics and saw a Mac OSX box with a kernel crash from darwin due to a memory access exception, I saw a Microsoft Windows XP laptop frozen, and approximately 18 yards from that heard of desktop extravaganza was the row of commercial Unix software exhibits: sporting Yellow Dog Linux, RedHat Linux 7.x, SuSe Linux 7.x, Kandara Linux, freeBSD and its PowerPak, and Mandrake Linux 8.x. Do I dare offer my assistance to a sailsman and a small audience of 17 people on the installation and administration of Linux on a PowerPC, a Sony VAIO, and an Athlon-based desktop? I think I'll try offering some guidance next time I'm in there. I'm at Fry's electronics once a week to buy something anyways, so while I have 3 hours to blow, I can have fun with a stable OS teaching everyone the basics, like...
use an eMail client,
use Netscape and Mozilla,
use Gnome's and KDE's file manager,
why the file system is the way it is,
howto manage users,
howto setup a printer and share it with other Linux users,
howto integrate Linux with Microsoft Windows computers using SAMBA,
howto share files and printers with Microsoft Windows users,
howto download, compile and install new programs from sourcecode,
howto use a gui to manipulate a tar, tard'gzipd', and a tar'bzip2'd file and benefit,
And of'course tell them and demonstrate conclusively why and where Microsoft has lied to them about Linux, virii, and about Microsoft software on their website.
-oh wait, that's what they learned just to use Microsoft Windows! That must mean the average Microsoft Windows user has a brain and knows the basics of computers already! Now they just need help with some Unix primitives and be able to trust a free operating system for their daily tasks and they're set...
arrogance? your post is DRIPPING with it. Remember, Microsoft does have more than one operating system. I have been using WINXP for the last 3 weeks, and it does a pretty damn good job of protecting the system from horribly written applications.
Linux has safety measures for the system against those "bad" programs. It is called GCC and it warns the programmer of bad code pretty damn fast at over 50,000 lines per second on an Athlon. Microsoft wrote a pretty bad application back in the late 1980's and it was called Microsoft Windows 1.0, built ontop of MS-DOS, Microsoft's "engineered" marvel, and from that bad, virus-susceptible code, spawned Windows 3.11 FWG, Windows NT 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.x, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP(erimental). Congratulations on your latest $180+ purchase of yet another Microsoft operating that does that same as its ancestors...run virii verry well.
Happy hacking? An operating system, like ANY large application, needs to be engineered. Happy hacking ususally means 10x more bugs and possible security issues. Something VERY BAD in an operating system.
Boy, it must hurt to be you... Microsoft calls whatever it makes an innovation. Obviously whatever Bill Gates first engineered from his friend (MS-DOS) for $30,000 was engineered pretty damn well. Happy Hacking is when someone writes code that works. Sure, Microsoft mus have engineered IIS because it accepts every worm in existance. In your own words, saying Happy Hacking products 10x more bugs, you simply display your affection to microsoft. You know Linux is just one big party, free beer, free code, and you can wear whatever clothing you want, and you support Microsoft software; buy their software, intall it, and ponder all the engineering put into the blue screen of death. You are a proud individual...
no they[Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook Express] don't[aren't 3rd party software], and no[shit is not between my ears] (otherwise I wouldn't be able to post)
That was a quick answer, you didn't even examplify how such 1st class Microsoft software, ala Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook Express, have matured to the bug-filled, virus prone peices of work to date. Each version of MS Windows had an optimized version of these two Microsoft packages and each version demonstrated even more engineering marvels by the flaws in their software. It just proves to everyone, engineers make just as many mistakes as Happy Hackers, but it looks like Unix programs have the upper-hand in quality, stability, and visual candy.
When I said "Up and running", I was referring to the time it takes to get an application created (learning curve) on a Kde/Gnome as opposed to windows. Compare GTK+ widgets/c++ with visual basic. Most novice programmers would much rather use visual basic. (hence the 1000s of useless applications you see cluttering the internet, written in VB).
Kde and Gnome are desktop environments. Developing specifically for these desktop environments is just a simple code fork that is solved using a toolkit of the programmer's choosing. MS Windows programs are more error-prone and by developing strictly for an operating system or as we know, a desktop, you just hurt your potential userbase. Microsoft demonstrates that in a day-to-day basis. It is called "leverage", and they believe the more programs made specifically for MS Windows, the better for them. Honest point. Microsoft software and development environments, go beyond this idea of non-portable software. The enhance it by building their development environments and their programming language syntax off-standard with each sucessive release!
saying isn't the same as being, im afraid. Usually people that constantly say "im great at X"
or "im the best at X", have vast amounts of insecurities.
Yes, we must brag about our skills of utilizing the X protocol because our jobs require such knowledge. Network administrators and you name it require extensive knowledge of X protocol and securing it because many of our customers prefer to login to their office machines with a GUI instead of using just ssh and console commands. We know how are jobs depend on such knowledge and our "insecurity" revolves around money because, as you don't yet understand, it costs money to live in a house with a wife, three kids, a dog, a cage full of rabbits, chickens, and turkeys. Believe me kid, as you grow older, you must depend less on your parents. There is much more than Microsoft Windows and its large availability of games. People must EARN money to live. Our insecurity is shared by millions of people and their own professions. You dare imply we are a bunch of people that are addicted to computers, while someone else is addicted to cooking food, and a carpenter is addicted to building furniture from oak? It is shameful to even respond to your lies lest people see me as a fool to waste my time, but I set grounds for verbal strength that brings out the warrior of every man to fight another tribe's encroachment with their lazy, poor quality, most dispicable fruits of their labor.
As a closing note to you, I must say that unlike Microsoft, everyone is allowed to participate in much of Linux' development. It is a pool of knowledge, bigger than anything Microsoft can develop and contribute. Our pool of knowledge is constructed in our free-time and is higher quality than Microsoft's "engineering" skills. No government, financial status or political status can impede Linux's development and that shall stand for every freedom-phille. We stress the software we contribute to. We don't run another operating system on our free eMail websites(hotmail.com) and say otherwise on our "engineered" software's ability to operate under like-conditions. You are the hypocrite because you know nothing inside of Microsoft's software development ring and have nothing to say other than "it's up" or "it's down". Linux and its supporting software is to be used at everyone's advantage! Nobody alone owns Linux, it is a team effort! You lie too much on topics that other people understand more than you. You'll make a great leader other than providing excellent insight.
The only reason you don't need antivirus software for linux, is because it isn't popular yet (the OS). A virus could be created (it could for ANY OS), but from an infection standpoint, it would be very minimal compared to windows.
There have been virus' created for Linux, but they all fail because of the way Linux has continued to develop. Those virii are all NULL on Linux now and are no longer a threat; all 40 of them. Linux is only susceptible to something we here call a "Trojan" and no, that ain't a horny soldier. Forms of Trojans are those created in a scripting language such as shell scripting, Perl, Python, and a few others. You can't guard against Trojans until you get a brain and think to not run a program you don't know about, where it came from, or hasn't been reviewd by someone with technical knowledge. However a Trojan is made, all damage is done to files owned by the user who ran it. No shit sherlock! A Linux system is immune unless the user is you, of which an idiot, and you constantly login as "root" user to run Quake3:Arena because you think you are 1337. The best way to protect yourself is to use common knowledge...don't run programs you don't know where they came from and if you do run such a program, don't run it suid root, and it is best to experiment by creating a "test" user and logging in as the "test" user to run the program. Otherwise, just like mother nature, some animals get into stuff you own and chew, break, deficate.
Quake3 may run well on linux/X-windows, but it is an exception to the rule.
I'll let you have that one. You are right, nVidia and Linux can't innovate as well as Microsoft. So we optimize our applications on linux to run most stable and at their best yield in performance, while eating pringles, fetchmail syncronizes 5 users' mail into their/var/spool/mail/? folder, and the latest stable kernel downloads from ftp.kernel.org.
I predict that the popularity of an operating system is directly related to it's stability
That is a very poor prediction. It will always be a prediction because you obviously can't make a hypothesis due to your arrogance. Linux, and its Unix relatives, is an application environment. Applications are given rules and they cannot break such rules. Rules broken is a bug, which in Linux' case of being 100% opensource, will be fixed with 24 hours of happy hacking. You are a simple Sam, so let me dumbdown Unix technology for you... Think of the Linux operating system as planet Earth. Think of your house as your environment. Think of your canned food in your cupboards as your programs. You want to run a program called "whoopass" so you reach into your cupboard, grab that can of "whoopass", and you open it. Understand? Well, that can of whoopass can only run in your house. People can smell that "whoopass" outside your house by getting on "top" of their roofs, noses in the wind, but "whoopass" can't hurt planet Earth, can't change gravity to 0, and can't go into your deskdrawer and throw your income tax return check into your trashcan. There you have it. Microsoft Windows is the opposite and lets programs do all the bad things to your computer. Said and done, Linux is a complex peice of material, just as complex as building a house of brick and mortar, on a foundation of cement slabs. It is stable.
You ever run a windows box with NO 3rd part apps installed? I have, and it's rock solid.
Does Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook Express count as 3rd party? Do you have shit between your ears?
Linux, on the other hand, requires a little more skill to get an application up and running.
That is a blatent lie. Microsoft Windows installation wizards are just as difficult to use as loging in as "root" user on Linux/X Windows and doubleclicking an installation script within Gnome's Naughtilus file browser.
...(most beginning programmers are scared of GCC). This, in turn, leads to fewer programs with shitloads of problems
Another blatent lie. I learned how to program in C using GCC. To finish my collection of old DOS software, I purchased Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 and found that even the older legacy DOS Compilers' IDE is harder to use! I bought, tried, and sold Microsoft's MS-DOS QuickC software because it had verry few features and you just can't do things as fast as using commandline tools. I first learned howto program when I learned Microsoft FORTRAN for MS-DOS. I thought FORTRAN was limited because I had to pay $220 for Microsoft Macro Assembler v6.1 at Fry's Electronics just so I can do some advanced stuff like directly reading the keyboard flags at &h417, &h418, etc. When I migrated to Linux and GCC, and learned C of course, I thought it was awesome and easy to use even though I still didn't understand the concept and strengths of this Unix-like environment. Because I learned howto program in C, stricly ANSI compliant by the way, I later learned C++. I tried learning howto program in Visual C++ for Microsoft Windows, for a change, and found that their their IDE was so obfuscated that I stopped and said "fuck this shit. I officially hate Microsoft". All of Microsoft Windows Visual C++ was not portable to other operating systems. I needed a portable GUI Toolkit and discovered GTK+. I am an accomplished GTK+ programmer and to enhance my Unix programs in X11 I program directly in XLib. I have now become a verry good XLib programmer and also take good use of Xt and Xaw/Xaw3d to build business accounting programs to migrate business' from MS Windows to Linux. It is simpe because GTK+ is platform independent and is portable between different operating systems. C and C++ used to be portable, but Microsoft has tried its best to lock you into Microsoft Windows "_your_version_here_". "ToolKits" are Microsoft's enemy, as I learned. They lock you into their systems and products and sell you software that won't be supported by them in a few years. Do you know how many years it took me to forget my QuickBasic, Turbo Basic, and GWBasic programming knowledge? Disgusting of you to lash out at me so arrogantly...
you don't really own linux, any more than windows. Linus still has control over the kernel
This is the last straw. You are lying your last because I shall cut out your tongue the second I see you in person. I raised a a pig upto 230 lbs when I was in agriculture back in my HighSchool days and I wrestled cows. I will personall kick the living bull shit out of your mouth! Linux is free. Linus Torvalds, the original creator, is a kind man and made it free. Linus Torvalds cannot control Linux' development direction because he made it free; Linus Torvalds licensed it under the GPL.
By far, the best choice for a videocard is based on your goals on the system. If you deal with webpages, pictures, movies, and whatnot, the best choice for such high-resolution performance is either Matrox or ATI. Simple, Matrox and ATI excell at 2D graphics performance and quality. ATI is the best all-around videocard for consumer 2D and 3D Graphics, with better 3D performance than nVidia, but who do you choose? Look at the track record for Matrox and ATI in Linux and you will see that Matrox has documented their chips to freedom and they are most stable, while ATI doesn't release the data on their chips 100%; meaning ATI will not be the best choice for stable usage.
How does nVidia fit into all of this between ATI and Matrox?
nVidia develops and distributes its own Linux drivers. nVidia certifies their Linux drivers as they do their Apple and MS Windows drivers. nVidia stands behind their development and offers excellent technical support over phone and eMail. nVidia and ATI don't offer resolutions and picture quality upto Matrox's level, however.
What about 3D graphics, performance, and stability?
Matrox is the best choice for 2D graphics performance and stability. ATI, their drivers being produced free and opensource like Matrox's, by the DRI developers, is the best choice over nVidia simply because it offers the most compatibilty, documentation, and tweaking ability among the many different platforms, CPUs, and Linux operating systems. ATI has more potential in 3D graphics than Matrox, but Matrox's chipsets offer more features that consumers will use on a daily basis. Matrox is available on other platforms and CPUs with ease.
Those companies are competing furiously for their own niche. What about the disbanned 3Dfx video accelerators?
3Dfx videocards are supported in Linux the best and nowhere else on earth as good. The Voodoo2 graphics chipset, when used in `SLI` mode, has 3D performance higher than nVidia's GeForce. The Voodoo2 is the best addition to a system with a Matrox videocard which lacks good 3D performance. The 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee, 3, 4, and 5 are all the best supported videocards for XFree86-4.1+DRI in hardware-acclerated openGL and are the most stable of all the supported videocards in Linux.
What about the 3DLabs `workstation` graphics cards for higher quality 3D modeling in Maya for Linux?
To date, all 3DLabs videocards using the Glint MX and Glint Gamma chipsets are supported in Linux for hardware accelerated openGL. By videocard model, off the top of my head, such videocards are the Elsa Gloria XXL, the 3DLabs GMX2000, and the 3DLabs GVX1. These are the best performing videocards for 3D modelling, higher than nVidia and ATI. The drivers are maintained by the XFree86 DRI developers and not 3DLabs. Driver support is complete and stable; no more work needs to be done so this makes the 3DLabs videocards the best choice for 3D modelling in Linux
What about a computer with two or more monitors at once?
Matrox's videocards are the best supported for using 2 or upto 16 monitors on a Linux system via additions Matrox "secondary" videocards. You can have more desktops in X Windows, configure each additional videocard to display a console login, or configure your system to allow multiple users on your system at the same time, each with an additional keyboard, mouse, and X Windows login.
The choice is yours. What can Linux do for you? Anything.
Do you see any Linux salespersons at the floor in Fry's Electronics? Do you see people flocking to the boxes of Suse or Mandrake because they heard it runs programs 54% faster than previous versions of...? The opinion of "Free Software sucks" is verry inaccurate. It sucked me in, it sucked you into this slashdot forum, but how much does it suck when you migrated from another operating system that requires up-to-date Anti-virus software to remain safe, steals your data and sends it back to microsoft.com or the FBI, and shows via benchmark that Quake3:Arena runs slower than Linux? That and a bag of chips my friend. RedHat Linux 7.2 costs $50 at retail, is ready to play games with the latest stable X Windows-4.1 and 3D openGL drivers(DRI), faster filesystem, buffered disk-access for faster data, excellent firewalling and network performance, and proven up-time for you, the.user of the system. You own Linux. Microsoft owns you.
This "thing" is not just any thing... It is a Transmeta powered, portable, port-scanning, packet-capturing, ride-in-your-car, wireless, gateway to the world of fast, solid-state, network computing!
One of these is all you need and you are set. You want to make money, right? Well this is the low-cost solution. At only $700, and using direct USB2USB networking, you have a solution. Then again, $700 seems a little high, but keep in mind it is stylish, light-weight, saves deskspace, and has a nice 800x600 TFT LCD screen. You are right, $700 seems a little high. Organic LCD is supposed to drive the cost of other LCD screens to dirt. As soon as someone gets one, it'll most-likely be cracked open and its parts documented on quality etc. www.linux-hacker.net needs a website re-design to cover all this stuff nicer.
That's because your kindergarten school-mates are all at the "bad" spectrum of autism, like yourself, and are having hard-enough time to memorize and identify shapes, colors, and buttered toast. It is only logical for them to want to become the first, most influential people they meet, alas Fireman, D.A.R.E./Police Officer, Baseball player, Dentist, Proctologist, etc.
I know this will definitely be better than a Netpliance I-Opener because it is legal, low power , self reliant on its own portable power source, has 802.11b, and it makes a great picture viewer on my wall. I'm going to buy 3 of 'em as soon as I see them available. And I will run an X Server or FrameBuffer driver ontop of Xlib, use the program "chbg" to cycle the picture in the root of X, and use the "gtkmotd" program as a template for a better program to pop-up a window and display weather forecast, stock market data, Quake3:Arena server status of games.linuxgames.com, and whatever else I can think of to bring shame to Bill Gate's implementation of a flat-screen on every wall in your house.
free/net/open BSD will soon be abandoned due to lack of updates, support of bleeding-edge technology, and mainly because of its poor deployability. BSD isn't becoming popular because it obviously doesn't deploy as well as Linux; hands down. free/net/open BSD has an identity problem that will only be solved with its complete death because they don't have the potential and the rock-solid, genuine, server-class, proven, microsoft-competing, flush_your_toilette, your_bs_jargon_here stability and program support that Linux has achieved.
Linux is king of the servers. It has toppled Sun Microsystems, adopted IBM, and is now Microsoft's dominatrist.
SMP first saw light in linux kernel 2.0.x.
Better firewalling, Framebuffer, and pcmcia was implemented in linux kernel 2.2; along with the infamous AIC7880 SCSI CDROM bug. Improved firewalling, improved process scheduler, and better disk caching was seen in Linux kernel 2.4 and the AIC7880 SCSI CDROM bug persisted until Linux kernel 2.4.9(wow that was an ancient bug, ixed).
Nothing new is in the 2.5 kernel except some fine-tuning on features and making everything more modular. The 2.4 kernel tree was the first kernel to go above the 100 MegaByte mark, but the question is how does its size compare with Microsoft's creepin' fud.
Hey BillGates, are you going to run the next benchmark of Microsoft Windows XP versus "RedHat 8 beta" just to prove who is more stable and has more *proven* features?
Windows XP should be compared with RedHat 5.2 and RedHat 7.x should be compared with Mac OSX and SGI Irix.
Fix the 2.4 branch before starting another series.
Oh that's right it is a fix... Oh no! I just remembered the pattern of the Linux Kernel is to burry bugs with a higher multiple of features like Microsoft Windows had released its operating system...
Windows 1.0 - many bugs, few features
Windows 3.11- many bugs, few features
Windows NT - many bugs, few features
Windows 95 - more bugs, few features
Windows 98 - more bugs, more unnecessary features
Windows 2000- more bugs, more buggy features
Windows ME - hellofalot of bugs, shitballs of buggy features
Windows 2000- Orkin can't remove so many bugs, shitloads of more buggy and unnecessary features.
Windows XP - bigger bugs at fewer intervals, too few features excluding Magic Lantern conformance
Compare MS Operating systems to Linux kernel releases and you see something more positive in the Linux arena, but needing better release documentation and a greater reason for the release...
Linux 2.0.36- verry stable, many features
Linux 2.1.xx- many bugs, many features
Linux 2.2.20- few bugs, good ammount of features
Linux 2.3.xx- a ton of bugs, a ton of additional features
Linux 2.4.20- fewer bugs, too many features
Linux 2.5.XX- what stability and features do these odd series of releases offer? Does it warrant an upgrade?
Of'course the releases of Linux that have so many bugs are the "development" releases and are kindly marked with odd numbers, but why do we want to sacrifice our harddrives data? Filesystem corruption in the development releases went rampant for a good ammount of 2.1.x and 2.3.x. Linux 2.2 and 2.4 merely marked changes in the IP stack and improved application performance (with nothing to do with nice). I can only see one thing in the Linux kernel to be better developed and that is Framebuffer, VFS, and rid the world immediately of the "Device Filesystem" aka devfs. Does the Linux kernel dare support.NET internally? I see nothing necessary for development to warrant the 2.5 branch. Linux 2.4 covers everything in modern and future technology and just needs to be better optimized and given time to mature. LinuxBIOS should be given some more attention. Now that the data bus is getting faster, how about some defaults to compressing the entire root filesystem? All the base belongs to Linux already. Linux's further development will just help Microsoft get new ideas damnit!
Did you ever look to wonder that Gnome and KDE are two dominant, proprietary desktop environments that have forked Linux software? A person with gnome can't run the mpeg-viewing program "kmpeg" and a person with KDE can't run the the SAMBA client program "gnomba".
There are desktop environments and then there are programs. They should be transparent to eachother. GTK is transparent to the desktop environments and makes an excellent application toolkit. We need more toolkit discussions and lets ditch the desktop development specifics. Motif and OpenDesktop did this a while back and luckily they have been eclipsed.
...how about we all help the Perl authors with developing a product with a perl dominated user environment? In USA, the way people started conducting business with eachother is by exchanging services, like a barter system, and I see the best way of supporting perl and its developers is by contributing not money, but stable perl code to an electronic product running the linux kernel and using a system of perl scripts/errm programs; think of vaporware platform to develop for, think of endrema.
Loki is working with Nokia to port their games to Nokia's competing product of Tivo. I also see people porting Linux and a few simple utilities to compaq's and Hp's PDA's. Why not help start a PDA prject that makes the perl authors some money and they won't have to axe everyone for money? I see potential...being perl runs on many, many platforms and OS's and perl programs being accepted by everyone with a perl-dominated environment/gui
I noticed the author of the story, here
has the same problem with his text editor that I used to have. It is some strange kind of bug that results from having quoted text and phrases with possesive actions to be maligned to the ASCII character code chart. I no longer had this problem, but I noticed it prevalent in other text editors. I think it's something to do with saving text in Ritch Text Format( a.rtf file), but I'm not sure. Symptoms of this problem include the following examples:
I noticed this bug first in AbiWord and I was most certainly annoyed when I forced myself to read through all 12 pages of my document and correct the ASCII text problem. This "bug" disappeared, or shall I say this ?bug? disappeared and have no way to replicate it to other people on how it happened. Does anyone know what it is? Filesystem bug, glibc bug, or document format bug?
...the first BEOWULF Clusters were women working together!
Yo when are we giving out the Miss Crimpy Cable award, the Miss ALU award, and the Miss DSCK Probe Award? Oh wow all my favorite women in one room with a computer... meow, rairrrrrr.
To protect yourself from the formidable goatse.cx link in slashdot, I recommend adding the following in your/etc/hosts file. Open your/etc/hosts file in your favorite text editor as "root" user, and make sure it says...
127.6.6.6 goatse.cx www.goatse.cx
...In order for it to work, as usual, you must make your system lookup your hosts file first before asking your Internet Service Provider to resolve the website querry. To do that is rather simple by changing a single line on your/etc/host.conf file to match the following...
order hosts,bind
...if it says "order bind,hosts" then you must change it to "order hosts,bind" like I've shown above.
By appending to your "/etc/hosts" file "127.6.6.6 goatse.cx www.goatse.cx" your computer webbrowser will now goto your fake network connection 127.6.6.6 instead of the real goatse.cx and www.goatse.cx websites. If there are any other bad websites that people or programs trick you into visiting, then list their FQDN(fully quallified domain name) alongside with "goatse.cx" and "www.goatse.cx"
For example, whenever I run the Netscape webbrowser, Netscape steals my information first and tries to send it to home6.netscape.com. Also, netscape tries to contanct a website named internic.net and I also want to block them. So, to prevent them from connecting to home6.netscape.com and internic.net, I place in my/etc/hosts file...
127.66.66.66 home6.netscape.com internic.net
...whenever they think they have contacted their two websites on the internet, it fools them because it is realy not going over the internet and points them to your fake ip address 127.66.66.66. If you are the kind of person that doesn't like the hassle or complexity of using firewall software on your Linux system, this is one easy way to prevent sneaky programs from going outside your network. However, by preventing access to the above parts of netscape.com, or any other name of a webpage, you can't visit those websites anymore. You might need to visit those websites in the future and to do so means you must go back into your/etc/hosts file and remove all instances of their FQDN! Oh well. Enjoy:)
To protect yourself from the formidable goatse.cx link in slashdot, I recommend adding the following in your/etc/hosts file. Open your/etc/hosts file in your favorite text editor as "root" user, and make sure it says...
127.6.6.6 goatse.cx www.goatse.cx
...In order for it to work, as usual, you must make your system lookup your hosts file first before asking your Internet Service Provider to resolve the website querry. To do that is rather simple by changing a single line on your/etc/host.conf file to match the following...
order hosts,bind
...if it says "order bind,hosts" then you must change it to "order hosts,bind" like I've shown above.
By appending to your "/etc/hosts" file "127.6.6.6 goatse.cx www.goatse.cx" your computer webbrowser will now goto your fake network connection 127.6.6.6 instead of the real goatse.cx and www.goatse.cx websites. If there are any other bad websites that people or programs trick you into visiting, then list their FQDN(fully quallified domain name) alongside with "goatse.cx" and "www.goatse.cx"
For example, whenever I run the Netscape webbrowser, Netscape steals my information first and tries to send it to home6.netscape.com. Also, netscape tries to contanct a website named internic.net and I also want to block them. So, to prevent them from connecting to home6.netscape.com and internic.net, I place in my/etc/hosts file...
127.66.66.66 home6.netscape.com internic.net
...whenever they think they have contacted their two websites on the internet, it fools them because it is realy not going over the internet and points them to your fake ip address 127.66.66.66. If you are the kind of person that doesn't like the hassle or complexity of using firewall software on your Linux system, this is one easy way to prevent sneaky programs from going outside your network. However, by preventing access to the above parts of netscape.com, or any other name of a webpage, you can't visit those websites anymore. You might need to visit those websites in the future and to do so means you must go back into your/etc/hosts file and remove all instances of their FQDN! Oh well. Enjoy:)
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To protect yourself from the formidable goatse.cx link in slashdot, I recommend adding the following in your/etc/hosts file. Open you/etc/hosts file in your favorite text editor as "root" user, and make sure it says...
127.6.6.6 goatse.cx www.goatse.cx
...In order for it to work, as usual, you must make your system will lookup your hosts file first before asking your Internet Service Provider. To do that is rather simple by changing a single line on your/etc/host.conf file to match the following...
order hosts,bind
...if it says "order bind,hosts" then you must change it to "order hosts,bind" like I've shown above.
by appending to your "/etc/hosts" file "127.6.6.6 goatse.cx www.goatse.cx" your computer webbrowser will now goto your fake network connection instead of the real goatse.cx and www.goatse.cx. If there are any other bad websites that people trick you into visiting, then list their domain names alongside with "goatse.cx" and "www.goatse.cx"
For example, whenever I run the Netscape webbrowser, Netscape steals my information first and tries to send it to home6.netscape.com. Also, netscape tries to contance a website named internic.net, and I also block them. So, to prevent them from connecting to home6.netscape.com and internic.net, I place in my/etc/hosts file...
127.66.66.66 home6.netscape.com internic.net
...whenever they think they have contacted their website on the internet, it fools them because it is realy not going over the internet and points them to your fake ip address 127.66.66.66. If you are the kind that doesn't like using firewall software on your Linux system, this is one easy way to prevent sneaky programs from going outside your network. However, by preventing access to the above parts of netscape.com, you can't visit those websites anymore and you might need to visit those websites in the future. Oh well. Enjoy:)
I lost my link and couldn't find it since... I had a mental breakdown yesterday and drove to fry's e-bonics and boughy a GQ Mini PS/2 Membrane Keyboard. All I can find that looked cool at the moment, small as hell, hate to see it up this guy's ass.
Why the hell does this damn mongoloid AppleBee's commercial keep coming up on TV saying you people are eating good at AppleBee's? And also, why do they want you to buy their phoney gift certificates/food stamps and give them as gifts when in everyone's right mind they'll just go into the damn restaurant with a green Abraham Lincoln and get a Burgher and Soda on the side? Doesn't make sense to exchange your money for an illegal tender towards their un-used food services. Suppose they serve you a honeybucket of shit and you can' retract their "AppleBee Food Stamp" as easily as Mr. Lincoln? Who gives a rip; they'll all die eventually...of heart failure.:o)
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Linux is the building block for an Application's environment. Linux gets better with age and the User Interface gets easier with every successive release of Gnome, KDE, the various windowmanagers, and the X Window System. Linux truely isn't what the end-user interacts directly with: the end-user takes advantage of stable programs.
Microsoft designed its own Windows operating system ontop of DOS because they are a bunch of cheap bastards that think compatibility with the old DOS-mode 1980's WordProcessors and cruddy SVGA programs and games is a feature and Microsoft implies stability in their advertizing, but dump any promise of stability in their End User License Agreement. Linux is the opposite, but simply can't guaruntee stability on certain combinations of hardware. I must admit that the latest batch of discension among newly converted-to-Linux users can be credited to RedHat. RedHat deserves a pat on their back. Mandrake too for following RedHat closely as they took the long walk off the short bridge...a pat on the back for losing any "won-over people" because RedHat chose to corrupt the Linux building block mechanism by using GCC version 2.96!
Do you know how many tech support problems I help answer on www.linuxquake.com/messageboard are from RedHat and Mandrake users? I find it hillarious that Mandrake based their 8.x releases on RedHat's 7.x releases. Sure it is stable to a certain point; but I can't overlook that RedHat killed alot of people's ideals of what a Linux operating system could do for them because by using GCC over version 2.95, many programs, like the simple yet convenient MPlayer, have a difficult time compiling with certain optimizations. Thankyou RedHat for using GCC 2.96 and thankyou Mandrake for being a mirror image of RedHat's crusty ass.
The point is this... When I tried RedHat 5.2 over 2.5 years ago, I was impressed. I was impressed becaus my measely non-MMX Pentium 150MHz computer /with 48MB of RAM got some deserved stability and bugfixes as opposed to Microsoft Windows 95. That old computer /with RedHat Linux 5.2 proved to me a better edu-tainment tool than Microsoft Windows of any release, and I enjoyed fast and stable multi-tasking. Thanks goto RedHat for their earlier works. My old computer, to date, can be found at my local computer-equipment preservation archive, buried under 7 billion tons of landfill. Now that RedHat has the greatest software to work with, they fucked up their distro's build. The 7.x series is bad. In numerology, 7 is supposedly a magic number for perfection. RedHat demonstrated such perfection. RedHat demonstrated poor leadership and management in their release and have lost my advocacy for their product. Also, I never liked the name of their company because it instilled the thoughts of a "Russian American's" Linux(Red Commy bastards). I now advocate SuSe Linux Professional edition version 7 simply because that distro is automated better than RedHat's 7.x distro, includes more software and better documentation for the same cost as RedHat's distro, and because SuSe was built using GCC version 2.95.2; which means it retains Linux as the most stable desktop to date.
However, I advocate SuSe for regular family users. My desktop system, on the other hand, was built under plan of LinuxFromScratch and I wouldn't dare install any other modern-ized distro on it. All the Linux distros are too bloated and will overwhelm my computer's harddrive. I can care less about eye-candy, but I advocate SuSe to families just because of the modern eye-candy and its stability and large applications selection. However, though I advocate SuSe for making such a greate distro, their installer is real nice and offers 100% installation of all their software easily and efficiently at only 6 GB. You heard me correctly, six gigabytes! SuSe is a nice distro and they must be installing six gigabytes of something good. How does it compare with Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX? BLOATED! My favorite distro offers you to install BLOAT, but it doesn't have to be that way... Still, there is that little twitch in the end-user's brain that says he needs 100% installed and this is what he gets, 6GB of bloat!
What this means to someone migrating from MS Windows is alot of stability(pun intended). If you know what Operating system is stable, easy to use, has a nice file-managing GUI, a beautiful desktop, and is really stable and compiles programs perfectly, then the MS Windows users WILL convert to that operating system in a heartbeat! Software is software and they see something new, fun, and pretty! When they discover it offers a large list of commercial games and free games, they'll wallow in stable-happiness bliss.
I just got back from Fry's electronics and saw a Mac OSX box with a kernel crash from darwin due to a memory access exception, I saw a Microsoft Windows XP laptop frozen, and approximately 18 yards from that heard of desktop extravaganza was the row of commercial Unix software exhibits: sporting Yellow Dog Linux, RedHat Linux 7.x, SuSe Linux 7.x, Kandara Linux, freeBSD and its PowerPak, and Mandrake Linux 8.x. Do I dare offer my assistance to a sailsman and a small audience of 17 people on the installation and administration of Linux on a PowerPC, a Sony VAIO, and an Athlon-based desktop? I think I'll try offering some guidance next time I'm in there. I'm at Fry's electronics once a week to buy something anyways, so while I have 3 hours to blow, I can have fun with a stable OS teaching everyone the basics, like...
use an eMail client,
use Netscape and Mozilla,
use Gnome's and KDE's file manager,
why the file system is the way it is,
howto manage users,
howto setup a printer and share it with other Linux users,
howto integrate Linux with Microsoft Windows computers using SAMBA,
howto share files and printers with Microsoft Windows users,
howto download, compile and install new programs from sourcecode,
howto use a gui to manipulate a tar, tard'gzipd', and a tar'bzip2'd file and benefit,
And of'course tell them and demonstrate conclusively why and where Microsoft has lied to them about Linux, virii, and about Microsoft software on their website.
-oh wait, that's what they learned just to use Microsoft Windows! That must mean the average Microsoft Windows user has a brain and knows the basics of computers already! Now they just need help with some Unix primitives and be able to trust a free operating system for their daily tasks and they're set...
Linux has safety measures for the system against those "bad" programs. It is called GCC and it warns the programmer of bad code pretty damn fast at over 50,000 lines per second on an Athlon. Microsoft wrote a pretty bad application back in the late 1980's and it was called Microsoft Windows 1.0, built ontop of MS-DOS, Microsoft's "engineered" marvel, and from that bad, virus-susceptible code, spawned Windows 3.11 FWG, Windows NT 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.x, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP(erimental). Congratulations on your latest $180+ purchase of yet another Microsoft operating that does that same as its ancestors...run virii verry well.
Happy hacking? An operating system, like ANY large application, needs to be engineered. Happy hacking ususally means 10x more bugs and possible security issues. Something VERY BAD in an operating system.
Boy, it must hurt to be you... Microsoft calls whatever it makes an innovation. Obviously whatever Bill Gates first engineered from his friend (MS-DOS) for $30,000 was engineered pretty damn well. Happy Hacking is when someone writes code that works. Sure, Microsoft mus have engineered IIS because it accepts every worm in existance. In your own words, saying Happy Hacking products 10x more bugs, you simply display your affection to microsoft. You know Linux is just one big party, free beer, free code, and you can wear whatever clothing you want, and you support Microsoft software; buy their software, intall it, and ponder all the engineering put into the blue screen of death. You are a proud individual...
no they[Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook Express] don't [aren't 3rd party software], and no [shit is not between my ears] (otherwise I wouldn't be able to post)
That was a quick answer, you didn't even examplify how such 1st class Microsoft software, ala Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook Express, have matured to the bug-filled, virus prone peices of work to date. Each version of MS Windows had an optimized version of these two Microsoft packages and each version demonstrated even more engineering marvels by the flaws in their software. It just proves to everyone, engineers make just as many mistakes as Happy Hackers, but it looks like Unix programs have the upper-hand in quality, stability, and visual candy.
When I said "Up and running", I was referring to the time it takes to get an application created (learning curve) on a Kde/Gnome as opposed to windows. Compare GTK+ widgets/c++ with visual basic. Most novice programmers would much rather use visual basic. (hence the 1000s of useless applications you see cluttering the internet, written in VB).
Kde and Gnome are desktop environments. Developing specifically for these desktop environments is just a simple code fork that is solved using a toolkit of the programmer's choosing. MS Windows programs are more error-prone and by developing strictly for an operating system or as we know, a desktop, you just hurt your potential userbase. Microsoft demonstrates that in a day-to-day basis. It is called "leverage", and they believe the more programs made specifically for MS Windows, the better for them. Honest point. Microsoft software and development environments, go beyond this idea of non-portable software. The enhance it by building their development environments and their programming language syntax off-standard with each sucessive release!
saying isn't the same as being, im afraid. Usually people that constantly say "im great at X" or "im the best at X", have vast amounts of insecurities.
Yes, we must brag about our skills of utilizing the X protocol because our jobs require such knowledge. Network administrators and you name it require extensive knowledge of X protocol and securing it because many of our customers prefer to login to their office machines with a GUI instead of using just ssh and console commands. We know how are jobs depend on such knowledge and our "insecurity" revolves around money because, as you don't yet understand, it costs money to live in a house with a wife, three kids, a dog, a cage full of rabbits, chickens, and turkeys. Believe me kid, as you grow older, you must depend less on your parents. There is much more than Microsoft Windows and its large availability of games. People must EARN money to live. Our insecurity is shared by millions of people and their own professions. You dare imply we are a bunch of people that are addicted to computers, while someone else is addicted to cooking food, and a carpenter is addicted to building furniture from oak? It is shameful to even respond to your lies lest people see me as a fool to waste my time, but I set grounds for verbal strength that brings out the warrior of every man to fight another tribe's encroachment with their lazy, poor quality, most dispicable fruits of their labor.
As a closing note to you, I must say that unlike Microsoft, everyone is allowed to participate in much of Linux' development. It is a pool of knowledge, bigger than anything Microsoft can develop and contribute. Our pool of knowledge is constructed in our free-time and is higher quality than Microsoft's "engineering" skills. No government, financial status or political status can impede Linux's development and that shall stand for every freedom-phille. We stress the software we contribute to. We don't run another operating system on our free eMail websites(hotmail.com) and say otherwise on our "engineered" software's ability to operate under like-conditions. You are the hypocrite because you know nothing inside of Microsoft's software development ring and have nothing to say other than "it's up" or "it's down". Linux and its supporting software is to be used at everyone's advantage! Nobody alone owns Linux, it is a team effort! You lie too much on topics that other people understand more than you. You'll make a great leader other than providing excellent insight.
There have been virus' created for Linux, but they all fail because of the way Linux has continued to develop. Those virii are all NULL on Linux now and are no longer a threat; all 40 of them. Linux is only susceptible to something we here call a "Trojan" and no, that ain't a horny soldier. Forms of Trojans are those created in a scripting language such as shell scripting, Perl, Python, and a few others. You can't guard against Trojans until you get a brain and think to not run a program you don't know about, where it came from, or hasn't been reviewd by someone with technical knowledge. However a Trojan is made, all damage is done to files owned by the user who ran it. No shit sherlock! A Linux system is immune unless the user is you, of which an idiot, and you constantly login as "root" user to run Quake3:Arena because you think you are 1337. The best way to protect yourself is to use common knowledge...don't run programs you don't know where they came from and if you do run such a program, don't run it suid root, and it is best to experiment by creating a "test" user and logging in as the "test" user to run the program. Otherwise, just like mother nature, some animals get into stuff you own and chew, break, deficate.
Quake3 may run well on linux/X-windows, but it is an exception to the rule.
I'll let you have that one. You are right, nVidia and Linux can't innovate as well as Microsoft. So we optimize our applications on linux to run most stable and at their best yield in performance, while eating pringles, fetchmail syncronizes 5 users' mail into their /var/spool/mail/? folder, and the latest stable kernel downloads from ftp.kernel.org.
I predict that the popularity of an operating system is directly related to it's stability
That is a very poor prediction. It will always be a prediction because you obviously can't make a hypothesis due to your arrogance. Linux, and its Unix relatives, is an application environment. Applications are given rules and they cannot break such rules. Rules broken is a bug, which in Linux' case of being 100% opensource, will be fixed with 24 hours of happy hacking. You are a simple Sam, so let me dumbdown Unix technology for you... Think of the Linux operating system as planet Earth. Think of your house as your environment. Think of your canned food in your cupboards as your programs. You want to run a program called "whoopass" so you reach into your cupboard, grab that can of "whoopass", and you open it. Understand? Well, that can of whoopass can only run in your house. People can smell that "whoopass" outside your house by getting on "top" of their roofs, noses in the wind, but "whoopass" can't hurt planet Earth, can't change gravity to 0, and can't go into your deskdrawer and throw your income tax return check into your trashcan. There you have it. Microsoft Windows is the opposite and lets programs do all the bad things to your computer. Said and done, Linux is a complex peice of material, just as complex as building a house of brick and mortar, on a foundation of cement slabs. It is stable.
You ever run a windows box with NO 3rd part apps installed? I have, and it's rock solid.
Does Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook Express count as 3rd party? Do you have shit between your ears?
Linux, on the other hand, requires a little more skill to get an application up and running.
That is a blatent lie. Microsoft Windows installation wizards are just as difficult to use as loging in as "root" user on Linux/X Windows and doubleclicking an installation script within Gnome's Naughtilus file browser.
Another blatent lie. I learned how to program in C using GCC. To finish my collection of old DOS software, I purchased Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 and found that even the older legacy DOS Compilers' IDE is harder to use! I bought, tried, and sold Microsoft's MS-DOS QuickC software because it had verry few features and you just can't do things as fast as using commandline tools. I first learned howto program when I learned Microsoft FORTRAN for MS-DOS. I thought FORTRAN was limited because I had to pay $220 for Microsoft Macro Assembler v6.1 at Fry's Electronics just so I can do some advanced stuff like directly reading the keyboard flags at &h417, &h418, etc. When I migrated to Linux and GCC, and learned C of course, I thought it was awesome and easy to use even though I still didn't understand the concept and strengths of this Unix-like environment. Because I learned howto program in C, stricly ANSI compliant by the way, I later learned C++. I tried learning howto program in Visual C++ for Microsoft Windows, for a change, and found that their their IDE was so obfuscated that I stopped and said "fuck this shit. I officially hate Microsoft". All of Microsoft Windows Visual C++ was not portable to other operating systems. I needed a portable GUI Toolkit and discovered GTK+. I am an accomplished GTK+ programmer and to enhance my Unix programs in X11 I program directly in XLib. I have now become a verry good XLib programmer and also take good use of Xt and Xaw/Xaw3d to build business accounting programs to migrate business' from MS Windows to Linux. It is simpe because GTK+ is platform independent and is portable between different operating systems. C and C++ used to be portable, but Microsoft has tried its best to lock you into Microsoft Windows "_your_version_here_". "ToolKits" are Microsoft's enemy, as I learned. They lock you into their systems and products and sell you software that won't be supported by them in a few years. Do you know how many years it took me to forget my QuickBasic, Turbo Basic, and GWBasic programming knowledge? Disgusting of you to lash out at me so arrogantly...
you don't really own linux, any more than windows. Linus still has control over the kernel
This is the last straw. You are lying your last because I shall cut out your tongue the second I see you in person. I raised a a pig upto 230 lbs when I was in agriculture back in my HighSchool days and I wrestled cows. I will personall kick the living bull shit out of your mouth! Linux is free. Linus Torvalds, the original creator, is a kind man and made it free. Linus Torvalds cannot control Linux' development direction because he made it free; Linus Torvalds licensed it under the GPL.
I shall now sniff your packets, kz45...
$ tcpdump
How does nVidia fit into all of this between ATI and Matrox?
nVidia develops and distributes its own Linux drivers. nVidia certifies their Linux drivers as they do their Apple and MS Windows drivers. nVidia stands behind their development and offers excellent technical support over phone and eMail. nVidia and ATI don't offer resolutions and picture quality upto Matrox's level, however.
What about 3D graphics, performance, and stability?
Matrox is the best choice for 2D graphics performance and stability. ATI, their drivers being produced free and opensource like Matrox's, by the DRI developers, is the best choice over nVidia simply because it offers the most compatibilty, documentation, and tweaking ability among the many different platforms, CPUs, and Linux operating systems. ATI has more potential in 3D graphics than Matrox, but Matrox's chipsets offer more features that consumers will use on a daily basis. Matrox is available on other platforms and CPUs with ease.
Those companies are competing furiously for their own niche. What about the disbanned 3Dfx video accelerators?
3Dfx videocards are supported in Linux the best and nowhere else on earth as good. The Voodoo2 graphics chipset, when used in `SLI` mode, has 3D performance higher than nVidia's GeForce. The Voodoo2 is the best addition to a system with a Matrox videocard which lacks good 3D performance. The 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee, 3, 4, and 5 are all the best supported videocards for XFree86-4.1+DRI in hardware-acclerated openGL and are the most stable of all the supported videocards in Linux.
What about the 3DLabs `workstation` graphics cards for higher quality 3D modeling in Maya for Linux?
To date, all 3DLabs videocards using the Glint MX and Glint Gamma chipsets are supported in Linux for hardware accelerated openGL. By videocard model, off the top of my head, such videocards are the Elsa Gloria XXL, the 3DLabs GMX2000, and the 3DLabs GVX1. These are the best performing videocards for 3D modelling, higher than nVidia and ATI. The drivers are maintained by the XFree86 DRI developers and not 3DLabs. Driver support is complete and stable; no more work needs to be done so this makes the 3DLabs videocards the best choice for 3D modelling in Linux
What about a computer with two or more monitors at once?
Matrox's videocards are the best supported for using 2 or upto 16 monitors on a Linux system via additions Matrox "secondary" videocards. You can have more desktops in X Windows, configure each additional videocard to display a console login, or configure your system to allow multiple users on your system at the same time, each with an additional keyboard, mouse, and X Windows login.
The choice is yours. What can Linux do for you? Anything.
Do you see any Linux salespersons at the floor in Fry's Electronics? Do you see people flocking to the boxes of Suse or Mandrake because they heard it runs programs 54% faster than previous versions of ...? The opinion of "Free Software sucks" is verry inaccurate. It sucked me in, it sucked you into this slashdot forum, but how much does it suck when you migrated from another operating system that requires up-to-date Anti-virus software to remain safe, steals your data and sends it back to microsoft.com or the FBI, and shows via benchmark that Quake3:Arena runs slower than Linux? That and a bag of chips my friend. RedHat Linux 7.2 costs $50 at retail, is ready to play games with the latest stable X Windows-4.1 and 3D openGL drivers(DRI), faster filesystem, buffered disk-access for faster data, excellent firewalling and network performance, and proven up-time for you, the .user of the system. You own Linux. Microsoft owns you.
This "thing" is not just any thing... It is a Transmeta powered, portable, port-scanning, packet-capturing, ride-in-your-car, wireless, gateway to the world of fast, solid-state, network computing!
One of these is all you need and you are set. You want to make money, right? Well this is the low-cost solution. At only $700, and using direct USB2USB networking, you have a solution. Then again, $700 seems a little high, but keep in mind it is stylish, light-weight, saves deskspace, and has a nice 800x600 TFT LCD screen. You are right, $700 seems a little high. Organic LCD is supposed to drive the cost of other LCD screens to dirt. As soon as someone gets one, it'll most-likely be cracked open and its parts documented on quality etc. www.linux-hacker.net needs a website re-design to cover all this stuff nicer.
That's alot of gas coming from someone who will be representing vaporware in two months after Christmas day.
That's because your kindergarten school-mates are all at the "bad" spectrum of autism, like yourself, and are having hard-enough time to memorize and identify shapes, colors, and buttered toast. It is only logical for them to want to become the first, most influential people they meet, alas Fireman, D.A.R.E./Police Officer, Baseball player, Dentist, Proctologist, etc.
I know this will definitely be better than a Netpliance I-Opener because it is legal, low power , self reliant on its own portable power source, has 802.11b, and it makes a great picture viewer on my wall. I'm going to buy 3 of 'em as soon as I see them available. And I will run an X Server or FrameBuffer driver ontop of Xlib, use the program "chbg" to cycle the picture in the root of X, and use the "gtkmotd" program as a template for a better program to pop-up a window and display weather forecast, stock market data, Quake3:Arena server status of games.linuxgames.com, and whatever else I can think of to bring shame to Bill Gate's implementation of a flat-screen on every wall in your house.
free/net/open BSD will soon be abandoned due to lack of updates, support of bleeding-edge technology, and mainly because of its poor deployability. BSD isn't becoming popular because it obviously doesn't deploy as well as Linux; hands down. free/net/open BSD has an identity problem that will only be solved with its complete death because they don't have the potential and the rock-solid, genuine, server-class, proven, microsoft-competing, flush_your_toilette, your_bs_jargon_here stability and program support that Linux has achieved.
Linux is king of the servers. It has toppled Sun Microsystems, adopted IBM, and is now Microsoft's dominatrist.
SMP first saw light in linux kernel 2.0.x.
Better firewalling, Framebuffer, and pcmcia was implemented in linux kernel 2.2; along with the infamous AIC7880 SCSI CDROM bug. Improved firewalling, improved process scheduler, and better disk caching was seen in Linux kernel 2.4 and the AIC7880 SCSI CDROM bug persisted until Linux kernel 2.4.9(wow that was an ancient bug, ixed).
Nothing new is in the 2.5 kernel except some fine-tuning on features and making everything more modular. The 2.4 kernel tree was the first kernel to go above the 100 MegaByte mark, but the question is how does its size compare with Microsoft's creepin' fud.
Hey BillGates, are you going to run the next benchmark of Microsoft Windows XP versus "RedHat 8 beta" just to prove who is more stable and has more *proven* features?
Windows XP should be compared with RedHat 5.2 and RedHat 7.x should be compared with Mac OSX and SGI Irix.
Windows 1.0 - many bugs, few features
Windows 3.11- many bugs, few features
Windows NT - many bugs, few features
Windows 95 - more bugs, few features
Windows 98 - more bugs, more unnecessary features
Windows 2000- more bugs, more buggy features
Windows ME - hellofalot of bugs, shitballs of buggy features
Windows 2000- Orkin can't remove so many bugs, shitloads of more buggy and unnecessary features.
Windows XP - bigger bugs at fewer intervals, too few features excluding Magic Lantern conformance
Compare MS Operating systems to Linux kernel releases and you see something more positive in the Linux arena, but needing better release documentation and a greater reason for the release...
Linux 2.0.36- verry stable, many features
Linux 2.1.xx- many bugs, many features
Linux 2.2.20- few bugs, good ammount of features
Linux 2.3.xx- a ton of bugs, a ton of additional features
Linux 2.4.20- fewer bugs, too many features
Linux 2.5.XX- what stability and features do these odd series of releases offer? Does it warrant an upgrade?
Of'course the releases of Linux that have so many bugs are the "development" releases and are kindly marked with odd numbers, but why do we want to sacrifice our harddrives data? Filesystem corruption in the development releases went rampant for a good ammount of 2.1.x and 2.3.x. Linux 2.2 and 2.4 merely marked changes in the IP stack and improved application performance (with nothing to do with nice). I can only see one thing in the Linux kernel to be better developed and that is Framebuffer, VFS, and rid the world immediately of the "Device Filesystem" aka devfs. Does the Linux kernel dare support .NET internally? I see nothing necessary for development to warrant the 2.5 branch. Linux 2.4 covers everything in modern and future technology and just needs to be better optimized and given time to mature. LinuxBIOS should be given some more attention. Now that the data bus is getting faster, how about some defaults to compressing the entire root filesystem? All the base belongs to Linux already. Linux's further development will just help Microsoft get new ideas damnit!
Did you ever look to wonder that Gnome and KDE are two dominant, proprietary desktop environments that have forked Linux software? A person with gnome can't run the mpeg-viewing program "kmpeg" and a person with KDE can't run the the SAMBA client program "gnomba".
There are desktop environments and then there are programs. They should be transparent to eachother. GTK is transparent to the desktop environments and makes an excellent application toolkit. We need more toolkit discussions and lets ditch the desktop development specifics. Motif and OpenDesktop did this a while back and luckily they have been eclipsed.
Loki is working with Nokia to port their games to Nokia's competing product of Tivo. I also see people porting Linux and a few simple utilities to compaq's and Hp's PDA's. Why not help start a PDA prject that makes the perl authors some money and they won't have to axe everyone for money? I see potential...being perl runs on many, many platforms and OS's and perl programs being accepted by everyone with a perl-dominated environment/gui
has the same problem with his text editor that
I used to have. It is some strange kind of bug
that results from having quoted text and
phrases with possesive actions to be
maligned to the ASCII character code chart. I no
longer had this problem, but I noticed it
prevalent in other text editors. I think
it's something to do with saving text in Ritch Text Format( a
Symptoms of this problem include the
following examples:
"teeth" ...is converted to... ?teeth? ...is converted to... ?johny?s basketball?s pressure?
"johny's basketball's pressure"
I noticed this bug first in AbiWord and I was most
certainly annoyed when I forced myself
to read through all 12 pages of my
document and correct the ASCII text problem.
This "bug" disappeared, or shall I say this ?bug?
disappeared and have no way to replicate
it to other people on how it
happened. Does anyone know what it is?
Filesystem bug, glibc bug, or document format
bug?
...the first BEOWULF Clusters were women working together!
Yo when are we giving out the Miss Crimpy Cable award, the Miss ALU award, and the Miss DSCK Probe Award? Oh wow all my favorite women in one room with a computer... meow, rairrrrrr.
To protect yourself from the formidable goatse.cx link in slashdot, I recommend adding the following in your /etc/hosts file. Open your /etc/hosts file in your favorite text editor as "root" user, and make sure it says...
/etc/host.conf file to match the following...
/etc/hosts file...
/etc/hosts file and remove all instances of their FQDN! Oh well. Enjoy :)
127.6.6.6 goatse.cx www.goatse.cx
...In order for it to work, as usual, you must make your system lookup your hosts file first before asking your Internet Service Provider to resolve the website querry. To do that is rather simple by changing a single line on your
order hosts,bind
...if it says "order bind,hosts" then you must change it to "order hosts,bind" like I've shown above.
By appending to your "/etc/hosts" file "127.6.6.6 goatse.cx www.goatse.cx" your computer webbrowser will now goto your fake network connection 127.6.6.6 instead of the real goatse.cx and www.goatse.cx websites. If there are any other bad websites that people or programs trick you into visiting, then list their FQDN(fully quallified domain name) alongside with "goatse.cx" and "www.goatse.cx"
For example, whenever I run the Netscape webbrowser, Netscape steals my information first and tries to send it to home6.netscape.com. Also, netscape tries to contanct a website named internic.net and I also want to block them. So, to prevent them from connecting to home6.netscape.com and internic.net, I place in my
127.66.66.66 home6.netscape.com internic.net
...whenever they think they have contacted their two websites on the internet, it fools them because it is realy not going over the internet and points them to your fake ip address 127.66.66.66. If you are the kind of person that doesn't like the hassle or complexity of using firewall software on your Linux system, this is one easy way to prevent sneaky programs from going outside your network. However, by preventing access to the above parts of netscape.com, or any other name of a webpage, you can't visit those websites anymore. You might need to visit those websites in the future and to do so means you must go back into your
To protect yourself from the formidable goatse.cx link in slashdot, I recommend adding the following in your /etc/hosts file. Open your /etc/hosts file in your favorite text editor as "root" user, and make sure it says...
/etc/host.conf file to match the following...
/etc/hosts file...
/etc/hosts file and remove all instances of their FQDN! Oh well. Enjoy :)
127.6.6.6 goatse.cx www.goatse.cx
...In order for it to work, as usual, you must make your system lookup your hosts file first before asking your Internet Service Provider to resolve the website querry. To do that is rather simple by changing a single line on your
order hosts,bind
...if it says "order bind,hosts" then you must change it to "order hosts,bind" like I've shown above.
By appending to your "/etc/hosts" file "127.6.6.6 goatse.cx www.goatse.cx" your computer webbrowser will now goto your fake network connection 127.6.6.6 instead of the real goatse.cx and www.goatse.cx websites. If there are any other bad websites that people or programs trick you into visiting, then list their FQDN(fully quallified domain name) alongside with "goatse.cx" and "www.goatse.cx"
For example, whenever I run the Netscape webbrowser, Netscape steals my information first and tries to send it to home6.netscape.com. Also, netscape tries to contanct a website named internic.net and I also want to block them. So, to prevent them from connecting to home6.netscape.com and internic.net, I place in my
127.66.66.66 home6.netscape.com internic.net
...whenever they think they have contacted their two websites on the internet, it fools them because it is realy not going over the internet and points them to your fake ip address 127.66.66.66. If you are the kind of person that doesn't like the hassle or complexity of using firewall software on your Linux system, this is one easy way to prevent sneaky programs from going outside your network. However, by preventing access to the above parts of netscape.com, or any other name of a webpage, you can't visit those websites anymore. You might need to visit those websites in the future and to do so means you must go back into your
To protect yourself from the formidable goatse.cx link in slashdot, I recommend adding the following in your /etc/hosts file. Open you /etc/hosts file in your favorite text editor as "root" user, and make sure it says...
/etc/host.conf file to match the following...
/etc/hosts file...
:)
127.6.6.6 goatse.cx www.goatse.cx
...In order for it to work, as usual, you must make your system will lookup your hosts file first before asking your Internet Service Provider. To do that is rather simple by changing a single line on your
order hosts,bind
...if it says "order bind,hosts" then you must change it to "order hosts,bind" like I've shown above.
by appending to your "/etc/hosts" file "127.6.6.6 goatse.cx www.goatse.cx" your computer webbrowser will now goto your fake network connection instead of the real goatse.cx and www.goatse.cx. If there are any other bad websites that people trick you into visiting, then list their domain names alongside with "goatse.cx" and "www.goatse.cx"
For example, whenever I run the Netscape webbrowser, Netscape steals my information first and tries to send it to home6.netscape.com. Also, netscape tries to contance a website named internic.net, and I also block them. So, to prevent them from connecting to home6.netscape.com and internic.net, I place in my
127.66.66.66 home6.netscape.com internic.net
...whenever they think they have contacted their website on the internet, it fools them because it is realy not going over the internet and points them to your fake ip address 127.66.66.66. If you are the kind that doesn't like using firewall software on your Linux system, this is one easy way to prevent sneaky programs from going outside your network. However, by preventing access to the above parts of netscape.com, you can't visit those websites anymore and you might need to visit those websites in the future. Oh well. Enjoy
When will they patent the "sit on your couch with your hand down your pants like Al Bundy" maneuver??
Or has that already been patented?
A beowulf cluster of these...
Thankyou
I lost my link and couldn't find it since... I had a mental breakdown yesterday and drove to fry's e-bonics and boughy a GQ Mini PS/2 Membrane Keyboard. All I can find that looked cool at the moment, small as hell, hate to see it up this guy's ass.
Why the hell does this damn mongoloid AppleBee's commercial keep coming up on TV saying you people are eating good at AppleBee's? And also, why do they want you to buy their phoney gift certificates/food stamps and give them as gifts when in everyone's right mind they'll just go into the damn restaurant with a green Abraham Lincoln and get a Burgher and Soda on the side? Doesn't make sense to exchange your money for an illegal tender towards their un-used food services. Suppose they serve you a honeybucket of shit and you can' retract their "AppleBee Food Stamp" as easily as Mr. Lincoln? Who gives a rip; they'll all die eventually...of heart failure.
It's the Doomsday weapon of Korea; Dogs that aren't edible.
I suppose they'll be eatin' honeybuckets on rye...*hurl*