Ideal what we probably need, is a really good, full-featured, e-mail client with the capabilities of Communicator or
Outlook Express, and PGP built-in.
i mean, if you're a script kiddie using scanning software to track down your target, surely you're going to target an OS that you're likely to hit pretty often? (ie probably redhat or windows)
There are lettle or no exploits not only because OpenBSD is less used than Linux or Solaris but mostly because the are not holes to exploit. Read their claim: "Four years without a hole in the default install"
I Don't know what the story poster is talking about. I installed Debian on my sparc5 a year ago and it worked just fine. RedHat/Mandrake/etc suck at producing usable non-x86 Linux distributions. Stick with Debian.
If you want a stabe DSL service, sign up with your local telco.
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Oh duh. Another Linux winnie. Go grow up.
And why should Sun bother with Linux when they have their own excellent OS? Do you really want Sun to go the way of SGI? Compaq? Sun is the only unix vendor that did not add Linux offereings to its products and look, Sun still sells more servers than IBM, Compaq, HP or SGI (all of which include a weird mix of Win2k, unix and Linux products to confuse themselves and their customers).
For example, one Sun employee says that "enterprise-class Linux is not ready for the data center, and it will be several years, at best, until this changes". (Look here here.)
But Linux is not! He is right. When I start comparing Linux "datacenter" features vs. Solaris I want to laugh. This is spoken by someone who sysadmins dozens of Linux and Solaris boxen every day.
I have a rant about rpm brokenness (or better, about the way you package the updates).
Consider this problem. You are faced with a task of managing a large cluster of Linux workstations. I do this by using kickstart (though it is not anywhere as good as Solaris jumpstart) and by using a home brewed perl script to customizes the machines for our environment.
One problem that I am faced with is how to automate updates installation. You can write a script for that. But few months later things change and you need to take some extra steps for installing them. The bottom Line is that you can't just mount a directory with all updates in/mnt and run "rpm -UvhF/mnt/updates/*rpm" For example kernel,
and rpm installation requires an extra step. Some new updated packages suddenly develop a dependecy on packages that were not in the distribution originally or that are were not installed by default. Why is that? Because of that I constantly find myself redoing and testing the script that installs updates on newly installed machines.
Could redhat package all updated packages into a single tabball and write a script that installs/freshent all packages on the system with no fuss (ala Sun Recommended Patch Clusters)? I know about up2date. But come on, I don't think it is worth nearly $20 per month for each and every workstation.
There is no 500MHz UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC III is HOT and requires proper cooling. The lowest
UltraSPARC III CPU runs at 600MHz and it is used in a $7000 Sun Blade 1000.
The chip that you probably have is a 500MHz UltraSPARC IIe which (sorry to disappoint you) doesn't kick x86s ass. IIe is a stripped down version of II with a tiny cache and it was originally designed for low power consuption and embedded applications.
Fact: my preferred PC hardware manufacturers (VA, Dell, SGI) don't offer models with AMD processors.
Their Pentium 3 and Xeon based gear is still pretty good however.
(And don't start "build your own" type of comments... my time is worth more to my employeer than what they gain by building their own PC servers or workstaitions).
Average user does not need bind and if you choose workstation install option bind will not be installed.
However, rpc.statd IS install and started by default even in workstation installs. I'd say this is very questionale. I have seen many newbies being hit by kiddies because of this.
So why is Speakseasy to expensive?
I have a Telocity DSL at home.
The DSL type is SDSL, almost 800Kbps,
static IP, free DNS service.
All that costs $40 a month.
Speakeasy in the same area asks $50/month for ADSL much slower with not static IP.
Actually, I am a telocity costomer with an SDSL home connection provided by Northpoint. As of today it still works and I am still getting the promissed speed of about 800Kbps both ways..
1. Entered Office suites market and failed, gave up on competing with MS
2. Created a Java based office suite, failed, bailed out.
3. Created a network computer (netwinder), failed, bailed out.
4. entered Linux distro market and apparently not yet succeeded.
Since Microsoft and Adobe have seriously kicked Corel's butt they have been looking for markets where they can avaoid direct competition of MS.
Moreover, their management apparently thought that once they bring a new breakthrough product, that will cure all of their other problems (sort of like SGI). It seems to me Corel has started too
many initeresting projects yet finished none of them, that's their real problem. Market does not like that.
Is there a way to disable those window popups in netscape or at least make netscape show you a warning before popping a window ? (note, I don't wsnt to disable java/java script at the same time)
Ideally, I need something that will work with ext3 so that the ACL information will be journaled.
If you don't have a particular attachment to Linux, use Solaris. It has ACLs as well as journaling since version 7
Did anyone notice that the VA Liux hardware is a bit more expensive than comparable IBM or Dell gear? I do understand that VA probably understands Linux better than Dell (Dell shipped floppies with windoze drivers in their "Linux server" box, gee).
Also, VA Linux workstation line is horrible. There is no middle ground in it. You can either buy an underpowered workstation based on a notoriously underpowered Intels810e chipset or buy a big ugly SMP box. But most people would like something in between. (Eg a P3 or Athlon box with PC133Mhz RAM, decent motherboard, reasonable price, etc...)0
Most of the commercial UNIX people charge big bucks for anything better than 8bit graphics.
All Suns support 24-bit color these days.
Sun Ultra5 workstations start at $2000 and you do get 24-bit graphics, limited with 4MB of video memory though. For another $300 they'll toss in an 8MB raptor GFX card which is not that bad (still a bit expensive for only 8MB card..)
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Eudora PRO has all that except for the OE security holes.
Eudora has all that.
There are lettle or no exploits not only because OpenBSD is less used than Linux or Solaris but mostly because the are not holes to exploit. Read their claim: "Four years without a hole in the default install"
Yes, they are free dumbass
What a waste of fine hardware
I Don't know what the story poster is talking about. I installed Debian on my sparc5 a year ago and it worked just fine. RedHat/Mandrake/etc suck at producing usable non-x86 Linux distributions. Stick with Debian.
If you want a stabe DSL service, sign up with your local telco.
For example, one Sun employee says that "enterprise-class Linux is not ready for the data center, and it will be several years, at best, until this changes". (Look here here.)
But Linux is not! He is right. When I start comparing Linux "datacenter" features vs. Solaris I want to laugh. This is spoken by someone who sysadmins dozens of Linux and Solaris boxen every day.
You are hopeless
Do you think we're gonna ask you whether you like it or not? Will just take you and launch you into the space without asking anything.
-"Death by launching into the space" advocacy team
I agree completely. Does redhat want to be the AIX of Linux or what?
Consider this problem. You are faced with a task of managing a large cluster of Linux workstations. I do this by using kickstart (though it is not anywhere as good as Solaris jumpstart) and by using a home brewed perl script to customizes the machines for our environment.
One problem that I am faced with is how to automate updates installation. You can write a script for that. But few months later things change and you need to take some extra steps for installing them. The bottom Line is that you can't just mount a directory with all updates in /mnt and run "rpm -UvhF /mnt/updates/*rpm" For example kernel,
and rpm installation requires an extra step. Some new updated packages suddenly develop a dependecy on packages that were not in the distribution originally or that are were not installed by default. Why is that? Because of that I constantly find myself redoing and testing the script that installs updates on newly installed machines.
Could redhat package all updated packages into a single tabball and write a script that installs/freshent all packages on the system with no fuss (ala Sun Recommended Patch Clusters)? I know about up2date. But come on, I don't think it is worth nearly $20 per month for each and every workstation.
There is no 500MHz UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC III is HOT and requires proper cooling. The lowest
UltraSPARC III CPU runs at 600MHz and it is used in a $7000 Sun Blade 1000.
The chip that you probably have is a 500MHz UltraSPARC IIe which (sorry to disappoint you) doesn't kick x86s ass. IIe is a stripped down version of II with a tiny cache and it was originally designed for low power consuption and embedded applications.
Fact: my preferred PC hardware manufacturers (VA, Dell, SGI) don't offer models with AMD processors.
Their Pentium 3 and Xeon based gear is still pretty good however.
(And don't start "build your own" type of comments... my time is worth more to my employeer than what they gain by building their own PC servers or workstaitions).
Average user does not need bind and if you choose workstation install option bind will not be installed.
However, rpc.statd IS install and started by default even in workstation installs. I'd say this is very questionale. I have seen many newbies being hit by kiddies because of this.
So, use Debian.
It has supported Sun4u machines since Debian release 2.1
So why is Speakseasy to expensive? I have a Telocity DSL at home. The DSL type is SDSL, almost 800Kbps, static IP, free DNS service. All that costs $40 a month. Speakeasy in the same area asks $50/month for ADSL much slower with not static IP.
Actually, I am a telocity costomer with an SDSL home connection provided by Northpoint. As of today it still works and I am still getting the promissed speed of about 800Kbps both ways ..
Will this version of XFree86 make it into the next major release of Debian distribution?
I don't know about OpenMail but this sounds very similar to what happened to IBM's OS/2 and SmartSuite office suite.
They have:
1. Entered Office suites market and failed, gave up on competing with MS
2. Created a Java based office suite, failed, bailed out.
3. Created a network computer (netwinder), failed, bailed out.
4. entered Linux distro market and apparently not yet succeeded.
Since Microsoft and Adobe have seriously kicked Corel's butt they have been looking for markets where they can avaoid direct competition of MS.
Moreover, their management apparently thought that once they bring a new breakthrough product, that will cure all of their other problems (sort of like SGI). It seems to me Corel has started too
many initeresting projects yet finished none of them, that's their real problem. Market does not like that.
Is there a way to disable those window popups in netscape or at least make netscape show you a warning before popping a window ? (note, I don't wsnt to disable java /java script at the same time)
Ideally, I need something that will work with ext3 so that the ACL information will be journaled. If you don't have a particular attachment to Linux, use Solaris. It has ACLs as well as journaling since version 7
Did anyone notice that the VA Liux hardware is a bit more expensive than comparable IBM or Dell gear? I do understand that VA probably understands Linux better than Dell (Dell shipped floppies with windoze drivers in their "Linux server" box, gee).
...)0
Also, VA Linux workstation line is horrible. There is no middle ground in it. You can either buy an underpowered workstation based on a notoriously underpowered Intels810e chipset or buy a big ugly SMP box. But most people would like something in between. (Eg a P3 or Athlon box with PC133Mhz RAM, decent motherboard, reasonable price, etc
All Suns support 24-bit color these days. Sun Ultra5 workstations start at $2000 and you do get 24-bit graphics, limited with 4MB of video memory though. For another $300 they'll toss in an 8MB raptor GFX card which is not that bad (still a bit expensive for only 8MB card ..)