A couple ideas. Have you thought of inviting her to join you? You didn't say if she dislikes video games, or just dislikes you spending so much time playing them. If that's not an option, cutting back on your game-time might be the only option. Work out an agreement like you can spend two nights a week gaming if you take her out two nights a week.
The article that's linked to over at extremetech is an extremely good read, but its dated Sept 26, 2002. Does it take Slashdot that long to pick up on BSD-related news?
Except for the (supposed) stability issue, it probably doesn't matter to if anonymous users connect by pserver or ssh. Also remember that there are developers using CVS also, and they probably would not like the passwords for their accounts (with commit priviledges) being sent plain-text.
Don't listen to the trolls:-) First off, there are multiple BSD's out there. Not nearly as many as the Linux distros. I won't go into the differences here, that's beating a dead horse. I am a huge fan of all the BSD's. All of them have come a long way and are quite stable. The only one that I know of having any trouble is FreeBSD since WindRiver gave them the big boot. Now they're off on their own, which might actually be a good thing since they didn't seem all that interesting in open source development like BSDi was when they first purchased Walnut Creek CD-ROM.
OpenBSD has been cranking out a release pretty solid every six months ever since I first messed with it at 2.5.
NetBSD seems to be in good shape too. The developers seemed to be on their toes. Someone found a few large security holes in 1.5.1 and they had the fixes in the source tree in a couple of days and on CD as version 1.5.2 before some of the vendors could even push out their 1.5.1 CD's!
If you don't mind getting an older, slower laptop, I'd say check ebay or pricewatch or something for a Toughbook. I have a Pentium 166 Toughbook. It does everything I want it to except recompile the kernel in less than 5 minutes and play Quake 3. I haven't tested the claims of its sturdiness much yet. It was still too expensive ($500) for me to try dropping it on purpose.
how much stuff with this break?
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This being the first "major" release of the gcc in years, the big question is "how much stuff is this going to break?" Are we going to have a repeat of the gcc-2.96-REDHAT fiasco? I can see it now: "Sorry, this package compiled with gcc-3.x, you appear to have a 2.95 based system, please upgrade." Or the other way around. Download a source tarball and see "this code written specifically for gcc-3.x. You need at least that version to compile."
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A couple ideas. Have you thought of inviting her to join you? You didn't say if she dislikes video games, or just dislikes you spending so much time playing them. If that's not an option, cutting back on your game-time might be the only option. Work out an agreement like you can spend two nights a week gaming if you take her out two nights a week.
The article that's linked to over at extremetech is an extremely good read, but its dated Sept 26, 2002. Does it take Slashdot that long to pick up on BSD-related news?
Except for the (supposed) stability issue, it probably doesn't matter to if anonymous users connect by pserver or ssh. Also remember that there are developers using CVS also, and they probably would not like the passwords for their accounts (with commit priviledges) being sent plain-text.
Why link to freebsdforums when you can get the original announcement here?
Don't listen to the trolls :-) First off, there are multiple BSD's out there. Not nearly as many as the Linux distros. I won't go into the differences here, that's beating a dead horse. I am a huge fan of all the BSD's. All of them have come a long way and are quite stable. The only one that I know of having any trouble is FreeBSD since WindRiver gave them the big boot. Now they're off on their own, which might actually be a good thing since they didn't seem all that interesting in open source development like BSDi was when they first purchased Walnut Creek CD-ROM.
OpenBSD has been cranking out a release pretty solid every six months ever since I first messed with it at 2.5.
NetBSD seems to be in good shape too. The developers seemed to be on their toes. Someone found a few large security holes in 1.5.1 and they had the fixes in the source tree in a couple of days and on CD as version 1.5.2 before some of the vendors could even push out their 1.5.1 CD's!
If you don't mind getting an older, slower laptop, I'd say check ebay or pricewatch or something for a Toughbook. I have a Pentium 166 Toughbook. It does everything I want it to except recompile the kernel in less than 5 minutes and play Quake 3. I haven't tested the claims of its sturdiness much yet. It was still too expensive ($500) for me to try dropping it on purpose.
This being the first "major" release of the gcc in years, the big question is "how much stuff is this going to break?" Are we going to have a repeat of the gcc-2.96-REDHAT fiasco? I can see it now: "Sorry, this package compiled with gcc-3.x, you appear to have a 2.95 based system, please upgrade." Or the other way around. Download a source tarball and see "this code written specifically for gcc-3.x. You need at least that version to compile."
um, FreeBSD has had ipv6 since at least version 4.0 (nearly a year now). Now the threaded issue - that's different.
Just wondering - I checked out the site, and the only thing that seems to be there is the protopkg system. Where's the Sun port of slackware?
now if only I had an Alpha that I could wish Slack ran on...