I've been running Linux on a Libretto 50CT, since they were first released in the UK (nearly 2 years ago). I've been extremely happy with it so far. The only real problem has been the size of the hard drive (the 50CT only came with 810MB). However, I've since found a supplier of larger drives (up to 4GB), and the newer models all come with bigger drives anyway. I haven't found battery life to be a problem (I get about 2.5 - 3 hours from the standard battery, and a friend with the larger battery reports nearly 5 hours).
The 50CT will do 640x480, and some of the newer models (100CT and 110CT) will do 800x480. Both can do 1024x768 (or higher?) on an external monitor.
It's incredibly common to see those stores asking $18 for a CD!
In the UK, the average price of a CD is equivalent to about US$24 at current conversion rates, with "premier" artists charging even more than that. Sure, I can order them over the net at sensible prices from CD Universe or CD Now, but if I do so, I also have to pay
postage and packing
3.5% import duty to HM Customs and Excise
17.5% VAT (value added tax) on the purchase price
all of which tends to defeat the original purpose. You guys don't know how lucky you are to only be paying $18 per CD...
It runs Groupwise, which is by all accounts better than Exchange
Trust me, that really isn't difficult...
There is no need to port apachee to.nlm, FastTrack comes with the base install.
So FastTrack comes with a PHP module? And what about the next great server side extension? Unless you're using an Open Source webserver, you're going to have to wait for your chosen vendor to support your choice of goodies (which they may just refuse to do). I'm not knocking Novell or FastTrack, but in some cases, having access to the source is all but essential.
9x and NT file shares suck.
Agreed, and that's one area in which Novell excels -- fileserving to gazillions of users.
I am getting really bad download times here in the UK, not because/. is slow but purely because the server for the adverts is holding the rest of the page up
Then turn off the ads. See http://www.junkbusters.com for more details. Substituting a 1x1 transparent GIF for each ad does wonders for download speeds:-)
Apart from the obvious goodies, I'm pleased to see the far superior GNU enscript replacing RedHat's traditional nenscript, and also fvwm-2.2. For those of you that abondoned fvwm for newer alternatives like AfterStep, Window Maker, BlackBox etc., I'd strongly recommend taking another look now 2.2 is out. Having tried all the alternatives (with the notable exception of Enlightenment), I'll be sticking with fvwm.
However, the real problem is RedHat's continued neglect of DDD. Now it works with lesstif, there's simply no excuse not to include it. Yes, I know it's available on the powertools CD, but when every other conceivable development tool is shipped on the main CD, omitting a decent graphical debugger is criminal.
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January gets to be -40 (F or C, doesn't matter) and I don't think there's a piece of hardware alive for under $1M that could survive that.
It's rated to -20 degrees C (non-operating), and (I think) -5 operating. Colder than that and they recommend taking it inside. Surely this applies to any other in car audio system, too, though?
I am prepared to stand in line a *loooong* time, believe me. In 1977, I queued for 3 hours to get in to see Star Wars. It's the only film I've ever encountered that had a queue going round 3 sides of the block at our local Gaumont cinema. Times have changed since then (including the cinema being knocked down), but I'd still wait just as long.
In fact, a few of us have been considering flying to New York for the weekend to see it there, rather than wait the extra 2 months for a UK release...
I thought I'd mention for those who don't have the patience to download 25 MB that it is going to be on Entertainment Tonight Thursday night.
For those of us in the UK, it's apparently going to be shown on The Big Breakfast tomorrow (Friday) morning, and on TFI Friday tomorrow evening, both on Channel 4.
vi in a dtterm on Solaris won't let you go past the end of a line to insert, and that's a problem (a strong hint to use dtpad?)
Surely it's more of a hint to learn how to use "A" to append to the end of a line? Using cursor keys to go past the end of the line seems to me counterintuitive. Maybe that's just a hacker mentality, and it's perfectly logical to the general population. Not that I use cursor keys anyway. h, j, k and l work just fine without the need to remove your hands from the main part of the keyboard. Besides, they're the same keys as moria/angband and they're even in the same layout as the cursor keys on a good old speccy.
Exactly! I got my 50CT the month they were released, and have been running Linux on it ever since. However, it's starting to get a bit slow and the disk is full (yes, I know you can get bigger ones, but they're not at all cheap). I've been putting off getting a 110 because of the IR issue. Now, I may well go ahead and get one...
Wow! It sucks just as much as other portal sites. They need to keep in mind that people go to redhat.com to find out about RedHat products and services. Details of the CDs and the training and support services need to be prominently displayed on the front page. If people want news, they'll go to slashdot, freshmeat or elsewhere, not RedHat. I've got no objection to the summaries being there, but they shouldn't be the main focus of the site.
Oh, and the garish colours suck, too. Still, with Gnome 1.0 and kernel 2.2, RedHat 6.0 should be pretty good when it's released.
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Wow! I'm not the only one that dislikes KDE from a usability point of view, then. I have other reasons for believing it to be bad for the Linux community, too, but primarily, I don't use it because I just don't like it. Maybe GNOME will be different. I guess I'll find out when (if) I get round to trying it.
You're getting off lightly. The PSX developers I know are having to reboot 4 or 5 times a day due to Windoze instability, and having to reinstall every month or so. And that's with official publisher supplied developer kits.
In the world of Starfire and Serengeti (supercomputers), Sun is probably telling the truth when they say that Linux does not compete with them (long term).
Surely this should be short term? Yes, at the moment, Solaris scales better than Linux, but for how long? I've personally run Linux an an Ultra Enterprise 4000, and UltraPenguin runs on the E10K ("StarFire"). OK, so Linux only currently scales to 16 CPUs, but given access to appropriate hardware that'll improve. Apart from anything else, it's very rare to have a whole StarFire configured as a single domain anyway. We have 4 here, and the largest single domain has (I think) 22 CPUs.
The point is, yes, Solaris is currently a much better choice at the high end than Linux, but Linux has consistently pushed upwards for the last few years, and it'll catch up with the commercial Unix vendors (including Sun) in a few years time. Yes, Sun and the others will have moved on by then, but my guess is Linux will push into the high end quicker than the high end will advance.
The kernel, and all the utilities (except the ones Redhat has developed) are GNU. If Redhat tries to throw weight around with its propriotary utilities, chances are people will get fed up and someone will write GNU versions of RPM and the like.
Sigh. You mean "all the utilities (including the ones RedHat has developed)". If you'd actually read the article, or bothered to do the slightest bit of research, you'd know the RPM, like everything else Red Hat have ever developed is already GPL. There are no Red Hat proprietary utilities. No, Red Hat is not perfect, but it is very good, and it's all open source. I think the only thing they've ever shipped without source is Netscape.
First, you need to find the X keysyms for the keys. The easiest way to do this is probably to use xev. Move the cursor to the xev window, and press the key you want to know about. You should see a KeyRelease event, with a line like:
state 0x0, keycode 125 (keysym 0xff6a, Help), same_screen YES,
This says that the key generates the key code 125, which is currently mapped to the Help keysym. You can either try and find out how to assign the Help key to "back" in Netscape (probably by setting something in your X resources file), or you can use xmodmap to map this key to something that Netscape might already use to go back.
The implication from this announcement is that it includes PM4 for Linux. However, as far as I know, PM4 is only for Windows (the PowerQuest site makes no mention of a Linux version), so I assume that is what's actually being bundled.
Now a real native Linux version of PM4 would be very useful. However, a Windows version budled with a Linux distribution has limited potential, particularly as Caldera are primarily targeting commercial organisations who would be unlikely to dual boot anyway...
However, I'm pretty sure Demon Internet are still the most successfull ISP. They're certainly a damned site better than AOL - it's still considered the mark of a loser having an AOL account...
It's all a matter of perspective. Demon has long been the UK's biggest ISP, but Compuserve (i.e., now AOL) has more subscribers -- the difference being not all of Compuserve's users use it for internet access. Hence both can claim to be #1, and both will be right depending on how you look at it.
It'll be interesting to see how FreeServe affects the market (they're rapidly approaching the top spot) when Energis stop paying for it. It can't last forever on the income from support calls alone.
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The 50CT will do 640x480, and some of the newer models (100CT and 110CT) will do 800x480. Both can do 1024x768 (or higher?) on an external monitor.
In the UK, the average price of a CD is equivalent to about US$24 at current conversion rates, with "premier" artists charging even more than that. Sure, I can order them over the net at sensible prices from CD Universe or CD Now, but if I do so, I also have to pay
- postage and packing
- 3.5% import duty to HM Customs and Excise
- 17.5% VAT (value added tax) on the purchase price
all of which tends to defeat the original purpose. You guys don't know how lucky you are to only be paying $18 per CD...Trust me, that really isn't difficult...
So FastTrack comes with a PHP module? And what about the next great server side extension? Unless you're using an Open Source webserver, you're going to have to wait for your chosen vendor to support your choice of goodies (which they may just refuse to do). I'm not knocking Novell or FastTrack, but in some cases, having access to the source is all but essential.
Agreed, and that's one area in which Novell excels -- fileserving to gazillions of users.
Then turn off the ads. See http://www.junkbusters.com for more details. Substituting a 1x1 transparent GIF for each ad does wonders for download speeds :-)
However, the real problem is RedHat's continued neglect of DDD. Now it works with lesstif, there's simply no excuse not to include it. Yes, I know it's available on the powertools CD, but when every other conceivable development tool is shipped on the main CD, omitting a decent graphical debugger is criminal.
It's rated to -20 degrees C (non-operating), and (I think) -5 operating. Colder than that and they recommend taking it inside. Surely this applies to any other in car audio system, too, though?
In fact, a few of us have been considering flying to New York for the weekend to see it there, rather than wait the extra 2 months for a UK release...
For those of us in the UK, it's apparently going to be shown on The Big Breakfast tomorrow (Friday) morning, and on TFI Friday tomorrow evening, both on Channel 4.
Surely it's more of a hint to learn how to use "A" to append to the end of a line? Using cursor keys to go past the end of the line seems to me counterintuitive. Maybe that's just a hacker mentality, and it's perfectly logical to the general population. Not that I use cursor keys anyway. h, j, k and l work just fine without the need to remove your hands from the main part of the keyboard. Besides, they're the same keys as moria/angband and they're even in the same layout as the cursor keys on a good old speccy.
Exactly! I got my 50CT the month they were released, and have been running Linux on it ever since. However, it's starting to get a bit slow and the disk is full (yes, I know you can get bigger ones, but they're not at all cheap). I've been putting off getting a 110 because of the IR issue. Now, I may well go ahead and get one...
Wow! It sucks just as much as other portal sites. They need to keep in mind that people go to redhat.com to find out about RedHat products and services. Details of the CDs and the training and support services need to be prominently displayed on the front page. If people want news, they'll go to slashdot, freshmeat or elsewhere, not RedHat. I've got no objection to the summaries being there, but they shouldn't be the main focus of the site.
Oh, and the garish colours suck, too. Still, with Gnome 1.0 and kernel 2.2, RedHat 6.0 should be pretty good when it's released.
Wow! I'm not the only one that dislikes KDE from a usability point of view, then. I have other reasons for believing it to be bad for the Linux community, too, but primarily, I don't use it because I just don't like it. Maybe GNOME will be different. I guess I'll find out when (if) I get round to trying it.
You're getting off lightly. The PSX developers I know are having to reboot 4 or 5 times a day due to Windoze instability, and having to reinstall every month or so. And that's with official publisher supplied developer kits.
So long as it's LSB compliant (and thus there's no danger of vendors releasing software for Corel Linux only), I'm all for it. The more the merrier.
Surely this should be short term? Yes, at the moment, Solaris scales better than Linux, but for how long? I've personally run Linux an an Ultra Enterprise 4000, and UltraPenguin runs on the E10K ("StarFire"). OK, so Linux only currently scales to 16 CPUs, but given access to appropriate hardware that'll improve. Apart from anything else, it's very rare to have a whole StarFire configured as a single domain anyway. We have 4 here, and the largest single domain has (I think) 22 CPUs.
The point is, yes, Solaris is currently a much better choice at the high end than Linux, but Linux has consistently pushed upwards for the last few years, and it'll catch up with the commercial Unix vendors (including Sun) in a few years time. Yes, Sun and the others will have moved on by then, but my guess is Linux will push into the high end quicker than the high end will advance.
Not all parasites are detrimental to their hosts...
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It doesn't crash, but my Netscape (4.06 for Solaris/SPARC) renders it as a completely blank page. I can read the HTML fine with "View page source"...
Oh yeah... and since when has Linux been a language? :-)
This says that the key generates the key code 125, which is currently mapped to the Help keysym. You can either try and find out how to assign the Help key to "back" in Netscape (probably by setting something in your X resources file), or you can use xmodmap to map this key to something that Netscape might already use to go back.
The implication from this announcement is that it includes PM4 for Linux. However, as far as I know, PM4 is only for Windows (the PowerQuest site makes no mention of a Linux version), so I assume that is what's actually being bundled.
Now a real native Linux version of PM4 would be very useful. However, a Windows version budled with a Linux distribution has limited potential, particularly as Caldera are primarily targeting commercial organisations who would be unlikely to dual boot anyway...
It's all a matter of perspective. Demon has long been the UK's biggest ISP, but Compuserve (i.e., now AOL) has more subscribers -- the difference being not all of Compuserve's users use it for internet access. Hence both can claim to be #1, and both will be right depending on how you look at it.
It'll be interesting to see how FreeServe affects the market (they're rapidly approaching the top spot) when Energis stop paying for it. It can't last forever on the income from support calls alone.