I am using the "Superrescue" Distribution which is also a CD-Distri in my company when I need to start up another Linux workstation, so I do not need to delete those wondonze stuff nor do I need to install a complete Linux on a computer I am using only once a month. The distri is a little slow in the first boot-up but it also brings Gnome and KDE with most programs. And when that's not enough you can just use it for a "diskless" workstation.
I found the "Superrescue" here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/v2/
Linux is an never will be an _alternative_ to any commercial OS. Neither MS nor Mac. Because there is no company behind the System that *wants* everybody to use it. Sure, Linus Torvalds would be happy if everyone on the world uses Linux as their home OS, but he will also not cry when they use another system.
But IMO it was the wrong way for him to use the SuSE distribution, because they are building stupid tools whith which you don't *want* to learn more of Linux. And I bet that any Debian-User would get his system to run without any problems. Because they are beside of yast...
And all of those sites will have a problem within the next few months. Why? Because AOL is switching to Netscape/Mozilla. The german TOL is switching to Netscape/Mozilla. And I also know of some smaller ISP's that have done it this way.
And besides of that (at least here in europe), Linux is getting more and more interesting to become the default desktop OS for lots of people. I helped 14 of my friends changing from Bugdows to Linux in the last 12 months!
At last, the customers will decide. If I can't see a site with my Mozilla or Galeon, I'm away. If it was a shop, I will buy my stuff in another shop.
But it seems like the "optimized-for-IE" is just a "problem" for the US. Most other sites I know are "best viewed with any browser".
SuSE may be a fine distribution -- but only for beginners. The YAST system sucks as it destroys all hand-made configuration changes when running it again. They said that SuSE is the leader in Europe - thats not true at all! SuSE is the leader in germany, but when they try to continue their kind of developing (SuSE Linux is even not a GPL Linux!!) they will also loose.
Many companies in Europe sold Server Systems with pre-installed SuSE the last few years, but many of them switched to Debian or RedHat as lots of the customers asked for it.
And I **hate** to see on many download pages pre-compiled binarys "xxxx.rpm for Slackware/RedHat, yyyy.rpm for SuSE". WHY is SuSE trying to make its own standard? There is still another company in Redmond trying that. We don't need such thing in the Linux world !!
"CD images (ISOs), bootable on some platforms, will be available as of Sunday, 16 September 2001. Also included are three binary package CD images identical to those distributed for NetBSD 1.5.1."
I think that *BSD will never die, because
I know of many commercial software products
(mostly firewalls) which use some edited
*BSD as a operating system.
I am using linux since 0.9, I've tried
FreeBSD about 2 years ago, but I was not
very happy about it (I used it as a firewall,
but I had lots of problems on desktop with it:).
I've downloaded the 1.5.1 about 2 or 3 months
ago and I think that it is a *lot* faster than
my linux. Besides of that, I am currently
running the 1.5.1 on my second system,
X11 with AfterStep, two mozilla windows,
three terminals and GKrellM and it's only using
61 MB of memory:))
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I am using the "Superrescue" Distribution which is also a CD-Distri in my company when I need to start up another Linux workstation, so I do not need to delete those wondonze stuff nor do I need to install a complete Linux on a computer I am using only once a month. The distri is a little slow in the first boot-up but it also brings Gnome and KDE with most programs. And when that's not enough you can just use it for a "diskless" workstation.
I found the "Superrescue" here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/v2/
Linux is an never will be an _alternative_ to any commercial OS. Neither MS nor Mac. Because there is no company behind the System that *wants* everybody to use it. Sure, Linus Torvalds would be happy if everyone on the world uses Linux as their home OS, but he will also not cry when they use another system.
...
But IMO it was the wrong way for him to use the SuSE distribution, because they are building stupid tools whith which you don't *want* to learn more of Linux. And I bet that any Debian-User would get his system to run without any problems. Because they are beside of yast
And all of those sites will have a problem within the next few months. Why? Because AOL is switching to Netscape/Mozilla. The german TOL is switching to Netscape/Mozilla. And I also know of some smaller ISP's that have done it this way.
And besides of that (at least here in europe), Linux is getting more and more interesting to become the default desktop OS for lots of people. I helped 14 of my friends changing from Bugdows to Linux in the last 12 months!
At last, the customers will decide. If I can't see a site with my Mozilla or Galeon, I'm away. If it was a shop, I will buy my stuff in another shop.
But it seems like the "optimized-for-IE" is just a "problem" for the US. Most other sites I know are "best viewed with any browser".
And that's why they will loose.
SuSE may be a fine distribution -- but only for beginners. The YAST system sucks as it destroys all hand-made configuration changes when running it again. They said that SuSE is the leader in Europe - thats not true at all! SuSE is the leader in germany, but when they try to continue their kind of developing (SuSE Linux is even not a GPL Linux!!) they will also loose.
Many companies in Europe sold Server Systems with pre-installed SuSE the last few years, but many of them switched to Debian or RedHat as lots of the customers asked for it.
And I **hate** to see on many download pages pre-compiled binarys "xxxx.rpm for Slackware/RedHat, yyyy.rpm for SuSE". WHY is SuSE trying to make its own standard? There is still another company in Redmond trying that. We don't need such thing in the Linux world !!
I haven't read all replies so I don't know if someone already mentioned this:
the cryptoapi/cryptoloop package provides strong encryption systems without the need to patch the kernel anymore.
however, the use of the strong encryption is not allowed in the US.
you can find some more informations at these URLs:
encryptionhowto.sourceforge.net
cryptoapi.sourceforge.net
www.kerneli.org
i am using a twofish encrypted partition on an AMD K6 400 and 512 MB RAM with no time loss (okay, there may be a time loss but i dont see it)
I wonder if they have installed some hard
to find backdoors so that they can get into
the "secure" systems
Remember the mysterious NSA_KEY they found in the
Windows code ?
Announcing NetBSD 1.5.2
"CD images (ISOs), bootable on some platforms, will be available as of Sunday, 16 September 2001. Also included are three binary package CD images identical to those distributed for NetBSD 1.5.1."
Things told dead are living longer
I think that *BSD will never die, because
I know of many commercial software products
(mostly firewalls) which use some edited
*BSD as a operating system.
I am using linux since 0.9, I've tried
FreeBSD about 2 years ago, but I was not
very happy about it (I used it as a firewall,
but I had lots of problems on desktop with it
I've downloaded the 1.5.1 about 2 or 3 months
ago and I think that it is a *lot* faster than
my linux. Besides of that, I am currently
running the 1.5.1 on my second system,
X11 with AfterStep, two mozilla windows,
three terminals and GKrellM and it's only using
61 MB of memory