I was able to fit a whole Slackware 7.0 install, with KDE and all, in just under 480M. Make sure you use "expert" mode upon install, it will allow you to pick individual packages.
One more thing: if you can get several small HDs, you can use them together in software-RAID mode: the system I'm talking about actually has 5 HDs, ranging from 80M to 185M, for a total of 600M.
I wonder what the perfomance of a MAME running on Windows 98 VM running inside of Vmware running on Windows NT running inside of Vmware running on Redhat...
Nice thought...however, VMware has some detection mechanism that will not allow you to run a virtual machine inside another virtual machine. I understand this would create some rather nasty problems.
Unless, like me, you have a scsi cd burner attached to an unsupported scsi card. Come on, Be, how hard is it to expand your _very_ limited range of supported scsi cards?
Hmmm...they still don't support any of my scsi cards (Advansys ABP940U and DPT SmartRaid III), although there are nice open-sourced Linux drivers. But they _do_ support Lucent winmodems now! Whoopee!
Junkbuster is out, only 64MB RAM here:-( And why so? I run junkbuster on this Linux machine with 40M, and on a NT machine with 64M, and it's perfectly fine on both. Has been for the past year or so.
SysV-style init makes it easier for automated installers to modify the scripts. OTOH, I prefer BSD-style init, since it makes far more sense for the human eye.
Now that you are a separate company (spinning merrily off...), what will your distribution channel be? Will it still be handled by Walnut Creek? What about the Slackware-by-subscription option?
OTOH, keep up the good work, and good luck - from a _very_ satisfied Slack user.
I use Slackware, although I've tried many other distros out there. IMHO, there's Slackware, there's Debian, and there's "the others". For me, Slackware does make a difference - and if (well, it's not likely to happen, but, for the sake of the argument, if) Pat & co. decided to abandon the development, I'm sure there would be a lot of people happy to pick it up. No, it's not the pretty X that makes Slack great.
My exact thoughts. However, there are advantages to a ftp install - and I would really have appreciated it a while back, when I put Slack on a bunch of old machines, that barely had enough room for the install itself, but were all on a fast connection.. And I didn't have the resources for a NFS install.
I wonder if this is the reason why, yesterday, when I wanted to install a package on my Slackware box, the/pub/linux folder on ftp.cdrom.com was empty...
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I was able to fit a whole Slackware 7.0 install, with KDE and all, in just under 480M. Make sure you use "expert" mode upon install, it will allow you to pick individual packages.
One more thing: if you can get several small HDs, you can use them together in software-RAID mode: the system I'm talking about actually has 5 HDs, ranging from 80M to 185M, for a total of 600M.
I wonder what the perfomance of a MAME running on Windows 98 VM running inside of Vmware running on Windows NT running inside of Vmware running on Redhat ...
Nice thought...however, VMware has some detection mechanism that will not allow you to run a virtual machine inside another virtual machine. I understand this would create some rather nasty problems.
Unless, like me, you have a scsi cd burner attached to an unsupported scsi card. Come on, Be, how hard is it to expand your _very_ limited range of supported scsi cards?
Hmmm...they still don't support any of my scsi cards (Advansys ABP940U and DPT SmartRaid III), although there are nice open-sourced Linux drivers. But they _do_ support Lucent winmodems now! Whoopee!
Yes it is; go to ftp://ftp.worldonline.fr/BeOs
I'm getting 50kBps right now.
Hey, if you make the check out to the artist, you get a free autograph on the back of the check!
:) That's what Bart thought, but his check came back stamped, not hand-written.
Junkbuster is out, only 64MB RAM here :-(
And why so? I run junkbuster on this Linux machine with 40M, and on a NT machine with 64M, and it's perfectly fine on both. Has been for the past year or so.
So at least the horses mouth is talking the talk.
Yeah, the only problem with the talk being that it's been in the horse's mouth (and on it's web site) for the past 4 months or so...
SysV-style init makes it easier for automated installers to modify the scripts. OTOH, I prefer BSD-style init, since it makes far more sense for the human eye.
You could've installed Debian instead... it has both 1.44 and 1.2 install floppies.
:)
Same goes for Slackware...
Poke around http://www.cdrom.com and you'll find some :) Got myself a shirt and a beanie Tux-with-the-pipe.
I personally hope he never does. BSD-style init is so much cleaner!
Now that you are a separate company (spinning merrily off...), what will your distribution channel be? Will it still be handled by Walnut Creek? What about the Slackware-by-subscription option?
OTOH, keep up the good work, and good luck - from a _very_ satisfied Slack user.
There's also a few "beanie penguins" with pipes on the same page...just like the one on my monitor :)
This is not a bash.
I use Slackware, although I've tried many other distros out there. IMHO, there's Slackware, there's Debian, and there's "the others". For me, Slackware does make a difference - and if (well, it's not likely to happen, but, for the sake of the argument, if) Pat & co. decided to abandon the development, I'm sure there would be a lot of people happy to pick it up. No, it's not the pretty X that makes Slack great.
Slackware rocks the earth!
My exact thoughts. However, there are advantages to a ftp install - and I would really have appreciated it a while back, when I put Slack on a bunch of old machines, that barely had enough room for the install itself, but were all on a fast connection.. And I didn't have the resources for a NFS install.
I hope they don't, because that will be the day I stop using slackware....... Hmmm maybe start a distro of my own...
Count me in!
I wonder if this is the reason why, yesterday, when I wanted to install a package on my Slackware box, the /pub/linux folder on ftp.cdrom.com was empty...
Time to get the Spectrum emulator out once more! And browse through my 200+MB collection of oldies...
Sorry, I couldn't help...[2000-02-28 16:12:00 E,E&E at work again (articles,microsoft) (declined) ]
Not to mention I submitted the story 4 days ago, and it was rejected in a matter of minutes. Who cares anymore...
How 'bout a contest: "the funniest DeCSS clone"?
It is importanat that a university is able to communicate certain things to its entire student body.
They usually do so by means of listservers (opt-in, opt-out).
Set your threshold to +1 or +2 and you'll only see "interesting" posts.
Woohoo! I guess this makes me a super-genius. I was able to setup ipchains in less than 1h, in my first month of using Linux. You just made my day!