Quote from Linus' reply to Bruce Perens' question on the DVD issue, this morning: "I do watch DVDs at home, in Linux, but I cannot release the binaries."
In the keynote address this morning, Linus said 2.4 will have support for firewire. Anyone know more on this subject? I haven't exactly followed the evolution of the 2.3.x branch, but I thought firewire still had a long way to go, more so than USB...
I witnessed about a year ago a discussion on Usenet, where someone from Lucent (at least he claimed so, and the email address said the same) made a strong point of the company's policy of *never* opening the specs on their Mars chipset, on which their winmodem is based, but rather guard it as a trade secret (hint: see the parallel to what happens in the DVD case?/hint), so that nobody gets to clone it; and that they don't care about the Linux users, who never were a "target market" for them. I once e-mailed their customer support, and got a very similar reply. The fact that they recently released a binary-only driver was a *big* surprise for me.
They just announced they have a partnership with IBM, and a dedicated chip factory from IBM in Vermont. Also, a ton of investors, and just now showing a "web pad" running Linux... Woohoo!!
Unfortunately, Linux Mandrake doesn't come with Red Hat's best element: its new graphical installer.
I guess this was supposed to be a praise for RedHat, but IMHO it turned out to be an insult. Come on, the _best_ a certain distro has to offer is the...installer?
Just did that in VMware 1.1.2. Boots, but freezes whrn the "terminal screen" comes up, and trashes the screen. The boot process is pretty fast, though, even under the virtual machine.
My current machine is a PII-450 with 192M RAM, of which I ususlly keep 112 for the host and give 80M to the guest. They both seem happy with this setting (96/96 was a bit unfair to the host), and the speed is good. The only time when it _really_ slows to a crawl is when I access the external parallel zip drive directly, via the virtual port, bypassing Linux. It can take 30 minutes to copy 95M of files, and the host OS becomes unusable all along. Easy to figure I don't do this too often:)
How many people out there are using VMWare to run NetBSD in a window on thier linux box?
There are some; I run FreeBSD and other Linux distributions on top of my Slack box:) Makes for _much_ easier experimenting, without the fear of hosing your machine.
Slashdot Mirror
Easy to setup Internet connection sharing? Those ring any bell?
Funny you should mention that...IP masquerading has been part of the Linux kernel functionnality for quite some time.
Quote from Linus' reply to Bruce Perens' question on the DVD issue, this morning: "I do watch DVDs at home, in Linux, but I cannot release the binaries."
In the keynote address this morning, Linus said 2.4 will have support for firewire. Anyone know more on this subject? I haven't exactly followed the evolution of the 2.3.x branch, but I thought firewire still had a long way to go, more so than USB...
Actually (I just got back from the keynote address), he said the release of 2.4 was still a matter of months.
Go to the official web page of the Linux World Expo, and you'll learn in this case BOF stands for "birds of a feather".
I witnessed about a year ago a discussion on Usenet, where someone from Lucent (at least he claimed so, and the email address said the same) made a strong point of the company's policy of *never* opening the specs on their Mars chipset, on which their winmodem is based, but rather guard it as a trade secret (hint: see the parallel to what happens in the DVD case? /hint), so that nobody gets to clone it; and that they don't care about the Linux users, who never were a "target market" for them. I once e-mailed their customer support, and got a very similar reply. The fact that they recently released a binary-only driver was a *big* surprise for me.
This is one of the FAQ on winmodems; if you do a search on Deja.com, you'll find the answer. Or, check out this site or this one.
...they're going to put embedded ads in the Crusoe bios, like they planned for the regular ones.
Anyone know what happened to this *bright* idea of theirs?
Funny, maybe, but true; here's the URL.
Q: Can I access the Internet?
:)
A: Certainly. To access the Internet, return to
Windows because the Lite version is built on
top of Windows. Another option is to use
LinuxOne OS.
Ummm...no, thanks. I'll stick to a regular distro for now
About the size of a 12" LCD panel (thickness, too). I couldn't figure out which window manager it had on, the image was quite bad.
They just announced they have a partnership with IBM, and a dedicated chip factory from IBM in Vermont. Also, a ton of investors, and just now showing a "web pad" running Linux... Woohoo!!
That's Ditzel, Transmeta's CEO.
BTW: 400 MHz for Linux and 700 MHz for Windows.. LOL. But 1W/chip at 700 MHz with 400kB cache...that's impressive.
You forget the biggest of all, which is:
You can't own a computer - you might be tempted to commit the crime of using encryption [shudder].
AGP is supported in the stable kernel since many moons, my friend - why don't you check it again.
Hmmm... I think the DSL modem is supposed to work in the guest OS, i.e. W9x/whatever, and VMWare still has a long way to go in this regard.
Unfortunately, Linux Mandrake doesn't come with Red Hat's best element: its new graphical installer.
I guess this was supposed to be a praise for RedHat, but IMHO it turned out to be an insult. Come on, the _best_ a certain distro has to offer is the...installer?
Great. The server being slashdotted, I had no access to the FAQ, just the bootdisk from a mirror.
...throw it on a floppy and try it in VMWare
Just did that in VMware 1.1.2. Boots, but freezes whrn the "terminal screen" comes up, and trashes the screen. The boot process is pretty fast, though, even under the virtual machine.
Of course, that's what I mean by "I don't do it very often". Just interesting how big a performance hit you get with the parallel port emulation.
Performance ceases to be an issue above 192M RAM
:)
My current machine is a PII-450 with 192M RAM, of which I ususlly keep 112 for the host and give 80M to the guest. They both seem happy with this setting (96/96 was a bit unfair to the host), and the speed is good. The only time when it _really_ slows to a crawl is when I access the external parallel zip drive directly, via the virtual port, bypassing Linux. It can take 30 minutes to copy 95M of files, and the host OS becomes unusable all along. Easy to figure I don't do this too often
I think they announced support for raw scsi coming soon - you may want to check their newsgroups, on news://news.vmware.com
You can't use _raw_ scsi devices (yet), but nothing stops you from using virtual disks on mounted scsi partitions. Read the docs again.
I've been running it successfully on a PII/266 with 64M RAM; it's rather slow, but works.
How many people out there are using VMWare to run NetBSD in a window on thier linux box?
:) Makes for _much_ easier experimenting, without the fear of hosing your machine.
There are some; I run FreeBSD and other Linux distributions on top of my Slack box