I've got 3 machines running the seti client. All 3 were sent, and are currently working on, the _same_ work unit, recorded on Feb. 21, at 4:44:20. Coincidence? The new unit retrieval took place, for all 3, over a period of more than 5 hours. Well, that's more than coincidence, in my book.
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2.0.36 works perfectly fine, I see no reason to go beyond, at least not at this point. There's nothing in 2.2.x that would make it more fit for its purpose.
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I do some hardware testing on a 486DX33 with 8M of RAM, Slackware 3.6, 2.0.36. I wouldn't put a 2.2.x on that.
Well, I guess we'll still need power lines even when solar energy becomes mainstream. As you may know, it's very unevenly distributed, and what may be economically viable in Florida or Egypt, might not be so in northern Canada and Sweden.
Ha, ha, you know what the funny part is? You can do exactly the same thing with Slackware. Get the sources from ftp.cdrom.com (which, BTW, isn't some obscure and remote site), then rebuild everything with a single command. You can go have lunch meanwhile. You don't have to take my word, just check this: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/source/S lackBuild
Mine does. It's called Netscape Communicator 4.07. And I'd rather not be able to see the asciimation, than have to reboot again my machine 5 times a day, thank you.
I would also recommend Slackware as your first distribution, but for different reasons: I've installed many times Slack, RedHat and Debian, and I find the Slackware install to be the most straightforward and explicit of all. Debian is, by far, the most difficult to install, although, when you've done it enough times and start to become familiar with it, it has its good parts. RedHat would be the simplest, but if something goes wrong, you're pretty much fsck'ed-up, since it won't let you change certain automatic settings until after the install is over . Slackware is also a very good distribution to learn Unix, if you really want to, since Patrick Volkerding tries to make it the most "Unix-like" Linux distro.
A good place to buy install CDs is www.cheapbytes.com At $1.99 a CD, you can, for less than $10, get several distributions and try them, see which one suits you.
And a book that was very helpful to me at the beginning, free and available on-line, is "Linux installation and getting started" by Matt Welsh et al. You can find it at: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/LDP/gs/gs.html
It comes with a PCMCIA SCSI card that's unsupported in Linux. But if you hook the drive itself to a supported SCSI controller, it will work fine. I should know, I have one:)
OK, I d/l-ed the RH libstdc++-2.8.0 library, installed it, and got RP G2 working...but it broke netscape, and a bunch of other progs. So I installed back the original library. Just then, I noticed, in the output of "strace./g2a1_linux22.bin" that it looks for libstdc++.so.2.8 in a couple of nonstandard locations, before defaulting to/usr/lib. So, I took advantage of this, unpacked the libstdc++-2.8.0-14 in the same directory as RP G2 (i.e./usr/local/RealPlayerG2), and then made a symlink to it in one of the 2 directories where the install program looks first:/usr/local/qt/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8, or/usr/local/rvplayer5.0/libstdc++.so.2.8 (I actually used the latter location). This way, RP G2 works, without breaking other things. I guess no other program will look for libstdc++ in the rvplayer5.0 directory!
Slackware 3.6 has glibc-2.0.7 runtime support. Besides, probing the binary with ldd shows all the required libraries are present. And by running it with strace I see all the libraries loading, including stdlibc++-2.8.0. Then it segfaults.
No, rvplayer5.0 is fine...of course, I preload the rpopen patch (http://www.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/). I've even downloaded the.rpm, converted it to.tgz, installed that, and get exactly the same segfault. Even running it with strace shows the same thing: finds its libraries, loads them sucessfully, and then...sudden crash. Hmmm..
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They're all the same frequency, too. Don't you think I checked?
I've got 3 machines running the seti client. All 3 were sent, and are currently working on, the _same_ work unit, recorded on Feb. 21, at 4:44:20. Coincidence? The new unit retrieval took place, for all 3, over a period of more than 5 hours. Well, that's more than coincidence, in my book.
2.0.36 works perfectly fine, I see no reason to go beyond, at least not at this point. There's nothing in 2.2.x that would make it more fit for its purpose.
I do some hardware testing on a 486DX33 with 8M of RAM, Slackware 3.6, 2.0.36. I wouldn't put a 2.2.x on that.
For me, all that I had to upgrade was pppd, to 2.3.5.
Here's a URL. But it's kinda'big, I doubt it will fit in your sig :) Fun to read, though.
...since it's the version that will have support for 16-bit images, and I could _really_ use that. Think scientific imaging.
Well, I guess we'll still need power lines even when solar energy becomes mainstream. As you may know, it's very unevenly distributed, and what may be economically viable in Florida or Egypt, might not be so in northern Canada and Sweden.
Yes, apparently the Mac users woke up and are counterattacking in force. I guess one more reason why they'll dump the results of the poll...
The Virtual Parks thing requires quicktime..and there's none for Linux, AFAIK
Well, glad to hear this old guy is still around :) As for the machine I was talking about, it was built in 1979.
I know of a company still using a Z80-based machine for some text processing...I guess they'll get the prize :)
PII 450, the i386-linux-glibc1 client takes exactly 8h 03min for 1 block, when I don't use it (i.e. overnight).
Ha, ha, you know what the funny part is? You can do exactly the same thing with Slackware. Get the sources from ftp.cdrom.com (which, BTW, isn't some obscure and remote site), then rebuild everything with a single command. You can go have lunch meanwhile. You don't have to take my word, just check this:S lackBuild
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/source/
Mine does. It's called Netscape Communicator 4.07. And I'd rather not be able to see the asciimation, than have to reboot again my machine 5 times a day, thank you.
Can you please send me a copy of IE for Linux? :)
I would also recommend Slackware as your first distribution, but for different reasons: I've installed many times Slack, RedHat and Debian, and I find the Slackware install to be the most straightforward and explicit of all. Debian is, by far, the most difficult to install, although, when you've done it enough times and start to become familiar with it, it has its good parts. RedHat would be the simplest, but if something goes wrong, you're pretty much fsck'ed-up, since it won't let you change certain automatic settings until after the install is over .
Slackware is also a very good distribution to learn Unix, if you really want to, since Patrick Volkerding tries to make it the most "Unix-like" Linux distro.
A good place to buy install CDs is www.cheapbytes.com At $1.99 a CD, you can, for less than $10, get several distributions and try them, see which one suits you.
And a book that was very helpful to me at the beginning, free and available on-line, is "Linux installation and getting started" by Matt Welsh et al. You can find it at: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/LDP/gs/gs.html
It comes with a PCMCIA SCSI card that's unsupported in Linux. But if you hook the drive itself to a supported SCSI controller, it will work fine. I should know, I have one :)
Not only for full installs. Recently, I put Slack on a 486SX25 with only 120M disk space: no problem at all. Just imagine installing Windoze on that.
Installing Slackware 3.6 is more like a walk in the park, as compared to NT or W9x.
OK, I d/l-ed the RH libstdc++-2.8.0 library, installed it, and got RP G2 working...but it broke netscape, and a bunch of other progs. So I installed back the original library. Just then, I noticed, in the output of "strace ./g2a1_linux22.bin" that it looks for libstdc++.so.2.8 in a couple of nonstandard locations, before defaulting to /usr/lib. So, I took advantage of this, unpacked the libstdc++-2.8.0-14 in the same directory as RP G2 (i.e. /usr/local/RealPlayerG2), and then made a symlink to it in one of the 2 directories where the install program looks first: /usr/local/qt/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8, or /usr/local/rvplayer5.0/libstdc++.so.2.8
(I actually used the latter location). This way, RP G2 works, without breaking other things. I guess no other program will look for libstdc++ in the rvplayer5.0 directory!
Anyone? So far, I haven't seen a single post from someone running it on good ol'Slack. If you managed doing so, please post details. TIA
Of course, I mean libstdc++ :)
Slackware 3.6 has glibc-2.0.7 runtime support. Besides, probing the binary with ldd shows all the required libraries are present. And by running it with strace I see all the libraries loading, including stdlibc++-2.8.0. Then it segfaults.
No, rvplayer5.0 is fine...of course, I preload the rpopen patch (http://www.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/). I've even downloaded the .rpm, converted it to .tgz, installed that, and get exactly the same segfault. Even running it with strace shows the same thing: finds its libraries, loads them sucessfully, and then...sudden crash. Hmmm..