Debian and mandrake. They are the "big mofo dist's".
For multimedia Mandrake has an unofficial package site (they dont host it/or are affiliated in any official way) located at Penguin Liberation Front (TM). Silly name;).
The packages are mostly plugins to xine/mplayer/gstreamer for codecs that arent free or the ones that mandrake doesnt feel safe to include(legal issues). So Divx/wma/dvd etc. shouldnt be a problem.
Other noteworthy stuff includes
Game emulators
Extra funky themes, an example is the KDE Liquid theme.
Various usable p2p apps.
And yet more stuff.
The way it works is just like adding another source to your apt-get. Mandrake has a similar tool for rpm packages.
Many countries in Europe has far better phone net coverage than the US. Since there isnt huge areas with very few inhabitants. Makes live as a telco much easier.
For example in 2003 about 99% in Denmark will be able to buy relatively cheap DSL. Since the phonelines are already there.
(For those who doesnt want to know why - skip to the last paragraph).
I know it's hard research since most stuff is in danish but this is very far from the reality today. So here is some insight for those who want it;) If you notice the date (april 1999) it's actually 3+ years old. A lot has happened since then.
We got a new goverment close to a year ago after around 8 years of government by the "Socialdemokratiet" (Social Democrats) together with minor party which isn't important regarding this issue. The new government consists of "Venstre" (The United Left) and another minor party which isn't important either in this issue.
Note that "The United Left" is not even close to be a left wing party, it's somewhere between The Democrats & The Republicans, although quite a bit closer to the Republicans as their main ideoligy is liberalism, however as any governing party they practice a fair bit of populism, which currently in denmark results in a policy which on some issues moves them more to the left.
However one issue they have in common with The Republicans in the US is "Environment and Energy". You wont hear any Venstre members in the parlament deny global warming but they generally believe that denmark is far to extreme and carefull on enviroment and energy issues.
This knowledge is important considering the fact minister in charge of the linked document "Svend Auken" no longer is in charge of the "Enviroment and Energy" Ministry but it's currently a Venstre member.
One of his first actions as minister was cutting 1/3 the employees.
(FOR THOSE WHO DIDNT CARE WHY) In short, the current government makes HUGE doubts about how valid this document and it's goals are today.
Lagging players doesnt affect you in any way - other than the guy may be warping around if it's bad, ofcourse there are more issues with listen servers servers.
It's not fun to play on listen servers - but there are thousands of servers at ISP's and the like which are dedicated. Find the servers with either Gamespy or the more powerfull All Seeing Eye
Unless you're a part of a gaming community/clan on irc these tools are must have.
On a sidenote i get ping 20-40 on the servers i play on - with dsl. Not that different from LAN really.
The network part of the quake series is most certainly server/client.
Ie the game client doesnt talk to the other clients but only talks to _one_ server, which indeed can be a player (listen server) but more often the usual setup (dedicated server).
First of all it's quite a funny 'stir' if you look into it.
The GNOME camp believes the icons are KDE style.
The KDE camp believes the icons are GNOME style.
Personally I think the icons are ugly and KDE style, but i'm a gnome user:=). Their metacity theme "Bluecurve" is very nice though.
However I think it's The Right Thing To Do, simply because it's better for the users - as a default. The user can always change it.
Yes very willing. But then again i live in denmark.
In short, I can buy a regionfree dvd player but i can't marry a foreigner and live with her here, since i'm not 23. Then i need a "proper" house, which wont happen since i'm surely still a student.... oops wrong tropic =)
It was one of the first thing mdk did in cooker after the 8.2 mdk release:=). So it's been there for a while. They did this after redhat made the move in their dev distro (rawhide ?).
Beware that some mozilla plugins do NOT work just as stated above, when mozilla is compiled with gcc 3.1. There is an workaround (in mozilla) for flash. Realplayer just got fixed today in cooker so you need to update for that to work too. Java doesnt work:/. Bug sun for that to happen i guess.
Other noteworthy stuff is gnome2 & gstreamer. Gnome is just awesome, especially with the new windowmanager metacity. Nautilus2 actually has the speed now (this is on a sub 1gz machine), but it lacks in functionality:( (list view works bad).
Gstreamer is only at the 0.4 (alpha stuff) so it does break some times. But i really think this is going to be The Next Big Thing after all the 1.0 releases such as evolution, abiword, mozilla,gnumeric and openoffice.
I think you are mistaking WINE with the core of a OS. Wine just implements the win32 calls that win32 programs uses on top on... linux! (huraah hype hype huraah eternal life)
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mdk got the apt-get thing too.
The tool is urpmi and the equivalent to debian unstable is cooker.
Other interesting sources is contribs (unsuported contributions) and plf (stuff with legal issues to be official mdk packages).
Dont compare apt-get to rpms. Compare debs to rpms.
Now we just need wine to work with ASE =)
:/
It actually works as root(socket issue) - except the for the fonts in the server list/player list
For multimedia Mandrake has an unofficial package site (they dont host it/or are affiliated in any official way) located at Penguin Liberation Front (TM). Silly name ;).
The packages are mostly plugins to xine/mplayer/gstreamer for codecs that arent free or the ones that mandrake doesnt feel safe to include(legal issues). So Divx/wma/dvd etc. shouldnt be a problem.
Other noteworthy stuff includes
Game emulators
Extra funky themes, an example is the KDE Liquid theme.
Various usable p2p apps.
And yet more stuff. The way it works is just like adding another source to your apt-get. Mandrake has a similar tool for rpm packages.
So very true =)... not the BSD part thou.. ;)
searching "Ripped or "redhat" in mandrake packages changelogs gives quite a few hits.
c++ shouldnt matter that much in a gcc 3.2 inviroment.
Such as redhat 8.0/mandrake 9.0
i know evolution does support LDAP.
dunno about the shared calender stuff =)
Actually QuakeNet is amazingly stable.
And that's being the fastest growing irc network in the world - they are currently the 2nd largest network.
Nice breaking a user record - Especially when EFNET is the 4th largest network. 100k Users was broken like a year ago - by IRCnet.
Check for yourself
Both Redhat and mandrake are using gcc 3.2 in their upcoming releases - 8.0 and 9.0 respectively.
Many countries in Europe has far better phone net coverage than the US. Since there isnt huge areas with very few inhabitants. Makes live as a telco much easier.
For example in 2003 about 99% in Denmark will be able to buy relatively cheap DSL. Since the phonelines are already there.
(For those who doesnt want to know why - skip to the last paragraph).
;)
I know it's hard research since most stuff is in danish but this is very far from the reality today. So here is some insight for those who want it
If you notice the date (april 1999) it's actually 3+ years old. A lot has happened since then.
We got a new goverment close to a year ago after around 8 years of government by the "Socialdemokratiet" (Social Democrats) together with minor party which isn't important regarding this issue. The new government consists of "Venstre" (The United Left) and another minor party which isn't important either in this issue.
Note that "The United Left" is not even close to be a left wing party, it's somewhere between The Democrats & The Republicans, although quite a bit closer to the Republicans as their main ideoligy is liberalism, however as any governing party they practice a fair bit of populism, which currently in denmark results in a policy which on some issues moves them more to the left.
However one issue they have in common with The Republicans in the US is "Environment and Energy". You wont hear any Venstre members in the parlament deny global warming but they generally believe that denmark is far to extreme and carefull on enviroment and energy issues.
This knowledge is important considering the fact minister in charge of the linked document "Svend Auken" no longer is in charge of the "Enviroment and Energy" Ministry but it's currently a Venstre member.
One of his first actions as minister was cutting 1/3 the employees.
(FOR THOSE WHO DIDNT CARE WHY)
In short, the current government makes HUGE doubts about how valid this document and it's goals are today.
Would like a 'true' evolution plugin.
Just as deersoft.com has made for outlook. It works too!
It's not fun to play on listen servers - but there are thousands of servers at ISP's and the like which are dedicated. Find the servers with either Gamespy or the more powerfull All Seeing Eye
Unless you're a part of a gaming community/clan on irc these tools are must have.
On a sidenote i get ping 20-40 on the servers i play on - with dsl. Not that different from LAN really.
It's still client-server in quake3... both with listen & dedicated modes.
The listen "server" just runs a renderer/client on top of the "dedicated".
Every client still talks to the same server - the listen guy just talks to himself(the server) and get ping 0.
No it's not true for all networked games.
The network part of the quake series is most certainly server/client.
Ie the game client doesnt talk to the other clients but only talks to _one_ server, which indeed can be a player (listen server) but more often the usual setup (dedicated server).
The GNOME camp believes the icons are KDE style.
The KDE camp believes the icons are GNOME style.Personally I think the icons are ugly and KDE style, but i'm a gnome user :=). Their metacity theme "Bluecurve" is very nice though.
However I think it's The Right Thing To Do, simply because it's better for the users - as a default. The user can always change it.
I would certainly go for the- (minus) format for the single reason that that write once (dvd-r) are in 90% cases compatible with existing dvd players.
Besides, i still havent seen dvd+r only dvd+rw. Try reading a ReWritable on anything but dvd+rw writers.
So the -(minus) seems the best for now =)....
I'm feeling a certain URGE to KILL!
Yes very willing. But then again i live in denmark.
In short, I can buy a regionfree dvd player but i can't marry a foreigner and live with her here, since i'm not 23. Then i need a "proper" house, which wont happen since i'm surely still a student.... oops wrong tropic =)
Stupid immigration laws
There's plenty of hope outside the US =).
It was one of the first thing mdk did in cooker after the 8.2 mdk release :=). So it's been there for a while. They did this after redhat made the move in their dev distro (rawhide ?).
:/. Bug sun for that to happen i guess.
:( (list view works bad).
Beware that some mozilla plugins do NOT work just as stated above, when mozilla is compiled with gcc 3.1. There is an workaround (in mozilla) for flash. Realplayer just got fixed today in cooker so you need to update for that to work too. Java doesnt work
Other noteworthy stuff is gnome2 & gstreamer. Gnome is just awesome, especially with the new windowmanager metacity. Nautilus2 actually has the speed now (this is on a sub 1gz machine), but it lacks in functionality
Gstreamer is only at the 0.4 (alpha stuff) so it does break some times. But i really think this is going to be The Next Big Thing after all the 1.0 releases such as evolution, abiword, mozilla,gnumeric and openoffice.
I think you are mistaking WINE with the core of a OS.
Wine just implements the win32 calls that win32 programs uses on top on... linux! (huraah hype hype huraah eternal life)
Not with mandrake, they are using the same naming conventions for packages just as debian.
so they are:
libX
-devel
-devel-static (is being done for 9.0)
No I dont all know the problems with RPM based distro's.
As a mandrake user you should try urpmi/rpmdrake.
When does debian ppl understand that there is not only ONE apt-get and no one else is capable of making the same functionality for RPM dists?
I can perfectly follow the devel branch of mandrake (cooker), with daily updates with a tool similar too apt-get.
I think it's because he is using a mandrake setup.
It has some really odd menu/icon stuff in gnome2, which i know isnt in the 'default' gnome2.
He should try a clean slate, on top of that -O3 wiht gcc 3.1 is just _not_ an good idea, yet =)