That is Jetfire/Skyfire. Yeah, it was a blatent rip off of Robotech, but it worked for the TV series! Everyone remember like all the Autobots could crawl into his hull and fly away to distant planets! He was the shit, my personal Fav. The poor mans Robotech toy is what my buddies and I called it.
He was origionally a Decepticon, a friend of the weenie Starscreem. For the life of me, I could never figure out why Megatron never just blasted Starscreem into a million bits for his mutiny!
Not that it matters, cause nobody will ever see this comment, but I bought the CD today put it in my CD drive. The worse thing that happened is that my CD-RW couldn't read it. Of course its Debian Woody, but hey, it still didn't crash;)
I just installed it on my work Terminal Server. Sure its nice, but its the same old KDE. Its not as big of a jump as KDE 1.x to 2.x. Its pretty much KDE 2.x with cosmetic and preformance enhancements.
It sure feels better, but I did a comparison on my terminal server (1/2 gig of ram and 850 Meg Duron). The total RSS from "ps aux | grep kde |
grep user" for KDE2 to log in was 76 megs. For KDE3 to just log in was 104 megs.
I guess you have to sacrifice something for preformance. Ill stick with GNOME.
Man, I'll tell ya, this would be PERFECT for teminal servers, but I don't see anywhere in the white paper or in the specs about supporting PXE or Etherboot protocols. Most embedded mobos support at least PXE for LAN booting.
1. Linux Terminal Server Project. This will serve linux desktops over a thin client solution. LTSP.org
2. Linux Terminal Server pushing to Windows ?? Terminal Services. The program that does the magic is RDesktop. It is a UNIX implimentation of the RDP protocol used by Windows. There is a guy doing this in a project located at Wilisystem. It basically uses LTSP to boot the clients and passes the rest off to Window$. You still need client access licenses for Windows in this scenario.
As far as cost effective, nothing could be more cost effective. Think about it, do you want to admin 500 PC's or a few servers and 500 terminals. When a terminal has a hardware failure you throw it away since the box itself only costs about 300 bucks as opposed to 800 to 1000 for a useable PC workstation with disks. We do this terminal stuff all the time at my work.
You dont need a "subscription" to block banner ads dudes. Mozilla (also Galeon) will block images for you. Simply right click on an image and select "Block Images from...".
Dude, its called Cartoon Network. Look into it. Its called cable. If you cant get cable, its called DirectTV. Saturday morning from 8 am to 11 am EST is nothing but Looney Tunes. I see Rabbit of Seville almost weekly.
Sure its a good learning tool, but you can go numerous places after you build your system. If you read my actual post, you would see that I have a fully workable system. OpenOffice, Mozilla, Netscape, and anything else "I" want.
I have even built a VPN_CD which we are distributing commercially at my company.
This is not necessarily a new concept. Linux from Scratch is a project thats been around for a long time. LFS helps you build Linux systems from nothing. Its core is a book that basically starts you with GLIBC and leads you through all the packages you probably need for a decent Linux system. The book is quite readable, and easy to follow. I have met plenty of newbies that have built systems with little difficulty.
After that, you can read hints on their website or read the Beyond LFS book to help you through getting a usable system, such as X, KDE, GNOME, or any other apps or servers you need.
There is a whole community of users out there who help each other out building their systems. For instance, I have a great system using only Xlib, GTK, or Window Maker based applications that fit on a partition less that the size of a CD-ROM.
In addition to all this, there is also a project in the works called ALFS which stands for Automated Linux From Scratch. This system allows you to build Linux from Scratch with little if any user interaction. There is already a stable system based on this called nALFS which works like a charm. I'm sure it would be almost trivial to place it on a CD with all the sources and have a project almost identical to Sourceror.
However, I am not knocking Sourceror. I have a friend that I've known for a while, and this is his distro of choice. He said its quite the system, I just have never tried it.
This is simply great for FreeBSD. As a long time admirer of FreeBSD, I must say I never liked the Wynd River move. I tought it did not jive with FreeBSD's philosophy. This is really FreeBSD coming home since FreeBSD Mall started about the same time that FreeBSD was beginning development back in 1991! This is really an exciting development for OpenSource, if not a victory.
This is a great concept, if for nothing else but the marketing involved. At the end of every season after the second one, there was a season finale cliffhanger. You will get to the last DVD in the series and go, "well dang, I gotta have the next season!" Then you run out and pop down another C-note!
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I would say season 5 has to be one of the best:
"Unification" with Leonard Nemoy was great. I love Picard calling Spock a "Cowboy Diplomat.".
"Cause and Effect" is great as well, wonderful concept of "causality" loop made for a great story.
"First Duty" was another good one, if for nothing but seeing Wes in the hot seat.
"I Borg" with the borg "Hugh" becoming an individual was a great episode
"The Next Phase" is another good episode, as much of a weenie Geordi was, this was a good one with Geordi as one of the primary stars.
"The Inner Light" is my all time favorite episode. This is the one where a probe imprints Picard with all the experiences and trials of an entire society by making Picard live a life of one of the peoples.
There are other episodes as well. I felt this was the pinnacle of their acting and story development. Don't get me wrong thou, seasons six and seven are awesome as well.
When I tried it last may, I migrated from a very used Potato release. I tried the apt-get dist upgrade or whatever command it was, and it proceeded to destroy my system in more ways that was worth it. I am now actually building my own Linux distro from scratch becuse, well, if you think you can do better, you might as well, or dont complain. I do Linux From Scratch (www.linuxfromscratch.org) cause I WANT to complain about other distros. hehe.
Don't get me wrong, I would use either Slackware of Debian if I "had" to use a distro. They are great. I just don't like the politics involved with Debian.
Maby calling it "stable" is bad. I noticed that one person said he was confused by the wording, and thought testing meant it was not ready for use, or so I gathered.
Maby Debian should split their releases in stable from "Stable" to "Server" and "Workstation". That might clear up some confustion.
Just some observations from an outsider, no offense.
Stable is frozen, only bugfixes and security problems are released. Potato is, I belive, over two years old. KDE has been stable since 1.1.2, and it never made it in time for Potato to tell you how old the base of Potato is.
I just feel its time they moved into a new stable code base, Woody is ready, they just have too much politics getting in the way of timely releases
Yeah, I know, release when its ready. But do we sit with our thumbs up our butt while everyone else in inovating? (yuk, bad word)
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My daughter is two and wants to see it! I don't think a "head butt" is going to scar her.
Isn't Red Hat supposed to go x.0, x.1, then x.2? Whats with x.3? A real break from their traditional release model.
He was origionally a Decepticon, a friend of the weenie Starscreem. For the life of me, I could never figure out why Megatron never just blasted Starscreem into a million bits for his mutiny!
Okay, I'm now starting to get all nestolgic now.
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Boy, they could have really used this on the Enterprise when Wesley stupidly let his Nanites get loose in the Evolution Episode.
Not that it matters, cause nobody will ever see this comment, but I bought the CD today put it in my CD drive. The worse thing that happened is that my CD-RW couldn't read it. Of course its Debian Woody, but hey, it still didn't crash ;)
It sure feels better, but I did a comparison on my terminal server (1/2 gig of ram and 850 Meg Duron). The total RSS from "ps aux | grep kde | grep user" for KDE2 to log in was 76 megs. For KDE3 to just log in was 104 megs.
I guess you have to sacrifice something for preformance. Ill stick with GNOME.
Man, I'll tell ya, this would be PERFECT for teminal servers, but I don't see anywhere in the white paper or in the specs about supporting PXE or Etherboot protocols. Most embedded mobos support at least PXE for LAN booting.
Oh well, I guess you can't have it all!
There is two options that are cost effective
1. Linux Terminal Server Project. This will serve linux desktops over a thin client solution. LTSP.org
2. Linux Terminal Server pushing to Windows ?? Terminal Services. The program that does the magic is RDesktop. It is a UNIX implimentation of the RDP protocol used by Windows. There is a guy doing this in a project located at Wilisystem. It basically uses LTSP to boot the clients and passes the rest off to Window$. You still need client access licenses for Windows in this scenario.
As far as cost effective, nothing could be more cost effective. Think about it, do you want to admin 500 PC's or a few servers and 500 terminals. When a terminal has a hardware failure you throw it away since the box itself only costs about 300 bucks as opposed to 800 to 1000 for a useable PC workstation with disks. We do this terminal stuff all the time at my work.
You dont need a "subscription" to block banner ads dudes. Mozilla (also Galeon) will block images for you. Simply right click on an image and select "Block Images from...".
Dude, its called Cartoon Network. Look into it. Its called cable. If you cant get cable, its called DirectTV. Saturday morning from 8 am to 11 am EST is nothing but Looney Tunes. I see Rabbit of Seville almost weekly.
I have to say, this is the second saddest day ever. Chuck, you will be missed.
I wish more companies would release almost useless code!
I have even built a VPN_CD which we are distributing commercially at my company.
This is not necessarily a new concept. Linux from Scratch is a project thats been around for a long time. LFS helps you build Linux systems from nothing. Its core is a book that basically starts you with GLIBC and leads you through all the packages you probably need for a decent Linux system. The book is quite readable, and easy to follow. I have met plenty of newbies that have built systems with little difficulty.
After that, you can read hints on their website or read the Beyond LFS book to help you through getting a usable system, such as X, KDE, GNOME, or any other apps or servers you need.
There is a whole community of users out there who help each other out building their systems. For instance, I have a great system using only Xlib, GTK, or Window Maker based applications that fit on a partition less that the size of a CD-ROM.
In addition to all this, there is also a project in the works called ALFS which stands for Automated Linux From Scratch. This system allows you to build Linux from Scratch with little if any user interaction. There is already a stable system based on this called nALFS which works like a charm. I'm sure it would be almost trivial to place it on a CD with all the sources and have a project almost identical to Sourceror.
However, I am not knocking Sourceror. I have a friend that I've known for a while, and this is his distro of choice. He said its quite the system, I just have never tried it.
This is simply great for FreeBSD. As a long time admirer of FreeBSD, I must say I never liked the Wynd River move. I tought it did not jive with FreeBSD's philosophy. This is really FreeBSD coming home since FreeBSD Mall started about the same time that FreeBSD was beginning development back in 1991! This is really an exciting development for OpenSource, if not a victory.
1400 of those messages are ESR and Alan arguing about god knows what.
You need to delete your sources when you are done with them. You probably have the chapter 5 sources lying around somewhere.
Doesn't this vehicle look like the vehicles in the second Jurassic Park movie the "bad" guys had?
This is a great concept, if for nothing else but the marketing involved. At the end of every season after the second one, there was a season finale cliffhanger. You will get to the last DVD in the series and go, "well dang, I gotta have the next season!" Then you run out and pop down another C-note!
- "Unification" with Leonard Nemoy was great. I love Picard calling Spock a "Cowboy Diplomat.".
- "Cause and Effect" is great as well, wonderful concept of "causality" loop made for a great story.
- "First Duty" was another good one, if for nothing but seeing Wes in the hot seat.
- "I Borg" with the borg "Hugh" becoming an individual was a great episode
- "The Next Phase" is another good episode, as much of a weenie Geordi was, this was a good one with Geordi as one of the primary stars.
- "The Inner Light" is my all time favorite episode. This is the one where a probe imprints Picard with all the experiences and trials of an entire society by making Picard live a life of one of the peoples.
There are other episodes as well. I felt this was the pinnacle of their acting and story development. Don't get me wrong thou, seasons six and seven are awesome as well.Don't get me wrong, I would use either Slackware of Debian if I "had" to use a distro. They are great. I just don't like the politics involved with Debian.
Well, when you are building Linux From Scratch four or five times a week you need something this heafty!
Maby Debian should split their releases in stable from "Stable" to "Server" and "Workstation". That might clear up some confustion.
Just some observations from an outsider, no offense.
I just feel its time they moved into a new stable code base, Woody is ready, they just have too much politics getting in the way of timely releases
Yeah, I know, release when its ready. But do we sit with our thumbs up our butt while everyone else in inovating? (yuk, bad word)