The famous (and best) DVD Backup Resource Doom9 has a nice guide on ripping DVDs under Linux using transcode, DivX 4 and a bunch of Perl scripts...
Since it's a Doom9 Guide the quality has to be good...
X
What you have to do to install KDE depends on what distribution you're running, what software you already have installed, and what packaging system your distribution favors. Many people would rather have their toenails pulled out one by one than deal with installing such a complex package with so many separate components. Why? Even if you use your distribution's packaging system (RPM or DEB, typically) the individual pieces are not all collated together in one large install. I'm working on SuSE 7.3 with RPM, my own comments will be biased toward this setup. However, I'll try to keep them pretty general, since I have no way of knowing what packages you've installed on your system. You might have a lot more dependencies to satisfy before you can proceed than I do. In my case, I started by trying to install the kdebase3 package, since if I can't install that there's no point bothering adding any of the special KDE 3 widgets to go along with it.
Trying to install this package of course gave me a pile of dependencies from RPM. So, I looked through the list and noticed that one of the items was straightforward: ksysguardd. I tried to install that using rpm -ivh but got a conflict, so tried rpm -Uvh instead, and that did the trick. So, back I went to trying kdebase3 again. The list was shorter but I still had a way to go.
The first item on the list now was a package containing the string DCOP, so I typed the following to see if this item is in one of the packages I downloaded:
rpm -qlp * | grep DCOP
Turns out that it is, so from there it's just a matter of figuring out which package. After playing for a while with regular expressions I found that the file was in kdelibs3, so I went to install that package, but got caught up in yet another dependency issue. This time I ran the same command as before but grepped for libartsflow, which turned out to be in the arts package. Of course arts needed yet another dependency (are you starting to see why so many people don't like to do this manually?), which I found in qt3. No surprise there, qt3 is the programming library used to build KDE.
From there part of it was like dominos. Installed qt3, arts, and tried kdelibs3 but I still needed another dependency for that one. Tracked it to libxslt, which needed libxml2, so I installed libxml2 (had to use another update there), libxslt, kdelibs3, and then kdebase3.
Now that I had the base package installed, I went for the relatively painless bells and whistles: kdeaddons3, kdegames3, kdeadmin3, kdeartwork3, and so on.
Configuring and Running KDE 3.0
There is much to the configuration part of the process as far as the basics go. The most important step is typing at the command line: WINDOWMANAGER=kde3. The KDE 3.0 installation doesn't overwrite your KDE 2.2 install, so this action ensures that you'll be opening the right GUI. You have to do this for every account that you want to utilize KDE 3.0 within.
Even better, add this environment variable setting to your.bash_profile or.profile (depending on what distribution you're using) so it will be set properly at boot time. To accomplish this, be sure to add the following line to one of those files:
WINDOWMANAGER=kde3
Then, ensure that you either add WINDOWMANAGER to the end of the export line, or create this line at the end of the file:
export WINDOWMANAGER
After this, type startx or init 5 or whichever your preference is to enter KDE 3.0. When the GUI opens you'll have the opportunity to choose the settings you were using back in KDE 2.2 or to set the GUI up all over again. From here you just make selections in dialog boxes. See Figures 1 and 2 for the differences between the same account in KDE 2.2 and 3.0 with all of the default settings.
These are of course just the basic configuration issues. A trip through the K Control Center will certainly let you change any number of KDE's GUI characteristics, that's half the fun.
Of course, it won't do to just tell you about installing this new GUI. I use Konsole a lot when I'm in KDE since I like to work at the command line, and it's great to have access to History functions right there in the Konsole Edit menu. I could swear the colors are actually brighter in KDE 3.0 than in my KDE 2.2.2 install but maybe it's just a figment of my imagination or difference in settings.
The ability to monitor a Konsole shell for activity reminds me of the days of hanging out in the computer labs at Penn State and playing Nethack (no one ever accused me of being a study fiend) in one window while programming in another. Also fun are the Edutainment packages, especially the planetarium! Definitely check this section out whether you have kids or not.
There are a lot more changes, many of them are subtle such as window movement or specialized such as additional KMail features. Once again, check out the changes list mentioned earlier.
Wrapping Up
It would really make my day if there was a way to install KDE with a single command. It seems to me that we have the technology to do this in Linux with a smart enough RPM setup, but then I'm not a programmer and it's really easy and fun for non-programmers to dream up "simple" projects for programmers, so I bet it's not as easy as I think. My major, super, stupendously big beef here is that under SuSE 7.3, I end up with a system with a broken useradd command. Before installing KDE 3.0 I could create user accounts with no difficulty. Now (at the command line) I create a user account and the command doesn't make a home directory for that user! That's a pretty serious problem.
There's a workaround available, though. The account's created properly in/etc/password and so on, there's just no home directory. So, you can always create a "blank" account before installing KDE 3.0, then from inside/home after you create the user and add their password (in a system where all of the users are assigned to group users):
cp -a
chown -R
or on a system where all users get their own group:
cp -a
chown -R .
Whenever possible it's nice to be using software with less bugs, and KDE 3.0 certainly has a lot of bug fixes. It's also got quite a list of new features. However, my personal preference is to stick with the GUI version that my distribution came with, and update it when I update my distribution as a unit. Otherwise it gets just too fiddly (as you saw in the installation process) and some things invariably break, as I discovered with my ability to add users--still, I could fix the useradd problem with a quick shell script if this was my main machine. What I'd recommend is going through the list of features and seeing if any of them is something that you need. That makes it worth the hassle right there. Otherwise, only do it if you want to look at it as a learning experience, you enjoy a challenge, or you really really want to have the latest, greatest KDE GUI available--or if there's a piece of software you need that won't run without KDE 3.0.
I'm sure someone else already did it, but it worth a try;)
KDE 3.0 Review: Bumpy Install, Smooth Run Introducing KDE 3.0 Dee-Ann LeBlanc
For once, I wish I could rate the installation process separately from the product itself. The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a nice, mature Graphical User Interface (GUI). It's been around for years, a lot of people like it, and it's free. Can't ask for much more than that. The huge problem is this, though: getting a new version of KDE installed is a big pain. Once you actually get into the GUI itself it's great and a lot of fun. Personally, I look forward to when KDE 3.0 comes pre-rolled into the newest distributions.
Supported Platforms
KDE 3.0 runs only on Unix-based operating systems, and I am going to focus on Linux since that's my reader base here. Architecture and other requirements depend on your particular distribution's requirements more than on KDE.
Getting KDE 3.0
To see if there's a binary set of packages available for your particular Linux distribution, FTP go ftp ftp.kde.org and look in the directory/pub/kde/stable/3.0. If there isn't, then you either need to find out if a version is coming for your Linux distribution from that distribution's web site or contact email address, or you'll have to build KDE 3.0 from source (see http://www.kde.org/install-source.html for how to accomplish this task).
In this article, I assume you're using one of the following Linux distributions that already has a binary version of KDE 3.0 available: Connectiva, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, or YellowDog. Since the vendors themselves provide the KDE binaries, be sure to check and see if any more distro versions have been added since this article was written.
There are a lot of packages involved here. Typically, I just grab them all so I don't have to go back and get more, but I've got a high-speed connection. If you don't want to wait there for the whole thing you can either download it in parts as you go through the installation process, or order a CD-ROM from the KDE web site containing all of the KDE code.
If you really hate installing this kind of stuff, you can always wait to get a distribution version that has KDE 3.0 in it by default as well.
What's Different in KDE 3.0
Of course, with all this downloading ahead of you, you're probably asking yourself why you should bother. After all, nothing's wrong with the version of KDE you've got now, right? Under the hood, the main change is that KDE 3.0 utilizes the Qt 3 library set. On the surface, however, there are a massive number of changes. These additions include:
A pile of bug fixes.
A collection of improvements in the arts package for those who like to use various sound applications.
Full set of SSL certificate tools.
Better CUPS integration in the KDE print tool.
Does not move your cursor focus to a new window as it opens.
Any number of tiny performance tweaks to the operation of keyboard, mouse, desktop, and windows.
XML plugin for Kate, a text editor for programmer.
Additional functionality for Konqueror, including controlling how much to show animated GIFs and whether or not to allow JavaScript pop-up windows.
Much additional functionality to Konsole, the KDE command line terminal window, including the ability to monitor for new activity, or no activity.
Font installation assistant.
A huge collection of new features for Kmail including distribution lists, aliases, and SMTP over SSL.
Much, much more.
The full list of new features and fixes is too long to include here. See the changelog at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelog2_2_2to3 _0.html for more details.
1. Sometimes I get massive speed-drops (around 5 k/s), but no freezes until now. 2. I'm behind a NAT. May it be possible to configure an incoming-connections port? 3. Very Various. At The Moment it's 30 K/s down (max 90 k/s) and 7 k/s up (max 14 k/s). 4. No problems! Plugged in pefectly into IE.
Very good work so far. I'll try to set up set up some files later.
X
It seems like like all those new Distributions, which want to come up with a Desktop-Linux, simply cut all the good software/tools away from Linux and hide the root account from the users as good as they can. Look at IcePack, Lindows or Xandros.
They all seem castrated to me, like a Kernel + KDE. I like the approach of Mandrake, who try to deliver an easy to use and configure GNU/Linux System, much more (And Mandrake 8.2 is really good). It's easy, but powerfull (Suse and Caldera are too) and not easy and varporware like Lycoris etc..
IBM follows a much more interesting concept when it comes to such hybrid devices. It's called Meta Pad and is currently developed by IBM Research.
The MetaPad provides different services in different environments without rebooting.
Microsoft presents something similiar on the CeBit. It's called Mira and is a hybrid between a PDA, a Webpad and a PC.
Read about it at CNet and Microsoft PressPass.
The Game Boy is the world's best-selling video game system, with over 100 million units shipped. The original Game Boy was released in 1989, which gave players the freedom to play their favorite games no matter how far they traveled from home. Games like Super Mario Land and Tetris proved that quality games could be developed for portable use, and an instant army of loyal fans was formed. The Game Boy has been improved in design and technology three times, each time blending technological triumphs with state-of-the-art designs in portability. Each time it has been redesigned it has been fit into a tighter and more compact package and grown progressively smaller.
However, in today's modern world of "bigger is better" mentalities, the Game Boy is unable to satisfy the desires of the entire populus. Gamers are already accustomed to their oversized Ford Excursions and Biggie Fries. They need something just as huge to satisfy their need to have the biggest and baddest portable gaming experience possible.
Enter the Game Man.
It's Big.
It's Bad.
It's Heavy.
It's over 3 feet tall and it's totally in your face.
Get ready for the most heart-pounding portable video game experience of your life. Get ready for the Game Man. Are you man enough for it?
There is a side-project of the fli4l developers called Eisfair, which aims to become a "one-disk-server". It is still very Beta and not ready for everyday server-use, but it's the most extensible mini-distro around.
I really like Freenet overall and thought a while about putting my new HP up as a freesite. I didn't do it for minor reasons. Anyway I think it is a great project and put all my (big)file releases up as a public KSK, simply beacuse it's a good, clean and simple way to share files.
The main problem is that it will never gain popularity. Freenet has mainly two target audiences: The file-sharing community (WareZ Groups etc.) and the people, who like the Idea of browsing anonymously.
Until now Freenet has no popularity in both areas. The egoistic WareZ Groups don't even think about using Freenet, eventhough they really should contribute more to OpenSource projects, because they are the ones using them really heavily (think of LAME, MPEG2Decoders, etc.), and stick with old/insecure/closed Technologies like FTP, IRC and EDonkey.
Maybe all this would get better if we all start advertising freenet a bit more wherever we hang around (Boards, IRC, Weblogs) and promote it as a fast, secure, anonymous, stable, easy way to share files.
good point. It overall reminds of the.NET/Mono situation: It is good to have supported as much as possible under Linux, because that will make the people use it or develop for it (hopefully).
I'm not sure if this is a good thing. Of course it might be great to have something like this integrated to Wine to play DirectX Games under Linux, but if the other wrappers (DirectSound/Input/Play etc.) are implemented and run something stable, me as a game developer would think twice about porting this to truly open standards like OpenGL and SDL ("Why don't use the DirectX wrapper?").
So if you see things on the long run, this might be more a damage than a boost to native Linux/OpenSource game-development.
I'm not very much into Wine Development, but it should be possible to integrate parts of this into Wine. If it's possible, then Linux DirectX Gaming Heaven isn't too far away, even without WineX...
I would go with Java. It is really object-oriented and clear structured, there are many implementations out there (Sun's Official, gcj, IBMs), it is cross-platform and if you tweal it a little it can be fast.
I'm a slave of the German Telekom and its online-sevice T-Online. They offer T-DSL, 768kbit down - 128 kbit up, and I'm really happy with it. My Connection is always fast ans stable, it works great with Fli4l and it costs just 30 EUR.
Eventhough it is already slashdotted, here is opinion on mono and its integration into gnome:
I think Gnome is a really nice desktop and today as good as KDE, but if it wants to keep up with the really impressive KDE progress, the Gnome-developers have to concentrate on Gnome Development, not on reverse engineering a MS technology! Linux doesn't need.NET!
Should I, as a pretty experienced (Kernel compiling, configuration/etc) Linux User, give it a try?
I heard a lots of good things about FreeBSD, but how big are the differences to Linux (installation)?
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After the years of RPM-Based Distros, it seems as if those "self-building" distros are the new trend. We now have 3 of them: RockLinux Gentoo Linux
and Sorcerer Linux...
From my experiences and what I've heard Gentoo is the by far stablest and easiest to install of them and recently got a really good review at Newsforge.
I don't really know if that is good concept, because the time/use of self-compiling every bit of software is quite low IMO. What is needed is a new Distro, that builds the Kernel itself and installs all the other application through RPM. That would maximize Speed and usability. My friend and I are working on something like this right now;).
Okay, the question had been asked million times before and could probably be answered with a bit serious RTFM and googleing, but I wouldn't call it a newbie question.
Even if it sounds hard: I'm happy they finish it now. The X-Files (Akte X in Germany) have always been a nice show for the last years, but the last season was really weak (Dogget, Scully's feelings towards Mulder blahblahblah...) and I'd be happy if they keep some of theirn ideas for (hopefully better) cinema-movies...
I don't know, as stated above PDAs are not development platforms in general. StrongARMs etc. are nice CPUs, but I wouldn't compile my Java stuff on them.
IMO the optimal PDA for the developer is the one, with which you can edit textfiles fast and comfortable and compile them later on you PC/Laptop. From this point of view you have several choices: The new Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA - Besides the cool fact it runs linux, it has this cool mini-keyboard, which is pretty fast to use, so editing should be easy with it. A Psion PDA - okay, they run epoc R5, which is pretty outdated now, but the keyboard is a pleasure to use and with a little practice almost as good as a normal keyboard. If you don't like Epoc here's the project to get linux run on 'em.
So the third possibility, would be a Palm + Palmkeyboard, but from my experience editing is not really fun on a Palm.
So, I would suggest, that you buy the Zaurus, if you just want a Linux toy to play around with and code a bit and get a Psion, if you want a stable PDA for many things + coding.
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The famous (and best) DVD Backup Resource Doom9 has a nice guide on ripping DVDs under Linux using transcode, DivX 4 and a bunch of Perl scripts...
Since it's a Doom9 Guide the quality has to be good...
X
What you have to do to install KDE depends on what distribution you're running, what software you already have installed, and what packaging system your distribution favors. Many people would rather have their toenails pulled out one by one than deal with installing such a complex package with so many separate components. Why? Even if you use your distribution's packaging system (RPM or DEB, typically) the individual pieces are not all collated together in one large install. I'm working on SuSE 7.3 with RPM, my own comments will be biased toward this setup. However, I'll try to keep them pretty general, since I have no way of knowing what packages you've installed on your system. You might have a lot more dependencies to satisfy before you can proceed than I do. In my case, I started by trying to install the kdebase3 package, since if I can't install that there's no point bothering adding any of the special KDE 3 widgets to go along with it.
Trying to install this package of course gave me a pile of dependencies from RPM. So, I looked through the list and noticed that one of the items was straightforward: ksysguardd. I tried to install that using rpm -ivh but got a conflict, so tried rpm -Uvh instead, and that did the trick. So, back I went to trying kdebase3 again. The list was shorter but I still had a way to go.
The first item on the list now was a package containing the string DCOP, so I typed the following to see if this item is in one of the packages I downloaded:
rpm -qlp * | grep DCOPTurns out that it is, so from there it's just a matter of figuring out which package. After playing for a while with regular expressions I found that the file was in kdelibs3, so I went to install that package, but got caught up in yet another dependency issue. This time I ran the same command as before but grepped for libartsflow, which turned out to be in the arts package. Of course arts needed yet another dependency (are you starting to see why so many people don't like to do this manually?), which I found in qt3. No surprise there, qt3 is the programming library used to build KDE.
From there part of it was like dominos. Installed qt3, arts, and tried kdelibs3 but I still needed another dependency for that one. Tracked it to libxslt, which needed libxml2, so I installed libxml2 (had to use another update there), libxslt, kdelibs3, and then kdebase3.
Now that I had the base package installed, I went for the relatively painless bells and whistles: kdeaddons3, kdegames3, kdeadmin3, kdeartwork3, and so on.
Configuring and Running KDE 3.0There is much to the configuration part of the process as far as the basics go. The most important step is typing at the command line: WINDOWMANAGER=kde3. The KDE 3.0 installation doesn't overwrite your KDE 2.2 install, so this action ensures that you'll be opening the right GUI. You have to do this for every account that you want to utilize KDE 3.0 within.
Even better, add this environment variable setting to your .bash_profile or .profile (depending on what distribution you're using) so it will be set properly at boot time. To accomplish this, be sure to add the following line to one of those files:
WINDOWMANAGER=kde3Then, ensure that you either add WINDOWMANAGER to the end of the export line, or create this line at the end of the file:
export WINDOWMANAGERAfter this, type startx or init 5 or whichever your preference is to enter KDE 3.0. When the GUI opens you'll have the opportunity to choose the settings you were using back in KDE 2.2 or to set the GUI up all over again. From here you just make selections in dialog boxes. See Figures 1 and 2 for the differences between the same account in KDE 2.2 and 3.0 with all of the default settings.
These are of course just the basic configuration issues. A trip through the K Control Center will certainly let you change any number of KDE's GUI characteristics, that's half the fun.
Of course, it won't do to just tell you about installing this new GUI. I use Konsole a lot when I'm in KDE since I like to work at the command line, and it's great to have access to History functions right there in the Konsole Edit menu. I could swear the colors are actually brighter in KDE 3.0 than in my KDE 2.2.2 install but maybe it's just a figment of my imagination or difference in settings.
The ability to monitor a Konsole shell for activity reminds me of the days of hanging out in the computer labs at Penn State and playing Nethack (no one ever accused me of being a study fiend) in one window while programming in another. Also fun are the Edutainment packages, especially the planetarium! Definitely check this section out whether you have kids or not.
There are a lot more changes, many of them are subtle such as window movement or specialized such as additional KMail features. Once again, check out the changes list mentioned earlier.
Wrapping UpIt would really make my day if there was a way to install KDE with a single command. It seems to me that we have the technology to do this in Linux with a smart enough RPM setup, but then I'm not a programmer and it's really easy and fun for non-programmers to dream up "simple" projects for programmers, so I bet it's not as easy as I think. My major, super, stupendously big beef here is that under SuSE 7.3, I end up with a system with a broken useradd command. Before installing KDE 3.0 I could create user accounts with no difficulty. Now (at the command line) I create a user account and the command doesn't make a home directory for that user! That's a pretty serious problem.
There's a workaround available, though. The account's created properly in /etc/password and so on, there's just no home directory. So, you can always create a "blank" account before installing KDE 3.0, then from inside /home after you create the user and add their password (in a system where all of the users are assigned to group users):
cp -achown -R
or on a system where all users get their own group:
cp -a
chown -R .
Whenever possible it's nice to be using software with less bugs, and KDE 3.0 certainly has a lot of bug fixes. It's also got quite a list of new features. However, my personal preference is to stick with the GUI version that my distribution came with, and update it when I update my distribution as a unit. Otherwise it gets just too fiddly (as you saw in the installation process) and some things invariably break, as I discovered with my ability to add users--still, I could fix the useradd problem with a quick shell script if this was my main machine. What I'd recommend is going through the list of features and seeing if any of them is something that you need. That makes it worth the hassle right there. Otherwise, only do it if you want to look at it as a learning experience, you enjoy a challenge, or you really really want to have the latest, greatest KDE GUI available--or if there's a piece of software you need that won't run without KDE 3.0.
I'm sure someone else already did it, but it worth a try ;)
KDE 3.0 Review: Bumpy Install, Smooth RunIntroducing KDE 3.0
Dee-Ann LeBlanc
For once, I wish I could rate the installation process separately from the product itself. The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a nice, mature Graphical User Interface (GUI). It's been around for years, a lot of people like it, and it's free. Can't ask for much more than that. The huge problem is this, though: getting a new version of KDE installed is a big pain. Once you actually get into the GUI itself it's great and a lot of fun. Personally, I look forward to when KDE 3.0 comes pre-rolled into the newest distributions.
Supported PlatformsKDE 3.0 runs only on Unix-based operating systems, and I am going to focus on Linux since that's my reader base here. Architecture and other requirements depend on your particular distribution's requirements more than on KDE.
Getting KDE 3.0To see if there's a binary set of packages available for your particular Linux distribution, FTP go ftp ftp.kde.org and look in the directory /pub/kde/stable/3.0. If there isn't, then you either need to find out if a version is coming for your Linux distribution from that distribution's web site or contact email address, or you'll have to build KDE 3.0 from source (see http://www.kde.org/install-source.html for how to accomplish this task).
In this article, I assume you're using one of the following Linux distributions that already has a binary version of KDE 3.0 available: Connectiva, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, or YellowDog. Since the vendors themselves provide the KDE binaries, be sure to check and see if any more distro versions have been added since this article was written.
There are a lot of packages involved here. Typically, I just grab them all so I don't have to go back and get more, but I've got a high-speed connection. If you don't want to wait there for the whole thing you can either download it in parts as you go through the installation process, or order a CD-ROM from the KDE web site containing all of the KDE code.
If you really hate installing this kind of stuff, you can always wait to get a distribution version that has KDE 3.0 in it by default as well.
What's Different in KDE 3.0Of course, with all this downloading ahead of you, you're probably asking yourself why you should bother. After all, nothing's wrong with the version of KDE you've got now, right? Under the hood, the main change is that KDE 3.0 utilizes the Qt 3 library set. On the surface, however, there are a massive number of changes. These additions include:
The full list of new features and fixes is too long to include here. See the changelog at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelog2_2_2to3 _0.html for more details.
1. Sometimes I get massive speed-drops (around 5 k/s), but no freezes until now.
2. I'm behind a NAT. May it be possible to configure an incoming-connections port?
3. Very Various. At The Moment it's 30 K/s down (max 90 k/s) and 7 k/s up (max 14 k/s).
4. No problems! Plugged in pefectly into IE.
Very good work so far. I'll try to set up set up some files later.
X
It seems like like all those new Distributions, which want to come up with a Desktop-Linux, simply cut all the good software/tools away from Linux and hide the root account from the users as good as they can. Look at IcePack, Lindows or Xandros.
They all seem castrated to me, like a Kernel + KDE. I like the approach of Mandrake, who try to deliver an easy to use and configure GNU/Linux System, much more (And Mandrake 8.2 is really good). It's easy, but powerfull (Suse and Caldera are too) and not easy and varporware like Lycoris etc..
You might already know this, but there is a really good one-disk-router/firewall around: Fli4l.
IBM follows a much more interesting concept when it comes to such hybrid devices. It's called Meta Pad and is currently developed by IBM Research.
The MetaPad provides different services in different environments without rebooting.
Microsoft presents something similiar on the CeBit. It's called Mira and is a hybrid between a PDA, a Webpad and a PC.
Read about it at CNet and Microsoft PressPass.
The Game Boy is the world's best-selling video game system, with over 100 million units shipped. The original Game Boy was released in 1989, which gave players the freedom to play their favorite games no matter how far they traveled from home. Games like Super Mario Land and Tetris proved that quality games could be developed for portable use, and an instant army of loyal fans was formed. The Game Boy has been improved in design and technology three times, each time blending technological triumphs with state-of-the-art designs in portability. Each time it has been redesigned it has been fit into a tighter and more compact package and grown progressively smaller.
However, in today's modern world of "bigger is better" mentalities, the Game Boy is unable to satisfy the desires of the entire populus. Gamers are already accustomed to their oversized Ford Excursions and Biggie Fries. They need something just as huge to satisfy their need to have the biggest and baddest portable gaming experience possible.
Enter the Game Man.It's Big.
It's Bad.
It's Heavy.
It's over 3 feet tall and it's totally in your face.
Get ready for the most heart-pounding portable video game experience of your life. Get ready for the Game Man. Are you man enough for it?
There is a side-project of the fli4l developers called Eisfair, which aims to become a "one-disk-server". It is still very Beta and not ready for everyday server-use, but it's the most extensible mini-distro around.
Eisfair Beta DownloadI really like Freenet overall and thought a while about putting my new HP up as a freesite. I didn't do it for minor reasons. Anyway I think it is a great project and put all my (big)file releases up as a public KSK, simply beacuse it's a good, clean and simple way to share files.
The main problem is that it will never gain popularity. Freenet has mainly two target audiences: The file-sharing community (WareZ Groups etc.) and the people, who like the Idea of browsing anonymously.
Until now Freenet has no popularity in both areas. The egoistic WareZ Groups don't even think about using Freenet, eventhough they really should contribute more to OpenSource projects, because they are the ones using them really heavily (think of LAME, MPEG2Decoders, etc.), and stick with old/insecure/closed Technologies like FTP, IRC and EDonkey.
Maybe all this would get better if we all start advertising freenet a bit more wherever we hang around (Boards, IRC, Weblogs) and promote it as a fast, secure, anonymous, stable, easy way to share files.
congratulations from me.
good point. It overall reminds of the .NET/Mono situation: It is good to have supported as much as possible under Linux, because that will make the people use it or develop for it (hopefully).
I'm not sure if this is a good thing. Of course it might be great to have something like this integrated to Wine to play DirectX Games under Linux, but if the other wrappers (DirectSound/Input/Play etc.) are implemented and run something stable, me as a game developer would think twice about porting this to truly open standards like OpenGL and SDL ("Why don't use the DirectX wrapper?").
So if you see things on the long run, this might be more a damage than a boost to native Linux/OpenSource game-development.
I'm not very much into Wine Development, but it should be possible to integrate parts of this into Wine. If it's possible, then Linux DirectX Gaming Heaven isn't too far away, even without WineX...
I would go with Java. It is really object-oriented and clear structured, there are many implementations out there (Sun's Official, gcj, IBMs), it is cross-platform and if you tweal it a little it can be fast.
I'm a slave of the German Telekom and its online-sevice T-Online. They offer T-DSL, 768kbit down - 128 kbit up, and I'm really happy with it. My Connection is always fast ans stable, it works great with Fli4l and it costs just 30 EUR.
Eventhough it is already slashdotted, here is opinion on mono and its integration into gnome: .NET!
I think Gnome is a really nice desktop and today as good as KDE, but if it wants to keep up with the really impressive KDE progress, the Gnome-developers have to concentrate on Gnome Development, not on reverse engineering a MS technology! Linux doesn't need
Anyone knows where to get the Lyrics and/or Tabs for this? I want to do a PunkRock-Cover of it...
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Have they finally fixed the i810_audi drivers to make them work with the 44.100hz playback rate?
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Looks like I'm going to have my first time unstable
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Should I, as a pretty experienced (Kernel compiling, configuration /etc) Linux User, give it a try?
I heard a lots of good things about FreeBSD, but how big are the differences to Linux (installation)?
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After the years of RPM-Based Distros, it seems as if those "self-building" distros are the new trend. We now have 3 of them:
;).
RockLinux
Gentoo Linux
and Sorcerer Linux...
From my experiences and what I've heard Gentoo is the by far stablest and easiest to install of them and recently got a really good review at Newsforge.
I don't really know if that is good concept, because the time/use of self-compiling every bit of software is quite low IMO. What is needed is a new Distro, that builds the Kernel itself and installs all the other application through RPM. That would maximize Speed and usability. My friend and I are working on something like this right now
Okay, the question had been asked million times before and could probably be answered with a bit serious RTFM and googleing, but I wouldn't call it a newbie question.
Even if it sounds hard: I'm happy they finish it now. The X-Files (Akte X in Germany) have always been a nice show for the last years, but the last season was really weak (Dogget, Scully's feelings towards Mulder blahblahblah...) and I'd be happy if they keep some of theirn ideas for (hopefully better) cinema-movies...
I don't know, as stated above PDAs are not development platforms in general. StrongARMs etc. are nice CPUs, but I wouldn't compile my Java stuff on them.
IMO the optimal PDA for the developer is the one, with which you can edit textfiles fast and comfortable and compile them later on you PC/Laptop. From this point of view you have several choices:
The new Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA - Besides the cool fact it runs linux, it has this cool mini-keyboard, which is pretty fast to use, so editing should be easy with it.
A Psion PDA - okay, they run epoc R5, which is pretty outdated now, but the keyboard is a pleasure to use and with a little practice almost as good as a normal keyboard. If you don't like Epoc here's the project to get linux run on 'em.
So the third possibility, would be a Palm + Palmkeyboard, but from my experience editing is not really fun on a Palm.
So, I would suggest, that you buy the Zaurus, if you just want a Linux toy to play around with and code a bit and get a Psion, if you want a stable PDA for many things + coding.
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