You must not have tried creating or running Java apps on various JREs. There is a difference in each one and it's not just performance... There Sun opening up the source to their implementation would be great for a truly standard jvm.
I wouldn't ever compare RedHat to microsoft. I don't particularly like RedHat's distribution, bu that's just personal taste.
I Do know that last night while hanging out on IRC there we gobs of perople having problems with things specific to redhat.
Stuff not compiling on rh7, people not knowing about the -n switch for ping (if anyone at redhat reads this PLEASE FIX PING, what it does is unexpected and has sent many people looking for deeper problems in their netoworks), and linuxconf in general munging stuff.
I applaud redhat for making a mostly easy but flexible distribution... but please try not to break things that people depend on to work (ping, gcc, etc.)
Working with RedHat everyday I get to see all the wonderful things that they break....
A really good one is the damn -n switch for ping on 6.2. You wouldn't believe how many times I thought I had network or host issues when the host really just didn't reverse dns. That was and is a stupid thing to do.
They have also been really good about shipping packages taht are either way too bleeding edge.
Actually... Quite a few of my friends work for telcos and make a decent wage for a part time job. They make $9 - $11 an hour. That's pretty good in the midwest for a part time job.
I have friends that have been managers at retail stores for similar pay and get along through life fine.
Faster is a very relative term. UltraLinux takes a smaller amount of memory to start up, so for machines with a small amount of memory it will tend to seem faster. For most low level kernel functions UltraLinux is
faster as you can see from these benchmark results...
Maybe the people tht are using SPARC machines just aren't using redhat... I know that my SPARC isn't and even if it did run RedHat I wouldn't have bought it from redhat.
*If* you really need Sparcs and *if* you can afford them,
Geez people.... before you go on and on about the price of a SPARC machine... at least look at store.sun.com. A little more pricey than a PC but still not a horribly bad price.
Running solaris on one of these would be the death of it. I've played with a 4i with 256MB of RAM and Cobalt's Perl stuff can eat up 70-80% of the processor!
Did anyone really expect this to come out on time. Kinda makes me think or Merce...err Itanium.
Some people are predicting th death of chipzilla... I don't see that. Just quite a few people moving away for a while. Which is good for the whole industry.
On a completely different rant...What is with all these damn companies and their vaporware? Seriuosly. Yopy, Itanium, SMP Athlons, various linux based webpads, a cell phone that works with a palm, a decent affordable mp3 player... It's rediculous. I read about this terribly cool stuff everyday but there is no possible way to get it. Ack!
PNG is not a proprietary format. It's a wonderfully open format that has many great features. Alpha transparency, lossless compression, supports 24 bit color, has good interlacing abilities to load faster and makes files that are smaller than a comparable GIF.
And a default install of any version of Windows
doesn't either! And it never could! Why? Because random crap is not included with Windows the way it is with Linux distros.
You've obviously never install NT or 2000 Advanced server. Talk about useless stuff being installed and running.
My personal favorite is the qotd (Quote of the Day) server. VERY useful.
Everyday there is something negative about the Debian installer here on slashdot. Ok... so some people don't like it.
In my opinion it's really not, and never has been that bad. What it asks is very straight forward. You load drivers (through a menu) partition your disk, set up your network and go. Just because they don't auto detect your hardware doesn't make the install hard.
I actually started using Debian in '97 because the install was actually straight forward and well documented. I had tried slack and Redhat but they wouldn't cooperate.
And in comparison to that other os, Debian is cake. I don't know where it ever started that windows is easy to install... but it isn't. Ever installed windows on a board where the specific IDE chipset doesn't have the specific driver? Well your screwed unless you have mscdex.exe handy. Windows wouldn't even install on my most recent box.
Just because Debian leaves you some choices doesn't mean that it's hard.
This is a great precedent for a commercial OS vendor. Free (as in beer) development tools! Be did this and was wonderful. Now that a more mainstream OS is doing maybe some other vendors will do the same.
Just so everyone knows, Debian does go through great details on making it simple to use and maintain. tasksel which lets you selsct "task" packages (e.g. task-laptop, task-helix-gnome) and gets the appropriate debs.
But my favorite is menu. Nearly every window manager you install will have identical menus that are generated by the programs in the menu package. Most packages provide a menu file that gets added into these menus. The also integrate it into GNOME and KDE.
It's these small details that everyone overlooks that make Debian exceptionaly to me.
Most of the people responding here missed my point. In an ideal world this would be used for knowledge and easy access. I pointed out that i knew that this would b used for commercial purposes and that that was really sad.
I could care less about the damn barcode reader, it was a stupid little toy to play with. I'm talking about their end result... Linking traditional media to web accessible information.
That's what I would love. Not commercials, not ads. Real information. We all know that it won't be used for that. I remember when the net was good for that also.
Okay... I'm sorry but this is getting rediculous. They are treating this damn bar code scanner like it's the holy grail of cool things. It's not... It's a cheap little barcode scanner that doesn't even really do that good of a job.
They do have some work and some intersting things in their C.R.Q. software. I never used it (I'm really glad now), but what it does actually probably took 5 years to develop.
In case no one looked at it. You hook up and audio source (T.V. or Radio) to your sound card. There are specially encoded audio codes that the C.R.Q. software will recognize and open a browser to the appropriate page. Basically barcodes over tv/radio audio.
That's kinda cool. It would be cooler if it wasn't mainly used for advertising (although I hear PBS is going to use it). I am also fairly certain that there is quite a bit of skill, talent and hard work in that.... there is however NOT in a cheap little barcode reader.
DC sells software and a service, they make their money from companies being able to use their barcode and audio codes. I wish that they would realise this... let the crap with the cue cat drop and focus on making their real products useful.
I would love to be watching a Discovery channel show about say, penguins, and be linked to a site that has more in depth information about penguins.
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Ok... Carnivore is Windows NT, which isn't the most stable OS (i say this as an occasional user) and the filters are written in Visual Basic
Hilarious.
Misinformation is running rampant here lately...
REDHAT shipped with the "Disable CPU serial number at boot" kernel option enabled. disable_x86_serial_nr=1 passed to LILO gets over this.
On with my rant.... just because REDHAT jacks something up does NOT mean tht Linux is fucked up.
Sorry abou tgetting all heated but really people use your heads and a search engine every once in a while.
You must not have tried creating or running Java apps on various JREs. There is a difference in each one and it's not just performance... There Sun opening up the source to their implementation would be great for a truly standard jvm.
You mention orgies like it's a bad thing.
So is that "mega-pissed" or megapissed?
I got my picture taken with her in NY!
I wouldn't ever compare RedHat to microsoft. I don't particularly like RedHat's distribution, bu that's just personal taste.
I Do know that last night while hanging out on IRC there we gobs of perople having problems with things specific to redhat.
Stuff not compiling on rh7, people not knowing about the -n switch for ping (if anyone at redhat reads this PLEASE FIX PING, what it does is unexpected and has sent many people looking for deeper problems in their netoworks), and linuxconf in general munging stuff.
I applaud redhat for making a mostly easy but flexible distribution... but please try not to break things that people depend on to work (ping, gcc, etc.)
Bleeding edge isn't what Debian stable is about but that is definitely what Debian unstable is for.
You asked for reccommendations... There's mine
Working with RedHat everyday I get to see all the wonderful things that they break....
A really good one is the damn -n switch for ping on 6.2. You wouldn't believe how many times I thought I had network or host issues when the host really just didn't reverse dns. That was and is a stupid thing to do.
They have also been really good about shipping packages taht are either way too bleeding edge.
Actually... Quite a few of my friends work for telcos and make a decent wage for a part time job. They make $9 - $11 an hour. That's pretty good in the midwest for a part time job.
I have friends that have been managers at retail stores for similar pay and get along through life fine.
Acutlly Tatung and Ross made clones.
You gereally buy from a resleer instead of Sun directly nad get a better price.
I never filled out that signature line in the user prefs page!
From ultralinux.org...
Here is the link....
Really people... This took 5 seconds to find. Don't make up stuff as you go please.
Maybe the people tht are using SPARC machines just aren't using redhat... I know that my SPARC isn't and even if it did run RedHat I wouldn't have bought it from redhat.
Geez people.... before you go on and on about the price of a SPARC machine... at least look at store.sun.com. A little more pricey than a PC but still not a horribly bad price.
Running solaris on one of these would be the death of it. I've played with a 4i with 256MB of RAM and Cobalt's Perl stuff can eat up 70-80% of the processor!
Solaris would make these machines puke and die.
Did anyone really expect this to come out on time. Kinda makes me think or Merce...err Itanium.
Some people are predicting th death of chipzilla... I don't see that. Just quite a few people moving away for a while. Which is good for the whole industry.
On a completely different rant...What is with all these damn companies and their vaporware? Seriuosly. Yopy, Itanium, SMP Athlons, various linux based webpads, a cell phone that works with a palm, a decent affordable mp3 player... It's rediculous. I read about this terribly cool stuff everyday but there is no possible way to get it. Ack!
PNG is not a proprietary format. It's a wonderfully open format that has many great features. Alpha transparency, lossless compression, supports 24 bit color, has good interlacing abilities to load faster and makes files that are smaller than a comparable GIF.
You've obviously never install NT or 2000 Advanced server. Talk about useless stuff being installed and running.
My personal favorite is the qotd (Quote of the Day) server. VERY useful.
Everyday there is something negative about the Debian installer here on slashdot. Ok... so some people don't like it.
In my opinion it's really not, and never has been that bad. What it asks is very straight forward. You load drivers (through a menu) partition your disk, set up your network and go. Just because they don't auto detect your hardware doesn't make the install hard.
I actually started using Debian in '97 because the install was actually straight forward and well documented. I had tried slack and Redhat but they wouldn't cooperate.
And in comparison to that other os, Debian is cake. I don't know where it ever started that windows is easy to install... but it isn't. Ever installed windows on a board where the specific IDE chipset doesn't have the specific driver? Well your screwed unless you have mscdex.exe handy. Windows wouldn't even install on my most recent box.
Just because Debian leaves you some choices doesn't mean that it's hard.
This is a great precedent for a commercial OS vendor. Free (as in beer) development tools! Be did this and was wonderful. Now that a more mainstream OS is doing maybe some other vendors will do the same.
Just so everyone knows, Debian does go through great details on making it simple to use and maintain. tasksel which lets you selsct "task" packages (e.g. task-laptop, task-helix-gnome) and gets the appropriate debs.
But my favorite is menu. Nearly every window manager you install will have identical menus that are generated by the programs in the menu package. Most packages provide a menu file that gets added into these menus. The also integrate it into GNOME and KDE.
It's these small details that everyone overlooks that make Debian exceptionaly to me.
Most of the people responding here missed my point. In an ideal world this would be used for knowledge and easy access. I pointed out that i knew that this would b used for commercial purposes and that that was really sad.
I could care less about the damn barcode reader, it was a stupid little toy to play with. I'm talking about their end result... Linking traditional media to web accessible information.
That's what I would love. Not commercials, not ads. Real information. We all know that it won't be used for that. I remember when the net was good for that also.
Okay... I'm sorry but this is getting rediculous. They are treating this damn bar code scanner like it's the holy grail of cool things. It's not... It's a cheap little barcode scanner that doesn't even really do that good of a job.
They do have some work and some intersting things in their C.R.Q. software. I never used it (I'm really glad now), but what it does actually probably took 5 years to develop.
In case no one looked at it. You hook up and audio source (T.V. or Radio) to your sound card. There are specially encoded audio codes that the C.R.Q. software will recognize and open a browser to the appropriate page. Basically barcodes over tv/radio audio.
That's kinda cool. It would be cooler if it wasn't mainly used for advertising (although I hear PBS is going to use it). I am also fairly certain that there is quite a bit of skill, talent and hard work in that.... there is however NOT in a cheap little barcode reader.
DC sells software and a service, they make their money from companies being able to use their barcode and audio codes. I wish that they would realise this... let the crap with the cue cat drop and focus on making their real products useful.
I would love to be watching a Discovery channel show about say, penguins, and be linked to a site that has more in depth information about penguins.
Just so It's known, The RAQ 4i has an AMD K6 475 clocked at 450.