Well, it may be relatively easy to install a given distribution from scratch on a fresh system. But heaven help you if you need to add a driver for a new printer that wasn't supported by the version of cups/gimp-print/foomatic that shipped with your distro. A quick trip to the source code outlet and a weekend's googling, debugging and cataloguing all the RPMs/DEBs that are now invalid and we're back in action? Pah.
Not to mention good old wireless networking. Thanks to the joys of wireless USB on linux, I'll have to rebuild linux-wlan-ng every time there's a security update to download for my otherwise stock kernel. Ditto nVidea drivers (excellent support, excellent performance. Shame that the kernel module interface is so primitive that I have to rebuild the nVidia module when the inevitable kernel update shows up).
Then there's GNOME: I'd love to try out the latest stable release, but I really don't see why I have to a) install a newer version of my chosen distribution to try it, or b) work my way through a horrid packaging effort to build it. And yes, I tried Garnome as well. Still not nearly as good as KDE for packaging source.
Ditto, GNOME. Ditto KDE. Is the new development model really "let's keep chucking more features into the mix rather than making sure the featues we need work properly?"
That said, Linux does appear to have broader support for hardware, making it a more viable domestic platform than *BSD.
I'll switch to a better platform whenever there is sufficient support for DOOM 3, Neverwinter Nights and the various gizmos littered around my house.
It is my understanding that Sun is equating Red Hat as the competition, NOT Linux.
In other words, Linux is not a competitor to Sun; the commercial entities that sell linux and linux services represent the real competition.
In which case, Sun is competing with other Linux vendors to provide the customer with what they want. Just like Novell competes with Red Hat, competes with Linspire competes with Xandros.
Like GNOME competes with KDE. Like OOo competes with Abiword.
Why can't Sun be allowed to compete for business? Everyone else is doing it?
Get yourself a computerised help desk for submitting requests, enforce its use such that all requests must be submitted through this form, and make sure that there is a clear understanding of the priorities that a user can assign, along with expected resolution times.
Mark down any "unreasonable" and other geniunely non-urgent requests to the lowest priority. If they are truly urgent, there will be some haggling to raise the priority. It should be understood that low priority calls will not be resolved until such time as the queue for P1 and P2 calls is either empty or under control. Alternatively, the SLA could indicate that P3 call closure is of the order of days rather than hours.
This shakes down the real priorities, and also sets user expectations. One can further mandate that raising a call's priority requires managerial approval.
So it's not a question of saying no, but of establishing the priority of the call per a recognised Service Level Agreement.
DtMail is no longer the corporate email standard. Netscape 4 is still supported but an increasing number of tools have a reliance on Gecko based browsers. Also, Mozilla is available as a standard application in Sun -- there is no requirement to "hunt around" for it as a previous poster hinted.
Another project (with admittedly a different aim) that is trying to bring exciting and modern desktop features to the masses:
http://www.directfb.org/xdirectfb.xml
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a consensus project for UNIX/Linux graphics that could integrate and manage the work of all these many people? Concentration of effort, rather than dilution?
Phoenobelix -- when one trademark infringement is not enough.
According to the latest legal findings, you are now thinking about a heavyset French gentleman who boots your PC whilst wielding a large stone (it is unclear whether or not you can still use the noun obelisk while online).
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I've only got two things I need in Konqueror to be able to ditch Netscape: java support and ssl support (one of my mail accounts has an https:// address).
So far, using a vanilla RH 6.2 host, Java applets appear in a separate window, if they run at all.
In order to get the 6.x RPMs to install, I also had to download an openssl rpm from rpmfind. I then tried to access a secured site, but it returns with the error: Unknown host (the server is up, since I can reach it from Netscape).
Is it a matter of getting the sources and configuring the setup by hand, or am I missing something?
Recommendations for the best choice of JDK are also welcomed.
The Collaborative Computing Frameworks project comprises UNIX based tools for collaborative work on computers. I haven't has a chance to look at it properly yet, but it looks like ot may be able to help you.
I am having reasonably serious stability problems since I upgraded my box to an AMD K6-2 500MHz with 128MB RAM on a TMC mainboard. Every now and again, the runtime linker dies and I cannot run any dynamically linked applications -- not very handy.
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Well, it may be relatively easy to install a given distribution from scratch on a fresh system. But heaven help you if you need to add a driver for a new printer that wasn't supported by the version of cups/gimp-print/foomatic that shipped with your distro. A quick trip to the source code outlet and a weekend's googling, debugging and cataloguing all the RPMs/DEBs that are now invalid and we're back in action? Pah.
Not to mention good old wireless networking. Thanks to the joys of wireless USB on linux, I'll have to rebuild linux-wlan-ng every time there's a security update to download for my otherwise stock kernel. Ditto nVidea drivers (excellent support, excellent performance. Shame that the kernel module interface is so primitive that I have to rebuild the nVidia module when the inevitable kernel update shows up).
Then there's GNOME: I'd love to try out the latest stable release, but I really don't see why I have to a) install a newer version of my chosen distribution to try it, or b) work my way through a horrid packaging effort to build it. And yes, I tried Garnome as well. Still not nearly as good as KDE for packaging source.
Ditto, GNOME. Ditto KDE. Is the new development model really "let's keep chucking more features into the mix rather than making sure the featues we need work properly?"
That said, Linux does appear to have broader support for hardware, making it a more viable domestic platform than *BSD.
I'll switch to a better platform whenever there is sufficient support for DOOM 3, Neverwinter Nights and the various gizmos littered around my house.
Or, if I give up gaming, I'll just get a Mac.
It is my understanding that Sun is equating Red Hat as the competition, NOT Linux.
In other words, Linux is not a competitor to Sun; the commercial entities that sell linux and linux services represent the real competition.
In which case, Sun is competing with other Linux vendors to provide the customer with what they want. Just like Novell competes with Red Hat, competes with Linspire competes with Xandros.
Like GNOME competes with KDE. Like OOo competes with Abiword.
Why can't Sun be allowed to compete for business? Everyone else is doing it?
In the UK:
W eb ProductID=85285
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?
A quick google demonstrates that this drive can be purchased for $100-$150 in the US
... into your ultimate virtual office solution?
Other than a 30 foot BARCO screen?
A coffee mug holder. Or something else that was actually useful. Like a scratchpad. And a pen.
Get yourself a computerised help desk for submitting requests, enforce its use such that all requests must be submitted through this form, and make sure that there is a clear understanding of the priorities that a user can assign, along with expected resolution times.
Mark down any "unreasonable" and other geniunely non-urgent requests to the lowest priority. If they are truly urgent, there will be some haggling to raise the priority. It should be understood that low priority calls will not be resolved until such time as the queue for P1 and P2 calls is either empty or under control. Alternatively, the SLA could indicate that P3 call closure is of the order of days rather than hours.
This shakes down the real priorities, and also sets user expectations. One can further mandate that raising a call's priority requires managerial approval.
So it's not a question of saying no, but of establishing the priority of the call per a recognised Service Level Agreement.
DtMail is no longer the corporate email standard. Netscape 4 is still supported but an increasing number of tools have a reliance on Gecko based browsers. Also, Mozilla is available as a standard application in Sun -- there is no requirement to "hunt around" for it as a previous poster hinted.
Another project (with admittedly a different aim) that is trying to bring exciting and modern desktop features to the masses:
http://www.directfb.org/xdirectfb.xml
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a consensus project for UNIX/Linux graphics that could integrate and manage the work of all these many people? Concentration of effort, rather than dilution?
Phoenobelix -- when one trademark infringement is not enough.
According to the latest legal findings, you are now thinking about a heavyset French gentleman who boots your PC whilst wielding a large stone (it is unclear whether or not you can still use the noun obelisk while online).
I've only got two things I need in Konqueror to be able to ditch Netscape: java support and ssl support (one of my mail accounts has an https:// address).
So far, using a vanilla RH 6.2 host, Java applets appear in a separate window, if they run at all.
In order to get the 6.x RPMs to install, I also had to download an openssl rpm from rpmfind. I then tried to access a secured site, but it returns with the error: Unknown host (the server is up, since I can reach it from Netscape).
Is it a matter of getting the sources and configuring the setup by hand, or am I missing something?
Recommendations for the best choice of JDK are also welcomed.
The Collaborative Computing Frameworks project comprises UNIX based tools for collaborative work on computers. I haven't has a chance to look at it properly yet, but it looks like ot may be able to help you.
I am having reasonably serious stability problems since I upgraded my box to an AMD K6-2 500MHz with 128MB RAM on a TMC mainboard. Every now and again, the runtime linker dies and I cannot run any dynamically linked applications -- not very handy.