as many have pointed out, too often people see certification as a replacement for experience. without a doubt, i would hire someone with no certification and a few years experience than vice versa. certification means nothing to me, and if my employer hadn't paid for it for me, i would never in a million years be bothered with it. as it was, i didn't study for the win95 exam, and just a little for the win nt server exam, yet i still did ok (900+ out of 1000 on both).
but wait, there's more: i also have problems with the exams themselves. my main problem with them is that they do not test anything real, or even anything worth learning. the knowledge that you gain from working closely with windows boxen on a real, production network is not, for the most part, going to help you pass the certification exams. the win95 exam, for example, emphasized upgrading from dos/win3.1 to windows 95. who does that? nobody real.
i got my microso~1 certifications about two years ago (back when the win95 exam was still pretty current), after taking a few classes (not the official ms endorsed ones, but from a local university). my experience has been that the majority of the people in the classes, and therefore probably most people taking the exams, are in it for the money, not for the love of it. Ask anyone in the classes (and i did ask a bunch of them), and in the top 2 or 3 reasons for taking the class is 'more money.' wanting to make more money is not a bad thing in and of itself, of course; it's when more money is the primary motivation for taking the exams that you have to be wary.
of the people i saw week to week in my classes, there were almost none that i would have voluntarily worked with. they were all nice enough, but, almost without exception, were not really interested in what they were doing.
this is the crucial difference between microso~1 folks and the *nix folks, at least that i have found: the *nix folks tend to do it because they love it. yeah, you can make a decent (really decent in come cases) living out of it, but for many of us, that is secondary. no one that i know of administers nt networks for the love of it.
I struggled with this for a while as well, and I realized that, all things considered, Samba is definitely the way to go. I ended up setting up a dedicated Linux box, running Samba and having it authenticate against the NT domain in which all the Windows boxen lived, and kept tons of data on the Linux box. The windows users never knew that they weren't talking to an NT box, and I got all the advantages of using Linux.
The advantages are (quickly):
stability
you can use any unix filesystem on the back end, since the Windows box communicates with it via SMB, and not through direct file access
it doesn't have to run on Linux; you can use a Solaris box, for example (samba is developed on Solaris and Irix, not Linux) and this is also transparent to the Windows users
because SMB is a network protocol, and not a kernel driver, you can share the same disk via several methods simultaneously: to Windows boxen via SMB, to *nix via NFS, to Macs using Netatalk, and, of course, you can ssh in to the box and access the files through the filesystem in the normal fashion.
Disadvantages:
you need to have an extra box on the network (might be a problem if you have limited address space or physical space, like at your house)
there are Windows boxen on your network (not a samba problem per se).
It's nice to have a GUI and all that rather than using console-based tools with obscure command line parameters, but what does KDE offer than my Win2K box doesn't?
KDE offers the stability of *nix, rather than the uncertainty of running on an mostly untested platform with over 65,000 confirmed bugs released by a company with a spotty track record. Other than that, nothing.
Interestingly enough, right now Wired has an article about this topic running right now called "Open Source Opens Education", which mentions the Linux In Schools Project. The article gives several examples of high schools and middle schools that have made the move to Linux, and outlines several reasons for doing so (cost, stability, etc). There are also some good pointers to other sites.
There are probably many "established" professionals in your area who would be more than happy to come in and give a presentation on Open Source in general, or Linux in particular. Check for a local Linux users group, or even a local branch of a related user group (like Perl Mongers, for exaqple). Even if the presentation is just for the teachers, it would probably be well received. If you are in the Boston area, contact the FSF. See the Linux User Group HOWTO for more info.
This definitely is an interesting phenomenon, but I don't think it indicates that the new kernel might not be ready to see the light of day. If you think back to who was using Linux in 1994, and who's using it now, or, rather, who was aware of it then and now, there is significantly increased awareness now. I think the shortened development time is due to more eyeballs.
"On 22 November 1999 begin towards in Prague the turning work for a 6-stuendige TV filming of the novel " the desert planet " (" Dune ") of franc Herbert. The TV project budgetierte with 20 million US Dollar can offer thereby a hochkaraetigen occupation and crew.
Thus William Hurt (out " draws in space ", " Dark admits town center " among other things or also " to to the end of the world ") took over the role of the duke Leto Atreides, which will have to be seen Italian actors Giancarlo Giannini as Imperator Shaddam IV and to Ian McNeice as a bad baron Harkonnen.
Barbara Kodetova plays charismatischen Paul Atreides, the main figure of the film as Chani at the page of Alec Newman, that represents. With Uwe ox farmhand, who embodies the Fremenfuehrer very convincingly, is represented also a German actor in this internationally filled production.
The film script to " desert planet " wrote John Harrison, which leads also direction; executing producers are Richard P. Rubinstein and Mitchell Galin. The line of the camera work took over the three-way Oskar winner Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now). The marvelous kostuementwuerfe come from Theodor Pistek (won a Oskar for the costumes in Amadeus). Additionally the special effect conductor Ernest Farino and the production designer Miljen Kreka Kljakovic is involved in the project. The digital trick effects will come from three of studios, among them AREA 51 and nice one digital (Babylon 5).
" Dune " produced of new Amsterdam Entertainment Inc., the Scifi Channel and KirchMedia in co-operation with tandem Communications. The US Austrahlung is planned for the last quarter 2000, in Germany the television filming in the spring 2001 to see will be (thus only little later).
World-exclusively SF Film.de can show the first photos of the set and the turning work here now. Thank you for it at Torsten Dewi!
Simsom's weekly Boston Globe Column
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I didn't see this mentioned anywhere, so I'll throw it out there. Simson Garfinkle writes weekly column for the Boston Globe called Plugged In. If you like his writings, you should probably check it out.
Create a consensus document that sets forth interface guidelines, like Apple has for Mac developers
Actually, this is exactly what Microsoft has done as well. In order to earn the "Windows 95 Compatible" logo for your software, it must meat specific interface requriements. Things such as what happens when you hit the tab button, and how custom dialog boxes should be laid out. One this about Windows programs is that, by and large, they are extremely consistent, even between vendors.
I don't feel that this is necessarily the way that the open source community needs to go. I don't want my KDE programs to act like my GNOME programs, and neither will act like emacs, no matter what we try to do (although many emacs movement keybindings work inside Netscape dialog boxes...).
This problem is not one that is insurmountable. It simply needs to be recognized.
Yes! Exactly. But now that you and I have recognized that, what do we do...?
A good, intuitive user interface is not only totally relative, it also depends on the past experiences of the user in general. I, for example, find a command line interface intuitive, but I've been using Unix for almost 10 years. My parents, who have been using PC's for a few years now, find the Windows95 model (start menu, folder icons for directories, etc) intuitive. Some former co-workers used Macs exclusively for a dozen years--guess what they liked best?
But everyone knows this already. This is not news. But does matter.
We can try to find the common themes here -- if there are, in fact, any common themes to be found when you compare bash to the Finder -- but that will probably not be very fruitful.
We need a huge focus group to discuss user interfaces. We need to get the opinions of people who live in different countries and who speak different languages. We need to get the opinions of people with backgrounds in multiple OSes. So why doesn't someone put together an open source "Research" project that attempts to do precisely this? A site like slashdot would be ideal -- it encourages interaction, posting your own comments and feedback is easy and convenient, and it is widely read.
How does this strike people? Is this a viable things to do? I know this is one of those areas, like documentation, where many open source developers and users are traditionally lax. This is unfortunate -- it is one of the more important aspects of any program, open or closed source.
Mozilla has chosen to use a well defined component system, Microsoft COM. They've actually created a cross platform implementation of COM called XPCOM.
This interests me, not because I give a shit about micros~1, but because D?COM is one of things standing in the way of full compatibility between IIS and the like and real webservers. If there was COM on other platforms, then all those IIS applications could be picked up and moved, whole hog, to other systems. This is interesting to me. Plus, I feel that a cross-platform version of almost anything is preferable to a single-platform stranglehold, even if I personally will never use it.
AlterNIC was trying to do exactly this for a long time. The problem is, you need existing root servers and DNS servers to use your server as a root server. How does my company's DNS server (ns.fooinc.com) know about foo.bar-nic.baz (the root server for the.baz TLD)? I have to tell it -- and every DNS admin needs to be told about foo.bar-nic.baz. That's the problem. It's a wonderful idea otherwise, and I'd be all for it.
we've all heard about how the Post Office wants to make themselves relevant in the 21st century. why don't they become an offical key authenticator. they are already used to dealing with huge numbers of people and are recognized as a trusted authority with special legal rights. tampering with the mail is a federal offense. becoming a key signer is a much better way to stay relevant than by giving everyone an email address. and their trusted status would lend creedence to the internet way of doing business.
This is a really good idea, except for one small thing -- the US Post Office holds no international authority. Why should (for example) France treat the USPO any differently than any other random organization? In fact, other countries might trust the USPO less than another random organization because it is affiliated with the US government.
But I like where you're going with this -- it makes a lot of sense. Perhaps if there was some sort of an international group, of which the USPO was one member, this would work. I don't forsee this happening, however, with the differences in crypto laws throughout the world.
This is great news, but the fact is, that it can be stopped already.
yeah, you know that, and I know that, and Hemos probably knows that too, but the average Net user -- and let's face it, slashdot readers tend not to be average Net users -- would have no idea how to even use, never mind setup and configure, something like IJB (which is a wonderful product, you're absolutely right).
Until ISPs start using things like IJB as a regular part of their services, companies like DoubleClick will continue to do shitty things like this, and the majority of the Internet using public will continue to be tracked and have their information sold to demographers and spammers.
So here's a question -- why don't OS manufacturers and distributors bundle IJB or something similar with their product? I mean, RedHat, for example, has tons of services turned on (who really uses or needs identd running? Home users need ntalk? Huh?); it would be trivial for them to implement IJB, get ti running, and configure their customized version of Communicator to use localhost:9999 (or whatever) as a proxy. Similarly, with the huge amount of Internet-related services that come configured on Windows 2000, why isn't a filter one of them? Can't you see AOL's configuration screens with an entry for Cookie filters?
So, what are they going to do with the data they already collected? That's what I'm wondering. They may have already collected the amount of data that they want.
Also, who's to say that this wasn't their plan all along? Collect tons of data, cross-reference it with the Abacus databases, get profiles of tons of Net users, and then admit to "making a mistake" and try to get public sympathy through the admission. By now they must have enough data to make any demographer wet with desire. It sounds devious, but maybe it's not so far from the truth.
I have also wanted to create my own distribution for some time now. every distribution i've seen is either lacking something i want/need or doesn't give me enough control over how and what it installs. Slackware comes the closest to providing the kind of control i am interested in; perhaps the best plan is to build on Slackware.
I think the best use for a custom distribution is in a situation where you envision a large scale rollout, for example when you are going to upgrade or install Linux machines for everyone in your office. In this case, the main advantage would be that you can do all the customizations in advance (non-standard file locations, standardize on applications, customize NFS and NIS, etc). RedHat provides this with their KickStart option, but it's still installing the RedHat distribution, for better or worse.
My ideal distribution: A custom kernel and a bunch of well-written and well-thought-out Makefiles. It would handle fresh installs as well as upgrades (of the system and of individual packages). It could also possibly allow you to install different kernels -- Hurd anyone? With severla binaries for GCC (Linux, Hurd, FreeBSD, etc) and the preferred kernel, and source for everything, the same install media could handle *BSD, Hurd, or Linux (if you choose Hurd, rather than Linux, for example, the install procedure would compile the packages from the included source using the correct GCC, otherwise it would install the precompiled Linux binaries). My mind is a mind that I have come to know,
The NDS Advantage - "NDS technology also seamlessly integrates with other NDS platforms, including...Linux" and "NDS is shipping, or will soon ship, on... Linux"
isn't there already a Caldera NDS client? I always wondered what that was like; it seemed like a great idea when it was first introduced all those years ago.
with NDS running on Linux, there will probably be a whole new crop of servers that once ran something proprietary but get replaced with Linux. It happened with Web servers, mail servers, and, to a certain extent, SMB-based fileservers, now it will happen to directory servers. Even if NDS on Linux isn't a free source download (and I'm not holding my breath for that), it must still be cheaper than buying Netware.
preliminary testing on linux 2.3.45 seems pretty stable (standalone version). so far i can't really see any differences, other than the fact that it isn't crashing and freezing my X server.
not to nitpick, but lxr was designed to cross-reference the linux kernel.
not what I would have expected from apple
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very interesting, although not what i would have expected from Apple (although they are "thinking different" with this one). My main problem with the page is that there's almost nothing on it. You would think that they would put more work into it! Here's a short list of what I'd like to see on this page:
technical information about OpenFirmware
technical information about the hfs2 file system. there was a lot of hype about it when MacOS 8.5 (?) was released with the new filesystem type--if it's so superior, post some info so the linux geeks can port it.
An exmplanation of why they couldn't think of their own catchy name rather than (almost) steal LinuxPPC's name.
ben's linux page is a good start--but there needs to be more pages like this one. I'd also like to hear if there is anything soecial that needed to be done to build the kernel he has posted.
there are many ways to limit shell access while still allowing ftp access. the main things to keep in mind are:
a user needs an interactive shell (in the traditional sense), like bash or csh to actually do things on your box. once that program ends, the user is logged out. you can assign, for example,/bin/passwd as a user's shell; when they sucessfully log in via telnet or ssh, they will be prompted to change their password, and then logged out. colleagues and i have been jokingly coming up with ideas about good non-shells--/bin/passwd is a good one; if you want to be obnoxious, you can use/bin/login.:)
in order for a user to ftp into your box, their shell needs to be listed in/etc/shells. simple: add/bin/passwd to/etc/shells, and set their home directory to be the document root for their web site. this way, they have (up|down)load privileges for their files, but not shell access.
these things (especially number 1) let you do some neat things--you can create a user called ''nslookup'' with/usr/bin/nslookup as their shell and no password; when someone connects to your box as nslookup, they can execute the command, and then they get disconncted when they are done. the university of washington has a test account for people to try out pine that does this. any other interactive program can be used in the same way: provide a telnet gateway via/usr/bin/telnet, a news reader via/usr/bin/tin, and so on.
...and here is why: "To join the 'network,' a site must demonstrate that it is a valid, working Web site that is updated on an ongoing basis."
but... "AltaVista plans to target the owners of personal home pages in the future." so maybe there is hope that they will start releasing the code to the rest of us soon.
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as many have pointed out, too often people see certification as a replacement for experience. without a doubt, i would hire someone with no certification and a few years experience than vice versa. certification means nothing to me, and if my employer hadn't paid for it for me, i would never in a million years be bothered with it. as it was, i didn't study for the win95 exam, and just a little for the win nt server exam, yet i still did ok (900+ out of 1000 on both).
but wait, there's more: i also have problems with the exams themselves. my main problem with them is that they do not test anything real, or even anything worth learning. the knowledge that you gain from working closely with windows boxen on a real, production network is not, for the most part, going to help you pass the certification exams. the win95 exam, for example, emphasized upgrading from dos/win3.1 to windows 95. who does that? nobody real.
i got my microso~1 certifications about two years ago (back when the win95 exam was still pretty current), after taking a few classes (not the official ms endorsed ones, but from a local university). my experience has been that the majority of the people in the classes, and therefore probably most people taking the exams, are in it for the money, not for the love of it. Ask anyone in the classes (and i did ask a bunch of them), and in the top 2 or 3 reasons for taking the class is 'more money.' wanting to make more money is not a bad thing in and of itself, of course; it's when more money is the primary motivation for taking the exams that you have to be wary.
of the people i saw week to week in my classes, there were almost none that i would have voluntarily worked with. they were all nice enough, but, almost without exception, were not really interested in what they were doing.
this is the crucial difference between microso~1 folks and the *nix folks, at least that i have found: the *nix folks tend to do it because they love it. yeah, you can make a decent (really decent in come cases) living out of it, but for many of us, that is secondary. no one that i know of administers nt networks for the love of it.
darren
Cthulhu for President!
I struggled with this for a while as well, and I realized that, all things considered, Samba is definitely the way to go. I ended up setting up a dedicated Linux box, running Samba and having it authenticate against the NT domain in which all the Windows boxen lived, and kept tons of data on the Linux box. The windows users never knew that they weren't talking to an NT box, and I got all the advantages of using Linux.
The advantages are (quickly):
Disadvantages:
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KDE offers the stability of *nix, rather than the uncertainty of running on an mostly untested platform with over 65,000 confirmed bugs released by a company with a spotty track record. Other than that, nothing.
That's enough for me.
Cthulhu for President!
Interestingly enough, right now Wired has an article about this topic running right now called "Open Source Opens Education", which mentions the Linux In Schools Project. The article gives several examples of high schools and middle schools that have made the move to Linux, and outlines several reasons for doing so (cost, stability, etc). There are also some good pointers to other sites.
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There are probably many "established" professionals in your area who would be more than happy to come in and give a presentation on Open Source in general, or Linux in particular. Check for a local Linux users group, or even a local branch of a related user group (like Perl Mongers, for exaqple). Even if the presentation is just for the teachers, it would probably be well received. If you are in the Boston area, contact the FSF. See the Linux User Group HOWTO for more info.
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This definitely is an interesting phenomenon, but I don't think it indicates that the new kernel might not be ready to see the light of day. If you think back to who was using Linux in 1994, and who's using it now, or, rather, who was aware of it then and now, there is significantly increased awareness now. I think the shortened development time is due to more eyeballs.
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"On 22 November 1999 begin towards in Prague the turning work for a 6-stuendige TV filming of the novel " the desert planet " (" Dune ") of franc Herbert. The TV project budgetierte with 20 million US Dollar can offer thereby a hochkaraetigen occupation and crew.
Thus William Hurt (out " draws in space ", " Dark admits town center " among other things or also " to to the end of the world ") took over the role of the duke Leto Atreides, which will have to be seen Italian actors Giancarlo Giannini as Imperator Shaddam IV and to Ian McNeice as a bad baron Harkonnen.
Barbara Kodetova plays charismatischen Paul Atreides, the main figure of the film as Chani at the page of Alec Newman, that represents. With Uwe ox farmhand, who embodies the Fremenfuehrer very convincingly, is represented also a German actor in this internationally filled production.
The film script to " desert planet " wrote John Harrison, which leads also direction; executing producers are Richard P. Rubinstein and Mitchell Galin. The line of the camera work took over the three-way Oskar winner Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now). The marvelous kostuementwuerfe come from Theodor Pistek (won a Oskar for the costumes in Amadeus). Additionally the special effect conductor Ernest Farino and the production designer Miljen Kreka Kljakovic is involved in the project. The digital trick effects will come from three of studios, among them AREA 51 and nice one digital (Babylon 5).
" Dune " produced of new Amsterdam Entertainment Inc., the Scifi Channel and KirchMedia in co-operation with tandem Communications. The US Austrahlung is planned for the last quarter 2000, in Germany the television filming in the spring 2001 to see will be (thus only little later).
World-exclusively SF Film.de can show the first photos of the set and the turning work here now. Thank you for it at Torsten Dewi!
Cthulhu for President!
I didn't see this mentioned anywhere, so I'll throw it out there. Simson Garfinkle writes weekly column for the Boston Globe called Plugged In. If you like his writings, you should probably check it out.
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you raise some good points:
Actually, this is exactly what Microsoft has done as well. In order to earn the "Windows 95 Compatible" logo for your software, it must meat specific interface requriements. Things such as what happens when you hit the tab button, and how custom dialog boxes should be laid out. One this about Windows programs is that, by and large, they are extremely consistent, even between vendors.
I don't feel that this is necessarily the way that the open source community needs to go. I don't want my KDE programs to act like my GNOME programs, and neither will act like emacs, no matter what we try to do (although many emacs movement keybindings work inside Netscape dialog boxes...).
Yes! Exactly. But now that you and I have recognized that, what do we do...?
darren
Cthulhu for President!
A good, intuitive user interface is not only totally relative, it also depends on the past experiences of the user in general. I, for example, find a command line interface intuitive, but I've been using Unix for almost 10 years. My parents, who have been using PC's for a few years now, find the Windows95 model (start menu, folder icons for directories, etc) intuitive. Some former co-workers used Macs exclusively for a dozen years--guess what they liked best?
But everyone knows this already. This is not news. But does matter.
We can try to find the common themes here -- if there are, in fact, any common themes to be found when you compare bash to the Finder -- but that will probably not be very fruitful.
We need a huge focus group to discuss user interfaces. We need to get the opinions of people who live in different countries and who speak different languages. We need to get the opinions of people with backgrounds in multiple OSes. So why doesn't someone put together an open source "Research" project that attempts to do precisely this? A site like slashdot would be ideal -- it encourages interaction, posting your own comments and feedback is easy and convenient, and it is widely read.
How does this strike people? Is this a viable things to do? I know this is one of those areas, like documentation, where many open source developers and users are traditionally lax. This is unfortunate -- it is one of the more important aspects of any program, open or closed source.
darren
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This statement caught my attention:
This interests me, not because I give a shit about micros~1, but because D?COM is one of things standing in the way of full compatibility between IIS and the like and real webservers. If there was COM on other platforms, then all those IIS applications could be picked up and moved, whole hog, to other systems. This is interesting to me. Plus, I feel that a cross-platform version of almost anything is preferable to a single-platform stranglehold, even if I personally will never use it.
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AlterNIC was trying to do exactly this for a long time. The problem is, you need existing root servers and DNS servers to use your server as a root server. How does my company's DNS server (ns.fooinc.com) know about foo.bar-nic.baz (the root server for the .baz TLD)? I have to tell it -- and every DNS admin needs to be told about foo.bar-nic.baz. That's the problem. It's a wonderful idea otherwise, and I'd be all for it.
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anyone have the sourceforge or va linux url for this? I can't seem to locate it on either site.
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This is a really good idea, except for one small thing -- the US Post Office holds no international authority. Why should (for example) France treat the USPO any differently than any other random organization? In fact, other countries might trust the USPO less than another random organization because it is affiliated with the US government.
But I like where you're going with this -- it makes a lot of sense. Perhaps if there was some sort of an international group, of which the USPO was one member, this would work. I don't forsee this happening, however, with the differences in crypto laws throughout the world.
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yeah, you know that, and I know that, and Hemos probably knows that too, but the average Net user -- and let's face it, slashdot readers tend not to be average Net users -- would have no idea how to even use, never mind setup and configure, something like IJB (which is a wonderful product, you're absolutely right).
Until ISPs start using things like IJB as a regular part of their services, companies like DoubleClick will continue to do shitty things like this, and the majority of the Internet using public will continue to be tracked and have their information sold to demographers and spammers.
So here's a question -- why don't OS manufacturers and distributors bundle IJB or something similar with their product? I mean, RedHat, for example, has tons of services turned on (who really uses or needs identd running? Home users need ntalk? Huh?); it would be trivial for them to implement IJB, get ti running, and configure their customized version of Communicator to use localhost:9999 (or whatever) as a proxy. Similarly, with the huge amount of Internet-related services that come configured on Windows 2000, why isn't a filter one of them? Can't you see AOL's configuration screens with an entry for Cookie filters?
My mind is a mind that I have come to know,
So, what are they going to do with the data they already collected? That's what I'm wondering. They may have already collected the amount of data that they want.
Also, who's to say that this wasn't their plan all along? Collect tons of data, cross-reference it with the Abacus databases, get profiles of tons of Net users, and then admit to "making a mistake" and try to get public sympathy through the admission. By now they must have enough data to make any demographer wet with desire. It sounds devious, but maybe it's not so far from the truth.
My mind is a mind that I have come to know,
I have also wanted to create my own distribution for some time now. every distribution i've seen is either lacking something i want/need or doesn't give me enough control over how and what it installs. Slackware comes the closest to providing the kind of control i am interested in; perhaps the best plan is to build on Slackware.
I think the best use for a custom distribution is in a situation where you envision a large scale rollout, for example when you are going to upgrade or install Linux machines for everyone in your office. In this case, the main advantage would be that you can do all the customizations in advance (non-standard file locations, standardize on applications, customize NFS and NIS, etc). RedHat provides this with their KickStart option, but it's still installing the RedHat distribution, for better or worse.
My ideal distribution: A custom kernel and a bunch of well-written and well-thought-out Makefiles. It would handle fresh installs as well as upgrades (of the system and of individual packages). It could also possibly allow you to install different kernels -- Hurd anyone? With severla binaries for GCC (Linux, Hurd, FreeBSD, etc) and the preferred kernel, and source for everything, the same install media could handle *BSD, Hurd, or Linux (if you choose Hurd, rather than Linux, for example, the install procedure would compile the packages from the included source using the correct GCC, otherwise it would install the precompiled Linux binaries).
My mind is a mind that I have come to know,
Here are some relevant references from Novell's site:
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isn't there already a Caldera NDS client? I always wondered what that was like; it seemed like a great idea when it was first introduced all those years ago.
with NDS running on Linux, there will probably be a whole new crop of servers that once ran something proprietary but get replaced with Linux. It happened with Web servers, mail servers, and, to a certain extent, SMB-based fileservers, now it will happen to directory servers. Even if NDS on Linux isn't a free source download (and I'm not holding my breath for that), it must still be cheaper than buying Netware.
darren
preliminary testing on linux 2.3.45 seems pretty stable (standalone version). so far i can't really see any differences, other than the fact that it isn't crashing and freezing my X server.
darren
it's right here: http://www.realnetworks.com/products/r edhat/
not to nitpick, but lxr was designed to cross-reference the linux kernel.
very interesting, although not what i would have expected from Apple (although they are "thinking different" with this one). My main problem with the page is that there's almost nothing on it. You would think that they would put more work into it! Here's a short list of what I'd like to see on this page:
ben's linux page is a good start--but there needs to be more pages like this one. I'd also like to hear if there is anything soecial that needed to be done to build the kernel he has posted.
darren
there are many ways to limit shell access while still allowing ftp access. the main things to keep in mind are:
these things (especially number 1) let you do some neat things--you can create a user called ''nslookup'' with /usr/bin/nslookup as their shell and no password; when someone connects to your box as nslookup, they can execute the command, and then they get disconncted when they are done. the university of washington has a test account for people to try out pine that does this. any other interactive program can be used in the same way: provide a telnet gateway via /usr/bin/telnet, a news reader via /usr/bin/tin, and so on.
hope this was helpful
darren
...and here is why: "To join the 'network,' a site must demonstrate that it is a valid, working Web site that is updated on an ongoing basis."
but... "AltaVista plans to target the owners of personal home pages in the future." so maybe there is hope that they will start releasing the code to the rest of us soon.