The company that I work for uses skype to communicate between our sales people, our offices in the USA, UK, India, and Mexico and everything in between. The monetary savings on our long distance is well worth it. We'll probably even buy the service once it comes out of beta, unless we can manage to get *real* VoIP between our facilities at nearly the same cost.
We would prefer not rely on an outside company for our phone infrastructure, but for the cost (free now), it can't be beat.
Now if only there was a linskype, I would be set. For now, I have torun skype in vmware.
RedHat's 'trial by fire' approach for their new security policy is a good one, and is something all distro makers should try. Nothing beats having your default security config probed and tested by the world's best crackers in a real life environment.
Gentoo did this a while back when they first were implementing the Hardened project. The guys in the project setup a SELinux hardened Gentoo box and put it live on the 'net. They then gave out the IP address and the root password on the main Gentoo page.
What the Linux community needs, I feel, is a type of central signing authority or cryptographically sealed DRM-compatible package management system. This could eliminate potential threats associated with trojaned Linux packages.
There is currently development in place with Gentoo's portage to allow for developers to digitally sign packages. There will also be a central signing authority for the entire distribution. It is still in the planning and discussion phase, but we are shooting for inclusion in portage-ng, the next major upgrade of the portage code-base. You can find more information about portage-ng here.
Gentoo was there in force, some of them were punk.
I'm proud to have been one of those "punks", but I am sure he was referring to esammer and his wife. It was great meeting everyone who came by the booth and we all had a fun time.
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Doom3 could be a pioneer to this. Let's say D3 support for linux is really good. If the engine is really all we expect, then it will be adopted and licensed by others for new games beyond D3. These games could also be made to easily run on linux.
Just like how Quake2 and Quake3 were ported to Linux and all the games based on them all run on Linux, right? Just because id's engine runs on Linux easily doesn't mean its licensees will do the same.
You now have all the scripts used to create a LiveCD. Simply configure it how you want and tell it to build. Once it is done, you have a CD with exactly what you want on it.
Replying to myself to point out that what countvlad said above is true, but there are also the undocumented -g and -G funtions of emerge which are only available in the latest beta versions of portage for inclusion in the next stable release. These functions allow for automatically downloading the.tbz2's, rather than them having to already be in ${PORTDIR}/packages before starting emerge.
Either compiling the kernel is a fair measure of the speed of the system or it isn't.
It definitely is not unless they were using unpatched sources in all three systems. The Gentoo sources applies bunches of patches to the stock kernel which would affect compile time.
Also, am I the only one that noticed they complain about how all the speed improvement patches made no difference, but they mention that they used the same options for every kernel compile. The performance increases are found by TURNING THEM ON.
To go with the car analagy, it would be like having a 6th gear in the Porsche but only using 5th gear because the other one didn't have it.
I udnerstand using the same options for TIMING a kernel compile, but not for running one. After all, the ability to customize your system is what makes Gentoo so nice.
Portage has supported binary packages for a while now and the current beta version of portage even has support for automatically downloading binary packages.
Do you really think beginners are picking up Linux in droves? Most people I know switching from Windows to Linux are quite technical people. I don't see too many Joe Rednecks out installing Mandrake Cooker. You also have to remember that "modern" does not equal "eye candy crap that has real addition to functionality" such as semi-transparent menus and other junk.
Yes, but one they feel they can live with since the labor is so much cheaper. The yearly salaries of most of these foreign workers is somewhere close to the Christmas bonus of a decently paid worker here in the USA.
Why do you need real IPs on all your devices behind your firewall?
...because the nature of the Internet is to be seamless and routable end-to-end? The Internet was not designed to be a bunch of servers on one end and a bunch of clients on another. It was designed to be a giant peer-to-peer network, a community of people working together as one network. Everyone should have the freedom and the ability to serve up whatever (legal) content they wish to anyone they wish.
Intel usually takes a bit more time to release new technologies into their Xeon line. This allows them to iron out any major bugs in the system before shipping them off to large corporations, which rely on this hardware to be very stable in comparison to Joe Gamer.
In addition, it is quite apparent that the number of people capable of installing and maintaing MS software correctly and to their specifications is FAR less then the number of people capable of installing and maintaing Linux software correctly and to their specifications.
I would have to disagree here. Maybe the percentages are more in favor of Linux, but I would be willing to bet that there are more people who can install and configure MS software correctly than there are Linux users total.
If even 1% of Microsoft users configure their software incorrectly, it is still an enormous number. You have to think sheer volumes here. If you've ever spent any time on any support forums, you would quickly realize that the number of clueless people installing and running Linux and not configuring it properly is growing exponentially.
I have often wondered why manufacturers did not force the setting of a WEP key during installation. It really would be quite simple if they bothered to add it to the installation instructions. Simply don't let anything connect to anywhere except the AP itself until a WEP key is entered, or WEP is explicitly turned off (with a bunch of ARE YOU SURE? boxes) by the owner. Have it redirect all web traffic to its own setup page until the configuration has been done.
Have you bothered to read the 28 page PDF which goes into exacting detail on the terms, or are you simply blowing smoke up everyone's ass with your oh so informed opinion?
Correct, GPL software is free for all to use. You can, however, still sell copies of the same software. You also can charge for service and support on said software, even if it was provided for free.
Actually, no. The main problem is that people need to learn to be better programmers from the start. It is much easier to have good code if it was fairly good when it was written, versus fixing it up later. This looks more like MS is working on making their next generation of employees better programmers to begin with rather than trying to change their already bad habits.
oogalaxyoo seems to be out spouting his anti-gnome crap once again. I love how he quotes himself and pretends that he is just "some other slashdot guy" to attempt to give his arguments credibility. Apparently, it is impossible for someone to work on two projects at once. Also, I guess it is just horrible for someone to actually try and submit work from one GPL project to another one where it can help tremendously. Why should everyone duplicate efforts. I happen to think fonts and cursors are a pretty important part of what X should be doing. Self-centered little whiners need to grow up.
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The company that I work for uses skype to communicate between our sales people, our offices in the USA, UK, India, and Mexico and everything in between. The monetary savings on our long distance is well worth it. We'll probably even buy the service once it comes out of beta, unless we can manage to get *real* VoIP between our facilities at nearly the same cost.
We would prefer not rely on an outside company for our phone infrastructure, but for the cost (free now), it can't be beat.
Now if only there was a linskype, I would be set. For now, I have torun skype in vmware.
Gentoo did this a while back when they first were implementing the Hardened project. The guys in the project setup a SELinux hardened Gentoo box and put it live on the 'net. They then gave out the IP address and the root password on the main Gentoo page.
There is currently development in place with Gentoo's portage to allow for developers to digitally sign packages. There will also be a central signing authority for the entire distribution. It is still in the planning and discussion phase, but we are shooting for inclusion in portage-ng, the next major upgrade of the portage code-base. You can find more information about portage-ng here.
I'm proud to have been one of those "punks", but I am sure he was referring to esammer and his wife. It was great meeting everyone who came by the booth and we all had a fun time. -- wolf31o2
Just like how Quake2 and Quake3 were ported to Linux and all the games based on them all run on Linux, right? Just because id's engine runs on Linux easily doesn't mean its licensees will do the same.
emerge livecd-ng
You now have all the scripts used to create a LiveCD. Simply configure it how you want and tell it to build. Once it is done, you have a CD with exactly what you want on it.
I just removed all the comments from the kernel sources. Now my kernel sources are free of SCO IP, too!
That's why you call from a pay phone... All the ones I know of accept dialing 800 numbers with no coin out of pocket.
Replying to myself to point out that what countvlad said above is true, but there are also the undocumented -g and -G funtions of emerge which are only available in the latest beta versions of portage for inclusion in the next stable release. These functions allow for automatically downloading the .tbz2's, rather than them having to already be in ${PORTDIR}/packages before starting emerge.
It definitely is not unless they were using unpatched sources in all three systems. The Gentoo sources applies bunches of patches to the stock kernel which would affect compile time.
Also, am I the only one that noticed they complain about how all the speed improvement patches made no difference, but they mention that they used the same options for every kernel compile. The performance increases are found by TURNING THEM ON.
To go with the car analagy, it would be like having a 6th gear in the Porsche but only using 5th gear because the other one didn't have it.
I udnerstand using the same options for TIMING a kernel compile, but not for running one. After all, the ability to customize your system is what makes Gentoo so nice.
Portage has supported binary packages for a while now and the current beta version of portage even has support for automatically downloading binary packages.
Do you really think beginners are picking up Linux in droves? Most people I know switching from Windows to Linux are quite technical people. I don't see too many Joe Rednecks out installing Mandrake Cooker. You also have to remember that "modern" does not equal "eye candy crap that has real addition to functionality" such as semi-transparent menus and other junk.
Gentoo's ebuilds for the nvidia-kernel build perfectly under a 2.6test kernel. Have you tried it again recently?
Yes, but one they feel they can live with since the labor is so much cheaper. The yearly salaries of most of these foreign workers is somewhere close to the Christmas bonus of a decently paid worker here in the USA.
...because the nature of the Internet is to be seamless and routable end-to-end? The Internet was not designed to be a bunch of servers on one end and a bunch of clients on another. It was designed to be a giant peer-to-peer network, a community of people working together as one network. Everyone should have the freedom and the ability to serve up whatever (legal) content they wish to anyone they wish.
Intel usually takes a bit more time to release new technologies into their Xeon line. This allows them to iron out any major bugs in the system before shipping them off to large corporations, which rely on this hardware to be very stable in comparison to Joe Gamer.
In addition, it is quite apparent that the number of people capable of installing and maintaing MS software correctly and to their specifications is FAR less then the number of people capable of installing and maintaing Linux software correctly and to their specifications.
I would have to disagree here. Maybe the percentages are more in favor of Linux, but I would be willing to bet that there are more people who can install and configure MS software correctly than there are Linux users total.
If even 1% of Microsoft users configure their software incorrectly, it is still an enormous number. You have to think sheer volumes here. If you've ever spent any time on any support forums, you would quickly realize that the number of clueless people installing and running Linux and not configuring it properly is growing exponentially.
I have often wondered why manufacturers did not force the setting of a WEP key during installation. It really would be quite simple if they bothered to add it to the installation instructions. Simply don't let anything connect to anywhere except the AP itself until a WEP key is entered, or WEP is explicitly turned off (with a bunch of ARE YOU SURE? boxes) by the owner. Have it redirect all web traffic to its own setup page until the configuration has been done.
that Microsoft only bought a Unix license from SCO Group because there's been a prior development project underway at Redmond that warranted it
I know what project they're referring to... it is the "Kill Linux" project! *grin*
Have you bothered to read the 28 page PDF which goes into exacting detail on the terms, or are you simply blowing smoke up everyone's ass with your oh so informed opinion?
Correct, GPL software is free for all to use. You can, however, still sell copies of the same software. You also can charge for service and support on said software, even if it was provided for free.
Not to mention, as clearly stated in the article, they are comparing XP Professional, which ships with File Sharing and IIS, to the GPL.
Actually, the article states that they used XP Professional.
Apparently not, seeing as how there are a couple more posts about it.
I wouldn't mind it, myself.
Actually, no. The main problem is that people need to learn to be better programmers from the start. It is much easier to have good code if it was fairly good when it was written, versus fixing it up later. This looks more like MS is working on making their next generation of employees better programmers to begin with rather than trying to change their already bad habits.
oogalaxyoo seems to be out spouting his anti-gnome crap once again. I love how he quotes himself and pretends that he is just "some other slashdot guy" to attempt to give his arguments credibility. Apparently, it is impossible for someone to work on two projects at once. Also, I guess it is just horrible for someone to actually try and submit work from one GPL project to another one where it can help tremendously. Why should everyone duplicate efforts. I happen to think fonts and cursors are a pretty important part of what X should be doing. Self-centered little whiners need to grow up.