A while ago VA Linux Systems (then called VA Research) used to offer Alpha systems. But soon after Intel's investment in VA, the Alpha systems disappeared. Last I checked AMD systems were not offered either (and don't tell me there is no demand for either Alpha or AMD). Intel is the *only* choice.
My question is: being a Linux company, will you continue to offer people a choice or will you, like Dell, become a slave to Intel?
What I was afraid of came true. All the retail stores carry win32 version of Q3 but *none* of them carry the Linux version. I already checked out Future Shop, Compu Centre, and a few others (even Radio Shack). No Linux. The only way you can get it is if you order online, which is *much* more expensive.
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I'm not sure if the guy is serious (about the sex part:-) but it sure does sound interesting. I was not sure wether to laugh or take it at face value.
Re:Russians have been doing it for a while...
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Americans may have beat the Russians to space
Uhhm... no. Get your facts straight. Russians were first to: 1. Launch a satillite 2. Launch a manned space craft 3. Have a man in open space (outside space craft) 4. Build space station.
The *only* thing Americans did first is go to the moon. I guess they don't teach you history in school do they?
I second that! I'm running Debian 2.1 on a IP masq box sharing a cable modem. Also use it for ftp / samba. Works great. 79 days of uptime and counting;-)
It just barely works! Sure it's got a decent GUI installer, a GUI boot screen, and a few package management gizmos, but man it's still beta. They released it out of beta when it was time for Comdex, and it's definitely not ready. Not to mention that the download version lacks a lot of packages which you then have to download separately.
In sort, it certainly looks promising, but it needs a lot more debugging to be usable. And what's the deal with the closed debugging anyway? It looks like Corel still doesn't get Open Source.
You seem to imply that microkernel scales better than a monolithic kernel. Yet Solaris, which scales quite nicely up to 64 CPUs, has a monolithic kernel with loadable modules, just like Linux.
I have AMD K6/2-300, 64MB RAM. Probably the best thing I can say about VMWare is that it works. Just barely. I don't know if it's optimized for intel or someting, but it is *much* slower then my old 486dx4-100.
VMWare certainly has a lot of potential, but right now it is just too slow to be usable. At least with my current hardware.
Yes, unfortunately, it's normal. The only 3d cards that have decent support uner Linux (not perfect though) are 3dfx ones. The answer I've been hearing so many times is "wait for XFree 4.0". It's supposed to be released some time in february.
Comparing MP3 encoding speed using BladeEnc, my Celeron 450 beats my friend's dual Celeron 466 by about 25% in encoding speed.
Important point - dual or not dual is irrelevant in this test. Bladeenc is a single process and will use only one CPU. In order to use both CPUs you'd need to run several instances of bladeenc simultaneously (i.e. encode at least 2 files at a time).
I didnt sit around doing benchmarks all day, I did notice a very large difference in the performance of KDE Even if pentium optimization only helps out with things like KDE I'd say it's worth it.
Same here! I don't have dual PII. I used to have Cyrix 200 and 2 weeks ago upgraded to AMD K6/2-300. (So much for slowing down non-Intel CPUs). (Oh, I'm running Mandrake, not Stampede). I noticed a significant improvement of KDE performace in Mandrake compared to SuSE or RedHat.
Secondly, you can't really run KDE on a 486 anyway (even KDE developers admit it). Pentium optimizations for just KDE (or just GUI for that matter) would help.
Finally, from reading comp.os.linux.mandrake, I heard that Mandrake actually does run on a 486, despite what some people claim.
That is not to say that I want 486-optimized distributions to die. I am happily running Debian 2.1 on my 486 which I use as a IP masq gateway and a ftp / samba server.
1. Availability. Most if not all retail stores will carry only win32 version. I already checked Future Shop -- you can preorder win32 version of Q3 but there's no mention of Linux or Mac versions.
2. Price. It is *much* cheaper to buy the game in a store then to order it online. Future Shop sells it for $70 Cnd. Loki sells it for $50 US (approx $76 Cnd) + shipping and handling. If you include the s&h plus the tax they always charge on the border, the total comes to well over $90.
Considering that with a cable modem you can download the Linux binaries in just a couple minutes, I'll most likely do just that. Unless the Linux version appears on the shelves.
Where did you get that information from? You should read some info about it (and I don't mean Intel's marketing stuff). While RDRAM has double the bandwidth of the PC100 SDRAM, it also has a higher latency. Furthermore, the bandwidth of even 66MHz SDRAM is more then enough for 99% of applications. (Yes, even 3d games, which transfer very large amounts of data in memory). Because of that, applications are much more affected by the memory latency, and higher latency will slow them down. So, the benefit of higher bandwidth of RAMBUS is offset by the higher latency resulting, in many cases, in lower performance. Anyhow, it is certainly *not* worth 5 times the price of SDRAM.
Where you *do* need high memory bandwidth (and the benefit of SDRAM starts to show), is in high-end SMP systems (like large databases). (Since you have more CPUs, you also need more memory bandwidth to keep them busy). Too bad the maximum amount of RDRAM you can put in a box is 512Mb. So much for high-end.
Why the hell would anyone want Rambus??? It's a crappy technology that perfoms worse than 100MHz SDRAM we have now and costs 5 times as much. Oh wait I know -- it's the Intel's marketing hype. I hope they'll still have a chipset that properly supports SDRAM (not Intel's SDRAM-to-RDRAM converter).
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I'd be willing to put up with spam if that meant retaining my rights. Heck! I am putting up with spam right now... This is NOT the way to solve the problem.
This is a general response to those who are wondering what's happening. Only the reactor 4 (the one that blew up) was shut down. Reactors 1 - 3 never stopped working. Nobody has lived in Chernobyl since the accident because the radiation levels are too high. Nevertheless the plant was never shut down.
Does anybody have a link to magellan? I never heard of it before and sure would like to check it out. I searched freshmeat and it's not there. So does it really exist or it's just a vapourware?
uhhm, yeah. Have you even seen the Mandrake script for setting that variable??? Here is the script:
# KDE initialization script (sh) if [ -z "$KDEDIR" -o "$KDEDIR" != "/usr" ] ; then KDEDIR="/usr" if [ "$KDEDIR" != "/usr" ] ; then PATH="$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH" fi fi export KDEDIR PATH
(file:/etc/profile.d/kde.sh)
This pathetic script was in Mandrake 6.0 and it is still not fixed in 6.1! Just one more reason why screwing around with standard directories doesn't pay.
The standard directory for KDE is/opt/kde. That is how KDE is installed by default and that is how it works on all other distributions. All KDE apps also *expect* KDE to be in/opt/kde. Therefore, I don't see the point of shoving it in/usr and creating all this mess.
uhhm, Mandrake installs kde under/usr, and *not*/usr/kde. If it did put it under/usr/kde, there would not be a big problem. As it stands now, if you look under/usr/share directory, you'll notice a whole bunch of stuff half of which belongs to kde and the other half doesn't. While you can certainly create a symlink/opt/kde ->/usr, it will not solve any of the mess.
Mandrake also for some reason puts KDE in/usr!!! This is extremely confusing and results in a total mess. Besides, shoving KDE in a non-standard directory creates a lot more work for the Mandrake developers... It is my biggest gripe about Mandrake.
If there are any Mandrake developers reading this, *PLEASE* put KDE where it belongs -- under/opt/kde!!!!
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A while ago VA Linux Systems (then called VA Research) used to offer Alpha systems. But soon after Intel's investment in VA, the Alpha systems disappeared. Last I checked AMD systems were not offered either (and don't tell me there is no demand for either Alpha or AMD). Intel is the *only* choice.
My question is: being a Linux company, will you continue to offer people a choice or will you, like Dell, become a slave to Intel?
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emmett mentions that Adi Shamir found a way to crack RSA. Can somebody please elaborate on this???
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Is Zeus based on Apache? I know that CnG and Stronghold are Apache-derivatives but what else?
What I was afraid of came true. All the retail stores carry win32 version of Q3 but *none* of them carry the Linux version. I already checked out Future Shop, Compu Centre, and a few others (even Radio Shack). No Linux. The only way you can get it is if you order online, which is *much* more expensive.
I'm not sure if the guy is serious (about the sex part :-) but it sure does sound interesting. I was not sure wether to laugh or take it at face value.
Uhhm... no. Get your facts straight. Russians were first to:
1. Launch a satillite
2. Launch a manned space craft
3. Have a man in open space (outside space craft)
4. Build space station.
The *only* thing Americans did first is go to the moon. I guess they don't teach you history in school do they?
I second that! I'm running Debian 2.1 on a IP masq box sharing a cable modem. Also use it for ftp / samba. Works great. 79 days of uptime and counting ;-)
It just barely works! Sure it's got a decent GUI installer, a GUI boot screen, and a few package management gizmos, but man it's still beta. They released it out of beta when it was time for Comdex, and it's definitely not ready. Not to mention that the download version lacks a lot of packages which you then have to download separately.
In sort, it certainly looks promising, but it needs a lot more debugging to be usable. And what's the deal with the closed debugging anyway? It looks like Corel still doesn't get Open Source.
You seem to imply that microkernel scales better than a monolithic kernel. Yet Solaris, which scales quite nicely up to 64 CPUs, has a monolithic kernel with loadable modules, just like Linux.
I have AMD K6/2-300, 64MB RAM. Probably the best thing I can say about VMWare is that it works. Just barely. I don't know if it's optimized for intel or someting, but it is *much* slower then my old 486dx4-100.
VMWare certainly has a lot of potential, but right now it is just too slow to be usable. At least with my current hardware.
Yes, unfortunately, it's normal. The only 3d cards that have decent support uner Linux (not perfect though) are 3dfx ones. The answer I've been hearing so many times is "wait for XFree 4.0". It's supposed to be released some time in february.
Important point - dual or not dual is irrelevant in this test. Bladeenc is a single process and will use only one CPU. In order to use both CPUs you'd need to run several instances of bladeenc simultaneously (i.e. encode at least 2 files at a time).
Same here! I don't have dual PII. I used to have Cyrix 200 and 2 weeks ago upgraded to AMD K6/2-300. (So much for slowing down non-Intel CPUs). (Oh, I'm running Mandrake, not Stampede). I noticed a significant improvement of KDE performace in Mandrake compared to SuSE or RedHat.
Secondly, you can't really run KDE on a 486 anyway (even KDE developers admit it). Pentium optimizations for just KDE (or just GUI for that matter) would help.
Finally, from reading comp.os.linux.mandrake, I heard that Mandrake actually does run on a 486, despite what some people claim.
That is not to say that I want 486-optimized distributions to die. I am happily running Debian 2.1 on my 486 which I use as a IP masq gateway and a ftp / samba server.
I hope Jon Carmack reads this.
1. Availability. Most if not all retail stores will carry only win32 version. I already checked Future Shop -- you can preorder win32 version of Q3 but there's no mention of Linux or Mac versions.
2. Price. It is *much* cheaper to buy the game in a store then to order it online. Future Shop sells it for $70 Cnd. Loki sells it for $50 US (approx $76 Cnd) + shipping and handling. If you include the s&h plus the tax they always charge on the border, the total comes to well over $90.
Considering that with a cable modem you can download the Linux binaries in just a couple minutes, I'll most likely do just that. Unless the Linux version appears on the shelves.
Only problem is that SuSE is far from being freebie
Where did you get that information from? You should read some info about it (and I don't mean Intel's marketing stuff). While RDRAM has double the bandwidth of the PC100 SDRAM, it also has a higher latency. Furthermore, the bandwidth of even 66MHz SDRAM is more then enough for 99% of applications. (Yes, even 3d games, which transfer very large amounts of data in memory). Because of that, applications are much more affected by the memory latency, and higher latency will slow them down.
So, the benefit of higher bandwidth of RAMBUS is offset by the higher latency resulting, in many cases, in lower performance. Anyhow, it is certainly *not* worth 5 times the price of SDRAM.
Where you *do* need high memory bandwidth (and the benefit of SDRAM starts to show), is in high-end SMP systems (like large databases). (Since you have more CPUs, you also need more memory bandwidth to keep them busy). Too bad the maximum amount of RDRAM you can put in a box is 512Mb. So much for high-end.
It's been tested and retested so many times. Even at 66MHz, the memory bandwidth is morethen enough to keep the CPU working at full speed.
Why the hell would anyone want Rambus??? It's a crappy technology that perfoms worse than 100MHz SDRAM we have now and costs 5 times as much. Oh wait I know -- it's the Intel's marketing hype. I hope they'll still have a chipset that properly supports SDRAM (not Intel's SDRAM-to-RDRAM converter).
I'd be willing to put up with spam if that meant retaining my rights. Heck! I am putting up with spam right now... This is NOT the way to solve the problem.
This is a general response to those who are wondering what's happening.
Only the reactor 4 (the one that blew up) was shut down. Reactors 1 - 3 never stopped working.
Nobody has lived in Chernobyl since the accident because the radiation levels are too high. Nevertheless the plant was never shut down.
Does anybody have a link to magellan? I never heard of it before and sure would like to check it out. I searched freshmeat and it's not there. So does it really exist or it's just a vapourware?
uhhm, yeah. Have you even seen the Mandrake script for setting that variable??? Here is the script:
/etc/profile.d/kde.sh)
# KDE initialization script (sh)
if [ -z "$KDEDIR" -o "$KDEDIR" != "/usr" ] ; then
KDEDIR="/usr"
if [ "$KDEDIR" != "/usr" ] ; then
PATH="$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH"
fi
fi
export KDEDIR PATH
(file:
This pathetic script was in Mandrake 6.0 and it is still not fixed in 6.1! Just one more reason why screwing around with standard directories doesn't pay.
The standard directory for KDE is /opt/kde. That is how KDE is installed by default and that is how it works on all other distributions. All KDE apps also *expect* KDE to be in /opt/kde. Therefore, I don't see the point of shoving it in /usr and creating all this mess.
uhhm, Mandrake installs kde under /usr, and *not* /usr/kde. /usr/kde, there would not be a big problem. As it stands now, if you look under /usr/share directory, you'll notice a whole bunch of stuff half of which belongs to kde and the other half doesn't. While you can certainly create a symlink /opt/kde -> /usr, it will not solve any of the mess.
If it did put it under
Mandrake also for some reason puts KDE in /usr!!! This is extremely confusing and results in a total mess. Besides, shoving KDE in a non-standard directory creates a lot more work for the Mandrake developers...
/opt/kde!!!!
It is my biggest gripe about Mandrake.
If there are any Mandrake developers reading this, *PLEASE* put KDE where it belongs -- under