I install X on some servers. Usually for print administration, and a handful of x tools. I don't want to have to ssh into a box to clear a queue, and it's easier to train non-sysadmins on a gui. Also during initial configuration, I use x and multiple shell programs to have man pages, config files and web pages available right there. once the server is production-ready, x gets pulled.
Slackware is, for all purposes, a server OS. If you like to tinker, it's great. If you're looking for the desktop, I would shy away from it. Packages aren't rolled out as fast as RH, etc., the package management is not as refined as other distros, and I've had to rely on source quite a bit. But with 8.1+, reiserfs is simple to set up, it comes with netcat, lsof, and the rest of the power utils.
I usually install the base, the networking stuff, and x, and compile everything else from source. Apache, PHP, Mysql, Squid, ssh all compile without gripes. The filesystem layout is sane and farmiliar.
All-in-all, it's a James Doohan flavour of linux, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Yeah, and they did admit to version inflation, to keep up with redhat. From their website
The following was posted to the Slackware.com Forum by Patrick Volkerding (Slackware Project Lead), at 21:43 10-10-1999.
I've stayed out of this for now, but I do think I should lend a little justification to the version number thing.
First off, I think I forgot to count some time ago. If I'd started on 6.0 and made every release a major version (I think that's how Linux releases are made these days, right?;), we would be on Slackware 47 by now. (it would actually be in the 20s somewhere if we'd gone 1, 2, 3...)
I think it's clear that some other distributions inflated their version numbers for marketing purposes, and I've had to field (way too many times) the question "why isn't yours 6.x" or worse "when will you upgrade to Linux 6.0" which really drives home the effectiveness of this simple trick. With the move to glibc and nearly everyone else using 6.x now, it made sense to go to at least 6.0, just to make it clear to people who don't know anything about Linux that Slackware's libraries, compilers, and other stuff are not 3 major versions behind. I thought they'd all be using 7.0 by now, but no matter. We're at least "one better", right?:)
Sorry if I haven't been enough of a purist about this. I promise I won't inflate the version number again (unless everyone else does again;)
Slackware has 9.0 in preview. Just download the current tree at slackware.org
Just installed slack 8.1 last night. Runs great on a p133 for a small server/
Yeah, but if MSNBC is going to take a hit because of anti-MS sentiment, they will undoubtedly step up with more advertising, more info, more news stories, just plain more. They would FUDify the market just as much as CNN would, if only to protect their stocks. And in the grand scheme of things, such an outbreak would get everyone back to where they started, with the lines drawn more deeply this time around.
They own a major news source. They are not going to fall out of favour. The war (if you are a zealot of either side) HAS to be won on merit alone. Both sides have been FUD-slining for a great while now, and it has had little to no impact on either competitor.
NFS is very secure, if you have the time to fine-tune it. Unfortunately it is not as intuitive as it could be.
The same goes for the Linux security model. Great strides have been made in making the file permissions very secure, but the main problem goes beyond the basics of file permissions, group ownership, etc. Real masters at the file permissions have an almost zen-like control over their systems, bending the security model to the point just before it breaks, to achieve maximum security over a file system. The trick is not knowing which permissions allow or deny access to a file, but rather how they interact with each other.
No, If I remember, he came out and said that he had HIV, then he said that he didn't. God, I wish somebody else had seen the interview.
Incidentally, why not just give a patient a complete blood transfusion to severely dilute the aids virus, then hit it with the cocktail to kill anything else off? Is this too simplistic?
Actually, there was an interview with Barbara Walters IIRC, that he said that he no longer had the AIDS virus, and that he couldn't talk more about the treatment.
Can anyone confirm this?
Yeah, but Walmart sells socks for $1.00 per pair. At that price it's cheaper for me to buy new ones every week rather than launder them.
so that's 25e27 pairs of socks before I run out, and that doesn't take skivvies into account!
NWN is an excellent example of standardizing a game engine so that the core rules, interaction, etc is easily understood, and expandable.
Even if the engine itself is closed source, Bioware et al give a developer everything that they need to expand the game with a professional level editor, object scripting, and releasing server software.
These things show a commitment to the gaming community, allow for the game to become near infinately expandable, and give the users as much (or as little) of the behind-the-scenes action as they want.
I haven't played around with the editors enough yet, but if you could create your own weapons, armour, and races, you could even expand the world from the medieval/fantasy to Sci-Fi, Horror, western, etc, the same way the core rules have been expanded in the pen-and-paper version.
No, judges do have the power to make laws, via precident. Even though it is not a law per say, it is still used by lawyers as gospel, usually until it has had a monster snowball effect.
I will agree that the Supreme Court is the most fair in the land, but that does not mean that it is absolutely fair.
Where do you think that those wacky laws that are still on the books come from. Do you sincerely think that some politician petitioned a law to allow NYPD officers to bite dogs in Central Park, provided that there was just cause? Or do you think that some cop went in fromt of a judge who was feeling particularly funny and said "The dog bit you? Bite him back next time! Case Dismissed!"
Believing that the courts are infalliable is just as bad as believing that they should not be aware of all facts of the case to make a just decision. The law is an important, but not entire portion of justice. A judge should be allowed to rule in the interests of justice, within the boundaries of the law.
Or put VmWare directly into the kernel. Run your windows desktop and Xwindows desktop together. Flip desktops with a keypress! Run software for anything!
They are protecting their investment. Microsoft loses on the sale of an Xbox (if you listen to industry practices) and make their money up on the games. Now imagine if the hardware can be hacked in such a way that you can bypass the security measures on it, and run whatever you want, including copied versions of their games. Big money losses! Now imagine that this is going on right now... Oh wait, it is.
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I install X on some servers. Usually for print administration, and a handful of x tools. I don't want to have to ssh into a box to clear a queue, and it's easier to train non-sysadmins on a gui. Also during initial configuration, I use x and multiple shell programs to have man pages, config files and web pages available right there.
once the server is production-ready, x gets pulled.
Slackware is, for all purposes, a server OS. If you like to tinker, it's great. If you're looking for the desktop, I would shy away from it. Packages aren't rolled out as fast as RH, etc., the package management is not as refined as other distros, and I've had to rely on source quite a bit. But with 8.1+, reiserfs is simple to set up, it comes with netcat, lsof, and the rest of the power utils.
I usually install the base, the networking stuff, and x, and compile everything else from source. Apache, PHP, Mysql, Squid, ssh all compile without gripes. The filesystem layout is sane and farmiliar.
All-in-all, it's a James Doohan flavour of linux, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Yeah, and they did admit to version inflation, to keep up with redhat.
;), we would be on Slackware 47 by now. (it would actually be in the 20s somewhere if we'd gone 1, 2, 3...)
:)
;)
From their website
The following was posted to the Slackware.com Forum by Patrick Volkerding (Slackware Project Lead), at 21:43 10-10-1999.
I've stayed out of this for now, but I do think I should lend a little justification to the version number thing.
First off, I think I forgot to count some time ago. If I'd started on 6.0 and made every release a major version (I think that's how Linux releases are made these days, right?
I think it's clear that some other distributions inflated their version numbers for marketing purposes, and I've had to field (way too many times) the question "why isn't yours 6.x" or worse "when will you upgrade to Linux 6.0" which really drives home the effectiveness of this simple trick. With the move to glibc and nearly everyone else using 6.x now, it made sense to go to at least 6.0, just to make it clear to people who don't know anything about Linux that Slackware's libraries, compilers, and other stuff are not 3 major versions behind. I thought they'd all be using 7.0 by now, but no matter. We're at least "one better", right?
Sorry if I haven't been enough of a purist about this. I promise I won't inflate the version number again (unless everyone else does again
Slackware has 9.0 in preview.
Just download the current tree at slackware.org
Just installed slack 8.1 last night. Runs great on a p133 for a small server/
Yeah, but if MSNBC is going to take a hit because of anti-MS sentiment, they will undoubtedly step up with more advertising, more info, more news stories, just plain more. They would FUDify the market just as much as CNN would, if only to protect their stocks. And in the grand scheme of things, such an outbreak would get everyone back to where they started, with the lines drawn more deeply this time around.
They own a major news source. They are not going to fall out of favour.
The war (if you are a zealot of either side) HAS to be won on merit alone. Both sides have been FUD-slining for a great while now, and it has had little to no impact on either competitor.
NFS is very secure, if you have the time to fine-tune it. Unfortunately it is not as intuitive as it could be.
The same goes for the Linux security model. Great strides have been made in making the file permissions very secure, but the main problem goes beyond the basics of file permissions, group ownership, etc. Real masters at the file permissions have an almost zen-like control over their systems, bending the security model to the point just before it breaks, to achieve maximum security over a file system. The trick is not knowing which permissions allow or deny access to a file, but rather how they interact with each other.
When people stop hacking computers. Until then, it's choose one or the other.
That didn't work for the Aibo. You buy the product, not the technology. Right or wrong, that's the way it is.
Thank you for the enlightenment.
No, If I remember, he came out and said that he had HIV, then he said that he didn't. God, I wish somebody else had seen the interview.
Incidentally, why not just give a patient a complete blood transfusion to severely dilute the aids virus, then hit it with the cocktail to kill anything else off? Is this too simplistic?
Actually, there was an interview with Barbara Walters IIRC, that he said that he no longer had the AIDS virus, and that he couldn't talk more about the treatment.
Can anyone confirm this?
In the news: Magic Johnson is still not dead from AIDS.
Now that's truly magic!
Yeah, but Walmart sells socks for $1.00 per pair. At that price it's cheaper for me to buy new ones every week rather than launder them.
so that's 25e27 pairs of socks before I run out, and that doesn't take skivvies into account!
Then we can work on running out of ipV6 space. Each one of my socks can have an ip address! Where's my blue shirt? I'll just ping it!
Only if you made so much money that you have to dump it back into infrastructure without increasing physical assets.
We're just better at pirating the exams than the Phys. Ed. department. Go figure.
"Are there any girls there? Cuz if there are, I want to do them!!!"
NWN is an excellent example of standardizing a game engine so that the core rules, interaction, etc is easily understood, and expandable.
Even if the engine itself is closed source, Bioware et al give a developer everything that they need to expand the game with a professional level editor, object scripting, and releasing server software.
These things show a commitment to the gaming community, allow for the game to become near infinately expandable, and give the users as much (or as little) of the behind-the-scenes action as they want.
I haven't played around with the editors enough yet, but if you could create your own weapons, armour, and races, you could even expand the world from the medieval/fantasy to Sci-Fi, Horror, western, etc, the same way the core rules have been expanded in the pen-and-paper version.
No, judges do have the power to make laws, via precident. Even though it is not a law per say, it is still used by lawyers as gospel, usually until it has had a monster snowball effect.
I will agree that the Supreme Court is the most fair in the land, but that does not mean that it is absolutely fair.
Where do you think that those wacky laws that are still on the books come from. Do you sincerely think that some politician petitioned a law to allow NYPD officers to bite dogs in Central Park, provided that there was just cause? Or do you think that some cop went in fromt of a judge who was feeling particularly funny and said "The dog bit you? Bite him back next time! Case Dismissed!"
Believing that the courts are infalliable is just as bad as believing that they should not be aware of all facts of the case to make a just decision. The law is an important, but not entire portion of justice. A judge should be allowed to rule in the interests of justice, within the boundaries of the law.
We all know what happened when Leisure Suit Larry skipped a number...It was chaos to all the sex-starved cyber geeks. Go 3 or go home!
Or put VmWare directly into the kernel. Run your windows desktop and Xwindows desktop together. Flip desktops with a keypress! Run software for anything!
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They are protecting their investment. Microsoft loses on the sale of an Xbox (if you listen to industry practices) and make their money up on the games. Now imagine if the hardware can be hacked in such a way that you can bypass the security measures on it, and run whatever you want, including copied versions of their games. Big money losses!
Now imagine that this is going on right now... Oh wait, it is.
I think that from here on in, we should do exactly what the acronym stands for, and end user licence agreements!