I have an intel board with an integrated Ensoniq chip which does work with linux 2.0.36 or greater.
Find out what video/sound chips are on the motherboard. Personally, I would steer clear of generic stuff - stick with Asus for your mobo and you CANNT go wrong. Don'y skimp on such an important component. Just my.02.
Using 2.2.x will increase your chances of support...
What a load of shit. If it properly follows unix filesystem standards, writes and parses perfect (read standard) XML, and isn't a bloated pig, I might consider it. Otherwise, no.
While I think the AC concept does hurt the sense of "community" at/. (everyone is anonymous and no one ever gets to know each other here, unlike the BBS' of the early 90's).
But it does allow people to post things they might be otherwise too embarassed to post. I think that is probably more important.
The only things MS has innovated are those stinking macro viruses, corrupted binary mailbox files, and untranslatable file formats. Word is absolute trash. Outlook is even worse. The two combined are incredible to behold in action, sort of like Satan.
Every day in my life is a new adventure in the cesspool of M$ software. Everything they make is pure, utter garbage.
About eight months ago I gave up on dual booting 95 and linux. I realized I don't need Word Processors at all, I don't need games, I don't need warez; I don't need any of that crap.
I needed to learn linux, and it just wasn't going to happen if I kept booting into comfy, crash happy windows. It's painful to switch because unix was so alien to me, yet I saw an elegance and beauty in it's design that I just didn't see in windows.
Now I can't stand to even look at windows, and I get along in Linux just fine. I write everything in emacs/html.
When using windows I feel chained, hampered. Dead ends and barriers to use everywhere. Learning unix is definitely liberating.
I LOVE THE FOOT. KEEP THE FOOT PLEASE!
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The foot is cool. If Red Hat takes out the foot, I'm leaving Red Hat forever. Especially if they replace it with that obnoxious "secret man" logo. Am I the only one who was annoyed by them slathering that thing all over FVWM?
I don't really care if Corel makes a new distro - it will be easier for them to support their products that way. They don't need to roll their own, just take Red Hat and modify it some (ala Mandrake).
I'm concerned mainly whether they're going to use GTK for their applications or that HORRIBLE implementation of Motif they did for Word Perfect.
Does anyone know whether it's possible for them to write apps to winelib but still use GTK (I have no idea)?
GTK kicks ass. They need to use GTK!!!!!!!! and don't say GTK is ugly because it's themeable.
Haven't you noticed all the people losing weight were fat before they started, and all those folks recovering from drug addiction were addicts before they recovered, or whatever?
Yeah, all those companies - SGI, Corel, Sun, - were all starting to collapse. And the desperation surrounding those circumstances forced them to see the light.
It also seems like it's working. Free Software is generating huge amounts of hype these days, which is wonderful... what I can't believe is that everything is going so well. It's incredible.
Matrox released the *full* specs a week ago... fantastic! AFAIK, the Millennium is still the best card to use in XFree86; and even that is slower than in windows unfortunately (I'm talking strictly about graphics speed). All that Gnome eye candy is a little hard on my old Millennium.
Maybe the new driver for the G200 / full Open GL support will be ready for Xfree 4.0 and true type built in as well! This is going to be a great year for LINUX!!!!
especially the part about haphazard directory structures (I can't wait to see WINE apps installing stuff to my root without letting me change it).
However, wine is still good. Even if I had every major application NATIVE to linux I would still need wine for all the little piddling things people around here run on a daily basis -electrical code software, vendor catalogs, none of this will be ported to linux until linux takes over completely. Until then we'll need wine for the little things.
I know several families whose kids (and they are bright kids) do nothing but hang out on IRC and play starcraft... they're wizards at it. However, they don't even know how to shut the win95 machine off - they just power it off. They don't even know how to copy files from one directory to another. Truly the US is a nation of utter morons.
Funny that Katz mentions Turner... a few years ago Ted Turner had some weird "contest" for someone who could "write a good ending for the world" (whatever, I didn't get it either).
It seems an ending is being written for his world. So long Ted, Warner, et al. No one will miss you.
I tried Solaris x86 at home, and as a home system solaris doesn't hold a candle to a typical linux distribution. Out of the box I find Solaris completely unuseable, and I would have to download about a gigabyte of GNU stuff just to bring it to Red Hat's level. What they need to do with Solaris is start adding value - better shell than sh would be a good start. The install isn't nearly as good as Red Hat's either, despite what some people say.
Gnome is looking VERY sweet these days; it is certainly prettier than KDE and less windoze-ish looking. However, Enlightenment doesn't seem anywhere near completetion... or is it? The latest Gnome (99.8) has Enlightenment.15! None of the other wm work as nicely with gnome... I love window maker, but it clashes aethetically with gnome, even if it is compliant. Does anyone have an idea as to when E will be finished?
I can't wait until we have KDE, Gnome and GNUstep... the world is really changing!
All they need to do, and I mean all they need to do is FORCE SPAMMERS TO HAVE VALID REPLY-TO ADDRESSES. This is perfectly reasonable, and it would stop spam OVERNIGHT. All this other legislation is totally ridiculous.
I collect those things - I rescued three from the trash heap so far. Most users simply aren't very picky about their keyboards - they don't type, they click around with the mouse. Anyone who actually types prefers a clicking keyboard like those old IBMs.
Focus also makes some very nice keyboards, very inexpensive too. Nicer click feel than the IBM's I think, a tiny bit lighter. How about those Happy Hacker Keyboards? Has anyone used those? How do they compare to classic clicking keyboards?
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I have an intel board with an integrated Ensoniq chip which does work with linux 2.0.36 or greater.
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Find out what video/sound chips are on the motherboard.
Personally, I would steer clear of generic stuff - stick with Asus for your mobo and you CANNT go wrong. Don'y skimp on such an important component. Just my
Using 2.2.x will increase your chances of support
That is one butt ugly motherfucker. Can some Gimp enabled soul please borgify his ass, like the /. pic of Gates?
>I was at a Playstation (original) developer's conference in Los Angeles, '97,
that was a long time ago.
A few thousand development machines - SGI PC's running Linux - is definitely a big push towards "mainstream".
I just can't wait to see this:
What a load of shit. If it properly follows unix filesystem standards, writes and parses perfect (read standard) XML, and isn't a bloated pig, I might consider it. Otherwise, no.
Propognda really is absurd, but it isn't really funny either. Just kinda flaky. Just my 2 cents.
the backgrounds are cool, though.
While I think the AC concept does hurt the sense of "community" at /. (everyone is anonymous and no one ever gets to know each other here, unlike the BBS' of the early 90's).
But it does allow people to post things they might be otherwise too embarassed to post. I think that is probably more important.
The only things MS has innovated are those stinking macro viruses, corrupted binary mailbox files, and untranslatable file formats. Word is absolute trash. Outlook is even worse. The two combined are incredible to behold in action, sort of like Satan.
Every day in my life is a new adventure in the cesspool of M$ software. Everything they make is pure, utter garbage.
About eight months ago I gave up on dual booting 95 and linux. I realized I don't need Word Processors at all, I don't need games, I don't need warez; I don't need any of that crap.
I needed to learn linux, and it just wasn't going to happen if I kept booting into comfy, crash happy windows.
It's painful to switch because unix was so alien to me, yet I saw an elegance and beauty in it's design that I just didn't see in windows.
Now I can't stand to even look at windows, and I get along in Linux just fine. I write everything in emacs/html.
When using windows I feel chained, hampered. Dead ends and barriers to use everywhere. Learning unix is definitely liberating.
The foot is cool. If Red Hat takes out the foot, I'm leaving Red Hat forever. Especially if they replace it with that obnoxious "secret man" logo. Am I the only one who was annoyed by them slathering that thing all over FVWM?
The Gnome Foot will stomp everyone!!!
I don't really care if Corel makes a new distro - it will be easier for them to support their products that way. They don't need to roll their own, just take Red Hat and modify it some (ala Mandrake).
I'm concerned mainly whether they're going to use GTK for their applications or that HORRIBLE implementation of Motif they did for Word Perfect.
Does anyone know whether it's possible for them to write apps to winelib but still use GTK (I have no idea)?
GTK kicks ass. They need to use GTK!!!!!!!! and don't say GTK is ugly because it's themeable.
Haven't you noticed all the people losing weight were fat before they started, and all those folks recovering from drug addiction were addicts before they recovered, or whatever?
Yeah, all those companies - SGI, Corel, Sun, - were all starting to collapse. And the desperation surrounding those circumstances forced them to see the light.
It also seems like it's working. Free Software is generating huge amounts of hype these days, which is wonderful ... what I can't believe is that everything is going so well. It's incredible.
Matrox released the *full* specs a week ago ... fantastic! AFAIK, the Millennium is still the best card to use in XFree86; and even that is slower than in windows unfortunately (I'm talking strictly about graphics speed). All that Gnome eye candy is a little hard on my old Millennium.
Maybe the new driver for the G200 / full Open GL support will be ready for Xfree 4.0 and true type built in as well! This is going to be a great year for LINUX!!!!
especially the part about haphazard directory structures (I can't wait to see WINE apps installing stuff to my root without letting me change it).
However, wine is still good. Even if I had every major application NATIVE to linux I would still need wine for all the little piddling things people around here run on a daily basis -electrical code software, vendor catalogs, none of this will be ported to linux until linux takes over completely. Until then we'll need wine for the little things.
I know several families whose kids (and they are bright kids) do nothing but hang out on IRC and play starcraft ... they're wizards at it. However, they don't even know how to shut the win95 machine off - they just power it off. They don't even know how to copy files from one directory to another. Truly the US is a nation of utter morons.
Just take "useable" from "unstable" and "NT" is what is leftover
-- heard somewhere on usenet
Man, this has been posted to /. like three times, I guess due to it's being carried by three different web sites. But, it's a good article.
Funny that Katz mentions Turner ... a few years ago Ted Turner had some weird "contest" for someone who could "write a good ending for the world" (whatever, I didn't get it either).
It seems an ending is being written for his world. So long Ted, Warner, et al. No one will miss you.
I tried Solaris x86 at home, and as a home system solaris doesn't hold a candle to a typical linux distribution. Out of the box I find Solaris completely unuseable, and I would have to download about a gigabyte of GNU stuff just to bring it to Red Hat's level.
What they need to do with Solaris is start adding value - better shell than sh would be a good start.
The install isn't nearly as good as Red Hat's either, despite what some people say.
Actually, I think you could, just need more users.
I want to know when we'll be seing laptops runnng one of these cool low power off shoot CPUs and LINUX ...
Gnome is looking VERY sweet these days; it is certainly prettier than KDE and less windoze-ish looking. ... or is it? The latest Gnome (99.8) has Enlightenment .15! None of the other wm work as nicely with gnome ... I love window maker, but it clashes aethetically with gnome, even if it is compliant.
... the world is really changing!
However, Enlightenment doesn't seem anywhere near completetion
Does anyone have an idea as to when E will be finished?
I can't wait until we have KDE, Gnome and GNUstep
Duh - this IS what they are doing - I hadn't check the bill itself due to it's slashdottedness.
... who cares?
However, the part about the programs being illegal doesn't seem to make sense
All they need to do, and I mean all they need to do is FORCE SPAMMERS TO HAVE VALID REPLY-TO ADDRESSES. This is perfectly reasonable, and it would stop spam OVERNIGHT.
All this other legislation is totally ridiculous.
I collect those things - I rescued three from the trash heap so far. Most users simply aren't very picky about their keyboards - they don't type, they click around with the mouse. Anyone who actually types prefers a clicking keyboard like those old IBMs.
Focus also makes some very nice keyboards, very inexpensive too. Nicer click feel than the IBM's I think, a tiny bit lighter.
How about those Happy Hacker Keyboards? Has anyone used those? How do they compare to classic clicking keyboards?