In my laptop, a toshiba tecra 8200 is a trident cyberblade xp gfx chipset. Trident has not beeing willing to provide specs. or anything else so that the Xfree people can provide us with drivers. I feel very bad about Trident and will never buy another product from them again. Please do not support such companies and buy products like Ati, which have a good relationship with the Xfree people.
>* Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI) - >Excuse-the-hell me? Isn't the idea to get journaling >filesystems in to the kernel because that's what everyone >wants? XFS is proven, get it the heck in there.
I agree that XFS had been proven stable. Right now it is been merged in a seperate cvs repos (SGI). I tried to run 2.5.15, I think it was, with XFS cvs. It didn't go very well, when I did large transfers, the system would completely lock for about 5 sec. and then continue. This happened every 5 minutes or so. That combined with the fact that the ide had been rewritten and isn't really stable has given me some series doubts about trying 2.5 again. About ReiserFS v.4 is it _not_ going it! There isn't even a downloadable version out yet. Is way to alpha/beta to go into 2.5.
Firstly I wouldn't think this would come from a hotmail user:-)
I've been following the dxr3 (em8300) developers closely for quite some time and from what they say it's been hell developing drivers for the card (no specs at all). Even worse getting real-time divx decoding and a/v sync.
But it works now and I wouldn't trade my dxr3 for a "native" mpeg4 decoder card in the world. Decoding divx and reencoding it to mpeg2 takes about 10% cpu on my xp 1700 so it's no biggy and the quality is excelent.
What happens when divx 6 or another great codec comes out? I'll just upgrade mplayer and you'll be screwed:)
I've been running Gnome2 since beta5 on gentoo and it's been rock solid. Becoming better and better for every revision. The only major concern I have is that gnome terminal still seems quite buggy - but there's allways Eterm, Xterm and hundreds of others so it's not a major showstopper.
Since mplayer got Real support the only really missing link was the sorensen quicktime codecs. Now that Xine has done sorensen and it's gpl 'ed it should just be a matter of time before mplayer has support for it too. Isn't Free Software wonderful?
I really like the minimal install that slackware comes with, but I also love the debian package system or the bsd package system. If you want both try gentoo.
The linux games status is in a bad circle: users won't run linux for games because there is none and big game companies won't released games for linux because there is no marked for it.
And tell you what DirectX surely doesn't help this, lets hope more drivers will.
This is great news and I really hope this will be the start for more open source drivers. The graphics acceleraters marked moves very fast, what was fast 1 year ago won't run the latest games today. We need drivers before the card is released or when it's released like they have in windows (the latest radeon drivers has support for rv300). Not something like 1 year after it's released.
Old news, was released the 29. Still waiting for 2.5.20:-)
If you want a lot of 2.5 features without sacrificing to much then there is allways the jp kernel patches located here. It includes xfs, ext3 fixes, low-latency, alsa and a lot of other things.
What strikes me about the release notes is that allthough kde 3.0 is a big update there is no kde programs mentioned.
Instead they show us all the great gnome office programs, gnomemeeting evolution.... And yes gnome 1.4.1 is also mentioned so it's not to compensate..:)
My 10gb travelstar is also very loud. I've tried shutting it down with hdparm to confirm it, and yes it is true.
Today I ordered a new disc, unfortuanatly I couldn't buy anything but IBM travelstar. Hope it works better
Or maybe they should sell unique keys of the net which enables me to play them anywhere, something like gnupg (public-private keys). I know there i some complications with this. Also they should allow you to download it in some secure and *open* format in very high quality or whatever I choose. Im thinking ogg vorbis + security here.
With this model they can cut of a very big part of the price, there is no middle-man, no production (cd's shipping...) which means cd's could be bought on the net for something like 4-5$. This is much more more resonable. And you know what, just look at napster. The market is there!
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Galeon 2 is under development but it's still not there. Come on, I really need a great browser for gnome2 :)
http://galeon.sourceforge.net/galeon2/
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In my laptop, a toshiba tecra 8200 is a trident cyberblade xp gfx chipset. Trident has not beeing willing to provide specs. or anything else so that the Xfree people can provide us with drivers. I feel very bad about Trident and will never buy another product from them again. Please do not support such companies and buy products like Ati, which have a good relationship with the Xfree people.
The Linux Security Model has been included in the upcomming 2.6
This gives a very nice overview why and which things should be able to make it in 2.5.
>* Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI) - >Excuse-the-hell me? Isn't the idea to get journaling >filesystems in to the kernel because that's what everyone >wants? XFS is proven, get it the heck in there. I agree that XFS had been proven stable. Right now it is been merged in a seperate cvs repos (SGI). I tried to run 2.5.15, I think it was, with XFS cvs. It didn't go very well, when I did large transfers, the system would completely lock for about 5 sec. and then continue. This happened every 5 minutes or so. That combined with the fact that the ide had been rewritten and isn't really stable has given me some series doubts about trying 2.5 again. About ReiserFS v.4 is it _not_ going it! There isn't even a downloadable version out yet. Is way to alpha/beta to go into 2.5.
If you after 2.6 emidietly start working on 2.7 then maybe you didn't do a good enough job with 2.5.
Kernel.org says 2.4.19rc1
Firstly I wouldn't think this would come from a hotmail user :-)
:)
I've been following the dxr3 (em8300) developers closely for quite some time and from what they say it's been hell developing drivers for the card (no specs at all). Even worse getting real-time divx decoding and a/v sync.
But it works now and I wouldn't trade my dxr3 for a "native" mpeg4 decoder card in the world. Decoding divx and reencoding it to mpeg2 takes about 10% cpu on my xp 1700 so it's no biggy and the quality is excelent.
What happens when divx 6 or another great codec comes out? I'll just upgrade mplayer and you'll be screwed
I've been running Gnome2 since beta5 on gentoo and it's been rock solid. Becoming better and better for every revision. The only major concern I have is that gnome terminal still seems quite buggy - but there's allways Eterm, Xterm and hundreds of others so it's not a major showstopper.
Since mplayer got Real support the only really missing link was the sorensen quicktime codecs. Now that Xine has done sorensen and it's gpl 'ed it should just be a matter of time before mplayer has support for it too. Isn't Free Software wonderful?
I really like the minimal install that slackware comes with, but I also love the debian package system or the bsd package system. If you want both try gentoo.
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Ati has done the same with Radeon and Radeon8500. Their newest drivers even work with rv300
The linux games status is in a bad circle: users won't run linux for games because there is none and big game companies won't released games for linux because there is no marked for it.
And tell you what DirectX surely doesn't help this, lets hope more drivers will.
This is great news and I really hope this will be the start for more open source drivers. The graphics acceleraters marked moves very fast, what was fast 1 year ago won't run the latest games today. We need drivers before the card is released or when it's released like they have in windows (the latest radeon drivers has support for rv300). Not something like 1 year after it's released.
Old news, was released the 29. Still waiting for 2.5.20 :-)
If you want a lot of 2.5 features without sacrificing to much then there is allways the jp kernel patches located here. It includes xfs, ext3 fixes, low-latency, alsa and a lot of other things.
Radeon 8500 has _no_ 3d support but should be 2d-accelerated.
I admit it, I am the one who broke the cards so that I could stay up and watch porn. Are you all happy now?
What strikes me about the release notes is that allthough kde 3.0 is a big update there is no kde programs mentioned. :)
Instead they show us all the great gnome office programs, gnomemeeting evolution.... And yes gnome 1.4.1 is also mentioned so it's not to compensate..
Apperently you misunderstood the whole concept of free software. It is actually possible to make money on free software other than selling it.
My 10gb travelstar is also very loud. I've tried shutting it down with hdparm to confirm it, and yes it is true. Today I ordered a new disc, unfortuanatly I couldn't buy anything but IBM travelstar. Hope it works better
Yes it could.
The key is to use standard. Just look at emails and internet. Standards rule and m$ has a hard time dealing with it.
Or maybe they should sell unique keys of the net which enables me to play them anywhere, something like gnupg (public-private keys). I know there i some complications with this. Also they should allow you to download it in some secure and *open* format in very high quality or whatever I choose. Im thinking ogg vorbis + security here. With this model they can cut of a very big part of the price, there is no middle-man, no production (cd's shipping...) which means cd's could be bought on the net for something like 4-5$. This is much more more resonable. And you know what, just look at napster. The market is there!