Actually, interestingly enough, the only dot file in the/etc/skel directory that populates user's home directories is.screenrc. So GNU screen is well supported in Slackware.:-)
*I'm looking at Debian (gentoo is really nice, but I need stability and quality control is something that is severly lacking there), SuSE (nice, but priced almost worse than Windows), and *BSD (not as much third party software, but that doesn't effect me much)
FreeBSD "ports" includes 11,000 pieces of third party software. That's more than Debian and it's kept up-to-date and is easy to remain up-to-date. The other *BSDs have fairly large repositories too, NetBSD pkgsrc numbers some 4,000 packages.
My favorite Linux distro is Slackware, you might want to look at it again, it no longer has the old-software issues that affected it when they were slow to adopt glibc.
Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there were lots of different kinds of micro-computers [...] IBM is a lot of things, but hardware monopolist isn't it.
And even longer ago, before the micros, there were lots of kinds of mainframes. The major mainframe companies were IBM and the "seven dwarfs" (folks like Honeywell and Univac were among the dwarfs.) IBM was a hardware monopoly then, and in fact they made most of their money off of their hardware monopoly and the reputation their all-powerful marketing did for inferior mainframe hardware compared to some of their mainframe and mini competitors.
Then the microcomputers and the clones occured and things changed. To IBM's credit they have recently made a turn-around - becoming a services company more than a hardware company.
I have a laser printer--but Canon seems to be the best deal in inkjets right now.
That's too bad, because according to LinuxPrinting.org Canon are among the worst in Linux compatability. HP and Epson are usually the best. (Always use this website when you shop for a printer if you intend to run it under Linux. There's lots of Windows-only printers out there.)
Monsanto is evil. Very very evil. You think Microsoft or the RIAA are evil? Multiply that by about 200,000 and you might get some idea of how evil Monstanto and ADM are. GM "food" is going to wind up being the next black plague...
Could be, and the problem is that you won't see this on mainstream media. Ever wonder why ADM and the like sponsor the Sunday morning political talk-shows? Also, the federal government gives more money to big agribusiness than it ever will to welfare queens. Big agribusiness and its effects on our, and the third world's, food supply is one of the most under-reported stories out there.
I'll add my voice to the people reccomending Slackware, it is a great "I want to *learn* Unix" distribution. Slackware's minimalist packaging system is great because if you get third party software from a third party source you don't have to worry about side-effects because it's not in your packaging database.
Even though it comes with slightly less software than distributions that have 3 CDs of binaries rather than Slackware 9.1's 2 (originally 1 CD but KDE and GNOME got too big), the system is well picked and is installed in standard locations so./configure scripts will find them. Slackware also installs fast and in my experience detects hardware now fairly well, though you will have to run xf86cfg or xf86config to configure your graphics card if you want acceleration and higher resolutions.
That having been said if this is scaring you than perhaps something like SuSE would be more up your alley. I tried it and it's an excellent desktop distribution.
Also if you have broadband and want to always have the latest and greatest by cvsupping ports FreeBSD might be a good idea, I'd run FreeBSD as a sort of "source-based" Unix over Gentoo, unless you need to get that last few percent of speed for scientific applications.
NetBSD is also a very interesting system, and actually has less security reports, including services included rather than "default install", than OpenBSD. Unfortunately for me I don't have broadband so downloading most of the third party packages via source just takes up too much time here, though I'm thinking of reinstalling *BSD because I love it as well as Slack. (If my keyboard wasn't USB, which messes up dual-booting *BSD, I'd dual-boot them.)
"Later on"? Hillel lived 50 years before the alleged lifetime of Jesus.
Judaism, like Catholicism, (and especially at the time!) is certainly far slower than 50 years in moving current people's ideas into official canon.
The "later on" meant that it took a while for Judaism to incorporate that idea as canon doctrine.
Unlikely. Rabbi Hillel was the head of the Sanhedrin, and similar statements were made by his successor, Rabbi Akiva. "Love thy neighbor as thyself" is from the book of Leviticus, after all; and it showed signs of being quite in the mainstream of Jewish thought. It is quite difficult to imagine it being the result of the NT considering Jewish history.
According to the Bible, Jesus shocked the surrounding Jewish rabbis when he healed someone on the Sabbath - certainly fine by any interpretation of the Golden Rule, but not by a strict interpretation of the Ten Commandments.
The man, IIRC, had a non-serious medical condition, in the case of life threatening, even the most remote sort of life threatening condition, the Sabbath may be violated. As it says in the Talmud "Let him violate one Sabbath so he can observe many Sabbaths."
In the case of Ois Ish, however, he allegedly performed a miracle-healing of a non-serious condition that he could have simply postponed until Saturday night if he wanted to respect Judaism rather than show off his ability to perform miracle-working. Since not only the Oral Torah but also the written Torah, which you believe to be divine as well, commands us not to abandon our religion if a false prophet performs miracles, we do not consider this to be a valid way of teaching Judaism.
If He is all-knowing and all-seeing, He already knows what you're going to do, so what is the point in actually doing the test?
G-d does not test people because he needs to know if they can pass it, but because the one being tested will experience growth because of his achievment. Abraham passed his ten tests coming out of each test a greater person. Although G-d certainly knew that Abraham could pass the tests, he also knew that the spiritual and ethical growth Abraham would experience from the ten tests could only come well through Abraham's passing them.
Think about that--we have Old Testament prophecy concerning the coming of a Savior;
Jews might disagree with that "fact". The Jewish messiah, who herelds in a world to come perfected, doesn't much resemble the figure of "your savior from eternal torture" messiah-worship of xtianity, which cannot be found in the "Old Testement".
Even Judaism realized that later on - What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellowman. This is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.
"Later on"? Hillel lived 50 years before the alleged lifetime of Jesus.
That's one of the reasons why Jews do not believe in Jesus, little of what he teaches is new to Judaism, the Nt lifts liberally from the Pharasees that it curses, and what he does teach that is new to Judaism is foreign to it, coming from other sources such as the Greco-Roman mystery religions of the time.. (Like worshiping the messiah and weak monotheism.)
bash-2.05b$ fortune -m DECzilla
%% (fortunes)
Speaking of Godzilla and other things that convey horror:
With a purposeful grimace and a Mongo-like flair
He throws the spinning disk drives in the air!
And he picks up a Vax and he throws it back down
As he wades through the lab making terrible sounds!
Helpless users with projects due
Scream "My God!" as he stomps on the tape drives, too!
Oh, no! He says Unix runs too slow! Go, go, DECzilla!
Oh, yes! He's gonna bring up VMS! Go, go, DECzilla!"
* VMS is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation
* DECzilla is a trademark of Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of Death, Inc.
Well then there's two possibilities. Is it so hard to tell the difference between Windows and OS/2? All that's needed is a simple heuristic to tell the difference.
I agree with you, let's make yet another Linux distro that does that.;-)
if there's an NTFS partition, it's not that hard to guess what OS is installed there and how to boot it.
No, the same partition identification for NTFS is also for OS/2. For this reason, unlike FAT partitions, NTFS partitions are configured manually in some distros.
Java is already available on FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, and NetBSD. FreeBSD even finally has a binary version available for download (the "Diablo" project) so you don't have to neccesarily download the JDK source and a Linux JDK (to be run with binary emulation) in order to build and bootstrap it, a lengthy process.
Diablo currently is 1.3 though, but reportedly a 1.4 version is going to be ready soon, jdk1.4 in ports is basically production-ready and almost ready to pass Sun's required complience tests for a new "Diablo" version.
It [RHEL] comes out every 18 months - that's still faster than a lot of distros (it's supported for 5 years).
A lot? Most distros come out every 9 months and some every 6 months or less, though there are a few such as Turbo Linux or the now-dead Caldera that have a similar timetable to that. (They are also aimed at the same market that RHEL is aimed at.) By the way, the effort to make a free enterprise Linux based on Debian headed by Bruce Perens (what's it called again?) seems like an excellent idea, the slower release cycle of Debian makes it a good distro to built that on.
Why is this considered a good thing? Yes, the dependency trap does make it more difficult to work with RPM -- get the source RPM, rpmbuild --rebuild it, install the resulting binary
Frequently there *is* no source rpm, just the original source. Slackware makes using source of programs, when neccesary, simple without corrupting dependency checking, with RPM you'll often get false missing dependency warnings as a result so it's practical to never use source, or RPMs, outside of what your distribution provides. BTW, in my experience dependencies are usually met because Slackware includes the some of the most common libraries, and when it doesn't the./configure program will find out what's missing - just what rpm does except not with the unbypassable-without-sideffects dependency database.
On the RedHat side we have a group of distros dedicated to making Linux easier for the user to use, more powerful for the admins to admin, and more up to date for the up-to-daters to update. On the Debian side you have people focused on making distributions that are not encumbered by IP violations.
The difference isn't so clear-cut. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat's revenue-generating product, unlike Fedora isn't so "up to date", and Red Hat also is very "religious" about the GPL, up to not including mp3 plugins for xmms. Fedora is like Debian Unstable, not a production system and bleeding-edge, RHEL is like Debian Stable, a seldom-updated except for security reasons distribution for stability.
it remains to be seen whether the Linux ecosystem can allow for two completely dichotomous memes to exist and flourish.
There are not just two distros, there are over a hundred, and many of the most used ones flourish enough to thrive. Slackware, for example, has been around for longer than Debian and Red Hat, and (except for the period where they had the libc5 problem) has become just as up to date as its competition. It has it's own niche, it's very Unix-like, is not especially bloated (though 9.1 for the first time grew to two installation CDs because of GNOME and KDE growing so big.) and does not have dependency hell by avoiding dependency checking altogeather. (I am posting this in Slackware right now, but I've used other distros so I know their strengths and weaknesses.)
I can't wipe my ass without Micro$oft patenting the technique!
Actually, to be fair, although they have a significant patent portfolio they haven't agressively defended it. Except recently with the FAT patent enforcement, which could be a herald of things to come.
sorry thats wrong.
the BSD's started from common ground, but they are now incompatible (in the sense that code cant just be easily applied)
When he said "Unix(tm) was forked" he probably didn't mean BSD, which is not Unix(tm) anymore, he probably meant the Unix wars of the 80s, where a myrid of firms made SysV commercial Unixes that were all incompatable with each other. This fragmentation persists in the trible memory and makes Unix hackers wary of any forks.
(The BSDs do just fine even with forks, I'm running DragonFly, which is a fork of FreeBSD. (Though it's nearly completely compatable with FreeBSD.)
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The article on Discovery you linked to claims that Stallman, unlike the other hackers, has no nickname. Of course, he does, his login "rms".
Actually, interestingly enough, the only dot file in the /etc/skel directory that populates user's home directories is .screenrc. So GNU screen is well supported in Slackware. :-)
FreeBSD "ports" includes 11,000 pieces of third party software. That's more than Debian and it's kept up-to-date and is easy to remain up-to-date. The other *BSDs have fairly large repositories too, NetBSD pkgsrc numbers some 4,000 packages.
My favorite Linux distro is Slackware, you might want to look at it again, it no longer has the old-software issues that affected it when they were slow to adopt glibc.
Then the microcomputers and the clones occured and things changed. To IBM's credit they have recently made a turn-around - becoming a services company more than a hardware company.
Even though it comes with slightly less software than distributions that have 3 CDs of binaries rather than Slackware 9.1's 2 (originally 1 CD but KDE and GNOME got too big), the system is well picked and is installed in standard locations so ./configure scripts will find them. Slackware also installs fast and in my experience detects hardware now fairly well, though you will have to run xf86cfg or xf86config to configure your graphics card if you want acceleration and higher resolutions.
That having been said if this is scaring you than perhaps something like SuSE would be more up your alley. I tried it and it's an excellent desktop distribution.
Also if you have broadband and want to always have the latest and greatest by cvsupping ports FreeBSD might be a good idea, I'd run FreeBSD as a sort of "source-based" Unix over Gentoo, unless you need to get that last few percent of speed for scientific applications.
NetBSD is also a very interesting system, and actually has less security reports, including services included rather than "default install", than OpenBSD. Unfortunately for me I don't have broadband so downloading most of the third party packages via source just takes up too much time here, though I'm thinking of reinstalling *BSD because I love it as well as Slack. (If my keyboard wasn't USB, which messes up dual-booting *BSD, I'd dual-boot them.)
Slackware has released a security update.
In the case of Ois Ish, however, he allegedly performed a miracle-healing of a non-serious condition that he could have simply postponed until Saturday night if he wanted to respect Judaism rather than show off his ability to perform miracle-working. Since not only the Oral Torah but also the written Torah, which you believe to be divine as well, commands us not to abandon our religion if a false prophet performs miracles, we do not consider this to be a valid way of teaching Judaism.
That's one of the reasons why Jews do not believe in Jesus, little of what he teaches is new to Judaism, the Nt lifts liberally from the Pharasees that it curses, and what he does teach that is new to Judaism is foreign to it, coming from other sources such as the Greco-Roman mystery religions of the time.. (Like worshiping the messiah and weak monotheism.)
%% (fortunes)
Speaking of Godzilla and other things that convey horror:
* VMS is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation
* DECzilla is a trademark of Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of Death, Inc.
Java is already available on FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, and NetBSD. FreeBSD even finally has a binary version available for download (the "Diablo" project) so you don't have to neccesarily download the JDK source and a Linux JDK (to be run with binary emulation) in order to build and bootstrap it, a lengthy process.
Diablo currently is 1.3 though, but reportedly a 1.4 version is going to be ready soon, jdk1.4 in ports is basically production-ready and almost ready to pass Sun's required complience tests for a new "Diablo" version.
Unlikey, as Aristotle was later than Plato. Nice try though.
What surprised me is that Slashdot, on it's front page, advertized a host file that specifically blocks the ads on slashdot. (ads.osdn.com, etc.)
Spec files aren't available universally or even commonly.
Thanks for the tip.
Frequently there *is* no source rpm, just the original source. Slackware makes using source of programs, when neccesary, simple without corrupting dependency checking, with RPM you'll often get false missing dependency warnings as a result so it's practical to never use source, or RPMs, outside of what your distribution provides. BTW, in my experience dependencies are usually met because Slackware includes the some of the most common libraries, and when it doesn't the ./configure program will find out what's missing - just what rpm does except not with the unbypassable-without-sideffects dependency database.
The difference isn't so clear-cut. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat's revenue-generating product, unlike Fedora isn't so "up to date", and Red Hat also is very "religious" about the GPL, up to not including mp3 plugins for xmms. Fedora is like Debian Unstable, not a production system and bleeding-edge, RHEL is like Debian Stable, a seldom-updated except for security reasons distribution for stability.
There are not just two distros, there are over a hundred, and many of the most used ones flourish enough to thrive. Slackware, for example, has been around for longer than Debian and Red Hat, and (except for the period where they had the libc5 problem) has become just as up to date as its competition. It has it's own niche, it's very Unix-like, is not especially bloated (though 9.1 for the first time grew to two installation CDs because of GNOME and KDE growing so big.) and does not have dependency hell by avoiding dependency checking altogeather. (I am posting this in Slackware right now, but I've used other distros so I know their strengths and weaknesses.)
Actually, to be fair, although they have a significant patent portfolio they haven't agressively defended it. Except recently with the FAT patent enforcement, which could be a herald of things to come.
(The BSDs do just fine even with forks, I'm running DragonFly, which is a fork of FreeBSD. (Though it's nearly completely compatable with FreeBSD.)