It seems to me the better idea would be for AOL to buy Mandrake if it really wants to make a desktop OS. Mandrake is already close to a very good setup now.
When I think Red Hat I think servers (even though we run Debian on ours) and a decent desktop. I think it would really hurt the Red Hat image as a server OS to be bought by AOL. Even if AOL leaves them totally alone they will still be battling an image problem for a while.
We're about to start using it here. It's just a database with a frontend. Figure out the database structure and write anything you want. I believe the "small" version may be Borland DB but the big client/server version is SQL.
The only time it asks for the rescue disk is when installing the kernel and base setup. You need to tell it to get it elsewhere when it asks. I'm setting up Debian on a server RIGHT NOW and just installed it without the rescue disk. Set up networking first and then have it get it off the Debian site. Or you should be able to just point it at the CD.
And I just put 2.2r4 on yesterday....
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Oh yeah, apt-get.;)
Anyone have trouble with the current Woody boot disks? I tried installing that (wanted reiserfs support) on a Compaq DL360 yesterday too. It froze during boot and just put lines on the screen. I tried disabling frame buffer at the boot prompt...but that didn't help.
I ended up putting on Potato and doing a very painless upgrade..and then using ext3.
I hate to say it. I think competition would be GREAT on the desktop, but this won't fly.
Why? I'm a network admin and I wouldn't switch for ~$50/machine. What happens when one of our apps doesn't work? What happens when the VP of whatever gets a new widget and there is no driver? Now I'm supporting a couple of operating systems.
Also, what happens when an app is flakey. You think the vendor will support me when I'm running Lindows? Good luck! It sounds good in theory, but I just don't see it. One thing people need to realize is that the cost of software is very small compared to support and other things. Saving ~$50/machine is not a big deal. Sure, you may save a lot if you buy 10K machines at a time, but if you do you can get some good deals from other vendors as well.
I think the OpenSource community will have much better luck with a *GOOD* Office type application, not so much on the operating systems. That's where the real money is spent. Since the OS comes on the system the price of that is usually overlooked, and low enough not to matter when a $100 competitor comes out. Give me a good supported Office app for $100 and I'll switch from my $350/user app.
Many cable companies are starting to cap uploads at 128Kb...that's 15KB/sec. And if you think that's only a little faster than dial-up, try again. You can only get 28.8Kb/sec dialup upload.
I have several friends that have had a 128Kb/sec cap for a long time.
I love TiVo, I really do. I have two of them and it's hard to watch TV without them..but...
For my next one I want HDTV support. Right now I have to switch in and out of TiVo to watch HD shows.
I want broadband support. My monthly service for TiVo is effectively doubled since I have to keep a phoneline around for it. I guess I could hack in TivoNet...but I don't have time right now. I want to totally switch to my cell phone.
I want the ability to move shows to other recorders..or better yet, have one master box and several slaves on other TVs similar to that new one that was just announced.
Please let them support HDTV. Time Warner in my area has several HDTV channels and I also use a TiVo. This gets complicated since TiVo doesn't understand HDTV so I have to switch back and forth and don't get full use out of it anymore.
I bought a Cube the day they came out and love it. I didn't buy an XBox because I didn't think they'd do well. Well, my wife got me one for Christmas and I LOVE IT. It just seems to be a better overall system than the Cube. I love Nintendo, remember many days playing my NES. I collect consoles and have almost every one ever made....
But, the XBox is good. It does DVD. Almost every game supports widescreen. It has Dolby Digital sound. Why oh why does the Cube not do Dolby Digital? You haven't lived until you've played Halo with DD5.1. It uses it better than almost any movie....
Nothing for end users? Used XP? It's great and very stable. It runs on my Thinkpad T23 I use for work that hasn't been turned off in 3 months. It finally blue screened the other day when Shockwave had a fight with the video driver (bad vid driver..way old driver). Try again. Not everyone still runs Win95.
40% defunct rate on XBox? WTF?! There was a story the other day where less than 1% were defective. That's about right. They only shipped like 1.5 million of them. Bet you couldn't get them all perfect either.
The idea of a company is to make money. That's it. It's not to make the world a happy place. If you don't like what they sell, don't buy. Sorry Slashdot, but people need money to pay bills and get food. I'd like to honestly know how many Slashdot posters are living on their parent's dime at college.
Halo is coming for PC. It's just on the XBox first. I enjoy a good PC game as well, but the XBox has excellent widescreen and Dolby Digital support which makes sitting on the couch in front of the 64" HDTV fun as well.
For those saying you'll need to spend another $500-$1K on an HD receiver, that isn't always true. My cable company has HD cable boxes and broadcast HD signals. I just have a component cable out of the cable box in to the TV. No receiver needed. This also goes for DSS HD receivers, though those do cost more than a normal receiver. You only need a receiver if you have an antenna and get HD OTA (over the air).
Check with your cable company, you may be surprised.
But the local news is actually kind of cool in HD. They do the remote cameras in HD too so it's not just the talking heads in the studios. This is WRAL, the leading station in the country for HD, so they do a great job of it. They seem to try and find good shots to really use the widescreen and increased resolution.
Not to mention it's a great way to check out the hot news chicks.
DVDs do not display at a higher res on an HD box than on a normal TV. It's just they usually use the current 480 resolution better since the widescreen image isn't only using half the screen.
Also, you can use a progressive scan DVD player on DVDs. This basically doubles the lines on the screen to get rid of interlacing that causes scan lines and flickering.
I just bought a Pioneer 64" TV. It's 16:9 and HD capable. It replaced a Sony 53" 4:3 I've had about 4 years.
First off widescreen rocks. It's great for movies, and go ahead and get a good progressive DVD player to make them look even better (on most sets).
As for HD, it depends. I'm in Raleigh, NC and have Time Warner digital cable. They offer HD cable boxes here, if you can get to the right person. Luckily, I did. The local network stations all have HD digital feeds on the cable. So, first off I get better quality signal than the normal analog cable streams (When they advertise digital cable, they never mention that the broadcast channels are still analog...sigh). I also get the HD stream when shows are done in HD. This includes CBS, ABC, FOX, NBC, HBO, and PBS (Nature shows are excellent in HD).
Now..as for which shows are in HD... NBC just does Leno. CBS does a LOT of their primetime stuff. FOX does some widescreen, but almost none or no actual HD. ABC does a few shows. HBO does many movies in HD, but unfortunately a lot of their original shows (Oz, Dennis Miller, etc) are not. Band of Brothers is though.
I'm also very lucky to have WRAL, the local CBS affiliate. They are the leading station in the country for HD. They broadcast all of their local news in AMAZING high definition. Kudos to them for all their hard work in driving this.
If your cable company doesn't do HD you can go over the air (OTA) using an antenna. That varies by area and distance. My friend did that for like 2 years until he recently got his cable box. It worked well, just wasn't as convenient. He got all the same network affiliates I do now, but no HBO or PBS. If you have DSS you can get a HD DSS receiver and they do HBO, HDNET (HD demos and movies), and I think one PPV.
I'm very happy with my setup. Once you start watching HD shows you'll really become a snob.:)
Nope. You can do manual records and things without the subscription. Unless, they've changed it VERY recently..a lot of people don't subscribe and use it just as a digital VCR.
People always bitch about games that are too real. Guess what? People don't actually run 40MPH like they do in Quake..yes, that's the actual estimated speed in Quake. People are always 100% accurate with crosshairs... Guns aren't 100% accurate to sites like they are in Quake-like games.
I put XP on my new ThinkPad T23 as soon as I got it. It's working wonderful. I use that system every day from home to work and it is NEVER rebooted. The system has not crashed a single time. When it's not plugged in I take it in and out of standby all the time and it works every time. I've had a lot of trouble with Win2K and standby on notebooks, but so far XP is rock solid.
I'm not deploying it at work until we do more application testing with it, but if the apps work I wouldn't hesitate at all.
It would be hard to find out a components failure rate. The only person that has that information is the company that does the fixes and/or returns.
I think a better measure would be service and how the returns are handled. You could ocmpile that data from customers. To me, it isn't a big deal if a piece of equipment dies as long as it is replaced/fixed quickly. I know for my servers I keep spares around just in case... If I can't keep a spare for it I'm sure to have a 4 hour response time service agreement.
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I'm on RoadRunner and in their information they promoted the use of NAT, so not all cable companies are doing this.
Good luck finding NAT users though. What will they say, no firewalls? Yeah, that's a lawsuit when you can't protect yourself.
It seems to me the better idea would be for AOL to buy Mandrake if it really wants to make a desktop OS. Mandrake is already close to a very good setup now.
When I think Red Hat I think servers (even though we run Debian on ours) and a decent desktop. I think it would really hurt the Red Hat image as a server OS to be bought by AOL. Even if AOL leaves them totally alone they will still be battling an image problem for a while.
We're about to start using it here. It's just a database with a frontend. Figure out the database structure and write anything you want. I believe the "small" version may be Borland DB but the big client/server version is SQL.
Expect to see a lot of "This software only supported under the standard Red Hat v7.2 Kernel."
I don't blame the software companies one bit either.
That sounds like the geeks on here and Slashdot....
The only time it asks for the rescue disk is when installing the kernel and base setup. You need to tell it to get it elsewhere when it asks. I'm setting up Debian on a server RIGHT NOW and just installed it without the rescue disk. Set up networking first and then have it get it off the Debian site. Or you should be able to just point it at the CD.
Oh yeah, apt-get. ;)
Anyone have trouble with the current Woody boot disks? I tried installing that (wanted reiserfs support) on a Compaq DL360 yesterday too. It froze during boot and just put lines on the screen. I tried disabling frame buffer at the boot prompt...but that didn't help.
I ended up putting on Potato and doing a very painless upgrade..and then using ext3.
I hate to say it. I think competition would be GREAT on the desktop, but this won't fly.
Why? I'm a network admin and I wouldn't switch for ~$50/machine. What happens when one of our apps doesn't work? What happens when the VP of whatever gets a new widget and there is no driver? Now I'm supporting a couple of operating systems.
Also, what happens when an app is flakey. You think the vendor will support me when I'm running Lindows? Good luck! It sounds good in theory, but I just don't see it. One thing people need to realize is that the cost of software is very small compared to support and other things. Saving ~$50/machine is not a big deal. Sure, you may save a lot if you buy 10K machines at a time, but if you do you can get some good deals from other vendors as well.
I think the OpenSource community will have much better luck with a *GOOD* Office type application, not so much on the operating systems. That's where the real money is spent. Since the OS comes on the system the price of that is usually overlooked, and low enough not to matter when a $100 competitor comes out. Give me a good supported Office app for $100 and I'll switch from my $350/user app.
My RoadRunner upload is capped at 384Kb/sec (45KB) and the download is 2Mb/sec.
Many cable companies are starting to cap uploads at 128Kb...that's 15KB/sec. And if you think that's only a little faster than dial-up, try again. You can only get 28.8Kb/sec dialup upload.
I have several friends that have had a 128Kb/sec cap for a long time.
I love TiVo, I really do. I have two of them and it's hard to watch TV without them..but...
For my next one I want HDTV support. Right now I have to switch in and out of TiVo to watch HD shows.
I want broadband support. My monthly service for TiVo is effectively doubled since I have to keep a phoneline around for it. I guess I could hack in TivoNet...but I don't have time right now. I want to totally switch to my cell phone.
I want the ability to move shows to other recorders..or better yet, have one master box and several slaves on other TVs similar to that new one that was just announced.
Please let them support HDTV. Time Warner in my area has several HDTV channels and I also use a TiVo. This gets complicated since TiVo doesn't understand HDTV so I have to switch back and forth and don't get full use out of it anymore.
I bought a Cube the day they came out and love it. I didn't buy an XBox because I didn't think they'd do well. Well, my wife got me one for Christmas and I LOVE IT. It just seems to be a better overall system than the Cube. I love Nintendo, remember many days playing my NES. I collect consoles and have almost every one ever made....
But, the XBox is good. It does DVD. Almost every game supports widescreen. It has Dolby Digital sound. Why oh why does the Cube not do Dolby Digital? You haven't lived until you've played Halo with DD5.1. It uses it better than almost any movie....
Nothing for end users? Used XP? It's great and very stable. It runs on my Thinkpad T23 I use for work that hasn't been turned off in 3 months. It finally blue screened the other day when Shockwave had a fight with the video driver (bad vid driver..way old driver). Try again. Not everyone still runs Win95.
40% defunct rate on XBox? WTF?! There was a story the other day where less than 1% were defective. That's about right. They only shipped like 1.5 million of them. Bet you couldn't get them all perfect either.
The idea of a company is to make money. That's it. It's not to make the world a happy place. If you don't like what they sell, don't buy. Sorry Slashdot, but people need money to pay bills and get food. I'd like to honestly know how many Slashdot posters are living on their parent's dime at college.
Halo is coming for PC. It's just on the XBox first. I enjoy a good PC game as well, but the XBox has excellent widescreen and Dolby Digital support which makes sitting on the couch in front of the 64" HDTV fun as well.
For those saying you'll need to spend another $500-$1K on an HD receiver, that isn't always true. My cable company has HD cable boxes and broadcast HD signals. I just have a component cable out of the cable box in to the TV. No receiver needed. This also goes for DSS HD receivers, though those do cost more than a normal receiver. You only need a receiver if you have an antenna and get HD OTA (over the air).
Check with your cable company, you may be surprised.
But the local news is actually kind of cool in HD. They do the remote cameras in HD too so it's not just the talking heads in the studios. This is WRAL, the leading station in the country for HD, so they do a great job of it. They seem to try and find good shots to really use the widescreen and increased resolution.
Not to mention it's a great way to check out the hot news chicks.
DVDs do not display at a higher res on an HD box than on a normal TV. It's just they usually use the current 480 resolution better since the widescreen image isn't only using half the screen.
Also, you can use a progressive scan DVD player on DVDs. This basically doubles the lines on the screen to get rid of interlacing that causes scan lines and flickering.
I just bought a Pioneer 64" TV. It's 16:9 and HD capable. It replaced a Sony 53" 4:3 I've had about 4 years.
:)
First off widescreen rocks. It's great for movies, and go ahead and get a good progressive DVD player to make them look even better (on most sets).
As for HD, it depends. I'm in Raleigh, NC and have Time Warner digital cable. They offer HD cable boxes here, if you can get to the right person. Luckily, I did. The local network stations all have HD digital feeds on the cable. So, first off I get better quality signal than the normal analog cable streams (When they advertise digital cable, they never mention that the broadcast channels are still analog...sigh). I also get the HD stream when shows are done in HD. This includes CBS, ABC, FOX, NBC, HBO, and PBS (Nature shows are excellent in HD).
Now..as for which shows are in HD... NBC just does Leno. CBS does a LOT of their primetime stuff. FOX does some widescreen, but almost none or no actual HD. ABC does a few shows. HBO does many movies in HD, but unfortunately a lot of their original shows (Oz, Dennis Miller, etc) are not. Band of Brothers is though.
I'm also very lucky to have WRAL, the local CBS affiliate. They are the leading station in the country for HD. They broadcast all of their local news in AMAZING high definition. Kudos to them for all their hard work in driving this.
If your cable company doesn't do HD you can go over the air (OTA) using an antenna. That varies by area and distance. My friend did that for like 2 years until he recently got his cable box. It worked well, just wasn't as convenient. He got all the same network affiliates I do now, but no HBO or PBS. If you have DSS you can get a HD DSS receiver and they do HBO, HDNET (HD demos and movies), and I think one PPV.
I'm very happy with my setup. Once you start watching HD shows you'll really become a snob.
So what new features will we see in 2.5.x? Is there a roadmap somewhere?
Nope. You can do manual records and things without the subscription. Unless, they've changed it VERY recently..a lot of people don't subscribe and use it just as a digital VCR.
Buy a Tivo and don't do the subscription. It'll act like a VCR. You just manually tell it when to record...and you still get to control live TV.
People always bitch about games that are too real. Guess what? People don't actually run 40MPH like they do in Quake..yes, that's the actual estimated speed in Quake. People are always 100% accurate with crosshairs... Guns aren't 100% accurate to sites like they are in Quake-like games.
I put XP on my new ThinkPad T23 as soon as I got it. It's working wonderful. I use that system every day from home to work and it is NEVER rebooted. The system has not crashed a single time. When it's not plugged in I take it in and out of standby all the time and it works every time. I've had a lot of trouble with Win2K and standby on notebooks, but so far XP is rock solid.
I'm not deploying it at work until we do more application testing with it, but if the apps work I wouldn't hesitate at all.
It really is good stuff.
It would be hard to find out a components failure rate. The only person that has that information is the company that does the fixes and/or returns.
I think a better measure would be service and how the returns are handled. You could ocmpile that data from customers. To me, it isn't a big deal if a piece of equipment dies as long as it is replaced/fixed quickly. I know for my servers I keep spares around just in case... If I can't keep a spare for it I'm sure to have a 4 hour response time service agreement.