I learned/am learning UNIX on Linux, but I'm still going to try Minix on Bochs, as I really want to learn how to do system/OS programming, and the Linux kernel is a tad too complex. Minix seems to be the perfect system for learning this, especially because I can change the code and just restart Bochs.
Any other similar OSes that are built for educational purposes?
I have a pirated copy of XP. By having and using XP, I support Microsofts monopoly. That means I cannot do my work without relying on MS. Paying for XP makes Windows look less appealing. If most people had to pay for XP, alternative OSes would be much more popular.
How did SuSE treat GNOME in previous versions? SuSE 8.0 was my first experience with SuSE (and Linux, for that matter), and GNOME was almost as well treated as KDE.
I don't mind a company liking one UI over another, and Red Hat has some huge stakes in GNOME (you know what I mean...), and they employ quite a few GNOME developers. They should keep KDE in their distro, but they don't have to give it the same meticulous treatment that they give GNOME. I kind of like what Red Hat has done, from what I can tell from the screenshots.
WinMX is a good program. Very reliable downloads, and it runs perfectly in WINE. I've never had much luck with Gnutella, or Kazaa for that matter. I'd love to pay to download songs, as long as they were high-quality MP3s, and none of this Liquid Audio crap I find all over the place. I bought it, its mine. Emusic looks cool, I'm going to go and check it out. Always like to beef up my music collection.
My dreams have been shattered...I've always wanted to be a Bastard Operator from Hell, but even computers are taking over the jobs of the BOFH. I just hope HAL isn't the BOFH...
Nikon makes nice badass batch scanners for slides and negatives, and they may make some for normal prints. If they don't, try getting a small fast scanner that you can slide images through, so you can just scan 20-30 in a row, and not have to seperate them.
I buy software. I like buying good software. I'd buy good software for Linux. I like free software, but I'm no zealot. If anyone could guide me to some good useful pieces of commercial software for Linux that a high school student could afford, I'd buy it, if I had a need for it.
GNOME and GTK, as a whole, have finally matured. According to some documents on the GNOME website, all new versions of GTK+ and GNOME will be backwards compatible, but they won't take advantage of newer features unless their creators add them. Thats gonna be a godsend.
I can run GTK1 and GTK2 apps side by side on WindowMaker. I can run KDE apps on WindowMaker. If you have a big enough Mac Linux audience, you can cross-compile it to a Mac. Statically link a fail-safe binary, and have another one linked to stuff you can assume your audience has. I run SuSE and Red Hat RPMs on Debian, no problem. If its not compiled for ALSA, we have OSS emulation. I'm able to cut and paste between every single one of my applications, and these include Qt, GTK, Xaw3d, Motif, and the Athena widget ones! Select text, middle click. Done.
If you run a relatively modern distro, you should be able to avoid all of these problems.
WineX is Wine, but its optimized for games. This means it includes DirectX support. It forked from Wine before Wine went GPL because many Windows games have copy protection, and much of that is closed. Transgaming needs to license the technology, but then they can't release the source. They would have to under the GPL, but under the original Wine license, they had the capability to do what they needed.
Carbon, OS X's C++ API, is pretty platform-dependent. OS X may have a BSD backend, but apps are not coded for it. They are coded for Carbon. Which, as I said earlier, is dependent on the PowerPC platform. Porting to Linux isn't as easy as you might think.
I bought my Canon S520 before I had converted to Linux, and it worked great, but when I installed Linux, it was a NIGHTMARE to make it work. It took hours in SuSE, Lycoris, and Debian.
Next printer I get will be an Epson. I was considering an HP, but after canning Bruce Perens and Epson being nice to the Linux community, I'll make sure I get an Epson next time around.
Now, if other companies saw that playing nice got you more customers, they'd do it!
If they jump to x86, they won't go to a pure x86 architecture. By the time they switched to x86, the dominance of x86-64 or Yamhill will have been decided, and Apple would have a 64-bit processor, and they would have more then enough power to emulate a PPC machine...
I've never liked KDE...Always thought it felt too unprofessional. I prefer GNOME over KDE, but I haven't tried KDE 3 yet. GNOME 2 is sleek and friendly. Ease of installation doesn't come in to account because of Debian's package management, so at least installation doesn't leave a sour taste in my mouth...Time to go try KDE 3.
On February 28, 2002, AMD announced the support of SuSE Linux for the Opteron processors. Good news to home computer users, on April 24, 2002, Microsoft has also collaborated to further 64-bit computing.
I'm a home computer user, and I really don't care about Microsoft's announcement. Yet another hardware site that needs to pull their head out of the gutter and understand that Microsoft isn't the be-all-end-all of personal computing.
To be more on topic, x86-64 is gonna knock the socks off of Intel. A 64-bit processor that runs all 32-bit code...Too cool.
Not all distros are commercial. I bought my first distro, SuSE, and then moved to Debian. Everyone should buy their first distro, because its good to have the nice stuff that comes with it. I'm going to buy the Debian CDs soon, as its good to have them, and I may buy a copy of Lycoris, since I like what they're trying to do, and I know someone who could use it. People will buy distros because its nice to have them all bundled up nicely with manuals.
ROX and work great. ROX is very file-oriented, like UNIX itself. I personally use GNOME 2 right now, but thats because I couldn't get ROX working perfectly in Debian.
GNOME 2 is very nice, very sleek and streamlined. If I wanted, I could change the look so drastically, I'd scare myself.
I'm sick and tired of hearing you rant that PATRIOT takes away freedoms, makes us faschists, etc. IT DOESN'T. The US is trying to destroy an evil terrorist group that threatens our livelihood. The PATRIOT act may have some clauses you don't like, but you forgot the part that says you need a COURT ORDER to be able to execute anything under PATRIOT.
Now, to be a bit on topic, this is a waste of time. They don't need extra software to help in the war against terror. Why not extract the data from their current databases with some Perl scripts?
Debian is a community effort, so if the community wants faster development, they can help. Debian is very conservative, and thats okay, as long as its stable and flexible, which it is.
HURD is not going to arrive for years. By then, everyone will haved moved from the Linux kernel to something else, and HURD will be horribly outdated. If we don't move from the Linux kernel, there probably will be a major technology change in the future. BSD ports is probably coming soon, in addition to the coolness of regular apt-get. It'll probably be something like apt-get src-install . I've never used Progeny, but it would have to be text-based and simpler then Debian's current installer, if thats possible. Debian is an example of powerful simplicity, and we don't need some flashy GUI installer to mess it up, sorry.
There are optional archives with KDE3. You CAN get KDE3 with Woody. I don't know the apt mirrors, but some other people have posted them here. Use GNOME, its better anyway.
OK, I exaggerated the 1MB a minute. So sue me. I haven't looked at video compression lately. And read that 'IF.' Lets try this again, though. I found a movie on a CD around here, so here it goes:
The Divx on the CD is 150 minutes. It is 600MB. That comes out to 4MB a minute. Therefore, you could hold a quarter-million minutes of video COMPRESSED at a somewhat respectable quality. 4,166 hours of video, and 173 days ov Divx video. Better now? I know that uncompressed video is massive, I've worked with it before. I'm expecting some more flames, now...
If you had a terabyte of MP3s, you would have approximately 250,000 songs, if you assume an average song is 4MB. If there are approximately 12 songs on a CD, you would have to own 20,833 CDs.
If you had 1MB of video per minute, you could hold one million minutes of video. That comes out to 16666 hours of video. It would take you 694 days to watch every minute of that, or a little under 2 years!
Now, who has that much content? Hmm? Correct my math, if I messed up. I'm not feeling too good today...
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Out of curiousity, why is this modded funny? The military is a great option. They even pay for college, but its a little too late for that.
I learned/am learning UNIX on Linux, but I'm still going to try Minix on Bochs, as I really want to learn how to do system/OS programming, and the Linux kernel is a tad too complex. Minix seems to be the perfect system for learning this, especially because I can change the code and just restart Bochs.
Any other similar OSes that are built for educational purposes?
I have a pirated copy of XP. By having and using XP, I support Microsofts monopoly. That means I cannot do my work without relying on MS. Paying for XP makes Windows look less appealing. If most people had to pay for XP, alternative OSes would be much more popular.
How did SuSE treat GNOME in previous versions? SuSE 8.0 was my first experience with SuSE (and Linux, for that matter), and GNOME was almost as well treated as KDE.
I don't mind a company liking one UI over another, and Red Hat has some huge stakes in GNOME (you know what I mean...), and they employ quite a few GNOME developers. They should keep KDE in their distro, but they don't have to give it the same meticulous treatment that they give GNOME. I kind of like what Red Hat has done, from what I can tell from the screenshots.
WinMX is a good program. Very reliable downloads, and it runs perfectly in WINE. I've never had much luck with Gnutella, or Kazaa for that matter. I'd love to pay to download songs, as long as they were high-quality MP3s, and none of this Liquid Audio crap I find all over the place. I bought it, its mine. Emusic looks cool, I'm going to go and check it out. Always like to beef up my music collection.
My dreams have been shattered...I've always wanted to be a Bastard Operator from Hell, but even computers are taking over the jobs of the BOFH. I just hope HAL isn't the BOFH...
Nikon makes nice badass batch scanners for slides and negatives, and they may make some for normal prints. If they don't, try getting a small fast scanner that you can slide images through, so you can just scan 20-30 in a row, and not have to seperate them.
I buy software. I like buying good software. I'd buy good software for Linux. I like free software, but I'm no zealot. If anyone could guide me to some good useful pieces of commercial software for Linux that a high school student could afford, I'd buy it, if I had a need for it.
GNOME and GTK, as a whole, have finally matured. According to some documents on the GNOME website, all new versions of GTK+ and GNOME will be backwards compatible, but they won't take advantage of newer features unless their creators add them. Thats gonna be a godsend.
I can run GTK1 and GTK2 apps side by side on WindowMaker. I can run KDE apps on WindowMaker. If you have a big enough Mac Linux audience, you can cross-compile it to a Mac. Statically link a fail-safe binary, and have another one linked to stuff you can assume your audience has. I run SuSE and Red Hat RPMs on Debian, no problem. If its not compiled for ALSA, we have OSS emulation. I'm able to cut and paste between every single one of my applications, and these include Qt, GTK, Xaw3d, Motif, and the Athena widget ones! Select text, middle click. Done.
If you run a relatively modern distro, you should be able to avoid all of these problems.
WineX is Wine, but its optimized for games. This means it includes DirectX support. It forked from Wine before Wine went GPL because many Windows games have copy protection, and much of that is closed. Transgaming needs to license the technology, but then they can't release the source. They would have to under the GPL, but under the original Wine license, they had the capability to do what they needed.
Hope that helps.
Carbon, OS X's C++ API, is pretty platform-dependent. OS X may have a BSD backend, but apps are not coded for it. They are coded for Carbon. Which, as I said earlier, is dependent on the PowerPC platform. Porting to Linux isn't as easy as you might think.
I bought my Canon S520 before I had converted to Linux, and it worked great, but when I installed Linux, it was a NIGHTMARE to make it work. It took hours in SuSE, Lycoris, and Debian.
Next printer I get will be an Epson. I was considering an HP, but after canning Bruce Perens and Epson being nice to the Linux community, I'll make sure I get an Epson next time around.
Now, if other companies saw that playing nice got you more customers, they'd do it!
If they jump to x86, they won't go to a pure x86 architecture. By the time they switched to x86, the dominance of x86-64 or Yamhill will have been decided, and Apple would have a 64-bit processor, and they would have more then enough power to emulate a PPC machine...
I've never liked KDE...Always thought it felt too unprofessional. I prefer GNOME over KDE, but I haven't tried KDE 3 yet. GNOME 2 is sleek and friendly. Ease of installation doesn't come in to account because of Debian's package management, so at least installation doesn't leave a sour taste in my mouth...Time to go try KDE 3.
On February 28, 2002, AMD announced the support of SuSE Linux for the Opteron processors. Good news to home computer users, on April 24, 2002, Microsoft has also collaborated to further 64-bit computing.
I'm a home computer user, and I really don't care about Microsoft's announcement. Yet another hardware site that needs to pull their head out of the gutter and understand that Microsoft isn't the be-all-end-all of personal computing.
To be more on topic, x86-64 is gonna knock the socks off of Intel. A 64-bit processor that runs all 32-bit code...Too cool.
I use Linux, but I'd love to try Solaris, but I don't want to try it on my Intel box. Any place I can get a low end SPARC box for cheap?
Not all distros are commercial. I bought my first distro, SuSE, and then moved to Debian. Everyone should buy their first distro, because its good to have the nice stuff that comes with it. I'm going to buy the Debian CDs soon, as its good to have them, and I may buy a copy of Lycoris, since I like what they're trying to do, and I know someone who could use it. People will buy distros because its nice to have them all bundled up nicely with manuals.
ROX and work great. ROX is very file-oriented, like UNIX itself. I personally use GNOME 2 right now, but thats because I couldn't get ROX working perfectly in Debian.
GNOME 2 is very nice, very sleek and streamlined. If I wanted, I could change the look so drastically, I'd scare myself.
My PS2 has a chip in it...Its small, on the side of the case. Its only a little dent! Please don't lock me up!
I'm sick and tired of hearing you rant that PATRIOT takes away freedoms, makes us faschists, etc. IT DOESN'T. The US is trying to destroy an evil terrorist group that threatens our livelihood. The PATRIOT act may have some clauses you don't like, but you forgot the part that says you need a COURT ORDER to be able to execute anything under PATRIOT.
Now, to be a bit on topic, this is a waste of time. They don't need extra software to help in the war against terror. Why not extract the data from their current databases with some Perl scripts?
Debian is a community effort, so if the community wants faster development, they can help. Debian is very conservative, and thats okay, as long as its stable and flexible, which it is.
HURD is not going to arrive for years. By then, everyone will haved moved from the Linux kernel to something else, and HURD will be horribly outdated. If we don't move from the Linux kernel, there probably will be a major technology change in the future. BSD ports is probably coming soon, in addition to the coolness of regular apt-get. It'll probably be something like apt-get src-install . I've never used Progeny, but it would have to be text-based and simpler then Debian's current installer, if thats possible. Debian is an example of powerful simplicity, and we don't need some flashy GUI installer to mess it up, sorry.
There are optional archives with KDE3. You CAN get KDE3 with Woody. I don't know the apt mirrors, but some other people have posted them here. Use GNOME, its better anyway.
OK, I exaggerated the 1MB a minute. So sue me. I haven't looked at video compression lately. And read that 'IF.' Lets try this again, though. I found a movie on a CD around here, so here it goes:
The Divx on the CD is 150 minutes. It is 600MB. That comes out to 4MB a minute. Therefore, you could hold a quarter-million minutes of video COMPRESSED at a somewhat respectable quality. 4,166 hours of video, and 173 days ov Divx video. Better now? I know that uncompressed video is massive, I've worked with it before. I'm expecting some more flames, now...
If you had a terabyte of MP3s, you would have approximately 250,000 songs, if you assume an average song is 4MB. If there are approximately 12 songs on a CD, you would have to own 20,833 CDs.
If you had 1MB of video per minute, you could hold one million minutes of video. That comes out to 16666 hours of video. It would take you 694 days to watch every minute of that, or a little under 2 years!
Now, who has that much content? Hmm? Correct my math, if I messed up. I'm not feeling too good today...