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I think they call it 'Flock.' Here they go, picking on Flock... I use Flock, it's ok. They have not released another mildstone build since 0.4.10, and I did try one of the "hourly" builds, and gave up on it. I am suprised that 0.4.10 works as well as it does. Both Flock and Firefox take more time to boot up than Opera on older boxes, so I often use Opera when I am in a hurry. I would like to see another release of Flock, and see what they can come up with. The blog setup is great, although one can use Opera or Firefox to maintain a blog just as well, or maybe better in some cases. I have all four browsers in my knoppix remaster (Firefox,Opera,Flock,Konqueror) and it's fun to move from computer to computer with the livecd and try them out. On a machine with broadband, I can quickly set up an hourly Flock build in ramdisk, and see what it can do. All I have to do is delete the/home/knoppix/.mozilla/flock folder to get a clean Flock setup. That's the advantage of a livecd, no harm done. On a 256 MB box, I have only 6% ramdisk useage according to "df", so there is plenty of room to run Flock there.
I try to keep Norton AV up to date on my XP box, but I know that eventually the system will get bogged down or fowled up somehow. I'm just going along with the game. Main user on this machine wants to use AOL, which supposedly has it's own scanners. I get a popup in the tooltray that says AOL is doing a quick check (of something), even if I am not logged in AOL. Most of the time, I just run Kanotix or my own Knoppix remaster and forget about XP. It is a ripoff in that newbies are told the system is secure when it might not be. You know, with a new car, it either goes down the road or it don't. With XP/Norton, etc. on a pc who knows?
Would be nice if someone would redesign the top part of the Opera browser to put more of the items over on the right, where Opera's advertisement bar used to go. Oh, wait, couldn't Opera just do that themselves? I really doubt MS would want anything to do with Opera. Not that it isn't good. It is, but MS does have IE built into their OS, and IE boots up fast, faster than Opera. Just because IE is a target for viruses, etc. does not mean that Opera, with a smaller footprint, would not also be targeted if it were offered with a Microsoft OS. Although I offer several web browsers with my Knoppix remaster does not mean that MS would want to suddenly offer both IE and Opera. They have never done that. We have always had to download AOL, or Netscape and tack that on to Windows. I like having a choice between Opera, Flock, Firefox and Konqueror in my livecd linux, but that is just not the Microsoft way of doing things. Fortunately Windows has not been hostile to a Netscape installation, for instance, and for years I ran the two together. I started with Windows 3.1 and Netscape 1.22, my ISP sent me the floppies for that along with the dialup software that Windows did not have. Dvorak is an interesting writer, and we all take his work with a grain of salt for sure, but this MS - Opera thing has at least been thrown on the Slashdot table for discussion, and maybe he is happy about that.
The Damn Small Linux folks have a version that runs inside Windows. I have not tried it. There's a link to it on their main page. DSL linux is a remaster of Knoppix linux. I note that some of the versions of the IBM screensaver linux are also based on Knoppix, if not all. Might be able to use any knoppix remaster or linux based on knoppix. IBM's documentation looks like it would work, if one wanted to go to the trouble. The DSL version puts a functional linux in a window on your Windows desktop. One time I did find a screenshot of that, but can't locate it now. Kind of crazy, really, to put a little linux in a window on a Windows XP desktop, I would rather just dual boot. I have a couple of boxes that do that, using loadlin and a batch file from Windows 98 F8 choice 5 bootup to access a/KNOPPIX folder on the hard drive. I remastered DSL for those, so it looks very nice, and does what I want it to. That setup does not run knoppix within Windows, once you exit knoppix, that's it.
we don't need amateur radio enthusiasts any more Back in my day, (I was K5HLW) we were required to know morse code at 21 wpm. With a very low power transmitter, we could get through with cw transmission when voice could not. Very useful in an emergency. We worked at it day and night, and got really good at it.
If it were not for the requirements of the Windows OS, we would not have all these relatively cheap, powerful computers to run Linux on. Next we have Windows Vista, (eventually) requiring even more power, etc. Windows has always booted up to a useful desktop right away, something that many linux distros cannot always do, without a lot of special configuration. The manufacturers of the hardware work with Microsoft to get it all up and running. Too bad about the methods that had to be used. We do have the computers to work with as a result, winmodems and all. Although we would like to imagine a world without Windows, what we would have to work with would not be cheap, and that would leave a lot of us without a computer to work with. The machine I work with daily is a dual 200MMX with 256MB ram, and was sold to me for $100.00, Sony burner and all, because of small glitches in the Windows OS that encouraged the owner to get rid of it, in favor of a new machine, with XP. XP is surely not perfect, but it was a step up from this box. So, Windows does have a way of keeping it's users moving along toward the next big thing, and dropping boxes along the way for us to enjoy. Can't wait for Vista to hit the shelves...
I know, Microsoft is supposed to be evil. Well they really struck the nail on the head when they figured out how to get their OS preinstalled on computers in the stores. I remember going into Office Depot, and seeing lots of machines running Windows 3.1. No internet, but lots of Paintbrush and Solitare. Yes, today I downloaded the patches,etc. for my Windows XP machine, and that took a few short minutes. Praises for XP, of course, unless you consider the magnitude of the attacks. Do I want to let XP onto the internet for anything but updates? Getting less and less of a thing to do. XP handles those printers and digital cameras really well, so it will always have something to do. There is always someone in the family that uses AOL (gasp) so I do keep this box up and running. Am I posting this on XP now? Nope, I'm online with my own Knoppix remaster as usual. Using Flock today...
many web sites don't display properly... That caught my eye, and I thought of DRUDGE REPORT 2005 Occasionally, I cannot get the page to fully load. Can't figure out why. I use Opera 8.51 for linux, Mozilla Firefox 1.5, it seems to happen in both of them.
I have studied the lost techniques of Knoppix burning. Here is a good read on that: Knoppix Hacks by Kyle Rankin If that is what you mean by "Knoppix burning". The more you get into that, you begin to realize that indeed some of the techniques are "lost". Just a sample: Getting the "logo.16" to produce colored text on the boot: prompt, rather than the hard-to-see pale grey color. It can be done.
I was looking at this part of these posts: For what it's worth, the Internet filter at CMP Media, where I work, blocks Overpeer's site as 'spyware.' and wonder if that is why my dialup provider has this site blocked: http://www.usatoday.com/ Really. My account is with Gulf Pines Communications, used to be Nexband. My cable modem provider does NOT have it blocked, and I have to use that to read the news!
That provider is Suscom.
OK, as a test, (my cat is outside now), I'll go to the door and say, "Where's my Cat!" and let's see if he comes in. (pause while I go do that) Here he is, having popped in the door right on cue. Food bowl? Yes, he's checking that out right now.
I would not be suprised if sometime later on today BellSouth changes it's mind. Anyone who has seen the TV news lately can see how N.O. is hurting. The Wi-fi idea was just a small way to try and get some residents to return. Mostly aid workers and city officials would benefit, if they had a computer that could use Wi-fi. Probably only a few, really. Free Wi-fi is a shot in the dark for an area that has so many problems that prevent people from wanting to live there.
Yes it was, by the time the system boots to the desktop, all questions answered, etc. they are adults. They could be old people by the time the graphic card problems are sorted out. That was my observations when I tested the livecd version.
Pretty easy to do, really. My live-cd linux (see screenshots) has two applications that 1. set up a master copy on a linux hdd partition 2. Once you have added whatever you want, then the filesystem compression and iso creation is done. These run automatically, and are easy to get going. You just have to know where you want the master-copy placed. Put all the images you want in/usr/share/wallpapers, and then in KDE set any of them as wallpaper. Or run 'em as a slideshow with Kuickshow. "photoshop" them with GIMP, copy one to your home directory to do that. emelFM makes that easy. Once you burn to CD, it's yours. Sorry I do not have screenshots up yet of these two apps, but they are there, and have menu items to start each one.
Darn, I just got RC3 built into my Knoppix remaster yesterday, and now I have to go get the Final. Anyway, I do like it, and have seven rss feeds in the toolbar, which are a lot of fun to click on and see the stories available on each site, all while looking at the current web page. Yes, I do have Slashdot as one of the rss feeds. It really is not all that hard to place the new Firefox in my remaster, and the making of a new iso ready to burn is easy now that I have my "Automated Remaster" script finished and included in the remaster. I just make all my additions and changes, and turn that script loose on the master copy partition, and within 20 minutes or so on a fast machine, I have an iso ready to burn. I had expected the Flock web browser to have more testing builds, but I only have right now the 0.4.10 build in the remaster, and it seems to work well, based on Firefox. Perhaps the Flock folks will get to work and build off the 1.5 Firefox version, and things will settle down for a while.
Only problem about finding the computer books at the library, and sticking Knoppix, Damn Small Linux, Gnoppix, etc. live cd's in them, is that there are not that many books on the subject at my library. I did donate one, "basic basic" or some such title. (did not include a cd) The chances of a grandma actually checking out one of those books and making off with a Knoppix cd, and figuring out what it is for, going home and booting it up successfully are slim. Here is another idea: make up a bunch of copies, and stick them in mailboxes, together with a short card of instructions. Is that legal? Would most of the people have "AOL" boxes, that only have "winmodems" in them? Or do we target broadband neighborhoods... Another idea: stick them on windshields in shopping centers alongside the $5.00 Pizza and Vinyl Siding flyers. I am open to more ideas. Anyone?
I still use it, here is a web page with a picture of a building, that I had to "alter" with GIMP. http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/rac.html It seems that the owner of the building had some ugly orange chairs on the right side of the building. I took them out with GIMP, and put some nice trees and shrubs there. Also, the next door neighbors house was removed, so the building looks like it is in a suitable setting, not so crowded. The original image was too large for a web page, so GIMP helped me with that. All of the text images on the web page were done with GIMP, also. I find GIMP easy to use, and have it in my Knoppix remaster, see the screenshots below:
I don't see what is wrong with "MS + AOL". That is the way it has been from the beginning, you run your AOL client on top of Microsoft Windows. Wasn't that one way to get Windows 3.1 to connect to the internet? Now if Microsoft owned AOL, perhaps the code could be "put together" in the same way that MSIE is a part of Windows. Then it might be more stable. It's pretty good right now, but probably bloated. Maybe the combo can be reduced in size. Running "AOL" on Linux? Maybe a clone will emerge that will offer the AOL content and experience, and not run into legal problems. Clearly, Microsoft and AOL will change over the next few years, and perhaps the product would be more attractive if Windows had an AOL add on that was designed under one roof. Having said that, I am today testing Mozilla Firefox 1.5 rc2 on my Knoppix Remaster. (See screenshots of the OS below)
Help -> About Mozilla Firefox should show Gecko/20051107 if you have 1.5 rc2. That's the number for the linux version, I suppose it would be the same for others.
I have installed 1.5 RC2, and have the Slashdot RSS feed in my bookmarks toolbar. It works, and I navigated to this story, (via the rss feed), and now am posting. But! When I tried to reply to this story directly, without using the rss feed to get here, the Quality Feedback Agent popped up, and Firefox crashed!. Here is the line in my rxvt:./run-mozilla.sh: line 424: 1658 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"} I am running my Automated Remaster script again on this build of my iso, (see screenshots) of my Remaster of Knoppix Linux, since I did not have the ownerships set correctly on the/firefox directory. I had them root.root, and should have had root.staff. Btw, I put the browsers in/usr/local/keepers (I know, that's silly) and have Flock, Firefox, Opera, and Thunderbird Mail there. Must have root.staff on (almost) all. I had a "chrome registration" error pop up (twice) before Firefox would boot, so I copied the/firefox directory to/home/knoppix and am running it from there with knoppix.knoppix ownerships. Now it is fine, but will run up another iso as mentioned above. I sorta doubt the Seg fault above was something I did, but one can never know on these things. I do have 7 RSS feeds in my toolbar, and they all work, including Slashdot.
Yes, it is encouraging to see an excellent overview such as yours. I find it exciting that linux may take a new course, or at least explore the reasons why the present course is the one to be stayed. In the long run, what will be the Windows of the future, and linux of that time will probably be more like each other, but linux is "open source", and is ours to work with, whereas Windows is not. Those wanting to work with a finished product will continue to buy machines with Windows on them, but those of us wanting to work with the OS itself, will always want linux around. To me, its the difference between an old lady with a Buick that only wants reliable transportation, and the guy who has a Porsche, and a garage full of tools. He's gonna want to tinker under the hood, she is not.
I'm thinking that the numbers reflect those who can afford it, rather than "converts", per se. Macs are supposed to be relatively virus-free, compared the the cheaper Windows machines. So, there is less hassle, sort of like buying a more expensive and reliable automobile, so Saturday mornings can be spent at the golf course, rather than the driveway, fixing it. Money does buy nice things. It's often said, you get what you pay for. I have an old Mac Quadra 660AV, and enjoy playing with it. The only reason I won't go out and buy a new Mac, other than the fact that I won't spend that kind of money, is that the "tinker value" is not as high as an old Windows box, that I can run my live cd linux on. (See the screenshots). Do they have a live cd for a Mac? If they did, I'll bet one of those dual core, dual processor Macs would be interesting to play with! It's just me, but I have to have that "tinker value" in a computer and OS.
Slashdot Mirror
I think they call it 'Flock.' /home/knoppix/.mozilla/flock folder to get a clean Flock setup. That's the advantage of a livecd, no harm done. On a 256 MB box, I have only 6% ramdisk useage according to "df", so there is plenty of room to run Flock there.
Here they go, picking on Flock...
I use Flock, it's ok. They have not released another mildstone build since 0.4.10, and I did try one of the "hourly" builds, and gave up on it. I am suprised that 0.4.10 works as well as it does. Both Flock and Firefox take more time to boot up than Opera on older boxes, so I often use Opera when I am in a hurry. I would like to see another release of Flock, and see what they can come up with. The blog setup is great, although one can use Opera or Firefox to maintain a blog just as well, or maybe better in some cases. I have all four browsers in my knoppix remaster (Firefox,Opera,Flock,Konqueror) and it's fun to move from computer to computer with the livecd and try them out. On a machine with broadband, I can quickly set up an hourly Flock build in ramdisk, and see what it can do.
All I have to do is delete the
I try to keep Norton AV up to date on my XP box, but I know that eventually the system will get bogged down or fowled up somehow. I'm just going along with the game.
Main user on this machine wants to use AOL, which supposedly has it's own scanners. I get a popup in the tooltray that says AOL is doing a quick check (of something), even if I am not logged in AOL.
Most of the time, I just run Kanotix or my own Knoppix remaster and forget about XP.
It is a ripoff in that newbies are told the system is secure when it might not be.
You know, with a new car, it either goes down the road or it don't. With XP/Norton, etc. on a pc who knows?
Would be nice if someone would redesign the top part of the Opera browser to put more of the items over on the right, where Opera's advertisement bar used to go.
Oh, wait, couldn't Opera just do that themselves? I really doubt MS would want anything to do with Opera. Not that it isn't good. It is, but MS does have IE built into their OS, and IE boots up fast, faster than Opera. Just because IE is a target for viruses, etc. does not mean that Opera, with a smaller footprint, would not also be targeted if it were offered with a Microsoft OS.
Although I offer several web browsers with my Knoppix remaster does not mean that MS would want to suddenly offer both IE and Opera. They have never done that. We have always had to download AOL, or Netscape and tack that on to Windows. I like having a choice between Opera, Flock, Firefox and Konqueror in my livecd linux, but that is just not the Microsoft way of doing things. Fortunately Windows has not been hostile to a Netscape installation, for instance, and for years I ran the two together. I started with Windows 3.1 and Netscape 1.22, my ISP sent me the floppies for that along with the dialup software that Windows did not have.
Dvorak is an interesting writer, and we all take his work with a grain of salt for sure, but this MS - Opera thing has at least been thrown on the Slashdot table for discussion, and maybe he is happy about that.
The Damn Small Linux folks have a version that runs inside Windows. I have not tried it. There's a link to it on their main page. DSL linux is a remaster of Knoppix linux. I note that some of the versions of the IBM screensaver linux are also based on Knoppix, if not all. Might be able to use any knoppix remaster or linux based on knoppix. IBM's documentation looks like it would work, if one wanted to go to the trouble. The DSL version puts a functional linux in a window on your Windows desktop. One time I did find a screenshot of that, but can't locate it now. /KNOPPIX folder on the hard drive. I remastered DSL for those, so it looks very nice, and does what I want it to. That setup does not run knoppix within Windows, once you exit knoppix, that's it.
Kind of crazy, really, to put a little linux in a window on a Windows XP desktop, I would rather just dual boot. I have a couple of boxes that do that, using loadlin and a batch file from Windows 98 F8 choice 5 bootup to access a
'CTRL-ALT-DEL'
They can't change that! Don't we use that in Linux too?
Let me try it...
*poof*
we don't need amateur radio enthusiasts any more
Back in my day, (I was K5HLW) we were required to know morse code at 21 wpm. With a very low power transmitter, we could get through with cw transmission when voice could not. Very useful in an emergency. We worked at it day and night, and got really good at it.
If it were not for the requirements of the Windows OS, we would not have all these relatively cheap, powerful computers to run Linux on. Next we have Windows Vista, (eventually) requiring even more power, etc.
Windows has always booted up to a useful desktop right away, something that many linux distros cannot always do, without a lot of special configuration. The manufacturers of the hardware work with Microsoft to get it all up and running. Too bad about the methods that had to be used. We do have the computers to work with as a result, winmodems and all. Although we would like to imagine a world without Windows, what we would have to work with would not be cheap, and that would leave a lot of us without a computer to work with.
The machine I work with daily is a dual 200MMX with 256MB ram, and was sold to me for $100.00, Sony burner and all, because of small glitches in the Windows OS that encouraged the owner to get rid of it, in favor of a new machine, with XP. XP is surely not perfect, but it was a step up from this box.
So, Windows does have a way of keeping it's users moving along toward the next big thing, and dropping boxes along the way for us to enjoy.
Can't wait for Vista to hit the shelves...
I know, Microsoft is supposed to be evil. Well they really struck the nail on the head when they figured out how to get their OS preinstalled on computers in the stores. I remember going into Office Depot, and seeing lots of machines running Windows 3.1. No internet, but lots of Paintbrush and Solitare. Yes, today I downloaded the patches,etc. for my Windows XP machine, and that took a few short minutes. Praises for XP, of course, unless you consider the magnitude of the attacks. Do I want to let XP onto the internet for anything but updates?
Getting less and less of a thing to do. XP handles those printers and digital cameras really well, so it will always have something to do. There is always someone in the family that uses AOL (gasp) so I do keep this box up and running.
Am I posting this on XP now? Nope, I'm online with my own Knoppix remaster as usual. Using Flock today...
many web sites don't display properly...
That caught my eye, and I thought of DRUDGE REPORT 2005
Occasionally, I cannot get the page to fully load. Can't figure out why.
I use Opera 8.51 for linux, Mozilla Firefox 1.5, it seems to happen in both of them.
I have studied the lost techniques of Knoppix burning.
Here is a good read on that: Knoppix Hacks by Kyle Rankin
If that is what you mean by "Knoppix burning".
The more you get into that, you begin to realize that indeed some of the techniques are "lost".
Just a sample: Getting the "logo.16" to produce colored text on the boot: prompt, rather than the hard-to-see pale grey color. It can be done.
You get the water bill, and I'll bet you will use some Vice-Grip Pliers to turn the tap off.
I was looking at this part of these posts:
For what it's worth, the Internet filter at CMP Media, where I work, blocks Overpeer's site as 'spyware.'
and wonder if that is why my dialup provider has this site blocked:
http://www.usatoday.com/
Really. My account is with Gulf Pines Communications, used to be Nexband.
My cable modem provider does NOT have it blocked, and I have to use that to read the news!
That provider is Suscom.
OK, as a test, (my cat is outside now), I'll go to the door and say, "Where's my Cat!" and let's see if he comes in.
(pause while I go do that)
Here he is, having popped in the door right on cue. Food bowl?
Yes, he's checking that out right now.
I would not be suprised if sometime later on today BellSouth changes it's mind. Anyone who has seen the TV news lately can see how N.O. is hurting. The Wi-fi idea was just a small way to try and get some residents to return. Mostly aid workers and city officials would benefit, if they had a computer that could use Wi-fi. Probably only a few, really. Free Wi-fi is a shot in the dark for an area that has so many problems that prevent people from wanting to live there.
Yes it was, by the time the system boots to the desktop, all questions answered, etc. they are adults. They could be old people by the time the graphic card problems are sorted out.
That was my observations when I tested the livecd version.
Pretty easy to do, really. My live-cd linux (see screenshots) has two applications that /usr/share/wallpapers, and then in KDE set any of them as wallpaper. Or run 'em as a slideshow with Kuickshow. "photoshop" them with GIMP, copy one to
1. set up a master copy on a linux hdd partition
2. Once you have added whatever you want, then the filesystem compression and iso creation is done.
These run automatically, and are easy to get going. You just have to know where you want the
master-copy placed.
Put all the images you want in
your home directory to do that. emelFM makes that easy.
Once you burn to CD, it's yours. Sorry I do not have screenshots up yet of these two apps, but they are there, and have menu items to start each one.
Imagine my suprise when the machine did not have to be rebooted when I installed SuSE Linux 6.3. I still can't get over it.
Darn, I just got RC3 built into my Knoppix remaster yesterday, and now I have to go get the Final. Anyway, I do like it, and have seven rss feeds in the toolbar, which are a lot of fun to click on and see the stories available on each site, all while looking at the current web page. Yes, I do have Slashdot as one of the rss feeds.
It really is not all that hard to place the new Firefox in my remaster, and the making of a new iso ready to burn is easy now that I have my "Automated Remaster" script finished and included in the remaster. I just make all my additions and changes, and turn that script loose on the master copy partition, and within 20 minutes or so on a fast machine, I have an iso ready to burn.
I had expected the Flock web browser to have more testing builds, but I only have right now the 0.4.10 build in the remaster, and it seems to work well, based on Firefox.
Perhaps the Flock folks will get to work and build off the 1.5 Firefox version, and things will settle down for a while.
Only problem about finding the computer books at the library, and sticking Knoppix, Damn Small Linux, Gnoppix, etc. live cd's in them, is that there are not that many books on the subject at my library. I did donate one,
"basic basic" or some such title. (did not include a cd)
The chances of a grandma actually checking out one of those books and making off with a Knoppix cd, and figuring out what it is for, going home and booting it up successfully are slim.
Here is another idea: make up a bunch of copies, and stick them in mailboxes, together with a short card of instructions. Is that legal? Would most of the people have "AOL" boxes, that only have "winmodems" in them? Or do we target broadband neighborhoods...
Another idea: stick them on windshields in shopping centers alongside the $5.00 Pizza and Vinyl Siding flyers.
I am open to more ideas. Anyone?
I still use it, here is a web page with a picture of a building, that I had to "alter" with GIMP.
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/rac.html
It seems that the owner of the building had some ugly orange chairs on the right side of the building. I took them out with GIMP, and put some nice trees and shrubs there. Also, the next door neighbors house was removed, so the building looks like it is in a suitable setting, not so crowded. The original image was too large for a web page, so GIMP helped me with that. All of the text images on the web page were done with GIMP, also. I find GIMP easy to use, and have it in my Knoppix remaster, see the screenshots below:
I don't see what is wrong with "MS + AOL". That is the way it has been from the beginning,
you run your AOL client on top of Microsoft Windows. Wasn't that one way to get Windows 3.1 to connect to the internet? Now if Microsoft owned AOL, perhaps the
code could be "put together" in the same way that MSIE is a part of Windows. Then it might be
more stable. It's pretty good right now, but probably bloated. Maybe the combo can be reduced in size. Running "AOL" on Linux? Maybe a clone will emerge that will offer the AOL content and experience, and not run into legal problems. Clearly, Microsoft and AOL will change over the next few years, and perhaps the product would be more attractive if Windows had an AOL add on that was designed under one roof.
Having said that, I am today testing Mozilla Firefox 1.5 rc2 on my Knoppix Remaster. (See screenshots of the OS below)
Help -> About Mozilla Firefox should show Gecko/20051107 if you have 1.5 rc2.
That's the number for the linux version, I suppose it would be the same for others.
I have installed 1.5 RC2, and have the Slashdot RSS feed in my bookmarks toolbar. It works, and I navigated to this story, (via the rss feed), and now am posting. But! When I ./run-mozilla.sh: line 424: 1658 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"} /firefox directory. I had them root.root, and should have had root.staff. Btw, I put the /usr/local/keepers (I know, that's silly) and have Flock, Firefox, Opera, and Thunderbird Mail there. Must have root.staff on (almost) all. /firefox directory to /home/knoppix and am running it from there with knoppix.knoppix ownerships. Now it is fine, but will run up another iso as mentioned above. I sorta doubt the Seg fault above was something I did, but one can never know on these things. I do have 7 RSS feeds in my toolbar, and they all work, including Slashdot.
tried to reply to this story directly, without using the rss feed to get here, the Quality
Feedback Agent popped up, and Firefox crashed!.
Here is the line in my rxvt:
I am running my Automated Remaster script again on this build of my iso, (see screenshots)
of my Remaster of Knoppix Linux, since I did not have the ownerships set correctly on the
browsers in
I had a "chrome registration" error pop up (twice) before Firefox would boot, so I copied
the
Yes, it is encouraging to see an excellent overview such as yours. I find it exciting that linux may take a new course, or at least explore the reasons why the present course is the one to be stayed. In the long run, what will be the Windows of the future, and linux of that time will probably be more like each other, but linux is "open source", and is ours to work with, whereas Windows is not. Those wanting to work with a finished product will continue to buy machines with Windows on them, but those of us wanting to work with the OS itself, will always want linux around. To me, its the difference between an old lady with a Buick that only wants
reliable transportation, and the guy who has a Porsche, and a garage full of tools. He's gonna want to tinker under the hood, she is not.
I'm thinking that the numbers reflect those who can afford it, rather than "converts", per se. Macs are supposed to be relatively virus-free, compared the the cheaper Windows machines. So, there is less hassle, sort of like buying a more expensive and reliable automobile, so Saturday mornings can be spent at the golf course, rather than the driveway, fixing it.
Money does buy nice things. It's often said, you get what you pay for. I have an old Mac Quadra 660AV, and enjoy playing with it. The only reason I won't go out and buy a new Mac, other than the fact that I won't spend that kind of money, is that the "tinker value" is not as high as an old Windows box, that I can run my live cd linux on. (See the screenshots). Do they have a live cd for a Mac? If they did, I'll bet one of those dual core, dual processor Macs would be interesting to play with! It's just me, but I have to have that "tinker value" in a computer and OS.