Look for a copy of ICQ98a - the last version was 1.30. It's still compatible with all the new clients and has all the features you need (file transfer, chat, message) and not much else. Only a 1.5 meg download or so.
I actually find Licq a tad bit bloated, it uses about 11 megs of ram on my FreeBSD 4.2 system.
We really aren't in that big of a hit for ip addresses yet. If you do a random sample of reverse dns lookups on the whole address space, you'll end up getting an idea of how many ips have been deployed by the number of ips with reverse setup on them. Out of a sample of 10,000, only ~250 actually have reverse dns setup. Err on the side of caution and say 5% and you still have plenty to grow. Nothing above 226.0. has been deployed yet and it's currently held for research/multicase and could be redesignated for public use.
Dan Berstein (Qmail) was the one who suggested the scan. Link here
Nonetheless, IPv6 is still a good idea because NAT breaks too many things. But we're nowhere near as desperate as they make it out to be.
A lot of Red Hat's slowness seems to come from all added crap that they throw in. They have lots of dumb things, like not statically linking the major binaries like ls and starting extra daemons by default that are totally unnecessary. I played with Slack on a 386 and it practically booted up faster than my celeron with RH6. I too haven't tried OpenBSD, tho I intend to. FreeBSD is great, I really like a lot of things which may or may not be in OpenBSD. I'd imagine the larger user base brings greater driver support, better SCSI system, more ports, and overall user-friendliness (I may be wrong on any of these). FreeBSD makes a great workstation or server whereas I doubt you need the extreme OpenBSD security on your workstation.
I've actually been running the linux Xserver that nVidia provides + their GLX driver for playing Q1/2/3test, etc. Works fine under emulation except I can't drop to a console without crashing X. I'd switch up to fBSD XFree 3.3.5 but Q3test went crazy on me when I tried.
SBLive support is non-existant at this point and probably will continue to be until Creative opens the specs/OSS releases their driver. For the time being I'm using an AWE32 in it's place.
Photoshop 3.0 -> gimp Code Warrior -> Code Crusader Neither really counts tho, since Photoshop isn't competition since that release is outdated and Code Warrior came to Linux after Code Crusader began. --- FreeBSD. It's more than an operating system, it's a lifestyle.
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Look for a copy of ICQ98a - the last version was 1.30. It's still compatible with all the new clients and has all the features you need (file transfer, chat, message) and not much else. Only a 1.5 meg download or so.
I actually find Licq a tad bit bloated, it uses about 11 megs of ram on my FreeBSD 4.2 system.
We really aren't in that big of a hit for ip addresses yet. If you do a random sample of reverse dns lookups on the whole address space, you'll end up getting an idea of how many ips have been deployed by the number of ips with reverse setup on them. Out of a sample of 10,000, only ~250 actually have reverse dns setup. Err on the side of caution and say 5% and you still have plenty to grow. Nothing above 226.0. has been deployed yet and it's currently held for research/multicase and could be redesignated for public use.
Dan Berstein (Qmail) was the one who suggested the scan. Link here
Nonetheless, IPv6 is still a good idea because NAT breaks too many things. But we're nowhere near as desperate as they make it out to be.
I wrote up a report of my experiences at Defcon from Friday to Sunday.
It's available here.
"Overseas, our job is to violate people's rights, break things and kill.
Domestically, it's different...
DoD official at Defcon 8
A lot of Red Hat's slowness seems to come from all added crap that they throw in. They have lots of dumb things, like not statically linking the major binaries like ls and starting extra daemons by default that are totally unnecessary. I played with Slack on a 386 and it practically booted up faster than my celeron with RH6.
I too haven't tried OpenBSD, tho I intend to. FreeBSD is great, I really like a lot of things which may or may not be in OpenBSD. I'd imagine the larger user base brings greater driver support, better SCSI system, more ports, and overall user-friendliness (I may be wrong on any of these). FreeBSD makes a great workstation or server whereas I doubt you need the extreme OpenBSD security on your workstation.
I've actually been running the linux Xserver that nVidia provides + their GLX driver for playing Q1/2/3test, etc. Works fine under emulation except I can't drop to a console without crashing X. I'd switch up to fBSD XFree 3.3.5 but Q3test went crazy on me when I tried.
SBLive support is non-existant at this point and probably will continue to be until Creative opens the specs/OSS releases their driver. For the time being I'm using an AWE32 in it's place.
Photoshop 3.0 -> gimp Code Warrior -> Code Crusader Neither really counts tho, since Photoshop isn't competition since that release is outdated and Code Warrior came to Linux after Code Crusader began. --- FreeBSD. It's more than an operating system, it's a lifestyle.