And as that its probably a little better then sid (or the same, or worse..). I love it because it has all the latest greatist new geewiz stuff.
Personally I'd say the most stable release was 8.2, so maybe the 9.2 will be too. I've been using the 9.2 beta for about a month now and its been pretty good so far (but I can't wait for more packages to become available for it!).
Mandrake is great for those of us who want a cutting edge computing. Probably the best thing for the server yet.
Switching to 'closed' IA32 hardware wouldn't do a lot to increase their marketability. Price is important and building a market based on increased cost on commodity hardware would be senseless.
Besides, us IA32/?64 computer nuts need to be able to build our own with scraps and inexpensive ots parts. I'd love to be able the throw together a new PC and boot up the latest OSX. But I wouldn't be much more likely then I am now if I had to use Apples own marked up prebuilt setup or even a marked up processor/mb combo. I like to get my hands dirty building a PC and digging for the cheapest (in cost) parts on earth. Its just not as much fun any other way.
When I was starting out using Linux I ran across one of the Gnome dev team here in San Diego (from Mexico) and asked which os/distro he thought would be the best for security. His advice was so simple I'll never forget it: "whichever os you feel most comfortable with". I liked that. No operating system is really any more secure then the person using it.
Anyhow, I didn't realize you could play so many codecs with Windows. I'm using a slightly out of date WMP (licensing) here at work and it won't play Quicktime without firing up the Quicktime Player. I'm surprized MS got Apple or Real to play along with their codecs.
You can tell its Friday by the volume of responses. Anyhow, I'm not an anti-widows zealot. Don't get me wrong. Just trying to point out that Linux, just like Windows, has its own strengths (and weaknesses).
WMP does not play QuickTime Mov files, while Mplayer suports the following video and audio codecs:
Audio
MPEG1 (VCD) and MPEG2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video
MPEG4, DivX;-), OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX 5.02,
XviD, and other MPEG4 variants
Windows Media Video v7 (WMV1), v8 (WMV2) and v9 (WMV3) used in.wmv files
RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2), 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9)
Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other common QuickTime codecs
3ivx decoder
Cinepak and Intel Indeo codecs (3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.0)
VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other h263(+) variants
MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats
FLI/FLC
native decoder for HuffYUV
various old simple RLE-like formats
Video
MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio (native code, with MMX/SSE/3DNow! optimization)
AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or SP/DIF)
WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2 (native codec)
WMA 9 (WMAv3), Voxware audio, ACELP.net etc (using x86 DLLs)
alaw/ulaw, (ms)gsm, pcm, *adpcm and other simple old audio formats
Interpolate with a large number of different machines.
Well, aside from supporting Samba Linux/OS software tends to adhere to open standards, a benefit to anyone who want to achieve broader interpolation. In more way then one, Linux simply speaks more languages.
A patched and properly configured Windows machine is just as secure as a patched and properly configured Linux box. None of the various worms and viruses that have spread via Windows machines have done so via a method that a patched system would have been vulnerable to.
A: Wrong.
B: I mean securing your network, not secure on your network. Linux systems include certain standard OS applications such as Snort or Portwatch along with built in features like IPTables that make a 'stock' Linux system a much more responsible choice for securing your network.
Remote X Session over ssh.
Sure, installing *Nix software onto a Windows machine will give you some of the same benifits, but eventually your going to just switch (if its what you need to do what you do).
Anyhow, not trying to bash Windows. Windows has strengths, but we hear about those evertime someone says they wanted to switch but couldn't get GTA to work or import their Office documents properly. Windows is still the desktop leader by a long shot, its just going to be hard for them to keep up with the innovation in an open community.:-)
God save them if we get serious commercial support. God bless you ID Software!
Linux bashing is a new trend. Watch, you'll see it. Mostly by users who expected Linux to be Windows and where very dissapointed that it wasn't.
Anyhow, computers are very personal, we spend a lot of time with them and all have our own particularities. No surprise there. My only point was that Linux, just like Windows has its particular strong points and that the relatively new critics are no better then their screaming Linux counterparts (and really now worse).
Same for anyone else who thinks their way is the right way. Variety is the spice of life.
Can't 'fire up' mplayer on windows anymore than you can fire up WMP on linux. Never had trouble watching any video I wanted.
The nice thing about Mplayer is its one (nicely designed) application that can view most video codecs. Instead of downloading and installing seperately Windows Media player and Real Player and Quicktime and Divx (I'm sure there's more).
Sigh. Secure OpenSSH?
OpenSSH rocks, the problem was in the ports and unlike MS (I'm not actually trying to bash them, they do what they do well) all known issues have been fixed.
But what I was actually reffering to was IPtables and the slew of available OS software (tripwire/snort/portwatch/etc) that come standard as part of the Linux system.
And of course its the system we where talking about.
Anyhow, I'm not trying to make an argument that Windows or Linux are better. Just that each has noteworth strengths. Linux is more flexable, compatable, extendable, customizable and scalable then its more consumer friendly alternative and that makes for a bright future. May the Source be with you.;-)
Maybe your using the wrong distro? Mandrake with urpmi installs the codecs for Mov/Asf/Divx/etc and hasn't choked on me yet. Maybe your must more comfortable with Windows. Securing your network with Windows isn't as easy with Windows not because of the security flaws, but the quality of the available OS software (standard in Linux).
'Linux' isn't Windows. But its an unfair comparison, it was never intended to be Windows. But I'm willing to be that your reffering to commercial support (Dreamweaver/etc). We all know commercial support under Linux is still pretty young. But if your using it (maybe with the Nvidia drivers and your Macromedia Flash plugins installed) you know this will continue to improve.
Your Mplayer example is a great example of why 'Linux' is a great alternative. Compile and install mplayer? Maybe, if you'd like the CVS or some special optimizations, then its great (powerful) to be able to simply download and compile the program. But if you just want to install it I'd suggest Apt-get or Urpmi/Rpmdrake, or if you want to go through all the trouble of a Windows user, just download the Rpm (binary installer) and install it that way.
You've skipped right over most of the real concerns and shown yourself to be at least a little unfamiliar with 'Linux'.
Windows bashings aside (it is getting old) but the new found fashionability of 'Linux' bashing is pretty silly.
Can't think of one thing you can't do on Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP)? Let me give you a hand: Fire up Mplayer to watch any video you want. Interpolate with a large number of different machines. Secure your network. Remote X Session over ssh.
I'm just throwing out what's on the top of my head, but you get the point. 'Linux' isn't perfect, of course not. But it isn't less then Windows and has strengths that make a highly technical group very fond of it.
Linux bashers and Windows apologists are just as pointless as their Linux/BSD/Mac counterparts.
White lists. On the net every encounter (email/im) is a potentially hostile encounter. I was using Bluebottle.com (R.I.P.) for a few months (6) and it was the bomb.
I added whoever I wanted to my list or they authenticated themselves. At least if a spam did get through (not in my experience) it would have to have a valid return address and thats a step in the right direction.
I'm surprised I haven't seen this notice mentioned. Apparently bluebottle (wonderful anti-spam free email service) has been under attack is going down.
Spamming is an increasingly aggressive business and need to be dealt with increasing aggressiveness. Its a sad state when we can't even implement effective solutions without being strong-armed by parasites.
Bluebottle has found itself under constant attack from numerous sources over the past couple of months making it almost impossible to deliver spam free email to your account in a consistent and timely manner. We have therefore decided to cease offering protection for external accounts, and will be removing the verification protection from Bluebottle accounts.
This has not been an easy decision to make but has been necessary in light of the delays currently being experienced in email delivery. Whilst work is still being performed to address these issues, as it currently stands, Bluebottle is unable to ensure the timely delivery of mail for Bluebottle accounts. You are certainly welcome to continue using your Bluebottle account, although no verification protection will be applied to inbound mail.
We have done everything in our power to address these attacks although it has had little effect. We are obviously very disappointed that we cannot continue to provide you our service at this time.
Bluebottle's email verification system is best provided in a distributed manner making it considerably more difficult for these attacks to be effective. We will therefore be making our software freely available to any service provider or enterprise to protect their end users from unwanted email, and by doing so make it a more secure solution given that it is provided in distributed environment.
Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience our decision will cause.
And we all stand around with our thumbs up our butts.
Kerio/or Sygate for firewall (both are good)
Aladdin's free StuffIt Expander (unpacks a lot of different compressed files, including SIT and Gunzip's) AVG antivirus (free for personal home use) QuickClear lite (deletes IE cookies/cache/empty's trash) StartPro (well, it used to be free. Gives you a nice list of programs set to load at bootup, including registry keys.) Ad-Aware everybodies favorite adware/malware answer.
Mandrake is (of course) easy:
Got the Easy Urpmi and follow the directions to install all the different media sites. Once you do that (its just a cut and paste job) you can fire up rpmdrake and search for software by name/description/type/etc. Mandrake installs with a lot of the right stuff already. I'd recommend maybe installing nano (easy command line text editor if you hate VI/VIM/EMACS/ETC) and of course if you running a system with a NVidia card get the NVIDIA drivers (rpmdrake, but if their not listed NVidia will have them).
But it sounds like 'Daddy' might have been the problem, not necessarily the game. Go out, play ball, bond, go to the zoo. Don't sit playing violent video games in front of a bored 3 year old and be surprised if he picks up some (and probably your) bad habits.
This is just an example of negligent child rearing and it's been happening long before video games.
DirectTV via Telocity. I've heard some complaints about them, but for my money they where the tightest outfit out there. Never got a person who couldn't solve my problem in under 5 minutes. I must be getting old and cranky, but I value my time.
Not to be a stick in the mud, but my only comment on Earthlink is bad customer service. At least in my area (San Diego) they are absolutely useless. They misplaced (??) my credit card number and actually terminated my account before finding it and charging me a whopping $320. I have dealt with a lot of bad business but they are by far the most incompetent (I've had a whole string of jaw droppingly stupid interactions with their support). Of course as a gamer I'd give them a 6.5 (out of 10) bandwidth was good, but the ping was crap.
My point is that if things (with the recording industry) continue along the current path they will not be happy as long as there are holes in the distribution channels. Whats to stop a OSX rip from being shared on GNUTella from being picked up on Kazaa? The amazing thing about P2P is it only takes one file to start.
Not that I *really* disagree with you, it really depends on how fanatical they want to get. Nice cat BTW.
I can appreciate the parent posters frustration (I started in 1996), but his technique lacks a lot of integrity. Just because members of a community act abusively doesn't mean that your best approach should be to act abusively as well.
But, more importantly, this RTFM! (Read The Fucking Manual!) trend is dying out. More and more I hear people taking an interest in helping other people, and that's probably a direct result of new users who (unlike our poster) instead of reacting aggressively to the old RTFM'er reacted by doing their best to support the next generation of new users so they didn't have the same experience.
Slashdot Mirror
I had a hell of a time trying to find a mirror that had Firebird. Thanks for the torrents (I'll be leaving mine up at work too).
And as that its probably a little better then sid (or the same, or worse..). I love it because it has all the latest greatist new geewiz stuff.
Personally I'd say the most stable release was 8.2, so maybe the 9.2 will be too. I've been using the 9.2 beta for about a month now and its been pretty good so far (but I can't wait for more packages to become available for it!).
Mandrake is great for those of us who want a cutting edge computing. Probably the best thing for the server yet.
Switching to 'closed' IA32 hardware wouldn't do a lot to increase their marketability. Price is important and building a market based on increased cost on commodity hardware would be senseless.
Besides, us IA32/?64 computer nuts need to be able to build our own with scraps and inexpensive ots parts. I'd love to be able the throw together a new PC and boot up the latest OSX. But I wouldn't be much more likely then I am now if I had to use Apples own marked up prebuilt setup or even a marked up processor/mb combo. I like to get my hands dirty building a PC and digging for the cheapest (in cost) parts on earth. Its just not as much fun any other way.
I'd mod you up (+10 funny) if this where Kuro5hin!
When I was starting out using Linux I ran across one of the Gnome dev team here in San Diego (from Mexico) and asked which os/distro he thought would be the best for security. His advice was so simple I'll never forget it: "whichever os you feel most comfortable with". I liked that. No operating system is really any more secure then the person using it.
Anyhow, I didn't realize you could play so many codecs with Windows. I'm using a slightly out of date WMP (licensing) here at work and it won't play Quicktime without firing up the Quicktime Player. I'm surprized MS got Apple or Real to play along with their codecs.
WMP does not play QuickTime Mov files, while Mplayer suports the following video and audio codecs: Interpolate with a large number of different machines.
Well, aside from supporting Samba Linux/OS software tends to adhere to open standards, a benefit to anyone who want to achieve broader interpolation. In more way then one, Linux simply speaks more languages.
A patched and properly configured Windows machine is just as secure as a patched and properly configured Linux box. None of the various worms and viruses that have spread via Windows machines have done so via a method that a patched system would have been vulnerable to.
A: Wrong.
B: I mean securing your network, not secure on your network. Linux systems include certain standard OS applications such as Snort or Portwatch along with built in features like IPTables that make a 'stock' Linux system a much more responsible choice for securing your network.
Remote X Session over ssh.
Sure, installing *Nix software onto a Windows machine will give you some of the same benifits, but eventually your going to just switch (if its what you need to do what you do).
Anyhow, not trying to bash Windows. Windows has strengths, but we hear about those evertime someone says they wanted to switch but couldn't get GTA to work or import their Office documents properly. Windows is still the desktop leader by a long shot, its just going to be hard for them to keep up with the innovation in an open community.
God save them if we get serious commercial support. God bless you ID Software!
Linux bashing is a new trend. Watch, you'll see it. Mostly by users who expected Linux to be Windows and where very dissapointed that it wasn't.
Anyhow, computers are very personal, we spend a lot of time with them and all have our own particularities. No surprise there. My only point was that Linux, just like Windows has its particular strong points and that the relatively new critics are no better then their screaming Linux counterparts (and really now worse).
Same for anyone else who thinks their way is the right way. Variety is the spice of life.
Your cousin is visiting adult sites. Check for hairy palms.
Can't 'fire up' mplayer on windows anymore than you can fire up WMP on linux. Never had trouble watching any video I wanted.
;-)
The nice thing about Mplayer is its one (nicely designed) application that can view most video codecs. Instead of downloading and installing seperately Windows Media player and Real Player and Quicktime and Divx (I'm sure there's more).
Sigh. Secure OpenSSH?
OpenSSH rocks, the problem was in the ports and unlike MS (I'm not actually trying to bash them, they do what they do well) all known issues have been fixed.
But what I was actually reffering to was IPtables and the slew of available OS software (tripwire/snort/portwatch/etc) that come standard as part of the Linux system.
And of course its the system we where talking about.
Anyhow, I'm not trying to make an argument that Windows or Linux are better. Just that each has noteworth strengths. Linux is more flexable, compatable, extendable, customizable and scalable then its more consumer friendly alternative and that makes for a bright future. May the Source be with you.
You tone is TROLL.
RPM
IPTables>Shorewall
Snort
Work it out.
Maybe your using the wrong distro? Mandrake with urpmi installs the codecs for Mov/Asf/Divx/etc and hasn't choked on me yet. Maybe your must more comfortable with Windows. Securing your network with Windows isn't as easy with Windows not because of the security flaws, but the quality of the available OS software (standard in Linux).
'Linux' isn't Windows. But its an unfair comparison, it was never intended to be Windows. But I'm willing to be that your reffering to commercial support (Dreamweaver/etc). We all know commercial support under Linux is still pretty young. But if your using it (maybe with the Nvidia drivers and your Macromedia Flash plugins installed) you know this will continue to improve.
Your Mplayer example is a great example of why 'Linux' is a great alternative. Compile and install mplayer? Maybe, if you'd like the CVS or some special optimizations, then its great (powerful) to be able to simply download and compile the program. But if you just want to install it I'd suggest Apt-get or Urpmi/Rpmdrake, or if you want to go through all the trouble of a Windows user, just download the Rpm (binary installer) and install it that way.
You've skipped right over most of the real concerns and shown yourself to be at least a little unfamiliar with 'Linux'.
Windows bashings aside (it is getting old) but the new found fashionability of 'Linux' bashing is pretty silly.
Can't think of one thing you can't do on Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP)? Let me give you a hand: Fire up Mplayer to watch any video you want. Interpolate with a large number of different machines. Secure your network. Remote X Session over ssh.
I'm just throwing out what's on the top of my head, but you get the point. 'Linux' isn't perfect, of course not. But it isn't less then Windows and has strengths that make a highly technical group very fond of it.
Linux bashers and Windows apologists are just as pointless as their Linux/BSD/Mac counterparts.
Are in every camp. NBD. Don't let the few color your view of us all.
White lists. On the net every encounter (email/im) is a potentially hostile encounter. I was using Bluebottle.com (R.I.P.) for a few months (6) and it was the bomb.
I added whoever I wanted to my list or they authenticated themselves. At least if a spam did get through (not in my experience) it would have to have a valid return address and thats a step in the right direction.
Spamming is an increasingly aggressive business and need to be dealt with increasing aggressiveness . Its a sad state when we can't even implement effective solutions without being strong-armed by parasites. And we all stand around with our thumbs up our butts.
Thanks, saw that in an earlier post and installed it on my work pc. Looks great (and found some stuff AA had missed).
Windows:
/or Sygate for firewall (both are good)
Kerio
Aladdin's free StuffIt Expander (unpacks a lot of different compressed files, including SIT and Gunzip's)
AVG antivirus (free for personal home use)
QuickClear lite (deletes IE cookies/cache/empty's trash)
StartPro (well, it used to be free. Gives you a nice list of programs set to load at bootup, including registry keys.)
Ad-Aware everybodies favorite adware/malware answer.
Mandrake is (of course) easy:
Got the Easy Urpmi and follow the directions to install all the different media sites. Once you do that (its just a cut and paste job) you can fire up rpmdrake and search for software by name/description/type/etc. Mandrake installs with a lot of the right stuff already. I'd recommend maybe installing nano (easy command line text editor if you hate VI/VIM/EMACS/ETC) and of course if you running a system with a NVidia card get the NVIDIA drivers (rpmdrake, but if their not listed NVidia will have them).
But it sounds like 'Daddy' might have been the problem, not necessarily the game. Go out, play ball, bond, go to the zoo. Don't sit playing violent video games in front of a bored 3 year old and be surprised if he picks up some (and probably your) bad habits.
This is just an example of negligent child rearing and it's been happening long before video games.
Emp is for n00bs.
;-)
DirectTV via Telocity. I've heard some complaints about them, but for my money they where the tightest outfit out there. Never got a person who couldn't solve my problem in under 5 minutes. I must be getting old and cranky, but I value my time.
Not to be a stick in the mud, but my only comment on Earthlink is bad customer service. At least in my area (San Diego) they are absolutely useless. They misplaced (??) my credit card number and actually terminated my account before finding it and charging me a whopping $320. I have dealt with a lot of bad business but they are by far the most incompetent (I've had a whole string of jaw droppingly stupid interactions with their support). Of course as a gamer I'd give them a 6.5 (out of 10) bandwidth was good, but the ping was crap.
Sorry bout the rant. I know, mileage will vary.
My point is that if things (with the recording industry) continue along the current path they will not be happy as long as there are holes in the distribution channels. Whats to stop a OSX rip from being shared on GNUTella from being picked up on Kazaa? The amazing thing about P2P is it only takes one file to start.
Not that I *really* disagree with you, it really depends on how fanatical they want to get. Nice cat BTW.
I can appreciate the parent posters frustration (I started in 1996), but his technique lacks a lot of integrity. Just because members of a community act abusively doesn't mean that your best approach should be to act abusively as well.
But, more importantly, this RTFM! (Read The Fucking Manual!) trend is dying out. More and more I hear people taking an interest in helping other people, and that's probably a direct result of new users who (unlike our poster) instead of reacting aggressively to the old RTFM'er reacted by doing their best to support the next generation of new users so they didn't have the same experience.
Today's Linux user is a different animal.