First at all, MS didn't dominated the marked because Windows were the most easy to use OS in the world, at the time many people where very confortable with DOS.
They domitate because they bundled Windows with every PC out there, everyone haved installed, it comed pre-installed!, that's why everybody could use Windows, they get used to it. They even mistake a computer with windows! I still see people that even drops to MS-DOS to work, they know it better.
It's just choice, not all the people have it.
Back to the topic, yeah 3.2 sems to be great, rock solid quality software as ever.
Here where is live the my ISP is assosiated with the national phone company, wich owns all telephone connections around the country, i started with ADSL 256/128, for $50 dlls/mo (here that's the price, not cheap but not overpriced either), later they told me their network have growned and that we have been upgrated to a 512/256 line without additional cost, also i never recived any complains about bandwidth usage (they own it all after all). And i use lots of bandwith for torrents, download distros, etc, etc.
First at all, MPlayer is easy to compile, just the usual./configure && make & make install. I have done this from old versions (even from the 0.90pre)
Your problem is not having all the libraries installed, Mplayer comes already with a bunch of libraries bundled (libavcodec, libfaad, etc.), but mplayer cannot bundle all the windows binary codecs, imagine that!, everyone will be suing mplayer for distribuying those codecs. Then, the user legally downloads them and uses with mplayer. End of story, illegal use of codecs bypassed, everyone is happy now.
Then i just got to say... WOOT, 256mb of ram!, heck, i remember using Red Hat on a i586 40mhz with 8mb of RAM (nope, not a pentium, an 586), though it was RedHat 5.2
I never gonna buy again any Linux distro that cannot run well on 32mb of RAM, its insane those amount of memory needed, i agree with you, this dosen't help Linux as a Fast and Efficent OS.
Most packages are compiled with -march=i386 for compatability with old boxes, but also -mcpu=i686 to optimize for newer ones.
But the good about slackware is that they provide packages without all the heavy patching done by Red Hat and the others. The patches are supposed to fix things and make it faster, I think NO, Red Hat should be named Red Turtle, as it is slow, even Mandrake, have you ever seen the startup times for gnome and kde? it's not insane, but why then Slackware gnome starts so fast?
Have you seen the requeriments for Red Hat?, they even recommend using 192mb of RAM, and Mndrake needs at least 64mb to install!
First, gnome was create by linux geeks and for them i don't know why Gnome 2 should forget about how it started.
Second maybe the 99.99% of the computers users don't care about filesystem and stuff, but we the other 0.01% are almost the only users of gnome. There is no such thing as Gnome beign used by people that don't care, even soo they do care for all the missing things on Gnome2.
If gnome do succed it will be only because of it's framework, nothing more.
Well thanks to you and a bunch of jerks like you, Linux is still our little geek toy or server.
Why?, well because it lacks of support for a lot of hardware, what whould think a newbie that just installed the last Mandrake 9.1 when he readed that it has new drivers for nVidias and Winmodems and then the Mandrake Control Center just say "Sorry but your winmodem isn't currently supported by your system", is frustatring for a lot of people, that's what keep a lot of people from using it.
They don't care if drivers are Open or Closed source, they care that it works.
nVidia has been reater kind of writing drivers themselves for Linux. So stop saying that is bad, and so the kernel coders should do if they want to see linux as a good alternative OS for the masses.
Yeah, dubs are something everybody complains about anime, but still here in Mexico we have very good dubs for lots of animes, it may not be perfect but it sounds great, at least no like english dubs.
Inuyasha, DBZ, DBGT, Gundam Wing, all these where very well dubed in spanish (MX).
CN has the Toonami at 4pm i think, they broadcast Gundam Wing, Inuyasha and DBZ at peek hours. Still i think is different here, there is less worry of children in the sense that they know is just toons, though nudity is a problem, they don't broadcast it here.
What did happen to the *BSD Box when reached the 1.6 millon of connections?, did he dyed?, did it just stoped accepting connections due low resources? why he wasn't able to pass the 1.6millon of IP connections when we can count as much 4294967296 differen IPs for a network?
From the technical point it was good, many Open Source projects advanced very well this 2002. As well, Linux distros has become more newb frendly.
But still, is se how great projects like KDE, GNOME and others are becoming more feature rich and more fat.
I have Mandrake 8.2 and most software performs pretty well on my 200mhz Laptop with 64 of RAM, in other hand, i buyed the new Mandrake 9.0, with new KDE 3.0.3 and Gnome 2, new Control Center, and better Graphic Administration tools, but everything runs really slow!!, GTK2 is really slow now!!, is that really good to the GNU/Linux?, are key projects getting bigger and slower all the time?
I remember RedHat 5.2, performed better then everything i ever see with just 24mb of RAM in use.
Has the price of the quality products declined? I think yes.
Are the pockets of the people filled with money? No, i don't think so (at least not enough money). That makes useless the past one, so it dosen't matters that is medium or low quality, is cheap and i can afford it!
Looks like Red Hat is moving towards the windows XP style
Yes, now Red Hat Linux 8.0 is more XP-ish, needs lots of RAM:
Windows 95: 16mb was fine.
Windows 98: 32mb was enough.
Windows 2000: 64mb Please.
Windows XP: 512mb to have the eXPerience (usually 192 is fine)
RedHat 5.2: about 8mb 16 with X
RedHat 7.x: 64mb runs well.
RedHat 8.0: 192 recommended, what the... what it does? cuts, chops, slices, does your home work, clean up your room?
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First at all, MS didn't dominated the marked because Windows were the most easy to use OS in the world, at the time many people where very confortable with DOS.
They domitate because they bundled Windows with every PC out there, everyone haved installed, it comed pre-installed!, that's why everybody could use Windows, they get used to it. They even mistake a computer with windows! I still see people that even drops to MS-DOS to work, they know it better.
It's just choice, not all the people have it.
Back to the topic, yeah 3.2 sems to be great, rock solid quality software as ever.
Kudos to the KDE Team.
Here where is live the my ISP is assosiated with the national phone company, wich owns all telephone connections around the country, i started with ADSL 256/128, for $50 dlls/mo (here that's the price, not cheap but not overpriced either), later they told me their network have growned and that we have been upgrated to a 512/256 line without additional cost, also i never recived any complains about bandwidth usage (they own it all after all). And i use lots of bandwith for torrents, download distros, etc, etc.
This is like the other side of the coin.
First at all, MPlayer is easy to compile, just the usual ./configure && make & make install. I have done this from old versions (even from the 0.90pre)
Your problem is not having all the libraries installed, Mplayer comes already with a bunch of libraries bundled (libavcodec, libfaad, etc.), but mplayer cannot bundle all the windows binary codecs, imagine that!, everyone will be suing mplayer for distribuying those codecs. Then, the user legally downloads them and uses with mplayer. End of story, illegal use of codecs bypassed, everyone is happy now.
Wow i have missed too much of the history.
updating: -march != i386; -march = i486
Then i just got to say... WOOT, 256mb of ram!, heck, i remember using Red Hat on a i586 40mhz with 8mb of RAM (nope, not a pentium, an 586), though it was RedHat 5.2
I never gonna buy again any Linux distro that cannot run well on 32mb of RAM, its insane those amount of memory needed, i agree with you, this dosen't help Linux as a Fast and Efficent OS.
I wouldn't post this comment if i didn't check, i did saved in tha same directory of the last time.
Or i did something wrong, or must be that Windows thing, it must be a Virus!!. Yeah, it must be that.
No, i'm happy that they din't decided to use bittorrent. 2 years of research and no resume feature? come on what are they thinking!?
Note: yeah i have tried Bittorrent 3.3, it lags, and no resume is available.
Without that i don't see bittorrent as a good alternative for me as an user.
Most packages are compiled with -march=i386 for compatability with old boxes, but also -mcpu=i686 to optimize for newer ones.
But the good about slackware is that they provide packages without all the heavy patching done by Red Hat and the others. The patches are supposed to fix things and make it faster, I think NO, Red Hat should be named Red Turtle, as it is slow, even Mandrake, have you ever seen the startup times for gnome and kde? it's not insane, but why then Slackware gnome starts so fast?
Have you seen the requeriments for Red Hat?, they even recommend using 192mb of RAM, and Mndrake needs at least 64mb to install!
The world has gone insane this days.
Anyway, back to my thinker toys.
First, gnome was create by linux geeks and for them i don't know why Gnome 2 should forget about how it started.
Second maybe the 99.99% of the computers users don't care about filesystem and stuff, but we the other 0.01% are almost the only users of gnome. There is no such thing as Gnome beign used by people that don't care, even soo they do care for all the missing things on Gnome2.
If gnome do succed it will be only because of it's framework, nothing more.
Well thanks to you and a bunch of jerks like you, Linux is still our little geek toy or server.
Why?, well because it lacks of support for a lot of hardware, what whould think a newbie that just installed the last Mandrake 9.1 when he readed that it has new drivers for nVidias and Winmodems and then the Mandrake Control Center just say "Sorry but your winmodem isn't currently supported by your system", is frustatring for a lot of people, that's what keep a lot of people from using it.
They don't care if drivers are Open or Closed source, they care that it works.
nVidia has been reater kind of writing drivers themselves for Linux. So stop saying that is bad, and so the kernel coders should do if they want to see linux as a good alternative OS for the masses.
Yeah, dubs are something everybody complains about anime, but still here in Mexico we have very good dubs for lots of animes, it may not be perfect but it sounds great, at least no like english dubs.
Inuyasha, DBZ, DBGT, Gundam Wing, all these where very well dubed in spanish (MX).
CN has the Toonami at 4pm i think, they broadcast Gundam Wing, Inuyasha and DBZ at peek hours. Still i think is different here, there is less worry of children in the sense that they know is just toons, though nudity is a problem, they don't broadcast it here.
Since OSX , Mac OS has ben based on BSD. Thus porting between both is (should be) somewhat easy. Now with the XServer over OSX it will be even easyer!
But the interesting thing here is if MacOSX apps could be ported to linux?
Yay!, first post...
What did happen to the *BSD Box when reached the 1.6 millon of connections?, did he dyed?, did it just stoped accepting connections due low resources? why he wasn't able to pass the 1.6millon of IP connections when we can count as much 4294967296 differen IPs for a network?
From the technical point it was good, many Open Source projects advanced very well this 2002. As well, Linux distros has become more newb frendly. But still, is se how great projects like KDE, GNOME and others are becoming more feature rich and more fat. I have Mandrake 8.2 and most software performs pretty well on my 200mhz Laptop with 64 of RAM, in other hand, i buyed the new Mandrake 9.0, with new KDE 3.0.3 and Gnome 2, new Control Center, and better Graphic Administration tools, but everything runs really slow!!, GTK2 is really slow now!!, is that really good to the GNU/Linux?, are key projects getting bigger and slower all the time? I remember RedHat 5.2, performed better then everything i ever see with just 24mb of RAM in use.
Has the price of the quality products declined?
I think yes.
Are the pockets of the people filled with money?
No, i don't think so (at least not enough money). That makes useless the past one, so it dosen't matters that is medium or low quality, is cheap and i can afford it!
Looks like Red Hat is moving towards the windows XP style
Yes, now Red Hat Linux 8.0 is more XP-ish, needs lots of RAM:
Windows 95: 16mb was fine.
Windows 98: 32mb was enough.
Windows 2000: 64mb Please. Windows XP: 512mb to have the eXPerience (usually 192 is fine)
RedHat 5.2: about 8mb 16 with X
RedHat 7.x: 64mb runs well.
RedHat 8.0: 192 recommended, what the... what it does? cuts, chops, slices, does your home work, clean up your room?