Everyone I know who thought DIVX was a good idea was not aware they had to go to the store and buy a disc they would have to pay for every time you watch it. They thought it was on-demand streaming. The moment I told them they had to go buy a physical disc they agreed it was stupid. The liked the rental model, and didn't care about anything else you mentioned. They just thought it would save a trip to the rental store.
That runs the package's debconf scripts, right? So for gpm, for example, it will ask me four questions, with no auto-detection or suggestions, and it doesn't give me a setup that supports hotplugging my usb mouse unless I configure it for the usb mouse. In which case the PS/2 trackpoint won't work. That's what I'm saying is missing, on redhat, I run system-config-mouse and I can use both the trackpoint and hotplug the usb mouse (both work simultaneously when the usb mouse is plugged in). And the config applies to gpm for console and in X.
Does FC2-test2 have an install-time option to skip SELinux? I've been looking at other distros because test1 and the development tree leading to test2 had SELinux and I found it totally horrid to have on a personal desktop.
A fair number of games which have multi-player online capability, you can set up a local server and have a LAN party without an internet connection. XBox and PS2 both have online play, but you can't set it all up in your apartment. You could have a LAN party but unless you have a really phat pipe, it's going to be maxed out with a very low number of participants, and people with a dedicated connection will own you all.
The only 'special breed' in the Debian community is the dicks who think anyone who asks a question that should be obvious must have been conceived by a weak sperm. It has nothing to do with being a Debian guru and everything to do with some emotional insecurity. The kind of person who would maliciously tease a classmate who couldn't read. These sorts of people really do turn off newcomers from whatever group they're trying to get into.
I don't know what it is about debian, but I've never encountered people so resentful of simple question in any other distro, or application, community.
Have a look at Morphix. It is exaclty Knoppix which breaks out the ISO images into categories (gamer, full GUI, light GUI, etc) and supports GNOME. I'm not sure if it supports a per-package granularity though.
I've been trying a bunch of distributions lately as I don't necessarily want selinux for my home desktops (selinux is a major part of Fedora Core 2). What I've determined so far is that I really like Red Hat's system admin/config tools. You have one tool (sometimes two so you have a gui and command-line, but they're really they same thing in that case).
Mandrake and Suse have a single admin suite that does everything. Some people love them, and I'll admit that they do look polished. I just don't like having to have a bunch of extra backends installed for hardware and services I don't have just to have the admin tool installed. I haven't really tried Ark, Lycoris, Lindows, or Libranet (Ark wouldn't either wouldn't install or wouldn't run after install, I forget) but my assumption is that being KDE based, they have the same feel of one big tool.
I really like the package selection available on Debian. But getting things to run the way I want can sometimes be a chore. On a previous attempt at debian I had trouble with IDE drivers after install. I couldn't get my USB mouse to work and was ridiculed on #debian for loading the usbmouse module instead the obvious task of installing usbmanager. When I asked the #debian folks for the location of an testing/unstable net install CD it took ten minutes of people asking why I didn't want to use floppies to install stable and then dist-upgrade. I don't have a floppy.
The new instaler is a super awesome step. I like that the debian install actually installs a kernel package now, and that in expert mode I can choose which kernel to install. But fonts still suck ass and I can't seem to improve some of them (gdm, the gnome login splash screen, and the gnome logout dialog). I didn't have trouble getting my USB mouse to work this time, but I can't get my thinkpad 600X's touchpad to work (and yes I've tried the config from the sites on the webring found at www.linux-thinkpad.org). Red Hat and Mandrake support the PS/2 touchpad and hotplugging a USB mouse out of the box. Copying my RH config didn't work. Configuring it by hand per the docs doesn't work.
I've recently discovered (in the process of installing flashplugin-nonfree and msttcorefonts) the update-* commands. But they seem to be there mostly to effect changes you have written into the config files already. I've found nothing so far on Debian which helps me get the config files right.
So finally arriving at the point of my post, I would like to see Red Hat's system-config-* set of single-purpose config tools ported to debian. I do realise that the RH tools aren't the penultimate solution (they haven't worked for me getting a Riva TNT2 with nvidia driver and Voodoo2 with tdfx driver dual-head setup working so far), but I think they're better than anyone else's offerings so far.
When businesses move to a place the cost of living eventually goes up
The cost of living in Austin did skyrocket during the boom. Then the bust hit and many of the companies moving/starting here went bust. Cost of living then came down some.
here's a gconf key that let's the user default to the old browser-type view
I believe my last test install of Fedora Core 2 had an option in the Desktop Preferences -> File Manager application. Anyone know if that was an upstream change? Or are non-Fedora users going to have to use gconf?
And it's a double middle click,
Hopefully the Single/Double click option in the same Preferences application applies to the middle-click as well.
Assuming you don't use Linux from Scratch, learn the packaging format of your chosen distro. If you're just building from source to optimize but you're not actually changing the default build options or anything, than the vendor-provided packages are likely as optimized or better than installing from source. They typically patch the source to play well with the rest of the system defaults and include scripts to integrate with the system admin/config philosophy. If you have specific patches you need to apply and want build options other than the defaults, then take the source package your vendor provides, patch it and change the build options, and build it into a binary package.
The benefit of packages is that it is far easier to audit the files on your system, remove or upgrade a package, and install the same thing on all your servers. The great thing about packages is you can customize them just as much as you can a source install.
They may have fixed this in a later version, but I install using a floppy and http install, and the Fedora Core 2 Test 1 didn't have a network boot floppy on the image.
if you have a cd burner grab boot.iso from here. It's about 4 MB and will boot the installer with support for all network based installs.
test1 had up2date configured with two sources: download.fedora.redhat.com and a mirror list. I think what it would do is check download.fedora.redhat.com to see if there were updates, and then use the mirror list to actually get them. So they took the mirror list out for test2? Could be because the mirror sites don't instantaneously get updates, and you end up with errors where it tries to grab an update listed on download.fedora.redhat.com from mirrors.kernel.org which isn't there. It got to the point where I just took both listings out and pointed it solely at the mirrors.kernel.org mirror of fedora.us (which mirrors the base release and the updates).
Debian has the contrib and non-free trees which is where packages with lingering doubts about patent and/or copyright restrictions are usually placed. For example there are the flashplugin-nonfree and msttcorefonts packages.
They say that their software is GPL'd; but on their download page http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad_downloads.html they specify that the source code requires the Qt developer edition
Looking at their page, they offer free demo downloads, and a GPL community edition source download (no binary). What this says to me is that Ribbon Soft purchased a commercial Qt licence and sells commercial versions, but also offer a free download of the source for their product. I would have to double-check, but it's possible that the commercial Qt license does not allow distribution of header and library files to build against. As a result, in order to build the code on Windows (no GPL version of Qt on Windows because the majority of developers abused it and developed closed-source software without licensing Qt) you need to buy a Qt license. There are GPL versions of Qt on Linux and Mac, and also a project to port the GPL Linux version to windows. So it's quite probable that you can build the code on Linux or Mac with the GPL version of Qt, and possibly on Windows with the port of the GPL Linux Qt.
If this is in fact the case, then Qt's licensing shouldn't be blamed, Ribbon Soft's decision to GPL code they have paid license fees to develop commercially should be praised.
I couldn't tell if you were directing that at me or not, but since only quoted that one like and mention zealots, I'll assume you weren't. I totally agree with you. I actually use GNOME as my desktop, but have used a commercial version of Qt, and commercially licensed Psi, to produce a closed source app. I think the big thing is when people talk about freedom for the developer and freedom for the consumer without realising they're contradicting themselves when they change point of view between developer and consumer.
Your main point seems to be that commercial software, and free software are not mutually exclusive, and that sometimes software can be both free, and for profit. I disagree. I believe that information wants to be free
Red Hat Enterprise Linux wants to disagree with you. You don't appear to understand the spirit of the GPL. It says if you distribute compiled modifications of this source, then you must provide the source to those modifications to the distributees of the compiled binaries. It doesn't say a damn thing about making it free beer (you can charge a distribution fee for the source). If the money was the important part, the GPL would prohibit you from charging for binaries, but it does not (the people to whom you have disitributed binaries to are the only people who are entitled to the source, and if they all had to pay for binaries, that doesn't violate the GPL). Red Hat and Suse make a pretty good business out of selling free speech. They do so by packaging it for easy consumption. Red Hat went way beyond the call of duty by providing free ISO images for download. I think that this is actually what caused so many people to fall for the misconception that the GPL is about free beer.
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Everyone I know who thought DIVX was a good idea was not aware they had to go to the store and buy a disc they would have to pay for every time you watch it. They thought it was on-demand streaming. The moment I told them they had to go buy a physical disc they agreed it was stupid. The liked the rental model, and didn't care about anything else you mentioned. They just thought it would save a trip to the rental store.
That runs the package's debconf scripts, right? So for gpm, for example, it will ask me four questions, with no auto-detection or suggestions, and it doesn't give me a setup that supports hotplugging my usb mouse unless I configure it for the usb mouse. In which case the PS/2 trackpoint won't work. That's what I'm saying is missing, on redhat, I run system-config-mouse and I can use both the trackpoint and hotplug the usb mouse (both work simultaneously when the usb mouse is plugged in). And the config applies to gpm for console and in X.
Does FC2-test2 have an install-time option to skip SELinux? I've been looking at other distros because test1 and the development tree leading to test2 had SELinux and I found it totally horrid to have on a personal desktop.
I believe that's only avaiable under the Pro/Enterprise pricing, not under the Personal edition
A fair number of games which have multi-player online capability, you can set up a local server and have a LAN party without an internet connection. XBox and PS2 both have online play, but you can't set it all up in your apartment. You could have a LAN party but unless you have a really phat pipe, it's going to be maxed out with a very low number of participants, and people with a dedicated connection will own you all.
The only 'special breed' in the Debian community is the dicks who think anyone who asks a question that should be obvious must have been conceived by a weak sperm. It has nothing to do with being a Debian guru and everything to do with some emotional insecurity. The kind of person who would maliciously tease a classmate who couldn't read. These sorts of people really do turn off newcomers from whatever group they're trying to get into.
I don't know what it is about debian, but I've never encountered people so resentful of simple question in any other distro, or application, community.
Have a look at Morphix. It is exaclty Knoppix which breaks out the ISO images into categories (gamer, full GUI, light GUI, etc) and supports GNOME. I'm not sure if it supports a per-package granularity though.
Mandrake and Suse have a single admin suite that does everything. Some people love them, and I'll admit that they do look polished. I just don't like having to have a bunch of extra backends installed for hardware and services I don't have just to have the admin tool installed. I haven't really tried Ark, Lycoris, Lindows, or Libranet (Ark wouldn't either wouldn't install or wouldn't run after install, I forget) but my assumption is that being KDE based, they have the same feel of one big tool.
I really like the package selection available on Debian. But getting things to run the way I want can sometimes be a chore. On a previous attempt at debian I had trouble with IDE drivers after install. I couldn't get my USB mouse to work and was ridiculed on #debian for loading the usbmouse module instead the obvious task of installing usbmanager. When I asked the #debian folks for the location of an testing/unstable net install CD it took ten minutes of people asking why I didn't want to use floppies to install stable and then dist-upgrade. I don't have a floppy.
The new instaler is a super awesome step. I like that the debian install actually installs a kernel package now, and that in expert mode I can choose which kernel to install. But fonts still suck ass and I can't seem to improve some of them (gdm, the gnome login splash screen, and the gnome logout dialog). I didn't have trouble getting my USB mouse to work this time, but I can't get my thinkpad 600X's touchpad to work (and yes I've tried the config from the sites on the webring found at www.linux-thinkpad.org). Red Hat and Mandrake support the PS/2 touchpad and hotplugging a USB mouse out of the box. Copying my RH config didn't work. Configuring it by hand per the docs doesn't work.
I've recently discovered (in the process of installing flashplugin-nonfree and msttcorefonts) the update-* commands. But they seem to be there mostly to effect changes you have written into the config files already. I've found nothing so far on Debian which helps me get the config files right.
So finally arriving at the point of my post, I would like to see Red Hat's system-config-* set of single-purpose config tools ported to debian. I do realise that the RH tools aren't the penultimate solution (they haven't worked for me getting a Riva TNT2 with nvidia driver and Voodoo2 with tdfx driver dual-head setup working so far), but I think they're better than anyone else's offerings so far.
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fucking brilliant.
I find your ideas intriguing, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
almost forgot. Texas has no state income tax, that certainly helps.
U.T. Austin.
When businesses move to a place the cost of living eventually goes up
The cost of living in Austin did skyrocket during the boom. Then the bust hit and many of the companies moving/starting here went bust. Cost of living then came down some.
Apple has shown with the iPod Mini, that at a $300 price point a $50 difference has a noticeable impact on sales.
I believe my last test install of Fedora Core 2 had an option in the Desktop Preferences -> File Manager application. Anyone know if that was an upstream change? Or are non-Fedora users going to have to use gconf?
And it's a double middle click,
Hopefully the Single/Double click option in the same Preferences application applies to the middle-click as well.
GNOME has been looking like Mac since Ximian GNOME 1.4 (not sure what pure GNOME 1.4 looked like, but I'm guessing not much different)
Assuming you don't use Linux from Scratch, learn the packaging format of your chosen distro. If you're just building from source to optimize but you're not actually changing the default build options or anything, than the vendor-provided packages are likely as optimized or better than installing from source. They typically patch the source to play well with the rest of the system defaults and include scripts to integrate with the system admin/config philosophy. If you have specific patches you need to apply and want build options other than the defaults, then take the source package your vendor provides, patch it and change the build options, and build it into a binary package.
The benefit of packages is that it is far easier to audit the files on your system, remove or upgrade a package, and install the same thing on all your servers. The great thing about packages is you can customize them just as much as you can a source install.
if you have a cd burner grab boot.iso from here. It's about 4 MB and will boot the installer with support for all network based installs.
I thought the aironet problem was because FC2 uses kernel 2.6, and part of the the driver/utils is closed source and linked against kernel 2.4.
test1 had up2date configured with two sources: download.fedora.redhat.com and a mirror list. I think what it would do is check download.fedora.redhat.com to see if there were updates, and then use the mirror list to actually get them. So they took the mirror list out for test2? Could be because the mirror sites don't instantaneously get updates, and you end up with errors where it tries to grab an update listed on download.fedora.redhat.com from mirrors.kernel.org which isn't there. It got to the point where I just took both listings out and pointed it solely at the mirrors.kernel.org mirror of fedora.us (which mirrors the base release and the updates).
Do you have any references for that?
Debian has the contrib and non-free trees which is where packages with lingering doubts about patent and/or copyright restrictions are usually placed. For example there are the flashplugin-nonfree and msttcorefonts packages.
Looking at their page, they offer free demo downloads, and a GPL community edition source download (no binary). What this says to me is that Ribbon Soft purchased a commercial Qt licence and sells commercial versions, but also offer a free download of the source for their product. I would have to double-check, but it's possible that the commercial Qt license does not allow distribution of header and library files to build against. As a result, in order to build the code on Windows (no GPL version of Qt on Windows because the majority of developers abused it and developed closed-source software without licensing Qt) you need to buy a Qt license. There are GPL versions of Qt on Linux and Mac, and also a project to port the GPL Linux version to windows. So it's quite probable that you can build the code on Linux or Mac with the GPL version of Qt, and possibly on Windows with the port of the GPL Linux Qt.
If this is in fact the case, then Qt's licensing shouldn't be blamed, Ribbon Soft's decision to GPL code they have paid license fees to develop commercially should be praised.
I couldn't tell if you were directing that at me or not, but since only quoted that one like and mention zealots, I'll assume you weren't. I totally agree with you. I actually use GNOME as my desktop, but have used a commercial version of Qt, and commercially licensed Psi, to produce a closed source app. I think the big thing is when people talk about freedom for the developer and freedom for the consumer without realising they're contradicting themselves when they change point of view between developer and consumer.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux wants to disagree with you. You don't appear to understand the spirit of the GPL. It says if you distribute compiled modifications of this source, then you must provide the source to those modifications to the distributees of the compiled binaries. It doesn't say a damn thing about making it free beer (you can charge a distribution fee for the source). If the money was the important part, the GPL would prohibit you from charging for binaries, but it does not (the people to whom you have disitributed binaries to are the only people who are entitled to the source, and if they all had to pay for binaries, that doesn't violate the GPL). Red Hat and Suse make a pretty good business out of selling free speech. They do so by packaging it for easy consumption. Red Hat went way beyond the call of duty by providing free ISO images for download. I think that this is actually what caused so many people to fall for the misconception that the GPL is about free beer.