I asked this question awhile ago and after doing a bunch of research I've decided to wait for the ASUS RT-N66U which should be coming out in the next few weeks. Its gigabit with 802.11N dual channel and two USB ports. It has a 600Mhz Broadcom chip and 256M of RAM. While googling around for it I've seen a couple of references in Tomato and OpenWRT to them adding code for it so I assume it will be supported, most other ASUS routers are.
OpenWRT is more for long term. Most manufactures stop updating a products firmware with new features once they stop selling it. OpenWRT gives me the flexibility to continue to get new features and fixes.
Its only costing $60/month. I have a few friends that have it and they constantly get 70M/s. I'd be willing to look at better equipment but I still want OpenWRT support which is more likely on consumer hardware.
I looked at that but it doesn't support 5Ghz. Since I'm going to be in a very huge apartment building I'd like to be able to do most of my wireless over 5Ghz so I don't get interference with anyone else. I was also looking at the ASUS RT-N56U which has everything I want but theres no OpenWRT support. Apparently its possible but I don't have the time to port it myself.http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/19/0315258/Ask-Slashdot-Good-Gigabit-80211N-Home-Router#
I worked with Marvell extensively in Linux and while it was good all driver support was in their own patch which seemed to not integrate well with the kernel. Parts of it conflicted so I had to ensure certain standard features were turned off. Even userland tools were changed. I had to use a custom version of U-Boot tools. It was a mess. What they don't understand is that they end up spending more time maintaining their patches then just getting them right and submitting them upstream.
I second this mainly because it sounds like you don't have much experience in setting up a cluster. By using RHEL you get tech support which may help when your stuck. If your company doesn't want to pay for it CentOS is good because I beleive you can just pay for RHEL support and Redhat will support it.
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Yes it is a big bug(I use Linux on my laptop and phone so I'm effected as well) but alot of people are also not effected. Its unfair to hold them back because a subset(even though it may be large) of users are effected by a bug. There is no requirement to upgrade either, they can just stay at an older version.
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A show stopping bug must effect everyone at at least the majority. This bug does not. It does not limit the functioning of the kernel as a whole on any system(including mobile devices). The only thing it effects is power usage.
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The bug will be fixed but its a very very complicated bug. All that is known is that somewhere between 2.6.37 and 2.6.38 some patch or patches caused the kernel to increase machine power usage. Finding the patch or patches that caused this is very difficult and thats just finding the bug. It then has to be debugged and fixed. One bug can't be a show stopper for everything else. Just give them some time.
Thats true but I wouldn't be putting pressure on Foxconn, MSI, or any other ODM builders its really who your buying from. HP, Dell, Acer, etc are the ones who really make the calls. They go with the BIOS because thats what Windows works with best and its whats known. What coreboot needs to do is support Windows well and do something the BIOS/EFI doesn't that consumers really want. Faster boot time is really nice and is something that could give them that however they still need to catch up with a graphical interface.
Can you slim down what your OS is running? I know with all the anti-virus and management software that IT forces on everyone it usually slows the system down quite a bit. If you can remove some of it that would help. I'd suggest installing Ubuntu on it. Any machine you need to manage you can RDP(Windows Remote Desktop) or SSH into.
HP makes a SOC system based on the Marvell Kirkwood design. Its the HP t5325 I beleive. It works great as a thinclient but local web browsing is kina slow and theres no flash.
There is almost no reason that they should of been writing drivers. This just means they didn't do any research before buying equipment. Printer drivers are especially surprising since support on Linux is better then on Windows or Mac.
Every smart phone commercial you see boasts about how when you buy smart phone X on network Y you can browse, e-mail, watch videos, stream music, download huge documents and do anything you can with a laptop on your smart phone. Hell the phones come with apps preinstalled to do many of these high bandwidth thing. However when you look at the agreements most will specifically say only basic web browsing and e-mail is allowed. Isn't that considered false advertising? How long until a law suit comes up?
The main reason people are still using Windows on their systems today is because of all the apps and hardware that Wintel supports. As soon as the first ARM based Windows devices come out for consumers there will be a huge amount of people complaining that there programs or drivers don't work. Even today this comes up, I've seen people not understand that Office 2007 won't work with Windows 98. All they saw on the box was that "Windows" was supported. While Microsoft will be able to get some companies to port many won't and those that do will require users to buy a new version.
I've only been able to play with my Verizon Droid but it never gets an internet facing IP address. It always gets a 10 net address(yes while on 3G). My guess is that they do this so when you hop from one tower to another your traffic can be forwarded, but I've never verified that. I know IPv4 address are running out but are mobile phones really the reason? If every company is like Verizon(and I would assume at least a few other are) that means only one Internet IPv4 address per tower. Meaning one address could be serving thousands.
For alot of things Sid is still way out of date. I don't do much Debian work anymore but when I did I remember comming across tons of them and having to either roll my own Debian package for awhile awhile. This is certainly the case for lesser used packages.
This is one of the biggest features I miss about Gentoo. I like running the latest and greatest but stablity is also nice. Hopefully this would mean things like same day Firefox stable releases in Ubuntu and others. Not sure how it would handle big things like GNOME, X, or glibc but if they can do it well that would be amazing.
Across the street at Drexel University almost all computer science classes require that class assignments run on the universities Ubuntu tux cluster, and comes with make files. Many are now requiring some using version control so instead of "handing in" an assignment we just e-mail the teacher a link to a git or svn repository that they can access. Most students run or at least have in a VM or separate partition Linux running and know how to install and maintain it.
I don't mean to boast about Drexel but are you seriously telling me few students are UPenn can even run make?
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I asked this question awhile ago and after doing a bunch of research I've decided to wait for the ASUS RT-N66U which should be coming out in the next few weeks. Its gigabit with 802.11N dual channel and two USB ports. It has a 600Mhz Broadcom chip and 256M of RAM. While googling around for it I've seen a couple of references in Tomato and OpenWRT to them adding code for it so I assume it will be supported, most other ASUS routers are.
OpenWRT is more for long term. Most manufactures stop updating a products firmware with new features once they stop selling it. OpenWRT gives me the flexibility to continue to get new features and fixes.
That does look really nice but theres no word of when its coming out and no reviews. They announced it in January, I wonder whats taking them so long?
This was the case a number of years ago but apparently most gigabit routers have gigabit WAN now.
Its only costing $60/month. I have a few friends that have it and they constantly get 70M/s. I'd be willing to look at better equipment but I still want OpenWRT support which is more likely on consumer hardware.
I looked at that but it doesn't support 5Ghz. Since I'm going to be in a very huge apartment building I'd like to be able to do most of my wireless over 5Ghz so I don't get interference with anyone else. I was also looking at the ASUS RT-N56U which has everything I want but theres no OpenWRT support. Apparently its possible but I don't have the time to port it myself.http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/19/0315258/Ask-Slashdot-Good-Gigabit-80211N-Home-Router#
I worked with Marvell extensively in Linux and while it was good all driver support was in their own patch which seemed to not integrate well with the kernel. Parts of it conflicted so I had to ensure certain standard features were turned off. Even userland tools were changed. I had to use a custom version of U-Boot tools. It was a mess. What they don't understand is that they end up spending more time maintaining their patches then just getting them right and submitting them upstream.
RHEL support is good when a server goes down and you don't have time to google it. You just want to know how to fix it.
I second this mainly because it sounds like you don't have much experience in setting up a cluster. By using RHEL you get tech support which may help when your stuck. If your company doesn't want to pay for it CentOS is good because I beleive you can just pay for RHEL support and Redhat will support it.
Yes it is a big bug(I use Linux on my laptop and phone so I'm effected as well) but alot of people are also not effected. Its unfair to hold them back because a subset(even though it may be large) of users are effected by a bug. There is no requirement to upgrade either, they can just stay at an older version.
A show stopping bug must effect everyone at at least the majority. This bug does not. It does not limit the functioning of the kernel as a whole on any system(including mobile devices). The only thing it effects is power usage.
The bug will be fixed but its a very very complicated bug. All that is known is that somewhere between 2.6.37 and 2.6.38 some patch or patches caused the kernel to increase machine power usage. Finding the patch or patches that caused this is very difficult and thats just finding the bug. It then has to be debugged and fixed. One bug can't be a show stopper for everything else. Just give them some time.
Thats true but I wouldn't be putting pressure on Foxconn, MSI, or any other ODM builders its really who your buying from. HP, Dell, Acer, etc are the ones who really make the calls. They go with the BIOS because thats what Windows works with best and its whats known. What coreboot needs to do is support Windows well and do something the BIOS/EFI doesn't that consumers really want. Faster boot time is really nice and is something that could give them that however they still need to catch up with a graphical interface.
Can you slim down what your OS is running? I know with all the anti-virus and management software that IT forces on everyone it usually slows the system down quite a bit. If you can remove some of it that would help. I'd suggest installing Ubuntu on it. Any machine you need to manage you can RDP(Windows Remote Desktop) or SSH into.
HP makes a SOC system based on the Marvell Kirkwood design. Its the HP t5325 I beleive. It works great as a thinclient but local web browsing is kina slow and theres no flash.
That would be great! Then every one in the world could buy an SSH account on a Canadian server and download as much as they want!
Did anyone else read the title and got their hopes up about the EU banning the PS3 because they took away the OtherOS option?
There is almost no reason that they should of been writing drivers. This just means they didn't do any research before buying equipment. Printer drivers are especially surprising since support on Linux is better then on Windows or Mac.
Every smart phone commercial you see boasts about how when you buy smart phone X on network Y you can browse, e-mail, watch videos, stream music, download huge documents and do anything you can with a laptop on your smart phone. Hell the phones come with apps preinstalled to do many of these high bandwidth thing. However when you look at the agreements most will specifically say only basic web browsing and e-mail is allowed. Isn't that considered false advertising? How long until a law suit comes up?
The main reason people are still using Windows on their systems today is because of all the apps and hardware that Wintel supports. As soon as the first ARM based Windows devices come out for consumers there will be a huge amount of people complaining that there programs or drivers don't work. Even today this comes up, I've seen people not understand that Office 2007 won't work with Windows 98. All they saw on the box was that "Windows" was supported. While Microsoft will be able to get some companies to port many won't and those that do will require users to buy a new version.
I've only been able to play with my Verizon Droid but it never gets an internet facing IP address. It always gets a 10 net address(yes while on 3G). My guess is that they do this so when you hop from one tower to another your traffic can be forwarded, but I've never verified that. I know IPv4 address are running out but are mobile phones really the reason? If every company is like Verizon(and I would assume at least a few other are) that means only one Internet IPv4 address per tower. Meaning one address could be serving thousands.
Currently using Fedora. I'm really not a huge fan of pacman and Fedora is actually pretty up to date with things.
For alot of things Sid is still way out of date. I don't do much Debian work anymore but when I did I remember comming across tons of them and having to either roll my own Debian package for awhile awhile. This is certainly the case for lesser used packages.
This is one of the biggest features I miss about Gentoo. I like running the latest and greatest but stablity is also nice. Hopefully this would mean things like same day Firefox stable releases in Ubuntu and others. Not sure how it would handle big things like GNOME, X, or glibc but if they can do it well that would be amazing.
Across the street at Drexel University almost all computer science classes require that class assignments run on the universities Ubuntu tux cluster, and comes with make files. Many are now requiring some using version control so instead of "handing in" an assignment we just e-mail the teacher a link to a git or svn repository that they can access. Most students run or at least have in a VM or separate partition Linux running and know how to install and maintain it.
I don't mean to boast about Drexel but are you seriously telling me few students are UPenn can even run make?