Seems to me that VMware is perfect for this. This was actually the whole reason I bought a license, well that and to run a few windows apps:). I like the idea of being able to put together a new distro in a nice safe sandbox. Plus I can keep an mp3 player open while I work. treke
That's making the assumption that someone has a TV. The 200 dollaer netstream might be cheaper for someone who'd have to go but a decent tv and the DVD player. treke
Actually I did read the article... and he says it might be suitable for small devices. Allow me to quote the Andrew Tanenbaum, "It is simply focused on the target area it was always focused on: education." http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/ast_home_page/faq.htm. Linux and the BSDs have never really been in competition with Minix because of the goal to keep it simple.
Normally I hate feeding trolls, but this guy could have fooled someone who new nothing about Minix treke
Minix was not meant for small devices. Minix is meant to be understandable to the students in an Operating System's Design class in one semester. The only real difference now is that the source is free to people who aren't taking an OS class( IIRC professors were allowed to copy and distribute the source to students in their class). treke
I'd disagree that we have www covered. Netscape 4.7 is usable, but it's starting to get a little stale. The Netscape 6 beta is pretty close to unusable to me( missing some very basic features from 4.7). Even worse, there are no other browsers available that are anywhere near the point of even Netscape 4.7 yet. Opera is even worse, the interface is an absolute mess. The buttons have no icons. The basic navigation tools are missing. Etc. Etc. Konquereor is still alpha software. Hopefully something will change soon.
Last I checked, the "masses" don't need professional-quality sound editing tools. What the masses need in the audio area are tools like the MS Media Player, XMMS, and other sound players Professionals need the tools to create, and they should have them. What the masses need are a good consistant user interface, a good office suite that runs on lower end hardware(hopefully WordPerfect 2000 fixes this, won't know till Monday:)), and a good web browser(maybe something major will happen with Netscape during the beta).
Lets just make sure that we attribute the need for software to the right people. treke
I agree, the pages pop up real quick on Linux, but There is a 1-2 second delay when I try and click on the check boxes. Not even going to comment on how ugly the default skin is(OK, guess I just did:) ). I wonder how many people are like me, and hate app level skins... I think it just looks tacky. Looking at my desktop right now I have motif, qt, and gtk apps that look subtly different, then an mp3 player with beats no resemblence to anything. Yet those are all attractive. Now there is a big blue web browser... and I can't get it to load any other skins. Too bad I dont see this trend changing any time soon, treke
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If you go to www.slashdot.org/code, there is a pointer to a list of headlines. One of the options is for a My.Netscape style template. Maybe there's a way to plug this into Mozilla, kinda makes sense. treke
As long as the author doesn't reassign the copyright to the new maintainer, he should still be allowed to close his source. The new maintainer's still have code the code they licensed under GPL, and have the rights to keep distributing that. So they can try to change it, but since it's already been distributed there isn't a legal way to close all of the source out there. treke
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I thought that Starting NT at 3.1(or was it 3.0) was to keep it working in apps that simply did a check on the windows version being at least 3.1(3.0). treke
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He's not doing this soley as a Mac fan. He does webhosting for sites that are using FileMaker, and he needs multiple boxes to run it on. Seems like an iMac would be cheaper than a g3 tower. Not sure how well filemaker runs on NT, but I'd bet it probbably runs better on the mac.
<disclaimer>I do not use the MacOS, NT, or filemaker enough to know how similarly the two verions run.</disclaimer> treke
Because if you run windows than there is a whole lot more going on. Look at what Corel is doing with WINE, they run their Linux Office Suite in it, and the reviews I've read say it preforms very well( although this is without using emulation). Next look at VMware, it uses up many many more system resources to get an almost perfect windows environment at about half speed, once again still no emulation. The other issue is RAM, to get VMware to run well for me I have to give it at least 64meg of RAM, while a single app would only need a fraction of that. WINE is also meant as a library for doing native ports of code, so even if you wanted to just run all of windows it's a worthwhile project to keep around. treke
Loki does have to wait until they get the Ok from activision though. I believe Heavy Gear 2 for Linux was just announced 2-3 months ago, and the porting and testing process is complicated. Maybe we should be complaining that they aren't being given licenses soon enough. Of course if Loki was involvd in the process from the beginning than it's a whole different ball game. Deals like getting the rights to port don't just happen overnight though treke
I doubt that would really happen. I know that Senior Jedi Knight is the last position I'd want:) I like being the bad guy, and I'm sure there are enough people who feel like I do. I'd even be tempted to play storm trooper. They're the ones who get to bully people around the most after all treke
Problem with your train of thought.... the HURD is not an operating system, it's a kernel, but I see what your saying. Why was HURD written? Wasn't it to be the kernel in the GNU Operating System? And isn't the GNU System supposed to be a totally free Unix system? Damn, one down. Now I think BeOS is a non-unix system, with a lot of unix utilities ported to it by Be, and maybe very good compliance with the unix system calls. Don't know though treke
What I fail to see is how this is theft. Whether I made a copy of the CD I own before the damage is done, or whether I copy it afterwords the result is the same. I see your logic as being that if your copy is damaged, you shouldn't make a copy in the first place. CDs are a media that the copy you make from the friend is the same thing as what you would have copied from yourself. I see no moral difference here. Now just copying a friends CD without buying a copy is completely different. treke
He actually answered this http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue2/2750 .html . Basically he says that he started installing SLS on some computers for a professor, and ended up fixing bugs in the SLS setup. The ball started rolling, and eventually he had slackware treke
I think their numbering system at RedHat is a byproduct of their release schedule, by the time they go from 6.0 to 7.2 it's time for a significant upgrade. This holds true for the 5.2 to 6.0 jump, and appears to be true of the 6.2 to 7.0 Jump. We've had a major kernel release, new major XFree release. Probably a new gnome and kde. 6.0 introduced GNOME ( I think, although I have seen a version of redhat 5.2 labeled 5.2-gnome). Don't remember what was different about 4.2 and the 5's, I had just gotten started then treke
Unless something has changed, the G400 is specifically unsupported unless you have a second card. Precision Insight may be writing dual head enabled g400 drivers in the future though treke
If your on another unix box, you should be able to just export your display ( export DISPLAY=myhost:0.0 or setenv DISPLAY=myhost:0.0). If your on windows, then you can try an XServer like Exceed or similar. You could also download VNC and try to get it to compile on alpha linux, and the standard WinVNC client should work. treke
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Seems to me that VMware is perfect for this. This was actually the whole reason I bought a license, well that and to run a few windows apps :). I like the idea of being able to put together a new distro in a nice safe sandbox. Plus I can keep an mp3 player open while I work.
treke
But most game systems are sold at a loss, money comes form licensing developers
treke
That's making the assumption that someone has a TV. The 200 dollaer netstream might be cheaper for someone who'd have to go but a decent tv and the DVD player.
treke
Actually I did read the article... and he says it might be suitable for small devices. Allow me to quote the Andrew Tanenbaum, "It is simply focused on the target area it was always focused on: education." http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/ast_home_page/faq.htm. Linux and the BSDs have never really been in competition with Minix because of the goal to keep it simple.
Normally I hate feeding trolls, but this guy could have fooled someone who new nothing about Minix
treke
Minix was not meant for small devices. Minix is meant to be understandable to the students in an Operating System's Design class in one semester. The only real difference now is that the source is free to people who aren't taking an OS class( IIRC professors were allowed to copy and distribute the source to students in their class).
treke
I'd disagree that we have www covered. Netscape 4.7 is usable, but it's starting to get a little stale. The Netscape 6 beta is pretty close to unusable to me( missing some very basic features from 4.7). Even worse, there are no other browsers available that are anywhere near the point of even Netscape 4.7 yet. Opera is even worse, the interface is an absolute mess. The buttons have no icons. The basic navigation tools are missing. Etc. Etc. Konquereor is still alpha software. Hopefully something will change soon.
Last I checked, the "masses" don't need professional-quality sound editing tools. What the masses need in the audio area are tools like the MS Media Player, XMMS, and other sound players Professionals need the tools to create, and they should have them. What the masses need are a good consistant user interface, a good office suite that runs on lower end hardware(hopefully WordPerfect 2000 fixes this, won't know till Monday :)), and a good web browser(maybe something major will happen with Netscape during the beta).
Lets just make sure that we attribute the need for software to the right people.
treke
I don't even think thast would really even be cheating. It was just a virtual break in :)
treke
I agree, the pages pop up real quick on Linux, but There is a 1-2 second delay when I try and click on the check boxes. Not even going to comment on how ugly the default skin is(OK, guess I just did :) ). I wonder how many people are like me, and hate app level skins... I think it just looks tacky. Looking at my desktop right now I have motif, qt, and gtk apps that look subtly different, then an mp3 player with beats no resemblence to anything. Yet those are all attractive. Now there is a big blue web browser... and I can't get it to load any other skins. Too bad I dont see this trend changing any time soon,
treke
If you go to www.slashdot.org/code, there is a pointer to a list of headlines. One of the options is for a My.Netscape style template. Maybe there's a way to plug this into Mozilla, kinda makes sense.
treke
As long as the author doesn't reassign the copyright to the new maintainer, he should still be allowed to close his source. The new maintainer's still have code the code they licensed under GPL, and have the rights to keep distributing that. So they can try to change it, but since it's already been distributed there isn't a legal way to close all of the source out there.
treke
I thought that Starting NT at 3.1(or was it 3.0) was to keep it working in apps that simply did a check on the windows version being at least 3.1(3.0).
treke
http://www.woz.org
treke
He's not doing this soley as a Mac fan. He does webhosting for sites that are using FileMaker, and he needs multiple boxes to run it on. Seems like an iMac would be cheaper than a g3 tower. Not sure how well filemaker runs on NT, but I'd bet it probbably runs better on the mac.
<disclaimer>I do not use the MacOS, NT, or filemaker enough to know how similarly the two verions run.</disclaimer>
treke
Because if you run windows than there is a whole lot more going on. Look at what Corel is doing with WINE, they run their Linux Office Suite in it, and the reviews I've read say it preforms very well( although this is without using emulation). Next look at VMware, it uses up many many more system resources to get an almost perfect windows environment at about half speed, once again still no emulation. The other issue is RAM, to get VMware to run well for me I have to give it at least 64meg of RAM, while a single app would only need a fraction of that. WINE is also meant as a library for doing native ports of code, so even if you wanted to just run all of windows it's a worthwhile project to keep around.
treke
Linux for some alphas
treke
Loki does have to wait until they get the Ok from activision though. I believe Heavy Gear 2 for Linux was just announced 2-3 months ago, and the porting and testing process is complicated. Maybe we should be complaining that they aren't being given licenses soon enough. Of course if Loki was involvd in the process from the beginning than it's a whole different ball game. Deals like getting the rights to port don't just happen overnight though
treke
I doubt that would really happen. I know that Senior Jedi Knight is the last position I'd want :) I like being the bad guy, and I'm sure there are enough people who feel like I do. I'd even be tempted to play storm trooper. They're the ones who get to bully people around the most after all
treke
Problem with your train of thought.... the HURD is not an operating system, it's a kernel, but I see what your saying. Why was HURD written? Wasn't it to be the kernel in the GNU Operating System? And isn't the GNU System supposed to be a totally free Unix system? Damn, one down. Now I think BeOS is a non-unix system, with a lot of unix utilities ported to it by Be, and maybe very good compliance with the unix system calls. Don't know though
treke
What I fail to see is how this is theft. Whether I made a copy of the CD I own before the damage is done, or whether I copy it afterwords the result is the same. I see your logic as being that if your copy is damaged, you shouldn't make a copy in the first place. CDs are a media that the copy you make from the friend is the same thing as what you would have copied from yourself. I see no moral difference here. Now just copying a friends CD without buying a copy is completely different.
treke
He actually answered this http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue2/2750 .html . Basically he says that he started installing SLS on some computers for a professor, and ended up fixing bugs in the SLS setup. The ball started rolling, and eventually he had slackware
treke
I think their numbering system at RedHat is a byproduct of their release schedule, by the time they go from 6.0 to 7.2 it's time for a significant upgrade. This holds true for the 5.2 to 6.0 jump, and appears to be true of the 6.2 to 7.0 Jump. We've had a major kernel release, new major XFree release. Probably a new gnome and kde. 6.0 introduced GNOME ( I think, although I have seen a version of redhat 5.2 labeled 5.2-gnome). Don't remember what was different about 4.2 and the 5's, I had just gotten started then
treke
Took me around an hour to build on a P3450, 256 meg RAM. Should take about the same for you.
treke
sorry bout that :)
treke
Unless something has changed, the G400 is specifically unsupported unless you have a second card. Precision Insight may be writing dual head enabled g400 drivers in the future though
treke
If your on another unix box, you should be able to just export your display ( export DISPLAY=myhost:0.0 or setenv DISPLAY=myhost:0.0). If your on windows, then you can try an XServer like Exceed or similar. You could also download VNC and try to get it to compile on alpha linux, and the standard WinVNC client should work.
treke