It's like the old amiga was in the 1980's.... you could buy an IBM PC for $5000, or you could buy an amiga for $300, which would kick it's ass for playing games on (lets face it, thats why we buy pent-ii's), and yet you can still do a bit of wordprocessing/web surfing on it. Now, i'm a coder, I need a real computer (Okay, the amiga was/is, but it's an analogy guys:). But my cousin who just plays quake and web browses would be much better served by this, at about 1/10 of the price.
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Indeed, it is an advantage for a beginner. A friend of mine, who i wont name, but is a VERY good windows programmer (much better than I am:) installed redhat linux, and was confronted by FVWM95. For those of you who don't know, FVWM95 is ugly. He is now convinced that GUI's on linux suck, and hasn't gotten his head around the concept of changing WM's As I said at the start, this is a advanced c/c++ programmer, not some script kiddie. The nice thing about such a setup is that there really is only one way to do most things on it, which makes learning MUCH MUCH easier. There is nothing to stop them downloading other WM's later (and, in fact, I think that about 50% of people would after a while, just to play with them. THe other 50% wern't going to change the default anyhow:)/rant:)
I know you slackwaree guys are gonna hate me....
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But I really think that distros like this are the way of the future for about 90% of users. Simple install that doesn't require you do do nearly as much real work? I'd like to use that. That said, I'm a console junkie, so I'll be sticking to the more advanced distros, but my mother uses linux, and this sort of distro she could operate (she is reasonably technically adept for a windows user, but no expert/geek:)
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It's not just an American thing, it's a politican thing generally - They're trying to pass regulate the internet here, too (in australia). I find it ironic that they're trying when they have even less hope than the US:). Of course, the great firewall of china aparently does work, so............
Now I like seeing the kernel announcments on slashdor But, perhaps instead of being under "Linux", they should be filed under "Kernels" or somethine of a similar vein, so all you guys who don't wanna know (and I can understand why you wouldn't:) can ignore them. Just a thought:)
Excuse my gross ignornace (i know, i know....:), but what exactly is the difference between the bewulf clusters that are all the rage at the moment and a "High Availibilty Cluster" - Jaymz, who is an ignoramus
Could someone perhaps recommend me a good WYSIWYG HTML editor for linux or freebsd? Yes, I do know that I should use vi/emacs/pico (i prefer pico myself out of the above... sue me:), but sometimes I want to get actual work done rather than fucking with HTML tags:) "I'm sick of being tied to windows" (although i'll still have to boot it to test IE:)
hmm... lemme see the masthead again.... ahh! "News for nerds..." not "news only for nerds who live in a linux centric world". Oh well! maybe next time:) - Jaymz, who is also tied to windows at times, but is much happier in his native freeBSD and Linux:)
... when you consider that AMD usually/always price thier chips BELOW intels. Somone above did the math and found it was only 2% slower in one test, and 10% in the other. If AMD price their chip 25% less than intels, then with two CPU's of the same price, you still come out ahead, even with floating point (floating point performance is what has kept me with intel cpus up until now, so no I'm not an AMD zealot, just noting some math:)
In my windows days, I loved a program called C++ builder. It is basically a rather neat fusion of delphi/visual basic and a REAL language:).
This is the one app I miss in the linux world. I even started writing a version of it myself, but unfortunantly time is not a thing i have a lot of these days (I think that's why I liked it in the first place:)
What i see perhaps happaning is the windows source may one day be included on the CD with the binaries, but covered under the same EULA (i.e. you can't spread it around:)
Is this a good thing? maybe....... Is this an ideal thing? no. however..... Is this a better-than-the-current-thing? I think so.
The problem with creating an idiot proof systems..
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is that most people underestimates the ingenuity of geuine idiots:)
I know variety is the spice of life, and I support that, but i just wonder, wouldn't it be better to pool some resources and have 3 or 4 really good portals rather than 1,796+ mediocre ones?
Trs80 Telnet - so what? (joking :)
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seriously tho.... kudos to the guys that did this:)
on that note tho, we've had telnetd in lunix (no, not linux, lunix:) on the mighty c64, and both telnetd and a basic httpd on geckos for quite some time!.
(i'm also writing a grafical www browser for it, too -> check my www page at http://alih.wow64.org:).
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It's like the old amiga was in the 1980's.... you could buy an IBM PC for $5000, or you could buy an amiga for $300, which would kick it's ass for playing games on (lets face it, thats why we buy pent-ii's), and yet you can still do a bit of wordprocessing/web surfing on it. :). But my cousin who just plays quake and web browses would be much better served by this, at about 1/10 of the price.
Now, i'm a coder, I need a real computer (Okay, the amiga was/is, but it's an analogy guys
Indeed, it is an advantage for a beginner. A friend of mine, who i wont name, but is a VERY good windows programmer (much better than I am :) installed redhat linux, and was confronted by FVWM95. For those of you who don't know, FVWM95 is ugly. He is now convinced that GUI's on linux suck, and hasn't gotten his head around the concept of changing WM's As I said at the start, this is a advanced c/c++ programmer, not some script kiddie. The nice thing about such a setup is that there really is only one way to do most things on it, which makes learning MUCH MUCH easier. There is nothing to stop them downloading other WM's later (and, in fact, I think that about 50% of people would after a while, just to play with them. THe other 50% wern't going to change the default anyhow :) /rant :)
But I really think that distros like this are the way of the future for about 90% of users. Simple install that doesn't require you do do nearly as much real work? I'd like to use that. That said, I'm a console junkie, so I'll be sticking to the more advanced distros, but my mother uses linux, and this sort of distro she could operate (she is reasonably technically adept for a windows user, but no expert/geek :)
It's not just an American thing, it's a politican thing generally - They're trying to pass regulate the internet here, too (in australia). I find it ironic that they're trying when they have even less hope than the US :). Of course, the great firewall of china aparently does work, so............
Now I like seeing the kernel announcments on slashdor :) can ignore them. :)
But, perhaps instead of being under "Linux", they should be filed under "Kernels" or somethine of a similar vein, so all you guys who don't wanna know (and I can understand why you wouldn't
Just a thought
Excuse my gross ignornace (i know, i know.... :), but what exactly is the difference between the bewulf clusters that are all the rage at the moment and a "High Availibilty Cluster" - Jaymz, who is an ignoramus
I prefer the spam option myself (only for black holes tho, not for eating or recieving in my mailbox :)
I was wising they were green :)
Could someone perhaps recommend me a good WYSIWYG HTML editor for linux or freebsd? :), but sometimes I want to get actual work done rather than fucking with HTML tags :) :)
Yes, I do know that I should use vi/emacs/pico (i prefer pico myself out of the above... sue me
"I'm sick of being tied to windows" (although i'll still have to boot it to test IE
hmm... lemme see the masthead again.... ahh! "News for nerds..." not "news only for nerds who live in a linux centric world". Oh well! maybe next time :) :)
- Jaymz, who is also tied to windows at times, but is much happier in his native freeBSD and Linux
... when you consider that AMD usually/always price thier chips BELOW intels. :)
Somone above did the math and found it was only 2% slower in one test, and 10% in the other. If AMD price their chip 25% less than intels, then with two CPU's of the same price, you still come out ahead, even with floating point (floating point performance is what has kept me with intel cpus up until now, so no I'm not an AMD zealot, just noting some math
Redhat could make their installers et al proprietry
so that you couldn't copy that, hence making the
dist proprietry.
I know a guy with i think 64MB of ram in his c64
and a couple of gb's of disk space.
ww2.southwind.net/~natedac is his page iirc.
that was the theory, but it became rather 'write once - debug everywhere' :)
In my windows days, I loved a program called C++ builder. It is basically a rather neat fusion of delphi/visual basic and a REAL language :).
:)
This is the one app I miss in the linux world. I even started writing a version of it myself, but unfortunantly time is not a thing i have a lot of these days (I think that's why I liked it in the first place
no, definantly gnomewhere :)
You did follow your sig... you just chose the 'not at all' option :)
Does NT have any service pack installed out-of-the-box? I think not.
therefore, you shouldn't even be comparing with SP1, let alone SP4!!
- Jaymz
What i see perhaps happaning is the windows source may one day be included on the CD with the binaries, but covered under the same EULA (i.e. you can't spread it around :)
Is this a good thing? maybe.......
Is this an ideal thing? no. however.....
Is this a better-than-the-current-thing? I think so.
is that most people underestimates the ingenuity of geuine idiots :)
I know variety is the spice of life, and I support that, but i just wonder, wouldn't it be better to pool some resources and have 3 or 4 really good portals rather than 1,796+ mediocre ones?
seriously tho.... kudos to the guys that did this :)
:) on the mighty c64, and both telnetd and a basic httpd on geckos for quite some time!.
:).
on that note tho, we've had telnetd in lunix (no, not linux, lunix
(i'm also writing a grafical www browser for it, too -> check my www page at http://alih.wow64.org
- Jaymz