I installed FreeBSD stable with KDE on my Dell laptop over a week ago, but I found it booting much faster than Windows 2000. (and I maintain W2K so it keeps on booting as fast as it should) The only reason KDE is (just a little) slower now is because I've been experimenting with the cvs build of x.org.
Before talking with him, I didn't think it was safely possible to take a $32000 car, $7k of tuning, and end up just a hair short of a supercar
Not that fast, but a lot cheaper; I've driven Alfa Romeo 164 V6 and Mitsubishi Sigma, costing me around ?2000, and they go 140mph and do 0-60 around 7 seconds I think. Low cost, high funfactor outrunning all those -dime-a-dozen mobile discos and sportscars. Plus these sedans give you more respect from the general public. It always makes me laugh at movies like 2 Fast 2 Furious where they go to so much trouble reaching 100mph.
if there is any news about old retro dying stuff, it is bound to be on the front page, except of course *BSD
So in other words, Slashdot confirms; *BSD is alive.:-D And Debian sucks in a good way? *confuzzled* I think I'll just stick to something that doesn't suck that well, but can be (ab)used all the time.
Now if each time when someone tries this sort of thing gets their server posted here on slashdot, we could actually do something good with the slashdot effect and put their server up in smoke before much damage is done.:-D
Because we've standardized on
Windows at work, and my main machine is a Windows laptop. I haven't got VNC running on the FreeBSD machine and want something decent while I have to use this laptop. But I will try xremote when I can run FreeBSD as my main machine, it looks very good, but it will have to play nice with synergy as well because I still need at least one Windows machine for my work. I did see that only version 3 of VMWare was available in the ports, but my needs for it are pretty simple, so it should suffice.
I just checked it out and installed it on my media server (W2K Pro, only because my Terratec isn't supported and that's my main priority). With the right settings I was able to connect to it with TightVNC 1.2.9 and play a movie fullscreen on tv without it getting shaky. Using the dfmirage driver though slows down and prevents Classic Media Player going fullscreen while I'm connected. It does work very fast for regular use though, but for my purpose the original way works best.
The only reason for me to use vnc on X is to control my workstation next to me from my windows laptop by way of win2vnc. I don't want a vnc screen on my main monitor, just control the screen left of it without another mouse and keyboard taking up desk space. Virtual desktops have become a must for me ever since I started using them on this laptop, and the only reason I run Windows on it is because it's the standard at my job (although I want to try if I can switch to FreeBSD, and use VMWare to install a Windows client with all the necessary admin tools for the network).
Same here. Ever since I've tried Goscreen I've been looking for a similar alternative and found it in Virtual Dimension. When I sit behind someone else's pc or laptop, I get kinda frustrated at not being able to switch desktops. But because I also want to be able to work on one screen and have another open for reference/status/whatever, I started the trend at work to use a second workstation. Soon after that I started using tightvnc with win2vnc (the improved version). Thanks to the link to synergy provided by gl4ss I'm going to hook up my third workstation running FreeBSD as well (had a bit too much trouble with using vnc for X). I'm going to get sooo spoiled. *grin*
Exactly! Whoever came up with the notion that not voting for either democrat or republican means the voter is undecided? A great many have decided NOT to vote for them or vote for another candidate. I think this is indeed a sad time for the people in America.
I just watched CNN, and I looked at our dutch teletext, but no mention either. I guess they can keep these things under wraps pretty good as long as no large amount of the public will start protesting.
Nice, an article about FAQ's, but I found it rather lacking like most FAQ's. He only mentioned liking one application, but what about a comparison of the ones he tried? Or explaining why that one instead of the other. I found it all a bit too short to give me an idea about what he tested and concluded. Now I still have to figure out for myself what is best. (Yes, I know I would have to anyway, but most articles can be a good guide and list the strenghts and weaknesses of every application)
Same here. I wanted to have a look at 0.5.4 under Virtual PC as well (yes, I think it's actually a useful tool for once from Microsoft) and it refused to boot the iso image. Trying to mount it under Deamon tools just gave me a "blank" cd. Will have to get back to it at some later time I guess...
Well, I have to admit I haven't used Warcraft 3 (yet), but I prefer to game with an independant server so I don't have to switch between monitoring it and playing the game. (and you'll understand why when you hear the complaints from the guys about bots being too weak/strong/few/many all the time *lol*)
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Then Linux must be veeerrrrryyyyy slow, seeing how "dead" *BSD is supposed to be. :-P
I installed FreeBSD stable with KDE on my Dell laptop over a week ago, but I found it booting much faster than Windows 2000. (and I maintain W2K so it keeps on booting as fast as it should)
The only reason KDE is (just a little) slower now is because I've been experimenting with the cvs build of x.org.
Always ready to help with foreign support. *clicks furiously on the links from his place in The Netherlands*
Would Unisonbe any help to you?
Before talking with him, I didn't think it was safely possible to take a $32000 car, $7k of tuning, and end up just a hair short of a supercar
Not that fast, but a lot cheaper; I've driven Alfa Romeo 164 V6 and Mitsubishi Sigma, costing me around ?2000, and they go 140mph and do 0-60 around 7 seconds I think. Low cost, high funfactor outrunning all those -dime-a-dozen mobile discos and sportscars. Plus these sedans give you more respect from the general public.
It always makes me laugh at movies like 2 Fast 2 Furious where they go to so much trouble reaching 100mph.
See? You're one of those 2 people. :-P
if there is any news about old retro dying stuff, it is bound to be on the front page, except of course *BSD
:-D
So in other words, Slashdot confirms; *BSD is alive.
And Debian sucks in a good way? *confuzzled*
I think I'll just stick to something that doesn't suck that well, but can be (ab)used all the time.
So, Debian is to coma as *BSD is to dying?
Why is this frontpage news? All the news about updates for *BSD show up only in the BSD section.
The only thing Mini-ITX buys you is silence and space.
Not to mention the lower power consumption.
I've replaced my servers at home with VIA boxes running FreeBSD for all these reasons.
2-1=0
Maybe we should stop using virusscanners and do like nature, those that survive all the diseases will evolve into a better species (of users).
I see great slashdotters think alike. :-)
Now if each time when someone tries this sort of thing gets their server posted here on slashdot, we could actually do something good with the slashdot effect and put their server up in smoke before much damage is done. :-D
Why VNC?
Because we've standardized on Windows at work, and my main machine is a Windows laptop. I haven't got VNC running on the FreeBSD machine and want something decent while I have to use this laptop.
But I will try xremote when I can run FreeBSD as my main machine, it looks very good, but it will have to play nice with synergy as well because I still need at least one Windows machine for my work.
I did see that only version 3 of VMWare was available in the ports, but my needs for it are pretty simple, so it should suffice.
I just checked it out and installed it on my media server (W2K Pro, only because my Terratec isn't supported and that's my main priority).
With the right settings I was able to connect to it with TightVNC 1.2.9 and play a movie fullscreen on tv without it getting shaky.
Using the dfmirage driver though slows down and prevents Classic Media Player going fullscreen while I'm connected.
It does work very fast for regular use though, but for my purpose the original way works best.
The only reason for me to use vnc on X is to control my workstation next to me from my windows laptop by way of win2vnc. I don't want a vnc screen on my main monitor, just control the screen left of it without another mouse and keyboard taking up desk space.
Virtual desktops have become a must for me ever since I started using them on this laptop, and the only reason I run Windows on it is because it's the standard at my job (although I want to try if I can switch to FreeBSD, and use VMWare to install a Windows client with all the necessary admin tools for the network).
Same here.
Ever since I've tried Goscreen I've been looking for a similar alternative and found it in Virtual Dimension. When I sit behind someone else's pc or laptop, I get kinda frustrated at not being able to switch desktops. But because I also want to be able to work on one screen and have another open for reference/status/whatever, I started the trend at work to use a second workstation. Soon after that I started using tightvnc with win2vnc (the improved version).
Thanks to the link to synergy provided by gl4ss I'm going to hook up my third workstation running FreeBSD as well (had a bit too much trouble with using vnc for X).
I'm going to get sooo spoiled. *grin*
Exactly!
Whoever came up with the notion that not voting for either democrat or republican means the voter is undecided? A great many have decided NOT to vote for them or vote for another candidate.
I think this is indeed a sad time for the people in America.
I just watched CNN, and I looked at our dutch teletext, but no mention either.
I guess they can keep these things under wraps pretty good as long as no large amount of the public will start protesting.
Nice, an article about FAQ's, but I found it rather lacking like most FAQ's. He only mentioned liking one application, but what about a comparison of the ones he tried? Or explaining why that one instead of the other.
I found it all a bit too short to give me an idea about what he tested and concluded. Now I still have to figure out for myself what is best. (Yes, I know I would have to anyway, but most articles can be a good guide and list the strenghts and weaknesses of every application)
The VIA chips were never ment to compete with the speed of AMD or Intel. Their purpose is to provide a low power solution.
Same here. I wanted to have a look at 0.5.4 under Virtual PC as well (yes, I think it's actually a useful tool for once from Microsoft) and it refused to boot the iso image. Trying to mount it under Deamon tools just gave me a "blank" cd.
Will have to get back to it at some later time I guess...
Well, I have to admit I haven't used Warcraft 3 (yet), but I prefer to game with an independant server so I don't have to switch between monitoring it and playing the game. (and you'll understand why when you hear the complaints from the guys about bots being too weak/strong/few/many all the time *lol*)
I forgive anyone, as long as I'm not forced to buy their stuff.
Maybe they've sold much now, but it might be less in the future.