Software RAID is not enabled in any version of windows that I've used and I was not aware it was even in advanced server. In XP I know it looks like it's there, but when you go to active it's not actually there and gives a message stating support is on the way. If it really is in 2kas, then my next questions would be does it have the feature set the equivilant Linux RAID does. For instance Linux raid is not limited to Raid 0, 1, 5. Although that is fairly comprehensive linux also supports 2,3,4,6, and using raid devices as part of another raid enabling raid 0+1,5+5, etc. Linux also supports adding an additional device into a RAID array with evms and the device mapper, so say you have a raid 5 of 4 100G you can add another 4 without a problem. Linux also supports taking a snaphot of RAID or other logical volume which I doubt windows can do.
I don't really much feel like providing you with a whole list of things the Linux kernel allows you to do that the NT kernel can not do, but I'm sure that if you yourself take a look at the kernel you'll notice there is a slew of options that windows does not include(also I find it kind of cheesey that one version of windows can do thing x and another can do thing y, for instance with the raid, XP which came out after 2kas can not do these raid functions(only append), and XP came out after 2kas, the Linux kernel I would have to say is more flexible in this area.
The seperation of the CLI/GUI from the kernel offers obvious advantages for stability and security both, which are almost indeniably better on a Linux machine than on a Windows machine, this is do to the kernel and the operating system as a whole, but I think it relates to the discussion.
I have no idea what IE being tied down to the OS and the kernel has to do with the kernel itself, those are microsoft's words and not my own. I'm just saying the Linux kernel does not have that limitation.
I agree entirely that you SHOULD be able to integrate kde into windows or the win ui into a linux machine, but Microsoft isn't going to have anything of theirs running on linux any time soon, so FOSS can only try to standardize what it has control of. So you're never going to have the day when you're dream is a reality as long as microsoft is the dominant OS in the tech world.
What you say about kernels is absolutely false though. Linux has plenty different from BSD, such as drivers, that could be an absolute show stopper for BSD(this is becoming less of an issue at the moment, but I expect BSD will always be behind on drivers). OTOH the NT kernel is not even comparable to the Linux kernel. There is simply hands down a hundred things the Linux kernel can do that the NT kernel can't in it's current state. Software raid(as i mentioned in another post), seperate cli/gui, removing internet explorer, real filesystem choices, etc etc etc.
Personally I think we should port all the gui software we can to windows, but don't cut into what developers would like to be doing with this. Anyone can fork a windows port, but for instance the developers of k3b should be worried about the same things they've always been worried about, not whether or not some Windows specific feature works.
...windows users who don't have to migrate to new apps to use linux are ussually more willing to try it out. So if all the apps are in place on Linux when they want to switch, the user is left with nothing but benifits.
Linux distributions are generally free
Most applications on linux are generally free
Linux performs better and is more stable
Linux gets the most out of your hardware in other areas(ex software RAID arrays with features of very expensive RAID cards)
If there is a problem a user is having with their software/hardware someone can ssh in with their permission and help them find and fix the problem.
I help maintain about 6 of my friends computers that are running different versions of Linux and it's actually easier on me to have them run Linux, because their computers aren't loaded down with adware and viruses, and generally they know to avoid the root account, and they like it more because their computers offer them more features and less down time.
I say port anything you want to windows so long as those developers doing the porting wouldn't ussually be working on linux versions of the software. The main features of linux don't ussually come from the apps, it comes from the kernel and the unix userland.
acutally it was more like, I am so angry I played your game and gave your ass no money. OTOH if it came out with a Linux binary day of release it would have been more like, I respect you guys for not being jack asses, so I'm gonna buy the game wether or not everyone says it's worth $55.
I say screw id if they are gonna wait this long for Linux binarys. I think most people got the idea the Linux binarys were going to be out very soon after the game actually came out. I had all the money I needed to go and buy the game when the game was released, but no Linux client. I'm not going to wait around for them like I did with bioware for neverwinter nights(that only took a freaking year after purchasing the game and then was a shoddy install at best). Waited 1 week for id to come out with linux binarys, they didn't so I got winex cedega up and running and fired up bittorrent and grabbed myself a copy of doom3. Got it up and running and beat within 48 hours and now I'm not going to buy it when they do come out with a Linux a client. So ID and any other company out there, RELEASE YOUR LINUX AND MAC CLIENT WITH THE WINDOWS CLIENT, I'm not going to pay for a version of a game for another operating system, and I have no moral issue with pirating your games if you treat me like a second class customer. I'm sure many other people have done the same thing and I think that's exactly what any company deserves who waits months after the release to finally get the client out there and to people on other operating systems they said they would have a release for.
Enlightenment may have plenty of eyecandy, but it was never cpu intensive compared to gnome/kde and it looks plenty better.
I had the exact opposite problem after leaving enlightenment to try all the other wms/new kde/new gnome releases. They just wouldn't get out of my way long enough to let me get my work done(a la kde and gnome), or they'd make my desktop look worse than win 3.11(a la ratpoison and windowmaker).
Don't have anywhere to store any screenshots or i'd post some as i just emerged the new enlightenment DR16. The new theme transparency looks quite nice also, hopefully it will intigrate nicely into the new xorg though, because it's kind of out of place without true transparency between non enlightenment window(the transparency isn't just a background screengrab with several enlightenment windows).
why not just untar the package, retar the package, and md5 sum that....not too difficult and the md5 sum should be the same for all package, or am I missing something. If this is all that needs to be done, then yes gentoo might have to make some mild changes to emerge, but it's nothing show stopping. The real question here is why people who spread winex won't do the exact same thing.
I don't really understand why they bother worrying much either, I mean cedega out of cvs does everything I need it to, and wine comes damn close. They should draw their users to the subscription model via other means than the actuall software package or people are just gonna get it out of cvs anyway.
How does it double your chances of failure? People are most likely buying two new disks at the same time. Neither of these discs are probably going to have problems for at least 3 years. So ya, after a couple years your chances of failure increase, but that's like saying someone with a dual processor system has twice the chances for a processor to go out, or someone with two stick of ram for Dual channel DDR, it's just not true. Not only that, but most hard disks i've seen go out have gone out from physical damage, so if you inflict enough physical damage for one to go out, both probably will.
The example I gave was for myself, but I have set up fire or six computers with striping RAID set ups in the last few years and seen several others, the only problem I saw with any of the RAIDS was an xfs filesystem problem, NOT RELATED TO THE RAID.
The benifits far outway the risks. Try it yourself and don't spread FUD about over doubling chances of failure, if you don't understand that's not true you shouldn't be posting your opinion on much of anything.
RAID certainly helps on the desktop, but it depends on what programs you are running and how much ram you have. It is extremely noticable whether or not a computer is running RAID or not once the computer starts swapping a bit of memory off the hard disk, when this happens you need the most speed you can get or the system could begin crippling itself. Raid keeps the system running fast during this time and keeps the disk drives able to transfer at a very decent rate even when swapping.
There's almost no reason not to go with a Raid 0 array if you're in Linux, because it's almost free to put into action. If you check harddisk prices it is ussually cheaper to get two drives of smaller size than to get one larger sized disk. Then scrounge up an older disk for the OS and use software raid on the big disks for home and swap. You will see a dramatic improvement. In windows it's worth it to spend the extra couple bucks to get a motherboard with RAID on board or a raid card.
Now as much as people say RAID 0 is dangerous because if one of your discs crash, your whole RAID goes, I have not had this experience. I have to 40G drives from about 4 years ago on RAID, and have no problems with them whatsoever...I'm upgrading them come christmas, and then I'll switch one of the 40G RAID drives to my Operating System drive.
Does anyone know if ataraid is in the kernel yet, or what exactly they plan on doing with that? In 2.6-test6 there wasn't a trace of ataraid around. This is bad news for anyone wanting to upgrade to 2.6 who use highpoint or promise raids. Wanted to install gentoo w/ 2.6 on the girlfriends computer a couple days ago when i found this out, now she's running a heavily patched 2.4 kernel and ataraid is buggy...It would really suck to not see a working ataraid driver in the 2.6 kernel
I have a feeling they didn't mean a curvy how-steady can you hold your mouse line, but an actuall straight line. In the gimp this is far from intuitive you have to select the pencil, click on where you want your line to begin in the image, then hold shift to get your straight line and click where you want the other point. No problem for any experienced user, but not too intuitive either.
Does anyone know if there is anything diffrent w/ xfs or raid in 2.6? I tried out 2.6 beta 1 with my striping raid which is all xfs(just software raid on hpt370 card)...When I booted into 2.6 my keyboard didn't work, so i booted back into 2.4.20 and my raid was absolutely insane(no files showing up), so I rebooted once more into 2.4 and it fixed itself...Anyone have any idea why that would happen, can I expect better behavior with 2.6 beta 2?
Perhaps I should have added an IMHO before that. What I meant to convey was two things. One was that the graphics package that comes with freecraft IMHO sucks. The other was to address that many of the screenshots people were referring to were already skinned from a Blizzard WarCraft II cd, and the look is probably more of what Blizzard is all upset about. So for what Blizzard is getting upset about you have to own one of the warcraft II cds anyway.
We run this game all the time, and here's how it goes. For this game to be worth anything you HAVE to own one of the WarCraft II cds. Then once you have one of the cds you use a tool for the game that extracts the maps, graphics, and scenarios from the WarCraft II cd and skins the game to make it look and play very much like the original WarCraft II. I don't see why Blizzard has a problem w/ this considering the original WarCraft II doesn't work in many of the windows operating systems, and people still have to buy the WarCraft II cds from Blizzard. So those people using unsupported operating systems gets to play, and Blizzard gets to sell more of it's game...how is this a problem.
Also this game adds a lot of features beyond WarCraft II. There are a few additions to the actual game, like the ability to pump out critters from farms, but they have also dropped the original warcraft II network system(that involved using ipx and then kali to emulate tcp/ip) and gone straight to tcp/ip. The game also allows more people for network play, from the original 8 to now 16 and the map size has gone from 256x256 up to a possible 2048x2048.
We tried for quite a while to get WarCraft II working on bootable dos cds so that we could run our operating systems of choice and then boot up a cd to play warcraft, but dos netcard drivers suck. This is the only way we could easily set up WarCraft II for network play, and yes we own many copys of WarCraft II and the expansions.
It's sad to see Blizzard attacking such a good program. I hope that the people behind freecraft just put their foot down, don't rename the damn thing and just keep doing what they do well and contribute more code to the project. If worse does come to worse though they could just rename the game and actually get some usable artwork. Either way, when Blizzard shutdown bnetd i said I would never buy another Blizzard product, and I haven't...now I'm to the point where I just want to take MY WarCraft II cd, make an iso, and put it up on kazaa or gnutella....which I think I'll go do.
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Software RAID is not enabled in any version of windows that I've used and I was not aware it was even in advanced server. In XP I know it looks like it's there, but when you go to active it's not actually there and gives a message stating support is on the way. If it really is in 2kas, then my next questions would be does it have the feature set the equivilant Linux RAID does. For instance Linux raid is not limited to Raid 0, 1, 5. Although that is fairly comprehensive linux also supports 2,3,4,6, and using raid devices as part of another raid enabling raid 0+1,5+5, etc. Linux also supports adding an additional device into a RAID array with evms and the device mapper, so say you have a raid 5 of 4 100G you can add another 4 without a problem. Linux also supports taking a snaphot of RAID or other logical volume which I doubt windows can do. I don't really much feel like providing you with a whole list of things the Linux kernel allows you to do that the NT kernel can not do, but I'm sure that if you yourself take a look at the kernel you'll notice there is a slew of options that windows does not include(also I find it kind of cheesey that one version of windows can do thing x and another can do thing y, for instance with the raid, XP which came out after 2kas can not do these raid functions(only append), and XP came out after 2kas, the Linux kernel I would have to say is more flexible in this area. The seperation of the CLI/GUI from the kernel offers obvious advantages for stability and security both, which are almost indeniably better on a Linux machine than on a Windows machine, this is do to the kernel and the operating system as a whole, but I think it relates to the discussion. I have no idea what IE being tied down to the OS and the kernel has to do with the kernel itself, those are microsoft's words and not my own. I'm just saying the Linux kernel does not have that limitation.
I agree entirely that you SHOULD be able to integrate kde into windows or the win ui into a linux machine, but Microsoft isn't going to have anything of theirs running on linux any time soon, so FOSS can only try to standardize what it has control of. So you're never going to have the day when you're dream is a reality as long as microsoft is the dominant OS in the tech world. What you say about kernels is absolutely false though. Linux has plenty different from BSD, such as drivers, that could be an absolute show stopper for BSD(this is becoming less of an issue at the moment, but I expect BSD will always be behind on drivers). OTOH the NT kernel is not even comparable to the Linux kernel. There is simply hands down a hundred things the Linux kernel can do that the NT kernel can't in it's current state. Software raid(as i mentioned in another post), seperate cli/gui, removing internet explorer, real filesystem choices, etc etc etc. Personally I think we should port all the gui software we can to windows, but don't cut into what developers would like to be doing with this. Anyone can fork a windows port, but for instance the developers of k3b should be worried about the same things they've always been worried about, not whether or not some Windows specific feature works.
...windows users who don't have to migrate to new apps to use linux are ussually more willing to try it out. So if all the apps are in place on Linux when they want to switch, the user is left with nothing but benifits. Linux distributions are generally free Most applications on linux are generally free Linux performs better and is more stable Linux gets the most out of your hardware in other areas(ex software RAID arrays with features of very expensive RAID cards) If there is a problem a user is having with their software/hardware someone can ssh in with their permission and help them find and fix the problem. I help maintain about 6 of my friends computers that are running different versions of Linux and it's actually easier on me to have them run Linux, because their computers aren't loaded down with adware and viruses, and generally they know to avoid the root account, and they like it more because their computers offer them more features and less down time. I say port anything you want to windows so long as those developers doing the porting wouldn't ussually be working on linux versions of the software. The main features of linux don't ussually come from the apps, it comes from the kernel and the unix userland.
acutally it was more like, I am so angry I played your game and gave your ass no money. OTOH if it came out with a Linux binary day of release it would have been more like, I respect you guys for not being jack asses, so I'm gonna buy the game wether or not everyone says it's worth $55.
I say screw id if they are gonna wait this long for Linux binarys. I think most people got the idea the Linux binarys were going to be out very soon after the game actually came out. I had all the money I needed to go and buy the game when the game was released, but no Linux client. I'm not going to wait around for them like I did with bioware for neverwinter nights(that only took a freaking year after purchasing the game and then was a shoddy install at best). Waited 1 week for id to come out with linux binarys, they didn't so I got winex cedega up and running and fired up bittorrent and grabbed myself a copy of doom3. Got it up and running and beat within 48 hours and now I'm not going to buy it when they do come out with a Linux a client. So ID and any other company out there, RELEASE YOUR LINUX AND MAC CLIENT WITH THE WINDOWS CLIENT, I'm not going to pay for a version of a game for another operating system, and I have no moral issue with pirating your games if you treat me like a second class customer. I'm sure many other people have done the same thing and I think that's exactly what any company deserves who waits months after the release to finally get the client out there and to people on other operating systems they said they would have a release for.
Enlightenment may have plenty of eyecandy, but it was never cpu intensive compared to gnome/kde and it looks plenty better. I had the exact opposite problem after leaving enlightenment to try all the other wms/new kde/new gnome releases. They just wouldn't get out of my way long enough to let me get my work done(a la kde and gnome), or they'd make my desktop look worse than win 3.11(a la ratpoison and windowmaker). Don't have anywhere to store any screenshots or i'd post some as i just emerged the new enlightenment DR16. The new theme transparency looks quite nice also, hopefully it will intigrate nicely into the new xorg though, because it's kind of out of place without true transparency between non enlightenment window(the transparency isn't just a background screengrab with several enlightenment windows).
why not just untar the package, retar the package, and md5 sum that....not too difficult and the md5 sum should be the same for all package, or am I missing something. If this is all that needs to be done, then yes gentoo might have to make some mild changes to emerge, but it's nothing show stopping. The real question here is why people who spread winex won't do the exact same thing. I don't really understand why they bother worrying much either, I mean cedega out of cvs does everything I need it to, and wine comes damn close. They should draw their users to the subscription model via other means than the actuall software package or people are just gonna get it out of cvs anyway.
How does it double your chances of failure? People are most likely buying two new disks at the same time. Neither of these discs are probably going to have problems for at least 3 years. So ya, after a couple years your chances of failure increase, but that's like saying someone with a dual processor system has twice the chances for a processor to go out, or someone with two stick of ram for Dual channel DDR, it's just not true. Not only that, but most hard disks i've seen go out have gone out from physical damage, so if you inflict enough physical damage for one to go out, both probably will. The example I gave was for myself, but I have set up fire or six computers with striping RAID set ups in the last few years and seen several others, the only problem I saw with any of the RAIDS was an xfs filesystem problem, NOT RELATED TO THE RAID. The benifits far outway the risks. Try it yourself and don't spread FUD about over doubling chances of failure, if you don't understand that's not true you shouldn't be posting your opinion on much of anything.
RAID certainly helps on the desktop, but it depends on what programs you are running and how much ram you have. It is extremely noticable whether or not a computer is running RAID or not once the computer starts swapping a bit of memory off the hard disk, when this happens you need the most speed you can get or the system could begin crippling itself. Raid keeps the system running fast during this time and keeps the disk drives able to transfer at a very decent rate even when swapping.
There's almost no reason not to go with a Raid 0 array if you're in Linux, because it's almost free to put into action. If you check harddisk prices it is ussually cheaper to get two drives of smaller size than to get one larger sized disk. Then scrounge up an older disk for the OS and use software raid on the big disks for home and swap. You will see a dramatic improvement. In windows it's worth it to spend the extra couple bucks to get a motherboard with RAID on board or a raid card.
Now as much as people say RAID 0 is dangerous because if one of your discs crash, your whole RAID goes, I have not had this experience. I have to 40G drives from about 4 years ago on RAID, and have no problems with them whatsoever...I'm upgrading them come christmas, and then I'll switch one of the 40G RAID drives to my Operating System drive.
ya dude. chicks think RAID is sexy. her computer
Does anyone know if ataraid is in the kernel yet, or what exactly they plan on doing with that? In 2.6-test6 there wasn't a trace of ataraid around. This is bad news for anyone wanting to upgrade to 2.6 who use highpoint or promise raids. Wanted to install gentoo w/ 2.6 on the girlfriends computer a couple days ago when i found this out, now she's running a heavily patched 2.4 kernel and ataraid is buggy...It would really suck to not see a working ataraid driver in the 2.6 kernel
I have a feeling they didn't mean a curvy how-steady can you hold your mouse line, but an actuall straight line. In the gimp this is far from intuitive you have to select the pencil, click on where you want your line to begin in the image, then hold shift to get your straight line and click where you want the other point. No problem for any experienced user, but not too intuitive either.
Does anyone know if there is anything diffrent w/ xfs or raid in 2.6? I tried out 2.6 beta 1 with my striping raid which is all xfs(just software raid on hpt370 card)...When I booted into 2.6 my keyboard didn't work, so i booted back into 2.4.20 and my raid was absolutely insane(no files showing up), so I rebooted once more into 2.4 and it fixed itself...Anyone have any idea why that would happen, can I expect better behavior with 2.6 beta 2?
Perhaps I should have added an IMHO before that. What I meant to convey was two things. One was that the graphics package that comes with freecraft IMHO sucks. The other was to address that many of the screenshots people were referring to were already skinned from a Blizzard WarCraft II cd, and the look is probably more of what Blizzard is all upset about. So for what Blizzard is getting upset about you have to own one of the warcraft II cds anyway.
We run this game all the time, and here's how it goes. For this game to be worth anything you HAVE to own one of the WarCraft II cds. Then once you have one of the cds you use a tool for the game that extracts the maps, graphics, and scenarios from the WarCraft II cd and skins the game to make it look and play very much like the original WarCraft II. I don't see why Blizzard has a problem w/ this considering the original WarCraft II doesn't work in many of the windows operating systems, and people still have to buy the WarCraft II cds from Blizzard. So those people using unsupported operating systems gets to play, and Blizzard gets to sell more of it's game...how is this a problem.
Also this game adds a lot of features beyond WarCraft II. There are a few additions to the actual game, like the ability to pump out critters from farms, but they have also dropped the original warcraft II network system(that involved using ipx and then kali to emulate tcp/ip) and gone straight to tcp/ip. The game also allows more people for network play, from the original 8 to now 16 and the map size has gone from 256x256 up to a possible 2048x2048.
We tried for quite a while to get WarCraft II working on bootable dos cds so that we could run our operating systems of choice and then boot up a cd to play warcraft, but dos netcard drivers suck. This is the only way we could easily set up WarCraft II for network play, and yes we own many copys of WarCraft II and the expansions.
It's sad to see Blizzard attacking such a good program. I hope that the people behind freecraft just put their foot down, don't rename the damn thing and just keep doing what they do well and contribute more code to the project. If worse does come to worse though they could just rename the game and actually get some usable artwork. Either way, when Blizzard shutdown bnetd i said I would never buy another Blizzard product, and I haven't...now I'm to the point where I just want to take MY WarCraft II cd, make an iso, and put it up on kazaa or gnutella....which I think I'll go do.