SuSE was my first Linux experience, back from the free 7.2 LiveEval CD they sent as a promotion. Since then I've used a few versions of Mandrake, and Fedora Core 1 in addition to SuSE 8.2 through 9.1. Mandrake 9.1 was the first Linux I installed, but eventually I decided I preferred SuSE. I've tried both Mandrake releases since then, but never stuck with them. FC1 lasted only a few hours on my system before I got fed up.
Two main things keep me with SuSE. Excellent KDE support, and YaST. The choices SuSE makes for the default setup are the closest to what I'd pick myself. That's not to say I don't change the settings significantly -- SuSE just gets it the closest.
They're also quick to pick up on new, useful stuff. I was disappointed to see that Mandrake 10 used DevFS, as I wanted to see udev in action without having to configure it myself. SuSE 9.1 uses it, and it seems nifty so far.
The 9.1 install was pretty much the same as previous installs. Not quite as simple as the Mandrake install, but not horrendously complicated either.
One interesting choice is that they now include Supermount in the kernel. I don't have a strong opinion one way or another on Supermount, except that there doesn't appear to be a configuration option for it in YaST (Mandrake has one) and I don't seem to be able to open data CDs properly. Installing packages from YaST works fine, and I can open DVDs (viewing as a directory and playing in Kaffeine). I'm going to have to figure out how to fix that one.:/
The ULB folks say that the GNOME setup is vastly improved in 9.1. I'll take their word for it, as I mostly regard GNOME libs as a necessary evil on my system.
My biggest complaint isn't really a problem with SuSE per se. There aren't any Synaptic packages for 9.1 yet, and the 9.0 package seems to crash on every startup. Apt itself works just fine, but manipulating large numbers of packages via the commandline is awkward. And yes, I do realize that I said above that I loved YaST, and I still do, but all the unofficial package repositories are apt.
While urpmi is a very good backend, I must say that rpmdrake is one of the least useful graphical package managers I've seen. (The least being RedHat's.) Just as two quick examples, you need to launch separate interfaces for managing already installed packages and installing new ones, and the search features aren't as powerful as those in YaST or Synaptic.
Look around -- you can download both the DVD version and CD version on BitTorrent, and via various other methods. Not the best download speeds at the moment, because it's brand new so everybody and their mother is eating up the bandwidth, but it's there. And it is legal to redistribute the SuSE CDs for free, even with the non-free stuff on them. It's when you charge for them that you run into problems.
I don't think it was preemption they backported, as it's not enabled in their default 2.6.4 kernel.
I have a vague recollection of the scheduler being backported, but I'm not certain at all.
At any rate, I noticed a significant increase in speed and responsiveness when I updated to kernel 2.6 in 9.0, and again to KDE 3.2. I'm not totally sure, but boot time seems even faster in 9.1. Maybe they optimized their init process.
All very good points, except that I'm pretty sure Grub has been the default since at least 8.2. I remember specifically choosing LILO when I installed 8.2 because I was more familiar with it.
Of course, I'm now using Grub as it doesn't have to be reinstalled every kernel update, and LILO started giving me this error about the Extended Bios Data Area that I could never get rid of, so I had to switch or not boot my computer.
GConf is nothing like the Windows Registry, except for the similar appearance of their respective editors... I will paypal you $100 US if you can name three architectural similarities between GConf and the Registry.
(emphasis mine)
In other words, this guy missed the boat entirely.
To an end-user, which is the audience Petreley is targeting, and the audience GNOME claims to be looking out for, the similar appearance means it is exactly the same experience, and an awful one at that. It does not matter one bit what the underlying architecture is like if the UI is crap.
Definitely. After thinking about it today and reading through some other comments, that's pretty much the conclusion I came to.
At any rate, it's most certainly relevant in Turing's case. And I think most of the people putting down JessLeah for bringing it up, while not necessarily homophobic, at the very least don't understand the implications of the homophobia of others.
You know, I was sort of teetering between both sides earlier, but now that I think about it, (and am not running late for my 7:30 English class), you're right.
Part of where this gets complicated is that while being gay is obviously a matter of sexuality, on another level it is a matter of social status. The sexual aspect has little to do with Turing's accomplishments, but the effects on his social status are vital to understanding him as a person.
I never really did the hero worship thing, gay or otherwise, but I know there are people out there who need that sort of thing, so for them I am glad we have examples like Turing.
While Troy will be noticeably lacking in Orlando Bloom-on-boy action (much to the fangirls' dismay), the upcoming movie Alexander has no such problem.
"Jared Leto has recently been cast to play the role of Hephaestion, Alexander the Great's best friend and homosexual lover in Oliver Stone's latest movie, "Alexander". The role was originally offered to Brad Pitt but was turned down due to pressure from his wife, Jennifer Aniston. Alexander is to be played by Colin Farrell."
On the one hand, I understand the need to have positive examples of homosexuals who have contributed to our society.
On the other hand, I don't think I'd want to be remembered as "that guy who did that really cool thing with the stuff... oh yeah, and he loved the cock." Even if nobody saw that as a negative thing anymore, it just has nothing to with my accomplishments, unless they're in the area of homosexual activism. Or porn.
Except that vendors are already doing such a thing and getting away with it, with the excuse that 1000MB is a perfectly valid value for 1GB. Take a look at your drive size reported on the box and the size reported by software, and you'll see why the new prefix was conceived in the first place.
The reasoning behind it is sound, but at the moment it's not practical for the same reason the US is still stuck with inches and all those other horrid, unintuitive units. Chances are, it'll stay that way indefinitely, because people are so resistant to change.
I've never been able to get the nVidia ethernet to work properly with forcedeth, neither on Mandrake nor SuSE. Then again, I haven't really bothered much since the 3Com ethernet has always worked just fine.
I took the test last year. Most people at my school do the class Senior year if they do it at all, but I made sure to get in before the switch to Java, and I'm glad I did. Besides C++ still being more practical for the majority of applications, the case study wasn't so ridiculously bloated with different classes to memorize.
The test was just as uncomplicated. The entire course is at a level that the only major difference between languages is syntax.
They are college-level courses, which is the whole point of the AP program, though I do agree that they're not quite at the level the grandparent expects.
I know the nightlies have a warning if you close the window with multiple open tabs, but I thought this made it in before 0.8. And now I can't find the feature request bug for it to figure out exactly when it was fixed.
As for the session saving, would the Session Saver extension help?
Wow, I'd looked over that list before, but I hadn't noticed that Shift + Middle-Click would open in the foreground. That's pretty useful to know. Thanks.
True, though it does make a difference for the AP Calculus test. Which is in a week and a half. Panic time!
The test is formulated so that having the uber-fancy calculator won't give you a huge advantage anyway. This is particularly true in the free response section, where for several of the problems the correct answer is irrelevant -- you get the points for demonstrating knowledge of how the math works.
Oooh, I have one of those floating around. Annoying little bugger, because if you have the mouse at enough of an angle it gets terribly confused. Also, it was the most uncomfortable design imaginable: a rectangle a bit longer and a bit less wide than a normal mouse.
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SuSE was my first Linux experience, back from the free 7.2 LiveEval CD they sent as a promotion. Since then I've used a few versions of Mandrake, and Fedora Core 1 in addition to SuSE 8.2 through 9.1. Mandrake 9.1 was the first Linux I installed, but eventually I decided I preferred SuSE. I've tried both Mandrake releases since then, but never stuck with them. FC1 lasted only a few hours on my system before I got fed up.
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Two main things keep me with SuSE. Excellent KDE support, and YaST. The choices SuSE makes for the default setup are the closest to what I'd pick myself. That's not to say I don't change the settings significantly -- SuSE just gets it the closest.
They're also quick to pick up on new, useful stuff. I was disappointed to see that Mandrake 10 used DevFS, as I wanted to see udev in action without having to configure it myself. SuSE 9.1 uses it, and it seems nifty so far.
The 9.1 install was pretty much the same as previous installs. Not quite as simple as the Mandrake install, but not horrendously complicated either.
One interesting choice is that they now include Supermount in the kernel. I don't have a strong opinion one way or another on Supermount, except that there doesn't appear to be a configuration option for it in YaST (Mandrake has one) and I don't seem to be able to open data CDs properly. Installing packages from YaST works fine, and I can open DVDs (viewing as a directory and playing in Kaffeine). I'm going to have to figure out how to fix that one.
The ULB folks say that the GNOME setup is vastly improved in 9.1. I'll take their word for it, as I mostly regard GNOME libs as a necessary evil on my system.
My biggest complaint isn't really a problem with SuSE per se. There aren't any Synaptic packages for 9.1 yet, and the 9.0 package seems to crash on every startup. Apt itself works just fine, but manipulating large numbers of packages via the commandline is awkward. And yes, I do realize that I said above that I loved YaST, and I still do, but all the unofficial package repositories are apt.
While urpmi is a very good backend, I must say that rpmdrake is one of the least useful graphical package managers I've seen. (The least being RedHat's.) Just as two quick examples, you need to launch separate interfaces for managing already installed packages and installing new ones, and the search features aren't as powerful as those in YaST or Synaptic.
Look around -- you can download both the DVD version and CD version on BitTorrent, and via various other methods. Not the best download speeds at the moment, because it's brand new so everybody and their mother is eating up the bandwidth, but it's there. And it is legal to redistribute the SuSE CDs for free, even with the non-free stuff on them. It's when you charge for them that you run into problems.
I don't think it was preemption they backported, as it's not enabled in their default 2.6.4 kernel.
I have a vague recollection of the scheduler being backported, but I'm not certain at all.
At any rate, I noticed a significant increase in speed and responsiveness when I updated to kernel 2.6 in 9.0, and again to KDE 3.2. I'm not totally sure, but boot time seems even faster in 9.1. Maybe they optimized their init process.
All very good points, except that I'm pretty sure Grub has been the default since at least 8.2. I remember specifically choosing LILO when I installed 8.2 because I was more familiar with it.
Of course, I'm now using Grub as it doesn't have to be reinstalled every kernel update, and LILO started giving me this error about the Extended Bios Data Area that I could never get rid of, so I had to switch or not boot my computer.
Are you saying it's un-Finnished?
*duck and run*
GConf is nothing like the Windows Registry, except for the similar appearance of their respective editors... I will paypal you $100 US if you can name three architectural similarities between GConf and the Registry.
(emphasis mine)
In other words, this guy missed the boat entirely.
To an end-user, which is the audience Petreley is targeting, and the audience GNOME claims to be looking out for, the similar appearance means it is exactly the same experience, and an awful one at that. It does not matter one bit what the underlying architecture is like if the UI is crap.
Definitely. After thinking about it today and reading through some other comments, that's pretty much the conclusion I came to.
At any rate, it's most certainly relevant in Turing's case. And I think most of the people putting down JessLeah for bringing it up, while not necessarily homophobic, at the very least don't understand the implications of the homophobia of others.
You know, I was sort of teetering between both sides earlier, but now that I think about it, (and am not running late for my 7:30 English class), you're right.
Part of where this gets complicated is that while being gay is obviously a matter of sexuality, on another level it is a matter of social status. The sexual aspect has little to do with Turing's accomplishments, but the effects on his social status are vital to understanding him as a person.
I never really did the hero worship thing, gay or otherwise, but I know there are people out there who need that sort of thing, so for them I am glad we have examples like Turing.
While Troy will be noticeably lacking in Orlando Bloom-on-boy action (much to the fangirls' dismay), the upcoming movie Alexander has no such problem.
"Jared Leto has recently been cast to play the role of Hephaestion, Alexander the Great's best friend and homosexual lover in Oliver Stone's latest movie, "Alexander". The role was originally offered to Brad Pitt but was turned down due to pressure from his wife, Jennifer Aniston. Alexander is to be played by Colin Farrell."
Mmm...
Being gay myself, I'm of mixed feelings on this.
On the one hand, I understand the need to have positive examples of homosexuals who have contributed to our society.
On the other hand, I don't think I'd want to be remembered as "that guy who did that really cool thing with the stuff... oh yeah, and he loved the cock." Even if nobody saw that as a negative thing anymore, it just has nothing to with my accomplishments, unless they're in the area of homosexual activism. Or porn.
less /proc/config.gz | grep 4KSTACKS
CONFIG_4KSTACKS=y
glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
direct rendering: Yes
Working just dandy here. Using the nVidia 5336 drivers.
Except that vendors are already doing such a thing and getting away with it, with the excuse that 1000MB is a perfectly valid value for 1GB. Take a look at your drive size reported on the box and the size reported by software, and you'll see why the new prefix was conceived in the first place.
The reasoning behind it is sound, but at the moment it's not practical for the same reason the US is still stuck with inches and all those other horrid, unintuitive units. Chances are, it'll stay that way indefinitely, because people are so resistant to change.
I've never been able to get the nVidia ethernet to work properly with forcedeth, neither on Mandrake nor SuSE. Then again, I haven't really bothered much since the 3Com ethernet has always worked just fine.
Nope. They switched in 1999.. In that case, I have no idea where the 10 years came from; I only made an educated guess regarding it earlier.
I took the test last year. Most people at my school do the class Senior year if they do it at all, but I made sure to get in before the switch to Java, and I'm glad I did. Besides C++ still being more practical for the majority of applications, the case study wasn't so ridiculously bloated with different classes to memorize.
The test was just as uncomplicated. The entire course is at a level that the only major difference between languages is syntax.
I think it was Pascal until 10 years ago, then C++ until a year ago.
These are high school programming classes
They are college-level courses, which is the whole point of the AP program, though I do agree that they're not quite at the level the grandparent expects.
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Off topic, but how'd you get the grave accent to work? Last I tried, Slashcode stripped characters like that out. Did that get fixed?
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After previewing, it appears to be the case. Nifty. That'll be useful next time I'm quoting the Silmarillion or something.
Part of it is in system.dat and some is also in user.dat.
I know the nightlies have a warning if you close the window with multiple open tabs, but I thought this made it in before 0.8. And now I can't find the feature request bug for it to figure out exactly when it was fixed.
As for the session saving, would the Session Saver extension help?
Wow, I'd looked over that list before, but I hadn't noticed that Shift + Middle-Click would open in the foreground. That's pretty useful to know. Thanks.
True, though it does make a difference for the AP Calculus test. Which is in a week and a half. Panic time!
The test is formulated so that having the uber-fancy calculator won't give you a huge advantage anyway. This is particularly true in the free response section, where for several of the problems the correct answer is irrelevant -- you get the points for demonstrating knowledge of how the math works.
the optical mouse required a mouse pad with grids
Oooh, I have one of those floating around. Annoying little bugger, because if you have the mouse at enough of an angle it gets terribly confused. Also, it was the most uncomfortable design imaginable: a rectangle a bit longer and a bit less wide than a normal mouse.
I haven't found setting up networking between two Windows computers to be at all easy either.