The very latest NV drivers let you do full OpenGL across multiple heads/cards with X+Xinerama. I'm using this now across three separate cards and it seems to work great (at least for funky screensavers). So you might want to give that a go.
Interested how nobody's mentioned Axiom which is a general purpose CAS, most probably what the poster is looking for. It's a very mature calculation system with over 33 years of development (open sourced after the company decided that the product was not financially viable) that should do most if not all of the things the other systems such as Maxima can and more...
I think that the important thing here is the suitability of the application: If you set up a web server and want it to be secure [and are a savvy user] people would often go for secure/stable distros [e.g. Debian] because they are usually stabler to start with and the level of exploits from nothingness-level is very low. However, most people use the standard distro which is quicker for them: remember, [most] ISPs care about making $$$ first, and their security second unless they need security to keep the first [$$$].
However, the OS is often not the case: If you have the most stable OS ever , and you are running something as setuid or a stray *inetd service is running loose with root access, you have every right to be screwed: a stable system with stable software but a big gaping hole is going nowhere other than getting penetrated unless it is patched in time before somebody comes along and kills it.
So why does this happen with the M-company more? Well, this is because of the design [the code is just layered and layered and layered from old buggy versions: it gets less stable unless you add more code to stabilize it and of course, gets less secure and more prone to buffer overflows and the likes]. However, the user is also to blame: Users often install innocent software [which is designed by developers who write for an 'innocent' operating system...]... And the loop goes on. And when one thing falls out, the rest do. Like that stacking and pull a thing out game, whatever it's called.
Googling for dctf-1.wmv reveals...
**HTTP MIRROR**
http://static.hugi.is/video/fyndin/dctf-1.wmv
Remember kids, don't hammer the server!
For the song, someone has already posted an OGG mirror...
Slashdot Mirror
The very latest NV drivers let you do full OpenGL across multiple heads/cards with X+Xinerama. I'm using this now across three separate cards and it seems to work great (at least for funky screensavers). So you might want to give that a go.
Interested how nobody's mentioned Axiom which is a general purpose CAS, most probably what the poster is looking for. It's a very mature calculation system with over 33 years of development (open sourced after the company decided that the product was not financially viable) that should do most if not all of the things the other systems such as Maxima can and more...
We've released IA64 stages for 2004.3 (which the poster forgot to mention); they're available here or at any other mirror that has /experimental on it.
>> reporting about Novell's plan to combine elements of both into a unified desktop. Apparently the work has already started
Way ahead of you, SuSE: clicky!
I think that the important thing here is the suitability of the application: If you set up a web server and want it to be secure [and are a savvy user] people would often go for secure/stable distros [e.g. Debian] because they are usually stabler to start with and the level of exploits from nothingness-level is very low. However, most people use the standard distro which is quicker for them: remember, [most] ISPs care about making $$$ first, and their security second unless they need security to keep the first [$$$].
However, the OS is often not the case: If you have the most stable OS ever , and you are running something as setuid or a stray *inetd service is running loose with root access, you have every right to be screwed: a stable system with stable software but a big gaping hole is going nowhere other than getting penetrated unless it is patched in time before somebody comes along and kills it.
So why does this happen with the M-company more? Well, this is because of the design [the code is just layered and layered and layered from old buggy versions: it gets less stable unless you add more code to stabilize it and of course, gets less secure and more prone to buffer overflows and the likes]. However, the user is also to blame: Users often install innocent software [which is designed by developers who write for an 'innocent' operating system...]... And the loop goes on. And when one thing falls out, the rest do. Like that stacking and pull a thing out game, whatever it's called.
Googling for dctf-1.wmv reveals... **HTTP MIRROR** http://static.hugi.is/video/fyndin/dctf-1.wmv Remember kids, don't hammer the server! For the song, someone has already posted an OGG mirror...