Debian is at 2.2 (IIRC), a more reasonable number, although a little on the low side.
Slackware jumped becasue Volkerding decided that his distro couldn't compete against the others when they started artificially bumping up the numbers, so he jumped his from 4 to 7.
Since then, distro's seem to inflate their numbers to stay ahead of the competition, I guess since people don't understand that Libranet 2.1 is not older than Mandrake 10. (Notice the number of references to "Linux 9.0" on the Internet?)
I'm glad Mandrake switched their release system to this -- a general, maybe a bit buggy, Community release, and then an official release a few months later with the bugs worked out.
What Mandrake does is great; they produce a very nice desktop distribution, but it's no secret that their product tends to be incredibly buggy out of the box.
Let's hope this helps them improve the quality of their releases!
Whatever you do, check them with drbcheck, to see if they are on a blacklist -- a lot of these places are notorious for hosting spammers and you wouldn't to blow a huge chunk of cash only to find that you can't get an e-mail out to most of the rest of the world..
Yes, some Linux distros even used to use these larger disks as the root/boot install disk(s. Back when it would fit on one.)
These were fairly reliable; there are even larger formats you can achieve (with a dos program called '2M', it's in the Simtel archive), however they tended to be a bit unreliable since they worked by writing data more densely, and with more tracks than disks were supposed to have.
Problem is, a lot of disk drives couldn't read them reliably or at all...
On an only somewhat unrelated note, my alarm clock is "cat `slocate *.au`/dev/dsp", which I cancel by stumbling out of bed every morning while the thing screeches and generally makes a racket and typing "killall cat".
For some reason I have murderous urges whenever I see a cat..
I always wondered why the GTK file selector is the scapegoat of UI design..
As far as I am concerned, the old-style (pre Mac OS X) Mac file selector takes the cake. It's just like the GTK one except it is only one pane, and has no box to type a path..
As far as I am concerned, one of the most important features for a file selector to have is the ability to sort files by varying methods and useful information (i.e. file size, date).
The OS should not have vulerabilities so bad that anyone can be infected by a virus in under 2 minutes (as I have had it happen to me, over a dialup connection).
Also.. Microsoft has made it incredibly difficult to get updates without using Windows Update.. they shut down their FTP server a while ago, so the only way to get individual updates is to search through the Knowledge Base, and it's a pain in the ass.
At least with Linux I can download ftp.mydistro.com/pub/mydistro/2.3/i386/updates/* and have all the updates ready to be installed..
Actually, my mistake. You don't even need to get it to mail the admin.
By default, cron mails the results of cronjobs to it's owner (in this case, root), so each computer will report in. If something breaks, (it refuses to update), you will see it. If something breaks, (the update screws up your systems), you will see which update caused it (and this is the same problem you would have with Windows Update, anyway).
If the computer doesn't report in, then there is a problem. The admin can check on the computer and see why it doesn't seem to be doing its' cronjobs.
The graphic designer would be of course better served by learning HTML and CSS if they want to create web pages..
We really don't need any more pages that are exports of Photoshop slices, or designed without the slightest comprehension of how things work (i.e. 500k total page size incl images).
I hope this is going to put a halt to this SCO nonsense, but I fear that it won't..
The last announcement SCO made (re: the suing bit) had nothing to do with the disputed code, and they intentionally phrased it to seem like AutoZone was being sued for just running Linux.
SCO's tactics seem to be growing more and more deceitful and misleading..
Here in Canada, (in Ontario.. Bell Canada is the major telco here) payphone calls are CDN$0.25/call. Very cheap. There's no difference in cell phone penetration either, by the way -- it's much the same as in the States.
The last version, however, was produced years ago when Corel stopped doing Linux stuff.
There's a website that describes how to make it work on a modern distribution.. but there's a lot of limitations (no TrueType fonts, fiddly printing, free version is limited)
I use Slackware on my machine. All the binaries are compiled generic i486/586 (As of just recently, Volkerding stopped compiling i386 binaries, AFAIK), and it is blazingly fast. Far faster than Mandrake or Red Hat on the same machine.
It's a P3-850mhz machine with ~320mb of RAM. Mandrake/Red Hat just crawl.
I'll probably get modded down as troll, but it seems to me that e-mail and adderss book software is a terrible place to start. Linux, while it has excellent individual apps, does not have one huge integrated app like Outlook available for it that will combine all these... it will require a huge adjustment in workflow, rather than if they just started with Linux servers or something.
It seems to me that they are setting themselves up for disappointment, or they want to get MS to give them a discount on Exchange and Outlook..
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Debian is at 2.2 (IIRC), a more reasonable number, although a little on the low side.
Slackware jumped becasue Volkerding decided that his distro couldn't compete against the others when they started artificially bumping up the numbers, so he jumped his from 4 to 7.
Since then, distro's seem to inflate their numbers to stay ahead of the competition, I guess since people don't understand that Libranet 2.1 is not older than Mandrake 10. (Notice the number of references to "Linux 9.0" on the Internet?)
You pay them money, they give you stuff (software, drivers) that they can't include in the download edition because it's not free.
Unless you're RMS, what's the problem?
What Mandrake does is great; they produce a very nice desktop distribution, but it's no secret that their product tends to be incredibly buggy out of the box.
Let's hope this helps them improve the quality of their releases!
Whatever you do, check them with drbcheck, to see if they are on a blacklist -- a lot of these places are notorious for hosting spammers and you wouldn't to blow a huge chunk of cash only to find that you can't get an e-mail out to most of the rest of the world..
These were fairly reliable; there are even larger formats you can achieve (with a dos program called '2M', it's in the Simtel archive), however they tended to be a bit unreliable since they worked by writing data more densely, and with more tracks than disks were supposed to have.
Problem is, a lot of disk drives couldn't read them reliably or at all...
On an only somewhat unrelated note, my alarm clock is "cat `slocate *.au` /dev/dsp", which I cancel by stumbling out of bed every morning while the thing screeches and generally makes a racket and typing "killall cat".
For some reason I have murderous urges whenever I see a cat..
I think we might have noticed any problems by now ;).
As far as I am concerned, the old-style (pre Mac OS X) Mac file selector takes the cake. It's just like the GTK one except it is only one pane, and has no box to type a path..
As far as I am concerned, one of the most important features for a file selector to have is the ability to sort files by varying methods and useful information (i.e. file size, date).
Your machines have no directly addressable IP, and they are not behind a NAT.
The only method of communicating with the outside world is through the proxy.
Therefore, random apps (and viruses) can not communicate with the rest of the world.
Correct?
Surely you mean a firewall?
Generally, you'll find it to use 50-100 watts (if you actually measure it) depending on processor speed and what you are doing.
Also.. Microsoft has made it incredibly difficult to get updates without using Windows Update.. they shut down their FTP server a while ago, so the only way to get individual updates is to search through the Knowledge Base, and it's a pain in the ass.
At least with Linux I can download ftp.mydistro.com/pub/mydistro/2.3/i386/updates/* and have all the updates ready to be installed..
By default, cron mails the results of cronjobs to it's owner (in this case, root), so each computer will report in. If something breaks, (it refuses to update), you will see it. If something breaks, (the update screws up your systems), you will see which update caused it (and this is the same problem you would have with Windows Update, anyway).
If the computer doesn't report in, then there is a problem. The admin can check on the computer and see why it doesn't seem to be doing its' cronjobs.
So it works a lot better than you think..
On Debian/Red Hat with APT:
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
On Red Hat with up2date:
up2date -u
On Mandrake:
urpmi.update && urpmi --auto-select
And so on.. Now obviously these could be imrpoved (i.e. mail the admin if it fails), but auto-updating is a lot easier under Linux.
We really don't need any more pages that are exports of Photoshop slices, or designed without the slightest comprehension of how things work (i.e. 500k total page size incl images).
Think about it.
The last announcement SCO made (re: the suing bit) had nothing to do with the disputed code, and they intentionally phrased it to seem like AutoZone was being sued for just running Linux.
SCO's tactics seem to be growing more and more deceitful and misleading..
That's freakin' nuts.
Here in Canada, (in Ontario.. Bell Canada is the major telco here) payphone calls are CDN$0.25/call. Very cheap. There's no difference in cell phone penetration either, by the way -- it's much the same as in the States.
Eventually, Word gained the same features but now many legal offices are used to and have no need to change from WordPerfect.
It's a damn good word processor, too!
The last version, however, was produced years ago when Corel stopped doing Linux stuff.
There's a website that describes how to make it work on a modern distribution.. but there's a lot of limitations (no TrueType fonts, fiddly printing, free version is limited)
Horrors.
XP does have an NT kernel.. so likely it's the same sort of thing, yes.
I use Slackware on my machine. All the binaries are compiled generic i486/586 (As of just recently, Volkerding stopped compiling i386 binaries, AFAIK), and it is blazingly fast. Far faster than Mandrake or Red Hat on the same machine.
It's a P3-850mhz machine with ~320mb of RAM. Mandrake/Red Hat just crawl.
Slashcode inserts a space into any word longer than a certain length (somewhere around 30-50 characters, I believe) to prevent this.
It seems to me that they are setting themselves up for disappointment, or they want to get MS to give them a discount on Exchange and Outlook..