Redhat's ALWAYS put out a new release every 6 months. This is good because generally it's about that time that there's so many updates from the previous version that nobody on a modem has an icicle's chance in hell of downloading all of them. (and indeed, 6.0 was at this point due to XFree86, GNOME, KDE, glibc, netscape, samba, apache, and all kinds of other security fixes and upgrades). Hell, I'm on a cable modem and keeping 6.0 up to date is painful.
From a user point of view 6.1 is identical to 6.1 other than the nicer installer (it's about on par with Win98's, which means there's still room to go) and the automated update facility (finally - I almost switched to SuSE to get that:) This may or may not break some pretty canned certification, but the upshot is anyone who's used 6.0 can use 6.1 just fine. (and in fact anyone who'd used 5.2 could use 6.0 just fine as well - the only interesting admin change was that KDE moved from/opt to/usr:)
And finally, if you're running a corporate IT cluster and it's working fine with no crashes and 5 months uptime DON'T UPGRADE IT EVER. Pay no attention to the shiny new boxes. I'm serious. Most IT people I know don't want to screw with anything once they have it working right, and with Linux that's quite possible. The only time you should upgrade such a system is 1) retiring the hardware for new boxen 2) a software upgrade requires it (ie, if Oracle 9 comes out and requires kernel 2.4).
Agreed - the CL driver causes nothing but oopses on my machine every time I've tried it. It actually required a reboot only once, but I still don't like seeing oopses in my syslog:) This is why I have 2 soundcards in my machine now - SB Live for Windows and games, and my old ISA Gravis Plug n' Play for Linux/ALSA.
As for NT, I'd have to agree. On one NT 4 workstation every BSOD I've seen showed the crash as being inside the (ATI) video drivers. It IS very generous of MS to take credit for 35% of the crashes though;)
Not bad actually - it uses some pretty legible fonts, and of course they're at a pretty large size. So you have to scroll a lot, but it's quite good in general. Better quality than the video out on my old Voodoo Rush board for sure.
When in the web browser I don't even see the auth port open, so I think that IS an IRC specific thing (and it makes sense - no EFNet server lets you on without an auth response these days).
I tried portscanning my DC (US DC, running the packed-in web browser, showing this very article on/. on my TV:) and the latest nmap showed no ports open. I could ping the DC but telnet on any of the ports mentioned did nothing. I'm positive I got the right machine because my PPP dialup has a fixed IP and DNS =)
Anyone else tried this and had it work? What disc did you have running in the DC?
"Winbond" is a Taiwanese company that makes temperature monitoring chips. All modern Pentium II/III motherboards have one, and Linux has supported them for a while (since at least 2.1.93 or so, and possibly sooner). There's even GNOME/KDE/WindowMaker/Afterstep graphical temperature readout apps - search freshmeat.
Phil's post is exactly true - the hormonally addled 14 year olds who got posted on Mindcraft's "Linux Rage" page and made the entire community look juvenile in front of the world should read Maddog's article. At least twice:-)
According to Metrowerks once they've finished QA testing it won't just say "for Red Hat". If you're gonna bash Redhat, at least get your facts straight.
They mean that the latest aic7xxx driver (in kernel 2.2.5 and later I think) supports the new card. Doug Ledford, who maintains the kernel driver, works for Redhat, and he keeps the latest driver version as patches for 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels on his web page (http://www.redhat.com/~dledford/aic7xxx.html).
1) Pick a song. Maybe Linus or JWZ or Larry Wall or (insert/. deity here) would get the honor. 2) Post it as an article on/. 3) Watch as MTV VJ with impossibly perfect hair tries to explain to zillions of tennyboppers why, say, Sisters of Mercy is the #1 video.
and Total Annihliation, Starcraft, Unreal (with 3Dfx support), Fallout and Fallout 2, and probably a lot of other games. DirectX games typically don't rely on weird advanced Win32 features, so they usually run well on Wine.
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Redhat releases a new update every 6 months. They always have, they probably always will.
Redhat's ALWAYS put out a new release every 6 months. This is good because generally it's about that time that there's so many updates from the previous version that nobody on a modem has an icicle's chance in hell of downloading all of them. (and indeed, 6.0 was at this point due to XFree86, GNOME, KDE, glibc, netscape, samba, apache, and all kinds of other security fixes and upgrades). Hell, I'm on a cable modem and keeping 6.0 up to date is painful.
:) This may or may not break some pretty canned certification, but the upshot is anyone who's used 6.0 can use 6.1 just fine. (and in fact anyone who'd used 5.2 could use 6.0 just fine as well - the only interesting admin change was that KDE moved from /opt to /usr :)
From a user point of view 6.1 is identical to 6.1 other than the nicer installer (it's about on par with Win98's, which means there's still room to go) and the automated update facility (finally - I almost switched to SuSE to get that
And finally, if you're running a corporate IT cluster and it's working fine with no crashes and 5 months uptime DON'T UPGRADE IT EVER. Pay no attention to the shiny new boxes. I'm serious. Most IT people I know don't want to screw with anything once they have it working right, and with Linux that's quite possible. The only time you should upgrade such a system is 1) retiring the hardware for new boxen 2) a software upgrade requires it (ie, if Oracle 9 comes out and requires kernel 2.4).
Agreed - the CL driver causes nothing but oopses on my machine every time I've tried it. It actually required a reboot only once, but I still don't like seeing oopses in my syslog :) This is why I have 2 soundcards in my machine now - SB Live for Windows and games, and my old ISA Gravis Plug n' Play for Linux/ALSA.
;)
As for NT, I'd have to agree. On one NT 4 workstation every BSOD I've seen showed the crash as being inside the (ATI) video drivers. It IS very generous of MS to take credit for 35% of the crashes though
Not bad actually - it uses some pretty legible fonts, and of course they're at a pretty large size. So you have to scroll a lot, but it's quite good in general. Better quality than the video out on my old Voodoo Rush board for sure.
Not only did I have it loaded, it was showing this very /. article on my TV when I ran the portscan.
:)
Again, no ports were open and the Dreamcast only responded to pings. I suspect the original guy accidentally hit an NT box or something
When in the web browser I don't even see the auth port open, so I think that IS an IRC specific thing (and it makes sense - no EFNet server lets you on without an auth response these days).
I tried portscanning my DC (US DC, running the packed-in web browser, showing this very article on /. on my TV :) and the latest nmap showed no ports open. I could ping the DC but telnet on any of the ports mentioned did nothing. I'm positive I got the right machine because my PPP dialup has a fixed IP and DNS =)
Anyone else tried this and had it work? What disc did you have running in the DC?
www.winehq.com - it's FAR better looking (and less likely to attract M$ legal) than the butt-ugly thing /. uses.
Corel's done a LOT of work on things like OLE2/COM/CraptiveX that most other people would never want to touch. I'm all for that :)
I believe his thesis was actually the 1.0 kernel.
:-)
I'd give him an "A"
(anyone know for sure?)
Well, IIRC the back story of Space:1999 has it that the moon will be knocked clear out of the solar system on September 13, 1999.
;)
Somehow I doubt the Prospector packs enough wallop to do that though
It has the mikmod engine as a standard plugin. In fact, that's the same module engine Winamp's module plugin uses.
"Winbond" is a Taiwanese company that makes temperature monitoring chips. All modern Pentium II/III motherboards have one, and Linux has supported them for a while (since at least 2.1.93 or so, and possibly sooner). There's even GNOME/KDE/WindowMaker/Afterstep graphical temperature readout apps - search freshmeat.
Phil's post is exactly true - the hormonally addled 14 year olds who got posted on Mindcraft's "Linux Rage" page and made the entire community look juvenile in front of the world should read Maddog's article. At least twice :-)
According to Metrowerks once they've finished QA testing it won't just say "for Red Hat". If you're gonna bash Redhat, at least get your facts straight.
They mean that the latest aic7xxx driver (in kernel 2.2.5 and later I think) supports the new card. Doug Ledford, who maintains the kernel driver, works for Redhat, and he keeps the latest driver version as patches for 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels on his web page (http://www.redhat.com/~dledford/aic7xxx.html).
Easy steps:
/. deity here) would get the honor. /.
1) Pick a song. Maybe Linus or JWZ or Larry Wall or (insert
2) Post it as an article on
3) Watch as MTV VJ with impossibly perfect hair tries to explain to zillions of tennyboppers why, say, Sisters of Mercy is the #1 video.
Macrovision's "SafeDisc" system is on several new titles, including Midtown Madness and Need for Speed 4, and it'll be on even more this fall. *sigh*.
I mean, look it up on Everything (everything.blockstackers.org, of course).
and Total Annihliation, Starcraft, Unreal (with 3Dfx support), Fallout and Fallout 2, and probably a lot of other games. DirectX games typically don't rely on weird advanced Win32 features, so they usually run well on Wine.