What's your issue with static routes? I work for Red Hat as a contract instructor (tho I'm not speaking on their behalf here) and I'd be surprised if your issue wasn't documented.
The article says Samba 4 implements an Active Directory Domain Controller. The AUUG talk linked to doesn't mention that. The roadmap (http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/www.samba.org/deve l/roadmap-4.0.html) mentions none of these features are started.
What's the story? AFAICT the only Samba AD DC stuff means using Samba 3 with the PADL software...
If you're using a client OS that's as non portable as Windows, hence requiring a slow partial emulation (like VMWare) or full emulation (like VirtualPC), then Qemu will happily run Windows XP on your Mac or Linux box.
But with Linux, you don't need to do that. It runs fast inside a real virtualized environment, so its virtualized performance shits all over Windows.
OSS already provides a young, but workable, VirtualPC / VMWare equivalent. Will proprietary software provide a compelling virtualizable OS as Linux?
Xen doesn't seem like an OS by any traditional sense of the word. If it was, it could be run with just some firmware installed, rather than having ports to OSs like Linux and BSD.
Them describing it as a 'monitor' doesnt' make much sense, as it seems to have a virtualization engine itself (the term monitor makes it sound like you need other software for that).
'Hypervisor' is a wank.
How about:
"Xen is a virtual machine system, allowing you to run various guest operating systems simulatenously. Unlike VMWare, Virtual Server and others, Xen does not use or provide a software X86 CPU. Instead, Xen requires guest OSs be ported to Xen. This results in better performance."
is, as the article states, business server use. Put the VM images on a SAN, run the virtualization software on the real hosts.
Then when you need some CPU power, add a real host, suspend a VM, and resume it from the new real host.
Last time I checked, all servers don't run Windows.
VMWare is an ugly hack, that will ultimately perform worse than things like UML and Xen because of the unnecessary requirement to emulate a CPU by Windows.
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. Think about that. A WM finally rendered in OpenGL. And think about the possibilities it will bring.
A few, but much less than a windowing system - X - being rendered on top of OpenGL. Which is what freedesktop.org will do.
(Think they don't? David Hicks in in Guantanamo bay because he supported the Taliban, before they happened to piss off the US. George Bush in in the whitehouse despite the same.)
Either the person picking screenshots has chosen the most boring ones in the world to present, or they haven't seen any videogame created in the last few years.
I've seen nothing spectacular about HL2 when compared to the Doom 3 or latest Unreal engines. That's ok, apparently HL is a sotry driven game. But why say the graphics are amazing when they're simply not?
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Thanks. The Sol. 10 marketing stuff should perhaps link to bigadmin more. All I get is 'containers! woo!'. And neither my read HW nor VMWare seem capable of installing S10 (which, despite being downloaded two days ago, is weirdly marked as a beta), so I haven't been able to try for myself.
There's different advantages from different approaches. Containers seem really nice from an admin point of view, but more abstraction means more layers of protection. A kernel compromise in a UML mode session is much less likely to lead to an intrusion on the host.
I don't whether UML is multithreaded - I should find out...
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Actually, with Vintela, you can apply GPOs to Linux boxes.
Conversely, with a product from PADL, you can store group policies for Windows clients on a Linux LDAP server.
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Could you please elaborate? I haven't had much luck about finding howw Grid containers are actually implemented. A FreeBSD jail still uses the systems main kernel. UML doesn't. Do Containers?
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Red Hat does a lot of work with SELinux, thank you very much, including employing its author Russel Coker. EL4 will be, AFAIK, the first distro to ship with it turned on by default.
ReiserFS isn't supported (although it is there, start the installer with the 'reiserfs' parameter) as it requires reinstalls, has had stability issues (in particular, it used to have arguments with the NFS driver, even when Suse were shipping it). But Red Hat have GFS for use as a SAN filesystem and underlying on disk filesystem.
Yeah, I think we're on the same wave length too. My only real point is that I have more direct contact with Red Hat customers than many, and that I'm confident if you put a bunch of users in a room, got them to try browsing and spatial, they'd choose browsing.
You're begging the question about which is the simple option. Having to be your own window janitor is not seen by a lot of people to be simpler than browsing.
So again, its back to commissioning a study. Having a lot of (Red Hat) customer contact (I'm an intructor) I can tell you people don't like spatial.
You don't understand because you haven't been listening. My parent post explicitly pointed out I didn't want them to be able to run all commands.
My followup post pointed out that there should be a whole bunch of logically grouped command aliases (for common, related tasks).
I know how to write a sudoers file. Coming up with the command aliases you actually use, to do it properly, takes a long time. As I have said before. Idiot. My sudoers is about fifty lines long.
Their commercial offerings are a pain in the butt, the kernel they use is patched all over the place and they don't even offer support for normal Linux kernels.
AFAIK, neither Suse or Debian or any other major distro ship a Linux Torvalds kernel.
The amount of patches that RH included that have now been made part of 2.6 should also attest to their quality. Oh, and the fact your database performs a shitload better when using a RHEL kernel (as many folks who use other distros do, specifically cause they want Red Hat's patching to get a larger chunk of continguosu memory for their DB).
On a server, I'd rather run a kernel that tens of thousands of other people are testing and bug tracking. If you need more drivers, `get em - Red Hat supports their kernel if you add additional modules (but does not support those modules). If you find a bug, report it to RH and they'll fix it.
RHEL exists because of the need for ABI compatibility, and provides that for at least five years using osftware that's a lot more current than what you'll find in Debian stable. For objectivity, I'll point out that SLES does this too.
Your post is correct. However, as the new Gnome overrides the users existing setup and forces the new behavior on them (requiring them to explicitly disable it) the burden of proof is on the Gnome devs.
I'm a contract instructor for Red Hat (but I'm not speaking officially) and I can say that most customers I deal with who use Fedora do not like spatial.
LVM allows you to resize partitions while they're mounted, and unlike CPM (aka Dos/Windows) partitions, is a known API.
If you need more storage, just plug in a new disk, add it to a volume group, and then tell the LVM to make one of your logical disks bigger. That's it - no unmounting, screwing around with DOS resizin tools that only work half the time, etc.
Also, you can create frozen snapshots of your disk at a point in timee - great for taking backups of, and also for online file recovery.
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In the OpenOffice in FC3 (and prolly the one in NLD if I remember correctly) the splash screen is not always-on-top.
That $399 gets you a very limited choice of apps and no bundled support incident.
Red Hat's support gives you an unlimited amount of incidents per year on a lot more software.
The only point you're making is that Red Hat should offer cheaper support that includes less things - which I agree with.
What's your issue with static routes? I work for Red Hat as a contract instructor (tho I'm not speaking on their behalf here) and I'd be surprised if your issue wasn't documented.
The article says Samba 4 implements an Active Directory Domain Controller. The AUUG talk linked to doesn't mention that. The roadmap (http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/www.samba.org/deve l/roadmap-4.0.html) mentions none of these features are started.
What's the story? AFAICT the only Samba AD DC stuff means using Samba 3 with the PADL software...
If you're using a client OS that's as non portable as Windows, hence requiring a slow partial emulation (like VMWare) or full emulation (like VirtualPC), then Qemu will happily run Windows XP on your Mac or Linux box.
But with Linux, you don't need to do that. It runs fast inside a real virtualized environment, so its virtualized performance shits all over Windows.
OSS already provides a young, but workable, VirtualPC / VMWare equivalent. Will proprietary software provide a compelling virtualizable OS as Linux?
The terms 'OS' and 'monitor' bug me...
Xen doesn't seem like an OS by any traditional sense of the word. If it was, it could be run with just some firmware installed, rather than having ports to OSs like Linux and BSD.
Them describing it as a 'monitor' doesnt' make much sense, as it seems to have a virtualization engine itself (the term monitor makes it sound like you need other software for that).
'Hypervisor' is a wank.
How about:
"Xen is a virtual machine system, allowing you to run various guest operating systems simulatenously. Unlike VMWare, Virtual Server and others, Xen does not use or provide a software X86 CPU. Instead, Xen requires guest OSs be ported to Xen. This results in better performance."
is, as the article states, business server use. Put the VM images on a SAN, run the virtualization software on the real hosts.
Then when you need some CPU power, add a real host, suspend a VM, and resume it from the new real host.
Last time I checked, all servers don't run Windows.
VMWare is an ugly hack, that will ultimately perform worse than things like UML and Xen because of the unnecessary requirement to emulate a CPU by Windows.
. Think about that. A WM finally rendered in OpenGL. And think about the possibilities it will bring.
A few, but much less than a windowing system - X - being rendered on top of OpenGL. Which is what freedesktop.org will do.
Nobody, not even the military tribunal, is alleging Hicks actually fought against the US.
They *are* alleging he 'trained with' Al Queda - specifically, he attended a training camp where Al Queda (sp?) operatives were also training.
Oh, and last time I checked the US wouldn't take too kindly to having its own POWs incarcerated in a prison camp either.
And the EU has relations with them.
(Think they don't? David Hicks in in Guantanamo bay because he supported the Taliban, before they happened to piss off the US. George Bush in in the whitehouse despite the same.)
Microsoft (nor anyone else's) TCO metrics never include downtime costs.
But perhaps the joke re: tinfoil hats is that the government isn't really trying to comtrol your mind?
Linux has been able to read/write NTFS fine for at least a year now, using Microsoft's own driver. Google for captive NTFS.
Either the person picking screenshots has chosen the most boring ones in the world to present, or they haven't seen any videogame created in the last few years.
I've seen nothing spectacular about HL2 when compared to the Doom 3 or latest Unreal engines. That's ok, apparently HL is a sotry driven game. But why say the graphics are amazing when they're simply not?
Thanks. The Sol. 10 marketing stuff should perhaps link to bigadmin more. All I get is 'containers! woo!'. And neither my read HW nor VMWare seem capable of installing S10 (which, despite being downloaded two days ago, is weirdly marked as a beta), so I haven't been able to try for myself.
There's different advantages from different approaches. Containers seem really nice from an admin point of view, but more abstraction means more layers of protection. A kernel compromise in a UML mode session is much less likely to lead to an intrusion on the host.
I don't whether UML is multithreaded - I should find out...
Actually, with Vintela, you can apply GPOs to Linux boxes.
Conversely, with a product from PADL, you can store group policies for Windows clients on a Linux LDAP server.
Could you please elaborate? I haven't had much luck about finding howw Grid containers are actually implemented. A FreeBSD jail still uses the systems main kernel. UML doesn't. Do Containers?
Red Hat does a lot of work with SELinux, thank you very much, including employing its author Russel Coker. EL4 will be, AFAIK, the first distro to ship with it turned on by default.
ReiserFS isn't supported (although it is there, start the installer with the 'reiserfs' parameter)
as it requires reinstalls, has had stability issues (in particular, it used to have arguments with the NFS driver, even when Suse were shipping it). But Red Hat have GFS for use as a SAN filesystem and underlying on disk filesystem.
Yeah, I think we're on the same wave length too. My only real point is that I have more direct contact with Red Hat customers than many, and that I'm confident if you put a bunch of users in a room, got them to try browsing and spatial, they'd choose browsing.
You're begging the question about which is the simple option. Having to be your own window janitor is not seen by a lot of people to be simpler than browsing.
So again, its back to commissioning a study. Having a lot of (Red Hat) customer contact (I'm an intructor) I can tell you people don't like spatial.
You don't understand because you haven't been listening. My parent post explicitly pointed out I didn't want them to be able to run all commands.
My followup post pointed out that there should be a whole bunch of logically grouped command aliases (for common, related tasks).
I know how to write a sudoers file. Coming up with the command aliases you actually use, to do it properly, takes a long time. As I have said before. Idiot. My sudoers is about fifty lines long.
Their commercial offerings are a pain in the butt, the kernel they use is patched all over the place and they don't even offer support for normal Linux kernels.
AFAIK, neither Suse or Debian or any other major distro ship a Linux Torvalds kernel.
The amount of patches that RH included that have now been made part of 2.6 should also attest to their quality. Oh, and the fact your database performs a shitload better when using a RHEL kernel (as many folks who use other distros do, specifically cause they want Red Hat's patching to get a larger chunk of continguosu memory for their DB).
On a server, I'd rather run a kernel that tens of thousands of other people are testing and bug tracking. If you need more drivers, `get em - Red Hat supports their kernel if you add additional modules (but does not support those modules). If you find a bug, report it to RH and they'll fix it.
RHEL exists because of the need for ABI compatibility, and provides that for at least five years using osftware that's a lot more current than what you'll find in Debian stable. For objectivity, I'll point out that SLES does this too.
Your post is correct. However, as the new Gnome overrides the users existing setup and forces the new behavior on them (requiring them to explicitly disable it) the burden of proof is on the Gnome devs.
I'm a contract instructor for Red Hat (but I'm not speaking officially) and I can say that most customers I deal with who use Fedora do not like spatial.
LVM allows you to resize partitions while they're mounted, and unlike CPM (aka Dos/Windows) partitions, is a known API.
If you need more storage, just plug in a new disk, add it to a volume group, and then tell the LVM to make one of your logical disks bigger. That's it - no unmounting, screwing around with DOS resizin tools that only work half the time, etc.
Also, you can create frozen snapshots of your disk at a point in timee - great for taking backups of, and also for online file recovery.
Good point. I understand what you're saying, but I'd say the lack of a consistent HIG is the issue that needs to be fixed.