It really is things like these that make slackware stand out. This is what brings out the difference between windows and linux. Thank god for slackware, I dont have to use DedRat lindows or the like!!
Every once in a while slashdot comes up with a story that says things like "the distribution that just won't die" (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/01/13162 22&mode=nested), as if it should have died long ago!
I fail to understand why there is such an attitude against slackware.
It is a really good distribution. It is simple, it is smart, and it is up to date!
The only thing that is not present in slackware are things for which MS windows is (in)famous for). Fancy installs, dumb control pannels, etc.
Slackware is as close to unix you can get using linux. There are no fancy 'linuxconf' like security holes, and wverything works as advertised.
I use Slackware 8, and have switched to it AFTER trying Redhat 7.1 and Mandrake 8. Before this I was using Redhat for many years, and I regret the time I have wasted with it.
And oh yes, like MANY others, I started linux with slackware... back in the days of kernel 1.2!
well i dunno about the last point, MacOS did fine without a CLI until v10
You answered your own question!!
I strongly feel that an OS without a cli is limited in terms of functionality. It may not be so for those who rely solely on GUIs, but I am so much used to a cli, first DOS, and then Linux... I cant live without it!
Q) How do you rename a directory in DOS?
A) Create a new directory with the name you want, copy everything there, and then delete the old directory.
Q) How do you change the color of the walls in your house?
A) You make a new house, paint it in the new color, shift everything from the old to the new house, and destroy the old house.
I must be the only person in the known universe to have started using Linux/Unix because of DOS!
No, sir... you are not the only one...
The main reason why I turned to linux from windows 95 (in about a week!) was because I found Linux to be more powerful and more 'dos like'.
Who can use the crappy windows explorer for anything more than renaming a file.
People keep complaining about DOS all the time... about autoexec.bat, config.sys, and what not. IMHO, DOS was and _is_ one of the best and cleanest operating systems to learn about the intel architecture. Where else can you issue BIOS interrupts, and play around with system memory? Linux doesnt let me do that unless I compile a kernel module, and what not.
Trey, DOS wasnt the best desktop/server/handheld Operating System, but it surely was a great learning experience for all who used and programmed for it.
I still use TurboC on DOS when I need to try out some small program, and dont want to wait for linux to load.
Another point, I dont think you can ever have a successful operating system without any command prompt. Copying and moving files can never be as easy using a dumb GUI file manager.
Well, the good news is that you can keep linux on a CF card! Work is in progress.:)
So the 16MB flash can be used for wince, and linux can be stored on the CF card. i think 64 MB CF card will be quite adequate for most purposes.
How is this beter than the 3700?
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I really dont understand how the 3800 is better than the 3700. The has the same processor, the same memory (both flash and RAM). The only two differences I see are :
- The SD slot. btw, did you know that SD means Secure Digital -- All the Secure media problems come with it. And, it would not work with linux because the specs are not available
- Better display - 16 bit instead of 12 bit display. This is really not worth it unless all you want this for is watching movies. You wouldnt notice it in day to day use, and even in games.
I feel the 3700 seems a better bet right now, specially with X-scale to be released middle of 2002.
Hi,
Dont worry about the installation part... The new bootloader (2.16.x) had dual boot (wince+linux) capability!! It is still in testing, and installing it is not reccomended for atleast another weak...
But just imagine how many more people are going to install linux after the dualboot is perfected!!
I am really shocked on this news. Dont these so called managers have the slightest idea on whom to axe, and whom not to? These people are really good. They deserve better treatment. They have been working on these technologies for over 20 years, and are absolute gurus in their fields. They are being treated as 'unskilled labor'...
The company decides...
We need to layoff 6000 people.
hmm...Lets see.
Lets close down one of the research labs. Who cares who works there. To hell with them.
This will keep the stock holders happy.
It is really ironical since it is due to these people that the stock holders got what they want to protect today!
There is already one! See the documentation. You can use OLE to embet vim in visual studio. That way, it replaces the default Visual Studio editor only, and rest of the stuff works great.
phew... talk about high availability and uninterruptable internet. When you need it, the website just wont work!!
thanks to/. there is still some hope:-)
Hey, it is a REALLY good article. DO read the whole thing. And for those who are still lazy to go back and search the link, click here.
Its the drivers that make all the differene
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That more or less sums it up. Nvidia has got WAY better drivers than ATI. Detonator 4 is going to blow away ATI. However, I am in favour of ATI or some other company coming up with newer cards. Competition is always good. But I dont see ATI seriously challenging NVIDIA in the forseeable future.
Also, ATI... please get *proper* linux drivers if you want to improve your market share....
Slackware might be the best distribution around, but i dont think it is meant for newbies who dont even know what a command prompt looks like, and how to view a directory. Most of the people coming from the windows world dont even know about the existence of a shell prompt. You wouldnd ecpect them to modprobe their soundcard to get it to work. For such people i think mandrake is the best thing around. It is as close to win2k in ease of use as you can possibly get. Slackware might only drive away a potential linux user before he is able to understand the power and strength slackware has to offer.
just my 2c..
source code for windows?
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this is the latest : microsoft sues pi for containing the complete source code to windoze.
btw, the code starts at position 4200394298 (in the binary expansion of pi), and continues for well, as long as anyone ccan read the stuff...
i fully agree. you cant do graphics withoout the "black book". it is simply amazing.
i would also reccomend "opnegl" redbook by, and "Computer Graphics : Principles and Practices by foley, vandam"
this reminds me of carl sagan's contact. hi says that pi is a proof of the existance of God. according to the book, if you go on finding the value of pi in a certain base, you will there will be a string of 0s and 1s, which when arranged in a square matrix will represent a circle:-)
wonder if it would be easier to try it now... crazy idea...
Slashdot Mirror
not yet... not ever...
It really is things like these that make slackware stand out. This is what brings out the difference between windows and linux. Thank god for slackware, I dont have to use DedRat lindows or the like!!
Every once in a while slashdot comes up with a story that says things like "the distribution that just won't die" (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/01/13162 22&mode=nested), as if it should have died long ago!
I fail to understand why there is such an attitude against slackware.
It is a really good distribution. It is simple, it is smart, and it is up to date!
The only thing that is not present in slackware are things for which MS windows is (in)famous for). Fancy installs, dumb control pannels, etc.
Slackware is as close to unix you can get using linux. There are no fancy 'linuxconf' like security holes, and wverything works as advertised.
I use Slackware 8, and have switched to it AFTER trying Redhat 7.1 and Mandrake 8. Before this I was using Redhat for many years, and I regret the time I have wasted with it.
And oh yes, like MANY others, I started linux with slackware... back in the days of kernel 1.2!
well i dunno about the last point, MacOS did fine without a CLI until v10
You answered your own question!!
I strongly feel that an OS without a cli is limited in terms of functionality. It may not be so for those who rely solely on GUIs, but I am so much used to a cli, first DOS, and then Linux... I cant live without it!
A joke that I remembered about DOS :
Q) How do you rename a directory in DOS?
A) Create a new directory with the name you want, copy everything there, and then delete the old directory.
Q) How do you change the color of the walls in your house?
A) You make a new house, paint it in the new color, shift everything from the old to the new house, and destroy the old house.
I must be the only person in the known universe to have started using Linux/Unix because of DOS!
No, sir... you are not the only one...
The main reason why I turned to linux from windows 95 (in about a week!) was because I found Linux to be more powerful and more 'dos like'.
Who can use the crappy windows explorer for anything more than renaming a file.
People keep complaining about DOS all the time... about autoexec.bat, config.sys, and what not. IMHO, DOS was and _is_ one of the best and cleanest operating systems to learn about the intel architecture. Where else can you issue BIOS interrupts, and play around with system memory? Linux doesnt let me do that unless I compile a kernel module, and what not.
Trey, DOS wasnt the best desktop/server/handheld Operating System, but it surely was a great learning experience for all who used and programmed for it.
I still use TurboC on DOS when I need to try out some small program, and dont want to wait for linux to load.
Another point, I dont think you can ever have a successful operating system without any command prompt. Copying and moving files can never be as easy using a dumb GUI file manager.
Well, the good news is that you can keep linux on a CF card! Work is in progress. :)
So the 16MB flash can be used for wince, and linux can be stored on the CF card. i think 64 MB CF card will be quite adequate for most purposes.
- The SD slot. btw, did you know that SD means Secure Digital -- All the Secure media problems come with it. And, it would not work with linux because the specs are not available
- Better display - 16 bit instead of 12 bit display. This is really not worth it unless all you want this for is watching movies. You wouldnt notice it in day to day use, and even in games.
I feel the 3700 seems a better bet right now, specially with X-scale to be released middle of 2002.
Dont worry about the installation part... The new bootloader (2.16.x) had dual boot (wince+linux) capability!! It is still in testing, and installing it is not reccomended for atleast another weak...
But just imagine how many more people are going to install linux after the dualboot is perfected!!
How about a computer to go with it? That would make it REALLY plug and play (just plug in the power plug!).
The price justifies such convenience :)
I am really shocked on this news. Dont these so called managers have the slightest idea on whom to axe, and whom not to? These people are really good. They deserve better treatment. They have been working on these technologies for over 20 years, and are absolute gurus in their fields. They are being treated as 'unskilled labor'...
The company decides...
We need to layoff 6000 people.
hmm...Lets see.
Lets close down one of the research labs. Who cares who works there. To hell with them.
This will keep the stock holders happy.
It is really ironical since it is due to these people that the stock holders got what they want to protect today!
ankit
There is already one! See the documentation. You can use OLE to embet vim in visual studio. That way, it replaces the default Visual Studio editor only, and rest of the stuff works great.
HTH
On any other day I would have jumped to this site to get more info. But not today!
phew... talk about high availability and uninterruptable internet. When you need it, the website just wont work!! /. there is still some hope :-)
thanks to
fp
Hey, it is a REALLY good article. DO read the whole thing. And for those who are still lazy to go back and search the link, click here.
That more or less sums it up. Nvidia has got WAY better drivers than ATI. Detonator 4 is going to blow away ATI. However, I am in favour of ATI or some other company coming up with newer cards. Competition is always good. But I dont see ATI seriously challenging NVIDIA in the forseeable future.
Also, ATI... please get *proper* linux drivers if you want to improve your market share....
first comment ?!
Slackware might be the best distribution around, but i dont think it is meant for newbies who dont even know what a command prompt looks like, and how to view a directory. Most of the people coming from the windows world dont even know about the existence of a shell prompt. You wouldnd ecpect them to modprobe their soundcard to get it to work. For such people i think mandrake is the best thing around. It is as close to win2k in ease of use as you can possibly get. Slackware might only drive away a potential linux user before he is able to understand the power and strength slackware has to offer.
just my 2c..
this is the latest : microsoft sues pi for containing the complete source code to windoze.
btw, the code starts at position 4200394298 (in the binary expansion of pi), and continues for well, as long as anyone ccan read the stuff...
so pi contains everything? information about everything?
so everything is out in the open. forget about privacy and the like.
i fully agree. you cant do graphics withoout the "black book". it is simply amazing.
i would also reccomend "opnegl" redbook by, and "Computer Graphics : Principles and Practices by foley, vandam"
this reminds me of carl sagan's contact. hi says that pi is a proof of the existance of God. according to the book, if you go on finding the value of pi in a certain base, you will there will be a string of 0s and 1s, which when arranged in a square matrix will represent a circle :-)
wonder if it would be easier to try it now... crazy idea...