IMHO bt848 cards have the best Linux support of any card right now. Well worth the extra PCI slot needed.
Unfortunately, the latest drivers won't compile under 2.0.x series kernels, and the author has removed old drivers from the webpage claiming that these drivers should compile.
Well, as someone who is using GNOME right now, I'd have to say it's more stable than you think.
Something is funky about those RH 5.9 packages. All in all, Starbuck is unreliable, and the GNOME portions of it just plain suck. (Whaddya expect, it's a pre-release...) I think the most annoying thing was the fact that the default E theme for Starbuck had tiny unusuable menus... And GNOME was REALLY glitchy.
I'm now using the latest GNOME RPMs and I'm back to RH 5.2. Much, much better. I'm VERY impressed.
Now I would LOVE to make the GNOME launcher applet lirc (remote-control) aware...:)
I've got 3-4 years of Linux experience. I started with Slackware, and now run RH. I tried Debian a day or two ago, and gave up for a few reasons. I hated the installer. Yes, I could easily have gone through the entire install, but it just wasn't worth it. Problems with Debian:
Debian's installer: "We will now put LILO in the MBR of/dev/sdc because youre root partition is/dev/sdc2. Some BIOSes may not like this."
No sh*t, Sherlock. My BIOS is brand new and didn't like that. Put it on/dev/sda where it's supposed to go or at least give me the option to do so. RedHat puts it in the right place.
Flexibility, my a**. RedHat gives two options, both are feasible. Debian gives one, and it's useless.
"To do it any other way, you must create a bootdisk."
a) RedHat didn't need that bootdisk, and Debian takes 4-5 times as long to create said disk. I'm a college student and I have problem sets to do, and I want to USE the system, not spend unneccessary time trying to get it to even work.
Next, there's dselect. They keep on saying they're going to replace it, but guess what. It's still there, and people are right. Dselect is a royal pain in the ass. I'll stick with RPM...
Difficulty to use != power.
Oh, I do have positive things to say about Debian's installer. On multiple CD-ROM systems, it allows you to choose your installation CD. In addition, the fact that you can add RAID support to the kernel in the install seems to indicate that Debian might eventually come with support to set up RAID drives in the installation process. (A feature I would absolutely LOVE to have.)
Of course, this could probably be added to RedHat... Eventually I may take the Root-RAID HOWTO and combine it with the RedHat installer.
I'm sure these machines are running a decent form of Unix or Unix relative already.
Anyway, I believe either NetBSD or OpenBSD has a much better security rep than Linux does. Can't remember which one is the ultra-secure one and which one is the ultra-cross-platform one.:)
The only way I can imagine that they'd object is that it seems like the FSF is trying to use their "adoption" of XFree to claim more credit for their share in Linux. The way that article is phrased, it seems as if the FSF is trying to take credit for someone else's work (The XFree86 team.)
It seems to say, "While we don't like the XFree86 license, we'll adopt it just so we can take more credit for Linux."
This isn't the hardware's fault, Matrox's current OGL drivers suck. On par with the Voodoo1 in performance.
Their D3D drivers are simply amazing. Ever played Motorhead (came with the Mystique G200)? Incredible. It would be funny if third-party OGL drivers had higher performance than the Matrox ones...
Yeah. So-so lighting, VERY bad camera angle and pose. And it's not even definite that this is the girl Rob and Hemos are talking about - Just someone's guess.
Not all of us have access to such services in our hometowns. I know I dread returning home for breaks because I don't have my wonderful dorm ResNet service.:)
*DSL doesn't exist in my area, and TKR cable (Bridgewater, NJ) doesn't even know what a cable modem is.
I haven't read the article itself yet, but I'm almost positive it uses some form of WDM (Wavelength division multiplexing). So it's not a single 1.2 tbps channel, it's many slower channels, all on one fiber. Total is 1 tb/s. I know Lucent has what is essentially an optical router on a chip that is used for splitting something like 20 channels from a single fiber.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless you want to listen to your MP3s in the same order every time, you're screwed...
Put the computer (or at least a terminal) right next to the oven. And develop some REALLY LARGE stuff. Like hacking Mozilla or GNOME. :)
I've had a WinCast/TV for quite some time.
IMHO bt848 cards have the best Linux support of any card right now. Well worth the extra PCI slot needed.
Unfortunately, the latest drivers won't compile under 2.0.x series kernels, and the author has removed old drivers from the webpage claiming that these drivers should compile.
I was hoping to see more of those screenshots, but the site started dying... The ones I saw looked good, though!
As if i didn't have enough timewastes already...
Well, as someone who is using GNOME right now, I'd have to say it's more stable than you think.
:)
Something is funky about those RH 5.9 packages. All in all, Starbuck is unreliable, and the GNOME portions of it just plain suck. (Whaddya expect, it's a pre-release...) I think the most annoying thing was the fact that the default E theme for Starbuck had tiny unusuable menus... And GNOME was REALLY glitchy.
I'm now using the latest GNOME RPMs and I'm back to RH 5.2. Much, much better. I'm VERY impressed.
Now I would LOVE to make the GNOME launcher applet lirc (remote-control) aware...
I agree with you on this... I wonder if there are any early showings tomorrow, or one tonight after I finish my research...
I've got 3-4 years of Linux experience. I started with Slackware, and now run RH. I tried Debian a day or two ago, and gave up for a few reasons. I hated the installer. Yes, I could easily have gone through the entire install, but it just wasn't worth it. Problems with Debian:
/dev/sdc because youre root partition is /dev/sdc2. Some BIOSes may not like this."
/dev/sda where it's supposed to go or at least give me the option to do so. RedHat puts it in the right place.
Debian's installer:
"We will now put LILO in the MBR of
No sh*t, Sherlock. My BIOS is brand new and didn't like that. Put it on
Flexibility, my a**. RedHat gives two options, both are feasible. Debian gives one, and it's useless.
"To do it any other way, you must create a bootdisk."
a) RedHat didn't need that bootdisk, and Debian takes 4-5 times as long to create said disk. I'm a college student and I have problem sets to do, and I want to USE the system, not spend unneccessary time trying to get it to even work.
Next, there's dselect. They keep on saying they're going to replace it, but guess what. It's still there, and people are right. Dselect is a royal pain in the ass. I'll stick with RPM...
Difficulty to use != power.
Oh, I do have positive things to say about Debian's installer. On multiple CD-ROM systems, it allows you to choose your installation CD. In addition, the fact that you can add RAID support to the kernel in the install seems to indicate that Debian might eventually come with support to set up RAID drives in the installation process. (A feature I would absolutely LOVE to have.)
Of course, this could probably be added to RedHat... Eventually I may take the Root-RAID HOWTO and combine it with the RedHat installer.
I'm sure these machines are running a decent form of Unix or Unix relative already.
:)
Anyway, I believe either NetBSD or OpenBSD has a much better security rep than Linux does. Can't remember which one is the ultra-secure one and which one is the ultra-cross-platform one.
I originally thought, "huh?", but now I'm ROTFL. :)
The only way I can imagine that they'd object is that it seems like the FSF is trying to use their "adoption" of XFree to claim more credit for their share in Linux. The way that article is phrased, it seems as if the FSF is trying to take credit for someone else's work (The XFree86 team.)
It seems to say, "While we don't like the XFree86 license, we'll adopt it just so we can take more credit for Linux."
From the mirrors, it's dead. Very dead. MAKE SURE you have a good copy of it before you try to install! (Installation will not show an error.)
:(
I was an idiot and backed up the wrong home directory on my system before doing a reinstall. (Didn't upgrade because I wanted to repartition.)
I lost my mail filters, forgot how to recreate them, AND I lost all of my mail!
Didn't help that I tried a RawHide a few days ago. BAD IDEA!
Seems a bit glitchy to me, especially the default E theme. (The menu is obscenely tiny)
Maybe not a website or Linux, but remember Walnut Creek's FreeBSD machine that keeps setting FTP transfer records.
I've found ONE Starbuck mirror
ftp.wtfo.com - SLOW.
I've found many mirrors w/o starbuck:
ftp.cdrom.com
ftp.unet.brandeis.edu
ftp.cs.buffalo.edu (Personal favorite mirror)
ftp.cc.gatech.edu
ftp.ilstu.edu
ftp.eecs.umich.edu
metalab.unc.edu
ftp.tux.org
ftp.codemeta.com
In short, EVERY mirror I've tried. wtfo.com is a fluke.
wtfo.com has everything today, but it is SLOW
I wish ftp.cs.buffalo.edu would get it - they're VERY fast for me. (Same backbone)
I've got to agree with this. People should take responsibility for what they write.
A right to free speech is NOT a right to irresponsibility.
This isn't the hardware's fault, Matrox's current OGL drivers suck. On par with the Voodoo1 in performance.
Their D3D drivers are simply amazing. Ever played Motorhead (came with the Mystique G200)? Incredible. It would be funny if third-party OGL drivers had higher performance than the Matrox ones...
Yeah. So-so lighting, VERY bad camera angle and pose. And it's not even definite that this is the girl Rob and Hemos are talking about - Just someone's guess.
I can't seem to get more than 300 bytes/sec. :(
According to the article, not everyone offered plans for the site. All people who offered money and no plans got refused.
Unless you really screwed up, you'll get a password. I did (many months ago). Funny, though, my userid is "guest" :)
I now have the specs. All 574 pages of em'. Too bad I don't know any C.
Look at the board of directors or whatever you call it. Fred Van Kempen is one of them.
Shaddup.
:)
Not all of us have access to such services in our hometowns. I know I dread returning home for breaks because I don't have my wonderful dorm ResNet service.
*DSL doesn't exist in my area, and TKR cable (Bridgewater, NJ) doesn't even know what a cable modem is.
I haven't read the article itself yet, but I'm almost positive it uses some form of WDM (Wavelength division multiplexing). So it's not a single 1.2 tbps channel, it's many slower channels, all on one fiber. Total is 1 tb/s. I know Lucent has what is essentially an optical router on a chip that is used for splitting something like 20 channels from a single fiber.
"Telnet too slow"
:)
Um, Telnet is as fast as your connection, man...
Hell, people here want to slow down Telnet for nostalgia's sake...
Man, I was barely into the scene and I remember THAT one... :)
That was around the time when 9600 was very common (I had a 2400)