to become famous if its development does not come to stagnancy.
From ReactOS Frontpage:
ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with Microsoft Windows(R) applications and drivers.
I just wrote a piece of code and commented it properly. I used Doxygen style comments.
The beautiful output documentation produced by Doxygen automatically was worth the little extra time spent on commenting my code.
This isn't Firefox's fault. It is because of Adobe products.
Just now I searched for a free PDF viewer. I found Foxit PDF reader, which is a free lightweight PDF reader.
It opened the same document very fast.
gobolinux is a linux distro with the solution to the above mentioned problem.
It simplifies package installtion and management by redefining the entire filesystem hierarchy.
As mentioned on their site:
In GoboLinux you don't need a package manager because the filesystem is the package manager
I have mod points now but I'd rather post a comment because I totally agree with parent and grand-parent posts.
I am working for a software company in Korea (I am not a korean). As you might already know, in korea, normal working hours are 8:30am to 12:00am (midnight), 6 days a week.
I have two limitations here. First, it is impossible for me to even sit for these many hours even if I am doing nothing. Second, I need to get in the flow to get any useful work done
(but Yes, as mentioned in previous posts, if I am in the flow, I usually accomplish days work in hours).
So, my colleagues see me going home early (in comparision to them), and reading slashdot or browsing net and I feel it leaves a bad impression on them even though my work is being done on time and my overall productivity is much more than any of my colleague who stay late at night.
It has happened many times that my colleagues ask for help to solve a problem which they were not able to solve continously for days because of the mind block.
I have never used slackware, but I have great respect for the guy. I have seen people praising, not only Slackware but also Patric himself in various Linux forums.
I wish him speedy recovery.
I was just giving an example.... well, you find my example wrong...
Ok.. another example... I used gnome 2.6 on debian (unstable) and it was so slow on my system (not the latest hardware, a PIII) that I used to wait for mouse movements... but on Yoper it is fast enough to be usable....
And as the Yoper lead developer says...there is no magic trick.. any experienced linux person could have made debian as fast as Yoper using techniques mentioned in the article.. but Yoper gives this performance out of the box... and thats my point !!!
I am a Yoper user. I downloaded Yoper 2.1 iso and installed Yoper on my notebook.
Important points about Installation
1) Text base installer
2) Default boot-loader LILO, with Grub as option
3) Partition type can be ext(2,3) or reiserfs
4) there is no step for chosing the packages (mentioned in the article)
Configuration
1) Detects most of your hardware automatically.
2) Launches Sax2 for X configuration (yes, it uses XFree86, not XOrg, yet)
Yoper Desktop
After installation, you'll have a KDE desktop, with (hopefully) all your hardware (network, sound, video etc.) working properly.
First thing that will surprise you, will be the speed. Even an old hardware will become more responsive.
Now you can update the system using apt (Yoper uses RPM packages and apt RPM for easy updates)
#apt-get update #apt-get upgrade
If you want gnome, then
#apt-get install Ygnome
Other information
It comes with...
1) kernel 2.6.8.1-3
2) KDE 3.3
3) Gnome 2.6 (installable from repositories)
4) Sax2
5) YoperConf (configuration utility to manage your
system)
6) OpenOffice
...
And yes, it is so fast that I can play quake3 (windows version demo) with wine (not wineX, just simple wine) without any problems.
Here is my experience....
I started using Libranet (a debian derivative) which had some very good reviews. After some upgrade cycles my system just became more and more debian and less Libranet.
Debian is good and number of packges are huge... but then I tried Yoper.... Yoper is way faster than any other distro... it gives you all you need to start using your destop for your work....
The packages in Yoper repository are less but all are complied with usual Yoper optimization turned on.. so If I install any package from Yoper repository it wont slow my system down....
Yoper comes with KDE desktop by default... I installed gnome from Yoper repositories (apt-get install Ygnome) just for fun... and wow.. it was the fastest Gnome desktop I had ever used....
I think Yoper has great future if the team somehow manages to maintain the quality and increase the number of packages available...
I downloaded I copy and mailed it to my colleagues....
mail content ============
The best browser in the world (better than Internet explorer)
Main Features
1) tabbed browsing support
2) Pop-up block enabled
3) in-built search (google)
and many more... http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
As most of the posters have already mentioned, ACPI, does not owrk perfectly in most of the distros.
But it may not be complete fault of the distro. Your ACPI DSDT table might be broken (M$ compatible though!!! )....
I was having the same problem as you mentioned in your post... I fixed my laptops DSDT by myself (detailed instructions and the fixed DSDT are at my LinuxPage)
Though the web-page mentioned above only describes one Distro, I have used several distros after that and with a little effort, ACPI works on all of them.
Also I made 3D acceleration work on S3 (now Via) savage card which has been listed as "not supporting 3D acceleration under Linux"
(Detailed description at azeemarif.blogspot.com)
I think what the poster meant is to compare in terms of speed and performance.
Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse, Debian, Turbo etc. all are fine, but Gentoo is supposed to be faster among these because its compiling from the source for your machine.
Yoper, is already made i686 optimized using viarious optimization and performance enhancement techniques. Its creator clearly says that these methods of optimization can be used with any other distro by an experienced person, but what they offer is a distro for the people new to linux that just works and works fast.
A very short review from a user of Yoper at http://azeemarif.blogspot.com
I totally agree with the parent post. I have an spymac account with 1 GB storage but its of no use. service is lousy, even my test mails don't reach me.
It works for me as well. I run win2k, Win XP anad Fedora Core on my notebook (though I mostly use FC but I do not have any problem in booting to Windows).
DRI (direct rendering infrastructure) is a framework for allowing direct access to graphics hardware in a safe and efficient manner.Their site has all the information.
Last year I went to an IT exhibition. There were many counters selling Windoz games, but I could not found a single Linux game CD.
When I downloaded a 3D Linux game, I discovered that graphics card of my computer is not supported properly under Linux, as 3D modelling was being done in software in the lack of proper hardware driver.
At DRI site I found some information to solve this problem. I am working on it currently. If I will be able to play first 3D game on my Linux machine.....I'll let you know:-)
I'll contribute to DRI project myself if i have to because I have, one more motivating factor now.... I have got a Morphix Game Edition distro CD
Slashdot Mirror
Ah! just when I finished burning 5 CDs os SuSe :(
to become famous if its development does not come to stagnancy.
From ReactOS Frontpage:
ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with Microsoft Windows(R) applications and drivers.
In korea only old people use MSN.
So the server was also old (unpatched)
I just wrote a piece of code and commented it properly. I used Doxygen style comments.
The beautiful output documentation produced by Doxygen automatically was worth the little extra time spent on commenting my code.
"We were just looking for a groovy name that would stick out in a world of groovy names,"
Actually their first choice was "Mandriva" but somebody had recently taken that "groovy" name... Aahhh, just missed!
The instruction at "0x00401234" referenced memory at "0x0042202d". The memory could not be "written".
Click on OK to terminate the program
Click on CANCEL to debug the program
OK Cancel
The legacy code I have to work on must be submitted. No body knows how it works and there is no documentation.
This isn't Firefox's fault. It is because of Adobe products.
Just now I searched for a free PDF viewer. I found Foxit PDF reader, which is a free lightweight PDF reader.
It opened the same document very fast.
Please watch Red Corner before leaving to china.
gobolinux is a linux distro with the solution to the above mentioned problem.
It simplifies package installtion and management by redefining the entire filesystem hierarchy.
As mentioned on their site:
In GoboLinux you don't need a package manager because the filesystem is the package manager
one of the special feature listed on the site: Supports Windows® XP only
I have mod points now but I'd rather post a comment because I totally agree with parent and grand-parent posts.
I am working for a software company in Korea (I am not a korean). As you might already know, in korea, normal working hours are 8:30am to 12:00am (midnight), 6 days a week.
I have two limitations here. First, it is impossible for me to even sit for these many hours even if I am doing nothing. Second, I need to get in the flow to get any useful work done (but Yes, as mentioned in previous posts, if I am in the flow, I usually accomplish days work in hours).
So, my colleagues see me going home early (in comparision to them), and reading slashdot or browsing net and I feel it leaves a bad impression on them even though my work is being done on time and my overall productivity is much more than any of my colleague who stay late at night.
It has happened many times that my colleagues ask for help to solve a problem which they were not able to solve continously for days because of the mind block.
I have never used slackware, but I have great respect for the guy. I have seen people praising, not only Slackware but also Patric himself in various Linux forums.
I wish him speedy recovery.
I was just giving an example.... well, you find my example wrong ...
... I used gnome 2.6 on debian (unstable) and it was so slow on my system (not the latest hardware, a PIII) that I used to wait for mouse movements ... but on Yoper it is fast enough to be usable ....
... and thats my point !!!
Ok.. another example
And as the Yoper lead developer says...there is no magic trick.. any experienced linux person could have made debian as fast as Yoper using techniques mentioned in the article.. but Yoper gives this performance out of the box
Important points about Installation
1) Text base installer
2) Default boot-loader LILO, with Grub as option
3) Partition type can be ext(2,3) or reiserfs
4) there is no step for chosing the packages (mentioned in the article)
Configuration
1) Detects most of your hardware automatically.
2) Launches Sax2 for X configuration (yes, it uses XFree86, not XOrg, yet)
Yoper Desktop
After installation, you'll have a KDE desktop, with (hopefully) all your hardware (network, sound, video etc.) working properly.
First thing that will surprise you, will be the speed. Even an old hardware will become more responsive.
Now you can update the system using apt (Yoper uses RPM packages and apt RPM for easy updates)
If you want gnome, then
Other information
It comes with...
1) kernel 2.6.8.1-3
2) KDE 3.3
3) Gnome 2.6 (installable from repositories)
4) Sax2
5) YoperConf (configuration utility to manage your system)
6) OpenOffice
And yes, it is so fast that I can play quake3 (windows version demo) with wine (not wineX, just simple wine) without any problems.
Some more comments on azeemarif.blogspot.com
Here is my experience.... I started using Libranet (a debian derivative) which had some very good reviews. After some upgrade cycles my system just became more and more debian and less Libranet. .... Yoper is way faster than any other distro ... it gives you all you need to start using your destop for your work ....
... and wow .. it was the fastest Gnome desktop I had ever used....
Debian is good and number of packges are huge... but then I tried Yoper
The packages in Yoper repository are less but all are complied with usual Yoper optimization turned on.. so If I install any package from Yoper repository it wont slow my system down....
Yoper comes with KDE desktop by default... I installed gnome from Yoper repositories (apt-get install Ygnome) just for fun
I think Yoper has great future if the team somehow manages to maintain the quality and increase the number of packages available...
mail content ============
The best browser in the world (better than Internet explorer)
Main Features
1) tabbed browsing support
2) Pop-up block enabled
3) in-built search (google)
and many more... http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
As most of the posters have already mentioned, ACPI, does not owrk perfectly in most of the distros. ....
I was having the same problem as you mentioned in your post... I fixed my laptops DSDT by myself (detailed instructions and the fixed DSDT are at my LinuxPage)
But it may not be complete fault of the distro. Your ACPI DSDT table might be broken (M$ compatible though!!! )
Though the web-page mentioned above only describes one Distro, I have used several distros after that and with a little effort, ACPI works on all of them.
Also I made 3D acceleration work on S3 (now Via) savage card which has been listed as "not supporting 3D acceleration under Linux" (Detailed description at azeemarif.blogspot.com)
I think what the poster meant is to compare in terms of speed and performance.
Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse, Debian, Turbo etc. all are fine, but Gentoo is supposed to be faster among these because its compiling from the source for your machine.
Yoper, is already made i686 optimized using viarious optimization and performance enhancement techniques. Its creator clearly says that these methods of optimization can be used with any other distro by an experienced person, but what they offer is a distro for the people new to linux that just works and works fast.
A very short review from a user of Yoper at http://azeemarif.blogspot.com
Yes, there is a version of VC++ which is free.
have a look at REVA
It come for around $5000 and is good value for money.
The best (less money, more feature, better looking) electric car I have known about is REVA
I totally agree with the parent post. I have an spymac account with 1 GB storage but its of no use. service is lousy, even my test mails don't reach me.
It works for me as well. I run win2k, Win XP anad Fedora Core on my notebook (though I mostly use FC but I do not have any problem in booting to Windows).
DRI (direct rendering infrastructure) is a framework for allowing direct access to graphics hardware in a safe and efficient manner.Their site has all the information. :-)
.... I have got a Morphix Game Edition distro CD
.......... done!
Last year I went to an IT exhibition. There were many counters selling Windoz games, but I could not found a single Linux game CD.
When I downloaded a 3D Linux game, I discovered that graphics card of my computer is not supported properly under Linux, as 3D modelling was being done in software in the lack of proper hardware driver.
At DRI site I found some information to solve this problem. I am working on it currently. If I will be able to play first 3D game on my Linux machine.....I'll let you know
I'll contribute to DRI project myself if i have to because I have, one more motivating factor now
generatign sing... please wait