I use effects software (distortion, flanger, recording and etc) and this software would cost a bundle to get it all on windows or the mac. Also, I have been able to configure my machine to run on a fairly minimalist setup (Kdrive X Server) and a shrunk down kernel and found through trial and error that the deadline schedular is the fastest hands down for audio. (uses less than 32megs of ram) I use creox, ecamegapedal, gtkguitune, ExEf, Audacity, Xmms, Kguitar... and several other pieces software. I would say for a garage band with little $$, linux is the best way to go. It also seems to have a larger software selection than OSX and windows when it comes to guitar software that is cheap or almost free. I also get the best responsiveness and least latency compared to windows or OSX, even though the kernel still has some nasty bugs that I can make my system crash(took a lot of kernel customization though). I think the customization aspects scare the non-savy people away. But if you don't mind a little frustration with getting things working right, linux is the best platform hands down for a budget musician.
All and all it just works the best if you are into audio and sound tweaking. I did not take linux seriously until about a year ago and it was always just a hobby platform and now I never boot into windows. Even word processing with Microsoft Word or Open Office seems to work great (thanks to the folks at winehq). Linux is more like hardware was in the late 70's and early 80s. It is sort of like building stuff from kits and making it work. It has rough corners, but once it works, it always works.
-Ron
Every office product on the Mac has the same or similar problems.. many of the same bugs. I fail to see the corrlation here between Office Products and OSes. I use Macs and PCs. Windows, Mac OS 9 and 10, and Linux. They all have problems. I have had just as many Macs having crash problems as the PCs. If you want stability get a damn Commodore 64. These operating systems with a million lines of code are no more stable than any other. What a bunch of bull shit. I use linux for day to day crap myself because I have some control over what software I am using (Still has problems); I am a tech of course -- but where I work they have lots of Macs and Lots of PCS. My biggest complaint against Apple is the substandard, crappy emachine like hardware. Cdrom drives on macs are so crappy that it is hit or miss if they are going to work. Don't even get me started on the monitors that they use inside the machines. Many can do high refresh rates, etc... but when it comes to lasting they are just pure crap. Hard disk failure is quite common with Apple, much more percentage wide then the PCs that we have here. I won't totally fault apple computer because they use very good Keyboards, better than 90% of the PC makers.
BTW, I love how an application in Mac OS X can cause the computer to freeze with the spinning cursor thing -- oh yeah, I did not get a blue screen, but I still can't do anything. I don't have core dumps often in Mac OS X, but an application sucking up all the resources is not uncommon (you can't kill the application, because often you can't do anything). I would call that a crash, because the user is still unable to do anything. I fail to see how MAC OS is so "different".
I use Linux every day, and it is ugly as well (X Windows is a bloaty app), but I have had less crashes with linux, and less problems overall. I think the biggest problems I have had were with sound anyhow, and with the 2.6 kernel most of those are a thing of the past. How is Apple and Microsoft going to compete with "hey, I can buy one copy and install it on all of my machines, and it works just as good!"
Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X have all the problems of feature bloat, include all the problems and "features". Of course the flipside to minimalistic OSes was you could not do as much as you can on modern Windows, Mac OS, or Linux. I would like to see a scientific approach given by a large organization that tracks actual user problems for each platform. My experience is that Mac OS X is not squeeky clean, I use Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux for my job everyday. I know. I use everything from a XServe to an Imac, and 20 different PC models inbetween.
-Ron
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Has anyone thought of the replacement perspective?
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I remember having tapes and LPs and they would just plain wear out: many not lasting more than a year or two. It was like tolet paper. When you wore out your tapes or LPs you were often forced to buy them again. I would try to copy them off of friends, when my tapes would get recked, but quality of copies even with high speed dubbing just was awful. I only have about 5% of the total cassets I have purchased now and I no longer have any LPs. With a computer or when you buy a CD there is no replacement problem. In an industry that was 40 billion dollars, I would not be suprised if 20% of that was people replacing "old" tapes that stretched or broke. It mirrored toilet paper, when you ran out you bought more. Digital Media has killed the record business.
-Ron
You need to update your bin utils. I had that problem as well... It can't load the kernel modules because 2.4 kernel used different modules than 2.6. 9.2 used a 2.4 kernel and Mandrake 10 uses 2.6. When you did your install you did not check the package that included the bin utils. System --> Configuration --> Packaging --> Browse Available Software and do a search in the package manager.
I use JFS on servers that have netatalk (with bdb enabled) and samba because I can make a partition case insensitive. I think it was a feature developed for OS2 originally, but it works well. I use a -cO when formatting with makefs.jfs.. the O is for OS/2 (but makes the partition case insesitive). I had corruption problems with earlier versions, but ones that have shipped with 2.6 kernels and current 2.4 kernels are no problems. I have not tried it to see if it works on / partitions with linux system files. (Case insesitivity could cause problems with like named stuff)
Performance is good and reliability seems good as well. It was deff. faster than when I had it set up as ext3. My linux servers have had less problems then my OSX jaguar server with file corruption using HFS+ - the linux solution was a cheapo old Mac because we could not affored a Mac server at the time.
-Ron
You know you are having a "unique" conversation when someone throws in "Well, Millenium Falcon is faster than the Enterprise anyways." and someone else will then counter with.. "Well, hyperspace is not as fast as Warp Speed because the laws of quantum physics... blah blah..."
You can take the smartest, most educated people in the world, and it always ends up with my car is better than your car argument.
So here is a list:
My C64 is way faster than my 2.8ghz PC because of all those damn programers making so many applications I like!
Linux is better than Windows, and blows the doors off Apple Mac OS X.
The Jawa language is superior to Klingon!
Chocolate Ice Cream is better than Vanilla!
Vi is better than emacs, in other words emacs sucks, also Pico is crap too!
Pacman is better than Donkey Kong!
The Nintendo is better than the 2600!
OpenBSD is better that NetBSD.
There I got it out! naa naa naa;P===
-Ron
Let us think for a moment what we are saying: If I am in a hospital for 10 years waiting for a liver and there are no tissue matches and they would be able to clone a liver and give me a normal life. I would not have to live in a hospital under terrible pain and terrible conditions, what is unethical about that. I don't think they are talking about cloning entire humans. They are talking about cloaning organs, and tissues. I think the argument that people are using would make blood transfusions, growing skin in vats for burn victoms, and almost all other medical procedures unethical as well. Of course they use human cells and we can't have that! Why don't we just go back to the 16th and 17th century and throw medical science out the door. After all, prollonging death is playing god. After all, is ever sperm that is spilt and every egg lost on the menstral cycle a human; give me a break. Are we going to start counting every skin cell as a life.
This is not a Moral or Ethical question. There should of course be guidlines, as with any scientific studies.
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I use effects software (distortion, flanger, recording and etc) and this software would cost a bundle to get it all on windows or the mac. Also, I have been able to configure my machine to run on a fairly minimalist setup (Kdrive X Server) and a shrunk down kernel and found through trial and error that the deadline schedular is the fastest hands down for audio. (uses less than 32megs of ram) I use creox, ecamegapedal, gtkguitune, ExEf, Audacity, Xmms, Kguitar ... and several other pieces software. I would say for a garage band with little $$, linux is the best way to go. It also seems to have a larger software selection than OSX and windows when it comes to guitar software that is cheap or almost free. I also get the best responsiveness and least latency compared to windows or OSX, even though the kernel still has some nasty bugs that I can make my system crash(took a lot of kernel customization though). I think the customization aspects scare the non-savy people away. But if you don't mind a little frustration with getting things working right, linux is the best platform hands down for a budget musician.
All and all it just works the best if you are into audio and sound tweaking. I did not take linux seriously until about a year ago and it was always just a hobby platform and now I never boot into windows. Even word processing with Microsoft Word or Open Office seems to work great (thanks to the folks at winehq). Linux is more like hardware was in the late 70's and early 80s. It is sort of like building stuff from kits and making it work. It has rough corners, but once it works, it always works.
-Ron
No problem... I had to put mine on a cd. For some reason it was keeping the old version of bin utils. I got the rpm from the internet. Wierd.
Every office product on the Mac has the same or similar problems.. many of the same bugs. I fail to see the corrlation here between Office Products and OSes. I use Macs and PCs. Windows, Mac OS 9 and 10, and Linux. They all have problems. I have had just as many Macs having crash problems as the PCs. If you want stability get a damn Commodore 64. These operating systems with a million lines of code are no more stable than any other. What a bunch of bull shit. I use linux for day to day crap myself because I have some control over what software I am using (Still has problems); I am a tech of course -- but where I work they have lots of Macs and Lots of PCS. My biggest complaint against Apple is the substandard, crappy emachine like hardware. Cdrom drives on macs are so crappy that it is hit or miss if they are going to work. Don't even get me started on the monitors that they use inside the machines. Many can do high refresh rates, etc... but when it comes to lasting they are just pure crap. Hard disk failure is quite common with Apple, much more percentage wide then the PCs that we have here. I won't totally fault apple computer because they use very good Keyboards, better than 90% of the PC makers. BTW, I love how an application in Mac OS X can cause the computer to freeze with the spinning cursor thing -- oh yeah, I did not get a blue screen, but I still can't do anything. I don't have core dumps often in Mac OS X, but an application sucking up all the resources is not uncommon (you can't kill the application, because often you can't do anything). I would call that a crash, because the user is still unable to do anything. I fail to see how MAC OS is so "different". I use Linux every day, and it is ugly as well (X Windows is a bloaty app), but I have had less crashes with linux, and less problems overall. I think the biggest problems I have had were with sound anyhow, and with the 2.6 kernel most of those are a thing of the past. How is Apple and Microsoft going to compete with "hey, I can buy one copy and install it on all of my machines, and it works just as good!" Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X have all the problems of feature bloat, include all the problems and "features". Of course the flipside to minimalistic OSes was you could not do as much as you can on modern Windows, Mac OS, or Linux. I would like to see a scientific approach given by a large organization that tracks actual user problems for each platform. My experience is that Mac OS X is not squeeky clean, I use Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux for my job everyday. I know. I use everything from a XServe to an Imac, and 20 different PC models inbetween. -Ron -Ron -Ron
I remember having tapes and LPs and they would just plain wear out: many not lasting more than a year or two. It was like tolet paper. When you wore out your tapes or LPs you were often forced to buy them again. I would try to copy them off of friends, when my tapes would get recked, but quality of copies even with high speed dubbing just was awful. I only have about 5% of the total cassets I have purchased now and I no longer have any LPs. With a computer or when you buy a CD there is no replacement problem. In an industry that was 40 billion dollars, I would not be suprised if 20% of that was people replacing "old" tapes that stretched or broke. It mirrored toilet paper, when you ran out you bought more. Digital Media has killed the record business. -Ron
You need to update your bin utils. I had that problem as well... It can't load the kernel modules because 2.4 kernel used different modules than 2.6. 9.2 used a 2.4 kernel and Mandrake 10 uses 2.6. When you did your install you did not check the package that included the bin utils. System --> Configuration --> Packaging --> Browse Available Software and do a search in the package manager.
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Or type rpmdrake from your favorite terminal
-Ron
I use JFS on servers that have netatalk (with bdb enabled) and samba because I can make a partition case insensitive. I think it was a feature developed for OS2 originally, but it works well. I use a -cO when formatting with makefs.jfs .. the O is for OS/2 (but makes the partition case insesitive). I had corruption problems with earlier versions, but ones that have shipped with 2.6 kernels and current 2.4 kernels are no problems. I have not tried it to see if it works on / partitions with linux system files. (Case insesitivity could cause problems with like named stuff)
Performance is good and reliability seems good as well. It was deff. faster than when I had it set up as ext3. My linux servers have had less problems then my OSX jaguar server with file corruption using HFS+ - the linux solution was a cheapo old Mac because we could not affored a Mac server at the time.
-Ron
You know you are having a "unique" conversation when someone throws in "Well, Millenium Falcon is faster than the Enterprise anyways." and someone else will then counter with.. "Well, hyperspace is not as fast as Warp Speed because the laws of quantum physics... blah blah..." You can take the smartest, most educated people in the world, and it always ends up with my car is better than your car argument. So here is a list: My C64 is way faster than my 2.8ghz PC because of all those damn programers making so many applications I like! Linux is better than Windows, and blows the doors off Apple Mac OS X. The Jawa language is superior to Klingon! Chocolate Ice Cream is better than Vanilla! Vi is better than emacs, in other words emacs sucks, also Pico is crap too! Pacman is better than Donkey Kong! The Nintendo is better than the 2600! OpenBSD is better that NetBSD. There I got it out! naa naa naa ;P===
-Ron
Let us think for a moment what we are saying: If I am in a hospital for 10 years waiting for a liver and there are no tissue matches and they would be able to clone a liver and give me a normal life. I would not have to live in a hospital under terrible pain and terrible conditions, what is unethical about that. I don't think they are talking about cloning entire humans. They are talking about cloaning organs, and tissues. I think the argument that people are using would make blood transfusions, growing skin in vats for burn victoms, and almost all other medical procedures unethical as well. Of course they use human cells and we can't have that! Why don't we just go back to the 16th and 17th century and throw medical science out the door. After all, prollonging death is playing god. After all, is ever sperm that is spilt and every egg lost on the menstral cycle a human; give me a break. Are we going to start counting every skin cell as a life. This is not a Moral or Ethical question. There should of course be guidlines, as with any scientific studies.