I've been happy with my GeForce 4 card, once I determined the following about X11's support for it:
X.org's NV driver (at least the initial versions) didn't support automatic screen-off with my LCD display; it'd blank the screen but not power it down;
Nvidea's proprietary driver for X11 would powerdown the screen, but couldn't handle anything put out by video4linux (in kernel 2.4);
XFree86's NV driver in version 4.5.0 and newer handles both DRI screen-powerdown and v4l output perfectly.
I ran an OpenBSD system at work for years. There's one single
reason that I ran screaming to Debian at the first opportunity: lack
of binary security patches. OpenBSD happily distributes their releases
on CD-ROM, but the instant there's a patch needed for some obscure library
you've never heard of, you have to rebuild your entire libc subsystem from
scratch. With (as of several years back at least) almost no
documentation.
Doing this on the older Sun hardware they claim
to support is incredibly painful. Until Theo changes
this one way or the other (preferably towards providing security patches in the
same form as releases) I have to consider them a developer-only product, not a use-in-the-real-world one.
Oh yeah, and there's the wipe-and-reinstall mentality for each release too.
Let me guess... you've got your 2100+ installed on an AsRock motherboard, yes? I've got two 2600+ systems with identical heatsink/fans. The one in a MSI KM2M motherboard is rock-solid stable at full FSB speed (133MHz), but the one in the AsRock K7VT2 has to be underclocked to 130MHz FSB or else it constantly locks up.
I'm guessing your problem was never cooling, it was getting stuck with a cheap mobo, as I did.
No matter which part of the phase you joined
the team of Firefox users; there is one thing I am sure of, once
you go Firefox, you never go back.
I joined at 0.8 and left again at 1.0. The mozilla suite
is just plain more stable, often faster, and doesn't
have ff's longstanding habit of crashing when printing to a file if
CUPS is installed. In addition, while the extensions
architecture may be clunkier in the suite, it's also
more robust (for me at least). ff 1.0 kept dropping my extensions.
The most interesting thing I see is that in the x86
segment, only $4.6b of the total $6.3b in the fourth
quarter went to winboxen. Also, Linux' 35% growth
is a relative increase, i.e. from ~6.6% to 9%
-- really it's a ~2.4% increase in revenue share, which
is still pretty good given that corps can install it themselves for free if they like.
Otherwise there's not much there for my pattern-seeking synapses to grab ahold of. Am I missing where in TFA the "Unix servers up 2.7%"
stat is? I even fired up a graphical browser to see
if it was in a sidebar! I suspect the 2.7% for Unix may be directly comparable to Linux's 2.4%, and not
to the percent-of-percent 35%.
they should be more standards compliant, so a web page
looks the same on all browsers
Uh, I thought the whole point of HTML was that the document's
author codes formatting only in an abstract sense,
and decisions of how to render it are left up to the browser.
So web pages _should_ look different on different browsers,
and pages that can't handle that are by definition broken.
Zaurus SL-C860 is *almost* there
on
Palmtop Nirvana?
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keeps its state when turned off, or when out of battery
As you might guess, I hate how laptops run out of battery and totally fail, memory-state-wise.
Small improvements I'd like to see in the Zaurus:
800x600 or even 800x480
built-in 802.11b, so the CF slot can be devoted to VGA-out while networked.
Really that's about it. I love the Zaurus' huge battery life and state-saving memory. Now that it's available I can't see ever buying an hd-based laptop/palmtop again.
Words have different meanings based on context. Grow up and deal with it.
Indeed, depending on context, "web" can mean the thing produced by a spider, a network
of people (often nefarious), or a collection of (inter)net sites which serve content over http(s).
There's no context in which "web" means "all of the net" however.
Don't confuse sloppy language use for contextual.
That sort of reasoning leads to the proving that "black == white" and the ensuing
fatalities at zebra crossings (with credit to D. Adams.)
even more to the point, if you want the latest'n'greatest for your
i386 Debian desktop before sarge releases, backports.org and its superset apt-get.org are your friends.
(They do also cover other arches but not as well; I have put several sparc & ppc packages on apt-get.org myself).
If what you want still isn't there in woody-compatible form,
I have a radical suggestion: grab a source tarball and compile it yourself. You're probably just looking for a specific application or three, so it's no big deal;
that's what/usr/local/ is for, and debian doesn't touch/usr/local/, so go nuts. Even better, if you're up for it grab the debianised source from unstable,
try making your own woody debs, and put them up on apt-get.org for others to enjoy. It is called a community for a reason.
For those who'd say "but [X|Gnome|KDE|Moz|OOo] is waaay too big for me to compile myself":
recent versions of those things are all already available for woody, just not from debian.org proper, in i386 form at least. Look before you whine!
No one knows precisely why the field periodically reverses, but
scientists say the responsibility probably lies with changes in the
turbulent flows of molten iron, which they envision as similar to the
churning gases that make up the clouds of Jupiter.
I never thought I'd see the day when a mass-market publication,
using analogy to explain a difficult scientific concept to the public,
would invoke "the churning gases that make up the clouds of Jupiter"
as the easy-to-understand common-knowledge side of the analogy.
Gentoo went from 0.7% to 1.0% share. SuSE went
from 10.9% to 11.8%. i.e. SuSE's market share grew 3X
as much as Gentoo's did.
Don't be fooled by that last column. It's pretty much meaningless
to compare the ratio "july/jan" for each distro; it's the
tiny "jan" value for Gentoo what makes its
"6-month Growth Rate" look impressive, which it's
not (looked at on a number-of-installations basis).
Basically RH lost a %, SuSE gained one, some others gained fractions of a %. Nothing terribly interesting.
seriously, even lynx is part of woody's base install. and fvwm2 isn't. so where's the line? anyway, in order:
0. lynx
mutt
jed
tetex/xdvi
pilot-link/jpilot
fvwm2
mozilla/galeon
gv & xpdf
xmms
OOo
intel's ifort
I'd have a tough time coming up with any more than these as "must haves". Of course,
with Debian you install exactly once/machine (even if your disk fails, just get/etc and/var from backup & apt-get takes care of the rest).
...or donate it to Daniel Peng's fund to help reimburse him for being sued by the RIAA in April 2003, costing him his $15,000 total life's savings (and legal fees on top of that). He's still down many thousand$.
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Doing this on the older Sun hardware they claim to support is incredibly painful. Until Theo changes this one way or the other (preferably towards providing security patches in the same form as releases) I have to consider them a developer-only product, not a use-in-the-real-world one.
Oh yeah, and there's the wipe-and-reinstall mentality for each release too.
on an AsRock motherboard, yes? I've got two
2600+ systems with identical heatsink/fans.
The one in a MSI KM2M motherboard is rock-solid
stable at full FSB speed (133MHz), but the one
in the AsRock K7VT2 has to be underclocked to
130MHz FSB or else it constantly locks up.
I'm guessing your problem was never cooling,
it was getting stuck with a cheap mobo, as I did.
I joined at 0.8 and left again at 1.0. The mozilla suite is just plain more stable, often faster, and doesn't have ff's longstanding habit of crashing when printing to a file if CUPS is installed. In addition, while the extensions architecture may be clunkier in the suite, it's also more robust (for me at least). ff 1.0 kept dropping my extensions.
Otherwise there's not much there for my pattern-seeking synapses to grab ahold of. Am I missing where in TFA the "Unix servers up 2.7%" stat is? I even fired up a graphical browser to see if it was in a sidebar! I suspect the 2.7% for Unix may be directly comparable to Linux's 2.4%, and not to the percent-of-percent 35%.
- It has all these things that I really need/want:
- VGA display
- built-in keyboard
- truly pocketable, easy to bike with
- linux (or bsd)
- *no* harddrive (and accompanying huge battery life)
- keeps its state when turned off, or when out of battery
As you might guess, I hate how laptops run out of battery and totally fail, memory-state-wise.- Small improvements I'd like to see in the Zaurus:
- 800x600 or even 800x480
- built-in 802.11b, so the CF slot can be devoted to VGA-out while networked.
Really that's about it. I love the Zaurus' huge battery life and state-saving memory. Now that it's available I can't see ever buying an hd-based laptop/palmtop again.There's no context in which "web" means "all of the net" however. Don't confuse sloppy language use for contextual. That sort of reasoning leads to the proving that "black == white" and the ensuing fatalities at zebra crossings (with credit to D. Adams.)
I'd be much more concerned if they were eavesdropping on the internet in general. *phew!*
If what you want still isn't there in woody-compatible form, I have a radical suggestion: grab a source tarball and compile it yourself. You're probably just looking for a specific application or three, so it's no big deal; that's what /usr/local/ is for, and debian doesn't touch /usr/local/, so go nuts. Even better, if you're up for it grab the debianised source from unstable,
try making your own woody debs, and put them up on apt-get.org for others to enjoy. It is called a community for a reason.
For those who'd say "but [X|Gnome|KDE|Moz|OOo] is waaay too big for me to compile myself": recent versions of those things are all already available for woody, just not from debian.org proper, in i386 form at least. Look before you whine!
You go, NYT.
Don't be fooled by that last column. It's pretty much meaningless to compare the ratio "july/jan" for each distro; it's the tiny "jan" value for Gentoo what makes its "6-month Growth Rate" look impressive, which it's not (looked at on a number-of-installations basis).
Basically RH lost a %, SuSE gained one, some others gained fractions of a %. Nothing terribly interesting.
I'd have a tough time coming up with any more than these as "must haves". Of course, with Debian you install exactly once/machine (even if your disk fails, just get /etc and /var from backup & apt-get takes care of the rest).
I donated last summer.
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