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Debian is best for running non-commercial stuff on, but for most HP stuff and VMware server etc (that officially support RHEL4) CentOS is the way to go. The server install (single CD with all the stuff you need) rules, hope they make one for CentOS5 soon.
When installing for example VMware Server, all the stuff one needs is already in. Even the kernel modules load without any recompiling.
In Finland:
The hobbyists buy parts and "build" their own PeeSeas.
The firms buy HP.
Dell?
Non-entity really.
Dell? I think even Acer does better here;-)
ESX 3.x management client requires a.NET platform running on windows. No mono, no wine. Yes, it's snappier than the web interface, but jesus - they should bundle as many free windows licenses as the client requires with every ESX3 sold. It's BS I have to run VMware 3 Infrastructure Console in XP in VMware Workstation on Linux. That's one winblows license for no extra functionality and tons of RAM and resources wasted for this ludicrous tie-in.
To rephrase: they sell a lean and mean proprietary VM hypervisor kernel that uses linux for management and stuff. It can run on any OS. And you're required to run a closed proprietary OS to manage it.
This is not only insane it's DANGEROUS. What if M$ broke.NET in the next hotfix so that VMware ESX 3 management software broke?
There have been demands for a mono or unix or linux native client to manage ESX3 for at least 18 months and STILL no official word from VMware. I wonder how much money M$ paid VMware to get one of their worst competitors to bend over.
They basically gave up pretending Windows is a multitasking multiuser platform and now start recommending one Windows per one service. This is of course what everyone has been doing since Windows servers started getting deployed. It's HELL to keep windows with one service running operational, because the system is a black box of maggots. This used to sell lots of server hardware.
Longhorn on the bottom virtualization enabled, n longhorns on top in sandboxes, guess whether the suc^h^h^hclients have to buy one or one+n licenses?
Each one of those sublicenses being licensed server 2003-style? Pay more for each connection?
One server dedicated for Virtualization Interoperability Manager 2007 Pro Signature Version? (a la TS client service?)
They lost, they know they lost, now the only way to keep their marketshare is legislation and DRM to keep the format lock-ins and infrastructure lock-ins in place.
I have run TOR node for some 18 months or so, about 24/7. I don't care what goes through it at the measly bandwidth cost - I just make sure it does not have any exit ports because the legislators usually have No Clue.
Freenet, Entropy, Tor... they usually host "secret" stuff that can be googled off open sites anyway. The kid porn pervs have their own networks. Even bittorrent is now mostly blocked through tor.
By definition, "criminal" breaks law.
Many laws nowadays make no sense.
For you US folks, your Founding Fathers probably were not only criminals but guilty of TREASON.
Jesus christ. This distro will be one helluva hard one to argue against if stuff like streaming video "just works" for Joe Schmoe using binaryonly bullcrap proprietary codecs and the desktop does cool threedee using proprietary closed binaryonly crap drivers...
First Novell-M$, now this.
Thank GOD for GPL.
Thank RMS for GPL.
That "PDA" is a Nokia 770.
Is it modified hardware-wise, I have no idea, but the device portrayed in the article is Nokia 770 that sells for under $400 (and is now surpassed by N800).
There is tons of software that exports MS formats, but none that imports them identically to MS offerings. OO, handhelds, even different MS Office versions have trouble opening these terrible files that have entrenched themselves. Is it really necessary to add to their numbers?
These things stay on ground... when I was a kid I once saw a ball of lightning and it danced along a barbed wire fence. This is a start but not the whole truth...
Case in point... the main software that I need is point-of-sale. There is NO OSS point-of-sale software that is anywhere near as good as any of the closed source products.
I've purchaced 4 versions of cxoffice because quite simply it's wine with sane interface. The new bottle feature is excellent, and the kille feature is the ability to backup a working environment (or "bottle") and restore it on another machine - makes installing Windows software easier than on any other platform.
Wine really has improved a LOT in the last couple of years. Now if only crossover had a nice control panel for the windows side - configuring ODBC sources etc is a bit painful right now.
I wish real windows started using wine-style ASCII registry files... regedt sucks balls.
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary was _excellent_. It felt like playing episodes of the old series. The puzzles were logical and TREK STYLE. The best Star Trek game I've ever played.
The sequel, Judgment Rites, was not nearly as good but still, shares the place of second best Trek game with Elite Force.
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Debian is best for running non-commercial stuff on, but for most HP stuff and VMware server etc (that officially support RHEL4) CentOS is the way to go. The server install (single CD with all the stuff you need) rules, hope they make one for CentOS5 soon.
When installing for example VMware Server, all the stuff one needs is already in. Even the kernel modules load without any recompiling.
I got rejected by the blond chick in Cinemaware's King of Chicago. It was so lifelike.
Filled with green martians in flying saucers bent on invading Earth.
In Finland: The hobbyists buy parts and "build" their own PeeSeas. The firms buy HP. Dell? Non-entity really. Dell? I think even Acer does better here ;-)
It's M$ for heaven's sake. Very much the Satan of the software world.
And shouldn't they have? Immigration is Britains #1 problem.
N800 can use foldable bluetooth keyboards, or bluetooth virtual keyboards...
It's a piece of shit. Neeext.
Until Novell apologizes for their M$ deal and withdraws from it, it's a trap.
I meant that ESX can run almost any x86 OS relying on standardish PC hardware.
Sorry, getting drunk.
ESX 3.x management client requires a .NET platform running on windows. No mono, no wine. Yes, it's snappier than the web interface, but jesus - they should bundle as many free windows licenses as the client requires with every ESX3 sold. It's BS I have to run VMware 3 Infrastructure Console in XP in VMware Workstation on Linux. That's one winblows license for no extra functionality and tons of RAM and resources wasted for this ludicrous tie-in.
To rephrase: they sell a lean and mean proprietary VM hypervisor kernel that uses linux for management and stuff. It can run on any OS. And you're required to run a closed proprietary OS to manage it.
This is not only insane it's DANGEROUS. What if M$ broke .NET in the next hotfix so that VMware ESX 3 management software broke?
There have been demands for a mono or unix or linux native client to manage ESX3 for at least 18 months and STILL no official word from VMware. I wonder how much money M$ paid VMware to get one of their worst competitors to bend over.
They basically gave up pretending Windows is a multitasking multiuser platform and now start recommending one Windows per one service. This is of course what everyone has been doing since Windows servers started getting deployed. It's HELL to keep windows with one service running operational, because the system is a black box of maggots. This used to sell lots of server hardware.
Longhorn on the bottom virtualization enabled, n longhorns on top in sandboxes, guess whether the suc^h^h^hclients have to buy one or one+n licenses?
Each one of those sublicenses being licensed server 2003-style? Pay more for each connection?
One server dedicated for Virtualization Interoperability Manager 2007 Pro Signature Version? (a la TS client service?)
They lost, they know they lost, now the only way to keep their marketshare is legislation and DRM to keep the format lock-ins and infrastructure lock-ins in place.
Wonder when we get www.vistaprinting.org, www.vistawireless.org, www.vista-laptop.net ...
Freenet, Entropy, Tor... they usually host "secret" stuff that can be googled off open sites anyway. The kid porn pervs have their own networks. Even bittorrent is now mostly blocked through tor.
Tor is Good. Support Tor.
By definition, "criminal" breaks law. Many laws nowadays make no sense. For you US folks, your Founding Fathers probably were not only criminals but guilty of TREASON.
Jesus christ. This distro will be one helluva hard one to argue against if stuff like streaming video "just works" for Joe Schmoe using binaryonly bullcrap proprietary codecs and the desktop does cool threedee using proprietary closed binaryonly crap drivers...
First Novell-M$, now this.
Thank GOD for GPL.
Thank RMS for GPL.
That "PDA" is a Nokia 770. Is it modified hardware-wise, I have no idea, but the device portrayed in the article is Nokia 770 that sells for under $400 (and is now surpassed by N800).
There is tons of software that exports MS formats, but none that imports them identically to MS offerings. OO, handhelds, even different MS Office versions have trouble opening these terrible files that have entrenched themselves. Is it really necessary to add to their numbers?
These things stay on ground... when I was a kid I once saw a ball of lightning and it danced along a barbed wire fence. This is a start but not the whole truth...
2. net stop "windows time"
3. net time
4. net start "windows time"
done. Works as long as the locale and tz on ntp server are set correctly.
Wine really has improved a LOT in the last couple of years. Now if only crossover had a nice control panel for the windows side - configuring ODBC sources etc is a bit painful right now.
I wish real windows started using wine-style ASCII registry files... regedt sucks balls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary was _excellent_. It felt like playing episodes of the old series. The puzzles were logical and TREK STYLE. The best Star Trek game I've ever played. The sequel, Judgment Rites, was not nearly as good but still, shares the place of second best Trek game with Elite Force.
770 offers good, free SDK. Built-in Python libraries for everything. Free OS upgrades.