Ingrid took the things I said completely out of context and ran with them.
At no point did I ever tell her that we would have a graphical installer on 2005.0's release media. I also did not tell her that the 2005.0 release would be a Knoppix-style LiveCD, as it will, in fact, be exactly like the 2004.3 release with the Minimal, Universal, and Packages CD images.
What I did tell her is that we will have an experimental LiveCD with our first limited functionality beta of the installer, which will most likely be curses-based only and not have any enterprise-ready features available for use.
This is exactly why you demand to have interviews done via email and not the phone, especially when speaking with someone from another country, and be sure to ask to proof read the article for accuracy before it prints.
...but I rank both games with a 0% since they don't run on my preferred platform. I could care less how good someone claims a game is if I can't play it.
Now before anyone runs out and starts whining like a bunch of babies about this, realize that it is very cheap (comparatively) to hire a single programmer to do a port to Linux for a game.
As I have said before, if the percentage of people that buy the game to play on Linux is, let's be conservative and say 1% (market share, total sales, I don't care), then it would still be cheaper to hire someone like Ryan "icculus" Gordon or Timothee "TTimo" Bessett, like Epic and Id have done, to do the ports and gain that 1% market share than it would be to gain the same 1% via advertising in a market which they are already saturating, such as the Windows gaming market.
I spend my dollars where I know that I am appreciated. Currently, that means buying games from Epic and Id (and a few others) as they cater to my wants in regard to gaming.
It seems that nobody has mentioned the simplest way to keep your home directory neat and orderly... Don't make a mess. It really is much simpler to think about what you're doing before you do it rather than after the fact. Start put with a list of directories that you know that you will use.
Personally, I have a downloads, documents, gentoo, pictures, scripts, and work.
The funny thing is that the extra money they would spend on better marketing or more ads is probably much more than they would spend paying the salary for one or two developers. Both Id and Epic have learned this and have hired on Timothee Bessett and Ryan Gordon, respectively. Now they can support Windows, Linux, and Mac and still are probably spending less money than would be required to gain that extra 2% of the market.
I couldn't agree more. Of course, I am also on the Gentoo games team, so I have a bit of a bias. I buy and play games that are ported to my platform. Buying Half-Life 2 to play under Wine/Cedega is still giving them a Windows sale. Valve does not care how you play it, so long as they get your money so they can build their next Windows-only title which is nothing more than a rehash of a 5 year old game. Personally, I'll support the people who actually support Linux gaming.
Somebody needs to show those guys how to setup a paypal account.
At least the money definitely went to a good cause rather than some RIAA lawyer's wallet.
It didn't look anything like a press release but did manage to list not only primary and our secondary BitTorrent trackers, but also some features.
A look at the front page of www.gentoo.org will give you a good idea of what it looked like.
Actually, Windows is simply very volitile when it comes to upgrading to any service pack. No matter what service pack it is for what MS product, you always hear someone with a horror story about how upgrading to the new service pack totally destroyed their data, killed their cat, and phone in a bomb threat to the White House.
While I am not discounting your first-hand experience, becuase it does truly happen, more than likely the culprit was some poorly-written anti-virus software, or some spyware/malware which had already done damage to the system that was only evident after the installation of the service pack. After all, I never have seemed to have problems like this installing a service pack, but I am also very careful over what hardware goes into systems I use and also the software.
Luckily, I am no longer required to run Windows in any fashion with my work, so now it is all Linux at both work and play, but even when I was running Windows at work, I never came across such problems, and I was the lead administrator at a multi-national corporation. Go figure.
First off, I had submitted Slashdot an official press release which was much more verbose and gave a nice list of reasons for the release and things changed since the last release, but since the editors are a bunch of tools and don't pay attention to what they're adding to the site, it all got lost.
Anyway, for the x86 platform, the primary reason for the getting a newer release is improved hardware support. The newer LiveCD for x86 supports the new Dell EM64T machines and also has vastly improved SATA support over previous releases. This is also the first release where all of the arch teams worked very closely together throughout the entire release process. This is also our first official PPC64 release. The submitter of this story also completely missed the fact that we have a new Alpha release under/experimental, and you can also find embedded stages for arm, mips, ppc, and x86 under/experimental.
PXES is a small Linux distribution based on Red Hat binaries that is designed to be used as a thin-client. It is capable of booting from a CDROM, a hard disk, a netboot image, or PXE. It is capable of running several protocols, including ICA, RDP(v5, too), XDMCP, and others. I jave used it quite extensively. All you do is create the image using the pretty GTK+ interface an dyou're done. There are also default pre-built images. There are packages for Red Hat, Debian, and even a Gentoo ebuild. All in all, I find it to be a wonderful solution and quite easy to customize. The developer, Diego, is also very helpful and friendly.
How is this functionally different from a national ID card?
Simple. I am not required by law to have a driver's license. In many urban areas it is perfectly fine to not have one, as public transportation is good enough for getting around. As for getting on an airplane, I've travelled internationally, so I have a passport and I've not met an airline company that would not take one of those as a valid form of identification.
Speaking as the guy that made the 2004.2 LiveCD for x86, and will be making the 2004.3 and 2005.0 LiveCDs I can tell you this.
Gentoo is changing this quite a bit during the 2005.X releases. We are currently working to reduce the number of packages and size of the minimal and universal CDs. We will be offering these CDs for our long-time Gentoo users and for our advanced users, along with the PackageCD.
For 2005.0, we will also be releasing a full live environment LiveCD, which will be a much more accurate look into a fully-running Gentoo system. We will be including many popular packages and it will be completely functional.
The current LiveCD scheme was never intended to showcase Gentoo, but rather to be installation media.
Daniel had been playing a smaller and smaller role in the general affairs of Gentoo leading up to his stepping down. To be honest, there wasn't much he was directly involved in other than the formation of the Not-for-profit company before he stepped down. He was simply too busy with other engagements.
Gentoo has been run by its managers for a while now, so it was business as usual when he made his announcement.
If I'm forced to pay $129 for a distro, why not just go pick up XP Home?
Simply because XP Home won't be able to connect to the Active Directory and is not SMP-capable are two good reasons.
Also, you have not even considered what kinds of discounts would be given in volume. After all, do you know what it costs for even the Volume Licensing versions of Windows XP Professional?
Why is it that everyone spends all their time focusing on the big corporate showings and not the other guys? I did not see a single picture or mention of anything in the ".org Pavilion" except for a mention that "the Fedora Project has its own booth"...
I mean, come on people! Doesn't anyone else remember when we didn't care who was touting "Linux support" or "plans on shipping Linux pre-installed" but instead on the cool things people were DOING with Linux?
In most cases, companies are purchasing large numbers of drives and adding them to RAID arrays. They don't want a single large drive, but rather several smaller drives in a redundant configuration. Also, more spindles is usually a good thing in a server environment, where multiple data sets are being requested from multiple hosts, rather than a few sets from a single host as in the typical IDE setting.
At work, we have a simple wrapper for vim that does all of the RCS stuff for us, like checking in and checking out files. We use it on all of our production servers, as it gives use nice revision control over our files.
However, there's nothing hacker friendly about Gentoo. While there's nothing wrong with the distro, it often seems like the loudest Gentoo proponents are the ones Slack and Debian users tell to shut up and rtfm on IRC. They can emerge apps and stuff, sure, and they feel all leet because they're compiling stuff. In actuality though, if Portage ever broke (or some dependency got fucked up) the vast majority of Gentoo users would be stuck. Not because they're stupid, though they might very well be:) but rather because portage isn't hacker friendly.
Slackware is the distro you use if you want to really understand how Linux is put together but don't have time to do LFS. Gentoo users like to say that Gentoo is "automated LFS". But the automation completely removes the whole point of LFS, which is comprehension. Gentoo offers no comprehension.
I used to feel the same way about Gentoo. I ran LFS on my main system, and Slackware on any others. I tried out Gentoo, and found that I was right. It *can* be a hacker's distro, but so can Red Hat in the right hands. I was impressed by what Gentoo offered, but still did not feel it was up to the hype given it. Then I started writing my own ebuilds and making my own patches to add functionality. I started submitting my ebuilds to Gentoo's bugzilla and got noticed by a developer, who offered a development position to me. Now I am not only a developer, but the new QA Manager for Release Engineering, and I couldn't love Gentoo more. I tend to think that what you get out of a distribution is equivalent to what you put into it. I don't necessarily mean submissions or code, but how much you decide to learn the system and exploit its strengths, and work on its weaknesses.
At work, we use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as our platform. I am really starting to like it just as well. We are using kickstart to build new servers and have setup a satellite server. We have created custom channels for each of our server types. Now to bring up a new MX server, we simply kickstart it, which registers it with the satellite server at the end of the install, then subscribe it to the "MX Server" channel and
up2date -u
the machine to download all of the necessary packages automatically. This makes our lives very easy and also proves my theory.
We have put a lot of work into working with the tools provided to us by Red Hat, and make the best use of them. Because of that, we get a lot out of our servers and have to spend minimal time brining up new ones or changing their roles.
Realize that all three of those are in Germany, which has ruled against SCO (think Linuxtag) recently. They are just doing this to be asses since Germany schooled them. Think of it more like the little brat kid who takes his ball and goes home than the stock exchanges being in the wrong.
...being able to pick up radio from Atlanta while in Charlotte. Then again, knowing how the electronics industry is, we would instead get smaller antennae that get the same reception, versus same-sized antennae with greater reception.
I still wouldn't mind seeing these in cars. My only question is if this can work with cars tha have "in windshield" antennae, such as mine.
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Ingrid took the things I said completely out of context and ran with them.
At no point did I ever tell her that we would have a graphical installer on 2005.0's release media. I also did not tell her that the 2005.0 release would be a Knoppix-style LiveCD, as it will, in fact, be exactly like the 2004.3 release with the Minimal, Universal, and Packages CD images.
What I did tell her is that we will have an experimental LiveCD with our first limited functionality beta of the installer, which will most likely be curses-based only and not have any enterprise-ready features available for use.
This is exactly why you demand to have interviews done via email and not the phone, especially when speaking with someone from another country, and be sure to ask to proof read the article for accuracy before it prints.
Now before anyone runs out and starts whining like a bunch of babies about this, realize that it is very cheap (comparatively) to hire a single programmer to do a port to Linux for a game.
As I have said before, if the percentage of people that buy the game to play on Linux is, let's be conservative and say 1% (market share, total sales, I don't care), then it would still be cheaper to hire someone like Ryan "icculus" Gordon or Timothee "TTimo" Bessett, like Epic and Id have done, to do the ports and gain that 1% market share than it would be to gain the same 1% via advertising in a market which they are already saturating, such as the Windows gaming market.
I spend my dollars where I know that I am appreciated. Currently, that means buying games from Epic and Id (and a few others) as they cater to my wants in regard to gaming.
Personally, I have a downloads, documents, gentoo, pictures, scripts, and work.
You're new here, aren't you?
The funny thing is that the extra money they would spend on better marketing or more ads is probably much more than they would spend paying the salary for one or two developers. Both Id and Epic have learned this and have hired on Timothee Bessett and Ryan Gordon, respectively. Now they can support Windows, Linux, and Mac and still are probably spending less money than would be required to gain that extra 2% of the market.
I couldn't agree more. Of course, I am also on the Gentoo games team, so I have a bit of a bias. I buy and play games that are ported to my platform. Buying Half-Life 2 to play under Wine/Cedega is still giving them a Windows sale. Valve does not care how you play it, so long as they get your money so they can build their next Windows-only title which is nothing more than a rehash of a 5 year old game. Personally, I'll support the people who actually support Linux gaming.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Not only is this a great comment, but your sig is just brilliant.
It didn't look anything like a press release but did manage to list not only primary and our secondary BitTorrent trackers, but also some features. A look at the front page of www.gentoo.org will give you a good idea of what it looked like.
Actually, Windows is simply very volitile when it comes to upgrading to any service pack. No matter what service pack it is for what MS product, you always hear someone with a horror story about how upgrading to the new service pack totally destroyed their data, killed their cat, and phone in a bomb threat to the White House.
While I am not discounting your first-hand experience, becuase it does truly happen, more than likely the culprit was some poorly-written anti-virus software, or some spyware/malware which had already done damage to the system that was only evident after the installation of the service pack. After all, I never have seemed to have problems like this installing a service pack, but I am also very careful over what hardware goes into systems I use and also the software.
Luckily, I am no longer required to run Windows in any fashion with my work, so now it is all Linux at both work and play, but even when I was running Windows at work, I never came across such problems, and I was the lead administrator at a multi-national corporation. Go figure.
First off, I had submitted Slashdot an official press release which was much more verbose and gave a nice list of reasons for the release and things changed since the last release, but since the editors are a bunch of tools and don't pay attention to what they're adding to the site, it all got lost.
Anyway, for the x86 platform, the primary reason for the getting a newer release is improved hardware support. The newer LiveCD for x86 supports the new Dell EM64T machines and also has vastly improved SATA support over previous releases. This is also the first release where all of the arch teams worked very closely together throughout the entire release process. This is also our first official PPC64 release. The submitter of this story also completely missed the fact that we have a new Alpha release under /experimental, and you can also find embedded stages for arm, mips, ppc, and x86 under /experimental.
PXES is a small Linux distribution based on Red Hat binaries that is designed to be used as a thin-client. It is capable of booting from a CDROM, a hard disk, a netboot image, or PXE. It is capable of running several protocols, including ICA, RDP(v5, too), XDMCP, and others. I jave used it quite extensively. All you do is create the image using the pretty GTK+ interface an dyou're done. There are also default pre-built images. There are packages for Red Hat, Debian, and even a Gentoo ebuild. All in all, I find it to be a wonderful solution and quite easy to customize. The developer, Diego, is also very helpful and friendly.
Simple. I am not required by law to have a driver's license. In many urban areas it is perfectly fine to not have one, as public transportation is good enough for getting around. As for getting on an airplane, I've travelled internationally, so I have a passport and I've not met an airline company that would not take one of those as a valid form of identification.
Speaking as the guy that made the 2004.2 LiveCD for x86, and will be making the 2004.3 and 2005.0 LiveCDs I can tell you this.
Gentoo is changing this quite a bit during the 2005.X releases. We are currently working to reduce the number of packages and size of the minimal and universal CDs. We will be offering these CDs for our long-time Gentoo users and for our advanced users, along with the PackageCD.
For 2005.0, we will also be releasing a full live environment LiveCD, which will be a much more accurate look into a fully-running Gentoo system. We will be including many popular packages and it will be completely functional.
The current LiveCD scheme was never intended to showcase Gentoo, but rather to be installation media.
Daniel had been playing a smaller and smaller role in the general affairs of Gentoo leading up to his stepping down. To be honest, there wasn't much he was directly involved in other than the formation of the Not-for-profit company before he stepped down. He was simply too busy with other engagements.
Gentoo has been run by its managers for a while now, so it was business as usual when he made his announcement.
That is exactly what we plan on doing for the 2005.0 release.
Stay tuned for more details...
Simply because XP Home won't be able to connect to the Active Directory and is not SMP-capable are two good reasons.
Also, you have not even considered what kinds of discounts would be given in volume. After all, do you know what it costs for even the Volume Licensing versions of Windows XP Professional?
Why is it that everyone spends all their time focusing on the big corporate showings and not the other guys? I did not see a single picture or mention of anything in the ".org Pavilion" except for a mention that "the Fedora Project has its own booth"...
I mean, come on people! Doesn't anyone else remember when we didn't care who was touting "Linux support" or "plans on shipping Linux pre-installed" but instead on the cool things people were DOING with Linux?
Actually, just a simple: emerge -C xfree && emerge xorg-x11 would suffice, as xorg-x11 is marked stable.
In most cases, companies are purchasing large numbers of drives and adding them to RAID arrays. They don't want a single large drive, but rather several smaller drives in a redundant configuration. Also, more spindles is usually a good thing in a server environment, where multiple data sets are being requested from multiple hosts, rather than a few sets from a single host as in the typical IDE setting.
At work, we have a simple wrapper for vim that does all of the RCS stuff for us, like checking in and checking out files. We use it on all of our production servers, as it gives use nice revision control over our files.
I used to feel the same way about Gentoo. I ran LFS on my main system, and Slackware on any others. I tried out Gentoo, and found that I was right. It *can* be a hacker's distro, but so can Red Hat in the right hands. I was impressed by what Gentoo offered, but still did not feel it was up to the hype given it. Then I started writing my own ebuilds and making my own patches to add functionality. I started submitting my ebuilds to Gentoo's bugzilla and got noticed by a developer, who offered a development position to me. Now I am not only a developer, but the new QA Manager for Release Engineering, and I couldn't love Gentoo more. I tend to think that what you get out of a distribution is equivalent to what you put into it. I don't necessarily mean submissions or code, but how much you decide to learn the system and exploit its strengths, and work on its weaknesses.
At work, we use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as our platform. I am really starting to like it just as well. We are using kickstart to build new servers and have setup a satellite server. We have created custom channels for each of our server types. Now to bring up a new MX server, we simply kickstart it, which registers it with the satellite server at the end of the install, then subscribe it to the "MX Server" channel and
the machine to download all of the necessary packages automatically. This makes our lives very easy and also proves my theory.We have put a lot of work into working with the tools provided to us by Red Hat, and make the best use of them. Because of that, we get a lot out of our servers and have to spend minimal time brining up new ones or changing their roles.
Of course, some wonderful Gentoo user has already posted an ebuild to our bugzilla.
Realize that all three of those are in Germany, which has ruled against SCO (think Linuxtag) recently. They are just doing this to be asses since Germany schooled them. Think of it more like the little brat kid who takes his ball and goes home than the stock exchanges being in the wrong.
I still wouldn't mind seeing these in cars. My only question is if this can work with cars tha have "in windshield" antennae, such as mine.