Fedora is a test and development Linux distro which is why it rockets through version numbers. It's intended to be a platform to test new stuff out on innocent fools who use it in a production environment and then find out that a few months after they install FC5 they should upgrade to FC6..
Just use Slackware:)
I admin about 60 or so Slackware boxes and amd sure glad they are Slackware. Things just work, you stick on what you need and have slick and easy installs without all the fluff that other distros seem to automatically install. You say NO X and you get NO X, not a secret X install because of some dependency for some silly package you will likely never even use.
Long live slack!
NOW Broadband www.now.com have a similar service in the UK but it's not PCMCIA yet. They use IP Wireless www.ipwireless.com which is a 3g (but for data only) type system and whom according to their website have a PCMCIA card version so maybe NOW will have PCMCIA soon too. But for now, only in London.
Does anybody know if there is a Linux port of this RK? Or will it run on WINE? I would really love to have this RK on my Linux box. I think it's the only thing stopping me from using Linux on the desktop at the moment.
How much does the license add to the price? It does not do anything a Linux box would not do with Firefox, StarOffice and whatever else. Hell, stick Lindows on it and it'll be a much nicer solution.
Hmm no. Remember the BIND vulnerability a few years back, that sucked. Back then, most people ran BIND as root in a non chrooted environment. Really, just about all computer security is pretty much useless against anybody with a little determination.
I thought I was not allowed to have a Region 1 drive in region 2? Won't I get taken to court or something? (Obviously I will not, I am talking about the letter of the law here..)
When will they learn? It's such a pain in the ass to get any media, especially DVDs with diff region codes that I am literally FORCED to warez movies to play on my mac. If I buy the DVD, I can not play it (I am in the UK - I want to buy a Region 1 DVD...)
Time to test the 2Gb/s Internet connection with some torrent seeds:)
Well done to the Slackware team on another nice release of the nicest, most stable and most usable (for admins) Linux release there is.
Really, the completr lack of package management and silly whizzy clicky admin tools makes Slackware a lllot easier to admin when you have 120 servers running it.
I think I'd rather carry around a festering rat corpse.. There's enough spyware on my Windows desktop at work (I use it for Visio, NOTHING ELSE!) without having a portable spywarefest in my pocket.
Next you guys will have to use Windows to be considered citizens, get passports, a social security number...
How can a government possibly limit it's services to people who use a certain software package? Is this discrimination? What would happen if it said "Sorry but because you're black you can not use this website" ?
I do not undestand what the hell this decision has got to do with MS and why they are able to get all upset about it. What software and standards a government/department/whatever use is their business and has sweet fanny ann to do with software companies, whoever they are.
Really Microsoft should just mind their own business and not kick up a fuss about things that are not their business, like a kid throwing their toys out of the pram when they don't get their way.
If anything, MS's attitude to this makes me think worse of them.
That's dimensions, not parallel universea - fool.
You think mayb the geeks get the girls up and down rather than left or right? Or maybe we only get them in time and not in space;-)
Gee, some of us geeks have had to rationalise our network infrastructure you know (i.e. we got married...)
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Fedora is a test and development Linux distro which is why it rockets through version numbers. It's intended to be a platform to test new stuff out on innocent fools who use it in a production environment and then find out that a few months after they install FC5 they should upgrade to FC6.. Just use Slackware :)
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I admin about 60 or so Slackware boxes and amd sure glad they are Slackware. Things just work, you stick on what you need and have slick and easy installs without all the fluff that other distros seem to automatically install. You say NO X and you get NO X, not a secret X install because of some dependency for some silly package you will likely never even use. Long live slack!
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NOW Broadband www.now.com have a similar service in the UK but it's not PCMCIA yet. They use IP Wireless www.ipwireless.com which is a 3g (but for data only) type system and whom according to their website have a PCMCIA card version so maybe NOW will have PCMCIA soon too. But for now, only in London.
Does anybody know if there is a Linux port of this RK? Or will it run on WINE? I would really love to have this RK on my Linux box. I think it's the only thing stopping me from using Linux on the desktop at the moment.
Currently about 376 users on there, will this be the first /.otting of an IRC channel?
How much does the license add to the price? It does not do anything a Linux box would not do with Firefox, StarOffice and whatever else. Hell, stick Lindows on it and it'll be a much nicer solution.
But why Windows?
in America...
Because that would rock.
Hmm no. Remember the BIND vulnerability a few years back, that sucked. Back then, most people ran BIND as root in a non chrooted environment. Really, just about all computer security is pretty much useless against anybody with a little determination.
I thought I was not allowed to have a Region 1 drive in region 2? Won't I get taken to court or something? (Obviously I will not, I am talking about the letter of the law here..)
So..
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Artists dont want it.
Consumers dont want it.
When will they learn? It's such a pain in the ass to get any media, especially DVDs with diff region codes that I am literally FORCED to warez movies to play on my mac. If I buy the DVD, I can not play it (I am in the UK - I want to buy a Region 1 DVD...)
Time to test the 2Gb/s Internet connection with some torrent seeds
Well done to the Slackware team on another nice release of the nicest, most stable and most usable (for admins) Linux release there is.
Really, the completr lack of package management and silly whizzy clicky admin tools makes Slackware a lllot easier to admin when you have 120 servers running it.
You short-arse!
A login analyser? What do you think they are fixing here? If it dont work, they will bin it and get a new one.
A copy of every OS you work with plus keys.
A coffee/tea mug and coaster.
I think I'd rather carry around a festering rat corpse.. There's enough spyware on my Windows desktop at work (I use it for Visio, NOTHING ELSE!) without having a portable spywarefest in my pocket.
Next you guys will have to use Windows to be considered citizens, get passports, a social security number...
How can a government possibly limit it's services to people who use a certain software package? Is this discrimination? What would happen if it said "Sorry but because you're black you can not use this website" ?
Yeah, that would be an issue...
Will pick up a pimple on an astronauts ass..
Errm, I use Firefox - which bit exactly is unreadable?
I do not undestand what the hell this decision has got to do with MS and why they are able to get all upset about it. What software and standards a government/department/whatever use is their business and has sweet fanny ann to do with software companies, whoever they are. Really Microsoft should just mind their own business and not kick up a fuss about things that are not their business, like a kid throwing their toys out of the pram when they don't get their way. If anything, MS's attitude to this makes me think worse of them.
That's dimensions, not parallel universea - fool. You think mayb the geeks get the girls up and down rather than left or right? Or maybe we only get them in time and not in space ;-)
Gee, some of us geeks have had to rationalise our network infrastructure you know (i.e. we got married...)
Who are these people and any should anybody give a stuff?