I was waiting for someone to mention this. Me too. My heart just sort of dropped when I saw "Device Manager." I'll keep on recommending my non-geek friends use KDE, but man, if I never see a "Device Manager" again in my life it'll be too soon.
And one that I'm sort of more willing to believe. Take a look at this.
I don't know about this guy. He seemed way too committed to something that at best is a good idea that got screwed up somewhere along the way. And anyone who says that we should all use Motif frightens me. Makes me wonder if he's ever seen Motif. "I know! Let's make all the widgets HUGE and CORPSE GRAY! Yeah, that'll be kick-ass!" Phew.
95% Yoda 1% Han Solo 27% Old Ben Kenobi 6% Emperor Palpatine 76% C-3PO
The way I read this is, I'm a reckless, disheveled high-strung, evil, ruthless, power-hungry tyrant who wants to challenge the establishment, while being left alone to do my own thing.
Despite your anti-geek flavor, you're pretty much right. My question is, why is the rest of the world so obsessed about this? Ever since I could buy a dual-deck tape recorder, I could dub tapes. Hell, a four-year-old can dub tapes. Not to mention duplicate videos (granted the quality goes to hell), and all of my point-click-drool friends copy cd's routinely. There's absolutely no copy-protection on any other media format I can think of, so what gives? I mean, it's a pain in the ass to get on the web and find all the mp3's you might want (if you're not a member of the juarez und3rgr0nd, that is), and most people, if they wanted mp3's, would pay a buck for the latest single IF THEY COULD. That's the really dumb part, IMHO. Jesus. Why isn't the RIAA out there selling MP3's while they ponder what to do about evil music hax0rs? There's such a huge market going to waste.
They should make a prequel to BWP. The witch is still just a little girl, and not evil yet. She builds all the stick-men we see in the first movie, and even helps save the innocent settlers of Blair from the evil British governors by piloting her broom into battle... But then her mother is killed, and an old hag decides to train her in the ways of witchcraft. And Jar-jar gets his ass whooped.:-)
I've enjoyed some of Katz's writing, and felt they were appropriate here. But this one's a miss I thought. What was the point of this article? Hollywood sucks? Well, umm, if you're the sort of person who thinks about film, you already knew this. And if you're not, I guarantee you won't care. And either way, throwing"internet" into every other sentence didn't really make me think that this was what I come to Slashdot for.
Yeah, yeah "there's a filter" yadda yadda. I'm not saying Katz sucks here, I'm just saying this particular article didn't seem to have any real [point || relevance || interesting ideas].
Not to even mention the specific bits I'd take issue with. "Not a good movie... not scary..." Bullshit. Some people are scared by this movie, some just aren't (hint: it seems to have something to do with how developed your imagination is). But either way, it is a very very "good" movie, by any sort of artistic, filmic standards. You don't get much of it the first time, but on a second viewing (when I could stifle the terror somewhat and pay attention to what the movie was actually 'doing'), I was amazed by how well put together it actually was.
I could go into more detail, but, much like the article itself, it would be the sort of thing that not many people here would care about. And, I'd be hard pressed to squeeze "the internet" in there every other sentence. So I won't.:-)
You're not (IMHO) looking at the whole of the software world. If your goal is to go out and write the next killer commercial, end-user, shrink-wrapped software application, you're going to find relatively slim pickings for jobs that want you to write that and make it open-source.
However, the vast majority of software is, as ESR frequently points out, written in-house to serve a particular company's particular need (in fact, this was more or less the genesis of Apache, Perl, and Zope, among many others). Many of these companies don't realize that they could be acheiving their goals better by making these in-house projects open source, and are ripe for the picking, from the perspective of a coder who knows how to advocate effectively. So, you make your money in a job writing proprietary software? Convince your boss(es) to make it open source, and viola! You got yourself a job in OSS.
Another way of thinking about it is from the "there are no linux jobs" perspective. I often see people here (and elsewhere) saying "I'd like to use linux, but my company runs NT, and I can't find anyone who'll employ me to use linux." If you're a VB programmer, well, good luck. But many others might be surprised at a company's willingness to let you use whatever makes you most productive, as long as you support yourself. I personally have never had any trouble telling my employers "I prefer to use Linux." (I'm a web developer-- YMMV) They generally say something like "Well, we don't officially support that..." and I tell them that I will install and admin my machine(s) and they need worry about nothing. That's the last I hear of it until some months later someone catches sight of my desktop and says "What is that?" Heh.
Also, jobs in linux are going to boom this year. I got my first inquiry where linux skills were directly desired the very day RHAT went out. Expect more of this.
With a little clever scripting, you CAN do this! I did once (of course the box I was configuring was only across the room -- I suppose that's rather tragically lazy). Basically, whip up a shell script that runs your new ifconfig command, then sleeps for a minute or so, then ifdown's and ifconfig's back to the old (known working) command. If the new command works, your connection comes back up, and you just log in and kill the script and go on your merry way. If it fails, it'll be back up in a minute. Pretty nifty. ---------------------- "This moon-cheese will make me very rich! Very rich indeed!
Not really. You can use the KDE one if you have KDE installed (I use Kmail as my email client with no problems). Or stick with lynx... Netscape sucks, but not as badly as not having a browser at all sucks! ---------------------- "This moon-cheese will make me very rich! Very rich indeed!
Caldera's really targeted at the office desktop. I'm not surprised that doing anything non-standard causes problems. I'd say, go with RedHat 6.0 for serves. I've installed it on a dual PPro, a dual Pentium III, three Pentium II's, and 2 486's, and had nery a single problem in any case. They were literally all first time, up and running, haven't shut down since the installer got done installs. Very pleasant.
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I thought we were getting over the M$ monopoly when along comes RH and tries the same stunt again...
What the hell are you talking about? How is RedHat a monopoly? How are they even SEEMING to attempt to monopolize the market? Do you even realize you posted this under an article about a slightly modified copy of RH 6.0 winning an award? What monopoly reacts with pleasure when someone takes their product, sells it, and wins an award for doing so?
I'm not pissed off at RH for making money, I'm pissed off at them for bastardizing someone else's work, and presenting it in a substandard form to the general public, and doing it successfully...
Again, I say, huh? Ok, first off, whose work is RH "bastardizing?" The FSF's? Check the license, bro. By definition the GPL says that THERE IS NO SUCH THING as "bastardizing" free software. Second of all, while it's become really trendy lately to lambast RedHat because it's popular (the horror!), how do you think it became popular? That massive RedHat media blitz before 4.2? (By the way, that last sentence was sarcasm. They seem to not have that on your planet, so I thought I'd point it out). RedHat's popular because they usually release a solid product (with the exception of 5.2, which of course is all most people who complain about how "bad" RH is have used). 6.0 works like a dream for me. Have you tried it?
Basically, I gotta agree with the "evil" AC in the other thread attached to your first moronic diatribe. Just go away. You run linux because it's "alternative" don't you? Can't stand that a lot of people are getting into your "alternative" thing? I bet you liked Nirvana "before anyone else had heard of them".
Oh yeah, and this whole obsession you seem to have with AC's being actually cowardly or something is just plain silly. If you sincerely believe that people without accounts never have anything worrthwhile to say, just set your threshold to 1. Fool. ---------------------- "This moon-cheese will make me very rich! Very rich indeed!
I had much the same experience, but with a slightly different end result.
KDE Beta 4 was my first KDE, and I was mucho impressed. Not only was it just worlds better than fvwm95, much better looking/more functionality than WindowMaker (Ok, before the flames start-- this was from the perspective of an M$ refugee. I have since used WM for long stretches and once you understand The Window Maker Way, it's a really nice window manager), etc. So I stuck with it for a while.
Gnome betas started coming out, and, being a Linux type person by now, I was always willing to try out the newest thing. Tried 'em, didn't like 'em. Frankly, on a 15" monitor, Gnome took up way too much space. Plus it was extremely unstable. So I went back to KDE, and all was well.
Then the big Gnome 1.0 uproar went up. So I just had to try it again. And, just like you, I was shocked at how unstable it was. The panel pretty much NEVER started up right (and every time it failed, I had to manually reconfigure it all over again), etc., etc.
But a funny thing happened. I fell in love, somehow. Despite it's instability, and problems, it was just so much prettier than KDE that I couldn't go back anymore. And luckily, those really were just first-release flutters. The vast majority of those problems have been fixed, and my gnome/E desktop is stable as a rock for long stretches on end. In fact, I can't recall the last time gnome has crashed on me.
I recommend all those who stuck with KDE cause gnome 1.0 was such a disappointment, get the latest rpm's or whatever (and seriously, get ALL the latest ones!), reinstall, and try out Gnome one more time. It really is pretty, and works extremely nice.
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Gotta agree with the above posters. Dump GDM, use KDM. GDM claims to support broadcast queries, but damned if I could get it to work.
Also, I found the XDM man pages totally incomprehensible (no, I'm not a newbie. They really are totally incomprehensible!). I have to say, just set up KDM, run the kdmconfig (or whatever the command is) program, and you're on your way.
Oh yeah, this is a wee bit out of date, but if you want to go it the old fashioned way, here's a page you should look at. This is certainly a great way to get use out of old boxes. I have a P75 that I use for just this purpose. It runs the whole desktop and all it's apps off my workstation. Very nice. ---------------------- "This moon-cheese will make me very rich! Very rich indeed!
Nope. None that I know of (and I have written a lot of javascript). Say what you will about javascript, and it certainly does suck to code in, but AFAIK, there's no way to make it execute something like a BO installer even if it were sitting on the local machine already. Now maybe you could make it look at the host, do the check, and have it try to fetch the installer from a remote host. But the user would be prompted for a "save as" unless there's some kind of autoexecute mime type. Y'know, this was supposed to be a "no way" answer, but now that I think about it more, Jesus, there could concievably be such a MIME type in windows world.
MIMEType: application/x-totally-insecure Action: Run immediately
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So am I. Matter of fact, I just woke up (2:23 PM EST). Nice to see my story got posted! That's the first time.
BTW, the reason I knew about the new kernel was because of the linux-kernel-patch email list. Just send a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu with "subscribe linux-kernel-patch " in the body of the message. They email out changelogs and, if the patches are small enough, complete patches whenever there's a fresh kernel. ---------------------- "This moon-cheese will make me very rich! Very rich indeed!
A Task System and Item Architecture (TSIA) provides an application with a transparent reliable, distributed, heterogeneous, adaptive, dynamic, real-time, interactive, parallel, secure or other execution.
Ouch. I'm getting buzzword sickness. Anyone remember the first descriptions of Java? I think this beats it for buzzword density.
This, as far as I can tell, is a generalized description of things like RPC and CRL. Distributed computing is a cool idea, but (there's always a but) you still need to write your programs to be distributed. This thing seems to be basically about a distributable threading model ("tasks" == threads?). I'm pretty sure the day will never come when we can transparently run applications that are not designed to be distributed on many machines at once, but it'd be nifty if someone came up with a system that allows coders to not worry too much about distibuting their program, and still have it work well. ---------------------- "This moon-cheese will make me very rich! Very rich indeed!
It's been a while since I used NFS at all. I remember pain from the last time I tried to make NFS work reliably. Perhaps that has changed (or maybe I just didn't know what I was doing at the time!:-) ---------------------- "This moon-cheese will make me very rich! Very rich indeed!
For god's sake, ppl. The win2k box does not accept pings. It never has. How many more people are going to claim it's down because they couldn't ping it!!!
Now, AFAICT, their web services have been down for two days now. But the box has been up most of the time. Still pathetic, though: "Crack this box, it has no services running and one 'open' port that refuses all connections."
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It's configured for only 5 connections at once. This is to prevent silly DoS attacks and encourage real attempts at breaking in through it. ---------------------- "This moon-cheese will make me very rich! Very rich indeed!
Ummm, no. Amazon has 1.01 Billion in sales, and a profit margin of -22%. That's MINUS 22%. Here's my prediction: RHAT will show a profit way before AMZN.
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I'm torn... on the one hand, it is a nice little thingy, and a pre-configured bootdisk would be a nifty thing to have, since usually I have to make the install disk, then answer all these questions anyway. An all-in-one-step would be nice.
On the other hand, no FTP is a killer drawback. I don't remember the last time I've done an install that wasn't over FTP. I'm the linux virus at my company (wherever I go, machines suddenly start running linux:-), and I just have the RH6 cdrom sitting in the tray of one of our smaller servers, ready to do another install whenever it's needed.
Basically, this would be cool for many machines, EXCEPT that if I were installing on many machines, I'd want to be doing it over ftp (who wants to screw with setting up NFS if you didn't already need it?). Hopefully this is just an alpha version, and they'll be including that capability soon...
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------------ Interesting ports on (169.207.154.108): Port State Protocol Service 7 filtered tcp echo 19 filtered tcp chargen 23 open tcp telnet 80 open tcp http -------------
port 19 doesn't show up on their home page.
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And how much money has Amazon lost? Whether it's right or wrong, the idea that investors won't like RedHat BECAUSE they lose a lot of money, and their valuation is absurdly large is just wrong. The only reason they'd be a bad investment is if other investors don't like them. And the buzz s nothing but good.
Also, they will in competition with companies with a very good name recognition like Dell. I'm writing this comment on a Dell Precision 410 workstation that came factory installed with RedHat 6.0. The above sentence is like saying that Dell competes with Microsoft (wrong again, for those keeping score at home).
I think you must have meant to say: "Also, they have formed valuable corporate partnerships with companies with very good name recognition like Dell, Intel and IBM, just to name a few."
Off this poster's comment, and on the article itself, I don't see the comparison with Be's IPO being particularly relevant. Yes, Be has good ink here on Slashdot and among the alternative-OS-enthusiasts, but it's mainstream mindshare is zero. Linux, on the other hand (and most people don't know there's Linux that isn't RedHat Linux), has buzz everywhere. This community gets way more press and word-of-mouth than a lot of people here think. The whole world is watching:-) ---------------------- "This moon-cheese will make me very rich! Very rich indeed!
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I'm so glad I'm not forced to use it! :-)
I don't know about this guy. He seemed way too committed to something that at best is a good idea that got screwed up somewhere along the way. And anyone who says that we should all use Motif frightens me. Makes me wonder if he's ever seen Motif. "I know! Let's make all the widgets HUGE and CORPSE GRAY! Yeah, that'll be kick-ass!" Phew.
1% Han Solo
27% Old Ben Kenobi
6% Emperor Palpatine
76% C-3PO
The way I read this is, I'm a reckless, disheveled high-strung, evil, ruthless, power-hungry tyrant who wants to challenge the establishment, while being left alone to do my own thing.
Just another average Linux user. :-)
Rant. Part 2, I guess :-)
They should make a prequel to BWP. The witch is still just a little girl, and not evil yet. She builds all the stick-men we see in the first movie, and even helps save the innocent settlers of Blair from the evil British governors by piloting her broom into battle... But then her mother is killed, and an old hag decides to train her in the ways of witchcraft. And Jar-jar gets his ass whooped. :-)
Yeah, yeah "there's a filter" yadda yadda. I'm not saying Katz sucks here, I'm just saying this particular article didn't seem to have any real [point || relevance || interesting ideas].
Not to even mention the specific bits I'd take issue with. "Not a good movie... not scary..." Bullshit. Some people are scared by this movie, some just aren't (hint: it seems to have something to do with how developed your imagination is). But either way, it is a very very "good" movie, by any sort of artistic, filmic standards. You don't get much of it the first time, but on a second viewing (when I could stifle the terror somewhat and pay attention to what the movie was actually 'doing'), I was amazed by how well put together it actually was.
I could go into more detail, but, much like the article itself, it would be the sort of thing that not many people here would care about. And, I'd be hard pressed to squeeze "the internet" in there every other sentence. So I won't. :-)
Firewall, router, web server, collect a few more and play with beowulf. Many many things :-)
However, the vast majority of software is, as ESR frequently points out, written in-house to serve a particular company's particular need (in fact, this was more or less the genesis of Apache, Perl, and Zope, among many others). Many of these companies don't realize that they could be acheiving their goals better by making these in-house projects open source, and are ripe for the picking, from the perspective of a coder who knows how to advocate effectively. So, you make your money in a job writing proprietary software? Convince your boss(es) to make it open source, and viola! You got yourself a job in OSS.
Another way of thinking about it is from the "there are no linux jobs" perspective. I often see people here (and elsewhere) saying "I'd like to use linux, but my company runs NT, and I can't find anyone who'll employ me to use linux." If you're a VB programmer, well, good luck. But many others might be surprised at a company's willingness to let you use whatever makes you most productive, as long as you support yourself. I personally have never had any trouble telling my employers "I prefer to use Linux." (I'm a web developer-- YMMV) They generally say something like "Well, we don't officially support that..." and I tell them that I will install and admin my machine(s) and they need worry about nothing. That's the last I hear of it until some months later someone catches sight of my desktop and says "What is that?" Heh.
Also, jobs in linux are going to boom this year. I got my first inquiry where linux skills were directly desired the very day RHAT went out. Expect more of this.
Good luck!
With a little clever scripting, you CAN do this! I did once (of course the box I was configuring was only across the room -- I suppose that's rather tragically lazy). Basically, whip up a shell script that runs your new ifconfig command, then sleeps for a minute or so, then ifdown's and ifconfig's back to the old (known working) command. If the new command works, your connection comes back up, and you just log in and kill the script and go on your merry way. If it fails, it'll be back up in a minute. Pretty nifty.
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Not really. You can use the KDE one if you have KDE installed (I use Kmail as my email client with no problems). Or stick with lynx... Netscape sucks, but not as badly as not having a browser at all sucks!
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Now if they'd only let me have that Sparc box at work... ;-)
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What the hell are you talking about? How is RedHat a monopoly? How are they even SEEMING to attempt to monopolize the market? Do you even realize you posted this under an article about a slightly modified copy of RH 6.0 winning an award? What monopoly reacts with pleasure when someone takes their product, sells it, and wins an award for doing so?
I'm not pissed off at RH for making money, I'm pissed off at them for bastardizing someone else's work, and presenting it in a substandard form to the general public, and doing it successfully...
Again, I say, huh? Ok, first off, whose work is RH "bastardizing?" The FSF's? Check the license, bro. By definition the GPL says that THERE IS NO SUCH THING as "bastardizing" free software. Second of all, while it's become really trendy lately to lambast RedHat because it's popular (the horror!), how do you think it became popular? That massive RedHat media blitz before 4.2? (By the way, that last sentence was sarcasm. They seem to not have that on your planet, so I thought I'd point it out). RedHat's popular because they usually release a solid product (with the exception of 5.2, which of course is all most people who complain about how "bad" RH is have used). 6.0 works like a dream for me. Have you tried it?
Basically, I gotta agree with the "evil" AC in the other thread attached to your first moronic diatribe. Just go away. You run linux because it's "alternative" don't you? Can't stand that a lot of people are getting into your "alternative" thing? I bet you liked Nirvana "before anyone else had heard of them".
Oh yeah, and this whole obsession you seem to have with AC's being actually cowardly or something is just plain silly. If you sincerely believe that people without accounts never have anything worrthwhile to say, just set your threshold to 1. Fool.
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KDE Beta 4 was my first KDE, and I was mucho impressed. Not only was it just worlds better than fvwm95, much better looking/more functionality than WindowMaker (Ok, before the flames start-- this was from the perspective of an M$ refugee. I have since used WM for long stretches and once you understand The Window Maker Way, it's a really nice window manager), etc. So I stuck with it for a while.
Gnome betas started coming out, and, being a Linux type person by now, I was always willing to try out the newest thing. Tried 'em, didn't like 'em. Frankly, on a 15" monitor, Gnome took up way too much space. Plus it was extremely unstable. So I went back to KDE, and all was well.
Then the big Gnome 1.0 uproar went up. So I just had to try it again. And, just like you, I was shocked at how unstable it was. The panel pretty much NEVER started up right (and every time it failed, I had to manually reconfigure it all over again), etc., etc.
But a funny thing happened. I fell in love, somehow. Despite it's instability, and problems, it was just so much prettier than KDE that I couldn't go back anymore. And luckily, those really were just first-release flutters. The vast majority of those problems have been fixed, and my gnome/E desktop is stable as a rock for long stretches on end. In fact, I can't recall the last time gnome has crashed on me.
I recommend all those who stuck with KDE cause gnome 1.0 was such a disappointment, get the latest rpm's or whatever (and seriously, get ALL the latest ones!), reinstall, and try out Gnome one more time. It really is pretty, and works extremely nice.
As always, this is my preference and my experience, and YMMV :-)
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Also, I found the XDM man pages totally incomprehensible (no, I'm not a newbie. They really are totally incomprehensible!). I have to say, just set up KDM, run the kdmconfig (or whatever the command is) program, and you're on your way.
Oh yeah, this is a wee bit out of date, but if you want to go it the old fashioned way, here's a page you should look at. This is certainly a great way to get use out of old boxes. I have a P75 that I use for just this purpose. It runs the whole desktop and all it's apps off my workstation. Very nice.
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MIMEType: application/x-totally-insecure
Action: Run immediately
Regardless, I think they now filter all html tags out (and by "now" I mean "those brief intevals when the box is actually up")
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"NT64 was a 64-bit rewrite of a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit patch of an 8-bit OS written for a 4-bit processor by a 2-bit company that was crushed by Linux, which came along not 1 bit too soon."
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BTW, the reason I knew about the new kernel was because of the linux-kernel-patch email list. Just send a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu with "subscribe linux-kernel-patch " in the body of the message. They email out changelogs and, if the patches are small enough, complete patches whenever there's a fresh kernel.
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Ouch. I'm getting buzzword sickness. Anyone remember the first descriptions of Java? I think this beats it for buzzword density.
This, as far as I can tell, is a generalized description of things like RPC and CRL. Distributed computing is a cool idea, but (there's always a but) you still need to write your programs to be distributed. This thing seems to be basically about a distributable threading model ("tasks" == threads?). I'm pretty sure the day will never come when we can transparently run applications that are not designed to be distributed on many machines at once, but it'd be nifty if someone came up with a system that allows coders to not worry too much about distibuting their program, and still have it work well.
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It's been a while since I used NFS at all. I remember pain from the last time I tried to make NFS work reliably. Perhaps that has changed (or maybe I just didn't know what I was doing at the time! :-)
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Now, AFAICT, their web services have been down for two days now. But the box has been up most of the time. Still pathetic, though: "Crack this box, it has no services running and one 'open' port that refuses all connections."
There's security for ya.
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It's configured for only 5 connections at once. This is to prevent silly DoS attacks and encourage real attempts at breaking in through it.
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On the other hand, no FTP is a killer drawback. I don't remember the last time I've done an install that wasn't over FTP. I'm the linux virus at my company (wherever I go, machines suddenly start running linux :-), and I just have the RH6 cdrom sitting in the tray of one of our smaller servers, ready to do another install whenever it's needed.
Basically, this would be cool for many machines, EXCEPT that if I were installing on many machines, I'd want to be doing it over ftp (who wants to screw with setting up NFS if you didn't already need it?). Hopefully this is just an alpha version, and they'll be including that capability soon...
Nice web page though.
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Latest nmap scan of crack.linuxppc.org:
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Interesting ports on (169.207.154.108):
Port State Protocol Service
7 filtered tcp echo
19 filtered tcp chargen
23 open tcp telnet
80 open tcp http
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port 19 doesn't show up on their home page.
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Also, they will in competition with companies with a very good name recognition like Dell.
I'm writing this comment on a Dell Precision 410 workstation that came factory installed with RedHat 6.0. The above sentence is like saying that Dell competes with Microsoft (wrong again, for those keeping score at home).
I think you must have meant to say:
"Also, they have formed valuable corporate partnerships with companies with very good name recognition like Dell, Intel and IBM, just to name a few."
Off this poster's comment, and on the article itself, I don't see the comparison with Be's IPO being particularly relevant. Yes, Be has good ink here on Slashdot and among the alternative-OS-enthusiasts, but it's mainstream mindshare is zero. Linux, on the other hand (and most people don't know there's Linux that isn't RedHat Linux), has buzz everywhere. This community gets way more press and word-of-mouth than a lot of people here think. The whole world is watching :-)
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