If I hear that Loki is going to port a game to Linux I'd rather hold out and buy it from them. Why would I want a hack? I would hope that game companies would choose to write their games in a semi-portable fashion so it makes it easier to sell more copies to Mac OSX and Linux users. They would probably have to worry less about copyright infringement on Linux. It seems to me that many Linux people I talk to are very much against piracy (it usually helps the Linux/GPL/BSD position).
VMSK sounds completely different. Timedomain's technology is made up of wideband pulses. The key is that the receiver has to be clocked in to received the signal. If it is not aligned, you don't hear anything.
As far as I can tell RedHat's kernel releases are pretty close to an -ac release. Not surprising though since Alan Cox, I'm sure, has some input in what RedHat ships.
I wouldn't worry about it. Besides, you can see exactly what patches they added via the rpm source.
Cyrus http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ seems to use a hybrid approach. Messages are stored in individual files, but the envelope information is stored in dbm format. So opening up a mailbox and listing messages is very fast. So is searching unless you want to do a full body search on all emails. Give it a try. It supports IMAP, POP, and LMTP.
Linux has been moving in that direction. Linux can run nicely on IBM mainframes now. SGI, IBM, and Compaq are all working to make sure Linux can run on their big machines. The 2.4 kernel goes a long way in this.
The Linux 2.4 kernel has much improved SMP capabilities. Linux as already moving from SMP to NUMA machines with the help of SGI and IBM.
Check out http://www.rsbac.org/ for what Linux *already* has for B1 level security.
It seems to me that Linux has so much going for it now that it will be hard for other projects to catchup. They may be able to match or beat certain areas, but Linux as a whole will continue to be even more compelling.
With Oracle coming out with Oracle Parallel server Linux *will* have a commercial clustering product.
I'm hoping that GFS (http://www.sistina.com/gfs/) will help with further clustering developments. The nice thing with GFS will be that two servers can work together or failover for a particular task without having to worry about keeping data in sync. Check it out!
The Tux web server certainly dispells the myth that NT is faster than Linux on web serving. Unfortunately it won't help with SSL serving. I understand that Ingo wants to eventually add SSL support. That would take care of the web serving piece!
I would love to see MBONE everywhere. There are implementations of FTP using multicast. If I remember correctly there was a commercial one from a company called Starcast or Stardust (don't remember)
It would be better if ISP's supported MBONE natively. The problem is that I went looking for MBONE, but I can't get it!! I posted a message on the MBONE Engineering mailing list asking for a tunnel and got no responses. It used to be that I would see lots of requests for MBONE tunnels on the mailing list, but not anymore. What happened? I've had MBONE withdrawls since '94 when I worked at a company that had a decent ISP at the time (InternetMCI). InternetMCI supported MBONE to any customer that asked.
I want my M(ulticast)TV! Give me a (M)BONE here!
Since the kernel will have a full HTTP stack in it could/will this functionality be extended to do things like load balancing HTTP requests? Since the kernel will have a full HTTP stack it could, in theory, do high performance cookie based stickyness... just like the big guys (F5, Arrowpoint). This would be a wonderful supplement to the Linux-VS project (TCP vs. HTTP balancing). Even nicer would be SSL session based stickyness (am I asking too much?).
I realize this could significantly bloat the size of the kernel module, but it would be a small sacrifice for saving between $50,000 - $70,000.
I work at Zkey. We're trying to take the idea of Passport to another level. The next version of the site will be completely crypto based (*much* more than it is in the current version). We will not be able to read the information unless you allow us to. SDK kits will be made available to Zkey enable your site. It will be based on XML so any platform should be able to participate as long as you have client SSL support. We will not let things pass over the net in the clear. Zkey's main idea is that information is *yours*. Who you give that information to is up to you and you alone. We're building the system in a distributed way because: 1. The internet is distributed. 2. You should have the choice on who you trust to store your encrypted information. Maybe you want to store it on your DSL connected computer. It shouldn't matter.
For another take on the Zkey idea, take a look at http://www.openprivacy.org/. Zkey will hopefully become an implementation of OpenPrivacy. We're in talks with them to make sure we will comply.
Isn't this what the Cocoon project does? You list the stylesheets at the top of the code and then Cocoon selects the proper one based on the client ID.
Download IBM's complementary version of Apache for Linux. It includes IBM's own SSL and a SSL API. It's what they use for their WebSphere product. Unfortunately I don't have the URL handy.
It was nice, but XFree86 seems to have all the nice toys these days. Can't wait until 4.0!! Can AccelX keep up? I'd use AccelX if there was no hope that XFree86 would get drivers for a particular card.
http://www.linux-vs.org. It uses IBM's technique called direct routing. They say it'll scale to over 100 (or 150??) computers in a cluster. It can also load balance with tunnels for remote systems.
What about us? zkey.com (was zcentral.com) started with access controlled personal information. Now we're moving on to bigger things. Our new method will probably be the least creepy of either MS or Novell. It looks like our new system will be publically documented (being open is GOOD). We're going after as many standards as possible. I can't give details right now, but I believe our system will work the way this stuff should work on the Internet.
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Can I get these things to talk to Oracle via PHP or mod_perl? I'd love to have that kind of nice setup. Has someone make opensource Oracle db libs? Or am I going down the wrong road here?
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If I hear that Loki is going to port a game to Linux I'd rather hold out and buy it from them. Why would I want a hack? I would hope that game companies would choose to write their games in a semi-portable fashion so it makes it easier to sell more copies to Mac OSX and Linux users. They would probably have to worry less about copyright infringement on Linux. It seems to me that many Linux people I talk to are very much against piracy (it usually helps the Linux/GPL/BSD position).
VMSK sounds completely different. Timedomain's technology is made up of wideband pulses. The key is that the receiver has to be clocked in to received the signal. If it is not aligned, you don't hear anything.
As far as I can tell RedHat's kernel releases are pretty close to an -ac release. Not surprising though since Alan Cox, I'm sure, has some input in what RedHat ships.
I wouldn't worry about it. Besides, you can see exactly what patches they added via the rpm source.
BTW, don't most distros ship a patched kernel?
Cyrus http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ seems to use a hybrid approach. Messages are stored in individual files, but the envelope information is stored in dbm format. So opening up a mailbox and listing messages is very fast. So is searching unless you want to do a full body search on all emails. Give it a try. It supports IMAP, POP, and LMTP.
Linux has been moving in that direction. Linux can run nicely on IBM mainframes now. SGI, IBM, and Compaq are all working to make sure Linux can run on their big machines. The 2.4 kernel goes a long way in this.
Check out these boot logs:
POWER4Compaq Alpha
This is a perfect example of why every ISP should be multicast enabled!
The Linux 2.4 kernel has much improved SMP capabilities. Linux as already moving from SMP to NUMA machines with the help of SGI and IBM.
Check out http://www.rsbac.org/ for what Linux *already* has for B1 level security.
It seems to me that Linux has so much going for it now that it will be hard for other projects to catchup. They may be able to match or beat certain areas, but Linux as a whole will continue to be even more compelling.
With Oracle coming out with Oracle Parallel server Linux *will* have a commercial clustering product.
I'm hoping that GFS (http://www.sistina.com/gfs/) will help with further clustering developments. The nice thing with GFS will be that two servers can work together or failover for a particular task without having to worry about keeping data in sync. Check it out!
The Tux web server certainly dispells the myth that NT is faster than Linux on web serving. Unfortunately it won't help with SSL serving. I understand that Ingo wants to eventually add SSL support. That would take care of the web serving piece!
I would love to see MBONE everywhere. There are implementations of FTP using multicast. If I remember correctly there was a commercial one from a company called Starcast or Stardust (don't remember)
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It would be better if ISP's supported MBONE natively. The problem is that I went looking for MBONE, but I can't get it!! I posted a message on the MBONE Engineering mailing list asking for a tunnel and got no responses. It used to be that I would see lots of requests for MBONE tunnels on the mailing list, but not anymore. What happened? I've had MBONE withdrawls since '94 when I worked at a company that had a decent ISP at the time (InternetMCI). InternetMCI supported MBONE to any customer that asked.
I want my M(ulticast)TV! Give me a (M)BONE here!
What about other protocols? A kernel level FTP could be useful for certain applications.
Since the kernel will have a full HTTP stack in it could/will this functionality be extended to do things like load balancing HTTP requests? Since the kernel will have a full HTTP stack it could, in theory, do high performance cookie based stickyness... just like the big guys (F5, Arrowpoint). This would be a wonderful supplement to the Linux-VS project (TCP vs. HTTP balancing). Even nicer would be SSL session based stickyness (am I asking too much?).
I realize this could significantly bloat the size of the kernel module, but it would be a small sacrifice for saving between $50,000 - $70,000.
I work at Zkey. We're trying to take the idea of Passport to another level. The next version of the site will be completely crypto based (*much* more than it is in the current version). We will not be able to read the information unless you allow us to. SDK kits will be made available to Zkey enable your site. It will be based on XML so any platform should be able to participate as long as you have client SSL support. We will not let things pass over the net in the clear.
Zkey's main idea is that information is *yours*. Who you give that information to is up to you and you alone. We're building the system in a distributed way because:
1. The internet is distributed.
2. You should have the choice on who you trust to store your encrypted information. Maybe you want to store it on your DSL connected computer. It shouldn't matter.
For another take on the Zkey idea, take a look at http://www.openprivacy.org/. Zkey will hopefully become an implementation of OpenPrivacy. We're in talks with them to make sure we will comply.
No.. Java 2 = Java 1.2
IBM just released Java 1.3... so they're in step.
Isn't this what the Cocoon project does? You list the stylesheets at the top of the code and then Cocoon selects the proper one based on the client ID.
Download IBM's complementary version of Apache for Linux. It includes IBM's own SSL and a SSL API. It's what they use for their WebSphere product.
Unfortunately I don't have the URL handy.
It was nice, but XFree86 seems to have all the nice toys these days. Can't wait until 4.0!! Can AccelX keep up? I'd use AccelX if there was no hope that XFree86 would get drivers for a particular card.
http://www.linux-vs.org. It uses IBM's technique called direct routing. They say it'll scale to over 100 (or 150??) computers in a cluster. It can also load balance with tunnels for remote systems.
What about us? zkey.com (was zcentral.com) started with access controlled personal information. Now we're moving on to bigger things. Our new method will probably be the least creepy of either MS or Novell. It looks like our new system will be publically documented (being open is GOOD). We're going after as many standards as possible. I can't give details right now, but I believe our system will work the way this stuff should work on the Internet.
one word: postfix
it works for me anyways
Can I get these things to talk to Oracle via PHP or mod_perl? I'd love to have that kind of nice setup. Has someone make opensource Oracle db libs? Or am I going down the wrong road here?