The users home dir's were on an old Linux server running 2.0.18ish. We upgraded the server to kernel 2.2, and haven't had any problems.
I run at home w/ SO 5.1 on my workstation mounting my home dir from the server and it works perfectly. Both servers are running (approx. ) Mandrake 7.0. The workstation in running kernel 2.3.99pre3
Now, Corel WP 8.0 wouldn't work over nfs... all sorts of odd file locking problems.
Hope that helps! I'd be happy to help you get SO working.
I have been looking into switching my main workstation over to FreeBSD, and was dissapointed to learn that VMWare wouldn't work (well) under BSD.
Bochs will, so what's the speed like? Is it usable? Does it network? Will it work w/ SVGA drivers, a la VMWare, and what's the status on VMWare under BSD? (I've seen encouraging posts on Deja)
Hi. Mozilla still barfs after about 5 seconds on my SMP Celeron sysstem (Under Linux, glibc 2.1.13, kernel 2.2.14.) This is supposed to be due to the fact that it's not "thread safe." Anyone know when this will be addressed? Ben
FPS Sucked, but the COPS episode was VERY cool.
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THe cops episode was pretty neat, this one stunk. I personally liked how her code "Hopped Programs."
Hmm.. Spontaneous code generation. Wish that'd happen to me on a midterm or assignment.
Just so everyone knows, I read the FAQ, e-mailed them, created an account, registered my domain, and was given my free domain name within 3 hours today.
The person I e-mailed with was very nice. This is a wonderful service they are offering. I was using penguinppwered.com to forward to my IP address before, but had problems with them using my mail server a few times, this is a much better solution.
Both the daily builds and compiling from sources give you a file called simplebrowser in the Mozilla Bin directory.
This file is basically Gecko w/ a thin GTK UI on top. It loads VERY fast, and renders faster. It seems really stable, and doesn't have ANY bloat (As it doesn't do anything other than be a simple browser.)
No mail/news/bookmarks/Right Mosue Button just a back, forward and a place to type in the URL.
Boy is it fast, boy is it sweet, and it gives you the full power of mozilla.
Hello, I've read a bit about the HTML widget, will it (or Mozilla, etc.) be integrated into the new file manager to provide anything close to the seemless browsing that one gets in KDE/KFM? Right now, I use KFM for about 25% (light) Netscape for 25% (Heavy stuff) and Mozilla for 50%. Is the HTML widget good enough for general browsing, what about cookies, JavaScript, Java, XML, SGML rendering? So you know, using KFM in Gnome/Sawmill works great. A lot of people still seem to think you can have one of KDE or Gnome. Ben
Indeed, you could. Or if, like me, you thought you had something useful to contribute, you could write your own and make a 44th GUI front-end. My program doesn't do anything else except write ISO's. It's not meant to compete with anything fancy (I use XCDroast and Gnometoaster a lot) but is meant for people who quickly want to get the job done. It took me all of 1-2 hours to research and write, and it's a simple little Perl script. I could do better, but others already have. So, it's just another little utility for the tool box. Ben
Just to clarify, this is a fantastic IDE that supports Java2. Now, if they'd just release a fast jdk2, we'd be all set!
Seriously though, VAjava makes programming in Java seem truly Object Oriented. It reminds me of Smalltalk Express, my first IDE, it had incremental compile (as does VAJ) and stored an "Image" leaving messy file management and bizarre symantics (FILE.java has to be FILE class) out of the eyes of the developer.
Very cool stuff when you're just learning. I don't know why VAJ isn't used in every university, as it is free to them.
I've been using Linux for 2 years now. For me, installation was never the problem and X worked first try. I knew about partitions, and understood filesystems. The nVidia card threw me for a loop, but SuSE was there...
For me, it was Dial-up. My girlfriend, and my friends, can vouch for how long it took me to finally get my head around what was going on. It was hell. I spent HOURS trying to figure it out. I read How-to's, asked people on the net, tried GUI front-ends, eventually, one night, it just clicked and made sense.
Since I got it, there has been no turning back. XDM with Win32 was straight-forward, IP Masquerading was a snap. The IDE Burner took an afternoon, and the cable modem took 5 minutes. I hit a point, and everything got easy after that. Heck, I even figured out (and love) vi!
I own the free version of Solaris. I rushed out and bought it the first week it was released for free. I also own too many distributions of Linux. I've installed Solaris on about 8 machines at various jobs. Every time I've thought "What a poor imitation of Linux."
I have my own Web server. It runs Linux or FreeBSD (Which I also bought) depending on my mood. When I installed BSD I thought: "Wow! This is very usable, it reminds me of Linux!"
Solaris, on low end hardware (any Intel) is very slow compared to Linux. I haven't run Solaris on many Sun Workstations, so I can only hope that it is exponentially faster, but for me, what makes Linux so great is:
Open kernel sources
The ability to modify the kernel
Hardware support (Especially Video, sadly lacking in Solaris)
The community spirit
The great software:
Apache
Gnome
KDE
Vi
Emacs
Gcc (Gotta have a compiler)
Enlightenment
The Gimp
XFree86 in general
PHP/MySQL
Telneting
A completely customizable OS
Text files for modifying EVERYTHING
The speed
The great multitasking
Samba
Now, it's true that practically everything on that list is doable under Solaris, in fact all of that software will easily compile and install under Solaris (Heck, I've done it!)
But NONE of it is as nice or as integrated as it is in Linux. To me, Solaris is the NT of Unix, and Sun the Microsoft of Unix.
I like that Linux is developed by the community for the community. Same as the BSD's. For that reason, I am a total convert who will never give up my cherished platform.
I have deployed Linux as web servers into two environments, my own server, and one that was previously running IIS. In both cases, we fell under the category of being allowed to run the "Free" Solaris. In both cases we had access to NT, Linux and Solaris. In both cases we chose Linux. It had NOTHING to do with price.
If Solaris was OpenSource, MAYBE it would be a contender, but I doubt it.
I'm at work on an NT machine, and can't access CVS, does anyone have recent sources that they could post somewhere? I've got 0.16dev4, but want to give the new version a spin...
Hi. There have been a PILE of anti-Mandrake posts, and that is simply not fair. Yes, Mandrake is based on RedHat. Yes, they owe a lot of success to RedHat. No, that doesn't mean that RedHat should get the award. Mandrake offers many benefits over a RedHat system. We are deploying it where I work BECAUSE of those advantages. While the ISO that you download has some problems (most of which have been mentioned already) it is, overall, the best I've used. Here's why I think it's great: 1) Better Apache support. They've used whatever Apache is newest since the get go! They also include MySQL RPM's, PHP RPM's and all sorts of other goodies. 2) WAY better applications! Everyone always points out how it has a better KDE (which is a significant feature) there are a lot of other little stuff that they sneak on too: XEmacs, X11Amp, MandrakeUpdate, CDparanoia, CDrecord, Xcdrost, and a slew of others that I can't think of at the moment. 3) FANTASTIC support. I've e-mailed the Mandrakesoft people on multiple occasions, and they've always been quick and courteous. Despite the fact that I've only ever ordered the 5.3 CDr and downloaded 6.0. 4) Cooker. For those of you that don't know, Cooker is the "unstable" branch of Mandrake. It's a real boon, as new RPM's are added every day, and they ALL WORK! Something that I never found to be true with rawhide. I've tried RedHat 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, Mandrake 5.3, 6.0, SuSE 5.1-6.1, Debian 2.0, 2.1 and Potato. At the end of the day, my favorites have been Potato and Mandrake. I'd love to stick with Debian, I really like the deb's, but Mandrake consistantly brings out the newest versions of the software I want. To me, with Cooker, Mandrake has changed from being a distro that is a RedHat knock off, to one that more closely resembles Debian, and happens to use RPM's and is compatible with RedHat. The best of all posibilities to me! (having said all of this, I think I'd still stick with Debain for a server, as it is SO stable) Thanks for reading all of this, Ben
Thanks Rich, I think I'll stick with your advice. After having dabbled in the newest cards, I think I've decided that it'd be a good time to sit back and wait for the NEXT gen of cards.
As for the G400, I have a bit of a thing against Matrox, as I found their G200 to suck quite badly (However, this was 2 days after it had been released, and there were no Linux drivers at the time, so perhaps I'll revisit this card at some point...)
It's interesting (but unfortunately not surprising) to hear that Matrox STILL hasen't got goof OGL drivers, that's ont thing that I really like about my nVidia,
Ah well, we'll just see, but thanks for the input.
I have a Zida BX98Pro (via chipset) motherboard with a Celeron 366, I went out and bought a TNT2 w/ 16MB ram ($216CDN after tx)
It wouldn't work in my motherboard. I would turn on the computer and every 1/3 times the monitor would come on. I suspect a AGP2x problem, but the 8MB ATI AGP2x have worked fine.
I took it back, and am humbled. I realize that this isn't the ideal mobo for a fancy new video card, but still. It SHOULD work!
(BTW, when the monitor did come on, the card worked fine. Seemed way better than the Vodoo 2 I have)
So, here's my question: I can get a TNT 16mb for $100, should I bother, or will I have the same problem.
Should I get a Vodoo3 2000 (I'm thinking PCI at this point..) (About $200CDN)
What does anyone think?
I don't do a lot of games, should I just stick with the ATI and Vodoo2?
Thanks,
Ben
Re:Debian unstable.. I Second this idea!!
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I've been using Potato for a few weeks now, and it's GREAT! At least as stable as RedHat/Mandrake 6.0 or SuSE 6.1 (yes, I tried 'em all)
Potato is wonderful, but was a MAJOR pain to install (but I got through it.)
I really hope that Corel's Debian based distro picks the unstable branch, and not slink.
That's all from me!
Ben
This really looks great! Where do I get it?
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I checked out their FTP, it's REALLY slow, any mirrors? Is there even an ISO on the FTP?
Hi, I was looking on the sun site, and found a few interesting tidbits.
First off, HotJava 3, apparently it's old, so I guess I'm way behind the boat here, but I downloaded it. It's only ~2MB (Plus the JDK) and seems very fast. It also renders pages rather oddly, a lot like Mozilla really.
I'm not sure if the code is available, but it sounded as though Sun was going to release the code if they haven't already.
Also, this article on Netscape/AOL & Sun Java integration is interesting:
http://java.sun.com/pr/1999/06/pr990616-02.html
Lastly, as a true alternative, have any of you tried KDE's KFM browser? I know that KDE is evil stuff with most Slashdotters, but apparently their licence is "free-er" than Netscape's.
It's a very fast browser, that does almost everything! (except javascript and java, to be integrated into KDE 2)
BTW, please don't flame me about mentioning KDE, I use WindowMaker and GMC, and KFM. They're all great!
I've already heard of one case where someone grabbed a GPL'd cdr package (gcombust, I think) compiled it, and tried to sell it as his own, no source...
So, you can say that GPL avoids this problem, but what is the chance that an average joe will:
a) find out that his code has been stolen b) have the money (and time) to persue legal action.
Sorry, but when you give away the source, you run the risk of having it stolen. Legally or otherwise.
Hi, I hope this comment isn't too redundant, I just thought that I should plainly post that I just installed SO5.1 on my RedHat 6 box with NO PROBLEMS, it was A-OK.
Dramatic version updates.... like jumping from 0.30 over night to 0.90, quickly followed by a few 0.9.x (all of which made their way to slashdot) and then a premature 1.0 that hung ALL OF THE TIME while segfaulting and core dumping?
Why is it that KDE gets no respect? It's stable, it's fast, it works well. If they had NOT released a 1.1.x, than all of the/. whinners would be complaining about how they aren't releasing anything new.
I wish people could appreciate KDE for what they have accomplished.
Slashdot Mirror
We had some odd problems running SO 5.0 over NFS.
The users home dir's were on an old Linux server running 2.0.18ish. We upgraded the server to kernel 2.2, and haven't had any problems.
I run at home w/ SO 5.1 on my workstation mounting my home dir from the server and it works perfectly. Both servers are running (approx. ) Mandrake 7.0. The workstation in running kernel 2.3.99pre3
Now, Corel WP 8.0 wouldn't work over nfs... all sorts of odd file locking problems.
Hope that helps! I'd be happy to help you get SO working.
Ben
Hi,
I have VMWare 1.1.2, and am very happy with it.
I have been looking into switching my main workstation over to FreeBSD, and was dissapointed to learn that VMWare wouldn't work (well) under BSD.
Bochs will, so what's the speed like? Is it usable? Does it network? Will it work w/ SVGA drivers, a la VMWare, and what's the status on VMWare under BSD? (I've seen encouraging posts on Deja)
Thanks,
Ben
Hi. Mozilla still barfs after about 5 seconds on my SMP Celeron sysstem (Under Linux, glibc 2.1.13, kernel 2.2.14.) This is supposed to be due to the fact that it's not "thread safe." Anyone know when this will be addressed? Ben
Hmm.. Spontaneous code generation. Wish that'd happen to me on a midterm or assignment.
Ben
Hi.
Just so everyone knows, I read the FAQ, e-mailed them, created an account, registered my domain, and was given my free domain name within 3 hours today.
The person I e-mailed with was very nice. This is a wonderful service they are offering. I was using penguinppwered.com to forward to my IP address before, but had problems with them using my mail server a few times, this is a much better solution.
What a nice gesture.
Ben
Hello.
Just thought everyone should know this:
Both the daily builds and compiling from sources give you a file called simplebrowser in the Mozilla Bin directory.
This file is basically Gecko w/ a thin GTK UI on top. It loads VERY fast, and renders faster. It seems really stable, and doesn't have ANY bloat (As it doesn't do anything other than be a simple browser.)
No mail/news/bookmarks/Right Mosue Button just a back, forward and a place to type in the URL.
Boy is it fast, boy is it sweet, and it gives you the full power of mozilla.
Check it out!
Ben
Hello, I've read a bit about the HTML widget, will it (or Mozilla, etc.) be integrated into the new file manager to provide anything close to the seemless browsing that one gets in KDE/KFM? Right now, I use KFM for about 25% (light) Netscape for 25% (Heavy stuff) and Mozilla for 50%. Is the HTML widget good enough for general browsing, what about cookies, JavaScript, Java, XML, SGML rendering? So you know, using KFM in Gnome/Sawmill works great. A lot of people still seem to think you can have one of KDE or Gnome. Ben
Indeed, you could. Or if, like me, you thought you had something useful to contribute, you could write your own and make a 44th GUI front-end. My program doesn't do anything else except write ISO's. It's not meant to compete with anything fancy (I use XCDroast and Gnometoaster a lot) but is meant for people who quickly want to get the job done. It took me all of 1-2 hours to research and write, and it's a simple little Perl script. I could do better, but others already have. So, it's just another little utility for the tool box. Ben
If you just want to burn the iso, but don't want to learn the command line stuff, check out BurnISO
o /
http://moses.penguinpowered.com/projects/burnis
You need Perl and Perl/Tk as well as the appropriate CDR software. I have documentation on how to set up the kernel and everything!
The source is there too.
It's just buried throughout the the FTP server.
Hi.
Just to clarify, this is a fantastic IDE that supports Java2. Now, if they'd just release a fast jdk2, we'd be all set!
Seriously though, VAjava makes programming in Java seem truly Object Oriented. It reminds me of Smalltalk Express, my first IDE, it had incremental compile (as does VAJ) and stored an "Image" leaving messy file management and bizarre symantics (FILE.java has to be FILE class) out of the eyes of the developer.
Very cool stuff when you're just learning. I don't know why VAJ isn't used in every university, as it is free to them.
Ben
Can you get NetBeans to load?
I installed the 1.1.8 final for win32 and Linux. The win version runs Netbean 2.1.1 fine, but the Linux version won't.
Have I installed wrong? Help.
I've been using Linux for 2 years now. For me, installation was never the problem and X worked first try. I knew about partitions, and understood filesystems. The nVidia card threw me for a loop, but SuSE was there...
For me, it was Dial-up. My girlfriend, and my friends, can vouch for how long it took me to finally get my head around what was going on. It was hell. I spent HOURS trying to figure it out. I read How-to's, asked people on the net, tried GUI front-ends, eventually, one night, it just clicked and made sense.
Since I got it, there has been no turning back. XDM with Win32 was straight-forward, IP Masquerading was a snap. The IDE Burner took an afternoon, and the cable modem took 5 minutes. I hit a point, and everything got easy after that. Heck, I even figured out (and love) vi!
Ben
I own the free version of Solaris. I rushed out and bought it the first week it was released for free. I also own too many distributions of Linux. I've installed Solaris on about 8 machines at various jobs. Every time I've thought "What a poor imitation of Linux."
I have my own Web server. It runs Linux or FreeBSD (Which I also bought) depending on my mood. When I installed BSD I thought: "Wow! This is very usable, it reminds me of Linux!"
Solaris, on low end hardware (any Intel) is very slow compared to Linux. I haven't run Solaris on many Sun Workstations, so I can only hope that it is exponentially faster, but for me, what makes Linux so great is:
- Open kernel sources
- The ability to modify the kernel
- Hardware support (Especially Video, sadly lacking in Solaris)
- The community spirit
- The great software:
- Apache
- Gnome
- KDE
- Vi
- Emacs
- Gcc (Gotta have a compiler)
- Enlightenment
- The Gimp
- XFree86 in general
- PHP/MySQL
- Telneting
- A completely customizable OS
- Text files for modifying EVERYTHING
- The speed
- The great multitasking
- Samba
Now, it's true that practically everything on that list is doable under Solaris, in fact all of that software will easily compile and install under Solaris (Heck, I've done it!)But NONE of it is as nice or as integrated as it is in Linux. To me, Solaris is the NT of Unix, and Sun the Microsoft of Unix.
I like that Linux is developed by the community for the community. Same as the BSD's. For that reason, I am a total convert who will never give up my cherished platform.
I have deployed Linux as web servers into two environments, my own server, and one that was previously running IIS. In both cases, we fell under the category of being allowed to run the "Free" Solaris. In both cases we had access to NT, Linux and Solaris. In both cases we chose Linux. It had NOTHING to do with price.
If Solaris was OpenSource, MAYBE it would be a contender, but I doubt it.
Ben
http://moses.penguinpowered.com
I'm at work on an NT machine, and can't access CVS, does anyone have recent sources that they could post somewhere? I've got 0.16dev4, but want to give the new version a spin...
Hi. There have been a PILE of anti-Mandrake posts, and that is simply not fair. Yes, Mandrake is based on RedHat. Yes, they owe a lot of success to RedHat. No, that doesn't mean that RedHat should get the award. Mandrake offers many benefits over a RedHat system. We are deploying it where I work BECAUSE of those advantages. While the ISO that you download has some problems (most of which have been mentioned already) it is, overall, the best I've used. Here's why I think it's great: 1) Better Apache support. They've used whatever Apache is newest since the get go! They also include MySQL RPM's, PHP RPM's and all sorts of other goodies. 2) WAY better applications! Everyone always points out how it has a better KDE (which is a significant feature) there are a lot of other little stuff that they sneak on too: XEmacs, X11Amp, MandrakeUpdate, CDparanoia, CDrecord, Xcdrost, and a slew of others that I can't think of at the moment. 3) FANTASTIC support. I've e-mailed the Mandrakesoft people on multiple occasions, and they've always been quick and courteous. Despite the fact that I've only ever ordered the 5.3 CDr and downloaded 6.0. 4) Cooker. For those of you that don't know, Cooker is the "unstable" branch of Mandrake. It's a real boon, as new RPM's are added every day, and they ALL WORK! Something that I never found to be true with rawhide. I've tried RedHat 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, Mandrake 5.3, 6.0, SuSE 5.1-6.1, Debian 2.0, 2.1 and Potato. At the end of the day, my favorites have been Potato and Mandrake. I'd love to stick with Debian, I really like the deb's, but Mandrake consistantly brings out the newest versions of the software I want. To me, with Cooker, Mandrake has changed from being a distro that is a RedHat knock off, to one that more closely resembles Debian, and happens to use RPM's and is compatible with RedHat. The best of all posibilities to me! (having said all of this, I think I'd still stick with Debain for a server, as it is SO stable) Thanks for reading all of this, Ben
Sidekick eh? Anyone out there ever use Dashboard?
Looking back, I guess it was a kind of CDE rip-off, rather fitting that I'm using XFCE now... It sure beat the pants off of Program Manager.
Corel actually bundled a copy of version 3.0 with WP6.1, but by that time it was useless..
Thanks Rich, I think I'll stick with your advice. After having dabbled in the newest cards, I think I've decided that it'd be a good time to sit back and wait for the NEXT gen of cards.
As for the G400, I have a bit of a thing against Matrox, as I found their G200 to suck quite badly (However, this was 2 days after it had been released, and there were no Linux drivers at the time, so perhaps I'll revisit this card at some point...)
It's interesting (but unfortunately not surprising) to hear that Matrox STILL hasen't got goof OGL drivers, that's ont thing that I really like about my nVidia,
Ah well, we'll just see, but thanks for the input.
Ben
Hi there!
I have a Zida BX98Pro (via chipset) motherboard with a Celeron 366, I went out and bought a TNT2 w/ 16MB ram ($216CDN after tx)
It wouldn't work in my motherboard.
I would turn on the computer and every 1/3 times the monitor would come on.
I suspect a AGP2x problem, but the 8MB ATI AGP2x have worked fine.
I took it back, and am humbled. I realize that this isn't the ideal mobo for a fancy new video card, but still. It SHOULD work!
(BTW, when the monitor did come on, the card worked fine. Seemed way better than the Vodoo 2 I have)
So, here's my question: I can get a TNT 16mb for $100, should I bother, or will I have the same problem.
Should I get a Vodoo3 2000 (I'm thinking PCI at this point..) (About $200CDN)
What does anyone think?
I don't do a lot of games, should I just stick with the ATI and Vodoo2?
Thanks,
Ben
I've been using Potato for a few weeks now, and it's GREAT! At least as stable as RedHat/Mandrake 6.0 or SuSE 6.1 (yes, I tried 'em all)
Potato is wonderful, but was a MAJOR pain to install (but I got through it.)
I really hope that Corel's Debian based distro picks the unstable branch, and not slink.
That's all from me!
Ben
I checked out their FTP, it's REALLY slow, any mirrors? Is there even an ISO on the FTP?
Thanks,
Ben
(currently using Debain Potato)
Hi, I was looking on the sun site, and found a few interesting tidbits.
First off, HotJava 3, apparently it's old, so I guess I'm way behind the boat here, but I downloaded it. It's only ~2MB (Plus the JDK) and seems very fast. It also renders pages rather oddly, a lot like Mozilla really.
I'm not sure if the code is available, but it sounded as though Sun was going to release the code if they haven't already.
Also, this article on Netscape/AOL & Sun Java integration is interesting:
http://java.sun.com/pr/1999/06/pr990616-02.html
Lastly, as a true alternative, have any of you tried KDE's KFM browser? I know that KDE is evil stuff with most Slashdotters, but apparently their licence is "free-er" than Netscape's.
It's a very fast browser, that does almost everything! (except javascript and java, to be integrated into KDE 2)
BTW, please don't flame me about mentioning KDE, I use WindowMaker and GMC, and KFM. They're all great!
I've already heard of one case where someone grabbed a GPL'd cdr package (gcombust, I think) compiled it, and tried to sell it as his own, no source...
So, you can say that GPL avoids this problem, but what is the chance that an average joe will:
a) find out that his code has been stolen
b) have the money (and time) to persue legal action.
Sorry, but when you give away the source, you run the risk of having it stolen. Legally or otherwise.
It's just one of those things.
Hi, I hope this comment isn't too redundant, I just thought that I should plainly post that I just installed SO5.1 on my RedHat 6 box with NO PROBLEMS, it was A-OK.
Ben
Dramatic version updates.... like jumping from 0.30 over night to 0.90, quickly followed by a few 0.9.x (all of which made their way to slashdot) and then a premature 1.0 that hung ALL OF THE TIME while segfaulting and core dumping?
/. whinners would be complaining about how they aren't releasing anything new.
Why is it that KDE gets no respect? It's stable, it's fast, it works well. If they had NOT released a 1.1.x, than all of the
I wish people could appreciate KDE for what they have accomplished.