I admin a site that runs on a Dell 2300 PIII-500 with 256 Meg of Memory and 10,000 RPM drives on a 100 m/Bit network backbone (to the net). Our highest rated day is around 3.5M impressions and we easily handle over 1M unique visitors a day. All this on Slackware 7.1, Apache 1.3.12, and PHP. Here are the hitbox stats for the site:
While Open Source drivers are nice imo because you can recompile them, fix them, improve them, etc. they are not necessary for Linux support. The important thing to not in releasing precompiled Linux drivers is:
Some of us don't use modules
Some of us don't use RedHat
Some of us don't like being stuck using a kernel that is older that what is available today.
What does that mean? Maybe distributing some form of pre compiled driver that gets linked in to the kernel upon compilation. Doing that so it is not dependent upon some kernel version only distributed by Red Hat (without someone finding their diff list and applying it). If you can hit that target, I am sure many of us would be very happy.
Not only did Red Hat screw up, but the media's interpretation of this is "Linux has a back door". This is how MSNBC reports it via their headline. Red Hat is not Linux, it is a distribution of linux*. How do we keep the media (who in turn influences investors and the general business community) from making blanket statements like this which are irresponsible.
I was listening to a radio interview of George Lucas yesterday on KROQ radio in Los Angeles, and he commented that he is currently working on a special DVD version with added "extras" - From the sound of the interview I would expect to see it around the same time as Episode 2.
So I just got 5.0 installed, and being a 4.5 user, I am not too overly impressed with the "progress." NetPositive still doesnt seem to support Java, JavaScript, etc, and it is still limiting. The best hope is for Mozilla to catch up on BeOS to M14 or beyond. The OS at best should have been a point release, there doesn't seem to be much addition in the way of feature sets, no huge difference in UI, and it seems most of the applications are the same that came with 4.5.2. I don't consider the ability to run off a fat partition that impressive. It's still smoking as always. The OS is crisp and clean, but it's like moving into a nice new house with no way to move furniture in. It's beautiful and empty!
Well I noticed at least one other theme at e.themes.org under OS that have the apple logo, if the issue is the logo why didn't apple wan't those removed? Also there still is a Aqua theme up here: http://e.themes.org/themes.phtml?themeid=948667910 Cheers
I am working on a project which may accomplish what most of this discusses. I am looking for people to help with specific implementation issues such as setting up autoconf, server programming etc. More info can be found at XMLTP.Org. Cheers, Gavin
As a satisfied customer of CCVS software I am curious what negative impact this purchase will have for me. It reminds me of when Microsoft bought the company that made the program that became Site Server. I distrust and dislike the RedHat path of becoming the M$ of the Linux community, and I dislike the path that many commercial "Linux" applications are following of supporting RPM and RedHat as well.
I received a stange phone call Wednesday from one of my companies promenant clients asking for their site to be down until 1/2/00. Freaks. I tried to convince them that nothing will, and nothing can happen to the site itself, and since I am not taking down the server it runs on since it hosts 200+ other clients, they aren't achieving anything but giving in to Y2K paranoia. Their will prevailed and now you get a 403 error when you visit their site. Ahh the stupidity!
I don't quite see the one to one comparison. I wouldn't call this reinventing as well, since XMLTP has been in existance for at least a year and a half. Gavin
I am working on an Open Source project called XMLTP. XMLTP seeks to standardize the transport mechanism for XML data. By taking cues from the Linux and Apache community, XMLTP.org is in the process of developing a standard way to send, receive, and execute upon XML data. By creating a common pathway, in the form of a client and server, a protocol, programming API's, and standard for formatting, XMLTP.org will provide a core technology to make XML more than just a web-based data formatting standard. For more information http://www.xmltp.org
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- Some of us don't use modules
- Some of us don't use RedHat
- Some of us don't like being stuck using a kernel that is older that what is available today.
What does that mean? Maybe distributing some form of pre compiled driver that gets linked in to the kernel upon compilation. Doing that so it is not dependent upon some kernel version only distributed by Red Hat (without someone finding their diff list and applying it). If you can hit that target, I am sure many of us would be very happy.I don't see it as being politically correct. Linux would not be where it is, nor would it run without gcc.
Not only did Red Hat screw up, but the media's interpretation of this is "Linux has a back door". This is how MSNBC reports it via their headline. Red Hat is not Linux, it is a distribution of linux*. How do we keep the media (who in turn influences investors and the general business community) from making blanket statements like this which are irresponsible.
Someone working out their ability to write bad hacker plots for movies. Bah!
I was listening to a radio interview of George Lucas yesterday on KROQ radio in Los Angeles, and he commented that he is currently working on a special DVD version with added "extras" - From the sound of the interview I would expect to see it around the same time as Episode 2.
So I just got 5.0 installed, and being a 4.5 user, I am not too overly impressed with the "progress." NetPositive still doesnt seem to support Java, JavaScript, etc, and it is still limiting. The best hope is for Mozilla to catch up on BeOS to M14 or beyond. The OS at best should have been a point release, there doesn't seem to be much addition in the way of feature sets, no huge difference in UI, and it seems most of the applications are the same that came with 4.5.2. I don't consider the ability to run off a fat partition that impressive. It's still smoking as always. The OS is crisp and clean, but it's like moving into a nice new house with no way to move furniture in. It's beautiful and empty!
Well I noticed at least one other theme at e.themes.org under OS that have the apple logo, if the issue is the logo why didn't apple wan't those removed? Also there still is a Aqua theme up here: http://e.themes.org/themes.phtml?themeid=948667910 Cheers
I am working on a project which may accomplish what most of this discusses. I am looking for people to help with specific implementation issues such as setting up autoconf, server programming etc. More info can be found at XMLTP.Org. Cheers, Gavin
As a satisfied customer of CCVS software I am curious what negative impact this purchase will have for me. It reminds me of when Microsoft bought the company that made the program that became Site Server. I distrust and dislike the RedHat path of becoming the M$ of the Linux community, and I dislike the path that many commercial "Linux" applications are following of supporting RPM and RedHat as well.
I received a stange phone call Wednesday from one of my companies promenant clients asking for their site to be down until 1/2/00. Freaks. I tried to convince them that nothing will, and nothing can happen to the site itself, and since I am not taking down the server it runs on since it hosts 200+ other clients, they aren't achieving anything but giving in to Y2K paranoia. Their will prevailed and now you get a 403 error when you visit their site. Ahh the stupidity!
I don't quite see the one to one comparison. I wouldn't call this reinventing as well, since XMLTP has been in existance for at least a year and a half. Gavin
I am working on an Open Source project called XMLTP. XMLTP seeks to standardize the transport mechanism for XML data. By taking cues from the Linux and Apache community, XMLTP.org is in the process of developing a standard way to send, receive, and execute upon XML data. By creating a common pathway, in the form of a client and server, a protocol, programming API's, and standard for formatting, XMLTP.org will provide a core technology to make XML more than just a web-based data formatting standard. For more information http://www.xmltp.org