Even in previous releases, this stuff wasn't installed if you chose "Workstation"
All of those services are turned off by default in the beta - openssh is up and running, but not much more than that. And there's even a firewall setup during install
$1k/license isn't that much if you can save developer time... the unanswered question is how much (if any) time is saved, whether or not it is buggy and if it is easy to interoperate with other elements of the system, like a database. And if you could do it in another way, like switching to python.
Having something like this around might be very useful for penetration on certain kinds of corporate desktops - those were you have people punching in or extracting data from custom applications.
RPM is better than deb - you're confusing the package format with the layer above, apt.
Currently, up2date is better than apt at updating systems (signed packages, authentication of both server and client, encrypted communication) while apt is better at installing new packages (which up2date doesn't do yet).
I'm not thinking of cross compiling, I'm thinking about standard benchmarks and applications in native mode. Compile it whatever way you can to improve performance.
I don't see any reason to use the same compiler - it's the end result which matters. If a company spends more money on taking advantage of the chip, they can spend less on chip development/manufacturing and still give the end user a good result.
As for the price tag, $4k isn't that high when comparing to other server chips like Alpha, UltraSparc.
Just run "up2date -u", and it will update your system from the command line.
It can be configured with up2date-config, so if you just want to download the packages or mark certain packages to be skipped you can easily do that as well.
Red Hat (and almost all the other distributions) use RPM because it works well and is a better and more flexible package format than deb. You're probably confusing "rpm being superior to deb" (package format) with "apt is cool" (distribution of packages)
RPMs, in contrast to.deb, has cryptographically signed packages (and has had so for ages), flexible and reproducible building method (look at a spec file, they really tell you how to build a package), separated patches(I've seen people claim than.deb can do this, but as long as the packages distributed with Debian don't seem to do this I'll believe that as an urban legend). Take a look at a SRPM and a Debian source package - there's really no competition.
The up2date service has been changed, and no longer uses that directory - it's now a part of Red Hat Network. I like the new program better - I never liked the old one, so I didn't use it much. The new version works nicely, and I use it on my private machines.
The current version of Red Hat Linux is 7, which uses XFree 4 support for ATI Rage 128 cards - try it, the support is vastly improved, you even get accelerated 3D out of the box:)
George Bush sr. also did a mostly good job, and I was surprised when he wasn't reelected - he had won a war, economy was on it's way back on track.
But Reagan doing a good job? The Iran-Contras deal was actually important (which the witch hunt with Clinton wasn't - the Republicans looked like idiots from overseas ), the debt got huge and the economy wasn't good.
I don't know much about Carter, but Nixon is mostly remembered for "I'm not a criminal" and Watergate.
Conclusion: The competition for "most successful president" isn't that hard:)
No, that was not the conclusion - there wasn't any (besides, Tiemann is CTO (and from the former Cygnus, the main force behind gcc) and not CEO)
It was the right decision - it fixes bugs, gives better C++ compatibility and actually works on some platforms. "C++ binary compatibility" is FTTB an oxymoron, no loss. We should have handled the political side better,
but the technical reasons (which are by far the most important ones) are valid.
Well, he certainly hasn't done a good job in Texas and no matter what happens: He didn't win the election - the people didn't want him.
As a foreigner, it's strange to see the US election system - the system is weird (saying "Florida votes for Bush" or "Florida votes for Gore" doesn't make sense, when the result is about as 50-50 as it can get) and the execution (the part of the people actually voting, thousands contested votes, a result clearly within the margin of error (which for some reason is very large)) is on the same level as a third world country.
And it never ceases to amaze me that in the choice between a well-educated, intelligent, proven person who's been part of the most successful administration for decades and a not very bright, but "likable", person with a very bad track record it's almost 50-50.
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Sure - several good 21 inch screens support 2048x1536 @ 75 Hz. At about $1000, they aren't too expensive - I'd rather spend more on the monitor and less on the system.
It looks like you just doesn't get his point - that every new Intel processor family has been met with criticism. Later, it usually died off.
The P4 isn't that much faster than the PIII for many applications, but the architecture gives room to increase the frequency a lot more - which will give it enough speed to outspeed the PIII on all tasks and compete with the Athlon, something the PIII wasn't able to do anymore.
It doesn't seem to run most common apps much faster, but those really doesn't matter much - most office tasks aren't even remotely CPU bound.
P4 does introduce SSE2, which has the potential to speed up many operations when utilized. And it vastly increases memory bandwith from the PIII, which has been a chokepoint
Would I buy one now? No. RAMBUS memory is way overpriced, and from a company I detest. The chip will go to 2 GHz and a shrink soon, DDR-supporting chipsets will be released - at that time, it might be a good alternative.
The Matrox G450 is a nice card for big markets, who care much about razor sharp and fast 2D - with 3D being much less of an issue. And the business market is probably bigger than the "need to have the fastest 3D card out there" market.
I'm in the market for a new machine, but holding out for new technologies (DDR SDRAM, PIV, new Athlon core) - and I really hope Matrox releases a new card with faster 3D before then. It doesn't have to be just as fast (the difference between 110 fps and 100 fps in QuakeIII is not important to me), just fast enough and with the Matrox tradition of great, sharp images.
When I moved to the US about half a year ago and first visited a Wal-Mart, I found Red Hat Linux and other distributions there. Nothing new about this.
This isn't news - they wanted to get into Red Hat Linux 7, and to do so they needed to have an opensource license. They did their part wrt. licensing, and was shipped as part of the distribution.
More eyes need to see the stories before they are posten, to get rid of low-quality stories and multiple postings of the same story
Check the stories before posting
No need to post almost identical stories 3-4 times the same week
Check the stories before posting
Did i mention: Check the story? Of course, that would kill some of the large articles (e.g. the "2500 bugs" one, which turned out to be "everything", including enhancements, suggestions/ bug on the website, crossplatform RPM issues, lots of entries on bugzilla etc. etc)
The kernel depends on compiler-specific behaviour in many places, which is why e.g. 2.95 isn't blessed as a kernel compiler. Most of these dependencies are removed from the 2.4.0test series, but there might be cases hiding in the code still
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Of course not:
Technically, there has never been any doubt that this was the correct thing to do. Politically, things should have been handled better.
Some PCMCIA cards won't work anymore (kernel-related)... There was a lot of changes to PCMCIA since 2.2.x, it's now part of the mainstream kernel.
Upgrades have a very slim chance of working - you'll get your machine upgraded, but networking is broken afterwards.
Even in previous releases, this stuff wasn't installed if you chose "Workstation"
All of those services are turned off by default in the beta - openssh is up and running, but not much more than that. And there's even a firewall setup during install
$1k/license isn't that much if you can save developer time... the unanswered question is how much (if any) time is saved, whether or not it is buggy and if it is easy to interoperate with other elements of the system, like a database. And if you could do it in another way, like switching to python.
Having something like this around might be very useful for penetration on certain kinds of corporate desktops - those were you have people punching in or extracting data from custom applications.
RPM is better than deb - you're confusing the package format with the layer above, apt.
Currently, up2date is better than apt at updating systems (signed packages, authentication of both server and client, encrypted communication) while apt is better at installing new packages (which up2date doesn't do yet).
I'm not thinking of cross compiling, I'm thinking about standard benchmarks and applications in native mode. Compile it whatever way you can to improve performance.
I don't see any reason to use the same compiler - it's the end result which matters. If a company spends more money on taking advantage of the chip, they can spend less on chip development/manufacturing and still give the end user a good result.
As for the price tag, $4k isn't that high when comparing to other server chips like Alpha, UltraSparc.
Our installer is written from scratch in python.
We already ship tools for automac update (up2date), and has done so for some time.
Just run "up2date -u", and it will update your system from the command line.
It can be configured with up2date-config, so if you just want to download the packages or mark certain packages to be skipped you can easily do that as well.
Red Hat (and almost all the other distributions) use RPM because it works well and is a better and more flexible package format than deb. You're probably confusing "rpm being superior to deb" (package format) with "apt is cool" (distribution of packages)
RPMs, in contrast to .deb, has cryptographically signed packages (and has had so for ages), flexible and reproducible building method (look at a spec file, they really tell you how to build a package), separated patches(I've seen people claim than .deb can do this, but as long as the packages distributed with Debian don't seem to do this I'll believe that as an urban legend). Take a look at a SRPM and a Debian source package - there's really no competition.
The up2date service has been changed, and no longer uses that directory - it's now a part of Red Hat Network. I like the new program better - I never liked the old one, so I didn't use it much. The new version works nicely, and I use it on my private machines.
It has been released for some time now - look for up2date 2.1.7
As for emails, who did you send them to?
The current version of Red Hat Linux is 7, which uses XFree 4 support for ATI Rage 128 cards - try it, the support is vastly improved, you even get accelerated 3D out of the box :)
You can still find SPARC in rawhide, if that's what you want
George Bush sr. also did a mostly good job, and I was surprised when he wasn't reelected - he had won a war, economy was on it's way back on track.
But Reagan doing a good job? The Iran-Contras deal was actually important (which the witch hunt with Clinton wasn't - the Republicans looked like idiots from overseas ), the debt got huge and the economy wasn't good.
I don't know much about Carter, but Nixon is mostly remembered for "I'm not a criminal" and Watergate.
Conclusion: The competition for "most successful president" isn't that hard :)
No, that was not the conclusion - there wasn't any (besides, Tiemann is CTO (and from the former Cygnus, the main force behind gcc) and not CEO)
It was the right decision - it fixes bugs, gives better C++ compatibility and actually works on some platforms. "C++ binary compatibility" is FTTB an oxymoron, no loss. We should have handled the political side better, but the technical reasons (which are by far the most important ones) are valid.
Well, he certainly hasn't done a good job in Texas and no matter what happens: He didn't win the election - the people didn't want him.
As a foreigner, it's strange to see the US election system - the system is weird (saying "Florida votes for Bush" or "Florida votes for Gore" doesn't make sense, when the result is about as 50-50 as it can get) and the execution (the part of the people actually voting, thousands contested votes, a result clearly within the margin of error (which for some reason is very large)) is on the same level as a third world country.
And it never ceases to amaze me that in the choice between a well-educated, intelligent, proven person who's been part of the most successful administration for decades and a not very bright, but "likable", person with a very bad track record it's almost 50-50.
Sure - several good 21 inch screens support 2048x1536 @ 75 Hz. At about $1000, they aren't too expensive - I'd rather spend more on the monitor and less on the system.
It looks like you just doesn't get his point - that every new Intel processor family has been met with criticism. Later, it usually died off.
The P4 isn't that much faster than the PIII for many applications, but the architecture gives room to increase the frequency a lot more - which will give it enough speed to outspeed the PIII on all tasks and compete with the Athlon, something the PIII wasn't able to do anymore.
It doesn't seem to run most common apps much faster, but those really doesn't matter much - most office tasks aren't even remotely CPU bound. P4 does introduce SSE2, which has the potential to speed up many operations when utilized. And it vastly increases memory bandwith from the PIII, which has been a chokepoint
Would I buy one now? No. RAMBUS memory is way overpriced, and from a company I detest. The chip will go to 2 GHz and a shrink soon, DDR-supporting chipsets will be released - at that time, it might be a good alternative.
The Matrox G450 is a nice card for big markets, who care much about razor sharp and fast 2D - with 3D being much less of an issue. And the business market is probably bigger than the "need to have the fastest 3D card out there" market.
I'm in the market for a new machine, but holding out for new technologies (DDR SDRAM, PIV, new Athlon core) - and I really hope Matrox releases a new card with faster 3D before then. It doesn't have to be just as fast (the difference between 110 fps and 100 fps in QuakeIII is not important to me), just fast enough and with the Matrox tradition of great, sharp images.
When I moved to the US about half a year ago and first visited a Wal-Mart, I found Red Hat Linux and other distributions there. Nothing new about this.
This isn't news - they wanted to get into Red Hat Linux 7, and to do so they needed to have an opensource license. They did their part wrt. licensing, and was shipped as part of the distribution.
- Check the stories before posting
- More eyes need to see the stories before they are posten, to get rid of low-quality stories and multiple postings of the same story
- Check the stories before posting
- No need to post almost identical stories 3-4 times the same week
- Check the stories before posting
Did i mention: Check the story? Of course, that would kill some of the large articles (e.g. the "2500 bugs" one, which turned out to be "everything", including enhancements, suggestions/ bug on the website, crossplatform RPM issues, lots of entries on bugzilla etc. etc)The kernel depends on compiler-specific behaviour in many places, which is why e.g. 2.95 isn't blessed as a kernel compiler. Most of these dependencies are removed from the 2.4.0test series, but there might be cases hiding in the code still