Most all packages are going to be updated so you're going to end up downloading it all in the end. While yum/apt-get serve a purpose they dont save you a whole lot of bandwidth when upgrading your entire distro.
Not to mention that I would like to have a DVD of the newly released distro to install on new conmputers and lend to friends and co-workers.
The current Fedora Core 2 DVD ISO is about 5GB beast. It would sure be nice to only have to download a 500MB Fedore Core 3 DVD ISO patch when FC3 does become available later this year.
Nvidia drivers support XvMC extensions. This allows me to watch HDTV video clips even with a relatively weak CPU. Last time I checked ATI's drivers did not support XvMC under Linux. Briefly looking through the release notes, it doesn't look like this has changed. NVIDIA is still the card to get for people wishing to play high def video content smoothly under Linux.
I really like KDE. However I love Gnome Terminal. It allows me to *really* make a it a fullscreen app. No sliding bars or menus there to distract me and take away precious screen space. I couldn't get Konsole to do this. Also I tried using Gnome Terminal under KDE and it had a few problems. It has been a while and I forget exactly what those problems were.
Once Konsole is as good as Gnome Terminal, I am making the switch to KDE full-time.
For those who do not know, Daniel is a overly Microsoft friendly reporter. He has written several anti-Linux articles and has been very pro-SCO in the Linux Vs. SCO battle. He has written masterpieces like the "What SCO Wants SCO Gets" available at:
http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/18/cz_dl_0618linux.h tml
Daniel Lyons of Frobes is up there with Laura Didio and Rob Enderle when it comes to having a clue about anything. These people are mostly pens for hire who will do or say anything to make a buck. I would highly encourage the Slashdot editors to put these people on ignore.
Intel provides excellent Linux support for Itanium. Also if you use the Intel compiler, which Lawrence Livermore does, you get considerable speed boost on Intel CPUs.
up2date in Fedora Core Test 2 was really really buggy. I could never get it to work behind a proxy. It would freeze every single time and I had to kill -9 it. That is after I correctly filled out the proxy server field and port. Mozilla and other apps that use a proxy server worked correctly.
Fedora team needs a lot of time to integrate SELinux well. Test 2 release was horrible horrible mess. When SELinux locked me out of my own box that is when I decided to format the partition and never touch Test 2 Fedora again.
I am downloading Test 3 and hoping that it is better.
> The saddest part is that this money goes to lawyers and only lawyers
There are many in the Linux community like myself who could see what was going on and shorted SCO stock when it was in the high teens. Since then SCO stock has come tumbling down and has made us A LOT of money. This money came from people who directly supported the SCO scam by buying their stock. I am going to get extra enjoyment out of spending this cash. I have donated some of my winnings in the SCO lottery to various opensource causes including Groklaw and will do more of that in the future.
There are approximately 2.5m shares of SCO that have been sold short. That is 36% of total shares floating. This is huge. IBM in comparison has 0.8% of its floating shares short.
Microsoft is desperate. They want to "attack Linux at all costs and on all fronts". Their own FUD schemes have not been working well. So they got desperate and pulled this SCO stunt. For a while it seemed to be working. But in the end it may backfire in a big way.
I generally dont spend a lot of time reading parodies, but this one was good. I highly recommend it *after* watching the Darl interview video, posted on news.com front page today. Look for it on the right side of the page.
It is sad that there are businesses that will so easily pay the extortion money. This only encourages others to adopt similar extortion techniques where they make bogus claims and want you to pay up *before* any of their claims have been proven. Maybe if I was as corrupt as SCO management I would also make a claim against your Linux installations and you'd pay me too. Oh well.
And please tell me that you at least got a T-shirt.
My wife and I noticed the cool tablets at the local CompUSA and thought we had to have one. Bought a Compaq/HP TC1000 after much looking around. A week later the coolness effect wore off and wife and I found oursleves fighting over who gets to use the Thinkpad in the house. I eventually ended up eBaying the tablet. I was shocked to see that some people wanted it and bought it from me right away.
My advice is to stay the hell away. These things look cool. Very cool. But they are useless.
After years of trying to build and buy quiet PCs I finally stumbled upon a Dell 400SC. That thing is super quiet and super cheap. I have a few of them. You can pick one up for about $399 and most of the time there is a $100 rebate on them that brings the price down to $299. Free shipping too.
Oh and I do have the completely silent VIA based mini-ITX system also that I boot over the network. But it aint fast. I end up using my Dells most of the time. They are not as quiet as the VIA, but they are *very* quiet.
Here is the unofficial FAQ with tonnes of more information for those interested.
By "decode HDTV streams" I mean if given an HDTV stream (1080i or 720p) a system could decompress the MPEG-2 data and display it on a HDTV capable display at 720p or 1080i resolutions.
I capture my HDTV streams on my Linux system in the garage using the tuner from pchdtv.com. I need to be able to feed these over the network to small, silent devices that can play them in different places in the house. Xbox cannot. This unit can.
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Most all packages are going to be updated so you're going to end up downloading it all in the end. While yum/apt-get serve a purpose they dont save you a whole lot of bandwidth when upgrading your entire distro.
Not to mention that I would like to have a DVD of the newly released distro to install on new conmputers and lend to friends and co-workers.
The current Fedora Core 2 DVD ISO is about 5GB beast. It would sure be nice to only have to download a 500MB Fedore Core 3 DVD ISO patch when FC3 does become available later this year.
Nvidia drivers support XvMC extensions. This allows me to watch HDTV video clips even with a relatively weak CPU. Last time I checked ATI's drivers did not support XvMC under Linux. Briefly looking through the release notes, it doesn't look like this has changed. NVIDIA is still the card to get for people wishing to play high def video content smoothly under Linux.
I really like KDE. However I love Gnome Terminal. It allows me to *really* make a it a fullscreen app. No sliding bars or menus there to distract me and take away precious screen space. I couldn't get Konsole to do this. Also I tried using Gnome Terminal under KDE and it had a few problems. It has been a while and I forget exactly what those problems were.
Once Konsole is as good as Gnome Terminal, I am making the switch to KDE full-time.
Daniel Lyons of Frobes is up there with Laura Didio and Rob Enderle when it comes to having a clue about anything. These people are mostly pens for hire who will do or say anything to make a buck. I would highly encourage the Slashdot editors to put these people on ignore.
Intel provides excellent Linux support for Itanium. Also if you use the Intel compiler, which Lawrence Livermore does, you get considerable speed boost on Intel CPUs.
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See: http://www.llnl.gov/linux/linux_basics.html#compi
Intel can afford to provide little niceties like this. Can AMD? I doubt it.
It recognized my sound card. Suse did not.
Knoppix also recognized my Intel wireless card and configured it properly. Suse did not.
I frankly expected more from Suse.
up2date in Fedora Core Test 2 was really really buggy. I could never get it to work behind a proxy. It would freeze every single time and I had to kill -9 it. That is after I correctly filled out the proxy server field and port. Mozilla and other apps that use a proxy server worked correctly.
In Test 2 and in Fedora Core 1, I could never get the "Lock screen" feature to work.
Did anybody else experience that?
It is a minor annoyance and not a big deal.
Fedora team needs a lot of time to integrate SELinux well. Test 2 release was horrible horrible mess. When SELinux locked me out of my own box that is when I decided to format the partition and never touch Test 2 Fedora again.
I am downloading Test 3 and hoping that it is better.
Here is an interesting insider sales graph for past 12 months:
http://partners.thomsonfn.com/stock_gifs/S-Z/SC
The red arrows are sales by insiders and blue are purchases. Notice how there are no blue arrows.
> The saddest part is that this money goes to lawyers and only lawyers
There are many in the Linux community like myself who could see what was going on and shorted SCO stock when it was in the high teens. Since then SCO stock has come tumbling down and has made us A LOT of money. This money came from people who directly supported the SCO scam by buying their stock. I am going to get extra enjoyment out of spending this cash. I have donated some of my winnings in the SCO lottery to various opensource causes including Groklaw and will do more of that in the future.
There are approximately 2.5m shares of SCO that have been sold short. That is 36% of total shares floating. This is huge. IBM in comparison has 0.8% of its floating shares short.
Microsoft is desperate. They want to "attack Linux at all costs and on all fronts". Their own FUD schemes have not been working well. So they got desperate and pulled this SCO stunt. For a while it seemed to be working. But in the end it may backfire in a big way.
They got them much needed *cash* (over $80 million) from different sources so that SCO could stay alive longer and continue its fights against Linux.
If the Microsoft Windows Media Player doesn't work (it stopped working for me, too much load maybe) try the Real video option. It worked for me.
I generally dont spend a lot of time reading parodies, but this one was good. I highly recommend it *after* watching the Darl interview video, posted on news.com front page today. Look for it on the right side of the page.
Who's up first
Higly entertaining content.
Look for it on the right side of the front page.
It is like SCO is saying that you stole their lawn mower because they heard you have an automobile. As evidence they point to your neighbour's RV.
Yes, it is that crazy.
[Stolen from Yahoos Finance's SCOX Message Board]
It is sad that there are businesses that will so easily pay the extortion money. This only encourages others to adopt similar extortion techniques where they make bogus claims and want you to pay up *before* any of their claims have been proven. Maybe if I was as corrupt as SCO management I would also make a claim against your Linux installations and you'd pay me too. Oh well.
And please tell me that you at least got a T-shirt.
You can pay this guy to say anything. See his website where he even gives an example:
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http://www.enderlegroup.com/products/prod_refer
I am shocked to how much coverage this utterly clueless individual gets on Slashdot.
My wife and I noticed the cool tablets at the local CompUSA and thought we had to have one. Bought a Compaq/HP TC1000 after much looking around. A week later the coolness effect wore off and wife and I found oursleves fighting over who gets to use the Thinkpad in the house. I eventually ended up eBaying the tablet. I was shocked to see that some people wanted it and bought it from me right away.
My advice is to stay the hell away. These things look cool. Very cool. But they are useless.
After years of trying to build and buy quiet PCs I
finally stumbled upon a Dell 400SC. That thing is
super quiet and super cheap. I have a few of them.
You can pick one up for about $399 and most of the
time there is a $100 rebate on them that brings the
price down to $299. Free shipping too.
Oh and I do have the completely silent VIA based
mini-ITX system also that I boot over the network.
But it aint fast. I end up using my Dells most of
the time. They are not as quiet as the VIA, but
they are *very* quiet.
Here is the unofficial FAQ with
tonnes of more information for those interested.
I sold my iPod and bought a Rio Karma. Finally
after 5 mp3 players I have one that I think I will
keep for a while.
I am not going to do a review here as there are
plenty of good reviews of this product on the web
that google will help you find.
However to me this truly remarkable embedded
device based on a free OS says a lot.
I have about 5 of their products, including a
hard drive based MP3 player. What a waste of
money. I am not buy another Creative product.
I have owned an Apple ipod also. Nice mp3 mplayer.
I am loving my new Rio Karma though.
By "decode HDTV streams" I mean if given an HDTV stream (1080i or 720p) a system could decompress the MPEG-2 data and display it on a HDTV capable display at 720p or 1080i resolutions.
I capture my HDTV streams on my Linux system in the garage using the tuner from pchdtv.com. I need to be able to feed these over the network to small, silent devices that can play them in different places in the house. Xbox cannot. This unit can.
And Xbox is *noisy* !