zero0w

Michael is very persistent, and he is actively seeking marketing channels for desktop Linux (thru supermarket chain, "bundle" image on shipping Segate hard-drive by default, etc.). While I may not like the distro, I must admit he's truly behind it, unlike other vendors who danced around the idea, or keeping a low profile on it. I tend to believe Lindows and SuSE will make great stride in the future.

I avoid ATI purchases because of their poor Linux support despite promises a year ago.

From what I heard, the Linux driver developer at ATI refused to move to Canada (he's in Germany with the FireGL team I believe), so the Linux driver effort is sort of stalling right now.

You can skip the survey wizard.

OS X and Linux are both POSIX compliant system, so they have great similarity already.

You will be comparing prices and application available on both platform to make your argument. Of course Linux is moving very fast. Don't forget Mplayer-OSX has its root in Mplayer for Linux.

Looks like I am too optimistic, the trailer at this Movie Guide site would not play.....

http://movies.guide.real.com/

Cool. Got to play with it some more time.

I think Microsoft wants to slow down Linux anyhow.

Never has Microsoft met a rival product that is so prevalent (working on many devices and hence capturing embedded market), and yet it can't steal or hurt it financially because the chief developer is not after profit, and GPL made any stolen derivative (which Microsoft has done to Stacker, OS/2, Softimage and a few other cases) useless and risky if it has to give the modified code back.

If you can understand legal material then this article worths another reading:

http://www.vssp.com/CM/Articles/Articles1016.asp

http://news.com.com/2010-1071-5171635.html

The Unix derivative ownership which SCO claimed to have is objected by Novell in the AT&T agreement as well.

I see, I use the official or third party Mozilla/Firefox tarball binary instead of mdk rpm, so that would account for the difference.

Read Groklaw.

http://www.groklaw.net/

Well, my over-simplified summary is that SCO and its backer such as Microsoft cannot beat Linux on cost or technical merit, so instead they resort to opportunistic legal strategy and try to sue Linux backer and user such as IBM and Autozone to slow it down or cash in from stock speculation. So far, SCO has been inconsistent in its claim, some time SCO said it's a trade-secret issue, and then withdrew this claim and turned it into a contract issue, and then a copyright infringement issue.

IBM now has asked for a partial summary judgment that there's no copyright infringement at all for its contribution to Linux. We shall see how Judge Wells will decide the case in the coming months.

Is removal of /root/.mozilla && /root/.phoenix necesary if I only access Mozilla / Firefox as a normal user account?

I thought it is about removing your old user setting for Mozilla / Firefox, which I did for every new version.

I see, so a re-installation of the package would resolve the problem.

Better upgrade to Mandrake 9.1+ or even 10, because it has GTK-2.x + freetype2 + fontconfig library installed by default.

Try the later path to install the plugin, see if it works.

You have to download a GTK2+XFT build of Mozilla, while the tarball from the official site is X11core build without font anti-alising and that's why you find it look ugly.

You can download precompiled GTK2+XFT build here:

http://www.scottbolander.com/mozilla-xft.html

Or, you can compile a GTK2+XFT build yourself:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6854

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=46205

In my case, soft link works here.

In fact the FlashPlayer 7 RPM would install multiple soft links at different browser paths instead of making several copies of the same plugin files.

Looks like the plugin is installing fine for you.

Maybe you have hit a bug or something, however I have no problem with Mozilla-1.6 on my Mandrake OE 10.

You may want to try a Firefox nightly build to see if the error persists.

Can you post the output of ll (ls -l) in your plugins directory?

Here is mine:

[zero0w@localhost plugins]$ cd /usr/lib/mozilla-1.6/plugins/

[zero0w@localhost plugins]$ ll

total 20

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    39 May 27 23:51 flashplayer.xpt -> /usr/local/flash-plugin/flashplayer.xpt

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    41 May 27 23:51 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/local/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so*

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 20112 Mar 23 00:14 libnullplugin.so*

Try this Prince of Persia Special Edition in Flash, much nostalagia: :D

http://www.princeofpersiagame.com/minigame...lash/index.html

And Windows isn't free.

If it's ok to distribute Disc 4, then I can recommend another ftp mirror from China:

 

i missed this link. sorry zero0w, but we dont permit posting links which give access to cd's that MDK does not give out on it's ftp mirrors - tyme

Don't miss it.

If it's not ok to post CD 4 ISO, then just say so and I would not bother posting it here. :P

Folks, FlashPlayer for Linux 7.0 r25 is released today!

-> Macromedia Flash Player Download Center Linux

The workaround trick I mentioned at this thread is no longer required with this new version.

Now let's see if Flash 7.0 really doubles the performance from 6.0 as Macromedia claimed so in their ads, under Linux.

PS: RPM version will be released later at here:

http://macromedia.mplug.org/

Update: Just hit the news: Macromedia Feeling Lucky with Linux Player

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/artic...cle.php/3359991

Folks, FlashPlayer for Linux 7.0 r25 is released today!

-> Macromedia Flash Player Download Center Linux

-> FlashPlayer 7 RPM

With the new version of Flash plugin, this trick is NO longer required. Enjoy.

PS: To install Flash plugin for multiple browsers, you can simply do by creating symlinks at the {browser path}/plugins directory, for example, here's how I installed FlashPlayer 7 for Linux on Mozilla-1.6 and Firefox:

1. Extract the file install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz

$ tar -zxvf install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz

2. Create a directory, and copy the plugin files into it:

Let's do it as root so we can allow system-wide access of the plugin:

$ su

# mkdir /usr/local/flash-plugin

# cp libflashplayer.so flashplayer.xpt /usr/local/flash-plugin

3. Enable the plugin for the browsers you desire:

# cd {path of browser}/plugins

# rm libflashplayer.so flashplayer.xpt

(Enter this only if there's any prior version existed)

# ln -s /usr/local/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

# ln -s /usr/local/flash-plugin/flashplayer.xpt

For example, in Mandrake 10, I have Mozilla-1.6 and Firefox:

# cd /usr/lib/mozilla-1.6/plugins

# ln -s /usr/local/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

# ln -s /usr/local/flash-plugin/flashplayer.xpt

 

# cd /usr/local/firefox/plugins

# ln -s /usr/local/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

# ln -s /usr/local/flash-plugin/flashplayer.xpt

Finish! :D

Note: If you don't want to bother with installing plugins w/ these commands, you can just use the RPM package.

I installed Kernel source in Mdk 10 OE by:

# urpmi kernel-source

Then it asked me to insert CD 3 for the kernel-source rpm.

Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together:

http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/