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We should tell the pirates what happened to Ernie Ball: http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html Anyone saying "nail your boss"?

This is worse than I thought. A proposal from a close-door meeting can sidestep a previous one with open discussion, negotiation, albeit compromised with understanding from both sides of the issues, what happened to the EU Parliament or her members' belief in democracy and legitimacy? Crap, let's support the Online Protest again, only this time it is not just about Patent issue; it has also become an issue of favoring close-door black box operation when rational and understanding discussions was conducted openly beforehand.

> There are 2 problems: > > 1) The animations that any flash contains are toooooooo slow.... Check it out: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=12555

OpenOffice.org Writer or AbiWord. OpenOffice.org is getting better and better. I believe it is what you are looking for: http://www.kirkmcpike.com/column/archive/2...5.04/index.html

"Support" has many meanings, but I doubt every vendor can provide the same level of support like IBM or Sun did for their UNIX/Solaris. I remember reading an article where the Solaris support team was helping ILM to hack the Solaris Kernel so that special effect rendering computation could be done faster to meet a post-production deadline. Could Red Hat have the same expertise for Linux Kernel? OK, maybe I drag off the topic a bit, but sometimes it is the little work that makes all the difference. Desktop customization is another realm to explore.

The guy needs to straight up his point: is he criticizing Red Hat, or criticizing Linux, or criticizing open source? An unclear message is worse than no message. B)

Microsoft is NOT trustable as a business partner, that's for sure. The question is whether we have real alternatives to the tool set and software chain people depending on for their business and daily operations? I don't see we have back in 1999-2001 (the time the anti-trust trial started, at one point Microsoft was threatening to pull Windows 9x and 2000 off the retail shelves if it is forced to separate IE browser from the OS). Now I clearly see we do have alternatives. The problem is the level of service, can we match Microsoft in the level of support? And can new software be developed faster using the open source tool chain? On the server side, the answer is probably yes (look at the Apache, Tomcat and the recent Geronimo opensource J2EE server release). On the desktop side, well that's a question we need to ask ourselves.

There is business who should work on customization now that you have the source and a set of management tools (albeit still configuring text files). For example, if you deploy Linux on Desktop in libraries or internet cafe, you should customize, say if you set it up as KDE, that users are not allowed to use console (so those Ctrl-T shortcut in Konqueror should be disabled); Or that he is only limited to browse the /home/username directory. If you have seen those customized IE (probably by Microsoft Technical support team), you cannot get new instance (by Ctrl-N) in IE as it is disabled, and in this way you can ensure cafe customers only do what you allow them without messing up the system. These are just examples, and perhaps you may not agree with such policy, but the point remains there is a lot of customization to be done for different sets of environments. Customers want things that work at an acceptable price. Pushing fancy and bloated features is probably for home users, but in many working environment users do not really need that, or prefer not to have that. There should also be new jobs for firms who have expertise in cross-platform development. No one is going to leave Windows market anytime soon. It is better, if possible, to manage the same codebase for two platforms (Windows and Linux). Bruce Perens is still using Quicken on Windows (the only application he needs on that platform), but to Quicken developers, maintaining two ports could be costly without revenue justification. If cross-platform toolkit and expertise is there, I see you can get a business from them (they are probably doing internal evaluation on Linux port right now). If you really think about how Linux can meet customer requirement, I am quite sure you can find business somewhere. Now, there is still some problems to be solved in internalization, otherwise Linux is able to gain support in multi-national enterprise. It just need to meet their demands on getting the job done.

What if you want to run GNU/Linux atop a Windows platform or try Linux without installing it on a partition itself, thereby preserving — and not even rebooting — your Windows system? Don't worry; VMware and Virtual PC are not your only choices. A new free software project called coLinux, or Cooperative Linux, lets you do nearly everything User-mode Linux does on Windows 2000 or XP: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/...29/colinux.html Moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman

No, it looks like many of those books are not legal, as they were never posted in any Open Content License nor distributed as free by the author/publisher. FreeTechBooks has some information over legally hosted e-books I have known: http://www.tcfb.com/freetechbooks/index.html

What's the Kernel 2.6 issue with Ti 4200 ? But anyway, the 4KB Kernel stack patch to be introduced in 2.6.6 will break nVidia close source driver: http://lwn.net/Articles/80290/ Well, nVidia will need to fix it with a new driver release later I presume.

Looks like the APIC and ACPI still have loads of problem to deal with.

It's always the stuff in development that's interesting. :D Yeah, nobody knows whether the next stable Kernel will be called 2.8 or 3.0, but 2.7 as the development Kernel is for sure.

In so far, it's not clear he has such influence to average mortals yet. However, I'll speculate if Kernel 2.7 can surpass the capability of Solaris or even High-end UNIX, then the computing scene will be changed forever. Linux, is no longer just cheaper, but the most powerful OS kernel in the world. Now then it will be clear that he (to be fair, with his team of Kernel hackers) will be one of the most influential person (or group) in this world.

You can try Damn Small Linux: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

This sucks. PCLinuxOnline got hacked again.....

Nice banner, my Screenshot homepage is temporary replaced with this banner until April 14.

Did you encounter stability or any weird issue when enabling SBA and Fast Write?

Wow, you are rich B) .

I see no problem with that, unless the distro in your choice has applied for a trademark rights like Red Hat.

A screenshot to illustrate the issue will be nice.

Well, I am not sure if it's relevant but on Windows you can actually do that with PDFCreator, an open source pdf generator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator

I think it could be some configuration/driver issues rather than the GF4 MX chipset being crappy though. Its 3D performance should be at least on the level of GF2/GF2 MX.

It should be supported: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer....=HP-LaserJet_5P Make sure CUPS is started during the booting process.

You should get score better than 320 FPS with GeForce 4 MX. However, it also depends on the resolution you are testing it with. My GeForce 2 MX shows 900 FPS with glxgears. Note: Some version of nVidia driver is buggier than others, this sucks. Make sure you test with glxgears when you upgrade to a new version. I remember using 1.0-4623 (beta), glxgears dropped to 500 FPS..... Also, set your desktop / in-game screen color depth to 24bit. It will speed up things as well. As for DRI s3tc patch, there is some progress in the making: http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@list...t/msg14895.html http://vayne.fdns.net/presario.html