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  1. Shake is a Mac only application. I'm not sure how you would get it to run in Linux. Probably not possible since it relies on OS X' cocoa environment.

     

    But what puzzles me is that you have exe files. .exe is the Windows executable file format. You can run them using WINE (and some luck) - but Shake shouldn't have them.

  2. Interesting move. I wonder what the uptake on these will be. Red Hat is pretty dominant on the server side with good enterprise-level support and certified partners that help pull in the big guys. When it comes to the desktop though, Linux is still nowhere, but it seems the big shift we've all been waiting for has begun.

     

    With pre-installed boxes possibly holding the answer to cracking business customers, I guess it'll be a two-horse race between Ubuntu on Dell and Red Hat.

  3. On a server it is always a good idea to shut off the ports you don't need imho.

     

    Remember that in Linux iptables is your firewall tool, things like Shorewall are just applications that address iptables. So if you can get your head around iptables you can go direct and cut out the middle-man :P

     

    EDIT: Blocking off port 25 will not stop you from reading email from web-sites, no. Since that just needs your http and https ports to be open (80 and... 443... if I remember correctly)

  4. FreeBSD.

     

    James

    I honestly don't think you can put FreeBSD above Linux and Mac as a desktop replacement. Besides, the article would've been pretty much the same for FBSD as it was for Linux, so why bother to write them both up?

     

    When it comes to open source desktop systems, Ubuntu is by far the best for n00bs, imho.

  5. Very comprehensive article. My personal choice is, of course, OS X for desktop systems. My personal productivity on a Mac is at least triple what it was in Linux and blows Windows out of the water completely.

     

    It would be interesting to see the real figures of how many people are switching as a direct result of Vista.

  6. The post triggered deja'vu, so i searched up to find some articles, so while the inquirer may not be the best, i do remember it being reported elsewhere.

     

    smh is a reliable resource, the better newspaper here :)

     

    James

    I was just adding my opinion of the Inquirer as an aside - you know me, can't keep my mouth shut :P

     

    I think Acer's move is out of desperation - they're up poo creek at the moment in terms of sales. Maybe it's because they make such dodgy machines.

     

    EDIT: That is, of course, if this is even happening. The Inquirer article points to a website with no such advertisement and is extrapolating based on one supposed advert for an Acer with Ubuntu on it. I'll be surprised if Acer is even considering it. And lets not forget that we are dealing with the most retarded news site in the world here...

  7. The Inquirer is, imho, the worst news disseminator on the Internet. Their website is ugly and their news is not fact checked, makes blind, sweeping statements and they just generally suck. If the Inquirer says something, the opposite is usually true.

  8. You know what the weird thing is - Microsoft probably still aren't worried. They're happily banking on Ballmer's delusional claims of a 1 billion Windows install base by the end of the year and continuing to try and fragment Linux on the server. Meanwhile the carpet is slowly being pulled out from under them.

  9. Well obviously if you want to add your own apps it's not for you. They designed it for people who need a simple computing service - not power users who want to hack their boxes.

     

    So if you don't need it, don't buy it - but that doesn't make it a bad solution.

  10. The site says it costs $99 with a $12.50 subscription, which is optional, but necessary to keep the unit up to date.

     

    Why bother with MCNL? It comes with a custom Linux-based OS that seems pretty cool. I don't think it'll take too kindly to other OSes... but I could be wrong.

     

    Looks like an awesome box and service, but I'd have to play with one before making up my mind.

  11. You can install software packages from the Mandriva Control Centre.

     

    Also, to get the latest versions of software and a ton of other packages, set up your repositories using our Easy Urpmi facility - the link is at the top of this page.

     

    Urpmi is the package manager in Mandriva. It can be accessed from the Control Centre or invoked via the terminal.

     

    Welcome to the board :)

  12. Humm, ok, I'll give Ubuntu live cd a try, but only to see if it would be good to a Linux newb.

    Over the years I have tried Ubuntu and Kubuntu several times and it always has frustrated me even more than Slack, I like pure Debian better. The longest it has stayed installed on my box was three days.

    I agree with you on Ubuntu - but I think it's because you're an advanced user. I can't use Ubuntu as my main distro - I prefer Gentoo. BUT - for newbs, Ubuntu is really good. They can always move onto full Debian or Gentoo or Arch or something else at a later stage.

  13. I know you don't want to use Ubuntu, but I'd rethink that decision if I was you. The Ubuntu live CD is the best I've seen, especially with what you can do with it "out of the box".

     

    For newbies I doubt you'll find anything better than Ubuntu. And because it has a seriously robust kernel I haven't seen other live CD distributions with the same level of hardware detection accuracy and support.

  14. So on patent infringement, those users especially corporate who have signed up for indemnity no longer care... they are no longer going to worry about the unlikely event of MS actually doing anything which as you say is unlikely anyway...

    again, don't think it matters... companies sign up for insurance not because they are planning or even expect a hurricane/fire etc. but because of the possibility... so MS is unlikely to ever call on this? EVEN if they had found one patent... because the uncertainty, fear and doubt is much more useful to them..

    If you buy a car and two dealers have almost exactly the same price .. down to cents and one has a " year return for any reason" clause and the other not nearly everyone will take the one with the insurance included. Almost all corporate buyers will because the guy who is doing the purchasing doesn't want to be the guy who turns this down and finds a problem later. It doesn't even matter if the dealer in question is known to be a bit of a "used car salesman" and the other a reputable dealer because of the possibility, that guy doesnt want it coming back that he turned down the insurance...

    Not completely. Consider Red Hat for example - if you buy RHEL from them they will offer you insurance themselves. They have undertaken to cover all of their customers for patent infringement. And, of course, they have not signed with MS and never will.

     

    There are more than one ways to skin a cat ;)

  15. I think running an open source, free, KDE Qt application is preferable to trying to get a windows executable to run through wine. It seems like krosswordplayer does everything you want it to.

    And I'm pretty sure across lite isn't in the Mandriva rpm repositories, at least not the standard ones.

    Well there are always alternatives, but sometimes you find that one app that you really prefer using. For me it's Adobe Audition (previously Cool Edit). Yes, there is other good software out there, but I just can't get things done as well with them as I can with Audition. I know its ins and outs, where to find everything and I like its interface, GUI, etc. So when I ask how to get it running I don't want to hear about alternatives - otherwise I would have asked ;)

     

    So let's stick to skyhawk's topic of getting Across running.

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