Posted on 06/02/2005 7:09:51 PM PDT by Panerai
I would rather trust an official announcement from the source than an blogster. But that's me.
From what I've been told, the latest version of Gentoo installs much more easily than when I did it. I updated mine, so I don't know the specifics in a fresh install. Either way, it's fun to tinker with....or at least I think so. I also like the commnets I get from people who see and use it at my house. The general consensus among Windows users is that a working, configured Gentoo box is pretty cool, and quite different than anything they're used to seeing.
Of course, an official announcement I would trust more from the source. I thought you were referring to issues with the software itself.
Tinker with what. What types of 'configurations' are you changing?
Not really. I run Maxthon 1.3.1 and get actually more functionality than Firefox, especially the powerful AD Hunter feature that blocks a lot of online ads (and all the spyware/adware that goes along with them).
I'm talking more about loading the apps that you need and making them work with all of the hardware in the box. The biggest challenge to laoding this build was making all my hardware work, but once I got everything working, I can literally do everything I need to do on it, and I now use it for almost everything except digital photography. Getting a particular piece of hardware to work within Linix can sometimes be a challenge. I had a very difficult time getting my wireless NIC to work, and ended up plugging directly into a hub untl I could figure it out. That endeavor forced me into the forums, and opened my eyes to all sorts of little 'tweaks' that can be done.
Thanks for the info- I appreciate it.
I honestly believe the only reason we haven't long-since made the switch to Linux company wide was that the beancounters outsourced our IT support to an MS-only shop as a "cost savings". This was done by the same group that mandated secretaries and engineers got identical systems and couldn't understand why anyone would ever need anything more than the MS Office suite.
The stories I could tell...
"I could care less"
So you do care a little then? ;)
Not at all.
Interesting, in my experience 2K will give you really good uptime, not quite as good as a linux box. If you patch all the time it helps because thats usually a reboot..
the dep issue is fixed from teh linux side, modern installers will grabwhatever deps you need and install them to with onlt a warning to the user. The problem will be getting 3rd party software to include all deps with their releases..
Problem is, the average user cannot track them down, become frustrated and go back to MS.
Interesting, microsoft.com has longer uptime than redhat.com, as of today.
33 days:
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.redhat.com
56 days:
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.microsoft.com
Gee, that's almost twice as long, isn't it?
You have 3200 seats at one site!!?? Where the heck do you work? I know what you mean about pointy haired execs making tech decisions.
"I put together a timeline for your project. I started by reasoning that anything I don't understand is easy to do. Phase One: Design a client-server architecture for our worldwide operations. Time: six minutes." -- PHB to Dilbert.
You use to get up to 7 reinstalls before having to call MS. But with the latest copies of XP non-OEMs you have to call MS everytime you reinstall.
When IE 6 no longer gets the job done, remove it and go to a different browser.
This is great news for browsers like Firefox.
You may want to look at Fedora Corer 3 or Ubuntu/Kubuntu. Both are slick and easy to install.
thats not an os to os comparison, who do you think is running a bigger cluster for their site??
I'm just pointing out facts, like usual. Funny how they always seem to contradict your claims.
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