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The release I'm burning right now has grown to 270-odd MB. That includes graphicics for all the possible products, plus some AVI animation, plus a complete Linux install, plus the application I wrote, plus, oh, stuff and things and wibbly bits.

It's still a disk and a half smaller than the corresponding Windows-based product, in no small part because Windows takes up a CD by itself and the graphics for the Windows product appear to be uncompressed BMPs (mine are the same files converted to PNG).

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Tatu: All The Things She Said

There's an article over at Infoweek (referenced by Dan Gillmor, in turn referenced by Karlin Lillington, which is how I stumbled across it) about how Fred Langa tried to install Linux on new (but unnamed) hardware and couldn't get the sound working. Fair enough; sound support in Linux is lamentable in places, particularly if you're trying to get real-time sound/video sync going on, but also if you've got stuff like the emu10k1-based cards that aren't documented because, you know, frobbing the speaker is a trade secret and all that. Langa then went to try a Virtual PC running on the hardware, emulating a SoundBlaster, and lo, 8 different Linux distros still refused to work the sound interface. The followups to the article appear to be the usual flood of kneejerk responses ("Infoweak", "What do you expect from a windows user" "sure, sound is broken, but have you tried running Windows$version on $esoteric_hardware" etc. etc.) but in typical Linux flamer style there's no actual thought behind the posts. Me, I had a look at the article Langa references when he mentions the Virtual PC software, and lo, it's a review of Microsoft's Virtual PC. Now, why on earth would a bog-standard SoundBlaster interface fail to work under Linux? Could it perhaps be because Someone Doesn't Want It To Work? (mutter mutter where's me tinfoil hat mutter mutter millennium hand and shrimp I telled 'em)

Current Mood: cynical
Current Music: MiniITX box. really must do something with that.

Darl McBride: Pesky commie Europeans are stealing my IP by using Linux!.

Apparently The low quality of fonts on Linux operating systems has been a thorn in the side of Linux users for years. I can't say I'd noticed while reading this; something to do with Red Hat's rather tidy integration of the Xft bits in Red Hat 9, I guess.

Current Mood: bemused
Current Music: Tenacious D: Wonderboy

So, the project that I spent my first year at Doolin working on, and which has been on hiatus for a few months - migrating large chunks of a Windows network to Samba on Linux - is officially dead. The company in question is migrating everything to either 2K or 2K3 by the end of February. Not out of lack of performance or stability from the Linux end, either, but simply because (a) the company has no in-house Linux people other than the guy we've put there on long-term loan, and (b) a new director insists that Windows is the Way Of The Future.

I'm glad to see the end of the project, but sad that it happened this way.

Current Mood: blah

echo "<dir>/home/waider/crossover/support/dotwine/fake_windows/Windows/Fonts</dir>" >> ~/.fonts.conf

Current Mood: geeky

Judge tells SCO to put their cards on the table. Now the fun starts.

sheesh, that's a bit strong. never mind the variety of wrongness.

Current Music: Various: Mea Culpa

HP to indemnify Linux customers. Yay!

Since it appears that nobody bothered reading Red Hat's release notes for Red Hat 9, let me quote the following:

The following packages have been removed from Red Hat Linux 9:
- WindowMaker - Developer resource constraints
- Xft - Integrated into XFree86
- Xtest - No longer required by Anaconda
- anonftp - functionality pulled into vsftpd package
- bdflush - No longer required (needed by 2.2 kernels only)
- fileutils - Replaced by coreutils
- fortune-mod - Unclear copyright status
- gkermit - Replaced by ckermit
- ipvsadm - No longer part of Red Hat Linux product profile
- kbdconfig - Replaced by redhat-config-keyboard
- kernel-uml - Experimental package, removed
- ksymoops - No longer required by kernel
- libelf - Replaced by elfutils
- librpm404 - No longer required compatibility library
- libxml10 - No longer required compatibility library
- mouseconfig - Replaced by redhat-config-mouse
- openldap12 - No longer required compatibility library
- openssl095a - No longer required compatibility library
- orbit-python - Replaced by pyorbit
- php-dbg-base - Not used within distribution
- php-dbg-client - Not used within distribution
- php-dbg-server - Not used within distribution
- redhat-switchmail - Renamed to redhat-switch-mail
- rhmask - Red Hat no longer distributes rhmask files
- rpm2html - Deprecated by author
- sh-utils - Replaced by coreutils
- stat - Replaced by coreutils
- textutils - Replaced by coreutils
- timeconfig - Replaced by redhat-config-date
- whois - Replaced by jwhois
- wine - Developer resource constraints
- wmapm - Part of Windowmaker removal
- wmclock - Part of Windowmaker removal
- wmix - Part of Windowmaker removal
- wu-ftpd - vsftpd is the recommended FTP daemon
- xtoolwait - Not used within distribution

This has been a public service announcement on behalf of IRRADIATED WAIDERS INC. Thank you for your attention.

Current Mood: irritated
Current Music: 8 mile soundtrack

Ernie Ball Guitar Strings went all open source. This explains why, which is far more interesting than the rather humdrum fact that the switch to open source has gone swimmingly. Especially interesting is that the BSA has a Congress-approved guarantee that anyone they pursue has to pay their legal fees.

Current Mood: curious

From Darl McBride, president and CEO of The SCO Group:

Though we possess broad legal rights, we plan to use these carefully and judiciously.

Interesting interpretation of "carefully and judiciously".

An old colleague gave me a choice quote today, which I can't reproduce verbatim due to the fact that it's being published in his trade publication shortly and I'm sure there are issues of copyright and what not, but the gist of the quote is that a chap from SCO says of the Linux lawsuit that a win for SCO will be a win for IP and capitalism, while a loss will be a victory for the socialist or communist ideas behind Linux.

Yes, socialist and communist.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Nickelback: Too Bad

Novell ports file & print services to Linux. I guess that's why they wanted to get involved in the SCO/IBM fight.

SCO said it will reveal in June the Unix code has been copied into Linux, but only to select people, such as independent analysts who have signed nondisclosure agreements. It won't share that code publicly, saying the Unix code is proprietary.

Also, they say they "probably won't" sue Linus Torvalds.

HELLO, EARTH CALLING SCO...

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Bren, moth around a flame

LUFS is one of the neatest geekthings I've seen in quite a while. Not just what it does right now, but the sheer potential. Remember when Mosaic made all the world just a click away? This is a filesystem-layer Mosaic, given enough abuse. As is, it supports ftp, ssh and so help me, gnutella. Which is just WRONG, but in an amazingly good way. Gibber.

It's nice that Red Hat gave us subscriber folks early access to the ISO files of Red Hat 9, but given that it's going to take me about a week to download the thing at the current rate (8K/sec, when I can get a connection) I don't think it's much more than a nice thought.

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Entries tagged with linux

disksizing

it ain't done until Lotus won't run

will someone please slap some sense into this idiot?

fontification

well then!

the web as it should be, sorta

now that's more like it!

la la la linux distro abuse

HP sides with Linux

public service announcement

heavy-handed tactics

SCO: All Your Base, etc. etc. etc.

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ulterior motives

we'd tell you, but then we'd have to kill you

Woah! COOL!

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