Re: Novell and Microsoft

2006-11-12 Thread Julian Daich
El vie, 10-11-2006 a las 22:16 +1100, Amos Shapira escribió: On 10/11/06, Julian Daich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El vie, 10-11-2006 a las 11:01 +0200, Oron Peled escribió: Yes, but copyright law is not the only game in town. The deal talks specifically about

Re: Novell and Microsoft

2006-11-12 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12/11/06, Julian Daich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To quote from the link you give: entitling customers to support and maintenance for Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server. That doesn't sound like Distribution Rights. It looks like MS will be another sales channel for Novell.Sales channels are

[HAIFUX LECTURE] KVM

2006-11-12 Thread Eli Billauer
This Monday (13.11.06), at 18:30, Haifa Linux Club will gather to hear Avi Kivity talk about KVM (Kernel Based Virtual Machine) KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a new virtualization hardware driver for Linux. kvm allows one to run multiple virtual machines (guests) on a single

Re: Novell and Microsoft

2006-11-12 Thread Julian Daich
El sáb, 11-11-2006 a las 20:16 +0200, Oron Peled escribió: Julian Daich said that some 300M$ is too much money for a patent agreement because suing Linux companies won't get you as much money. He is just doing the wrong math: * The growth of the Linux market does a lot more damage to MS.

Low end display card

2006-11-12 Thread Chen Levy
Hi all. Is nVidia is still considered to be the best Linux/X11 supported card with 3D acceleration for under 50$? I need to replace my broken old AGP connected card. Thanks, Chen. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Low end display card

2006-11-12 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
I'll be joining that question. The Intel 3D drivers (http://intellinuxgraphics.org/) look promising but I couldn't find any standalone AGP cards with the Intel chipset (only laptops and on-board graphics). Chen Levy wrote: Hi all. Is nVidia is still considered to be the best Linux/X11

[OT] Need to borrow a CF sleeve for an ipaq 36xx-38xx series

2006-11-12 Thread Tal Achituv
Hi, I need to recover a damaged ipaq and for that I require a ComactFlash sleeve. If you own one of these and don't mind lending it to me for a day or two please contact me directly. Thanks, Tal.

Re: Low end display card

2006-11-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Ok, I'll answer to you both: Intel 3D graphics sucks, both in terms of performance and both in terms of drivers. I have here i845 chipset and it's 3D has lots of problems (I did some tests with the X11 OpenGL screensavers, many of them only show in the upper half of the screen, no matter how

Re: Low end display card

2006-11-12 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:16 +0200, Chen Levy wrote: Hi all. Is nVidia is still considered to be the best Linux/X11 supported card with 3D acceleration for under 50$? I need to replace my broken old AGP connected card. Thanks, Chen. If you're willing to use closed source, binary

Re: Low end display card

2006-11-12 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:56:42PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: NVidia on the other hand has very good and stable 3D under XFree/Xorg, although the drivers are closed source if you care about this issue. I have NVidia based cards running on several Linux servers and they all work fine. Both the

Re: Low end display card

2006-11-12 Thread Julian Daich
El dom, 12-11-2006 a las 15:17 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson escribió: On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:56:42PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: NVidia on the other hand has very good and stable 3D under XFree/Xorg, although the drivers are closed source if you care about this issue. I have NVidia

Re: Novell and Microsoft

2006-11-12 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 12 בNovember 2006 12:10, Amos Shapira wrote: PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH - the NTFS isn't covered by any patent, You determinism has nothing to build upon. Some reading will help put your claims into proper perspective: Like a submarine, it stays under water, i.e., unpublished, for

Re: Novell and Microsoft

2006-11-12 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13/11/06, Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, 12 בNovember 2006 12:10, Amos Shapira wrote: PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH - the NTFS isn't covered by any patent,You determinism has nothing to build upon. Some reading willhelp put your claims into proper perspective: Like a submarine, it

Re: [SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.

2006-11-12 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12/11/06, Eddie F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all,I've been ask the question by a friend about what alternatives to cpiothere might be, for backing up to a tape drive and keeping symboliclinks preserved. Had a bit of a dig around on Google, but haven't had much luck... Any suggestions?tar(1)?

Re: Novell and Microsoft

2006-11-12 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sunday 12 November 2006 21:02, Oron Peled wrote: PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH - the NTFS isn't covered by any patent, You determinism has nothing to build upon. Some reading will help put your claims into proper perspective: Is it at all possible for people on this list to accept the

Re: [SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.

2006-11-12 Thread Ariel Biener
On Monday 13 November 2006 00:21, Amos Shapira wrote: much luck... Any suggestions? Does he wanna backup files, or a file system (using dump for example). And, I think Linux cpio supports symlinks, doesn't it ? --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP:

Re: [SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.

2006-11-12 Thread Amos Shapira
Sorry, wrong list.On 13/11/06, Ariel Biener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 13 November 2006 00:21, Amos Shapira wrote: much luck... Any suggestions?Does he wanna backup files, or a file system (using dump for example). And,I think Linux cpio supports symlinks, doesn't it ? --Ariel -- Ariel

Re: Novell and Microsoft

2006-11-12 Thread Julian Daich
El dom, 12-11-2006 a las 21:02 +0200, Oron Peled escribió: This is just an example of a company that abused the patent system for years. It opponents were not RedHat, Suse or some IGLU members, but some pretty big corporates (Infineon, Hyundai, etc.) and still, it managed to manipulate them

Sound card for linux

2006-11-12 Thread Moshe Gorohovsky
Hi linux-il subscribers. Can you recommend a PCI sound card that is currently available in Israel and works well with both linux (with ALSA drivers in linux kernel 2.6.5 till current 2.6.18) and windows (win2000 / winXP) ? Please write about your experience with the sound card, did you need to