Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 19:44:49 -0500 The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2003 05:07 pm, Cody Harris wrote: Can someone come up with a few good reasons to switch from XP to Linux? Someone wants to know the pros and cons and why he should switch. -Cody Harris 06/07/03 1. My current system was designed from components I selected in the Spring of 1998. At that time Win98 wasn't out yet, or if it was I didn't have the $100+ to upgrade to it. I did get a copy of Windows NT 4.0 for the ability to run programs in their own space, so that one crashing app wouldn't take down the entire machine. How many flavors of Windows have been released since 1998? Take that number and multiply by $100+ to keep your Operating System current. I spent $80 for Mandrake 9.1 Power Pack, and I've already got it set up to keep the Operating System current from free downloads on the Internet. How much will that save me over the next 5 years if I had stayed with Windows? 2. I have no hard evidence to support this theory, but my gut tells me that the hardware drivers in Linux are tighter code than in Windows. Linux drivers seem to offer better performance than the comparable Windows driver. I speculate this might be because Linux is not a profit driven Operating System. This is significant. The driver writers are not faced with production deadlines. This allows them to take their time, test extensively, and tweak the code to the ninth degree. As a result the code is smaller and more efficient with less logic errors (bugs). I also speculate the Linux driver coders are doing it out of a labor of love. They have the hardware and they want Linux to be able to talk to it. 3. From my very brief look into the Linux world and the Open ?Source? concept, the documentation for the kernel and the drivers are made public to everyone. This allows talented programmers from around the world to develop code that will integrate with another's code. It's a worldwide community of programmers all following the same development guidelines. The final code versions should be very stable given the thousands of users/testers. Windows will never have the ability to have this amount of extensive testing. Summarizing my main selling points are: 1) Linux code is better, and 2) the Linux price is better. However, if you are dealing with computer illiterate people, a version of Windows is probably better since Windows development has evolved to make a desktop that is as human proof as possible. The Other Except to virus-writers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdwriter
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:43:19 +0100 Jan Verstuyft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, My cdwriter doesn't do what I asked him to do. Most of the time, he starts writing, and after a 20 Mb, he stops. And, the funny part is that de leds of capslock and scrollock starts going on/off all the time. For the rest, my machine crashed. I couldn't do anything any more. The command that I use is cdrecord speed=1 dev=0,3,0 -isosize -data cdimage.raw I also tried it without de isosize flag, but it didn't work either. I must be honest, it worked one time. But that's it. Can you help me Kind regards Jan Verstuyft What output do you get from cdrecord -scanbus? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xfce in beta 3
Following up on civileme's post. I kept being really impressed w/ how well the 9.1 beta 3 installer looked and worked and was pleased to see that the MCC network setup had been fixed for those of us w/ out DNS or default gateways, *but* xfce is so borked in b3 - right mouse-button window-listing and selecting useless - that, with regret, I dropped back to 9.0, whre xfce works. This reminds me that everybody on the list who's a Mandrake Club member should remember to use their two weekly votes for the apps they want to see working in 9.1. snip But if you have used 9.1 Beta3, you may have already discovered that bleeding edge can send a wind from your terminal screen to blow your hair back. I wish releases were as nice as that beta. Civileme I have no idea what 9.1 final will be like, but if it is refined from the Beta3 it is going to be great. I have seen fewer problems with that beta than with most of the regular distro releases (except 7.1). One item of annoyance on it is that STILL no one has taken the trouble to adapt Xfce to Mandrake, and it functions poorly with taskbar items that make no sense and no inherent ability to change itself. NO what I am saying is this Beta is the best I have seen among betas and better than a lot of final releases. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SBC Yahoo DSL Problem
I have been running SBC DSL on Mandrake for a couple of years, although I can't speak to what effect the recent upgrade to yahoo-DSL may have. (For once I'm planning not to fix something that isn't broken.) I have had very good luck w/ Roaring Penguin's RP-PPPoE with and without the gui. The rpms are on the distro. The distro uses rp-pppoe to install adsl pppoe networking, but I have always had better luck explicitly installing it. Once installed, execute tkpppoe (or adsl-setup from CLI) as root and it will walk you through setting up your ADSL connection. Since you're installing from the mdk rpms, it will even show up on the Mandrake 9.0 menu under Networking Remote Acess. HTH, Scott On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 15:47:07 -0800 MRE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone on this list been successful getting Mandrake 9.0 or RH8.0 to work on SBC Yahoo DSL? I had been using DirectvInternet DSL for over a year on my AMD 500 system so I know there is no hardware problem. If you had luck using SBC DSL, pleae let me know what you did to get it to work... I've tried auto and manual approaches, but so far have not had any luck. I have the primary and secondary DNS nos. and IP address, but manually configuring does not seem to work... Thanks, Mick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
