"Lionel" wrote in message
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Robert Morein a écrit :
"Lionel" wrote in message
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Robert Morein a écrit :
"Lionel" wrote in message
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LOL................................
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- Linux is for Rebels, M$ is for Earthworms
- Linux is French
Ooops it starts again...
Bob if you have precise questions, if you want to fit specific use...
I will be glad to provide you help, link, philosophical advices...
But remember that I'm not a specialist but just a fan.
Lionel
I hear (at least for Suse) that compiling the kernel is now a job for
specialists. Have you tried this?
I was joking because in Linux Newsgroup the discussion around the
differents distributions (Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake...) are often very
hot. Kind of ABX or cable trolls for audio system. ;-)
I read recently that Suse has been bought by Novell. Perhaps you know
Novell ? It was my prefered network specialized OS. Far better than M$
NT server.
I never fooled with Novell. Microsoft has been much better at providing NFR
copies for experimentation. Hence I have a Windows 2000 server, but I never
had a Novell server.
Yes I have already compiled a kernel.
It's not really "difficult". You have to know exactly what is your
material configuration.
Linux is a monolithique kernel so most of "drivers" are inside the
kernel. It's also possible under certain condition to compile separate
modules for specific devices (video card...) and to link them to the
kernel.
The current version of the kernel is the 2.4 the forthcoming 2.6 which
is in beta version will bring very interesting features. As usual in
Linux most of them will concern network and server applications but some
of them can improve the "workstation" behaviour of the OS.
The biggest difficulty I have with Linux is the documentation : there's
too much documents on the internet.
I understand that you can tell yourself "Lionel is crazy there's never
too much documents" but believe me, you can find a so much huge amount
of litterature that you can be drowned.
I imagine that with your level of study and your habit of methodology
and research you wouldn't have any difficulties. Just need time and
curiosity...
Lionel
Lionel,
In my past I was a professional programmer. I wrote "ADA Prolog", which
was very popular for educational purposes of artificial intelligence. I got
out of programming because I was very upset with the Microsoft monopoly. If
you write a program, and they decide to go into that area, they crush you,
wipe you out. What kind of fun is that?
But I have found myself very frustrated with Linux. The "include" and
"makefile" syntax is so complicated I don't understand it anymore. I don't
want to have to read the entire source code. It used to be fun, but now all
programming is contracted to Albania anyway
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So I stick to my WIndows platforms. My brother is visiting for
Christmas, and he is working with TCP/IP specialized networking, so I have
bought two 60 gB drives so we can play with it while he's here. He's
bringing Suse 9.0. After he leaves, what will I do with it? I do word
processing, video editing, screenwriting, and Photoshop. I also am a Matlab
user for my scientific work. Once I set up a Linux firewall, but it didn't
work with my ISP, so I bought an appliance. Linux doesn't give me the
applications. If I write a screenplay, I need to be able to export/import
for collaboration with other users.
Last time my bro visited, we compared CD copy in a background process.
Windows was clearly better. Also, the Windows GUI is more responsive,
because it is part of the kernel. But all that is probably a temporary
advantage.
Perhaps Linux is the future. I am certainly opposed to the Microsoft
monopoly, even though in many respects it has been beneficial. Growth of a
new technology comes in phases, of which Microsoft has been an important
part.