Zdnet.Com is running an article about Linux loosing its innocence and no longer being a novelty. The article will not make you run out and buy the book but it does bring up a few good points about the current state of Linux (althought I think there are some more basic key things that need to be done) and what needs to be accomplished. As the author puts it:
“The heydays of pure Linux plays have faded.”
This is a little old news but several people I have talked to haven’t heard so here it is. Change your /etc/apt/sources.list file and change the word potato or woody to “sid”. Sid is the latest most unstable release of the Debian Linux distribution. Basically if you want to run all of the latest updates to all of the current Linux packages use “sid”. If you are running a server, point it it to potato (current stable).
One of our readers sent us this story posted on Yahoo which covers the pre-release of the 2.4 kernel for Linux. Linus Torvalds states in the release that he isn’t projecting the 2.4 official release however we have to note this is the 4th time rumors of the official release have been spread.This isn’t a bad thing that it is taking this long. I think most of the Linux community will agree that we don’t want the new kernel unless it is stable and very well debugged. I have been playing with 2.4test<1-10> for awhile now and it is only getting better. If there is one wish I had this New Years it is that whoever comes up with these hardware standards would put it into a Linux kernel before the product is released. I know it is wishful thinking but surely we could have standards for the standards…?
Today I was locked in my house due to having a slight case of the flu. During the times I wasn’t sleeping and drinking Nyquil by the gallons I actually got my Visor USB device to syncronize with Linux. Follow my easy setup tips and join in on the fun.
For the past few weeks I have been trying to get my VooDoo 3 working again in Linux. I hate having anything (especially hardware) that doesn’t work. 3DFX has released an XFree 4.0 server along with new modules and Glide. After converting the RPM’s listed on their site over to deb packages I was able to get X4.0 up and running and even start Quake III. QIII is running really slow, which means that something to do with the libraries isn’t loaded correctly. Why won’t it just all work!