Re: Mandrake 2.4.4 kernel
Eran Levy wrote: > Good news! > The Mandrake 2.4.4 kernel is going to release something like in the end of > the week. Thats what I got from a friend in Mandrake. so wait :) Thanks, Eran! As a service for the confused reader, who may wonder what's the big deal, after all it was not a long time ago when Mandrake released their 8.0 and Linus released 2.4.3 (the version included with 8.0), let me add the following notes, about the large improvements of the latest AC of 2.4.4 over 2.4.3: 1. Much faster, thanks to a major optimization of the way fork-exec is implemented. 2. Networking is much faster too, thanks to the "zero-copy-networking". 3. Much safer, thanks to many security improvements that were done originally by OpenWall for 2.2.19, and ported to 2.4.4. 4. Various add-ons for the kernel, that are applied as patches to a specific kernel version (such as grsecurity), require 2.4.4. 5. Immediately after releasing 8.0, Mandrake started to consider to include XFS in their standard kernel (there was not an official version of XFS when 8.0 was released); There is a high chance to see XFS with the new kernel. And if somebody still asks: "I don't see the problem; You can always pick the latest kernel and build it under your OS!", then I must add that Mandrake added zillion of useful additions, improvements, and patches to the standard kernel, and by building a pure kernel, you give them up. So the only thing that left to be done, is to wait and see if the new kernel was compiled with XFS or without it... -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mandrake 2.4.4 kernel
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:19:49AM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: > As a service for the confused reader, who may wonder what's the big deal, > after all it was not a long time ago when Mandrake released their 8.0 and > Linus released 2.4.3 (the version included with 8.0), let me add the > following notes, about the large improvements of the latest AC of 2.4.4 > over 2.4.3: > > 1. Much faster, thanks to a major optimization of the way fork-exec is >implemented. IIRC, that feature's effects on the scheduler were not considered properly, and you could get all kinds of undesired scheduling behavior under 2.4.3, such as unresponsive processes and the like, and Linus reverted it in 2.4.4. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape plugins in Konqueror
Now thats plain STUPID from Mandrake side... all the nsplugin stuff is something like 70K in the Redhat's RPM and it is inside kdebase (on Redhat's side) Why seperate it? and for 70k? Hetz > On 17-May-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > there is a rpm called > > kdebase-nsplugins-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm for mandrake. look for something > > like that. > > = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux on Pentium 4 ?
Hi Linuxers, In the last 6 years, my old P-100 with 32MB of memory workstation, moved from RH-2.1, to RH-4.0, to RH 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6, 6.1 and also to Mandrake 7 and 7.1. During that time I did several nice unix programming projects on it and the compilation speed didn't bother me at. (gave me more time for coffee-:). Now, with RH 6.2 and Mandrake 7.2 , my computer is really overworked and can barely run a graphic IDE on it. I want to upgrade to Linux on Pentium 4. I searched the net , but it looks as if there are no linux distributions that perform well on Pentium 4, or perform at all ? Does anyone of you have any experience on that matter ? Eagerly waiting for your response. Pinchas --- E-mail From Pinchas Rosenfeld: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pinchas Rosenfeld P.O.Box 307 Ness-Ziona 74103, ISRAEL Phone: + (972)-8-9402910 Fax: + (972)-8-9402081 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux on Pentium 4 ?
Hi Pinchas, Mind telling me why do you want to pay for stuff that you really don't need or use? Examples: 1. You want to buy Pentium 4 - yet, there isn't a single program that will let you use it's real power (specially with SSE2). GCC 3.1 will probably have support for SSE-2, but currently - nothing is supporting it. 2. Buying P4? congratulations - now, buy RDRAM, yes - the very expensive one which has been shown in every review that it's speed is the same with DDR-RAM.. 3. You'll also need to replace your board, box, and power supply because it makes lots of heat.. So why don't you just buy yourself a nice AMD Athlon, that 1.2 Ghz or 1.33 Ghz is much cheaper then any Pentium 4, couple it with some DDR-RAM, buy in the spare change some good graphics card and sound card - and enjoy ;) Hetz On Friday 18 May 2001 18:38, Pinchas Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi Linuxers, > In the last 6 years, my old P-100 with 32MB of memory workstation, > moved from RH-2.1, to RH-4.0, to RH 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6, 6.1 and also to > Mandrake 7 and 7.1. During that time I did several nice unix programming > projects on it and the compilation speed didn't bother me at. > (gave me more time for coffee-:). > Now, with RH 6.2 and Mandrake 7.2 , my computer is really overworked > and can barely run a graphic IDE on it. > > I want to upgrade to Linux on Pentium 4. I searched the net , but it looks > as if there are no linux distributions that perform well on Pentium 4, > or perform at all ? > Does anyone of you have any experience on that matter ? > > Eagerly waiting for your response. > > Pinchas > --- > E-mail From Pinchas Rosenfeld: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Pinchas Rosenfeld > P.O.Box 307 > Ness-Ziona 74103, ISRAEL > > Phone: + (972)-8-9402910 > Fax: + (972)-8-9402081 > > > > > = > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux on Pentium 4 ?
The necessity of in might not be very high, but just out of curiosity, can one run Linux on a Pentium 4 driven system? Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi Pinchas, > > Mind telling me why do you want to pay for stuff that you really don't need > or use? > > Examples: > > 1. You want to buy Pentium 4 - yet, there isn't a single program that will > let you use it's real power (specially with SSE2). GCC 3.1 will probably have > support for SSE-2, but currently - nothing is supporting it. > > 2. Buying P4? congratulations - now, buy RDRAM, yes - the very expensive one > which has been shown in every review that it's speed is the same with > DDR-RAM.. > > 3. You'll also need to replace your board, box, and power supply because it > makes lots of heat.. > > So why don't you just buy yourself a nice AMD Athlon, that 1.2 Ghz or 1.33 > Ghz is much cheaper then any Pentium 4, couple it with some DDR-RAM, buy in > the spare change some good graphics card and sound card - and enjoy ;) > > Hetz > > > On Friday 18 May 2001 18:38, Pinchas Rosenfeld wrote: > >>Hi Linuxers, >>In the last 6 years, my old P-100 with 32MB of memory workstation, >>moved from RH-2.1, to RH-4.0, to RH 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6, 6.1 and also to >>Mandrake 7 and 7.1. During that time I did several nice unix programming >>projects on it and the compilation speed didn't bother me at. >>(gave me more time for coffee-:). >>Now, with RH 6.2 and Mandrake 7.2 , my computer is really overworked >>and can barely run a graphic IDE on it. >> >>I want to upgrade to Linux on Pentium 4. I searched the net , but it looks >>as if there are no linux distributions that perform well on Pentium 4, >>or perform at all ? >>Does anyone of you have any experience on that matter ? >> >>Eagerly waiting for your response. >> >>Pinchas >>--- >>E-mail From Pinchas Rosenfeld: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>Pinchas Rosenfeld >>P.O.Box 307 >>Ness-Ziona 74103, ISRAEL >> >>Phone: + (972)-8-9402910 >>Fax: + (972)-8-9402081 >> >> >> >> >>= >>To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >>the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command >>echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > = > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Re'em Bensimhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BTW: If you squeeze olives to get olive oil how do you get baby oil? :-) = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is there a problem on kde.org??? - part 2
> further to my previous message, here's the output of traceroute - I gave up > after about 5 minutes ! > > > [root@shlomo1 /root]# traceroute www.kde.org > traceroute to www.kde.org (213.203.58.36), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets > 1 192-117-196-1.adsl.israsrv.net.il (192.117.196.1) 20.440 ms 129.710 ms > 33.446 ms You seem to have an ADSL connection to israsrv. Since an Actcom user has told me that with his ADSL connection there is a significant difference between out of Israel sites and in Israel sites (about 50 kb/sec and 220 kb/sec) I wonder if you are willing to report your rates. Actually, are users of the other ISPs can report their rates? Is there a difference between sites in and out of Israel? I might be wrong but from my experience is that when comparing download rates one has to take into account the size of the downloaded file. -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me? Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when? (Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14) = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1. ftp.tau.ac.il 2. www.exploits.org
> On Thu, 17 May 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote: > > > Did their support ever think of contacting us about it ? > As far as I understand they have 2 kinds of support teams: 1. private support (03 - 925?): this team handles `occasional' dial up customers. Most home users are probably fit into this category. I tend to speculate that this team only reports about networking problems rather then trying to do something in order to solve them. 2. business support: (1-800-800-110) the name implies what this means. If you can you should try their business support. This is determined by the way bezeqint is classifying your connection. Yet I believe that k12 orgs might get the business classification. > --Ariel > > > > Funny, the support guy claims to have never heard about the problem; > > He believed that TAU banned all of bezeqint, it took me a while to convince > > him otherwise. If one really wishes to resolve this matter, then one should > > probably call their support department and threaten the cancel one's > > subscription if they do not solve the issue within a reasonable amount > > of time. > > > > > > Regards, Yotam Rubin > > > > = > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Ariel Biener > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP(6.5.8) public key http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html > > > = > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me? Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when? (Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14) = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is there a problem on kde.org??? - part 2
Hi! 1) There sure are differences between il rates and abroad rates. This may be due to: a) much shorter RTT inside IIX b) ISP's have more free b/w to IIX than to their Internet uplinks (especialy during the peak times). Note that with short file d/l you get slower speeds because of tcp slow start mechanism. I currently use BezeqInt and they are very slow at peak times. looks like a modem connection. Even to IIX i get slow response, heakups, etc. Dani On Fri, 18 May 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > further to my previous message, here's the output of traceroute - I gave up > > after about 5 minutes ! > > > > > > [root@shlomo1 /root]# traceroute www.kde.org > > traceroute to www.kde.org (213.203.58.36), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets > > 1 192-117-196-1.adsl.israsrv.net.il (192.117.196.1) 20.440 ms 129.710 ms > > 33.446 ms > > > You seem to have an ADSL connection to israsrv. > Since an Actcom user has told me that with his ADSL connection there is a >significant difference between out of Israel sites and in Israel sites (about 50 >kb/sec and 220 kb/sec) I wonder if you are willing to report your rates. > > Actually, are users of the other ISPs can report their rates? Is there a difference >between sites in and out of Israel? > > I might be wrong but from my experience is that when comparing download rates one >has to take into account the size of the downloaded file. > > -- > > Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me? > Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when? > (Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14) > > > > > = > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
