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Post subject: Origins of Linux names
 Posted: Apr 07, 2008 - 11:01 PM
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Post subject: RE: Origins of Linux names
Posted: Apr 08, 2008 - 03:52 AM
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Great little article, thanx.
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Post subject: RE: Origins of Linux names
Posted: Apr 08, 2008 - 06:40 AM
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| Thought that Sid means "Still in Development" or is it really like in this article? |
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Post subject: RE: Origins of Linux names
Posted: Apr 08, 2008 - 07:00 AM
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| the article is right, characters in toy story, woody, etch, sid, lenny |
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Post subject: RE: Origins of Linux names
Posted: Apr 08, 2008 - 11:59 AM
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This article says Debian is introduced in 1998...  |
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Post subject: RE: Origins of Linux names
Posted: Apr 08, 2008 - 12:52 PM
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Post subject: RE: Origins of Linux names
Posted: Apr 08, 2008 - 02:06 PM
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Actually, sidux was chosen because it was the only 5 letter .com domain we could find available somehow describing what we where planning, that day we founded the project. 
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Post subject: RE: Origins of Linux names
Posted: Apr 09, 2008 - 04:19 AM
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Posted: Apr 09, 2008 - 05:40 AM
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Slightly off the track, I admit, but I read in distrowatch this week that end-of-life is approaching for Mandriva 2007.0 and SUSE 10.1, with Mandriva 2007.1 following on October 13th.
I'm amazed at the number of old-fashioned distros out there that blindly follow the Microsoft pattern of deliberately allowing software to grow old and die. There's an obvious commercial motive there for Microsoft, but that shouldn't apply to a free, open source software and they're giving away one of the competetive advantages of Linux.
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Posted: Apr 09, 2008 - 04:12 PM
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| Fedora is another that has software cycles that marks old releases as 'End of life', which means no further updates will be made. A rolling release will make that notion obsolete as the distribution then becomes a living distro where changes are made on the fly. Each release is simply a snapshot of the state of the distro at a certain point in time. |
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Posted: Apr 09, 2008 - 08:33 PM
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paleoflatus wrote:
Slightly off the track, I admit, but I read in distrowatch this week that end-of-life is approaching for Mandriva 2007.0 and SUSE 10.1, with Mandriva 2007.1 following on October 13th.
I'm amazed at the number of old-fashioned distros out there that blindly follow the Microsoft pattern of deliberately allowing software to grow old and die.
Well, you can run Mandriva Cooker, which is their "Sid".
I don't know if openSuSE has a development branch to use, but there is a poll if openSuSE should be a rolling release, but not too many people seem to be interested in that question at all:
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index ... opic=64257
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Posted: Apr 09, 2008 - 10:07 PM
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paleoflatus wrote:
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I'm amazed at the number of old-fashioned distros out there that blindly follow the Microsoft pattern of deliberately allowing software to grow old and die. There's an obvious commercial motive there for Microsoft, but that shouldn't apply to a free, open source software and they're giving away one of the competetive advantages of Linux.
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Distro's like OpenSuse and Fedora often include completely new technology in their releases, I think of PulseAudio etc. With Fedora it was always discouraged to upgrade to a new release via Yum, that gives an indication of how invasive the new stuff was (not sure if that's still the case and I've no experience with OpenSuse).
Fedora also is a sort of technology test centre. If you want long term software you can buy a support contract from Red Hat and I guess Novell works the same with Suse; there's your commercial motive.
I chose a rolling release distro deliberately but I remember the excitement of installing a new release of Fedora. It was a lot of work to get everything to preference but there were new goodies to play with and new artwork to look at. |
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Posted: Apr 09, 2008 - 10:53 PM
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Thanks, hubi and CaesarTjalbo. I didn't know all of that - a community of knowledgeable people like you is part of the value of sidux. I did play with Cooker a little, when it was named Mandrake, but rpmi (?) was a pain to use and there was nothing as sweet as smxi, sgfxi and those lovely sidux kernels.
I'm just so delighted with the sidux way, that it's hard to understand why it isn't more common. It's like a breath of fresh air, just running a weekly or monthly script (while reading the sign-posts) - and having all of you there for quick help and expert advice!
Distrowatch used to be a desperate search for the Next Big Thing, whereas it's now an idle and mildly interesting read - perhaps that's part of the reason for sidux's relatively low page-hit ranking. |
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Posted: Apr 09, 2008 - 11:26 PM
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paleoflatus wrote:
I did play with Cooker a little, when it was named Mandrake, but rpmi (?) was a pain to use
Hehe, I never dared that. Though before I found Kanotix/sidux, I was tempted to try Fedora Rawhide, but even normal Fedora was sometimes very rough, so I was not brave enough
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Posted: Apr 10, 2008 - 12:47 AM
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Where do these codenames come from?
So far they have been characters taken from the movie "Toy Story" by Pixar.
buzz (Buzz Lightyear) was the spaceman
rex was the tyrannosaurus
bo (Bo Peep) was the girl who took care of the sheep
hamm was the piggy bank
slink (Slinky Dog (R)) was the toy dog
potato was, of course, Mr. Potato (R)
woody was the cowboy
sarge was the sergeant of the Green Plastic Army Men
etch was the toy blackboard (Etch-a-Sketch (R)),
lenny was the binoculars
sid was the boy next door who destroyed toys
Other codenames that have been already used are: buzz for release 1.1, rex for release 1.2, bo for releases 1.3.x, hamm for release 2.0, slink for release 2.1, potato for release 2.2, woody for release 3.0 , sarge for release 3.1. etch for release 4.0
lenny is due to be the next "stable" released version
sid or unstable is the place where most of the packages are initially uploaded. It will never be released directly, because packages which are to be released will first have to be included in testing, in order to be released in stable later on. sid contains packages for both released and unreleased architectures. |
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