World: r3wp

So what is everyone's fav flavour of Linux now a days?

I only really follow Ubuntu these days.

Kubuntu here.

Ubuntu

It's been years, since I used Linux on a daily bases. But Ubuntu 
seems to be popular among the young people at university.

Wolvix on the client here, Syllable Server on the server

Pekr, windows

I have Gobo Linux (mentioned on Carl's blog) installed as dual boot 
here but I haven't taken the time to get my wireless working so I'm 
mostly just using windoze at this point.   I'm thinking about installing 
Debian as they are usually really good at have drivers easily usable.

unbuntu

Still, Debian. I like that you can start very small, has a very powerful 
package manager and works really great.

Gobo, Unbuntu, Debian

So far three...


I'm going to put together a list of applcation I run regularly, and 
then we can weigh this again...

Debian;  The best development model, (ala REBOL).  Deliver when ready 
and ignore the peanut gallery shouting "it's late!"  ;)  


Off-topic; Sadly, my second favourite wiki-forum-chat-combo-thingy, 
TikiWiki, is moving toward the ever useless every 6 months release 
cycle.  Not a valid model for a volunteer workforce, imho.

I have installed Ubuntu but really don't use it much.

A related question. Which desktop?

I'm using Gnome.

KDE; but I develop using GTK+ so I like the Gnomey bits too.

I REALLY don't like Gnome.  I prefer to use Enlightenment but it 
has an extremely slow developement cycle and takes a while to get 
it configured to where it is really useful.  It has it's downsides 
but I've never found a desktop/window manager that even comes close 
to what Enlightenment does.

Tikiwiki is actually a very cool concept, most people don't realize 
how cool it is....(it is a wiki that works offline).

rebol on this http://www.yoggie.com/blog/2008/11/23/yoggie-opens-up-its-miniature-hardware-firewall-why/
?

Interesting read about windows managers: http://ironphoenix.org/tril/fvwm/

Is REBOL on that Yoggie or would you like to have it on it?

I'd like to have rebol on it, I'm still waiting for the gadget to 
arrive

It has an XScale CPU. There's no REBOL for ARM Linux

Probably the most you could do is try to cross-compile ORCA for it

Pekr, you will like it, NVIDIA released new drivers with VDPAU (Video 
Decode and Presentation API for Unix) http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_180.22.html

Check this benchmark http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_vdpau&num=2

Thanks - will look into it ...

does anybody know a video player for linux that supports those apis? 
(not just nvidia, ati too)

Don't know about ATI, but NVIDIA provided the patches http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njk3MQ

Had a power outage in town, and my red hat server had to be shut 
down uncleanly since although it was protected by a UPS, the screen 
wasn't.  On rebooting, the raid array had become critical with one 
of the drives dead.  Unfortunately the good drive had developed a 
corrupted file system as well :(

Since it was IDE raid ( fasttrack 100 ) I was able to look at the 
file system using this http://www.fs-driver.orgcool tool that allows 
you to browse ext2 file systems from windows!

Lucky it wasn't ext3, hey ?

(It might have been harder to find an equivalent tool.)

is it possible to downgrade an ext3 disk to ext2?

There's a FAQ on the site about Ext3 access.

Maybe it is ext3, because read-only it behaves like ext2

Anyway, if it were ext3, it would probably have repaired itself

ext3 is identical to ex2 except for the journal, so you can access 
it as ext2 without problems for windows, it just won't update the 
journal.

i had a read/write driver installed on windows and used it regularly 
without problems.

I'm looking for an OSX driver, but there appears to be only an ext2 
one, and it will only mount my ext3 drive as read-only.

which is why I was interested in downgrading it to ext2.

I set the driver to read only ... as I didn't want to corrupt the 
original disk.  Now all my files that I extracted are apparently 
read only ! :(

henrik, i think it is possible to disable the journal with tune2fs... 
let me check...

tune2fs -O ^has_journal

WARNING: do this at your own risk. make sure the FS is clean, without 
errors etc., and make sure you have backups.

i have no idea if this just destroys your FS.

(btw, I wonder why the Windows and OSX drivers don't support extr3??)

the OSX version is just not developed. the project is dead.

anyone using ZFS then? I'm tired of being bound to an OS with a file 
system.

Same for me. I tried MacDrive for Windows to get access to HFS+ drives. 
The problem is that XP silently initialized your drive with the result 
that OSX won't recognize it anymore but the HFS+ structure is still 
valid.


I fixed this, by using iPartition and changed the name of the drive. 
This results in the GPT being writting new and than the drive was 
OK. Lucky...

ZFS: I looked a bit into it. I think it's a very nice FS. OSX has 
only read support, so not of much value.

(yet)