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Post 45633 by Zivux on Saturday 27th of December 2003 01:58:04 AM
12-27-2003
This is a post that I made for another forum that I am a member of http://www.linuxcult.com shamefull plug sorry. Needless to say Red Hat is making itself ready for corproate world but I feel as if Novell, SuSE, and Ximian combo can put together a strong package to take to the more average home users.
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Zivux said in post #1 :
Okay is it just me or is Novell getting ready to be a big contender in the OS field. Basically Red Hat has gone to pure corporate system while you can still use it for the home user it's basically not meant for that. Windows is getting picked on by everyone to try and bring them down to everyone else's level. Rumors are floating the with Mac moving to a Unix base and the improvements that have come from OSX they are going to be picking up some more of the market share.
I have always tried to find a good distro to play with something that is not only user friendly but also true enough to Linux. I want this so that when I am ready I can put Linux on my system and that is it. However the other members of my family will not go for that so long as I can't give them or supply them with everything they need.
This has lead me to playing with a few of the distros which I personally like SuSE the most. In my studying of things to try and become more well versed in Linux I found that Novell which used to be the server that I ran for accounting at my job several years back. Had made plans to partner and I believe buy out SuSE. So I dig some more and see that Novell has taken Ximian as well. Now for any who don't know SuSE has SuSE Linux Desktop which is a corporate version that is meant to give everything a work place would need. While this is well and good and from the looks of it could give someone the ability to run Linux workstations and a fair price they have also done something else.
SuSE is coming out with (I don't think it's released yet) SuSE wine rack, which is a mix of Crossover Office and Wine, with some Winelib in it as well if I recall right. So if you take SuSE 9.0 and SuSE Wine Rack with Ximian desktop and Ximian Red Carpet, mix them together and end up being able to make a distro that is able to run a good many hardware profiles, install and run several of the top games and windows apps such as Photoshop, while giving a more user friendly desktop and windows interactivity with Red Carpet there to make updating fast and easy. While everyone is looking at Mac to take more of the computer share with OSX and many more will start looking away from Windows to other options will Novell be able to pull off something that Lindows seemed to try and start. A Linux desktop that is almost inter changeable with Windows.
Also is this a bad thing, one of the other reasons I started on this was because I myself have been thinking of getting a Mac because I saw it as Unix that runs Photoshop, Quicktime, Dreamweaver and a few others that I use more and don't want to give up. However as I have been learning more I saw this and wondered what everyone thought. If this is something that has been discussed already then well forget it.
Okay is it just me or is Novell getting ready to be a big contender in the OS field. Basically Red Hat has gone to pure corporate system while you can still use it for the home user it's basically not meant for that. Windows is getting picked on by everyone to try and bring them down to everyone else's level. Rumors are floating the with Mac moving to a Unix base and the improvements that have come from OSX they are going to be picking up some more of the market share.
I have always tried to find a good distro to play with something that is not only user friendly but also true enough to Linux. I want this so that when I am ready I can put Linux on my system and that is it. However the other members of my family will not go for that so long as I can't give them or supply them with everything they need.
This has lead me to playing with a few of the distros which I personally like SuSE the most. In my studying of things to try and become more well versed in Linux I found that Novell which used to be the server that I ran for accounting at my job several years back. Had made plans to partner and I believe buy out SuSE. So I dig some more and see that Novell has taken Ximian as well. Now for any who don't know SuSE has SuSE Linux Desktop which is a corporate version that is meant to give everything a work place would need. While this is well and good and from the looks of it could give someone the ability to run Linux workstations and a fair price they have also done something else.
SuSE is coming out with (I don't think it's released yet) SuSE wine rack, which is a mix of Crossover Office and Wine, with some Winelib in it as well if I recall right. So if you take SuSE 9.0 and SuSE Wine Rack with Ximian desktop and Ximian Red Carpet, mix them together and end up being able to make a distro that is able to run a good many hardware profiles, install and run several of the top games and windows apps such as Photoshop, while giving a more user friendly desktop and windows interactivity with Red Carpet there to make updating fast and easy. While everyone is looking at Mac to take more of the computer share with OSX and many more will start looking away from Windows to other options will Novell be able to pull off something that Lindows seemed to try and start. A Linux desktop that is almost inter changeable with Windows.
Also is this a bad thing, one of the other reasons I started on this was because I myself have been thinking of getting a Mac because I saw it as Unix that runs Photoshop, Quicktime, Dreamweaver and a few others that I use more and don't want to give up. However as I have been learning more I saw this and wondered what everyone thought. If this is something that has been discussed already then well forget it.
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startpar
STARTPAR(8) System Manager's Manual STARTPAR(8) NAME
startpar - start runlevel scripts in parallel SYNOPSIS
startpar [-p par] [-i iorate] [-t timeout] [-T global_timeout] [-a arg] prg1 prg2 ... startpar [-p par] [-i iorate] [-t timeout] [-T global_timeout] -M [ boot|start|stop] DESCRIPTION
startpar is used to run multiple run-level scripts in parallel. The degree of parallelism on one CPU can be set with the -p option, the default is full parallelism. An argument to all of the scripts can be provided with the -a option. Processes blocked by pending I/O will cause new process creation to be weighted by the iorate factor 800. To change this factor the option -i can be used to specify another value. The amount weight=(nblockedxiorate)/1000 will be subtracted from the total number of processes which could be started, where nblocked is the number of processes currently blocked by pending I/O. The output of each script is buffered and written when the script exits, so output lines of different scripts won't mix. You can modify this behaviour by setting a timeout. The timeout set with the -t option is used as buffer timeout. If the output buffer of a script is not empty and the last output was timeout seconds ago, startpar will flush the buffer. The -T option timeout works more globally. If no output is printed for more than global_timeout seconds, startpar will flush the buffer of the script with the oldest output. Afterwards it will only print output of this script until it is finished. The -M option switches startpar into a make(1) like behaviour. This option takes three different arguments: boot, start, and stop for reading .depend.boot or .depend.start or .depend.stop respectively in the directory /etc/init.d/. By scanning the boot and runlevel direc- tories in /etc/init.d/ it then executes the appropriate scripts in parallel. FILES
/etc/init.d/.depend.boot /etc/init.d/.depend.start /etc/init.d/.depend.stop SEE ALSO
init(8) insserv(8). COPYRIGHT
2003,2004 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany. 2007 SuSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany. AUTHOR
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