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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2004-01-14 22:40:28
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > Thanks, will apply either later today or tomorrow. At the moment my > > workstation is in a state of limbo > > The disk in my new IBM T40 laptop crashed on 30th of December. I got a > replacement the next day but the recovery CD delivery took 10 days. Then I > fought days to reinstall XP (basically trivial 'ntfsclone'). IBM uses a > branded Drive Image. Incredible stupid, it really pisses me off :((( It > still couldn't restore the factory image :( It's also 4(!!) CD's instead > of 1 DVD. Ouch. )-: > > as I am migrating from RedHat 9.0 to SuSE 9.0... > > So SUSE hired you? :))) [Note the below are my views and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer, University of Cambridge Computing Service!] No, but RedHat are just stupid (IMHO) to have killed of the free product and turned it into Fedora. This is no good for labs of computers which you don't want to reinstall more than once a year but fedora has a new release every few months... And with Fedora the security fixes and updates are not very secured so it is dangerous to go for. Further RedHat want 20000 pounds (GBP) for a site license of their Enterprise line which in our environment is a no go... SuSE is first in line with what they provide and being represented here in the UK and they have a free product much like RedHat used to have. Especially now that SuSE were bought by Novell, we have been led to believe that we will get a SuSE site license for a "minimal" surcharge to our existing Novell site license. Thus SuSE is possibly what a large portion of the university might switch to when RedHat 9 goes out of support end of April. This also means our next Linux admin course might well be based on SuSE instead of RedHat and also that our Public Workstation Facility which runs our own Linux distro PWF Linux might well be based on SuSE instead of RedHat from the next release (this summer). So I have plenty of reason to start using SuSE to get used to it already. (-: And if the above weren't enough reasons, SuSE have about twice as many packages as RedHat, some of which sound rather cool(!), they use the new NTFS driver in their 2.4.x kernels (currently 2.1.4something), they install our ntfsprogs (currently 1.7.2), all their software is more uptodate (SuSE 9.0 compared to RedHat 9.0), etc. In fact I don't know why I haven't been using SuSE instead of RedHat in the past! Oh, and the final touch is that Ximian were also bought by Novell, Ximian gnome is now available for SuSE linux and not for any of the new RedHat products... and I like Ximian gnome as my desktop environment! How was that for a "why you should switch to SuSE" speech? (-; And they are not even paying me money to advocate them so much! > > I will then release 1.8.3 or whatever we are at now immediately. > > Perhaps we should also fix quickly all the warnings as a result of the new > compile flags [or drop the new extra flags by default temporarily]. IMHO Note the compiler flags are _only_ enabled when running with ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode. If you only run ./configure you don't get any warnings. > there are distros that exclude the stuff not compiling cleanly. It's > also very ugly ;) In my 1.9 copy I fixed everything for ntfsresize and > ntfsclone. I could send the same fixes for 1.8 and maybe more. Yes please! Patches are always gladly received. (-: I fixed everything in the library already (there were lots there, too). One of them was in fact a real bug - it was like this: if (blah); blahblah; ouch! Cheers, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
