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In Israel, a lot of organizations (military, small businesses and some industrial orgs) don't upgrade as soon as a new windows version is available.

Some organizations don't even consider an upgrade in the near future at all.

For example, the military (IDF) still has a large number of computers running win95. Only nowadays new computers start to come with win2k, skipping win98 entirely. Who knows when they'll upgrade (if at all?) to winXP.

According to the article, MS makes sure that windows licenses keep generating revenues even if organizations don't upgrades every 2 years (which is usually the case for big organizations - MS main clients)

Have you noticed lately a lot of people (certainly all my friends) don't rush to buy the newest, fastest PC available every 2 years anymore? I had a 450MHz machine until last month, then I upgraded to a simple 766MHz machine, first time I upgraded not to the max (today's 1.7GHz) not even to the faster machines (800m, 1.3g) - who needs 'em?

The same thing goes for windows OSes, who needs 'em?

MS should freely innovate some revolutionary feature or a business productive feature or just an increadibly faster, more stable, cheaper, easily extendable OS before they demand subscription fees for their software.

The one you likely want the most is the PR manager for Adobe Illustrator®, Cara Broglia.

Of course, a link to the Linux Advocacy HOWTO is always in order at times like this. As cbroglia will not be reading his/her e-mail for another 10-12 hours, why not wait until then. Sober second thought, and all that.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering together their postings and publishing them en masse to further his twisted and manipulative journalistic agenda.

Sick, disgusting antichristian perverts, the lot of them.

In addition, many of the Linux distributions (a 'distribution' is the most common way to spread the faggots' wares) are run by faggot groups. The Slackware distro is named after the 'Slack-wear' fags wear to allow easy access to the anus for sexual purposes. Furthermore, Slackware is a close anagram of claw arse, a reference to the homosexual practise of anal fisting. The Mandrake product is run by a group of French faggot satanists, and is named after the faggot nickname for the vibrator. It was also chosen because it is an anagram for dark amen and ram naked, which is what they do.

Another 'distro,' (abbrieviated as such because it sounds a bit like 'Disco,' which is where homosexuals preyed on young boys in the 1970s), is Debian, an anagram of in a bed, which could be considered innocent enough (after all, a bed is both where we sleep and pray), until we realise what other names Debian uses to describe their foul wares. 'Woody' is obvious enough, being a term for the erect male penis, glistening with pre-cum. But far sicker is the phrase 'Frozen Potato' that they use. This filthy term, again found in the secret homosexual 'Sauce Code,' refers to the solo homosexual practice of defecating into a clear polythene bag, shaping the turd into a crude approximation of the male phallus, then leaving it in the freezer overnight until it becomes solid. The practitioner then proceeds to push the frozen 'potato' up his own rectum, squeezing it in and out until his tight young balls erupt in a screaming orgasm.

And Red Hat is secret homo slang for the tip of a penis that is soaked in blood from a freshly violated underage ringpiece.

The fags have even invented special tools to aid their faggotry! For example, the 'supermount' tool was devised to allow deeper penetration, which is good for fags because it gives more pressure on the prostate gland. 'Automount' is used, on the other hand, because Linux users are all fat and gay, and need to mount each other automatically.

The depths of their depravity can be seen in their use of 'mount points.' These are, plainly speaking, the different points of penetration. The main one is obviously /anus, but there are others. Militant fags even say 'there is no /opt mount point' because for these dirty perverts faggotry is not optional but a way of life.

More evidence is in the fact that Linux users say how much they love `man`, even going so far as to say that all new Linux users (who are in fact just innocent heterosexuals indoctrinated by the gay propaganda) should try out `man`. In no other system do users boast of their frequent recourse to a man.

Other areas of the system also show Linux's inherit gayness. For example, people are often told of the 'FAQ,' but how many innocent heterosexual Windows users know what this actually means. The answer is shocking: Faggot Anal Quest: the voyage of discovery for newly converted fags!

Even the title 'Slashdot' originally referred to a homosexual practice. Slashdot of course refers to the popular gay practice of blood-letting. The Slashbots, of course are those super-zealous homosexuals who take this perversion to its extreme by ripping open their anuses, as seen on the site most popular with Slashdot users, the depraved work of Satan, http://www.eff.org/.

The editors of Slashdot also have homosexual names: 'Hemos' is obvious in itself, being one vowel away from 'Homos.' But even more sickening is 'Commander Taco' which sounds a bit like 'Commode in Taco,' filthy gay slang for a pair of spreadeagled buttocks that are caked with excrement. (The best form of lubrication, they insist.) Sometimes, these 'Taco Commodes' have special 'Salsa Sauce' (blood from a ruptured rectum) and 'Cheese' (rancid flakes of penis discharge) toppings. And to make it even worse, Slashdot runs on Apache!

The Apache server, whose use among fags is as prevalent as AIDS, is named after homosexual activity -- as everyone knows, popular faggot band, the Village People, featured an Apache Indian, and it is for him that this gay program is named.

And that's not forgetting the use of patches in the Linux fag world -- patches are used to make the anus accessible for repeated anal sex even after its rupture by a session of fisting.

To summarise: Linux is gay. 'Slash -- Dot' is the graphical description of the space between a young boy's scrotum and anus. And BeOS is for hermaphrodites and disabled 'stumpers.'

FEEDBACK

What worries me is how much you know about what gay people do. I'm scared I actually read this whole thing. I think this post is a good example of the negative effects of Internet usage on people. This person obviously has no social life anymore and had to result to writing something as stupid as this. And actually take the time to do it too. Although... I think it was satire.. blah.. it's early. -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot

Well, the only reason I know all about this is because I had the misfortune to read the Linux 'Sauce code' once. Although publicised as the computer code needed to get Linux up and running on a computer (and haven't you always been worried about the phrase 'Monolithic Kernel'?), this foul document is actually a detailed and graphic description of every conceivable degrading perversion known to the human race, as well as a few of the major animal species. It has shocked and disturbed me, to the point of needing to shock and disturb the common man to warn them of the impending homo-calypse which threatens to engulf our planet.

You must work for the government. Trying to post the most obscene stuff in hopes that slashdot won't be able to continue or something, due to legal woes. If i ever see your ugly face, i'm going to stick my fireplace poker up your ass, after it's nice and hot, to weld shut that nasty gaping hole of yours. -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot

Doesn't it give you a hard-on to imagine your thick strong poker ramming it's way up my most sacred of sphincters? You're beyond help, my friend, as the only thing you can imagine is the foul penetrative violation of another man. Are you sure you're not Eric Raymond? The government, being populated by limp-wristed liberals, could never stem the sickening tide of homosexual child molesting Linux advocacy. Hell, they've given NAMBLA free reign for years!

you really should post this logged in. i wish i could remember jebus's password, cuz i'd give it to you. -- mighty jebus, Slashdot

Thank you for your kind words of support. However, this document shall only ever be posted anonymously. This is because the 'Open Sauce' movement is a sham, proposing homoerotic cults of hero worshipping in the name of freedom. I speak for the common man. For any man who prefers the warm, enveloping velvet folds of a woman's vagina to the tight puckered ringpiece of a child. These men, being common, decent folk, don't have a say in the political hypocrisy that is Slashdot culture. I am the unknown liberator.

ROLF LAMO i hate linux FAGGOTS -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot

We shouldn't hate them, we should pity them for the misguided fools they are... Fanatical Linux zeal-outs need to be herded into camps for re-education and subsequent rehabilitation into normal heterosexual society. This re-education shall be achieved by forcing them to watch repeats of Baywatch until the very mention of Pamela Anderson causes them to fill their pants with healthy heterosexual jism.

Actually, that's not at all how scrotal inflation works. I understand it involves injecting sterile saline solution into the scrotum. I've never tried this, but you can read how to do it safely in case you're interested. (Before you moderate this down, ask yourself honestly -- who are the real crazies -- people who do scrotal inflation, or people who pay $1000+ for a game console?) -- double_h, Slashdot

Well, it just goes to show that even the holy Linux 'sauce code' is riddled with bugs that need fixing. (The irony of Jon Katz not even being able to inflate his scrotum correctly has not been lost on me.) The Linux pervert elite already acknowledge this, with their queer slogan: 'Given enough arms, all rectums are shallow.' And anyway, the PS2 sucks major cock and isn't worth the money. Intellivision forever!

dude did u used to post on msnbc's nt bulletin board now that u are doing anti-gay posts u also need to start in with anti-black stuff too c u in church -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot

For one thing, whilst Linux is a cavalcade of queer propaganda masquerading as the future of computing, NT is used by people who think nothing better of encasing their genitals in quick setting plaster then going to see a really dirty porno film, enjoying the restriction enforced onto them. Remember, a wasted arousal is a sin in the eyes of the Catholic church. Clearly, the only god-fearing Christian operating system in existence is CP/M -- The Christian Program Monitor. All computer users should immediately ask their local pastor to install this fine OS onto their systems. It is the only route to salvation.

Secondly, this message is for every man. Computers know no colour. Not only that, but one of the finest websites in the world is maintained by a Black Man . Now fuck off you racist donkey felcher.

And don't forget that slashdot was written in Perl, which is just too close to 'Pearl Necklace' for comfort.... oh wait; that's something all you heterosexuals do.... I can't help but wonder how much faster the trolls could do First-Posts on this site if it were redone in PHP... I could hand-type dynamic HTML pages faster than Perl can do them. -- phee, Slashdot

Although there is nothing unholy about the fine heterosexual act of ejaculating between a woman's breasts, squirting one's load up towards her neck and chin area, it should be noted that Perl (standing for Pansies Entering Rectums Locally) is also close to 'Pearl Monocle,' 'Pearl Nosering,' and the ubiquitous 'Pearl Enema.'

One scary thing about Perl is that it contains hidden homosexual messages. Take the following code: LWP::Simple -- It looks innocuous enough, doesn't it? But look at the line closely: There are two colons next to each other! As Larry 'Balls to the' Wall would openly admit in the Perl Documentation, Perl was designed from the ground up to indoctrinate it's programmers into performing unnatural sexual acts -- having two colons so closely together is clearly a reference to the perverse sickening act of 'colon kissing,' whereby two homosexual queers spread their buttocks wide, pressing their filthy torn sphincters together. They then share small round objects like marbles or golfballs by passing them from one rectum to another using muscle contraction alone. This is also referred to in programming 'circles' as 'Parameter Passing.'

And PHP stands for Perverted Homosexual Penetration. Didn't you know?

Thank you for your valuable input on this. I am sure you will be never forgotten. BTW: Did I mention that this could be useful in terraforming Mars? Mars rulaa. -- Eimernase, Slashdot

Well, I don't know about terraforming Mars, but I do know that homosexual Linux Advocates have been probing Uranus for years.

That's inspiring. Keep up the good work, AC. May God in his wisdom grant you the strength to bring the plain honest truth to this community, and make it pure again. Yours, Cerberus. -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot

*sniff* That brings a tear to my eye. Thank you once more for your kind support. I have taken faith in the knowledge that I am doing the Good Lord's work, but it is encouraging to know that I am helping out the common man here.

However, I should be cautious about revealing your name 'Cerberus' on such a filthy den of depravity as Slashdot. It is a well known fact that the 'Kerberos' documentation from Microsoft is a detailed manual describing, in intimate, exacting detail, how to sexually penetrate a variety of unwilling canine animals; be they domesticated, wild, or mythical. Slashdot posters have taken great pleasure in illegally spreading this documentation far and wide, treating it as an 'extension' to the Linux 'Sauce Code,' for the sake of 'interoperability.' (The slang term they use for nonconsensual intercourse -- their favourite kind.)

In fact, sick twisted Linux deviants are known to have LAN parties, (Love of Anal Naughtiness, needless to say.), wherein they entice a stray dog, known as the 'Samba Mount,' into their homes. Up to four of these filth-sodden blasphemers against nature take turns to plunge their erect, throbbing, uncircumcised members, conkers-deep, into the rectum, mouth, and other fleshy orifices of the poor animal. Eventually, the 'Samba Mount' collapses due to 'overload,' and needs to be 'rebooted.' (i.e., kicked out into the street, and left to fend for itself.) Many Linux users boast about their 'uptime' in such situations.

Inspiring stuff! If only all trolls were this quality! -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot

If only indeed. You can help our brave cause by moderating this message up as often as possible. I recommend '+1, Underrated,' as that will protect your precious Karma in Metamoderation. Only then can we break through the glass ceiling of Homosexual Slashdot Culture. Is it any wonder that the new version of Slashcode has been christened 'Bender'???

If we can get just one of these postings up to at least '+1,' then it will be archived forever! Others will learn of our struggle, and join with us in our battle for freedom!

It's pathetic you've spent so much time writing this. -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot

I am compelled to document the foulness and carnal depravity that is Linux, in order that we may prepare ourselves for the great holy war that is to follow. It is my solemn duty to peel back the foreskin of ignorance and apply the wire brush of enlightenment.

As with any great open-source project, you need someone asking this question, so I'll do it. When the hell is version 2.0 going to be ready?!?! -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot

I could make an arrogant, childish comment along the lines of 'Every time someone asks for 2.0, I won't release it for another 24 hours,' but the truth of the matter is that I'm quite nervous of releasing a 'number two,' as I can guarantee some filthy shit-slurping Linux pervert would want to suck it straight out of my anus before I've even had chance to wipe.

I desperately want to suck your monolithic kernel, you sexy hunk, you. -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot

I sincerely hope you're Natalie Portman.

Dude, nothing on slashdot larger than 3 paragraphs is worth reading. Try to distill the message, whatever it was, and maybe I'll read it. As it is, I have to much open source software to write to waste even 10 seconds of precious time. 10 seconds is all its gonna take M$ to whoop Linux's ass. Vigilence is the price of Free (as in libre -- from the fine, frou frou French language) Software. Hack on fellow geeks, and remember: Friday is Bouillabaisse day except for heathens who do not believe that Jesus died for their sins. Those godless, oil drench, bearded sexist clowns can pull grits from their pantaloons (another fine, fine French word) and eat that. Anyway, try to keep your message focused and concise. For concision is the soul of derision. Way. -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot

What the fuck?

I've read your gay conspiracy post version 1.3.0 and I must say I'm impressed. In particular, I appreciate how you have managed to squeeze in a healthy dose of the latent homosexuality you gay-bashing homos tend to be full of. Thank you again. -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot

Well bugger me!

ooooh honey. how insecure are you!!! wann a little massage from deare bruci. love you -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot

Fuck right off!

IMPORTANT: This message needs to be heard (Not HURD, which is an acronym for 'Huge Unclean Rectal Dilator') across the whole community, so it has been released into the Public Domain. You know, that licence that we all had before those homoerotic crypto-fascists came out with the GPL (Gay Penetration License) that is no more than an excuse to see who's got the biggest feces-encrusted cock. I would have put this up on Freshmeat, but that name is known to be a euphemism for the tight rump of a young boy.

Come to think of it, the whole concept of 'Source Control' unnerves me, because it sounds a bit like 'Sauce Control,' which is a description of the homosexual practice of holding the base of the cock shaft tightly upon the point of ejaculation, thus causing a build up of semenal fluid that is only released upon entry into an incision made into the base of the receiver's scrotum. And 'Open Sauce' is the act of ejaculating into another mans face or perhaps a biscuit to be shared later. Obviously, 'Closed Sauce' is the only Christian thing to do, as evidenced by the fact that it is what Cathedrals are all about.

Contributors: (although not to the eternal game of 'soggy biscuit' that open 'sauce' development has become) Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, phee, Anonymous Coward, mighty jebus, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, double_h, Anonymous Coward, Eimernase, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward. Further contributions are welcome.

Current changes: This version sent to FreeWIPO by 'Bring BackATV' as plain text. Reformatted everything, added all links back in (that we could match from the previous version), many new ones (Slashbot bait links). Even more spelling fixed. Who wrote this thing, CmdrTaco himself?

Previous changes: Yet more changes added. Spelling fixed. Feedback added. Explanation of 'distro' system. 'Mount Point' syntax described. More filth regarding `man` and Slashdot. Yet more fucking spelling fixed. 'Fetchmail' uncovered further. More Slashbot baiting. Apache exposed. Distribution licence at foot of document.

ANUX -- A full Linux distribution... Up your ass!

Honestly, I don't understand what all the fuss is about.

Unless you're the kind who likes to pay for water, just use one of the many other Linux distributions out there that don't have such odious licensing terms. It's not like there aren't any alternatives out there.

Or, better, you can use something with no restrictions at all on how you use it.

If Caldera wants to shoot themselves in the foot, who are we to stop them?

b&

If you like Linux, FreeBSD, Apple or any other platform so much, then stay with them and shut up. There are other people who do not feel this way and they [are] concerned with those operating systems being made to look like the end-all and be-all of computing while any interest in a for-profit company must be squashed. Is it hard to understand? It is not about product it is about freedom of choice.

Amazing what your own words mean when turned around just a little bit.

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Microsoft is a commercial company, so they will add any Smart Tags which are good for them. This may severely hurt customers and competitors alike.

And yes, they are modifying content.

[ http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/jun0 1/06-04UshersPR.asp ]

" Windows XP offers an easy-to-use, real-time communication experience, enabling people to communicate and connect like never before," said Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect for Microsoft.

The above is a parody, and isn't necessarialy meant to harm the company in question. Just in case you couldn't notice...

The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source.

This isn't true at all. From the GPL (section 2):

If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works.

It goes on...

In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.

Ballmer is quite frankly getting downright goofy in his willingness to spread FUD to protect the Microsoft empire.

I've got to wonder if Ballmer didn't just wish he came up with the idea of a flexible, stable OS first, so he could sell it instead. (Doh!)

• http://www.linux.org/
• http://www.linux.org/info/advocacy.html

• http://www.linux.org/
• http://www.linux.org/info/advocacy.html

This troll has been answered many times over in this discussion. In short: an application that is running on Linux is utilizing kernel system calls and glibc, neither of which is licensed under the plain vanilla GPL. If you want to know the details, read some of the replies to the other trolls.

Generally the reply is "Uh, don't you worry about it. Your software doesn't have to be under the GPL...for now...". http://www.linux.org/info/gnu.html : Please point out the special wording that says "Oh, but don't worry...it's not really under the GPL...". Whatever.

Consider this hypothetical situation. You go to one of the numerous electronics or computer retailers across the fruited plain and you buy a computer off the shelf. (Please...you can stop laughing now at the absurdity of this possibility.) The thing's preloaded with the latest bluescreen inducer. (We're also assuming that, for whatever reason, thinking different isn't an option.) You'd rather replace the preloaded software with something that's a little more reliable. You borrow a copy of $LINUX_DISTRO|$FREEBSD_DISTRO from a friend and blow away Win$YEAR when Billy sends some attack lawyers down from Redmond and slaps you with a lawsuit for depriving him of any future revenue when Win`expr $YEAR + 1` comes along.

How is the above hypothetical any different than what Gracenote is trying to pull off here? They seem to be under the impression that once you use their service in your software, you're stuck with them forever.

(Does anybody have a tool and/or a project (probably of a distributed nature) going to brute-force CDDB for all possible data and pass the info along to one of the free (as in speech) alternatives?)

Acutally, it's much much much worse than this.. it would be more like: Intel sues ME for using AMD, Microsoft Sues YOU for using Linux, Marvel sues Fargo for reading Penny Arcade instead of Marvel comics, etc. These guys aren't suing the competition, they are suing a customer because the customer choose the competition.. It's truely frightening...

Acutally, it's much much much worse than this.. it would be more like: Intel sues ME for using AMD, Microsoft Sues YOU for using Linux, Marvel sues Fargo for reading Penny Arcade instead of Marvel comics, etc. These guys aren't suing the competition, they are suing a customer because the customer choose the competition.. It's truely frightening...

finding out where all the links go to in these articles?

sorry, couldnt resist... there are sooooo many links in this one, i got confused :o)

A Linux driver would be simple as well, if it hasn't already been done.

There has. Michael Beck/David Woodhouse's PC speaker patch also supports parallel port DACs (and has schematics on how to brew your own).

-Marcel

I took a several-month detour to build a new directory indexing system (Htree) for Ext2, something it needs badly. Now it's back to Tux2, keep tuned. The new homepage for the project is:

href=http://nl.linux.org/~phillips/tux2

The mailing list is still hosted by innominate, but I am not with innominate any more. When I get time I'll move the list and resubscribe everybody.
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Come on, Savolainen can't be that hard to type... You could even cut'n'paste these days.

Also there has already been one pcspeaker patch for ages - it would've been nice if that had been mentioned.

Other than that, nice article.

See "man nanosleep". Specifically:

The current implementation of nanosleep is based on the normal kernel timer mechanism, which has a resolution of 1/HZ s (i.e, 10 ms on Linux/i386 and 1 ms on Linux/Alpha). Therefore, nanosleep pauses always for at least the specified time, however it can take up to 10 ms longer than specified until the process becomes runnable again. For the same reason, the value returned in case of a delivered signal in *rem is usually rounded to the next larger multiple of 1/HZ s.

As some applications require much more precise pauses (e.g., in order to control some time-critical hardware), nanosleep is also capable of short high-precision pauses. If the process is scheduled under a real-time policy like SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR, then pauses of up to 2 ms will be performed as busy waits with microsecond precision.

Also, see:

• http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/chapter /ch10.html
• http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/IO-Port-P rogramming-4.html

Man pages are extremely adequate for almost every purpose, and most software. There are a few reasonable criticisms, and a lot of unreasonable ones... here goes:

• There's no hyper-text linking! Not entirely true. Because references to other man pages are in a standard format, it is trivial to compute references... there are perl scripts out there that turn troff(1)-formatted man pages into HTML with useful links to other man pages reliably and easily. It wouldn't be difficult to forego HTML completely, and simply rewrite the man(1) program to handle these links. In fact, with a slight change to the manner in which references were made, you could even specify sections of other man pages easily, since the sections are standard.
• Man pages don't give useful information! This is an amalgation of a few complaints, actually - that man pages only discuss commands and APIs, for instance, that they don't include examples, etc. This is not relevant to man pages, but certain operating systems' man pages. If you look at OpenBSD, there are man pages that discuss general issues involved in VPNs(8), IPSec(4), and even general introductory information (afterboot(8)). Man pages suit this sort of topic treatment reasonable well, and lead to more centralized documentation (a real win!).
• You can't print good books from man pages! OK, true enough. Info, DocBook, etc. are well-suited for writing general books intended to teach. However, Trying to use Info or DocBook documents as references is unpleasant, and involves a lot of poking around for just the link. They essentially serve a completely different purpose.

For Gnome, there's no reason to not rely upon something standard like man (or even info) over HTML, when man and info translate much better to HTML than vice versa.

Actually, if you listen to Linus saying Linux, it almost sounds like lee-nooks. So there ;-)

It's time for you my friend to switch to free software. Linux(Debian is the best) and FreeBSD.
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I'm not sure how M$ can actually sit there and claim that the Open Source movement threatens innovation. . . esp. with the number of innovations that I'm pretty sure it fostered.
I'm curious now, how many of the following things that I consider pretty cool features of linux or *BSD have been exhibited in a previous non-OSS project:
$ make xconfig
X and all its windowmanager goodness
ports
SCSI emulation
dual booting
pluggable text editors (emacs &c)
desktop systems that can work with multiple WMs
coffee

I really am pretty sure they are just so confused about how to deal with OSS that they can't think of anything other than FUD tactics to protect their corporate interests.

A lot of people seem to be concerned about the problems with 'open hardware' development - fab. costs, logistics, and so on. These certainly are major stumbling blocks.

However, how about a more modern business model? Here in the UK, ARM have been designing first-class processors for years, and yet they don't make any chips themselves. They *licence* their designs to other manufacturers (eg. VLSI, Intel, etc.).

So - all we need is an OpenHardware licence, some outstanding technology, and some effective advocacy. Think about it - the openh team could design an absolute corker of a processor, then some manufacturer could manufacture it, and would be obliged to put their 'real-world' improvements/refinements/fixes back into the open. After a few iterations of this, momentum would gather, and we'd have a well-tested, well-designed, real-world piece of hardware.

Wishful thinking perhaps, but if you'd have told me twelve years ago that some companies would be making money from selling products based on an entirely freely available, hobbyist-designed OS, I might not have believed you. Things change, sometimes for the better.

The only trouble is, all those chip manufacturers would get rich quick off the labours of the open hardware designers. But that's a philosophical argument for another day... :-)

It looks to me like the logo is a merge of:

1. The Linux Penguin, Tux: note the black feathers and beak.
2. The BSD Daemon: note the fork. (Officially it has no name according to the copyright holder Marshall Kirk McKusick. But some call it Beastie -- 'bsd'.)
3. The Free Software Foundation mascot, GNU: note the horns.
4. The GNOME "G": note the feet.

Cheers,
Andrew

Complaining about a free service. sheesh!

Listen, I am both Microsoft (MCSE) and Sun (SSA) certified. I have worked with Solaris, Linux and Windows for years. How can windows users that have little if any Unix knowledge, make any comment on what Taco has to say? I'm sure some of the posts were written by people with experiance on both platforms.. but.. Of the people that LOOVVEE M$ many know little or no Unix .. Most M$ users only know M$. Most Unix users know BOTH Unix and M$. Taco is entitled to his opinion (which it just so happens is accurate this time..you overly defensive Microsoft Borgs!) As far as microsoft.com being usefull, I guess that value is in the browser of the beholder. I don't personally have much use for Microsofts web site except when I need to patch my servers. Unfortunately, Microsoft often releases patches long LONG after a problem has been made known (see L0pht.com for a quote from the Microsoft folks). I admin both Unix and Windows machines, If I need a good technical reference I go to O'Reilly and buy a book on the subject.. not microsoft. Or I go to Docs.Sun.Com , Cisco or Linux.org but I don't go to Microsoft.com which is apparently a good thing because they have had DNS problems most of the day! -Celtic

The beauty of Linux (and free software) is that as long as there is the desire for something different (more distros) that something different will exist.

You mentioned debian. But the Linux hackers that don't like debian will make their own "not debian" distros.

Just go to linux.org and look at all the millions of different non-commercial distributions.

--
Garett

Linux Marketing Project...hrm now there is a GREAT idea.I'd be game to work on that... provided that somehow the model could put a little food on the table though it would probably be an easy pitch to get funding from the Linux players you mentioned. Here's an article I found on Google abbout the Linux Advocacy Project and even a How-To.

You can also find a list of US mirrors here, or search here for mirrors for your country. Last I checked the new kernel hadn't been mirrored yet, FYI.

ObJectBridge (GPL'd Java ODMG) needs volunteers.

Know it.

Love it.

Okay, here are the links you'll need when picking out a free software laptop:

Linux:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-lapto p/
http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html

FreeBSD:
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html
http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/LAPTOP_SURVEY/index. html

OpenBSD:
http://www.openbsd.org/i386-laptop.html
http://www.monkey.org/openbsd-mobile

NetBSD:
http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/netbsd/laptops-and-n etbsd.html
http://newsletter.toshiba-tro.de/netbsd/

X window system LCD configs:
http://www.sanpei.org/Laptop-X/note-list.html
http://www.sanpei.org/Laptop-X/Laptop-X/

Notebook survey for graphics/PCMCIA
http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf/notebooks.html

If anyone has any other links for other free software OSes, please post them :)
--posted anonymously to avoid karma whoring.

Of course, this is not something that just appeared out of the wild blue yonder, we all heard about this last year.

href=http://mail.nl.linux.org//securedistros/2000- 01/msg00014.html

http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/13/1029206.shtm l

As for the enhancements, if I understand this correctly, think of them as providing the kernel the ability to "sandbox" any application somewhat like the java model. This limits the ability to use a root exploit of one application to gain access to the rest of the system.

Source unzipped, untarred and ready to go C-Ya!

but there are alot of linux dists. out there-redhat, debaian, suse etc dont define linux. freedom defines linux. if you dont like where redhat is going there is sure to be an alternative that suits you. go here for a good list:

http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html

is small is what you want try mulinux:

http://mulinux.nevalabs.org/

use LaTeX? want an online reference manager that

Please don't bash a product because it is proprietary, but judge it on it's merits.

That would kick ass.
I saw a link once which shows you how to make your own distro, and I did think about maybe creating my own, but it seemed like a lot of work, and I wasn't really sure about which bits of Linux actually are free (as in beer) and which parts are merely free (as in speech). I've looked at linux.org and the various distro homepages, but apart from reading the individual licenses and then consulting a legal expert, there seems to be no clear way forward.
Or am I just being dense ?

Well made observations, but there are of course no rules without exceptions - either way. The biggest problem in X is however, getting good enough fonts. No free distribution packages good fonts simply because the best ones are commercial.

Here's a resource to obtain fonts, free or not:
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Font-HOWTO-10. html
The easiest way is to just copy fonts from your Windows-partition or CD (if you have Windows at all, but some of them may be downloaded too).

I found this resource good when I did this on Mandrake 7.2 (before I saw the option in DraConfig->fonts to automagically install Windows fonts):
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html

I got this page from this resource (containing alot of links):
http://www.kegel.com/linux/tt.html

Everybody who have Linux should do this. You will not want to barf at your screen again. You will enjoy Linux and browsing web-pages is like browsing with Internet Exploder. That's partly unfortunately since both Nutscrape and Konqueror is just as stable. However, it's free and it's improving alot!

- Steeltoe

But seriously ... personally I think it is good to have different flavours of Linux that cater to the many different tastes people have.

On the other hand, I also think it would be good if all the distributions would be compatible enough that you can install the same 3rd party software packages on each system...

I hope that Conectiva 6.0 with its apt-get for RPM will bring us a step in the right direction. The main reason I hope lots of people will be using Conectiva 6.0 is that a whole bunch of my friends have spent a large amount of time working on it ;)

But in the long run the only thing that's really important to me is that every computer user will have the opportunity to run that system that (s)he likes most while still being compatible with the rest of the world. It's about usability and freedom of choice...

Disclaimer: I work for Conectiva and even run a Conectiva 6.0 ftp mirror...

It took the people here a few months to clean up all the dependancies of every package, but now we've finally got a nice RPM-based distro which has all the dependancies right ...

For me personally (I'm just doing kernel hacking and no distro stuff) this has caused no end to my joy ... since the distro folks got all the dependancies right I'm using apt-get and don't have to bother with system administration of my box any more ;)

Disclaimer: I work for Conectiva and even run a Conectiva 6.0 ftp mirror...

This should be good news for the people who are afraid that apt-get for RPM is a problem for Debian ... the fact that apt-get has been ported to another package format simply means more apt-get frontends will be available soon, one for everybody's tastes. And the fact that Debian and the RPM-based distro's are closer together now means it'll be easier for everyone to choose the distro of his/her taste without having to choose for (in)compatibility with other stuff at the same time.

Disclaimer: I work for Conectiva and even run a Conectiva 6.0 ftp mirror...

People often get fooled by the idea that Linux companies only want to advance their own distribution, but the reality is that different distro's simply appeal to different tastes (like different tastes of ice cream) and that the Linux companies make most of their their money by services, not by selling boxes of CD's...

In fact, a lot of the apt-rpm things were developed in good communication with the Debian people and most developers here aren't all that happy with the fact that marketing let one "Conectiva invents apt-get" press release out ... they've since been cluebatted and all the other press releases list Debian too like they should ;)

Disclaimer: I work for Conectiva and maintain a conectiva 6.0 ftp mirror... (but since I could get a job pretty much anywhere, I'm keeping my loyalty with the Linux _users_, not with any particular company!)

Personally I'm seeing quite a bit of activity in the LSB and the various RPM-based distros are so compatible with each other that it shouldn't be all that difficult to get things to work.

Disclaimer: I work for Conectiva and even run an ftp mirror of Conectiva 6.0 ...

From their about page: "Let's face it: GNU/Linux is Unix." (4 paragraphs down after the bold) What a glaring error this is (anyone remember a little ditty that goes something like this: "GNU'S NOT UNIX"?!?) Linux is Linux, GNU is GNU (and most definitely not UNIX). Both are UNIX-like and arguably better, but definitely not the same.

Other than that (a rather large philosophical error in my opinion) the site looks very nice. A very valuable resource, I think. The best of luck to them.

Make sure you are not trying to run showkey under X (your X server grabs the console) or it won't work. My Logitech cordless pro keyboard's little blue keys all show up under showkey as long as I'm not in X.

I've been way too busy to get very deep into it, but I suspect you can get the keys working in the console by following the instructions in the Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO. It includes information on how to set up custom keyboards, how X uses it's own keymap, etc.

Good luck!

This is news for nerds, stuff that matters.

Any hypothetical scenario that depends on the invention of "tamper-proof hardware" isn't worth worrying about.

Ah, but it doesn't require tamper-proof hardware, only hardware that is sufficiently tamper-resistant.

Here's one piece of the puzzle: let's say that the digital link between a future digital monitor and your video card is encrypted, meaning that open-source software with the keys embedded would defeat the purpose.

...meaning that open-source video drivers for such hardware could conceivably be illegal for much the same reason DeCSS is.

Open Source operating systems suddenly become very, very screwed.

Expand this approach to other hardware.

Game, set, match. I hope you enjoyed your right to read while it lasted.

By the way, Intel is already working on this.

HAND ^_^

What about ext3 (which provides journalling) - hasn't that been released yet?

ext3 is available as kernel patches from ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sc t/f s/jfs/; there's still a bunch of issues to be aware of.

Pro: very nice transition from existing ext2 filesystems and back again. Does journaling so bye-bye long fsck times.

Con: Does data+metadata journaling so write performance is about 1/2 ext2. Must still be classed as experimental, I wouldn't yet go production with ext3 - reiser seems to be stable enoug to use on production systems right now.

If you're interested in stuff increasing the availability of your system (journaling filesystems, hardware monitoring, cluster configurations..) the site to visit is http://www.linux-ha.org, it's got a nice colection of links to the relevant projects.

The Coffee? Guess you want the Coffee Mini-HOWTO. Need a cup o' joe? Punch up /usr/bin/coffee.. (Just make sure the grinds are fresh.)

anyone?