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Did anybody notice - it's running through vmware http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?re lease=279&slide=4

Hmm.. looking at this screenshot Hoary hasn't "fixed" this. Now, dare I go email someone at Ubuntu and get my head ripped off? Or should I go file a bug that will probably be ignored. Hmm.. which of these two options requires me to lower my cinicism levels the least.. filing a bug I guess.

I sure hope they changed the menu option for package management. Have a look at this screenshot. Everything on the System Configuration menu has a "nice" name that most anyone could understand. Except, that is, the package manager. The average user is going to be asking. Why is "Synaptic" in the menu option? Wtf is a "package manager" anyways? I'm not going to click on that. A better name for that menu option would have been: Install and Update Software.

Thanks! (although I doubt that Google can index something that got released today). What is this mold attacking the preference titlebar?

At OSdir.com

Well, a quick google found this: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?re lease=234&slide=1 There were other hits too, but the first 60 screenshots is probably enough ;-)

well when you re-sell the CD you are technically not authorized to re distribute. so you wouldnt really be able to sell your itunes tracks.....but even if you were, you would most likley want to remove the DRM so people cold play them easily.

but if apple ever got stricter on the authorizations, the digital watermarking could screw it all to hell. read this....its an interview with the person behind JHymn (the program used to strip the DRM for the AAC+ files) http://osdir.com/Article3823.phtml

And what's a better way to show them than through pictures Lots and lots of pretty pictures. :-)

And what's a better way to show them than through pictures Lots and lots of pretty pictures. :-)

They are apparently including the opensource hsql database engine. I imagine that's the backend if you need it - otherwise, as this screenshot indicates, you can connect to an existing database server and use that. In that case, this becomes a pretty front end.

• Integrated help browser w/ man and info support
  
• Developer-friendly text editor
  
• Nice GUI for sharing files
  
• Freedesktop.org cross-desktop menu specification
  
• Weather panel applet
  
• Panel and applet transparency
  
• An "new and improved" mixer (looks like kmix now)
  

How many lines for Novell Linux?

I wonder if RHEL 4 looks like Fedora Core 3?

http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?re lease=137&slide=1

Xandros Desktop OS OCE 3.0 screenshots are coming soon...

Well, suppose it becomes common for companies to demand a permission for anyone (especially those they don't like) to link to their sites. Won't that affect our rights to use the web as it was designed?

Suppose it went far enough that a letter was sent on behalf of a well-known Linux distributor saying "our client does not allow others to provide links to our client's web site without permission".

And it just happened.

InfoWorld: "Computer Associates Inc. on Thursday blasted The SCO Group Inc. for harassing Linux users and misrepresenting the terms of a software licensing arrangement between the two companies that protected CA from a potential SCO lawsuit.

SCO Chief Financial Officer Bob Bench on Wednesday confirmed that CA was one of four publicly named companies to sign up for SCO's Intellectual Property (IP) License for Linux -- a $699 license that SCO says that Linux users must purchase in order to avoid violating SCO's copyrights.

On Thursday, however, a CA executive said that his company had purchased no such license, but had instead acquired a large number of licenses for SCO's UnixWare operating system as part of a $40 million breach of contract lawsuit settlement in August 2003 with SCO investor The Canopy Group Inc.

Around the time of the settlement, SCO announced that it had signed up the first customer for its Linux license. Though SCO did not reveal the identity of this customer industry speculation centered around it being CA."

I don't have the first fucking idea what that's supposed to mean.

And you shouldn't if you don't use GNOME, because even if you did use it, you're not supposed to need to select a different backend for GStreamer. Some distros don't even include it in the menu because its advanced configuration that most users will never need. It's purpose is to allow you to use a different sound server, like KDE's artsd. If you want to know more about it, google some of the terms you don't know about. I'm not trying to to belittle you, but you're coming out of nowhere trying to put down the design of things you've never even used. It shouldn't be a surprise that you don't know the purpose of some things.

Volume isn't related to sound controls? I think you'll find you're mistaken.

No, that's not what I said. Volume isn't related to the Multimedia Systems Selector. It's named that because that's exactly what it is. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it should have a volume control slapped on it. Like I said before, it's a window that you would never see unless you typed the command in the command line since it's not in the menu.

What's a panel, and what's an applet?

Panels are the bars at the top and bottom of the screen. they hold programs called applets. Look in the screenshot you were referring to. See the little speaker icon at the top right? That's what any user trying to change the volume would go to, not the Multimedia Systems Selector, because, for the third and final time, it's an advanced configuration program not meant for most users to deal with.

Pop in one of the many live CDs that have been posted on Slashdot over the past week or so and try out GNOME. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by how much easier it is to use than you think. There's still a lot of room for improvement though, and it gets better with every release. I hear 2.10 has a new volume control applet.

And for those curious, it's more pronounced in these shots: http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-10/.

Hell, look at this--http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow. php?release=234&slide=32. See the word "IDE?" The D characters have uneven line widths on their curves. They thicken right at the diagonal parts.

Honestly, I relaly don't see much of a difference.

I am going to presume you meant really, rather then relay.

How about the places menu, the MultiMedia Systems Selector, maybe the Device Manager or the Dictionay.

But honestly, this is an incremental release. What were you expecting? A complete revamp?

Honestly, I relaly don't see much of a difference.

I am going to presume you meant really, rather then relay.

How about the places menu, the MultiMedia Systems Selector, maybe the Device Manager or the Dictionay.

But honestly, this is an incremental release. What were you expecting? A complete revamp?

Honestly, I relaly don't see much of a difference.

I am going to presume you meant really, rather then relay.

How about the places menu, the MultiMedia Systems Selector, maybe the Device Manager or the Dictionay.

But honestly, this is an incremental release. What were you expecting? A complete revamp?

Honestly, I relaly don't see much of a difference.

I am going to presume you meant really, rather then relay.

How about the places menu, the MultiMedia Systems Selector, maybe the Device Manager or the Dictionay.

But honestly, this is an incremental release. What were you expecting? A complete revamp?

Funny, they are using a different url for slashdot,
here is a link to the one where everyone shoots down
his unqualified opinions.

http://osdir.com/Article3992.phtml

You buy a machine it does not matter what comes on it since every single corporate environment images machines when the come in the door anyhow, so the price is still the same.

Besides no Linux administrator worth a grain of salt is gonna install linux on anything anyhow. Everyone I know that runs real desktop installations does so using thin client.

FreeSBIE, based on Free BSD and bundled with Xfce, is intriguing, but I couldn't get it to talk to the wireless network, or to print. It also crashed my system twice. But I'd be willing to check it out again sometime.

That whole article is just one big trollish flamebait. The author doesn't know FreeBSD is not Linux and he cannot even get the name right, it's a miracle he didn't write Linux as Li nux. He also failed to notice that Fluxbox is also available and not just XFce, but maybe he thought Fluxbox is a version of Tetris. Well, since he didn't explain what exactly happened, here is a more detailed account of what went on:

*FreeSBIE booting up*
James LaRue: "Oh, check out the penguin, I like the new costume, hehe!"
James LaRue: "*scratching head* Uhh, Fluxbox... Tetris? Nah, not for me... What the hell... *presses 1 (console tcsh shell)*"

# ifconfig wlan0 wificlient broadcast 192.168.1.255
ifconfig: interface wlan0 does not exist

About the author: James LaRue is a public library administrator..

Are you sure? I think I know him from somewhere... Well, if he really is a public library administrator it seems his library is missing a book or two.

hymn is a decryption program based on the work of Jon Lech Johansen , who first reverse-engineered Apple's DRM scheme (called "FairPlay").

Besides defining what all the value(including the user addable ones) at about:config do.. what much else is there to tell? Editing the source? I doubt the book goes into that...

Perhaps he could editting some of the JavaScript files FireFox uses.

You need to do this if you want to be able to Remove the Kiddie Gloves and let Firefox allow you to run EXE files you've downloaded out of the browser cache--with a warning of course--so that they are deleted automatically, rather than saving them to a specific folder where you'd have to delete them later.

This is great for things like drivers that you'd install once, but if you needed to install later you'd have to go back for the most updated version anyway, so there's little reason to save offline and since there's still 2 levels of warnings that appear on WinXP SP2 (or 1 level of warning on WinXP SP1), you really haven't decreased security at all.

I'm sure there's lots of other stuff you can do in other script files firefox uses for config.

He could also cover making search plugins... those are relatively simple, but can be confusing for first timmers and are kinda finicky for some websites search setups (the "official" Amazon plugin add's plusses where spaces should be, something that doesn't happen when searching on amazon directly...

here, here , and here. Also notice the Trash panel applet.

here, here , and here. Also notice the Trash panel applet.

here, here , and here. Also notice the Trash panel applet.

"Very impressive, but no one uses REXX anymore."

Someone better stop IBM then, before they make a big mistake.

Yeah, just like this. No, seriously, Ubuntu uses Gnome, and it just looks like any other generic Gnome installation, apart from the fact that, in a shocking display of individuality, the highlight colour is brown, not blue.

Who? The RIAA and MPAA duh.

Kernel 2.6.9 with many patches incl. suspend2

ACPI and DMA enabled by default (can be disabled with acpi=off respectively nodma)

i586 optimization - not for use with older CPUs!

128 MB RAM required, 256 MB RAM recommended

AVM Fritz!Card DSL support

Eagle USB DSL support

KDE 3.3.1

OpenOffice 1.1.2

Captive 1.1.5

ALSA 1.0.6a

GRUB boot loader for CD start - ideal for rescue in command line mode

Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool in the extra menu of the boot loader

1. That is rubish. Most likely they are screenshoots of the window manager.

Look at the *other* screenshots listed on the osdir.com site. Most of them are also of the WM & or WM+desktop.

If you don't like that, you can take them up on the offer of replacing them with other shots; " We love screenshots! Got a new release to show us? Ping us where to pick them up!".

Either way, I *DO* like the screenshot previews...they are SCREENSHOTS not detailed OS comparisons.

I've used IMAP capable clients to talk to Exchange servers.

I don't use Thunderbird because I find that evolution with its connector provides almost a complete Outlook replacement.

While I haven't used it personally, people have used the old Netscape IMAP mail connection to talk to Exchange servers in a limited fashion (just IMAP, no calendars, etc.) And, before I got some of the connector stuff working, I used the IMAP option within Evolution to talk to the Exchange server.

But Evolution can give you mail+calendars with those MSexChange servers, so that's what I tend to use.

Maybe someday an open source Exchange replacement like Brutus will be sufficiently compatible with Exchange's behavior to be a viable drop-in replacement for small and medium businesses.

Debian-Installer RC 2, Debian-Installer pre-rc2, Debian-Installer pre-rc1

Debian-Installer RC 2, Debian-Installer pre-rc2, Debian-Installer pre-rc1

Debian-Installer RC 2, Debian-Installer pre-rc2, Debian-Installer pre-rc1

Funny I submitted this over 12 hours ago but it got rejected.

Anyways. Some links in mine were from osdir.com

screenshots and the article

Funny I submitted this over 12 hours ago but it got rejected.

Anyways. Some links in mine were from osdir.com

screenshots and the article

1. as long as my mom, who can be called a computer idiot but still manages to do her work with MS Office, tells me "what's that K icon where START should be", I call bullcrap on any point-and-click Linux.

The problem is similarity. That's one of the reasons why the Gnome-based desktops tend to be different;

SuSE 9

Fedora Core 3

Ubuntu

If it doesn't match what is expected, people will not click on the wrong thing or get confused when everything isn't exactly the same. By being different, people will tend to look first; they aren't worried that the icon isn't the same they already realize that it's not going to be the same.

Both KDE and Gnome have the same basic menu options, so this is by no means a slam at KDE (I'm using it right now). The only menu difference is the default configuration.

1. as long as my mom, who can be called a computer idiot but still manages to do her work with MS Office, tells me "what's that K icon where START should be", I call bullcrap on any point-and-click Linux.

The problem is similarity. That's one of the reasons why the Gnome-based desktops tend to be different;

SuSE 9

Fedora Core 3

Ubuntu

If it doesn't match what is expected, people will not click on the wrong thing or get confused when everything isn't exactly the same. By being different, people will tend to look first; they aren't worried that the icon isn't the same they already realize that it's not going to be the same.

Both KDE and Gnome have the same basic menu options, so this is by no means a slam at KDE (I'm using it right now). The only menu difference is the default configuration.

1. as long as my mom, who can be called a computer idiot but still manages to do her work with MS Office, tells me "what's that K icon where START should be", I call bullcrap on any point-and-click Linux.

The problem is similarity. That's one of the reasons why the Gnome-based desktops tend to be different;

SuSE 9

Fedora Core 3

Ubuntu

If it doesn't match what is expected, people will not click on the wrong thing or get confused when everything isn't exactly the same. By being different, people will tend to look first; they aren't worried that the icon isn't the same they already realize that it's not going to be the same.

Both KDE and Gnome have the same basic menu options, so this is by no means a slam at KDE (I'm using it right now). The only menu difference is the default configuration.

• up2date still doesn't seem to be able to determine the size of the updates: The individual packages are still labeled with "0 kB" and it still comes up with "Total size of selected packages to download: 22 kB". Yeah, right.
• The menu still categorizes stuff in strange ways. How many times have I searched for something in "System Settings" when it really was in "Preferences" or even "System Tools"?
• And don't you just love it to have a submenu in "Preferences" that is labeled "More Preferences"?
• Unfortunately, the screen shot of the sound preferences doesn't tell us whether it is now possible to disable sounds for specific events (or whether the default startup sound is still such a disgrace).
• Seems like there is only one "aesthetically pleasing" theme. Why include themes that are not "aesthetically pleasing"?
• The Service Configuration thingy still seems to be a usability nightmare (if you are geeky enough to notice that you can edit more than one runlevel).
• Add or Remove Applications! Seems you still cannot search for specific packages.
• IPv6 still enabled by default to foul up your web browsing?

• up2date still doesn't seem to be able to determine the size of the updates: The individual packages are still labeled with "0 kB" and it still comes up with "Total size of selected packages to download: 22 kB". Yeah, right.
• The menu still categorizes stuff in strange ways. How many times have I searched for something in "System Settings" when it really was in "Preferences" or even "System Tools"?
• And don't you just love it to have a submenu in "Preferences" that is labeled "More Preferences"?
• Unfortunately, the screen shot of the sound preferences doesn't tell us whether it is now possible to disable sounds for specific events (or whether the default startup sound is still such a disgrace).
• Seems like there is only one "aesthetically pleasing" theme. Why include themes that are not "aesthetically pleasing"?
• The Service Configuration thingy still seems to be a usability nightmare (if you are geeky enough to notice that you can edit more than one runlevel).
• Add or Remove Applications! Seems you still cannot search for specific packages.
• IPv6 still enabled by default to foul up your web browsing?

• up2date still doesn't seem to be able to determine the size of the updates: The individual packages are still labeled with "0 kB" and it still comes up with "Total size of selected packages to download: 22 kB". Yeah, right.
• The menu still categorizes stuff in strange ways. How many times have I searched for something in "System Settings" when it really was in "Preferences" or even "System Tools"?
• And don't you just love it to have a submenu in "Preferences" that is labeled "More Preferences"?
• Unfortunately, the screen shot of the sound preferences doesn't tell us whether it is now possible to disable sounds for specific events (or whether the default startup sound is still such a disgrace).
• Seems like there is only one "aesthetically pleasing" theme. Why include themes that are not "aesthetically pleasing"?
• The Service Configuration thingy still seems to be a usability nightmare (if you are geeky enough to notice that you can edit more than one runlevel).
• Add or Remove Applications! Seems you still cannot search for specific packages.
• IPv6 still enabled by default to foul up your web browsing?

• up2date still doesn't seem to be able to determine the size of the updates: The individual packages are still labeled with "0 kB" and it still comes up with "Total size of selected packages to download: 22 kB". Yeah, right.
• The menu still categorizes stuff in strange ways. How many times have I searched for something in "System Settings" when it really was in "Preferences" or even "System Tools"?
• And don't you just love it to have a submenu in "Preferences" that is labeled "More Preferences"?
• Unfortunately, the screen shot of the sound preferences doesn't tell us whether it is now possible to disable sounds for specific events (or whether the default startup sound is still such a disgrace).
• Seems like there is only one "aesthetically pleasing" theme. Why include themes that are not "aesthetically pleasing"?
• The Service Configuration thingy still seems to be a usability nightmare (if you are geeky enough to notice that you can edit more than one runlevel).
• Add or Remove Applications! Seems you still cannot search for specific packages.
• IPv6 still enabled by default to foul up your web browsing?

• up2date still doesn't seem to be able to determine the size of the updates: The individual packages are still labeled with "0 kB" and it still comes up with "Total size of selected packages to download: 22 kB". Yeah, right.
• The menu still categorizes stuff in strange ways. How many times have I searched for something in "System Settings" when it really was in "Preferences" or even "System Tools"?
• And don't you just love it to have a submenu in "Preferences" that is labeled "More Preferences"?
• Unfortunately, the screen shot of the sound preferences doesn't tell us whether it is now possible to disable sounds for specific events (or whether the default startup sound is still such a disgrace).
• Seems like there is only one "aesthetically pleasing" theme. Why include themes that are not "aesthetically pleasing"?
• The Service Configuration thingy still seems to be a usability nightmare (if you are geeky enough to notice that you can edit more than one runlevel).
• Add or Remove Applications! Seems you still cannot search for specific packages.
• IPv6 still enabled by default to foul up your web browsing?

• up2date still doesn't seem to be able to determine the size of the updates: The individual packages are still labeled with "0 kB" and it still comes up with "Total size of selected packages to download: 22 kB". Yeah, right.
• The menu still categorizes stuff in strange ways. How many times have I searched for something in "System Settings" when it really was in "Preferences" or even "System Tools"?
• And don't you just love it to have a submenu in "Preferences" that is labeled "More Preferences"?
• Unfortunately, the screen shot of the sound preferences doesn't tell us whether it is now possible to disable sounds for specific events (or whether the default startup sound is still such a disgrace).
• Seems like there is only one "aesthetically pleasing" theme. Why include themes that are not "aesthetically pleasing"?
• The Service Configuration thingy still seems to be a usability nightmare (if you are geeky enough to notice that you can edit more than one runlevel).
• Add or Remove Applications! Seems you still cannot search for specific packages.
• IPv6 still enabled by default to foul up your web browsing?

• up2date still doesn't seem to be able to determine the size of the updates: The individual packages are still labeled with "0 kB" and it still comes up with "Total size of selected packages to download: 22 kB". Yeah, right.
• The menu still categorizes stuff in strange ways. How many times have I searched for something in "System Settings" when it really was in "Preferences" or even "System Tools"?
• And don't you just love it to have a submenu in "Preferences" that is labeled "More Preferences"?
• Unfortunately, the screen shot of the sound preferences doesn't tell us whether it is now possible to disable sounds for specific events (or whether the default startup sound is still such a disgrace).
• Seems like there is only one "aesthetically pleasing" theme. Why include themes that are not "aesthetically pleasing"?
• The Service Configuration thingy still seems to be a usability nightmare (if you are geeky enough to notice that you can edit more than one runlevel).
• Add or Remove Applications! Seems you still cannot search for specific packages.
• IPv6 still enabled by default to foul up your web browsing?