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Same old GNU/Linux FUD, that has been disproved countless times..
In short: the MIT research is *11 years old*, and that Rice study on the TCP/IP stack uses FreeBSD *2.2.6*.

(And btw, Eric Raymond advocates BSD license over GPL.) :)

The source code is available free of charge. Therefor the experimental freespire project..
"The new name is under discussion ... a temporary codename of 'Squiggle' has been assigned to the project." http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9384033541.html

That lead to another round of free Linspire OS downloads.

Due to http://osnews.com/
In a short story with a happy ending, the developer of a free version of Linspire called Freespire has agreed to change the name of his project, and Linspire is offering free copies of Linspire Linux for a few days. Freespire, which first popped up on Distrowatch last week, described itself as a free variant of Linspire Linux, with proprietary components and trademarks removed.

The parent has glued together two comments from OSNews, made some minor alterations and tried to pass them off as his own.

Not only will you get the news a day earlier on http://www.osnews.com/ but you'll also get a lot more interesting stuff that doesn't make it to /.

Yeah--with slight hacking, it supports full tables and anything else in the RTF specification. BTW, this article was also posted on OSnews, although they didn't like the article NEARLY as much as us.

...once GoBeProductive is released under the GPL. Any day now....

[Disclaimer: not a single byte of my code can be found in the official kernel tree, so take my words with a grain of salt. Still, I don't really imagine Linus using mouse for anything but cut&paste]

As they say in osnews, devfs seems to have been removed from the kernel.

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> Practically every poll shows KDE has far more users[...]

I thought I'd do a quick test of this. I went to Google, and put in Gnome vs. KDE Poll. The first result was this poll.

I also found This Poll.

And then there's a recent OSNews Poll.

Two of these three showed Gnome winning.

Yes, I know this is not scientific, and doesn't prove that one desktop is better than the other, it's just the result of some random Googling.

But, I do think it is clear that there is NOT a clear winner in the Linux Desktop space right now, therefore the statement that "obviously most prefer KDE" is false.

This is yet another Slashdot story copied copied word-for-word from OSnews, so blame Eugenia for the stupid wordplay.

I think you might. OSnews.com has an archive fee for bulk email senders. I never looked up that US Code but I'm guessing its there.

Best ever OS I've seen, from a purely technical standpoint, is Tao Group's Intent, that started life as TAOS. Truely a beautiful piece of software engineering. This is a fairly old story that gives some background: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=157 This is the modern website: http://tao-group.com/

AC beat me to the punch. But glad anyway.

eComStation from Serenity Systems is an outgrowth of the Warp 4 client, mentioned in a previous slashdot "OS/2 is dying" article.

OS News Review of eComStation 1.0 (lots of info and links about OS/2 history)

They sure don't shout it from the rooftops, but this support request thread makes it sound like the BONE version of an app should be used in Zeta. There are other references to be found, too.

Well AKAImBatman did two stories on the Linux desktop, both reasonable. Both lambasted by the Linux community. Plain and simple the OSS community has a king size chip on their shoulder, and simply don't deal with criticism very well.

When this first appeared on OSNews 2 days ago a lot of us pointed out then that this entire article is ridiculous. They want you to install 2K and not update it and everything else, things which aren't possible. Then most of the "fixes" are disabling this or that service which is 4th grade hacking.

Considering a lot of code for 2000 came from systems being developed before the advent of the Pentium II it can be forced to work on slower machines with a few hardware hacks. First, we know that I/O is going to be slow in a Pentium I or II, so don't use NTFS and upgrade to dynamic disks. Even adding a second drive to use for the PAGEFILE and maybe even the TEMP will speed things up and keep the machine stable.

I've got a few machines (K6, Pentium II each with ~64 MB RAM) running 2000 smoothly with this setup: 2 Hard drives, with the system installed on the first primary partition (on the first disk). The system is on FAT32, formatted for 5.1 GB and just a "normal disk". Then I've got a large "Striped" partition, formatted FAT32 holding documents and programs. Then three small (1 GB) striped partitions all holding one of each of these: TEMP, SWAP and SYSTEM CATALOG.

These machines never crash (and are regularly defragmented every two days). I've debated on taking out the CD-ROM's (never use them) and using 4 hard disk drives but that makes me have to re-install and that requires a CD-ROM (or floppies which I don't have)

I agree, and I should point out in that entire thread. There's an attitude problem that pervades the entire OSS community. Soon we'll resemble closed-source under the hood. You even see an OSS zealot (BinaryCrusader) and his approach to handling criticism.

Well as I pointed out The community has created expectations through it's "advocacy" that are presently both blinding it, and coming back to bite it.

There's an interesting discussion over at OSNews about this very topic. It seems like OS/2 still has a relatively big fan base, someone mentioned three or four native Mozilla/Firefox ports alone!

This isn't my first article and no, I'm not new.

click (got featured on /.)

click (got featured on /.)

here

Just a small selection. I've written over 20 or so articles. Just do a little Google search before insulting someone, would you?

This isn't my first article and no, I'm not new.

click (got featured on /.)

click (got featured on /.)

here

Just a small selection. I've written over 20 or so articles. Just do a little Google search before insulting someone, would you?

This strikes me as one of those "duh...." type editorials. I have a deadline... I have to write *something*... Maybe no one will notice if I write about something obvious.

You just about had it, if you read this story:

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=11011

Basically, he's new there and is writing his first article.

I was shocked to see it on Slashdot, but then what can you do...

Nice try, dipshit.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10868

If you are talking about pure speed, java is certainly not even 75% as fast as C

Yes, it most certainly is. However, it does tend to be a bit of a memory hog, which slows down larger apps. Then again, big fat C++ apps like OpenOffice aren't exactly blinding fast either.

I have always been a fan of Eugenia Loli-Queru's gaming articles. While she no longer writes about such subjects, she was always able to give a very interesting female pespective on gaming. Indeed, in an industry nearly dominated by men, her voice was an interesting one amongst them all.

http://www.osnews.com/editor.php?editors_id=1

Ah, yes.

They have had quite a few discussions about Zeta. Here are a few of the more recent ones:

YellowTAB Zeta R1 goes Gold
Zeta R1 Screenshots
A Look at YellowTAB's Progress

Thanks for the hint.

Ah, yes.

They have had quite a few discussions about Zeta. Here are a few of the more recent ones:

YellowTAB Zeta R1 goes Gold
Zeta R1 Screenshots
A Look at YellowTAB's Progress

Thanks for the hint.

Ah, yes.

They have had quite a few discussions about Zeta. Here are a few of the more recent ones:

YellowTAB Zeta R1 goes Gold
Zeta R1 Screenshots
A Look at YellowTAB's Progress

Thanks for the hint.

If you rather pay no more than $130 instead, the Sansa player is a great buy too, with equivelant feature set (except the line-in and voice recording). Reviews:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10680
http://www.expert-zone.com/index.php?module=announ ce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=1418

Btw, it seems that *somebody* is sharing my preference, since FreeBSD is used on web servers much more than any Linux distro (2.5 million active sites, against 1.6 million of Red Hat). And from Netcraft numbers (June 2004), FreeBSD had a 25% increase in the last year.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearl y_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/03/14/fedor a_makes_rapid_progress.html

I know, facts like this one are little known on Slashdot - for a reason, I'm afraid. The same reason why lousy "reviews" like this one get produced by NewsForge and posted on Slashdot (they belong to the same company), and the same reason why in the /. BSD section, in the latest 20+ news items, only 2 (two) are about FreeBSD (the 5.4 release, and this piece of crap), notwithstanding its huge user base.
That alone says that FreeBSD is a strong Linux contender: if it weren't, there would be no point in obscuring it.

Btw this is an observation, it's not a complaint. FreeBSD has already shown that it can thrive even without the hype.

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On a sidenote: I just finished compiling openoffice1.9m107 a few days ago (now that the port is updated to m109, I'm there compiling again) - with KDE support. Running it under KDE with native widget support is simply amazing speedwise. Startup times don't change much, however, opening various dialogues (options for instance), the help, etc. is instantaneous - just like konqi when preloaded. Not that it was very slow before, but still, once oo starts up, it is lightning fast using the native widgets!

I uploaded the m107 package to my ftp server (see link in my signature) - you may try pkg_adding it, but read the README.txt before that. And while we are at it, one majore advantage of FreeBSD (that a review should include) is its excellent software support. I can't think of a linux distro with such great support for oo.o as FreeBSD (not by default anyway). The latest binaries distributed by openoffice.org are at m104, and I couldn't find (on google) the source downloads for m107, much less m109 today, except at good-day.net of course, which is pretty much overloaded recently, because ports uses it for source downloads, and it also distributes precompiled binaries: m107 builds are ready with all language packs! So, if you want only the english (or KDE) version, use this link to get it. I just began compiling m109 an hour ago, so in a day it will also be uploaded.

This is a rather shallow review and has been discussed over at OSNews. Just read the comments and you'll finde you don't need to read the actual review.

Someone mentioned a better review here. Enjoy!

but are stripped by a greedy company who 'forgets' to contribute the sources of their released (sold) binaries back to the community.

I think Wasabi Systems, a company who develops on NetBSD full-time for clients, would disagree. Clients have let them donate code they've worked on back to the community. (Source: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3187)

And since when does ruling with an iron fist get you anywhere? Forcing people to conform to your view doesn't lead to progress. Convincing them it's better does.

Your rosy eyed view of Mac OS X packaging is quite amusing. From someone who actually knows something about the issue, Mike Hearn of the autopackage project, in his own words:


Does the Mac fare any better? Unfortunately not. MacOS X has (in theory) totally eschewed installers in favour of App Folders, which are specially marked directories, the idea being that you simply drag and drop the app into the Applications directory. To uninstall, just drag it to the wastebasket. This is good UI, but bad everything else. By eliminating (un)install logic, it becomes extremely hard to check for dependancies, to provide system components, to clean up configuration changes, other application metadata and so on. Although technically apps can have dependancies via bundles, the lack of OS side install logic means that in practice it's not possible to install these bundles into the OS if required - the user must do it for the app. As such, apps can only rely on funtionality that was known to ship with the operating system. That suits Apples goal of selling more copies of OS X, but is rather limiting for the user. By trying to hide the problems dependancies pose all together, it creates bigger problems further down the line. As such, some Mac apps ship with install apps anyway which rather defeats the point. Note that my beef with appfolders are more to do with the way they have been implemented in NeXTStep - you can use autopackage to install apps into an appfolders style arrangement (for instance i test with /apps/packagename) and one day there may well be a VFS plugin that lets you view installed packages as folders/directories. I think it is highly unlikely that you'll ever be able to just drag app directories off a CD onto the system however.


And you will note that even Apple do not universally use the app folder method of installation.

http://www.osnews.com/

there's a good overview on OSNews.com.

David Adams has announced his resignation as the publisher of OSNews.com following the terrible incident involving him that was reported here yesterday.

Hey, let's copy and past from OSNews all day.

I saw this story on OSnews today, but they made it out to be about the Hyperthreading issue. But that didn't make any sense since that is not ans OS bug at all, but a hardware issue. (If it is evan an issue)

All hell is breaking loose at OSNews. David Adams posted an article at 17:01:39 UTC on 2005-05-29 that has provoked an outrage never before seen at OSNews.

What started as several people pointing out the misleading, if not just plain wrong, article has boiled over into a nearly complete boycott of the site's advertisements. A large number of comments are currently pending review, and frankly there is speculation that things will never be the same at OSNews.

Some are calling for David Adams to step down, while others are insisting that a peer editorial review process be instated to prevent a future event like this.

All in all, it is probably safe to say that OSNews will never be the same again.

All hell is breaking loose at OSNews. David Adams posted an article at 17:01:39 UTC on 2005-05-29 that has provoked an outrage never before seen at OSNews.

What started as several people pointing out the misleading, if not just plain wrong, article has boiled over into a nearly complete boycott of the site's advertisements. A large number of comments are currently pending review, and frankly there is speculation that things will never be the same at OSNews.

Some are calling for David Adams to step down, while others are insisting that a peer editorial review process be instated to prevent a future event like this.

All in all, it is probably safe to say that OSNews will never be the same again.

OS News, January 2003.

It's time for Windows on the Desktop

Posted by special contributor Richard Keiichi Yamauchi, Jr.

Some of you might be thinking, why? Well, I think it's about time. MCSE's, VB Programmers, and techies have been using Windows for years, and I think it's about time Windows moves to the desktop for ordinary people.
...
We've heard it year after year after year: "This is the year Windows is for the masses on the desktop." Well, then another version comes out and still "Joe Longkneck" can't use it. I would love to see Windows on the desktop for the newbie. It's just it's going to take some effort.
... and so on.

[1] http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/contents/2005/04/29- gnome-no-fun/read
[2] http://galaxy.osnews.com/email.php?blog_id=979
[3] http://galaxy.osnews.com/email.php?blog_id=973
[4] http://www.rockerssoft.com/brockers/archives/00051 0.html
[5] http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=150592&cid= 12627995

[1] http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/contents/2005/04/29- gnome-no-fun/read
[2] http://galaxy.osnews.com/email.php?blog_id=979
[3] http://galaxy.osnews.com/email.php?blog_id=973
[4] http://www.rockerssoft.com/brockers/archives/00051 0.html
[5] http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=150592&cid= 12627995

OSNews posted an interview with actor William Fichtner yesterday. Maybe a simple blog engine would be great for actors like him who don't have a big computer experience.

Alright! All too often, the consumers voice is lost in the shuffle.

I attempted to submit questions about a company that bit me on Slashdot, just to see if I was the only one. After numerous rejected stories I ended up writing an article, and submitting it to OSNews.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10532

Nice rip off from OS News

It's even worst than you think.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10598
Maybe soo it will be "stuff that matters to Eugenia".

OK, reality check now people! Linux is a competitor to Sun. It competes with Solaris. Sun would not want RedHat (main Linux distro cited by Sun people as "the enemy") to have Java.

RedHat probably sees this and is probably behind Havoc Pennington's comments last week about why "Red Hat not shipping Mono is currently a can't rather than a won't. Making it worse, we are not able to spell out all the facts on why we can't."

http://galaxy.osnews.com/email.php?blog_id=973

Which means RedHat will make the technological mistake of investing too much in Java, in order to get at Solaris, along with Harmony project folks who in all naiveté believe in Sun "blessing" Java. All the while, Mono just sits there, waiting to be used more...