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1. Installing Linux or BSD takes time and experience; Mac OS X comes preinstalled.
2. You can run most Linux/BSD software on Mac OS X. X11 comes preinstalled, too.
3. Mac OS X doesn't lack any package management systems: Fink, DarwinPorts and now even Gentoo MacOS.
4. No need to compile and install drivers for any devices you have. They are preinstalled.
5. If you don't like the Mac OS X GUI, run X11 with your favourite window manager in fullscreen. It works perfectly.
6. You can easily use X11 and the Mac OS X GUI at the same time. It works perfectly, too.

The list goes on.

"Free Software on a Cheap Computer" doesn't mean getting rid of Mac OS X, dammit.

and get all the free software you desire.
I have Scribus, Inkscape,, Xephem in my Fink installation.
I have also GIMP, Links, and NeoOfficej.

Why do I need Linux?

FINK

If you are wondering, how fingers positions tracked by camera, pay attention to small black and white squares on the end of the fingers. Those are square-shaped markers used in the ARToolkit - Open sourced, multiplatform Augmented reality library. ARToolkit is esy to use and with camera connected to PC and having camera SDK you can esily write your own augmented reality application. There are augmented relity libraries for cellular phones and pocket pc in development.

I can't vouch for this because I've never tested it because its not in debian yet but if iRATE works as advertised then it could be just what you're looking for.

As a well-trainer xbox hacker, Gentoo Linux PC user, GentooX (Gentoo on Xbox) user, and Java developer, I believe I can speak with some merit here... :)

"the big problem with legal xbox development is that you can't get it to run on the xbox without modding it."

Actually, there are many "soft-mod" exploits in games such as MechAssault and 007: Agent Under Fire which allow you to boot unsigned code and ultimately flash your TSOP and EEPROM with a third party BIOS.

Running GentooX for only interpreted code is really not worth it since an Xbox only has 64MB of RAM and a 733mhz Intel processor out of the box. A GentooX system would not only have to maintain the overhead of the interpreted language's runtime application, but also the WindowManager, its widget set, and any system services running such as apache, proftpd, smbd, webmin, and the system logging mechanism.

Also, if you launch an Xbox distro from your dashboard, the linux kernel will need to use a virtual loopback device to mount the root partition. Because this is a loopback and not a physical extended partition, this also will cause a performance hit.

If it were up to me to port a JRE to the Xbox, I'd probably write a menu launcher with a Xromwell backend that would execute a .Jar by booting a very minimalistic linux system with only the kernel, X server, alsa, network daemons, and JVM in memory.

• XBox Media Center, already one of the most popular SF.net projects, will be by far the sweetest media suite for any platform.
• Someone may port the Blackdown Java VM to the Xbox, allowing for any presently developed Java program to be ran on the exotic Xbox.
• The OpenXDK may be just as functional as its official counterpart, allowing for LEGAL xbox homebrew development.
• Add about a few dozen more fun homebrew games to the current selection.

Good news! Evolution for win32 is on the way! The last that I heard, Novell was even pushing a port directly.

How many people do you know still play DOS games? After 10 years support for the API's and the old hardware disappears. Realisticly most people dont want to put up with the issues of playing older games, so if steam disapears most people wont care.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net

HAND. HTH.

• MaraDNS
• Posadis
• PowerDNS (Recursion is incomplete and not part of the base package)
• NSD (No caching nor recursion)
• MyDNS (Specialized for people who insist on using MySQL to store DNS records)

How many people do you know still play DOS games?

After spending a couple of hours on UFO: Enemy Unknown tonight, I just had to reply to this. It is actually easier to play most DOS games now than when they were released. No need for boot disks, memory managers, hardware drivers etc. Just run DosBox on your OS of choice!

I hate spam as much as the next fellow, but I prefer technical solutions to legislative ones. I'd prefer it if the web mail people (gmail, hotmail, etc.) and major isp's started offering options like the tagged message delivery agent ( TMDA) to their users. The end result I see with this spam law stuff is a bunch of us citizens going to jail while spamming is outsourced to countries beyond our jurisdiction.

Many people in this thread have come up with alternatives to VB.NET. Here is a very strong argument for VB.NET and for the .NET platform in general, whether you want to run on Mono or on MS:

Since Java and C# are very similar, just about all the important open source Java libraries are being ported to C#. Once on C#, they are available for all CLR languages - also for VB.NET.

Some examples:
http://www.db4o.com/
http://bbooprevalence.sourceforge.net/
http://nhibernate.sourceforge.net/
http://nant.sourceforge.net/

Strong libraries is what make up the power of a programming language.

Many people in this thread have come up with alternatives to VB.NET. Here is a very strong argument for VB.NET and for the .NET platform in general, whether you want to run on Mono or on MS:

Since Java and C# are very similar, just about all the important open source Java libraries are being ported to C#. Once on C#, they are available for all CLR languages - also for VB.NET.

Some examples:
http://www.db4o.com/
http://bbooprevalence.sourceforge.net/
http://nhibernate.sourceforge.net/
http://nant.sourceforge.net/

Strong libraries is what make up the power of a programming language.

Many people in this thread have come up with alternatives to VB.NET. Here is a very strong argument for VB.NET and for the .NET platform in general, whether you want to run on Mono or on MS:

Since Java and C# are very similar, just about all the important open source Java libraries are being ported to C#. Once on C#, they are available for all CLR languages - also for VB.NET.

Some examples:
http://www.db4o.com/
http://bbooprevalence.sourceforge.net/
http://nhibernate.sourceforge.net/
http://nant.sourceforge.net/

Strong libraries is what make up the power of a programming language.

Bering is, AFAIK, x86-only. Of course, it is completely open source, and you could recompile for different targets. However, I do not believe that there are any binary packages for MIPS. I use it with Mini-ITX systems with no moving parts. That's quite a bit more expensive than the Linksys router! :)

... once that new game development studio from East-Mongolia will release a new, shiny 3d shooter along with their very own controlware client, will you happily embrace that, too?

Oh, and being an old Ultima fan, I still like playing Ultima 7 these days, which is possible thanks to the Exult project. Hard to imagine this will be possible in the case of HL2 10 years from now...

http://leaf.sourceforge.net/

Yeah, no one plays DOS games anymore.

About as many times for FreeBSD as for Windows. Only difference is my systems ALL run FreeBSD (I have not had Windows since 3.1), the Windows systems are work machines, that I work with a lot less.

Oh sure, that system was designed for Windows 2000, or so the sticker says. Doesn't mean you can find drivers for it. (at least I know how to pry heat sinks off of chips and google part numbers)

By contrast, FreeBSD tends to work most of the time until I want to do something weird. Try getting something like dmx working in Windows at all. My saterday may have been blown, but I got it working.

Yes I have spent a lot of time getting FreeBSD working. I've spent just as much getting Windows working, despite having less interest in Windows systems.

The OS X version of Armagetron Advanced requires one to be logged in as admin in order to play it.

Not as bad as root, but I still don't like it.

A similar but GPLed program is synergy. It's not quite as featureful as MaxiVista, since it just shared the keyboard and mouse between computers, while MaxiVista appears to be able to move windows around, but I find synergy to be very useful.

WLAN just took an install of the NDISWRAPPER.

When the "I'm feeling lucky" button in google would answer you question about NDISWRAPPER.

But regardless, NDISWRAPPER is a util that lets one take the Windows Driver binary for a WLAN chipset and use it in Linux. The page has pretty easy to follow instructions to install.

When the "I'm feeling lucky" button in google would answer you question about NDISWRAPPER.

But regardless, NDISWRAPPER is a util that lets one take the Windows Driver binary for a WLAN chipset and use it in Linux. The page has pretty easy to follow instructions to install.

My spelling has improved massively with the advent of the red squigle under the mispelled word.

Looks like you could use SpellBound too.

This is not the first time Microsoft releases open source software. He has also released the following projects

- Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset
- Windows Template Library
- FlexWiki

all under IBM's Common Public License which is approved by the OSI. Maybe they'll chose CPL again(?).

This is not the first time Microsoft releases open source software. He has also released the following projects

- Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset
- Windows Template Library
- FlexWiki

all under IBM's Common Public License which is approved by the OSI. Maybe they'll chose CPL again(?).

This is not the first time Microsoft releases open source software. He has also released the following projects

- Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset
- Windows Template Library
- FlexWiki

all under IBM's Common Public License which is approved by the OSI. Maybe they'll chose CPL again(?).

There is an open source live CD project called "Cluster Live". It boots a cluster of thin clients and share its load by using conventional Linux kernel e.g. Red Hat Linux, etc.
http://thinux.sourceforge.net/thingindex.html

I'm no clustering guru, but I tried OpenMosix and wasnt impressed with the performance at all. While I havent yet tried OpenSSI, I see time and time again that it is far superior to OpenMosix and accomplishes the same objective (SMP emulation over network).

If you're into clustering, consider trying openssi as well as OpenMosix

Probably not the easiest way to do it though.

You can see my work so far at the following links:

Wikipedia in Plucker format
Wikiquote in Plucker format
Wikitionary in Plucker format

..and of course, my beautiful anti-alias fonts for Plucker, made with PalmFontConv by Alexander Pruss.

I've also converted the Creating XPCOM Components book by Doug Turner and Ian Oeschger to Plucker format as well as the FreeBSD Handbook.

I have literally hundreds of similar-quality works I'll be releasing over the next few months to the community on an ongoing basis.

If there's something you'd like to see, just let me know

You can see my work so far at the following links:

Wikipedia in Plucker format
Wikiquote in Plucker format
Wikitionary in Plucker format

..and of course, my beautiful anti-alias fonts for Plucker, made with PalmFontConv by Alexander Pruss.

I've also converted the Creating XPCOM Components book by Doug Turner and Ian Oeschger to Plucker format as well as the FreeBSD Handbook.

I have literally hundreds of similar-quality works I'll be releasing over the next few months to the community on an ongoing basis.

If there's something you'd like to see, just let me know

And for those who care...

An MLA/APA auto formatter for references.

Every teacher at my school has recommended it to me. (Although I myself have not yet gotten a chance to try it.)

There are some CPU spinners in the CPU scheduler evaluation project that should be of assistance.

The actual download page is here

There are some CPU spinners in the CPU scheduler evaluation project that should be of assistance.

The actual download page is here

There is also a middle ground... it is called Media Portal. As far as I can tell, it has the look and feel of MS Media Center Edition yet it is open source and free. Lots of customizable modules as well...

Another great and free project is Media Portal. Fully skinable, all the features of Media Center Edition, and has plugin support: http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/

There is a .NET port of Hibernate here: http://nhibernate.sourceforge.net/

DUH!!!! WOW, are you guys really so illiterate that you cant figure out how to install GTK+ for windows? Or, did i correctly understand the OP which states, basically, that the OP doesnt know how to install ANY software on windows?!?!?! amazing. whats wrong with you guys?

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

directions for all you asshats:
1-go to above link
2-click on GTK+
3-watch as it magically "downloads"
4-click on it again to magically "unzip it"
5-click on it ONE MORE TIME to magically "install it"

yes, installing software on windows is so mysterious and magical isnt it? CLICK ON IT!!!!!

On that page, you actually *read* the 2nd paragraph, which says:

There are GIMP installers for Windows and FAQs at gimp-win.sourceforge.net. The installers are created by Jernej Simoncic.

So, you go to gimp-win.sourceforge.net, click the download link on the left, which takes you to a page which has another download link.

But, maybe you thought you qualified for The packages below are for people who develop software that use GLib and/or GTK+.?

The new database benchmark "PolePosition" shows how much performance Hibernate costs:

http://polepos.sourceforge.net/

For overcoming the object-relational mismatch in resource constrained applications, like on mobile platforms, or where performance matters, you might want to look at the open source object database db4o (http://www.db4o.com/ which is up to 44x faster in the benchmark (http://www.db4o.com/about/productinformation/benc hmarks/).

Chris

I believe pudge (Chris Nandor, http://sourceforge.net/users/pudge/) is one of the Slashdot programmers (if you look in the slash CVS you can see he has commit access). As for why he was removed, your guess is as good as mine.

The kind of system you're talking about needs to be compared with the combination of Spring and Hibernate. Some people might include MiddleGen too, though I've worked on projects without it and we've done alright.

Spring offers the equivalent of #1, though you can also use other templating languages (Velocity, WebMacro) or other MVC frameworks (Struts, Tapestry). In simple cases, JSP with Spring is sufficient. What Spring does really well is to keep you from polluting your view logic with application logic and your application logic with data access logic while at the same time minimizing developer effort. It also provides a ton of features which you can use piecemeal if you don't need all of them.

Hibernate offers #2 and #3, though #3 and connection pooling are provided through third-party implementations of defined interfaces.

I believe Hibernate is capable of using any JDBC DataSource, so this can be provided by whatever implementation you want. Spring has perfectly usable implementations, but you can also use ones from Apache or some other provider. This offers flexibility in that a DataSource can be provided as a JNDI resource.

Caching is handled by one of a number of caching implementations (default is EHCache) which can be selected depending on what features you need. If need be, you can even implement your own caching provider.

There is an access control system for Spring called ACEGI. From my experience, it's quite capable.

Obviously, since I've never looked at your implementation, I can't compare this solution with the one you've written. But I can say that it's unlikely that you've created a system which, end to end, offers the power, flexibility and ease of use that Hibernate/Spring do. The trend in these kinds of architectures is increasingly moving away from the single, all-encompassing frameworks like EJB. Instead, like another poster noted, the trend is to use a number of light-weight frameworks which pick one aspect of the overall architecture (MVC, ORM, caching, security, templating, etc) and do it well, with defined interfaces so that other implementations can be swapped easily. While your implementation might work well for you since you know the code and can make modifications to it so that it perfectly suits your environment, it won't be very useful to the general public. For a framework to be useful to the rest of us, it has to be flexible to fit in our environments without having to go in and hack the code. Hibernate and Spring have already proven to be this flexible. You might consider looking at these frameworks and determining whether ideas from your implementation can be included into these frameworks. Both communitites have very active developer discussion forums, so if you feel either solution is lacking in some respect, bring it up there and they can either tell you why they do it differently or incorporate your ideas into their projects.

1. Get and run "StopListening"
2. Install Firefox
3. Install Media Player Classic
4. Install Thunderbird

   After that, the whole windows-update thingy becomes mostly irrelevant.

This development itself proves the big advantage Java has over C#/.Net in the enterprise arena: a far wider array of supporting libraries and frameworks, not to mention a selection of mature application servers.

This is bound to be the case, considering how much longer Java has been around compared to C# - however, bear in mind that a large number of popular frameworks have already been ported to C#/.Net including NHibernate, Spring.NET and Maverick.NET.

This development itself proves the big advantage Java has over C#/.Net in the enterprise arena: a far wider array of supporting libraries and frameworks, not to mention a selection of mature application servers.

This is bound to be the case, considering how much longer Java has been around compared to C# - however, bear in mind that a large number of popular frameworks have already been ported to C#/.Net including NHibernate, Spring.NET and Maverick.NET.

Ogg is free, (supported by xmms), patentless and offers better compression (or what ever you call it) than mp3.

"we represent as open-source friendly a commercial organization as you are *ever* going to see"

"Unlike the Marine corp, the open source community is more than willing to ignore their bad apples as 'not my problem' (the Marine corp punishes the group for the behavior of the bad apples, pretty soon there are no bad apples)."

Larry suggested, "if Linus and Andrew and the others moved elsewhere, we'd glady comp them licenses", referring to their current employment with OSDL.