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GNU Hardware Cooperative
dfelznic writes "With the support of several leaders in the free software community, Spindletop is in the process of becoming the first (and only) GNU Cooperative, supporting the hardware needs of end-users of free software such as GNU/Linux. Spindletop is based in the birthplace of free software, Cambridge, MA." Allright, I'm a skeptic, but it if it works, it sure would be great.
I've seen a few people complain that they can't view the article because of the slashdot effect.
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We have a copy of the article posted by Lucas on Kuro5hin, complete with everything you need
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GNU/Linux is GNU.
Not true. GNU is the name of an operating system. What is sometimes called "GNU/Linux" is NOT that operating system. So what is the operating system? It's the linux kernel plus anything that allows that kernel to work. Nothing more. Compilers, editors, and other utilities, no matter how basic, are not part of the operating system. Every GNU program commonly distributed with Linux can be replaced with a non-GNU alternative.
The Linux distributions are NOT an operating system (otherwise there would be 20 different operating systems). Instead, they are a collection of software that includes Linux the OS, Linux the infrastructure as created by Linus and friends, BSD daemons, GNU userland utilities, and a whole bunch of stuff selected by the distributor. The distributors put all this stuff together, so they get to name it.
If you say "GNU/Linux" and mean "Linux operating system + GNU low-level user environment" you may be right. But if you mean "GNU OS with just a kernel swapped out" you will be wrong.
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
I was wondering what happened when the router lit up like a Christmas tree!
The full article is here.
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THis idea was tossed around on Advogato.org. Should be interesting to see. (On a side note, wouldn't it be cool if all these free software sites had soemthing like the microsoft wallet?)
Losers is a strong term. User maybe. Mainly because while it does do the things you mention it also means that when the video or sound blows up on it that you have to swap out a motherboard to get it back also this program is of geeks, for geeks, and by geeks and ask your average geek about onboard anything most of them will shudder and tell you a horror story. Simply put most geeks think that they advantages of freeing up two slots and a slight reduction in power consumption is not worth it. Real life story. The box that your CEO uses fries it's onboard sound 30 minutes before he is supposed to have a video meeting online. Thank diety it was a "clean" mobo 15 minutes down to Frys 5 minutes to pop out the piece the machine shipped with and pop in a SBlive. About that long to install the drivers and life was good. Now unless you can afford to keep mobos around as spare parts you could not do this with onboard sound, video, nic what have you. These people do not want to sell a machine to Lusers they want to work with hard core techie geeks. Yup give me clean mobos any day.
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If you actually READ the article, they're just trying to build a body of knowledge relating to hardware. Theoretically, if one piece of hardware works with one version of *NIX, it should work with another. In reality this is simply not true, as anyone who spends time at Linux Users Groups can tell you. If there is a collective out there gathering this data, it would help the people like myself who just spent a long time building a linux-friendly box expedite their long construction time.