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A Year of Linux
rar7 writes "See the whole year of Linux -- in all its many dimensions
-- on one interesting and informative page!" There's a ton of stuff on this page. Amazing how much happened in the last 12 months.
Anything critical missing?
tiny mirror
I've cut it in smaller pieces too, instead of the whole 186k html (gee...)
Hope it helps someone...
called Inside Out : Microsoft--In Our Own Words with fascinating tid bits of trivia like, "One rule I've learned in this business is that you cannot be successful in marketing a bad product.", from Brad Chase, a brief history of Bob, and best of all, "There's a little debate that swirls endlessly out there and it goes something like this: Is Microsoft a great software company or a great marketing company? The answer, of course, is both." (TeeHee)
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
I say "cool beans". :-)
None of the rest though.
Perhaps there is a planet somewhere where all them traits you described were desirable. But you would be an oddball there just as you are here.
I feel for you though. You have problems.
You're right. Maybe we should impeach Linus and replace him with someone like Bill Gates, who says -
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Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
It's not just Linux either. It's the whole 'net. A few years ago, I'd type stuff into Yahoo! (the only decent search engine back then) and each search seemed like a fantastic journey into some unknown land. Sometimes the stuff on the other end truly was fantastic.
Now it seems like I've seen everything on the 'net, even though I know that's not possible. That Springsteen song keeps coming into my head, except this time it's 57 million channels and nothing on.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
January: New service pack released for security problem to mspaint.exe. File Size: 5mb. ::box crashes:: "damned Windows"...easier!
Febuary: New service pack released to fix a security problem with the service pack to mspaint.exe. File Size: 20mb.
March: Announced release of a new service pack for various security related issues, will be delayed.
April: Service pack which was delayed last month, and was expected this month will be delayed again.
May: Service pack has been released, this will fix various security related issues with mspaint.exe. File Size: 50mb.
June: Mspaint.exe seems to have a new vulnerability in module 0x000F which will allow a remote hacker to gain administrative access on NT 4.0. File Size: 150mb.
July: Bill Gates announced today that he is disappointed in service pack quality for the new year, he also vowed that, "...service packs in the future will be smaller, include more and better fixes, and be easier to install while requiring much less reboots during the process."
August: Service pack for Windows ME to fix vulnerabilities in various network, and non-network applications released. File Size: 300mb.
September: The service pack that was released was missing a very crucial dll, msfeedback.dll. Users are required to re-download this service pack. File Size: 350mb.
October: "Apparently what had happened was a massive power surge that tripped all of our UPS's", blames Bill Gates in response to the massive Windows NT crashes that occured.
November: Service Pack (7) has been released, for all major versions of Windows: 95/98/ME/2000 which fixes ALL security problems. File Size: 1.2gb.
December: We laugh, because we made $2.8 billion off consumers off such "wonderful" products designed to make your life
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January : Linus : Sorry, folks, 2.4.0 won't be out this month
;-)
Now exactly which January are you referring?
cpeterso
You shouldn't have mentioned the software, though. You know you're going to get flamed brutally by the followers of Freshmeat. :)
- I don't care if they globalize against free speech. All my best free thoughts are done in my head.
> any window manager my grandmother has to first compile is not innately "user-friendly"
You're absoultely right. I wouldn't use any window manager your grandmother has to compile either. I don't even know how to contact her to do it, and in any case she probably wants to be doing her own compiles, not mine.
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Still not made it to version 2.4 of the kernel
C'mon! Everyone knows this is the fault of Microsoft's army of evil monkeys!
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As the year 2000 limps to a close, the days when Slashdot's name was at the tip of every tech pundit's tongue, and Linux's rise to world domination seemed a foregone conclusion, are suddenly long gone. The prominence of free software in the tech and financial press has sharply declined. I mean, you know the buzz is fading fast when media outlets become so bored that they can't even muster the energy to harp on the declining stock prices of Linux companies. Sure, the dot-com downturn is responsible for a lot of the deflation, as is the normal news cycle that treats yesterday's news as, well, yesterday's news, but was it really only a year ago that VA Linux was breaking all records for IPO debuts?
Linux as an adventure is coming to an end. That doesn't mean things won't continue to get better and better but the excitement of the last few years is gone. You can feel it on the web sites - Slashdot is shrinking back to its pre-post--Columbine size, except for flamebait articles about the election and such, and discussion areas on other sites (advogato, Linux Today) are empty.
Partly it's that the rush of new people juming aboard has slowed. You can only have the same "Oh yeah? Well, according to RMS, ESR says the GPL..." discussion so many times.
And there's nothing really new around the corner. Since I've been using Linux, there's always been some exciting new development to look forward to. Either software (KDE, the 2.0 kernel, glibc, Mozilla, Gnome) or political (IPO's, 'letters', squabbling egomaniacs). Now Gnome is running stably, KDE 2.0 is out, Mozilla and the 2.4 kernel will slink in the door like teenagers out after curfew. At least for me, the only thing I'm eager to see is Evolution. (Nautilus? Yawn.)
Basically, the 'world domination' stuff is over. Linux has settled into its niche - a major chunk of the server market and a desktop share that's too small to support boxed Quake releases or a commercial office suite.
Now if that doesn't get Slashdot some more page views... ;-)
Something that I consider very important was left out: ReiserFS. This year the filesystem really came into its own, and is shipping with both Linux Mandrake and SuSE Linux. It's by far the most mature of the journaling filesystems available, including XFS, JFS, and Tux2. It's also scheduled for inclusion in kernel 2.4.1. Surely this was accidentally left out? Just because it's commercially funded doesn't mean it's a bad product, and it is certainly GPLed.
Interested in open source engine management for your Subaru?
I noticed the momentum to move Linux away from the user interface and into the background infrastructure of the internet and embedded systems. The trend was to get users as far away from the Linux interface as possible. Part of the problem is current users were brought up on the GUI and don't have the inherent thought process of past users who grew up on the command line. As fewer and fewer people are able to use the Linux interface it's going to be more important in background infrastructure.
- Still not made it to version 2.4 of the kernel
- Seen some amazing infighting between [Gnome & Kde | Mozilla lovers & Mozilla Haters | Everyone else]
- Still not become much easier to use, dispite promises to the contrary by [Redhat | SuSe | Corel | Linus | Alan Cox | Everyone ]
- Gained market share. Well, we think it has. We're still trying to count everyone...
- Gained some really great software. At least, it will once it gets out of [beta | alpha | pre-alpha | planing | the mailing list ]
Wow. What a year! Just wait until next year, when, um, all the above may still apply actually...Note for humour impaired. This is a joke! Well, some of it may have a point, but thats for you to decide
Syllable : It's an Operating System
January : Linus : Sorry, folks, 2.4.0 won't be out this month
February : Linus : Sorry, folks, 2.4.0 won't be out this month
March : Linus : Sorry, folks, 2.4.0 won't be out this month
April : Linus : Sorry, folks, 2.4.0 won't be out this month
May : Linus : Sorry, folks, 2.4.0 won't be out this month
June : Linus : Sorry, folks, 2.4.0 won't be out this month
July : Linus : Sorry, folks, 2.4.0 won't be out this month
August : Linus : Sorry, folks, 2.4.0 won't be out this month
September : Linus : Sorry, folks, 2.4.0 won't be out this month
October : Linus : Sorry, folks, 2.4.0 won't be out this month
November : Linus : Sorry, folks. I just extended my family. 2.4.0 won't be out this year
> Anything critical missing?
Yes. In additon to their other mentions of Netcraft surveys, they failed to remark on the Netcraft report from a few months back which reported that Linux was running 30% of all the Web servers they detected, after applying an algorithm intended to filter out ghost sites.
That put Linux in the #1 position, edging out Microsoft's line by around 1-1/2%.
This is a landmark event, and I regret that Netcraft has not seen fit to report the usage trends in server OS regularly.
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Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I have yet to try this myself, though. I run Debian woody, but I want to dist-upgrade to sid. I only have a 56K modem, and my ISP has swapped out their modem banks, and my modem doesn't work at full speed with their new modems until I flash it to V90. I can't find any V90 flash files for my modem. It looks like I'm going to be spending this holiday period looking for flash upgrades.