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Matt Dillon On FreeBSD 5.0 VM System And More
JigSaw writes: "OSNews features a very interesting interview regarding FreeBSD 5 with the guy responsible for the very good (technically) FreeBSD VM among other things. Matt Dillon talks about everything: FreeBSD 5, Linux, .NET and much more. Additionally, OSNews also includes two mini interviews with the NetBSD and OpenBSD head developers."
FreeBSD, VM, etc. etc.. What about Festus and Miss Kitty and the other goings on in Dodge City? Slashdot isn't just about computers you know, its about people too!
Muslim community leaders warn of backlash from tomorrow morning's terrorist attack.
Still, it doesn't change the fact that what seems like 9/10 useful programs or just plain fun programs that I want to try need something specific to linux. Whether it's easy to code around or not doesn't change the fact that apparently most everyone codes specifically for linux. Go to the sdl site and try most of those games out. Some of the better plugins for gkrellm come to mind also. I use Sylpheed for mail, and although it's a fine client I wanted to try some other gui based mail clients. Every nice one that I found (from descriptions in web sites and screenshots) required linux. I use *BSD's linux emulation and even after playing with makefiles and configuring options, none would compile. Same with the newer Gecko based web browsers (galeon and skipstone).
Most of this is useless eyecandy-driven desktop fluff, but I'll never get to put it on my desktop as I don't run Linux. Sure I have all I need on my desktop anyway, but it is a bit of a downer to see all these great products that COULD be cross*nix compatible, but the folks coding em either 1) don't care or 2) don't know any better. Same results either way. Kinda smacks of hypocrisy in some small sense, as a few years back (when I did run Linux) most users were complaining about all of the MS stuff that wasn't cross platform and should have been (mostly formats, not applications)...but I'm starting to rant...thanks for your explanation (really
This is one of the best articles I've seen on Slashdot in the recent past. Great article find, great detail, knowledgable comments and good discussion.
Excellent work - here's to wishing for more like this.
Drinking urin is a 1,000,000 times better than eating shit. You were honest but disguised it in a pile of mess. NT = shit. Unix = urin. HUGE DIFFERENCE. Sometimes when a dude eats out his girlfriend he gets a drop or two of urin in his mouth. This isn't so bad. But if he were giving a RIM JOB, and he got a big chunk of DOODIE in his mouth, I think he'd be heading to the toilet to throw up. That is NT. A big chunk of turd on your toungue that makes you want to vomit or commit suicide.