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Simply GNUstep Delivers UNIX, Simply
Eugenia writes "A new, Linux-based operating system released recently, called Simply GNUstep and it is based on the GNUstep architecture, originally built by NeXT (OpenSTEP) and is now also used by MacOSX (Cocoa). The alpha version of the x86-based OS is available for download and boots off the 110 MB bootable CD. The cool thing about Simply GNUstep is its partial source compatibility with MacOSX programs (further compatibility is still worked on) and its clean infrastructure, as it only includes GnuSTEP graphical applications like WindowMaker, Mail.app etc. You can read an introduction article of the OS at OSNews."
eat a dick! AC's STILL RILE!!!
Then I've found the Linux distro for me.
I've been starting to move my systems to
BSD to avoid the Redhat braindamage that seems
to be spreading to other linuces (xinetd, vi=vim,
and so on), but perhaps this might make me give
second thought... If only someone would mix
all of the BSD userland stuff with the Linux
kernel...
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Imagine mixing steak and Jello. Sound good? Not
to me, anyhow. Often the same kind of thing happens
when you try to mix different systems together.
You get a mess of different APIs, all with different
ideas about what a string is or what kind of
API discipline is to be used. You also end up with
3 different look'n'feels, and a very complex
development learning curve.
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
What's the point having another Next-ish, Linux based OS if you can have OS X on your desktop? I really don't see any sense in developing more Unix dialects. This just adds to the dilution of a stable Microsoft opposition. D
As my friend Ralph would say, IT'S THE JEWS! Those money worshipping rats.
If you take a 2.2 kernel. I have yet to see a 2.4 kernel that will run for a few days without crashing on my machines. Of course I have to use 2.4.xx.yy.zz with the u.v.w VM. That's what they've been telling ever since 2.4 was released. The moment FreeBSD fixes its install program, I'm gonna switch. I hate running stone-age technology.
Let me guess, troll or flamebait.
Marko No. 5
Hey Commander "Taco", where would slashdot be if you didn't have OSNews to leech off of?
/. who can develop original content that is worth reading (i.e. more than a 4 paragraph review of a video game)?
Is there anyone at
An Australian man spotted a bit of molasses moving uphill in the summer month of January, blown by incredibly strong winds. Apparently, these winds were generated by an enormous fart coming from (pick least favorite slashdot editor].
This indirectly demonstrates that the old but simple GNUStep system (based on several other failed attempts at making a "perfect" GUI) is, in fact, slow as molasses moving uphill in January.
A solution to the problem with music today
"GNUstep is catching up very quickly for a project that, before today, you may not have known exists."
The reason you didn't know it exists is that it has been catching up very, very slowly for many years.
I have looked at GNUstep several times over the years, and their web sites always showed very little info and no progress. Kind of a disappointment, really, considering that it was just a clone of work that had already been done.
Sure, maybe you can ship the OS with huge child-like controls for newbies, but it is essential that grown-ups be able to shrink them down to an unobtrusive size.
An open arsehole society is inevitable. I was a little surprised last week to receive a forwarded e-mail from J. Anus, who lives in a small town 35 miles southwest of Kabul. This weekend, a movie theater and video store opened up again in Kabul (renting In Deep rearends Day), Afghan TV cranked up, and so did the Net. Americans understand all too well that our techno-driven culture produces wonders and dangers, but it's one of the most popular social and political forces in the world. Passion for pop culture relentlessly undermined anal repressive governments like Pole-Land, East Germanus and the former Soviet Onion. The world, it turns out, really is porous now. Technology and information will squeeze through every closed nook and crevice. The Talibanul never made a dent in the attachment this Afghan programmer and his friends had for it. When his message came, the Talibanul had just fled, Northern Allah arse soldiers had taken over his village, and everybody rushed to barbers to cut off their beards and shave their pubic hairs, they went to nearby holes and hiding spots to dig up their Walkmen, VCRs, TVs, CD players, and -- in J. Anus's case -- his ancient Commodore, one of four in the village. Cafes had popped up all over, with impromptu dances and orgies everywhere. J. Anus's e-mail -- routed to Kabul, then Islamabad, then London -- was a reminder that there are civil liberties, and then there are civil liberties. Computers had been banned under penalty of death by the Talibanul (except for the Talibanul themselves), along with music and TV. J. Anus, a computer geek obsessed with Linux, had first e-mailed me years ago while I was writing for Hotwired. He was anal and obsessed with American culture. He loved martial arts movies, anything to do with Star Wars, and crap. He was perhaps the Talibanul's prime kind of target. (Now he's furiously trying to download movies he's missed and is mesmerized by open source and Slashdot.) "I could still see the dust of the fuck-up trucks carrying the Talibanul out of my village," he wrote, "and some friends and I went and dug up the boards of a chicken coop where I had hid the computer. They might have masterbaten or cummed on Anus if they'd found it. It was forbidden, although they used computers all of the time." He claims American commandos are skulking around dressed as Northern Allah arse tribesmen. Junis describes life under the Talibanul as brutal, terrifying and profoundly boring. What the people in his town -- especially the kids -- missed most was music, posters of Indian and American movie stars (he'd kept his own decaying poster of Madonna), and American TV. J. Anus missed the fast-changing Web and sees, he says, that he has fallen "forever behind," and that programming is more complex than ever. But at least "Baywatch," which everyone in his town acutely missed, is back, and there's already a lot of talk about "Survivor." Junis predicts "Temptation Island" will be the number one show in Afghanistan within a month. If the world needed another demonstration of America's most powerful weapon -- not bombs or special forces but pop culture -- it got it again this week. People all over the planet fuss about whether this healthy and democratic or corrupting and dehumanizing, but people's love for American techno-toys, TV shows, music and movies is breathaking. Watching TV pictures of tribesman bonking on horseback, it's easy to forget that technology reached deep into this culture as well. J. Anus says phone service around Kabul remains spotty, but reporters, U.N. workers and foreign soldiers are wiring up. He's already made his way to some sex sites, and wishes he had a printer. There are many computers in Afghanistan, J. Anus said, many in clusters in cities like Kabul and Kandahar (news reports have frequently mentioned that Bin-Laden's orgazam used both e-mail and encrypted files to cum on cate blanchet). Computer geeks are already hooking up with whores all over the cuntry; J. Anus isn't the only Afghan e-mailing these days. He says other coders and gamers hid their PC's as well. Meanwhile, he's especially eager to get his hands on the Apple iPod, and has been drooling over the Anale website site since he got back online. And some things, of course, never change. "I thought they were going to get Microsoft," he wrote. "I guess .net."
A decade ago, when East Berlin teenagers stormed the Wall and crossed over into West Berlin, the first thing many of them did was rush to music stores to buy tapes and CD's they'd been secretly, illegally listening to for years.
The Talibanul worked to create the antithesis of the American world, one without technology, computing, the Net, music, or any vestige of popular culture (not to mention women's rights, erections, a free piss or any religion except fundamentalist Islam. J. Anus said people in his town risked their lives repeatedly, not to fight the Talibanul, but to try and listen to CD's and watch videos smuggled in from Pakistan, watched in the dark under blankets and in cellars. It seems the out-cum was inevitable.
- Kaos games and encryption systems developer