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Deciding On The Future of Linux
A reader writes: The Free Standards Group has posted a request for feedback, now that they have completed LSB 1.2 and li18nux is also finished. Where should they/we go next? "
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Use Gentoo or Debian, I guess. They take care of dependencies for you.
The I8N team has only released specs for UTF-8. That is not the complete Unicode 3.1 spec. UTF-16 is needed.
The obvious thing to do is get support for UTF-16.
Both input and output.
And yes, I realize that inputting UTF characters on an ASCII keyboard is not simple. Either virtual keyboards, or a complete list of the UTF-16 set, with the alt keys would be very useful.
[ though typing alt0x0100 etc gets to be painfully slow.]
There already is good "cut and paste" support... its called "gpm". Works like a charm... highlight a piece of text, then go somewhere else and simply click the middle mouse button to paste. Its quicker than ctrl-c ctrl-v because no keystrokes are involved.
If you're more inclined to use the ctrl-c ctrl-v methodoly, both gnome and kde have this functionality throughout their apps.
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You've got to be joking. The FSF wants to call it GNU/Linux because without the GNU toolset there'd be no Linux. Just about ever base system tool in any Linux distro was written by the GNU folks. Linux is just the kernel, everything else has been written by other people. If the GNU people suddenly decided that their software was no longer open source and changed their licensing Linux as an OS would be up a creek without a canoe. The Linux kernel would sit around idling while all the GNU stuff can be ported to run on [insert kernel here].
With regards to the kernel itself Linus is the monkey at the top of the pole, everywhere else he's just a normal monkey with a Finnish accent. He has no control over the direction of any of the GNU tools and the FSF doesn't have control over the kernel. At the system level where the twain meet the FSF has as much say asanyone else. They are the ones maintaining the tools every other Linux developer is using.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
> There already is good "cut and paste" support... its called "gpm".
That's if one if working from a console interface. I can't help but suspect that the original poster was thinking of the nonstandardization of cut-&-paste with GUI apps . . . which is an X issue.
Good feature request, wrong team to fix it: & the philosophy of the folks developing X is not to dictate one binding solution for all. I'd say the best solution woudl be for apps to be written so that they can submit to what the window manager dictates -- not the toolkit or widget set. (ISTR that the biggest differences in how cut and paste work lie in this area.)
But systematically rewriting all of these applications -- Gnumeric, Mozilla, jpilot, etc. -- would require a lot of work.
Geoff
I think I see a trend here. Maybe for them it really would be easier to muzzle the entire internet than to produce p
They sound like they should be taking notes from beunited.org
The BeOSJournal recently spent over 2 hours in the second part of an ongoing interview that outlined the future direction of the non-profit organization.
BeOS may be dead, but openBeOS is alive and well, and with the help of beunited.org, will start to achieve many great things.
It would be great if both groups started a relationship that would surely benefit everyone involved. It's through open communication and a willingness to sit down at the table that anything positive is going to be done.
I'm not trying to bash the Linux Community at all, please understand, but I feel it's in our best interest to help each other, when the giants that we all love to hate (such as M$, IBM, and others) won't sit idly by while their market erodes in front of them.
That's all I'm saying. Take a good hard look at what beunited.org is up to, and see if that will help you any. Thank you.
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Alan Cox is illusively quoted as saying...
Do you mean that Alan Cox didn't really say that or...?
I had to look up corrigendum, too. Don't really see how it applies, though.
Liberal (adj.): Free from bigotry; open to progress; tolerant of others.
Hi,
Lots of apps work with the M515!
pilot-link, and jpilot and kpilot which work with these sync fine!
Coldsync works fine as well, although can only be used to backup your palm.
If you want to recompile some stuff then Evolution plus Gnome-pilot is awesome! Far more functionality then the Palm desktop!
Cheers
Ferg
"cease to exist, giving my goodbye, drive my car into the ocean, you think I'm dead, but i sail away, on a wave of mu
Psst... use Mandrake + urpmi. It's really easy:
urpmi some-package-with-lots-of-deps-oh-no-Ill-have-to-Oh, wait - it's figured out the deps for me, and automagically installed them in the right place. Just like apt-get - huh!
Read this:o ards.tx t
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipb
GTK+ supports it since 1.2. QT supports it properly since 3.0. Mozilla supports it properly for as long as I can remember.
What, like this?