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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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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
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
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.