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More Linux Predictions for 2004
An anonymous reader writes "Experts, shmexperts - it's time for the Linux community's own predictions, felt the editors of LinuxWorld Magazine. Prognostications in their Jan 2004 round-up cover media players ('turning your phone into an iPod will be hot by the end of 2004'), IPOs ('Of course, LinuxCertified, Inc'), and MS ('Microsoft will start an intensive campaign to promote their Longhorn technology as Linux standards compliant') - that last is one from Samba's John Terpstra." The original story was back in November.
oh well. if I get modbombed on my whore account now, I'll know why.
linux still sux. freebsd still is teh rawx.
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I know this will cost me some karma, but I have a ton to spare.
/var/run, but I want to run named as a non-root user, meaning /var/run wouldn't be writable. The only configure option is --localstatedir which defaults to /var, meaning it would create a subdir called "run" under wherever I chose to put it, which is pretty stupid IMHO. Slackware uses /var/run/named/named.pid so you can change the ownership of /var/run/named to match the user you run named as.
./bin/named/include/named/globals.h.
A few months ago I tried setting up Linux From Scratch. I discovered that to make it not completely suck, I had to patch various things. It occurred to me that Slackware has already done exactly these things (plus more I wouldn't think of) for me.
The other day I upgraded BIND to the new version which I downloaded from ISC, so I could work around Verisign's DNS hijacking. I ran into a snag: it wanted to save a PID file in
So I popped in the source CD to see how they do it, since I couldn't find a config option for that. Guess what? There's a diff file, and a shell script that patches the source (along with other build options). The changes are toward the end of
Yes, that's right, when I got the source off the CD, I got the original unmodified source tarball, a diff file, and a shell script with build options - not some mysteriously customized source tarball that the distro thinks is somehow better than the original, but the original tarball plus Slackware's modifications - meaning, I can easily make the same modifications to a new version of the source.
Is Slackware perfect? Well, no, maybe not - but that's OK, because if something's not to my liking, Slackware doesn't get in my way if I want to do it myself. I can just build a new version of BIND from source, uninstall the old one, install the new one, and not worry about other packages maybe depending on BIND somehow, or anything else weird.
So, let me join the other Slackware fans here with a hearty "THANKS, PATRICK!"
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Firstly, GNU/HURD is redundant. GNU is an operating system whose official kernel is HURD. You only need the /kernel when the kernel being used is something other than HURD, eg Linux. Obviously if you were to run a variant of BSD using the HURD kernel, you'd want to use the / notation too, eg "OpenBSD/HURD". Why you'd want to do the latter I can't say, but that's what you'd do. But the point is, GNU with the HURD operating system is called GNU.
GNU being a complete operating system, it wouldn't make "Linux" obsolete. It might however make "GNU/Linux" obsolete.
What I suspected you meant to write was "HURD makes Linux obsolete" or perhaps even "GNU HURD makes Linux obsolete" (GNU in this case refering to ownership, rather than combinations - note the lack of a slash in this case.) This makes sense - you're replacing one kernel (Linux) with another (HURD) rather than kernel with a redundantly-named operating system. You might alternatively have meant to write "GNU makes GNU/Linux obsolete", where you're writing that an operating system makes another operating system obsolete.
Of course, the prediction, even when rewritten to make sense, seems a tad unlikely to me, but, well, whatever.
Geez you forgot to shutdown the power before removing everything ! n00b !
your prediction for 2204? :)
---- Booth was a patriot ----
These articles are usually senseless folly. Almost every response is of the matter "Linux is already huge, but this is the year it's going to be huge"! Linux on the desktop? This is the year, they say. Big IPOs are on the horizon, Linux will dominate the 64-bit arena, SCO is nothing but good news, and Tux is gonna get laid!
It's a week and a half late, but Bah! Humbug!
For Linux to be good, you need to learn from the best!!
Rom 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
When I heard that one of Microsoft's top execs was quoted as saying "Think India. Think to yourselves, "what can I outsource today?"" My response is "Linux. Where can I replace Windows with it today?"
--- Jump!! Fire!! Bullet time!! - Lego version of the Matrix
For Linux to be good, you need to learn from the best!!
I'm sure we can find a better troll/reposter than this one to learn from. He's crap.