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Nat Friedman on the Future of Collaboration
sp3298622 writes "Nat Friedman, co-founder of Ximian, expresses his excitement about the Hula collaboration Server, talks about the plugins in development for Evolution 2.2, the potential of XGL and the revolution of the Linux Desktop.
The
interview is a 30MB MP3 file."
To see what Hula is about go to Hula Server site. You can also view a few screen shots
A religious war is an adult version of a fight over who has the best imaginary friend
Just in case it gets slow, here is my new server (you can help me load test):
30 mb mp3 file
XGL seems great but AFAIK you need a recent Graphic video to use like nvidia or ati.
AFAIK (nvidia at least) their drivers are XFree86/X.org only. They won't even work with fb.
So, we need XFree86/X.org to run XGL on top of it?!?
Like I said, I don't know if that's what you're asking for, but if you are, it's already available on OSX with iCal and Linux with Evolution. Evolution is also being ported to Windows. Also, I wouldn't be surprised to Sunbird had similar capabilities, but I don't use Sunbird, so I'm not sure.
This exists already.
http://www.apple.com/ical/
It's 1h30 long, 48kbps. Lots of things, some of them interesting, but you've got to take your pick in all of this.
All generalizations are false, including this one...
It doesn't matter... the company that is responsible for Fedora's development is in the US and is still held legally liable for holding US copyright law. Do you really think that if I'm based in the US and selling something to Europe, that I can violate US patent law? It works both ways as well iirc, if you sell something to us then you must respect our patents. Fedora is one of the few distros that includes only fully free software, and they stick to their guns on it. Its actually really nice running fedora and knowing that everything on there is patent free... its liberating, if you will. Of course some companies may claim otherwise with the occasional law suit ...*cough* SCO *cough*.
/etc/ then do "yum install xmms-mp3". There your problem is solved, its not really worth a new distro to do that. My second question for you is why would you want to support a format that is patented at all( doesn't matter where). The idea is to help people realize that software patents are not acceptable and won't be tolerated. Give OGG a shot, honestly it sounds much better bit for bit (well thats obvious considering it uses more modern algorithms) and takes up less space. I only buy OGG compatible music players and right now I'm really happy with everything. I'm not sure if you use Fedora but, for more info on it FedoraFAQ is a really good resource. Take care
Anyway... I've got two questions for you. Why would you fork Fedora when you can just plop this into
Regards,
Steve
The interview is roughly 50 minutes. The other 40 minutes are part of episode 71 of 'The Linux Link Text Show', a Linux/FOSS radio show, which was the host.
WE DON'T NEED NO BLOG CONTROL.
After all - most windows and mac users wouldn't know what to do with an ogg file
Assuming WinAmp is installed, they'll get the nice music icon and in theory, it will automagically work without them ever knowing it was an OGG file.
unfortunately hula doesn't appear to support maildir. only mbox.
the hula project also has some BS on their website about maildir being slower than mbox. this myth was disproven many moons ago:
mbox versus maildir
http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/
Apple's iCal does pretty much what you're asking. a breif introduction on how the program works:
.mac or a WebDAV server (someone wrote a small PHP script which emulates the function of a WebDAV server, so you can do this on just about any server. the script also includes a frontend for parsing and viewing the calendars through a web browser). Other users can then 'subscribe' to that calendar, and it appears just as another calendar on the list. updates are sent and retrieved automatically in the background.
events are placed on a 'calendar' which is basically a topic or category for the event. events from each calendar are overlaid on top of each other as long as you've got the little box checked next to the name of the calendar. evnts are color-coded by calendar.
you can choose to publish any of these calendars on
best of all, iCalendar (formerly vCal) is an open standard, the same which was used by outlook until version 2000, and the same as is being used by the upcoming mozilla sunbird project, so in a year or so, we'll have the same functionality on all platforms
all in all, it's my favorite of the iApps and definitely the most underused and underrated
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
To nitpick, Dashboard is pretty much dead. Its functionality has been absorbed by Beagle, which gives Tiger's Spotlight a real run for its money.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
It can use the existing proprietary drivers. If you actually listened to the interview, Nat even explicitly says that the best driver to use right now with XGL is the NVIDIA drivers.
MP3 is the defacto standard for compressed audio and WMA has major support, so virtually no one uses Vorbis.
Who said anything about Vorbis? The parent mentioned Ogg. For interviews, I'd expect that to be Ogg Speex, a codec designed especially for voice.
But hey, everyone knows that Ogg == Vorbis, much in the same way everyone at the office uses "Microsoft 97" to surf the web and open their documents, right? And anybody who points out otherwise is a nitpicker or troll?