Have you even used the fileselector? After You hit Ctrl+L it has tab completion and even shows you the directory tree to pick a dir/file from (with your mouse if you wish). It's pretty much like bash only better.
I know they improve it with every version of GTK+ so maybe you haven't used the latest one?
It's also important to understand that a Macintosh as a desktop computer has very little to do with Unix. In the modern Unix world everybody tries to stay as compatible to eachother as possible with open protocols, open apis, open codecs and now even open source for the major vendors.
The competition comes from being the best at implementing standards, having the nicest support, easy upgrades, speed and so on.
Apple don't even play in this game as they still tries the oldschool (quite succesfully though) vendor lock-inm implementing features noone are allowed to copy, using patents to keep competition out, relying on DMCA and stuff like that.
So calling desktop macs unix is pretty far stretched.
There are still many of us that use an old PC box for firewall/router. We use DHCP too. Chances are your router is running Linux so indirectly you are using this too.
I don't know Fedora core but most distros use / as base for their packages. If you install something from tarball use/usr/local. That seems to be the standard for most Linux distros../configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install
That way you can just wipe your/usr/local if it gets to dirty.
Gnome has this too. It's turned off by default because the whole idea is pretty confusing. Windows isn't any good either. When I have more than two of the same programs open I get totaly lost in "too-many-windows-hell". True tabbed browsing is the way to go.
So what you say is that not even the macintosh can touch the 30000 proc cray, but it has the second place pretty much secured. And to a better price. Dream on.
If you only run open source apps so why not. Why learn another OS if Linux already do what you need. From a *nix standpoint Linux pretty mouch stomps all over OS X too.
Yeah, they redisigned until it looked like a white brick. Most of apples products these days looks like a white brick. What if I don't live in cloud city and need some other design?
I can only speak for myself and as a gentoo I dont't give a f**k about 3% performance gain by optimizing my CFLAGS. I (and probably others with me) use gentoo because we like portage and use flags. compiling software is a neccesary which I would like to take as short time as possible. So your parent question stands.
How much time is there to gain from going to 64 bit? Anybody have a clue?
I guess woluld be that trillian doesn't do serverside contact lists while gaim do. I have not used trillian so I can't be sure and I am not trying to flame.
Gnome and KDE are frameworks for building applications. It has nothing to do with early adopters or how long you have used a computer. What you probably mean is the gnomepanel and metacity are for early adopters. The underlying libraries which is the bigest part of gnome is for everyone who don't want to reinvent the wheel over and over again.
Most distributions can't ship the client libs for the closed source databased. Thats makes it's somewhat difficult if you like to use things like a distro shipped version of php.
We use sybase at work and I try to use freetds as client lib ehenever possible because it's easier to maintain (The ebuilds are alreay there in gentoo).
What's news to a mac user is ancient history for the rest of the world. There has been air holes on top of variuos computers since the sixties. The concept probably outlives you.
Can anybody who wee this as a good thing explain why? Apple will probably sue the pants of codeweawers like they usualy do when someone touch their DRM crap. No, I as a Linux user want open formats.
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Have you even used the fileselector? After You hit Ctrl+L it has tab completion and even shows you the directory tree to pick a dir/file from (with your mouse if you wish). It's pretty much like bash only better.
I know they improve it with every version of GTK+ so maybe you haven't used the latest one?
It's also important to understand that a Macintosh as a desktop computer has very little to do with Unix. In the modern Unix world everybody tries to stay as compatible to eachother as possible with open protocols, open apis, open codecs and now even open source for the major vendors.
The competition comes from being the best at implementing standards, having the nicest support, easy upgrades, speed and so on.
Apple don't even play in this game as they still tries the oldschool (quite succesfully though) vendor lock-inm implementing features noone are allowed to copy, using patents to keep competition out, relying on DMCA and stuff like that.
So calling desktop macs unix is pretty far stretched.
There are still many of us that use an old PC box for firewall/router. We use DHCP too. Chances are your router is running Linux so indirectly you are using this too.
I don't know Fedora core but most distros use / as base for their packages. If you install something from tarball use /usr/local. That seems to be the standard for most Linux distros. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
/usr/local if it gets to dirty.
make
make install
That way you can just wipe your
Because you are a Mac user I know you take pride in not knowing shit, but your comment is an insult even to your kind.
Unitied Linux was not an grassroot efort like Linux standard base. This are the one to follow for more strict standards.
Gnome has this too. It's turned off by default because the whole idea is pretty confusing. Windows isn't any good either. When I have more than two of the same programs open I get totaly lost in "too-many-windows-hell". True tabbed browsing is the way to go.
Whats this, do I smell a apple zealot farting?
So what you say is that not even the macintosh can touch the 30000 proc cray, but it has the second place pretty much secured. And to a better price. Dream on.
There is nothing illegal about Ogg. It's a great format to rip your CDs too.
He isn't allowed to answer that question.
If you only run open source apps so why not. Why learn another OS if Linux already do what you need. From a *nix standpoint Linux pretty mouch stomps all over OS X too.
Oh well, when it comes right down to it, 256MB just ain't enough space anyway.
You can install a selfbooting Linux in about 1MB of space and have 255MB to steal stuff. I do think that is enough for just about anything.
Yeah, they redisigned until it looked like a white brick. Most of apples products these days looks like a white brick. What if I don't live in cloud city and need some other design?
I really try to skip the commercials here at slashdot, these are the topics I have excluded.
Apple
iMac
Media (Apple)
Networking (Apple)
OS 9
OS X
Portables (Apple)
Technology (Apple)
Utilities (Apple)
Wireless (Apple)
Still they are sipping through. Do I have to pay to skip the ipod commercials ?
I can only speak for myself and as a gentoo I dont't give a f**k about 3% performance gain by optimizing my CFLAGS. I (and probably others with me) use gentoo because we like portage and use flags. compiling software is a neccesary which I would like to take as short time as possible. So your parent question stands.
How much time is there to gain from going to 64 bit? Anybody have a clue?
I guess woluld be that trillian doesn't do serverside contact lists while gaim do. I have not used trillian so I can't be sure and I am not trying to flame.
Gnome and KDE are frameworks for building applications. It has nothing to do with early adopters or how long you have used a computer. What you probably mean is the gnomepanel and metacity are for early adopters. The underlying libraries which is the bigest part of gnome is for everyone who don't want to reinvent the wheel over and over again.
Most distributions can't ship the client libs for the closed source databased. Thats makes it's somewhat difficult if you like to use things like a distro shipped version of php.
We use sybase at work and I try to use freetds as client lib ehenever possible because it's easier to maintain (The ebuilds are alreay there in gentoo).
What's news to a mac user is ancient history for the rest of the world. There has been air holes on top of variuos computers since the sixties. The concept probably outlives you.
is it not possible to have non-directed optical signals
The obvious thing would be to move the directed optical signal to widen the field.
For the record, I hope you get moded to oblivion.
Can anybody who wee this as a good thing explain why? Apple will probably sue the pants of codeweawers like they usualy do when someone touch their DRM crap. No, I as a Linux user want open formats.
Often these brand fees [opengroup.org] are high enough to shut out publishers of low-volume operating system products.
Yeah, like Apple who didn't bother to get OS X certified and just call it UNIX anyway... Smart move.
SCO doesn't own the UNIX name, the open group does.