The problem isn't that the license isn't free enough. The problem is only that it isn't compatible with GPL. This is bad because GPL apps can't link with it (Yes I'm aware that xlibs still is old license, but who knows in the future). The GPL is as much to blame as this new license. The easy part about the GPL is that it is one license (You cannot add or remove from it and call it GPL), it also makes it impossible to add advertising clauses.
Maybe the GPL is not flexible enough but as it is now thats the way it is. XFree should have calculated the pure force of GPL before the license change, now they got a fork instead.
I'm going to stand in and defend spatial nautilus. First you have to understand whats different with a filemanager today and a fillemanager 10 years ago.
Today you mostly use it to browse you home directory. All the system stuff should be done with a good package manager, like apt-get, emerge or whatever.
That said even in your home dir you have your favourite places (like music and movies or whatever). These are the places I have shortcuts to on my desktop, I think the spatial nautilus does a very clean and simple job for finding my music and my movies.
On the new gnome desktop the filemanager is very toned down because it's not needed in the way it was before. If you need to explore your whole drive and move files arond you always have the old "browse" option.
I have close to never used the old nautilus, with this new spatial one I have setup some links on the desktop and when I open the it looks very clean (the way I want it).
I really don't understand why you should move your files around all the time which the old behavior is good at.
I second this, I started with slackware at around version 3. That gave some hair on the ass. After that when you know what you are doning you can choose lollypop distros. But why would you?
Thats not true. You can't links aginst QT-free with a non GPL comlpiant open source license either.
Re:Spatial is a step backwards
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I think the point of the spatil nautilus is that you really don't need to move around your filesystem like an old DOSbox. A package manager covers about 95% of what you would use it for.
Mostly you just move inside your home dir. I have never used the old nautilus because it feels very "too much". With this new one I have some shortcuts on my desktop for my music and movies and now I at least use it sometimes.
It's also about 90% faster than previous versions and there is the option to "browse" the old way so nothing is really lost.
To much of what you are saying I can simply answer "thats exactly my point". itms makes it easy for users to buy songs, probably so easy so they don't bother with the p2p networks. But why should they in the end recieve a product which is ineferior to the product you can obtain illegaly?
Of course you can burn to CD and rerip but this was all about being hazzlefree in the first place.
I'm certanly aware why they implemented DRM. RIAA thinks we are all criminals. What I don't understand is why anybody of the music buying crowd defend them. There is no reason to think we would not buy noncrippled music when we gladly buy crippled.
And somehow I don't think itms makes that much money on a 1940 Mel Thorme track.
It is my belief that Linux is where it is today because it is a completely usable open source environment. I don't think it would be wise to require closed source components to be able to fully utilize the system.
As added value, yes. As a requirement, no.
Re:What do you miss? my Nvidia drivers run fine...
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Yes, the nvidia drivers are good, but they are not open source. Today this doesn't matter too much because they give some "added value". They are not important for a fully functional desktop. If a 3D desktop would become the standard and 3D drivers are needed to run it at all Linux would need 3D drivers to be open source.
For Linux success it's important to have a fully functional open source base to build upon.
UT2003/2004 uses OGG Vorbis for music. If it has (according to you) nothing to do with licensing fee maybe it is because OGG is just plain better then the competition.
I for one don't think IPod support should be on the application level. Are rhytmbox going to write backends for all players? Seems like it should be donre in a separate lib.
There are two Xservers at freedesktop.org, the one this FAQ goes to is not the one implemented in Fedora core. The one in Fedora core is a fork of XFree. The one this FAQ is for is a newer and interesting one albeit not ready for prime time yet.
Your pathnames argument is just wrong. Ever heard of tab completion? GUIs mostly suck because they don't have it. Of course the much critisized GTK+ file selector is one of those that do have it. Learn it and use it, never click again.
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DOS is a generic term, hardly trademarked even by MS.
The problem isn't that the license isn't free enough. The problem is only that it isn't compatible with GPL. This is bad because GPL apps can't link with it (Yes I'm aware that xlibs still is old license, but who knows in the future). The GPL is as much to blame as this new license. The easy part about the GPL is that it is one license (You cannot add or remove from it and call it GPL), it also makes it impossible to add advertising clauses.
Maybe the GPL is not flexible enough but as it is now thats the way it is. XFree should have calculated the pure force of GPL before the license change, now they got a fork instead.
Nano is a sorry excuse of an editor...
put a user who's never used a computer infront of plastic, aqua, and windows xp and i guarantee every response will say aqua looks the best
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. why don't you have any perspective? objectivity? are these things just simply beyond your zealotry thinking?
And who was that zealot?!?
I'm going to stand in and defend spatial nautilus. First you have to understand whats different with a filemanager today and a fillemanager 10 years ago.
Today you mostly use it to browse you home directory. All the system stuff should be done with a good package manager, like apt-get, emerge or whatever.
That said even in your home dir you have your favourite places (like music and movies or whatever). These are the places I have shortcuts to on my desktop, I think the spatial nautilus does a very clean and simple job for finding my music and my movies.
On the new gnome desktop the filemanager is very toned down because it's not needed in the way it was before. If you need to explore your whole drive and move files arond you always have the old "browse" option.
I have close to never used the old nautilus, with this new spatial one I have setup some links on the desktop and when I open the it looks very clean (the way I want it).
I really don't understand why you should move your files around all the time which the old behavior is good at.
X is the standard on unix. porting to obscure window interfaces available on 1 *nix can hardly be number 1 priotity. Be glad it works at all.
I second this, I started with slackware at around version 3. That gave some hair on the ass. After that when you know what you are doning you can choose lollypop distros. But why would you?
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Thats not true. You can't links aginst QT-free with a non GPL comlpiant open source license either.
I think the point of the spatil nautilus is that you really don't need to move around your filesystem like an old DOSbox. A package manager covers about 95% of what you would use it for.
Mostly you just move inside your home dir. I have never used the old nautilus because it feels very "too much". With this new one I have some shortcuts on my desktop for my music and movies and now I at least use it sometimes.
It's also about 90% faster than previous versions and there is the option to "browse" the old way so nothing is really lost.
Take a Mac apart sometime. The stuff has brand names on it.
I would but I don't think my Inbox can handle the load.
To much of what you are saying I can simply answer "thats exactly my point". itms makes it easy for users to buy songs, probably so easy so they don't bother with the p2p networks. But why should they in the end recieve a product which is ineferior to the product you can obtain illegaly?
Of course you can burn to CD and rerip but this was all about being hazzlefree in the first place.
I'm certanly aware why they implemented DRM. RIAA thinks we are all criminals. What I don't understand is why anybody of the music buying crowd defend them. There is no reason to think we would not buy noncrippled music when we gladly buy crippled.
And somehow I don't think itms makes that much money on a 1940 Mel Thorme track.
Are all mac users criminals?
Every god dam song on itms can be had for free (higher quality, no DRM) on the P2P networks. Yet mac users insist on buying DRMd music through apple?
Why is that? There is no point in restricting the listening habbits to the buyers, all music is already out there for free anyway.
Would all mac users suddenly stop buying from itms if the songs where offered in a non DRM fasion.
I'm confused.
It is my belief that Linux is where it is today because it is a completely usable open source environment. I don't think it would be wise to require closed source components to be able to fully utilize the system.
As added value, yes. As a requirement, no.
Yes, the nvidia drivers are good, but they are not open source. Today this doesn't matter too much because they give some "added value". They are not important for a fully functional desktop. If a 3D desktop would become the standard and 3D drivers are needed to run it at all Linux would need 3D drivers to be open source.
For Linux success it's important to have a fully functional open source base to build upon.
UT2003/2004 uses OGG Vorbis for music. If it has (according to you) nothing to do with licensing fee maybe it is because OGG is just plain better then the competition.
Maybe theora can be that good too.
I for one don't think IPod support should be on the application level. Are rhytmbox going to write backends for all players? Seems like it should be donre in a separate lib.
They should have started with one that plays OGG.
There are two Xservers at freedesktop.org, the one this FAQ goes to is not the one implemented in Fedora core. The one in Fedora core is a fork of XFree. The one this FAQ is for is a newer and interesting one albeit not ready for prime time yet.
The X.org server is basically a branch from Xfree just before the licence change. They should be very similiar at this point.
In soviet russia Natalie Portman imagined a beuwolf cluster of these. Later she welcomed our new Michael computer overlord.
If I'm not mistaken you rightclick on a folder and choose browse to get to the old behaviour. I'm not in front of a 2.5 at the moment though.
If you press ctrl-l with the fileselector open you get a textentry box with tab-completion.
You are free to run whatever you want. You can install/uninstall Gnome and KDE you know.
Your pathnames argument is just wrong. Ever heard of tab completion? GUIs mostly suck because they don't have it. Of course the much critisized GTK+ file selector is one of those that do have it. Learn it and use it, never click again.
I use direcory administrator. I wouldn't say it's a wonderfull piece of software but it gets the work done.
The reason we learn english in Europe is because everyone learn english. It's not so we can order larger Bic Macs or something lame like that.