LiveCDs have alot of purposes, I use them as servers. I run internet based games at work, At the end of the registration periods we need about 2,3,4 or more webservers just for a couple of hours to handle the load (and we have quite a few to begin with). I have a LiveCD which I can pop into any workstation and have a instant webserver (No reformating of windows machines that is).
It's based on knoppix, only took me a couple of hours to work ou how to remaster it to suit my needs.
I would agree with you but SCO doesn't follow the GPL (Adding other licenses on top) and call it unconstitutional among other things. And if they can't play by the rules of the GPL they should have no part of programs distributed under it. Thats why we have licenses in the first place.
Ok, I did it twice. I needed lirc support and patched it in after everything else was working. Took some extra time. Most people don't need lirc I guess.
I know this is slashdot and I'm not suppose to give a Gentoo advice, but this times Gentoo makes the 2.6 transition a breeze. Took a couple of hours first try.
Non techies are not suppose to upgrade the kernel to a new major release number, it's probably comparable to replacing by hand some very importants DLLs in windows. this is for the users who wants to be ahead of the pack. The option is there if you are skilled enough.
Some who really cares are the big boys. IBM would never license JFS under a BSD style license. It matters very much for IBM, but for me as an end user of JFS I don't care at all.
Right on. Nvidias driver is not "spectacular". I bought the hardware, I expect good drivers which never or very, very seldom crash. None of the opensource drivers for my hardware are unstable. The Nvidia drivers are. Lately they have been better to actully be quite good but they are not worth the $300 I payed for my GFXcard.
2.6 + latest Nvidia haven't given me a crash yet though with lots of OpenGL going.
The driver is of such quality the remaining bugs would be squashed out in a matter of weeks if they where open source. Like it is now they never get "just right".
If you followed the discussion you would notice that they can't ship XFree 4.4 because they would need to toss out alot of GPL apps from the distributions if they did. Bye bye KDE.
This move is just stupid. It sets back the *nix desktop 10 years. If they don't change Freedesktop is the way to go.
Alan cox can do pretty much what he wants with his own source, it is not GPL just because it is in the kernel and Xfree (It becomes more like dual licenced).
And as the last Xfree licence was a BSD style one the Xfree team can change the licence to pretty much what they want, including an MS EULA one, the BSD licence is pretty loose.
I'm just done with the transition of my home box. Took a few hours to get everything up, needed patches for lirc support. But it seems very well. UT2003 runs like a god with zero hickups. The thing I like the most is the new build system in 2.6, much better checks of what need to be compiled. To insert a new thing in the kernel takes about 20sek compile compared to probaly 5-10 minutes on 2.4 on my XP1800+.
This is hardly an open source problem. Open source software have a few big licences which are used very often. And there are a few not so often used. closed source is the one which have a new licence for every program.
With this solution windows system calls will run native, with VirtualPC they run emulated. Could be faster if they speed up bochs. Looking at the site it seems they are going for QEMU though (FAQ)
But it is important if you like us are a small bussiniess with some old sparcs which needs a new OS. Choosing a distro that works everywhere is convenient. Same OS on all machines makes it easy if time is tight.
Still, the fact is that Linux runs on almost anything you throw it at, only beasted by NetBSD. The trick is to buy supported hardware, which really isn't that hard.
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LiveCDs have alot of purposes, I use them as servers. I run internet based games at work, At the end of the registration periods we need about 2,3,4 or more webservers just for a couple of hours to handle the load (and we have quite a few to begin with). I have a LiveCD which I can pop into any workstation and have a instant webserver (No reformating of windows machines that is).
It's based on knoppix, only took me a couple of hours to work ou how to remaster it to suit my needs.
LiveCDs are cool.
The newton is a "never has been", no life now, yesterday or in the future.
I would agree with you but SCO doesn't follow the GPL (Adding other licenses on top) and call it unconstitutional among other things. And if they can't play by the rules of the GPL they should have no part of programs distributed under it. Thats why we have licenses in the first place.
Ok, I did it twice. I needed lirc support and patched it in after everything else was working. Took some extra time. Most people don't need lirc I guess.
I know this is slashdot and I'm not suppose to give a Gentoo advice, but this times Gentoo makes the 2.6 transition a breeze. Took a couple of hours first try.
howto upgrade to 2.6
Of course make sure hardware and features is supported first.
Non techies are not suppose to upgrade the kernel to a new major release number, it's probably comparable to replacing by hand some very importants DLLs in windows. this is for the users who wants to be ahead of the pack. The option is there if you are skilled enough.
I don't think an invention counts until it's done on windows.
F) All mediaplayers play the same formats, no Mediaplayer/Codec lockin
Some who really cares are the big boys. IBM would never license JFS under a BSD style license. It matters very much for IBM, but for me as an end user of JFS I don't care at all.
see Add/Remove Windows Components for a good example
You can only install a few MS apps there (Of which most just add/remove an icon). Not a very good example.
I think it looks like some form of star wars imperial toilet.
Right on. Nvidias driver is not "spectacular". I bought the hardware, I expect good drivers which never or very, very seldom crash. None of the opensource drivers for my hardware are unstable. The Nvidia drivers are. Lately they have been better to actully be quite good but they are not worth the $300 I payed for my GFXcard.
2.6 + latest Nvidia haven't given me a crash yet though with lots of OpenGL going.
The driver is of such quality the remaining bugs would be squashed out in a matter of weeks if they where open source. Like it is now they never get "just right".
If you followed the discussion you would notice that they can't ship XFree 4.4 because they would need to toss out alot of GPL apps from the distributions if they did. Bye bye KDE.
This move is just stupid. It sets back the *nix desktop 10 years. If they don't change Freedesktop is the way to go.
Alan cox can do pretty much what he wants with his own source, it is not GPL just because it is in the kernel and Xfree (It becomes more like dual licenced).
And as the last Xfree licence was a BSD style one the Xfree team can change the licence to pretty much what they want, including an MS EULA one, the BSD licence is pretty loose.
bsd fork
Altough I'm also using gentoo now there is APT for RPM just as integrated as APT for debian, so keep that argument quiet in the future.
Does anybody know if ACLs will become standard in 2.6 (Is there even ACL patches out for 2.6)?
I'm just done with the transition of my home box. Took a few hours to get everything up, needed patches for lirc support. But it seems very well. UT2003 runs like a god with zero hickups. The thing I like the most is the new build system in 2.6, much better checks of what need to be compiled. To insert a new thing in the kernel takes about 20sek compile compared to probaly 5-10 minutes on 2.4 on my XP1800+.
This is hardly an open source problem. Open source software have a few big licences which are used very often. And there are a few not so often used. closed source is the one which have a new licence for every program.
With this solution windows system calls will run native, with VirtualPC they run emulated. Could be faster if they speed up bochs. Looking at the site it seems they are going for QEMU though (FAQ)
This is getting pretty pathetic.
But it is important if you like us are a small bussiniess with some old sparcs which needs a new OS. Choosing a distro that works everywhere is convenient. Same OS on all machines makes it easy if time is tight.
CNN already has an article which pretty much blames the OSS community for the worm
Hmm.. Where is the source for this open source worm.
They could have published the "invention" on a website to achieve that.
Still, the fact is that Linux runs on almost anything you throw it at, only beasted by NetBSD. The trick is to buy supported hardware, which really isn't that hard.