First.. since SCO is claiming that 3rd parties that licensed their source code are people that inserted their IP into Linux, only copies of SysV from 3rd parties should be used to do any evaluation. Personally, I do not trust SCO to use their own copies of SysV and anyway, their claims almost imply that one should be concerned with copies of SysV source outside their control. Come to think of it, if you could find a few companies that still use SysV, you could use all their code drops from SCO and construct a crude change log.
Second, I am sure someone has asked this before but could someone that has a legal source code copy of SysV do a diff of that source base to the Linux kernel and post what lines match? I wonder is there is something in a licensee contract they have to sign that precludes them from doing that?
Finally, I have been giving thought over who should being doing public code reviews. The best canidates so far that I have come up with who would be non-partial, honest and yet have something to *gain* by SCO winning would be:
AIX is not based on SYS V code so the diff would not really work out very well. They would have diff Linux against whatever the last batch of code they received from SCO before the 'party' was over between them.
No way. We need to face this issue head on.. Either prove SCO to be liars or face the music and face the music. By buying them out we are setting the stage for more companies to make bogus claims in the hope of having a windfall.
As you can see.. Stallman was *quoting* an email. He did not make that statement. If you look at the email it was in reply to, you would be able to figure that out..
Re:opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html
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A big problem (with an otherwise fine document) ESR's paper has is has the SMP timeline and facts wrong. SCO Unix was doing SMP in '91. UnixWare was doing SMP '93. He does not come clean with those facts..
Everything else is great in his paper though. I think he should make those corrects now rather than later..
One more thing, he doesn't say that AIX had SMP *before* '90.
I spent the past 4.5 years bitching how if I had my own company things would be 10X better.. Well, I am finding out if I was right or not..:)
The entire VPR line is being dropped by BestBuy.
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I had a ton of issues with this laptop. In the process or dealing with the highest of the high ranking ppl in customers service, they told me this line was being dropped anyway, thus the huge rebates.
Dupes waste everyone's time. They show the lack care from the/. staff. They could either automate DUPE detection or read their own site a little more carefully. They choose to do neither.
A bunch of BIOSes support serial consoles now.. On full screen stuff, like text editors, the screen redrawing works kind of funky. It does work however.
I am not sure where you got this.. the Newton 2000 and 2100 had a 162 MHz StrongARM 110 processor which, I believe, is much more powerfull than a IIfx.
No way.. I bought my Newton 2000 back in '97 and since then I have owned a few Palm OS and Windows CE based PDAs since then and nothing compares to my Newton, even to this day. From the perfect size of the entire unit to the level application intergration, everything else just seems to suck, very bad I might add. I still believe that the 2000 and 2100 Newtons still have the best handwritting recognition of any PDA.
I am running Linux on a 733 C3 and it is very slow. Where it really shows its slothness is when you do something like SSH. The key exchange seems to take eons.
At one point it was recommended to not 'vaccum' on a live database but that was fixed years ago.
ID hit the nail on the head on this one..
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"This is the first game to really exploit the power of LANs and modems to their full potential. In 1993, we fully expect to be the number one cause of decreased productivity in businesses around the world."
Yep, my small little ISP in '93 was brought to its knees because of this program..
Does anyone know if Linux or FreeBSD sees any benefit from the 'hyperthreading' technology? All the things I am reading say that your OS needs to support threads, but how does the processor know what is a thread and what is a process?
Does anyone know if Linux of FreeBSD sees any benefit from the 'hyperthreading' technology? All the things I am reading say that you OS needs to support threads, but how does the processor know what is a thread, and what is a process?
No way MozillaMail is better than Outlook Express.. at least not yet..
My migration from OE to Mozilla has been painful. I am sticking to it but I just want to say that things have a lot farther to go to where the email side is as robust as the browsing.
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"First Linux stole SMP from SCO, which never had SMP."
Both UnixWare and SCO have had SMP for a long time. Not to say that Linux borrows from that code, but they both have had it.
SysV R4.1 didn't come out until '92 or '93. She is on crack.
First.. since SCO is claiming that 3rd parties that licensed
their source code are people that inserted their IP into Linux,
only copies of SysV from 3rd parties should be used to do
any evaluation. Personally, I do not trust SCO to use their own
copies of SysV and anyway, their claims almost imply that one
should be concerned with copies of SysV source outside their
control. Come to think of it, if you could find a few companies
that still use SysV, you could use all their code drops from
SCO and construct a crude change log.
Second, I am sure someone has asked this before but could
someone that has a legal source code copy of SysV do a diff
of that source base to the Linux kernel and post what lines
match? I wonder is there is something in a licensee contract
they have to sign that precludes them from doing that?
Finally, I have been giving thought over who should being
doing public code reviews. The best canidates so far that
I have come up with who would be non-partial, honest and
yet have something to *gain* by SCO winning would be:
Bill Joy of Sun
Andrew Tanenbaum
Dennis Ritchie
AIX is not based on SYS V code so the diff would not really work out very well. They would have diff Linux against whatever the last batch of code they received from SCO before the 'party' was over between them.
No way. We need to face this issue head on.. Either prove SCO to be liars or face the music and face the music. By buying them out we are setting the stage for more companies to make bogus claims in the hope of having a windfall.
I *completely* agree with this.. RedHat and SuSE should join forces and sue the hell out of them.
> "I'd like to see a date put on this."
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> A quick search on google resolved this.
You are looking at a link that formatted the email wrong.. check out this link:
http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2003
As you can see.. Stallman was *quoting* an email. He did not make that statement. If you look at the email it was in reply to, you would be able to figure that out..
A big problem (with an otherwise fine document) ESR's paper has is has the SMP timeline and facts wrong. SCO Unix was doing SMP in '91. UnixWare was doing SMP '93. He does not come clean with those facts..
Everything else is great in his paper though. I think he should make those corrects now rather than later..
One more thing, he doesn't say that AIX had SMP *before* '90.
Apple chose GPL for their browser.
I spent the past 4.5 years bitching how if I had my own company things would be 10X better.. Well, I am finding out if I was right or not.. :)
I had a ton of issues with this laptop. In the process or dealing with the highest of the high ranking ppl in customers service, they told me this line was being dropped anyway, thus the huge rebates.
I have bought four of the various cubes from Shuttle (both P4 and Athlon based) and I love them. No problems, really fast, really quiet.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/225206 &
Dupes waste everyone's time. They show the lack care from the /. staff. They could either automate DUPE detection or read their own site a little more carefully. They choose to do neither.
Arg.
A bunch of BIOSes support serial consoles now.. On full screen stuff, like text editors, the screen redrawing works kind of funky. It does work however.
I am not sure where you got this.. the Newton 2000 and 2100 had a 162 MHz StrongARM 110 processor which, I believe, is much more powerfull than a IIfx.
No way.. I bought my Newton 2000 back in '97 and since then I have owned a few Palm OS and Windows CE based PDAs since then and nothing compares to my Newton, even to this day. From the perfect size of the entire unit to the level application intergration, everything else just seems to suck, very bad I might add. I still believe that the 2000 and 2100 Newtons still have the best handwritting recognition of any PDA.
I am running Linux on a 733 C3 and it is very slow. Where it really shows its slothness is when you do something like SSH. The key exchange seems to take eons.
The dupe problem is getting much worse, not better..
The same story HOURS apart.
Arg!
At one point it was recommended to not 'vaccum' on a live database but that was fixed years ago.
"This is the first game to really exploit the power of LANs and modems to their full potential. In 1993, we fully expect to be the number one cause of decreased productivity in businesses around the world."
Yep, my small little ISP in '93 was brought to its knees because of this program..
Does anyone know if Linux or FreeBSD sees any benefit from the 'hyperthreading' technology? All the things I am reading say that your OS needs to support threads, but how does the processor know what is a thread and what is a process?
Does anyone know if Linux of FreeBSD sees any benefit from the 'hyperthreading' technology? All the things I am reading say that you OS needs to support threads, but how does the processor know what is a thread, and what is a process?
No way MozillaMail is better than Outlook Express.. at least not yet..
My migration from OE to Mozilla has been painful. I am sticking to it but I just want to say that things have a lot farther to go to where the email side is as robust as the browsing.
Old quote.. If you read that same page again, I think JWZ changed his tune a little..