I'm sure there are scores of desktop distros that deliver fast booting out of the box. They're just not popular.
Ubuntu 9.04 will supposedly have this out of the box, though.
Short of releasing the OS under either the BSD license or the GPL, they will forever have a reputation as software bloaters, monopolists, and DRM-supporters
That might have something to do with their bloated software, their monopoly, and their support for DRM.
It's based on simple economics. The first routes private industry would set up are the ones which they can offer a cheaper price than USPS on. They can do this because they don't have to bear the costs of the unprofitable routes.
The best you could hope for is cheaper routes between major cities, and more expensive routes everywhere else.
This won't hold electrical components. It's not glue. It's a sheet of material with billions of tiny hairs that are so small they physically come in contact with the atoms of the surface they touch. This causes it to magnetically bond with the material. It's removable because you can peel away a few hairs at a time with a peeling motion.
They tried a weaker version of this (hairs so big they were visible to the naked eye) the size of a piece of notebook paper, and it held the researchers young daughter just fine.
The same piece with this new nanoscale stuff would hold a car.
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What good is the right to own guns if the gun owners let the government take away all their other rights?
I'm sure there are scores of desktop distros that deliver fast booting out of the box. They're just not popular. Ubuntu 9.04 will supposedly have this out of the box, though.
Elon Musk is going to get busted in a coke deal?
Won't the glazier be able to buy new shoes and bread, which he wouldn't have been able to if the window was not broken?
Locking your door doesn't help unless you have unbreakable windows.
Seriously is there anyone on /. that isn't a "me too, me too" Microsoft sucks, Linux is good person?
Yes. Generally people who have never used Linux, or at least not this decade.
You still have defrag.
Where do you think sitcoms come from?
First of all, as some have already pointed out, where's the *BSD binaries and 64-bit binaries?
They're on the same download page as the 64-bit Windows binaries.
So they fixed the transparency problems in Linux?
It's a slideshow viewer.
Actually, it's less than 10 lines of code if you use flatpages.
We already burden them, but rather than pay it via taxes, they pay via higher health care costs.
My mother's gamma knife "surgery". She died 6 months after being refused.
And what's the waiting time for that same surgery in the US if you have no money to pay for it?
At least the flying insects don't get sucked through a fan and splattered throughout the case.
Short of releasing the OS under either the BSD license or the GPL, they will forever have a reputation as software bloaters, monopolists, and DRM-supporters
That might have something to do with their bloated software, their monopoly, and their support for DRM.
These packages are older than the ones in Ubuntu. Ubuntu comes from Debian Unstable. Lenny is Debian Testing, soon to be Debian Stable.
When have you EVER seen an article about Microsoft delaying a product release because of bugs?
Codeweavers has a .deb package, if that helps.
It's based on simple economics. The first routes private industry would set up are the ones which they can offer a cheaper price than USPS on. They can do this because they don't have to bear the costs of the unprofitable routes. The best you could hope for is cheaper routes between major cities, and more expensive routes everywhere else.
This won't hold electrical components. It's not glue. It's a sheet of material with billions of tiny hairs that are so small they physically come in contact with the atoms of the surface they touch. This causes it to magnetically bond with the material. It's removable because you can peel away a few hairs at a time with a peeling motion.
They tried a weaker version of this (hairs so big they were visible to the naked eye) the size of a piece of notebook paper, and it held the researchers young daughter just fine. The same piece with this new nanoscale stuff would hold a car.
Sort of like that, but these stick with magnetism, not adhesives, so they never loose their stickyness, and it doesn't bond well with itself.
Can it be removed instantly without solvents and with no damage to the materials bonded together?