Before anyone gets off on a huge rant about this fork being pointless/harmfull/etc, read this [samba.org] - it's a statement by Andrew Tridgell, saying that he is "delighted" about the fork...
Why people are so scared about forks? Forks make Open Source software better.
It is perfectly acceptable for a TCPA system running a TCPA software to reject Windows signatures as invalid while accepting a specialized version of say MacOS X or FreeBSD.
So an TCPA'ed Mac can be programmed to run only TCPA'ed MacOS X?
These--as long as Congress doesn't screw everything up
Put the terrorist-of-the-day name on it ("TCPA or terrorists") and the US Congress WILL screw it up - requiring TCPA on hardware, or banning non-TCPA wares from selling in the US, or else. And Motorola, IBM, Sun, SGI are US companies, probably they doesn't want to find themselves in trouble with the US Gov't.
Gaming on mobile phones, PDAs and other embedded devices has allowed the 8 and 16 bit kings and queens to come out of retirement and show the world what great games they produced.
Those gadgets remember much of the 80's computers in two aspects. First is the small resolutions: it's difficult to put something with 1024x768 in your pocket:) Second (and this is a REAL issue on mobile phones) is tight memory: unless you own a Smartphone, you can't simply put more memory, and even if you own one, the cost of a SD or a CF is higher than your standard el-cheapo DDR for the same amount of memory.
It's natural that all those greats from the 80's are back on mobile gadgets, and still kicking!
Well, I live in a country (Brazil) where we have both GPRS (on bigger urban centres and very soon nationwide) and 1xRTT (only in some states, because most of the operators took the TDMA way) - hey, at least in the biggest cities (Rio and São Paulo) we can choose the 2.5G.
And? No-go. 128 and 144Kbps are very very cool, always-on is always nice, but the biggest carriers (Telefonica Celular, Telesp Celular, Oi and TIM) charge high prices for the Brazilian reality post-Real devaluation of 3Q 2002; to stay in Rio, Oi, who is aggressively marketing GPRS, charges roughly USD 17/31MB of data, while Telefonica Celular charges roughly USD 20/40MB for 1xRTT (TIM won't charge for GPRS until March) - add the ISP and the headset cost.
If India wants to be successful where others failed, keep the costs down. Go India!
Cable companies look like having the same level of dumbness worldwide.
I don't know in America, but here in Brazil the biggest cable companies, or better, the virtual nationwide monopoly cable company (NET Serviços, owned by Rupert-Murdoch-meets-Citizen-Kane-meets-Big-Brothe r Globo Corporation) is bankrupt. And yes, they lock the consumer into seeing the same line-up for more than 2 years. And yes, Globo's channels have 'preferences' on the lineup so we don't have e.g. Fox Sports and a decent Brazilian news channel and most people are locking into seeing Paramount/Dreamworks/Fox movies because HBO is not welcome. And yes, in a country where most people earn less than USD100 monthly, the *basic* cable fee is something near USD25. And yes, they have less than 1,5M subscribers *nationwide* in a 170M people contry. And PVRs are not seen here.
And after all they don't know why people are in droves for DSL. Cluelessness for cluelessness, cable companies beat telcos hands down.
> However, I do not agree that Linux needs a Single Unified Desktop.
Linux needs Consistents Desktops.
Don't matter if you use GNOME or KDE or XFCE or anything - things should be compatible and consistent. Say, ALT-F1 to open the menu, ALT-F2 to open a run dialog and so on.
Don't matter what theme you like, this theme should be easily ported to other environments so you can feel `at home' if you want/need to change.
> RH chose a *theme* that makes them look alike. A *theme*!
Isn't the theme KDE developers are bitching. It's about some patches RH made to KDE *and* QT - some badly needed, like QT using XFree's anti-aliasing ability (QT's AA looks like crap).
I really hope KDE and RedHat get a warmer relationship and RH roll back their patches. Everybody will win.
> I, for one, like the different options we have in terms of desktop environments. I don't want either KDE or GNOME to go away.
Me too, and RedHat too. They haven't done a GNOME-only distro; they aren't those Lindows out there. They ONLY are providing a COMMON LOOK to GNOME and KDE. It's different.
...those journalists wanting to find a "new Microsoft". They're in the wrong place, thanks to GPL. Maybe they should look at Cupertino?
KDE to launch Gnome apps... so what?
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GNOME applications are way better than KDE ones - sorry, I wouldn't change Evolutions for KMail, or Galeon for Konqueror. So what?
QT is ugly. GTK+1 is acceptable, GTK+2 is beautiful. So what?
(null)'s default theme is beautiful and - sin of the sins for KDErs - Mosfet doesn't made it (Mosfet looks like the only KDEr with artistic pendors, so he can maintain this "God blows everyone that dares not to use my artwork" attitude. Personally IMHO tigert and jimmac kicks ass.). Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo what?
The question is: people becomes confused with too much choice. People prefer default looks by default.
And that's way OS vendors/packagers puts default looks and feels on their desktops. Microsoft does it, Apple does it, IBM does it, Sun does it, HPaq does it. Why not RedHat? And yes, if you hate their artwork (I LOVED it), you can always install what YOU want - isn't that the joy of Linux?
I'm living in a town (Rio de Janeiro) in a country (Brazil) that a lot of people does those nasty things (talk while driving, talk on theaters etc, even talk on churches and temples!) with a cellular. And, yes, that not only irritates, but also shows a COMPLETE lack of good manners. Fortunately federal (banning talk while driving) and local/statewide legislations are a weapon for us that doesn't stand those people.
I'm happy disgruntled New Yorkers now has similar weapons.
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All praises won't be enough for Ronaldo. He isn't supposed to play this Cup. Two years ago everybody doubt he would ever play again. But his faith and his extremely hard work made him play this Cup and scored and became the championship game MVP. And world champion again.
GNOME has a lot of companies working to improve it. Ximian and Eazel take the front lead, but don't forget RedHat (via RHAD Labs) and Gnumatic and Henzai and others.
KDE has only theKompany. This is bad for KDE - if tomorrow theKompany goes berzerk, KDE is in very trouble. This is way bad.
The/. naysayers can tell/shout/yell/cry everything.
But it's a great day for Linux. Not only because Nautilus is made by veterans that shaped the world once and can shape the world again, but also a Linux program will be see far beyond Linux (on Solaris, for instance).
Imagine Open Motif and Indigo Magic Desktop 2 years ago. Certainly KDE would have died and GNOME hasn't even born. Because we would have a standard, an undisputed standard: Motif.
But now? Irix is dead, Motif is dead, CDE is dead. OK, Indigo Desktop is pretty, but hey, it's a dead man walking.
Nautilus is getting better day-by-day. There's no comparision between PR3 and the other PRs.
As a file manager is perfectly useable, even better than GMC. As a web browser is still having issues (Mozilla has some real issues still). Slow and still too memory-hog, but you can always turn off some beauty in the name of speed.
Nautilus is nearly kicking ass of all competition - Konqueror, Windows Explorer, Mac Finder. Go Eazel!
I'm a RedHat guy, but used Stormix for a good while. And yes, it's great - the best of Debian with a decent installer, an good assortment of admin tools and an apt GUI that nobody had even touched in terms of quality.
The problem with Stormix? Progeny. It'll be increasingly difficult to be a Debian-based commercial distro with Progeny and Ian Murdock and a good bunch of Debian core developers around. It's sad to say, but Progeny will be the only and one Debian-based commercial distro.
And now we came to another point: for a long time, newcomers to the distro market made it RedHat-based; when it was exhausted people started to think that will be appearing Debian-based, but this January party has been over.
Now capitalism started to say, "the fittest will survive". That's life in the capitalist lane.
First of all, I live in a country that Microsoft has a big and strong "convincing power" (y'know what it means), so most WebMoronMasters make their pages IE-only, and f*ck the rest. I know EXACTLY what the aspalliance's troll is saying, because is what people does here in.br.
Said that, I could say the following:
Sometimes I need to boot in Windows only to use IE. Yes, IE is a big big big crap - it only runs fast because IE is now the shell of the Windows 98/ME OS, so it has no stinkin' shell to make life difficult.
Netscape, unfortunately, has commited suicide. NS 4 is unbearable, NS 6 is buggy buggy buggy buggy (has anybody get fired because of this damn release?)
Mozilla is great... if you use a native UI like in Galeon. Mozilla's original UI is ridiculously slow - yes, blame it to cross-platforms UI, the guy who invented it should be shot to death - but if you use a native UI it's fast. Galeon is fast, VERY fast, even in my work machine (a lame-for-US-standards AMD K6-2 450 with 64MB RAM).
I've seen Konqueror and even used it (I don't use KDE because of their moron developers that, instead of working hard to stay in the edge, thinks that GNOME is only GNU marketing - GNOME 1.4 will surpass KDE 2.x), and I've yet to see all the marvellous things everybody tells about it. NautilusMozilla looks more promising.
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Before anyone gets off on a huge rant about this fork being pointless/harmfull/etc, read this [samba.org] - it's a statement by Andrew Tridgell, saying that he is "delighted" about the fork...
Why people are so scared about forks? Forks make Open Source software better.
It is perfectly acceptable for a TCPA system running a TCPA software to reject Windows signatures as invalid while accepting a specialized version of say MacOS X or FreeBSD.
So an TCPA'ed Mac can be programmed to run only TCPA'ed MacOS X?
These--as long as Congress doesn't screw everything up
Put the terrorist-of-the-day name on it ("TCPA or terrorists") and the US Congress WILL screw it up - requiring TCPA on hardware, or banning non-TCPA wares from selling in the US, or else. And Motorola, IBM, Sun, SGI are US companies, probably they doesn't want to find themselves in trouble with the US Gov't.
Gaming on mobile phones, PDAs and other embedded devices has allowed the 8 and 16 bit kings and queens to come out of retirement and show the world what great games they produced.
:)
Those gadgets remember much of the 80's computers in two aspects.
First is the small resolutions: it's difficult to put something with 1024x768 in your pocket
Second (and this is a REAL issue on mobile phones) is tight memory: unless you own a Smartphone, you can't simply put more memory, and even if you own one, the cost of a SD or a CF is higher than your standard el-cheapo DDR for the same amount of memory.
It's natural that all those greats from the 80's are back on mobile gadgets, and still kicking!
> Although the missing fdrop() call in fpathconf(2) was noticed
:)
> before by Nakamura Takayuki its impact
> was severely underestimated.
As someone noticed before, it looks like a known bug, but until now nobody has really done the check, "hey, what this bug does?".
Maybe now the FreeBSD Core team knows why they fixed the bug
Well, I live in a country (Brazil) where we have both GPRS (on bigger urban centres and very soon nationwide) and 1xRTT (only in some states, because most of the operators took the TDMA way) - hey, at least in the biggest cities (Rio and São Paulo) we can choose the 2.5G.
And? No-go. 128 and 144Kbps are very very cool, always-on is always nice, but the biggest carriers (Telefonica Celular, Telesp Celular, Oi and TIM) charge high prices for the Brazilian reality post-Real devaluation of 3Q 2002; to stay in Rio, Oi, who is aggressively marketing GPRS, charges roughly USD 17/31MB of data, while Telefonica Celular charges roughly USD 20/40MB for 1xRTT (TIM won't charge for GPRS until March) - add the ISP and the headset cost.
If India wants to be successful where others failed, keep the costs down. Go India!
I don't know in America, but here in Brazil the biggest cable companies, or better, the virtual nationwide monopoly cable company (NET Serviços, owned by Rupert-Murdoch-meets-Citizen-Kane-meets-Big-Broth
And after all they don't know why people are in droves for DSL. Cluelessness for cluelessness, cable companies beat telcos hands down.
> However, I do not agree that Linux needs a Single Unified Desktop.
Linux needs Consistents Desktops.
Don't matter if you use GNOME or KDE or XFCE or anything - things should be compatible and consistent. Say, ALT-F1 to open the menu, ALT-F2 to open a run dialog and so on.
Don't matter what theme you like, this theme should be easily ported to other environments so you can feel `at home' if you want/need to change.
> RH chose a *theme* that makes them look alike. A *theme*!
Isn't the theme KDE developers are bitching. It's about some patches RH made to KDE *and* QT - some badly needed, like QT using XFree's anti-aliasing ability (QT's AA looks like crap).
I really hope KDE and RedHat get a warmer relationship and RH roll back their patches. Everybody will win.
> I, for one, like the different options we have in terms of desktop environments. I don't want either KDE or GNOME to go away.
Me too, and RedHat too. They haven't done a GNOME-only distro; they aren't those Lindows out there.
They ONLY are providing a COMMON LOOK to GNOME and KDE. It's different.
...those journalists wanting to find a "new Microsoft". They're in the wrong place, thanks to GPL. Maybe they should look at Cupertino?
GNOME applications are way better than KDE ones - sorry, I wouldn't change Evolutions for KMail, or Galeon for Konqueror. So what?
QT is ugly. GTK+1 is acceptable, GTK+2 is beautiful. So what?
(null)'s default theme is beautiful and - sin of the sins for KDErs - Mosfet doesn't made it (Mosfet looks like the only KDEr with artistic pendors, so he can maintain this "God blows everyone that dares not to use my artwork" attitude. Personally IMHO tigert and jimmac kicks ass.). Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo what?
The question is: people becomes confused with too much choice. People prefer default looks by default.
And that's way OS vendors/packagers puts default looks and feels on their desktops. Microsoft does it, Apple does it, IBM does it, Sun does it, HPaq does it. Why not RedHat? And yes, if you hate their artwork (I LOVED it), you can always install what YOU want - isn't that the joy of Linux?
I'm living in a town (Rio de Janeiro) in a country (Brazil) that a lot of people does those nasty things (talk while driving, talk on theaters etc, even talk on churches and temples!) with a cellular. And, yes, that not only irritates, but also shows a COMPLETE lack of good manners. Fortunately federal (banning talk while driving) and local/statewide legislations are a weapon for us that doesn't stand those people.
I'm happy disgruntled New Yorkers now has similar weapons.
It's supposed to be only on 1.6.
All praises won't be enough for Ronaldo. He isn't supposed to play this Cup. Two years ago everybody doubt he would ever play again. But his faith and his extremely hard work made him play this Cup and scored and became the championship game MVP. And world champion again.
:-)
Great, Ronaldo! But please, not the haircut
And the world goes on... Nerd starts Slashdot, nerd gets married, nerd gets child, nerd becomes a boring common man.
Oh. Bad. Real bad.
There's something that itches me on theKompany.
GNOME has a lot of companies working to improve it. Ximian and Eazel take the front lead, but don't forget RedHat (via RHAD Labs) and Gnumatic and Henzai and others.
KDE has only theKompany. This is bad for KDE - if tomorrow theKompany goes berzerk, KDE is in very trouble. This is way bad.
(said by someone who doesn't run any KDE)
The /. naysayers can tell/shout/yell/cry everything.
But it's a great day for Linux. Not only because Nautilus is made by veterans that shaped the world once and can shape the world again, but also a Linux program will be see far beyond Linux (on Solaris, for instance).
Go Eazel!
Imagine Open Motif and Indigo Magic Desktop 2 years ago. Certainly KDE would have died and GNOME hasn't even born. Because we would have a standard, an undisputed standard: Motif.
But now? Irix is dead, Motif is dead, CDE is dead. OK, Indigo Desktop is pretty, but hey, it's a dead man walking.
Even if it uses KDE...
Nautilus is getting better day-by-day. There's no comparision between PR3 and the other PRs.
As a file manager is perfectly useable, even better than GMC. As a web browser is still having issues (Mozilla has some real issues still). Slow and still too memory-hog, but you can always turn off some beauty in the name of speed.
Nautilus is nearly kicking ass of all competition - Konqueror, Windows Explorer, Mac Finder. Go Eazel!
I'm a RedHat guy, but used Stormix for a good while. And yes, it's great - the best of Debian with a decent installer, an good assortment of admin tools and an apt GUI that nobody had even touched in terms of quality.
The problem with Stormix? Progeny. It'll be increasingly difficult to be a Debian-based commercial distro with Progeny and Ian Murdock and a good bunch of Debian core developers around. It's sad to say, but Progeny will be the only and one Debian-based commercial distro.
And now we came to another point: for a long time, newcomers to the distro market made it RedHat-based; when it was exhausted people started to think that will be appearing Debian-based, but this January party has been over.
Now capitalism started to say, "the fittest will survive". That's life in the capitalist lane.
First of all, I live in a country that Microsoft has a big and strong "convincing power" (y'know what it means), so most WebMoronMasters make their pages IE-only, and f*ck the rest. I know EXACTLY what the aspalliance's troll is saying, because is what people does here in .br.
Said that, I could say the following:
Sometimes I need to boot in Windows only to use IE. Yes, IE is a big big big crap - it only runs fast because IE is now the shell of the Windows 98/ME OS, so it has no stinkin' shell to make life difficult.
Netscape, unfortunately, has commited suicide. NS 4 is unbearable, NS 6 is buggy buggy buggy buggy (has anybody get fired because of this damn release?)
Mozilla is great... if you use a native UI like in Galeon. Mozilla's original UI is ridiculously slow - yes, blame it to cross-platforms UI, the guy who invented it should be shot to death - but if you use a native UI it's fast. Galeon is fast, VERY fast, even in my work machine (a lame-for-US-standards AMD K6-2 450 with 64MB RAM).
I've seen Konqueror and even used it (I don't use KDE because of their moron developers that, instead of working hard to stay in the edge, thinks that GNOME is only GNU marketing - GNOME 1.4 will surpass KDE 2.x), and I've yet to see all the marvellous things everybody tells about it. NautilusMozilla looks more promising.
C'mon Miguel! Ximian sux. Bad name. Ximian!
Are all good names in the world taken? Zoot, Potato, Ximian...
Let's face it: AMD has the lead on "Value" and "Performance". It still doesn't have in SMP because it doesn't want to - T'bird kick P4's ass big time.