IIRC numpy and scipy have dependencies on other libraries that are not 2.6-clean. They also have a lot of issue themselves. Currently it's not a priority for them to migrate.
Can't remember when did I read about that... and I'm too lazy to dig it out from their Trac:-P
The cool thing about Python is it's "time machine". In Python 2.x you can "from __future__ import " to use features scheduled for future releases. With the release of Python 2.6 there's also a "2to3" tool that will point out revisions needed for 2.x code to be 3.0-compatible, and generate patches for you.
The Python developers have been aware of the difficult road of migration long before the release of Python 3, and they did a lot of careful planning and hard work for it. One of them being the __future__ module that has been there for quite long time just for this reason.
As a Python user, my hat off for them. I wish them success heartily.
BTW: In case you don't know, there's an Easter egg in the time machine: "from __future__ import braces";)
I'm unsure of whether it's in the government's priorities to turn the internet cafes away from the "gaming center" model, but adoption of Linux will hit the inet cafe owners hard. Loss of customers AND retraining/replacing the Windows sysadmins?
As for the suspicion of surveillance... If some internet cafe owner is willing to pay me good cash for auditing the distro, I'd be glad to find out whether there are any;)
Here in China, I saw many times the funny signs near optical fibre facilities reading "This is optical cable with zero copper in it. It's no use stealing it."
Um, that doesn't sound like an indication of its alien origin.
The story could go like this: Long long ago, a large comet that had roughly the same concentration of CN as an average one, broke up into 2 pieces. Because the substances are not uniformly distributed over the big comet, one of the pieces happen to have more CN than the other. The one with richer CN then got blown to pieces in a collision of some kind, while the one with less CN survived.
Second, I thought AV products don't "stack" well? Our PC tech here is constantly having problems with computers that come in and are running 2-4 AV software, and they're fighting like cats and dogs and crippling the system to where only a fresh install will fix it.
I guess it's because some of the AV products for PC use techniques similar to rootkits and modifies the kernel files. That leads to an abysmal hell if you try to stack them.
AFAIK ClamAV doesn't do that. It can be configured to run as a server (useful as an email server's virus filter), a cronjob, or a one-shot scanner, but not an intrusive bomb waiting to be triggered. That's why I like it: no on-access scan bullshit. (I believe one have to modify the kernel to achieve on-access scan, am I right?)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think actually we can reduce the bandwidth by switching to UDP. With UDP you need to implement your own transmission control, and if BitTorrent can make its own lightweight implementation, the transmission control overhead caused by TCP will be reduced.
Actually I see UDP a better alternative for BT because you don't need to make sure every packet is transmitted successfully, given how BT seeding works.
I see TFA's point is not that UDP increases traffic, but they are harder to be throttled by ISPs. Well then why don't the ISPs upgrade their own infrastructure to handle the increased traffic and charge their users accordingly to cover the cost? Blame the current economy?
Again, I don't know much in this area so I may be wrong.
The author made some points with ABI stability, audio architecture and filesystem versioning. The rest is bullshit. GUI? Go whine at the GNOME/KDE guys. X11? Go post to the X11 dev list. Package managers? Go fuck RedHat for RPM and Debian for dpkg.
In other words, the things you are bullshitting about are not *Linux* things.
"The kernel-xen package has been obsoleted by the integration of paravirtualization operations in the upstream kernel. The kernel package in Fedora 10 supports booting as a guest domU, but will not function as a dom0 until such support is provided upstream. The most recent Fedora release with dom0 support is Fedora 8."
So it's unlikely that Fedora is abandoning Xen... There are upstream problems to be fixed before dom0 support is integrated in Fedora again.
You can install the rpmfusion-nonfree repo's signing keys and update the binary blobs via yum. However RPMfusion is not included in the release by default and you'll have to do this by yourself.
AFAIK distributing "evil" codecs are against Fedora's policy so they don't do that. But that doesn't prevent anyone else from doing it.
They are using RPM 4.6.0 release candidate
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RPM 4.6 is an RC, not a stable release. I have to say it's a somewhat bold move. RPM is the heart of the distro. It is even more important than the kernel.
How come? It's a JavaScript program. Any fairly modern browser will be able to interpret it.. wait, you mean your handheld/mobile platform with too limited CPU power?
BTW the second test "full render" is really CPU-demanding...
The "GUI response time" thing reminds me of someone I met on Freenode IRC the other day. That guy was whining about a system update making GNOME slower. "Now it takes 0.05 seconds more to show a menu!" he said. I told him an average human's response latency is around 0.1 seconds and you can't really distinguish the 50 millisecond difference.
But he said "Yes I can! I can watch a movie at 24 frames per second and that's 0.04 seconds a frame!"
So I told him it's called a movie exactly because you *can't* be that responsive. Otherwise it's not a movie. It's going to be a slideshow.
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Oops. Slashdot ate my sentences.
It's "from __future__ import FEATURE_NAME"
I shouldn't have put it in angle brackets.
IIRC numpy and scipy have dependencies on other libraries that are not 2.6-clean. They also have a lot of issue themselves. Currently it's not a priority for them to migrate.
Can't remember when did I read about that... and I'm too lazy to dig it out from their Trac :-P
The cool thing about Python is it's "time machine". In Python 2.x you can "from __future__ import " to use features scheduled for future releases. With the release of Python 2.6 there's also a "2to3" tool that will point out revisions needed for 2.x code to be 3.0-compatible, and generate patches for you.
The Python developers have been aware of the difficult road of migration long before the release of Python 3, and they did a lot of careful planning and hard work for it. One of them being the __future__ module that has been there for quite long time just for this reason.
As a Python user, my hat off for them. I wish them success heartily.
BTW: In case you don't know, there's an Easter egg in the time machine: "from __future__ import braces" ;)
You pretty hit it.
I'm unsure of whether it's in the government's priorities to turn the internet cafes away from the "gaming center" model, but adoption of Linux will hit the inet cafe owners hard. Loss of customers AND retraining/replacing the Windows sysadmins?
As for the suspicion of surveillance... If some internet cafe owner is willing to pay me good cash for auditing the distro, I'd be glad to find out whether there are any ;)
Here in China, I saw many times the funny signs near optical fibre facilities reading "This is optical cable with zero copper in it. It's no use stealing it."
Believe me. It's real.
Umm, you are right. I got it wrong. Must be the result of eating too much sugar recently.
, which has less than 1.5% of the normal level.
Um, that doesn't sound like an indication of its alien origin.
The story could go like this: Long long ago, a large comet that had roughly the same concentration of CN as an average one, broke up into 2 pieces. Because the substances are not uniformly distributed over the big comet, one of the pieces happen to have more CN than the other. The one with richer CN then got blown to pieces in a collision of some kind, while the one with less CN survived.
And no, I didn't read TFA ;)
So we are still user password-based SSH authentication?
Second, I thought AV products don't "stack" well? Our PC tech here is constantly having problems with computers that come in and are running 2-4 AV software, and they're fighting like cats and dogs and crippling the system to where only a fresh install will fix it.
I guess it's because some of the AV products for PC use techniques similar to rootkits and modifies the kernel files. That leads to an abysmal hell if you try to stack them.
AFAIK ClamAV doesn't do that. It can be configured to run as a server (useful as an email server's virus filter), a cronjob, or a one-shot scanner, but not an intrusive bomb waiting to be triggered. That's why I like it: no on-access scan bullshit. (I believe one have to modify the kernel to achieve on-access scan, am I right?)
Last time I checked, Maxon was built on IE. That's why I avoid it like a plague.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think actually we can reduce the bandwidth by switching to UDP. With UDP you need to implement your own transmission control, and if BitTorrent can make its own lightweight implementation, the transmission control overhead caused by TCP will be reduced.
Actually I see UDP a better alternative for BT because you don't need to make sure every packet is transmitted successfully, given how BT seeding works.
I see TFA's point is not that UDP increases traffic, but they are harder to be throttled by ISPs. Well then why don't the ISPs upgrade their own infrastructure to handle the increased traffic and charge their users accordingly to cover the cost? Blame the current economy?
Again, I don't know much in this area so I may be wrong.
The author made some points with ABI stability, audio architecture and filesystem versioning. The rest is bullshit. GUI? Go whine at the GNOME/KDE guys. X11? Go post to the X11 dev list. Package managers? Go fuck RedHat for RPM and Debian for dpkg.
In other words, the things you are bullshitting about are not *Linux* things.
Hello,
You may want to read this: Fedora 10 Virtualization.
And from another article
"The kernel-xen package has been obsoleted by the integration of paravirtualization operations in the upstream kernel. The kernel package in Fedora 10 supports booting as a guest domU, but will not function as a dom0 until such support is provided upstream. The most recent Fedora release with dom0 support is Fedora 8."
So it's unlikely that Fedora is abandoning Xen... There are upstream problems to be fixed before dom0 support is integrated in Fedora again.
You can install the rpmfusion-nonfree repo's signing keys and update the binary blobs via yum. However RPMfusion is not included in the release by default and you'll have to do this by yourself.
AFAIK distributing "evil" codecs are against Fedora's policy so they don't do that. But that doesn't prevent anyone else from doing it.
RPM 4.6 is an RC, not a stable release. I have to say it's a somewhat bold move. RPM is the heart of the distro. It is even more important than the kernel.
As a Fedora supporter I for one welcome the move.
Now cue the RPM haters.
How come? It's a JavaScript program. Any fairly modern browser will be able to interpret it.. wait, you mean your handheld/mobile platform with too limited CPU power?
BTW the second test "full render" is really CPU-demanding...
I use a Dvorak keyboard you insensitive clod!
kdawson has done this before! http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=202466&cid=16567804
Text installer is fine, but LiveCD is not only useful for installing the OS.
The "Better Than Average" one seems to be the worst on the list. How can the worst be better than average? ;)
The "GUI response time" thing reminds me of someone I met on Freenode IRC the other day. That guy was whining about a system update making GNOME slower. "Now it takes 0.05 seconds more to show a menu!" he said. I told him an average human's response latency is around 0.1 seconds and you can't really distinguish the 50 millisecond difference.
But he said "Yes I can! I can watch a movie at 24 frames per second and that's 0.04 seconds a frame!"
So I told him it's called a movie exactly because you *can't* be that responsive. Otherwise it's not a movie. It's going to be a slideshow.
Xscreensaver has the "flying toasters"
If I have the skill and time I'd make a chair version. ;)
That's also one of my favorite. Python has this feature too.
This regex matches a number: interger or float, scientific notation or plain, plus or minus...
[-+]?(?:\b[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]*)?|\.[0-9]+\b)(?:[eE][-+]?[0-9]+\b)?
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Malaria kills. You should use a mosquito net when surfing the Web. Take care.