I'm thinking particularly of Ubuntu. Right now a lot of packages (especially libraries) are auto-imported from Debian unstable, but if Debian keeps splitting off documentation and putting them into non-free it'd be a mess to keep track of.
Dvorak's on to something when he said people who prefer aesthetics could now buy a Mac to run Windows on it (though the reverse will most likely not be true, i.e. you can't run OS X on non-Mac hardware) - left unsaid is, of course, that some people will buyh these machines to run Linux instead.
Targeting a Mac will be easier, sure - some developers will probably buy a Mac and dual-boot (or virtualize) Windows or Linux on it, so there will be more Mac developers.
Thing is, most free software types won't consider OS X free enough - I'm switching back to Linux, personally; and a lot of OSS running on OS X share code with their Linux/Unix/X11 counterparts. Adium uses Gaim as its engine. Dashboard is based on WebCore, which is forked from KHTML - porting it back to KDE would not be too hard, and guess what, there is a GTK port. If efforts like gDesklets flounder, we can possibly port Dashboard wholesale to Linux.
Firefox and Thunderbird runs better on Linux (seriously. Try them on both platforms), and if Dvorak thinks OpenOffice is not user-friendly, he has not tried running it on a Mac yet. Oh, John, OO.o looks much better on Linux than on Windows too - if you're running the 1.1.x series, the Windows version does not have all the UI improvements that GNOME and KDE developers from Novell, Red Hat and others throw into it.
Lots of fun things are happening in the OSS world, especially on the desktop front - Sun and Novell are doing usability testing, Gtk# is making waves, in fact, F-Spot is the best photo-library tool I've seen, certainly looks faster than iPhoto and has cool things like Flickr integration built-in. Don't count us out yet.
And with Red Hat heavily pushing Free Java, eventually more and more GNOME applications will be written in it, so Sun's Java Desktop will actually get a lot of Java applications for free.
Assuming Sun is happy about bundling Java-GNOME applications on their desktop, since they don't quite fulfill the WORA promise.
I was at HP's site yesterday, and those specific models mentioned can be bought in the States with FreeDOS instead of Windows. So unless the HP-supplied Ubuntu CDs come with custom kernel modules, there's nothing stopping US customers from buying these and installing Linux themselves.
I wonder if HP's upcoming special-edition Turion notebook will officially be supported for use with Linux too. That model is going to debut in the States only, but the specs look really tempting.. wide 14" screen, under 6 lbs weight, affordable price; the only question mark at this point is battery life, but it's got to be better than Acer's 15.4" behemoth.
Actually, Eclipse's official GUI designer, Visual Editor, supported Swing before it supported designing SWT GUIs.. and without VE, creating an SWT application in Eclipse is PITA.
You have a point though. On some platforms (*cough* Mac) the Java implementation makes it really hard to run GUI designers on Eclipse, due to some issues about running more than one graphical toolkit that I won't pretend to fully understand.
Interesting article, thanks! According to this Army site, though, neither the US nor the Soviets signed it. I wonder how legally binding it is..
The Center for Nonproliferation Studies confirm this by mentioning that the treaty is ineffective, but it does not list who the 5 signatories are either, unfortunately.
Now that the Chinese, Indian and Japanese all profess an interest in colonizing the moon.. the question is, will the first nation who reach the site claim its entirety, and how valid would that claim be?
Not sure that Solaris still follows the 2.x convention, but underneath it, the kernel is still SunOS 5.x
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If you re-encode to the same format using the same encoder, the loss is probably minimal. If you re-encode to, say, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis, which quite probably have different ideas about which data should be thrown out, you're more than likely to start hearing defects much sooner.
Apple does make OS X go faster at every release between 10.0 and 10.3 (and 10.4 should follow in the same path, minus the overhead of indexing files for Spotlight, but plus the performance benefit of CoreImage shifting a lot of graphical effects to the graphics card when supported).
Yes, Darwin the base OS is open-source, but a lot of the improvements are in the layers they build on top of that.
At medium fan speed it is quite noisy (disregard the Ars Technica report that said otherwise - they left the fan speed at auto).. for a low-end server I'd recommend an ITX motherboard running a non-Intel, non-AMD solution.. or the Mac mini.
If they are nasty enough and check that the value GetSystemDate() returns is *greater* than the date of manufacture, and disable the cartridge due to evidence of tampering otherwise, then you better return the date you purchase the cartridge instead.
Hearing about this, I really don't regret not having bought an HP printer since.. the '90s.
Actually, they *do* support Office on a non-MS operating system.. that is, Office for Mac. What you might mean is Office for Windows on a non-Windows OS - that, depending on the EULA, they could rightly block Wine users from using their online update mechanism.
Oh, another use case I just thought of too: how about a 'hidden' Linux OS on your Windows box that does all your email, browsing, and other Internet work that you want to keep secure. Click the icon, up pops Mozilla, except it's running in a different virtual OS.
Or the reverse.. run XP on top of Linux for the few apps that need it. Though I don't think Microsoft will allow that to happen. The Xen guys have XP working as a virtual OS in their labs, but for obvious reasons they can't release that.
Virus and worm makers will probably be quicker in producing exploits for the new architecture than application developers would be, remember. Porting an insecure OS to a different platform does not make it more secure by much (security through obscurity).
Not saying that worm makers are more competent than app developers, but they're probably more driven (anti-M$) and it's a function also of the worms being smaller, and code quality does not really matter too much
Or the lawyers, not quite understanding what a Turing machine is, could not quite persuade the judge of the merit of the argument.. would be quite instructive to see the transcripts for the proceedings =)
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That better be 32-bit drivers not apps, or we won't be able to run OpenOffice...
I'm thinking particularly of Ubuntu. Right now a lot of packages (especially libraries) are auto-imported from Debian unstable, but if Debian keeps splitting off documentation and putting them into non-free it'd be a mess to keep track of.
Dvorak's on to something when he said people who prefer aesthetics could now buy a Mac to run Windows on it (though the reverse will most likely not be true, i.e. you can't run OS X on non-Mac hardware) - left unsaid is, of course, that some people will buyh these machines to run Linux instead.
Targeting a Mac will be easier, sure - some developers will probably buy a Mac and dual-boot (or virtualize) Windows or Linux on it, so there will be more Mac developers.
Thing is, most free software types won't consider OS X free enough - I'm switching back to Linux, personally; and a lot of OSS running on OS X share code with their Linux/Unix/X11 counterparts. Adium uses Gaim as its engine. Dashboard is based on WebCore, which is forked from KHTML - porting it back to KDE would not be too hard, and guess what, there is a GTK port. If efforts like gDesklets flounder, we can possibly port Dashboard wholesale to Linux.
Firefox and Thunderbird runs better on Linux (seriously. Try them on both platforms), and if Dvorak thinks OpenOffice is not user-friendly, he has not tried running it on a Mac yet. Oh, John, OO.o looks much better on Linux than on Windows too - if you're running the 1.1.x series, the Windows version does not have all the UI improvements that GNOME and KDE developers from Novell, Red Hat and others throw into it.
Lots of fun things are happening in the OSS world, especially on the desktop front - Sun and Novell are doing usability testing, Gtk# is making waves, in fact, F-Spot is the best photo-library tool I've seen, certainly looks faster than iPhoto and has cool things like Flickr integration built-in. Don't count us out yet.
And with Red Hat heavily pushing Free Java, eventually more and more GNOME applications will be written in it, so Sun's Java Desktop will actually get a lot of Java applications for free.
Assuming Sun is happy about bundling Java-GNOME applications on their desktop, since they don't quite fulfill the WORA promise.
I was at HP's site yesterday, and those specific models mentioned can be bought in the States with FreeDOS instead of Windows. So unless the HP-supplied Ubuntu CDs come with custom kernel modules, there's nothing stopping US customers from buying these and installing Linux themselves.
I wonder if HP's upcoming special-edition Turion notebook will officially be supported for use with Linux too. That model is going to debut in the States only, but the specs look really tempting.. wide 14" screen, under 6 lbs weight, affordable price; the only question mark at this point is battery life, but it's got to be better than Acer's 15.4" behemoth.
Actually, Eclipse's official GUI designer, Visual Editor, supported Swing before it supported designing SWT GUIs .. and without VE, creating an SWT application in Eclipse is PITA.
You have a point though. On some platforms (*cough* Mac) the Java implementation makes it really hard to run GUI designers on Eclipse, due to some issues about running more than one graphical toolkit that I won't pretend to fully understand.
.. does anyone else get a déja vù from the KDE-sponsored attempt to clone Qt back in the non-QPL 1.x days?
Since the majority of /. readers just want to read the article, how about caching it with Coral ?
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Those who really want to reply on the forum could just strip off the
You could rent from Blockbuster before the DVD is officially released, but could you actually buy the DVD?
Interesting article, thanks! According to this Army site, though, neither the US nor the Soviets signed it. I wonder how legally binding it is..
The Center for Nonproliferation Studies confirm this by mentioning that the treaty is ineffective, but it does not list who the 5 signatories are either, unfortunately.
Now that the Chinese, Indian and Japanese all profess an interest in colonizing the moon.. the question is, will the first nation who reach the site claim its entirety, and how valid would that claim be?
Not sure that Solaris still follows the 2.x convention, but underneath it, the kernel is still SunOS 5.x
If you re-encode to the same format using the same encoder, the loss is probably minimal. If you re-encode to, say, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis, which quite probably have different ideas about which data should be thrown out, you're more than likely to start hearing defects much sooner.
Apple does make OS X go faster at every release between 10.0 and 10.3 (and 10.4 should follow in the same path, minus the overhead of indexing files for Spotlight, but plus the performance benefit of CoreImage shifting a lot of graphical effects to the graphics card when supported).
Yes, Darwin the base OS is open-source, but a lot of the improvements are in the layers they build on top of that.
A friend of mine has a Thinkpad X30, and he could suspend to RAM just fine - he did run a non-standard kernel though AFAIR.
At medium fan speed it is quite noisy (disregard the Ars Technica report that said otherwise - they left the fan speed at auto).. for a low-end server I'd recommend an ITX motherboard running a non-Intel, non-AMD solution .. or the Mac mini.
If they are nasty enough and check that the value GetSystemDate() returns is *greater* than the date of manufacture, and disable the cartridge due to evidence of tampering otherwise, then you better return the date you purchase the cartridge instead.
.. the '90s.
Hearing about this, I really don't regret not having bought an HP printer since
I have the previous-generation Shuttle AMD64 model - the SN95 - and I must say that even with two 3.5" drives, cooling them can be a problem.
So even though it has 3 3.5" slots you'd probably be better off putting in at most two drives and investing in heat sinks for them.
Without additional cooling, even with one hard drive I had to set the fan to 'medium', up from 'Smart fan' to avoid overheating within a few hours.
Actually, they *do* support Office on a non-MS operating system.. that is, Office for Mac. What you might mean is Office for Windows on a non-Windows OS - that, depending on the EULA, they could rightly block Wine users from using their online update mechanism.
I was about to ask the same question; the Subversion license seems to be BSD-like enough, and Subversion is a joy to use..
That guy is definitely outspoken :) Pity, otherwise we'd have seen an Asimov-sanctioned I, Robot..
Like IE, which is 'part' of Windows and originally licensed from Spyglass? Though none of the original code is probably still there, but who knows.
Or the reverse.. run XP on top of Linux for the few apps that need it. Though I don't think Microsoft will allow that to happen. The Xen guys have XP working as a virtual OS in their labs, but for obvious reasons they can't release that.
Virus and worm makers will probably be quicker in producing exploits for the new architecture than application developers would be, remember. Porting an insecure OS to a different platform does not make it more secure by much (security through obscurity).
Not saying that worm makers are more competent than app developers, but they're probably more driven (anti-M$) and it's a function also of the worms being smaller, and code quality does not really matter too much
Or the lawyers, not quite understanding what a Turing machine is, could not quite persuade the judge of the merit of the argument.. would be quite instructive to see the transcripts for the proceedings =)