... I have been interested in a PPC platform for a long time, but dislike the implication of buying Apple products (great-looking, sure, so far the most comfortable computing experience I've ever had was using a PowerMac G4, and the new iBooks certainly smoke the new Celery Sony (built-in CD-ROM with no options? whatt...).
And with the OpenPPC motherboard from IBM soon becoming the leading VapourWare of the late '90s, to be able finally to use a 3rd party PPC board without paying royalty to Apple (and being stuck with low-frequency G3s just because Apple won't have G3s running faster than G4s) would be really neat. Plus they seem to be doing on the software side what Transmeta is doing on the hardware side, so even if it is not Open Source they deserve a break. Hope it's not another Be in the making though.
That's why I use Ximian GNOME as my desktop (purrty icons) but rely on several key KDE programs. Adopting the Enlightenment philosophy, the desktop != the apps:)
Lest you forget, Nautilus' appeal is exactly the same as Konqueror's. A universal browser extensible using components.
This is not a flame - I do use KDE-based programs (kMail, licq + kde plugin, konqueror for web browsing) and KDE is at the present moment ahead. GNOME is ahead in the 'pretty icons' department at least, though. And Pango looks great.
In an ideal world there would be no billionaires:) This coming from someone coming from one of those countries with devalued currencies where most upper-middle class people are billionaires...
Finally, this actually means the end - or at least lowering - of the M$ Tax.
Since the software will only be valid for limited periods of time, it makes sense that they will cost less upfront, lowering the M$ grip on OEMs. Granted, this might be due to their court problems, but still..
Actually the latest releases of Sawfish, the default GNOME 1.2 WM, groups windows by programs - accessible by clicking on the desktop with the center mouse button.
A matter of time before GNOME's tasklist applet features the same idea I guess...
Once yenta_socket officially supports i82365 I'm dumping 2.2.x. Finally, ALSA. Now if they can integrate the international patches... and low-latency support.. Umm.. better brush up my C and start hacking the kernel or forever (read 2 years) hold my peace:)
Last time I checked the i82365 PCI PCMCIA (not Cardbus) controller is still not supported... I would *love* to be the first to jump into the 2.4 bandwagon (plus ALSA doesn't like kernel 2.2.17 + DevFS), but without my Internet connection using Linux is rather... irksome
Movies based on astronomy (e.g. Contact, The Arrival) use UNIX systems. How I remember watching Elly Arroway doing full-screen videoconferencing using Netscape... ahh:)
Well the reason for using BSD is simply that NeXTStep on which OS X is based was a BSD system. And NeXT uses Mach for reason (a) presumably - they don't seem to have much problem porting it from those NeXT boxes to x86
I would think that the very nature of being an AC implies that a poster waiver his responsibility over his post, and as such his rights as well. Still, MS's concerns do not seem to warrant an unprecedented censorship of/....
... having the initial implementation on Linux which would not require such a library, being Open Source. I suppose for systems that need 99.999% uptime... and Linux being open source it's probably easier to work out the library calls. Excellent concept though, wish them well.
In fact it comes out one week after the release of the English version. Consider this something similar to Red Hat's GPL version. Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. -- H.H. Munro
Like when they help Real port Real Player 7? If a deep-pocketed Linux company (Red Hat, VA, anyone?) can license CSS and produce binary-only libraries that would be great. Of course, will they be allowed to give it away for free? like Microsoft did to Spyglass...
I stand corrected, SGI did have many important Open Source contributions under their belt - however it is true that they have not been very open in their 'Open Source' development. Does it take that long to go through their XFS source?
The question we must ask is whether they are doing this with a genuine belief in the Open Source development model or just to grab some limelight (and look good). XGI announced their open source XFS long time ago and they have nothing as yet to show for it in their website... just my penny's worth...
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... I have been interested in a PPC platform for a long time, but dislike the implication of buying Apple products (great-looking, sure, so far the most comfortable computing experience I've ever had was using a PowerMac G4, and the new iBooks certainly smoke the new Celery Sony (built-in CD-ROM with no options? whatt...).
And with the OpenPPC motherboard from IBM soon becoming the leading VapourWare of the late '90s, to be able finally to use a 3rd party PPC board without paying royalty to Apple (and being stuck with low-frequency G3s just because Apple won't have G3s running faster than G4s) would be really neat. Plus they seem to be doing on the software side what Transmeta is doing on the hardware side, so even if it is not Open Source they deserve a break. Hope it's not another Be in the making though.
That's why I use Ximian GNOME as my desktop (purrty icons) but rely on several key KDE programs. Adopting the Enlightenment philosophy, the desktop != the apps :)
Lest you forget, Nautilus' appeal is exactly the same as Konqueror's. A universal browser extensible using components.
This is not a flame - I do use KDE-based programs (kMail, licq + kde plugin, konqueror for web browsing) and KDE is at the present moment ahead. GNOME is ahead in the 'pretty icons' department at least, though. And Pango looks great.
In an ideal world there would be no billionaires :) This coming from someone coming from one of those countries with devalued currencies where most upper-middle class people are billionaires...
Finally, this actually means the end - or at least lowering - of the M$ Tax.
Since the software will only be valid for limited periods of time, it makes sense that they will cost less upfront, lowering the M$ grip on OEMs. Granted, this might be due to their court problems, but still..
All the more advantage for M$-free users.
Cheers,
Michel
Actually the latest releases of Sawfish, the default GNOME 1.2 WM, groups windows by programs - accessible by clicking on the desktop with the center mouse button. A matter of time before GNOME's tasklist applet features the same idea I guess...
Once yenta_socket officially supports i82365 I'm dumping 2.2.x. Finally, ALSA. Now if they can integrate the international patches... and low-latency support.. Umm.. better brush up my C and start hacking the kernel or forever (read 2 years) hold my peace :)
Last time I checked the i82365 PCI PCMCIA (not Cardbus) controller is still not supported... I would *love* to be the first to jump into the 2.4 bandwagon (plus ALSA doesn't like kernel 2.2.17 + DevFS), but without my Internet connection using Linux is rather... irksome
... the Netscape Theme Park realizes that Mozilla IS compatible with Netscape 6. Let's see if I can get Orbit any other way... are the themes on FTP?
Wish I have that kind of money :)
Michel
Movies based on astronomy (e.g. Contact, The Arrival) use UNIX systems. How I remember watching Elly Arroway doing full-screen videoconferencing using Netscape... ahh :)
Well the reason for using BSD is simply that NeXTStep on which OS X is based was a BSD system. And NeXT uses Mach for reason (a) presumably - they don't seem to have much problem porting it from those NeXT boxes to x86
I would think that the very nature of being an AC implies that a poster waiver his responsibility over his post, and as such his rights as well. Still, MS's concerns do not seem to warrant an unprecedented censorship of /. ...
... having the initial implementation on Linux which would not require such a library, being Open Source. I suppose for systems that need 99.999% uptime... and Linux being open source it's probably easier to work out the library calls. Excellent concept though, wish them well.
In fact it comes out one week after the release of the English version. Consider this something similar to Red Hat's GPL version. Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. -- H.H. Munro
Why am I not surprised...
Like when they help Real port Real Player 7? If a deep-pocketed Linux company (Red Hat, VA, anyone?) can license CSS and produce binary-only libraries that would be great. Of course, will they be allowed to give it away for free? like Microsoft did to Spyglass...
I stand corrected, SGI did have many important Open Source contributions under their belt - however it is true that they have not been very open in their 'Open Source' development. Does it take that long to go through their XFS source?
The question we must ask is whether they are doing this with a genuine belief in the Open Source development model or just to grab some limelight (and look good). XGI announced their open source XFS long time ago and they have nothing as yet to show for it in their website... just my penny's worth...