6)The defacto choice on Linux. All major Distributions support it by default. This means Mandrake, SuSE, Xandros, ArkLinux, Jamd, Lindows, Slackware, Knoppix, Gentoo and more....snip...
Most distributions offer gnome as an unsupported alternative.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "supported" and "unsupported". I don't know about the other distros but as a Slackware user I can tell you that the distro has no apparent "default desktop". It includes both GNOME and KDE, and you just choose which one you like. I'm sure many other distros are just like that too.
Also, the only reason why gnome was created in the first place is null and void. Now that Novell has taken over Ximain you can expect VENDOR lock in. Want groupware for linux? Thats $300 a seat
Now you are just trolling. GNOME isn't Ximian, and how the heck do you do "vendor lock in" for GPL'd stuff? If you're referring to Ximian Connector, it is a proprietary product that's not part of GNOME.
...who expect choice in music services, choice in devices, and choice in music from a wide-variety of music services to burn to a CD or put on a portable device.
A wide variety of devices do not support WMA, mp3 being the most popular format. Who wants a DRM-enabled format anyway?
1) It's a community populated by adults, not rabid cheerleading adolescents who get turned on by a fight between OS just like their fathers got turned on by a fight between Camaros and Mustangs.
"Rabid cheerleeding adolescents"? Now there's a mature, rational comment made by an "adult".
2) The entire OS is under someone's review and control. In Linux, a few people people worry about the kernel, but, after than, it's up for grabs.
Now this I don't get. Does the FreeBSD team control the development of GCC, binutils, GNOME, KDE, XFree86, Perl, etc.? Or is that other stuff "up for grabs" from elsewhere?
All of you who said stuff like "While the mechanics are slightly different on my RedHat box, it's not so different that one couldn't figure it out by playing" completely miss the irony of the review. It looks just like the inverse of a Windows-biased person reviewing Linux which we've seen so often. Linux keeps getting bashed for "not being like Windows", no matter how hard the developers try to make a good piece of software (most of the time freely available to download to boot).
This movie should have some spectacular CGI. A whale plummeting to its death, Ford Prefect turning into a penguin, and a humongous cavern where entire planets are manufactured. Now that I want to see.
I was half expecting the foot icon on the topic. Microsoft is the anti-cool. Mention "Micro$oft" and the first image I get is a bunch of clueless PHB's bowing down to Bill Gates, and MCSE's looking for the "Start" button on VCR's. Remember how cool it was to watch Trinity hack using a *nix console in Matrix Reloaded? Imagine the same scene with her pushing colorful candyland buttons in Windows XP. Bah.
gcc is one of the reasons a number of developers in *bsd land are waiting for this to mature. others (theo is a big advocate) are trying to get the plan9 toolchain freed up more.
and then there will truly be a *free* operating system.
And it's the *BSD people who frequently accuse the GNU people of obsessive zealotry, but it's really the same thing on your side of the fence too.
They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! I will not lose the Enterprise! Not to the Microsoft Borg, not while I'm in command!
If the guy broke the terms of some contract, perhaps it's illegal. But...
"The values and opinions of the report are not in line with @Stake's views."
Does it make those opinions wrong? Are they not useful, regardless of what @Stake's view is? Does this imply that you need to toe the line of the most powerful entities, if not, you will be punished? We've been stuck in 1984 for long time it seems.
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Why make a website "optimized for IE", when the content of the said website is of interest to people who are probably not running IE or Windows?
Just because the screen is propped up a bit and the keyboard detached, it's still a notebook, with a cramped keyboard, missing mouse, practically unupgradable interior.
They used the "mongoose thrown into a snake pit" metaphor to refer to Linux being used in an all Windows environment, and the "Indiana Jones shoots the swordsman" metaphor, to refer to the technological advantage of Linux over Windows. But combine the two and you get the "Indiana Jones thrown into a snake pit" metaphor, and you know how Indy feels about snakes... things don't look good for Linux it seems.
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Isn't this anticompetitive behaviour? Helloo...justice department!?
Ian Murdock is the "ian" in Debian. Deb is Debra, his wife.
Whom does the Australian "RIAA" represent? Is Kylie Minogue under the Aussie RIAA or the one we know and hate (which represents all the major labels).
6)The defacto choice on Linux. All major Distributions support it by default. This means Mandrake, SuSE, Xandros, ArkLinux, Jamd, Lindows, Slackware, Knoppix, Gentoo and more. ...snip...
Most distributions offer gnome as an unsupported alternative.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "supported" and "unsupported". I don't know about the other distros but as a Slackware user I can tell you that the distro has no apparent "default desktop". It includes both GNOME and KDE, and you just choose which one you like. I'm sure many other distros are just like that too.
Also, the only reason why gnome was created in the first place is null and void. Now that Novell has taken over Ximain you can expect VENDOR lock in. Want groupware for linux? Thats $300 a seat
Now you are just trolling. GNOME isn't Ximian, and how the heck do you do "vendor lock in" for GPL'd stuff? If you're referring to Ximian Connector, it is a proprietary product that's not part of GNOME.
1) Reasons for choosing Windows, 2) Reasons for choosing Linux, 3) Top Windows concerns, 4) Top Linux concerns, 5) Top interoperability issues."
Where's "Bill says I should. I MUST OBEY!!!"
...who expect choice in music services, choice in devices, and choice in music from a wide-variety of music services to burn to a CD or put on a portable device.
A wide variety of devices do not support WMA, mp3 being the most popular format. Who wants a DRM-enabled format anyway?
1) It's a community populated by adults, not rabid cheerleading adolescents who get turned on by a fight between OS just like their fathers got turned on by a fight between Camaros and Mustangs.
"Rabid cheerleeding adolescents"? Now there's a mature, rational comment made by an "adult".
2) The entire OS is under someone's review and control. In Linux, a few people people worry about the kernel, but, after than, it's up for grabs.
Now this I don't get. Does the FreeBSD team control the development of GCC, binutils, GNOME, KDE, XFree86, Perl, etc.? Or is that other stuff "up for grabs" from elsewhere?
All of you who said stuff like "While the mechanics are slightly different on my RedHat box, it's not so different that one couldn't figure it out by playing" completely miss the irony of the review. It looks just like the inverse of a Windows-biased person reviewing Linux which we've seen so often. Linux keeps getting bashed for "not being like Windows", no matter how hard the developers try to make a good piece of software (most of the time freely available to download to boot).
I've always thought Hugh Grant played a hapless English gent well. Of course I'll probably be flamed to death for saying that...
This movie should have some spectacular CGI. A whale plummeting to its death, Ford Prefect turning into a penguin, and a humongous cavern where entire planets are manufactured. Now that I want to see.
Bwahahahahhahahahaa...
I was half expecting the foot icon on the topic. Microsoft is the anti-cool. Mention "Micro$oft" and the first image I get is a bunch of clueless PHB's bowing down to Bill Gates, and MCSE's looking for the "Start" button on VCR's. Remember how cool it was to watch Trinity hack using a *nix console in Matrix Reloaded? Imagine the same scene with her pushing colorful candyland buttons in Windows XP. Bah.
gcc is one of the reasons a number of developers in *bsd land are waiting for this to mature. others (theo is a big advocate) are trying to get the plan9 toolchain freed up more. and then there will truly be a *free* operating system.
And it's the *BSD people who frequently accuse the GNU people of obsessive zealotry, but it's really the same thing on your side of the fence too.
Does anyone know how to [b]uninstall[/b] the damn thing? Deleting the directory is not an option.
A better test is, how fast do pedantic slashdotters reply to you saying it's actually 299792458 m/s?
They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! I will not lose the Enterprise! Not to the Microsoft Borg, not while I'm in command!
I, for one, welcome our new Slackware 9.1 using overlords.
:)
Wow. That's the first time anyone ever referred to me as an "overlord". Now fetch me some refreshment, peasant.
I could get used to this...
What I never got in the first movie was the "burnt skies" bit. How the heck do you burn the sky?
If the guy broke the terms of some contract, perhaps it's illegal. But...
"The values and opinions of the report are not in line with @Stake's views."
Does it make those opinions wrong? Are they not useful, regardless of what @Stake's view is? Does this imply that you need to toe the line of the most powerful entities, if not, you will be punished? We've been stuck in 1984 for long time it seems.
Uh... communication wants to be free? :)
Or does this photo look inverted to you guys? Or did they glue those big fan-things to the ceiling?
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Why make a website "optimized for IE", when the content of the said website is of interest to people who are probably not running IE or Windows?
If you think that's bad, look at all the praise that's heaped onto Microsoft whenever they release a new version of Windows.
"Look! It has a new happy colorful interface! It *must* be more usable, since it looks so friendly!"
Just because the screen is propped up a bit and the keyboard detached, it's still a notebook, with a cramped keyboard, missing mouse, practically unupgradable interior.
They used the "mongoose thrown into a snake pit" metaphor to refer to Linux being used in an all Windows environment, and the "Indiana Jones shoots the swordsman" metaphor, to refer to the technological advantage of Linux over Windows. But combine the two and you get the "Indiana Jones thrown into a snake pit" metaphor, and you know how Indy feels about snakes... things don't look good for Linux it seems.
Okay, sure, I'll just pull the sodium borate out of my cabinet under the sink.
:p
What, you're saying you don't have any in stock? What kind of geek are you?