I bought my RedHat 5.2 cdrom, and will likely do the same for the new update from RedHat. Why? Because I want the printed manual and with all the changes in the RedHat dist concering GNOME and Linuxconf I rather have the "offical" Redhat manual and cdroms....
Why bother using a computer as an answering machine at all? Just buy an $30.00 digital answering machine instead. Spend a little more ($40-50 dollars) and you'll get multiple mailboxes on some of these things along with caller ID...
No. The Linux community has developed it's own terms over the years which differs from the FSF terminology. Hence the difference in the meanings of "Linux". If the FSF had really cared about what was going on in the Linux movement, they've would've been aware of this. The fact that they seemed to have totally missed out on what the "unversal" meaning of "Linux" is shows just how out-of-touch the FSF is when it comes to understanding what going on with Linux.
Yo moron! Has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason netscape may be so "buggy" under linux is because it's *NOT* a native linux program, but a port of a Windows program? Of course there are going to be problems cropping up because of the nature of the porting process. Just take a look at lynx and some of the problems people have getting it to run correctly on their machines in the lynx-dev mailing list, especally the MSDOS and Win32 ports of lynx.
How much was the Microsoft employee paid for this and how long will it take for the person who approved this article to get used to their new job title?
The answer to your question as to why people are so hesistant to pay for software anymore is simple. It's called the commerical/shareware software industry. They have quite simply ripped people off for too long, create 2nd and 3rd rate products that they refuse to be held responsible or libable for, but expect people to trust them when they say there aren't any serious problems with their products.
Let's see. You're basically saying that the kernal programers (and nearly everbody else) are good enough to program around the *known* bugs in GCC 2.7, but the Mozilla programers aren't, so that's why they are using a complier pretty much no one who's installed linux is using to complie code with. What's wrong with this picture?
It's not the NPL that turns off a lot of people, it's the way Mozilla is setup that turns people off. I said it before and I'll say it again. Not supporting Win 3.1 and requiring people to use GCC 2.8 to complie the Mozilla code for no good reason is stupid and won't attract very many people to the effort.
Oh really? Take a look at Lynx. Here's something that was never intended to run under MS-DOS but guess what? You can compile the Lynx source code using DJGPP (the msdos version of GCC ) and get the same version of Lynx running under DOS that you can under Linux or any other Unix. The DOS version has a couple of bugs in it's Wattcp-based socket code, but for the most part everything still works. In the process of making Lynx run under DOS, the Lynx code as a whole was improved. The Lynx source code in general got cleaned up, memory leaks were discovered and fixed that would otherwise have gone unnoticed...you get the picture. You comment concering GCC 2.8 is really laughable. GCC 2.7 works fine under linux and other Unix's. There's *NO* real reason to code something that requires a compiler most people *DON'T* have installed on their machines other than plain stupidity. It's that simple.
If the Mozilla Project is falling apart the fault is all theirs. They've done some totally stupid things. 1) Not supporting Win 3.1 A lot of people still aren't running Win 95/Win98. 2) Trying to force people people to use GCC 2.8 to compile mozilla, especially Linux users. How many people actually have bothered installing it when you still can't really use it under Linux? There are other examples of this kind of short-sighted stupidity within mozilla
Eh? You aren't given the option of removing packages from RedHat before installing them? Either you've never actually installed RedHat or you are just plain lying though your teeth. You can add/remove packages to install under RedHat quite easily using it's install program. Just because *YOU* don't know how to do it doesn't mean a damn thing.
Not really. Despite what you people like yourself think, the Internet will never become *THAT* important in people lives. If the internet does go down, you've still got radio,tv and telephone service. Add to this the millions of people who *DON'T* even acess the internet for anything whatsoever, it's pretty hard to see how any internet attack could cripple a country. Inconvince a hell of a lot people who were stupid enough to put put all their eggs in a basket labled "INTERNET" But cripple a country? That's laughable. Just look at the Melissa virus for instance. Has it really affected *YOUR* life in any meaningful fashion It's given a lot of people a very good reason to laugh at the people foolish enough to actually trust Microsoft Software,but has it really caused the end of human cilivation
The FSF never gave a damn about Linux either untill the people who used linux got it the attention it deserved. The FSF's big thing was HURD, and it was never really intended to be used by the people who were using low-end PC's like the linux crowd were at the time if I recall.
It is and it isn't. I suspect most people (myself inclued) who refuse to use the term "GNU/Linux" would say Linux is a branch of the GNU tree which is really the heart of the matter.
It should be pretty obvious to everyone that the problem here isn't GNU software. The real problem is the idiots who make up the FSF.
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The future of games lie with Sony,Nintendo and maybe Sega with their inexpensive machines. Who's in their right mind is going to keep throwing their money down the black hole otherwise known as PC gaming with it's totally absurd system and hardware requirements? Am I going to buy Win98 along with an new computer just to play some unimagative PC game I'm going to bored to death with in less than 5 minutes? I don't think so. I much rather prefer the Anime/Manga type games that you see comming out of Japan rather than the crap games American software seem so fond of dumping on the shelves these days.
Don't bet on it. Companies like Cygnus and RedHat are doing just fine by remaining private. Just what do they gain to stand by going public? Not all very much that I can see, and they stand to loose a great deal more than they will ever gain. Netscape and a whole bunch of other companies haven proven that going public *isn't* such a great idea in the long run....
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I bought my RedHat 5.2 cdrom, and will likely do the same for the new update from RedHat. Why? Because I want the printed manual and with all the changes in the RedHat dist concering GNOME and Linuxconf I rather have the "offical" Redhat manual and cdroms....
Who care if you don't switch from Windows to Linux? Nobody really. One less script kiddie in the Linux userbase in IMHO...
Why bother using a computer as an answering machine at all? Just buy an $30.00 digital answering machine instead. Spend a little more ($40-50 dollars) and you'll get multiple mailboxes on some of these things along with caller ID...
You're right. Who really needs TAPI? Just buy an $30.00 digital answering machine and free up your computer....
Only two things to say to you. GET LOST
Never heard of a cassette player, have you?
No. The Linux community has developed it's own terms over the years which differs from the FSF terminology. Hence the difference in the meanings of "Linux". If the FSF had really cared about what was going on in the Linux movement, they've would've been aware of this. The fact that they seemed to have totally missed out on what the "unversal" meaning of "Linux" is shows just how out-of-touch the FSF is when it comes to understanding what going on with Linux.
Yo moron! Has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason netscape may be so "buggy" under linux is because it's *NOT* a native linux program, but a port of a Windows program? Of course there are going to be problems cropping up because of the nature of the porting process. Just take a look at lynx and some of the problems people have getting it to run correctly on their machines in the lynx-dev mailing list, especally the MSDOS and Win32 ports of lynx.
That's not what they said. They *SAID* linux does not do logging,
and everybody knows *EXACTLY* what was meant by
it.
They *MADE SURE* everybody knew what they meant
by it.
Read the next few lines of the WSJ article where
they tried to explain their comments...
How much was the Microsoft employee paid for this and how long will it take for the person who approved this article to get used to their new job title?
The answer to your question as to why people are so hesistant to pay for software anymore is simple. It's called the commerical/shareware software industry. They have quite simply ripped people off for too long, create 2nd and 3rd rate products that they refuse to be held responsible or libable for, but expect people to trust them when they say there aren't any serious problems with their products.
Let's see. You're basically saying that the kernal programers (and nearly everbody else) are good enough to program around the *known* bugs in GCC 2.7, but the Mozilla programers aren't, so that's why they are using a complier pretty much no one who's installed linux is using to complie code with. What's wrong with this picture?
It's not the NPL that turns off a lot of people, it's the way Mozilla is setup that turns people off. I said it before and I'll say it again. Not supporting Win 3.1 and requiring people to use GCC 2.8 to complie the Mozilla code for no good reason is stupid and won't attract very many people to the effort.
Oh really? Take a look at Lynx. Here's something that was never intended to run under MS-DOS but guess what? You can compile the Lynx source code using DJGPP (the msdos version of GCC ) and get the same version of Lynx running under DOS that you can under Linux or any other Unix. The DOS version has a couple of bugs in it's Wattcp-based socket code, but for the most part everything still works. In the process of making Lynx run under DOS, the Lynx code as a whole was improved. The Lynx source code in general got cleaned up, memory leaks were discovered and fixed that would otherwise have gone unnoticed...you get the picture. You comment concering GCC 2.8 is really laughable. GCC 2.7 works fine under linux and other Unix's. There's *NO* real reason to code something that requires a compiler most people *DON'T* have installed on their machines other than plain stupidity. It's that simple.
If the Mozilla Project is falling apart the fault is all theirs. They've done some totally stupid things. 1) Not supporting Win 3.1 A lot of people still aren't running Win 95/Win98. 2) Trying to force people people to use GCC 2.8 to compile mozilla, especially Linux users. How many people actually have bothered installing it when you still can't really use it under Linux? There are other examples of this kind of short-sighted stupidity within mozilla
Utter nonsense.
Eh? You aren't given the option of removing packages from RedHat before installing them? Either you've never actually installed RedHat or you are just plain lying though your teeth. You can add/remove packages to install under RedHat quite easily using it's install program. Just because *YOU* don't know how to do it doesn't mean a damn thing.
Your "impression" is flat wrong.
Nuking the Serbs isn't the answer. Napalming them is though....
Not really. Despite what you people like yourself think, the Internet will never become *THAT* important in people lives. If the internet does go down, you've still got radio,tv and telephone service. Add to this the millions of people who *DON'T* even acess the internet for anything whatsoever, it's pretty hard to see how any internet attack could cripple a country. Inconvince a hell of a lot people who were stupid enough to put put all their eggs in a basket labled "INTERNET" But cripple a country? That's laughable. Just look at the Melissa virus for instance. Has it really affected *YOUR* life in any meaningful fashion It's given a lot of people a very good reason to laugh at the people foolish enough to actually trust Microsoft Software,but has it really caused the end of human cilivation
The FSF never gave a damn about Linux either untill the people who used linux got it the attention it deserved. The FSF's big thing was HURD, and it was never really intended to be used by the people who were using low-end PC's like the linux crowd were at the time if I recall.
It is and it isn't. I suspect most people (myself inclued) who refuse to use the term "GNU/Linux" would say Linux is a branch of the GNU tree which is really the heart of the matter.
It should be pretty obvious to everyone that the problem here isn't GNU software. The real problem is the idiots who make up the FSF.
The future of games lie with Sony,Nintendo and maybe Sega with their inexpensive machines. Who's in their right mind is going to keep throwing their money down the black hole otherwise known as PC gaming with it's totally absurd system and hardware requirements? Am I going to buy Win98 along with an new computer just to play some unimagative PC game I'm going to bored to death with in less than 5 minutes? I don't think so. I much rather prefer the Anime/Manga type games that you see comming out of Japan rather than the crap games American software seem so fond of dumping on the shelves these days.
Don't bet on it. Companies like Cygnus and RedHat are doing just fine by remaining private. Just what do they gain to stand by going public? Not all very much that I can see, and they stand to loose a great deal more than they will ever gain. Netscape and a whole bunch of other companies haven proven that going public *isn't* such a great idea in the long run....