Anyone knows how is Red Carpet going to work? Is it going to be GPLed? It seems to me that it is going to be some great piece of software, that will solve all the problems of Linux packaging. (at least that's what him said!)
But I think it will be very bad if this great software works only for Gnome, as there a lot of people who use (and prefer) KDE.
I hope that the Helix team will do their best to keep the Red Carpet system as open as possible (as keeping their dependency database in a well documented xml format)
It would be great if the underlining tecnology were toolkit and desktop independent, and it only had a Gnome interface, but I don't know if its going to happen.
Well, I tried the Mozilla Milestones 13 and 14, along with a lot of Nightly builds on my old Pentium 133, with 40 MB Ram, but I had no success at all. Everything simply hanged, and all I could do was press CTRL+C at my konsole prompt to cancel that big beast.
I was able to launch it sometimes (specially when I wasn't using KDE2..:) ), but even still it was too slow... the interface took forever to update, and it was impossible to do any serious browsing.
Now I'm quite happy using Konqueror on KDE2 on this computer. Not fast as Opera under windows, but still better than Netscape.
That's a very interesting topic. When I first read about the opensource GGZ project, that would create a opensource yahoo-like online gaming enviromment, that was the first thing I thought.
In order to prevent cheating, the games must run on a client-server basis. Just think of a poker game in a peer-to-peer mode. If the players program sent to each other their cards, is easy to take a look at the source code and hack the client, so that it shows the cards of the opponents. However, if they don't do that, is also easy to hack the code and make you always start with a royal straight flush.
A client-server model would fix that, but sometimes it just don't make sense, like a two-player game. I wonder how the ggz guys addressed that. (if any of the developers is reading that, please tell me how!:) )
This is just what Huxley predicted in Brave New World. When genetic manipulation becomes the standard, everyone will want to have a 'perfect' baby. The problem is that the world can't support 100% perfect people.
I mean, if you are perfect, you won't do any dirty, brute, job. There must be some balance in it. So they will start creating mentally deformed humans to do the low profile jobs.
Pretty scaring, huh? At least Huxley didn't predict the advance in robotics (Come on, his book is from 1932), so I guess (or better, I hope), that we'll have some bots to do the dirty job.
This is a little offtopic, but it is also related to Linux censorschip in schools.
I study at IME, a military engineering school here in Brazil.
We have access to a computer laboratory, but, as we are at our first year, it is a Novell network, full of Pentium 100 running Win 95. That really sucks, but we can't go to the Unix or the Sun/Solaris lab until we get to the third year.
We don't have almost any permission on the labs computer... we can only write to a user directory (no writing to the windows/system one, which make really hard to install anything!). The BIOS Setup is also password protected.
I'm no hacker (in the bad meaning of the word) and don't wanna break into the windows security holes. I just want to install Linux on one of these computers. Can I? I think that, as long as I have access to the DOS mode, they can't forbidden me of creating a partition and installing Linux in it (and booting it from a floppy disk), but I want to know if it will become "invisible" to the system admnistrator, at least until he runs PQMagic or other partition manager program.
Am I right? Do you have any tip about doing this kind of thing?
I wanted to buy CIV:CTP and Railroad Tycoon to Linux, but I discovered (after some relentless wandering around computer stores) that I can't find Loki Software in Brazil.
As buying it online is way too expensive for a student like me, I want to know what are your plans about expanding the distribution channels.
What is the presence of Loki software around the world? Will I ever be able to get my copy of Sim City 3000 on time?:)
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Anyone knows how is Red Carpet going to work? Is it going to be GPLed? It seems to me that it is going to be some great piece of software, that will solve all the problems of Linux packaging. (at least that's what him said!)
But I think it will be very bad if this great software works only for Gnome, as there a lot of people who use (and prefer) KDE.
I hope that the Helix team will do their best to keep the Red Carpet system as open as possible (as keeping their dependency database in a well documented xml format)
It would be great if the underlining tecnology were toolkit and desktop independent, and it only had a Gnome interface, but I don't know if its going to happen.
Anyway, does anyone has more information on it?
Well, I tried the Mozilla Milestones 13 and 14, along with a lot of Nightly builds on my old Pentium 133, with 40 MB Ram, but I had no success at all. Everything simply hanged, and all I could do was press CTRL+C at my konsole prompt to cancel that big beast.
:) ), but even still it was too slow... the interface took forever to update, and it was impossible to do any serious browsing.
I was able to launch it sometimes (specially when I wasn't using KDE2..
Now I'm quite happy using Konqueror on KDE2 on this computer. Not fast as Opera under windows, but still better than Netscape.
a hardware accelerated Mozilla card, so that I can plug it in my computer and run Mozilla without wasting all my cpu time and memory?
:)
I think this is a big business opportunity!
Should we blame the language? Should we blame the programmers? Should we blame Intel? No! Blame Canada! :)
That's a very interesting topic. When I first read about the opensource GGZ project, that would create a opensource yahoo-like online gaming enviromment, that was the first thing I thought.
:) )
In order to prevent cheating, the games must run on a client-server basis. Just think of a poker game in a peer-to-peer mode. If the players program sent to each other their cards, is easy to take a look at the source code and hack the client, so that it shows the cards of the opponents. However, if they don't do that, is also easy to hack the code and make you always start with a royal straight flush.
A client-server model would fix that, but sometimes it just don't make sense, like a two-player game. I wonder how the ggz guys addressed that. (if any of the developers is reading that, please tell me how!
This is just what Huxley predicted in Brave New World. When genetic manipulation becomes the standard, everyone will want to have a 'perfect' baby. The problem is that the world can't support 100% perfect people.
I mean, if you are perfect, you won't do any dirty, brute, job. There must be some balance in it. So they will start creating mentally deformed humans to do the low profile jobs.
Pretty scaring, huh? At least Huxley didn't predict the advance in robotics (Come on, his book is from 1932), so I guess (or better, I hope), that we'll have some bots to do the dirty job.
That's right! Anyone remembers what happened with lyrics.ch ?
Hello!
This is a little offtopic, but it is also related to Linux censorschip in schools.
I study at IME, a military engineering school here in Brazil.
We have access to a computer laboratory, but, as we are at our first year, it is a Novell network, full of Pentium 100 running Win 95. That really sucks, but we can't go to the Unix or the Sun/Solaris lab until we get to the third year.
We don't have almost any permission on the labs computer... we can only write to a user directory (no writing to the windows/system one, which make really hard to install anything!). The BIOS Setup is also password protected.
I'm no hacker (in the bad meaning of the word) and don't wanna break into the windows security holes. I just want to install Linux on one of these computers. Can I? I think that, as long as I have access to the DOS mode, they can't forbidden me of creating a partition and installing Linux in it (and booting it from a floppy disk), but I want to know if it will become "invisible" to the system admnistrator, at least until he runs PQMagic or other partition manager program.
Am I right? Do you have any tip about doing this kind of thing?
Hey, how about freeciv?
Although it misses some fancy things as video and cool animations, it has the same game engine as the Civ2 from Microprose.
I wanted to buy CIV:CTP and Railroad Tycoon to Linux, but I discovered (after some relentless wandering around computer stores) that I can't find Loki Software in Brazil.
:)
As buying it online is way too expensive for a student like me, I want to know what are your plans about expanding the distribution channels.
What is the presence of Loki software around the world? Will I ever be able to get my copy of Sim City 3000 on time?