windows need antivirus, malware prevetion, monitoring, Active directory, MS office (because stupid people can only use outlook for email), backups, configuration management, update management, HW inventory, remove management, chat, Visual studio (because again, stupid people can only use this), etc, etc
on mac, people will not need most of this software, they accept other emails clients, IDEs, use open source tools, have ssh and a unix behind the GUI... so in the end, it all cost a lot less.
Now imagine the TCO of linux, the cheap hardware, with the cheap software and even more flexibility. Setup puppet or salt on those desktop, used ssh and the included software... after the initial setup cost, everything else would be very low cost.
just do not buy a cheap "win-printer", those that have as little hardware as possible and totally dependent of software to work...very hard to support without the manufacturer support. You get what you paid for... junk If possible, choose printers with postscript support... if not possible, then PCL support. This printers have hardware and work always.
OOXML on the other hand, was heavily pushed by MS to be a standard and only got approved by using very shady tactics. The format have fields of "closed binary" blobs for "compability" reasons and is not even correctly used by MS office, as their documents fail to pass the standard validation tools. The format is also extremely complex (that is why it needs 6000+ pages spec) and have patents (MS promises to not sue anybody due to this... but this is MS and history show that it can be trusted). Finally, it uses embedded objects in several formats that only exist in windows, instead of already existent standard format objects. Everything to lock up the format to windows and MS office, even if the format is (almost) "open"
Firefox uses google blacklist (and helps build the list), to avoid duplication of work.
This list grabs several info from several sources and sometimes innocent sites get in in the cross fire... google added some google sites to the blacklist at least twice in the last few years. Usually the source of the problem is comments/posts and ads networks. If the comments we can control, ads networks are shitty and very hard to control... so yes, shit happen
yes. for 3 reasons: -when you get a CA, you want it to work in all browsers... market share may not be high, but it is still a very popular browser. spread the word that the site do not work in all browsers is enough to cause panic in many people
- mozilla, microsoft, google and apple are usually in sync about CA issues. This was found by mozilla and they decided the action they will take... other companies will now analyze this and take their own actions. As mozilla action is a good one, it may be accepted by the other companies as well. The political power of mozilla is a lot higher than the 8%
- MS Edge have 5%, less than firefox... would you ignore it? market share numbers change a lot across countries, sites, user type and type of device. Mozilla on mobile have a very low market share and higher on desktop... all this is just junk numbers, when users start to complain, the perceived small market share number seems to increase by magic:)
no need for that... firefox will distrust NEW certs, but keep old ones working (minus this 62 back issued certs) there is no info to make the other certs invalid, you will be only breaking random Innocent sites
read the article: only NEW certs will be distrust, existent ones will keep work, until they expire. In a year, if they behave and follow all rules, they MAY be trusted again.... if they keep doing wrong things, they will be removed. basically, mozilla removed the CA market from then for one year as penalty
what make you think that cutting off even 15% of market is something that people can ignore? also, what makes you think that google, microsoft and apple will not do the same thing? this was found by mozilla, but all browsers are usually in sync on the CA matters
please read the article... only the NEW certs will be distrust, old ones will keep valid until they expire. You might have problems only on renews...
If they behave well and follow all the rules, in one year they may be trusted again... if they keep trying to issue certs using past dates, they will be totally removed and if they ever try to reenter the CA business, they will have to follow again all the audits, tests, checks, etc... takes ages, log of money and in the end, mozilla can still say "NO"
This is the correct way to solve direct loading of images, not courts... change the image and let the other side suffer by the mistake If they copy the images, apply copyright... if they update the link, keep changing it or use the referer... it is a lost battle for the abusive site. you can also simply block serving the images without the correct referer, but messing other people sites is way better:)
The problem with leaked scores is trust... it is not the first time someone fake some leaks (even if joking) and those quickly spread as real benchmarks.
humm... how would that work? i have tons of dirty money, buy a item for $400, then what? sell it for $1 ? even if i sell it for $200, how do i get my money back? steam do not give you real money back... maybe i could buy some games and sell the account? you still have to explain where did that $200 come from, of i sell 2000 accounts, that would be VERY hard to explain.
Stupid and rich kids and greedy people, i do believe, money laundering i do not see it
most "memory leaks" today are add-ons related... add-ons had too much access to the firefox internals and simple errors could cause problems. mozilla tried to limit what add-ons can access and is trying to push then to external process, so it is easier to see where the leaks are coming.
Try to disable add-ons and restart firefox to check where the leak is coming
first, from your text looks like it is a huge difference, but it is inline with the other ones second, edge is preloaded, chrome tries to have multiple process and be modular, so for this test might not need to load everything... but firefox is monolitic (mostly), so the at startup will load everything. If there is any flash loaded, even worst, as the flash in firefox is still a separate process and will always eat more cpu. Yes, all this are firefox problems, but... read below
finally, mozilla knows that for several years. they already have some code blocks in multi-process (but it was hard, as the base code was build as monolitic since day one) to sustain firefox until the new firefox (called servo) with rust is ready. That one will be more secure, modular since day one and be faster than any current browser. So yes, know problem, already being fixed
Servo should have the first public alpha (beta?) release in the next few months
you see, the brand new AMD graphic card, still unreleased is already supported in the kernel and mesa.
All depends of the company behind the hardware. Old hardware is community work, new hardware is owner company responsibility, complain to then if not supported. That being said, not supported hardware in linux is usually a rare sight.
This is just a empty way to say that this build may or not fix security problems.
In the past, several people complained that linux announces did not warn about fixed security problems,but failing to understand that many fixes are made even without notice that the bug was a security problem in the first place. So some people would only update the kernel when they saw any warning about a security fix and ignored the other ones... and then complained that the previous release notes were broken when it was found that some of the already fixed bug were really security holes and how easy it would be for the developers to add a note to the commit/release notes that everyone should/MUST upgrade the kernel.
As there is no "security team" in linux and the linux code rapid development, no one is really in charge of analyzing each patch security implication. Greg, tired of the complains decided to say that in every release there are bug fixed (except very simple bugs, documentation, etc), so if later it is found that any of those patches where fixing a security problem, they could just say that they were warned to upgrade. Also, some bug fixes are more important than others, so "should" is used for minor problems, but if there is any known bigger problem (security,corruption, stability), Greg usually uses the "must" word
Finally, only a few linux versions are "supported", so when one version is set to be EOL, people are warned to upgrade to one of the supported version, usually the latest
my wife uses one ubuntu phone and complains about this:
- no draft in sms. If you start to write e text, you have to send it or you will lose it - she uses google task with dates and they show up in google web interface in the calendar as events, but while ubuntu phone do synchronize the calendar, it do not synchronize the tasks and they never show in the ubuntu phone calendar - the contact synchronization will fetch google contacts, but it not merges/remove duplicates, so right now she have about 5 contacts for each person
Other than that, it works well now... it had some crashes, but are getting a lot better in each release, Bluetooth was broken with toyota cars
It is only used because "other" people use it, no one like it... stop using it and let it die, everyone will win.
Now with webrtc, the standard for chat is webchat, with FULL video, audio support. Just use the build in "firefox hello", https://appear.in/ , https://apprtc.webrtc.org/ , https://talky.io/ , https://www.voicechatapi.com/ or https://meet.jit.si/ and you will never need skype again . If you need a client with a full "friend list", you can use plain old irc or jabber and send the link, or simply use jitsi and use it as you usually use skype... all free, all working
They did release some info for the geforce, only after many years of begging and after all the benchmark showing nvidia cards in last, using open driver, mostly because it was always running at the lowest speed.. they might have some limitation, but not for everything... yet they don't care
As forcing their drivers, all android devices had closed drivers, but that created the old problems of locking upgrades and stability. new devices should push the drivers to the main kernel and google and many producers refuse now hardware without proper open drivers (already include or with a clean plan to push then). China even refused a large gpu cluster based on nvidia due the closed drivers, going to AMD instead because of the open drivers and the better future support on then. Even with good close source drivers, people don't want then due the long ter support
If you pay top money for a tablet with a nvidia gpu, you want it to work for a long time, for various android versions and the closed drivers for android was causing problems on that. Nvidia was then pushed to open up their new light gpu, to avoid builders to go to cheaper and/or open alternative GPU makers. Nvidia gpu for android is so expensive that they really need to remove all other road blocks.
Even after the nvidia "help" on those cards, most of the work is still done by the independent nouveau team and by the mesa, intel and amd teams (due code sharing). nvidia is still just simply not doing enough!
nvidia owners should all thanks to the nouveau team (and mesa/intel/amd teams). sadly is nvidia that in the end keeps the money for their inactivity.
again, intel and amd are supporting the open drivers, both work well already, with the amd being better performance for obvious reasons. no need for close drivers
Mantle was performing good on various games and cards... the game engine and the driver and game quality matter a lot... but it was also a experiment, with little tuning, that showed how capable a new layer closer to the hardware could be
By moving the kernel code to open source, they need to support the open driver for the close part also to work. So if they want to sell new cards to linux, video studios, CAD companies and medical equipment, they need to release the open kernel support for the new card before it is released. That will be how all the new AMD cards will work for now on. Mesa support might still be delayed, but unless it is a radically different hardware, most of features should work with a few changed in to the previous card mesa support
They are contractually prevented from publishing GeForce driver information
Bullsh*t! they don't release because they don't wanted to! AMD released many docs and specs and still hide all the DRM and video extensions, due legal reasons... AMD also is the supplier for all the current consoles and have any problem release the card specs! Nvidia could release some info... the most important was the hardware reclocking registers... it would be easy for then to release (and they released SOME a several months ago, after YEARS of begging! yet many cards are still missing that info)
They also don't have any problem to release specs for the hardware that will run with android (as they are having problems forcing their drivers on android, they must support open drivers for that hardware to be able to sell)
Right now radeon and radeonSI work well for most games opengl 4.2, as long they don't require features that are still missing). AMDGPU is almost at same level as radeonSI, with just a few bits missing. the new close source driver, based on the AMDGPU kernel support is also working +- at same level as the catalyst driver but with the vulkan part added and still without any optimization work on it.
i can play all my games in my AMD card in linux and i'm using the open drivers. i don't know about you, but this is good enough for me.
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also try http://www.zimbra.com/ , it have several good features
you can always use Thunderbird+Lightning addon for the client and calendarserver for the server: https://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/...
you can replace exchange with http://www.zentyal.org/ or replace outlook and keep exchange with http://davmail.sourceforge.net... as a proxy for other clients
on windows you can also replace outlook with http://www.emclient.com/ and on mac, use their own clients, most mac users prefer then
you can try other apps/servers in this list:
https://alternativeto.net/soft...
https://alternativeto.net/soft...
it is not just support...
windows need antivirus, malware prevetion, monitoring, Active directory, MS office (because stupid people can only use outlook for email), backups, configuration management, update management, HW inventory, remove management, chat, Visual studio (because again, stupid people can only use this), etc, etc
on mac, people will not need most of this software, they accept other emails clients, IDEs, use open source tools, have ssh and a unix behind the GUI... so in the end, it all cost a lot less.
Now imagine the TCO of linux, the cheap hardware, with the cheap software and even more flexibility. Setup puppet or salt on those desktop, used ssh and the included software... after the initial setup cost, everything else would be very low cost.
all xerox printers i know support postscript, so any generic driver that outputs postscript will make that printer work :)
just do not buy a cheap "win-printer", those that have as little hardware as possible and totally dependent of software to work...very hard to support without the manufacturer support. You get what you paid for... junk
If possible, choose printers with postscript support... if not possible, then PCL support. This printers have hardware and work always.
you are kidding, right? or just ignorant? or maybe one more shill?
ODF is a official standard, older than OOXML, simple, consistent and very well documented:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://docs.oasis-open.org/of...
OOXML on the other hand, was heavily pushed by MS to be a standard and only got approved by using very shady tactics. The format have fields of "closed binary" blobs for "compability" reasons and is not even correctly used by MS office, as their documents fail to pass the standard validation tools. The format is also extremely complex (that is why it needs 6000+ pages spec) and have patents (MS promises to not sue anybody due to this... but this is MS and history show that it can be trusted). Finally, it uses embedded objects in several formats that only exist in windows, instead of already existent standard format objects. Everything to lock up the format to windows and MS office, even if the format is (almost) "open"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
i also want what he is smoking!! GOOD stuff!!
Finally they are starting to understand!!
Slow clap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Firefox uses google blacklist (and helps build the list), to avoid duplication of work.
This list grabs several info from several sources and sometimes innocent sites get in in the cross fire... google added some google sites to the blacklist at least twice in the last few years. Usually the source of the problem is comments/posts and ads networks. If the comments we can control, ads networks are shitty and very hard to control... so yes, shit happen
yes. for 3 reasons:
-when you get a CA, you want it to work in all browsers... market share may not be high, but it is still a very popular browser. spread the word that the site do not work in all browsers is enough to cause panic in many people
- mozilla, microsoft, google and apple are usually in sync about CA issues. This was found by mozilla and they decided the action they will take... other companies will now analyze this and take their own actions. As mozilla action is a good one, it may be accepted by the other companies as well. The political power of mozilla is a lot higher than the 8%
- MS Edge have 5%, less than firefox... would you ignore it? market share numbers change a lot across countries, sites, user type and type of device. Mozilla on mobile have a very low market share and higher on desktop... all this is just junk numbers, when users start to complain, the perceived small market share number seems to increase by magic :)
no need for that... firefox will distrust NEW certs, but keep old ones working (minus this 62 back issued certs)
there is no info to make the other certs invalid, you will be only breaking random Innocent sites
read the article: only NEW certs will be distrust, existent ones will keep work, until they expire.
In a year, if they behave and follow all rules, they MAY be trusted again.... if they keep doing wrong things, they will be removed.
basically, mozilla removed the CA market from then for one year as penalty
what make you think that cutting off even 15% of market is something that people can ignore?
also, what makes you think that google, microsoft and apple will not do the same thing? this was found by mozilla, but all browsers are usually in sync on the CA matters
please read the article... only the NEW certs will be distrust, old ones will keep valid until they expire. You might have problems only on renews...
If they behave well and follow all the rules, in one year they may be trusted again... if they keep trying to issue certs using past dates, they will be totally removed and if they ever try to reenter the CA business, they will have to follow again all the audits, tests, checks, etc... takes ages, log of money and in the end, mozilla can still say "NO"
Agree
This is the correct way to solve direct loading of images, not courts... change the image and let the other side suffer by the mistake :)
If they copy the images, apply copyright... if they update the link, keep changing it or use the referer... it is a lost battle for the abusive site.
you can also simply block serving the images without the correct referer, but messing other people sites is way better
The problem with leaked scores is trust... it is not the first time someone fake some leaks (even if joking) and those quickly spread as real benchmarks.
So you read the future? where are your benchmarks, we also want to see then!
At least wait for the benchmarks to show up before trying to look like a nvidia zealot
humm... how would that work? i have tons of dirty money, buy a item for $400, then what? sell it for $1 ? even if i sell it for $200, how do i get my money back? steam do not give you real money back... maybe i could buy some games and sell the account? you still have to explain where did that $200 come from, of i sell 2000 accounts, that would be VERY hard to explain.
Stupid and rich kids and greedy people, i do believe, money laundering i do not see it
most "memory leaks" today are add-ons related... add-ons had too much access to the firefox internals and simple errors could cause problems.
mozilla tried to limit what add-ons can access and is trying to push then to external process, so it is easier to see where the leaks are coming.
Try to disable add-ons and restart firefox to check where the leak is coming
first, from your text looks like it is a huge difference, but it is inline with the other ones
second, edge is preloaded, chrome tries to have multiple process and be modular, so for this test might not need to load everything... but firefox is monolitic (mostly), so the at startup will load everything. If there is any flash loaded, even worst, as the flash in firefox is still a separate process and will always eat more cpu. Yes, all this are firefox problems, but... read below
finally, mozilla knows that for several years. they already have some code blocks in multi-process (but it was hard, as the base code was build as monolitic since day one) to sustain firefox until the new firefox (called servo) with rust is ready. That one will be more secure, modular since day one and be faster than any current browser. So yes, know problem, already being fixed
Servo should have the first public alpha (beta?) release in the next few months
you see, the brand new AMD graphic card, still unreleased is already supported in the kernel and mesa.
All depends of the company behind the hardware. Old hardware is community work, new hardware is owner company responsibility, complain to then if not supported. That being said, not supported hardware in linux is usually a rare sight.
This is just a empty way to say that this build may or not fix security problems.
In the past, several people complained that linux announces did not warn about fixed security problems,but failing to understand that many fixes are made even without notice that the bug was a security problem in the first place. So some people would only update the kernel when they saw any warning about a security fix and ignored the other ones... and then complained that the previous release notes were broken when it was found that some of the already fixed bug were really security holes and how easy it would be for the developers to add a note to the commit/release notes that everyone should/MUST upgrade the kernel.
As there is no "security team" in linux and the linux code rapid development, no one is really in charge of analyzing each patch security implication. Greg, tired of the complains decided to say that in every release there are bug fixed (except very simple bugs, documentation, etc), so if later it is found that any of those patches where fixing a security problem, they could just say that they were warned to upgrade. Also, some bug fixes are more important than others, so "should" is used for minor problems, but if there is any known bigger problem (security,corruption, stability), Greg usually uses the "must" word
Finally, only a few linux versions are "supported", so when one version is set to be EOL, people are warned to upgrade to one of the supported version, usually the latest
my wife uses one ubuntu phone and complains about this:
- no draft in sms. If you start to write e text, you have to send it or you will lose it
- she uses google task with dates and they show up in google web interface in the calendar as events, but while ubuntu phone do synchronize the calendar, it do not synchronize the tasks and they never show in the ubuntu phone calendar
- the contact synchronization will fetch google contacts, but it not merges/remove duplicates, so right now she have about 5 contacts for each person
Other than that, it works well now... it had some crashes, but are getting a lot better in each release, Bluetooth was broken with toyota cars
Let it die, stop using it!!
It is only used because "other" people use it, no one like it... stop using it and let it die, everyone will win.
Now with webrtc, the standard for chat is webchat, with FULL video, audio support. Just use the build in "firefox hello", https://appear.in/ , https://apprtc.webrtc.org/ , https://talky.io/ , https://www.voicechatapi.com/ or https://meet.jit.si/ and you will never need skype again . If you need a client with a full "friend list", you can use plain old irc or jabber and send the link, or simply use jitsi and use it as you usually use skype... all free, all working
Again, stop using skype and use open standards
They did release some info for the geforce, only after many years of begging and after all the benchmark showing nvidia cards in last, using open driver, mostly because it was always running at the lowest speed.. they might have some limitation, but not for everything... yet they don't care
As forcing their drivers, all android devices had closed drivers, but that created the old problems of locking upgrades and stability. new devices should push the drivers to the main kernel and google and many producers refuse now hardware without proper open drivers (already include or with a clean plan to push then). China even refused a large gpu cluster based on nvidia due the closed drivers, going to AMD instead because of the open drivers and the better future support on then. Even with good close source drivers, people don't want then due the long ter support
If you pay top money for a tablet with a nvidia gpu, you want it to work for a long time, for various android versions and the closed drivers for android was causing problems on that. Nvidia was then pushed to open up their new light gpu, to avoid builders to go to cheaper and/or open alternative GPU makers. Nvidia gpu for android is so expensive that they really need to remove all other road blocks.
Even after the nvidia "help" on those cards, most of the work is still done by the independent nouveau team and by the mesa, intel and amd teams (due code sharing). nvidia is still just simply not doing enough!
nvidia owners should all thanks to the nouveau team (and mesa/intel/amd teams). sadly is nvidia that in the end keeps the money for their inactivity.
again, intel and amd are supporting the open drivers, both work well already, with the amd being better performance for obvious reasons. no need for close drivers
Mantle was performing good on various games and cards... the game engine and the driver and game quality matter a lot... but it was also a experiment, with little tuning, that showed how capable a new layer closer to the hardware could be
By moving the kernel code to open source, they need to support the open driver for the close part also to work. So if they want to sell new cards to linux, video studios, CAD companies and medical equipment, they need to release the open kernel support for the new card before it is released. That will be how all the new AMD cards will work for now on. Mesa support might still be delayed, but unless it is a radically different hardware, most of features should work with a few changed in to the previous card mesa support
They are contractually prevented from publishing GeForce driver information
Bullsh*t! they don't release because they don't wanted to!
AMD released many docs and specs and still hide all the DRM and video extensions, due legal reasons... AMD also is the supplier for all the current consoles and have any problem release the card specs!
Nvidia could release some info... the most important was the hardware reclocking registers... it would be easy for then to release (and they released SOME a several months ago, after YEARS of begging! yet many cards are still missing that info)
They also don't have any problem to release specs for the hardware that will run with android (as they are having problems forcing their drivers on android, they must support open drivers for that hardware to be able to sell)
Right now radeon and radeonSI work well for most games opengl 4.2, as long they don't require features that are still missing). AMDGPU is almost at same level as radeonSI, with just a few bits missing. the new close source driver, based on the AMDGPU kernel support is also working +- at same level as the catalyst driver but with the vulkan part added and still without any optimization work on it.
i can play all my games in my AMD card in linux and i'm using the open drivers. i don't know about you, but this is good enough for me.