They where using ancient versions of thunderbird and openoffice because of internal rules that didn't allowed upgrades... by doing this, of course any interoperability problem would get worst each year. They even report that updating most software would solve most problems...
So it was not a open source problem directly, but a internal planning and rules that caused the problems. I'm just guessing, but i suspect that the one that made the "no updates" rule didn't knew anything about computers or was already secretly preparing everything to cause problems and propose later a migration.
yeh, right, just because all those problems never happen in windows!!
and it is really just the reverse of what you said. Linux support better older hardware, when it gives errors, is easier to debug and if you have any problem, is a lot easier to verify the system (file checksum, OS and hardware) remotely and clone and replace the faulty desktop if needed. If it is a HD problem, you can even create a fallback network boot to keep the user working (slower, but working) until someone replaces the HD.
the rotate is 90 jumps, not free rotate, but for a word processor i think that is OK Crop, you have to go to the picture properties and choose what how much and where to crop. It's also not a free-on-the-fly crop, but then again, write is not a picture editing tool
Developers usually don't use the help, mostly because they developed it or just look at the source... so no, this is not a obvious bug.
and again, if it crashes and you can reproduce the crash, you should report it... if it crashes for you, then it will for sure not crash on the developers, or else it was already fixed. Sometimes small tips on crashes make a big hidden bug go away.
better yet: freedom do really sucks... is much easier to have some random dictator tell us what to do, instead of making decisions ourself... is much harder to THINK!:)
All this post is FUD... at very least is from someone that don't understand how a *nix work.
Why can't apps just work between versions like MacOSX, Solaris, FreeBSD with the compat libs, and even Windows?
Bullsh*t! What apps stop working because versions of linux, that will not also happen in *bsd? when a app stop working is because the libs are different (ABI if compiled or API if source), sources assumes a compiler behaviour or missing dependencies. If you still have the right dependencies, your app will work... if something fails, a recompile is usually enough. Broken code is still broken code and need to be fixed (or downgrade... a windows 3.1 program will almost for sure not compile in a windows 8 without some changes)
The last big change in linux that turned the old apps incompatible was the a.out to elf migration. Linus is very strict about never break userlevel API. Kernel level API do change and is up to the company to either open the drivers and collaborate or do the update work herself. In windows is the same, the kernel drive API can change and is up the companies to supply updated drivers. yes, in windows kernel the kernel drivers API change fewer times, mostly because they release a lot less kernel versions than linux.
I can click on a setup.exe from the XP era and unless it is a horribly written business app requiring local admin (more like win98 style written) it will run on Windows 8 no problem.
just grab the source and recompile... or, like windows, grab a static (or libs included) binary and you can do exactly the same
Why do ATI drivers from 2 years ago not run on Linux? ABI and API compatibilities as Linux developers feel that is evil and encourages binary blobs! Funny no other platform has this problem with them.
they run on linux... just grab a 2 years ago linux version... ohh, you want to use the more current linux version? sure, use the CURRENT binary driver! why the hell you want to use old drivers on a recent kernel? can you use the windows XP drivers on a windows 8 kernel? most of then it's not possible! if the installer don't have a windows 8 driver, you will hit a brick wall. Binary drivers are always a brick wall when they go unsupported... ALWAYS!
better yet, for a 2 year ago ATI/AMD card, you can just use the open driver and never again look at binary drivers.. that is the power that RMS gave to us all
Socialist ideology about everyone that is closed source is harmful run, run, the communist will eat our children!! RUN!! Closed drivers are bad because you never know that when you update your kernel, if those drivers can work... or if they have some bug, you are unable to fix then. Just look to the android phone market. most older phones can be upgrades to newer versions, not because the linux kernel, but because there are missing drivers for the newer kernels, making it impossible to have a usable phone without support from the manufacturer/chip builder.
Why do you want a binary level compatibility? what are you missing? the last big missing part is the 3D drivers, but open source ones are getting better fast, thanks to the work of intel and amd... even nvidia is reusing their work. With that compatibility layer, i'm sure that the open drivers would never show up... and wel all win if the drive is open instead of closed
Many people in LKML say many things, but the floppy is still there... not everyone agree with those "cleaning tasks" and linux still supports very old hardware. Most of the time it is only removed if is already broken for a long time or is "blocking" something new
Let then eat their dog food! if they want to take other people code without helping back.
If they don't like it anything in the code, they should improve it and release it to the world or for ever maintain a internal version...
if they know better, they don't be afraid of the GNU part and collaborate in the gnutls development. Please note that the gnutls is LGPL, so they are free to use it in commercial programs, as long any change to the gnutls is released... nothing more.
Unless you known exactly what you are doing, what ports you have open and what are the risks of each, you SHOULD USE a firewall... ALWAYS!! no matter if you are using windows, macosx or linux.
IIRC, Ubuntu brings no open port for default, so that is why it don't have a default firewall, but if you start installing programs, specially server programs, you should configure a firewall in a correct way.
I use a old script called gShield on older machined and fwbuilder on newer ones. I also use custom iptables scripts. If you know a little about networks, building a firewall isn't hard, try it!.
you can fake US dollars... you can fake a bitcoin... at least, not yet... maybe with quantum computers?!:)
it is hard to fake US dollars transations... you can't fake a bitcoin transaction (again, until we get quantum computers!)
you can stole both if the owner is not careful enough
so yes.... theoretically bitcoin is more secure, you have better tools to control it than to control US dollars... now if you are stupid, you may still lose then easily
It is possible to have a wallet that requires 2 signature to make a valid transaction (good for companies) and also, a wallet that may be operated by one of 2 private keys ( good for couples or partners)
It is not much different from hiding the gold. if you are the only one that knows where it is, it may be lost after you are dead (people may find a "treasure" later, as people may "guess" a password later)
QT with LGPL could be used freely by google... maybe the problem is control... they could not control GTK and may have fear that QT could neither be controlled by then... Or is just another NIH attack!
If you are on steam, if a game you already have is ported to linux, you will get access to the new port for free. Then you play it and the publishers can see how many people use linux... so it's almost as you really buy the linux version.
Of course, it's always preferred to buy the linux version when it is released, so the publisher can see a nice spike on sales when the linux version is released
I use kiskis, a program just like keepas, but older, in java and uses AES to encrypt the file.... choose a good password as master password and you are good to go!
The java allow me to run in almost any system, have the program and the encrypted db in a pendrive (where i have some basic passwords) and i also have my main password db at home. For more important passwords, i ssh to home, do a quick gpg -d password.db.gpg | less and search for the password.
This way i can access the passwords from whatever i am, i have the the passwords in a standard secure encryption and in a secure location (home and office) on different passwords db for different objectives
The problem is choice. Users don't mind changing, but they want to revert or change thing that don't like. Ubuntu and gnome3 are 3 of the main examples where the choice is removed from you, because they "know better" and "it's too hard for normal users". This of course created rage among the "advanced" (or simply older) users, even more when most of the time the only solution is a radical change of distro/desktop environment.
What is good for one guy might not be for the next one, without a proper fallback, the "next guy" is left out in the cold
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They where using ancient versions of thunderbird and openoffice because of internal rules that didn't allowed upgrades... by doing this, of course any interoperability problem would get worst each year. They even report that updating most software would solve most problems...
So it was not a open source problem directly, but a internal planning and rules that caused the problems. I'm just guessing, but i suspect that the one that made the "no updates" rule didn't knew anything about computers or was already secretly preparing everything to cause problems and propose later a migration.
yeh, right, just because all those problems never happen in windows!!
and it is really just the reverse of what you said. Linux support better older hardware, when it gives errors, is easier to debug and if you have any problem, is a lot easier to verify the system (file checksum, OS and hardware) remotely and clone and replace the faulty desktop if needed. If it is a HD problem, you can even create a fallback network boot to keep the user working (slower, but working) until someone replaces the HD.
i can crop and rotate just fine in LibreOffice...
the rotate is 90 jumps, not free rotate, but for a word processor i think that is OK
Crop, you have to go to the picture properties and choose what how much and where to crop. It's also not a free-on-the-fly crop, but then again, write is not a picture editing tool
you can write: search on the online help fails to find simple cacl functions names
if is enough to flag the problem to some developers and admins... if it will be fixed fast or not, that is another question :)
Developers usually don't use the help, mostly because they developed it or just look at the source ... so no, this is not a obvious bug.
and again, if it crashes and you can reproduce the crash, you should report it... if it crashes for you, then it will for sure not crash on the developers, or else it was already fixed. Sometimes small tips on crashes make a big hidden bug go away.
better yet: :)
freedom do really sucks... is much easier to have some random dictator tell us what to do, instead of making decisions ourself... is much harder to THINK!
Ok, i will bit the troll...
All this post is FUD... at very least is from someone that don't understand how a *nix work.
Why can't apps just work between versions like MacOSX, Solaris, FreeBSD with the compat libs, and even Windows?
Bullsh*t!
What apps stop working because versions of linux, that will not also happen in *bsd? when a app stop working is because the libs are different (ABI if compiled or API if source), sources assumes a compiler behaviour or missing dependencies. If you still have the right dependencies, your app will work... if something fails, a recompile is usually enough. Broken code is still broken code and need to be fixed (or downgrade... a windows 3.1 program will almost for sure not compile in a windows 8 without some changes)
The last big change in linux that turned the old apps incompatible was the a.out to elf migration.
Linus is very strict about never break userlevel API. Kernel level API do change and is up to the company to either open the drivers and collaborate or do the update work herself.
In windows is the same, the kernel drive API can change and is up the companies to supply updated drivers. yes, in windows kernel the kernel drivers API change fewer times, mostly because they release a lot less kernel versions than linux.
I can click on a setup.exe from the XP era and unless it is a horribly written business app requiring local admin (more like win98 style written) it will run on Windows 8 no problem.
just grab the source and recompile... or, like windows, grab a static (or libs included) binary and you can do exactly the same
Why do ATI drivers from 2 years ago not run on Linux? ABI and API compatibilities as Linux developers feel that is evil and encourages binary blobs! Funny no other platform has this problem with them.
they run on linux... just grab a 2 years ago linux version... ohh, you want to use the more current linux version? sure, use the CURRENT binary driver!
why the hell you want to use old drivers on a recent kernel? can you use the windows XP drivers on a windows 8 kernel? most of then it's not possible! if the installer don't have a windows 8 driver, you will hit a brick wall. Binary drivers are always a brick wall when they go unsupported... ALWAYS!
better yet, for a 2 year ago ATI/AMD card, you can just use the open driver and never again look at binary drivers.. that is the power that RMS gave to us all
Socialist ideology about everyone that is closed source is harmful
run, run, the communist will eat our children!! RUN!!
Closed drivers are bad because you never know that when you update your kernel, if those drivers can work... or if they have some bug, you are unable to fix then.
Just look to the android phone market. most older phones can be upgrades to newer versions, not because the linux kernel, but because there are missing drivers for the newer kernels, making it impossible to have a usable phone without support from the manufacturer/chip builder.
Why do you want a binary level compatibility? what are you missing? the last big missing part is the 3D drivers, but open source ones are getting better fast, thanks to the work of intel and amd... even nvidia is reusing their work. With that compatibility layer, i'm sure that the open drivers would never show up... and wel all win if the drive is open instead of closed
Many people in LKML say many things, but the floppy is still there... not everyone agree with those "cleaning tasks" and linux still supports very old hardware. Most of the time it is only removed if is already broken for a long time or is "blocking" something new
Have you open a bug in libreoffice about the online-help problem? If they aren't informed about the problems, for sure no one will fix it.
In Switzerland, almost everything can be voted/approved/rejected by everyone.
Let then eat their dog food! if they want to take other people code without helping back.
If they don't like it anything in the code, they should improve it and release it to the world or for ever maintain a internal version...
if they know better, they don't be afraid of the GNU part and collaborate in the gnutls development. Please note that the gnutls is LGPL, so they are free to use it in commercial programs, as long any change to the gnutls is released... nothing more.
Or simply support and use the GnuTLS!
both have their own set of problems, but at least now you have the a alternative.
Unless you known exactly what you are doing, what ports you have open and what are the risks of each, you SHOULD USE a firewall... ALWAYS!! no matter if you are using windows, macosx or linux.
IIRC, Ubuntu brings no open port for default, so that is why it don't have a default firewall, but if you start installing programs, specially server programs, you should
configure a firewall in a correct way.
I use a old script called gShield on older machined and fwbuilder on newer ones. I also use custom iptables scripts. If you know a little about networks, building a firewall isn't hard, try it!.
because is the default kernel from RHEL: 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5
all transactions are public... who said that bitcoin aren't traceable? they are anonymous as if you shut up, no one knows to whom that address belongs
you can fake US dollars ... you can fake a bitcoin ... at least, not yet... maybe with quantum computers?! :)
it is hard to fake US dollars transations ... you can't fake a bitcoin transaction (again, until we get quantum computers!)
you can stole both if the owner is not careful enough
so yes.... theoretically bitcoin is more secure, you have better tools to control it than to control US dollars... now if you are stupid, you may still lose then easily
you don't use computer right? when did a version number had anything to do with the quality of the software?
It is possible to have a wallet that requires 2 signature to make a valid transaction (good for companies) and also, a wallet that may be operated by one of 2 private keys ( good for couples or partners)
It is not much different from hiding the gold. if you are the only one that knows where it is, it may be lost after you are dead (people may find a "treasure" later, as people may "guess" a password later)
Just sent then to other country... sell then there or paint then to other color.
QT with LGPL could be used freely by google... maybe the problem is control... they could not control GTK and may have fear that QT could neither be controlled by then... Or is just another NIH attack!
simple ... a V have at least 3 points... now take one out on the ends... you get a \ or a / :)
It's not a Literal V, but it is still a V formation!
If you are on steam, if a game you already have is ported to linux, you will get access to the new port for free. Then you play it and the publishers can see how many people use linux... so it's almost as you really buy the linux version.
Of course, it's always preferred to buy the linux version when it is released, so the publisher can see a nice spike on sales when the linux version is released
I use kiskis, a program just like keepas, but older, in java and uses AES to encrypt the file.... choose a good password as master password and you are good to go!
The java allow me to run in almost any system, have the program and the encrypted db in a pendrive (where i have some basic passwords) and i also have my main password db at home. For more important passwords, i ssh to home, do a quick gpg -d password.db.gpg | less and search for the password.
This way i can access the passwords from whatever i am, i have the the passwords in a standard secure encryption and in a secure location (home and office) on different passwords db for different objectives
The problem is choice.
Users don't mind changing, but they want to revert or change thing that don't like. Ubuntu and gnome3 are 3 of the main examples where the choice is removed from you, because they "know better" and "it's too hard for normal users". This of course created rage among the "advanced" (or simply older) users, even more when most of the time the only solution is a radical change of distro/desktop environment.
What is good for one guy might not be for the next one, without a proper fallback, the "next guy" is left out in the cold
No, he can still play... just don't cheat!!
This way his DNS history will be totally safe