in there you also see that managing a distro isnt fetching the packages and compile, it requires alot testing tweak up and vision... and the changelog only have the public things, Pat and many other people have alot of work behind the scenes
Aureal was the last company that really had a change to compete with creative, their hardware was really good and their plans for the future of audio was great (think real 3d audio, just like 3D games like voodoo enabled on a time with plain 2D of fake 3d games)... but with hard competition from creative (both market and games support), they didnt nake enough of sales to get a big enough market share to get more money and went of out of business... with a little more money they could fix their drivers and hire more people to help games to support their cards, the audio word would change alot
to join the insult to the injury, all the tech that aureal developed could be use by the company that could buy the remainings... and that company was creative, that almost instantly killed everything and didnt even bother to update any more the EAX that they developed to try to compete agains the aureal3D
with the total lack of activity from creative during this years, both low end (onboard) and high end cards are now eating the market share of creative. onboard cards where so useless a few years ago are good enough for most users... high end cards got cheaper and audio people got then instead of high end cards from creative.
creative is getting what it deserves, when you seed winds and you will harvest storms, it is already almos irrelevant today, it will go out of business sooner or later
First- dual monitors: true that X doesnt help, but your real problem is nvidia, not linux... ask then to release the specification for their card... in each xorg release the support for new setups are getting better and in 7.4 most of thins will be autodetected, inclusive dual monitors... again, what is failling is bad maker support, close drivers are better than no driver, but they are still no good for linux users, open drivers is the only way to have good, stable and friendly support
Second - 4Gb: linux 32bit have support for 4Gb of ram without PAE, with PAE the limit in 32bit is 64Gb Second- flash: ask adobe for flash 64bits, even windows 64bits dont have flash... flash in 32bits is plain easy
Third - printer: ask for your maker for real linux support: specification, not closed drivers share printer: yes, cups is the correct way to share printers, the faster you forget window, the easier you will learn new and better features
Fourth - media formats blame US software patents for this, but after installing the media player packages, linux support more and more easily more media formats than windows
this problems arent really very different from windows or mac (taking out the first, but this one is being solved), all depends on the hardware/software builder support... yes, things could be better in several places, but they were alot worse in the past and every linux/distro/program release solves more and more problems. There are places where linux is behind windows and mac, other its already the leader.
if it do what I need and its free (beer and speach), i will dump all close apps i might have!! if i see someone using something that can be replaced fine with FLOSS software, i will do it.
the more people use FLOSS software, more easilly will new open projects show up, and existent ones get better and better.
i dump and fight against many close source programs because they refuse to work with others programs and use open standards. if they would use open standards, worked with other programs, i would be completely neutral to then and could even use several of then (and i use several like this). As far i i can do, i refuse to use close apps that can be replaced and those that cant, i try to find a balance.
so yes, i'm zealot to want FLOSS to get better, not only because it helps others, but even more because it helps me and the programs that i use to get better.
No one uses a OS or apps that dont work, we use FLOSS software because it works good enough for our needs and each year that "good enough" overlaps more and more closed apps until it can replace everything that anyone wants.
ok, understood, i didnt process the phrase as "in the past, the export of ssl was a munition, so limited", i interpreted as the export of one public key/CA, to the disc/other pc, out of the browser was insecure.... with both those parts being public, i didnt understand how that could be insecure.
Qmail was in the past the only good alternative to sendmail, but the limitations enforced by DJB made it stop in time. At same time postfix and exim evolved and specially postfix is not ALOT better than both sendmail and qmail...
So right now there is no reason to use it,quite the opposite, qmail tries to take over the unix filesystem, libraries and philosophy, where postfix follow the standard unix tools philosophy.
finally, why the hell is that comment about GPL, DJB didnt used GPL, quite the opposite, it was because he used a crazy close license that qmail died
ps: yes, i know that many people still use qmail, but that is because they dont know postfix, they simple installed qmail in the past and never tried any other MTA
here the funding of political parties have strick rules, lobbies are limited, there are MANY countries with many parties, not a single cross countries political parties... so funding parties would need to give money to many political parties in many countries to in the end have a limited power, because they would need the countries governs, the EU parliament and the EU commission... and depending of the countries, the senate, high/lower chambers or countries parliaments.
yes, politic in Europe is hard, but hey, at least MS dont have to buy all citizens...:)
err... we have a ESX server and the "run directly on the hardware" doesnt mean that they use their own OS... its using a redhat linux with just the vmware services, but you can even ssh to the servers and run a uname -a :
# uname -a Linux srv-esx1 2.4.21-37.0.2.ELvmnix #1 Fri Mar 30 10:21:21 PDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# ls -l/etc/vmware/ |grep esx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111 Aug 14 16:01 esx_checksum.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29777 Aug 14 15:28 esx.conf
the "directly on hardware" is marketing talk saying that you dont need and shouldnt even bother with the host OS, vmware takes care of it (installation, support, updates, etc)
I already saw things like this in many places... people hide the linux use for fear, but IMHO now it the time to start showing, advertising, demonstrate that they are using linux, openoffice (even if inside of windows), etc
this may help other that are afraid to start using free software, and even better, some people will start to ask questions and see about how well windows can be replaced and will create a new wave of new first time users (be ready for deliver many linux CDs for those who seems interested)
in openoffice you may even found that many of your contacts also use openoffice, so no need to convert those.odt to.doc... i try to send documents in both formats, this way and in the worst case i'm advertising openoffice, in the best case telling the other side that both sides are using openoffice.
dont be afraid, show what you can do with linux. from my personal experience, it pays to see you converted a few more to the linux side, and then later see that those same converted people are converting more people, like a snow ball:)
one tried to run one heavy process in several machines the other tried to run several light process, inside a container (virtual machine), all in a single physical machine
of course, now you can join the two:
run several process inside a virtual machine, in multiple physical machines
openmosix could do that, but you would always be dependent of the node that started the machine, so no real failover, only more speed... so its better to find a way to migrate not only the load but all the process, so you can gain also a failover
forget the correct soluction of nis_ldap, did you even tried NIS!! or even winbind+AD (or sort of with samba)? here you have at least 3 ways of doing the same thing
There already is a drop-in replacement for Exchange (though I forget what it's called).
i know postpath, it a linux with postfix and a MAPI layer..can replace exchange and still looking like a exchange for everything help (other exchanges,, outlook, and other services). the only things that should break are the things that try to work directly with the mailstore, and of course, things that run directly on the exchange server (it now linux, cant run windows apps)
i never really used it, because the requirement of a AD made the test impossible without building a parallel testing AD and i didnt had time nor would risk a production exchange and AD (if ain't broke, dont f* with it)
is this the one you are talking about or there is another exchange compatible server?
BSD: freedom to use the software for what ever you like, even change the licence, and so remove freedom for others to whatever you have done to the software
GPL: freedom to use the software for what ever you like, but you are never allowed to change the licence
BSD have more freedom, but on the long run, GPL garantee the freedom of the software and faster develop time, as new code in GPL is still GPL. In BSD, new code may not be BSD, forcing the BSD developers to do extra work to reach the same level.
you can replace exchange with all functionality and even more... try the postpath (they reversed engineering the exchange MAPI protocol). Sadly isnt free software, but uses several free software parts and so have several more features that are impossible or hell in exchange... it also alot more cheaper... only if they would open it even more!!
but in my opinion, the exchange replacement must be dealt from both sides, the server AND the client... most server to work must use a outlook connector or use a webclient... because there isnt really a outlook replacement, thunderbird+calendar or lightning its still very weak against outlook, evolution is too big, complicated and too much linked to gnome (and its windows versions still have problems)...chandler is still unfinished...
thunderbird is a good email client, lightning need alot more resources to help its future... chandler also looks very good, but its also taking too long...
with a good email+calendar+task client, changing the server would be alot easier... outlook isnt even a good email client, just a good calendar...
AFAIK, its really a MAPI server, it can work side by side with a exchange server and outlook clients with MAPI protocol without any modification nor plugin
Even Frozen Bubble is a copy of Puzzle Bobble! They couldn't come up with their own puzzle game??
check liquid wars... its a game not copied from anyone, its very fun to play... it just have 2 complains about it... its background graphics and maps resolutions could be ALOT better and the "target" isnt controled by the mouse
yes, keep it, this way the US keep falling behind comparing with the rest of the world by increasing their costs and incompatibility problems... its a great way get their products being ignored all over the world...
all countries that have global influence tried to first enforce and later maintain their "way of living" despite everyone seeing that things have changed... this only helped the fall of their empires check the history of the Romans, Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, Holand, France, Austro-Hungarian, Japan, URSSS and UK
the long a "empire" tried to not adapt to the new global rules, the faster and/or more painful they fall
plain and simples, adapt or join all other "empires" and die
Slashdot Mirror
actualy they are the same site, but oficially, its .com
the front page may not change alot, but it changes, check the wayback machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.slackware.org
in each release Pat is removing the previous one...
but for those that really like slackware know that the real news arent in the front page, but in the changelog:
http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386
go there and you will see many news!!
in there you also see that managing a distro isnt fetching the packages and compile, it requires alot testing tweak up and vision... and the changelog only have the public things, Pat and many other people have alot of work behind the scenes
Aureal was the last company that really had a change to compete with creative, their hardware was really good and their plans for the future of audio was great (think real 3d audio, just like 3D games like voodoo enabled on a time with plain 2D of fake 3d games) ... but with hard competition from creative (both market and games support), they didnt nake enough of sales to get a big enough market share to get more money and went of out of business...
with a little more money they could fix their drivers and hire more people to help games to support their cards, the audio word would change alot
to join the insult to the injury, all the tech that aureal developed could be use by the company that could buy the remainings... and that company was creative, that almost instantly killed everything and didnt even bother to update any more the EAX that they developed to try to compete agains the aureal3D
with the total lack of activity from creative during this years, both low end (onboard) and high end cards are now eating the market share of creative. onboard cards where so useless a few years ago are good enough for most users... high end cards got cheaper and audio people got then instead of high end cards from creative.
creative is getting what it deserves, when you seed winds and you will harvest storms, it is already almos irrelevant today, it will go out of business sooner or later
have you checked virtualbox?!
First- dual monitors: true that X doesnt help, but your real problem is nvidia, not linux... ask then to release the specification for their card...
in each xorg release the support for new setups are getting better and in 7.4 most of thins will be autodetected, inclusive dual monitors... again, what is failling is bad maker support, close drivers are better than no driver, but they are still no good for linux users, open drivers is the only way to have good, stable and friendly support
Second - 4Gb: linux 32bit have support for 4Gb of ram without PAE, with PAE the limit in 32bit is 64Gb
Second- flash: ask adobe for flash 64bits, even windows 64bits dont have flash... flash in 32bits is plain easy
Third - printer:
ask for your maker for real linux support: specification, not closed drivers
share printer: yes, cups is the correct way to share printers, the faster you forget window, the easier you will learn new and better features
Fourth - media formats
blame US software patents for this, but after installing the media player packages, linux support more and more easily more media formats than windows
this problems arent really very different from windows or mac (taking out the first, but this one is being solved), all depends on the hardware/software builder support... yes, things could be better in several places, but they were alot worse in the past and every linux/distro/program release solves more and more problems. There are places where linux is behind windows and mac, other its already the leader.
if it do what I need and its free (beer and speach), i will dump all close apps i might have!!
if i see someone using something that can be replaced fine with FLOSS software, i will do it.
the more people use FLOSS software, more easilly will new open projects show up, and existent ones get better and better.
i dump and fight against many close source programs because they refuse to work with others programs and use open standards.
if they would use open standards, worked with other programs, i would be completely neutral to then and could even use several of then (and i use several like this).
As far i i can do, i refuse to use close apps that can be replaced and those that cant, i try to find a balance.
so yes, i'm zealot to want FLOSS to get better, not only because it helps others, but even more because it helps me and the programs that i use to get better.
No one uses a OS or apps that dont work, we use FLOSS software because it works good enough for our needs and each year that "good enough" overlaps more and more closed apps until it can replace everything that anyone wants.
ok, understood, i didnt process the phrase as "in the past, the export of ssl was a munition, so limited", i interpreted as the export of one public key/CA, to the disc/other pc, out of the browser was insecure.... with both those parts being public, i didnt understand how that could be insecure.
my mistake, i'm sorry
higuita
Qmail was in the past the only good alternative to sendmail, but the limitations enforced by DJB made it stop in time. At same time postfix and exim evolved and specially postfix is not ALOT better than both sendmail and qmail...
,quite the opposite, qmail tries to take over the unix filesystem, libraries and philosophy, where postfix follow the standard unix tools philosophy.
So right now there is no reason to use it
finally, why the hell is that comment about GPL, DJB didnt used GPL, quite the opposite, it was because he used a crazy close license that qmail died
ps: yes, i know that many people still use qmail, but that is because they dont know postfix, they simple installed qmail in the past and never tried any other MTA
Dont just trow a rock, explain why the export of SSL (certificates) is weak?
Why!! OOOhhhh why... people always want to use the latest version?!
you could keep using the old light and good winamp, no need to upgrade...
if you upgraded and didnt like it, downgrade the tool, you can still find the old winamp in the net, much more a few years ago.
oohh why people follow what companies want, instead of what is good for then!?!
higuita
EU isnt the USA!! MS briding the EU is harder...
:)
here the funding of political parties have strick rules, lobbies are limited, there are MANY countries with many parties, not a single cross countries political parties...
so funding parties would need to give money to many political parties in many countries to in the end have a limited power, because they would need the countries governs, the EU parliament and the EU commission... and depending of the countries, the senate, high/lower chambers or countries parliaments.
yes, politic in Europe is hard, but hey, at least MS dont have to buy all citizens...
err... we have a ESX server and the "run directly on the hardware" doesnt mean that they use their own OS... its using a redhat linux with just the vmware services, but you can even ssh to the servers and run a uname -a :
/etc/vmware/ |grep esx
/usr/src/
# uname -a
Linux srv-esx1 2.4.21-37.0.2.ELvmnix #1 Fri Mar 30 10:21:21 PDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111 Aug 14 16:01 esx_checksum.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29777 Aug 14 15:28 esx.conf
# ls -l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 24 2003 debug
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jul 24 05:41 linux-2.4 -> linux-2.4.21-37.0.2.EL
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jul 24 05:41 linux-2.4.21-37.0.2.EL
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 24 05:42 redhat
the "directly on hardware" is marketing talk saying that you dont need and shouldnt even bother with the host OS, vmware takes care of it (installation, support, updates, etc)
higuita
I already saw things like this in many places... people hide the linux use for fear, but IMHO now it the time to start showing, advertising, demonstrate that they are using linux, openoffice (even if inside of windows), etc
.odt to .doc... i try to send documents in both formats, this way and in the worst case i'm advertising openoffice, in the best case telling the other side that both sides are using openoffice.
:)
this may help other that are afraid to start using free software, and even better, some people will start to ask questions and see about how well windows can be replaced and will create a new wave of new first time users (be ready for deliver many linux CDs for those who seems interested)
in openoffice you may even found that many of your contacts also use openoffice, so no need to convert those
dont be afraid, show what you can do with linux.
from my personal experience, it pays to see you converted a few more to the linux side, and then later see that those same converted people are converting more people, like a snow ball
they dont compete, they are almost opposing...
one tried to run one heavy process in several machines
the other tried to run several light process, inside a container (virtual machine), all in a single physical machine
of course, now you can join the two:
run several process inside a virtual machine, in multiple physical machines
openmosix could do that, but you would always be dependent of the node that started the machine, so no real failover, only more speed...
so its better to find a way to migrate not only the load but all the process, so you can gain also a failover
just dump all those VPNs...
:)
install openvpn, it supports vista, works fine and its secure
better yet!!, install linux instead of vista !!
forget the correct soluction of nis_ldap, did you even tried NIS!! or even winbind+AD (or sort of with samba)? here you have at least 3 ways of doing the same thing
There already is a drop-in replacement for Exchange (though I forget what it's called).
i know postpath, it a linux with postfix and a MAPI layer..can replace exchange and still looking like a exchange for everything help (other exchanges,, outlook, and other services). the only things that should break are the things that try to work directly with the mailstore, and of course, things that run directly on the exchange server (it now linux, cant run windows apps)
i never really used it, because the requirement of a AD made the test impossible without building a parallel testing AD and i didnt had time nor would risk a production exchange and AD (if ain't broke, dont f* with it)
is this the one you are talking about or there is another exchange compatible server?
higuita
BSD: freedom to use the software for what ever you like, even change the licence, and so remove freedom for others to whatever you have done to the software
GPL: freedom to use the software for what ever you like, but you are never allowed to change the licence
BSD have more freedom, but on the long run, GPL garantee the freedom of the software and faster develop time, as new code in GPL is still GPL. In BSD, new code may not be BSD, forcing the BSD developers to do extra work to reach the same level.
i dont really want to duplicate a post, but your post need my previous post:
7 37747
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=230817&cid=18
you can replace exchange with all functionality and even more... try the postpath (they reversed engineering the exchange MAPI protocol).
Sadly isnt free software, but uses several free software parts and so have several more features that are impossible or hell in exchange... it also alot more cheaper... only if they would open it even more!!
but in my opinion, the exchange replacement must be dealt from both sides, the server AND the client...
most server to work must use a outlook connector or use a webclient... because there isnt really a outlook replacement, thunderbird+calendar or lightning its still very weak against outlook, evolution is too big, complicated and too much linked to gnome (and its windows versions still have problems)...chandler is still unfinished...
thunderbird is a good email client, lightning need alot more resources to help its future...
chandler also looks very good, but its also taking too long...
with a good email+calendar+task client, changing the server would be alot easier... outlook isnt even a good email client, just a good calendar...
AFAIK, its really a MAPI server, it can work side by side with a exchange server and outlook clients with MAPI protocol without any modification nor plugin
You should have contacted the FSF, they give support for these kind of GPL violations... they have lawyers that might scare the guy pretty fast.
at least for the GPL you have some very usefull help.
again, qemu is your friend...
Even Frozen Bubble is a copy of Puzzle Bobble! They couldn't come up with their own puzzle game??
check liquid wars... its a game not copied from anyone, its very fun to play... it just have 2 complains about it... its background graphics and maps resolutions could be ALOT better and the "target" isnt controled by the mouse
yes, keep it, this way the US keep falling behind comparing with the rest of the world by increasing their costs and incompatibility problems... its a great way get their products being ignored all over the world...
all countries that have global influence tried to first enforce and later maintain their "way of living" despite everyone seeing that things have changed... this only helped the fall of their empires
check the history of the Romans, Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, Holand, France, Austro-Hungarian, Japan, URSSS and UK
the long a "empire" tried to not adapt to the new global rules, the faster and/or more painful they fall
plain and simples, adapt or join all other "empires" and die
the rest of the world doesn't really care