It must be something odd with all those machines or some particular site you are going to has some issue w/Firefox. I rarely have trouble with Firefox locking up on both Windows XP/2K and Linux on a number of different machines. When I do, its usually something funky with an extension I installed, or something like flash or media player causing the issue.
I keep reading that "Red Hat is the new Microsoft" or "Apple is the new Microsoft". There is only one Microsoft! They alone have near monoploy market share. They alone have tried their best to lock people into their own proprietary versions (java, web browsers, office suites).
Apple may guard their secrets and markets closely, but they also support open standards and open source.
Red Hat makes the source code for all their products easily available by ftp/http mirrors everywhere.
To paraphrase Gandalf: There is only one Microsoft and it does not share power!
I always figured one of the most effective means of defending your home would be to outfit yourself with a good WW2 surplus rifle with bayonet (Enfield, Garand, Springfield 1903, Mauser, any would do), get yourself one of those WW1 style helmets, and if someone broke into your home, make a full bayonet charge yelling at the top of your lungs. I doubt the intruder would ever thing of breaking into the crazy guy's house again!:-)
I propose that NASA be authorized to create a lottery for supplemental funding. It could either be a traditional cash lottery, or perhaps they could make the prizes NASA related, such as getting your name on a space probe, or give away some NASA merchandise. The "Big Jackpot" could be a trip to the International Space Station valued at $20 million. If the eligible person can't qualify for health reasons, he/she could sell the spot.
I think what it means is that GNOME's direction will be towards meeting the needs of Enterprise and business users. This may not be the direction that many hobbyists and Linux enthusiasts want. Fortunately, for those users there are other choices: KDE, XFCE, Enlightenment, GNUStep, and others.
I think you have misunderstood the subscription model. All versions of RHEL include upgrades to the next version. If you buy RHEL 2.1 ES for $350 today, when 3.0 comes out, you can either upgrade to it or stay on 2.1.
I think this may open the eyes of some who may have been taking the SCO threats seriously. I would not be suprised if Microsoft hasn't been behind this whole thing from the beginning. FUD on a massive level.
Actually, no. Advanced Server, with the exception of the IBM Java which is freely available from IBM, is completely open source. You can download all the SRPMS for it. When you buy Advance Server, you have to agree to a license not to distribute the binaries or use it on more than one machine per subscription.
One thing I noticed during one of the NASA news conferences was the statement that if the tiles were damaged, there wouldn't be anything they can do about it. They can't fix the tiles in space. So, is there any way to rescue the crew if that happens? Could they get close enough to the ISS to EVA to it, since according to some other posts, they didn't have a docking ring?
I think the whole "Switch" thing is a brilliant ploy! Microsoft knows that Linux is not an OS that it can stop using its old methods. Linux is hitting Microsoft hard in the Server market. Now, with technologies like Mozilla and OpenOffice.org, Microsoft sees the possibility of seeing the same thing happen on the desktop. How do they stop it?
Enter Microsoft's token desktop competitor, Apple! Apple has been useful to Microsoft in the past to show the world that they aren't a monopoly, they have competition. In fact, when Apple was in danger of dying completely, Microsoft pumps $150 million into Apple to save it. Also, they continue to port applications to the Mac, even though on the surface, why would you want to port software to your "competitors" platform? Simple, the Mac has always had less that 15% of the desktop market, and, since its closed hardware, that isn't going to change.
So how does this relate to Linux? Perhaps Microsoft saw a useful purpose in the technologies of Apple and NeXT. Help Apple build a new Mac OS that is based on UNIX with a GUI that would attract the best and brightest of the Open Source/Linux community away from improved the Linux desktop! So far, it seems to be working, as the "switch" articles keep coming. Sure, Microsoft loses a small number of Windows users as well to this platform, but, Microsoft knows it can easily take out Apple using its tried and true methods.
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Seems to me that the Microsoft-Novell deal proves that Microsoft is indeed the Microsoft of Linux. So sorry, that title has been taken!
It must be something odd with all those machines or some particular site you are going to has some issue w/Firefox. I rarely have trouble with Firefox locking up on both Windows XP/2K and Linux on a number of different machines. When I do, its usually something funky with an extension I installed, or something like flash or media player causing the issue.
Nope, just installed XP pro on a WD Raptor SATA drive - you gotta have the driver on floppy for XP to recognize and use the SATA disk.
I keep reading that "Red Hat is the new Microsoft" or "Apple is the new Microsoft". There is only one Microsoft! They alone have near monoploy market share. They alone have tried their best to lock people into their own proprietary versions (java, web browsers, office suites).
Apple may guard their secrets and markets closely, but they also support open standards and open source.
Red Hat makes the source code for all their products easily available by ftp/http mirrors everywhere.
To paraphrase Gandalf: There is only one Microsoft and it does not share power!
They give you the source RPMs for RHEL which you can compile yourself, or use one of the projects that does it for you like www.centos.org.
I always figured one of the most effective means of defending your home would be to outfit yourself with a good WW2 surplus rifle with bayonet (Enfield, Garand, Springfield 1903, Mauser, any would do), get yourself one of those WW1 style helmets, and if someone broke into your home, make a full bayonet charge yelling at the top of your lungs. I doubt the intruder would ever thing of breaking into the crazy guy's house again! :-)
From what I've read one of the core philosophies of Open Source is "Release early, release often!"
Sorry..meant to say your ARE paying $2200 for Red Hat support.
You aren't paying $2,200 for Red Hat support. You can download the source from the project webpage, or any mirror of the RHEL source RPMs.
I propose that NASA be authorized to create a lottery for supplemental funding. It could either be a traditional cash lottery, or perhaps they could make the prizes NASA related, such as getting your name on a space probe, or give away some NASA merchandise. The "Big Jackpot" could be a trip to the International Space Station valued at $20 million. If the eligible person can't qualify for health reasons, he/she could sell the spot.
Ximian's Mono has a C# compiler for open OS's:
http://www.go-mono.com/c-sharp.html
I think what it means is that GNOME's direction will be towards meeting the needs of Enterprise and business users. This may not be the direction that many hobbyists and Linux enthusiasts want. Fortunately, for those users there are other choices: KDE, XFCE, Enlightenment, GNUStep, and others.
You do realize the reason that Red Hat is in the black is because they have been selling Red Hat Enterprise subscriptions?
Hmm...not suprising. It's a beta. Redo when FC1 is released and Linuxant has certified their driverloader against it.
You mean something like this?
http://www.gentoogames.com/
According to this, Red Hat will ship Sun's Java with RHEL:
u nf lash.20030519.4.html
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2003-05/s
I think you have misunderstood the subscription model. All versions of RHEL include upgrades to the next version. If you buy RHEL 2.1 ES for $350 today, when 3.0 comes out, you can either upgrade to it or stay on 2.1.
What version of Debian does Oracle certify/support Oracle database to run on?
I think this may open the eyes of some who may have been taking the SCO threats seriously. I would not be suprised if Microsoft hasn't been behind this whole thing from the beginning. FUD on a massive level.
Actually, Red Hat recently came out with a whole line of Enterprise products:
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/
Actually, no. Advanced Server, with the exception of the IBM Java which is freely available from IBM, is completely open source. You can download all the SRPMS for it. When you buy Advance Server, you have to agree to a license not to distribute the binaries or use it on more than one machine per subscription.
SuSE's Enterprise offerings are priced similar. What would you gain?
One thing I noticed during one of the NASA news conferences was the statement that if the tiles were damaged, there wouldn't be anything they can do about it. They can't fix the tiles in space. So, is there any way to rescue the crew if that happens? Could they get close enough to the ISS to EVA to it, since according to some other posts, they didn't have a docking ring?
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Switch?
I think the whole "Switch" thing is a brilliant ploy! Microsoft knows that Linux is not an OS that it can stop using its old methods. Linux is hitting Microsoft hard in the Server market. Now, with technologies like Mozilla and OpenOffice.org, Microsoft sees the possibility of seeing the same thing happen on the desktop. How do they stop it?
Enter Microsoft's token desktop competitor, Apple! Apple has been useful to Microsoft in the past to show the world that they aren't a monopoly, they have competition. In fact, when Apple was in danger of dying completely, Microsoft pumps $150 million into Apple to save it. Also, they continue to port applications to the Mac, even though on the surface, why would you want to port software to your "competitors" platform? Simple, the Mac has always had less that 15% of the desktop market, and, since its closed hardware, that isn't going to change.
So how does this relate to Linux? Perhaps Microsoft saw a useful purpose in the technologies of Apple and NeXT. Help Apple build a new Mac OS that is based on UNIX with a GUI that would attract the best and brightest of the Open Source/Linux community away from improved the Linux desktop! So far, it seems to be working, as the "switch" articles keep coming. Sure, Microsoft loses a small number of Windows users as well to this platform, but, Microsoft knows it can easily take out Apple using its tried and true methods.