Instead of having silly derivatives, we'd like to see more "pure blend" flavor of Debian, in order to avoid to spread the efforts, and also avoid useless forks. TFA talks about Knopixx, but totally misses the efforts of one of our very active DD: Daniel Neumann, who wrote major parts of Debian Live.
Exactly what do you call "infrequent"? We release Debian 3 times a day (that's the number of Dak run per day in SID), and stable every 2 years (that is at least truth for both Lenny and Squeeze, and everyone is trying to keep the pace). More and more people that once moved to Ubuntu are returning to Debian. Exactly WHAT is making you say that "development seems halted"? Is that the 10 000 new packages that came with the new release (Squeeze), which brings the number of packages to nearly 30 000? Stay in the past if you want, don't read the information, but please, we don't need such a silly comment.
Wouldn't something like 'Installed base' be humongously better?
In that case, Ubuntu is the most used distro, and 75% of it's packages are coming from Debian. There's a real synergy between both distro too. So in both cases, the result is the same.
There's poor server admins, as it becomes more and more easy to administer them. It's part of my every day work to write the kind of graphical interface to help people like that. Loads of people don't understand, and try to find solutions. Yes, reimaging CAN help. No, it's not a SOLUTION if you want to understand what's going on. Sure, loads of newbies are going to do that, and they are doing wrong. Then WHAT??? We are skilled engineers, and we are paid to be better than them. Don't complain, be happy that there are tons of stupid people. Be even more happy that they are finally going to Unix and virtualization: you'll be on top of them. There's no reason to complain about them not knowing how and what to do. At the end of the day, that's what gives us the possibility to earn our every day bread, because we'll be hired to fix the crap they did.
As I always say to my hosting customers: our job is to help. If our customers knew how to do everything, we'd have no job...
What you need here is a KVM over IP and IPMI reboots, because even your "main os" that does the virtualization could fail, and then you'd be back to square 1...
root@GPLHost:node6503>_ ~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
tzdata
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 76.9MB of archives.
After this operation, 0.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
1. It doesn't work on my Linux, or on my ARM phone
2. I do care about my freedom, like many at./
3. If using Windows, how can you be so sure that it didn't fuck-up your registry and such?
4. It may not be "optional" in the sense that if you mandatory need it to watch video. Who's the moron?
5. There's already a memory leak...
The crap is... in your eyes. Sure, there's nothing stopping someone from creating a similar plugin for Linux, but there's patent issues if you want to release and ship it. In no way, for example, this kind of plug-in will be shipped inside Debian. The point here is that we DO NOT want windows-only patent-only videos on the Web, and the more H.264 will be supported, the more this may happen.
FFmpeg *decoding* is fine. It's not when you are trying to compress a video using mpeg. For both mp3 and video mpeg, the real patent/license annoying part is encoding, not reading. Oh, and I forgot: every hardware device reading an MP3 should be giving 1USD of royalties... But maybe, like many others, the only thing you care is that it "works", which is the mistake (tm) to not do.
"Those who aren't interested in [his] battle" most of the time don't understand what the issues are. Google seemed to understand, yet you seem not. H.264 needs to go away, together with all the DRM and such. No, no no no, thanks, I'm ok with things being OPEN, so I have my FREEDOMs to both read AND right content on the internet, without someone's patent. This isn't one own's agenda, this is for the benefits of the masses. Please don't pretend that H.264 is of "great utility" when we have the same kind of result with a fully open format (WebM / VP8). Having support for H.264 everywhere is only adding the issue that some sites might one day use it, which we don't want, which is the very reason why Google removed it from Chrome.
Has it ever been cutting-edge? Come on! The market in France is only pushed thanks to the innovations of "Free". If they weren't around, every French would still use a stupid Sagem modem, no TV over IP, no IP phone and such.
What made everyone laugh head-off was the "Ma ligne TV" thing, were you had to choose between ADSL or TV over IP. What a joke.
Exactly what was the cutting-edge thing you were talking about?
I think this big phone is still not so convenient to take phone calls on the subway... Have they ever thought about doing a smaller version that could fit in a pocket?
Can any of you give me a brand of WiFi N router that can do ipv6? I guess there aren't that many. Why manufacturers aren't FORCED by law to do it? That would be simple: pass the law, declare all new ipv4 only equipment illegal, end of the story. Then, next step, do the same with all ISPs. Within 1 year, this could be done. The only issues is that law makers don't understand technology...
Move to France, use "Free" (from the Illiad company) and you'll get a full dual-stack connectivity (it's been YEARS they have it...). If your ISP isn't doing it, ask if others are. In fact, that's the best thing you could do to speed-up adoption: move to ISPs that have it, and leave the non-brainier behind. As soon as these realize they are loosing businesses, they will move their bottom to do it quick.
Except that... it's been 20 YEARS that the ipv6 protocol was drafted. Now that it's already too late and there's not enough IPv4, it's legitimate to ask for speed-up!
An OS with a repository of thousands of free apps? So it's like what we have had in the open source world for YEARS??? Ah, no, free as in "free of charges", not freedom...
Yearh, let's also stop using Mastercard and Visa. Ah, shit, how am I going to pay by credit card now???
Oh, and that's unrelated to the topic of MegaUpload, but when we are at it... It's been decades we know that their service is totally insecure, that it's easy to DIY a yes card, to generate a CC number, and all sorts of nasty things that are annoying so much legitimate business on the net, and yet, we don't even have a little hope that they might have the smallest concern about it, since we haven't seen them trying to change anything. We, IT people, are criticized so much when we have the smallest glitch in our code, yet these guys, controlling the full of the online payment system, nobody raise against them, even if it's totally broken. All this makes me wonder... WTF!
Add to your list:
- France (recently, lopsi, not yet active but voted)
- Australia (with the famous list of blocked not-even-porn-sites leaked on wikileaks)
- Vietnam
- Tailand
You could as well add USA, which recently SEIZED some 85.com that they didn't like (with some not hosted, registered, or own within USA).
Your above list seems really too much of a list without the countries from the west.
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Instead of having silly derivatives, we'd like to see more "pure blend" flavor of Debian, in order to avoid to spread the efforts, and also avoid useless forks. TFA talks about Knopixx, but totally misses the efforts of one of our very active DD: Daniel Neumann, who wrote major parts of Debian Live.
When laying claim to a statment that "X is the most important of Y", one would expect that to be backed up my statisitics proving that point.
Maybe a quick look at distrowatch may help you?
Exactly what do you call "infrequent"? We release Debian 3 times a day (that's the number of Dak run per day in SID), and stable every 2 years (that is at least truth for both Lenny and Squeeze, and everyone is trying to keep the pace). More and more people that once moved to Ubuntu are returning to Debian. Exactly WHAT is making you say that "development seems halted"? Is that the 10 000 new packages that came with the new release (Squeeze), which brings the number of packages to nearly 30 000? Stay in the past if you want, don't read the information, but please, we don't need such a silly comment.
Wouldn't something like 'Installed base' be humongously better?
In that case, Ubuntu is the most used distro, and 75% of it's packages are coming from Debian. There's a real synergy between both distro too. So in both cases, the result is the same.
There's poor server admins, as it becomes more and more easy to administer them. It's part of my every day work to write the kind of graphical interface to help people like that. Loads of people don't understand, and try to find solutions. Yes, reimaging CAN help. No, it's not a SOLUTION if you want to understand what's going on. Sure, loads of newbies are going to do that, and they are doing wrong. Then WHAT??? We are skilled engineers, and we are paid to be better than them. Don't complain, be happy that there are tons of stupid people. Be even more happy that they are finally going to Unix and virtualization: you'll be on top of them. There's no reason to complain about them not knowing how and what to do. At the end of the day, that's what gives us the possibility to earn our every day bread, because we'll be hired to fix the crap they did.
As I always say to my hosting customers: our job is to help. If our customers knew how to do everything, we'd have no job...
The owner is the linux fund here, not the FSF.
Do you mean... like a debian repository??? Wow, what an idea!!!
Well, they may start to add the PmWiki captcha and moderation tools, to avoid that any bot post some spam. That would be a good start!
What you need here is a KVM over IP and IPMI reboots, because even your "main os" that does the virtualization could fail, and then you'd be back to square 1...
It's only going to...
root@GPLHost:node6503>_ ~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
tzdata
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 76.9MB of archives.
After this operation, 0.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
1. It doesn't work on my Linux, or on my ARM phone ./
... in your eyes. Sure, there's nothing stopping someone from creating a similar plugin for Linux, but there's patent issues if you want to release and ship it. In no way, for example, this kind of plug-in will be shipped inside Debian. The point here is that we DO NOT want windows-only patent-only videos on the Web, and the more H.264 will be supported, the more this may happen.
2. I do care about my freedom, like many at
3. If using Windows, how can you be so sure that it didn't fuck-up your registry and such?
4. It may not be "optional" in the sense that if you mandatory need it to watch video. Who's the moron?
5. There's already a memory leak...
The crap is
FFmpeg *decoding* is fine. It's not when you are trying to compress a video using mpeg. For both mp3 and video mpeg, the real patent/license annoying part is encoding, not reading. Oh, and I forgot: every hardware device reading an MP3 should be giving 1USD of royalties... But maybe, like many others, the only thing you care is that it "works", which is the mistake (tm) to not do.
"Those who aren't interested in [his] battle" most of the time don't understand what the issues are. Google seemed to understand, yet you seem not. H.264 needs to go away, together with all the DRM and such. No, no no no, thanks, I'm ok with things being OPEN, so I have my FREEDOMs to both read AND right content on the internet, without someone's patent. This isn't one own's agenda, this is for the benefits of the masses. Please don't pretend that H.264 is of "great utility" when we have the same kind of result with a fully open format (WebM / VP8). Having support for H.264 everywhere is only adding the issue that some sites might one day use it, which we don't want, which is the very reason why Google removed it from Chrome.
Has it ever been cutting-edge? Come on! The market in France is only pushed thanks to the innovations of "Free". If they weren't around, every French would still use a stupid Sagem modem, no TV over IP, no IP phone and such.
What made everyone laugh head-off was the "Ma ligne TV" thing, were you had to choose between ADSL or TV over IP. What a joke.
Exactly what was the cutting-edge thing you were talking about?
sed -i "s/have probably been/are/"
Man, I'm going to offer an "UNLIMITED" (c) (tm) download offer at 1 kbits/s. What do you think?
Can it do BOTH WiFi N and WiFi G *at the same time*? If yes, then I might get one... :)
I think this big phone is still not so convenient to take phone calls on the subway... Have they ever thought about doing a smaller version that could fit in a pocket?
Can any of you give me a brand of WiFi N router that can do ipv6? I guess there aren't that many. Why manufacturers aren't FORCED by law to do it? That would be simple: pass the law, declare all new ipv4 only equipment illegal, end of the story. Then, next step, do the same with all ISPs. Within 1 year, this could be done. The only issues is that law makers don't understand technology...
Move to France, use "Free" (from the Illiad company) and you'll get a full dual-stack connectivity (it's been YEARS they have it...). If your ISP isn't doing it, ask if others are. In fact, that's the best thing you could do to speed-up adoption: move to ISPs that have it, and leave the non-brainier behind. As soon as these realize they are loosing businesses, they will move their bottom to do it quick.
Except that ... it's been 20 YEARS that the ipv6 protocol was drafted. Now that it's already too late and there's not enough IPv4, it's legitimate to ask for speed-up!
An OS with a repository of thousands of free apps? So it's like what we have had in the open source world for YEARS??? Ah, no, free as in "free of charges", not freedom...
Yearh, let's also stop using Mastercard and Visa. Ah, shit, how am I going to pay by credit card now???
... It's been decades we know that their service is totally insecure, that it's easy to DIY a yes card, to generate a CC number, and all sorts of nasty things that are annoying so much legitimate business on the net, and yet, we don't even have a little hope that they might have the smallest concern about it, since we haven't seen them trying to change anything. We, IT people, are criticized so much when we have the smallest glitch in our code, yet these guys, controlling the full of the online payment system, nobody raise against them, even if it's totally broken. All this makes me wonder ... WTF!
Oh, and that's unrelated to the topic of MegaUpload, but when we are at it
Add to your list:
.com that they didn't like (with some not hosted, registered, or own within USA).
- France (recently, lopsi, not yet active but voted)
- Australia (with the famous list of blocked not-even-porn-sites leaked on wikileaks)
- Vietnam
- Tailand
You could as well add USA, which recently SEIZED some 85
Your above list seems really too much of a list without the countries from the west.
Are you seriously calling "porn" the page 3 of "The SUN"??? If I may... "wtf"