No matter who did it, I find it about as hard to be sympathetic (or even care) about SCO getting attacked as I would if, lets say, a serial rapist got shanked in prison.
And Microsoft has given a lot to home computing. If you can't admit that then you have your head in the sand... could Apple have gotten the general public as computer-enabled as they are now? Maybe... they still haven't clued in to the concept of commodity hardware (other than for their still overpriced iPod).
I bet if Microsoft hadn't have done what they did, i.e., build a just-good-enough desktop OS built to run on commodity hardware, then we wouldn't have Linux.
And the reason why Free Software is more free-marketish than socialist is the emphasis on merit. Socialism is anti-merit, however Free Software projects do not survice without an being a meritocracy. Socialism tasks from those who produce and gives to those who merely need. Needing is easy. Free Software is about many producing, and being encouraged to produce.
Microsoft, for example, is about only a few producing, and many using the product... and lacking any reason to learn. Its almost like the distribution concepts of socialism being support by capitalism;)
Wouldn't it be great if the people with power believed as you do?
They don't, in case you didn't realize... at least not in the US where there is plenty of precedent for organizations being able to hurt those who develop technology that merely has potential for "badness". For example, DirecTV. See also
RIAA v. ChewPlastic.com.
Now that Red Hat is the Microsoft of the Linux camp?
I don't really care what they have to say until they turn back from their stated commitments (see Fedora fine print) to make Fedora not-fit-for-the-enterprise and Red Hat Linux a monetary expense of Windows proportions.
The debate on what Linux distribution to migrate to is rich at my organization. At this point I would have to suggest SuSE or Mandrake, and I'd give the nod to Mandrake. I wish I hadn't just rebuilt my workstation with Red Hat 9. I should have used Mandrake 9.2 like I use at home.
Does your definition of "better" include "failure to comply with spec and doing retarded things like reimplementing FLUSH_CACHE as FUCK_OVER_FIRMWARE"?
Sadly, the Trailer Trash definition of cracker is still probably more salient to the majority of Americans than the "haX0r" definition. Unfortunately, it is the mindless drooling masses that get to dominate the use of language, taking something that was created by another (intellectual property?) and subverting its definition/use (what if there was DMCA protection for the original definition of words?).
Afterall, thats how the rebelious colony in New England managed to throw off British control but still think they speak "english";)
I liked Firefly a lot, and was pretty pissed off at the mental midgets at FOX for replacing it with that vacuous teen cop show. Admittedly, the teen cop show is a better fit for FOX and their viewers...
... don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the drooling mindless masses.
My impression was that that wasn't news if you've been reading their SEC filings, either.
I was prepared to dismiss this story out of hand once I saw "Gartner recommends"... I was even prepared to launch into some sort of snappy "Microsoft's puppet recommends what now?"... unfortunately, I'll have to save my knee-jerk reactions for another post.
Darl Mc/SCO is like the whiny ultra-annoying little bastard in the schoolyard that deserves to get beat up every week. Compare to Linux, who is the nice kid who does't deserve to get beat up, but still has big bullies like that kid Microsoft who has been held back two grades.
What happens when the ultra-annoying kid allies with the big bully and both pick on the little nice kid who just wants to go to school and learn? Little nice kids big cousin from the high school nearby comes over to lay down the smack...
I wish Darl would shut the fuck up and get a real job. Years from now people will still be talking about how that idiot and his has-been company dominated tech media or months with their baseless lawsuit.
I don't miss the in-game video... its pretty irrelevant, IMO. The expansion will be for Linux as well, its just extra modules and a client version update anyways. I play NWN exclusively on Linux since the client became stable.
BTW, the graphics and whatnot are updated for this expansion. More polygons, better models, more varieties of "heads"... oh, and robes. You can actually have a robe. w00t!
You can sync all your PIM apps with Evolution thanks to Multisync . It works fairly well, and I was quite happy with my H3600, Familiar and Opie.. until today when I tried to upgrade to 0.7.2. Now my iPaq is dead and will probably need to be reflashed. Joy.
From everything I've read since the fiaSCO started, I think the Judge(s) will be very convinced when Linus loses it on the stand and starts calling the SCO people morons.
Linus: YOU MORONS!
SCO Legal Minion: Objection!
Judge: Overruled, statement of fact.
I believe what Red Hat has done is retired their free Red Hat Linux distribution, and now only uses the Red Hat product name for their enterprise and professional releases. Fedora's site explains the merging of the original Fedora Project and Red Hat Linux. Fedora, as I understand it, was essentially a third party attempt to turn Red Hat into something a bit more interesting and experimental than the stodgy corporate-solution-wannabe that Red Hat Linux has become.
In other words, Fedora 1 = Red Hat Linux 9.1, Fedora 2 = Red Hat Linux 10 w/ the 2.6 kernel, and so on. Smells like SunOS 5.7 = Solaris 2.7 = Solaris 7.
Sounds like you want the Gentoo Reference Platform discussed in their install documentation:
Note: A complete Gentoo Linux 2-CD set contains the Gentoo Reference Platform, which is a complete pre-built Gentoo Linux system including GNOME, KDE, Mozilla and OpenOffice. The Gentoo Reference Platform ("GRP") was created to allow rapid Gentoo Linux package installations for those who need this capability. The "compile from source" functionality, which is the cornerstone of Gentoo Linux, will always be a fully-supported installation option as well. The purpose of the GRP is to make Gentoo Linux more convenient for some users, without impacting Gentoo's powerful "compile from source" installation process in any way.
Of course, updating without a network connection becomes a problem, but you shouldn't have too many issues with file inavailability. I've run Gentoo for some time and it is extremely rare that I cannot get ahold of source necessary for compilations, and I've always built my Gentoo systems from stage1 or stage2.
BTW, I got the ISOs VERY rapidly bia bittorrent as per the torrent information on the Fedora site. I should be starting an install shortly.
BTW part 2, as per the release notes, vmware video drivers are included in Yarrow, so lab tests with VMWare are going to be easy for those of you who do that sort of thing.
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I find myself wanting to clap for both.
No, but based on this precident, you'd obviously get in trouble for using the term "Lame Studios".
I bet if Microsoft hadn't have done what they did, i.e., build a just-good-enough desktop OS built to run on commodity hardware, then we wouldn't have Linux.
Microsoft, for example, is about only a few producing, and many using the product... and lacking any reason to learn. Its almost like the distribution concepts of socialism being support by capitalism ;)
They don't, in case you didn't realize... at least not in the US where there is plenty of precedent for organizations being able to hurt those who develop technology that merely has potential for "badness". For example, DirecTV. See also RIAA v. ChewPlastic.com.
There is hope, however. DirecTV is facing racketeering charges for their efforts.
I don't really care what they have to say until they turn back from their stated commitments (see Fedora fine print) to make Fedora not-fit-for-the-enterprise and Red Hat Linux a monetary expense of Windows proportions.
The debate on what Linux distribution to migrate to is rich at my organization. At this point I would have to suggest SuSE or Mandrake, and I'd give the nod to Mandrake. I wish I hadn't just rebuilt my workstation with Red Hat 9. I should have used Mandrake 9.2 like I use at home.
Does your definition of "better" include "failure to comply with spec and doing retarded things like reimplementing FLUSH_CACHE as FUCK_OVER_FIRMWARE"?
Afterall, thats how the rebelious colony in New England managed to throw off British control but still think they speak "english" ;)
I loved that show too. I wish they had a DVD collecting the whole thing like Firefly - The Complete Series.
I was prepared to dismiss this story out of hand once I saw "Gartner recommends"... I was even prepared to launch into some sort of snappy "Microsoft's puppet recommends what now?"... unfortunately, I'll have to save my knee-jerk reactions for another post.
D'oh.
What happens when the ultra-annoying kid allies with the big bully and both pick on the little nice kid who just wants to go to school and learn? Little nice kids big cousin from the high school nearby comes over to lay down the smack...
I wish Darl would shut the fuck up and get a real job. Years from now people will still be talking about how that idiot and his has-been company dominated tech media or months with their baseless lawsuit.
BTW, the graphics and whatnot are updated for this expansion. More polygons, better models, more varieties of "heads"... oh, and robes. You can actually have a robe. w00t!
Ford. Fscking Old Recycled Dodge.
Ford. Fscking Old Recycled DOS.
Take your pick, either way Windows is the Ford of Operating Systems.
It is still 8.2, perhaps that is your point. Is that the last SuSE release freely available?
'nuff said.
You can sync all your PIM apps with Evolution thanks to Multisync . It works fairly well, and I was quite happy with my H3600, Familiar and Opie.. until today when I tried to upgrade to 0.7.2. Now my iPaq is dead and will probably need to be reflashed. Joy.
... and Sun Microsystems too, right?
From everything I've read since the fiaSCO started, I think the Judge(s) will be very convinced when Linus loses it on the stand and starts calling the SCO people morons.
Linus: YOU MORONS!
SCO Legal Minion: Objection!
Judge: Overruled, statement of fact.
George, are you reading this?
Hello?
Mod this up for an obscure Office Space reference, dammit!
In other words, Fedora 1 = Red Hat Linux 9.1, Fedora 2 = Red Hat Linux 10 w/ the 2.6 kernel, and so on. Smells like SunOS 5.7 = Solaris 2.7 = Solaris 7.
BTW, I got the ISOs VERY rapidly bia bittorrent as per the torrent information on the Fedora site. I should be starting an install shortly.
BTW part 2, as per the release notes, vmware video drivers are included in Yarrow, so lab tests with VMWare are going to be easy for those of you who do that sort of thing.
Get the fuckers some jail time.