Any person can request a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) on this bid. You can see what companies bid, how much each bid, as well as all the proposal documentation. Its all in public domain. Now the trick is to find the contract number or the contracting officer so that you can contact the proper person.
I have been evaluating linux lately for the desktop user as an alternative to the microsoft tax in my business. I sell computers to end users. My very first criteria was flash support out of the box. If I went to a website with flash and it did not work immediately or i was not presented an option to install flash, then the distro failed. I immediately tried another distro. Yes I do realize that you can go to macromedia and download a tar or rpm, but joe end user will know nothing about that. When linux gets that easy, it will be ready for the desktop.
Offtopic, but along the same vein, I would like to find a distribution of linux or *bsd that provides out of the box support for virtual mail hosting (many domains, 1 ip), name based virtual hosting, and the like. All with a simple to use console configuration. I've built my own several times, but thats time consuming. Anyone got any suggestions?
Useful for Remote Server Administration
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Who Needs XFree86?
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I know there have been times where I would have thought multiple windows running on my server in the same terminal screen would have been much more convenient that having multiple ssh's open. With this, It looks like I could ssh in and run this over the connection allowing me to perform tasks.
The default behavior in Windows XP home and pro is to reboot instead of showing you the error. I know this to be true because I had to turn it off to debug a problem with my computer constantly crashing.
After looking at the new screenshots, I can honestly say that this will be the first KDE which I will not have to alter the look of significantly from the default install. This will mean good things for people unaware of kde-look.org and other enhancements that are 3rd party to kde. KDE will finally look very polished and professional (if not a little bit over the top like XP.. but definately far more attractive than XP).
Why would they go to so much trouble as to put tubes on a motherboard for quality audio output then use the super crappy Realtek ALC650 AC'97 CODEC. Maybe their engineers know something I dont, but that was a big dissapointement when I saw it.
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KDE 3.0.1 Ships
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and to reply to my own post, here it is from the announcement
KDE will not compile properly with gcc versions earlier than gcc-2.95, such as egcs-1.1.2 or gcc-2.7.2, or with unpatched versions of gcc 3.0.x. However, KDE should compile properly with gcc 3.1
Gentoo is exactly what you are looking for. Not only can you recompile your whole system, but you can put the optimizations you want in a global make file.
To recompile your entire system do: emerge glibc; emerge --update world --emptytree
This will recompile glibc, then recompile every other piece of software on your entire system. Pretty slick eh.
I have had people tell me that KDE3 looks just like KDE2. Well, they werent paying much attention. KDE3 makes great strides in the little things visually that make this one very slick looking desktop. I even showed it in a lecture at my school about linux and many people were impressed and came up to me afterwards asking what that was.
I for one like this. Now I can listen to webcasts that are in windows media only format. Since websites wont give me a choice, Im glad someone has given me the software to make up for it.
I know this is the dog chaising his tail, but if you plan on having a distribution for download for people to try out, it needs to have some high bandwidth mirrors. I dont know how many people are trying to download an iso right now (because their ftp server is unresponsive, and the 1 mirror they do have is not working for me) but it seems to me that getting a subdirectory somewhere like ibiblio.org should be priority #1 for a new distribution.
What a wonderful opportunity for them to get widespread exposure and install, except for no one can download it to "try before they buy".
I think that the print side of Linux is still very very lacking in ease of use and setup. Theres really no reason for this, especially when I can install Mandrake and have a nice wysiwyg gui ask me a bunch of questions and things just work (for the most part). CUPS should just come with something this powerful itself (and yes, im aware of the web interface, but it lacks.. bad).
Well, I actually think that is a very nice looking desktop.
I can see that its apparently part of Suse, but what components make that up so I can recreate it. I see that Ximian is there, as well as Gnome of course. What settings do I do and whatnot?
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all that trailer made me want to do was turn on a light so i could see. If that was supposed to make me want to see the movie, they missed their mark.
This fellow can just use a friends regular OEM XP CD and his product key and be perfectly legal. He just has to give his friend the CD back.
Any person can request a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) on this bid. You can see what companies bid, how much each bid, as well as all the proposal documentation. Its all in public domain. Now the trick is to find the contract number or the contracting officer so that you can contact the proper person.
I have been evaluating linux lately for the desktop user as an alternative to the microsoft tax in my business. I sell computers to end users. My very first criteria was flash support out of the box. If I went to a website with flash and it did not work immediately or i was not presented an option to install flash, then the distro failed. I immediately tried another distro. Yes I do realize that you can go to macromedia and download a tar or rpm, but joe end user will know nothing about that. When linux gets that easy, it will be ready for the desktop.
Offtopic, but along the same vein, I would like to find a distribution of linux or *bsd that provides out of the box support for virtual mail hosting (many domains, 1 ip), name based virtual hosting, and the like. All with a simple to use console configuration. I've built my own several times, but thats time consuming. Anyone got any suggestions?
I know there have been times where I would have thought multiple windows running on my server in the same terminal screen would have been much more convenient that having multiple ssh's open. With this, It looks like I could ssh in and run this over the connection allowing me to perform tasks.
and they thought they were having a problem with file sharing before .....
I believe you are referring to the ever famous "Embrace and Extend" (tm).
The default behavior in Windows XP home and pro is to reboot instead of showing you the error. I know this to be true because I had to turn it off to debug a problem with my computer constantly crashing.
After looking at the new screenshots, I can honestly say that this will be the first KDE which I will not have to alter the look of significantly from the default install. This will mean good things for people unaware of kde-look.org and other enhancements that are 3rd party to kde. KDE will finally look very polished and professional (if not a little bit over the top like XP .. but definately far more attractive than XP).
Why would they go to so much trouble as to put tubes on a motherboard for quality audio output then use the super crappy Realtek ALC650 AC'97 CODEC. Maybe their engineers know something I dont, but that was a big dissapointement when I saw it.
and to reply to my own post, here it is from the announcement
KDE will not compile properly with gcc versions earlier than gcc-2.95, such as egcs-1.1.2 or gcc-2.7.2, or with unpatched versions of gcc 3.0.x. However, KDE should compile properly with gcc 3.1
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Build fixes
It seems to be that we finally have GCC3 support
The "Official Site for the United States Marine Corps" is usmc.mil
Marines.com is a recruitment site. (and yes, I can see it says "Official" too), but look at the content and tell me which is which.
Gentoo has a precompiled iso disk, but you will need to mirror the source. Essentially though, just get the iso and you will be VERY up to date.
Gentoo is exactly what you are looking for. Not only can you recompile your whole system, but you can put the optimizations you want in a global make file.
To recompile your entire system do:
emerge glibc; emerge --update world --emptytree
This will recompile glibc, then recompile every other piece of software on your entire system. Pretty slick eh.
Yes they did, but timothy wanted to widen the exposure of this article because gentoo is a great distribution.
Im glad he finally got permission from Anonymous American to post it here.
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I have had people tell me that KDE3 looks just like KDE2. Well, they werent paying much attention. KDE3 makes great strides in the little things visually that make this one very slick looking desktop. I even showed it in a lecture at my school about linux and many people were impressed and came up to me afterwards asking what that was.
Good job KDE Team.
I for one like this. Now I can listen to webcasts that are in windows media only format. Since websites wont give me a choice, Im glad someone has given me the software to make up for it.
I know this is the dog chaising his tail, but if you plan on having a distribution for download for people to try out, it needs to have some high bandwidth mirrors. I dont know how many people are trying to download an iso right now (because their ftp server is unresponsive, and the 1 mirror they do have is not working for me) but it seems to me that getting a subdirectory somewhere like ibiblio.org should be priority #1 for a new distribution.
What a wonderful opportunity for them to get widespread exposure and install, except for no one can download it to "try before they buy".
I think that the print side of Linux is still very very lacking in ease of use and setup. Theres really no reason for this, especially when I can install Mandrake and have a nice wysiwyg gui ask me a bunch of questions and things just work (for the most part). CUPS should just come with something this powerful itself (and yes, im aware of the web interface, but it lacks.. bad).
to answer my own question and for all those who want to see as well as I, the url is:
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/ (developer.gnome.com)
Does anyone have a url where I can preview some screenshots of the new gnome interface?
Well, I actually think that is a very nice looking desktop.
I can see that its apparently part of Suse, but what components make that up so I can recreate it. I see that Ximian is there, as well as Gnome of course. What settings do I do and whatnot?
Ive not touched gnome in about a year and a half.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
oh wait.