"I'm waiting for it to have over 4000 packages tested and available."
Have you actually looked at the list of packages? It's more than KDE 3 and GNOME 2 - since installing Gentoo on my desktop and server two months ago, I've only found 3 packages (out of... probably over 100 packages that I installed, including some very obscure ones) that didn't have ebuilds - hopefully the ebuilds I made for them will be added to portage soon.
The list of packages available is already very impressive (I'll bet that Red Hat and Mandrake don't have packages for the unreal tournament 2003 demo, or the Quake 3 OSP mod - these are in portage!), and making a new ebuild is very easy.
Having 4000 packages is completely irrelevant - there's tens of thousands that you'll never use. Debian's 9000 packages might make you certain that nearly everything you can think of is included, but would you even use 1000 of them?
"I'm waiting for transparent integration of non-"free" software into the standard package installation system."
Searching... [ Results for search key : ut2003 ] [ Applications found : 1 ]
* app-games/ut2003-demo
Searching... [ Results for search key : quake ] [ Applications found : 4 ]
* app-games/quake3
* app-games/quake3-cpma
* app-games/quake3-osp
(those aren't my ebuilds - it's a completely clean portage tree from a few days ago).
"And most importantly, I'm waiting to find any reason why my current system may be insufficient, or even sub-optimal, because I don't feel the need to fix what isn't broken."
A business card that can hold 1.25MiB of binary data? (actually, since it would take a few seconds to transfer it would have to hold at least 6MiB to be equivalent). I guess that's possible with special CD-Rs but they have to be prepared ahead of time, and if you wanted to do something like a multiplayer game the latency would be too much. Or do you talk really really fast?
Natural evolution... laptop computers have gone this way too, although there are some targeted at people who want small and light. We'll probably end up with another generation of "sub-PDA" devices.
If they really want a standard, why not just say "KDE is our main desktop" (RH would probably chose GNOME of course)? If it's missing anything, they can always modify it (and hopefully contribute their changes to the project). Now, not only do Red Hat customers have two main desktops to chose from, their choice is almost entirely irrelevant! Please explain to me how this helps anyone.
That doesn't make any sense at all. All red hat did is make the two desktops look more similar - they didn't make X configure itself. How can consumers "focus on making linux work for them, instead of making Linux work." just because KDE and GNOME look similar?
Right, it will probably happen again. How many hands will I need to count the number of popular IIS/Outlook worms before then? By the way, I closed this hole on my server a while ago.
The problem is that PayPal wants direct access to your money. They want to keep your credit card number on their computers - I don't have a problem with their security, but the less security you NEED, the safer it is. This of course requires extra checking, so it would take me 3 weeks from signing up to being able to pay.
No. I think everyone agrees that easier is better, but not everything is as easy as it wants to be. If a program can automatically configure a kernel for me that supports all the hardware and features I need, that's good, but I don't see much difference between a graphical menu and a text-based version of the same menu.
I think it's inevitable that news stories will change over time. Of course, it would be nice if there was a note about it, but as long as it's a correction I don't see anything wrong with it.
"Prettify" or indent? vi has excellent automatic indenting, and KDevelop (which I use most of the time) is decent - nearly every advanced/programming editor has some form of auto-indenting.
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Have you actually looked at the list of packages? It's more than KDE 3 and GNOME 2 - since installing Gentoo on my desktop and server two months ago, I've only found 3 packages (out of... probably over 100 packages that I installed, including some very obscure ones) that didn't have ebuilds - hopefully the ebuilds I made for them will be added to portage soon.
The list of packages available is already very impressive (I'll bet that Red Hat and Mandrake don't have packages for the unreal tournament 2003 demo, or the Quake 3 OSP mod - these are in portage!), and making a new ebuild is very easy.
Having 4000 packages is completely irrelevant - there's tens of thousands that you'll never use. Debian's 9000 packages might make you certain that nearly everything you can think of is included, but would you even use 1000 of them?
"I'm waiting for transparent integration of non-"free" software into the standard package installation system." (those aren't my ebuilds - it's a completely clean portage tree from a few days ago).
"And most importantly, I'm waiting to find any reason why my current system may be insufficient, or even sub-optimal, because I don't feel the need to fix what isn't broken."
Portage and ebuilds.
Mozilla has that too. Right click on a link and choose "open in new window", and you'll be able to see two pages at once!
When did the IMDB become the official reference for units?
For the uninformed, it's the new unit for 2^20 bytes.
A business card that can hold 1.25MiB of binary data? (actually, since it would take a few seconds to transfer it would have to hold at least 6MiB to be equivalent). I guess that's possible with special CD-Rs but they have to be prepared ahead of time, and if you wanted to do something like a multiplayer game the latency would be too much. Or do you talk really really fast?
Natural evolution... laptop computers have gone this way too, although there are some targeted at people who want small and light. We'll probably end up with another generation of "sub-PDA" devices.
Could you make it a little more obvious that you didn't read the article?
"the right granted to copy and distribute without modification", that's what license. I wish I had mod points...
The biggest problem is that you can't respawn. I can't wait until they release a patch to fix that.
Actually, that wouldn't be a bad idea. A high-end PC HSF might have 2 fans - imagine the air cooling you could get at Mach 2!
The solution is simple: if they want to store your credit card information, buy from someone else.
If they really want a standard, why not just say "KDE is our main desktop" (RH would probably chose GNOME of course)? If it's missing anything, they can always modify it (and hopefully contribute their changes to the project). Now, not only do Red Hat customers have two main desktops to chose from, their choice is almost entirely irrelevant! Please explain to me how this helps anyone.
That doesn't make any sense at all. All red hat did is make the two desktops look more similar - they didn't make X configure itself. How can consumers "focus on making linux work for them, instead of making Linux work." just because KDE and GNOME look similar?
Right, it will probably happen again. How many hands will I need to count the number of popular IIS/Outlook worms before then? By the way, I closed this hole on my server a while ago.
Like this?
What makes you think it isn't?
What about them? Should slashdot provide a full update on every competing/remotely similar system?
Such as?
The problem is that PayPal wants direct access to your money. They want to keep your credit card number on their computers - I don't have a problem with their security, but the less security you NEED, the safer it is. This of course requires extra checking, so it would take me 3 weeks from signing up to being able to pay.
How are they going to do this anywhere? Satelite connections? Even that can't go everywhere that a Nomad Jukebox can.
Why not have an independent object model, where any distribution or window manager can use each other's dialog pages?
Why not stop war, hunger, poverty? It's a great idea, who wouldn't want it? Maybe it's just a little harder than writing a few words?
No. I think everyone agrees that easier is better, but not everything is as easy as it wants to be. If a program can automatically configure a kernel for me that supports all the hardware and features I need, that's good, but I don't see much difference between a graphical menu and a text-based version of the same menu.
I think it's inevitable that news stories will change over time. Of course, it would be nice if there was a note about it, but as long as it's a correction I don't see anything wrong with it.
"Prettify" or indent? vi has excellent automatic indenting, and KDevelop (which I use most of the time) is decent - nearly every advanced/programming editor has some form of auto-indenting.
Might as well complain that everyone uses light switches to control their lights...
Because no one has come up with a better way. Show me a way that tags, colours, and fonts can make things easier for me and I'll use it.