I agree, a fine choice. Why ?
Well because he will not be the only person on the GNOME board. RMS alone would proberly not be a good idea, but he'll have 10 other people with him. He'll help the GNOME project in the Open Source world and some other board member will support GNOME in the pursue commercial interests.
And the GNU/Linux thing? Well he might be taking it a bit to fare, but really, where would Linux be without GNU ? I believe that without GNU Linux would be nothing.
Hey don't bash the French. I would rather be French than American, at least they have some idea of what the word freedom means. Damn I love being European.
It's okay to be lazy, but compiling stuff ourself enables you to control which features are included in the software. If you're happy with the features the precompiled version have, well great. For security reasons you will always what to know which features are enabled. Using a precompiled ftp server for example is just wrong, because they will often include many features you won't be aware of, unless you compiled it ourself.
The best package management system i've seen and the one i actually use is Pack (http://pack.sunsite.dk/). You still have to compile the software, but it becomes much easier than just dumping everything in/usr/local.
Slackware is nice. I don't see why people don't think it's good for desktop. It comes with KDE and Gnome (incl. Nautilus) and if that's not good enough, just install what you are missing. It also comes with ReiserFS, which I find really nice. Haven't tried ext3.
I think part of the review is unfair. All word processors a expected to open M$ Word documents, but never the other way around. They try opening M$ Word documents in KOffice, but they don't test if M$ Word can open KWord documents. If not being able to export a KOffice document to an Word doc. is a limitation then not being able to export to KWord must be a M$ Word limitation.
They don't look to much at the good thing, like limited use of disc space, or the fact that KOffice is open source an M$ Office isn't.
For some of us Opera isn't an option, because we actually care about the license. I would have preferred Mozilla being GPL'ed, but I settle for the MPL.
Opera isn't free, it just doesn't cost anything.
I think alot of people are to focused on XFS, Ext3 and ReiserFS competing with each other. Why can't Linux have three filesystems???
I like ReiserFS and I found that it's completly stable, it has never crashed. Others like XFS and that is fine by me, just don't tell me that my choise is wrong, I'll decide that for myself.
The great thing about Linux is that it let us choose what we want and don't give us what some dude i Redmond thinks we want. Let us have have 3,4 or 8 filesystems, then the user can choose what filesystem he or she want to use.
It's a crappy idea, just like alot of the ergonomic mouses and keyboards you can buy. Very few companies make these kind of product for left handed people and those how do charge very high prices.
As a left handed I can only see these products as a bad idea because they will completely destroy my wrist.
The best a left handed can hope to find is a symmetrical mouse.
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How about the USA, we kinda created that.
I agree, a fine choice. Why ?
Well because he will not be the only person on the GNOME board. RMS alone would proberly not be a good idea, but he'll have 10 other people with him. He'll help the GNOME project in the Open Source world and some other board member will support GNOME in the pursue commercial interests.
And the GNU/Linux thing? Well he might be taking it a bit to fare, but really, where would Linux be without GNU ? I believe that without GNU Linux would be nothing.
Hey don't bash the French. I would rather be French than American, at least they have some idea of what the word freedom means. Damn I love being European.
It's okay to be lazy, but compiling stuff ourself enables you to control which features are included in the software. If you're happy with the features the precompiled version have, well great. For security reasons you will always what to know which features are enabled. Using a precompiled ftp server for example is just wrong, because they will often include many features you won't be aware of, unless you compiled it ourself.
/usr/local.
The best package management system i've seen and the one i actually use is Pack (http://pack.sunsite.dk/). You still have to compile the software, but it becomes much easier than just dumping everything in
I thought the big question was "Does it play Doom ?"
Slackware is nice. I don't see why people don't think it's good for desktop. It comes with KDE and Gnome (incl. Nautilus) and if that's not good enough, just install what you are missing. It also comes with ReiserFS, which I find really nice. Haven't tried ext3.
Got this one wrong ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/X/kde it should be ftp://sunsite.dk/pub/X/kde
Okay, I use Mozilla as my primary browser to, but I don't use KDE, and that seems pretty normal to.
I think part of the review is unfair. All word processors a expected to open M$ Word documents, but never the other way around. They try opening M$ Word documents in KOffice, but they don't test if M$ Word can open KWord documents. If not being able to export a KOffice document to an Word doc. is a limitation then not being able to export to KWord must be a M$ Word limitation.
They don't look to much at the good thing, like limited use of disc space, or the fact that KOffice is open source an M$ Office isn't.
For some of us Opera isn't an option, because we actually care about the license. I would have preferred Mozilla being GPL'ed, but I settle for the MPL.
Opera isn't free, it just doesn't cost anything.
We actually use it on sunsite.dk. We provide AFS access to all our hosted project. The load is a bit high sometimes, but is stable.
Does it play Doom?
Personally I just don't like Konqueror, and Opera is not an alternativ because of it is close source.
Still doesn't change the fact that the BSDs are alot more stable than most other operating systems, including Linux.
I think alot of people are to focused on XFS, Ext3 and ReiserFS competing with each other. Why can't Linux have three filesystems???
I like ReiserFS and I found that it's completly stable, it has never crashed. Others like XFS and that is fine by me, just don't tell me that my choise is wrong, I'll decide that for myself.
The great thing about Linux is that it let us choose what we want and don't give us what some dude i Redmond thinks we want. Let us have have 3,4 or 8 filesystems, then the user can choose what filesystem he or she want to use.
Damn that's funny :-)
So what the difference betwen ReiserFS an the Linux kernels module feature???
You donøt see these kind of problems with the kernel, so why whould you in a filesystem
Who really cares what the US laws says???
It's a crappy idea, just like alot of the ergonomic mouses and keyboards you can buy. Very few companies make these kind of product for left handed people and those how do charge very high prices.
As a left handed I can only see these products as a bad idea because they will completely destroy my wrist.
The best a left handed can hope to find is a symmetrical mouse.
That is totally unfair
I didn't quit get that one either, I see begin able to get the source code a good thing. It means that security bug a fixed much faster.
ReiserFS also makes better use of your harddrive then ext2, so if your harddrive has a reasonable size, you'll proberly gain more than 32 mb
I think W3C has commented that Mozilla is one of the browsers that best support CSS2
No problem we'll just buy our cd's in Germany, some companies are already planning to open departments in Germany and then ship the cds from there.
We sue the bastards, because they would sue us if we violates their copyrights.
The way I see it, Windows is nothing more then a very large browser, so a PC with Windows pre-installed still doesn't have an OS.