How about mini-computers? Aren't there VAXen available from the late seventies that could run 4.3BSD with tcp/ip and lynx? Or even a PDP?
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Much Free Software from linux compiles fine on BSD, if that isn't what you meen by being a programmer. Otherwise, you can mount your linux system under/usr/compat/linux, add linux_enable="YES" to/etc/rc.conf and run your linux binaries as they are.
The appeal for "relative benign" and even less "relative benign" dictators of this kind is that they install, or restore, Law and Order. Some people like that, as long as they or their relatives don't get hurt. Some people, frex hardline fascists or stalinists, even are inclined to like it a lot. Not to say that it is right, but in some cases the "general population" tend to prefer Business as Usual over a sometimes unstable and chaotic democracy.
...for their "Falcon" computer. They used MiNT, a Unix-like kernel, upon which they put a multitasking version of GEM, their (somewhat Mac-like) GUI, and called it MultiTOS, TOS being their single-tasking OS. It ran most legacy Atari programs, and you could use GNU/BSD Unix tools. It had no virtual memory/disk swapping though.
Flexible and quicker? That's right. It's indeed blazingly fast on my 32 MB PC. Gnome would just be idiotically slow and KDE would be worse - and I haven't even tried Nautilus. But XFce is still fast and stable, AND it does all the things you really need a desktop environment to do. The only thing I can remeber that was faster on this machine was Windows - 3.x.
Just look at eastern Germany , they were just as German as the rest of the country yet somehow their "Germanic" status did not protect them from ending up just as bad as the rest of soviet block.
That is not correct. Even if the DDR was a lot poorer than West Germany, it was actually the richest country in eastern Europe at the time.
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You thought MS had sort of nazi-esque methods? Well, I will now, in this brief essay, reveal to you the hidden truth of Linux, an joint Finnish-German Nazi conspiration for revenge against the victors of WW2. Let's look at the evidence.
During the second World War, Finland was a close allied to the Third Reich, as is clearly illustrated by this photo of a finnish military aircraft. After the defeat of the Axis Powers, a revantionist urge abounds in both countries.
Linux was written by Finnish stuent Linus Thorvalds, a member of the small Swedish-speaking minority of Finland, well known for it's white supremacist tendencies. In this article Thorvalds expresses his enthusiasm and admiration for the German-led KDE project. He also makes some unclear statements about the claims of Richard Stallman for calling the operating system GNU/Linux being invalid. Why is this? Obviously, the Nazi -and therefore Anti-Communist- Thorvalds here shows his support for his German allies against the Communist GNU and GNOME projects.
But what does this hideous Nazi conspiracy want? We cannot, at this point, know. But what we do know, is that Nazies are up to no good. To stop them from achieving whichever horrible goals they hav in mind, I would strongly discourage any use of the Linux kernel or the KDE. Instead, I would recomend the use of a truly democratic operating system.
Well there probably shouldn't be two references to New York. But what about Jerusalem? What if this has something to do with te Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Surely there is "great thunder" in "The City of God" these days...
But then again, I actually don't believe very much in astrological predictions, but they might, such as in this case, be rather interesting to play with.
As long as nobody creates one, there is no existing product (OS) called Redhat GNU/Linux. That's the nature of the GPL ('til RMS changes it, that is), you may call your product what you want, as long as you don't change the license and precerves original copyright notices. In analogy with your example, the car GNU created was licensed in a way that anybody could do what they wanted with it as long as they let anybody else do the same with the results of their doings, which gave the ignition engineer Linus every right to take the car and name it after his igition system. If GNU didn't want this to happen, they should hae written their license othervise.
If MySQL is GPL, as the article states, and NuSpheres addition to it isn't (in fact, not even Open Source), shouldn't this be a problem under the GPL license terms? Can anybody explain the nature of this 'addition'?
But I guess MySQL AB would have used this issue it it existed, since they seem so eager to stop the site, so it probably is a addition in that doesn't violate the GPL.
I've never owned an Amiga, but I still have an Atari TT. That's one noisy machine. It sounds sort of like a small vacuum cleaner. Not very pleasant to work with. Seems like atari thought that the more high-end the machine was, the more noise it had to make. I mean, there cannot be a more quiet machine than my ST.
All this talk about GNU/Linux is only valid if we all agree it is, or if some particular distrubution chooses to call itself that. That is the nature of the GPL as far as I see it -- you can call your product (distribution) whatever you want, as long as you give credits to the original author of the source code that you use. The product reffered to in this paper, for example, is not called GNU/Linux -- it is called Red Hat Linux 7.1, which is perfectly valid.
Sure, RMS and the FSF deserves credit for creating GNU etc., but, since they did not include a clause for that in the GPL, nobody has to call something which includes parts of the GNU project GNU/whatever. Of course, Linux was origanally only the kernel, but since the distributors tend to call their systems "Linux" that is what they should be referred to (in accordance to the GPL, anyway). For example, a product called Red Hat GNU/Linux wont exist until you create one -- if only by writing it on the cover of a Redhat CD-rom.
The ONE TRUE window manager for UNIX is MWM, with perhaps it's successor CDE/dtwm. That's the UNIX look'n'feel for ya'. (OOOH those yummy three little buttons!)
The ONE true wm for Linux is FVWM, configured into oblivion with GoodStuff and whatnot, but still looking somwhat like MWM (see above). That's what Linux should look like.
An' don't give me TWM with a bazillion of Xterms. We're not living in bedrock and go back to Xenix on your 286 if you actually want THAT.
Opinions, and ideologies, are based upon more-or-less accurate observations of reality. We all percieve reality somewhat differently, depending upon upbringing, personal choice, etc., so our opinions tend do differ somewhat as well. I think, that if you say that it's "just your opinion" and that it therefore doesn't matter, you say that observations of reality doesn't matter, and, ultimately, that reality doesn't matter. You must live in a very chaotic world.
As I understand it, since I've been reading the XFce mailing list for a while, desktop icons will be optional if implemented, since they will be provided by a separate application and not by the XFce panel, window manager, or file manager.
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You know, that is what xfce 4 is.
The world should recognize a Konzentrationslager when it sees one.
How about mini-computers? Aren't there VAXen available from the late seventies that could run 4.3BSD with tcp/ip and lynx? Or even a PDP?
Much Free Software from linux compiles fine on BSD, if that isn't what you meen by being a programmer. Otherwise, you can mount your linux system under /usr/compat/linux, add linux_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf and run your linux binaries as they are.
If he regards Pinochet as a benign dictator (oxymoron surely) then he probably only finds that the Nazis were slightly vulgar.
Isn't "benign dictator" the usual title given to Linus?
The appeal for "relative benign" and even less "relative benign" dictators of this kind is that they install, or restore, Law and Order. Some people like that, as long as they or their relatives don't get hurt. Some people, frex hardline fascists or stalinists, even are inclined to like it a lot. Not to say that it is right, but in some cases the "general population" tend to prefer Business as Usual over a sometimes unstable and chaotic democracy.
Case in point, Linux/PPC is my main platform. Guess Opera just isn't an option for a lot of us.
You have your PPC binaries here. At least it is an option for you.
Mein Gott! A Nazi with dyslexia!
...for their "Falcon" computer. They used MiNT, a Unix-like kernel, upon which they put a multitasking version of GEM, their (somewhat Mac-like) GUI, and called it MultiTOS, TOS being their single-tasking OS. It ran most legacy Atari programs, and you could use GNU/BSD Unix tools. It had no virtual memory/disk swapping though.
This thing is still being worked on.
Those scrollbars are neither Gtk+ nor GNOME...
Flexible and quicker? That's right. It's indeed blazingly fast on my 32 MB PC. Gnome would just be idiotically slow and KDE would be worse - and I haven't even tried Nautilus. But XFce is still fast and stable, AND it does all the things you really need a desktop environment to do. The only thing I can remeber that was faster on this machine was Windows - 3.x.
That is not correct. Even if the DDR was a lot poorer than West Germany, it was actually the richest country in eastern Europe at the time.
You thought MS had sort of nazi-esque methods? Well, I will now, in this brief essay, reveal to you the hidden truth of Linux, an joint Finnish-German Nazi conspiration for revenge against the victors of WW2. Let's look at the evidence.
During the second World War, Finland was a close allied to the Third Reich, as is clearly illustrated by this photo of a finnish military aircraft. After the defeat of the Axis Powers, a revantionist urge abounds in both countries.
Linux was written by Finnish stuent Linus Thorvalds, a member of the small Swedish-speaking minority of Finland, well known for it's white supremacist tendencies. In this article Thorvalds expresses his enthusiasm and admiration for the German-led KDE project. He also makes some unclear statements about the claims of Richard Stallman for calling the operating system GNU/Linux being invalid. Why is this? Obviously, the Nazi -and therefore Anti-Communist- Thorvalds here shows his support for his German allies against the Communist GNU and GNOME projects.
But what does this hideous Nazi conspiracy want? We cannot, at this point, know. But what we do know, is that Nazies are up to no good. To stop them from achieving whichever horrible goals they hav in mind, I would strongly discourage any use of the Linux kernel or the KDE. Instead, I would recomend the use of a truly democratic operating system.
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is this one: http://www.command.com
Why not? EU employees get lots of it, especially officials.
City of God = NYC
Two Brothers = WTC
Fortress = Pentagon
Great Leader = G.Bush
Big City = NYC
Well there probably shouldn't be two references to New York. But what about Jerusalem? What if this has something to do with te Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Surely there is "great thunder" in "The City of God" these days...
But then again, I actually don't believe very much in astrological predictions, but they might, such as in this case, be rather interesting to play with.
As long as nobody creates one, there is no existing product (OS) called Redhat GNU/Linux. That's the nature of the GPL ('til RMS changes it, that is), you may call your product what you want, as long as you don't change the license and precerves original copyright notices. In analogy with your example, the car GNU created was licensed in a way that anybody could do what they wanted with it as long as they let anybody else do the same with the results of their doings, which gave the ignition engineer Linus every right to take the car and name it after his igition system. If GNU didn't want this to happen, they should hae written their license othervise.
If MySQL is GPL, as the article states, and NuSpheres addition to it isn't (in fact, not even Open Source), shouldn't this be a problem under the GPL license terms? Can anybody explain the nature of this 'addition'?
But I guess MySQL AB would have used this issue it it existed, since they seem so eager to stop the site, so it probably is a addition in that doesn't violate the GPL.
I've never owned an Amiga, but I still have an Atari TT. That's one noisy machine. It sounds sort of like a small vacuum cleaner. Not very pleasant to work with. Seems like atari thought that the more high-end the machine was, the more noise it had to make. I mean, there cannot be a more quiet machine than my ST.
All this talk about GNU/Linux is only valid if we all agree it is, or if some particular distrubution chooses to call itself that. That is the nature of the GPL as far as I see it -- you can call your product (distribution) whatever you want, as long as you give credits to the original author of the source code that you use. The product reffered to in this paper, for example, is not called GNU/Linux -- it is called Red Hat Linux 7.1, which is perfectly valid.
Sure, RMS and the FSF deserves credit for creating GNU etc., but, since they did not include a clause for that in the GPL, nobody has to call something which includes parts of the GNU project GNU/whatever. Of course, Linux was origanally only the kernel, but since the distributors tend to call their systems "Linux" that is what they should be referred to (in accordance to the GPL, anyway). For example, a product called Red Hat GNU/Linux wont exist until you create one -- if only by writing it on the cover of a Redhat CD-rom.
KDE? GNOME ...? Sawmill? WINDOW MAKER?!!!
BAH!
The ONE TRUE window manager for UNIX is MWM, with perhaps it's successor CDE/dtwm. That's the UNIX look'n'feel for ya'. (OOOH those yummy three little buttons!)
The ONE true wm for Linux is FVWM, configured into oblivion with GoodStuff and whatnot, but still looking somwhat like MWM (see above). That's what Linux should look like.
An' don't give me TWM with a bazillion of Xterms. We're not living in bedrock and go back to Xenix on your 286 if you actually want THAT.
/Of course, i personally use none of the above, but that's a whole different story
.The page says he will port it to the Atari Falcon, which means it will probably run on my TT too. Question is: will it be better than TOS and MiNT? ;)
Opinions, and ideologies, are based upon more-or-less accurate observations of reality. We all percieve reality somewhat differently, depending upon upbringing, personal choice, etc., so our opinions tend do differ somewhat as well. I think, that if you say that it's "just your opinion" and that it therefore doesn't matter, you say that observations of reality doesn't matter, and, ultimately, that reality doesn't matter. You must live in a very chaotic world.
As I understand it, since I've been reading the XFce mailing list for a while, desktop icons will be optional if implemented, since they will be provided by a separate application and not by the XFce panel, window manager, or file manager.
Actual quote from the article: "His first post as a fighter pilot was at a Soviet Air Force base".