Moz for linux has to push every request and event through the Xserver which is sloooow. Windows on the other hand has no clue about user space and lets every application have direct access to all the hardware it wants. Much faster buch much less secure.
It's the developers you are paying. Why are we paying for software? It doesn't cost anything to copy software, just 5cents or so for the cd and however much for the printer manuals and box, if you even buy that part. We should be paying for developers time instead, this is where open source fits in.
Let's take an example. The Linux kernel is free, everyone can download it. So how do people make money off of it? Contracts. A company can hire out a person to write a kernel module for their new hardware. The developer gets paid by the hour to write the module and the module can be released open and free. Then later another company can hire someone else to make another module and add it to the kernel. All these contracts may be small, but they keep adding to one big project.
Now this only works with Free Open Source software that can be incrementally improved. A large game for end consumers won't work with this model. What company is going to pay a large group of developers to make a giant game and then release it for free? Maybe as Open Source, but not free.
So Open Source developers should get into contracting to work on open source projects that can help large companies. If a project is Open and Free, it can help everyone and save money for large companies as they don't have to pay for large software packages and then upgrades... and Open Source developers can still be paid.
Linux needs hardware manufacturers to create drivers for their new hardware. If Linux is going to be an "underground" OS, then why would manufacturers spend time/money making drivers for it? Ya ya, so many people are going to say linux users can write their own drivers. Well there are plenty of pieces of hardware I would like to plug into my linux box that don't have drivers for them.
Linux needs to show that it's mainstream and not an underground OS, or companies will continue to ignore it.
Linux is going in the complete opposite direction of Windows and getting faster with each version. If Linux is going to compete with Windows it better start getting slow, and getting slow fast!
It just runs on a different system of values than the minority number of voters believes. To most people in the US, money means morals. Most people look at Bill Gates and see that he's worth billions of dollars after starting from the normal life that most people have. That leads people to believe that he must be the smartest best guy in the world and that he should never be accused of doing anything wrong. Everyone wants to be in his position.
No the justice system isn't corrupt. We're just in a disagreement in if fair competition or the biggest dollar sign should lead the correct moral path.
Before:
I can't for the life of me understand why Microsofts monopoly still exists.
After:
I shall throw down my life for the glory of Microsoft empires existance!
Check your return values!! As simple as it sounds, so many people just don't do this. Everyone just assumes that everything will go ok. Check the return, then print out an error to stderr. To be more helpful use this define just before you print your error message to help find where the error was and debug it.
#define ERR_LOCATION fprintf(stderr, "ERROR in File: %c Line: %d:", __FILE__, __LINE__)
Then use it like so:
ERR_LOCATION;
fprintf(stderr, "foo returned %d.\n", ret);
What commercial company wouldn't want everyone in the world buying their products and giving them money? For that matter, who here doesn't want linux on every computer in the world? Everyone thinks they have the right ideas and morals to control the world. Gates thinks he should control the software industry and get all the profits from it just as much as RMS thinks all software should be free. So who's right?
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I don't get it, is this for support on your product you are developing? What about a university or a person making a program on their free time? There's no way some high school kid is going to pay $1250 to hack around on some code while learning C.
Most X implementations share the same source. Most of it comes from the main X.org source tree. There are plenty of direct cut and pastes from the X.org tree right into other trees, Xfree86, Suns, etc... The core source of the trees really are not much different. They are suppose to all implement the same standard, so there isn't much room to have a different core system.
I have been coding in the X windows source for a while now, adding in extensions and etc. All I can say is it is a disaster. The goal of X windows is to retain backward compatibility all the way back from it's initial implementation. What this means is that almost none of the source is ever removed or replaced, it just has wrappers written around it or hacks to decide which source to use. The source is littered with #ifdefs. The code is not very modular either. A change to one section of the source means a change to others to keep things synchonized. Good luck finding the spots to change. For example I added an extension and had to edit the command line argument processor in the main() function, the extension init routine, some hardware initializing routines and ANOTHER commandline argument processing routine. X windows is just so big that when you have many coders working on it at the same time, everything gets out of synch more and more... Oh the best way to find the spots to change is to find where it is segfaulting, and browse a lot of core files.
Ok, now the only good things about X windows is that.... umm... it's a "standard" which is a word a lot of people like. I think DirectFB will be successful as long as X windows is still around to run all the older Xwindows dependant applications.
Some contradiction here?
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Most slashdotters are advocates about retaining their privacy and personal information. Yet when it comes to other peoples privacy, ie Anonymous Cowards, it's just unacceptable. Those same people want the Anonymous Cowards modded down. Maybe someone posting as an Anonymous Coward has no choice. If they need to post something negative about the company they work at or an opinion they don't want people to know is theirs, then they have to post anonymously.
Things need to work both ways here. Now go ahead and mod me down for "trolling".
KDE and Gnome are doing good jobs at becoming good window managers for average computer users. It's the system that is the problem. Installing a harddrive in windows is easy, you just plug it in. In Linux you have to mount the drive and edit your fstab table. Is your average every day user going to be able to do that? What about configuring Xfree86 to use a newer video drive?
"Goto a command prompt, load up vi, now open/etc/..."
"Huh? What? Don't I just reboot now?"
And your average joe compiling a new kernel? hahaha
It's the hardware installation and configuration that needs work. Linux needs better plug and play support. I mean if Windows can do, why shouldn't Linux be able to do it better?
...we will all realize pretty quickly this is NOT the Internet...
This sounds like the revival of the BBS. Oh how I miss those days, when everyone on a board was from the local community. When you never had to deal with advertising and corporations. Only people and most of whom were friends.
Ok, I know how everyone here hates marketing, I don't like it either. But for most of the people in this world they only listen to marketing, not factual intelligent reports or people. These people need all their information given to them, they can't go out and search for reports. How many people do you think will read this Cnet article if it's not email/icqed to them by a friend?
Most people have never heard about Linux until a few reports started popping up here and there on the news. I have had relatives email me news articles about Linux because they think it's some new and interesting thing. Usually I've already read about the topic months ago but they are just getting around to hearing about it because it was just shown to them by a local newspaper or on TV.
We need to start giving people more information about Linux and Open Source projects and their goals. We need to inform people about how their information and freedom is going to be controlled if they don't stop it. If we just sit back and keep denying that we need to announce these things to the world and keep trying to feel safe in our little groups, then MS will keep shoveling out how great it and it's products are and people will keep handing their money and freedom over to them.
We're at a point where Linux and Open Source can do most of the corporate tasks that Windows can do, and Linux can only get better. There is no single company to take Linux down so an investment in Linux is secure and can only grow and get better with time. If Linux and Open Source software does what you want it to do now, it will continue to do it in the future and grow to do it better.
If they want performance and efficiancy they should include flwm. It's small simple and fast to use, and it takes about 10K of memory. Can you say that about Gnome or KDE?
The only reason Polaroid stayed alive for so long was because they went out and attacked anyone who developed instant film similar to theirs. With no competitors, why would Polaroid want to spend money on R&D to make new cheaper products? When digital came out, it provided instant pictures just like polaroid film, but without the actual physical film, so there was nothing Polaroid could do about it.
There are still uses for polaroid film (think of any situation where you want an instant hard copy or are not near any photo labs). But because consumers have moved away to digitals so fast, Polaroid won't be able to get any income for advancements to their technology.
To be cliche, the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Some major companies have enough trouble conforming to free web standards as it is and break and make their own standards. Creating standards that require royalties to use will just make companies do things their own way even more.
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Moz for linux has to push every request and event through the Xserver which is sloooow. Windows on the other hand has no clue about user space and lets every application have direct access to all the hardware it wants. Much faster buch much less secure.
It's the developers you are paying. Why are we paying for software? It doesn't cost anything to copy software, just 5cents or so for the cd and however much for the printer manuals and box, if you even buy that part. We should be paying for developers time instead, this is where open source fits in.
Let's take an example. The Linux kernel is free, everyone can download it. So how do people make money off of it? Contracts. A company can hire out a person to write a kernel module for their new hardware. The developer gets paid by the hour to write the module and the module can be released open and free. Then later another company can hire someone else to make another module and add it to the kernel. All these contracts may be small, but they keep adding to one big project.
Now this only works with Free Open Source software that can be incrementally improved. A large game for end consumers won't work with this model. What company is going to pay a large group of developers to make a giant game and then release it for free? Maybe as Open Source, but not free.
So Open Source developers should get into contracting to work on open source projects that can help large companies. If a project is Open and Free, it can help everyone and save money for large companies as they don't have to pay for large software packages and then upgrades... and Open Source developers can still be paid.
He claims American commandos are skulking around dressed as Northern Alliance tribesmen.
Good thing that was just made public knowledge...
He's already made his way to some sex sites, and wishes he had a printer.
That was a little too much information for me...
Linux needs hardware manufacturers to create drivers for their new hardware. If Linux is going to be an "underground" OS, then why would manufacturers spend time/money making drivers for it? Ya ya, so many people are going to say linux users can write their own drivers. Well there are plenty of pieces of hardware I would like to plug into my linux box that don't have drivers for them.
Linux needs to show that it's mainstream and not an underground OS, or companies will continue to ignore it.
"News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
So I guess paintball is a really popular sport with nerds after a day of heavy coding?
Linux is going in the complete opposite direction of Windows and getting faster with each version. If Linux is going to compete with Windows it better start getting slow, and getting slow fast!
It just runs on a different system of values than the minority number of voters believes. To most people in the US, money means morals. Most people look at Bill Gates and see that he's worth billions of dollars after starting from the normal life that most people have. That leads people to believe that he must be the smartest best guy in the world and that he should never be accused of doing anything wrong. Everyone wants to be in his position.
No the justice system isn't corrupt. We're just in a disagreement in if fair competition or the biggest dollar sign should lead the correct moral path.
So does it crash as much as the Xbox? I'm guessing it doesn't...
Before:
I can't for the life of me understand why Microsofts monopoly still exists.
After:
I shall throw down my life for the glory of Microsoft empires existance!
Check your return values!! As simple as it sounds, so many people just don't do this. Everyone just assumes that everything will go ok. Check the return, then print out an error to stderr. To be more helpful use this define just before you print your error message to help find where the error was and debug it. :", __FILE__, __LINE__)
#define ERR_LOCATION fprintf(stderr, "ERROR in File: %c Line: %d
Then use it like so:
ERR_LOCATION;
fprintf(stderr, "foo returned %d.\n", ret);
I believe that's the correct code.
What commercial company wouldn't want everyone in the world buying their products and giving them money? For that matter, who here doesn't want linux on every computer in the world? Everyone thinks they have the right ideas and morals to control the world. Gates thinks he should control the software industry and get all the profits from it just as much as RMS thinks all software should be free. So who's right?
..Microsoft Sales Rep? I don't think they would need too much training.
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I don't get it, is this for support on your product you are developing? What about a university or a person making a program on their free time? There's no way some high school kid is going to pay $1250 to hack around on some code while learning C.
Most X implementations share the same source. Most of it comes from the main X.org source tree. There are plenty of direct cut and pastes from the X.org tree right into other trees, Xfree86, Suns, etc... The core source of the trees really are not much different. They are suppose to all implement the same standard, so there isn't much room to have a different core system.
I have been coding in the X windows source for a while now, adding in extensions and etc. All I can say is it is a disaster. The goal of X windows is to retain backward compatibility all the way back from it's initial implementation. What this means is that almost none of the source is ever removed or replaced, it just has wrappers written around it or hacks to decide which source to use. The source is littered with #ifdefs. The code is not very modular either. A change to one section of the source means a change to others to keep things synchonized. Good luck finding the spots to change. For example I added an extension and had to edit the command line argument processor in the main() function, the extension init routine, some hardware initializing routines and ANOTHER commandline argument processing routine. X windows is just so big that when you have many coders working on it at the same time, everything gets out of synch more and more... Oh the best way to find the spots to change is to find where it is segfaulting, and browse a lot of core files.
Ok, now the only good things about X windows is that.... umm... it's a "standard" which is a word a lot of people like. I think DirectFB will be successful as long as X windows is still around to run all the older Xwindows dependant applications.
Most slashdotters are advocates about retaining their privacy and personal information. Yet when it comes to other peoples privacy, ie Anonymous Cowards, it's just unacceptable. Those same people want the Anonymous Cowards modded down. Maybe someone posting as an Anonymous Coward has no choice. If they need to post something negative about the company they work at or an opinion they don't want people to know is theirs, then they have to post anonymously.
Things need to work both ways here. Now go ahead and mod me down for "trolling".
KDE and Gnome are doing good jobs at becoming good window managers for average computer users. It's the system that is the problem. Installing a harddrive in windows is easy, you just plug it in. In Linux you have to mount the drive and edit your fstab table. Is your average every day user going to be able to do that? What about configuring Xfree86 to use a newer video drive? /etc/..."
"Goto a command prompt, load up vi, now open
"Huh? What? Don't I just reboot now?"
And your average joe compiling a new kernel? hahaha
It's the hardware installation and configuration that needs work. Linux needs better plug and play support. I mean if Windows can do, why shouldn't Linux be able to do it better?
...we will all realize pretty quickly this is NOT the Internet...
This sounds like the revival of the BBS. Oh how I miss those days, when everyone on a board was from the local community. When you never had to deal with advertising and corporations. Only people and most of whom were friends.
Ok, I know how everyone here hates marketing, I don't like it either. But for most of the people in this world they only listen to marketing, not factual intelligent reports or people. These people need all their information given to them, they can't go out and search for reports. How many people do you think will read this Cnet article if it's not email/icqed to them by a friend?
Most people have never heard about Linux until a few reports started popping up here and there on the news. I have had relatives email me news articles about Linux because they think it's some new and interesting thing. Usually I've already read about the topic months ago but they are just getting around to hearing about it because it was just shown to them by a local newspaper or on TV.
We need to start giving people more information about Linux and Open Source projects and their goals. We need to inform people about how their information and freedom is going to be controlled if they don't stop it. If we just sit back and keep denying that we need to announce these things to the world and keep trying to feel safe in our little groups, then MS will keep shoveling out how great it and it's products are and people will keep handing their money and freedom over to them.
We're at a point where Linux and Open Source can do most of the corporate tasks that Windows can do, and Linux can only get better. There is no single company to take Linux down so an investment in Linux is secure and can only grow and get better with time. If Linux and Open Source software does what you want it to do now, it will continue to do it in the future and grow to do it better.
If they want performance and efficiancy they should include flwm. It's small simple and fast to use, and it takes about 10K of memory. Can you say that about Gnome or KDE?
The only reason Polaroid stayed alive for so long was because they went out and attacked anyone who developed instant film similar to theirs. With no competitors, why would Polaroid want to spend money on R&D to make new cheaper products? When digital came out, it provided instant pictures just like polaroid film, but without the actual physical film, so there was nothing Polaroid could do about it.
There are still uses for polaroid film (think of any situation where you want an instant hard copy or are not near any photo labs). But because consumers have moved away to digitals so fast, Polaroid won't be able to get any income for advancements to their technology.
To be cliche, the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Some major companies have enough trouble conforming to free web standards as it is and break and make their own standards. Creating standards that require royalties to use will just make companies do things their own way even more.
Same as with the Mandrake site.