The help in the kernsl is not always that helpful and in some cases it is not there. There are a few things that I am not sure that I need to compile in my kernel and I have been doing useing Linux for years. To really do a good job at optimizing the kernel one must really know there hardware and what they do and don't need. This is difficult for many including myself and I feel pretty confident at knowing a bit more than the average user about harware.
Consider a users that doesn't know the difference between RAM ROM and hd space: doi you really think it is a good idea for someone like that to compile a kernel?
I'd like to see someone do a benchmark of NT vs FreeBSD. I'd bet that FreeBSD may win that one as even M$ uses FreeBSD to power Hotmail and knows that NT couldn't power hotmail.. They tried that and it failed.
I tried Abi Source and Abi word, I could not use images in it so it was not that good. I know it will get better and satisfy most of my needs, but it needs to be abel to export common formats like rtf, and unfortunately also like word 6, 7, 8, and wordpad files. People wont switch if they cannot wread the word files they get in the mail.
I am interested in seeing where this will go. If they still deliver it as open source that will be good, and if they offer it with either there developer tools or there distro that would be great. I have been looking for a decent ide for Linux, that can handle C / C++ that will not be difficutl to install and get running. If Redhat offeres it as an option in there install for there distro, then what could be easier.
It does make me wonder thou a little about the Redhat tactics. Is this a step towards a Microsoft like monopoly thou? With Redhat owning Cygnus they could make it slightly "redhatish" with a RH icon and force other Linux distros to distribute as a RH product with a RH icon. Imagine having a SuSE distro, with Rh icons all over the IDE. Or worse image if SuSE buys an ide co and then a situation that if you uses SuSE you get this IDe while if you uses RH you get this ide. That could be bad for the whole community.
Honestly I do not see this happening, but it is a thought. RH has been supporing much of the GNOME development and it has not gone the RH way. It will be good if they have RH developers working on Cygnus and Open Source it.
Wow in cambridge. I thought he was from Mexico, I hope he likes snow. I am looking forward to his next releases of GNOME adn the apps. I hope though that there will be XML support in these apps, as well as Word 6, 7, 8, and wordpad files support. Yes I nkow that Corel has this support but not all the Word files I have can be read by Corel. If GNOME were to offere an alternative to Word, it would surely be a bigger hit than it already is. I do like som eof the GNOME apps.
AIX uses ksh as its default? I wonder why the site I am at uses csh instead as the default for all the users and ksh for root (I had root access a few tinmes). I wonder then if csh is better for scripting than ksh, as all our scripts are in csh.
I never tried tcsh and generally uses/bin/sh for my scripts.
I was not aware that FreeBSD used csh, I guess that the configuration of all the aliases we have set up on our system by default has made made it easier to use. I still prefer bash.
I have tried some of the different shells. Here is my review.
csh: This is used as the default shell on AIX. It has some newt features like ! and !! which allow a user to automajically execute a command in the history. Bash also support shis. In fact most of what csh can do bash can do to. I often find myself usinjg csh commands in bash as I work on an AIX server machine at work. csh uses setenv where bash uses export
ksh: or korn. I hate the name core shell it makes me think of something that wel.. it allows one to set up a command line editor. If you like vi you can have a vi on the command line sort of feeling.
bourne: I believe the bourne shell is used on the BSD's. I did try freebsd once and believe that I was using bournce shell. I found it primative compaared to bash. There was a greater learning curve. There seemed to be more to setup, but that could have been FreeBSD itself. There was a history, but I was not sure hw to access it.
Now bash: bash allows one to use ther arrow keys tonavigate thru the history to make executing commands easier. However this is not the only way to execute the history, one can the ! or !! (!69 will execute teh 69 th command in the history file). both ksh and bash use sthe export command to set envariables. I also believe that you can set vi as your command line editor to execute vi commands in the bash shell. To me bash is more like DOS, and thus you do not deal with the quirks of a command shell as much as you deal with the learning the unix commands, thus it is easier to use.
just muy.02 cents. I am sure that others have there opinions. So send flames >/dev/null and moderate -1G
The abstract is a abrief description of what a patent does. Just because your system does what theres does does not necessarily mean you may infringe. What do the claims say? It is the patent claims that are what needs to be worried about. Does anyone have a patent number here?
Suggestion/. with all the patents coming out that deal with hardware/software like this one ie shared mem, maybe it would be a good idea that when someone submits an article for a patent, they are prompted to also send the patent number, and a link to where they got this info, and all that jazz. Rather than just the abstract.
I mean really the abstract is just that 'abstract'. IT is supposed to be a 1 paragraph summary of the invention in less than 150 words.
It comes in colors at least that is what the pictures show. Like Red, and orange. It really did not show to much on there web site, which is a true shame as it looks like a real promising treat. IT looks infact similar to a device released by Cyrix that is a wireless tablet device that runs Windows. Hmmm.
Could this be an invasion of privacty issue? I did not read the article so I do not know weather these were students personal computers or weather these were university computers. If they were university computers then I could see this as a selfprotection issue.
However this is a good example of what is going to happen in the future of computing and the future of privacy.
More and more there is a push for server side computing. Server side data storage, and server side everything. They keep all your information in various databases, yes even the portols do this. So when all your emila and all your files are kept on a remote server somehwere, who is there to stop them from telling you what you can store and what you cannot store? Maybe I have seen to many episodes of 'the net' but there may soon be a day when your whole life and all your info is on the web, and sys admins will always be able to access this information.
First let me say that I did take a CAD class or 2 in college. Second SGI I believe was the leader in graphics and CAD so why should Linux not get a good CAD program? You seem to think that because Linux is 'new' (been around since ~91 if you call that new) does not deserve CAD or photoshop quality software. We do not really need photoshop we have GIMP! We will soon have better than windows CAD software too. It is only a matter of time before Linux has enough apps that more people will realize that windows is not the end all be all.
I should not be forced to use windows, in the USA I should have a choice.
Mozilla 5.0 needs to have all the features that IE has in order for it to compter and stay in the browser war. If it does not have all the features that IE 5.0 has and if people have to write pages for the different browsers which browser do you think will win? IE as it comes with your system.
I agree with what you are saying, and in theory it works. How do you get thru to someone that is not listening anyway. How do you communicate to someone like Sadam Husan?
I read about this in a magizine.. here is an example of an ASP..http://www.globalenglish.com.. you will need windows and Explorer to get the full effect thou:-(
Interesting part is that they are an ASP (Applicatino Service Provider) running asp (active server pages).:-)
Supposedly all is fair in love and war. If this is true then sure crack them. I am sure that some of these countries are not going to pay any attention to the Geneva convention anyway. If some wacko takes over a country what does he care about the Geneva convntion any way (not necessarily the case here). Making rules governing cracking and 'war time computing' part of teh Geneva convention is only going to hurt thoses that would abide by the Geneva convention.
THe end result is going to be that countries like the US would not go out and crack another country but another country may try to crack the US. Who gets hurt ? The US for abiding by some new rule somone wants to make.
People run redlights, not accidentally, but on purpose here in DC. WHen a light turn red, there are usually 4 to 6 cars that go thru it. Even after trafic has started moving into the intersection I have seen someone runs a red light, and in some cases cause an accident. When people cannot obey a simple law such as running a red light how do you expect a country not to hack another country. We as a race have become a discusting creature. No respect for our selves or our planet or each other. Why do you think that there are so many shooting in the US lately, so many little countries that have there goverments chagned each month, and so much pollution. We just don't give a F***.
I never said that Netscape was the standard. It makes it hard to design web sites that take advantage of the best of both features, when one browser or OS does not get that feature supported, and it makes for a world wide 'suck' when sites require you to have this or that to view there site.
eg.. go here -> www.globalenglish.com with windows and then go there with linux if you can and you will get a good idea of what I mean.. there are 2 different sites, and one basically states you must have windows.
I have been to M$ site with IE2.0 and guess what.. you cannot get anywhere with it. There own site does not support there own browser, so how do they expect you to upgrade?
NT already has this capability in it. When NT dies it takes the memory contents and dumps it to its swap space. Then you are supposedly able to debug the BSOD. I never tried this, but it is what M$ says it can do. It is good to see that Linux is going to hopefullly have this too. Since this invloves kernel code I wonder if Linus will let it in.
Yes a penguin would be a good start. But Linux is more than penguins. Maybe a penguin with th eface of Linus and Alan and some of the other core developers hiddin in its body, or maybe use there faces to make a sort of collage that ends up looking like a penguin. Something that should show that Linux is not one person and not one country, and is made like the diversity that makes up the world.
IE 5.0 and netscape 4.x do not work the same. Yes that is obvious. But does anyone know how obvious> It goes beyond plugins too. IE 5.0 does not comply with the standards fully. I have code that was created as per documentation on how to use layers. I then viewed this page under Netscape. All was fine eveything showed up just fine. I view it under IE 5.0 and the layers lloose there properties that were set in my style sheet that I took so much time to work on. That sucks!
The problems do not stop there thou. VBscript is another issue altogether. I have had the same problems mentioned in this article and plain and simplely Here is my feeling:
If you create a website that is 'browser' specifiic on the web, you have lost my attention.
It is one thing to require a browser that adheres to newer standards, like table in tables (HTML4.0), but to block out users and redirect them to another page cause they do not have IE adn windows is just wrong!
Why in a world that is so divers in its cultures and populus, should I be FORCED to use XXX OS with YYY browser?
I just had to have a looksee at it. There new "Corel Filemanager" looks like Explorer with the active desktop. It is rather scary IMHO. There installation menu did not show many options, but the graphics were not that clear so it was hard to tell. It is nice to see that many companies are taking to debain, but it would be nicer to see them contribute back to debain. Maybe it is just me but it seems a growing trend to make money of of other peoples work. I know that Corel has offered there Corel WP 8.0 for free download but it was more of a limited demo version. I am curious how much they intend to sell the distro for and if they are including WP8.0 the FULL version with it not the "limited" edition.
They have screen shots of the deskto pafter it is installed, but any linux system can be made to look like those.
I looked for screenshots of the installation and did not find any does anyone have any references to this?
Something to note, is that once a Linux distribution is installed they are all pretty much the same now. Slackware 7.0 is now glibc2, as are SuSE, Redhat, Caldera, Mandrake, etc.
They failed to mention which kernel it ran or I missed that too. I remeber a few months ago reading about EasyLinux which was supposed to be a distribution that is easy to install. Last I saw on there web site they had released a final version, but no mention was made on/. of this.
It seem all distro are moving towards easier installations. In wonder how many of them are dealing with security issues that arrise form having Linux installed on a system? Issues like if you install apache it is world viewable, and if you configure it in such a way anyone can browse your system. Also by defaul many of these system come wiht ftp and telnet already installed. Als inetd is usually configured to run and the default run level is usually 3 for multi user. I only mention this cause I found out that RH6.0 by default had many serveices configured thru inetd like finger who and ftp talk, etc. I shut them off except telnet and ftp. I also found out that apache by being installed and not in inetd (not that that has anythign to do with it) was browseable by others. Yes I have configured my hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. My point here is how many of these companies are considering security for a 'newbie' Linux users? Security upon installation? They should be coming up with 'easy firewall', and do you want to secure your system during the installation process. Also informing the user during the install inetd is configured to start durning boot and all.
I also wonder how secure kde and gnome are since both use ports that are not configured thru inetd. After running netstat it shows many ports in use, how secure is this (questino here).
Don't get me wrong I think it is great taht people are trying to make Linux more user friendly, but I hope they take into consideration how 'newbie' users can be dumb. Hey even in windows I have seen users edit there registries so that they could not boot there sytem or start word.
I always wondered how someone could survive without getting paid these days. Yes Open Source software is great, and I have contributed a few programs.
On another note. I think it will be great that he will be able to contribute more time to the OS movement. I hope that he does not continue to duplicate the kde efforts. Last night I discoverd gnome-mc. This is the gnoem file manager. It is in some way similar to kde filemanager. Both can put icons on the desktop, and both have tree views for browsing desktops. The Gnome filemanager has a more win95 look and feel to it, while kde is more of a web based feel. Yet they both allow users to put icons on there desktops like win 95 and mac's. Then there is gnotepad and kwrite and kedit. While theses are different editors it is just another example of duplicated efforts. There are duplications between the two everywhere. Yes this is great that there are lots of choices, but they still don't offer a 'true' solution.
My suggestion that will prbably be ignored and moderated down to hell but I don't care!
Rather than have duplicate programs that do the same thing. Some of these authors should get together and produce apps that are truely useful.
A full featured word processor that can read and write word 6/7/8 files should be something to consifder.
Just my ).02cents. but I'd personally rather see less programs that repeat the same efforts and more better and porwerful programs. nad yes I know about staroffice.
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Consider a users that doesn't know the difference between RAM ROM and hd space: doi you really think it is a good idea for someone like that to compile a kernel?
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I am interested in seeing where this will go. If they still deliver it as open source that will be good, and if they offer it with either there developer tools or there distro that would be great. I have been looking for a decent ide for Linux, that can handle C / C++ that will not be difficutl to install and get running. If Redhat offeres it as an option in there install for there distro, then what could be easier.
It does make me wonder thou a little about the Redhat tactics. Is this a step towards a Microsoft like monopoly thou? With Redhat owning Cygnus they could make it slightly "redhatish" with a RH icon and force other Linux distros to distribute as a RH product with a RH icon. Imagine having a SuSE distro, with Rh icons all over the IDE. Or worse image if SuSE buys an ide co and then a situation that if you uses SuSE you get this IDe while if you uses RH you get this ide. That could be bad for the whole community.
Honestly I do not see this happening, but it is a thought. RH has been supporing much of the GNOME development and it has not gone the RH way. It will be good if they have RH developers working on Cygnus and Open Source it.
just my .02 cents.
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I never tried tcsh and generally uses /bin/sh for my scripts.
I was not aware that FreeBSD used csh, I guess that the configuration of all the aliases we have set up on our system by default has made made it easier to use. I still prefer bash.
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csh: This is used as the default shell on AIX. It has some newt features like ! and !! which allow a user to automajically execute a command in the history. Bash also support shis. In fact most of what csh can do bash can do to. I often find myself usinjg csh commands in bash as I work on an AIX server machine at work. csh uses setenv where bash uses export
ksh: or korn. I hate the name core shell it makes me think of something that wel .. it allows one to set up a command line editor. If you like vi you can have a vi on the command line sort of feeling.
bourne: I believe the bourne shell is used on the BSD's. I did try freebsd once and believe that I was using bournce shell. I found it primative compaared to bash. There was a greater learning curve. There seemed to be more to setup, but that could have been FreeBSD itself. There was a history, but I was not sure hw to access it.
Now bash: bash allows one to use ther arrow keys tonavigate thru the history to make executing commands easier. However this is not the only way to execute the history, one can the ! or !! (!69 will execute teh 69 th command in the history file). both ksh and bash use sthe export command to set envariables. I also believe that you can set vi as your command line editor to execute vi commands in the bash shell. To me bash is more like DOS, and thus you do not deal with the quirks of a command shell as much as you deal with the learning the unix commands, thus it is easier to use.
just muy .02 cents. I am sure that others have there opinions. So send flames > /dev/null and moderate -1G
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Suggestion /. with all the patents coming out that deal with hardware/software like this one ie shared mem, maybe it would be a good idea that when someone submits an article for a patent, they are prompted to also send the patent number, and a link to where they got this info, and all that jazz. Rather than just the abstract.
I mean really the abstract is just that 'abstract'. IT is supposed to be a 1 paragraph summary of the invention in less than 150 words.
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However this is a good example of what is going to happen in the future of computing and the future of privacy.
More and more there is a push for server side computing. Server side data storage, and server side everything. They keep all your information in various databases, yes even the portols do this. So when all your emila and all your files are kept on a remote server somehwere, who is there to stop them from telling you what you can store and what you cannot store? Maybe I have seen to many episodes of 'the net' but there may soon be a day when your whole life and all your info is on the web, and sys admins will always be able to access this information.
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I should not be forced to use windows, in the USA I should have a choice.
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I read about this in a magizine.. here is an example of an ASP ..http://www.globalenglish.com.. you will need windows and Explorer to get the full effect thou :-(
Interesting part is that they are an ASP (Applicatino Service Provider) running asp (active server pages). :-)
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THe end result is going to be that countries like the US would not go out and crack another country but another country may try to crack the US. Who gets hurt ? The US for abiding by some new rule somone wants to make.
People run redlights, not accidentally, but on purpose here in DC. WHen a light turn red, there are usually 4 to 6 cars that go thru it. Even after trafic has started moving into the intersection I have seen someone runs a red light, and in some cases cause an accident. When people cannot obey a simple law such as running a red light how do you expect a country not to hack another country. We as a race have become a discusting creature. No respect for our selves or our planet or each other. Why do you think that there are so many shooting in the US lately, so many little countries that have there goverments chagned each month, and so much pollution. We just don't give a F***.
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eg.. go here -> www.globalenglish.com with windows and then go there with linux if you can and you will get a good idea of what I mean.. there are 2 different sites, and one basically states you must have windows.
I have been to M$ site with IE2.0 and guess what .. you cannot get anywhere with it. There own site does not support there own browser, so how do they expect you to upgrade?
Stupidy runs rampant on the WWW....
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The problems do not stop there thou. VBscript is another issue altogether. I have had the same problems mentioned in this article and plain and simplely Here is my feeling:
It is one thing to require a browser that adheres to newer standards, like table in tables (HTML4.0), but to block out users and redirect them to another page cause they do not have IE adn windows is just wrong!Why in a world that is so divers in its cultures and populus, should I be FORCED to use XXX OS with YYY browser?
Truthfully, I do boycott browser specific sites.
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Just my .02 cents.. please send flame > /dev/null
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They have screen shots of the deskto pafter it is installed, but any linux system can be made to look like those.
I looked for screenshots of the installation and did not find any does anyone have any references to this?
Something to note, is that once a Linux distribution is installed they are all pretty much the same now. Slackware 7.0 is now glibc2, as are SuSE, Redhat, Caldera, Mandrake, etc.
They failed to mention which kernel it ran or I missed that too. I remeber a few months ago reading about EasyLinux which was supposed to be a distribution that is easy to install. Last I saw on there web site they had released a final version, but no mention was made on /. of this.
It seem all distro are moving towards easier installations. In wonder how many of them are dealing with security issues that arrise form having Linux installed on a system? Issues like if you install apache it is world viewable, and if you configure it in such a way anyone can browse your system. Also by defaul many of these system come wiht ftp and telnet already installed. Als inetd is usually configured to run and the default run level is usually 3 for multi user. I only mention this cause I found out that RH6.0 by default had many serveices configured thru inetd like finger who and ftp talk, etc. I shut them off except telnet and ftp. I also found out that apache by being installed and not in inetd (not that that has anythign to do with it) was browseable by others. Yes I have configured my hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. My point here is how many of these companies are considering security for a 'newbie' Linux users? Security upon installation? They should be coming up with 'easy firewall', and do you want to secure your system during the installation process. Also informing the user during the install inetd is configured to start durning boot and all.
I also wonder how secure kde and gnome are since both use ports that are not configured thru inetd. After running netstat it shows many ports in use, how secure is this (questino here).
Don't get me wrong I think it is great taht people are trying to make Linux more user friendly, but I hope they take into consideration how 'newbie' users can be dumb. Hey even in windows I have seen users edit there registries so that they could not boot there sytem or start word.
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FYI I am a programmer experienced in large projects. And very large programs.
And who is going to teach him to be a parent of himself the TV?
I always wondered how someone could survive without getting paid these days. Yes Open Source software is great, and I have contributed a few programs.
On another note. I think it will be great that he will be able to contribute more time to the OS movement. I hope that he does not continue to duplicate the kde efforts. Last night I discoverd gnome-mc. This is the gnoem file manager. It is in some way similar to kde filemanager. Both can put icons on the desktop, and both have tree views for browsing desktops. The Gnome filemanager has a more win95 look and feel to it, while kde is more of a web based feel. Yet they both allow users to put icons on there desktops like win 95 and mac's. Then there is gnotepad and kwrite and kedit. While theses are different editors it is just another example of duplicated efforts. There are duplications between the two everywhere. Yes this is great that there are lots of choices, but they still don't offer a 'true' solution.
My suggestion that will prbably be ignored and moderated down to hell but I don't care!
Just my ).02cents. but I'd personally rather see less programs that repeat the same efforts and more better and porwerful programs. nad yes I know about staroffice.
I wonder if this includes corporate sales? If so I can see why. My company is all Dell and we are one of the larger it employers in this area.