Yum works pretty well, it may be slow, but its a huge improvement. The problem is that yum is useless with RHEL. With RHEL customers are stuck with up2date, which is completely lacking. FC5 is solid distro but your inclusion of a long FAQ showcases my issues with Fedora and many other distros. People should not have to read a FAQ to play movies, visit flash websites, and use Java applets. It should all work out of the box..
but he is the last person that should be representing the free software community to politicians. You need a clean cut person in a suit who is familiar with the politics of that nation. Why do think people hire lobbyists instead of appealing to politicians directly?
The whole free software vs. open source debate is so tired. Stallman, really needs to give up on the whole anti "open source" label crap.
Ever since the term "open source" was coined, we have seen companies find ways to use it and their product name in the same sentence.
Whats funny is I don't understand the confusion here. Sun announced that Java has a new distribution license so Linux distros can have java in their non-free sections of their package management systems.
Sun also announced that they are looking in to releasing Java source under an osi approved license. They are two individual stories, and it has absolutely nothing to with the decade old free vs. open source software debate.
Something like.adg (just hit 1,2,3) or.ptw (7,8,9).
Just because a solution may seem logical doesn't make it marketable. It would be impossible to get people to standardize to something like.adg on a mobile phone. Its a lot easier to make mobile phone browsers to default to.mobi when no tltd is used.
The mobi tld makes a lot of sense. I have been waiting a long time for a standardized method for accessing sites from portable devices.
Why do we need yet another TLD that needs to be registered and maintained when we can today go to mobi.slashdot.org and get a slightly different page?
Because nobody will do it, if it is simply some voluntary suggestion to use a subdomain standard. There would also be no way to enforce standards on a subdomain.
Can anyone tell me why a person would want to use Ubuntu on a server, as opposed to just using Debian?
As a big proponent of debian, the biggest problem corporate/companies have with debian support options is that is not coming directly from the distributor of the software. So maybe thats one reason for choosing Ubuntu is that they offer support directly.
Its also probably a lot easier for Sun to deal with a company when wanting changes/partnerships, rather than dealing with a fully community based effort. You can't just go to 1-2 guys in Debian and say do this and get it in by next week or else!
I'm guessing its a lot easier for Sun to endorse a distro thats lead by a company and semi-community based, rather than a completely community based effort.
About a month ago this blue screen appeared on a Windows 2003 Server Appliance Edition NAS BOX. Attempt to mount an NFS share served by the windows NAS, and boom blue screen. This is a commercial NAS box running a supposidly ultra stable version of windows for such devices. I would have picked the linux powered box but it wasn't my choice.
One of the best traits about java is the fact that there is a wide variety of standardized core libraries that are consistant with the JRE version. Anytime I have to install a perl script I cringe at having to install a ton of random libraries through CPAN.
The Beatles have historically been 'behind the times' technologically, what we might call 'late adopters'. For example, their catalog wasn't available on CD until 1987 - years after CDs were accepted as mainstream.
Cd's were hardly mainstream in 1987. There were pricey toys. It wasn't until 1988/1989 that CD's became the mainstream format.
We really need more alternatives to ebay. Every few months I get another e-mail informing me of fee increases on eBay. The eBay management has done a good job of not appearing as a dominating monopoly, but the fees and acquisitions just keep coming.
When he left to work at MS, it pissed off a lot of purists and a lot of people shunned him. I think his move not to come back to the open source community (right now, anyway) has a lot to do with the fact he poured so much of himself into open source, and once he left to try and not live paycheck to paycheck,
Yeah, because I'm sure Microsoft is the ONLY PLACE where the founder of Gentoo could get a decent paying job.
For a lot of web work and casual image editing, but its not up to snuff for any professional print or photography work. Whenever a casual user wants to do some quick image editing, I always recommend gimp, but I certainly wouldn't recommend Gimp for somone who does editing for a living.
Does gimp have any major corporate backers? I think part of the problem is that open source developers tend to scratch an itch, i.e. solve a problem that they want to solve, not write code for a feature that they have no intention of using. The interface could also use a major reworking. It should really be written with photoshop users in mind.
I know people like to do their own thing, and oh how much did the earily open source desktop enviroments get blasted for looking like windows, but Photoshop has over a 90% market share. If gimp is to become a serious photoshop alternative, it would need usable by photoshop users right off the bat, without retraining or documentation.
I don't even look at ATI anymore when building a system for my own use. Nvidia has had excelent Linux device driver support for a number of years now. The last few personal systems I built were nvidia dualhead systems running linux, and I have never had a driver problem.
My latest system is dualhead dual-dvi pci-express 7800GT system running on Ubuntu. I was expecting the video configuration to be a major pain the ass, but everything worked well.
Until ATI has the same level of Linux support, I will not take their products under consideration.
Oprah publicly lashed out at the liar(author) and the publisher on her show. This is simply a case of CYA. Oprah's production company was approached by mutliple credible people discounting the book's story long before this scandal took place. Her production company has many resources. Considering the volume of sales they do, there is no reason for her production company not to do a little fact checking on their own.
I get sick of the implied (or inferred by the masses) rags-to-riches yarn of Gates, college dropout made good. It's not true, Gates is of wealthy background, was a spoiled brat from the start and never had anything to lose,
Classism at its finest, so everyone whose parents are wealthy is a spoiled brat? I thought I would never see a day when I defend Bill Gates, but that day has come. So let me get this straight, because his parents were wealthy, his success in business and charity should be discounted? What about the millions of well off people who never amount to nothing?
If anything, he should be praised even more for becoming successful through his own determination rather than being a rich kid that does nothing. Just because someone's parents had a bit of money, doesn't make them a bad person, and certainly should not take away from their accolades.
I'm sorry I don't see what is wrong with obeying the laws of a country in which you do business.
So what happens if a country has laws that are unjust or violate basic human rights? If a country has a law that says you can't hire people of a certain race, should Google just go ahead with that law and consider it to be a cost of doing business?
I've been using Linux as my primary desktop for about 6 years now. I have owned OSX machines in the past, specifically the original powermac G5. Typically as far as laptops are concerned, I run thinkpads and single boot in to my preferred distro. If I could still run Linux as my primary and be able to boot in to OSX when I want to test something or run photoshop, that makes the new intel based macs a powerful solution.
Just because OSX is unix based, doesn't make it a replacement for desktop Linux or vice versa. There are a lot of things, that are a whole lot easier for me to do in Linux, when compared to OSX.
Run the latest Java release
Have a total package management solution
Developer tools easly installable through package management
Run the latest Openoffice.org
Run a gnome desktop
Run Evolution
People have different needs. OSX is a great OS, but its not the solution for everybody. PPC Linux has been around for a long time, but its always been a second class citizen. Being able to run OSX and Linux on one machine, where everything works, could be very powerful.
Having a license provision in GPLv3 will do absolutely nothing to discourage the use of DRM. Open source in general discourages DRM since DRM usually involves hiding a key somewhere on a users machine without them being able to access it directly.
The only thing having DRM clause in the GPLv3 will do, is reduce the usage of the GPL. Not because people looking at the GPL license will be interested in using it for DRM, but it will be yet another attempt to make the GPL more restrictive. The reason why the GPL gets such a bad rap in many circles is because its so complex and restrictive.
Adding more restrictions isn't going to encourage the proliferation of free software, it will just encourage people to choose another license. A license used by millions should not be modified on a whim based on the opinions of a handful of people.
That was my thought initially too, wait for the second generation. Its probably still good advice, but I think they fact they are using a widely implemented Intel product will increase the reliability of these first generation Intel macs. My first generation pentium-m is still a good performer today. Apple will be using the standard processors, boards, and components of the Centrino duo, which will have a long a lifespan. There is not going to be some earth shattering change in the Macbook components a year from now. Apple will be using the same Intel specs that every other major pc laptop manufacturer will be using, so we can probably through all the first-gen history out the window.
Media Relations, PR, understanding the value of secrecy before a product launch. The reason why Apple releasing a new laptop is news across the country, its because nobody outside of Apple has a good idea as to what they will release. When most manufactures have a new product coming out, the news sites know about it months in advance.
Even non-apple users are interested in what Apple announces, because their products tend to set industry trends from time to time.
While it was noteworthy that Apple showed their first Intel power products. Overall, I don't think these new announcements were that impressive. All of the big wintel manufactures announced duo products last week at CES. There are really no unique features with these new items from Apple.
While Apple is gaining a lot with the Intel switch, it is losing a lot of its uniqueness in terms of hardware. Then again, most people are purchasing Apple products for the software features of OSX, not CPU.
Its funny that they should mention SourceForge, while it is a great site, VA software decided to stop releasing the source code to sourceforge a few years ago.
When Apple decided to duplicate Konfabulator in Tiger, Apple fanboys respeonded to the critism by saying that Konfabulator is a ripoff of Desk Accessories?
The idea that the creators of Konfabulator were thinking of Desk Accessories is extremly far fetched. Desk accessories was a bundle of mini desktop apps that were not network enabled. I guess any application than bundled 2 or more apps is a derivative of Desk Accessories?
If anything, I would think that Pointcast and RSS would be the inspiration for Konfabulator, but according to wikipedia:
the idea of Konfabulator originated in 1998 when Arlo Rose saw how he could skin the MP3 media player running on his computer. His idea was to "skin any information you wanted to see on your desktop", to quote the comic strip.
Prior to this, he had experience with Kaleidoscope, a skinning program for the Apple Macintosh operating systems, akin to WindowBlinds. He coined the term "Konfabulator" to describe his idea, and then tried pitching his idea to other software programmers. He was unsuccessful until the year 2002, when Perry Clarke (who could later become one of the core developers of Konfabulator) heard about his idea and agreed to work with him on the project.
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Yum works pretty well, it may be slow, but its a huge improvement. The problem is that yum is useless with RHEL. With RHEL customers are stuck with up2date, which is completely lacking. FC5 is solid distro but your inclusion of a long FAQ showcases my issues with Fedora and many other distros. People should not have to read a FAQ to play movies, visit flash websites, and use Java applets. It should all work out of the box..
but he is the last person that should be representing the free software community to politicians. You need a clean cut person in a suit who is familiar with the politics of that nation. Why do think people hire lobbyists instead of appealing to politicians directly?
Ever since the term "open source" was coined, we have seen companies find ways to use it and their product name in the same sentence.
Whats funny is I don't understand the confusion here. Sun announced that Java has a new distribution license so Linux distros can have java in their non-free sections of their package management systems.
Sun also announced that they are looking in to releasing Java source under an osi approved license. They are two individual stories, and it has absolutely nothing to with the decade old free vs. open source software debate.
Just because a solution may seem logical doesn't make it marketable. It would be impossible to get people to standardize to something like .adg on a mobile phone. Its a lot easier to make mobile phone browsers to default to .mobi when no tltd is used.
Why do we need yet another TLD that needs to be registered and maintained when we can today go to mobi.slashdot.org and get a slightly different page?
Because nobody will do it, if it is simply some voluntary suggestion to use a subdomain standard. There would also be no way to enforce standards on a subdomain.
As a big proponent of debian, the biggest problem corporate/companies have with debian support options is that is not coming directly from the distributor of the software. So maybe thats one reason for choosing Ubuntu is that they offer support directly.
Its also probably a lot easier for Sun to deal with a company when wanting changes/partnerships, rather than dealing with a fully community based effort. You can't just go to 1-2 guys in Debian and say do this and get it in by next week or else!
I'm guessing its a lot easier for Sun to endorse a distro thats lead by a company and semi-community based, rather than a completely community based effort.
About a month ago this blue screen appeared on a Windows 2003 Server Appliance Edition NAS BOX. Attempt to mount an NFS share served by the windows NAS, and boom blue screen. This is a commercial NAS box running a supposidly ultra stable version of windows for such devices. I would have picked the linux powered box but it wasn't my choice.
One of the best traits about java is the fact that there is a wide variety of standardized core libraries that are consistant with the JRE version. Anytime I have to install a perl script I cringe at having to install a ton of random libraries through CPAN.
Cd's were hardly mainstream in 1987. There were pricey toys. It wasn't until 1988/1989 that CD's became the mainstream format.
Thousands of general aviation pilots use cell phones, ipods, and other devices in the cockpit everyday within arms length of the panel.
We really need more alternatives to ebay. Every few months I get another e-mail informing me of fee increases on eBay. The eBay management has done a good job of not appearing as a dominating monopoly, but the fees and acquisitions just keep coming.
Pirate? Making OSX run on non-apple machines may be a violation of their user agreement, but its certainly not piracy.
Yeah, because I'm sure Microsoft is the ONLY PLACE where the founder of Gentoo could get a decent paying job.
Does gimp have any major corporate backers? I think part of the problem is that open source developers tend to scratch an itch, i.e. solve a problem that they want to solve, not write code for a feature that they have no intention of using. The interface could also use a major reworking. It should really be written with photoshop users in mind.
I know people like to do their own thing, and oh how much did the earily open source desktop enviroments get blasted for looking like windows, but Photoshop has over a 90% market share. If gimp is to become a serious photoshop alternative, it would need usable by photoshop users right off the bat, without retraining or documentation.
My latest system is dualhead dual-dvi pci-express 7800GT system running on Ubuntu. I was expecting the video configuration to be a major pain the ass, but everything worked well.
Until ATI has the same level of Linux support, I will not take their products under consideration.
Oprah publicly lashed out at the liar(author) and the publisher on her show. This is simply a case of CYA. Oprah's production company was approached by mutliple credible people discounting the book's story long before this scandal took place. Her production company has many resources. Considering the volume of sales they do, there is no reason for her production company not to do a little fact checking on their own.
Classism at its finest, so everyone whose parents are wealthy is a spoiled brat? I thought I would never see a day when I defend Bill Gates, but that day has come. So let me get this straight, because his parents were wealthy, his success in business and charity should be discounted? What about the millions of well off people who never amount to nothing?
If anything, he should be praised even more for becoming successful through his own determination rather than being a rich kid that does nothing. Just because someone's parents had a bit of money, doesn't make them a bad person, and certainly should not take away from their accolades.
So what happens if a country has laws that are unjust or violate basic human rights? If a country has a law that says you can't hire people of a certain race, should Google just go ahead with that law and consider it to be a cost of doing business?
Just because OSX is unix based, doesn't make it a replacement for desktop Linux or vice versa. There are a lot of things, that are a whole lot easier for me to do in Linux, when compared to OSX.
- Run the latest Java release
- Have a total package management solution
- Developer tools easly installable through package management
- Run the latest Openoffice.org
- Run a gnome desktop
- Run Evolution
People have different needs. OSX is a great OS, but its not the solution for everybody. PPC Linux has been around for a long time, but its always been a second class citizen. Being able to run OSX and Linux on one machine, where everything works, could be very powerful.The only thing having DRM clause in the GPLv3 will do, is reduce the usage of the GPL. Not because people looking at the GPL license will be interested in using it for DRM, but it will be yet another attempt to make the GPL more restrictive. The reason why the GPL gets such a bad rap in many circles is because its so complex and restrictive.
Adding more restrictions isn't going to encourage the proliferation of free software, it will just encourage people to choose another license. A license used by millions should not be modified on a whim based on the opinions of a handful of people.
That was my thought initially too, wait for the second generation. Its probably still good advice, but I think they fact they are using a widely implemented Intel product will increase the reliability of these first generation Intel macs. My first generation pentium-m is still a good performer today. Apple will be using the standard processors, boards, and components of the Centrino duo, which will have a long a lifespan. There is not going to be some earth shattering change in the Macbook components a year from now. Apple will be using the same Intel specs that every other major pc laptop manufacturer will be using, so we can probably through all the first-gen history out the window.
Even non-apple users are interested in what Apple announces, because their products tend to set industry trends from time to time.
While it was noteworthy that Apple showed their first Intel power products. Overall, I don't think these new announcements were that impressive. All of the big wintel manufactures announced duo products last week at CES. There are really no unique features with these new items from Apple.
While Apple is gaining a lot with the Intel switch, it is losing a lot of its uniqueness in terms of hardware. Then again, most people are purchasing Apple products for the software features of OSX, not CPU.
Its funny that they should mention SourceForge, while it is a great site, VA software decided to stop releasing the source code to sourceforge a few years ago.
The idea that the creators of Konfabulator were thinking of Desk Accessories is extremly far fetched. Desk accessories was a bundle of mini desktop apps that were not network enabled. I guess any application than bundled 2 or more apps is a derivative of Desk Accessories?
If anything, I would think that Pointcast and RSS would be the inspiration for Konfabulator, but according to wikipedia:
the idea of Konfabulator originated in 1998 when Arlo Rose saw how he could skin the MP3 media player running on his computer. His idea was to "skin any information you wanted to see on your desktop", to quote the comic strip.
Prior to this, he had experience with Kaleidoscope, a skinning program for the Apple Macintosh operating systems, akin to WindowBlinds. He coined the term "Konfabulator" to describe his idea, and then tried pitching his idea to other software programmers. He was unsuccessful until the year 2002, when Perry Clarke (who could later become one of the core developers of Konfabulator) heard about his idea and agreed to work with him on the project.