I believe pure democracy is a terrible form of government; for it has all the same tendencies toward tyrannical government as any other form, while fooling the people into thinking true revolution isn't necessary.
Gnome > KDE. Remake GNOME using QT and call it KNOME, I don't care, just make sure that I get an attractive, simple environment that doesn't try to add 'cool' 'new' 'things' like plasmoids that suck.
Also, new != good. There are few gripes I have with GNOME; it's last major code change being in 2002 not being one of them.
KDE stabilizing quickly? Ya, only two years to get a system that's workable! Congratulations.
Windows 7 handles this pretty well by being able to drag the title bar of a window to the edge of the screen to resize it automatically. Drag it to the left, and the browser will fill the left side of the screen.
And I didn't RTFA, but 'tabbed windows' sounds like 'workspaces' or 'alt-tab'.
* "It's not insecure. We've had the mechanism checked. The default policy may not be to your taste, but this is the "desktop" spin, not the "server" spin. " (Fedora = Desktop, RHEL/CentOS = Server)
* "You either trust the Fedora repos or you don't." (This is true. Either you trust Fedoraproject to keep malicious packages out of the repos, or you do not. Therefore, a trust of the default repos wouldn't be so bad)
* "I don't particularly care how UNIX has always worked." (A little bit of a troll, but Linux has no qualms showing that they deviate from Unix (LSB, for example.)
* "You missed the "in my opinion" line in your reply." (Troll)
* "There are other, *easier*, ways of rooting the system. " (true)
He has some valid points. I thought the idea was a good one, but I suppose I'm in the minority.
Ehh, guys, it is about the install CD space, along with people not using it as much. They're trying to keep the install on one CD, and GIMP takes a lot of space. As opposed to OOo, GIMP isn't used nearly as much.
Seriously though, gnome 2.28 is pretty damned nice. If a little more flexibility were allowed in sizing panels, and Gnome-DO were a default, advertised part of the project, Gnome 2 would be great. Stability and performance are what Gnome needs to work on.
UE3 is a current, highly popular game engine. Why would they give out the secret sauce? Even id doesn't do that; they give away the source to engines that are no longer being licensed to 3rd parties and are not bringing in cash flows to id.
How would licensees of UE3 feel if the engine they paid highly for got open-sourced at the height of its use?
Seeing the UE2 engine go GPL, on the other hand, would be impressive.
No, AC, it is not the facts I'm unhappy to see. It is the comically pathetic journalistic bias and melodrama the report had. Might as well have been an infomercial for the MPAA.
This shows who is influencing the discussion on piracy, and how the movie industry is trying to demonize it by that woman Leslie Stall acting shocked and appalled at everything "He brought his CHILDREN to the theatre while committing this crime?" [taping a movie at the theatre]. Comparing pirates to drug dealers, child sex freaks, etc. The one credit the report has is that it mentioned that Bittorrent clients are legal. Also, some director guy admitted that the only thing that can be done in the fight against piracy is to slow it down; it's not a winnable war for the movie industry.
Just thought it was a really shitty show that deserved mentioning. Andy Rooney was spot on in his article, though.
The new Ubuntu seems to have a lot of new stuff that I feel slightly uneasy about. I'm not sure if Ext4 has proven itself yet (then again, I haven't been paying attention), and grub2 isn't even available on Gentoo yet (my somewhat crude stick of measuring when things are considered "new" or not). I like the progress, I'm just interesting in hearing some discussion about it (hal deprecation, new input system, NX, AppArmor, etc).
My theory is that this is a release to load up on almost-stable technologies, work out the shit, and have everything 'proven' for Ubuntu 10.04.
Ehhh. I like Ubuntu. I've used it as a home server for a while now, and it's worked fine as a web and file server, and easy to configure and install. Also, last time I tried to install FreeBSD 7.2 a checksummed CD failed to install due to some BIOS failure.
I think Ubuntu needs to focus on stability and integration on their LTS. It's a great desktop distro, and a pretty good, easy to use server.
Ubuntu is an impressive distro for reasons many have argued here before. Karmic is actually a great improvement over Jaunty, and I think it's heading in a positive direction.
I might not have seen it, but I think Ubuntu's server area needs professional, detailed, Ubuntu-specific (if needed) DOCUMENTATION on everything an Ubuntu admin would need to use. http://doc.ubuntu.com/ has the most up-to-date version of the Ubuntu Server Guide, which is a decent start. It pales in comparison, however, to the FreeBSD handbook.
Where's the documentation on GRUB 2? Upstart? UEC? Building your own repository? Setting up mass deployment via Kickstart/preseeding?
These are all things integral to the operating system and its deployment. I'm not saying Ubuntu has to have the definitive guide to Nagios or other 3rd party software.
Some things are well covered in the Ubuntu Server Guide, "Pro Ubuntu Server Administration" and Prentice Hall's "The Official Ubuntu Server Book". I would like to see more enterprise tooling and documentation for Ubuntu Server before I expect them to make a significant trench in the enterprise space.
And for those who might say Ubuntu is a desktop-oriented distro, 1) You haven't seen the work or the marketing Ubuntu has done on their server side, and 2) I think Ubuntu could succeed if they can market themselves as THE operating system for an organization.
But it IS safer to have your computer off than on.
Moreover, your tech people think that it's acceptable to have an environment where the security precaution is to turn off your computer when you're not using it?
If it is THE precaution, then it would be bad. Having it as A precaution, if you don't have a strong firewall/gateway, isn't bad.
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You probably aren't paying enough. $60,000 + medical and I'll move anywhere in the country for what you want.
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I believe pure democracy is a terrible form of government; for it has all the same tendencies toward tyrannical government as any other form, while fooling the people into thinking true revolution isn't necessary.
Gnome > KDE. Remake GNOME using QT and call it KNOME, I don't care, just make sure that I get an attractive, simple environment that doesn't try to add 'cool' 'new' 'things' like plasmoids that suck.
Also, new != good. There are few gripes I have with GNOME; it's last major code change being in 2002 not being one of them.
KDE stabilizing quickly? Ya, only two years to get a system that's workable! Congratulations.
Windows 7 handles this pretty well by being able to drag the title bar of a window to the edge of the screen to resize it automatically. Drag it to the left, and the browser will fill the left side of the screen.
And I didn't RTFA, but 'tabbed windows' sounds like 'workspaces' or 'alt-tab'.
* "It's not insecure. We've had the mechanism checked. The default policy may not be to your taste, but this is the "desktop" spin, not the "server" spin. " (Fedora = Desktop, RHEL/CentOS = Server)
* "You either trust the Fedora repos or you don't." (This is true. Either you trust Fedoraproject to keep malicious packages out of the repos, or you do not. Therefore, a trust of the default repos wouldn't be so bad)
* "I don't particularly care how UNIX has always worked." (A little bit of a troll, but Linux has no qualms showing that they deviate from Unix (LSB, for example.)
* "You missed the "in my opinion" line in your reply." (Troll)
* "There are other, *easier*, ways of rooting the system. " (true)
He has some valid points. I thought the idea was a good one, but I suppose I'm in the minority.
Ehh, guys, it is about the install CD space, along with people not using it as much. They're trying to keep the install on one CD, and GIMP takes a lot of space. As opposed to OOo, GIMP isn't used nearly as much.
RC > Pepsi
When you just need to get shit done.
Seriously though, gnome 2.28 is pretty damned nice. If a little more flexibility were allowed in sizing panels, and Gnome-DO were a default, advertised part of the project, Gnome 2 would be great. Stability and performance are what Gnome needs to work on.
Guido? How do you feel about this?
and forkable.
MySQL will be Sun's Oracle's property in name only.
I get that. I'm replying to the several posts I've already seen calling for GPLification.
UE3 is a current, highly popular game engine. Why would they give out the secret sauce? Even id doesn't do that; they give away the source to engines that are no longer being licensed to 3rd parties and are not bringing in cash flows to id.
How would licensees of UE3 feel if the engine they paid highly for got open-sourced at the height of its use?
Seeing the UE2 engine go GPL, on the other hand, would be impressive.
No, AC, it is not the facts I'm unhappy to see. It is the comically pathetic journalistic bias and melodrama the report had. Might as well have been an infomercial for the MPAA.
What a crock. Objectively biased, and subjectively a crock of shit.
http://www.veoh.com/collection/CBS-60-Minutes/watch/v19306351MbfMTNw4
Watch starting at 4:25:
"Gee whiz technology called Bit - torrent"
This shows who is influencing the discussion on piracy, and how the movie industry is trying to demonize it by that woman Leslie Stall acting shocked and appalled at everything "He brought his CHILDREN to the theatre while committing this crime?" [taping a movie at the theatre]. Comparing pirates to drug dealers, child sex freaks, etc. The one credit the report has is that it mentioned that Bittorrent clients are legal. Also, some director guy admitted that the only thing that can be done in the fight against piracy is to slow it down; it's not a winnable war for the movie industry.
Just thought it was a really shitty show that deserved mentioning. Andy Rooney was spot on in his article, though.
Watched this in 4th grade (way back in '99). Damn, I couldn't remember the name of that show for the life of me.
Don't point them to the community page, point them to this: http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/samba-fileserver.html
The official server help doc. Not the best, but better than what you linked to.
GUI's are nice.
The new Ubuntu seems to have a lot of new stuff that I feel slightly uneasy about. I'm not sure if Ext4 has proven itself yet (then again, I haven't been paying attention), and grub2 isn't even available on Gentoo yet (my somewhat crude stick of measuring when things are considered "new" or not). I like the progress, I'm just interesting in hearing some discussion about it (hal deprecation, new input system, NX, AppArmor, etc).
My theory is that this is a release to load up on almost-stable technologies, work out the shit, and have everything 'proven' for Ubuntu 10.04.
I first got online in 1996; I was 8 years old. I made Geocities pages, though I also used Tripod.
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Ehhh. I like Ubuntu. I've used it as a home server for a while now, and it's worked fine as a web and file server, and easy to configure and install. Also, last time I tried to install FreeBSD 7.2 a checksummed CD failed to install due to some BIOS failure.
I think Ubuntu needs to focus on stability and integration on their LTS. It's a great desktop distro, and a pretty good, easy to use server.
Ubuntu is an impressive distro for reasons many have argued here before. Karmic is actually a great improvement over Jaunty, and I think it's heading in a positive direction.
I might not have seen it, but I think Ubuntu's server area needs professional, detailed, Ubuntu-specific (if needed) DOCUMENTATION on everything an Ubuntu admin would need to use. http://doc.ubuntu.com/ has the most up-to-date version of the Ubuntu Server Guide, which is a decent start. It pales in comparison, however, to the FreeBSD handbook.
Where's the documentation on
GRUB 2?
Upstart?
UEC?
Building your own repository?
Setting up mass deployment via Kickstart/preseeding?
These are all things integral to the operating system and its deployment. I'm not saying Ubuntu has to have the definitive guide to Nagios or other 3rd party software.
Some things are well covered in the Ubuntu Server Guide, "Pro Ubuntu Server Administration" and Prentice Hall's "The Official Ubuntu Server Book". I would like to see more enterprise tooling and documentation for Ubuntu Server before I expect them to make a significant trench in the enterprise space.
And for those who might say Ubuntu is a desktop-oriented distro,
1) You haven't seen the work or the marketing Ubuntu has done on their server side, and
2) I think Ubuntu could succeed if they can market themselves as THE operating system for an organization.
I bet NASA wasn't going to get venture capital for Diaz to develop a plasma rocket; they're too busy paying $400 for a hammer.
You demonize capitalism just because the dude worked for NASA at one point. Even the space agency has a glass ceiling.
P.S.: I've met the guy, he's pretty cool. Had a nice house down the street.
Did you have any issues with your laptop's touchpad with Opensolaris? It didn't recognize mine at all.
To suggest that you ask HR anything of value is preposterous.
Greg Kroah-Hartman, is that you?
But it IS safer to have your computer off than on.
Moreover, your tech people think that it's acceptable to have an environment where the security precaution is to turn off your computer when you're not using it?
If it is THE precaution, then it would be bad. Having it as A precaution, if you don't have a strong firewall/gateway, isn't bad.