We actually need to update those screenshots, they are several weeks old now. There is no "Component" button now, there are buttons with icons identifying mail/calendar/tasks/addressbook. "Local" is no longer used, its "On This Computer".
In the case of desktop syncing yes, but in the case of pda to pda synching directly (which they mention), not via the desktop you need it on the device.
Which is exactly why i think it is not usable atm. No one has defined the standard interchange format which then has to be translated into the native record format anyhow.
Actually its based on a BSD variant - MkLinux was a single server implementation on top of the Mach Kernel and LinuxPPC is a straight traditional Linux kernel.
Yep, they had two Intel betas out, and your right about the drivers - at the developers conference last year (WWDC '98) they said that drivers were an overriding concern - quoting the fact that IBM spent $1 billion writing drivers for OS/2. My opinion is that they underestimated the fact that the free *NIX would right drivers and many could be ported from existing drivers.
The YellowBox API's for Win95/NT were available with the betas for Intel. They are supposed to be released with a flat rate fee to developers. Some GNUStep people have been working on basic clones of the Foundation lib I think.
I think he can ask people to call it whatever he wants. Most./ers try to force the distinction between hacker and cracker. Why not Linux and GNU/Linux?
This seems a little abstract to me? Where are the indications that the 'suits' get it?
"This Goliath (big business) hasn't got the slightest damn interest in persecuting us, he just wants to figure out how our nifty sling works."
I don't think we should kid ourselves for a minute - if big business could coopt the process and extract money (directly or indirectly) they would. Witness large corps releasing non-free products for Linux and grabbing huge publicity bonanza's. I haven't seen Abisource or Debian mentioned too often on news.com. If big business truly recognized the 'social contract' and accepted it, why would they still be doing this?
RMS has never denied that free software was around before - in fact he has said he started GNU/FSF to keep it going.
As for existing today, probably yes - but it would probably be much further behind than it is now. Where would Linux be if we were still sorting out a compiler and such?
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We actually need to update those screenshots, they are several weeks old now. There is no "Component" button now, there are buttons with icons identifying mail/calendar/tasks/addressbook. "Local" is no longer used, its "On This Computer".
Slight slippage :-). Beta 3 was pushed yesterday, but it actually got tagged in CVS last week.
We are shipping at least beta 1 (0.11). Mandrake is also shipping 0.9 in Mandrake 8.0.
Untrue. RC installation and updating is still freely available, RC Express is basically just a bandwith thing.
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http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/pre
In the case of desktop syncing yes, but in the case of pda to pda synching directly (which they mention), not via the desktop you need it on the device.
Which is exactly why i think it is not usable atm. No one has defined the standard interchange format which then has to be translated into the native record format anyhow.
Actually its based on a BSD variant - MkLinux was a single server implementation on top of the Mach Kernel and LinuxPPC is a straight traditional Linux kernel.
Yep, they had two Intel betas out, and your right about the drivers - at the developers conference last year (WWDC '98) they said that drivers were an overriding concern - quoting the fact that IBM spent $1 billion writing drivers for OS/2. My opinion is that they underestimated the fact that the free *NIX would right drivers and many could be ported from existing drivers.
The YellowBox API's for Win95/NT were available with the betas for Intel. They are supposed to be released with a flat rate fee to developers. Some GNUStep people have been working on basic clones of the Foundation lib I think.
I agree - call it whatever you want. But I think RMS has every right to ASK people to call it GNU/Linux.
I think he can ask people to call it whatever he wants. Most ./ers try to force the distinction between hacker and cracker. Why not Linux and GNU/Linux?
This seems a little abstract to me? Where are the indications that the 'suits' get it?
"This Goliath (big business) hasn't got the slightest damn interest in persecuting us, he just wants to figure out how our nifty sling works."
I don't think we should kid ourselves for a minute - if big business could coopt the process and extract money (directly or indirectly) they would. Witness large corps releasing non-free products for Linux and grabbing huge publicity bonanza's. I haven't seen Abisource or Debian mentioned too often on news.com. If big business truly recognized the 'social contract' and accepted it, why would they still be doing this?
RMS has never denied that free software was around before - in fact he has said he started GNU/FSF to keep it going.
As for existing today, probably yes - but it would probably be much further behind than it is now. Where would Linux be if we were still sorting out a compiler and such?