You must be asking for the flames. Really, if you do not have an opinion on anything, and just like to shoot off your mouth to encourage people like me to reply because you are the very problem with Open Source these days by giving it that "hacker" aura that doesn't hold its credibility because people like you shoot off your mouths inappropriately on public forums and ruin it for those of us who really give a crap. Grow up and come back when you have something useful and/or meaningful to say.
I'm all for OSD, and means for making it easier to search, read about, and acquire apps. However, the people that would most likely find this searchable database are the people who already know how to search other OSD networks, like sourceforge and freshmeat. I can only see this, by itself, is going to confuse people more with multiple area to get the same software, but possibly at different versioning levels, in comparison to freshmeat and sourceforge. Maybe if this list was synced somehow with the freshmeat lists, that might provide a very powerful tool for people new and experienced to the Open Source world to get, play with, learn, upgrade, hack, and love Open Source. IMHO though...
Well, I can relate to you; I'm a senior in college, C.S., and have been working in the computer industry for about 5 years. I'm 21 years old, and have done lots of work for my father at a nuclear power plant, and then moved on to my own stuff at assorted technology companies. I could never convince my boss, regardless of all the cost-analysis and benefit analysis I did, to implement an idea unless he removed my name and stamped his on it. Also, on a more recent note, it's even worse today since I was just working for an online adserving company (I know, the evil ones...). They just laid off tons of people because they suck (the company, not the people), and said they wouldn't touch our group. However, since I'm the college part-timer, I must not be worth keeping around, so I got laid off to. Little did the management know that I installed and configured ALL the firewalls in our global network, set up countless numbers of boxes, and did tons of web programming (php, cgi). They didn't give a damn. They figured someone else could do it because they were older, and I was younger. Now they are calling me asking questions, etc., and I'm telling them to go screw. So dude, I completely understand, and I'm sorry it has to be that way for us.
I like FreeBSD. I run Linux on all my home boxes (four) and haven't had a problem with them yet. However, I put FreeBSD on a box to do fileserving via Samba and NFS. Now granted these two protocols SUCK, I thought it might do better than Linux. I was mistaken. When the FreeBSD box tried to serve Samba-shared mp3's, it skipped, no matter how large I set the TCP_CHUNK or whatever size in smb.conf. Also, the NFS mounts were really screwed up when trying to mount from a SPARC Solaris NFS server. It kept timing out and remounting. Also, NIS+ sucked horribly. I even tried NIS (this was all client). So I guess what I'm trying to say is that once Linux got onto that same box, all those problems went away, and I just don't understand if FreeBSD is this rock-solid, own all OS for networking, why did it crap all over the place on simple networking issues? Just wanted to put my info in (this was FreeBSD 4.2 versus Slackware 7.1).
Ok. I can understand that Linux 2.4 and OS X are not released in commercial form, but where the hell did someone figure that these products are Vaporware??? At least my understanding of Vaporware is something that is promised and something you can't get your hands on. However, I'm running Linux 2.4-pre test blah blah whatever on my box, which makes me believe that it IS on its way. Mac OS X public beta is on my buddy's box, runs great, but of course, it's freakin' vaporware. Who the fuck comes up with these things, and from which hole did they crawl from???
I don't understand why Microsoft didn't learn their lesson the first time. NT 4.0 bombed when they cut Hotmail to it, so what makes them think that 2000 will do better? Built on NT technology??? Besides, why can't they leave well-enough alone?
In my experience with programming GTK and Qt interfaces, I've learned that they are both quite buggy and bloated. Especially GTK. The widgets are quite nice, and the eyecandy is very well-developed, but I can't see how they are going to replace window managers that have found their way into mainstream OS's like Solaris, and clones of these window managers, KDE, Lesstif, and Afterstep, which are found in Linux, LinuxPPC, FreeBSD, etc. Motif and CDE have etched a niche that no matter how buggy or inflated overheaded they have become, they have to have some really top-notch, stable competitors to take them out of the mainstream and deprecate them.
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You must be asking for the flames. Really, if you do not have an opinion on anything, and just like to shoot off your mouth to encourage people like me to reply because you are the very problem with Open Source these days by giving it that "hacker" aura that doesn't hold its credibility because people like you shoot off your mouths inappropriately on public forums and ruin it for those of us who really give a crap. Grow up and come back when you have something useful and/or meaningful to say.
I'm all for OSD, and means for making it easier to search, read about, and acquire apps. However, the people that would most likely find this searchable database are the people who already know how to search other OSD networks, like sourceforge and freshmeat. I can only see this, by itself, is going to confuse people more with multiple area to get the same software, but possibly at different versioning levels, in comparison to freshmeat and sourceforge. Maybe if this list was synced somehow with the freshmeat lists, that might provide a very powerful tool for people new and experienced to the Open Source world to get, play with, learn, upgrade, hack, and love Open Source. IMHO though...
Well, I can relate to you; I'm a senior in college, C.S., and have been working in the computer industry for about 5 years. I'm 21 years old, and have done lots of work for my father at a nuclear power plant, and then moved on to my own stuff at assorted technology companies. I could never convince my boss, regardless of all the cost-analysis and benefit analysis I did, to implement an idea unless he removed my name and stamped his on it. Also, on a more recent note, it's even worse today since I was just working for an online adserving company (I know, the evil ones...). They just laid off tons of people because they suck (the company, not the people), and said they wouldn't touch our group. However, since I'm the college part-timer, I must not be worth keeping around, so I got laid off to. Little did the management know that I installed and configured ALL the firewalls in our global network, set up countless numbers of boxes, and did tons of web programming (php, cgi). They didn't give a damn. They figured someone else could do it because they were older, and I was younger. Now they are calling me asking questions, etc., and I'm telling them to go screw. So dude, I completely understand, and I'm sorry it has to be that way for us.
I like FreeBSD. I run Linux on all my home boxes (four) and haven't had a problem with them yet. However, I put FreeBSD on a box to do fileserving via Samba and NFS. Now granted these two protocols SUCK, I thought it might do better than Linux. I was mistaken. When the FreeBSD box tried to serve Samba-shared mp3's, it skipped, no matter how large I set the TCP_CHUNK or whatever size in smb.conf. Also, the NFS mounts were really screwed up when trying to mount from a SPARC Solaris NFS server. It kept timing out and remounting. Also, NIS+ sucked horribly. I even tried NIS (this was all client). So I guess what I'm trying to say is that once Linux got onto that same box, all those problems went away, and I just don't understand if FreeBSD is this rock-solid, own all OS for networking, why did it crap all over the place on simple networking issues? Just wanted to put my info in (this was FreeBSD 4.2 versus Slackware 7.1).
Ok. I can understand that Linux 2.4 and OS X are not released in commercial form, but where the hell did someone figure that these products are Vaporware??? At least my understanding of Vaporware is something that is promised and something you can't get your hands on. However, I'm running Linux 2.4-pre test blah blah whatever on my box, which makes me believe that it IS on its way. Mac OS X public beta is on my buddy's box, runs great, but of course, it's freakin' vaporware. Who the fuck comes up with these things, and from which hole did they crawl from???
I don't understand why Microsoft didn't learn their lesson the first time. NT 4.0 bombed when they cut Hotmail to it, so what makes them think that 2000 will do better? Built on NT technology??? Besides, why can't they leave well-enough alone?
In my experience with programming GTK and Qt interfaces, I've learned that they are both quite buggy and bloated. Especially GTK. The widgets are quite nice, and the eyecandy is very well-developed, but I can't see how they are going to replace window managers that have found their way into mainstream OS's like Solaris, and clones of these window managers, KDE, Lesstif, and Afterstep, which are found in Linux, LinuxPPC, FreeBSD, etc. Motif and CDE have etched a niche that no matter how buggy or inflated overheaded they have become, they have to have some really top-notch, stable competitors to take them out of the mainstream and deprecate them.