Most-to-all of the changes between 2.4.0 and 2.4.3 should be bug fixes (include an ext2 corruption bug, IIRC) and minor updates. Feature-wise, it should be mostly the same.
With ReiserFS, introduced in 2.4.1, being the exception that many are thankful for:-).
The only operating systems I've gotten to install on my Athlon 700 with an Asus K7V, Adaptec 29160N, GEforce 2 MX, and SoundBlaster Live Gold! (sic) are Windows Whistler Beta 1, and Windows Millenium Edition.
That's funny. On my Athlon 700 with an Asus K7V, Matrox G400 Max and SoundBlaster Live Gold I could *not* install Windows Millenium and Windows 2000 (well, win2k hardly counted as an install.. see below).
The Windows Me installer would simply crash before even starting scandisk. Windows 2000 did install but did not recognise: my soundcard, DVD-Rom drive, CD-RW drive (plextor) and 56K modem (at the time). The only option left was installing drivers from floppy but I felt an fdisk was simpler.
Things that I could install include: Windows 98, BeOS and Linux (SuSE, Mandrake, Progeny and Debian installs).
Redhat finds but can't initialize my NIC. Debian doesn't even find it.
I'm not sure about this one but I would expect both intalls to have the same cards compiled into the kernel. Your card is probably just not supported.
Also, I've had situations where I ran a particular program and it would panic linux reliably.
Are you talking about actual kernel panics? If so there's probably something very wrong with your hardware. The only crashes I've had are X-Windows lock ups (which could probably be solved by programming a joystick or by using telnet/ssh as those function without X) and crashes caused by trying to mount a bad CD (which is a kernel problem I suppose).
I really like these guys business plan. In essence they're getting payed by thousands of people to program.
If they (or another company) did this for applications other than games then I'd seriously consider subscribing. And it wouldn't have to be limitted to programming, people could document or translate too.
The dowside could of course be that the programmers may be tempted not to work at their full capacity but the AFPL license would discourage that and let the subscribers monitor the progress. Another danger would be that a lot of these companies would pop up and nobody would work for free anymore but this is probably a stretch and wouldn't be necessarily bad.
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I'd find it suprising if Microsoft didn't have a representation in Germany. But that's not really the same as having the Microsoft (or Red Hat for that matter) HQ in your country.
I'll assume that by "legislation [sp?] to prevent people from steal^H^H^H^H^H sharing music" you're referring to Napster.
Well, the reason that most people (including me) probably hate the ruling is that Napster doesn't store anything illegal on their servers. They only allow other people to share illegal contents. It's like saying that public SMTP servers should be forbidden because they can be used by spammers.
The trading itself, however, should be attempted to stop IMHO. Just like spammers should be stopped.
This is great. When (if) that happens I'll finally be able to look at Microsoft as another seller of proprierty software and I don't care if everyone switching from Windows keeps using.NET, it 'll be a gain for us (and arguably no loss for MS).
Imagine that, a Microsoft announcement that I like!
On the Nautilus mailing list I read a bit about some user testing they did at MIT (called Athena or something?).
One of the things users were to do was find a certain file and copy it. Guess what, they just typed the path in the Nautilus location bar rather than using the tree even though they found that already.
Another question was to go to a certain (MIT) site. Most people IIRC typed it in the location bar also.
And I think this makes a lot of sense. Certainly when combined with the inline viewing that Nautilus offers with Bonobo.
Further, I think it makes a lot of sense too to integrate the help system into Nautilus (which seems to be happening somewhat) because Nautilus is a tool for managing and viewing files.
I'm not sure if gtkhtml was written from scratch or based on the KDE alternative but I'm pretty sure it isn't based on Gecko (the Mozilla engine). It's more meant as a lightweight alternative I believe.
I espected Red Carpet to be more integrated with apt-get. As it stands now I can access the Debian database but I can not access the additional sources in my sources.list.
If you're an ISV or other software developer, and would like to have your software deployed with a Red Carpet channel, please visit our partners page and let us know.
Following the partners got me to an error page but it's clear that Ximian wants to make money by having people pay for having a red carpet channel.
While I understand that they have to make money somehow, I find it very disturbing that the only way to get my software listed is to pay Ximian or to have it included in all distributions.
Of course the software is GPL'd and it could be hacked to have a "add channel" menu (it would be really cool if clicking a link in mozilla or a file in Nautilus would do this) but such a patch will probably never make it into the distributions.
Allow users to define behavior of typing in a name into the url text box. Some browsers assume that this means that you want to search, or go to a database such as realnames. Defaulting to www..com (or.org or whatever) would simplify and speed browsing.
Or how about being able to compose a list with prefixes and sufixes to try.
If I typed "slashdot" it should for example try (assuming the domains didn't exist):
slashdot.com
www.slashdot.com
slashdot.net
www.slashdot.net
slashdot.org
www.slashdot.org
slashdot.be
www.slashdot.be
With 1-6 being default (though it would be nice if 7-8 would be localised).
What Sun basically said is that XML is platform independent, and Java is platform independent, so it makes a lot of sense to use XML with Java.
Actually they are saying that Java is OS independent and XML is application independent. While it matters to a lot of people to be able to run Java on multiple OSes, it also matters to a lot of people that they can edit the documents in programs written in other languages.
I hope that we will be working towards a powerfull desktop (think GNOME) in which 90% of the tasks are done using few but powerfull applications. These applications would be very modular so that they themselves form a development platform.
Having few applications would have the advantage of having less clutter on the desktop. It could be cool to have MDI style appliations (no, not the MS way, rather the Evolution way). Or you could have BeOS style task bar buttons in that one task item opens a menu listing all windows belonging to one app. Another idea would be to have a virtual desktop per application, which then could have multiple windows.
First of all we would have the file manager (think Nautilus) that allows us to manage documents and other files, when a file is (double-)clicked then it opens inside the file manager with the added possibility to open it in the office suit. This file manager would also be the browser BTW.
The office suit (think GNOME Office) would be a collection of word processors, spreadsheats, image editors et al. The idea is that the office suit is used to edit documents rather than view them which is done by the file manager.
All communication could be done using a PIM (think Evolution), E-mail, IM, IRC, Newsgroups, Fax, etc. would be managed by the PIM in an intelligent manner. People, computers, other devices could be far better stored and managaged in a tool that is specially designed for it rather than a file manager.
Another category would be configuration tools, these would be used to manage the computer and network.
Of course games can't be forgotten, an Mame32 (haven't tried XMame) interface could be used for this... if improved of course.
There are of course lots of other programs that don't fit in the categories listed above. For some of them more groups could be made, other would have to stay standalone.
If the Nautilus demo was supposed to make we want to download it, it is sadly misguided. One look was enough to make me think "Oh, a chance to go back to Windows' way of doing things. Maybe later; after the lobotomy".
Nobody is stopping you from using another filemanager. You're just unlucky not to be the target audience.
One that doesn't have huge ugly icons in a huge ugly toolbar and NO BLOODY SIDEBARS.
The sidebar can be turned off using View/Hide Sidebar as well as in the preference dialog in the ski menu. Turning it off even improves speed as the Bonobo components are unloaded (I think).
Why is it that all File Management work on Linux is geared to making everything as unpleasant to use as Windows? I can see an argument for making things easy for converts from Windows but surely not every single project has to start with someone saying "Okay, let's see how Microsoft does it."
I disagree, in fact I find the Eazel folks to abandon legacy stuff in order to improve user-friendlyness for those truly new to computers (not Mac, Windows converts). An example is that Nautilus doesn't have copy-n-paste, this is something that can be confusing at first, the Eazel team decided not to include it as it's a bad metaphore (sp.) in their opinion (I'm starting to agree BTW).
What really gets me is the waste of talent; these guys mostly seem to be pretty good programmers. Although they could do with trying to run their code on a sub 1GHz machine with 64Mb of RAM every once in a while.
Speed has already improved *a lot* and I'm sure it 'll improve even more.
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10 years from now, perhaps circuits will be downloadable and printable straight to paper, without needing any components! Think about it, using primer coats in between, you could potentially print 10+ layers on a single piece of paper. If this is what the hobbyists will be doing, imagine what the rest of electronics will look like?
Actually - and I don't have a link to this - Linux said that he didn't mean ReiserFS when he said that. He automaticly assumed people knew he was going to include ReiserFS (as he made it obvious enough before).
It's a great idea, but how do you get people to adopt it? It should be designed to handle RPMs, and distributed as a replacement for the rpm utility. Better yet, rpm could just be extended to do this sort of thing.
While it might be true that RPM is used a lot more than DEBs, that doesn't mean Debian users are just going to abandon their packaging system. In fact, Debian users are probably more religious about it. And they're probably right too, DEBs work by far better and the infrastructure is already in place.
So, while it might sound like a great idea to extend RPM to do DEB-like stuff it is too late (assuming that it is technically possible).
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With ReiserFS, introduced in 2.4.1, being the exception that many are thankful for :-).
I have the same card (I think... I'm sure about the 3c905 part, don't know what the TX is) and no problems... oh well.
That's funny. On my Athlon 700 with an Asus K7V, Matrox G400 Max and SoundBlaster Live Gold I could *not* install Windows Millenium and Windows 2000 (well, win2k hardly counted as an install.. see below).
The Windows Me installer would simply crash before even starting scandisk. Windows 2000 did install but did not recognise: my soundcard, DVD-Rom drive, CD-RW drive (plextor) and 56K modem (at the time). The only option left was installing drivers from floppy but I felt an fdisk was simpler.
Things that I could install include: Windows 98, BeOS and Linux (SuSE, Mandrake, Progeny and Debian installs).
I'm not sure about this one but I would expect both intalls to have the same cards compiled into the kernel. Your card is probably just not supported.
Are you talking about actual kernel panics? If so there's probably something very wrong with your hardware. The only crashes I've had are X-Windows lock ups (which could probably be solved by programming a joystick or by using telnet/ssh as those function without X) and crashes caused by trying to mount a bad CD (which is a kernel problem I suppose).
If they (or another company) did this for applications other than games then I'd seriously consider subscribing. And it wouldn't have to be limitted to programming, people could document or translate too.
The dowside could of course be that the programmers may be tempted not to work at their full capacity but the AFPL license would discourage that and let the subscribers monitor the progress. Another danger would be that a lot of these companies would pop up and nobody would work for free anymore but this is probably a stretch and wouldn't be necessarily bad.
djbdns is not free software AFAIK.
I'd find it suprising if Microsoft didn't have a representation in Germany. But that's not really the same as having the Microsoft (or Red Hat for that matter) HQ in your country.
I've heard the same thing on National Geograhic Channel.
Well, the reason that most people (including me) probably hate the ruling is that Napster doesn't store anything illegal on their servers. They only allow other people to share illegal contents. It's like saying that public SMTP servers should be forbidden because they can be used by spammers.
The trading itself, however, should be attempted to stop IMHO. Just like spammers should be stopped.
And CST is what in UTC?
Imagine that, a Microsoft announcement that I like!
One of the things users were to do was find a certain file and copy it. Guess what, they just typed the path in the Nautilus location bar rather than using the tree even though they found that already.
Another question was to go to a certain (MIT) site. Most people IIRC typed it in the location bar also.
And I think this makes a lot of sense. Certainly when combined with the inline viewing that Nautilus offers with Bonobo.
Further, I think it makes a lot of sense too to integrate the help system into Nautilus (which seems to be happening somewhat) because Nautilus is a tool for managing and viewing files.
I'm not sure if gtkhtml was written from scratch or based on the KDE alternative but I'm pretty sure it isn't based on Gecko (the Mozilla engine). It's more meant as a lightweight alternative I believe.
The GPL states that you must give access to the source to whoever you give the program too.
The people who received the program are also allowed to distribute it further.
Of course channels is what Ximian will sell.
Well, since installing libgtk1.2-doc removes half your Gnome that's only more than fair ;-P.
According to the Red Carpet homepage:
If you're an ISV or other software developer, and would like to have your software deployed with a Red Carpet channel, please visit our partners page and let us know.
Following the partners got me to an error page but it's clear that Ximian wants to make money by having people pay for having a red carpet channel.
While I understand that they have to make money somehow, I find it very disturbing that the only way to get my software listed is to pay Ximian or to have it included in all distributions.
Of course the software is GPL'd and it could be hacked to have a "add channel" menu (it would be really cool if clicking a link in mozilla or a file in Nautilus would do this) but such a patch will probably never make it into the distributions.
Or how about being able to compose a list with prefixes and sufixes to try.
If I typed "slashdot" it should for example try (assuming the domains didn't exist):
With 1-6 being default (though it would be nice if 7-8 would be localised).
But the <TEXTAREA> tag should specify if plain text or HTML text is being entered.
Another thing.. why are these <TEXTAREA>s a fixed size. It sucks to have to enter text in these often 15 cols wide text areas.
Actually they are saying that Java is OS independent and XML is application independent. While it matters to a lot of people to be able to run Java on multiple OSes, it also matters to a lot of people that they can edit the documents in programs written in other languages.
Having few applications would have the advantage of having less clutter on the desktop. It could be cool to have MDI style appliations (no, not the MS way, rather the Evolution way). Or you could have BeOS style task bar buttons in that one task item opens a menu listing all windows belonging to one app. Another idea would be to have a virtual desktop per application, which then could have multiple windows.
First of all we would have the file manager (think Nautilus) that allows us to manage documents and other files, when a file is (double-)clicked then it opens inside the file manager with the added possibility to open it in the office suit. This file manager would also be the browser BTW.
The office suit (think GNOME Office) would be a collection of word processors, spreadsheats, image editors et al. The idea is that the office suit is used to edit documents rather than view them which is done by the file manager.
All communication could be done using a PIM (think Evolution), E-mail, IM, IRC, Newsgroups, Fax, etc. would be managed by the PIM in an intelligent manner. People, computers, other devices could be far better stored and managaged in a tool that is specially designed for it rather than a file manager.
Another category would be configuration tools, these would be used to manage the computer and network.
Of course games can't be forgotten, an Mame32 (haven't tried XMame) interface could be used for this... if improved of course.
There are of course lots of other programs that don't fit in the categories listed above. For some of them more groups could be made, other would have to stay standalone.
Just some thoughts, anyway.
Nobody is stopping you from using another filemanager. You're just unlucky not to be the target audience.
The sidebar can be turned off using View/Hide Sidebar as well as in the preference dialog in the ski menu. Turning it off even improves speed as the Bonobo components are unloaded (I think).
I disagree, in fact I find the Eazel folks to abandon legacy stuff in order to improve user-friendlyness for those truly new to computers (not Mac, Windows converts). An example is that Nautilus doesn't have copy-n-paste, this is something that can be confusing at first, the Eazel team decided not to include it as it's a bad metaphore (sp.) in their opinion (I'm starting to agree BTW).
Speed has already improved *a lot* and I'm sure it 'll improve even more.
Free hardware... can the GPL handle it? ;-)
Actually - and I don't have a link to this - Linux said that he didn't mean ReiserFS when he said that. He automaticly assumed people knew he was going to include ReiserFS (as he made it obvious enough before).
While it might be true that RPM is used a lot more than DEBs, that doesn't mean Debian users are just going to abandon their packaging system. In fact, Debian users are probably more religious about it. And they're probably right too, DEBs work by far better and the infrastructure is already in place.
So, while it might sound like a great idea to extend RPM to do DEB-like stuff it is too late (assuming that it is technically possible).
That seems like a better system, no (assuming it's backed by the law)?