Ever since I was a little kid I would go into the voting booth with my mom to watch her vote. Obviously I'm a little too old for that now.:)
Even back then, there was a big paper sheet printed and placed over a series of buttons. You pressed the people you wanted, and the colored light would change to the person you had pushed.
You hit vote, and you leave. Nothing changes. You don't even have a card you insert into the machine.
This has been going on for 10 years in South Carolina, at least. What is so different about this?
First they buckle and develop MediaPlayer Codecs for Linux, and now this.
Umm, do what? If you're using WMP codecs under Linux they're the native.dll's from Windows. I'm not sure what you're smoking, but you should share.
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You're pretty fucked either way if your/etc gets corrupted with things like they are right now.;) You could also say the same thing about other vital.so's getting corrupted. I don't think it's adding that big of a risk.
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That is what the Linux Registry is set out to solve, using simply the file system.
This allows for a simple architecture that can be easily extended since it works on the filesystem level.
Such as I expected. I can't believe there isn't a huge drive from RedHat, SuSE, IBM, etc. to get NFSv4 complete and up to par with Windows when it comes to network file sharing. I would never deploy NFS in an enterprise with its current state.
I sure wouldn't doubt it if they did. With NFS it seems all you have to do is fake your uid/gid on the client and then you have access to all those files on the NFS server with that same gid/uid. Doesn't seem very secure to me since somebody could easily put up a rogue box on your network.
Application installation hell certainly isn't an out of date complaint about Linux. Is somebody going to make a.rpm/.deb/.tgz for EVERY single piece of software out there? Nope. Then, it has to be in a repository to apt-get/urpmi. And finally, you have to have that repository set up. But on top of that, what about commercial software?!
The parent was referring to an installation in Windows where you download a.exe/.msi and its a self contained installation.
Linux can do better (have self contained insallations while keeping some form of dependency checking).
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Assuming they don't seed the list with their own addresses to insure validity (damn gave them the idea)
Not really an original idea. Snail mail mass marketers seed their lists with their own PO Boxes and such to ensure that mails are actually getting sent.
The guy was sharing his opinion... "Suse is the BEST operating system package I have used."
Heaven forbid somebody have an opinion. He said it was the best OS he has ever used. So what? Grow a set of balls and dry your tears because Jimmy doesn't play with your distro.
Lastly, the upgrades problems he spoke of were for EXPERIMENTAL packages they he had to intentionally seek out to install. They didn't work so well, so I don't really think SuSE is here to blame. However, the experimental KDE 3.2.x packages have worked just fine for me.
On a more positive note, I too can't wait for 9.1.
WINE (well, at least its incarnations of CrossOver Office and TransGaming's WineX) automatically add shortcuts to your menu when you install a program. So what exact is your point here?
I suppose if somebody is that bored, then yes, they could port it to GTK. But the better question would be why you would want to do it? What is there to gain besides now having two GUI implementations to support? I don't see anything.
There's another thread about this, but I'll repeat myself for the hell of it: yes, if you run YAST from the command prompt you get a nice little ncurses GUI where you can do your deeds. Pretty nifty, if I say so myself.
Personally, I don't believe Novell bought Ximian for their GNOME "enhancements". According to them, they were interested in SuSE (seen as a KDE desktop distribution) before Ximian entered the picture. The aquisitions just happened to not happen at the same rate.
As I was saying, Novell probably saw how useful the Exchange Connector might be as well as Red Carpet Express (to compliment ZenWorks on the Linux side). Mono might have also interested them in countering Microsoft's.NET push. The Ximian Desktop might be a decent side-gift, kind of like those you get when you buy stuff off TV at 2:00 am. You probably would have bought the shit anyway, but at least you get something else for your 14.95.
No, you must not be very familiar with YAST. Starting it from the command prompt yields a ncurses GUI with the same functions that you would get from the Qt version. So, the parent is quite correct in that it is easy to use over a plain SSH connection.
Why is./configure, make and make install so bad? Well, here are a few good reasons.
1) User must have compiler and all related development headers installed. When's the last time a non-development workstation or a home machine gcc and all header files installed for everything? Like, never.
2) Dependency resolution.
3) Version tracking. Pretty simple... I'd like to be sure of what version I have installed.
4) File tracking--knowing what every file on the system belongs to which package.
5) Guranteed removal. I don't care to leave a directory of source compiled code around, and hope that it has make uninstall that works.
6) Easy upgrades. apt-get, apt-get upgrade (apt4rpm or for deb's). I don't really want to keep a watch on freshmeat and see what new is out, download it, compile it, and install it. 2 commands really makes it all seem like a waste of time.
If you take a look at the news for Eclipse 3.0 M7 you'll see that it looks like any other Windows XP application on XP. These were the most convenient screeshots to find, but I don't think this is anything new in the new version of SWT.
Hello? You're using Gentoo. If you want a distro that "just works" you're in the totally wrong ballpark.
1. Canon Powershot A40 digital camera.
Start Digikam, select your Canon model, download pictures. No kernel recompilation there. Why are you messing with the command line? Welcome to the GUI!
Sorry, no experience with webcams so I can't say.
3. Nvidia GeForce4 Ti4200.
Under SuSE, launch the fetchnvidia script and WOW, it installs the kernel module itself and even alters your XF86Config file! No recompile involved here either.
Your complaints are pure troll. You complain about having to recompile the kernel 4 times but you're using Gentoo. What do you think you're doing? If you don't want to recompile your kernel every time use a binary distro like SuSE or Mandrake.
I right an app in SWT it looks one way on Windows and another way on Gnome (usually a complete mess on one).
...that's kind of the point. If it runs on Windows it uses Windows widgets and if it runs on Linux it uses GTK+2 widgets so that it looks like a native application. It sure as hell looks a million times better than SWING or AWT. Sheesh. Gimme a break.
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OpenOffice has nothing to do with GNOME. It doesn't use any of their framework or integrate any more than it does with KDE. So why do GNOME claim it as their flagship office product? Stick with your Gnumeric et al.:)
You can do something similar to this in MythTV. Go into editing mode, load the commercial cutpoints that it thinks are right, check to make sure they're sane, hit transcode, and mythbackend cuts them out for you. Pretty slick.
Comparing WindowsUpdate to the portage tree isn't quite an accurate analogy. Portage is distributed to a number of 3rd party donors/volunteers who look after the servers. It's not like the Gentoo team looks after them.
A better analogy would be to ask how many times the update sites for RedHat, Mandrake, etc. etc. has been broken into, since the main update locations are kept up by their respective corporations. I have no idea what the answer to this is.
It's not the installing that is generally the problem, it's the little things that are a pain. Things like ACPI support, suspend, hibernate, resume, CPU throttling, etc. which all work flawlessly under Windows just aren't there yet for Linux, unfortunately. From what I hear (at least for Dell laptops) is that the manufacturer isn't always willing to divy up the information to help the process along. *shrugs* I suspect the laptop will be the end of the road after Linux comes to a Desktop Near You.
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Ever since I was a little kid I would go into the voting booth with my mom to watch her vote. Obviously I'm a little too old for that now. :)
Even back then, there was a big paper sheet printed and placed over a series of buttons. You pressed the people you wanted, and the colored light would change to the person you had pushed.
You hit vote, and you leave. Nothing changes. You don't even have a card you insert into the machine.
This has been going on for 10 years in South Carolina, at least. What is so different about this?
Umm, do what? If you're using WMP codecs under Linux they're the native .dll's from Windows. I'm not sure what you're smoking, but you should share.
You're pretty fucked either way if your /etc gets corrupted with things like they are right now. ;) You could also say the same thing about other vital .so's getting corrupted. I don't think it's adding that big of a risk.
That is what the Linux Registry is set out to solve, using simply the file system.
This allows for a simple architecture that can be easily extended since it works on the filesystem level.
http://registry.sf.net/
Such as I expected. I can't believe there isn't a huge drive from RedHat, SuSE, IBM, etc. to get NFSv4 complete and up to par with Windows when it comes to network file sharing. I would never deploy NFS in an enterprise with its current state.
I sure wouldn't doubt it if they did. With NFS it seems all you have to do is fake your uid/gid on the client and then you have access to all those files on the NFS server with that same gid/uid. Doesn't seem very secure to me since somebody could easily put up a rogue box on your network.
Is there something I'm missing here?
Application installation hell certainly isn't an out of date complaint about Linux. Is somebody going to make a .rpm/.deb/.tgz for EVERY single piece of software out there? Nope. Then, it has to be in a repository to apt-get/urpmi. And finally, you have to have that repository set up. But on top of that, what about commercial software?!
The parent was referring to an installation in Windows where you download a .exe/.msi and its a self contained installation.
Linux can do better (have self contained insallations while keeping some form of dependency checking).
Check out http://ww.autopackage.org
Not really an original idea. Snail mail mass marketers seed their lists with their own PO Boxes and such to ensure that mails are actually getting sent.
I wish I had mod points to mod your ass down.
The guy was sharing his opinion... "Suse is the BEST operating system package I have used."
Heaven forbid somebody have an opinion. He said it was the best OS he has ever used. So what? Grow a set of balls and dry your tears because Jimmy doesn't play with your distro.
Lastly, the upgrades problems he spoke of were for EXPERIMENTAL packages they he had to intentionally seek out to install. They didn't work so well, so I don't really think SuSE is here to blame. However, the experimental KDE 3.2.x packages have worked just fine for me.
On a more positive note, I too can't wait for 9.1.
It's fine for me... I'm using a 1.6GHz laptop.
WINE (well, at least its incarnations of CrossOver Office and TransGaming's WineX) automatically add shortcuts to your menu when you install a program. So what exact is your point here?
I suppose if somebody is that bored, then yes, they could port it to GTK. But the better question would be why you would want to do it? What is there to gain besides now having two GUI implementations to support? I don't see anything.
There's another thread about this, but I'll repeat myself for the hell of it: yes, if you run YAST from the command prompt you get a nice little ncurses GUI where you can do your deeds. Pretty nifty, if I say so myself.
Personally, I don't believe Novell bought Ximian for their GNOME "enhancements". According to them, they were interested in SuSE (seen as a KDE desktop distribution) before Ximian entered the picture. The aquisitions just happened to not happen at the same rate.
.NET push. The Ximian Desktop might be a decent side-gift, kind of like those you get when you buy stuff off TV at 2:00 am. You probably would have bought the shit anyway, but at least you get something else for your 14.95.
As I was saying, Novell probably saw how useful the Exchange Connector might be as well as Red Carpet Express (to compliment ZenWorks on the Linux side). Mono might have also interested them in countering Microsoft's
No, you must not be very familiar with YAST. Starting it from the command prompt yields a ncurses GUI with the same functions that you would get from the Qt version. So, the parent is quite correct in that it is easy to use over a plain SSH connection.
1) User must have compiler and all related development headers installed. When's the last time a non-development workstation or a home machine gcc and all header files installed for everything? Like, never.
2) Dependency resolution.
3) Version tracking. Pretty simple... I'd like to be sure of what version I have installed.
4) File tracking--knowing what every file on the system belongs to which package.
5) Guranteed removal. I don't care to leave a directory of source compiled code around, and hope that it has make uninstall that works.
6) Easy upgrades. apt-get, apt-get upgrade (apt4rpm or for deb's). I don't really want to keep a watch on freshmeat and see what new is out, download it, compile it, and install it. 2 commands really makes it all seem like a waste of time.
And I'm sure I could go on. :)
If you take a look at the news for Eclipse 3.0 M7 you'll see that it looks like any other Windows XP application on XP. These were the most convenient screeshots to find, but I don't think this is anything new in the new version of SWT.
Flash has been known to peg my CPU to 100% too under Konqueror. Kind of annoying on a laptop when it makes all the fans kick in at full speed.
Start Digikam, select your Canon model, download pictures. No kernel recompilation there. Why are you messing with the command line? Welcome to the GUI!
Sorry, no experience with webcams so I can't say.
Under SuSE, launch the fetchnvidia script and WOW, it installs the kernel module itself and even alters your XF86Config file! No recompile involved here either.
Your complaints are pure troll. You complain about having to recompile the kernel 4 times but you're using Gentoo. What do you think you're doing? If you don't want to recompile your kernel every time use a binary distro like SuSE or Mandrake.
OpenOffice has nothing to do with GNOME. It doesn't use any of their framework or integrate any more than it does with KDE. So why do GNOME claim it as their flagship office product? Stick with your Gnumeric et al. :)
You can do something similar to this in MythTV. Go into editing mode, load the commercial cutpoints that it thinks are right, check to make sure they're sane, hit transcode, and mythbackend cuts them out for you. Pretty slick.
Comparing WindowsUpdate to the portage tree isn't quite an accurate analogy. Portage is distributed to a number of 3rd party donors/volunteers who look after the servers. It's not like the Gentoo team looks after them.
A better analogy would be to ask how many times the update sites for RedHat, Mandrake, etc. etc. has been broken into, since the main update locations are kept up by their respective corporations. I have no idea what the answer to this is.
How the hell do you manage to crash XP once or twice a day? If that's the case it's a setup issue, not an inherit stability issue with XP. Puhlez.
It's not the installing that is generally the problem, it's the little things that are a pain. Things like ACPI support, suspend, hibernate, resume, CPU throttling, etc. which all work flawlessly under Windows just aren't there yet for Linux, unfortunately. From what I hear (at least for Dell laptops) is that the manufacturer isn't always willing to divy up the information to help the process along. *shrugs* I suspect the laptop will be the end of the road after Linux comes to a Desktop Near You.