The/dev directory is a hell of a lot better than all the 'virtual' devices that windows uses.
There's no need for/dev clutter.
With the addition of DevFS to the 2.4 series, my/dev has been cleaner than it's ever been. The device hierarchy is much improved and the automatic adding/removing of device nodes is very nice.
I agree that it can be an RPM-only utility, but it shouldn't be a KDE-only utility, that's just dumb.
I don't want all of my programs each having their own installer with their own UI and all the usage quirks that go along with it.
Something like that sounds like the myriad of windows installer programs like installshield.
I want one monolithic packaging tool that handles every package.
Even in your quoted version, the key word is "persuit".
These companies can persue profit all they want, but they shouldn't be able to change laws to guarantee a profit.
That goes against a capitalist system in which the consumer decides the fate of a product or service by 'voting' with their dollars.
With the recent arrival of the Destiny module, the stations 6 main gyros will be activated.
These will be used to do most of the stations orbit-keeping activities and attitude adjustments.
Well there IS another type of internal combustion engine that is more efficiant than a piston engine, and that is the Wankel engine.
It's a purely rotary engine so there's no vibration and far fewer moving parts that require less lubricant and less maintinance.
It's far superior to the piston engine, but I don't know why it's not used as much.
Electric engines would be extremely light and efficiant, but would require a heavy battery array, which sort of cancels out it's benefits.
There are no one-stroke engines.
He said one stroke when he really meant two (up - intake/exhaust and compress, down - combustion), and he said two stroke when he really meant four (down1 - intake, up1 - compression, down2 - combustion, up2 - exhaust).
The big problem with two-stroke engines is that the intake and exhaust phases occur simultaneously and there is a big mixture of exhaust and intake so it's extremely inefficiant (plus it burns oil with it's fuel so it's worse than just fuel).
You just described my parents' Windowmaker desktop.
They login via XDM, and have the absolutely necessary icons on their desktop (moz, abiword, balsa).
And it Just Works without ever worring that they'll screw up the system because they CAN'T.
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With XF 4 (which is in woody) there isn't as much of a need for modelines as there used to be.
It would also be nice if magicfilter was a default install with lpr/lprng (it's just a suggested package now).
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I'm just curious, but how do win2k programs access devices without all the 'virtual' cruft they've been adding over the past few years?
The last time I used win it had virtual-memory, virtual-devices, and virtual-drivers; that virtually never worked well.
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Open source (but not Free software) and UNIX are the 'old way of doing things'.
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Just to expand on some of the points you made:
/dev directory is a hell of a lot better than all the 'virtual' devices that windows uses.
/dev clutter.
/dev has been cleaner than it's ever been. The device hierarchy is much improved and the automatic adding/removing of device nodes is very nice.
The
There's no need for
With the addition of DevFS to the 2.4 series, my
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I agree that it can be an RPM-only utility, but it shouldn't be a KDE-only utility, that's just dumb.
I don't want all of my programs each having their own installer with their own UI and all the usage quirks that go along with it.
Something like that sounds like the myriad of windows installer programs like installshield.
I want one monolithic packaging tool that handles every package.
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Even in your quoted version, the key word is "persuit".
These companies can persue profit all they want, but they shouldn't be able to change laws to guarantee a profit.
That goes against a capitalist system in which the consumer decides the fate of a product or service by 'voting' with their dollars.
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A revolution is only illegal if it fails.
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There's a distro that already has an advanced and automated yet simple packaging tool that handles dependencies and incompatabilities.
It's called APT and it comes with Debian.
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Not only fewer 'bells and whistles', but fewer total number of craft built.
Before, there would have been at least three NEAR's built 'just in case' and they'd leave the other two in museums someplace.
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And every 15 minutes they have to change DVDs/Players because they're in a new zone.
That's some good thinking there...
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With the recent arrival of the Destiny module, the stations 6 main gyros will be activated.
These will be used to do most of the stations orbit-keeping activities and attitude adjustments.
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I think his ideas would be better addressed with the metphor of Plato's Republic.
So you need to use a metaphor to explain why people shouldn't be using metaphors.
Nice Catch-22 there.
AHH! Another metaphor! Leave me alone!
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It seemed to be applicable enough when the MPAA had Jon Johansen arrested.
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Well there IS another type of internal combustion engine that is more efficiant than a piston engine, and that is the Wankel engine.
It's a purely rotary engine so there's no vibration and far fewer moving parts that require less lubricant and less maintinance.
It's far superior to the piston engine, but I don't know why it's not used as much.
Electric engines would be extremely light and efficiant, but would require a heavy battery array, which sort of cancels out it's benefits.
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You just described a *BSD.
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There are no one-stroke engines.
He said one stroke when he really meant two (up - intake/exhaust and compress, down - combustion), and he said two stroke when he really meant four (down1 - intake, up1 - compression, down2 - combustion, up2 - exhaust).
The big problem with two-stroke engines is that the intake and exhaust phases occur simultaneously and there is a big mixture of exhaust and intake so it's extremely inefficiant (plus it burns oil with it's fuel so it's worse than just fuel).
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You don't need to.
A little girl that walks by your system has the same privilages as you, it's administrator, and can inflict the same damages.
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Ideas against the state.
Thoughts of emmigrating.
JonKatz.
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That would be a bit messy if you actually tried to fit a cat inside a klein bottle.
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The main reason I upgraded was because I got better refresh rates without (evil) modelines and DRI support.
:)
That, and APT makes it so damn easy to upgrade
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This reminds me of a good quote:
"What would a good law-abiding citizen be doing walking the streets at midnight?"
"Whatever the hell they want to be doing!"
And controversial speech is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind.
After all, they were controversial, they were having a revolution!
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You have no constitutional right to happiness.
The persuit of happiness, yes. But not happiness.
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X (>= 4.0.2) supports AA natively but the apps have to make use of it, which is what they're starting to do.
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You just described my parents' Windowmaker desktop.
They login via XDM, and have the absolutely necessary icons on their desktop (moz, abiword, balsa).
And it Just Works without ever worring that they'll screw up the system because they CAN'T.
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