By convention patches are released under the same license as the version it applies to. I'm sure the GNU Bash maintainer is willing to clarify this to Apple if asked.
What are you talking about? It is completely factual and a valid point. Apple currently bundles 3.2.51, which is licensed under GPLv2. The patched version of bash is the new 4.3.25, which is licensed using GPLv3. Including it would change the license they are using, which I imagine takes some consideration.
First of all, do you run your Mac as a server? If the answer is no then you most likely don't need the patch anyway. The MacPorts binary will depend on libraries installed by MacPorts, there's nothing wrong about that.
I went back to the/. article from the 2.14 release. Turns out people didn't like that one either. I especially fell for this comment:
Gnome2 was an act of utter contempt against end users, it's still better than KDE but that's not exactly saying much is it? fluxbox, icewm & xfce4 are where it's at.
I just tried Gnome 3.12.2 from a freshly updated Debian jessie and no, there is still nothing configurable at all on that desktop. This is the big major difference from MATE and XFCE4 where everything is configurable by just a right click on the widget you want to change. On Gnome 3, even after years of complain, there is still absolutely nothing configurable at all.
There's actually a lot of things that can be configure, it's just that the UI does not allow it. This will hopefully be improved one day.
So sorry, your claim is false: there is no option to disable dynamic workspaces and there is no option to disable top-left corner gesture. I have found 3 way to start the Preferences application (from the user menu top-right, from the application icon bottom-left, from a right click on the background). None allow to configure what you claim.
Dynamic workspaces can be disabled. GNOME Classic uses this setting by default. You can easily change it with gnome-tweak-tool.
And finding an application is still a nightmare. Still the same nonsense of having to go to the top-left activity menu, but warning, be precise because the top-left corner is just a few pixel away. On a 4K display this is just a torture to not hit the top-left corner when you wants to click on the top-left activity menu.
You don't need to use the mouse at all. Use your super/windows key to bring up the Activities view, then just type what you want and hit return.
Still, the activity menu is in fact not a menu but a vertical bar with few big ugly icons of something I rarely use, not even a web browser.... I have no clue how there chose to display those useless icons.
You can drag and drop any application that you want there.
Still have to got to the bottom-left of the screen (from the top-left of the screen, try that on a 4K resolution) to click on the application array. But why ?
There's a shortcut, super+a will bring up the applications view.
Still no categories ?
No, but you can create folders from the Software application.
I have no clue about how look the icons of the applications I wants and the text is not only ridiculously small but cropped !!!! Yes, on a 4K display will 3840 pixel width, Gnome 3 fail to display the full name of a few applications icons in a row even with a almost unreadable small font !! Such a big failure. Completely useless.
Most of this can be fixed within gnome-tweak-tool. You should check it out.
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They also planned to have release ready every six months. It's wasn't called Mac OS 9 at first, they used code names like Sonata.
Look at it from the bright side, at least it wasn't called Windows One.
Well, there was a Mac OS 9. They just happened to stay at 10.
Maybe this would be possible if the vendor offered a restore image for download.
Is there a reason why these programs can only be "disabled," not "removed?"
Then don't and build your own telco.
Will Ubuntu Touch for Phones include spyware, like the shopping lens that they ship with the desktop version of Ubuntu?
Indeed, I just pointed it out as an easy to understand example.
By convention patches are released under the same license as the version it applies to. I'm sure the GNU Bash maintainer is willing to clarify this to Apple if asked.
There are users using it, and it is documented.
But it is part of the ports collection, which is managed by the FreeBSD project and that a lot of FreeBSD users use.
The GNU project shipped officicial patches for all GNU Bash versions going back to 3.0, and I've seen other people patch versions going back to 2.0.
What are you talking about? It is completely factual and a valid point. Apple currently bundles 3.2.51, which is licensed under GPLv2. The patched version of bash is the new 4.3.25, which is licensed using GPLv3. Including it would change the license they are using, which I imagine takes some consideration.
Here are patches for Bash 3.2:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/b...
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/b...
Actually, Apple uses an old version based on Bash 3.2 which is under GPLv2. Not really a problem, patches exist for as old as Bash 2.0.
First of all, do you run your Mac as a server? If the answer is no then you most likely don't need the patch anyway. The MacPorts binary will depend on libraries installed by MacPorts, there's nothing wrong about that.
It really has nothing to do with the default shell. It won't matter what shell is the default when your CGI script starts with #!/bin/bash.
You have obviously never used Perl.
It's been in there since Bash 1.4.
When these things happen users typically have to wait until the next patch Tuesday.
I went back to the /. article from the 2.14 release. Turns out people didn't like that one either. I especially fell for this comment:
Gnome2 was an act of utter contempt against end users, it's still better than KDE but that's not exactly saying much is it? fluxbox, icewm & xfce4 are where it's at.
Yet people use it.
Well, Gnome 3 has support for themes. You can change it to something else if you want to.
I just tried Gnome 3.12.2 from a freshly updated Debian jessie and no, there is still nothing configurable at all on that desktop. This is the big major difference from MATE and XFCE4 where everything is configurable by just a right click on the widget you want to change. On Gnome 3, even after years of complain, there is still absolutely nothing configurable at all.
There's actually a lot of things that can be configure, it's just that the UI does not allow it. This will hopefully be improved one day.
So sorry, your claim is false: there is no option to disable dynamic workspaces and there is no option to disable top-left corner gesture. I have found 3 way to start the Preferences application (from the user menu top-right, from the application icon bottom-left, from a right click on the background). None allow to configure what you claim.
Dynamic workspaces can be disabled. GNOME Classic uses this setting by default. You can easily change it with gnome-tweak-tool.
And finding an application is still a nightmare. Still the same nonsense of having to go to the top-left activity menu, but warning, be precise because the top-left corner is just a few pixel away. On a 4K display this is just a torture to not hit the top-left corner when you wants to click on the top-left activity menu.
You don't need to use the mouse at all. Use your super/windows key to bring up the Activities view, then just type what you want and hit return.
Still, the activity menu is in fact not a menu but a vertical bar with few big ugly icons of something I rarely use, not even a web browser.... I have no clue how there chose to display those useless icons.
You can drag and drop any application that you want there.
Still have to got to the bottom-left of the screen (from the top-left of the screen, try that on a 4K resolution) to click on the application array. But why ?
There's a shortcut, super+a will bring up the applications view.
Still no categories ?
No, but you can create folders from the Software application.
I have no clue about how look the icons of the applications I wants and the text is not only ridiculously small but cropped !!!! Yes, on a 4K display will 3840 pixel width, Gnome 3 fail to display the full name of a few applications icons in a row even with a almost unreadable small font !! Such a big failure. Completely useless.
Most of this can be fixed within gnome-tweak-tool. You should check it out.
Ah, now I understand what you mean. Yep, that would be useful. In the mean time this extension might help:
https://extensions.gnome.org/e...
So Intel controls the Gnome project now? This is news to me.
Where does it say that? I'm running it on a laptop and it doesn't say anything about that in the power settings at least.