It's not that the software won't run, but that it will just look really bad at best. But it depends. Especially applications using the dark themeing is really bad and almost unusable. At least gnome-boxes had that issue when I tried it last week. The same program works just fine under Gnome 3. But it's a common problem among all GTK+ 3 applications and from what I understand the problem is in GTK+ 3 itself.
That will work for now, but over time many GTK+ 2 applications will migrate to GTK+ 3; and if GTK+ 3 is not a go on other desktops then that's a problem.
Sure, but the idea is not to necessarily ship the most tested software. The idea is that the software that is shipped is well tested before moved a major new version.
I would look at RHEL for some interesting ideas. The system itself is very stable, but some components are allowed to change. You don't really need a new version of ls of libfoo, but most users will appreciate an updated Firefox. They also backport a lot of new features and drivers to their kernel, so that it can be installed on new hardware many years after the initial release. We use Debian in some parts of our organization, and it's often not trivial to get Debian stable to run on a new machine two years after stable was released.
GNU/Linux is just a made up word. We could just as well call the combination of GNU and Linux as Fred, that doesn't mean that we have to call everything that combines GNU and Linux as Fred. It's just something that someone made up.
Of course it's relevant what they call themselves. Why should anyone else than Canonical and the Ubuntu community decide that? GNU is not important enough to the average Ubuntu user that the operating system should be called GNU/Linux. Ubuntu is Ubuntu. If some other distribution wants to call themselves GNU/Linux then that's fine. Mac OS X has a ton of GNU utilities installed, that doesn't mean that it should be called GNU/Mac OS X.
I don't think a phone would be very useful if all it had was the Linux kernel. You would need a userland, and using one as a base that is already established means a lot of people already know how to use and develop for the platform.
Public money is used for all sorts of infrastructure projects. You build roads because they are needed, not because you want to make the money back. Network infrastructure is getting just as important as any other infrastructure. This is unfortunately as recognized as it should be. In a perfect world the government would build an open fiber optic network with the goal of covering 100 % of the population. Building this as part of private infrastructure is of course not optimal, but it's good that at least someone recognizes the need.
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So just to be clear. Them threatening to nuke us, bad. Us nuking them just to be sure, good. OK?
Red Hat doesn't ship with Gnome 3 yet. Their latest release is still on 2.28.
It's not that the software won't run, but that it will just look really bad at best. But it depends. Especially applications using the dark themeing is really bad and almost unusable. At least gnome-boxes had that issue when I tried it last week. The same program works just fine under Gnome 3. But it's a common problem among all GTK+ 3 applications and from what I understand the problem is in GTK+ 3 itself.
That will work for now, but over time many GTK+ 2 applications will migrate to GTK+ 3; and if GTK+ 3 is not a go on other desktops then that's a problem.
That's true, but not a problem in practice. If Debian has to fix something themself they are usually able to do so.
A bit old maybe, but not outdated or useless. It is a supported file system.
Sure, but the idea is not to necessarily ship the most tested software. The idea is that the software that is shipped is well tested before moved a major new version.
Apache 2.4 might also have new bugs. It's a good idea to have it go through unstable and testing before hitting the next stable.
I would look at RHEL for some interesting ideas. The system itself is very stable, but some components are allowed to change. You don't really need a new version of ls of libfoo, but most users will appreciate an updated Firefox. They also backport a lot of new features and drivers to their kernel, so that it can be installed on new hardware many years after the initial release. We use Debian in some parts of our organization, and it's often not trivial to get Debian stable to run on a new machine two years after stable was released.
Heh, kernel 3.2... this OS comes outdated out of the box.
It's not outdated. It is well tested.
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If you're going to download old Mozilla software, at least download it from Mozilla's FTP site where all versions are archived.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
GNU/Linux is just a made up word. We could just as well call the combination of GNU and Linux as Fred, that doesn't mean that we have to call everything that combines GNU and Linux as Fred. It's just something that someone made up.
Of course it's relevant what they call themselves. Why should anyone else than Canonical and the Ubuntu community decide that? GNU is not important enough to the average Ubuntu user that the operating system should be called GNU/Linux. Ubuntu is Ubuntu. If some other distribution wants to call themselves GNU/Linux then that's fine. Mac OS X has a ton of GNU utilities installed, that doesn't mean that it should be called GNU/Mac OS X.
So that I can remove the Bitcoin bits.
GNU/Linux is not an operating system. It's something that some distributions call themselves, like Debian. Ubuntu on the other hand is not GNU/Linux.
Ehm, some people get more than one children. Then the time can just add up.
Could very well be the case. One way or another, GNU usage is in minority.
Not really. The most popular Linux distribution, called Android, uses Java as their userland. Not GNU.
Maybe says something about the american standards.
I don't think a phone would be very useful if all it had was the Linux kernel. You would need a userland, and using one as a base that is already established means a lot of people already know how to use and develop for the platform.
Or I guess we would have seen MacLinux.
No, GPL does not force companies to use your code. It may only restrict them from using it.
The summary is a bit off. They are using gcc 4.7 as the system compiler. GCC 4.8 supports BSDs just fine.
As long as it's not locked down to for example only run Android I'm happy.
Public money is used for all sorts of infrastructure projects. You build roads because they are needed, not because you want to make the money back. Network infrastructure is getting just as important as any other infrastructure. This is unfortunately as recognized as it should be. In a perfect world the government would build an open fiber optic network with the goal of covering 100 % of the population. Building this as part of private infrastructure is of course not optimal, but it's good that at least someone recognizes the need.
Kubuntu basically just gives you something else as the default. It's the same distro.