> Wrong. To get SGI's "scalability" in Linux you > need SGI's closed source Linux kernel > extensions. That's right, they're not GPL or > even Open Source. You have to compile in their > own special "shim" layer into the kernel.
That's sounds like a GPL-violoation to me, if you were right... Where is your info from?
What a 3D-desktop needs to be _really_ useful is a 3D-interface. Gloves and goggles instead of monitor and mouse. If you have every played around in a VR-lab, you know what I'm talking about;-)
Perhaps the most interesting thought regarding this is that if it were Windows, people would be ragging on it left and right. Microsoft and its "haphazard" filesystem with "six different places for system executables."
you mean compared to one place PER PROGRAM, as windows programs are organized?
I guess, they didn't want to go with a version that was officially still labeled "beta", and the final 1.0 release of the vorbis codec isn't out that long...
How can a free software developer be held liable for something he has not sold?
With open source, you even can't know, if the user has or has not changed to "product", he got from the developer...
> The one who wins is the one who makes the best desktop.
i hope you're right;-)
> What is absolute most important thing that makes the best desktop? - The apps!
I absolutely disagree. The apps should be independent of the desktop-environment used. Otherwise, they would be part of it. Or even better, the apps shouldn't require a desktop-environment to be runnig at all.
BASIC is no programming language. I don't think we need such a thing for Linux. Better make a BASIC2* converter (substitute your favorite programming language for *).
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Illiad knew, we'd need a way out! ...
I'd take it, if I could
Any Cardassian knows: there are no coincidences ...
I think IBM should offer to buy-out SCO for 50 cent per share or something like that ... should be quite a symbol for the market ;-)
and to use all those and more at the same time you have GNU Screen ...
Or maybe SCO paid Google to not immediately deny that statement ... just some PR-expenses ;-)
> Wrong. To get SGI's "scalability" in Linux you
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> need SGI's closed source Linux kernel
> extensions. That's right, they're not GPL or
> even Open Source. You have to compile in their
> own special "shim" layer into the kernel.
That's sounds like a GPL-violoation to me, if
you were right
Where is your info from?
You mean non-criminal as in "not convicted of violation of anti-trust laws"?
What a 3D-desktop needs to be _really_ useful is a 3D-interface. Gloves and goggles instead of monitor and mouse. If you have every played around in a VR-lab, you know what I'm talking about ;-)
The study was funded by a lobby-organisation of software companies - so what do you expect?
Perhaps the most interesting thought regarding this is that if it were Windows, people would be ragging on it left and right. Microsoft and its "haphazard" filesystem with "six different places for system executables."
you mean compared to one place PER PROGRAM, as windows programs are organized?
if you're looking for a usable windows cvs-client, give tortoise-cvs a try!
it's an extension for the explorer and works imho quite nice.
I guess, they didn't want to go with a version that was officially still labeled "beta", and the final 1.0 release of the vorbis codec isn't out that long ...
i guess you're right - at least for the US. And most Americans are none the less proud of their legal system ...
am I supposed to understand that?
This is interesting. Often it seems the games are ahead of the "serious apps".
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To have a cool idea and to make something actually work are 2 _very_ different things
What do you expect of a country, where you have to warn your customers, the coffee you're serving is hot, so you don't get sued over that ...
How can a free software developer be held liable for something he has not sold? ...
With open source, you even can't know, if the user has or has not changed to "product", he got from the developer
just my 2c
so long ...
i hope you're right ;-)
> What is absolute most important thing that makes the best desktop? - The apps!
I absolutely disagree. The apps should be independent of the desktop-environment used. Otherwise, they would be part of it. Or even better, the apps shouldn't require a desktop-environment to be runnig at all.
so long ...
so long ...
so long ...
There is already work in progress to build an Open Source solution.
Examples are Speak Freely, Nautilus and Whisper.
check it out and improve it!
Further information might become available under www.linuxtelephony.com or linuxtelephony.org
so long ...
At least, they said, they would do it. But I haven't found a link on this on the IBM-website.
;-)
so long
Ray
BASIC is no programming language. I don't think we need such a thing for Linux. Better make a BASIC2* converter (substitute your favorite programming language for *).
;-)
so long
Ray