What's a kernel without third-party applications?
If you want to use Linux for web browsing then it
sucks (even with recent versions of mozilla),
for programming on the other hand...
Yes but the question is why should someone learn
a new interface? For a computer game it makes
sense, but Linux is no faster, no more stable (than
NT/W2K), has less hardware support and less
software. In short the 'sheeple' are perfectly
well aware of what they want in an OS and
Linux isn't it.
Left-wing theory doesn't presume 'life' is
zero sum. However under capitalism there are a
class of people who own the means of productions
and a class who don't, in order for the former
to make profits they must pay the latter less
than the value of their labour. So for the working
class life is negative sum, though they may
simultaneously benefit from improvements in
technology.
So how was the Cuban missile crisis anything to
do with either the USSR or Cuba 'spreading its
boarders'. The aim of putting missiles in Cuba
was to protect that country against US attacks,
as part of the agreement that lead to the
withdrawal of the missiles the US agreed to stop
hostile actions against Cuba.
Unfairly or not the reason they don't support
Linux or *BSD is because users of these OSes
are more likely to run servers which take up a
lot of bandwidth.
No, but if I were setting up bind I would take
precautions for software that has a history
of security problems like running it chroot'ed.
More generally there are no servers which are
'out of the box' secure, if I put my pristine
redhat 6.2 box on the web and then five seconds
later it was cracked I wouldn't start posting to
slashdot that Redhat 'sux'.
So someone broke into your Win2k box but you
don't know how, but you do know it must be
MS's fault? It never fails to amaze me how
many people on slashdot take their own
incompetence as a critique of Microsoft.
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Surely the instructor was trying to teach the
principles of programming not (extremely low
level) optimization.
LOL! A few extra rules, don't overthrow your
local US backed dictatorship, don't damage the
interests of US corporations, don't vote for the
wrong political party
The x86 is not actually virtualizable (since
there are instructions which do different things
at user and supervisor level, and which don't
cause an exception) so vmware has to scan the
code to be executed for non-virtualizable
instructions and replace them in some way.
This work well with well behaved OSes and
programs, but it breaks down when the
program being run inside vmware does
something unusual like scanning its
own code for non-virtualizable
instructions.
If the 'big iron' vendors want a linux
compatible OS with support for their hardware,
why not just add support for Linux binaries to
their existing OSes? The problem of course is
that Linux is what is being demanded, right or
wrongly.
That's not quite true, IIS does have a kernel-mode
driver, probably to implement an optimized
disk->network path. Given that Linux 2.4 has the
same thing I don't see how Linux people could
complain.
Whether or not rewriting a piece of software
results in incompatiblities is a function
of the skill of the person doing the rewriting
and of the original design of the software, it
has nothing to do with the license.
> Rather than that constantly remake Linux in
> order to compete with Windows, it would make a > great deal more sense for the FSF to create a
> brand new operating system designed from the
> ground up to be a desktop OS.
>
In political/strategic terms it might make sense but the technical difficults of producing a new
operating system (especially with the large
range of x86 hardware) are immense.
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It's basically Mach 4 (from Utah) with a BSD
kernel hacked to run as a server, the latter is
taken from lites.
What's a kernel without third-party applications?
If you want to use Linux for web browsing then it
sucks (even with recent versions of mozilla),
for programming on the other hand...
You're probably behind a transparent proxy which
requires a hostname.
Yes but the question is why should someone learn
a new interface? For a computer game it makes
sense, but Linux is no faster, no more stable (than
NT/W2K), has less hardware support and less
software. In short the 'sheeple' are perfectly
well aware of what they want in an OS and
Linux isn't it.
Nader voters will be unaffected however.
National Missile Defense
Tactical Missile Defense
Left-wing theory doesn't presume 'life' is
zero sum. However under capitalism there are a
class of people who own the means of productions
and a class who don't, in order for the former
to make profits they must pay the latter less
than the value of their labour. So for the working
class life is negative sum, though they may
simultaneously benefit from improvements in
technology.
So how was the Cuban missile crisis anything to
do with either the USSR or Cuba 'spreading its
boarders'. The aim of putting missiles in Cuba
was to protect that country against US attacks,
as part of the agreement that lead to the
withdrawal of the missiles the US agreed to stop
hostile actions against Cuba.
Transmeta and Redhat's venture capitalists and
stock holders paid for it. Thanks guys, shame
about the stock price.
Unfairly or not the reason they don't support
Linux or *BSD is because users of these OSes
are more likely to run servers which take up a
lot of bandwidth.
The "beadmin.exe" vunerability was fixed in
NT SP5 and the released (non-beta) versions of
Win2k, stop spreading FUD.
No, but if I were setting up bind I would take
precautions for software that has a history
of security problems like running it chroot'ed.
More generally there are no servers which are
'out of the box' secure, if I put my pristine
redhat 6.2 box on the web and then five seconds
later it was cracked I wouldn't start posting to
slashdot that Redhat 'sux'.
So someone broke into your Win2k box but you
don't know how, but you do know it must be
MS's fault? It never fails to amaze me how
many people on slashdot take their own
incompetence as a critique of Microsoft.
Surely the instructor was trying to teach the
principles of programming not (extremely low
level) optimization.
LOL! A few extra rules, don't overthrow your
local US backed dictatorship, don't damage the
interests of US corporations, don't vote for the
wrong political party
It's from the Simpsons
(http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F13.html)
No problems with lynx 2.8.4dev.10 on linux.
The x86 is not actually virtualizable (since
there are instructions which do different things
at user and supervisor level, and which don't
cause an exception) so vmware has to scan the
code to be executed for non-virtualizable
instructions and replace them in some way.
This work well with well behaved OSes and
programs, but it breaks down when the
program being run inside vmware does
something unusual like scanning its
own code for non-virtualizable
instructions.
If the 'big iron' vendors want a linux
compatible OS with support for their hardware,
why not just add support for Linux binaries to
their existing OSes? The problem of course is
that Linux is what is being demanded, right or
wrongly.
That's not quite true, IIS does have a kernel-mode
driver, probably to implement an optimized
disk->network path. Given that Linux 2.4 has the
same thing I don't see how Linux people could
complain.
> Amazingly its the same farmers who protest
> against high tax fuel
>
Farmers don't have to pay tax on their disel.
Whether or not rewriting a piece of software
results in incompatiblities is a function
of the skill of the person doing the rewriting
and of the original design of the software, it
has nothing to do with the license.
Doesn't the 'their' refer to AOL and
Time-Warner.
> Rather than that constantly remake Linux in
> order to compete with Windows, it would make a > great deal more sense for the FSF to create a
> brand new operating system designed from the
> ground up to be a desktop OS.
>
In political/strategic terms it might make sense but the technical difficults of producing a new
operating system (especially with the large
range of x86 hardware) are immense.
Isn't that what the --prefix, --exec-prefix, etc
arguments to configure do?