The main issues are robustness (must get OpenOffice and Moz to be solid)
Just out of my head: is HP actively supporting them?
I'm asking this only for curiosity sake, no trolling, I swear! I have lot of good HP hardware at home and at the office and a couple of good friends working there.:)).
Dreamworks has also announced Shrek 2, maybe there will be a penguin in it
PDI (which is the studio which actually did Shrek, Dreamworks "only" owns them) was already almost entirely done with Linux, I said almost because I know for sure (because I saw it and one of the big guys at PDI told me when I went to visit him) that Shrek was rendered on a huge Linux farm and all the animation was done on Linux workstation using their proprietary software and so (maybe) some parts of the pre-production was done on other platforms.
I don't know wheter the Linux World announce refers to the Dreamworks studios in the LA area (where I've never been nor I know somebody working there) or to the Palo Alto PDI's studios where there might be SGI workstations for the designers or some other random use.
Of course you will also find all the newest versions of famous packages:
kernel 2.4.17, celebrating the comeback of kernel-secure, and a more robust supermount.
XFree86 4.2, with support for many video cards only supported in 3.3.6 version until now.
glibc 2.2.4
Window Maker 0.8
apache 1.3.22
evolution 1.01
kde 2.2.2
galeon 1.0
mozilla 0.9.7
Hope they upgrade their Mozilla version then, 0.9.8 should be out this week.;)
> I made that post as an AC because I was sure it would get modded way down. Now we can see that it didn't. Coincidentally, I was thinking the same thing you were. Additionally, 7.1 was the first version to be without an installable iso available via ftp.
Argh... I'm an unexpirienced/.'er and I got iper modden down... mine wanted to be an ironical/informative post... and I got my (little) karma burned down! Poor me;(
Easy: SuSE uses a tool which is not opensource (YAST) and has a licence which makes difficult to distribuite its CD. Thus we at/., opensource maniacs, don't like SuSE.;)
> I'll have you know that many/.'ers remember Amigas with much fondness. It truly was an OS ahead of it's time.
Believe it or not but AmigaOS is still in development: version 3.9 has been released something more than a year ago and the second service pack (known as BoingBag) is to be released in a couple of weeks and it'll sport some new sweet goodies (not only the euro support!;).
What I really remember with fondess are the hardware and the applications: almost nothing avaiable at the moment; on the hardware side we have some good emulators which make AmigaOS usable on x86 hardware but almost no application left which makes worth using it.
>The BBC
>dramatisation on the other hand, leaves the subtleties of the
>story intact, resulting in a more rounded experience. The only
>ommission of note is the absence, as usual, of Tom Bombadil.
Once I signed up for an Hotmail account, after 5 mins I logged in and there were already 5 spam messagges, I didn't even send a messagge from that account!
> I like free software, but I think it's just urban legend that software not written by microsoft is somehow magically secure. (Witness: BIND, wu_ftpd, sendmail, rpc.*, etc...)
Nobody ever said that Free is magically secure, only that is easier to fix the holes since everybody can modify the source
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Just out of my head: is HP actively supporting them?
I'm asking this only for curiosity sake, no trolling, I swear! I have lot of good HP hardware at home and at the office and a couple of good friends working there. :)).
Andrea
PDI (which is the studio which actually did Shrek, Dreamworks "only" owns them) was already almost entirely done with Linux, I said almost because I know for sure (because I saw it and one of the big guys at PDI told me when I went to visit him) that Shrek was rendered on a huge Linux farm and all the animation was done on Linux workstation using their proprietary software and so (maybe) some parts of the pre-production was done on other platforms.
I don't know wheter the Linux World announce refers to the Dreamworks studios in the LA area (where I've never been nor I know somebody working there) or to the Palo Alto PDI's studios where there might be SGI workstations for the designers or some other random use.
So a Penguin ought to be in Shrek "1" too,
Andrea
Hope they upgrade their Mozilla version then, 0.9.8 should be out this week. ;)
Andrea
> I made that post as an AC because I was sure it would get modded way down. Now we can see that it didn't. Coincidentally, I was thinking the same thing you were. Additionally, 7.1 was the first version to be without an installable iso available via ftp.
/.'er and I got iper modden down... mine wanted to be an ironical/informative post... and I got my (little) karma burned down! Poor me ;(
Argh... I'm an unexpirienced
Andrea
Easy: SuSE uses a tool which is not opensource (YAST) and has a licence which makes difficult to distribuite its CD. Thus we at /., opensource maniacs, don't like SuSE. ;)
Andrea
> I'll have you know that many /.'ers remember Amigas with much fondness. It truly was an OS ahead of it's time.
;).
Believe it or not but AmigaOS is still in development: version 3.9 has been released something more than a year ago and the second service pack (known as BoingBag) is to be released in a couple of weeks and it'll sport some new sweet goodies (not only the euro support!
What I really remember with fondess are the hardware and the applications: almost nothing avaiable at the moment; on the hardware side we have some good emulators which make AmigaOS usable on x86 hardware but almost no application left which makes worth using it.
Andrea
The Zaurus in a (not so) near future should feature the new AmigaDE (DE=Digital Enviroment).
/.'ers know something more about this AmigaDE?
Something about it is avaiable at http://www.amiga.com, any of you
Andrea
>The BBC
>dramatisation on the other hand, leaves the subtleties of the
>story intact, resulting in a more rounded experience. The only
>ommission of note is the absence, as usual, of Tom Bombadil.
Why as usual?
Andrea
> It would be nice if I could hack the Mozilla XUL framework easier (like I can hack Emacs lisp).
You might want to try PatchMaker for that:
http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/patch-maker/
it should allow you to hack the framework fairly easily.
Andrea
This is the Unofficial Mozilla Spell-checker FAQ: http://www.mozilla.org.uk/docs/spell-checker-faq.h tml it should address your concerns.
Once I signed up for an Hotmail account, after 5 mins I logged in and there were already 5 spam messagges, I didn't even send a messagge from that account!
:)
Andrea
PS looked like one spam message per minute
Looks weird. Sounds great.
I'd buy only because of this headline!
Andrea
> I like free software, but I think it's just urban legend that software not written by microsoft is somehow magically secure. (Witness: BIND, wu_ftpd, sendmail, rpc.*, etc...)
Nobody ever said that Free is magically secure, only that is easier to fix the holes since everybody can modify the source