Everyone knows the shuttle is hopelessly outdated, but its all we have. No X-Prize type projects have a produced a true viable alternative to date.
We know we need a replacement but our dumbass President has chosen instead to focus on fantastic (as in unreal) and implausible goals for the moon and Mars...which NASA is tacitly obliged to pursue.
CPAN is one reason why many people stick with Perl...an amazing breadth of code that has great support for installation, etc.
Yes there are some warts, not all of the code in CPAN is perfect, some of it might very well be broken...but on the whole the repository has high quality code.
I would suspect every language/toolkit would want something like this.
Even if the distros adopted autopackage, they would save an immense amount of time wasted repackaging the same code for their local "we are sure this is the ultimate packaging system".
The ecosystem of distros is just shaking out, I suspect that in time many of the current players will be gone.
For example, can the market support N Debian derivatives? I doubt it, I suspect Ubuntu will kill off Mepis. Can the market support N "do it all yourself" distros? No, Gentoo will kill off Arch at some point. Can the market support N "total support for the newbie" distros? No, Linspire or Xandors will survive, but not both.
Note that many distros have already reached the "curiousity" level...I don't consider Slack to be in competition with Fedora at this point.
There are thousands of traffic cameras all over the US now. You are in essence tracked to the intersection in most cities, although admittedly RFID could enable realtime tracking...which oddly enough some people pay for with LoJack.
I wouldn't worry about KDE "dying"...I highly doubt they (Novell) were going to do much new development in it anyway, let alone maintainence work. KDE will continue just fine. I think corporate involvement making/breaking these projects is overstated. It helps, but a mature project like KDE has its own momentum.
And obviously, you have never experienced RPM dependancy hell during an enterprise level install
I have put RHEL and Fedora on a number of boxes without problem. My company is about to put RHEL on about twenty thousand servers (no joke). So I have to call bullshit or amateur hour on you.
Ximian went for chump change...well, they were sort of a chump change company, but they did offer integration products (Ximian desktop) which Novell wanted. Nots sure how buying TrollTech would have given Novell an advantage at the user level.
This is the dilemma for any centralized algorithm, as soon as you are number one you are exploited, thus relatively increasing the utility of as-of-yet unexploited competitors.
You can deride it as "big brother" etc by the fact is, hyper-tracking of web activity is going to be very very big business.
Of course there is only so much you can pull out of data, and many firms will get caught up in "analysis paralysis" and over-reliance on back-looking stats instead of risk taking on new ideas, but that realization will only come after billions have been spent chasing the dream of apparently being able to mind-read consumers.
Apparently the League of Nations was also interested in keeping the Soviet Union out of Finland...
The UN performs some roles well - it brings attention to the plight of some disadvantaged peoples and organizes aid when members feel it is convenient...but as an enforcement agency it is completely toothless.
Its very fast, featureful, native GNOME integration, and provides excellent functionality. Likewise Gnumeric is an excellent spreadhseet complement which is also fast and native to GNOME.
What would be nice is a ppt reader to go along with them...maybe Evince could be made to read ppt?
As for Java, I am only interested in the subset being promoted by RedHat - the free gcj/classpath variant. Call it FreeJava or whatever, but to me anything else is unacceptable. Come on folks, we came this far insisting on free software, don't give up now over one lousy VM and language spec.
Would it be done in Qt, GTK1, GTK2 or raw X widgets? Which printer dialogs would it use -- KDE or GNOME? Which file selectors would it use? How would they keep up, test and fix bugs for GNOME on a 6 month cycle or KDE on a ?? month cycle? How would you have it look nice with the default theme of the desktop?
Why so many questions? If they made a GNOME port it would use GTK2, GNOME file selectors, GNOME print dialogs, etc.
If they made a KDE port, it would likewise use the KDE components.
Tell me how you feel building gnome is a mess. My guess is you have never done it. Gnome needs a major cleanup? Tell me why and how. Or is this just more uninformed hand waving?
There has been plenty of hand-waving regarding this issue and I think the parent poster has a good point. We are basically talking about a face-value "promise" from a pretty much the last company we would accept that from. Yes there are always issues to contend with, but GPL-conceived community specificied tools (python, perl etc) seem to be far more resistant to these issues.
Wrong! It is illegal for a non-government agency to ask for your SSN. There is no legal ambiguity here, it is clearly spelled out in law, you are 100% wrong.
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AOL/TW resulted in the largest write-down in corporate history - $135 billion in losses. This is "starting to make sense"??
We know we need a replacement but our dumbass President has chosen instead to focus on fantastic (as in unreal) and implausible goals for the moon and Mars...which NASA is tacitly obliged to pursue.
Yes there are some warts, not all of the code in CPAN is perfect, some of it might very well be broken...but on the whole the repository has high quality code.
I would suspect every language/toolkit would want something like this.
Even if the distros adopted autopackage, they would save an immense amount of time wasted repackaging the same code for their local "we are sure this is the ultimate packaging system".
For example, can the market support N Debian derivatives? I doubt it, I suspect Ubuntu will kill off Mepis. Can the market support N "do it all yourself" distros? No, Gentoo will kill off Arch at some point. Can the market support N "total support for the newbie" distros? No, Linspire or Xandors will survive, but not both.
Note that many distros have already reached the "curiousity" level...I don't consider Slack to be in competition with Fedora at this point.
There are thousands of traffic cameras all over the US now. You are in essence tracked to the intersection in most cities, although admittedly RFID could enable realtime tracking...which oddly enough some people pay for with LoJack.
Ch 11.
O'Reilly books? Oh you've got me beat there.
I the people I work with have written O'Reilly books. Once again, I call amateur hour on you.
I wouldn't worry about KDE "dying"...I highly doubt they (Novell) were going to do much new development in it anyway, let alone maintainence work. KDE will continue just fine. I think corporate involvement making/breaking these projects is overstated. It helps, but a mature project like KDE has its own momentum.
I have put RHEL and Fedora on a number of boxes without problem. My company is about to put RHEL on about twenty thousand servers (no joke). So I have to call bullshit or amateur hour on you.
You mean apart from being the biggest linux vendor by sales, revenue, service contracts, etc etc???
Ximian went for chump change...well, they were sort of a chump change company, but they did offer integration products (Ximian desktop) which Novell wanted. Nots sure how buying TrollTech would have given Novell an advantage at the user level.
My FreeBSD 4.x boxes are over 1000+ days of uptime now with real load with real business logic running on them.
I don't think this is true at all and I am wondering how you arrived at this.
This is the dilemma for any centralized algorithm, as soon as you are number one you are exploited, thus relatively increasing the utility of as-of-yet unexploited competitors.
Of course there is only so much you can pull out of data, and many firms will get caught up in "analysis paralysis" and over-reliance on back-looking stats instead of risk taking on new ideas, but that realization will only come after billions have been spent chasing the dream of apparently being able to mind-read consumers.
This is the best web acquisition this year.
The UN performs some roles well - it brings attention to the plight of some disadvantaged peoples and organizes aid when members feel it is convenient...but as an enforcement agency it is completely toothless.
What would be nice is a ppt reader to go along with them...maybe Evince could be made to read ppt?
As for Java, I am only interested in the subset being promoted by RedHat - the free gcj/classpath variant. Call it FreeJava or whatever, but to me anything else is unacceptable. Come on folks, we came this far insisting on free software, don't give up now over one lousy VM and language spec.
Why so many questions? If they made a GNOME port it would use GTK2, GNOME file selectors, GNOME print dialogs, etc.
If they made a KDE port, it would likewise use the KDE components.
Tell me how you feel building gnome is a mess. My guess is you have never done it. Gnome needs a major cleanup? Tell me why and how. Or is this just more uninformed hand waving?
Okay, so your WM is already released, debugged and stable. So what do you care what other people do?
There has been plenty of hand-waving regarding this issue and I think the parent poster has a good point. We are basically talking about a face-value "promise" from a pretty much the last company we would accept that from. Yes there are always issues to contend with, but GPL-conceived community specificied tools (python, perl etc) seem to be far more resistant to these issues.
Thats Ars-Fartsica, the art of farting. I assure you if you are ever sitting next to me on a plane I will make this painfully obvious to you.
Seriously, how long until they move three feet over the state border to circumvent this?
Wrong! It is illegal for a non-government agency to ask for your SSN. There is no legal ambiguity here, it is clearly spelled out in law, you are 100% wrong.