I'm sick of all the noise about IPv6. ISPs already have monetary incentives to switch to IPv6: If they don't adopt it, eventually they will fall behind their competitors and maybe run out of bussiness. Governments do not need to create a "bussines incentive" giving away even more money for free just to encourage bussiness do what they should be doing with their own money anyway. It's not like these companies are like the financial sector, which can bring down the economy when it fails. The IPv6 bussiness incentive will create itself eventually. The "IPv4 apocalypse" will not exist.
The LTTng maintainer has been working for months (years?) to get the kernel tracing into a decent shape. These days the Linux tracing support is wonderful, and not just for LTT - perf, ftrace and systemtap are awesome tools (and more powerful than LTTng in some ways). In fact perf can do all what the web page says and it seems to be more simple for my taste
A reorganization wouldn't harm KDE too much. KDE 4.0 wasn't unusable because of the reorganization, but because of the new and unfinished desktop shell. The KDE apps that were ported worked quite well and their interface was pretty much the same.
When SUN opensourced OpenOffice many years ago, they promised to create a independent foundation for it. All this time, the LibreOffice contributors have been waiting for the foundation, assigning their (costly) code contributions to SUN, and watching how SUN released his propietary version using their (costly) code contributions. They hoped that their self-imposed copyright donation would have a meaning they day SUN created the foundation, but the situation never had an end. After Oracle killed the OpenSolaris foundation, they decided to react quickly. It's Oracle who owes these guys an explanation.
Yes, you can play smooth full-screen video in Linux with the "Square" preview release (which includes 64 bit support). Full-screen 720p video only uses 30-40% of the CPU on my crappy Intel graphics chip, and it's completely smooth.
So, they found scalability problems in some microbenchmarks. Well, some of the scalability paths cited in the paper will be fixed when Nick Piggin's VFS scalability patchset gets merged. But it's not like you need to rewrite every operative system to scale beyond 48 cores, it's just the typical scalability stuff, and the kind of scalability issues found these days are mostly corner cases (Piggin's VFS being an exception).
Well, I'm not a Netflix user, so Silverlight is certainly dead for me. I still have to find a web site that uses it. Microsoft is being succesful in getting it installed in most Windows computers (something they can't do by default because of legal concerns), but they aren't being very succesful in getting web sites to actually use it.
They are "bad" because they are claiming they have some magic to be faster than Red Hat, when the fact is that Red Hat supplies modern kernels for people who wants to run them.
Proof/bug id, please? I have been using Firefox for years and I still have to find a noticeable memory leak. But I have heard of that leak for years, so either it's a rare corner case that for some reason I never hit, or it's just an urban myth.
The ZFS design makes this very difficult. Btrfs, on the other hand, has supported this feature for a long time, thanks to a nice design feature called backrefs.
A open and free version of solaris. Oracle is going to delay the release of the source code to make their propietary distro more attractive, but at some time they will release it. Illumos will offer a free version of that, and many people (including oracle customers) will want to use that. It bet it will be popular in the "solaris community". Also, there are companies like Nexenta which can try to develop new features. It won't be as nice as opensolaris was, but it's not the end of the world either. If I use solaris some day, I'm pretty sure it will be illumos.
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What Google has opted to do damages Oracle's trademark by referring to non-compatible software as Java language.
Oracle disagrees with you. They aren't suing Google because of some trademark issue, they are doing it because of patent infringement. And the patents are more about the dalvik VM than about Java itself -.NET probably infringes those patents too, but Oracle probably won't take Microsoft to court.
And there is nothing wrong with "forking" Java. What's the problem with the Dalvik VM and the Harmony classes? Maybe it can replace Oracle's Java in the embedded market? Well, I think that's better than letting C# kill Java, like Sun has been doing in the last years.
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Yeah, in think its part of the universal search feature.
As soon as they use a kernel that includes it.
I'm sick of all the noise about IPv6. ISPs already have monetary incentives to switch to IPv6: If they don't adopt it, eventually they will fall behind their competitors and maybe run out of bussiness. Governments do not need to create a "bussines incentive" giving away even more money for free just to encourage bussiness do what they should be doing with their own money anyway. It's not like these companies are like the financial sector, which can bring down the economy when it fails. The IPv6 bussiness incentive will create itself eventually. The "IPv4 apocalypse" will not exist.
Well, ftrace has a lockless ring buffer. And eventually all the ring buffers are going to be unified...
Also, I wonder why LTTng is not mainline yet
Well, a bit of searching would have answered your question
The LTTng maintainer has been working for months (years?) to get the kernel tracing into a decent shape. These days the Linux tracing support is wonderful, and not just for LTT - perf, ftrace and systemtap are awesome tools (and more powerful than LTTng in some ways). In fact perf can do all what the web page says and it seems to be more simple for my taste
I would like to be a "loser" like Ballmer...
A reorganization wouldn't harm KDE too much. KDE 4.0 wasn't unusable because of the reorganization, but because of the new and unfinished desktop shell. The KDE apps that were ported worked quite well and their interface was pretty much the same.
It's not a "fork".
When SUN opensourced OpenOffice many years ago, they promised to create a independent foundation for it. All this time, the LibreOffice contributors have been waiting for the foundation, assigning their (costly) code contributions to SUN, and watching how SUN released his propietary version using their (costly) code contributions. They hoped that their self-imposed copyright donation would have a meaning they day SUN created the foundation, but the situation never had an end. After Oracle killed the OpenSolaris foundation, they decided to react quickly. It's Oracle who owes these guys an explanation.
Yes, you can play smooth full-screen video in Linux with the "Square" preview release (which includes 64 bit support). Full-screen 720p video only uses 30-40% of the CPU on my crappy Intel graphics chip, and it's completely smooth.
So, they found scalability problems in some microbenchmarks. Well, some of the scalability paths cited in the paper will be fixed when Nick Piggin's VFS scalability patchset gets merged. But it's not like you need to rewrite every operative system to scale beyond 48 cores, it's just the typical scalability stuff, and the kind of scalability issues found these days are mostly corner cases (Piggin's VFS being an exception).
There are more people using OpenOffice than what you may think. Just a small example: OpenOffice Tops 21% Market Share In Germany
Yes, it seems to be somewhat similar to DMCA. But Telecinco filed suit in 2008, the new law was approved this year.
Well, I'm not a Netflix user, so Silverlight is certainly dead for me. I still have to find a web site that uses it. Microsoft is being succesful in getting it installed in most Windows computers (something they can't do by default because of legal concerns), but they aren't being very succesful in getting web sites to actually use it.
They are "bad" because they are claiming they have some magic to be faster than Red Hat, when the fact is that Red Hat supplies modern kernels for people who wants to run them.
Diaspora aims for good privacy, I take that over all those fancy social networks.
Of course there are open source social networks. I cannot believe you don't know GNU Social!
Proof/bug id, please? I have been using Firefox for years and I still have to find a noticeable memory leak. But I have heard of that leak for years, so either it's a rare corner case that for some reason I never hit, or it's just an urban myth.
It's Android who is stealing the mobile partners to Microsoft, not Apple.
Unless someone converts it to PDF I'm not downloading that....
Of course, there is a Firefox extension that does exactly that.
The ZFS design makes this very difficult. Btrfs, on the other hand, has supported this feature for a long time, thanks to a nice design feature called backrefs.
why would I want to see results for "chee", "cheese" or "cheese and b"
So don't look at the results while you type. That doesn't make the feature less worthwhile
A open and free version of solaris. Oracle is going to delay the release of the source code to make their propietary distro more attractive, but at some time they will release it. Illumos will offer a free version of that, and many people (including oracle customers) will want to use that. It bet it will be popular in the "solaris community". Also, there are companies like Nexenta which can try to develop new features. It won't be as nice as opensolaris was, but it's not the end of the world either. If I use solaris some day, I'm pretty sure it will be illumos.
What Google has opted to do damages Oracle's trademark by referring to non-compatible software as Java language.
Oracle disagrees with you. They aren't suing Google because of some trademark issue, they are doing it because of patent infringement. And the patents are more about the dalvik VM than about Java itself - .NET probably infringes those patents too, but Oracle probably won't take Microsoft to court.
And there is nothing wrong with "forking" Java. What's the problem with the Dalvik VM and the Harmony classes? Maybe it can replace Oracle's Java in the embedded market? Well, I think that's better than letting C# kill Java, like Sun has been doing in the last years.
No, it doesn't, at least according to this rule: "Any software in this century that reinvents the scroll bar deserves to fail" - http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2010/lessons-from-wave-and-kin/