Why not use a distribution, or downloading precompiled apps? It's not as if Windows apps don't need to be compiled, you just can't get source. And if you believe you're 100 times as efficient in BeOS as in Linux (assuming the apps you use are available for Linux), you are just plain stupid. And I doubt BeOS is the OS of the future, seeing as not even Be are trying to position it in that way. For myself, if the OS is not free, I'm not particularly interested.
A TCP/IP stack might actually be useful in a games console, coupled with a network interface, or a modem. Internet multiplayer games on a games console. Of course you could skip it for games that don't need it, but it would be good to have it available.
Consider AbiWord as a GPL alternative to MS Word
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Why would the dependency on Gtk need work? Should they port it to Athena, or what?
Amiga? The only product Microsoft ever released for the Amiga was Amiga Basic, and I doubt that had much to do with the death of the Amiga. I never heard of them announcing any products for it, either, and even if they did, that was not what killed it. Commodore killed the Amiga, noone else gets to take any of the credit for that.
Gore was a congressman before 1994 (he was in congress in 1977 according to the article), and he claims he helped the internet in congress. So who was in office is irrelevant to his claims. The claims are still false, of course.
Why wouldn't you copy it? It doesn't hurt Adobe, they might even benefit if you like it and buy it once you can afford it, and it benefits you, so it's a maybe-win-but-not-lose/win situation. Seems like a great idea to copy it to me.
Umm... And what other current OSes do not have the same problem? I know Windows 95 does, and I think NT and Mac do, too. Haven't used Win98, so I don't know if the problem is there, too.
Now THAT would lead to intense competition in the field of software using the database. "My users generated 30,000 hits, I get 30,000 gift certificates". Damn! I think it's time to write the ultimate CD player.;)
How would you buy them? Most distros are based on free software, you can't buy them. Debian, Slackware, Stampede, to take a few examples, are completely based on free software, so even if you were to "buy"(/assassinate/imprison/whatever) all the people working on them (which would be hard to achieve), they could, and most likely would, live on.
Linux has no code in common with Minix, AFAIK. It was originally developed in Minix, but the compiler was gcc from the beginning, and I suspect the assembler may have been gas, as well. So the GNU project certainly helped Linux get started.
There is a PCI version of the G200, you know. No need for an AGP port, even though AGP does have some advantages. As for the Mystique, I think you still need an NDA to get those specs. Though I think that is more a result of lack of interest than them wanting to keep it secret.
OpenLook isn't quite dead yet. Unfortunately
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I know of 192 Sun SparcStation 10's that can be started in OpenLook mode. They even have OpenLook apps. Too bad OpenLook is the most horrible user interface ever designed, bar none.
Umm... IBM has announced that they will support major Linux distributions. So whether Slackware (or Debian, which is also a major distribution) is commercial or not shouldn't matter. Red Hat, SuSE, PHT, and Caldera don't have global support networks, so IBM will have to do the support themselves, anyway.
But they don't have it in the processor, but on the motherboard, IIRC. So the number of CPUs is irrelevant. I'd guess that for PIII serial numbers you'll use processor 0.
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*shudder* At least you didn't suggest porting it to Open Look. Of course, now somebody will do just that.
Why not use a distribution, or downloading precompiled apps? It's not as if Windows apps don't need to be compiled, you just can't get source. And if you believe you're 100 times as efficient in BeOS as in Linux (assuming the apps you use are available for Linux), you are just plain stupid.
And I doubt BeOS is the OS of the future, seeing as not even Be are trying to position it in that way. For myself, if the OS is not free, I'm not particularly interested.
A TCP/IP stack might actually be useful in a games console, coupled with a network interface, or a modem. Internet multiplayer games on a games console. Of course you could skip it for games that don't need it, but it would be good to have it available.
Why would the dependency on Gtk need work? Should they port it to Athena, or what?
$ dict gay
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [webster]:
Gay \Gay\, a. [Compar. {Gayer}; superl. {Gayest}.] [F. gai, perhaps fr. OHG. g?hi swift, rapid, G. g["a]h, j["a]h, steep, hasty; or cf. OHG. w?hi beatiful, good. Cf. {Jay}.]
1. Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.
Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. --Pope.
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed. --Gray.
2. Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed.
Why is my neighbor's wife so gay? --Chaucer.
A bevy of fair women, richly gay In gems and wanton dress! --Milton.
3. Loose; dissipated; lewd. [Colloq.]
Syn: Merry; gleeful; blithe; airy; lively; sprightly, sportive; light-hearted; frolicsome; jolly; jovial; joyous; joyful; glad; showy; splendid; vivacious.
I've never understood why english-speakers call homosexuals gay. Did they think that homosexuals are happier than heterosexuals or something?
Amiga? The only product Microsoft ever released for the Amiga was Amiga Basic, and I doubt that had much to do with the death of the Amiga. I never heard of them announcing any products for it, either, and even if they did, that was not what killed it.
Commodore killed the Amiga, noone else gets to take any of the credit for that.
Gore was a congressman before 1994 (he was in congress in 1977 according to the article), and he claims he helped the internet in congress. So who was in office is irrelevant to his claims. The claims are still false, of course.
Why wouldn't you copy it? It doesn't hurt Adobe, they might even benefit if you like it and buy it once you can afford it, and it benefits you, so it's a maybe-win-but-not-lose/win situation. Seems like a great idea to copy it to me.
Umm... And what other current OSes do not have the same problem? I know Windows 95 does, and I think NT and Mac do, too. Haven't used Win98, so I don't know if the problem is there, too.
Now THAT would lead to intense competition in the field of software using the database. "My users generated 30,000 hits, I get 30,000 gift certificates". Damn! I think it's time to write the ultimate CD player. ;)
How would you buy them? Most distros are based on free software, you can't buy them. Debian, Slackware, Stampede, to take a few examples, are completely based on free software, so even if you were to "buy"(/assassinate/imprison/whatever) all the people working on them (which would be hard to achieve), they could, and most likely would, live on.
BeOS is hardly a "pseudoserver OS", it's never been aimed at server duties. Nor is it based on Unix, though it does have a POSIX compatibility layer.
It wasn't RMS who bought it, he just had to use it.
Doesn't *BSD use a BSD userland? Sure, they use gcc, but the rest of the tools are non-GNU, I think. I haven't used *BSD, though, so I might be wrong.
Since the Open Group would sue the pants off anyone who marketed Linux as Linux Unix or something similar, I can see why it is not done.
That's what the article says. Really.
Linux has no code in common with Minix, AFAIK. It was originally developed in Minix, but the compiler was gcc from the beginning, and I suspect the assembler may have been gas, as well. So the GNU project certainly helped Linux get started.
Since when does AIX run on Alphas? Go away, troll.
No, I don't think you can get them transparent. ;)
So KDE is better because the preliminary debs don't work for you? That makes sense. Not.
There is a PCI version of the G200, you know. No need for an AGP port, even though AGP does have some advantages.
As for the Mystique, I think you still need an NDA to get those specs. Though I think that is more a result of lack of interest than them wanting to keep it secret.
I know of 192 Sun SparcStation 10's that can be started in OpenLook mode. They even have OpenLook apps. Too bad OpenLook is the most horrible user interface ever designed, bar none.
Umm... IBM has announced that they will support major Linux distributions. So whether Slackware (or Debian, which is also a major distribution) is commercial or not shouldn't matter. Red Hat, SuSE, PHT, and Caldera don't have global support networks, so IBM will have to do the support themselves, anyway.
But they don't have it in the processor, but on the motherboard, IIRC. So the number of CPUs is irrelevant. I'd guess that for PIII serial numbers you'll use processor 0.
Three words: SGI Visual Workstation. They have a 3.2GBps system bus, unless I am mistaken. They're not comparable to an E-anything, though.