They could make a smaller unit if it weren't intel compatible. Heck, there are Linux ports to the Pilot (and OBTW, death to those that call them Palms). You could probably do a 68k based device in half the size running OpenBSD.
Keep in mind that old-timers sometimes lose their passwords, etc. and get new accounts... Slashdot provides the +1 bonus so that the "old-timers" and other worthwhile posters will get through the noise, but that's certainly easy to abuse.
The best-known competitor is Red Hat, but others - notably TurboLinux and Mission Critical Linux Hands up - how many of you never heard of Mission Critical Linux until this? How many of you have never heard of Debian, Caldera or SuSE? And TurboLinux is major?
Linux is arguably the worst operating-system product in history, and Microsoft's the best I don't think that there's one vulnerability in there for BeOS. I doubt there are any for AtheOS. Therefore, they're even better than Microsoft's platforms.
This boast[linux isn't vulnerable to worms/viruses] has been easy to make, since until 1999 Linux was too much of a fringe product to stand up to the kind of abuse more widely used systems endure. Actually, it's because Linux is a true multi-user operating system, something not even NT can claim. Solaris is also immune to those kinds of things. If I try to delete every file on my system right now (I'm on Solaris) I will fail, except for wiping out some of my own data. The backups will remain. The system will still boot. Other users will be unaffected.
Carnivore is a product of necessity. It's workings have to do icky things like scan all emails; how else could you differentiate different emails passing through the system?
Prediction: It'll turn out that the failure to act on the FOIA request was just administrative red tape and such, and that there's nothing wrong/sinister going on here. Give them some time. The FBI is a beuracracy, and things move slowly. Besides, they probably gave their request to a summer intern:-P.
Cool. If I had any money or MP3's I'd register SoundPlay. Did you buy Opera for Windows? It would seem that since Be, Inc. is working on Opera for BeOS now, that Opera, Inc. is no longer working on it at all, and so doesn't need any support. I also have a copy of Productive (with R4.5 and Be Book bundle) and am looking forward to Pixel32 on BeOS.
What BeOS sites do you visit the most?
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What game theory? OTOH Tic-Tac-Toe is a simple recursive game - you can do infinite look-ahead and it still runs fine! It's supposed to be an interesting project...
If it's OpenGL, it'll run fine. DirectX performance is about inifinity times faster than NT4, but slower than Win98. Anything you're running in NT4 will feel just as fast if you've got good (~300mhz) hardware. SMP is improved.
I'd recommend you spending your money and time organizing a campain get more games on BeOS - and put the $120 Win2K cost to pre-registering games to show support!
I'd need to know more info about what this class covers - is it programming? Algorithms? But anyway, here goes my idea:
Have the students analyize the components of a modern operating system in depth. Have them each pick a part (C library, display subsystem, etc.) and analyize how it works, and possibly look at applicable GNU source and documentation about these issues. Each one should be able to describe their component(s), how programs interact with them, how they very based upon OS designs (graphics in/out of kernel, net in/out of kernel, etc.), and how they interact with other components. To test them, you should be able to give them a pseudocode program that exercises most portions of the operating system (graphics, sound, net) and have them each pass system "calls" around each other to execute the "program". I think that would be a lot of fun for a class like this.
The QNX challenge is BS. It's basically a framebuffer and web browser. Take the BeIA challenge: a working system with web browser, flash, java, realplayer, and mail client in 8mb.
Unfortunately neither X nor BeOS is good for 160x160 graphics. Very few windowing environments look good like that because it's hard to window at 160x160! Maybe what they need to do is port GGI and create a basic set of apps for that framebuffer system. Remember, you heard it here first...
Try Dosemu for that. Supposedly it can even boot Win3.1, and possibly Win95 (rev. a). There's still a crapload of software that works on Win3.1, like IE5.
DOS is a Denial Of Service tool. Any attempts to run DOS will result in loss of productivity and functionality from your computer. Windows is a variant of DOS, though its effects range from crippling to not-quite-as-severe.
I dunno about you, but my ISA SB32 is the most compatible thing on my motherboard. It works with everything. That's the reason for ISA.
The goal of plex86 is not to be able to run DOS. Dosemu works just fine, thank you. The eventual goal is to be able to run Windows (or any other x86 operating system) concurrently with Linux (or BeOS, or anything else it's ported to) in an Open Source fashion. Since when is emulation not a valid area for study?
The status of Plex86 on BeOS is here, and it desparetly needs people to write code for it. I'm not smart enough to handle it, but I'm certain that some slashdot readers could help out! Go download BeOS and start hacking if you enjoy that sort of thing.
At BeUnited, we're also working on a port of Plex86 to BeOS. The great thing about Plex86's design is that it is completely portable - with a little bit of work, Plex86 will turn into a really cool cross-platform VM for x86. Has anybody tried to run Win 3.1 under Plex86?
Me, I'm still getting over how cool running MacOS 7.5.3 in Basilisk II is...
Pretty pictures and cool technology. What more do you want?
Thank you for simplifying down the average slashdotter's life to the bare essence. Let's see, for starters, I could want:
Meaning?
Companionship? (What's that, you ask?)
Culture?
There's more to life than pretty pictures and cool technology. It takes an awfully simplistic mind to be satisfied with that. I'm pretty dissapointed. This is supposed to be "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." not "News for Nerds. Stuff that doesn't matter." - which is all this is.
A man gets sick of being bombarded with pretty pictures and gadgets. Excuse my rant.
No, the GPL is different from that - it's not like the BSD, because with the GPL you have to give up the source of your derived app. It's more restrictive than a no-copyright situation, because in that scenario, the proprietary app still isn't distributed with source.
You should be shocked. Those folks at the RIAA actually have a reason for what they are doing! They are right - using Napster harms the artist. Using cigarettes harms your health. Both industries (the pirated music industry and the tobacco industry) will attempt to deny it; or claim that their users are at fault. In many ways, the parrellel between the industries is perfect.
While the RIAA may not be the best model, it certainly stands for one thing - copyright protection. Even that Linux kernel which you find dear is protected under the same copyright. "My enemy's enemy..." and all that: the RIAA stands in defense of basic copyright. Not even software licensing or anything legally questionable, but simply the copy protection part of copyright that's been at the heart of copyright law for many many years.
While I don't like the RIAA's business decisions, it's the same as if Microsoft were forced to defend their copyright. Of course we would want them to win; our beloved GPL defense rests upon the same things that Microsoft's EULA rests upon. While we may not like Microsoft as a business, I'd find it hard to condemn Microsoft for defending its copyright. Same with the RIAA>
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They could make a smaller unit if it weren't intel compatible. Heck, there are Linux ports to the Pilot (and OBTW, death to those that call them Palms). You could probably do a 68k based device in half the size running OpenBSD.
Keep in mind that old-timers sometimes lose their passwords, etc. and get new accounts... Slashdot provides the +1 bonus so that the "old-timers" and other worthwhile posters will get through the noise, but that's certainly easy to abuse.
The best-known competitor is Red Hat, but others - notably TurboLinux and Mission Critical Linux
Hands up - how many of you never heard of Mission Critical Linux until this? How many of you have never heard of Debian, Caldera or SuSE? And TurboLinux is major?
Linux is arguably the worst operating-system product in history, and Microsoft's the best
I don't think that there's one vulnerability in there for BeOS. I doubt there are any for AtheOS. Therefore, they're even better than Microsoft's platforms.
This boast[linux isn't vulnerable to worms/viruses] has been easy to make, since until 1999 Linux was too much of a fringe product to stand up to the kind of abuse more widely used systems endure.
Actually, it's because Linux is a true multi-user operating system, something not even NT can claim. Solaris is also immune to those kinds of things. If I try to delete every file on my system right now (I'm on Solaris) I will fail, except for wiping out some of my own data. The backups will remain. The system will still boot. Other users will be unaffected.
In reference to your nick: Such as being a member of a known cult?
Try Konqueror in the latest KDE beta releases. You just might like it.
Prediction: It'll turn out that the failure to act on the FOIA request was just administrative red tape and such, and that there's nothing wrong/sinister going on here. Give them some time. The FBI is a beuracracy, and things move slowly. Besides, they probably gave their request to a summer intern :-P.
What BeOS sites do you visit the most?
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What game theory? OTOH Tic-Tac-Toe is a simple recursive game - you can do infinite look-ahead and it still runs fine! It's supposed to be an interesting project...
I'd recommend you spending your money and time organizing a campain get more games on BeOS - and put the $120 Win2K cost to pre-registering games to show support!
I doubt that they are really going to be interested in the fastest way to form a binary search tree
But, boy, when they get to their college classes, are they going to wish they did that earlier :)
Have the students analyize the components of a modern operating system in depth. Have them each pick a part (C library, display subsystem, etc.) and analyize how it works, and possibly look at applicable GNU source and documentation about these issues. Each one should be able to describe their component(s), how programs interact with them, how they very based upon OS designs (graphics in/out of kernel, net in/out of kernel, etc.), and how they interact with other components. To test them, you should be able to give them a pseudocode program that exercises most portions of the operating system (graphics, sound, net) and have them each pass system "calls" around each other to execute the "program". I think that would be a lot of fun for a class like this.
Yeah, but the window management sucks. You could hack up a full-screen window manager, but that would probably suck.
Yes.
Unfortunately neither X nor BeOS is good for 160x160 graphics. Very few windowing environments look good like that because it's hard to window at 160x160! Maybe what they need to do is port GGI and create a basic set of apps for that framebuffer system. Remember, you heard it here first...
Try Dosemu for that. Supposedly it can even boot Win3.1, and possibly Win95 (rev. a). There's still a crapload of software that works on Win3.1, like IE5.
DOS is a Denial Of Service tool. Any attempts to run DOS will result in loss of productivity and functionality from your computer. Windows is a variant of DOS, though its effects range from crippling to not-quite-as-severe.
I dunno about you, but my ISA SB32 is the most compatible thing on my motherboard. It works with everything. That's the reason for ISA.
The goal of plex86 is not to be able to run DOS. Dosemu works just fine, thank you. The eventual goal is to be able to run Windows (or any other x86 operating system) concurrently with Linux (or BeOS, or anything else it's ported to) in an Open Source fashion. Since when is emulation not a valid area for study?
Pulling for BeUnited (be-fan, where are you?)
Actually, it's free-as-in-speech Mac emulator that runs on Linux, Windows, BeOS, and maybe Amiga. It's got a 68k emulator built into it.
Me, I'm still getting over how cool running MacOS 7.5.3 in Basilisk II is...
Oh really? I've never seen a compiler go out and karma whore on slashdot because of an error...
You forgot to mention OpenBSD merging with RMTX/OS.
Thank you for simplifying down the average slashdotter's life to the bare essence. Let's see, for starters, I could want:
- Meaning?
- Companionship? (What's that, you ask?)
- Culture?
There's more to life than pretty pictures and cool technology. It takes an awfully simplistic mind to be satisfied with that. I'm pretty dissapointed. This is supposed to be "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." not "News for Nerds. Stuff that doesn't matter." - which is all this is.A man gets sick of being bombarded with pretty pictures and gadgets. Excuse my rant.
No, the GPL is different from that - it's not like the BSD, because with the GPL you have to give up the source of your derived app. It's more restrictive than a no-copyright situation, because in that scenario, the proprietary app still isn't distributed with source.
While the RIAA may not be the best model, it certainly stands for one thing - copyright protection. Even that Linux kernel which you find dear is protected under the same copyright. "My enemy's enemy..." and all that: the RIAA stands in defense of basic copyright. Not even software licensing or anything legally questionable, but simply the copy protection part of copyright that's been at the heart of copyright law for many many years.
While I don't like the RIAA's business decisions, it's the same as if Microsoft were forced to defend their copyright. Of course we would want them to win; our beloved GPL defense rests upon the same things that Microsoft's EULA rests upon. While we may not like Microsoft as a business, I'd find it hard to condemn Microsoft for defending its copyright. Same with the RIAA>