Some people want there code to be completly free of any restricions. If other people make money off of it then that is fine with them. If I want to stick NetBSD on some embedded device I can. I personally would see little value in keeping the source closed, but there are probally some applications where this makes sense.
I personally prefer the GPL. However, the BSD license is good for programs that are meant to be the test implementation of standards.
The main campus of my university hard wires mac addresses into their dhcp servers on the wireless LAN. The only problem is they charge $300 to lease a wireless card under the argument that your paying for service. Of course you can just plug in good old RJ-45 into one of the many ports located in classrooms and student areas. Being the battery on my laptop was broke it never bothered me.
And the use of RedHat on a large scale is clearly not an option, and associating RedHat with free/open software isn't fair to the 'movement'. RedHat has done a number of things, especially with regard to scene they created with gcc 2.96.
I have to agree with you that RedHat is not a good distro. I also didn't like the gcc decisns thet made.
However, realize that RedJat has done alot of good for the community. RedHat contributed to alot of the new gcc code. I'm personally not a big C++ programmer, but those people who use the advanced features of C++ benifit from the new GCC features. Obvisiously, the code wasn't ready for release, but those and future contributions will make future releases of GCC better.
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I hate to tell you but this RFC deals with a new method of implementing IP. Any TCP or UDP based mail RFC can be implemented over RFC 1149
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IP over messenger birds. I should talk to the pigeon breeders in my neighborhood about implementing it. Perhaps I should patent the pigeonethernet bridge. I think though I should extend the protocol to transmit the datagrams through barcodes to reduce the costs of the bridges. Barcode readers are much cheaper than optical scanners with OCR.
The main problem with samba 2.0.x is Win2k clients can't authenticate logons against it. This was done by Microsoft, probally on purpose but possibly because they were only concerned with NT compatibality. With the release of 2.2.0 its now possible for all your 9x and NT boxen to belong to 2k. As far as the issues you mentioned:
1. Replication
Replication wise the SMB/CIFS protocols implement several methods for machines to (query && broadcast && syncronize) lists with each other. My understanding is they made Samba's implementation of these work better with NT and 2k..
2. Failover
This deals with Sambas ability to act as a BDC and its ability to have a 2k box acting as its BDC.
3. and?...
Well bug fixes and the like as well as other features implemented.
NetBSd was meant to be a niche market. With FreeBSD working on PPC and sparc support and OpenBSD offering more security with decent multi platform support there is no need for it in the "real" market. NetBSD place is running on VAX's and toasters and Dreamcasts.
What hardware are you refering to? Routers and level 3 switches? Btw for all you non Cisco people like me a level 3 switch works like an unmaged switched hub only it directs traffic on the transport layer instead of the arp layer. So basically its a switch with a firewall built in.
Anyway my point is IP is implemented in software. Those ten year old token ring cards in the 386's in the back closet of your office are IPv6 ready pending a FreeBSD install. Null modems are ipv6 ready. Even with propietary routers if you upgrade the software there IPv6 ready. Its a software issue.
I don't use SQL personally. At work one of my serers run MySQL, but someone else admins the database.
While I'd probally not want to use a linux based MSSQL product, I could see Microsoft wanting to market it. They would probally be better off porting to Solaris first though. Many enterprises set up corporate databases on Unix boxes with VB frontends. The frontends are in VB because VB is quick. Now whats the quickest way to interface with a database via Vb? ODBC. Now ODBC is a thing of Redmond. So thinking like managers we come to the obvious conclusion that if you use ODBC its best to use MSSQL and not MySQL with the ODBC addon. Since managers usually make purchasing decisions, what do you tyhink will get bought?
Slashdot's poll isn't a tool its created with code GPL'd FREE code. Slashdot isn't making a profit selling their poll so who would bother.
A free tool is still competition. Everyone who uses slashpoles instead of paying Microsoft for using there online pole solution is taking money away from Microsoft. Apache is free but Microsoft see it as a threat.
How hard would it be to modify, lets say GTK, so that instead of X transmitting X drawing primitives it would transmit GTK primitives. I assume thare are at least 20 or so X primitives involved in a simple GTK scroolbar. The same for QT, window managers and the like. I lack the knowledge of X to code it myself, but I might be able to help out with some of the testing. If anyone else is interested email me at jJuUsStTiInNdDeEaArRiInNgG@poboxes.com. yeah remove the caps to email me.
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I've ran GIMP over 56k With an X-win32 server and clients running on XFree86-3.3.6. No special compression. Two problems:
Its slow, not completly unuseable, but I wouldn't want to do it on a regular basis.
Since the border around the select area is animated selecting an area is impractical.
So its ok if you just have to use one of the scripts to make a quick logo, but its a last resort solution. Hopefully, this will improve the situation.
He means windows binaries. BTW for a server envirorment cygwin is usually unacceptabel because of performance. It basically puts the whole unix API in a DLL that all cygwin ports use.
Microsoft has been able to bury various products by Lotus, IBM, WordPerfect, Borland, Corel and Novell. The GPL might just suffer the same fate.
Can Microsoft bury something that doesn't depend upon profit?
It seems that these days Gates cares little about the home desktop market. All of Microsofts resources are going into Win2k and WinCE. Millenium was seemed like an afterthought released because end users would demand an upgrade, but wouldn't shell out for 2k.
Is Gates trying to kill the home desktop market? If so why? Sure its probally not going to be there 20 years down the line but now its lucrative. It seems odd to me.
Uh, some people auctually read diffs before running patch and eventually it would be figured out. Anyway, If they just wrote good code they wouldn't have to worry about their reputation. Granted bind, sendmail and the like were originally designed during less security conscience times and developers are stuck with the code base. Although I'll try and other implementation besides Microsofts NT implementation, unless of course I was forced to use NT, then I'd take MS DNS over bind any day.
Well you don'ty get more windows like than KDE or gnome. Well unless you want exact look alike then go with fvwm95 but then no integrated control panel sounds etc. All run on FreeBSD. And considering linux emulation is rock solid in FreeBSD you can just use VMware anm boom you got windows
FreeBSD runs X, its designed to run it from the console. It supports alot of sound cards. It has a graphical console based screensaver. There are plenty of "desktop" applications in the ports collection. It supports PPP. Sure it shines as a server, but pop Gnome on it with Gnumeric and ABIword and it makes a fine Desktop.
it's GPL (which overrides any securiy problems anytime)
First of all its BSD license not GPL, secondly, before OpenSSH many people used SSH, but that was quasi-open source anyway. You could look at it kjust not modify it or use it freely.
Thats the problem, there is no one group that will turn out to be killers or wife beaters. Violent tendencies cannot be easily traced to people exhibiting certain personality traits. Sure every once in a while a nation with millions of youths five or ten with violent tendencies will band together and cause a terrible tragedy. However, there are other factors leading to this, such as mob mentality. Most geeks don't kill their classmates. Most jocks don't grow up and beat their wives. However some geeks beat their wives, and in a society where jocks are treated like geeks the possibility of the football team at Columbine being the ones that killed their classmates exists. You can't group people.
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Some people want there code to be completly free of any restricions. If other people make money off of it then that is fine with them. If I want to stick NetBSD on some embedded device I can. I personally would see little value in keeping the source closed, but there are probally some applications where this makes sense.
I personally prefer the GPL. However, the BSD license is good for programs that are meant to be the test implementation of standards.
I dont know how it compares to XFS. But go here to see how ReiserFS compares to Ext2, Ext3.
He claims it compares Reiser to ext2 and ext3.
The main campus of my university hard wires mac addresses into their dhcp servers on the wireless LAN. The only problem is they charge $300 to lease a wireless card under the argument that your paying for service. Of course you can just plug in good old RJ-45 into one of the many ports located in classrooms and student areas. Being the battery on my laptop was broke it never bothered me.
And the use of RedHat on a large scale is clearly not an option, and associating RedHat with free/open software isn't fair to the 'movement'. RedHat has done a number of things, especially with regard to scene they created with gcc 2.96.
I have to agree with you that RedHat is not a good distro. I also didn't like the gcc decisns thet made. However, realize that RedJat has done alot of good for the community. RedHat contributed to alot of the new gcc code. I'm personally not a big C++ programmer, but those people who use the advanced features of C++ benifit from the new GCC features. Obvisiously, the code wasn't ready for release, but those and future contributions will make future releases of GCC better.
I hate to tell you but this RFC deals with a new method of implementing IP. Any TCP or UDP based mail RFC can be implemented over RFC 1149
IP over messenger birds. I should talk to the pigeon breeders in my neighborhood about implementing it. Perhaps I should patent the pigeonethernet bridge. I think though I should extend the protocol to transmit the datagrams through barcodes to reduce the costs of the bridges. Barcode readers are much cheaper than optical scanners with OCR.
The main problem with samba 2.0.x is Win2k clients can't authenticate logons against it. This was done by Microsoft, probally on purpose but possibly because they were only concerned with NT compatibality. With the release of 2.2.0 its now possible for all your 9x and NT boxen to belong to 2k. As far as the issues you mentioned: 1. Replication
Replication wise the SMB/CIFS protocols implement several methods for machines to (query && broadcast && syncronize) lists with each other. My understanding is they made Samba's implementation of these work better with NT and 2k.. 2. Failover
This deals with Sambas ability to act as a BDC and its ability to have a 2k box acting as its BDC. 3. and?...
Well bug fixes and the like as well as other features implemented.
NetBSd was meant to be a niche market. With FreeBSD working on PPC and sparc support and OpenBSD offering more security with decent multi platform support there is no need for it in the "real" market. NetBSD place is running on VAX's and toasters and Dreamcasts.
What hardware are you refering to? Routers and level 3 switches? Btw for all you non Cisco people like me a level 3 switch works like an unmaged switched hub only it directs traffic on the transport layer instead of the arp layer. So basically its a switch with a firewall built in.
Anyway my point is IP is implemented in software. Those ten year old token ring cards in the 386's in the back closet of your office are IPv6 ready pending a FreeBSD install. Null modems are ipv6 ready. Even with propietary routers if you upgrade the software there IPv6 ready. Its a software issue.
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I don't use SQL personally. At work one of my serers run MySQL, but someone else admins the database.
While I'd probally not want to use a linux based MSSQL product, I could see Microsoft wanting to market it. They would probally be better off porting to Solaris first though. Many enterprises set up corporate databases on Unix boxes with VB frontends. The frontends are in VB because VB is quick. Now whats the quickest way to interface with a database via Vb? ODBC. Now ODBC is a thing of Redmond. So thinking like managers we come to the obvious conclusion that if you use ODBC its best to use MSSQL and not MySQL with the ODBC addon. Since managers usually make purchasing decisions, what do you tyhink will get bought?
Slashdot's poll isn't a tool its created with code GPL'd FREE code. Slashdot isn't making a profit selling their poll so who would bother. A free tool is still competition. Everyone who uses slashpoles instead of paying Microsoft for using there online pole solution is taking money away from Microsoft. Apache is free but Microsoft see it as a threat.
How hard would it be to modify, lets say GTK, so that instead of X transmitting X drawing primitives it would transmit GTK primitives. I assume thare are at least 20 or so X primitives involved in a simple GTK scroolbar. The same for QT, window managers and the like. I lack the knowledge of X to code it myself, but I might be able to help out with some of the testing. If anyone else is interested email me at jJuUsStTiInNdDeEaArRiInNgG@poboxes.com. yeah remove the caps to email me.
He means windows binaries. BTW for a server envirorment cygwin is usually unacceptabel because of performance. It basically puts the whole unix API in a DLL that all cygwin ports use.
Microsoft has been able to bury various products by Lotus, IBM, WordPerfect, Borland, Corel and Novell. The GPL might just suffer the same fate.
Can Microsoft bury something that doesn't depend upon profit?
It seems that these days Gates cares little about the home desktop market. All of Microsofts resources are going into Win2k and WinCE. Millenium was seemed like an afterthought released because end users would demand an upgrade, but wouldn't shell out for 2k. Is Gates trying to kill the home desktop market? If so why? Sure its probally not going to be there 20 years down the line but now its lucrative. It seems odd to me.
I believe I smell a reimplementation from scratch ala qmail.
Uh, some people auctually read diffs before running patch and eventually it would be figured out. Anyway, If they just wrote good code they wouldn't have to worry about their reputation. Granted bind, sendmail and the like were originally designed during less security conscience times and developers are stuck with the code base. Although I'll try and other implementation besides Microsofts NT implementation, unless of course I was forced to use NT, then I'd take MS DNS over bind any day.
Well you don'ty get more windows like than KDE or gnome. Well unless you want exact look alike then go with fvwm95 but then no integrated control panel sounds etc. All run on FreeBSD. And considering linux emulation is rock solid in FreeBSD you can just use VMware anm boom you got windows
FreeBSD runs X, its designed to run it from the console. It supports alot of sound cards. It has a graphical console based screensaver. There are plenty of "desktop" applications in the ports collection. It supports PPP. Sure it shines as a server, but pop Gnome on it with Gnumeric and ABIword and it makes a fine Desktop.
it's GPL (which overrides any securiy problems anytime)
First of all its BSD license not GPL, secondly, before OpenSSH many people used SSH, but that was quasi-open source anyway. You could look at it kjust not modify it or use it freely.
What happens when you have > 2 gigs of messages in an mbox on Linux 2.0.38 running ext2?
Thats the problem, there is no one group that will turn out to be killers or wife beaters. Violent tendencies cannot be easily traced to people exhibiting certain personality traits. Sure every once in a while a nation with millions of youths five or ten with violent tendencies will band together and cause a terrible tragedy. However, there are other factors leading to this, such as mob mentality. Most geeks don't kill their classmates. Most jocks don't grow up and beat their wives. However some geeks beat their wives, and in a society where jocks are treated like geeks the possibility of the football team at Columbine being the ones that killed their classmates exists. You can't group people.