IIRC, Moore's Law originally applied only to the number of transistors on a chip, but has subsequently been applied to the "power" of a chip, the speed, the capacity, and probably a whole bunch of other stuff.
Once, just plugging in a USB device would cause win98 to crash. True story.
Bah. That's nothing. I once crashed WinNT by clicking on the Start button. And the system wasn't doing anything other than formatting a floppy. Now that's multitasking!
The M18 nightlies seem to be making a lot of progress in terms of speed and memory usage. On my AMD K6-2 400 laptop, it's running relatively fast such that it's replaced Netscape 4.7 as my primary browser. The only time it really slows down is when it does a lot of swapping, which is too often (but that's what I get for only having 32Mb, trying to run it along with emacs and Gnome). I recently switched to the classic theme, and that seems to have improved things a bit.
The feature I'm really want, though, is native widgets. And plugins.
Everyone in the US who cares about freedom can move up here to Canada. We've got lots of room, and we don't have DMCA. We don't have stupid encryption laws, for that matter.
The whole release concept seems to be a bit too limiting for Linux distros, which are composed of many different bits of software, which have completely different release schedules of their own.
It may by true that releases help maintain sanity by not breaking dependencies every other day, but, for example, potato has packages that are outdated, despite being released just a little while ago. Because some of the packages were old, I had to upgrade a few of my packages from the unstable tree, and didn't have any problems with dependencies.
Upgrading a package by a minor revision should cause no problems. Potato still has bbdb 2.00, when version 2.00.06 (even smaller than a minor version) is out and fixes an annoying bug that happens when it is used with emacs 20. Why isn't the new version in Potato?
gkrellm in Potato is still at version 0.7.4 -- I upgraded to 0.10.5 from unstable with no problem with dependencies. Potato has xmms 1.0.1, but 1.2.2 works fine with the same libraries. Can't someone just look at it, see that it works just fine and that there were no problems with dependencies, and then put them in the stable branch?
Well, that's my rant of the day. Don't get me wrong; I love Debian -- I just switched from RedHat, and found it easier to install and maintain. It just seems to me that there's still room for improvement.
I've never understood why they do releases anyways. It is mostly a compilation of other peoples' software, so why not just test each indivitiual piece, along with the packages that it depends on, and if it's stable enough for public consumption, put it in the stable directory?
And then, when everyone uses MainWin for all their app development, MS can buy out MainSoft and kill MainWin, which will force everyone to either switch to Windows, or rewrite all their software, right?
The question is, will the open-source community allow the integration of this technology into our society be spearheaded by closed-source vendors?
Seeing as almost all open-source projects are started by people wanting to "scrach an itch", and most open-source hackers use a GUI just to have 40 terminal windows open, multiple system monitors, and a Mozilla window (OK, so I'm exagerating a bit), I can't see any fully open-source solution any time soon. The only place where such a system might be developed would be a University, and with corporations having more money to lure away the researchers, even that may not happen any time soon.
Perhaps the better comparison would be to the League of Nations rather than the UN. IIRC, the League was formed after WWI, like the UN was formed after WWII, and the two had similar goals. One of the reasons the League failed was they were unable to get the US on side. Now replace "League" with "W3C", and "US" with "MS"...
WTF? I submitted this story the day after it was released, and it was rejected. Then Freshmeat had the announcement a couple days later. And now I see this a couple weeks later. Do you guys have something against being the first to announce things?
Using CNET's criteria, the best OS is: pencil and paper.
Installation: Everything is ready out of the box. No installation is required, and its design ensures that you will never need to re-install.
Interface: Uses the most intuitive interface. Novices can quickly learn to perform most tasks without any training.
Applications: What can I say? The applications are virtually unlimited.
Hardware Compatability: Virtually anything ever manufactured works with it (as a paperweight;-) ). Backward compatible with all previous versions, and a huge flexibility in price/performance, plus availability of a large variety of add-ons. Basic models go for under $10.
Internet Support: In the words of Becky (with appropriate substitutions), "And if you want to get technical, the [pencil-and-paper] OS is inherently better protected from hacker and virus attacks than either Linux or Windows (or Mac), partly because most malicious code is written for Unix, and partly because the [pencil-and-paper] doesn't allow many network services (such as FTP), which have to be blocked by a firewall or turned off in other OSs. For example, the recent Love Bug virus did not affect the [pencil-and-paper]."
Verdict: CNET's comparison doesn't work. (But you knew that already.)
Show me one category where Linux offers better apps than the Mac, and I'll eat my PowerBook.
Well, let's see
Pretty much anything related to software development. I mean you get a free (high quality) optimizing compiler, debugger, a whole load of libraries, etc.
Network servers. I hope I don't need to say any more about that.
Remote access. I can log into my computer at work from home, and do everything I could do if I was actually sitting in my office! (Well, I would be able to if I wasn't running off of a 28.8k modem. But I can still do nearly everything.)
Mathematical typesetting. Nothing beats TeX and LaTeX when it comes to this. Sure, there's TeX for Macs, but (AFAIK) you have to buy it.
OK, so these aren't exactly the sexy apps that will make the average Joe user switch over, but then again, the typical Linux user isn't an average Joe user.
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IIRC, Moore's Law originally applied only to the number of transistors on a chip, but has subsequently been applied to the "power" of a chip, the speed, the capacity, and probably a whole bunch of other stuff.
Bah. That's nothing. I once crashed WinNT by clicking on the Start button. And the system wasn't doing anything other than formatting a floppy. Now that's multitasking!
The M18 nightlies seem to be making a lot of progress in terms of speed and memory usage. On my AMD K6-2 400 laptop, it's running relatively fast such that it's replaced Netscape 4.7 as my primary browser. The only time it really slows down is when it does a lot of swapping, which is too often (but that's what I get for only having 32Mb, trying to run it along with emacs and Gnome). I recently switched to the classic theme, and that seems to have improved things a bit.
The feature I'm really want, though, is native widgets. And plugins.
Everyone in the US who cares about freedom can move up here to Canada. We've got lots of room, and we don't have DMCA. We don't have stupid encryption laws, for that matter.
OK. Let me expand a bit on my original comment.
The whole release concept seems to be a bit too limiting for Linux distros, which are composed of many different bits of software, which have completely different release schedules of their own.
It may by true that releases help maintain sanity by not breaking dependencies every other day, but, for example, potato has packages that are outdated, despite being released just a little while ago. Because some of the packages were old, I had to upgrade a few of my packages from the unstable tree, and didn't have any problems with dependencies.
Upgrading a package by a minor revision should cause no problems. Potato still has bbdb 2.00, when version 2.00.06 (even smaller than a minor version) is out and fixes an annoying bug that happens when it is used with emacs 20. Why isn't the new version in Potato?
gkrellm in Potato is still at version 0.7.4 -- I upgraded to 0.10.5 from unstable with no problem with dependencies. Potato has xmms 1.0.1, but 1.2.2 works fine with the same libraries. Can't someone just look at it, see that it works just fine and that there were no problems with dependencies, and then put them in the stable branch?
Well, that's my rant of the day. Don't get me wrong; I love Debian -- I just switched from RedHat, and found it easier to install and maintain. It just seems to me that there's still room for improvement.
To get around the size issue, they can just build the ISS into the shape of [your logo here].
They're trying out the thrusters to see if they can draw a huge Nike swoosh in the sky.
I've never understood why they do releases anyways. It is mostly a compilation of other peoples' software, so why not just test each indivitiual piece, along with the packages that it depends on, and if it's stable enough for public consumption, put it in the stable directory?
And then, when everyone uses MainWin for all their app development, MS can buy out MainSoft and kill MainWin, which will force everyone to either switch to Windows, or rewrite all their software, right?
You might also want to check out this editorial at freshmeat (Negotiating for Nerds)
Seeing as almost all open-source projects are started by people wanting to "scrach an itch", and most open-source hackers use a GUI just to have 40 terminal windows open, multiple system monitors, and a Mozilla window (OK, so I'm exagerating a bit), I can't see any fully open-source solution any time soon. The only place where such a system might be developed would be a University, and with corporations having more money to lure away the researchers, even that may not happen any time soon.
Or maybe I'm just being too pessimistic
Perhaps the better comparison would be to the League of Nations rather than the UN. IIRC, the League was formed after WWI, like the UN was formed after WWII, and the two had similar goals. One of the reasons the League failed was they were unable to get the US on side. Now replace "League" with "W3C", and "US" with "MS"...
You don't need a Linux box to remotely administer a Win32 box. Just a phone, and this box ;)
So they can have easy access to loads of parrot pr0n, of course.
Dual booting removes your ability to brag about your uptime.
Isn't that the point, though? That it's not hot? ;)
Crusoe: because it's a laptop; not a lap warmer
Read the README.openssh2 file. It talks all about generating DSA keys, and converting to and from commercial ssh2 key format.
WTF? I submitted this story the day after it was released, and it was rejected. Then Freshmeat had the announcement a couple days later. And now I see this a couple weeks later. Do you guys have something against being the first to announce things?
Using CNET's criteria, the best OS is: pencil and paper.
Installation: Everything is ready out of the box. No installation is required, and its design ensures that you will never need to re-install.
Interface: Uses the most intuitive interface. Novices can quickly learn to perform most tasks without any training.
Applications: What can I say? The applications are virtually unlimited.
Hardware Compatability: Virtually anything ever manufactured works with it (as a paperweight ;-) ). Backward compatible with all previous versions, and a huge flexibility in price/performance, plus availability of a large variety of add-ons. Basic models go for under $10.
Internet Support: In the words of Becky (with appropriate substitutions), "And if you want to get technical, the [pencil-and-paper] OS is inherently better protected from hacker and virus attacks than either Linux or Windows (or Mac), partly because most malicious code is written for Unix, and partly because the [pencil-and-paper] doesn't allow many network services (such as FTP), which have to be blocked by a firewall or turned off in other OSs. For example, the recent Love Bug virus did not affect the [pencil-and-paper]."
Verdict: CNET's comparison doesn't work. (But you knew that already.)
Well, let's see
OK, so these aren't exactly the sexy apps that will make the average Joe user switch over, but then again, the typical Linux user isn't an average Joe user.
Given that there seems to be a lot of news lately about companies doing Bad Things:
The second-most evil company in the world is:
Of course the question has to be about the second-most evil company, because we already know who the most evil company is...
Maybe now we can get NetSol to shut down spammers that have their domains registered with them.
Does this mean MicroSoft et. al. can sue Network Solutions for trademark dilution?