You are the Sys. admin of a big company, and you decide to install Linux with kernel 2.3.42 in a production server (note: this is a development kernel!). Now go ahead and tell that to the upper management. You'll be fired in 60 seconds...
Unlike your example with Mozilla (or in my example - Linux) - those bugs are NOT being published. MS doesn't tells you "ahh, with IIS 5.0 we got this error and that error" - you'll find that when you have BSOD or your system won't work well..
In Mozilla or Linux - you got a bug list (in the Linux example - check Alan Cox TODO list to see what I mean) - so you know whats right and whats wrong. With MS Win 2k - nada.
Well, KEEP reading... Overall, there are more than 65,000 "potential issues" that could emerge as problems, as discovered by Microsoft's Prefix tool. Microsoft is estimating that 28,000 of these are likely to be "real" problems.
From my past experience, I know that MS underestimate bugs, so I really think that "potential issues" are bugs. Maybe not a serious ones, but still - its bugs..
I thought a lot before I'm posting this message, but here goes:
I'm a Slashdot Author for the last 2 years (approx) (I'm posting under the nick HeUnique). I'm not an employee of Andover.net, nor VA research. I also don't have any shares from those companies..
Over the last 2 years, all my stories which I posted were not censored (and I posted stories which pissed off many companies, but I really don't give a f*ck about them).
If I'll find tommorow a story which could do potential (or real) trouble to VA research, I WILL post it - no matter how much trouble it will make to VA or anyone else - this is what I call integrity!
If I'll find censorship (which I really have doubt about it as I know Hemos & Rob) - then be sure that the slashdot readers WILL know about it.
Maybe you didn't know, but stories which are posted on slashdot are not being editing and then published (like on other online media's), but the moment I write a story - it's automatically published here.
Ofcourse, we do talk to each other sometimes (me & Hemos) about if a story should be posted (reasons for this - interest of the slashdot reader, maybe we already published it, maybe it will goto the quickies sections, etc), but I NEVER seen ANY censorship so fat with slashdot.
Well, I read this morning your press release and I looked at your site. It seems to me that you got a deal with one of the vendors (Asus maybe?) to manufacture to you those notebook. I didn't find on your web site which brand name notebooks you have (and I know that corporates like brand names - think about it).
I hope you'll have better luck then Linux Laptops had (they closed their business it seems from their web site), but I know you're going to have a very tuff time now that Dell & IBM sells their machine with Linux preinstalled..
And about the giving back to the community - Linuxcare are giving back to the community also - check Linux kernel mailing list, so all the changes that Linuxcare doing for Dell - will be freely also.
Tommorow there will be a public beta of VMWare 2.0, and they included support for SCSI, Sound-in, Major improvment of running Windows 95/98 as a guest, Shrinking disk, Larger then 2GB Virtual disk support, and other goodies.
Linux currently is the media darling - everyone likes to see David vs. Goliath wars and many companies know that if they issue a press release with Linux on it- they're stock price jump. Nice, isn't it?
Regarding QNX - this is a COMMERCIAL operating system - the guys at QNX should talk to other vendors to port their apps to QNX. The problem is - QNX market share is WAY lower then Linux market share - and as it is - it's not worth to port it.
Hmm, you really want to check out your statement before you write such a bullshit as your statement.
I can take right now a Linux machine and let any numbers of user (depends ofcourse on the amount of memory I have), and let them login, and each one of them can have its own X session, own Window manager, and each one of them can redirect the display to whatever PC or Unix machine he wants to. For more information - read: man SETENV DISPLAY.
Contrary to Windows 2000, which maybe lets you redirect the screen (are you implying its doing something like PC Anyware for Windows?), but you have only 1 screen, while on Linux and other unices, the number is virtually unlimited.
I don't know about other slashdot authors, but I DO check my sources before I post. When I write un-official, it means I heard it from an employee or someone who is close to this company, but the company doesn't issue any press release yet.
Actully, this issue is a bit of problematic. All of those companies singed multiple NDA's in order to make DVD playable on those cards..
I would like to ask people to send me email addresses of contact people on various companies (Matrox, Nvidia, S3, ATI etc..) so I can ask polity companies for the info to be released under NDA, and also ask people who got some Linux and DVD programming knowledge to contact me by email, so we'll have a group of people who can write a binary only program/modules to play the DVD's on various cards..
Later, if the situation will allow, we'll ask those companies to release what can be released - under Open source..
Think you can help? email me (hetz-home@cobol2java.com).
Suppose I would like to decide to move to kernel 2.3.x to try my Philips USB speakers, and some more new features from the 2.3.x kernel.. - Oops - no drivers yet...
Or, suppose I want to test the latest Alan Cox ac's patches or those PRE kernel versions..
I have at work a Yamaha DS-XG sound chip (it's on the damn motherboard). OSS (the commercial drivers) doesn't even run with it. So - I'm stuck.. no sound..
Now, if I insist of using the commercial binary only drivers, I have to BEG to 4Front for support (which they'll probably will tell me either to wait for 2.2.14 or move back to 2.2.13)
THATS my problem with binary only drivers. Kapish?:)
If you'll move an ACTUAL source code from Solaris OS to Linux kernel and claim it's your and Sun will find out (and they will - they got their people looking at the kernel mailing lists) then:
1. Sun will sue you to your last penny. 2. Linus will be informed about this and he will remove this code from the kernel at that same second, no matter how this feature is important
It seems that I got some problems with connection to the BackSlash (where you write what will be posted) and I mistakenly clicked 4 times cause it didn't want process the feature.
Seriously, someone from the GLX Dev. team has came up with an idea - why not support ATI in 3D? everyone knows that ATI are not the best in 3D, but there are LOTS of users who have ATI graphics cards, and more users with systems with built in ATI chips who cannot afford to switch.
To make long story short - ATI has agreed to give the technical documents to the GLX team, and now there are few guys who hack their way with the info. Ofcourse - if you can help - PLEASE do so..
Offtopic (I cannot resist but to say it), looks like GLX drivers for Matrox WILL kick windows driver's ass hard! (once the AGP module will be ok and the XFree86 4.0 will be out)
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hmm... Think about this...
You are the Sys. admin of a big company, and you decide to install Linux with kernel 2.3.42 in a production server (note: this is a development kernel!). Now go ahead and tell that to the upper management. You'll be fired in 60 seconds...
Unlike your example with Mozilla (or in my example - Linux) - those bugs are NOT being published. MS doesn't tells you "ahh, with IIS 5.0 we got this error and that error" - you'll find that when you have BSOD or your system won't work well..
In Mozilla or Linux - you got a bug list (in the Linux example - check Alan Cox TODO list to see what I mean) - so you know whats right and whats wrong. With MS Win 2k - nada.
And this, my friend, is the difference..
From my past experience, I know that MS underestimate bugs, so I really think that "potential issues" are bugs. Maybe not a serious ones, but still - its bugs..
Fixed. DAMN ISP!
I thought a lot before I'm posting this message, but here goes:
I'm a Slashdot Author for the last 2 years (approx) (I'm posting under the nick HeUnique). I'm not an employee of Andover.net, nor VA research. I also don't have any shares from those companies..
Over the last 2 years, all my stories which I posted were not censored (and I posted stories which pissed off many companies, but I really don't give a f*ck about them).
If I'll find tommorow a story which could do potential (or real) trouble to VA research, I WILL post it - no matter how much trouble it will make to VA or anyone else - this is what I call integrity!
If I'll find censorship (which I really have doubt about it as I know Hemos & Rob) - then be sure that the slashdot readers WILL know about it.
Maybe you didn't know, but stories which are posted on slashdot are not being editing and then published (like on other online media's), but the moment I write a story - it's automatically published here.
Ofcourse, we do talk to each other sometimes (me & Hemos) about if a story should be posted (reasons for this - interest of the slashdot reader, maybe we already published it, maybe it will goto the quickies sections, etc), but I NEVER seen ANY censorship so fat with slashdot.
Thanks
Let me see..
:)
Server 51 got few dozens of projects..
Sourceforge got more than 1000
hmmm... (calculating numbers with his old 8086 processor)...
Kill server 51...
Sorry, business is business..
Well, I read this morning your press release and I looked at your site. It seems to me that you got a deal with one of the vendors (Asus maybe?) to manufacture to you those notebook. I didn't find on your web site which brand name notebooks you have (and I know that corporates like brand names - think about it).
I hope you'll have better luck then Linux Laptops had (they closed their business it seems from their web site), but I know you're going to have a very tuff time now that Dell & IBM sells their machine with Linux preinstalled..
And about the giving back to the community - Linuxcare are giving back to the community also - check Linux kernel mailing list, so all the changes that Linuxcare doing for Dell - will be freely also.
Good Luck
Well, I just got the word from VMWare:
Tommorow there will be a public beta of VMWare 2.0, and they included support for SCSI, Sound-in, Major improvment of running Windows 95/98 as a guest, Shrinking disk, Larger then 2GB Virtual disk support, and other goodies.
Check tommorow: http://www.vmware.com
If you check the latest stable Linux kernel - you'll find (I think) the S/390 Linux port.
First, don't be pissed..
Linux currently is the media darling - everyone likes to see David vs. Goliath wars and many companies know that if they issue a press release with Linux on it- they're stock price jump. Nice, isn't it?
Regarding QNX - this is a COMMERCIAL operating system - the guys at QNX should talk to other vendors to port their apps to QNX. The problem is - QNX market share is WAY lower then Linux market share - and as it is - it's not worth to port it.
Hmm, you really want to check out your statement before you write such a bullshit as your statement.
I can take right now a Linux machine and let any numbers of user (depends ofcourse on the amount of memory I have), and let them login, and each one of them can have its own X session, own Window manager, and each one of them can redirect the display to whatever PC or Unix machine he wants to. For more information - read: man SETENV DISPLAY.
Contrary to Windows 2000, which maybe lets you redirect the screen (are you implying its doing something like PC Anyware for Windows?), but you have only 1 screen, while on Linux and other unices, the number is virtually unlimited.
I don't know about other slashdot authors, but I DO check my sources before I post. When I write un-official, it means I heard it from an employee or someone who is close to this company, but the company doesn't issue any press release yet.
Actully, this issue is a bit of problematic. All of those companies singed multiple NDA's in order to make DVD playable on those cards..
I would like to ask people to send me email addresses of contact people on various companies (Matrox, Nvidia, S3, ATI etc..) so I can ask polity companies for the info to be released under NDA, and also ask people who got some Linux and DVD programming knowledge to contact me by email, so we'll have a group of people who can write a binary only program/modules to play the DVD's on various cards..
Later, if the situation will allow, we'll ask those companies to release what can be released - under Open source..
Think you can help? email me (hetz-home@cobol2java.com).
Thanks
Well..
If you would use your "refresh" button on your browser and read some other posts, you would've get your answer..
Metroworks pulled this trick before, and it wasn't related (last time) to Linux OS at all. They got a shit management there. period.
Oops. My fault. Fixed. Thanks
Oh, I DO care...
:)
Suppose I would like to decide to move to kernel 2.3.x to try my Philips USB speakers, and some more new features from the 2.3.x kernel.. - Oops - no drivers yet...
Or, suppose I want to test the latest Alan Cox ac's patches or those PRE kernel versions..
I have at work a Yamaha DS-XG sound chip (it's on the damn motherboard). OSS (the commercial drivers) doesn't even run with it. So - I'm stuck.. no sound..
Now, if I insist of using the commercial binary only drivers, I have to BEG to 4Front for support (which they'll probably will tell me either to wait for 2.2.14 or move back to 2.2.13)
THATS my problem with binary only drivers. Kapish?
It's TIMNA...
And this name is for a region here in Israel ("michrot timna") since this processor was designed here in Israel.
The fact that they're porting this to Linux is known to me (and if someone noticed in the Linux kernel mailing list) for quite sometime..
I wonder WHEN they will put a public beta at their web site?
Does Linux really needs this product?
got the driver.. compiled and installed the .o files..
/dev/dxr2 120 0
now trying to mknod the device..
[hetz@hetz-linux dxr2]# mknod c
Try `mknod --help' for more information.
Any help here?
Nop.
If you'll move an ACTUAL source code from Solaris OS to Linux kernel and claim it's your and Sun will find out (and they will - they got their people looking at the kernel mailing lists) then:
1. Sun will sue you to your last penny.
2. Linus will be informed about this and he will remove this code from the kernel at that same second, no matter how this feature is important
(number 2 is only for the Linux Kernel)
DAMN ISP!
It seems that I got some problems with connection to the BackSlash (where you write what will be posted) and I mistakenly clicked 4 times cause it didn't want process the feature.
I erased the remaining 3 posts.
Sorry,
Hi,
I already posted a feature about this "jessie" (If I'm not mistaken)..
Don't forget this related story. It's talking about a Linux distribution for girls..
Well, not to worry, GLX to the rescue :)
Seriously, someone from the GLX Dev. team has came up with an idea - why not support ATI in 3D? everyone knows that ATI are not the best in 3D, but there are LOTS of users who have ATI graphics cards, and more users with systems with built in ATI chips who cannot afford to switch.
To make long story short - ATI has agreed to give the technical documents to the GLX team, and now there are few guys who hack their way with the info. Ofcourse - if you can help - PLEASE do so..
Offtopic (I cannot resist but to say it), looks like GLX drivers for Matrox WILL kick windows driver's ass hard! (once the AGP module will be ok and the XFree86 4.0 will be out)
Accelerated X is nice (and speedy - compared to XFree 3.X)
But:
1. XFree86 4.0 (which hopefully comes soon) got some great results (as far as I know - the Matrox G200 & G400 is FASTER then Accelerated X 5.0)
2. in Accelerated X - you don't get DGA support. So bye bye for full-screen VMWare, Full screen MPEG-TV etc..