That and more sinister explanantions regarding the desires of the parent corp, The Canopy Group. Check out this report. While much is BS, it is interesting in what it says about Canopy. There is something to be said for your explanation as Yarro was fired. Though some deals were made between SCO and Microsoft.
I don't if you were trying to be insightful and sarcastic or not but if you were straight then:
Mandrake was a RH clone that included KDE. It developed from there to being a separate if mostly compatible distro. Yellow dog was originally RH compiled for PPC if I am not mistaken. Sun's Java Desktop and previous Linux distros, are just RH underneath. And lastly there are the current clones CentOS and WhiteBox. There were other clones too, but these are the ones I can remember.
What spin on McVoy's motives? There are but two reasons he pressured Linus to use BitKeeper. To be generous, McVoy felt BitKeeper was a truly great product and wanted his friend to use it. Two, he wanted the free publicity and recommendation the he would get for having Linus choose it.
Free Software is not Open Source. Ethics is the whole point behind Free Software. Rarely does a moderate stance drive change.
I More nuclear power would be self sustaining and not need coal.
II US is no longer the World power it once was. You sell people's morals short, but there are means around your problems. Just because someone might steal nuclear power does not mean they will. A possiblity should not dictate our actions. I might be in a car crash going to or from work. Does that mean I shouldn't go to work?
III See argument above.
IV Depending on the renewable it is cheaper. Others are comparatively scarce. Production of solar panels involve significant pollution. Biofuels are costly and may not provide a net production. Some are not available all the time. And I can't pas up this last tidbit: Noone can predict the longterm geologic stability of a give site. If an earthquake were to happen at a hydroelectric plant (dam), the resulting loss of life would be significant. On a more serious note, Dams do cause severe ecological change in the sorrounding enviorment. Windmills kill birds. Everything has risks and depending on how you calculate them, somethings are worse than others.
V Prove that nuclear security is so poor. Yes, it seems fairly easy to sneak proscribe items through airport security. It does not logically follow that you can get around security at a Nuclear storage facility.
Recombinant DNA techniques were developed from the life cycle of bacteria. Retro virus have long been known to transfer genes from wildly different organisms (ie Chicken Flu). Cross species gene trans-location has been occuring naturally. Lastly there is always mutation for the occurence of new genes.
Maize and dogs are two of Humanity's longest running genetic engineering experiments. A chihuaha, cocker spaniel, bull mastiff, and a wolf all have the same genetic ancestor. There are traits in modern (unenhanced via GM) corn that just do not exist in maize.
Caution is warranted in GM foods, but that is because the change happens so fast. Changes that might have taken a Mellineum to take effect, happen in a single generation.
I'm on analog cable and do not want to spend more for digital cable or satellite. I have an analog only TV and do not want to spend more to buy a TV with a digital tuner.
It was meant to be ironic commentary about our current administration. You hear those things whizzing over your head?
The point of mandating the switch over to HDTV, was to regain the frequency space of Analog TV. Notice the problems currently with 2.4Ghz and other consumer wireless devices? The reclaiming Analog TV space would help alleviate that.
The flipside is that many people, myself included, do not want to have to shell out money for a new TV set. I have a 20" that was bought over a decade ago but still works fine. The other problem was that only in the last year have you even been able to find HD capable TV's, and regular analog TV's are still common.
If they were going to mandate this, then Ten years ago they should have mandated the presence of a HD Tuner and not allow any TVs that did not have an HD tuner to be Certified by the FCC.
The grandparent is talking about two near equal aplicants and choosing the one that brings greater diversity to the company.
You could have one persone that had a typical middle class suburban upbringing and the other is from an urban environment. Presuming that the whole company is predominantly one, hiring the other type will bring in new view points.
Works. Many OEM computers only come with MS Works, and the works format is not compatible with Word. Of course one can do a file save as and save as a word.doc but how many students do you think know how to do this.
They will be upgrading Office regardless of whether it is MS or Open so most of your points are moot. The last one is a problem of compatibilities regardless of whether it is different versions of MS or thirdparties.
Stop being the typical MS fanboy and apologist and start being more realistic.
Pragmatically speaking, it has been shown that relying on a closed source, proprietary software with a single person deciding who gets access is a bad choice.
Letting someone dictate the terms on which you can access your data is not pragmatic. In the short term it might prove easier, but in the long term you will get screwed.
Well, you do have point in that Corps have no place in the political process. The Revolutionary war was over limiting the rights of Corporations as much as anything else. Just because we have lost sight of that does not change what is actually on the law books.
In theory, corporations are suspose to advance the public good. This is the over riding principle being granted a charter. This goes beyond providing best value for thier shareholders.
Basically al your points are already adress in Linux andwas already even answered but I wil give a slightly diferent response.
1)/etc It doesn't have the shortcomings of the windows registry as it is human readable text. Because it is ASCII format it is less vulnerable to corruption. Plus most distro have these text files with good documentation so an intermediate use can easily change things.
2)/home/user all your personal data is suspose to go in your home dir. File permissions are set so that the only other place to be able to write to is/tmp and/var/tmp both of which are temporary dirs.
3)/home/user and/etc again All your personalizations that were not system wide are stored in your user dir./etc has all the system wide configs. Both can be backed up and trasfered to a new system./etc is a little tricky on what to save or not but it can be done.
4) RPM or.deb or even.tgz. There is a program called Alien that can convert one to the other. but the loki Installer is a good front end for the regular user to use, or their package manager.
5) rm -rf ~/.kde or equivalent That will delete the kde setting in your home directory and the next time you launch KDE the defaults will get copied out of/etc/skel
IF you screw things up so badly that you cannot login then I feel it is fine to have you drop to a command line and enter a single command.
6)GNOME does this already with the GNOME control panel. You get some basic things like setting keyboard shortcuts orconfiguring your screensaver, but advanced stuff gets put in the Advanced area.
7)Currently in GNOME the icons I have are removable drive like my cdrom and usb flash drive and my home directory. If you have something more creative then please share.
8) See 4. besides most vendors put things in/opt because that is where vendor specific things are suspose to go. Then you can just delete/opt/Adobe when you want to delete all you Adobe stuff, or use your package manager.
You are confusing things. Apt is seperate from dpkg. Portage is seperate from tarballs. Apt or portage is like Slack-get or URPMI or Yast2. It is a dependancy checker and repository manager.
So the choices of Package managers is dpkg (.deb), Slack packages (.tgz), or RPM. RPM has the most features of the three. It supports signing, binary and source packaging, and lots of other things. You can use apt with rpm and should be possible to use portage even if noone has done it before.
If you are sharing Linux, to *nix, it is easy. Yast or the Mandrake Control Center has nice easy wizards for the low to moderately skilled people. I'm sure other distros have similiar things. It is only when trying to use with windows that there is the potential for problems bu that is usually demonstrated as a problem with WIndows.
So why is wrong to point out that Windows is a problem for given uses? If Windows is no better and Linux is no worse at a given task, then why should Linux not be considered?
Most of registered ones are RH and Novell/SUSE, with a few others like Mandrake, SGI and Sun JDS.
See it is just the reverse of your hypothesis. It is only the commercial interests that are interested. That and you need to support the Red Hat way of file system and init and RPM.
The minors only get to play if they pony up some bucks (negligible for a Corp but significant for a non-profit volunteer org) and change things so they are done the RH way. It involves significant changes for any non-RPM based distro to get certified.
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That and more sinister explanantions regarding the desires of the parent corp, The Canopy Group. Check out this report. While much is BS, it is interesting in what it says about Canopy. There is something to be said for your explanation as Yarro was fired. Though some deals were made between SCO and Microsoft.
I don't if you were trying to be insightful and sarcastic or not but if you were straight then:
Mandrake was a RH clone that included KDE. It developed from there to being a separate if mostly compatible distro. Yellow dog was originally RH compiled for PPC if I am not mistaken. Sun's Java Desktop and previous Linux distros, are just RH underneath. And lastly there are the current clones CentOS and WhiteBox. There were other clones too, but these are the ones I can remember.
What spin on McVoy's motives? There are but two reasons he pressured Linus to use BitKeeper. To be generous, McVoy felt BitKeeper was a truly great product and wanted his friend to use it. Two, he wanted the free publicity and recommendation the he would get for having Linus choose it.
Free Software is not Open Source. Ethics is the whole point behind Free Software. Rarely does a moderate stance drive change.
I More nuclear power would be self sustaining and not need coal.
II US is no longer the World power it once was. You sell people's morals short, but there are means around your problems. Just because someone might steal nuclear power does not mean they will. A possiblity should not dictate our actions. I might be in a car crash going to or from work. Does that mean I shouldn't go to work?
III See argument above.
IV Depending on the renewable it is cheaper. Others are comparatively scarce. Production of solar panels involve significant pollution. Biofuels are costly and may not provide a net production. Some are not available all the time. And I can't pas up this last tidbit: Noone can predict the longterm geologic stability of a give site. If an earthquake were to happen at a hydroelectric plant (dam), the resulting loss of life would be significant. On a more serious note, Dams do cause severe ecological change in the sorrounding enviorment. Windmills kill birds. Everything has risks and depending on how you calculate them, somethings are worse than others.
V Prove that nuclear security is so poor. Yes, it seems fairly easy to sneak proscribe items through airport security. It does not logically follow that you can get around security at a Nuclear storage facility.
Recombinant DNA techniques were developed from the life cycle of bacteria. Retro virus have long been known to transfer genes from wildly different organisms (ie Chicken Flu). Cross species gene trans-location has been occuring naturally. Lastly there is always mutation for the occurence of new genes.
Maize and dogs are two of Humanity's longest running genetic engineering experiments. A chihuaha, cocker spaniel, bull mastiff, and a wolf all have the same genetic ancestor. There are traits in modern (unenhanced via GM) corn that just do not exist in maize.
Caution is warranted in GM foods, but that is because the change happens so fast. Changes that might have taken a Mellineum to take effect, happen in a single generation.
I'm on analog cable and do not want to spend more for digital cable or satellite. I have an analog only TV and do not want to spend more to buy a TV with a digital tuner.
It was meant to be ironic commentary about our current administration. You hear those things whizzing over your head?
The point of mandating the switch over to HDTV, was to regain the frequency space of Analog TV. Notice the problems currently with 2.4Ghz and other consumer wireless devices? The reclaiming Analog TV space would help alleviate that.
The flipside is that many people, myself included, do not want to have to shell out money for a new TV set. I have a 20" that was bought over a decade ago but still works fine. The other problem was that only in the last year have you even been able to find HD capable TV's, and regular analog TV's are still common.
If they were going to mandate this, then Ten years ago they should have mandated the presence of a HD Tuner and not allow any TVs that did not have an HD tuner to be Certified by the FCC.
The grandparent is talking about two near equal aplicants and choosing the one that brings greater diversity to the company.
You could have one persone that had a typical middle class suburban upbringing and the other is from an urban environment. Presuming that the whole company is predominantly one, hiring the other type will bring in new view points.
When was the last time someone was provided on the job training for MS Office?
Works. Many OEM computers only come with MS Works, and the works format is not compatible with Word. Of course one can do a file save as and save as a word .doc but how many students do you think know how to do this.
In short yes. http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo1.x .x/user_guide.pdf
RTF, PDF, and html are also valid interchange formats.
RTF might lose a bit of extreme formatting, but then again for compatibility you don't want such heavy formatting inthe first place.
They will be upgrading Office regardless of whether it is MS or Open so most of your points are moot. The last one is a problem of compatibilities regardless of whether it is different versions of MS or thirdparties.
Stop being the typical MS fanboy and apologist and start being more realistic.
Pragmatically speaking, it has been shown that relying on a closed source, proprietary software with a single person deciding who gets access is a bad choice.
Letting someone dictate the terms on which you can access your data is not pragmatic. In the short term it might prove easier, but in the long term you will get screwed.
Well, you do have point in that Corps have no place in the political process. The Revolutionary war was over limiting the rights of Corporations as much as anything else. Just because we have lost sight of that does not change what is actually on the law books.
In theory, corporations are suspose to advance the public good. This is the over riding principle being granted a charter. This goes beyond providing best value for thier shareholders.
McVoy and Torvalds are friends. It has been posted earlier that McVoy went to Torvald's home to pitch the use of BitKeeper.
Linus speaking out against Tridge, is simply that of someone backing up his friend. Unfortunately for Linus, it makes him a hypocritical git.
Strange, I use Mandrake and unless the cups service is off everything prints fine.
They spoke both but in the later centuries Greek was by far prevalent.
That and to remove incentive from others to reverse engineer his friend's Bitkeeper software.
Basically al your points are already adress in Linux andwas already even answered but I wil give a slightly diferent response.
/etc
/home/user /tmp and /var/tmp both of which are temporary dirs.
/home/user and /etc again /etc has all the system wide configs. Both can be backed up and trasfered to a new system. /etc is a little tricky on what to save or not but it can be done.
.deb or even .tgz. There is a program called Alien that can convert one to the other. but the loki Installer is a good front end for the regular user to use, or their package manager.
/etc/skel
/opt because that is where vendor specific things are suspose to go. Then you can just delete /opt/Adobe when you want to delete all you Adobe stuff, or use your package manager.
1)
It doesn't have the shortcomings of the windows registry as it is human readable text. Because it is ASCII format it is less vulnerable to corruption. Plus most distro have these text files with good documentation so an intermediate use can easily change things.
2)
all your personal data is suspose to go in your home dir. File permissions are set so that the only other place to be able to write to is
3)
All your personalizations that were not system wide are stored in your user dir.
4) RPM or
5) rm -rf ~/.kde or equivalent
That will delete the kde setting in your home directory and the next time you launch KDE the defaults will get copied out of
IF you screw things up so badly that you cannot login then I feel it is fine to have you drop to a command line and enter a single command.
6)GNOME does this already with the GNOME control panel. You get some basic things like setting keyboard shortcuts orconfiguring your screensaver, but advanced stuff gets put in the Advanced area.
7)Currently in GNOME the icons I have are removable drive like my cdrom and usb flash drive and my home directory. If you have something more creative then please share.
8) See 4. besides most vendors put things in
You are confusing things. Apt is seperate from dpkg. Portage is seperate from tarballs. Apt or portage is like Slack-get or URPMI or Yast2. It is a dependancy checker and repository manager.
So the choices of Package managers is dpkg (.deb), Slack packages (.tgz), or RPM. RPM has the most features of the three. It supports signing, binary and source packaging, and lots of other things. You can use apt with rpm and should be possible to use portage even if noone has done it before.
If you are sharing Linux, to *nix, it is easy. Yast or the Mandrake Control Center has nice easy wizards for the low to moderately skilled people. I'm sure other distros have similiar things. It is only when trying to use with windows that there is the potential for problems bu that is usually demonstrated as a problem with WIndows.
So why is wrong to point out that Windows is a problem for given uses? If Windows is no better and Linux is no worse at a given task, then why should Linux not be considered?
Go check for yourself.
Most of registered ones are RH and Novell/SUSE, with a few others like Mandrake, SGI and Sun JDS.
See it is just the reverse of your hypothesis. It is only the commercial interests that are interested. That and you need to support the Red Hat way of file system and init and RPM.
The minors only get to play if they pony up some bucks (negligible for a Corp but significant for a non-profit volunteer org) and change things so they are done the RH way. It involves significant changes for any non-RPM based distro to get certified.