Re:Longtime GNOMEr Ready to Try
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KDE 3.1 Released
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· Score: 5, Informative
My main fear is that KMail and Konquerer won't be good Evolution/Galeon replacements.
Why do you have to replace Evolution/Galeon? They work normally in KDE. There is nothing that forces you to choose KDE version of each and every application.
Obviously it wouldn't be a big problem for the spammers to run their creative gems through gzip, and alter the content until they achieve lower compression ratio. Even including a bunch of garbage after the message might do the trick. I believe equivalent analysis can be done cheaper with non-gzip tools...
I would still rather see a law that would sentence the spammers to death without parole... At least there would be higher barrier of entry to spamming.
Helix DNA Server streams MP3, RealAudio® and RealVideo®. RealNetworks intends to add support for MPEG-4 after the MPEG-4 systems license terms have been released by the MPEG-4 licensing body, MPEG LA.
Aren't they about the right size for containing a movie with pretty decent picture quality? One could imagine using these in preference over DVD-RW, provided that set top boxes that can read these become available. At least they are not too "encumbered", unlike DVD's.
I think there might be a grain of truth in the fact that KDE has very hard time winning the desktop. Gnome has the huge advantage of licensing (LGPL vs. GPL). It doesn't matter how much smoother or better the technology underlying KDE or KDE applications is.
KDE people also have the weird habit of producing their own versions of various pieces of software. Surely a conservative decisionmaker will choose a desktop-agnostic Mozilla or OpenOffice over the KDE-specific versions. KDE applications might do better by just dropping the K from their names, thus competing on their own terms (snappines and other virtues associated with Qt).
Note that I have been KDE user in the past (alternating with less popular lightweight wm's), but Gnome seems to finally have gotten their stuff together with gnome2.
My experience is that when you upgrade your system, moderately priced hd's are so much bigger than your current hd that it's hardly worth the trouble to move your old disk to the new system, except to transfer your old data to the newly acquired hd (and have around as a nice 'backup' drive).
I don't think parallel ATA driver will get any cheaper than usual. More probable is that SATA will remain an expensive option for a while, until it is the default option on new motherboards. At some point they will stop manufacturing normal ATA drives in high volumes, and they will get expensive as SIMMS nowadays.
What they did with StarOffice left a bad taste in my mouth. First they acted as heros buying the software and then offering it for free for Linux users - then when people started to like StarOffice, they took it away (the free version) and started selling it for a high price.
Eh? OpenOffice.org is one of the better things that have happened to linux.
Since when was BSA our enemy? Don't you realize that the more they force people to pay for proprietary software, the less the people are inclined to choose proprietary solution over a free beer one.
I bet many companies are evaluating open source alternatives for their existing proprietary applications right now, because they might not have bought quite enough licenses to cover all their use. That wouldn't be the case if BSA was less aggressive.
Re:Why do they all go to GTK/GNOME?
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Mozilla 1.2 Unleashed
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· Score: 5, Informative
Why is it that they all go in for GTK/GNOME not QT/KDE? Are the latter combination more difficult to integrate? Something about the QT license? Better mktg by the GNOME guys?
Something about the QT license. It's GPL or proprietary (it's your choice), while LGPL (the license of GTK) is more corporate-friendly.
So not all things are available unless you use the classic theme-that sux.
And boy, does the Classic theme suck. Why don't they make the modern theme a default? Someone installing Mozilla for the first time might be pushed away merely because of the classic theme...
The article you refer mentions rewriting Netscape as a bad idea. However, the present situation kinda indicates the opposite view - Mozilla is better than ever, and the modular architecture is bearing fruit. Of course that doesn't apply to X, X isn't all that messy (ppl just tend to think it's trendy to bash it).
there are other languages waiting in the wings written by some very sharp programmers who have learned from Java's mistakes and are eager for the opportunity to replace Java in the same way Java replaced earlier flawed languages.
... and we know the language he's talking about.:-)
Woody isnt out there trying to be the most current Linux distro, its designed to be and it *IS* the most stable Linux distro because it uses very well tested versions of software.
Perhaps you are oversimplifying a little bit? Woody has 11 archs to support, and the Debian people keep mentioning about the shortcomings of the release process. Also, Debian has tons of packages. All these things contribute to somewhat outdated packages (according to some people).
Besides, I don't think Woody is outdated at all - certainly not as outdated as uninformed people seem to think it is.
All the laws against piracy actually benefit the Open Source community. Now the companies are starting to realize how expensive commercial software is, when they actually need to start paying the full price for all the seats. This is just what we *need*. One might even hypotethize that MS doesn't want BSA to be too strict, in order to prevent mass migration to greener pastures.
Will NetBSD work on a machine with ez-drive hd? The last version I tried (1.5.0) didn't... Also, there doesn't seem to be a lot of info regarding dualbooting NetBSD + other OSen w/ GRUB. Is it possible to boot it from non-first hd?
t's a bit annoying, because even though IE is no lightweight, not everyone would jump from Outlook Express to Mozilla Mail
And god only knows why. I am using mozilla mail as my default mail client for a while - I switched from HP's archaic OpenMail Client (omgui). I tried Outlook for a while, but it was even worse than OpenMail. Mozilla Mail doesn't really get all the attention it deserves!
If you want bells and whistles, then you need to go someplace else.
I don't think so. Debian has the most bells and whistles, that you need to download seperately for other distros. What other distro ships with OCaml and Erlang?
Truthfully, I don't really think it matters if Linux does die. In it's brief life, it's revitalized Unix in a big way.
Eh? Anybody can see that Linux is going to *kill* all the proprietary Unixes, given some time (and vendors of proprietary unixen know this). It's a different matter altogether what companies are there to profit from it. My bet is on IBM, accompanied by some others.
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My main fear is that KMail and Konquerer won't be good Evolution/Galeon replacements.
Why do you have to replace Evolution/Galeon? They work normally in KDE. There is nothing that forces you to choose KDE version of each and every application.
Another moron the tdisn't read the article.
I actually read the article.
The proposal is not to see how compressible is the message but to use a compression tool to see how lookalike the message is to a corpus of spam.
Yes, and compression ratio is used to determine this.
Obviously it wouldn't be a big problem for the spammers to run their creative gems through gzip, and alter the content until they achieve lower compression ratio. Even including a bunch of garbage after the message might do the trick. I believe equivalent analysis can be done cheaper with non-gzip tools...
I would still rather see a law that would sentence the spammers to death without parole... At least there would be higher barrier of entry to spamming.
Helix DNA Server streams MP3, RealAudio® and RealVideo®. RealNetworks intends to add support for MPEG-4 after the MPEG-4 systems license terms have been released by the MPEG-4 licensing body, MPEG LA.
Wasn't there supposed to be ogg support?
Aren't they about the right size for containing a movie with pretty decent picture quality? One could imagine using these in preference over DVD-RW, provided that set top boxes that can read these become available. At least they are not too "encumbered", unlike DVD's.
I think there might be a grain of truth in the fact that KDE has very hard time winning the desktop. Gnome has the huge advantage of licensing (LGPL vs. GPL). It doesn't matter how much smoother or better the technology underlying KDE or KDE applications is.
KDE people also have the weird habit of producing their own versions of various pieces of software. Surely a conservative decisionmaker will choose a desktop-agnostic Mozilla or OpenOffice over the KDE-specific versions. KDE applications might do better by just dropping the K from their names, thus competing on their own terms (snappines and other virtues associated with Qt).
Note that I have been KDE user in the past (alternating with less popular lightweight wm's), but Gnome seems to finally have gotten their stuff together with gnome2.
My experience is that when you upgrade your system, moderately priced hd's are so much bigger than your current hd that it's hardly worth the trouble to move your old disk to the new system, except to transfer your old data to the newly acquired hd (and have around as a nice 'backup' drive).
I don't think parallel ATA driver will get any cheaper than usual. More probable is that SATA will remain an expensive option for a while, until it is the default option on new motherboards. At some point they will stop manufacturing normal ATA drives in high volumes, and they will get expensive as SIMMS nowadays.
It's not. Think USB. Parallel data transfer is more error-prone.
What they did with StarOffice left a bad taste in my mouth. First they acted as heros buying the software and then offering it for free for Linux users - then when people started to like StarOffice, they took it away (the free version) and started selling it for a high price.
Eh? OpenOffice.org is one of the better things that have happened to linux.
Since when was BSA our enemy? Don't you realize that the more they force people to pay for proprietary software, the less the people are inclined to choose proprietary solution over a free beer one.
I bet many companies are evaluating open source alternatives for their existing proprietary applications right now, because they might not have bought quite enough licenses to cover all their use. That wouldn't be the case if BSA was less aggressive.
Why is it that they all go in for GTK/GNOME not QT/KDE? Are the latter combination more difficult to integrate? Something about the QT license? Better mktg by the GNOME guys?
Something about the QT license. It's GPL or proprietary (it's your choice), while LGPL (the license of GTK) is more corporate-friendly.
I thought content providers have to explicitly specify what links to prefetch?
So not all things are available unless you use the classic theme-that sux.
And boy, does the Classic theme suck. Why don't they make the modern theme a default? Someone installing Mozilla for the first time might be pushed away merely because of the classic theme...
The article you refer mentions rewriting Netscape as a bad idea. However, the present situation kinda indicates the opposite view - Mozilla is better than ever, and the modular architecture is bearing fruit. Of course that doesn't apply to X, X isn't all that messy (ppl just tend to think it's trendy to bash it).
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Woody isnt out there trying to be the most current Linux distro, its designed to be and it *IS* the most stable Linux distro because it uses very well tested versions of software.
Perhaps you are oversimplifying a little bit? Woody has 11 archs to support, and the Debian people keep mentioning about the shortcomings of the release process. Also, Debian has tons of packages. All these things contribute to somewhat outdated packages (according to some people).
Besides, I don't think Woody is outdated at all - certainly not as outdated as uninformed people seem to think it is.
All the laws against piracy actually benefit the Open Source community. Now the companies are starting to realize how expensive commercial software is, when they actually need to start paying the full price for all the seats. This is just what we *need*. One might even hypotethize that MS doesn't want BSA to be too strict, in order to prevent mass migration to greener pastures.
GRUB has support on i386 for booting NetBSD kernels directly, or at least that's what the GRUB documentation claims.
Yes, and I tried the method in the docs. My computer hangs at the boot process (probably because the kernel is not at (hd0,*)).
astly you'd be best off visting the netbsd.org web site and seeing if there is support for the hard drive you mention.
No, ez-drive is a "bios upgrade" (residing at MBR) that allows computers with old bios access large disks. The disk itself is a normal ide drive.
Will NetBSD work on a machine with ez-drive hd? The last version I tried (1.5.0) didn't... Also, there doesn't seem to be a lot of info regarding dualbooting NetBSD + other OSen w/ GRUB. Is it possible to boot it from non-first hd?
t's a bit annoying, because even though IE is no lightweight, not everyone would jump from Outlook Express to Mozilla Mail
And god only knows why. I am using mozilla mail as my default mail client for a while - I switched from HP's archaic OpenMail Client (omgui). I tried Outlook for a while, but it was even worse than OpenMail. Mozilla Mail doesn't really get all the attention it deserves!
If you want bells and whistles, then you need to go someplace else.
I don't think so. Debian has the most bells and whistles, that you need to download seperately for other distros. What other distro ships with OCaml and Erlang?
Truthfully, I don't really think it matters if Linux does die. In it's brief life, it's revitalized Unix in a big way.
Eh? Anybody can see that Linux is going to *kill* all the proprietary Unixes, given some time (and vendors of proprietary unixen know this). It's a different matter altogether what companies are there to profit from it. My bet is on IBM, accompanied by some others.