Fedora is for suckers, if they use it to run production software. If they don't, and fully understand that it is supposed to be bleeding edge and break, then it's for the same kind of people who run Microsoft beta OSes.
What has that got to do with being a non-profit? And even if redhat did set up a non-profit to manage fedora, the ultimate goal is to obtain feedback to go back to their rhell distro.
RedHat is a commercial enterprise, much like Microsoft. You buy from RedHat because you want commercial support. There is no non-profit segment to RedHat. They contribute to opensource because their business model requires it. If they don't make money, they will go away. However, the opensource software will still be around.
For the OP, I would take a look at a couple of factors: 1) which piece affects you the most? 2) which project is the poorest?
Personally, I prefer to donate to OpenBSD because
they do not have much external resources
they stand by and for their principles which result in much freer opensource:
look at the release of SUNW documentation for the sparc cpus - it's mostly OpenBSD's work
look at the reverse engineering of the atheros firmware
look at all the other work with vendors to release information, sometimes browbeating the vendors to keep their promises
look at all the security work they've performed, including creating 4 APIs that is now used by all, that reduces buffer overflow issues
look at all the work done in simplifying various software that are important, such as openntpd, openbgpd
IIRC, the reason for going to 2.96 was an edge case of bash not working on some fringe (big iron?) platform and one other thing.
Not a reason to move to 2.96.
On glibc2 - they moved before it was ready for production. yes, some people say this helps them find more bugs and helps push it production ready - if this is the case, why do you guys bitch about Microsoft pushing out beta stuff as production ready? That's a bit hypocritical, yes?
Whereas my personal experience runs the other way. We migrated from a dual cpu P3-1.4Ghz to a G4 running 10.4. A 450Mhz G4. The usability was just so much better.
I love a Ferrari, but I just can't justify paying that much for yet another car. I really think Ferrari would increase their market share of all cars if they lowered their prices or at least had models that started at lower prices.
But I do agree some with you - Steve Jobs had famously said, in the early Mac days, premium prices for premium products. But in today's world, there is really not that much premium. You can't compare a $500 centrino to a macbook pro, or a macbook.
But it is certainly possible to create an uncompromiseable botnet.
This would be right after they created an unhackable computer, right?
If you consider the xbox to be a bot, think about the amount of money M$ spent on making sure the C&C is unbreakable. And how many people are running linux on it? Heck,/. just had a post the other day about canon cameras running opensource stuff on it.
While there's some of that, there's also the fact that the silicon itself wasn't fabricated at a certain speed. Once cut up, it's evaluated for the speed. If the silicon was capable of performing at higher speeds, but the market is only paying for lower ones, guess what do the cpu makers do?
Yes, mark it at a lower speed, and sell it as such.
How many were individual sales vs forced bundles? Now compare the sale of OSX Leopard, boxed vs with new systems.
If you have a monopoly, every system sold will contain "vista" whether they downgrade it or not. Now, otoh, if you have numbers that showed that only 3% or 30% or 80% of vista users downgraded to XP, then I may give you that 140mil number has some significance.
We seemed to have been fine when oil was at $30/barrel. Lets say there's a 4:1 reduction in oil usage (yeah, right - your electric socket is powered by invisible aliens, right? Or do you believe there's no tax on ethanol, bio-fuels, etc?). That's just equivalent to taxes at $30/barrel.
Where's the issue?
Oh wait - did you know that 40% of all sick leave is taken on Mondays and Fridays! We better put a committee together to study this issue!
With a at least 30% death rate on 360s, are you sure you want to buy a used 360, especially one that might have been resurrected through the towel trick? Microsoft did not set aside $1billion to fix 360s for no reason. Do you feel lucky?
*GOD* You must be kidding right? So, now, any Tom, Dick and Mary, based on the released documentation for ATI graphics hardware, can reimplement in silicon, the GPUs??!?!?!
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Have someone show you Time Machine. Play with it for 15 minutes.
Fedora is for suckers, if they use it to run production software. If they don't, and fully understand that it is supposed to be bleeding edge and break, then it's for the same kind of people who run Microsoft beta OSes.
What has that got to do with being a non-profit? And even if redhat did set up a non-profit to manage fedora, the ultimate goal is to obtain feedback to go back to their rhell distro.
For the OP, I would take a look at a couple of factors:
1) which piece affects you the most?
2) which project is the poorest?
Personally, I prefer to donate to OpenBSD because
Mind you, I think donating to KDE is good too.
I'm not sure how it was considered good when gcc itself says:
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html
IIRC, the reason for going to 2.96 was an edge case of bash not working on some fringe (big iron?) platform and one other thing.
Not a reason to move to 2.96.
On glibc2 - they moved before it was ready for production. yes, some people say this helps them find more bugs and helps push it production ready - if this is the case, why do you guys bitch about Microsoft pushing out beta stuff as production ready? That's a bit hypocritical, yes?
RHELL has always been about marketing and not what's best for consumers. Remember gcc 2.96? Remember libc2? It's been going on for a LONG LONG time
As opposed to $1k custom built desktops.
And I guess running bootcamp is too troublesome for you.
Whereas my personal experience runs the other way. We migrated from a dual cpu P3-1.4Ghz to a G4 running 10.4. A 450Mhz G4. The usability was just so much better.
But I do agree some with you - Steve Jobs had famously said, in the early Mac days, premium prices for premium products. But in today's world, there is really not that much premium. You can't compare a $500 centrino to a macbook pro, or a macbook.
Is there no sales tax on gasoline? Hmm... interesting then.
This would be right after they created an unhackable computer, right?
If you consider the xbox to be a bot, think about the amount of money M$ spent on making sure the C&C is unbreakable. And how many people are running linux on it? Heck,
While there's some of that, there's also the fact that the silicon itself wasn't fabricated at a certain speed. Once cut up, it's evaluated for the speed. If the silicon was capable of performing at higher speeds, but the market is only paying for lower ones, guess what do the cpu makers do?
Yes, mark it at a lower speed, and sell it as such.
Why do you think they "lock" things?
How many were individual sales vs forced bundles? Now compare the sale of OSX Leopard, boxed vs with new systems.
If you have a monopoly, every system sold will contain "vista" whether they downgrade it or not. Now, otoh, if you have numbers that showed that only 3% or 30% or 80% of vista users downgraded to XP, then I may give you that 140mil number has some significance.
Or maybe it was the may 6 colbert report?
He mentioned the zune!
And BSD isn't considered Open Source because....?
Crap. gnome?! WTF is wrong with people?
Unless of course, you expect to use it in production. Even freebsd zfs developers say it is not ready on freebsd yet.
We seemed to have been fine when oil was at $30/barrel. Lets say there's a 4:1 reduction in oil usage (yeah, right - your electric socket is powered by invisible aliens, right? Or do you believe there's no tax on ethanol, bio-fuels, etc?). That's just equivalent to taxes at $30/barrel.
Where's the issue?
Oh wait - did you know that 40% of all sick leave is taken on Mondays and Fridays! We better put a committee together to study this issue!
Wait, are you trying to make sense in a OS Holy War? Please check your guide book, this is strictly forbidden.
Hmm... for those not in the know, what are the tricks for a $230 PS3?
With a at least 30% death rate on 360s, are you sure you want to buy a used 360, especially one that might have been resurrected through the towel trick? Microsoft did not set aside $1billion to fix 360s for no reason. Do you feel lucky?
*GOD* You must be kidding right? So, now, any Tom, Dick and Mary, based on the released documentation for ATI graphics hardware, can reimplement in silicon, the GPUs??!?!?!
What are you smoking, and why aren't you sharing?
linux != open source.
Opensource drivers, especially open documentation is far far better.
Why should last minute updates exist?
Any changes need to be properly tested. PERIOD.
Why do you need to break passwords? And why do you need locally stored passwords?
http://truesecurity.se/blogs/murray/archive/2007/03/16/why-an-exposed-lm-ntlm-hash-is-comparable-to-a-clear-text-password.aspx
I'm interested to see how you would pull it off mine. The work computer has pointsec, and the linux box has full disk encryption as well.