Despite your accusation I must admit that it's very
approriate that you are writing here as an AC
instead of giving your real name and placing the name of your employer
to your signature.
There are cases when we should be anonymous cowards.
You should have posted this as AC.
Otherwise you present the Mandrake project in a bad light.
If creators of Mandrake don't respect copyrights they have no moral right to enforce GPL.
Absolutely not. Al Gore is the inventor of the Internet,
whereas Tim-Berners Lee created just the World Wide Web.
On another side, Internet was created not in the last decade,
so it's normal that Al Gore is not here.
We really should make the stories moderatable too.
The lame comment about Napster is an offtopic.
Maybe a comparison to SETI@Home would make sence,
but what on earth has Napster to do with it?
It's slightly offtopic, but it looks like that
BT's "solid" experience in hyperlinking
didn't prevent them from leaving a huge security hole
in their Talk21 service:
I don't understand why anybody should fork code only
because it has to behave differently on different systems.
Why not use ifdef's? If too many ifdef's would be needed it may be better
to have separate files and an option in "menu config".
Even the current configuration system can handle it.
Forks are usually justified only if
the original maintainer pollutes the source with hacks
or changes the license.
Besides, compiler requirements are different for different architectures.
While it's not a good idea to use anything older than gcc-2.95.2 for most platforms,
users of i386 tend to be more comservative because some i386 code
was written when gcc-2.95 didn't exist at all,
so that validity of some assumption is yet to be tested.
I'm using gcc-2.95.2 on all platforms, but stability is not a big concern for me.
Slashdot Mirror
- post early
- start a new thread
- provide a link
- at least allege having read the story
your post gets moderated up.Something is really wrong with the moderation system here. It stimulates people to post early, even at the expence of quality of information.
From the kernel monte page it's obvious that only i386 architecture is supported. To bad they don't say it right away on the home page.
By the way, how long will it take before we see electronic crocodiles?
There is a real company Miller Brewing in Milwaukee, WI.
Obviously you don't know how to use "finger" :-/
Never mind.
"finger pavel@gnu.org" to find my address.
http://www.westmarket.com/
What company has more rights on cvs.wap: cvs.com, cvs.org or cvs.net? I don't know the answer.
I'm the dot in .God
I cannot imagine any company or organization using exclusively .wap
Jack Valenti would be happy to see RMS, ESR and Linus whining here about Napster.
Despite your accusation I must admit that it's very approriate that you are writing here as an AC instead of giving your real name and placing the name of your employer to your signature. There are cases when we should be anonymous cowards.
You should have posted this as AC. Otherwise you present the Mandrake project in a bad light. If creators of Mandrake don't respect copyrights they have no moral right to enforce GPL.
Why not? Is the word "Linux" politically incorrect? I said what I meant. Linus is in the top ten for the kernel, not for the whole OS.
If only Al Gore knew the difference :-)
Where would Linux be without GCC and GNU Libc?
It's not an excuse for lame comments.
We really should make the stories moderatable too. The lame comment about Napster is an offtopic. Maybe a comparison to SETI@Home would make sence, but what on earth has Napster to do with it?
It's becoming hashpot.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_9 46000/946717.stm
This confirms the fundamental principle of life:
What You Get Is What You Deserve
... and 3.5 years of internet-free Saturdays!!!
Forks are usually justified only if the original maintainer pollutes the source with hacks or changes the license.
IMAGINE BEOWULF CLUSTER OF THESE
Seriously, I believe that even a cluster of Alphas will be way cheaper than a cluster of those UltraSPARC's for the same productivity.
Besides, compiler requirements are different for different architectures. While it's not a good idea to use anything older than gcc-2.95.2 for most platforms, users of i386 tend to be more comservative because some i386 code was written when gcc-2.95 didn't exist at all, so that validity of some assumption is yet to be tested. I'm using gcc-2.95.2 on all platforms, but stability is not a big concern for me.