I'm not sure what country you're in but...
I wouldn't want to take one of those dinky things out on American roads. I don't know about your commute, but mine invovles about 30 miles of 60-70 mph traffic. I can't imagine what a 7000lb Excursion would do to it. What about a tractor trailer? Hell, a Neon would probably splatter you.
Now, if everyone had one it'd be a different story.
I like it though... I'd like to see an air-powered motorcycle in fact...
For a while now I've been arguing that we need to make computers work for us and not against us. There are many good/useful/helpful systems out there but unfortunately, I see computers/software working against us all the time too.
I've been a long time Debian user. In fact it's the only distro I've stuck with from the beginning.
I have always loved Debian but this latest version is a PITA to install. Once Debian is running, it's lovely, but getting to that point is painful.
Previous versions did not seem to have the millions of "Do you want this?" and "Select the xxx" options. Potato seems to have too many friggin selection screens and pages of options to scroll through to install (even on the "simple" install). And even after all the selection and configuration setup, it gets errors during the install of the packages. This is just not good.
What I'd like to have is something like the *BSD installs. Those are the best I've seen (as far as free Unix-like systems). When you select packages to install you're limited to the basic 5 or so base components. After you install those, you install everything else you want (Gnome, etc) from ports (or wherever). FreeBSD is _so_ simple to install. There are only a few configuration/install screens and you're done. Of course, the *BSD installs are much lower level and not as fancy as the various Linux installers, but that's what I like.
Has anyone thought of making a "power user" version of Debian available? Something that only installs the core of the distro from a very small set of packages. Like "Base System", "X", "Games", "Development", etc. And in those packages are only the minimum components needed. For example, when I install "X", it only installs the X server and the various X utilities from the base XFree86 install. If I want to install Gnome or other utilities, then I'll go do my apt-get thing.
I still love Debian (I really like apt and the Debian packages) but having a simple Debian distro like that would make my life much better.:)
People always say things like that about Perl and it seems that it's based mostly on people not understanding the regular-expression syntax and the "default" variables (like $_).
Other than that the code looks no more complicated than any other scripted language.
If everyone who looked at Perl code for the first time had a short two-sentance explanation of the above, I think they could read it right away.
Of course, if they are looking at crappy code then it will still be difficult, but anyone can write hard to follow code in any language.
Ah, yes. I've been thinking about this for some time. I would love to see something like this. Nice and clean. Delete that file and you "uninstall" the application. Simple, clean.
Just to toss out some ideas:
Imagine if the entire OS was one file. So you might have a base Linux, BSD, or whatever system that you would install just by copying a file over. This would require some type of very basic system for managing the "filesystem" (or database, whatever it would be).
MVS uses a very flat filesystem model. And you can drill into the datasets as if there was a directory structure (which I guess there is, sorta, from the layout of the dataset). I'm not saying I like the MVS filesystem. It sucks because it's so cryptic, but there is no reason a modern filesystem patterned after it would have to be that way.
In order to do this right I think it would require some major architecture changes to any OS. That would facilitate this one file == one application, system.
If you look this list over, and measure each system's number of vulnerabilities against the number of its customers, Linux is arguably the worst operating-system product in history, and Microsoft's the best.
Not even. If you go by just the figures he quoted, NetBSD is the best not Microsoft.
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I'm not sure what country you're in but... I wouldn't want to take one of those dinky things out on American roads. I don't know about your commute, but mine invovles about 30 miles of 60-70 mph traffic. I can't imagine what a 7000lb Excursion would do to it. What about a tractor trailer? Hell, a Neon would probably splatter you. Now, if everyone had one it'd be a different story. I like it though... I'd like to see an air-powered motorcycle in fact...
Wow. I'm getting more ideas by the minute.
Here was my other post on packages.
For a while now I've been arguing that we need to make computers work for us and not against us. There are many good/useful/helpful systems out there but unfortunately, I see computers/software working against us all the time too.
I've been a long time Debian user. In fact it's the only distro I've stuck with from the beginning.
:)
I have always loved Debian but this latest version is a PITA to install. Once Debian is running, it's lovely, but getting to that point is painful.
Previous versions did not seem to have the millions of "Do you want this?" and "Select the xxx" options. Potato seems to have too many friggin selection screens and pages of options to scroll through to install (even on the "simple" install). And even after all the selection and configuration setup, it gets errors during the install of the packages. This is just not good.
What I'd like to have is something like the *BSD installs. Those are the best I've seen (as far as free Unix-like systems). When you select packages to install you're limited to the basic 5 or so base components. After you install those, you install everything else you want (Gnome, etc) from ports (or wherever). FreeBSD is _so_ simple to install. There are only a few configuration/install screens and you're done. Of course, the *BSD installs are much lower level and not as fancy as the various Linux installers, but that's what I like.
Has anyone thought of making a "power user" version of Debian available? Something that only installs the core of the distro from a very small set of packages. Like "Base System", "X", "Games", "Development", etc. And in those packages are only the minimum components needed. For example, when I install "X", it only installs the X server and the various X utilities from the base XFree86 install. If I want to install Gnome or other utilities, then I'll go do my apt-get thing.
I still love Debian (I really like apt and the Debian packages) but having a simple Debian distro like that would make my life much better.
Or mainframe programmer.
People always say things like that about Perl and it seems that it's based mostly on people not understanding the regular-expression syntax and the "default" variables (like $_).
Other than that the code looks no more complicated than any other scripted language.
If everyone who looked at Perl code for the first time had a short two-sentance explanation of the above, I think they could read it right away.
Of course, if they are looking at crappy code then it will still be difficult, but anyone can write hard to follow code in any language.
Ah, yes. I've been thinking about this for some time. I would love to see something like this. Nice and clean. Delete that file and you "uninstall" the application. Simple, clean.
Just to toss out some ideas:
Imagine if the entire OS was one file. So you might have a base Linux, BSD, or whatever system that you would install just by copying a file over. This would require some type of very basic system for managing the "filesystem" (or database, whatever it would be).
MVS uses a very flat filesystem model. And you can drill into the datasets as if there was a directory structure (which I guess there is, sorta, from the layout of the dataset). I'm not saying I like the MVS filesystem. It sucks because it's so cryptic, but there is no reason a modern filesystem patterned after it would have to be that way.
In order to do this right I think it would require some major architecture changes to any OS. That would facilitate this one file == one application, system.
Simplicity, I like it.
If you look this list over, and measure each system's number of vulnerabilities against the number of its customers, Linux is arguably the worst operating-system product in history, and Microsoft's the best.
Not even. If you go by just the figures he quoted, NetBSD is the best not Microsoft.
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