Looks like Mandriva also told no to Microsoft. See this link for further info.
From that site:
09:32 [ AdamW] sander85: there are no plans to do a deal with microsoft, and that comes from the top (fb)
(fb is probably François Bancilhon, Mandriva's CEO).
Btw, did you know that Americans donate FAR more money to charity (both religious and secular) than Europeans, or anyone else for that matter. Even stranger, donations (and volunteering) correlate strongly with being both religious and politically conservative. Most people expect the opposite. Probably something to do with the difference between talking and walking.
Ah! the donations!
This just makes me laugh.
Having lived about half my work life on one side of the Atlantic and the other half in the other side, what follows are my observations:
* the money taken from your paycheck for medical insurance (not only personal healthcare but family healthcare), taxes, social security and such is about the same in both sides.
* you get "more bang per tax-dollar" in Europe than in USA: better healthcare, less cost (copays, premiums, etc), cheaper high education, et cetera
* and donations... Well. "I-wanna-feel-good-and-fuzzy" and "I-have-a-golden-heart" US citizens donate to charities that do the work that European governments do through taxes. That is, greedy people, "smart guys" and "free riders" get to avoid "paying taxes" with all this donation and charities crap talk.
Government should take care of those issues that most charities/donations take care off!
Why, every time a coworker goes through surgery and misses so many days of work, we must "chip in" because (s)he is not being payed and will have huge surgery bills? Gets expensive, you know.
Why, whenever a "healthy youngster" gets a bad medical situation (recently, just here, a young woman with bad case of breast cancer), and has no medical insurance (too expensive for a youngster), community starts fund raise?
All this are "taxes in disguise", and not everybody that deserves it gets helped.
In the US, if you are not rich, you get taxed more, and have small-to-no-cushion provided by the government to recover and go back to the workforce.
Why, when you get sick, plenty of hard working people ends up bankrupt, with no home and no long-term care?
All in all, you get more taxed in the USA for less service than in Europe.
And don't get me started in the awful American political system.
USA: Slightly bigger paychecks (for most of us, except CxOs), bigger cars, bigger taxes (including donations), bigger personal (credit-card) debt, less quality of life.
Europe: Slightly smaller paychecks, smaller cars, smaller taxes (when donations are included), smaller personal debt, higher quality of life.
I just wish my family was mobile, so we could all go back to Europe.
It is posible to disable the loading of Java libraries. If you don't need advanced stuff (90% of users), disabling loading of Java speeds up the load time of OpenOffice.org
Also, modifying OpenOffice.org's memory settings also help. A quick search at google turns out:
Fedora has the shortest support lifetime of all precompiled distros. This means that, by the time a Fedora Dell Laptop gets to the costumer, chances are that it will be already unsupported, thus, ready to be taken over by any vulnerability not patched (as unsupported = patches exist that fix vulnerabilities).
Select something more user friendly that includes support. For example, Mandriva. Works great, longer lifetime *and* the consummer can select to obtain paid support from a bussiness (Mandriva corp.).
FairPlay prevents current iTMS customers from switching to another online music store.
Err.... you are incorrect.
You can burn FairPlay files into an AudioCD. Then, you can rip that AudioCD into mp3/ogg/whatever files , thus, you can broke iTMS' "yoke".
What prevents customers to leave iTMS is the lack of good competition that offers, competition that offers real beneffits:
* easyness of use * previews of songs * not mandatory to buy an album * not high price, all songs same price * no silly 'tokens' policy (Zunestore) * pretty big music catalog * One free song a week (at least one, sometimes up to three) * something that works with mp3-player leader (iPod) * assurance that CompetitionStore will screw you (PlaysForSure anyone?) * ability to turn CompetitionStore music into regular audio CDs (so you can, in turn, rip into mp3/ogg/whatever files)
Really, iTMS is pretty good for Average Electronic Music Shopper Joe. That's why people shop there.
My internet-illiteraty brother-in-law learned to use iTMS by himself. And he likes iTMS! (this made for an easy Xmas present: iTunes Gift Card)
This is why Ophra opened a leadership school in Aouth Africa and not in the US.
She said in an interview (writting from memory): "whenever I went to South Central-like places, I'd ask to poor kids 'what is what you want?' and they would answer things like 'a pair of Nikes', 'an Xbox','a flat-screen TV'. On South Africa, when you ask poor kids what they want, they say 'a uniform so I can go to school', 'books for school','a pair os sandals to go to school'. This is why I built the school in Sout Africa".
If you listened the keynote, you would have heard Steve Jobs saying something "iPhone does not use 3G yet" and "iPhone for Europe in last quarter of 2007, Asia 2008".
In my book this means that Apple will deliver iPhone with 3G on the markets where 3G makes sense. In USofA, where 3G is almost non-existent, 3G makes no sense at all in iPhone. So, there is time to build iPhone-3G, where Apple does a s/EDGE/3G/g
For example, one voice recognition application PowerScribe (from Nuance Dictaphone) works with IExplorer 6.0 only.
Not wit IE 5.5 Not with FireFox Not with IE 7.0
And it needs Java JRE 1.4.3. Not JRE 1.5, as 1.5 "breaks stuff" (PowerScribe tech support dixit)
This PowerScribe thing uses a whole bunch of wierd ActiveX to launch Java app.
Dictaphone is as a "web application" when it's just a fat client written in Java delivered through IExplroer 6.0+ActiveX from a webserver. IIS webserver.
Ah! you have to wonder what those developers were thinking. ActiveX to launch a Java app? And a Java app limited to an "old" version of JRE?
WilliamSChips (793741) said: Have a decent, usable search function.
Have you ever heard of urpmi tools? Looks like not.
* urpmq foobar
returns list of packages with name foobar * urpmq -y foo
returns list of packages with name foo, foo*, *foo and *foo* * urpmf foobar
gets back with a list of packages that include files named *foobar*
Re:No distro comes close to Mandriva for ease of u
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?Only 1.5 years ago?
In Linux this is an eternety.
Seriously.
Ubuntu is basically Debian with less packages, a different desktop theme and lots of free CDs being shipped around.
Back then, you did try Debian, it did not work. If Ubuntu existed back then, 100% sure it would not work.
Ubuntu, via marketing, is capitalizing on users like you, who tried Linux before Linux was able to work with all your hardware and now it y'all think it is only Ubuntu's work who make it possible.
Dude, Linux is Linux is Linux.
All Linux distros run Linux kernel (doh!) which supports the same hardware. The differences are niceties like how to pre-configure hardware, sftware, control pannels, wizards, and support.
Now, try Mandriva 2007 and judge apples to apples.
Because you are judging a Ford T against a Toyota Tundra 2007. Try a Ford pickup 2007 to compare to Tundra 2007.
Peace
Re:No distro comes close to Mandriva for ease of u
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Mandriva 2007 Released
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+1
Plus, there is the **other** configuration utility included in Mandriva that everybody forgets:
vi
Yes, you can use vi to configure your Mandriva and be happy.
That's why I like Mandriva, choice:
If I'm lazy or I want to show off, I use the Mandriva Control Center. If I want to configure something fast, screen + vi
I wonder if those who call Mandriva a n00b distro have ever try it to use Mandriva as a serious distro. I do.
As a long time desktop Linux user, I have tried recently Kubuntu, SuSE/Novell SLED and Mandriva, and I still like Mandriva better over the others.
For one, Kubuntu feels so dated and so empty of configuration tools... feels like Mandrake 8.2 all over again.
Then, I like better a 1 year release cycle. I want to WORK with my Linux. I don't want to be installing Linux all the time: is extra work and I'm lazy.
Yes, RHEL/CentOS have a long life. But then RHEL/CentOS for me doens't cut it. up2date/yum are awful, it's a horrible multimedia station and it's a pretty bad desktop overall.
Fedora, well, it's a joke. Not useful as a stable desktop for a lazy Linux user that doesn't want to install a new reease every 3 months and, if you bink too much, your release is out of support.
Sure, SLED is prety good. Mostly. But then I find it to be a slow distro (compared with Ubuntu and Mandriva). And the fact that Novell is more or less trying to ditch KDE is not good for me:
Novell: "KDE is not included in SuSE anymore!"
(Users scream in horror)
Novell: "Well, we'll include KDE"
(Users cheer)
Novell : "Actualy, we'll kinda include it on the OpenSuSE version"
(Users give up German distros and go to get a German beer instead)
Slashdot Mirror
From that site:
And AdamW is Mandriva's official spokeperson.
Peace!
then, be ready for management to fire some of your team members and hire support techs more willing to do their job.
a job that includes support whatever apps and devices the management decides to use for working better.
Ar you that ready for welfare?
Beryl is enabled on Mandriva 2007.1 , and works quite well:
/etc/mandriva-release
$ urpmq -yr beryl
beryl-core-0.2.0-2mdv2007.1
beryl-manager-0.2.0-1mdv2007.1
beryl-plugins-0.2.0-1mdv2007.1
beryl-plugins-unsupported-0.2.0-1mdv2007.1
beryl-settings-0.2.0-1mdv2007.1
beryl-settings-bindings-0.2.0-1mdv2007.1
beryl-settings-simple-0.2.0-1mdv2007.1
libberyl-core0-0.2.0-2mdv2007.1
libberyl-core0-devel-0.2.0-2mdv2007.1
libberyl-settings-bindings-0.2.0-1mdv2007.1
libberyl-settings-bindings-devel-0.2.0-1mdv2007.1
task-beryl-2007.1-0.1mdv2007.1
$ cat
Mandriva Linux release 2007.1 (Official) for i586
$
I got a friend in Brazil, and sometimes he uses his father-in-law's car. This car runs with ethanol. And he tells me how dreadful it is to run uphill.
He tells me that propane-powered ("GNV" in Brazil) and regular-gas vehicles run much better.
But then, regular gas costs over 1,10 Rial/liter, compared with 0,65 Rial/liter of ethanol: that's why the in-laws run on ethanol.
Peace!
Set WindowsXP on one, Mandriva Linux on the other. Let the kids run both computers, side by side, for a month.
"The survival of the fitest".
My prediction: many (if not all) will choose Mandriva Linux.
Peace!
Btw, did you know that Americans donate FAR more money to charity (both religious and secular) than Europeans, or anyone else for that matter. Even stranger, donations (and volunteering) correlate strongly with being both religious and politically conservative. Most people expect the opposite. Probably something to do with the difference between talking and walking.
Ah! the donations!
This just makes me laugh.
Having lived about half my work life on one side of the Atlantic and the other half in the other side, what follows are my observations:
* the money taken from your paycheck for medical insurance (not only personal healthcare but family healthcare), taxes, social security and such is about the same in both sides.
* you get "more bang per tax-dollar" in Europe than in USA: better healthcare, less cost (copays, premiums, etc), cheaper high education, et cetera
* and donations... Well. "I-wanna-feel-good-and-fuzzy" and "I-have-a-golden-heart" US citizens donate to charities that do the work that European governments do through taxes. That is, greedy people, "smart guys" and "free riders" get to avoid "paying taxes" with all this donation and charities crap talk.
Government should take care of those issues that most charities/donations take care off!
Why, every time a coworker goes through surgery and misses so many days of work, we must "chip in" because (s)he is not being payed and will have huge surgery bills? Gets expensive, you know.
Why, whenever a "healthy youngster" gets a bad medical situation (recently, just here, a young woman with bad case of breast cancer), and has no medical insurance (too expensive for a youngster), community starts fund raise?
All this are "taxes in disguise", and not everybody that deserves it gets helped.
In the US, if you are not rich, you get taxed more, and have small-to-no-cushion provided by the government to recover and go back to the workforce.
Why, when you get sick, plenty of hard working people ends up bankrupt, with no home and no long-term care?
All in all, you get more taxed in the USA for less service than in Europe.
And don't get me started in the awful American political system.
USA: Slightly bigger paychecks (for most of us, except CxOs), bigger cars, bigger taxes (including donations), bigger personal (credit-card) debt, less quality of life.
Europe: Slightly smaller paychecks, smaller cars, smaller taxes (when donations are included), smaller personal debt, higher quality of life.
I just wish my family was mobile, so we could all go back to Europe.
Peace
you got it all wrong!
we are busy waiting for Christian American Idol and following everything which is happening with the late Anna Nicole Smith
=)
Peace!
It is posible to disable the loading of Java libraries. If you don't need advanced stuff (90% of users), disabling loading of Java speeds up the load time of OpenOffice.org
p -start-time-for-openofficeorg/h tml
Also, modifying OpenOffice.org's memory settings also help. A quick search at google turns out:
* http://element14.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/speed-u
* http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-9925.
You can easily go from 30 to 8 seconds of load time.
Peace!
Fedora? Do you know what you are talking about?
Fedora != Red Hat Linux
Fedora has the shortest support lifetime of all precompiled distros. This means that, by the time a Fedora Dell Laptop gets to the costumer, chances are that it will be already unsupported, thus, ready to be taken over by any vulnerability not patched (as unsupported = patches exist that fix vulnerabilities).
Select something more user friendly that includes support. For example, Mandriva. Works great, longer lifetime *and* the consummer can select to obtain paid support from a bussiness (Mandriva corp.).
Peace!
I have some RH 7.3 too and they all are fine.
r ors.php)
Just use the FedoraLegacy rpm package ( http://fedoralegacy.org/download/fedoralegacy-mir
glibc-2.2.5-44.legacy.8
Do it quick, as Fedora Legacy Project ( http://fedoralegacy.org/ )is closing shop.
Peace!
Or else, the next letter will say "please" twice, and one of the two words will be (gulps!) capitalized!
Err.... you are incorrect.
You can burn FairPlay files into an AudioCD. Then, you can rip that AudioCD into mp3/ogg/whatever files , thus, you can broke iTMS' "yoke".
What prevents customers to leave iTMS is the lack of good competition that offers, competition that offers real beneffits:
* easyness of use
* previews of songs
* not mandatory to buy an album
* not high price, all songs same price
* no silly 'tokens' policy (Zunestore)
* pretty big music catalog
* One free song a week (at least one, sometimes up to three)
* something that works with mp3-player leader (iPod)
* assurance that CompetitionStore will screw you (PlaysForSure anyone?)
* ability to turn CompetitionStore music into regular audio CDs (so you can, in turn, rip into mp3/ogg/whatever files)
Really, iTMS is pretty good for Average Electronic Music Shopper Joe. That's why people shop there.
My internet-illiteraty brother-in-law learned to use iTMS by himself. And he likes iTMS! (this made for an easy Xmas present: iTunes Gift Card)
(sorry for my English as 2nd language)
Err... Spanish is one of the least Latin languages, as it has many influences from Arabic. See Wikipedia for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influences_on_the_Sp
Somewhere in Wikipedia I read about Occitan being the "possible lingua-franca" for all Romance languages. Sorry, I forgot the link
Exactly.
This is why Ophra opened a leadership school in Aouth Africa and not in the US.
She said in an interview (writting from memory): "whenever I went to South Central-like places, I'd ask to poor kids 'what is what you want?' and they would answer things like 'a pair of Nikes', 'an Xbox','a flat-screen TV'. On South Africa, when you ask poor kids what they want, they say 'a uniform so I can go to school', 'books for school','a pair os sandals to go to school'. This is why I built the school in Sout Africa".
Sad.
If you listened the keynote, you would have heard Steve Jobs saying something "iPhone does not use 3G yet" and "iPhone for Europe in last quarter of 2007, Asia 2008".
In my book this means that Apple will deliver iPhone with 3G on the markets where 3G makes sense. In USofA, where 3G is almost non-existent, 3G makes no sense at all in iPhone. So, there is time to build iPhone-3G, where Apple does a s/EDGE/3G/g
Peace!
Mandriva 2007, with 13328 packages is pretty much the same as Debian (15490 packages) in raw number of packages.
And as Debian, you can use Mandriva a a desktop environment, server system, terminal server or waht not.
In the end, they are all Linux.
Peace!
" has begun serving a prison sentence for making the films 'Daredevil,' 'Miss Congeniality,' and 'Red Planet' "
serves the bastard right.
Yeah, it's against the Geneva Convention to share Movies of Mass Destruction (MMD)
to pacify a communist nation, is to export capitalism to it. It worked with Russia.
Errr, excuse me?
Inside Russia:
A KGB leader rules he country, were mafias run rampant, foreigners get killed in the streets, petty wars are fought abroad, and regime-critics get killed.
Outside Rusia:
Blocking resolutions against Iran developing the bomb, providing funds to terrorist group (seems like a good way to keep the West troubled and give free ride to Russia as "it does not matter anymore"), the tactics of cutting gas supplies to neighbours and trying to own strategic European infrastructure and industries. And, of course, killing of disidents abroad with radioactive material.
I say Russia is back as the enemy of the West. And this includes the USofA
Peace!
All your post makes tons of sense. Well, almost all. This paart is not real:
_ superpower
i an_Navy
m
1 2/content_433517.htm
o dele.pl?prod=32130&session=dae.23771315.1164583691 .RWojC8Oa9dUAAHETeZY&modele=jdc_1
. html#Military
[India] don't seem to have an appetite for superpower status
Actualy they have.
Those who want to be superpowers have aircraft carriers. India has some and is building more. Se:
India as a superpower:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_as_an_emerging
Indian Navy carriers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier#Ind
List of Indian carriers:
http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/india.ht
India begins construction of aircraft carrier
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/
"Moscow and New Delhi today signed a $1.6 billion deal finalizing India's purchase of a refurbished Russian aircraft carrier, fighter jets, and helicopters. Observers say it's a sweet agreement for both sides, allowing Russia to bolster its sagging arms industry and India its regional strategic capacity. "
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/cgi-bin/client/m
Grand Delusions: The Psychology of Aircraft Carriers
http://hir.harvard.edu/articles/1068/
India's Military, from CIA's factbook:
https://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/in
Peace!
Are you out of your mind?! What about YaST?!?!
Don't worry, there's MCC from Mandriva
Peace!
Yes it matters.
For example, one voice recognition application PowerScribe (from Nuance Dictaphone) works with IExplorer 6.0 only.
Not wit IE 5.5
Not with FireFox
Not with IE 7.0
And it needs Java JRE 1.4.3. Not JRE 1.5, as 1.5 "breaks stuff" (PowerScribe tech support dixit)
This PowerScribe thing uses a whole bunch of wierd ActiveX to launch Java app.
Dictaphone is as a "web application" when it's just a fat client written in Java delivered through IExplroer 6.0+ActiveX from a webserver. IIS webserver.
Ah! you have to wonder what those developers were thinking. ActiveX to launch a Java app? And a Java app limited to an "old" version of JRE?
They were clearly smoking something ilegal.
Peace!
WilliamSChips (793741) said: Have a decent, usable search function.
Have you ever heard of urpmi tools? Looks like not.
* urpmq foobar
returns list of packages with name foobar
* urpmq -y foo
returns list of packages with name foo, foo*, *foo and *foo*
* urpmf foobar
gets back with a list of packages that include files named *foobar*
More on WikiPedia
On the GUI you have a nice "search" box.
Peace!
?Only 1.5 years ago?
In Linux this is an eternety.
Seriously.
Ubuntu is basically Debian with less packages, a different desktop theme and lots of free CDs being shipped around.
Back then, you did try Debian, it did not work. If Ubuntu existed back then, 100% sure it would not work.
Ubuntu, via marketing, is capitalizing on users like you, who tried Linux before Linux was able to work with all your hardware and now it y'all think it is only Ubuntu's work who make it possible.
Dude, Linux is Linux is Linux.
All Linux distros run Linux kernel (doh!) which supports the same hardware. The differences are niceties like how to pre-configure hardware, sftware, control pannels, wizards, and support.
Now, try Mandriva 2007 and judge apples to apples.
Because you are judging a Ford T against a Toyota Tundra 2007. Try a Ford pickup 2007 to compare to Tundra 2007.
Peace
+1
Plus, there is the **other** configuration utility included in Mandriva that everybody forgets:
vi
Yes, you can use vi to configure your Mandriva and be happy.
That's why I like Mandriva, choice:
If I'm lazy or I want to show off, I use the Mandriva Control Center.
If I want to configure something fast, screen + vi
I wonder if those who call Mandriva a n00b distro have ever try it to use Mandriva as a serious distro. I do.
Peace!
As a long time desktop Linux user, I have tried recently Kubuntu, SuSE/Novell SLED and Mandriva, and I still like Mandriva better over the others.
For one, Kubuntu feels so dated and so empty of configuration tools... feels like Mandrake 8.2 all over again.
Then, I like better a 1 year release cycle. I want to WORK with my Linux. I don't want to be installing Linux all the time: is extra work and I'm lazy.
Yes, RHEL/CentOS have a long life. But then RHEL/CentOS for me doens't cut it. up2date/yum are awful, it's a horrible multimedia station and it's a pretty bad desktop overall.
Fedora, well, it's a joke. Not useful as a stable desktop for a lazy Linux user that doesn't want to install a new reease every 3 months and, if you bink too much, your release is out of support.
Sure, SLED is prety good. Mostly. But then I find it to be a slow distro (compared with Ubuntu and Mandriva). And the fact that Novell is more or less trying to ditch KDE is not good for me:
Novell: "KDE is not included in SuSE anymore!"
(Users scream in horror)
Novell: "Well, we'll include KDE"
(Users cheer)
Novell : "Actualy, we'll kinda include it on the OpenSuSE version"
(Users give up German distros and go to get a German beer instead)
Peace