I disagree with this editorial. The rpm approach is the right one. rpm attaches a symbolic name to a particular capability to avoid every other package in the universe re-inventing the wheel (i.e. having to figure out whether that package exists).
So for example, rpm is supposed to tell you for sure if you have glibc version x, without you having to write some stupid complicated package script to go and figure out if glibc version x is hiding around somewhere.
Now if there is some issue with compatibility between suse and redhat, obviously something should be done. Ensuring compatibility between different distros in this area was never going to be an easy one, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater is not the right thing.
It sounds like standardised package names is the answer, although that is never going to be a 100% full solution. (If it was, then that would mean all distros are exactly the same, so why have more than one distro? (why indeed?)). But having thousands of packages out there trying to figure all these things out themselves isn't going to help either.
Ok, you can't use it on a different computer. But can you use it on the same computer if you replace the hard drive, CPU, motherboard, video card, case and memory?
Well, umm, because if it's not free software, then you ARE locked into buggy software. If it's not free there is no guarantee, and possibly not even likelyhood that your patches will get anywhere.
SQL engines are very complex beasts. There are just too many differences to bother with. Besides, why would Postgresql bother? Their top end is far more advanced with the Object relational stuff, and the storage manager stuff supports transactions and is much more stable in doing it. As for speed, great strides are being made in postresql. What does that leave?
if Reiser fs is in the kernel. If I make my root partition reiser fs from patching it myself, how on earth do I upgrade the OS when Red Hat brings out a new version? I can't just slot in the latest CD, that's for sure because it won't see my fs. That's why it's critically important that reiser fs not only get into the kernel, but into the distributions as a default fs option.
Yeh but the whitehouse is not going to be suggesting that you combining their jpg with your pr0n.com pad are they? Whoever is the one to make the suggestion of combining the pads, is pretty much by definition the "owner" of the document.
as soon as you distribute 1 pad, along with a suggestion that you combine it with certain other pads at particular internet addresses, it could be argued you are distributing an encrypted version of said document.
If you don't say which pads to combine it with, then I can't see anybody trying all 50,000,000 combinations to see what happens:-).
The idea has merit if combined with some more sophisticated mechanism (freenet for example), but by itself, I don't see it buying much.
Experience would suggest that anyone, whether corporate or individual, who gets involved with a project and makes suggestions; if that person/individual makes good suggestions and especially offer to implement them they'll be accepted. But if they are not particularly good suggestions they won't. Free software projects don't tend to accept patches if they are a hack just to solve some pressing corporate strategy.
Now Corel or whoever can go ahead and fork either the entire KDE or individual applications inside KDE. And the user community will either accept it or not. Most probably they won't because corporate maintained software doesn't tend to get maintained. So any sensible company should be desperately wanting to show a bit of diplomacy and get their changes integrated into the main project.
Mostly I use dvorak keyboards. Sometimes I don't. My speed and everything is completely different on each. I would be swearing like hell if I can't login because I have the wrong keyboard.
This makes me really angry. The problems of re-installing Windows is already one of my most major gripes with the OS. Last time I wanted to install Win NT guess what I had to do? I had to go back to DOS 5.0. Then upgrade to DOS 6.0 -> DOS 6.2 before using a Windows upgrade disk, then a Windows->NT upgrade. I can't even remember all the hoops I had to go through, but it took about a full day. It mightn't be so bad if Windows was not so easy to screw up so badly that a re-install becomes necessary.
Not to mention that I change hardware from time to time. A new video card here, a new disk controller there. Sometimes these require an OS-reinstall.
In the end though, I do have to laugh since my dependancy on all forms of Windows has now been reduced nearly to nothing because of Linux. We don't need Linux to kill MS, they are doing a good job all by themselves.
Any other country would have to violate UK territorial waters to get to Sealand. So the only people who could possibly invade would be the UK. And their courts (so far) aren't touching them.
Explain how the reference to thebarbies "obviously" is a reference to the doll????? The site doesn't even exist yet, so we don't know what it is going to have, but it seems a fair bet they won't be mentioning anything about toys.
The digitaldivas case however was an absolutely blatent copy exercise.
You're wrong because Java is a compiled language, just one compiled at run-time.
This is unfortunate for start-up times of gui apps because the whole swing stuff needs to be compiled on startup. I'm sure someone, sometime will solve that. In the meantime it's fine for non-gui apps, and not all that bad for gui ones as well.
I think like most people, the first time I realised Java speed was in the same general ballpark as C I was surprised.
The pity of it is that the Java VM is not quite general enough to cleanly and nicely support all kinds of programming languages. Wouldn't it be nice if you didn't _have_ to use the Java language to take advantage of all the work put into the VM and libraries? Not that Java stinks that much, but lets face it, there are better things out there for sure.
Well of course you can, you can use Kawa for example to write Scheme, but there were a lot of hoops to jump through to do it and even then there are difficulties.
I guess Sun couldn't care less about this. Probably they actually consider it a feature. It would be great if the open source community developed a competing VM specification that is designed to support pretty much all languages equally as well.
those slow RDBMS and start using an object db like Versant to take one example. If you do it right with client side caching the database shouldn't be too much issue.
If there were no copyrights, and say IBM tried to do that, then some employee of IBM would more than likely slip the source code out to the community and IBM couldn't do a thing about it.
If the French don't like what they find on the Internet, they should stop connecting to it. It is after all French people pulling the content down from the US, not the US dumping the content on the French.
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I disagree with this editorial. The rpm approach is the right one. rpm attaches a symbolic name to a particular capability to avoid every other package in the universe re-inventing the wheel (i.e. having to figure out whether that package exists).
So for example, rpm is supposed to tell you for sure if you have glibc version x, without you having to write some stupid complicated package script to go and figure out if glibc version x is hiding around somewhere.
Now if there is some issue with compatibility between suse and redhat, obviously something should be done. Ensuring compatibility between different distros in this area was never going to be an easy one, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater is not the right thing.
It sounds like standardised package names is the answer, although that is never going to be a 100% full solution. (If it was, then that would mean all distros are exactly the same, so why have more than one distro? (why indeed?)). But having thousands of packages out there trying to figure all these things out themselves isn't going to help either.
Ok, you can't use it on a different computer. But can you use it on the same computer if you replace the hard drive, CPU, motherboard, video card, case and memory?
Is there some reason they had to hack pppd just because they are covering 400000 sq km? I don't see other ISPs hacking pppd.
Well, umm, because if it's not free software, then you ARE locked into buggy software. If it's not free there is no guarantee, and possibly not even likelyhood that your patches will get anywhere.
How long till the Intertrust system is hacked?
Australian content, more or less is some of the poorest junk ever put to screen. Neighbours, country practice, water rats. Ugh.
You forgot Postgres
Postgres is rapidly becoming a lot faster. The recent 7.0 release made great strides, and significant speedups are already on the way for 7.1.
SQL engines are very complex beasts. There are just too many differences to bother with. Besides, why would Postgresql bother? Their top end is far more advanced with the Object relational stuff, and the storage manager stuff supports transactions and is much more stable in doing it. As for speed, great strides are being made in postresql. What does that leave?
if Reiser fs is in the kernel. If I make my root partition reiser fs from patching it myself, how on earth do I upgrade the OS when Red Hat brings out a new version? I can't just slot in the latest CD, that's for sure because it won't see my fs. That's why it's critically important that reiser fs not only get into the kernel, but into the distributions as a default fs option.
I see a condition is personal use only. Can they enforce that I wonder? If you own it you own it.
Yeh but the whitehouse is not going to be suggesting that you combining their jpg with your pr0n.com pad are they? Whoever is the one to make the suggestion of combining the pads, is pretty much by definition the "owner" of the document.
as soon as you distribute 1 pad, along with a suggestion that you combine it with certain other pads at particular internet addresses, it could be argued you are distributing an encrypted version of said document.
:-).
If you don't say which pads to combine it with, then I can't see anybody trying all 50,000,000 combinations to see what happens
The idea has merit if combined with some more sophisticated mechanism (freenet for example), but by itself, I don't see it buying much.
Experience would suggest that anyone, whether corporate or individual, who gets involved with a project and makes suggestions; if that person/individual makes good suggestions and especially offer to implement them they'll be accepted. But if they are not particularly good suggestions they won't. Free software projects don't tend to accept patches if they are a hack just to solve some pressing corporate strategy.
Now Corel or whoever can go ahead and fork either the entire KDE or individual applications inside KDE. And the user community will either accept it or not. Most probably they won't because corporate maintained software doesn't tend to get maintained. So any sensible company should be desperately wanting to show a bit of diplomacy and get their changes integrated into the main project.
Mostly I use dvorak keyboards. Sometimes I don't. My speed and everything is completely different on each. I would be swearing like hell if I can't login because I have the wrong keyboard.
A Linux distro with all the quality, completeness and usability of Xenix!!!
This makes me really angry. The problems of re-installing Windows is already one of my most major gripes with the OS. Last time I wanted to install Win NT guess what I had to do? I had to go back to DOS 5.0. Then upgrade to DOS 6.0 -> DOS 6.2 before using a Windows upgrade disk, then a Windows->NT upgrade. I can't even remember all the hoops I had to go through, but it took about a full day. It mightn't be so bad if Windows was not so easy to screw up so badly that a re-install becomes necessary.
Not to mention that I change hardware from time to time. A new video card here, a new disk controller there. Sometimes these require an OS-reinstall.
In the end though, I do have to laugh since my dependancy on all forms of Windows has now been reduced nearly to nothing because of Linux. We don't need Linux to kill MS, they are doing a good job all by themselves.
Are you guys going to pay any tax? The true test of whether Sealand is independant is what happens when the tax dept starts losing revenue.
Any other country would have to violate UK territorial waters to get to Sealand. So the only people who could possibly invade would be the UK. And their courts (so far) aren't touching them.
Explain how the reference to thebarbies "obviously" is a reference to the doll????? The site doesn't even exist yet, so we don't know what it is going to have, but it seems a fair bet they won't be mentioning anything about toys.
The digitaldivas case however was an absolutely blatent copy exercise.
You're wrong because Java is a compiled language, just one compiled at run-time.
This is unfortunate for start-up times of gui apps because the whole swing stuff needs to be compiled on startup. I'm sure someone, sometime will solve that. In the meantime it's fine for non-gui apps, and not all that bad for gui ones as well.
The pity of it is that the Java VM is not quite general enough to cleanly and nicely support all kinds of programming languages. Wouldn't it be nice if you didn't _have_ to use the Java language to take advantage of all the work put into the VM and libraries? Not that Java stinks that much, but lets face it, there are better things out there for sure.
Well of course you can, you can use Kawa for example to write Scheme, but there were a lot of hoops to jump through to do it and even then there are difficulties.
I guess Sun couldn't care less about this. Probably they actually consider it a feature. It would be great if the open source community developed a competing VM specification that is designed to support pretty much all languages equally as well.
those slow RDBMS and start using an object db like Versant to take one example. If you do it right with client side caching the database shouldn't be too much issue.
If there were no copyrights, and say IBM tried to do that, then some employee of IBM would more than likely slip the source code out to the community and IBM couldn't do a thing about it.
If the French don't like what they find on the Internet, they should stop connecting to it. It is after all French people pulling the content down from the US, not the US dumping the content on the French.