How is this different from Toys R Us advertising on the Nickelodeon skateboard hour? (I seem to remember that Nick ran a skateboard show some years ago...) The fact is that it's the parents' money. They should at least be smart enough to shop around.
That's the fscking problem: too many baby boomer parents are convinced that by buying their kids everything under the sun will make them grow up and not hate them like they hated their parents. Look: kids will always hate their parents' guts. I'll guarantee that Bill Gates' kids will hit 14 and hate his guts, no matter how many small islands he buys them.
The next more vital application is an MS-exchange clone. This is (IMHO) more important than having an office suite. It is also much more difficult, but maybe a big player (ibm?) may move into that.
Is it just me or should IBM do a kick-ass port of Notes/Domino to Linux?
Lindows couldn't have built a non-GPL distribution. What's the critical part for them? It's not the kernel. It's not the X server. It's the desktop environment and supporting apps. Well, KDE is GPL. So is GNOME. What non-GPL desktop environments are there that could appeal to the Windows user out there? I can't think of any.
Lindows doesn't give a shit about the Linux community. Period.
The Linux community won't use Lindows or Lycoris. They're being targeted towards stupid users who think Windows is too expensive and stupid executives who feel the same way.
The thing is, Lindows is vapor, as far as I'm concerned. I'm very suspicious.
Consider:
The Screen Shots: the only shots that I've seen are by Lindows.com. They could easily be doctored. Every review I've seen just uses these screenshots. How difficult is it to take your own? Maybe nobody has because of...
The NDA: every (paying) beta tester had to sign an NDA. If you're interested in hyping your product, wouldn't you want people talking about it before it was released? Or is it just that Lindows cannot deliver on the [in the scheme of things, minimal] hype that they've propagated? This makes them vapor.
The Release Date: Robertson was quoted a while back as saying that Lindows would be out in Q1 2002. Well, that's passed, and we have nothing substantive, except for a few betas.
Robertson Himself: Michael Robertson, as far as I can tell, is a man who's sole ability is to jump on a hyped idea, sell it to a VC, get his ass sued, and burn the company's money paying himself and legal bills. I wouldn't trust this guy to run a hot dog pushcart.
Yeah, Lycoris uses rpms, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything about compatibility. For instance, different distributions put libraries in different places, with different package names. If Mandrake uses libfoo6 and SuSE uses libfoo as the package name, you can't easily install a Mandrake package that depends on libfoo6 on SuSE. It can be done, though, but is beyond what Lycoris' target market will tend to be capable of.
I've found that people who hate rpm tend to do things like mix rpms from eight distros together... if you get your rpms from a single source, it can match deb packaging. I've had no dependency problems running rpm manually on a Mandrake 8.2/Cooker blend system.
From what I've heard about his female staffers, at least some parts of him aren't dead...
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As an example, the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at UMass is working on some DARPA projects, most notably in the area of detecting topics in a stream of news (such as a wire service feed, tv/radio broadcast, or web-spider results).
It's not difficult to see why DARPA is interested in this: can you say CIA?
I realize this isn't quite what you meant, but monolithic OS's aren't bad. Linux is essentially a monolithic kernel, as are the BSD's (with the exception of OS X).
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It may just be that building large publicly traded coporations is not the way to go with open source software.
Exactly.
I'll take it one step further. Large corporations are not the way to go with the Internet in general.
The Internet is a naturally decentralizing force. At the protocol level, it's amazingly decentralized, by design. The tendency is for anything it touches to be decentralized.
Consider software. Open source is the ultimate in decentralized software. Could Open Source exist in anything approaching its current scope if there were no Internet? To be blunt, it couldn't. Look at the progress of the GNU project in 1993, the midpoint of its life to date. This was also just before the great explosion in the 'net.
Consider media. Ten years ago, the average home in the US got, what, 30 channels of TV, plus a newspaper and a few magazines. Now, there are thousands of websites, each offering a different focus and a different point of view.
Consider entertainment. Ten years ago, if you wanted to distribute music on any sort of scale, you had to go to the RIAA or to an indie label that was limited in its reach. If you wanted to have your writing published, you had to go to a publisher of some sort, or pay exorbitant fees to a vanity press. And let's not get started on motion pictures. Now the Internet is allowing real distribution of entertainment media at huge savings (especially when P2P is taken into account).
As the Internet becomes more interwoven into business, business will decentralize. As business decentralizes, wealth and power will decentralize.
In short, it was the great fallacy of the 1990's that you could become rich thanks to the Internet, the dominant effect of which, ultimately, is decentralization.
Don't forget out of print books! When I have a free afternoon, I go to a local used book store and browse to my heart's content (I buy a few books, too), mostly in the last of the pulp novels from the '60s.
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How is this different from Toys R Us advertising on the Nickelodeon skateboard hour? (I seem to remember that Nick ran a skateboard show some years ago...) The fact is that it's the parents' money. They should at least be smart enough to shop around.
That's the fscking problem: too many baby boomer parents are convinced that by buying their kids everything under the sun will make them grow up and not hate them like they hated their parents. Look: kids will always hate their parents' guts. I'll guarantee that Bill Gates' kids will hit 14 and hate his guts, no matter how many small islands he buys them.
Is it just me or should IBM do a kick-ass port of Notes/Domino to Linux?
You got the variance wrong:
The reason that it's taken over N-1 instead of N is because N is a biased indicator.
Not in Massachusetts.
Under the Massachusetts General Laws, the only valid forms of ID for alcohol purchase are, iirc:
I was not defending Lindows... I think that what they're doing is despicable.
Lindows couldn't have built a non-GPL distribution. What's the critical part for them? It's not the kernel. It's not the X server. It's the desktop environment and supporting apps. Well, KDE is GPL. So is GNOME. What non-GPL desktop environments are there that could appeal to the Windows user out there? I can't think of any.
ROTFLMAO!
Lindows doesn't give a shit about the Linux community. Period.
The Linux community won't use Lindows or Lycoris. They're being targeted towards stupid users who think Windows is too expensive and stupid executives who feel the same way.
At least Lycoris plays by the rules...
The thing is, Lindows is vapor, as far as I'm concerned. I'm very suspicious.
Consider:
Yeah, Lycoris uses rpms, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything about compatibility. For instance, different distributions put libraries in different places, with different package names. If Mandrake uses libfoo6 and SuSE uses libfoo as the package name, you can't easily install a Mandrake package that depends on libfoo6 on SuSE. It can be done, though, but is beyond what Lycoris' target market will tend to be capable of.
I've found that people who hate rpm tend to do things like mix rpms from eight distros together... if you get your rpms from a single source, it can match deb packaging. I've had no dependency problems running rpm manually on a Mandrake 8.2/Cooker blend system.
I don't think it's necessarily a problem, because Lycoris isn't a server. I'm not even sure you can get a binary Apache packaged for Lycoris.
Now, if Red Hat got /.'d, that's vastly different, but Lycoris is aiming for a market that, quite simply, shouldn't run servers: Windows users.
Dude, Google has to comply with the law to stay in business. This is about the best thing they could do. It's giving the finger to scientology!
...then what? Aggie?
Of course, some could argue that XP was done by Aggies...
From what I've heard about his female staffers, at least some parts of him aren't dead...
As an example, the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at UMass is working on some DARPA projects, most notably in the area of detecting topics in a stream of news (such as a wire service feed, tv/radio broadcast, or web-spider results).
It's not difficult to see why DARPA is interested in this: can you say CIA?
That's why I said "essentially a monolithic kernel." Linux is much closer to a monolithic kernel than it is to a microkernel.
I realize this isn't quite what you meant, but monolithic OS's aren't bad. Linux is essentially a monolithic kernel, as are the BSD's (with the exception of OS X).
Exactly.
I'll take it one step further. Large corporations are not the way to go with the Internet in general.
The Internet is a naturally decentralizing force. At the protocol level, it's amazingly decentralized, by design. The tendency is for anything it touches to be decentralized.
Consider software. Open source is the ultimate in decentralized software. Could Open Source exist in anything approaching its current scope if there were no Internet? To be blunt, it couldn't. Look at the progress of the GNU project in 1993, the midpoint of its life to date. This was also just before the great explosion in the 'net.
Consider media. Ten years ago, the average home in the US got, what, 30 channels of TV, plus a newspaper and a few magazines. Now, there are thousands of websites, each offering a different focus and a different point of view.
Consider entertainment. Ten years ago, if you wanted to distribute music on any sort of scale, you had to go to the RIAA or to an indie label that was limited in its reach. If you wanted to have your writing published, you had to go to a publisher of some sort, or pay exorbitant fees to a vanity press. And let's not get started on motion pictures. Now the Internet is allowing real distribution of entertainment media at huge savings (especially when P2P is taken into account).
As the Internet becomes more interwoven into business, business will decentralize. As business decentralizes, wealth and power will decentralize.
In short, it was the great fallacy of the 1990's that you could become rich thanks to the Internet, the dominant effect of which, ultimately, is decentralization.
Don't forget out of print books! When I have a free afternoon, I go to a local used book store and browse to my heart's content (I buy a few books, too), mostly in the last of the pulp novels from the '60s.
Doesn't forget that The New York Times and MSNBC are not the same!.
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If you want your news from a site that Michael "The Nazi" Sims has nothing to do with, use Monolinux !
Red Herring, MSNBC, the NYTimes, and Slashdot have all been scooped by:
MONOLINUX , which has found that Mozilla 1.0RC1 is less than a week away!The answer: nothing. India has been a country that has been "almost there" for decades.
The real important news, though, is Mozilla 1.0RC1 is almost here!
Monolinux reports that Mozilla 1.0 is very close at hand, with a due date of "sometime next week" for 1.0RC1.
The real news is that Monolinux is reporting that Mozilla 1.0RC1 is close at hand, with the branching of the 1.0 branch!
Monolinux reports that Mozilla 1.0RC1 will be out next week.