Forgot to mention that AFAIK neither FreeBSD nor NexentaOS supports installation to ZFS at the moment (haven't tried the latest Nexenta though)... What you can do is install to a small partition, create a large ZFS pool and copy everything over.
NexentaOS may be your friend, it is basically an OpenSolaris kernel with Ubuntu userland, even though the Ubuntu part is a bit outdated (Dapper-based) at the moment (1.0 RC2).
FreeBSD 7.0 is also soon to be released (at 7.0 RC1 now) and it includes all the latest software.
The OP was suggesting that BSD licensing is bad because it allows embrace-and-extend. My point was that this is not something that can be solved by licensing, and that actually with BSD licensed code there are better chances of compatible implementations (as shown by the TCP/IP example) than with the GPL for example. In fact, even RMS agreed that a less restrictive license (compared to the GPL) is suitable for reference implementation of a standard to gain wider adoptation. Thus the OGG Vorbis reference implementation library was licensed BSD.
MS can always come up with a proprietary protocol and make it the "market leading" protocol, whether it is based on an open one or not does not really matter. It does not limit the use of BSD Kerberos protocol by open-source systems, and it wouldn't have changed if it had been GPL'd (in fact, quite possibly even fewer systems would support it).
Also, I didn't really get what your problem was with MS's use of BSD TCP/IP, how it hindered open source or anything at all... Again, had it been GPL'd, they would have had to reimplement it, possibly in less than 100% compatible manner. Who would have benefited from that?
I just started using ZFS in FreeBSD-CURRENT recently and have been quite impressed with it... Wonder how this will affect their inclusion of ZFS. (In case you want to try it, keep in mind that both the FreeBSD snapshot and ZFS on FreeBSD are experimental technologies, don't use them on production systems.)
If you look at the examples of Sleepycat (makers of Berkeley DB, purchased last year by Oracle), MySQL and Trolltech (makers of Qt), it seems that most income for projects that are also available as open source is in dual licensing and support. You cannot dual license without owning the code. You may be able to provide support without owning the code, but it is much more efficient and credible if you have the authors in your team.
Beware that hardware virtualization requires BIOS support as well as CPU support. I've come across a number of laptops that come with virtualization-capable CPUs that you can't make use of due to lack BIOS support for. See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_disable d_VT for some more info.
It's not that silly considering that TFA is about company deployments.
1. Companies don't care at all if their OS is free (as in free speech) or not. 2. Gratis is nice but most companies will pay extra for support and availability of commercial applications. 3. Most companies only care whether an OS allows them to do what they want or not. 4. Again, most companies only care if the OS runs on their machines. They won't try to install their Intel MacOSX-es on Sun workstations or anything like that.
The requirements that you mention are those for a niche market and not for general company deployment. Having said that, I'm still keeping my Desktop (and Notebook) Linux.
anybody using the single handed layouts?
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there are dvorak layouts designed for typing with a single hand (left or right). it's supposed to be quite effective, almost as good as qwerty with both hands. while i'm aware that these were originally designed for the disabled, i've been considering learning the left-handed one so that i could type while doing something else with my right hand (holding a phone, eating drinking etc). has anybody tried using these? what are your experiences?
Now lets say you go to the computer store and the manager says "You own an AMD, so that video card in your hand will cost double" would you call that a fair trade practice?
Isn't this exactly what is happening with people owning Macs?:-)
I own a Sharp Mebius MM20 (Japanese model of Actius MM20) with a 1GHz TransMeta Efficeon TM8600. I managed to get almost everything working in linux, except for one thing: power saving modes (sleep/suspend). Actually, sleep did work with some versions of the kernel (2.6.6 maybe) but after resuming the wireless LAN would stop working (not sure if this is a problem with the ACPI or the Prism54 drivers). Unfortunately, as my main use of this notebook is to work on the road, this forces me to use it in Windows most of the time.
When I use "Run as..." to run a program as Administrator, the OS should provide the program with the same environment as if it was run when logged in as Administrator. Then it shouldn't matter whether the program is written well or not. (That is, if a program runs correctly when logged in as Administrator, it should run correctly when executed using "run as administrator" from a non-administrator account.) The fact that many people are having troubles with this feature shows that unfortunately this is not the case in Windows. It seems that the applications you are using are doing a good job at avoiding the bugs related to this function of Windows. But that doesn't change the fact that it's a bug, and one that prohibits many users from running their machines without logged in with an Administrator privileges.
With GPL'd and other open source projects usually there's no single author, so getting everybody's agreement can be very difficult (if not impossible).
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incognito mode in chrome/chromium/srware iron seems to work quite well...
Forgot to mention that AFAIK neither FreeBSD nor NexentaOS supports installation to ZFS at the moment (haven't tried the latest Nexenta though)... What you can do is install to a small partition, create a large ZFS pool and copy everything over.
NexentaOS may be your friend, it is basically an OpenSolaris kernel with Ubuntu userland, even though the Ubuntu part is a bit outdated (Dapper-based) at the moment (1.0 RC2).
FreeBSD 7.0 is also soon to be released (at 7.0 RC1 now) and it includes all the latest software.
AFAIK both should run fine on Intel-based Macs.
maybe not enough dupes on xkcd for slashdot's high standards?
The OP was suggesting that BSD licensing is bad because it allows embrace-and-extend. My point was that this is not something that can be solved by licensing, and that actually with BSD licensed code there are better chances of compatible implementations (as shown by the TCP/IP example) than with the GPL for example. In fact, even RMS agreed that a less restrictive license (compared to the GPL) is suitable for reference implementation of a standard to gain wider adoptation. Thus the OGG Vorbis reference implementation library was licensed BSD.
MS can always come up with a proprietary protocol and make it the "market leading" protocol, whether it is based on an open one or not does not really matter. It does not limit the use of BSD Kerberos protocol by open-source systems, and it wouldn't have changed if it had been GPL'd (in fact, quite possibly even fewer systems would support it).
Also, I didn't really get what your problem was with MS's use of BSD TCP/IP, how it hindered open source or anything at all... Again, had it been GPL'd, they would have had to reimplement it, possibly in less than 100% compatible manner. Who would have benefited from that?
I just started using ZFS in FreeBSD-CURRENT recently and have been quite impressed with it... Wonder how this will affect their inclusion of ZFS. (In case you want to try it, keep in mind that both the FreeBSD snapshot and ZFS on FreeBSD are experimental technologies, don't use them on production systems.)
If you look at the examples of Sleepycat (makers of Berkeley DB, purchased last year by Oracle), MySQL and Trolltech (makers of Qt), it seems that most income for projects that are also available as open source is in dual licensing and support. You cannot dual license without owning the code. You may be able to provide support without owning the code, but it is much more efficient and credible if you have the authors in your team.
Beware that hardware virtualization requires BIOS support as well as CPU support. I've come across a number of laptops that come with virtualization-capable CPUs that you can't make use of due to lack BIOS support for. See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_disable d_VT for some more info.
It's not that silly considering that TFA is about company deployments.
1. Companies don't care at all if their OS is free (as in free speech) or not.
2. Gratis is nice but most companies will pay extra for support and availability of commercial applications.
3. Most companies only care whether an OS allows them to do what they want or not.
4. Again, most companies only care if the OS runs on their machines. They won't try to install their Intel MacOSX-es on Sun workstations or anything like that.
The requirements that you mention are those for a niche market and not for general company deployment. Having said that, I'm still keeping my Desktop (and Notebook) Linux.
there are dvorak layouts designed for typing with a single hand (left or right). it's supposed to be quite effective, almost as good as qwerty with both hands. while i'm aware that these were originally designed for the disabled, i've been considering learning the left-handed one so that i could type while doing something else with my right hand (holding a phone, eating drinking etc). has anybody tried using these? what are your experiences?
Now lets say you go to the computer store and the manager says "You own an AMD, so that video card in your hand will cost double" would you call that a fair trade practice?
:-)
Isn't this exactly what is happening with people owning Macs?
Windows can happily run off a CD too. Here's more info on making Windows Live CDs/DVDs. (I personally still prefer Linux though.)
I own a Sharp Mebius MM20 (Japanese model of Actius MM20) with a 1GHz TransMeta Efficeon TM8600. I managed to get almost everything working in linux, except for one thing: power saving modes (sleep/suspend). Actually, sleep did work with some versions of the kernel (2.6.6 maybe) but after resuming the wireless LAN would stop working (not sure if this is a problem with the ACPI or the Prism54 drivers). Unfortunately, as my main use of this notebook is to work on the road, this forces me to use it in Windows most of the time.
no you do not need the cradle, at least here in japan you can get a directhdd cable and connect it directly.
When I use "Run as..." to run a program as Administrator, the OS should provide the program with the same environment as if it was run when logged in as Administrator. Then it shouldn't matter whether the program is written well or not. (That is, if a program runs correctly when logged in as Administrator, it should run correctly when executed using "run as administrator" from a non-administrator account.) The fact that many people are having troubles with this feature shows that unfortunately this is not the case in Windows. It seems that the applications you are using are doing a good job at avoiding the bugs related to this function of Windows. But that doesn't change the fact that it's a bug, and one that prohibits many users from running their machines without logged in with an Administrator privileges.
you may not have to wait 10 years for the first one: Slashdot Japan
With GPL'd and other open source projects usually there's no single author, so getting everybody's agreement can be very difficult (if not impossible).