Place your bets on the next terrorist strike... to be perpretrated by these sick fucks in about 18 hours, doubtless.
I'll get you started:
1. Kamikaze Hijacking (NYC, DC, LA, take your pick)
2. Synchronized car bombings (Any number of Malls and Government buildings througout the US)
3. Anthrax
4. Sarin gas or other chemical agent.
5. Smallpox
6. Suitcase Nuke in any large population center.
7. Man with AK-47 guns down dozens in a MacDonald's at noon. Over 5 billion served.
8. Mass executions of Americans overseas. (Night of the Long Knives 2.0)
9. Embassy bombings overseas. (A gimmee, I know)
10. Botulinum
11. Ebola
GnuStep is nothing more, nothing less than a fully object-oriented API under the GPL. It is a clone of OpenStep, NeXT's famous OO API that lives on as "Cocoa" in Apple OS X (to be officially released Saturday)
GnuStep (as OPENSTEP) uses Objective-C as a primary language. Objective-C is a fully Dynamic OO language that is a superset of ANSI C. It is modeled after Small Talk, but runs natively compiled- No bytecode.
Apple has added Java bindings to all the Cocoa/Gnustep APIs, so that developers can use Java as a language to call GunStep/OPENSTEP/Cocoa libs. GnuStep has also cloned this Java bridge, allowing the same functionailty in GnuStep.
GnuStep also includes a clone of NeXT's PostScript-based display layer, Display Postscript.
GnuStep also includes GnuStep Web, a GPL clone of NeXT/Apple's Web-Objects application server, which is used on a number of extremely high-profile web sites (including Dell's web store before Microsoft paid them to move to a M$ solution).
NeXT also had a set of development tools, the most interesting of which was Interface Builder, which builds dynamic GUIs (without any code generation). GnuStep has GPL clones of these in the works. They are part of the package, I believe.
These libs and tools were used by Tim Berners Lee to create the original web browser. They were also used to create the original version of Macromedia FreeHand. Anything that comes out for Apple's MacOS X that is labeled "Cocoa-based" uses these libs (http://www.omnigroup.com, http://www.caffeinesoft.com, and http://www.stone.com have some products you might be interested in)
The best source of developer documentation is Apple:
http://devworld.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/ co coa.html
Actually, if you go to the "XonX" project page at Sourceforge (it is linked from www.darwinfo.org) you can see in the discussion groups that there are at least 2 concurrent patches working that let you run XFree86 rootless on the aqua desktop, with the Gimp alongside Photoshop, for example.
I imagine that in less than 6 months, this whole setup will be a downloadable, double-clickable binary install, if Apple doesn't decide just to bundle it with MacOS X atogether.
It is basically Tenon's XTools, but for free.
Maybe LinuxPPC, Inc. has the right idea by becoming a non-profit organisation. The pressures of the stock market are not necessarily in the best interest of Linux development.
The logic of the open Stock Market/ Venture Capital is basically : "profit or die" while the logic of open source development seems to be "have some fun. Do whatever you want. Be free!" Are these two imperatives even compatible with one another?
Also, the business model that says "you pay for services and support" has less and less importance as the software becomes more and more easy to use and configure. If an OSS operating system becomes as easy to use as a Playstation, who will pay extra for service and support? If Suse et al's business model is based on selling support, what incentive do they have to streamline administration and installation of their product? Next to none, I suppose.
I agree with the poster above: Cheap Bytes is the only one who has figured this out.
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Place your bets on the next terrorist strike... to be perpretrated by these sick fucks in about 18 hours, doubtless.
I'll get you started:
1. Kamikaze Hijacking (NYC, DC, LA, take your pick)
2. Synchronized car bombings (Any number of Malls and Government buildings througout the US)
3. Anthrax
4. Sarin gas or other chemical agent.
5. Smallpox
6. Suitcase Nuke in any large population center.
7. Man with AK-47 guns down dozens in a MacDonald's at noon. Over 5 billion served.
8. Mass executions of Americans overseas. (Night of the Long Knives 2.0)
9. Embassy bombings overseas. (A gimmee, I know)
10. Botulinum
11. Ebola
(It ain't a window manager)
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GnuStep is nothing more, nothing less than a fully object-oriented API under the GPL. It is a clone of OpenStep, NeXT's famous OO API that lives on as "Cocoa" in Apple OS X (to be officially released Saturday)
GnuStep (as OPENSTEP) uses Objective-C as a primary language. Objective-C is a fully Dynamic OO language that is a superset of ANSI C. It is modeled after Small Talk, but runs natively compiled- No bytecode.
Apple has added Java bindings to all the Cocoa/Gnustep APIs, so that developers can use Java as a language to call GunStep/OPENSTEP/Cocoa libs. GnuStep has also cloned this Java bridge, allowing the same functionailty in GnuStep.
GnuStep also includes a clone of NeXT's PostScript-based display layer, Display Postscript.
GnuStep also includes GnuStep Web, a GPL clone of NeXT/Apple's Web-Objects application server, which is used on a number of extremely high-profile web sites (including Dell's web store before Microsoft paid them to move to a M$ solution).
NeXT also had a set of development tools, the most interesting of which was Interface Builder, which builds dynamic GUIs (without any code generation). GnuStep has GPL clones of these in the works. They are part of the package, I believe.
These libs and tools were used by Tim Berners Lee to create the original web browser. They were also used to create the original version of Macromedia FreeHand. Anything that comes out for Apple's MacOS X that is labeled "Cocoa-based" uses these libs (http://www.omnigroup.com, http://www.caffeinesoft.com, and http://www.stone.com have some products you might be interested in)
The best source of developer documentation is Apple:
http://devworld.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa
Actually, if you go to the "XonX" project page at Sourceforge (it is linked from www.darwinfo.org) you can see in the discussion groups that there are at least 2 concurrent patches working that let you run XFree86 rootless on the aqua desktop, with the Gimp alongside Photoshop, for example. I imagine that in less than 6 months, this whole setup will be a downloadable, double-clickable binary install, if Apple doesn't decide just to bundle it with MacOS X atogether. It is basically Tenon's XTools, but for free.
Maybe LinuxPPC, Inc. has the right idea by becoming a non-profit organisation. The pressures of the stock market are not necessarily in the best interest of Linux development. The logic of the open Stock Market/ Venture Capital is basically : "profit or die" while the logic of open source development seems to be "have some fun. Do whatever you want. Be free!" Are these two imperatives even compatible with one another? Also, the business model that says "you pay for services and support" has less and less importance as the software becomes more and more easy to use and configure. If an OSS operating system becomes as easy to use as a Playstation, who will pay extra for service and support? If Suse et al's business model is based on selling support, what incentive do they have to streamline administration and installation of their product? Next to none, I suppose. I agree with the poster above: Cheap Bytes is the only one who has figured this out.