Just slightly OT, does anyone out there think there might be some benefits of IBM buying Redhat? I realize IBM has said they wouldn't do a distro, but Big Blue + Redhat (along with Eazel and Cygnus) seems like a good mix. I mean, IBM already heavily supports Linux, and much of the original Redhatters are ex-IBMers from RTP.
Some of the benefits of an IBM-Redhat Linux I can think of would be:
-more acceptance of Linux by PHB's
-even more funding behind it all
-GPL some of the OS/2, AIX, and Lotus stuff into it
-maybe even an IBM-funded forked alternative kernel
(re: the/. thread from a few days back about Linus)
-much of IBM is service based, which is what RH and Eazel are trying to do anyway.
1. Speed: precompiles to a servlet which becomes a process/thread of the server. (see the last link from Orion for some benchmarks comparing JSP to ASP)
2. Multi-platform: there are many JSP/Servlet engines to choose from (Tomcat, Websphere, Jrun, Orion, etc) which run on platforms as diverse as UNIX, NT, AS/400, as opposed to ASP which just runs on NT/IIS.
I'm sorry, I forgot to hit the "plain old text" selection.. (how do I go back to change it?) what I meant to say was:
At some point in the near future, will AOL start including Netscape 6.x with their installation CD? When likely?
It seems the only company big enough to go against MS and reverse the trend of IE getting such a huge browser share is AOL (by distributing Netscape) Anyone agree or disagree?
As an occasional HTML'er, I too have to go through the frustration of checking my pages in NS4.7, then IE5, and now NS6.0. Hopefully the rise of an AOL-pushed Netscape browser will reduce the recent trend for pages to use IE-centric tricks (because of IE's current large market share)
Finally, most of us complained about the sluggishness of the XUL-skinned Mozilla/Netscape (instead of using native GUI widgets), but as CPU's get faster, and "web appliances" which don't rely on a Win/Mac/Gnome/KDE GUI become more available, perhaps this "non-native widget set" idea for Netscape was a good idea after all?
At some point in the near future, will AOL start including Netscape 6.x with their installation CD? When likely?
It seems the only company big enough to go against MS and reverse the trend of IE getting such a huge browser share is AOL (by distributing Netscape) Anyone agree or disagree?
As an occasional HTML'er, I too have to go through the frustration of checking my pages in NS4.7, then IE5, and now NS6.0. Hopefully the rise of an AOL-pushed Netscape browser will reduce the recent trend for pages to use IE-centric tricks (because of IE's current large market share)
Finally, most of us complained about the sluggishness of the XUL-skinned Mozilla/Netscape (instead of using native GUI widgets), but as CPU's get faster, and "web appliances" which don't rely on a Win/Mac/Gnome/KDE GUI become more available, perhaps this "non-native widget set" idea for Netscape was a good idea after all?
I've been using the Helix desktop for a while, and really like it, and respect the work these guys have done. But Ximian is such a bad name!
Wouldn't it be possible to use some other variation of Helix such as "HelixTech" or "HelixSoft" or heck, even "Helux" ??
Do any of these leave the packages locally?
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One of the things I like about the Helix updater is that it gives you the option to leave all the packages in a local/tmp directory (which could be useful if I had to do some over, or if the connection stalled in the middle, or whatever)
Do these RPM manager installers give you this option also?
Just curious, does Debian apt-get have that option too?
And do these rpm (and deb) tools do all the downloading first, then install all... or do they install each package immediatly after it's downloaded before downloading the next?)
While X is great for networked workstation clients, it's a bit overkill for single-user desktop machines. Would it be possible to GPL some of the stuff from OS/2 toward such a single-user GUI that talks more directly to the hardware (like Windows or Mac) as opposed to a networked GUI like X? (My explanation is probably weak - Somebody please help me out here)
Also, does IBM hold any TT fonts which could be GPL'd with this too?
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Just slightly OT, does anyone out there think there might be some benefits of IBM buying Redhat? I realize IBM has said they wouldn't do a distro, but Big Blue + Redhat (along with Eazel and Cygnus) seems like a good mix. I mean, IBM already heavily supports Linux, and much of the original Redhatters are ex-IBMers from RTP.
/. thread from a few days back about Linus)
Some of the benefits of an IBM-Redhat Linux I can think of would be:
-more acceptance of Linux by PHB's
-even more funding behind it all
-GPL some of the OS/2, AIX, and Lotus stuff into it
-maybe even an IBM-funded forked alternative kernel
(re: the
-much of IBM is service based, which is what RH and Eazel are trying to do anyway.
Since a large part of this article is about ASP, I just wanted to provide some info on how JSP compares very favorably. Here's a page full of links:
P _v s_ASP/
http://www.serverpages.com/Java_Server_Pages/JS
JSP's main advantages over ASP are:
1. Speed: precompiles to a servlet which becomes a process/thread of the server. (see the last link from Orion for some benchmarks comparing JSP to ASP)
2. Multi-platform: there are many JSP/Servlet engines to choose from (Tomcat, Websphere, Jrun, Orion, etc) which run on platforms as diverse as UNIX, NT, AS/400, as opposed to ASP which just runs on NT/IIS.
I'm sorry, I forgot to hit the "plain old text" selection.. (how do I go back to change it?) what I meant to say was:
At some point in the near future, will AOL start including Netscape 6.x with their installation CD? When likely?
It seems the only company big enough to go against MS and reverse the trend of IE getting such a huge browser share is AOL (by distributing Netscape) Anyone agree or disagree?
As an occasional HTML'er, I too have to go through the frustration of checking my pages in NS4.7, then IE5, and now NS6.0. Hopefully the rise of an AOL-pushed Netscape browser will reduce the recent trend for pages to use IE-centric tricks (because of IE's current large market share)
Finally, most of us complained about the sluggishness of the XUL-skinned Mozilla/Netscape (instead of using native GUI widgets), but as CPU's get faster, and "web appliances" which don't rely on a Win/Mac/Gnome/KDE GUI become more available, perhaps this "non-native widget set" idea for Netscape was a good idea after all?
At some point in the near future, will AOL start including Netscape 6.x with their installation CD? When likely? It seems the only company big enough to go against MS and reverse the trend of IE getting such a huge browser share is AOL (by distributing Netscape) Anyone agree or disagree? As an occasional HTML'er, I too have to go through the frustration of checking my pages in NS4.7, then IE5, and now NS6.0. Hopefully the rise of an AOL-pushed Netscape browser will reduce the recent trend for pages to use IE-centric tricks (because of IE's current large market share) Finally, most of us complained about the sluggishness of the XUL-skinned Mozilla/Netscape (instead of using native GUI widgets), but as CPU's get faster, and "web appliances" which don't rely on a Win/Mac/Gnome/KDE GUI become more available, perhaps this "non-native widget set" idea for Netscape was a good idea after all?
I've been using the Helix desktop for a while, and really like it, and respect the work these guys have done. But Ximian is such a bad name!
Wouldn't it be possible to use some other variation of Helix such as "HelixTech" or "HelixSoft" or heck, even "Helux" ??
One of the things I like about the Helix updater is that it gives you the option to leave all the packages in a local /tmp directory (which could be useful if I had to do some over, or if the connection stalled in the middle, or whatever)
... or do they install each package immediatly after it's downloaded before downloading the next?)
Do these RPM manager installers give you this option also?
Just curious, does Debian apt-get have that option too?
And do these rpm (and deb) tools do all the downloading first, then install all
While X is great for networked workstation clients, it's a bit overkill for single-user desktop machines. Would it be possible to GPL some of the stuff from OS/2 toward such a single-user GUI that talks more directly to the hardware (like Windows or Mac) as opposed to a networked GUI like X? (My explanation is probably weak - Somebody please help me out here)
Also, does IBM hold any TT fonts which could be GPL'd with this too?