This is WAY late, so probably no-one will read it, but...
You're missing the point. I used a config management library as an example because there *is* no cross platform config management API. Each of the Unix heavyweights have some sort of proprietary system in place. Therefore we all lose out. Nothing concrete that will exist on *all* platforms will be put in place.
A configuration management API is absolutely useless unless it's implemented across the board, on *all* platforms.
There *are* two GPL'd config management libraries, but they'll never ever be used by any of the heavyweights because it would force them to open everything which used it. The libraries are damned near useless.
Now... If the library is stealable (BSD style license) then the heavyweights *can* steal the code, and implement it on their systems, giving a cross platform *base* to code to. Fine a GPL'd version could then be created (and I hope that it would) but the initial creation of the *cross platform API* almost *requires* a BSDish style license.
If X was GPL'd from the start, *there would now not be an X Window System*.
Lets take a configuration management library as an example. It's a convenience thing. Not essential, but makes life that tiny bit simpler.
GPL'd, it'll never become popular with the Unix heavyweights, no matter how clever it is. They'd have to open all their source, so they just won't use it.
LGPL'd they'll look at you blankly.
BSD'd, they'll grab it and hack it to support different file formats, LDAP etc, but it'll *be* there and you'll end up with a cross platform config management API that you can code to.
They describe some of their supercomputing systems: http://www.nsa.gov:8080/programs/tech/tech/compute .html Signal processing capabilities: http://www.nsa.gov:8080/programs/tech/tech/sgnlpro c.html etc. etc. I mean... Really... The publish this kind of stuff on their web page. Just how stupid do you really think they are?
MS aren't up against Palm OS. They know very well that the system they are up against is "Epoc" and not Palm OS do you want to know why?
All the mobile phones from all the major manufacturers will run Epoc as their operating system in the future.
MS know that palmtops and phones will merge into personal communication devices and it's Epoc that's driving this... Wince just doesn't stack up against Epoc and MS know it.
This personality stuff... It's about hiding the Blue Screen Of Death.
Instead it'll say "I don't want to play today..." or "Sod off you wally", or for engineers, "I don't feel well those 13 pints and MS Office have F****d me over"
Desktop productivity apps? No. Web based apps!
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Get thee gone to the Gnome developers pages at:
http://developer.gnome.org/
Seriously though, the desktop is becoming less important. The important applications are going to be web based...
What I wouldn't give for a web based accounts app.
Lovely little boxes. 64bit MIPS CPU, not the fastest things on the planet, but nice.
The hardware platform is definitely cute. I could see them being used as turnkey application servers; Just drop it on to the customer network.
Software is RedHat 4, plus some cobalt web admin stuff and a couple of web based groupware applications. Check out their page at http://www.cobaltnet.com/.
The boxes are definitely "no admin required", perfect for the SOHO market, which is why Gateway are interested I think. Hey, even an NT admin could use them.
The ONLY problem I have with it is: No Seti@home client. I've got a 250MHz 64bit MIPS system and no SETI client to use it to brag....
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Given that I can purchase an unlimited licensed Linux OS for $1.99 that makes their base system 600 times (or 60,000% ?) more expensive than Linux.
If I have a lot of servers, that is going to make Linux very much cheaper than W2K.
This is WAY late, so probably no-one will read it, but...
You're missing the point. I used a config management library as an example because there *is* no cross platform config management API. Each of the Unix heavyweights have some sort of proprietary system in place. Therefore we all lose out. Nothing concrete that will exist on *all* platforms will be put in place.
A configuration management API is absolutely useless unless it's implemented across the board, on *all* platforms.
There *are* two GPL'd config management libraries, but they'll never ever be used by any of the heavyweights because it would force them to open everything which used it. The libraries are damned near useless.
Now... If the library is stealable (BSD style license) then the heavyweights *can* steal the code, and implement it on their systems, giving a cross platform *base* to code to. Fine a GPL'd version could then be created (and I hope that it would) but the initial creation of the *cross platform API* almost *requires* a BSDish style license.
If X was GPL'd from the start, *there would now not be an X Window System*.
Yelm, Issaries, Dorasta, Orlanth, Urox, Pavis etc etc etc.
Orlanth's my box.
Lets take a configuration management library as an example. It's a convenience thing. Not essential, but makes life that tiny bit simpler.
GPL'd, it'll never become popular with the Unix heavyweights, no matter how clever it is. They'd have to open all their source, so they just won't use it.
LGPL'd they'll look at you blankly.
BSD'd, they'll grab it and hack it to support different file formats, LDAP etc, but it'll *be* there and you'll end up with a cross platform config management API that you can code to.
That's why Perl comes with everything these days.
Guess who hasn't used Gnome then...
The price includes screen, keyboard, mouse, 16bit audio and I don't need a bootp server to boot the things.
Root fs in flash, the rest of the system coda mounted.
Well, I updated a system here from the stock RH6 (2.2.5?) to the normal 2.2.10 from kernel.org with no problems, AMI RAID controller.
Get a Cobalt Qube/Raq box or a Rebel Netwinder.
Small, fast, cheap($900-$1000), highly rackable ( 40/rack for the Cobalt and 160/rack for the netwinder)
Come with groupware applications / doc management apps installed.
No admin required.
Wow... They've even managed to shoehorn bloat into mice now!
If everybody didn't keep trying to copy bloody Windows we wouldn't be wasting so much screen real estate anyway!
Each window has:
1 menubar
1 button bar
1 status bar
The other thing is, you can do those kind of tricks by checking for mouse movement! You don't need sensors in the mouse to detect a hand.
They describe some of their supercomputing systems: http://www.nsa.gov:8080/programs/tech/tech/compute .html Signal processing capabilities: http://www.nsa.gov:8080/programs/tech/tech/sgnlpro c.html etc. etc. I mean... Really... The publish this kind of stuff on their web page. Just how stupid do you really think they are?
MS aren't up against Palm OS. They know very well that the system they are up against is "Epoc" and not Palm OS do you want to know why?
All the mobile phones from all the major manufacturers will run Epoc as their operating system in the future.
MS know that palmtops and phones will merge into personal communication devices and it's Epoc that's driving this... Wince just doesn't stack up against Epoc and MS know it.
http://www.symbian.com/
Made it possible for anyone who wants it, to have access to a super computer; Beowulf. Is one thing that springs to mind.
Note 1: The "Linux community" is a bunch of individuals who happen to use Linux.
This personality stuff... It's about hiding the Blue Screen Of Death.
Instead it'll say "I don't want to play today..." or "Sod off you wally", or for engineers, "I don't feel well those 13 pints and MS Office have F****d me over"
Get thee gone to the Gnome developers pages at:
http://developer.gnome.org/
Seriously though, the desktop is becoming less important. The important applications are going to be web based...
What I wouldn't give for a web based accounts app.
Lovely little boxes. 64bit MIPS CPU, not the fastest things on the planet, but nice.
The hardware platform is definitely cute. I could see them being used as turnkey application servers; Just drop it on to the customer network.
Software is RedHat 4, plus some cobalt web admin stuff and a couple of web based groupware applications. Check out their page at http://www.cobaltnet.com/.
The boxes are definitely "no admin required", perfect for the SOHO market, which is why Gateway are interested I think. Hey, even an NT admin could use them.
The ONLY problem I have with it is: No Seti@home client. I've got a 250MHz 64bit MIPS system and no SETI client to use it to brag....
Go gaseous rather than liquid?
Actually, I think the better way would simply be simply to build better GPL'd Infoware/protocols.
I think he's partly right. Attempting to "take" the desktop is _their_ way of thinking, their rules.
The real answer is to find the better way, change the rules and make the "desktop" irrelevant. The "desktop" is not a good paradigm.
On the other hand, I don't think the "Linux community" _focuses_ on anything at all, as far as I can see, it makes Linux fill all available niche's.
The NC is already here and it has absolutely nothing to do with Oracle or Linux or Windows or the "NC platform" etc etc etc etc.
It is ANY system with a web browser. The web browser is the "new universal interface" in the same way telnet still is.
Build/modify your applications to be web enabled and you have a NC available application. And I don't just mean Java here (PHP, CGI, ASP etc).
This announcement is completely irrelevant and about as near to useless as you get these days from the big boys.
It does work, but it's definitely clunky. An implementation of the psion serial protocol would be nice, but no such luck.
subject says it all.
No... They're making money selling sendmail for idiots to put on NT. There's a difference.
One's stupidity, the other is taking advantage of other peoples stupidity. Not 100% ethical, but that's capitalism for you.
Get an Xface compatible mail client.
What a dumb thing to do...
Sendmail... Powerful, flexible and rock solid stability. Then you stick it on NT which has none of these attributes.
It completely misses the point.