This is actually a serious problem. Many people confuse or don't know the difference between LINUX and Operating system.
LINUX is not an operating system. There is no distribution that is named "LINUX" (that I know of).
It's up to all of us who use LINUX based operating systems to correct people so that when they say "LINUX" when they should mean Redhat, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. It's easy, when somebody says "LINUX" unless they are talking directly about kernel you should give them a curious questioning look and say "I'm sorry...did you mean to say ?"
If you look at the interface its designed for the 7-9 year old. I like what they are doing with the interface. It's a radical departure from the standard GUI and I hope it works.
Not trying to say the tech is not possible, but like every other "revolutionary" or wonderful new tech (or drug) announced from the "Lab" of some university I'll be impressed when I can buy it.
Take a look at the revolutionary drugs/tech that was supposed to change our lives 10 years ago and ask where is it today?
Everything announced is ALWAYS 5-7 years away seemingly.
Wouldn't it be great if ISP's could work it so that when you are doing P2P (Bittorrent, etc) that if somebody is in the same network local topology there is no cap on bandwidth?
This would work great for non P2P apps as well. Let people on comcast, cox, etc do full bandwidth videoconferencing between customers on the same ISP. For instance it costs comcast probably not much bandwidth wise to let my mother do a 5Mb/s video conference with my system when we are in the same local area (and the same cable ISP)
Does anybody know what kind of scheduler BEOS used before it's demise? I seem to recall it ran circles around other OS's at the time when it came to multitasking multimedia.
The question is, why didn't they choose to go that route to begin with?
Why?
Because the LINUX world is developed more and has more support for the things they need? The BSD world moves slower and does not have the software they need to make their products. Quite frankly it's STILL not that way in the BSD world.
Until/unless that changes you will not see BSD uptake that fast.
And I might add one reason it does not change so much is because people DON'T have to give back anything if they don't want to. I've often wondered how much BSD code has been closed up and made proprietary never to see the light of public again that might have moved BSD much closer to where LINUX is today.
Not true...direct quote from Linus. It's not just ZFS.
"Btw, if Sun really _is_ going to release OpenSolaris under GPLv3, that _may_ be a good reason. I don't think the GPLv3 is as good a license as v2, but on the other hand, I'm pragmatic, and if we can avoid having two kernels with two different licenses and the friction that causes, I at least see the _reason_ for GPLv3. As it is, I don't really see a reason at all."
He's left the door open, he does not believe it now but he's not ANTI GPLv3, just he likes GPLv2 better. If there were a reason that would supersede using GPLv2 he would
It may seem cheesy and a copout, but my solution to these problems have been to have a USB powered external Ethernet to Wireless bridge. Just configure it to connect to a list of set access points (or connect to whatever open one is handy). Works like a charm.
yea..what's funny is that if you read the blogs, the blog authors who bought Iphones are saying things like "It's just an iphone without the phone...that's not very exciting!"
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This is actually a serious problem. Many people confuse or don't know the difference between LINUX and Operating system.
LINUX is not an operating system. There is no distribution that is named "LINUX" (that I know of).
It's up to all of us who use LINUX based operating systems to correct people so that when they say "LINUX" when they should mean Redhat, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. It's easy, when somebody says "LINUX" unless they are talking directly about kernel you should give them a curious questioning look and say "I'm sorry...did you mean to say ?"
Why would I want to use an operating system that has been dead for years? ;-)
These things are really not designed for "teens".
If you look at the interface its designed for the 7-9 year old. I like what they are doing with the interface. It's a radical departure from the standard GUI and I hope it works.
Not trying to say the tech is not possible, but like every other "revolutionary" or wonderful new tech (or drug) announced from the "Lab" of some university I'll be impressed when I can buy it.
Take a look at the revolutionary drugs/tech that was supposed to change our lives 10 years ago and ask where is it today?
Everything announced is ALWAYS 5-7 years away seemingly.
nah...no context at all. Just how I could stop the bulldozer :) or at least take it with me
If I put on an explosive belt with C4 and a pressure trigger that bulldozer will be damaged quite a a lot.
I've always thought that over time, more and more services will become completely encrypted end to end.
Personally I think that is a good thing.
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Cool! I've been missing reading their insightful and non-biased commentary.
I don't know...was it bad?
Wouldn't it be great if ISP's could work it so that when you are doing P2P (Bittorrent, etc) that if somebody is in the same network local topology there is no cap on bandwidth?
This would work great for non P2P apps as well. Let people on comcast, cox, etc do full bandwidth videoconferencing between customers on the same ISP. For instance it costs comcast probably not much bandwidth wise to let my mother do a 5Mb/s video conference with my system when we are in the same local area (and the same cable ISP)
There are various reasons why it would not work.
I might add as well that the Ipod Touch is a music/video portable player, and NOT a PDA (No matter how many people wish it WAS a PDA)
Does anybody know what kind of scheduler BEOS used before it's demise? I seem to recall it ran circles around other OS's at the time when it came to multitasking multimedia.
Uh...no, but as the authors of the GPL they probably have a good idea as to how it interacts with the BSD license.
I'm interested in what they have to say since I've not seen it anywhere else with regards to the BSD licensing issue.
Not every post on Slashdot is trying to be biased.
Everybody is arguing what it means and does not mean.
Somebody get Eglan or somebody on the phone from the FSF and ask about the issue at hand and post it here..
Please?!
The question is, why didn't they choose to go that route to begin with?
Why?
Because the LINUX world is developed more and has more support for the things they need? The BSD world moves slower and does not have the software they need to make their products. Quite frankly it's STILL not that way in the BSD world.
Until/unless that changes you will not see BSD uptake that fast.
And I might add one reason it does not change so much is because people DON'T have to give back anything if they don't want to. I've often wondered how much BSD code has been closed up and made proprietary never to see the light of public again that might have moved BSD much closer to where LINUX is today.
Not true...direct quote from Linus. It's not just ZFS.
"Btw, if Sun really _is_ going to release OpenSolaris under GPLv3, that _may_ be a good reason. I don't think the GPLv3 is as good a license as v2, but on the other hand, I'm pragmatic, and if we can avoid having two kernels with two different licenses and the friction that causes, I at least see the _reason_ for GPLv3. As it is, I don't really see a reason at all."
He's left the door open, he does not believe it now but he's not ANTI GPLv3, just he likes GPLv2 better. If there were a reason that would supersede using GPLv2 he would
You know you are wrong on the Linus part. He's said that if Solaris went GPLv3 he would consider it.
It may seem cheesy and a copout, but my solution to these problems have been to have a USB powered external Ethernet to Wireless bridge. Just configure it to connect to a list of set access points (or connect to whatever open one is handy). Works like a charm.
Yes...Zen Buddhism...IF you consider it a religion.
Um....I hate to break this to you, but nobody qualifies blogs except the authors. DUH!
Attention! Attention!....To Those without a clue....the above remark is a form of Sarcasm!
I think the issue is that time is still not really understood in a way that jives with other theories.
Why is the price drop - Extremely BONED....did you guy an Iphone?
yea..what's funny is that if you read the blogs, the blog authors who bought Iphones are saying things like "It's just an iphone without the phone...that's not very exciting!"
LOL
I'm sure you'll miss Solaris...
Swartz and company have said on several occasions that they are considering it (moving Solaris to GPLv3)