BSD-style licenses allow others to take your code and re-release it under their own licenses, including proprietary ones, or (even worse) a license that allows distribution of the source, but not granting the freedom to release your modifications. The new work is under their copyright, which means that they can sue you for using what was originally your work!
no, it is not!!! it is under their licence, but not their copyright. what you wrote remains yours. the BSD license gives everyone the rights to use your code as they see fit, but it does not give them the copyright to your code.
if a project finds a new maintainer, and then the old one comes back, the project should take advantage of it, because they now have two maintainers. look at the history of Window Maker: alfredo kojima had to leave because he had a job in japan for some time. dan pascu took over. eventually (it was about a year later i think) alfredo came back. and since then alfredo and dan are happly leading the project together. Window Maker only benefited from that.
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but not for alpha:-( (i did find the alpha ones elsewhere though)
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i will not install distributions marked 'unstable' on production machines. if something goes wrong i do not want to be told, that it's the risk of running unstable stuff.
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thank you so much. it would be nice if some of that stuff could be included in the official upgrades, but i can deal with a few unofficial packages.
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'course you could just grab the latest gnome debs off the unstable tree if you were that desperate for them.
that didn't work. the gnome dependencies from slink to potato just changed to much. and yes i was desperate. the gnumeric version that comes with slink is very unstable (at least on alpha) and any attempt to compile a newer version just failed:-(
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yeah, but debian takes a year to come out with a new release, whereas redhat will have a new stable release every 3 to 6 months. it would be nice if debian had some stable updates once in a while. no need to update everything, just the faster moving stuff like gnome-apps.
A Log-Structured Filesystem (LFS) brings database-like semantics to disk writes. Disk writes are performed in a way that they are either recognized as "completed as a whole" or "hasn't happened at all" even in the case of a power failure/OS crash... whilst a write is in progress.
Basically, this can be achieved by writing to the disk in an append-only manner. So every change to the filesystem causes the updated information to be appended at the end of the log (i.e: no "update in place").
So, an LFS can offer you a variety of advantages:
Fast crash recovery.
Easy support for logical volume management (resizing partitions)
Increased write performance (since all writes are performed in large, sequential chunks).
Is a Log-Structured Filesystem the Same as a Journaling Filesystem?
Acutally, these two terms are often used as synonyms, but they aren't. Journaling can be viewed as a way that allows you to add fast crash recovery capabilities to "classic" filesystems without making big changes to the existing filesystem. This is done by applying the logging approach to filesystem metadata changes. Journaling filesystems put things like "block x allocated to file y" into a log that they use for replaying filesystem changes after a crash.
If all articles approved for all sections were shown on the main page, the number of articles appearing would be unwieldy.
it would be nice though, to at least get a mention in one line.
That's why we have Slashboxes for certain sections
the slashboxes are ok, but they make it hard to spot new articles. i'd like to see one slashbox that combines all articles that did not make it to the frontpage, with date and number of replies...
No pay scale in europe even comes close to what you can make in the US
how did you get that idea? when i came to the US it was definatly not for the money, because i made the same back in austria. but cost of living there is much lower. you can't compare payscales without comparing the cost to rent an appartment and all that.
unless you are working for an american company, stock options are unheard of.
good question, european tv stations make a lot of use of this, you get about a thousand pages (80x40 i think) of text with all kinds of information, when coming to the US i was really disappointed at the low quality of service of US tv.
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but if it's the money, why don't they look for other sponsors to join them? in germany a group of linux enthusiasts is organizing the LinuxTag which may well be the largest expo in that country, and they have no money recources whatsoever. all their financing is from selling booth and advertisingspace and companies sponsoring them. if they can do that, money can hardly be a reason to stop redhat from running the expo.
this is sad, very sad! looks to me like IDG may have won:-(
As a student at a university, I have had to sign away my rights to any software I might develop, whether using my own equipment at home, or the computers in uni.
WHAT???? something like that is legal in your country? that is hard for me to believe.
exactly, also, asuming i am a manager, how am i supposed to find out if the test is any good if i can't see the questions, if i am going to send my admins there, then i'd like to know since i am paying for it.
erm, wait, can't i do that with the help of vmware already? if i have something in linux that can capture everything that passes through the audio or video device then i should be able to capture anything played from vmware.
So we've run about the typical time elapsed between dev kernel versions but the current kernel version is half that of normal so it makes me wonder if we're ready yet.
the amount of changes from one verion point to the next is not always the same. you should rather compare times versus changes. considering that the changes from 2.0 to 2.2 where a lot more than what will happen from 2.2 to 2.4 those times just seem reasonable...
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no, it is not!!!
it is under their licence, but not their copyright. what you wrote remains yours.
the BSD license gives everyone the rights to use your code as they see fit, but it does not give them the copyright to your code.
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look at the history of Window Maker:
alfredo kojima had to leave because he had a job in japan for some time. dan pascu took over.
eventually (it was about a year later i think) alfredo came back. and since then alfredo and dan are happly leading the project together.
Window Maker only benefited from that.
greetings, eMBee.
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(i did find the alpha ones elsewhere though)
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if something goes wrong i do not want to be told, that it's the risk of running unstable stuff.
greetings, eMBee.
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i found slink alpha binaries here: http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome.old/g
thank you so much.
it would be nice if some of that stuff could be included in the official upgrades, but i can deal with a few unofficial packages.
greetings, eMBee.
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that didn't work. :-(
the gnome dependencies from slink to potato just changed to much.
and yes i was desperate. the gnumeric version that comes with slink is very unstable (at least on alpha) and any attempt to compile a newer version just failed
greetings, eMBee.
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debian and suse have it.
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but debian takes a year to come out with a new release,
whereas redhat will have a new stable release every 3 to 6 months.
it would be nice if debian had some stable updates once in a while.
no need to update everything, just the faster moving stuff like gnome-apps.
greetings, eMBee.
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greetings, eMBee.
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6.1 was delayed by quite some time
greetings, eMBee.
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from the FAQ:
What is a Log-Structured Filesystem, Anyway?
A Log-Structured Filesystem (LFS) brings database-like semantics to disk writes. Disk writes are performed in a way that they are either recognized as "completed as a whole" or "hasn't happened at all" even in the case of a power failure/OS crash... whilst a write is in progress.
Basically, this can be achieved by writing to the disk in an append-only manner. So every change to the filesystem causes the updated information to be appended at the end of the log (i.e: no "update in place").
So, an LFS can offer you a variety of advantages:
- Fast crash recovery.
- Easy support for logical volume management (resizing partitions)
- Undoing (even multiple levels of) filesystem changes
- Increased write performance (since all writes are performed in large, sequential chunks).
Is a Log-Structured Filesystem the Same as a Journaling Filesystem?Acutally, these two terms are often used as synonyms, but they aren't. Journaling can be viewed as a way that allows you to add fast crash recovery capabilities to "classic" filesystems without making big changes to the existing filesystem. This is done by applying the logging approach to filesystem metadata changes. Journaling filesystems put things like "block x allocated to file y" into a log that they use for replaying filesystem changes after a crash.
greetings, eMBee.
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it would be nice though, to at least get a mention in one line.
That's why we have Slashboxes for certain sections
the slashboxes are ok, but they make it hard to spot new articles.
i'd like to see one slashbox that combines all articles that did not make it to the frontpage, with date and number of replies...
greetings, eMBee.
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how did you get that idea?
when i came to the US it was definatly not for the money, because i made the same back in austria. but cost of living there is much lower.
you can't compare payscales without comparing the cost to rent an appartment and all that.
unless you are working for an american company, stock options are unheard of.
that is probably true though...
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getting a visa to work in the US is not a bit easier!
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european tv stations make a lot of use of this, you get about a thousand pages (80x40 i think) of text with all kinds of information,
when coming to the US i was really disappointed at the low quality of service of US tv.
greetings, eMBee.
(why is there no hint to these topics on the front page? a one-linwer would be fine)
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or do i need to buy the game just to find out if i like the lego version?
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in germany a group of linux enthusiasts is organizing the LinuxTag which may well be the largest expo in that country, and they have no money recources whatsoever. all their financing is from selling booth and advertisingspace and companies sponsoring them.
if they can do that, money can hardly be a reason to stop redhat from running the expo.
this is sad, very sad! :-(
looks to me like IDG may have won
greetings, martin.
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WHAT????
something like that is legal in your country?
that is hard for me to believe.
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if i am going to send my admins there, then i'd like to know since i am paying for it.
greetings, eMBee.
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greetings, eMBee.
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So we've run about the typical time elapsed between dev kernel versions but the current kernel version is half that of normal so it makes me wonder if we're ready yet.
the amount of changes from one verion point to the next is not always the same. you should rather compare times versus changes. considering that the changes from 2.0 to 2.2 where a lot more than what will happen from 2.2 to 2.4 those times just seem reasonable...
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right, there are different versions of one linux kernel, but there are a number of *BSD kernels,
which one did you say was better?
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what about openBSD, netBSD, BSDi, darwin?
i don't see a difference.
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ahh, that's a good argument, thank you
The person asking that question may not want an answer - they may just want to fear-bomb the conversation and win by overwhelm.
this is the problem i wanted to solve, how do you deal with that?
greetings, eMBee.
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