Problem is that most of us (in the wild, wily commercial world) must communicate (preferrable securely) with people that can't spell to PGP, but whose IT-departments are willing to help them set up S/MIME. Kmail (and no other Open Source client that I know of) supports S/MIME (which today is the de-facto standard for the PHBs), which makes it very hard to propose an Open Source solution. When kmail (or exmh, tkrat, etc) supports S/MIME, we will have a better chance of penetrating the desktops of the corporate world.
Roland B.
As an old *NIX person, I can't understand why nobody proposes troff/nroff/groff/tbl/pic with mm macros? I've used it to write documentation (including slides with pictures) for a number of years (~10) and it is the most versatile typesetting tool that I've ever come across. It outputs to postscript without any problems and with ghostscript/ghostview/equiv., you get pre-views and you can concentrate on what you want to say instead of how it looks.
For those unfortunately souls out there that doesn't know *roff, you may call it a precursor of SGML/HTML, but with thousand of Office Users (AT&T Patent Department was, I believe, the first customer). If I'm not misremembering, troff was the reason K&R, Ossano etc. got funding for continued development of UNIX.
I haven't yet read all the code, but I skimmed the design documentation and couldn't find any auditing interfaces, nor anything about auditing in the TODO list. Someone care about commenting about this lack of VERY important security interfaces (or tell me I have egg on my face and point me to where they are)?
The Mach version that NextStep were based on were a monolithic kernel (whereby Mach and BSD were merged). Next didn't separate the BSD part from the Mach kernel (OSF RI later worked on this).
The GUI libraries was definitely not *IX based, but the kernel were.
I worked on the AIX transition from 3.x -> 4.x. There is (were) no single line of code from SVR4 in the AIX kernel. In fact, AFAIR, the kernel was based on the SVR3.2, with extensions from IBM.
Also, parts of AIX 3.x were in OSF/1 (another port that I worked on).
Some of us uses laptops (like mine IBM 600E) that only has 2MB builtin vidoe memory. NON-upgradeable. And I like 1024*768. It doesn't help to change supplier either, as most laptops that can be carried only support 2MBs. Think before talking.
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Problem is that most of us (in the wild, wily commercial world) must communicate (preferrable securely) with people that can't spell to PGP, but whose IT-departments are willing to help them set up S/MIME. Kmail (and no other Open Source client that I know of) supports S/MIME (which today is the de-facto standard for the PHBs), which makes it very hard to propose an Open Source solution. When kmail (or exmh, tkrat, etc) supports S/MIME, we will have a better chance of penetrating the desktops of the corporate world. Roland B.
For those unfortunately souls out there that doesn't know *roff, you may call it a precursor of SGML/HTML, but with thousand of Office Users (AT&T Patent Department was, I believe, the first customer). If I'm not misremembering, troff was the reason K&R, Ossano etc. got funding for continued development of UNIX.
Cheers, Roland Buresund
Roland Buresund
The Mach version that NextStep were based on were a monolithic kernel (whereby Mach and BSD were merged). Next didn't separate the BSD part from the Mach kernel (OSF RI later worked on this). The GUI libraries was definitely not *IX based, but the kernel were.
I worked on the AIX transition from 3.x -> 4.x. There is (were) no single line of code from SVR4 in the AIX kernel. In fact, AFAIR, the kernel was based on the SVR3.2, with extensions from IBM. Also, parts of AIX 3.x were in OSF/1 (another port that I worked on).
Some of us uses laptops (like mine IBM 600E) that only has 2MB builtin vidoe memory. NON-upgradeable. And I like 1024*768. It doesn't help to change supplier either, as most laptops that can be carried only support 2MBs. Think before talking.