I think it must have been a while since you tried dvd playing on linux. AFAIK oms isn't even developed anymore. I use xine with the dvdnav plugin. It installed easily on debian, and the only sound sync problems I had were when I tried it using esd.
I also run 3d games under linux. Both the Wolfenstein and Quake III work, as does max payne running under WineX. All with no trouble after I installed the NVidia drivers.
I do agree with you about the X configuration issues, this seems to be something that each commercial distro is trying to solve in their installers (somewhat unsuccessfully in my experience).
Even if a Martian cell where photosynthetic, I would not expect it to express chlorophyll! Chlorophyll is long, big and complicated. An independently evolved protein, from an alien organism, would never look much like chlorphyll - the odds against such a coincidence are astronomical.
Chlorophyll is not a protein, so that argument doesn't apply. It's constructed from a porphyrin ring, much like haemoglobin
I suppose this is true - if the females are bright enough to figure out what is going on. However, in the case of rats, I don't really see it. I'm not even sure if animals directly associate mating with a desire to reproduce.
It could increase their resistance to the "Mutant Flies" tactic, in general. Females who favor non-altered males will be the ones to pass on their genes.
Yes - if they can tell. However I doubt there is a physical way that they can. The sterile flies should be genetically and phenotypically the same as the wild type - apart from happening to have become sterile. As I understand it the radiation kills the germ cells so the males can't reproduce. It does not make mutant flies.
I wonder if you could apply the concept to dilute undesireable traits in vermin populations. You could breed generation after generation of animal with the most annoying traits, sterilize them, and release them into the wild. After a while the species would tend to select against these attributes. Could this work? I'm not a biologist/ecologist.
No. Any fertile annoying animals that may arise will not be disfavoured by selection compared to non-annoying fertile animals just because there are annoying sterile animals around. However, this would change if the "annoying" characteristic meant that annoying animals are more likely to breed with each other or compete for a different food source than the non-annoying ones.
So, let's review. RMS didn't like KDE because it was not "free".
Well, it (Qt) wasn't!
RMS attacks KDE. KDE changes.
Qt changes - for the better. Things are safe now, whereas they weren't before.
Now RMS claims that the "ill feelings" he helped foster are not good (ungood?) for the community.
It seems to me that RMS was part of the problem that created this ill will, not part of the solution.
Er.. the licence changed to a Free one because of RMS + GNU. This is a good thing. The GNU developers may have gotten pissed off with the KDE ones and vice versa - unfortunately these kind of things spiral out of control. RMS is now trying to make things right again. What's wrong with that?
I'm not entirely sure what this has to do with themes on linux, but I smell a rat. All he's offering is an email for crying out loud, he's not offering any thing substansive at all, unless you count his blessings as substansive.
If you ask me, this is just a way for RMS to get his fingers into KDE.
What a load of tosh. This can only be a good thing and how can setting a default "linux" theme give RMS control over KDE? Although really, this is something which I am surprised that one of the distros (Mandrake?) hasn't already done.
> "We would like him to come to the free software community and explain himself to us about it."
> How is this "flying off the handle"?
Its not. However RMS does seem to have started using the royal we:-) Thatcher started doing it and it became clear that she was going completely potty so we should be worried!
>Compressing pure text HTML may be fine but I expect this thing to crawl when it comes to graphics...
Well, the server reduces all graphics down to 256 colours (which is all the device can display) before transmission, which probably helps a bit.
I still would have to see it to believe it really seems faster than 56k though.
Er... it has an MMC card! I agree about the Mhz being fairly meaningless though - if its fast enough to play MP3s and render websites then what else do you need?
According to the ZDnet Review that somebody below pointed out, "There is some heavy-duty protection to guard against viruses." What that means exactly I don't know though.
Errr... Evolution uses GtkHTML which is extremely small and light. If you're having problems using GtkHTML maybe there is something wrong with your machine?
Galeon sometimes feels slow on my K6 333, but flies on my work machine (a dual PII 550MHZ).
Evolution never gives me speed problems with HTML rendering though.
Debian is too different - it uses apt and dpkg not rpm. Thus porting an installer might be harder than starting from scratch.
Debian's installer may be nasty to use if you are unfamiliar with it, but it never fails to at least leave you with a bootable minimal system from which the rest of the install can proceed. (At least its never failed for me). Many a time Mandrake and Red Hat's installers have screwed up often half-way through (and even progeny's has done this to me). Basically by being text only and having little or no hardware autodetection it is really stable and hard to mess up if you know what you are doing.
"Where is our business model if everyone else can copy it?" asked Holger Dyroff, former CEO and now director of sales for Linux software seller SuSE. "The question is where we can make money now. Nobody cared about profitability two years ago."
I really can't believe he said that! If nobody (including presuambly SuSE) cared about profitability two years ago how can these people be serious about running a business?
I can only assume he was being somewhat facetious.
It works with woody, but you have to be prepared for the odd dependency conflict. It does work quite well, but what is woody's GNOME like now? I get the impression that it's quite up to date too?
I looked at the why "we are not Freshmeat" article. It seems the difference is that they _only_ show "open source" software.
But how open is open? - they don't seem to say what definition they are using! GPL only? (unlikely since they say open and not free), BSD? Various other "open" licences that may be subject to argument. And why would I want to look at a subset of the Freshmeat directory anyway? - I can ignore the non-free software if I am so biased. I beleive you can search by license on Freshmeat if you are so inclined.
Actually, I appreciate they may need time to sort these issues out, and perhaps this site will have value.
Anyway, Galeon is driving me up the wall by jumping around the page while I type! Arrrghhh - is this fixed in Mozilla 0.8.1?? Maybe I should look it up in opensourcedirectory.org:-)
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And don't forget these guys.
Actually Sid will always be unstable - hence the name. I guess it will always be somewhat broken, like the toys.
Not sure if the next one is Sarge though, although it could well be.
Woh woh woh woh!
I think it must have been a while since you tried dvd playing on linux. AFAIK oms isn't even developed anymore. I use xine with the dvdnav plugin. It installed easily on debian, and the only sound sync problems I had were when I tried it using esd.
I also run 3d games under linux. Both the Wolfenstein and Quake III work, as does max payne running under WineX. All with no trouble after I installed the NVidia drivers.
I do agree with you about the X configuration issues, this seems to be something that each commercial distro is trying to solve in their installers (somewhat unsuccessfully in my experience).
Even if a Martian cell where photosynthetic, I would not expect it to express chlorophyll! Chlorophyll is long, big and complicated. An independently evolved protein, from an alien organism, would never look much like chlorphyll - the odds against such a coincidence are astronomical.
Chlorophyll is not a protein, so that argument doesn't apply. It's constructed from a porphyrin ring, much like haemoglobin
Yeah, cos the 2.4 kernel has been sooooo stable :-)
I suppose this is true - if the females are bright enough to figure out what is going on. However, in the case of rats, I don't really see it. I'm not even sure if animals directly associate mating with a desire to reproduce.
Yes - if they can tell. However I doubt there is a physical way that they can. The sterile flies should be genetically and phenotypically the same as the wild type - apart from happening to have become sterile. As I understand it the radiation kills the germ cells so the males can't reproduce. It does not make mutant flies.
I wonder if you could apply the concept to dilute undesireable traits in vermin populations. You could breed generation after generation of animal with the most annoying traits, sterilize them, and release them into the wild. After a while the species would tend to select against these attributes. Could this work? I'm not a biologist/ecologist.
No. Any fertile annoying animals that may arise will not be disfavoured by selection compared to non-annoying fertile animals just because there are annoying sterile animals around. However, this would change if the "annoying" characteristic meant that annoying animals are more likely to breed with each other or compete for a different food source than the non-annoying ones.
Well, it (Qt) wasn't!
RMS attacks KDE. KDE changes.
Qt changes - for the better. Things are safe now, whereas they weren't before.
Now RMS claims that the "ill feelings" he helped foster are not good (ungood?) for the community.
It seems to me that RMS was part of the problem that created this ill will, not part of the solution.
Er.. the licence changed to a Free one because of RMS + GNU. This is a good thing. The GNU developers may have gotten pissed off with the KDE ones and vice versa - unfortunately these kind of things spiral out of control. RMS is now trying to make things right again. What's wrong with that?
I'm not entirely sure what this has to do with themes on linux, but I smell a rat. All he's offering is an email for crying out loud, he's not offering any thing substansive at all, unless you count his blessings as substansive. If you ask me, this is just a way for RMS to get his fingers into KDE.
What a load of tosh. This can only be a good thing and how can setting a default "linux" theme give RMS control over KDE? Although really, this is something which I am surprised that one of the distros (Mandrake?) hasn't already done.
Good point, but when the government sold off BT, they must have sold all BT's IP rights and patents. Its irritating but there you go.
Not that I believe for 1 second that BT actually invented the hyperlink
> "We would like him to come to the free software community and explain himself to us about it." :-) Thatcher started doing it and it became clear that she was going completely potty so we should be worried!
> How is this "flying off the handle"?
Its not. However RMS does seem to have started using the royal we
When these guys release their product we will all be surfing at cable modem speeds over 9,600. In fact, since"Everything in an N-member set can be expressed in an N-1 set." we wont even need a network connection, we can just reconstruct our webpages by uncompressing /dev/null!
Well, the server reduces all graphics down to 256 colours (which is all the device can display) before transmission, which probably helps a bit. I still would have to see it to believe it really seems faster than 56k though.
Er... it has an MMC card! I agree about the Mhz being fairly meaningless though - if its fast enough to play MP3s and render websites then what else do you need?
According to the ZDnet Review that somebody below pointed out, "There is some heavy-duty protection to guard against viruses." What that means exactly I don't know though.
Errr... Evolution uses GtkHTML which is extremely small and light. If you're having problems using GtkHTML maybe there is something wrong with your machine?
Galeon sometimes feels slow on my K6 333, but flies on my work machine (a dual PII 550MHZ).
Evolution never gives me speed problems with HTML rendering though.
I think the reason is twofold:
Debian is too different - it uses apt and dpkg not rpm. Thus porting an installer might be harder than starting from scratch.
Debian's installer may be nasty to use if you are unfamiliar with it, but it never fails to at least leave you with a bootable minimal system from which the rest of the install can proceed. (At least its never failed for me). Many a time Mandrake and Red Hat's installers have screwed up often half-way through (and even progeny's has done this to me). Basically by being text only and having little or no hardware autodetection it is really stable and hard to mess up if you know what you are doing.
I really can't believe he said that! If nobody (including presuambly SuSE) cared about profitability two years ago how can these people be serious about running a business?
I can only assume he was being somewhat facetious.
Assuming its this eugena then I don't think it counts as plagarism.
It works with woody, but you have to be prepared for the odd dependency conflict. It does work quite well, but what is woody's GNOME like now? I get the impression that it's quite up to date too?
errr... but trolltech are not a desktop company?
But how open is open? - they don't seem to say what definition they are using! GPL only? (unlikely since they say open and not free), BSD? Various other "open" licences that may be subject to argument. And why would I want to look at a subset of the Freshmeat directory anyway? - I can ignore the non-free software if I am so biased. I beleive you can search by license on Freshmeat if you are so inclined.
Actually, I appreciate they may need time to sort these issues out, and perhaps this site will have value. Anyway, Galeon is driving me up the wall by jumping around the page while I type! Arrrghhh - is this fixed in Mozilla 0.8.1?? Maybe I should look it up in opensourcedirectory.org :-)
krusty:~# apt-cache showpkg nautilus
Package: nautilus
Versions:
1.0-1(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dis ts_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dp kg/status)