Re:Not to be complaining
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Actually I found the source compilation process to be pretty easy. I used the latest source (v0.17) and the only problem I had was not having lib-fam0-devel installed. Perhaps it might get to be a little problematic with an older system, with older libs. This here is a Mandrake 9.1 system with some stuff from Cooker.
There's a link to a quick howto by a Karamba user in the project page here which eases the (supposed) pain of installing this.
Jeez, since when is FreshMeat that connected with Linux kernel releases. Apart from the stupid idea of making an article on a minor release of course:P
I think the only upside of the proprietary database software is that it has a known development team and so it's a more 'stable' and somewhat 'safe' development. This said, i think free dbase software blows the others away. It's free, runs on multiple platforms, comes with your Linux, you can download it anywhere, it's not big and all. And it was a problem that got solved in Linux when MySQL for instance came up, there was finally a strong dbase available for us.
Indeed I think this should become a common place. And I don't think there should be woes about students trashing the university's network, I mean people can't just put some clown controlling the stuff it would still be qualified ppl with just one minor difference. They're students.
I always defend this way of thinking about stuff, you see, I'm taking a university degree in Computers Engineering and I speak for myself. Most of the time I feel it's so much better to play around PHP (or whatever) instead of actually working on uni stuff, architecture for instance. Actually, in my point of view, this is the first and major side effect about being in university, sometimes it's not as exciting as you think it is to be there. Before you think like 'wow, computers all the time! I'm finally going to do what I've always dream of!' but then you get in there and you have to take some really boring stuff.
So there's where this kind of actions take place. If students have such responsabilities it can be much more motivating, at least I'd like to learn much more than having kind of a secondary role at school. At least I think that way.
My parents also run a business which needs a computer network running. When the company guys went there to install the machines, even if it's a window$ network, they provided accurate service and all. And why? Cuz my parents hadn't paid for the service yet. Obviously after they got the money, they hardly come over for mantainance. This is also clearly a problem of ethics.
The problem is there are few really competent companies on the business.And I agree when people say it's a lazyness problem too.
Well, taking a look over the shoulder, we can see how much of an argue it was between KDE (1) and GNOME, now the thing is, KDE2 is really very nice and has, in my opinion, _nothing_ to do with the previous version. I don't know your opinion but, for instance, Balsa is one of the few programs doing the trick for GNOME now.
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Actually I found the source compilation process to be pretty easy. I used the latest source (v0.17) and the only problem I had was not having lib-fam0-devel installed. Perhaps it might get to be a little problematic with an older system, with older libs. This here is a Mandrake 9.1 system with some stuff from Cooker.
There's a link to a quick howto by a Karamba user in the project page here which eases the (supposed) pain of installing this.
Jeez, since when is FreshMeat that connected with Linux kernel releases. Apart from the stupid idea of making an article on a minor release of course :P
[paulo@nirvana paulo]$ finger @zeus.kernel.org
[zeus.kernel.org]
The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.9
The latest prepatch (alpha) version *appears* to be: 2.4.9-pre4
Ever thought of this?.. It saves you a lot of hassle you know.
I think the only upside of the proprietary database software is that it has a known development team and so it's a more 'stable' and somewhat 'safe' development. This said, i think free dbase software blows the others away. It's free, runs on multiple platforms, comes with your Linux, you can download it anywhere, it's not big and all. And it was a problem that got solved in Linux when MySQL for instance came up, there was finally a strong dbase available for us.
Indeed I think this should become a common place. And I don't think there should be woes about students trashing the university's network, I mean people can't just put some clown controlling the stuff it would still be qualified ppl with just one minor difference. They're students.
I always defend this way of thinking about stuff, you see, I'm taking a university degree in Computers Engineering and I speak for myself. Most of the time I feel it's so much better to play around PHP (or whatever) instead of actually working on uni stuff, architecture for instance. Actually, in my point of view, this is the first and major side effect about being in university, sometimes it's not as exciting as you think it is to be there. Before you think like 'wow, computers all the time! I'm finally going to do what I've always dream of!' but then you get in there and you have to take some really boring stuff.
So there's where this kind of actions take place. If students have such responsabilities it can be much more motivating, at least I'd like to learn much more than having kind of a secondary role at school. At least I think that way.
The problem is there are few really competent companies on the business.And I agree when people say it's a lazyness problem too.
Why are they featuring Linus, don't they know that Linux has called it quits? Bet Micros~1 would be a much better bet.. ;)
Well, taking a look over the shoulder, we can see how much of an argue it was between KDE (1) and GNOME, now the thing is, KDE2 is really very nice and has, in my opinion, _nothing_ to do with the previous version. I don't know your opinion but, for instance, Balsa is one of the few programs doing the trick for GNOME now.
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