Furthermore: Have you considered restarting the Hurd again, using Minix 3 instead of Mach?
MINIX 3 is a free (BSD license) operating system designed to be highly reliable, flexible, and secure. It is based on a tiny microkernel running in kernel mode with the rest of the operating system running as a collection of isolated, protected, processes in user mode. It is POSIX compliant and can run bash, emacs, gcc, gdb, the X Window System, etc.
The Debian project showed that it's possible to have a GNU system on top of the FreeBSD kernel. Would producing a GNU/kMinix system be more realistic than the Hurd becoming a production-ready, superior kernel?
Peter H. Salus, in his book `The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin' quotes Thomas Bushnell (the initial Hurd architect) as saying:
My first choice was to take the BSD 4.4-Lite release and make a kernel. I knew the code, I knew how to do it. It is now perfectly obvious to me that this would have succeeded splendidly and the world would be a very different place today. RMS wanted to work together with people from Berkeley on such an effort. Some of them were interested, but some seem to have been deliberately dragging their feet: and the reason now seems to be that they had the goal of spinning off BSDI. A GNU based on 4.4-Lite would undercut BSDI. So RMS said to himself, "Mach is a working kernel, 4.4-Lite is only partial, we will go with Mach." It was a decision which I strongly opposed. But ultimately it was not my decision to make, and I made the best go I could at working with Mach and doing something new from that standpoint. This was all way before Linux; we're talking 1991 or so.
In hindsight, do you regret that decision, or are you happy about Linux being the usual kernel in GNU systems (and the subsequent misnaming)?
As the subject of the post said, the list is incomplete, so it obviously lacks diversity.
I could go on with non-English literature, such as Aleph Blindness Cronopios and Famas Fictions One Hundred Years of Solitude The Book of Disquiet The Idiot The Sound of the Mountain The Tale of Genji The Tin Drum The Trial War with the Newts... but you don't want me to list my whole collection. Hopefully those are enough to add some depth to the previous list, even though I didn't include any non-fiction.
A Confederacy of Dunces Catch-22 Dharma Bums Lord of the Flies Momo On the Road Siddharta The Golden Notebook The Grapes of Wrath The Razor's Edge A Clockwork Orange Brave New World Player Piano Slaughterhouse Five Snowcrash The Diamond Age The Dispossessed The Island The Stand...
KlaymenDK is better known as Jan Gundtofte-Bruun , and is an IT Specialist at IBM Denmark A/S since 1998. This a photo of him.
He is about to build a new PC, and plans to use FreeBSD, mainly as a quad-core, dual-headed, desktop workstation, but would very much like to be able to play the occasional BZFlag (call him oldschool).
You can also peruse his Amazon profile, etc. What strikes me is that he was apparently involved in the sound department of Festen, a great Danish movie.
It's interesting to see xxxBSD user/developer comparing "just written" software for BSD with ancient versions of Linux counterparts and (surprisingly) finding xxxBSD version to be better. My point being: dm-crypt.
If you are interested in Linux 2.6 encrypted partition, use dm-crypt together with cryptsetup tool. It's much safer than AES loop and:[...]
The information comes from this excellent interview to RMS conducted by Federico Biancuzzi, and published on OnLamp.
This is what RMS actually said:
Some companies, such as Google, use code covered by GPL to offer their services through the Web. Do you plan to extend GPL 3 copyleft to request code publication in this case too, considering this behavior like a product distribution?
Running a program in a public server is not distribution; it is public use. We're looking at an approach where programs used in this way will have to include a command for the user to download the source for the version that is running.
But this will not apply to all GPL-covered programs, only to programs that already contain such a command. Thus, this change would have no effect on existing software, but developers could activate it in the future.
This is only a tentative plan, because we have not finished studying the matter to be sure it will work.
How would it work?
If you release a program that implements such a command, GPL 3 will require others to keep the command working in their modified versions of the program.
an extra '1' got prepended to the namespace at some point. So what you remember as Center 127 was 1127 by the time I was there (in 1995), and Dept 1271 was 11271.
So, I think Salus should have written Center 1127, not Department 1127, but the gist of the article is correct.
Yeah, right. How many cases can you think of enterprises releasing their software under a BSD license? Alas, I can think of many programs being released by big corporations under the GNU GPL. Enterprises just wants other's software released under BSD.
If individual developers/small groups want to make any money from their work or get enterprises collaborating in their project, they should go with the GNU GPL as well.
Of course, sometimes the LGPL will be preferable. And -rarely- the GPL+linking exception.
would like to point out that other animals may not drink milk after infancy, but they do eat organ meat, entrails, eyeballs, and all sorts of other nutrient-rich animal parts that we tend to discard, these days--including partially digested food in the animal's intestinal tract. Maybe you'd prefer eating tripe to drinking milk?
In the event of you ever coming to Spain, you could taste the madejas (lamb intestines with oil, garlic and parsley), callos (tripes), morcillas (black pudding made of pork blood) and many other dishes of our delicious traditional cuisine.
On the other hand, adult humans don't NEED dairy products, as lots of vegans know.
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Have you considered restarting the Hurd again, using Minix 3 instead of Mach?
MINIX 3 is a free (BSD license) operating system designed to be highly reliable, flexible, and secure. It is based on a tiny microkernel running in kernel mode with the rest of the operating system running as a collection of isolated, protected, processes in user mode. It is POSIX compliant and can run bash, emacs, gcc, gdb, the X Window System, etc.
The Debian project showed that it's possible to have a GNU system on top of the FreeBSD kernel. Would producing a GNU/kMinix system be more realistic than the Hurd becoming a production-ready, superior kernel?
Caldera open sourced Ancient Unices 12 years ago: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Ca...
Peter H. Salus, in his book `The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin' quotes Thomas Bushnell (the initial Hurd architect) as saying:
In hindsight, do you regret that decision, or are you happy about Linux being the usual kernel in GNU systems (and the subsequent misnaming)?
As the subject of the post said, the list is incomplete, so it obviously lacks diversity.
I could go on with non-English literature, such as ...
Aleph
Blindness
Cronopios and Famas
Fictions
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Book of Disquiet
The Idiot
The Sound of the Mountain
The Tale of Genji
The Tin Drum
The Trial
War with the Newts
but you don't want me to list my whole collection. Hopefully those are enough to add some depth to the previous list, even though I didn't include any non-fiction.
A Confederacy of Dunces ...
Catch-22
Dharma Bums
Lord of the Flies
Momo
On the Road
Siddharta
The Golden Notebook
The Grapes of Wrath
The Razor's Edge
A Clockwork Orange
Brave New World
Player Piano
Slaughterhouse Five
Snowcrash
The Diamond Age
The Dispossessed
The Island
The Stand
I'm of course thinking about myman, moon-buggy, bastet, nethack, overkill, etc.
Hi Bruce,
aren't the OpenBSD guys at odds with the Apache 2.0 license?
AFAIK, that's the reason they still provide only Apache 1.3.x.
Wouldn't be better to recommend the ISC license?
Thanks for your insight.
I guess you're talking about the Folder View plasmoid. Please notice that it can work fullscreen, thus emulating the classic desktop.
However, I prefer to have a completely clean desktop, because it's always covered by windows anyway.
Thank you! :-)
Can we read them online?
Come on! It's a bit late for that, isn't it?
After all, your family site is already using GMail and Picasa.
KlaymenDK is better known as Jan Gundtofte-Bruun , and is an IT Specialist at IBM Denmark A/S since 1998. This a photo of him.
He is about to build a new PC, and plans to use FreeBSD, mainly as a quad-core, dual-headed, desktop workstation, but would very much like to be able to play the occasional BZFlag (call him oldschool).
You can also peruse his Amazon profile, etc. What strikes me is that he was apparently involved in the sound department of Festen, a great Danish movie.
Yep, but after the opensourcing of Java, I see a bright future for gcj and classpath.
But... how do I get those communication and interpersonal skills?
There is a dm-crypt tutorial on Linux Journal: Encrypt Your Root Filesystem.
It was also published in Spanish by the magazine Mundo Linux.
This is what RMS actually said:
This inteview is also discussed on OSNews.
Despite the original post, it wasn't Debian who pledged to conform to this standard, but the Debian Common Core Alliance.
Nor Debian nor Ubuntu are part of it.
Btw, in a recent post on his blog, Red Hat's Ulrich Drepper makes some criticisms of the LSB and its shortcomings of the v3 certification process.
Does it mean that Disney will have to actually come up with new stories instead of ripping off Grimm brothers et al?
Alas, I can think of many programs being released by big corporations under the GNU GPL.
Enterprises just wants other's software released under BSD.
If individual developers/small groups want to make any money from their work or get enterprises collaborating in their project, they should go with the GNU GPL as well.
Of course, sometimes the LGPL will be preferable. And -rarely- the GPL+linking exception.
On the other hand, adult humans don't NEED dairy products, as lots of vegans know.
No sir. Perl and MySQL are GPL'd.
Why does Slashdot keep publishing his idiocies?
Any recommendation?
In Soviet USA, enterprises have you (and your houses)!