First of all, Debian isn't about Linux. Debian is about free software. You can run Debian on Linux and on Hurd for now, a BSD port has been requested repeatedly, as has a Windows port.
So Debian brings thousands of packages of free software to thouse that are stuck with Windows, for whatever reason that is. There are other ways to do it, cygwin being one (but not to userfriendly) and porting user mode linux to Windows the other (which hasn't been done yet). Debian w32 fills the gap.
Remember, Debian is about free software. Free as in free to be used where necessary, including Windows.
isn't it? Declaring circumvention illegal is like declaring technical restrictions the law. Only they are not passed by the congress but by clever engineers.
Examples are easy to construct:
a) You move from Europe to America. All your DVDs are now illegal to watch, because they have a european country code.
b) You download music from the internet. It happens to be locked to your CPU. Which you might not realise, till one day it breaks or you upgrade your computer.
c) You want to watch one of your movies at a friends (DVD or whatever), but it is locked to your player. So you have to carry the player, too...
d) You want to tape a football game, because it is late at night and you have to get up early. No way, as the station doesn't wont you to tape it.
Since most of the problem seems to be that the IA32 allows user processes to read the system registers, why not build a IA32-Clone that can generate a trap? Imho the modification would be absolutely minor, and maybe AMD would do it.
Then think DOSEMU. This does everything FVM ever wants to achieve, but the complete virtualization of the protected mode. Either implementing the software solution or getting a virtualizable CPU, DOSEMU could run Window NT with no problem. I don't see the need for a new project (though competition is of course ok).
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Yes, but what's the point of having really great and difficult to remember passwords for all these crappy accounts? You can use simple passwords for these (usually they don't check very much), and you can use the same one every time. So you can use your brainspace for the real passwords, that really have to be save.
> I'm really kind of happy with my Corel WP Suite, it has the same L&F on both my linux boxes and my win98 machine....
I don't think this tell anything. The app should L&F the user wants it to (as set in the OS/GUI), not the way the app thinks the user wants it to. I find StarOffice most annoying *because* it looks like Windows (95) in a window. It even crashes every 20 minutes...:-(((
i don't think that is likely. actually, X version number seems to converge against some fixed number, similar to TeX.
how this?
well, they started with W, then X. a lot of things happend, we had X10 and finally X11. then X11R6, and now X11R6.4. i'm not saying that there won't be an X11R7, but there will unlikely be an X12.
because compatibility is important. every X11 app (even R2 or something) should be able to connect to a recent X11 server. version numbering has more to do with compatibility than with progress. and you basically can't break compatibility (even berlin has an Xserver...), there won't be W.
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First of all, Debian isn't about Linux. Debian is about free software. You can run Debian on Linux and on Hurd for now, a BSD port has been requested repeatedly, as has a Windows port.
So Debian brings thousands of packages of free software to thouse that are stuck with Windows, for whatever reason that is. There are other ways to do it, cygwin being one (but not to userfriendly) and porting user mode linux to Windows the other (which hasn't been done yet). Debian w32 fills the gap.
Remember, Debian is about free software. Free as in free to be used where necessary, including Windows.
Examples are easy to construct:
a) You move from Europe to America. All your DVDs are now illegal to watch, because they have a european country code.
b) You download music from the internet. It happens to be locked to your CPU. Which you might not realise, till one day it breaks or you upgrade your computer.
c) You want to watch one of your movies at a friends (DVD or whatever), but it is locked to your player. So you have to carry the player, too...
d) You want to tape a football game, because it is late at night and you have to get up early. No way, as the station doesn't wont you to tape it.
Since most of the problem seems to be that
the IA32 allows user processes to read the system
registers, why not build a IA32-Clone that
can generate a trap? Imho the modification would
be absolutely minor, and maybe AMD would do it.
Then think DOSEMU. This does everything FVM ever
wants to achieve, but the complete virtualization
of the protected mode. Either implementing the
software solution or getting a virtualizable CPU,
DOSEMU could run Window NT with no problem. I don't
see the need for a new project (though competition
is of course ok).
Yes, but what's the point of having really great and difficult to remember passwords for all these crappy accounts? You can use simple passwords for these (usually they don't check very much), and you can use the same one every time.
So you can use your brainspace for the real passwords, that really have to be save.
> I'm really kind of happy with my Corel WP Suite, it has the same L&F on both my linux boxes and my win98 machine....
:-(((
I don't think this tell anything. The app should L&F the user wants it to (as set in the OS/GUI), not the way the app thinks the user wants it to. I find StarOffice most annoying *because* it looks like Windows (95) in a window. It even crashes every 20 minutes...
32 MB Ram, max resolution 800x600, and i forgot the hard disk size. doesn't seem to be very useful for anything i usually do with my computer.
oh well, cheap stuff for the masses.
Real Hackers (TM) can hack from payphones for ages. In fact, they don't need a modem, they just whistle the right tunes into the receiver... :-)
> So, when do we start working on 'Y'?
i don't think that is likely. actually, X version number seems to converge against some fixed number, similar to TeX.
how this?
well, they started with W, then X. a lot of things
happend, we had X10 and finally X11. then X11R6, and now X11R6.4. i'm not saying that there won't be an X11R7, but there will unlikely be an X12.
because compatibility is important. every X11 app (even R2 or something) should be able to connect to a recent X11 server. version numbering has more to do with compatibility than with progress. and you basically can't break compatibility (even berlin has an Xserver...), there won't be W.
talk about design decissions...