I really agree with Chris' attitude towards these groups (or so called businesses). Most of them are creating a "hodge podge" effort at combining a few packages with the gimp, sticking it on a CD and then calling it "their product" and selling it!
One of the things that really irks me is that when I compiled (I won't say ported because it didn't involve any coding) the gimp and uploaded it to GNU-Darwin, it was available for those people who had the right dependencies to download from the GNU-Darwin ftp (under a contrib folder). But MacGIMP.org came along and listed it on versiontracker.com. Now what a stupid thing to do, it was like they were trying to get people to download it and understand what was going on. Accordingly people wrote in the description how crap it was, because they either couldn't install it or it was "crap because it ran on xwindows".
Today I notice people uploading debian package files of MySQL and other such things to the same sites. I personally think a lot of it is trash, and out there to confuse people who *don't* know anything about unix rather than to help them understand and use these applications.
I don't know if Chris will get much support with his attitude towards Tenon though, but maybe he will. I don't exactly know what his issue with them are. Xtools has been around before xdarwin (xaqua), and did at one stage offer more features. It is a typical case of commercial software being beaten by free software, and I think we will begin to see a lot of this happening on OSX as many of the development tools on OSX are free.
Actually.. one of the cool things about doing this is that you can encrypt the connection by tunneling MySQL data through SSH. I had no problems with the MySQL ODBC driver... except for the fact that if you have office 97 or lower, you need to make sure you have all of the updates for it (I can't remember the problem, but you had to install the latest SR release). I think for this reason it offers a few more features, and given the quick access speed of MySQL and the features PHP offer it I think its a great alternative for a small-medium size database. Though do I *hate* a few things about MySQL.
This news is over a week old. Firstly it came from Maccentral.com.. then moved onto cnet (which is actually the article M$NBC used).
I'm not supprised MSNBC would run this on behalf of M$'s request. After all, I'm sure that M$ aren't happy that Apple claim OSX to be the most advanced operating system in the world, amoungst other reasons.
From a critical analysis point of view, the article is poor and only highlights weaknesses in the product (if they are even weaknesses comparitively) and does not give a rounded opinion of any strengths. Such articles can in all probability be dismissed as biased.
The operating system can only be really judged on its success once it has been released.
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I really agree with Chris' attitude towards these groups (or so called businesses). Most of them are creating a "hodge podge" effort at combining a few packages with the gimp, sticking it on a CD and then calling it "their product" and selling it!
One of the things that really irks me is that when I compiled (I won't say ported because it didn't involve any coding) the gimp and uploaded it to GNU-Darwin, it was available for those people who had the right dependencies to download from the GNU-Darwin ftp (under a contrib folder). But MacGIMP.org came along and listed it on versiontracker.com. Now what a stupid thing to do, it was like they were trying to get people to download it and understand what was going on. Accordingly people wrote in the description how crap it was, because they either couldn't install it or it was "crap because it ran on xwindows".
Today I notice people uploading debian package files of MySQL and other such things to the same sites. I personally think a lot of it is trash, and out there to confuse people who *don't* know anything about unix rather than to help them understand and use these applications.
I don't know if Chris will get much support with his attitude towards Tenon though, but maybe he will. I don't exactly know what his issue with them are. Xtools has been around before xdarwin (xaqua), and did at one stage offer more features. It is a typical case of commercial software being beaten by free software, and I think we will begin to see a lot of this happening on OSX as many of the development tools on OSX are free.
Who needs Windows 2000 when the Germans have Enigma boxes, hah, sit on that and rotate Mr NSA! :o)
Actually.. one of the cool things about doing this is that you can encrypt the connection by tunneling MySQL data through SSH. I had no problems with the MySQL ODBC driver... except for the fact that if you have office 97 or lower, you need to make sure you have all of the updates for it (I can't remember the problem, but you had to install the latest SR release). I think for this reason it offers a few more features, and given the quick access speed of MySQL and the features PHP offer it I think its a great alternative for a small-medium size database. Though do I *hate* a few things about MySQL.
This news is over a week old. Firstly it came from Maccentral.com .. then moved onto cnet (which is actually the article M$NBC used).
I'm not supprised MSNBC would run this on behalf of M$'s request. After all, I'm sure that M$ aren't happy that Apple claim OSX to be the most advanced operating system in the world, amoungst other reasons.
From a critical analysis point of view, the article is poor and only highlights weaknesses in the product (if they are even weaknesses comparitively) and does not give a rounded opinion of any strengths. Such articles can in all probability be dismissed as biased.
The operating system can only be really judged on its success once it has been released.