There are a lot of distros out there, and a some of them are good, but isnt it time somebody provides a custom-built solution for each user ?
Something similar to building your own computer. You select the motherboard,chip, memory, and create a custom configuration, and order it .
I understand it can be done with any conventional distro with apt/rpm/yourpackagingtool etc, but cant it be done ina more interactive, newbie friendly way?
Possible questions at Customlinux.org(.com?) :
1) Hardware Configuration :
Processor :
Memory :
MM kit :
2) Required applications :
Office suite
Browser :
Multimedia kit :
Link to App database offering other apps:
Once the options are done, just mix them together into an ISO, and start serving !?
More mod points to you ! Bang on, on the UI issue.
But on an OT note, i wonder what Open source needs leadership for ? More people to use it ? More money to be made out of it? Kill Microsoft ?
From what i've read, this movement is about sharing your work, without restrictions..In my opinion, no one person is/should be *responsible* for an Open-Source product,unless the person happens to be the sole developer.
As for the PR work, yes there needs to be a few spokespersons, which we already have.
All the same, a good product would hardly need an advertisement - Proof is Apache,Linux,and number of BSD installations.
Sharing with a few of my friends?
eg: My Friend buys a copy of CD1.
I buy a copy of CD2.
Cant we swap those? Especially , if i like just one song in CD2, do i have to go to the damn store to buy it? And if I can, how many friends do you believe I can share with, before becoming illegal?
1) IMHO, Java's USP till date has been its platform independence.. A Java OS defeats this idea. The only reason Java has penetrated this far, is its capability to run on current platforms.
If the application is targeted at more than 1 platform, you are better off with Java..
Otherwise, chuck that JDK out, get a decent native-mode compiler, IDE and GUI toolkit..(and go for C++ , it's pretty cross-platform too:-)
Posting mirrors is lame, it gets slashdotted anyhow.. So is posting the whole story on the page, but what the hell, nobody gets to read anything otherwise..
The minimum a slashdot editor can do is to give the system configuration, when he/she posts a story on some big assed system.
Okay, so we have a machine which responds "intelligently" to queries.. But what does it do ?
Maybe it passes the Turing Test. But i want to see it as an "Entity", moving, responding, reacting to its environment, using its Knowledge-base. That would be passable AI in my book.
Well,there has been a lot of posts about disadvantages of tall buildings, but none actually about Arcology, and what it signifies.
Here's a lil primer..
Arcology as a word was derived from Paolo Soleri's book "Arcology: The City in the Image of Man". It literally means Architecture + Ecology.
The goals of the theory are pretty noble,as can be found here.
Everyone has pointed about that they need the Great Open spaces, how unstable these buildings will be. But structures like this are going to be prevalent quite soon, atleast in the 3rd world countries, barring one of the following events.
Discovery of a viable alternative to earth for human occupation.
An Effective Population control programme on the part of all countries.
(esp China, India and the like)
Yay, we British are extremely smart chaps.
We have made a Revolutionary Carbon Fibre based propulsion device.
When a projectile (Consisting of classified material,widely rumored to be an isotope of Silicon.) is fired from this device, we are able to knock off spherical objects suspended from another Carbon fibre based structure, as distant as 2 metres.
We are planning to patent this device and call it the SLING-SHOT-MI5 .
Russia had a very successfull space program, and has always been a step ahead of America. It has always amazed me that a land of communists, dictators and gulags could produce such enterprising science programmes.
Troll :
GOTO [Insightful Comment].
Moronic Comment:
Can u imagine a fscking Beowulf cluster of fscking Mir2 space stations ?
Flamebait :
Those Russian bfstards cant launch off a paper rocket any more, unless the US gives them a dime.
Slashdot Mirror
Me : Can u imagine a Beowulf cluster of yourself?
Cyc : -1 Troll.
And in the latest release of Debian 2.3r9 Tomato:
- Linux Kernel 2.4.x ('Came Stable in 2010)
- 950,000 packages
- XFree v 4.1
And Debian Hurd is an experimental system , not yet released..
There are a lot of distros out there, and a some of them are good, but isnt it time somebody provides a custom-built solution for each user ?
Something similar to building your own computer. You select the motherboard,chip, memory, and create a custom configuration, and order it .
I understand it can be done with any conventional distro with apt/rpm/yourpackagingtool etc, but cant it be done ina more interactive, newbie friendly way?
Possible questions at Customlinux.org(.com?) :
1) Hardware Configuration :
Processor :
Memory :
MM kit :
2) Required applications :
Office suite
Browser :
Multimedia kit :
Link to App database offering other apps:
Once the options are done, just mix them together into an ISO, and start serving !?
Can anyone imagine a Beowulf cluster of "Where is the old SGI " laments ?
More mod points to you ! Bang on, on the UI issue.
But on an OT note, i wonder what Open source needs leadership for ? More people to use it ? More money to be made out of it? Kill Microsoft ?
From what i've read, this movement is about sharing your work, without restrictions..In my opinion, no one person is/should be *responsible* for an Open-Source product,unless the person happens to be the sole developer.
As for the PR work, yes there needs to be a few spokespersons, which we already have.
All the same, a good product would hardly need an advertisement - Proof is Apache,Linux,and number of BSD installations.
Hate to respond to a troll, but there are newbies around everywhere. DONT DO THIS ON YOUR OFFICE MACHINE..
Pardon me, but your argument seems to be :
Sharing with None -> Legal
Sharing with Milions -> Illegal
What about
Sharing with a few of my friends? eg: My Friend buys a copy of CD1. I buy a copy of CD2.
Cant we swap those? Especially , if i like just one song in CD2, do i have to go to the damn store to buy it? And if I can, how many friends do you believe I can share with, before becoming illegal?
Borland Kylix Desktop Developer Edition-> allows redistribution of libs under any license -> under Borland "No-Nonsense" license..
Borland Kylix Open Edition -> allows redistribution only under GPL -> under Borland's Non.. er GPL License? WTF?
1) IMHO, Java's USP till date has been its platform independence.. A Java OS defeats this idea. The only reason Java has penetrated this far, is its capability to run on current platforms.
If the application is targeted at more than 1 platform, you are better off with Java.. Otherwise, chuck that JDK out, get a decent native-mode compiler, IDE and GUI toolkit..(and go for C++ , it's pretty cross-platform too :-)
Posting mirrors is lame, it gets slashdotted anyhow.. So is posting the whole story on the page, but what the hell, nobody gets to read anything otherwise..
The minimum a slashdot editor can do is to give the system configuration, when he/she posts a story on some big assed system.
Courtesy - Image Google
Angelina Jolie doesnt smell like Pepperoni ?
"Web-Based Collaborative Artwork" definitely couldnt be done in the pre-Net era, (unless u're talking of Spiders and stuff..
But "Collaborative ArtWork" - definitely possible..and u didnt get slashdotted for that..
I would like to see snapshots of those sites in full bloom, rather than a dead skeleton.
Maybe Google can start a site using its cache,as Webthatwas.com or somethin
Okay, so we have a machine which responds "intelligently" to queries.. But what does it do ?
Maybe it passes the Turing Test. But i want to see it as an "Entity", moving, responding, reacting to its environment, using its Knowledge-base. That would be passable AI in my book.
Possible?
I always thought nobody used the mouse while on Slashdot..
The license isnt much different from a VB or Delphi license, you just have to pay for the Rebol compiler.
Most large corporations use only commercial compilers, so the business model is pretty sound.
Even cc in most *nix boxes dont come for free, you'd have to buy 'em separately.
The point is, once the specs are known, someone will make Grebol , so dont worry :)
Mmmm.. Sad that the FBI caught up with him..
I can see it now.. Someone just started a bird-farm, instead of a server farm, to index MP3 requests..
wait..the RIAA has already sued the bird-farm owner..
Gives me a great new idea. If each one of us had 4 pigeons, and we pool them together, cant we beat Freenet or Gnutella ?
Well,there has been a lot of posts about disadvantages of tall buildings, but none actually about Arcology, and what it signifies. Here's a lil primer..
Arcology as a word was derived from Paolo Soleri's book "Arcology: The City in the Image of Man". It literally means Architecture + Ecology. The goals of the theory are pretty noble,as can be found here.
Everyone has pointed about that they need the Great Open spaces, how unstable these buildings will be. But structures like this are going to be prevalent quite soon, atleast in the 3rd world countries, barring one of the following events.
Discovery of a viable alternative to earth for human occupation.
An Effective Population control programme on the part of all countries. (esp China, India and the like)
Another World War
This reminds one of Arthur C Clarke's 3001 - A Space Odyssey .
He talks about large needle-like towers, extending into space.. Commander Frank Poole just takes a inertia-less space drive to wander through space..
Well we're still a 1000 years back .. but i guess we're in schedule for Arthur C's vision..
What about webmail ? I cant ask yahoo or hotmail to do a fancy calculation before sending a mail to me can I?
Did anyone know that it has QNX in it? Cool..
Yay, we British are extremely smart chaps. We have made a Revolutionary Carbon Fibre based propulsion device.
When a projectile (Consisting of classified material,widely rumored to be an isotope of Silicon.) is fired from this device, we are able to knock off spherical objects suspended from another Carbon fibre based structure, as distant as 2 metres.
We are planning to patent this device and call it the SLING-SHOT-MI5 .
Informative comment:
Russians have been building this design for a long time. They just dont have the money to launch it.
More design info here.
Site of the space station builders :
Insightful comment:
Russia had a very successfull space program, and has always been a step ahead of America. It has always amazed me that a land of communists, dictators and gulags could produce such enterprising science programmes.
Troll :
GOTO [Insightful Comment].
Moronic Comment:
Can u imagine a fscking Beowulf cluster of fscking Mir2 space stations ?
Flamebait :
Those Russian bfstards cant launch off a paper rocket any more, unless the US gives them a dime.
Funny Comment:
But does it run Linux?