Since there are hardly any postings about the kernel release itself, it seems obvious that certainly not all development kernel releases earn an announcement on Slashdot.
Nobody is really interested in talk about a bunch of updates. Software updates is what Freshmeat is for. Slashdot is for news.
Looking at the Changelog, it seems that the real news here is: Centaur C6 MCRs now supported. Does that deserve a Slashdot article? I think not.
Shall I apply the 2.2.9 patch and follow the stable path, or wait for 2.3.1 and lead an exciting but dangerous life?
The guy is a legal NULL.
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He does not know what a license is.
[ This clause reeks of political extremism, and is not entirely true. When a program or work is released under a license, this means that you are in effect licensed to use the program. If this is the case, then you are not the real owner of your code, the Free Software Foundation is! Particularly when it comes to controlling the ``distribution of derivative or collective works based on the Program''. After all is said and done, the only part of this work that you actually *own* is the Copyright itself. And that copyright is subject to the terms of this license. Essentially this is the rudimentary philosophy of Communism, in which you can create something, but you only own it as much as everyone else owns it. ]
What is the guy talking about?? If I write a program and release a version of it under the GPL, then I would be restricted by the GPL in the future? That is UTTER NONSENSE. The copyright would still be mine, and I am free to do with my work whatever I want. How does this guy explain that Perl is distributed under both the GPL and the Artistic License?
[ And yet again, stating that you cannot change the license of a GPL'ed program once it has been released under GPL. It also states that you cannot further license the program or modify the GPL in any way. ]
You don't understand. Big Brother needs to be implemented. Internal numbering won't do.
Re:Only 10% of the IP addresses are used?
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Besides the unused empty space of which there is a lot: even if you are somehow able to use all of that, 10% used space now means there's only room for 3 doublings, and do you really think the internet will only double in size 3 times over the next 10 years?
I could be wrong on this, but I don't think exporting to Iran is forbidden from all EU countries. I don't know in what way Austria was forced to accept these regulations, but it was not a European decision.
Strengthening of the regime? Where do you get your knowledge from? For all we know this software could be meant for an opposition group. Most likely, this whole project is something really innocent, and could at most help people like you and me doing their daily stuff.
And yes, the Iranian government isn't great and in many ways evil, but do you know about pre-revolution Iran, aka Persia in the 70s? An incredibly oppressive regime, actively backed by the US. It was so bad that the people decided to revolt.
Historically, German is just a Dutch dialect. And yes, we speak English fairly well. So you're all welcome here. Oh and just for the record... these are our income tax rates:
Re:just what we need, more biased benchmarks
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If you read again, you will see that the idea of an in-house benchmarking lab is not to make good PR, but to do some real tests that provide the developers with data that helps them in optimizing Linux.
There's no conflict of interest at all.
Re:stability? changes?
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With a gzip'd patch of 268 bytes, my guess is that 2.3.0 is just 2.2.8 with a version number change.
If Intel can write a utility in software that lets you enable or disable the PID, then obviously any program with access to the hardware (like on Win95) can do the same. Just a matter of disassembling that utility.
It is nowhere stated that the PID is retrieved before the reboot.
So there's nothing about this 'exploit' that gives any new insights.
9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.
Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.
So for some existing GPL'd packages people will be able to use either the new GPL (when it comes out), or the old one, whichever they like best. So a legal gap allowing abuse of GPL'd software can never be repaired by issuing a new version of the GPL.
So what will change in GPLv3? My guess is that RMS will make it easier for other licenses (like the MPL and QPL) to be compatible with GPLv3.
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And the internet was never intended to get as big as it's getting to be, or IPv4 wouldn't have had 4-byte ip#s.
And all those old programs were never intended to be used after 2000, or they would have been Y2K compliant.
So what?
That's probably why you should vote... Being a dutchman this crap still affects me, but I can forget about voting in your elections.
So I take it that people stuck in Sweden will be Swedians.
I can't follow you.
Why would this have anything to do with Microsoft? This has to do with Slashdot and replies like yours.
FYI, I am running kernel 2.2.8 and will soon upgrade to either 2.2.9 or 2.3.2. But there are dozens of ways to find out about new kernel releases.
Snapshots of egcs are not discussed on Slashdot, so why should development kernel release be discussed.
Since there are hardly any postings about the kernel release itself, it seems obvious that certainly not all development kernel releases earn an announcement on Slashdot.
Nobody is really interested in talk about a bunch of updates. Software updates is what Freshmeat is for. Slashdot is for news.
Looking at the Changelog, it seems that the real news here is: Centaur C6 MCRs now supported. Does that deserve a Slashdot article? I think not.
It'll be 2.2.10, just like 2.3.x might be leading to 3.0.0 instead of 2.4.0.
Shall I apply the 2.2.9 patch and follow the stable path, or wait for 2.3.1 and lead an exciting but dangerous life?
[ This clause reeks of political extremism, and is not entirely true. When a program or work is released under a license, this means that you are in effect licensed to use the program. If this is the case, then you are not the real owner of your code, the Free Software Foundation is! Particularly when it comes to controlling the ``distribution of derivative or collective works based on the Program''. After all is said and done, the only part of this work that you actually *own* is the Copyright itself. And that copyright is subject to the terms of this license. Essentially this is the rudimentary philosophy of Communism, in which you can create something, but you only own it as much as everyone else owns it. ]
What is the guy talking about?? If I write a program and release a version of it under the GPL, then I would be restricted by the GPL in the future? That is UTTER NONSENSE. The copyright would still be mine, and I am free to do with my work whatever I want. How does this guy explain that Perl is distributed under both the GPL and the Artistic License?
[ And yet again, stating that you cannot change the license of a GPL'ed program once it has been released under GPL. It also states that you cannot further license the program or modify the GPL in any way. ]
Just more of the same crap.
You don't understand. Big Brother needs to be implemented. Internal numbering won't do.
Besides the unused empty space of which there is a lot: even if you are somehow able to use all of that, 10% used space now means there's only room for 3 doublings, and do you really think the internet will only double in size 3 times over the next 10 years?
Let's make the transition on January 1, 2000. Everything would stop working as is expected. It would make a lot of people very happy.
Either go shoeless, or let Nike ditch Jordan.
I could be wrong on this, but I don't think exporting to Iran is forbidden from all EU countries. I don't know in what way Austria was forced to accept these regulations, but it was not a European decision.
You mean the holocaust is not a case of mass genocide?
Mass genocide does not imply that a whole people has been killed. Simple.
GPL'ing your program doesn't change the copyright at all.
Strengthening of the regime? Where do you get your knowledge from? For all we know this software could be meant for an opposition group. Most likely, this whole project is something really innocent, and could at most help people like you and me doing their daily stuff.
And yes, the Iranian government isn't great and in many ways evil, but do you know about pre-revolution Iran, aka Persia in the 70s? An incredibly oppressive regime, actively backed by the US. It was so bad that the people decided to revolt.
Historically, German is just a Dutch dialect. And yes, we speak English fairly well. So you're all welcome here. Oh and just for the record... these are our income tax rates:
$0 - $3,500..........0%
$3,500 - $25,000......38%
$25,000 - $50,000.....50%
$50,000 - above.......60%
:)
If you read again, you will see that the idea of an in-house benchmarking lab is not to make good PR, but to do some real tests that provide the developers with data that helps them in optimizing Linux.
There's no conflict of interest at all.
With a gzip'd patch of 268 bytes, my guess is that 2.3.0 is just 2.2.8 with a version number change.
I must have missed that day.
TeX has been around for years and years and is still the best solution for numerous tasks.
After his VIC-20, and before his 386.
My IBM deskstar is advertised to have 10.1 GB.
If Intel can write a utility in software that lets you enable or disable the PID, then obviously any program with access to the hardware (like on Win95) can do the same. Just a matter of disassembling that utility.
It is nowhere stated that the PID is retrieved before the reboot.
So there's nothing about this 'exploit' that gives any new insights.
9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.
Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.
So for some existing GPL'd packages people will be able to use either the new GPL (when it comes out), or the old one, whichever they like best. So a legal gap allowing abuse of GPL'd software can never be repaired by issuing a new version of the GPL.
So what will change in GPLv3? My guess is that RMS will make it easier for other licenses (like the MPL and QPL) to be compatible with GPLv3.