If by "Debian" you mean testing/unstable, then it's already there (and has been for a while). If you mean stable, it won't be default in the next release ("sarge"), so it'll be a few more years. Either way, "scheduled for this summer" is pretty far off the mark.
Bull. Not even SCO is claiming it's their code (IANAL, but I'm fairly sure about that). They're claiming that it's IBM's code, but the terms of IBM's UNIX license agreement didn't allow them to release it under GPL.
Maybe by someone's definition, but I think of Slashdot as a news site. A blog is a place where people (usually one person) post about what they've been doing, or their ideas. Slashdot is a place where a bunch of editors pick through external submissions and post them. They're really not all that similar.
And you use Gentoo? Hehe. Mainline Gentoo is about as stable as Debian experimental/unstable (which is still pretty damn stable, but nowhere close to the stability of Debian stable).
Obviously. And it doesn't mean that Fedora/Mandrake/SuSE/Lindows/Slackware/Gentoo work like that for everyone either. "Hardware support" in Linux distros is really a misnomer, Linux supports the same set of drivers no matter how you package it. Some distros do a better job of setting stuff up automatically than others, but the actual support is pretty much constant between distros.
I realize you're trolling/joking, but Debian supports new hardware just fine. I installed it on my dual Athlon 2200+ w/ SB Audigy and Radeon 9700PRO a year ago, and it worked fine and still does. Myths about Debian's hardware support mostly seem to come from its lack of an autodetecting installer, although Knoppix and debian-installer are fixing that.
That'd be impossible. Every person who had ever contributed any code to the kernel would have to agree to relicense their code. Mozilla tried this a while ago and had a bitch of a time tracking everyone down, and that was for a project just a couple years old.
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To refer to buried human remains simply as 'garbage' is an unbelievably shallow comment. Yes when it comes down to the bare basics, buried people are dead. They aren't going to earn another pay cheque. They won't be at their desk helping the economy steam on. But that does not mean they are worthless or worthy of being equated to 'garbage'.
The people are not worthless. But their bodies are. You aren't (normally) attached to the bodies of your friends and families, you're attached to their minds and souls. No matter what you do with the body, whether you burn it or bury it, the soul is not around any more. The body is just a bit of decomposing matter. Ecologically speaking, it's garbage.
I would rather have my ashes scattered in a place that I loved, so that my family could remember me every time they were there, and so that my body would go back into the nature environment and nurture new life. I'd rather go out in a burst of flame than slowly be eaten away by worms over the decades.
Many cultures manage to do quite well without cemetaries - Japan has a 97% cremation rate. While I respect the right of people to dispose of their bodies as they see fit, I believe that the US would be better off if we did the same.
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Cemetaries don't last forever. They can be reused every few hundred years.
That CPU maker would obviously be using a non-x86/PPC/SPARC/Alpha instruction set, and so no one would care about them anyway. Intel, AMD, IBM, etc. already build their processors against documented standards. The only way to prevent open-source kernels would be to completely redesign the instruction set, which would make the processor useless for everything else, too (no commercial vendor is going to sign an NDA and rewrite their OS to support a minor processor with no users).
MS cannot shut Mono down. There are a few patents involved, but MS has, by submitting C# to the EMCA, agreed to allow use of those patents royalty-free for any purpose. The only controversial aspects are ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Windows.Forms, none of which would be used by GNOME (although they're still being implemented).
Under the original 14 year copyright length, the Beatles recordings would all be public domain by now, and therefore this whole thing would be in the clear.
Jay-Z's album was released last year. We'd still have another 14 years to wait.
No one mentioned GBP. Since this is a US site, assume US dollars.
for what 25-30 hrs worth of work? (Performance is say 3hrs + walm upstoo)
Then there's many hours of unpaid practice time, not including the dozens of years (and thousands of tuition dollars) it takes to become a reasonable musician in the first place. In addition, they're expected to bring their own instrument - good violins and cellos often run upwards of $15000. Professional musicians are very skilled workers (much more so than most $400K PHB's), and it's sad that our society doesn't appreciate it enough to pay them what they deserve.
Except that CD-RWs (which you can write to many times) are considerably faster and more reliable than floppies., as well as being smaller in their mini form.
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If by "Debian" you mean testing/unstable, then it's already there (and has been for a while). If you mean stable, it won't be default in the next release ("sarge"), so it'll be a few more years. Either way, "scheduled for this summer" is pretty far off the mark.
Bull. Not even SCO is claiming it's their code (IANAL, but I'm fairly sure about that). They're claiming that it's IBM's code, but the terms of IBM's UNIX license agreement didn't allow them to release it under GPL.
Maybe by someone's definition, but I think of Slashdot as a news site. A blog is a place where people (usually one person) post about what they've been doing, or their ideas. Slashdot is a place where a bunch of editors pick through external submissions and post them. They're really not all that similar.
And then a gold coin falls out of your pocket underneath your car seat, and you've just lost $100.
You mean like the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform?
Shrek vs. Toy Story 1/2, A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc., and Finding Nemo. That's one hit against five. I'd bet on Pixar.
"Near DVD" quality? I thought it was significantly better than DVD. If it wasn't, then why wouldn't they just have used MPEG-2?
These days, G5s offer as much bang-for-buck as any high-end x86 machine. Although they probably weren't around when Pixar picked their standard.
Dean only mailed people who requested it, IIRC. If you can prove otherwise, go ahead.
And you use Gentoo? Hehe. Mainline Gentoo is about as stable as Debian experimental/unstable (which is still pretty damn stable, but nowhere close to the stability of Debian stable).
Obviously. And it doesn't mean that Fedora/Mandrake/SuSE/Lindows/Slackware/Gentoo work like that for everyone either. "Hardware support" in Linux distros is really a misnomer, Linux supports the same set of drivers no matter how you package it. Some distros do a better job of setting stuff up automatically than others, but the actual support is pretty much constant between distros.
I realize you're trolling/joking, but Debian supports new hardware just fine. I installed it on my dual Athlon 2200+ w/ SB Audigy and Radeon 9700PRO a year ago, and it worked fine and still does. Myths about Debian's hardware support mostly seem to come from its lack of an autodetecting installer, although Knoppix and debian-installer are fixing that.
That'd be impossible. Every person who had ever contributed any code to the kernel would have to agree to relicense their code. Mozilla tried this a while ago and had a bitch of a time tracking everyone down, and that was for a project just a couple years old.
The people are not worthless. But their bodies are. You aren't (normally) attached to the bodies of your friends and families, you're attached to their minds and souls. No matter what you do with the body, whether you burn it or bury it, the soul is not around any more. The body is just a bit of decomposing matter. Ecologically speaking, it's garbage.
I would rather have my ashes scattered in a place that I loved, so that my family could remember me every time they were there, and so that my body would go back into the nature environment and nurture new life. I'd rather go out in a burst of flame than slowly be eaten away by worms over the decades.
Many cultures manage to do quite well without cemetaries - Japan has a 97% cremation rate. While I respect the right of people to dispose of their bodies as they see fit, I believe that the US would be better off if we did the same.
Cemetaries don't last forever. They can be reused every few hundred years.
While that's generally true, MS agreed additionally to make the patents available royalty-free.
That CPU maker would obviously be using a non-x86/PPC/SPARC/Alpha instruction set, and so no one would care about them anyway. Intel, AMD, IBM, etc. already build their processors against documented standards. The only way to prevent open-source kernels would be to completely redesign the instruction set, which would make the processor useless for everything else, too (no commercial vendor is going to sign an NDA and rewrite their OS to support a minor processor with no users).
It does. That doesn't mean it works right.
apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7-smp worked fine for me.
MS cannot shut Mono down. There are a few patents involved, but MS has, by submitting C# to the EMCA, agreed to allow use of those patents royalty-free for any purpose. The only controversial aspects are ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Windows.Forms, none of which would be used by GNOME (although they're still being implemented).
Linux (including lightweight GUIs) has been able to boot off of USB pendrives (with BIOSs supporting such things) for a while now.
I've heard some horror stories about Captive too. At this point, I wouldn't trust anything other than Windows to write to NTFS.
Jay-Z's album was released last year. We'd still have another 14 years to wait.
No one mentioned GBP. Since this is a US site, assume US dollars.
for what 25-30 hrs worth of work? (Performance is say 3hrs + walm upstoo)
Then there's many hours of unpaid practice time, not including the dozens of years (and thousands of tuition dollars) it takes to become a reasonable musician in the first place. In addition, they're expected to bring their own instrument - good violins and cellos often run upwards of $15000. Professional musicians are very skilled workers (much more so than most $400K PHB's), and it's sad that our society doesn't appreciate it enough to pay them what they deserve.
Except that CD-RWs (which you can write to many times) are considerably faster and more reliable than floppies., as well as being smaller in their mini form.