There is no reason why M$ would only use code like from the BSDs. They could just as easily 'barrow' code from GNU projects, without anybody knowing. As long as M$'s software's closed source, there isn't a thing you can do about it. You would need to see the code to even have a case.
"We specialize in free speech hosting. Although we don't host anything illegal, we are more likely to host controversial sites that other companies who are less committed to free expression."
It's owned by the admin of the eff, and as you can see on his site [ http://www.perkel.com/ ], I think he's pretty serious about his commitment to free speech...:)
It depends on what you had in mind, though... If you need more, i.e. an own server park or something, I wouldn't know where to go - I guess you should try to find out where his site is hosted, where he gets his bandwidth.
You might also just back up regulary, only take monthly contracts, short dns ttl's, and move around fast, just uploading and unpacking your stuff every time...
Anyway, this topic interests me, as I'm looking into hosting a more 'extreme' content site (as in 'personal opinion'), and I am kinda reluctant in choosing a US host for this. Somehow they seem manage to broadcast that they uphold free speech, but as soon as there's a complaint, they back off immediately. And Europe, well... That's a rip-off, when it comes to hosting.
Those that host porn charge more, I guess... Considering the legal and bandwidth-problems possibly connected with this...
Do you think Ximian will make it through these bad times? How do you feel, seeing fellow opensource and linux companies (almost) bite the dust one by one (Eazel, VA Linux,...).
And, do you think Ximian will still exist after a couple of years, and where will it stand...
Is Ximian profitable? If so, what makes you different than most other companies in this line...
[I know it's more than one question, but the way I see it, it's just asking for one answer]
A U.S. federal court has ruled that laws protecting trademarks in foreign countries apply under the American Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) of 1999.
This sure doesn't look like something a US federal court can decide by itself... Seems _way out_ of their jurisdiction. Let's see how other countries take this first, before we jump to conclusions.
How chauvinistic is it to expect the whole world to speak your language.
Let's block the rest of the world, because they dare to bug The Brightest Beacon of Freedom and Civilization.
Hey, why does the rest of the world hate our guts...
Go ahead, mod me down, hide your head in the sand. I hope some people finally start to get that this almost unconscious racistic attitudes will bounce back and explode in your face, before Afghanistan II happens.
-- Ceterum censeo America delendum.
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If the variable level of loudness bugs you, use something that normalizes the level, e.g. 'normalize', it normalizes the level (surprise, surprise)...
Actually, Slackware developement isn't open for community. It is and always has been the child of Patrick Volkerding, and he doesn't like others to have too much input on it. Because of this, almost everything is up to him, and it gets real hard to compete with other distributions who often have hundreds of people working on them. Some argue he's a dictator and killing his own creation in the process, and others cheer about his strong vision and the fact he wants to ensure things go his way - ensuring quality.
I'm not sure which opinion to take on this. On one hand, it _is_ his creation, and I understand perfectly he wants to keep it that way. On the other hand, maybe he is a bit too hard-headed to accept help and advise sometimes, while he could use some help.
Slackware is my favorite distribution - as far as I'm into distro's anyway, I compile most things myself, and I'd hate to see it disappear. But rather a no-more with honor, than silently fade away. We'll see which way it'll go, nobody but Patrick Volkerding himself (and maybe not even him) knows where slackware is headed.
Shouldn't the icon rather be something like the scientist being shut up, than the American flag? It seems this is rather against the American people, instead of pro...
The problem isn't X. It's much more simple. Linux is (still) way too complicated for people that use computers because they have to. I don't see another windowing system change that.
While we're at it... What would help linux tremendously, is ordinary, not-geek people using it. Linux is still mostly used by geeks, and, let's face it, they're (we) not known for their social super-skills. When people with better communicating skills and brains that work more average start promoting linux, other people might find more use and understanding in their words, than in those spoken with geek-passion. Just admit it, when you start talking about computers, everybody looks like you're speaking Chinese (or falls asleep...;) ).
It's easy, really. Make it simple, and get as many people without cs-background to use it. Then the others won't be scared of its' "difficulty".
They're just taking abuse of people's feelings, with all the things currently happening in the US. Extremists like the Taliban are actually not allowed to use the internet, because it's evil. It's the petty-kid-hacker that's gonna end up, or -paranoia, x-files tune- industrial/governmental spionage.
If you are concerned about boot -s, why are you not concerned about 'vmlinuz init=/bin/bash', huh?
Same thing, dude.
Besides, what's the use of putting a password on the boot loader? Somebody who wants to root your machine, can take the hd out as well, or boot from floppy, if they have fysical access. Or just throw your box out of the window, way more effective than rm -rf/.
God, I get so tired of these overly positive or negative comments. What ever happened to comparisions, points, backing up statements? Cheers to people who try to bring some insight, may the rest of you get a nice throat tatoo with a box-cutter:P.
Finally somebody who gets beyond the 'that sucks ass, worst thing I have ever seen' or 'that totally rulez, it changed my life'-stuff that most crap all over the site.
I think most 'public' open-source projects behave in a rather unfriendly way to suggestions, bugreports, and even when you offer to help. When such a project grows bigger, the main developers' task should change to a more 'guiding' and 'overviewing' function, as to guide all the new man-power to the projects' goal.
I always wanted to help out some projects - albeit not as a programmer, I really suck;) - but I've gotten a few uncaring or even hostile reactions, people not wanted other people to blend in their nice little group, so I'm not even gonna try anymore.
Projects that are known to be pretty bad on this, include major linux and *bsd distributions. Qmail and slackware are amongst the worst, both being runned by very capable people with a strong vision, that doesn't allow the project to be strained even a bit. Ofcourse, if one makes a program of sorts, he can decide what to do with it, and if he thinks it's better not to open things up too much, that's his decision.
Hmmm. Not making my point here. I guess I just wish the intelligent geeks that start big projects would be more friendly towards 'outsiders', their communcative skills usually being rather limited...
It's true, I see less and less mentioned about ipv6 then -let's say- two years ago. And it IS needed, do you know how hard it is these days to get a few ip-addresses assigned, even for big ISP's? It's 'later' already, and yet I don't see an increasing amount of people using it, even less and less actually. True, most unix systems support it (more or less) now, but are any of them using it? Are there applications that understand ipv6? Not many, as far as I know.
I seriously start wondering if ipv6 'the next generation' will ever become a reality...
Rightnow, there's only ONE country that in my eyes is trying world domination. Either by agressive 'oh we are the world savers' armed interventions, or by... hmmm... forgive my sarcasm... 'culture'. Really, America doesn't have the splendor and glitter anymore it once had, being the 'land of freedom and opportunity'... More and more, I see how that 'American freedom' is a hoax... And I wonder, with an asshole president like Bush who decides the world doesn't need environmental protection (the world isn't his to give - the world is not America!), how long it will take before international conflicts occur (like China already). Nobody likes this nazi-treatment.
I work with slackware, suse, redhat, freebsd, openbsd and solaris/sunos. If you ask me, linux makes the best desktop, although freebsd comes pretty close, too, and if you have a sparc (guess not:) ), solaris isn't bad either (very stable).
So, let's focus on linux distributions, and their differences.
slackware: one of the oldest distributions around, stable and secure. Very clean design too, but you need some knowledge about linux/unix, or at least you have to want to learn it while doing. They also have a pretty good support forum (I'm there:) ). I'd recommend this if you program a lot.
suse: a rather new distro, the cool thing is its extended package database. It comes with almost any linux app you can find on the net, and the installer is very easy. They tend to include many kernel patches and stuff, and installing e.g. a soundcard is pretty easy - it detects it fine, in most cases. I'd recommend this if you don't have a fast connection, and you can e.g. buy it somewhere close. You'll have all you need, no need to download more.
redhat: very easy to install and configure, almost (no spam mf's) windows-like. Problem is, if their click-a-few-times-and-ready - installer doesn't work, i.e. crashes at some point, you're screwed. It's very easy for beginners, but if you're advanced, you'd probably like more control over what gets installed and stuff like that. Redhat users tend to know less about linux (:P ) and are less inclined to spend their time learning all unix stuff, they just want a more stable OS than windows (ofcourse, this is a stupid generalization, everybody can use RedHat, even experienced unix sys admins). It's not advisable to use this distro as a development OS, since they often change things that makes your programs incompatible for other linux OS'es.
I heard also a few good things about Debian (especially nice for programming), but I have no experience using/admin'ing it whatsoever (yet).
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It all depends on what _you_ want from it, what _you_ want to do with it. If you care about security, don't choose Redhat. If you want ease of use, take redhat or suse. If you want something complete, take suse. And if you want something very clean and stable, use slackware. I personally prefer slackware, because I've been working with linux/unix systems for quite a long time - and I dislike RedHat, especially for its lack of security (most of the machines I work on are primary servers on T1 or faster lines, in a subnet where used to be an irc server --> lot of scans), and also because of its one-click philosophy, I like to customize things endlessly like I want them (ofcourse, you'll need some knowledge - time will give you that).
All these OS'es are (more or less) free. You can use them all. If you find someone who has a 'free' fast line (university students come to mind:) ), why not try lots of them?
Perhaps you should try Slackware Linux (www.slackware.com). It's one of the oldest distributions around, it's very clean and simple (but therefore requires you to know a bit about linux/unix), yet secure and stable.
They released an Alpha distro a couple of months ago.
They actually came to visit our campus too, closing lines of all students that they caught downloading mp3s, and trying to do the same for professors and assistent-profs - but here the university said they couldn't shut down their lines, since they needed them for their work. I'm from Belgium - btw.
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There is no reason why M$ would only use code like from the BSDs. They could just as easily 'barrow' code from GNU projects, without anybody knowing. As long as M$'s software's closed source, there isn't a thing you can do about it. You would need to see the code to even have a case.
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"We specialize in free speech hosting. Although we don't host anything illegal, we are more likely to host controversial sites that other companies who are less committed to free expression."
It's owned by the admin of the eff, and as you can see on his site [ http://www.perkel.com/ ], I think he's pretty serious about his commitment to free speech...
It depends on what you had in mind, though... If you need more, i.e. an own server park or something, I wouldn't know where to go - I guess you should try to find out where his site is hosted, where he gets his bandwidth.
You might also just back up regulary, only take monthly contracts, short dns ttl's, and move around fast, just uploading and unpacking your stuff every time...
Anyway, this topic interests me, as I'm looking into hosting a more 'extreme' content site (as in 'personal opinion'), and I am kinda reluctant in choosing a US host for this. Somehow they seem manage to broadcast that they uphold free speech, but as soon as there's a complaint, they back off immediately. And Europe, well... That's a rip-off, when it comes to hosting.
Those that host porn charge more, I guess... Considering the legal and bandwidth-problems possibly connected with this...
Do you think Ximian will make it through these bad times? How do you feel, seeing fellow opensource and linux companies (almost) bite the dust one by one (Eazel, VA Linux,
And, do you think Ximian will still exist after a couple of years, and where will it stand...
Is Ximian profitable? If so, what makes you different than most other companies in this line...
[I know it's more than one question, but the way I see it, it's just asking for one answer]
If I get it right, then... uhm. I don't get it.
So, if I get this right, we pay (taxes) for 'weapons' which will be used against ourselves?
Isn't that nice of the government...
A U.S. federal court has ruled that laws protecting trademarks in foreign countries apply under the American Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) of 1999.
This sure doesn't look like something a US federal court can decide by itself... Seems _way out_ of their jurisdiction. Let's see how other countries take this first, before we jump to conclusions.
How chauvinistic is it to expect the whole world to speak your language.
Let's block the rest of the world, because they dare to bug The Brightest Beacon of Freedom and Civilization.
Hey, why does the rest of the world hate our guts...
Go ahead, mod me down, hide your head in the sand. I hope some people finally start to get that this almost unconscious racistic attitudes will bounce back and explode in your face, before Afghanistan II happens.
--
Ceterum censeo America delendum.
If the variable level of loudness bugs you, use something that normalizes the level, e.g. 'normalize', it normalizes the level (surprise, surprise)...
Search on freshmeat, it's there.
Actually, Slackware developement isn't open for community. It is and always has been the child of Patrick Volkerding, and he doesn't like others to have too much input on it. Because of this, almost everything is up to him, and it gets real hard to compete with other distributions who often have hundreds of people working on them. Some argue he's a dictator and killing his own creation in the process, and others cheer about his strong vision and the fact he wants to ensure things go his way - ensuring quality.
I'm not sure which opinion to take on this. On one hand, it _is_ his creation, and I understand perfectly he wants to keep it that way. On the other hand, maybe he is a bit too hard-headed to accept help and advise sometimes, while he could use some help.
Slackware is my favorite distribution - as far as I'm into distro's anyway, I compile most things myself, and I'd hate to see it disappear. But rather a no-more with honor, than silently fade away. We'll see which way it'll go, nobody but Patrick Volkerding himself (and maybe not even him) knows where slackware is headed.
I agree with you, but it's nice to see something done PRO privacy and users instead of the usual CON these days...
Shouldn't the icon rather be something like the scientist being shut up, than the American flag? It seems this is rather against the American people, instead of pro...
The problem isn't X. It's much more simple. Linux is (still) way too complicated for people that use computers because they have to. I don't see another windowing system change that.
While we're at it... What would help linux tremendously, is ordinary, not-geek people using it. Linux is still mostly used by geeks, and, let's face it, they're (we) not known for their social super-skills. When people with better communicating skills and brains that work more average start promoting linux, other people might find more use and understanding in their words, than in those spoken with geek-passion. Just admit it, when you start talking about computers, everybody looks like you're speaking Chinese (or falls asleep...
It's easy, really. Make it simple, and get as many people without cs-background to use it. Then the others won't be scared of its' "difficulty".
"... kid that's gonna end up getting caught... " that is...
They're just taking abuse of people's feelings, with all the things currently happening in the US. Extremists like the Taliban are actually not allowed to use the internet, because it's evil. It's the petty-kid-hacker that's gonna end up, or -paranoia, x-files tune- industrial/governmental spionage.
I guess you mean 'intuitive'?
> It is not possible to base a business on BSD and succeed
So I suppose Linux is proving itself so much better?
(Note: I'm not in favor of *bsd or linux; I run both of them, and they're both fine, -at least- much better than a certain proprietary OS).
If you are concerned about boot -s, why are you not concerned about 'vmlinuz init=/bin/bash', huh?
Same thing, dude.
Besides, what's the use of putting a password on the boot loader? Somebody who wants to root your machine, can take the hd out as well, or boot from floppy, if they have fysical access. Or just throw your box out of the window, way more effective than rm -rf
God, I get so tired of these overly positive or negative comments. What ever happened to comparisions, points, backing up statements? Cheers to people who try to bring some insight, may the rest of you get a nice throat tatoo with a box-cutter
Finally somebody who gets beyond the 'that sucks ass, worst thing I have ever seen' or 'that totally rulez, it changed my life'-stuff that most crap all over the site.
Not to mention that cell phone batteries are probably empty by now. I know my cell phone's autonomy never exceeds 3 days...
Even when this would work, this is too late.
I think most 'public' open-source projects behave in a rather unfriendly way to suggestions, bugreports, and even when you offer to help. When such a project grows bigger, the main developers' task should change to a more 'guiding' and 'overviewing' function, as to guide all the new man-power to the projects' goal.
I always wanted to help out some projects - albeit not as a programmer, I really suck
Projects that are known to be pretty bad on this, include major linux and *bsd distributions. Qmail and slackware are amongst the worst, both being runned by very capable people with a strong vision, that doesn't allow the project to be strained even a bit. Ofcourse, if one makes a program of sorts, he can decide what to do with it, and if he thinks it's better not to open things up too much, that's his decision.
Hmmm. Not making my point here. I guess I just wish the intelligent geeks that start big projects would be more friendly towards 'outsiders', their communcative skills usually being rather limited...
It's true, I see less and less mentioned about ipv6 then -let's say- two years ago. And it IS needed, do you know how hard it is these days to get a few ip-addresses assigned, even for big ISP's? It's 'later' already, and yet I don't see an increasing amount of people using it, even less and less actually. True, most unix systems support it (more or less) now, but are any of them using it? Are there applications that understand ipv6? Not many, as far as I know.
I seriously start wondering if ipv6 'the next generation' will ever become a reality...
Rightnow, there's only ONE country that in my eyes is trying world domination. Either by agressive 'oh we are the world savers' armed interventions, or by
Go ahead and mark me as flamebait
I work with slackware, suse, redhat, freebsd, openbsd and solaris/sunos. If you ask me, linux makes the best desktop, although freebsd comes pretty close, too, and if you have a sparc (guess not :) ), solaris isn't bad either (very stable).
:) ). I'd recommend this if you program a lot.
:P ) and are less inclined to spend their time learning all unix stuff, they just want a more stable OS than windows (ofcourse, this is a stupid generalization, everybody can use RedHat, even experienced unix sys admins). It's not advisable to use this distro as a development OS, since they often change things that makes your programs incompatible for other linux OS'es.
:) ), why not try lots of them?
So, let's focus on linux distributions, and their differences.
slackware: one of the oldest distributions around, stable and secure. Very clean design too, but you need some knowledge about linux/unix, or at least you have to want to learn it while doing. They also have a pretty good support forum (I'm there
suse: a rather new distro, the cool thing is its extended package database. It comes with almost any linux app you can find on the net, and the installer is very easy. They tend to include many kernel patches and stuff, and installing e.g. a soundcard is pretty easy - it detects it fine, in most cases. I'd recommend this if you don't have a fast connection, and you can e.g. buy it somewhere close. You'll have all you need, no need to download more.
redhat: very easy to install and configure, almost (no spam mf's) windows-like. Problem is, if their click-a-few-times-and-ready - installer doesn't work, i.e. crashes at some point, you're screwed. It's very easy for beginners, but if you're advanced, you'd probably like more control over what gets installed and stuff like that. Redhat users tend to know less about linux (
I heard also a few good things about Debian (especially nice for programming), but I have no experience using/admin'ing it whatsoever (yet).
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It all depends on what _you_ want from it, what _you_ want to do with it. If you care about security, don't choose Redhat. If you want ease of use, take redhat or suse. If you want something complete, take suse. And if you want something very clean and stable, use slackware. I personally prefer slackware, because I've been working with linux/unix systems for quite a long time - and I dislike RedHat, especially for its lack of security (most of the machines I work on are primary servers on T1 or faster lines, in a subnet where used to be an irc server --> lot of scans), and also because of its one-click philosophy, I like to customize things endlessly like I want them (ofcourse, you'll need some knowledge - time will give you that).
All these OS'es are (more or less) free. You can use them all. If you find someone who has a 'free' fast line (university students come to mind
/ wouter
Perhaps you should try Slackware Linux (www.slackware.com). It's one of the oldest distributions around, it's very clean and simple (but therefore requires you to know a bit about linux/unix), yet secure and stable. They released an Alpha distro a couple of months ago.
They actually came to visit our campus too, closing lines of all students that they caught downloading mp3s, and trying to do the same for professors and assistent-profs - but here the university said they couldn't shut down their lines, since they needed them for their work. I'm from Belgium - btw.