I too have issues with GNOME's usability. That's why I prefer Enlightenment and KDE.
Glad to see someone improving it, but we always have to ask the question -- how much better might things be if the GNOME and KDE teams were working together instead of separately? That is, coding/philosophical differences aside. Granted, choice is good, and it's their choice what they want to work on.
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I do research using linux machines, and have root access on the machines in our lab. As a grad student I'm of course expected to do research in addition to maintaining computers, so several of the other students have been enlisted to help. Part of that is, they got root access too.
One of them deleted 200GB worth of data files the other day. Oops. Thank god for nightly backups.
A research colleague of mine had his eyes done recently. He was pretty badly nearsighted and this apparently carries a risk of retinal detachment when getting lasik. Well, he fell in that percentage, his retinas keep coming detached, and he may permanently lose much if not all of his vision in both eyes. This is a guy that stares at computer screens and books all day. Seeing detail is his life.
Until this stuff is (even) more mature, I say wait. Like someone said, they're coming out with new machines all the time.
That is somewhat different because it lets you install totally new software as well as updating. I haven't read the patent in its entirety yet though, so maybe that's covered.
No, he had a long, miserable fight with radiation poisoning before kicking the bucket due to his massive overexposure. At least he had a sense of humor about it. We studied this case in my design/safety class.
I could be wrong here but I think anything you write is copyrighted by default. In order for it to be copyable, you have to grant rights via a license. This is the idea behind the GPL. You have no rights to distribute unless you follow its terms.
From my experiences with Fedora Core 1 and 2, and with RHEL 3.0, I would say the reverse is true -- RHEL is a stripped-down vesrion of FC. FC is the testing ground and they sort of pick one of each thing that works best for 'standarization' purposes, and ship it out with support as RHEL.
We had problems with RHEL (which came with our dells) and replaced it with FC2. Things have been working great, actually.
Note, I'm not sure this is the exact or actual process. It's just from my experience with the products.
I'm replying to a guy who obviously doesn't like Microsoft, suggesting that it might not be best for his purposes (and mine) to act so immature in his anti-MS writing. How that implies that I'm speaking for all of Slashdot is beyond me.
Someone please mod this whole thread OT already...
Sorry to be an ass, but please cut the use of M$. It just makes you look like you're 15 years old. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy (haven't used windows on my machines for more than four years) but really, you just lose credibility when you write "M$", Micro$oft, Micro$hit, Winblowz, etc...
Do the F/OSS movement a favor and represent us better to the world, please.
Not to mention they've (Apple) already got a working beta out to developers instead of just talking about it.
Yes, I realize there are longhorn betas, but I don't really get the point when there are 4+ more years of work to be done on it.
generally I actually use a junk address at hotmail. Used to use no@no.com though. Also I sure as hell am not on a "Windowz" box. I haven't used one of those in a long time.
I'm familiar with whois, just never thought to check. Thanks for the info, though.
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Glad to see someone improving it, but we always have to ask the question -- how much better might things be if the GNOME and KDE teams were working together instead of separately? That is, coding/philosophical differences aside. Granted, choice is good, and it's their choice what they want to work on.
One of them deleted 200GB worth of data files the other day. Oops. Thank god for nightly backups.
Until this stuff is (even) more mature, I say wait. Like someone said, they're coming out with new machines all the time.
Fascinating, do you have a reference? I'll google it in the mean time...
Gentoo will give you similar advantages, but if FreeBSD works for you, more power to you.
yar! avast me hearties, yoho!
That is somewhat different because it lets you install totally new software as well as updating. I haven't read the patent in its entirety yet though, so maybe that's covered.
No, he had a long, miserable fight with radiation poisoning before kicking the bucket due to his massive overexposure. At least he had a sense of humor about it. We studied this case in my design/safety class.
I was kind of being a wiseass, but still, glad to see shipments up.
This from a maclover, so please don't kill me or something.
I could be wrong here but I think anything you write is copyrighted by default. In order for it to be copyable, you have to grant rights via a license. This is the idea behind the GPL. You have no rights to distribute unless you follow its terms.
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I'm getting 248 KB/sec on each of the two install ISOs at the moment. I'm waiting for it to drop to a crawl...
We had problems with RHEL (which came with our dells) and replaced it with FC2. Things have been working great, actually.
Note, I'm not sure this is the exact or actual process. It's just from my experience with the products.
I'm replying to a guy who obviously doesn't like Microsoft, suggesting that it might not be best for his purposes (and mine) to act so immature in his anti-MS writing. How that implies that I'm speaking for all of Slashdot is beyond me. Someone please mod this whole thread OT already...
Do the F/OSS movement a favor and represent us better to the world, please.
That's a pretty low user ID. You must be an old fart! (just joking)
Seriously, though, the 'us' in that sentence refers back to "the F/OSS movement" at the beginning.
*ducks*
I do in fact remember compuserve. That still doesn't make it respectable. I stand by my original assertion.
Do the F/OSS movement a favor and represent us better to the world, please.
"your friends" eh? And I have this 'friend' who downloads MP3s sometimes...
Not to mention they've (Apple) already got a working beta out to developers instead of just talking about it. Yes, I realize there are longhorn betas, but I don't really get the point when there are 4+ more years of work to be done on it.
Yes but the advertisers have been brainwashing you, and you don't get much selection. It's all ClearChannel A, ClearChannel B, etc...
I'll just register with a dummy email address!
I'm familiar with whois, just never thought to check. Thanks for the info, though.
HAhahaha