It's my understanding that the OBSD developer community is small enough that they can't tackle everything that they'd like to do between releases. This means that any new work to be done has to displace something else on the TODO list.
I actually think this is a good thing. This keeps development focus on improvements that benefit the whole OBSD community rather than on developer's pet projects.
How long does it take to build the world now days?
I haven't played with OBSD for a couple of years, but I remember starting a build at night and having it done when I got up the next morning (on hardware that was, even then, considered old). I can't imagine that things haven't improved since then.
As an ex-Slackware user who is currently extremely happy with Gentoo, I find amusing that you seem to be implying that a Slackware install is more complicated than a Gentoo install. Neither is difficult, but the Slackware install is far less involved.
Assuming a LiveCD won't suffice, I still use Slackware whenever I need to get a machine up and running in less than an hour (Gentoo installs take me about an hour).
I got a 1420N laptop about a month ago. Worked flawlessly out of the box.
The Ubuntu CD that came with it wouldn't boot, but Dell offered a remastered version of it that worked fine. I used it to boot the machine and install Gentoo. Worked great. My understanding is that any LiveCD with a 2.6.22 kernel will work fine, but the Ubuntu 7.04 CD uses 2.6.21. Presumably 7.10 will work just fine.
I'm not a Ubuntu fan, but I did go ahead and set up a dual-boot between Gentoo and Ubuntu so that I can help friends who use Ubuntu.
Sure, there are people who use whatever flavor of Linux their buddy installed for them, but in my experience, people who are actually interested in using Linux experiment with several distros before choosing one. Whether or not they continue to experiment once they've found something the like is another matter.
Anyways, the point of this post is to argue that your 90% guess should probably too high.
I disagree. The Linux using population is skewed towards those who are computer savvy. These are exactly the people that Microsoft is interested in keeping on Windows since computer savvy people have far more influence than their numbers might suggest.
If only 1% of computer users currently use Linux, but that 1% is who everybody else goes to for computer advice, not owning that 1% will be a big concern for Microsoft.
My group has spent a lot of effort investigating RFID and, for the most part, we've decided that even if the tag was free, until the read rate improves, it's too expensive to use since the process to handle the misreads and bad tags is more expensive than the current process.
Read rates are horrible for passive tags. Active tags are still more than $1 per tag and even then, don't have read rates as good as they need to be to make this work.
Heck, the number of tags that simply don't work per batch is unacceptable.
And that's just fine. Using Linux without giving back, as long as you're not doing something that directly damages the community, strengthens the community. It raises awareness which is what we need the most of right now.
The OP is exactly right. Learn a little about git (the source control software written to manage the kernel source) and you'll understand what he's talking about.
Except for reputation, there's nothing special about the repository at kernel.org.
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If it's unlawful, eventually they'll get in trouble for it.
At least, one can hope.
It's my understanding that the OBSD developer community is small enough that they can't tackle everything that they'd like to do between releases. This means that any new work to be done has to displace something else on the TODO list.
I actually think this is a good thing. This keeps development focus on improvements that benefit the whole OBSD community rather than on developer's pet projects.
How long does it take to build the world now days?
I haven't played with OBSD for a couple of years, but I remember starting a build at night and having it done when I got up the next morning (on hardware that was, even then, considered old). I can't imagine that things haven't improved since then.
How, exactly, does J2EE prevent me from shooting myself in the foot?
What kind of mistakes would I be likely to make using Python or Ruby that Java would help me avoid?
Funny you should say that. The only people I know who like J2EE are in management.
What, pray tell, does J2EE offer that makes it a good technical solution?
Not as far as I know. Only trademarks need timely enforcement.
This type of deal doesn't set legal precedent.
If it did, then companies could create sock puppet companies who license their IP to "prove" that a patent is valid. Doesn't carry any weight at all.
Thank you for cleaning up a problem computer.
Every computer cleansed thusly makes the internet better for all of us.
As an ex-Slackware user who is currently extremely happy with Gentoo, I find amusing that you seem to be implying that a Slackware install is more complicated than a Gentoo install. Neither is difficult, but the Slackware install is far less involved.
Assuming a LiveCD won't suffice, I still use Slackware whenever I need to get a machine up and running in less than an hour (Gentoo installs take me about an hour).
I agree. I use Vim for just about everything (C, java, Python, etc).
Any editor or IDE that doesn't support vi-bindings is a non-starter for me (Eclipse, I'm looking at you).
An adult will simply admit they're wrong when they're wrong.
If only that were true.
I got a 1420N laptop about a month ago. Worked flawlessly out of the box.
The Ubuntu CD that came with it wouldn't boot, but Dell offered a remastered version of it that worked fine. I used it to boot the machine and install Gentoo. Worked great. My understanding is that any LiveCD with a 2.6.22 kernel will work fine, but the Ubuntu 7.04 CD uses 2.6.21. Presumably 7.10 will work just fine.
I'm not a Ubuntu fan, but I did go ahead and set up a dual-boot between Gentoo and Ubuntu so that I can help friends who use Ubuntu.
Sure, there are people who use whatever flavor of Linux their buddy installed for them, but in my experience, people who are actually interested in using Linux experiment with several distros before choosing one. Whether or not they continue to experiment once they've found something the like is another matter.
Anyways, the point of this post is to argue that your 90% guess should probably too high.
I disagree. The Linux using population is skewed towards those who are computer savvy. These are exactly the people that Microsoft is interested in keeping on Windows since computer savvy people have far more influence than their numbers might suggest.
If only 1% of computer users currently use Linux, but that 1% is who everybody else goes to for computer advice, not owning that 1% will be a big concern for Microsoft.
Can you build your own laptop?
There were patents, but they were IBM's, not SCO's.
SCO had nothing.
Software has a lower barrier to entry, but it's not easier to make.
Quality software appears to be more difficult to make than quality hardware.
My group has spent a lot of effort investigating RFID and, for the most part, we've decided that even if the tag was free, until the read rate improves, it's too expensive to use since the process to handle the misreads and bad tags is more expensive than the current process.
Read rates are horrible for passive tags. Active tags are still more than $1 per tag and even then, don't
have read rates as good as they need to be to make this work.
Heck, the number of tags that simply don't work per batch is unacceptable.
What, exactly, are the differences in DRM between the two formats?
I was under the impression that Blu-Ray adn HDDVD DRM were equivalent.
And that's just fine. Using Linux without giving back, as long as you're not doing something that directly damages the community, strengthens the community. It raises awareness which is what we need the most of right now.
The promise by the government that they will accept it as payment for taxes.
What else do you need?
Does anyone know what the grounds were for the last judge's complaint?
Microsoft in interested in Linux not having good drivers for modern hardware.
The thing about girlfriends is that you have to be honest with yourself what you're looking for.
I ditched C++, Java, and Perl for Python 5 years ago and am extremely happy with that decision.
The OP is exactly right. Learn a little about git (the source control software written to manage the kernel source) and you'll understand what he's talking about.
Except for reputation, there's nothing special about the repository at kernel.org.