Funny you should mention Edison. I was thinking about how much KT sounded like TAE with regard to implementations he didn't think of. Edisons original concept for movie viewing was a nickelodeon style machine. When it was suggested that the images be projected on a screen TAE thought it was a bad idea because it would reduce potential for license fees on individual copies. I owe KT a debt of gratitude for what he's done, but his time is over.
I personally have bought 2 official versions of RedHat, 2 SuSE and 1 Debian so far this year. I also got older Redhat, Slackware and Caldera CDs that came last years with book purchases. It's worth the convenience to pay for distros on CD
I must be the only person with a copy of xanim that plays quicktime movies. Quicktime gets used because it's good. If it's slow on Losedows it's because MS did something to screw it up. And as far as OS goes, in my book there _is_ no alternative to the free unices.
The prob isn't the compatability libraries, SuSE, RedHat Debian etc all have them, the prob was the way NP went about upgrading the libraries. I did the same thing to a RedHat system about a year and a half ago. You can't replace the old libs, you have to add the new ones. If you replace the old libs that ldd is linked against you'll bust your system. Also the order of ld.so is important. Also if you pay attention you'll notice that/lib and/usr/lib aren't listed in ld.so.cache.
Err..seems to me an office suite would be more complex than Apache anyway. Sounded like Msr Gates was pitching NT anyway. Funny about the browsers, I thought, whats left commercial wise IE and Opera? Whoop-dee-doo...
Forget about Linux distro's.... Every damn system is different! We got libc5 libc6. Different widget sets, window managers, hell even different windowing systems (MetroX, XFree86 et al) A lot of boxes run kernels so well tuned you can't even boot it on another machine! I guess is too bad it all works, after all thats what really counts.
Good readin' for a friday afternoon. The author suggests a point that he doesn't state as such. The idea is *nix, whatever the flavor, is the wave of the future. You gotta love that.
We gotta look at the big picture here. The more money BG makes now, the more he can give away later. Hopefully, the service pack will break Office and they can charge for an upgrade for that too. He just wants to be assured a top spot in the Guinness Book of Records for greatest philanthropist.
That'd be these guys, the whole shebang fits on a floppy. It runs off a ramdisk and has a menu based front end. One reason Debian rocks is because the distro is broken down by licensing. The main distro is strictly GPL software. It's also the most thoroughly tested. Personally, I like SuSE on my desktop, but IMNSHO Debian is _the_ way to go on a server. Now RedHat, OTOH...thats the AOL of Linux distros, a good place to start, but after a while it's time for greener pastures.
Not the world, just one country. A country which I might add doesn't prohibit people from leaving.
It does occur to you that this is supposed to be a form of punishment, doesn't it? If it comes to pass Micros~1 will have no one to blame but themselves.
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Funny you should mention Edison. I was thinking about how much KT sounded like TAE with regard to implementations he didn't think of. Edisons original concept for movie viewing was a nickelodeon style machine. When it was suggested that the images be projected on a screen TAE thought it was a bad idea because it would reduce potential for license fees on individual copies. I owe KT a debt of gratitude for what he's done, but his time is over.
to Hess gasoline... Now, if they'd only bring back 101 octane....
Not EMU... they bought Ensoniq
I personally have bought 2 official versions of RedHat, 2 SuSE and 1 Debian so far this year. I also got older Redhat, Slackware and Caldera CDs that came last years with book purchases. It's worth the convenience to pay for distros on CD
Err...xv?
I must be the only person with a copy of xanim that plays quicktime movies. Quicktime gets used because it's good. If it's slow on Losedows it's because MS did something to screw it up. And as far as OS goes, in my book there _is_ no alternative to the free unices.
You forgot Blender!
obsolete, thats what it is
Being as MacOS has to be reinstalled on a regular basis it _better_ be a snap.
The prob isn't the compatability libraries, SuSE, RedHat Debian etc all have them, the prob was the way NP went about upgrading the libraries. I did the same thing to a RedHat system about a year and a half ago. You can't replace the old libs, you have to add the new ones. If you replace the old libs that ldd is linked against you'll bust your system. Also the order of ld.so is important. Also if you pay attention you'll notice that /lib and /usr/lib aren't listed in ld.so.cache.
Ah well, you live and you learn.
"Sendmail"
"BIND"
Err..seems to me an office suite would be more complex than Apache anyway. Sounded like Msr Gates
was pitching NT anyway. Funny about the browsers, I thought, whats left commercial wise IE and Opera? Whoop-dee-doo...
Not Tim Snopes?
Forget about Linux distro's....
Every damn system is different! We got libc5
libc6. Different widget sets, window managers,
hell even different windowing systems (MetroX,
XFree86 et al)
A lot of boxes run kernels so well tuned
you can't even boot it on another machine!
I guess is too bad it all works, after all thats what really counts.
> (at least, they've been using the OSS.NET name >since 1993, and I assume that they only used that >name because of their corporate name).
You know what happens when you assume.
Good readin' for a friday afternoon. The author
suggests a point that he doesn't state as such.
The idea is *nix, whatever the flavor, is the wave
of the future.
You gotta love that.
Film at 11. Rob could make a fortune in the extortion racket.
We gotta look at the big picture here. The more money BG makes now, the more he can give away later. Hopefully, the service pack will break Office and they can charge for an upgrade for that too. He just wants to be assured a top spot in the Guinness Book of Records for greatest philanthropist.
This is of course, sarcasm.
That'd be these guys, the whole shebang fits on a floppy.
It runs off a ramdisk and has a menu based front end.
One reason Debian rocks is because the distro is broken down by licensing.
The main distro is strictly GPL software. It's also the most thoroughly tested.
Personally, I like SuSE on my desktop,
but IMNSHO Debian is _the_ way to go on a server.
Now RedHat, OTOH...thats the AOL of Linux distros,
a good place to start, but after a while it's time for greener pastures.
The problem was _Netscape_ didn't get it.
They turned off a lot of potential developers
with the NPL, for one thing.
Did you even read jwz's statements on the matter?
Do you know his background?
I didn't think so.
Hmm, my one of Debian CD's says GNU/Linux on it.
"...the world thinks it's a good thing.."
Not the world, just one country. A country which I might add doesn't prohibit people from leaving.
It does occur to you that this is supposed to be a form of punishment, doesn't it? If it comes to pass Micros~1 will have no one to blame but themselves.
They brought it on themselves.
Businesses don't have the same rights as people. The Constitution doesn't say "We the businesses"
I dunno I'd love to see micros~1 port Office so they could be publicly humiliated by lack of sales. I know _I_ wouldn't use it, much less buy it.
err.. gotta start previewing these...
That is to say W2K after all _is_ not on the market yet.