Imagine KDE without Linux! It seems downright impossible. Coming to think of it, Linux has spawned a large number of new, original open software projects- and helped in the growth of existing ones. KDE was the greatest among them.
The GNU project rose to such a big prominence and fame and an important reason was the popularity of linux! KDE too is the 'reason' for the GNOME desktop environment- the reason officially given was a bad license.
Now all the projects are influencing each other - for eg. KDE being slow has caused thoughts about g++ and GNU linker. In this way all the projects are influencing each other causing better development and this is yet another novel condition created by open software movement.
If you ask me which is the singlemost greatest contribution which the 'linux phenomenon' has provided to mankind, my answer would be the grandiose 'philosophy' which it brought to the masses.
Was non-violence a new idea? No. Hadn't many people practiced it before with great perfection? Yes. Then what made Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi a great person in the whole history of mankind?
It was the way by which he brought the idea into practice and made the masses adopt them.
This is what had happened with Linux also. Aren't there many OS's better than Linux? You can never say "No" with conviction. Aren't there many Unices themselves who can easily overtake Linux in most of the areas which the Linux community boasts as the advantages of Linux? My answer would be "Yes".
But the way in which Linux brought programming to the masses is unparalleled in computing history. No GNU, no BSD could do that. And this phenomenon shall only grow with time, removing all the flaws, and in its endeavour towards perfection, I have no doubt that one day it will surely overtake its rivals.
Linux will have a big place in history like Buddha and Christ - unparalleled, unprecedented.
In an age, when I understood the term of "software" as a "set of packages for word processing, database etc." and looked at that field with contempt for the same reason, Linux gave me intellectual as well as emotional stimulation. And not just for me, but for millions of others also. It was and is for me the embodiment of almost all the good things on earth.
Can deep space probes ever be possible without AI?
Looking into history, we always find that right from the primitive space exploration days, AI has come to have an increasing place in space probes, especially deep space probes.
And the AI presence has only increased.
Man's exploration into space will contain to expand, and he cannot expect to go with each and every flight into the outer world. Hence the need for AI.
It is all trash that AI shall in any way control man. We should have engineers who shall engineer AI in the proper way and if that engineering goes awry, sound reason permits me to say that it is not AI that is destroying man, but man himself digging his grave.
It is another matter that AI engineering is one of the most difficlut tasks ever.
But as man expands his conquest of universe, unmanned flights and AI will be his weapons in this age.
What the Codeweavers had done is definitely a brave step. Trying to bring Winfows API to linux users isn't a small task. And they have succeeded to a fair degree.
But still a proper business model is yet to emerge for the open software. Linux is gaining ground in embedded system market, but is the company aware of the difficulties in finding market for windows applications in linux platform? Definitely the linux platform might have been chosen by a client for its own advantages over windows like thin OS, customizable code etc. By bringing a fat windows API into embedded linux market, is the company towing a right strategy?
Python has been a good language for mission critical applications where maintaining the code is quite important. In a quite massive and critical system like the Google search system, Python has been quite extensively used and the reasons are obvious. The system tends to grow at a very fast rate and to cope up with it, we need a script language that is simple to maintain as well as that gives us the possibility of fast performance using embedded C code.
What is the answer to VB in Unix platform. One of the linux gurus had a reply: Python + Tk. While this may be a little far fetched, this is definitely the best available alternative till another one comes by.
In a world of C,Java and Perl fanatics, Python is the silent language creating a revolution.
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Imagine KDE without Linux! It seems downright impossible. Coming to think of it, Linux has spawned a large number of new, original open software projects- and helped in the growth of existing ones. KDE was the greatest among them.
The GNU project rose to such a big prominence and fame and an important reason was the popularity of linux! KDE too is the 'reason' for the GNOME desktop environment- the reason officially given was a bad license.
Now all the projects are influencing each other - for eg. KDE being slow has caused thoughts about g++ and GNU linker. In this way all the projects are influencing each other causing better development and this is yet another novel condition created by open software movement.
If you ask me which is the singlemost greatest contribution which the 'linux phenomenon' has provided to mankind, my answer would be the grandiose 'philosophy' which it brought to the masses.
Was non-violence a new idea? No. Hadn't many people practiced it before with great perfection? Yes. Then what made Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi a great person in the whole history of mankind?
It was the way by which he brought the idea into practice and made the masses adopt them.
This is what had happened with Linux also. Aren't there many OS's better than Linux? You can never say "No" with conviction. Aren't there many Unices themselves who can easily overtake Linux in most of the areas which the Linux community boasts as the advantages of Linux? My answer would be "Yes".
But the way in which Linux brought programming to the masses is unparalleled in computing history. No GNU, no BSD could do that. And this phenomenon shall only grow with time, removing all the flaws, and in its endeavour towards perfection, I have no doubt that one day it will surely overtake its rivals.
Linux will have a big place in history like Buddha and Christ - unparalleled, unprecedented.
In an age, when I understood the term of "software" as a "set of packages for word processing, database etc." and looked at that field with contempt for the same reason, Linux gave me intellectual as well as emotional stimulation. And not just for me, but for millions of others also. It was and is for me the embodiment of almost all the good things on earth.
Can deep space probes ever be possible without AI? Looking into history, we always find that right from the primitive space exploration days, AI has come to have an increasing place in space probes, especially deep space probes. And the AI presence has only increased. Man's exploration into space will contain to expand, and he cannot expect to go with each and every flight into the outer world. Hence the need for AI. It is all trash that AI shall in any way control man. We should have engineers who shall engineer AI in the proper way and if that engineering goes awry, sound reason permits me to say that it is not AI that is destroying man, but man himself digging his grave. It is another matter that AI engineering is one of the most difficlut tasks ever. But as man expands his conquest of universe, unmanned flights and AI will be his weapons in this age.
What the Codeweavers had done is definitely a brave step. Trying to bring Winfows API to linux users isn't a small task. And they have succeeded to a fair degree.
But still a proper business model is yet to emerge for the open software. Linux is gaining ground in embedded system market, but is the company aware of the difficulties in finding market for windows applications in linux platform? Definitely the linux platform might have been chosen by a client for its own advantages over windows like thin OS, customizable code etc. By bringing a fat windows API into embedded linux market, is the company towing a right strategy?
Python has been a good language for mission critical applications where maintaining the code is quite important. In a quite massive and critical system like the Google search system, Python has been quite extensively used and the reasons are obvious. The system tends to grow at a very fast rate and to cope up with it, we need a script language that is simple to maintain as well as that gives us the possibility of fast performance using embedded C code. What is the answer to VB in Unix platform. One of the linux gurus had a reply: Python + Tk. While this may be a little far fetched, this is definitely the best available alternative till another one comes by. In a world of C ,Java and Perl fanatics, Python is the silent language creating a revolution.