I think that the only "serious" Linux desktop is provided by RedHat. Mandrake just doesn't cut it and Ximian does not make a Linux distribution. Judhing from the screenshots, I can hope that there will soon finally be a viable alternative to the BlueCurve desktop. Personally, I wish SUN best of luck with this venture.
Things could get really funny for SCO with this one... Imagine SCO goes to court, challenges the GPL and actually wins. What happens next? Well if GPL is invalid, then it's obvious that SCO is infringing on the copywrites of Samba developers by including Samba into their products.
Samba team suing SCO for copywrite infrigement ?;)
How would this makes any sense seeing as a base WinXP install provides you with ALL the utilities you need to set up and run a fileserver on a Windows (SMB) network ? This is possible with both Home and Professional versions and the Pro version has more advanced features that let the administrator fine-tune the file/directory permissions noticably better...
Flash works in Linux, but this quicktime 6 sorenson codec doesn't. Not only that, but they wanna stream it for extra assholicness.
This Sorenson codec most definately works with my MPlayer installation. Look into the downloads page on the MPlayer site for additional codecs (QT, Real, WMV, etc) and the MPlayer documentation on how to get them to work.
You can fullscreen in the PRO Windows / Mac versions of Apple's QuickTime or in any of the free UNIX video players that support Quicktime. I've just recently enjoyed watching the ultra-high quality 97 mb Matrix 2 quicktime trailer in fullscreen on my FreeBSD box with MPlayer.
Can someone explain me why there is always so much whining about Quicktime ? For Windows and Mac, you have the official Apple Quicktime player, for UNIX, you have MPlayer and Xine, which both play Quicktime videos just fine. What is the problem ? I've been watching Quicktime videos under Windows, Linux and FreeBSD and never had a problem, am I the only one ? "It just sucks" is not a valid explanation / reason.
A FreeBSD Security Advisory has been issued and the samba port has been updated to the fixed version: samba 2.2.8a Update 2.2.8 -> 2.2.8a. Submitted by: dwcjr (MAINTAINER)
I already updated my installation 4 hours ago, the FreeBSD folk are fast:)
This is what is fixed by the update:
(1) Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE Security Team identified vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution as root, as well as a race condition that could allow overwriting of system files. (This vulnerability was previously fixed in Samba 2.2.8.)
(2) Digital Defense, Inc. reports: ``This vulnerability, if exploited correctly, leads to an anonymous user gaining root access on a Samba serving system. All versions of Samba up to and including Samba 2.2.8 are vulnerable. Alpha versions of Samba 3.0 and above are *NOT* vulnerable.''
This is getting as ridiculous as it was last year. I think I will from now on just refuse to visit Slashdot on the 1st of April. I mean... it'd be ok if there were one or two jokes. It'd be ok if they were actually good. But it's NOT ok when the site gets flooded with ridiculous bogus articles that can be spotted as fake by reading the first 2 sentences.
Programming languages consisting only of workspaces ? Gentoo to adopt RPM ?
After seeing this article, I wondered, why doesn't the FreeBSD project do something similar ? There is a lot of FreeBSD-related projects that would be better off being hosted in a centralised place, with all their mailing lists and forums. That would make following their progress so much more easier...
Fucking moron. I know this is most likely a troll, but I'll respond anyway. RedHat has people working on / contributin on GNOME, Linux kernel and god-knows-what-else. They employ Alan Cox who is considered to be Linus's right hand by many. SUSE has people working on KDE and CUPS.
There is a thread on BSDForums, where people are discussing the possibility of either creating a script that would automate the creation of a "MiniBSD installation" or possibly creating a new BSD altogether, using the MiniBSD philosophy and FreeBSD base.
OS X what ? OS X can still run MacOS apps very well through Classic. I've seen some Macheads actually run software written in 1984 on MacOS X. What are you trying to say ?
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I think that the only "serious" Linux desktop is provided by RedHat. Mandrake just doesn't cut it and Ximian does not make a Linux distribution. Judhing from the screenshots, I can hope that there will soon finally be a viable alternative to the BlueCurve desktop. Personally, I wish SUN best of luck with this venture.
Things could get really funny for SCO with this one... Imagine SCO goes to court, challenges the GPL and actually wins. What happens next? Well if GPL is invalid, then it's obvious that SCO is infringing on the copywrites of Samba developers by including Samba into their products.
;)
Samba team suing SCO for copywrite infrigement ?
How would this makes any sense seeing as a base WinXP install provides you with ALL the utilities you need to set up and run a fileserver on a Windows (SMB) network ? This is possible with both Home and Professional versions and the Pro version has more advanced features that let the administrator fine-tune the file/directory permissions noticably better...
This Sorenson codec most definately works with my MPlayer installation. Look into the downloads page on the MPlayer site for additional codecs (QT, Real, WMV, etc) and the MPlayer documentation on how to get them to work.
You can fullscreen in the PRO Windows / Mac versions of Apple's QuickTime or in any of the free UNIX video players that support Quicktime. I've just recently enjoyed watching the ultra-high quality 97 mb Matrix 2 quicktime trailer in fullscreen on my FreeBSD box with MPlayer.
I dunno, MPlayer and Xine sound pretty free to me...
Show me a DiVX technology for video streams and I will be one happy camper. I am afraid you can't.
Can someone explain me why there is always so much whining about Quicktime ? For Windows and Mac, you have the official Apple Quicktime player, for UNIX, you have MPlayer and Xine, which both play Quicktime videos just fine. What is the problem ? I've been watching Quicktime videos under Windows, Linux and FreeBSD and never had a problem, am I the only one ? "It just sucks" is not a valid explanation / reason.
"How do I..." "RTFM IDIOT!!!11"
You mean THAT A'rpi ?
A FreeBSD Security Advisory has been issued and the samba port has been updated to the fixed version:
:)
samba 2.2.8a
Update 2.2.8 -> 2.2.8a.
Submitted by: dwcjr (MAINTAINER)
I already updated my installation 4 hours ago, the FreeBSD folk are fast
This is what is fixed by the update:
(1) Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE Security Team identified
vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution as root,
as well as a race condition that could allow overwriting of system
files. (This vulnerability was previously fixed in Samba 2.2.8.)
(2) Digital Defense, Inc. reports: ``This vulnerability, if exploited
correctly, leads to an anonymous user gaining root access on a Samba
serving system. All versions of Samba up to and including Samba 2.2.8
are vulnerable. Alpha versions of Samba 3.0 and above are *NOT*
vulnerable.''
This isn't exactly a recent change, I believe this happened over 6 months ago...
What's up with posting FreeBSD committer's email addresses on the front page of /. ?
Who will start boycottinng new movie releases because of TEH EVIL M$ ?
This is getting as ridiculous as it was last year. I think I will from now on just refuse to visit Slashdot on the 1st of April. I mean... it'd be ok if there were one or two jokes. It'd be ok if they were actually good. But it's NOT ok when the site gets flooded with ridiculous bogus articles that can be spotted as fake by reading the first 2 sentences.
:(
Programming languages consisting only of workspaces ?
Gentoo to adopt RPM ?
After seeing this article, I wondered, why doesn't the FreeBSD project do something similar ? There is a lot of FreeBSD-related projects that would be better off being hosted in a centralised place, with all their mailing lists and forums. That would make following their progress so much more easier...
Fucking moron. I know this is most likely a troll, but I'll respond anyway. RedHat has people working on / contributin on GNOME, Linux kernel and god-knows-what-else. They employ Alan Cox who is considered to be Linus's right hand by many. SUSE has people working on KDE and CUPS.
BIG EEEVIIIL CORPORATIONS ! RUN !
CAn anyone confirm whether it works fine under FreeBSD ?
Clusters ? Ever heard the "Can you imagine a..." ;)
FreeBSD supports much more hardware than OpenBSD and OpenBSD *STILL* doesn't do SMP.
There is a thread on BSDForums, where people are discussing the possibility of either creating a script that would automate the creation of a "MiniBSD installation" or possibly creating a new BSD altogether, using the MiniBSD philosophy and FreeBSD base.
You are taking things out of context. "keyboard navigation" and "keyboard oriented for other tasks" is not the same thing.
Does it also run the webserver that is hosting that review ? ;)
Well OK. But you have to admit that Classic is a much better emulator than Wine is.
OS X what ? OS X can still run MacOS apps very well through Classic. I've seen some Macheads actually run software written in 1984 on MacOS X. What are you trying to say ?