You didn't already know that Slashdot was a haven for clueless trolls who never look at a situation objectively, or that you really can't have a truly intelligent conversation here any more?
sndconfig is a Red Hat sound configuration program. Mandrake has a similar, but better, sound configuration program called sounddrake, which you can use instead.
The previous release of Mandrake was Mandrake 7.1, which was released June 6, 2000, which was over five and a half months ago. The previous release before that was Mandrake 7.0, which was released January 14, 2000, which was five before Mandrake 7.1. While it doesn't have the exhaustive testing cycle of Debian, there is an extensive beta and release candidate cycle. Mandrake manages to stay on the cutting edge with its releases while still maintaining stability, and if someone wants to sacrifice stability or security, they can always download a less tested version of software, Mandrake-packaged that is tightly integrated with the rest of the system.
While this may be true for the Linux kernel, anyone that wants can modify the kernel to their exact specifications, thus making it perfect for their particular task. Just more anti-Linux FUD, move along.
I certainly think that the rights of the people are quite important, and possibly more important than the other things you mention. You also seem to be the kind of person that would vote for any candidate that promises you the most money. If this type of attitude propagated, we would be in seriously bad shape.
Seeing violence does not make you kill someone. Being desensitized to violence does not make you kill someone. There are millions of people that are exposed to violence every day, and to greater extremes than murderers. While desensitization to violence is not the best thing, it does not cause violence.
"Vote for George Bush if you think the Second Amendment is more important than the First."
While I certainly think that the Second Amendment is important and should not be violated, I also think that the First Amendment is important and that, at least in the short term, it is significantly more important than the Second Amendment.
"Law Enforcement, Intelligence, and Other Government Activities. - This section does not prohibit any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, information security, or intelligence activity of an officer, agent, or employee of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State, or a person acting pursuant to a contract with the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State. For purposes of this subsection, the term ''information security'' means activities carried out in order to identify and address the vulnerabilities of a government computer, computer system, or computer network."
Throughout the article, the Red Hat representatives keep talking about how they're "innovating". While it wouldn't matter if it sounded like Microsoft if they actually were innovating, they're not. They're merely including a Development version of gcc (and glibc, although that's not what they're talking about in the article) in the Red Hat release. How is that innovation?
The whole thing is about that, if someone were going to release a binary, it would be compiled on Red Hat and designed to run on Red Hat, because Red Hat has the highest sales. While they could make binaries for other distros, they might not.
I recommend Mandrake (7.1), Debian (2.2, while usually the Stable releases of Debian aren't as modern as everyone else, 2.2 was released just in August so it's fairly recent), or Slackware (7.1).
This is not a bug. They made a fundamental design decision to include a buggy development version of gcc and glibc. It was not as though this was some unknown bug that they couldn't do anything about. They made a conscious effort to include the buggy and compatibility-breaking development release of gcc. There is a BIG difference.
There is no one stopping you from using kernel 2.4.0test9 right now, and completely free. With Microsoft software, and other closed-source software, you cannot take advantage of any of the new features, although maybe you wouldn't want to because it's so buggy. Also, if they'd done anything on the product, they're preventing any of the good stuff they've been creating from being used by the public.
There are significant bugs in the kernel, especially if you don't use a single-CPU x86 machine with all standard hardware. They should NOT release it if they have not fixed all the bugs they can possibly fix. If they did, it would make it no better than any of the other companies that release software before it's ready. If you can live with the possibility of stability or security problems, then you can, by all means use the test kernel. I, and most people, don't want a kernel that's actually not stable being released as though it were Stable.
This is just another case of CNet writing bad or misleading articles. Although it does clearly outline how the Slashdot editors don't read the articles and how the commenters don't either;)
There are a lot of uninteresting stories, and it's not as though you can block them with some "uninteresting-blockage magic". There are so many stories submitted to Slashdot, who knows how many truly interesting stories are passed over for some boring product announcement, or whatever?
Regardless of whether this story is stupid, you are supposed to find the bugs in the packages that you're including with the distro and fix them, use a different package, or not do anything (because the version provide features that you absolutely must have in your distro) and suck it up when someone complains about the bug.
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Netscape is actually not really open-source. What's open-source is Mozilla, which wasn't just magically opened from Netscape.
You didn't already know that Slashdot was a haven for clueless trolls who never look at a situation objectively, or that you really can't have a truly intelligent conversation here any more?
sndconfig is a Red Hat sound configuration program. Mandrake has a similar, but better, sound configuration program called sounddrake, which you can use instead.
The previous release of Mandrake was Mandrake 7.1, which was released June 6, 2000, which was over five and a half months ago. The previous release before that was Mandrake 7.0, which was released January 14, 2000, which was five before Mandrake 7.1. While it doesn't have the exhaustive testing cycle of Debian, there is an extensive beta and release candidate cycle. Mandrake manages to stay on the cutting edge with its releases while still maintaining stability, and if someone wants to sacrifice stability or security, they can always download a less tested version of software, Mandrake-packaged that is tightly integrated with the rest of the system.
While this may be true for the Linux kernel, anyone that wants can modify the kernel to their exact specifications, thus making it perfect for their particular task. Just more anti-Linux FUD, move along.
2.2.18 will have USB support built-in and AGP/DRI support. They are both being backported from 2.4.
They have the ability to LOCALly block "the porn and pro-marijuana sites." This wouldn't shut the sites down, it would just prevent access.
Wouldn't you just use the same configuration every burn?
I certainly think that the rights of the people are quite important, and possibly more important than the other things you mention. You also seem to be the kind of person that would vote for any candidate that promises you the most money. If this type of attitude propagated, we would be in seriously bad shape.
These laws should also not exist. However, in the case of alcoholic beverages it's not an issue of free speech anyway.
Seeing violence does not make you kill someone. Being desensitized to violence does not make you kill someone. There are millions of people that are exposed to violence every day, and to greater extremes than murderers. While desensitization to violence is not the best thing, it does not cause violence.
While I certainly think that the Second Amendment is important and should not be violated, I also think that the First Amendment is important and that, at least in the short term, it is significantly more important than the Second Amendment.
"Law Enforcement, Intelligence, and Other Government Activities. - This section does not prohibit any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, information security, or intelligence activity of an officer, agent, or employee of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State, or a person acting pursuant to a contract with the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State. For purposes of this subsection, the term ''information security'' means activities carried out in order to identify and address the vulnerabilities of a government computer, computer system, or computer network."
Throughout the article, the Red Hat representatives keep talking about how they're "innovating". While it wouldn't matter if it sounded like Microsoft if they actually were innovating, they're not. They're merely including a Development version of gcc (and glibc, although that's not what they're talking about in the article) in the Red Hat release. How is that innovation?
The whole thing is about that, if someone were going to release a binary, it would be compiled on Red Hat and designed to run on Red Hat, because Red Hat has the highest sales. While they could make binaries for other distros, they might not.
I recommend Mandrake (7.1), Debian (2.2, while usually the Stable releases of Debian aren't as modern as everyone else, 2.2 was released just in August so it's fairly recent), or Slackware (7.1).
This is not a bug. They made a fundamental design decision to include a buggy development version of gcc and glibc. It was not as though this was some unknown bug that they couldn't do anything about. They made a conscious effort to include the buggy and compatibility-breaking development release of gcc. There is a BIG difference.
Why did you have to reinstall?
There is no one stopping you from using kernel 2.4.0test9 right now, and completely free. With Microsoft software, and other closed-source software, you cannot take advantage of any of the new features, although maybe you wouldn't want to because it's so buggy. Also, if they'd done anything on the product, they're preventing any of the good stuff they've been creating from being used by the public.
There are significant bugs in the kernel, especially if you don't use a single-CPU x86 machine with all standard hardware. They should NOT release it if they have not fixed all the bugs they can possibly fix. If they did, it would make it no better than any of the other companies that release software before it's ready. If you can live with the possibility of stability or security problems, then you can, by all means use the test kernel. I, and most people, don't want a kernel that's actually not stable being released as though it were Stable.
There is NO SUCH THING as Linux 6.2.
This is just another case of CNet writing bad or misleading articles. Although it does clearly outline how the Slashdot editors don't read the articles and how the commenters don't either ;)
There are a lot of uninteresting stories, and it's not as though you can block them with some "uninteresting-blockage magic". There are so many stories submitted to Slashdot, who knows how many truly interesting stories are passed over for some boring product announcement, or whatever?
If you look now, the number is more like 330 bugs.
Regardless of whether this story is stupid, you are supposed to find the bugs in the packages that you're including with the distro and fix them, use a different package, or not do anything (because the version provide features that you absolutely must have in your distro) and suck it up when someone complains about the bug.