They could sell Ximian Linux, I mean, wouldn't that sell better than Ximian Gnome? Who wants to pay for a distro and then pay for the window manager again
I would pay 10-15 (maybe 20) bucks a quarter to update everything with no hassle... Using a program like Red Carpet, because it's definately user friendly.
I wouldn't pay 10 bucks a month to update Gnome
Of course... I use KDE, so maybe one of you Gnome users know something I dont:)
IT is probably the only industry where people who didn't go to school for it know more than the people who did. IT undergrads generally know next to nothing about real computing... They might have had a class in Visual Basic, but they forgot everything a semester later... What they really learned was how to force all of us self taught people to fill out a million useless forms.
Run the latest 2.4 - or upgrade your hardware, you can get new tulip cards (the netgear FA310TX for example) for 15 bucks, Or... I'm sure there will be a patch when 2.6 comes out.
but I mean... Would it kill you to run 2.4.xx when 2.6 is out? I mean, bugfixes are still being applied to the 2.2 kernel...
are you more afraid of hackers or the FBI? At least I have respect for hackers. Keep those packages up to date... It's us vs. them, "them" being both the bad guys and the "good" guys now. Pretty sad that basic rights to privacy can be stolen so blatently.
I bought a SCSI DDS-2 Tape drive off of E-Bay a year or so ago for under 100 bucks. (4-8 gigs a tape)...It's kinda slow, but it works fine for weekly or monthly backups, plus my work had a ton of old tapes they weren't using anymore, so I have *well* over a terrabyte of storage... Most E-Bay sellers will toss in a tape or two and a cleaning tape too.
When I see posts like these, I can't help but wonder if it's Bill Gates out there trolling for Windows.
I'm not going to waste time debugging my Windows install when I only use it once in a great while. I use it when it's only absolutely necessary... Like when I can't get my windows-only engineering apps running under wine.
Not a big deal... I only boot into Windows when absolutely necessary. It has been on there a while and there's a ton of junk installed. Linux runs rock solid, so it can't be hardware, unless it's funky drivers.:-/
He's right. Want to make a ton of money in the software buisness? quickly develop buggy bloatware and convice your customers that their software runs slow because they're soooooo behind the times with the computer they bought last year for 2000 bucks.
Good, fast code takes too much time... While you're working on your great app, your company is going out of business...
It will be interesting where things go in the next 5 years with GPL'd code that can't disappear when the business goes under... But instead can continue to be improved.
You could say Microsoft won't be "eating anyone's lunch"
I'm not trolling, I'm being honest. Back in high school no one had anything good to say about the Macs we had to use. The general attitude was that what we were learning was useless because the only places we ever saw Macs was at school.
I don't know if i'd like the idea of an IBM distro... Anyway, it would make them too much of a competitor to Microsoft, and they probably don't want to go there. Why piss off Redmond when they don't need to? Maybe in a few years if/when MS is a little weaker.
Well, ok, you've got me. The government almost always has it's head up it's ass.
If the government really wants to secure it's communications, it ought to post an "ask slashdot."
G_W_Bush asks: Dear Slashdot, I'm a leader of a major world power and I don't know my ass from a hole in the ground... How should I secure my communications?
...who *ahem* just want to have their TV tuner working out of the box.
Read:
Those who want their operating system to work as it should when they install it.
Yes, there are arguments against running Mandrake (stability maybe) But not using it because it works doesn't make sense.
"Yea, I tried Mandrake, but it worked too good... I switched to [insert distro here] so that I could spend hours trying to get every piece of my hardware working correctly."
Sounds good... As long as at least some changes get contributed back to the Wine project.
Ok, so they wrote a plugin to stick the quicktime player and word viewer in a browser, charge for that... But I think that sticking thier changes back into the wine source will really benefit the Linux OS.
will they be shooting themselves in the foot? I don't know, I think there's ways they can avoid that. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Maybe a little off-topic, but when is Codeweavers going to release another preview version on Wine 1.0? Their "preview versions" work better than the snapshots at the Wine page.
Yes, it's legal. They went to Apple and asked because the license said that the software could only be installed on the OS that it was written for. Apple actually changed the license so that they could produce this product?
Why is Apple not just creating a Linux client is beyond me.
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In a way, Ximian is making a meta-distribution,
Then they should put out a distribution.
They could sell Ximian Linux, I mean, wouldn't that sell better than Ximian Gnome? Who wants to pay for a distro and then pay for the window manager again
I would pay 10-15 (maybe 20) bucks a quarter to update everything with no hassle... Using a program like Red Carpet, because it's definately user friendly.
:)
I wouldn't pay 10 bucks a month to update Gnome
Of course... I use KDE, so maybe one of you Gnome users know something I dont
IT is probably the only industry where people who didn't go to school for it know more than the people who did. IT undergrads generally know next to nothing about real computing... They might have had a class in Visual Basic, but they forgot everything a semester later... What they really learned was how to force all of us self taught people to fill out a million useless forms.
Run the latest 2.4 - or upgrade your hardware, you can get new tulip cards (the netgear FA310TX for example) for 15 bucks, Or... I'm sure there will be a patch when 2.6 comes out.
but I mean... Would it kill you to run 2.4.xx when 2.6 is out? I mean, bugfixes are still being applied to the 2.2 kernel...
Humidity won't be a problem if you keep the door closed. It's when you open and the cold air hits the warm air do you get condensation.
Read 1984 by Orwell. The key to not getting there is to NOT LET STUFF LIKE THIS HAPPEN.
This is a blatent violation of our rights.
regardless if I'm doing something wrong or not, if they have no good reason to stick their nose in my business, they better not be there.
are you more afraid of hackers or the FBI? At least I have respect for hackers. Keep those packages up to date... It's us vs. them, "them" being both the bad guys and the "good" guys now. Pretty sad that basic rights to privacy can be stolen so blatently.
I bought a SCSI DDS-2 Tape drive off of E-Bay a year or so ago for under 100 bucks. (4-8 gigs a tape) ...It's kinda slow, but it works fine for weekly or monthly backups, plus my work had a ton of old tapes they weren't using anymore, so I have *well* over a terrabyte of storage... Most E-Bay sellers will toss in a tape or two and a cleaning tape too.
When I see posts like these, I can't help but wonder if it's Bill Gates out there trolling for Windows.
I'm not going to waste time debugging my Windows install when I only use it once in a great while. I use it when it's only absolutely necessary... Like when I can't get my windows-only engineering apps running under wine.
Thanks for the advice though, it really helped.
Not a big deal... I only boot into Windows when absolutely necessary. It has been on there a while and there's a ton of junk installed. Linux runs rock solid, so it can't be hardware, unless it's funky drivers. :-/
He's right. Want to make a ton of money in the software buisness? quickly develop buggy bloatware and convice your customers that their software runs slow because they're soooooo behind the times with the computer they bought last year for 2000 bucks.
Good, fast code takes too much time... While you're working on your great app, your company is going out of business...
It will be interesting where things go in the next 5 years with GPL'd code that can't disappear when the business goes under... But instead can continue to be improved.
You could say Microsoft won't be "eating anyone's lunch"
Blah... Windows 2000 based systems are usually very stable
:)
Not mine... With 128MB of 266MHz DDR RAM and a 1.13 GHz Athlon, the thing freezes all the time.
Maybe I have something configured incorrectly
Just my personal experience.
I'm not trolling, I'm being honest. Back in high school no one had anything good to say about the Macs we had to use. The general attitude was that what we were learning was useless because the only places we ever saw Macs was at school.
It'll be just like the movie "Hackers"
"Look, I'll double the RAM!"
You were probably the only one then... "Why do we have to use these Crap-in-toshes?" was pretty much the general attitude where I went to school.
Mod this up, coffee almost just came shooting out of my nose.
I don't know if i'd like the idea of an IBM distro... Anyway, it would make them too much of a competitor to Microsoft, and they probably don't want to go there. Why piss off Redmond when they don't need to? Maybe in a few years if/when MS is a little weaker.
The government has it's head up it's ass...
Well, ok, you've got me. The government almost always has it's head up it's ass.
If the government really wants to secure it's communications, it ought to post an "ask slashdot."
G_W_Bush asks:
Dear Slashdot, I'm a leader of a major world power and I don't know my ass from a hole in the ground... How should I secure my communications?
...who *ahem* just want to have their TV tuner working out of the box.
Read:
Those who want their operating system to work as it should when they install it.
Yes, there are arguments against running Mandrake (stability maybe) But not using it because it works doesn't make sense.
"Yea, I tried Mandrake, but it worked too good... I switched to [insert distro here] so that I could spend hours trying to get every piece of my hardware working correctly."
Who's still using Gnutella? GiFT just had a breakthrough with the development of ShadowFT
Download it. Give it a try...
Go read 1984 by George Orwell. You're innocent until proven guilty. If you're innocent, there's no reason to spy on you.
You sir, took the words right out of my mouth.
Sounds good... As long as at least some changes get contributed back to the Wine project.
Ok, so they wrote a plugin to stick the quicktime player and word viewer in a browser, charge for that... But I think that sticking thier changes back into the wine source will really benefit the Linux OS.
will they be shooting themselves in the foot? I don't know, I think there's ways they can avoid that. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Maybe a little off-topic, but when is Codeweavers going to release another preview version on Wine 1.0? Their "preview versions" work better than the snapshots at the Wine page.
inquiring minds want to know.
Yes, it's legal. They went to Apple and asked because the license said that the software could only be installed on the OS that it was written for. Apple actually changed the license so that they could produce this product?
Why is Apple not just creating a Linux client is beyond me.