The license is incompatible with the GPL. GNOME and KDE, among many many other programs, are licenced under the GPL. From a practical standpoint, a GPL-incompatible version of the X libraries is next to useless.
As for me, the fastest video card on the planet is the ATI Radeon 9200, although I realize there are newer cards available for Windows and other closed and hybrid platforms.
Likewise.
Hey, did you ever manage to get Xvideo to work with video-out ('TV-out')on that card? I can get video-out working, but the Xv overlay doesn't seem to get applied to the video output.
Honestly, I don't care. If, in about a year, X.org took the same stance on binary-only drivers as Linus does now, I suspect we'd see soon some source code and/or (preferrably) documentation. The alternative OS market is growing enough that it soon won't be able to be ignored.
People who made changes to the source code tended to want to have their names added to the acknowledgement. With large numbers of people working on a single project (or for many separate projects in a software distribution), the advertising clause quickly created large and unwieldy acknowledgements. Another practical problem was legal incompatibility with the terms of the GNU General Public License (which does not allow the addition of restrictions beyond those it already imposes), forcing a segregation of GNU and BSD software.
Name one other Linux distro (heck, even one other *operating system*) that can do automatic hardware detection on as many different architectures as Debian does.
Sorry, I love debian but they are just too far behind to be nearly as relevant as they were a few years ago.
That's simply not true. (see below)
Hopefully they'll release before the end of this year and they can show people linux in all it's 2002 glory!
Sigh. "stable" releases aren't for desktop users who want cutting-edge; they're for users who want extensively-tested software. Run "unstable" or "testing" if you want up-to-the-minute software. Really. Honest. I mean it. Lots of people do.
At least, around here, the (on-duty) cops are always being hassled by the local thugs (particularly younger, smaller ones), because the cops are the only ones who can't punch them out without getting into serious trouble. (I'm simplifying it a bit here, but you get the idea.)
[BTW, by "overall layout", I meant the aesthetics.]
There's a strong correlation between moronic design and moronic implementation, because often they're done by the same person (or there is a power imbalance between the designer(s) and the developer(s)). Software interface/aesthetics design and software development are two very different skill sets.
BASIC/QBASIC - This is what they were designed for. They are old, but they'll work for the theory and basic programs. The biggest problem is teaching the "evil" GOTO and such.
If you're going to teach BASIC, teach GOTO! Seriously. Teach old-style line-numbered BASIC; preferrably on a system that *requires* this style. Then, teach something more structured.
Because old-style BASIC is so close to assembly language in its structure, it does the larger job of teaching people how the computer actually works.
There is nothing evil about goto. Some people who teach programming are just impatient, and like to fool themselves into believing that most above-average people can become good programmers in 5 years. When they see inexperienced programmers' hairy code, they tend to think something's wrong, rather than just accepting the inexperience and moving on.
HTML is one of the hardest languages to learn, mainly due to the lack of widespread standardization.
Python is not too hard for anyone to learn. Perhaps some people just don't want to learn how to program (that seems to be the case in my family).
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Actually, it's the web *developer* that's an incompetent moron. Designers are typically people who come up with the overall layout, and developers implement it.
Of course, it takes specialization in about a dozen different areas to make a *good* website. Most people don't have these skills.
Of what possible benefit is there bringing Linux accross?
Linux itself? Not much. But bringing the same environment as you use on x86 has advantages. For example, if your admins are familiar with Debian/x86, the amount of time needed for them to become productive on Debian/sparc64 would probably be a lot less than for Solaris/sparc64.
Step 1. Insert Live Gentoo CD. Step 2. Wait 15 hours for CD to automatically compile the software in RAM (including the kernel). Step 3. Reboot (to boot the new kernel). Step 4. Go to step 2.
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First post? ;-)
There was a program you could run to make them click-on click-off. I don't remember what it was called.
The license is incompatible with the GPL. GNOME and KDE, among many many other programs, are licenced under the GPL. From a practical standpoint, a GPL-incompatible version of the X libraries is next to useless.
Troll.
Likewise.
Hey, did you ever manage to get Xvideo to work with video-out ('TV-out')on that card? I can get video-out working, but the Xv overlay doesn't seem to get applied to the video output.
Honestly, I don't care. If, in about a year, X.org took the same stance on binary-only drivers as Linus does now, I suspect we'd see soon some source code and/or (preferrably) documentation. The alternative OS market is growing enough that it soon won't be able to be ignored.
Name one other Linux distro (heck, even one other *operating system*) that can do automatic hardware detection on as many different architectures as Debian does.
Sorry, I love debian but they are just too far behind to be nearly as relevant as they were a few years ago.
That's simply not true. (see below)
Hopefully they'll release before the end of this year and they can show people linux in all it's 2002 glory!
Sigh. "stable" releases aren't for desktop users who want cutting-edge; they're for users who want extensively-tested software. Run "unstable" or "testing" if you want up-to-the-minute software. Really. Honest. I mean it. Lots of people do.
At least, around here, the (on-duty) cops are always being hassled by the local thugs (particularly younger, smaller ones), because the cops are the only ones who can't punch them out without getting into serious trouble. (I'm simplifying it a bit here, but you get the idea.)
There's a strong correlation between moronic design and moronic implementation, because often they're done by the same person (or there is a power imbalance between the designer(s) and the developer(s)). Software interface/aesthetics design and software development are two very different skill sets.
If you're going to teach BASIC, teach GOTO! Seriously. Teach old-style line-numbered BASIC; preferrably on a system that *requires* this style. Then, teach something more structured.
Because old-style BASIC is so close to assembly language in its structure, it does the larger job of teaching people how the computer actually works.
There is nothing evil about goto. Some people who teach programming are just impatient, and like to fool themselves into believing that most above-average people can become good programmers in 5 years. When they see inexperienced programmers' hairy code, they tend to think something's wrong, rather than just accepting the inexperience and moving on.
Isn't that called "software development"?
You haven't removed the Caps Lock key yet (either by remapping or by physically removing the key)?
Python is not too hard for anyone to learn. Perhaps some people just don't want to learn how to program (that seems to be the case in my family).
Of course, it takes specialization in about a dozen different areas to make a *good* website. Most people don't have these skills.
Actually, it's written in assembly. ;-)
My A1000 Amiga doesn't work anymore... for a similar reason... ;-)
That sounds like a candidate for bofh-excuses:
By "Linux", I meant the kernel, BTW.
Obviously, walking around in body armour, with multiple armed guards and snipers covering you would be more effective, but it's also costly.
If you look like a robber, you'll probably get annoyed by the cops. If you look like a cop, you'll probably get annoyed by the robbers.
Linux itself? Not much. But bringing the same environment as you use on x86 has advantages. For example, if your admins are familiar with Debian/x86, the amount of time needed for them to become productive on Debian/sparc64 would probably be a lot less than for Solaris/sparc64.
It's easy!
Step 1. Insert Live Gentoo CD.
Step 2. Wait 15 hours for CD to automatically compile the software in RAM (including the kernel).
Step 3. Reboot (to boot the new kernel).
Step 4. Go to step 2.
The above post authorizes me to seize $10000 from ErikZ, because it didn't say I couldn't.
Hyuk!