I agree. The great thing about M$'s Embrace and Extend philosophy is that is can work on everything.
OTOH, this Open monopoly could be bad for John Q Consumer-Nondeveloper. A developer could code a program that's great. JQC-N needs one more feature. Now they have to hire Jane P. Developer to make it for him. There are goods and bads to both. Since, I'm a tech, I support an Open Monopoly but I don't think it can squash M$ anytime soon.
Linux is there in some senses. This is what it needs:
Professionalism and speed.
Linux is great. It takes forever to boot, though (relatively of course).
KDE is more powerful than BeOS's enviroment, but it feels too heavy for the power it has. I have a nice box so KDE runs well, but BeOS flies with 32Mb of RAM instead of 128. It also boots in under 20 seconds (on my old P200 w/48Mb of RAM).
Perhaps the KDE guys should spend some time super-optimizing what they have?
Palm does not want to make BeOS OSS. They want the deveolpers in order to beef up PalmOS to compete with WinCE and the upcoming Linux PDAs (you'll notice that all of the successful PalmOS PDAs had patched code).
Palm has no desire for BeOS to be OSS because that would give competitors a peek at their new weaponry.
> Face it, BE is dead, and it ain't coming back.
Ah, you have never used BeOS. Depending on the future of Linux, I support BeOS more as a desktop OS because it is just better at it. The GUI is simple, fast and functional. The API is powerful. The community is there and, thankfully, very devoted.
With the new prospects of Linux's FB, I think Linux has a viable option for the L-User home desktop enviroment. Until then, BeOS is the only free, reasonable alterative.
IMHO, XFree86 is great, but could this have applications in areas where smaller/faster is better? Like (as the hype increases) PDAs or older, slower machines. Xfree was always slow to come up on my old P200 (I'm not talking about KDE but just to the familiar grid). X rocks for network stuff but having a lighter GUI would add tons of value to Linux.
My only question, would VNC have to run as setuid/root?
Right...I used a TI-86 my Sophomore year and upgraded to an 89 my Senior year. I learned to program assembler on the 86. (Yes, I had no life.)
(I just had to one-up ya.)
"While the industry can and should deliver more secure products, it's unrealistic to expect that we will ever achieve perfection," he said.
That's funny, OpenBSD has for a long time.
Secondly, I received a Windows XP update in my hotmailbox today claiming that XP has unmatched security...maybe in the M$ world but not for the real world.
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I agree. The great thing about M$'s Embrace and Extend philosophy is that is can work on everything.
OTOH, this Open monopoly could be bad for John Q Consumer-Nondeveloper. A developer could code a program that's great. JQC-N needs one more feature. Now they have to hire Jane P. Developer to make it for him. There are goods and bads to both. Since, I'm a tech, I support an Open Monopoly but I don't think it can squash M$ anytime soon.
Be is not yet part of Palm.
Linux is there in some senses. This is what it needs: Professionalism and speed. Linux is great. It takes forever to boot, though (relatively of course). KDE is more powerful than BeOS's enviroment, but it feels too heavy for the power it has. I have a nice box so KDE runs well, but BeOS flies with 32Mb of RAM instead of 128. It also boots in under 20 seconds (on my old P200 w/48Mb of RAM). Perhaps the KDE guys should spend some time super-optimizing what they have?
Palm does not want to make BeOS OSS. They want the deveolpers in order to beef up PalmOS to compete with WinCE and the upcoming Linux PDAs (you'll notice that all of the successful PalmOS PDAs had patched code).
Palm has no desire for BeOS to be OSS because that would give competitors a peek at their new weaponry.
> Face it, BE is dead, and it ain't coming back.
Ah, you have never used BeOS. Depending on the future of Linux, I support BeOS more as a desktop OS because it is just better at it. The GUI is simple, fast and functional. The API is powerful. The community is there and, thankfully, very devoted.
With the new prospects of Linux's FB, I think Linux has a viable option for the L-User home desktop enviroment. Until then, BeOS is the only free, reasonable alterative.
I'm still holding out for BeOS.
IMHO, XFree86 is great, but could this have applications in areas where smaller/faster is better? Like (as the hype increases) PDAs or older, slower machines. Xfree was always slow to come up on my old P200 (I'm not talking about KDE but just to the familiar grid). X rocks for network stuff but having a lighter GUI would add tons of value to Linux.
My only question, would VNC have to run as setuid/root?
Right...I used a TI-86 my Sophomore year and upgraded to an 89 my Senior year. I learned to program assembler on the 86. (Yes, I had no life.) (I just had to one-up ya.)
That's funny, OpenBSD has for a long time.
Secondly, I received a Windows XP update in my hotmailbox today claiming that XP has unmatched security...maybe in the M$ world but not for the real world.