Read their site! ClosedBSD fits onto a single floppy! There's NOTHING non-essential in ClosedBSD. It's stripped down to virtually nothing but the kernel and a few functionalities that enable you to run a NAT/firewall/proxy.
There are commercial solutions for this. At this point, I'm told Cisco has a product whereby your local PD can connect to common format database stored either on your servers or in your phone (for a residence) and find your location within 10 feet. There need only be 1 issue before, legally, there will be no other VoIP implementations without a 911 solution.
Mark my words
Adam
I work for a large US Naval organization and we've had a large VoIP solution in place for over a year (I believe it's the largest commercial VoIP rollout through Cisco so far...ever). The phones are great, they offer plenty of cool features that make them "really cool" and they are cheap to run (save the bandwidth costs). They are eseentially little routers - they use Cat6 twisted pair and can even run XML scripts. It's also nice to have your voice mail delivered to your e-mailbox instead of an answering machine.
My question is, with the low service reliability of broadband (mine needs a reboot once a week or two and it goes down every few months for a few hours), what will you do when your phone lines go out for 4 hours on a Sunday for a small "service problem?"
My take: it's too early for residential VoIP.
Adam
weeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!
Linux isn't just for the pompous, pretentious, exclusive, arrogant, "I'm better than you because I use the CLI," "anything that resembles a desktop is evil because it's like Windows," "I hate Microsoft because I'm supposed to" ultra-elitists anymore. Although it seems most of you still think it is, judging by the comments that appear on Slashdot in general.
There are literally thousands of packages available and no one can use them all. Do us all a favor, simply don't install Gnome or KDE - and shut up.
After all the crying about the crappy April Fools stories today, I hope -- no, pray -- this is the one that got us all. If it's not a joke, I'm formatting my friggin drive.
Kazaa is starting to suck anyway lately, anyone else noticed?
That's why you use an NT based Windows and make them "Users." Then they can't install their own software.
Sure, an Administrator needs to visit their desktop to do nearly everything, but the cost of support should go down drastically when you're not cleaning up after users who installed webshots, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Real Player, Real One, MSN Messenger, Spinner, "Merry Christmas" screensavers, and 300 other unapproved applications...
GoBe Productive was a fantastic application when it sat (v2) on my BeOS desktop. Running it under Windows (with the promise of a free copy of the Linux version) has never made me so happy. At a fraction of the cost, using a fraction of the system resources, Productive is a tool anyone who uses Windows should invest in!
As a former Be fanatic (and to the dismay of many who know me, still fairly insistant about it...), I can safely say that it will be great to welcome many of the comforts of BeOS to Linux.
But at the same time, it will still be Linux. Though this has been touched upon in this general thread, no one is recognizing poigiantly that this is not the BeOS replacement we are all hoping for. Both this, as well as BlueOS, are truly Linux at their heart. Only OpenBeoS (or OBOS, as it appears it will eventually be called), is going to be a true replacement for BeOS.
For whatever it's worth, when I moved a few months ago, I found an old copy of Space Quest III. I got it up and running with no problem on a K6 II 450.
I might be the only one around who still thinks that Sierra's Space Quest, Police Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry games were the best games invented because they used imagination to wow you, not graphics.
In English, "you are" is abbreviated "you're" not "your," which indicates possession. In this particular case, "Your a fuckwit pillock" appears to serve as a reflexive indicator.
The point here is that AOL wants
1) an established Linux name
2) a solid base for their own interactive OS that can be web-enabled and coupled with their service
3) a product written in a language that many can already program.
They don't give a shit about Alan Cox or current Linux users and, frankly, they shouldn't. The existing code is GPL'ed anyway, so we have nothing to whine about - they can't kill Linux.
My guess is by the time AOLLinx or AOLos hits the streets it looks and feels nothing like Linux and doesn't even attempt to compete with Linux as we know it today.
Penny-per-page will kill general internet surfing in one fell swoop. I know I f around on the internet all the time and spend money recklessly to boot, but I guarantee that at a penny a page, my internet surfing comes to a halt without pause.
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Read their site! ClosedBSD fits onto a single floppy! There's NOTHING non-essential in ClosedBSD. It's stripped down to virtually nothing but the kernel and a few functionalities that enable you to run a NAT/firewall/proxy.
There are commercial solutions for this. At this point, I'm told Cisco has a product whereby your local PD can connect to common format database stored either on your servers or in your phone (for a residence) and find your location within 10 feet. There need only be 1 issue before, legally, there will be no other VoIP implementations without a 911 solution.
Mark my words
Adam
My question is, with the low service reliability of broadband (mine needs a reboot once a week or two and it goes down every few months for a few hours), what will you do when your phone lines go out for 4 hours on a Sunday for a small "service problem?"
My take: it's too early for residential VoIP. Adam
I'm sorry, but I read this headline as is: Microsoft is going to swallow the world into .NET in one less step.
weeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk! Linux isn't just for the pompous, pretentious, exclusive, arrogant, "I'm better than you because I use the CLI," "anything that resembles a desktop is evil because it's like Windows," "I hate Microsoft because I'm supposed to" ultra-elitists anymore. Although it seems most of you still think it is, judging by the comments that appear on Slashdot in general. There are literally thousands of packages available and no one can use them all. Do us all a favor, simply don't install Gnome or KDE - and shut up.
Kazaa is starting to suck anyway lately, anyone else noticed?
Sure, an Administrator needs to visit their desktop to do nearly everything, but the cost of support should go down drastically when you're not cleaning up after users who installed webshots, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Real Player, Real One, MSN Messenger, Spinner, "Merry Christmas" screensavers, and 300 other unapproved applications...
GoBe Productive was a fantastic application when it sat (v2) on my BeOS desktop. Running it under Windows (with the promise of a free copy of the Linux version) has never made me so happy. At a fraction of the cost, using a fraction of the system resources, Productive is a tool anyone who uses Windows should invest in!
As a former Be fanatic (and to the dismay of many who know me, still fairly insistant about it...), I can safely say that it will be great to welcome many of the comforts of BeOS to Linux. But at the same time, it will still be Linux. Though this has been touched upon in this general thread, no one is recognizing poigiantly that this is not the BeOS replacement we are all hoping for. Both this, as well as BlueOS, are truly Linux at their heart. Only OpenBeoS (or OBOS, as it appears it will eventually be called), is going to be a true replacement for BeOS.
For whatever it's worth, when I moved a few months ago, I found an old copy of Space Quest III. I got it up and running with no problem on a K6 II 450. I might be the only one around who still thinks that Sierra's Space Quest, Police Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry games were the best games invented because they used imagination to wow you, not graphics.
In English, "you are" is abbreviated "you're" not "your," which indicates possession. In this particular case, "Your a fuckwit pillock" appears to serve as a reflexive indicator.
I thought you couldn't distribute any form of OpenBSD as an ISO?
Why is this UNIX news?
The point here is that AOL wants 1) an established Linux name 2) a solid base for their own interactive OS that can be web-enabled and coupled with their service 3) a product written in a language that many can already program. They don't give a shit about Alan Cox or current Linux users and, frankly, they shouldn't. The existing code is GPL'ed anyway, so we have nothing to whine about - they can't kill Linux. My guess is by the time AOLLinx or AOLos hits the streets it looks and feels nothing like Linux and doesn't even attempt to compete with Linux as we know it today.
Penny-per-page will kill general internet surfing in one fell swoop. I know I f around on the internet all the time and spend money recklessly to boot, but I guarantee that at a penny a page, my internet surfing comes to a halt without pause.
How does Slashdot work? I submitted this story a day or two ago and it finally shows up with someone else's name on it. LAME!!