Linux has no central repository, so the concept of forking linux is meaningless. Linus' branch is considered "official" because it historical and institutional reasons, not technical ones. Anyone can create their own branch and start incorporating patches, even pulling from others' branch. I believe this is exactly the reason why Linus switched to the new SCM system (Git).
I've been frustrated with gaim, so I tend to use meebo for chat these days (which actually uses gaim as the back-end, but that's not the point).
The only differences between Gaim versions seem to be UI improvements. I've been using gaim for several years now, and they re-design the interface every minor version. It looks different now that it did three years ago, but there is absolutely no additional functionality. How the hell does the #1 project on sourceforge for three years not have voice chat yet? Also, I've also never been able to successfully transfer a file from gaim to AOLIM.
A newly appointed cryptographer attends a lunch meeting with his peers, who are going around a circle telling jokes. One of the cryptographers shouts "12", and everyone starts laughing. Another person shouts "34", which is received with more laughter. The new cryptographer asks one of the people "why is everyone laughing?" to which he responds "instead of taking the time to tell the whole joke, we just assign each joke a number and instead say that number". When it's the new cryptographers turn, he says "-22", to which everyone bursts in laughter. One of them shouts, "i haven't heard that one before!"
Finding factors is a HARD problem.That's the whole point of RSA encryption. A person's public key is a composite number. If finding factors of a composite number was easy, then RSA would be broken.
In your paper, systems software research is irrelevant, you claim that there is little room for innovation in systems programming, and that all energy is devoted to supporting existing standards. Do you still feel this way now that you're working at Google?
Wikipedia has experienced trememdous growth over the last couple years. It has surpassed all other encyclopedias in terms of article count and up-to-date content. However, it seems that wikipedia could have a stifling effect on other encyclopedia companies that are simply unable to compete. Has wikipedia's presence hurt the market for printed encyclopedias?
I downloaded an electronic copy of this book, and I'm in the middle of the first chapter. So far, it has made some pretty interesting arguments, especially how people can only manage their 'actions', not their time or priorities. It also states that you need to have a clear mind to truly be productive, and that anxiety is caused by uncertainty about what to do next. The idea is to make goals and think about the first action you can do to work on the goals.
Actually, its unlikely humans will evolve much more. Why? Because few people die and the genetically inferior ones still pass their genes to the next generation. This is as good as it gets...:(
> in a competitive strike against Microsoft (from article)
Unfortunately, AOL cannot survive without Microsoft. Microsoft could very easily patch windows to make AOL 'mysteriously not work', and simultaneously offer 'free MSN for a month'. Plus, AOL software only runs on Windows, not to mention the AOL browser is just an embedded IE control. They cannot rebel against Microsoft, because MS brought them all their glory.
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> Why did *BSD fail
You sound like it has already failed, which is the opposite. FreeBSD's userbase is steadily increasing. The number of ports is incresing constantly. Not to mention there are more or less 20 daily updates to the system source (in FreeBSD). Is this what you call failing? Every linux user that switches to BSD gets hooked. Try it, and you'll love it.
> *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels
Since when are the kernels supposed to be compatible? FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are all designed for different purposes, and they have different goals.
I dont know whether you have a broomstick up your ass or you just want to start a OS war. *BSD is by far the most stable OS. Look at the Netcraft uptime surveys, 42/50 of the sites with highest uptimes all have BSD. Does this say something?
By the way, I don't really see the purpose of this project. Many NetBSD utils are designed specifically with the NetBSD kernel (ipfw, smbfs, etc...). Not to mention most of the/bin and/usr/bin of linux and NetBSD are identical. Basically you will end up with a weird version of NetBSD.
Well, the ports system is basically an extremely easy way of installing applications. The ports skeleton is in/usr/ports, and it has many sub-directories containing different categories of applications (archivers, ftp, devel, etc...). Just cd to the port you want and type 'make install' and it downloades the sources, even the sources of the dependencies and builds it for you.
BSD also comes with pkg_add which downloads the binaries from their FTP site and installs without any compiling. This is more useful for extremely large things (XFree86, GNOME, KDE, etc...).
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FreeBSD is just plain better. At least for now. Think about it for a minute, FreeBSD is a UNIX. It's essentielly been in development for nearly 20 years. You would expect it to be more stable and mature. Linux, on the other hand, has been around for what? 10 years? The rate at which linux is being developed and improved is much greater than FreeBSD. Few people write native applications for FreeBSD. They all write things for Linux and then the a BSD port is released. Linux has many advantages, such as the ability to strip a kernel down to almost nothing (512 k even). This is useful in embedded development. Then there is the whole money issue. FreeBSD seems to change hands all the time (Wind River, FreeBSD mall, etc...). Linux, on the other hand, is getting multi-billion dollar investments from IBM and other companies.
In a few years, the Linux kernel may even match the FreeBSD kernel in stability and whatnot. It is hard to say that, though, with the kick-ass work the BSD developers have been doing, and the recent conflicts between the Linux developers. We'll have to wait and see.
Well, if linux wants to spread to the desktop market, this may be a great way to achieve it. Most PC users have AOL, and it would be neat if AOL could make their 'AOLinux' and package that on a cheap imac-type internet terminal. Most people I know would go for that, especially if it saves them money.
but in many respects aren't as feature-rich yet
Well, as the operating system is concerned, Windows has nothing on Linux or *BSD. FreeBSD, for instance, is working on revolutionary features for their 5.0 release. Highlights include improved threading, SMP, process migration, etc... Nobody really knows what Microsoft is doing to Windows, but XP is basically a flop. Windows research publishes a whole lot of papers about OS design which never get incorporated into Windows. Its a shame more people don't realize how cool and powerful FreeBSD is.
Well, with nearly 100 million lines of code or so, and hoards of incopetent developers working on it, problems are only natural. Maybe Microsoft should spend some time debugging their current software instead of forging on ahead with new products every year. I have talked with some Microsoft employees and if they make a silly mistake, such as a buffer overflow, they could lose their jobs. I bet there are many yet-to-be discovered bugs in Windows.
Napster will need to rebuild its userbase which will be almost impossible due to the numerous (and free) p2p networks available. I'm sure Napster will begin sending out notices to all their members asking them to pay. Napster will just be another bitch of the RIAA.
I completely agree. I believe lindows is not giving any credit to the people who did the dirty work, and actually deserve it. (linux, wine, and kde developers). Robertson, in my opinion, is a conceited (look at all the damn pictures of him), and is cluless when it comes to OS design and system programming. Hes just another buzzword marketer trying to get rich off of other people's hard work. I doubt they even have a product, and they will use this lawsuit as an excuse to delay the release further.
And why doesn't he just change the damn name and concentrate on more important issues (like... uh.. development?). 'LindowsOS' is the best he could come up with?
I think its a hoax, and it will never happen. Then again i could be wrong. I've had WINE running under FreeBSD and i could use virtually ever Windows App with a bit of tweaking. But then i realized that i moved to FreeBSD to get away from all the spyware and advertisements and crap that windows offers.
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Linux has no central repository, so the concept of forking linux is meaningless. Linus' branch is considered "official" because it historical and institutional reasons, not technical ones. Anyone can create their own branch and start incorporating patches, even pulling from others' branch. I believe this is exactly the reason why Linus switched to the new SCM system (Git).
I've been frustrated with gaim, so I tend to use meebo for chat these days (which actually uses gaim as the back-end, but that's not the point).
The only differences between Gaim versions seem to be UI improvements. I've been using gaim for several years now, and they re-design the interface every minor version. It looks different now that it did three years ago, but there is absolutely no additional functionality. How the hell does the #1 project on sourceforge for three years not have voice chat yet? Also, I've also never been able to successfully transfer a file from gaim to AOLIM.
A newly appointed cryptographer attends a lunch meeting with his peers, who are going around a circle telling jokes. One of the cryptographers shouts "12", and everyone starts laughing. Another person shouts "34", which is received with more laughter. The new cryptographer asks one of the people "why is everyone laughing?" to which he responds "instead of taking the time to tell the whole joke, we just assign each joke a number and instead say that number". When it's the new cryptographers turn, he says "-22", to which everyone bursts in laughter. One of them shouts, "i haven't heard that one before!"
They're ranked 5th.
Rank Name
1 United States
2 Poland
3 Canada
4 China
5 Russian Federation
6 Germany
7 Netherlands
8 Sweden
9 Ukraine
10 Croatia
Uh, no.
Finding factors is a HARD problem.That's the whole point of RSA encryption. A person's public key is a composite number. If finding factors of a composite number was easy, then RSA would be broken.
I looked over at my inspiron adaptor, and it is a 9364u. If you have one of the models, go to Dell's site .
In your paper, systems software research is irrelevant, you claim that there is little room for innovation in systems programming, and that all energy is devoted to supporting existing standards. Do you still feel this way now that you're working at Google?
Wikipedia has experienced trememdous growth over the last couple years. It has surpassed all other encyclopedias in terms of article count and up-to-date content. However, it seems that wikipedia could have a stifling effect on other encyclopedia companies that are simply unable to compete. Has wikipedia's presence hurt the market for printed encyclopedias?
I downloaded an electronic copy of this book, and I'm in the middle of the first chapter. So far, it has made some pretty interesting arguments, especially how people can only manage their 'actions', not their time or priorities. It also states that you need to have a clear mind to truly be productive, and that anxiety is caused by uncertainty about what to do next. The idea is to make goals and think about the first action you can do to work on the goals.
Very interesting.
Actually, its unlikely humans will evolve much more. Why? Because few people die and the genetically inferior ones still pass their genes to the next generation. This is as good as it gets... :(
> in a competitive strike against Microsoft (from article)
Unfortunately, AOL cannot survive without Microsoft. Microsoft could very easily patch windows to make AOL 'mysteriously not work', and simultaneously offer 'free MSN for a month'. Plus, AOL software only runs on Windows, not to mention the AOL browser is just an embedded IE control. They cannot rebel against Microsoft, because MS brought them all their glory.
> Why did *BSD fail
/bin and /usr/bin of linux and NetBSD are identical. Basically you will end up with a weird version of NetBSD.
You sound like it has already failed, which is the opposite. FreeBSD's userbase is steadily increasing. The number of ports is incresing constantly. Not to mention there are more or less 20 daily updates to the system source (in FreeBSD). Is this what you call failing? Every linux user that switches to BSD gets hooked. Try it, and you'll love it.
> *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels
Since when are the kernels supposed to be compatible? FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are all designed for different purposes, and they have different goals.
I dont know whether you have a broomstick up your ass or you just want to start a OS war. *BSD is by far the most stable OS. Look at the Netcraft uptime surveys, 42/50 of the sites with highest uptimes all have BSD. Does this say something?
By the way, I don't really see the purpose of this project. Many NetBSD utils are designed specifically with the NetBSD kernel (ipfw, smbfs, etc...). Not to mention most of the
Well, the ports system is basically an extremely easy way of installing applications. The ports skeleton is in /usr/ports, and it has many sub-directories containing different categories of applications (archivers, ftp, devel, etc...). Just cd to the port you want and type 'make install' and it downloades the sources, even the sources of the dependencies and builds it for you.
BSD also comes with pkg_add which downloads the binaries from their FTP site and installs without any compiling. This is more useful for extremely large things (XFree86, GNOME, KDE, etc...).
FreeBSD is just plain better. At least for now. Think about it for a minute, FreeBSD is a UNIX. It's essentielly been in development for nearly 20 years. You would expect it to be more stable and mature. Linux, on the other hand, has been around for what? 10 years? The rate at which linux is being developed and improved is much greater than FreeBSD. Few people write native applications for FreeBSD. They all write things for Linux and then the a BSD port is released. Linux has many advantages, such as the ability to strip a kernel down to almost nothing (512 k even). This is useful in embedded development. Then there is the whole money issue. FreeBSD seems to change hands all the time (Wind River, FreeBSD mall, etc...). Linux, on the other hand, is getting multi-billion dollar investments from IBM and other companies.
In a few years, the Linux kernel may even match the FreeBSD kernel in stability and whatnot. It is hard to say that, though, with the kick-ass work the BSD developers have been doing, and the recent conflicts between the Linux developers. We'll have to wait and see.
If theres a linux port of AOL, the BSD port will be around the corner. (BSD can run linux binaries. The only problem is with the libs).
Well, if linux wants to spread to the desktop market, this may be a great way to achieve it. Most PC users have AOL, and it would be neat if AOL could make their 'AOLinux' and package that on a cheap imac-type internet terminal. Most people I know would go for that, especially if it saves them money.
but in many respects aren't as feature-rich yet
Well, as the operating system is concerned, Windows has nothing on Linux or *BSD. FreeBSD, for instance, is working on revolutionary features for their 5.0 release. Highlights include improved threading, SMP, process migration, etc... Nobody really knows what Microsoft is doing to Windows, but XP is basically a flop. Windows research publishes a whole lot of papers about OS design which never get incorporated into Windows. Its a shame more people don't realize how cool and powerful FreeBSD is.
Well, with nearly 100 million lines of code or so, and hoards of incopetent developers working on it, problems are only natural. Maybe Microsoft should spend some time debugging their current software instead of forging on ahead with new products every year. I have talked with some Microsoft employees and if they make a silly mistake, such as a buffer overflow, they could lose their jobs. I bet there are many yet-to-be discovered bugs in Windows.
Napster will need to rebuild its userbase which will be almost impossible due to the numerous (and free) p2p networks available. I'm sure Napster will begin sending out notices to all their members asking them to pay. Napster will just be another bitch of the RIAA.
I completely agree. I believe lindows is not giving any credit to the people who did the dirty work, and actually deserve it. (linux, wine, and kde developers). Robertson, in my opinion, is a conceited (look at all the damn pictures of him), and is cluless when it comes to OS design and system programming. Hes just another buzzword marketer trying to get rich off of other people's hard work. I doubt they even have a product, and they will use this lawsuit as an excuse to delay the release further. And why doesn't he just change the damn name and concentrate on more important issues (like... uh.. development?). 'LindowsOS' is the best he could come up with? I think its a hoax, and it will never happen. Then again i could be wrong. I've had WINE running under FreeBSD and i could use virtually ever Windows App with a bit of tweaking. But then i realized that i moved to FreeBSD to get away from all the spyware and advertisements and crap that windows offers.