If you are talking about kernel features in FreeBSD to allow better support for USB peripherals and the like, then comparing Linux against FreeBSD is like comparing apples to oranges.
Actually, *BSD supported USB in general before Linux; the first open-source operating system to support USB was NetBSD, which was soon implemented in the other *BSDs.
Intertrust, an example of a "geek company" in the article, stopped being a technology company with over 300 employees, and became a patents-on-DRM IP lawsuit company with a little over 30 employees, and no new programming. They are now involved with a lawsuit over DRM features of Windows Media Player.
I don't know why the New York Times chose them as an example of a "geek company" really the only true example of that was VMWare, which never was a dot-com bubble company in the first place.
3) the problems BG is pointing out are relatively trivial and plague every other email program anyways. So MS can make these kinds of knocks on their products as much as they want...they just can't knock Windows.
Actually, Outlook's real problems - vbscriptability, easy launching of executables, and loading of web bug images, are all not in it's competitors; and that's just it's Windows competition... In all *nix mail programs these problems are totally absent.
Since the Linux startup grew from BSD-style Unix startup, Slackware
IS the most "Linux-traditional".
This is obvious to anyone who knows the roots of Linux
I remember running Linux kernel 0.95, shortly before there *was* a Slackware; needless to say, the boot-root disks did not contain any particular init system.:-) It was completely LFS before there was such a thing.
Until SLS told Slackware to stop imitating their init system and make their own, the famed Slackware BSD-init system did not exist. (This is not a put-down of Slack, just a historical observation.) There is no such thing as a standard "Linux startup", Linux is just a kernel, a kernel that is somewhat SysVish at that. The rest is distro-specific.
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Oy! Oy! Gevalt! Gevalt! Not yet another new +5 Funny meme! Just when I thought that the beowulf clusters and "In Soviet Russia" jokes were dead and we could finally get original humor here at/. there comes this.
I used to work for an online entertainment company whose gaming service was called Mplayer.com. We found that consistently, one of the top two or three referring URLs for first-time visitors to our web site was a Yahoo search for the keyword "mplayer.com".
I've seen users type in full addresses into search boxes rather than into the URL bar when their home page was a search engine. Very stupid, but this is probably why you got those refererers from yahoo.
don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you BSD fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a BSD box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes.
This troll is a cut and paste change of a nearly 5 year old troll written attacking the alleged performance of a pre OS X Apple Macintosh. See the original troll, which is identical except for a few words changed to substitute "BSD" for "Mac" and "8600/300" for "Pentium" The BSD trolls are getting more and more lame; as if they weren't lame to begin with... Desperately resorting to cut and paste trolls, red ink flows like a river of blood.;-)
As far as I know Windows have had native support for Java for ages. Actually since Microsoft and Sun signed an agreement about this back in 1997 that deals with this issue. So the fact that FreeBSD got this is fine but not exactly revolutionary.
FreeBSD has had native Java for several years as well, it is only recently however that Sun, which according to the license must approve of all binary distribution, approved of distributing *binaries* of Java for FreeBSD; so you no longer have to first install the Linux Java VM, Java source, and patches, all the while clicking on Sun-mandated license warnings, to bootstrap Java on FreeBSD. Don't blame FreeBSD for being late to have binary Java 2, blame Sun for not open sourcing Java.
not that i see what the big deal is -- isnt a password of "i like to eat pumpkin pie" just as strong a password as "sj34##@dj3"? (roughly; dont do the actual math as i know they are different. all i mean is that they're both good enough most of the time)
Mathematically the risk is the same, but crackers take into account psychology as well (people picking memorable passwords out of words); so they often use dictionary-based attacks.
That is an older version of the JVM which will be missing some classes that are being used by Java programmers. So much for being up to date.
A native 1.4 sun jdk is in ports, I haven't tested it yet though. I assume that 1.4 in binary form will be forthcoming.
BTW, why are they only now getting around to offering the Java SDK on BSD?
FreeBSD has had a native Java 2 SDK for years, but they needed a Sun license in order to distribute binaries. Before you had to compile it in ports, which due to all of the point and click licenses Sun required you couldn't do in an automated fashion.
One of my friends had a Verizon cell phone at work (Brooklyn). Everybody else's cell phones (and the office phone) weren't working but his Verizon cell phone was. He said that the only time it was down was 9/11. After noticing this I decided that if I get a cell phone it'll be Verizon and I'll reccomend it to friends.
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There are a few places where this is a real problem. Such as this:
rpc_authflavor_t authflavour;
As you can see, one part of this header is spelled with a u and the other without. This could create some developer confusion.
I am not aware that Tim O'Reilly has actually contributed or written any Open Source Software himself.
Tim O'Reilly is a technical writer and publisher, not a programmer. Many open source programmers are greatful to him and other O'Reilly authors for providing them with excellent documentation for open source software and development tools. I think he is quite qualified to write about the software community, having played a not insignificant role in the development of the Internet.
Umm just one quick question you say that you're running Linux on a Mac; there is no version of BBedit that runs on Linux.
The answer is that this is a cut-and-paste troll that originally was flaming another operating system, and got poorly re-edited (at least twice according to my vague recollection of what the original flame was targeted at) to make a new flame. The trolls here are getting dumber and dumber.
Um.... MS is currently developing the.Net framework for *nix, at least according to this
article (2nd to last paragraph), but until it's finished, there's the DotGNU Project, or Mono to tide you over.
Yes, they have a CLR ported over to FreeBSD, but Microsoft is using their "shared source" license which prohibits commercial use. If you read carefully the very article you posted, according to eweek (and me:-) ) most people will have to wait for mono if they want to use.Net on *nix, rather than the pitiful excuse for multiplatform support Microsoft currently offers.
Now think about Gecko. Gecko, as a browser technology, is essentially dead. KHTML, thanks to Apple, rules the day. How much further along would KHTML be if nobody had wasted their time on Gecko? Or, if you prefer, how much more viable and advanced would Gecko be if nobody had wasted their time on KHTML?
Mozilla and Firebird seem very much alive on *nix platforms,
as can be seen for example on the multitude of/. articles using the Mozilla logo and by the fact that I'm using it now.:-) Maybe Apple users now think of Mozilla is dead by dint of Apple choosing KHTML; but I think that in any software community choice and competition are a good idea, not a bad one.
If there weren't any competition between software packages we'd all be running Internet Explorer 3.0 on Windows or something, not Linux, *BSD, or OS X. Competition is good, it makes everyone improve their computer products. I don't consider competition "wasted effort".
I think IBM has already chosen their spot, and that's where they'll be. This one doesn't look to me like what America pulled on Iraqi Sikhs ("yeah, rise up, and we'll support you, probably").
You're thinking of Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims. The Sikhs are a sect, a sort of combination of Islam and Hinduism, primarily located in India.
These system call implementations had to be quite compatible with the behavior of the real Linux kernel, otherwise Linux applications would not work on SCO Unix. It is quite obvious to argue that in order to get these right, Linux kernel code had to be studied and possibly copied into the SCO Unix kernel to implement the Linux Kernel Personality.
The fact that FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD all made clean-room implementations of Linux kernel emulation belies SCO's claim. Of course, stealing the code is the easiest route, but that's illegal for a closed source application to do.
Kermit can be pretty good indeed, with long packets and/or sliding windows, but it can't beat a streaming protocol like Zmodem. (Though an optimized Kermit is pretty close.)
I remember back in my BBS days what a big deal zmodem was when it started getting used all over the place. As I recall, it changed the block size that you would receive dynamically based on line quality.
So when you sent a block of 2k and got no errors, the frame size increased to 4k...8k...
No, those were sub-packet sizes, and in on-spec Zmodem it topped out at 1k. The real difference between Zmodem and other terminal protocols is that Zmodem is a streaming protocol, it has no acks or windows, instead your end doesn't answer unless you have an error or your transmission is over.
For any religion that believes that we are placed here by a higher being, we essentially are living in a simulation.
Chasidic Jewish mystics say that "everything is G-dliness" and the materiality of this world is essentially a mask of its Source. There's a major difference in the simulation idea, however, the maker of the "simulation" is good rather than evil, as it is in gnosticism.
One of the articles mentions ways to change one's behavior upon realization that it is all a simulation... sound familiar?
Well, such ideas do help change people's lives for the better sometimes.
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I don't know why the New York Times chose them as an example of a "geek company" really the only true example of that was VMWare, which never was a dot-com bubble company in the first place.
Until SLS told Slackware to stop imitating their init system and make their own, the famed Slackware BSD-init system did not exist. (This is not a put-down of Slack, just a historical observation.) There is no such thing as a standard "Linux startup", Linux is just a kernel, a kernel that is somewhat SysVish at that. The rest is distro-specific.
Fact: *BSD trolls are dying.
One of my friends had a Verizon cell phone at work (Brooklyn). Everybody else's cell phones (and the office phone) weren't working but his Verizon cell phone was. He said that the only time it was down was 9/11. After noticing this I decided that if I get a cell phone it'll be Verizon and I'll reccomend it to friends.
As you can see, one part of this header is spelled with a u and the other without. This could create some developer confusion.
If there weren't any competition between software packages we'd all be running Internet Explorer 3.0 on Windows or something, not Linux, *BSD, or OS X. Competition is good, it makes everyone improve their computer products. I don't consider competition "wasted effort".
Kermit can be pretty good indeed, with long packets and/or sliding windows, but it can't beat a streaming protocol like Zmodem. (Though an optimized Kermit is pretty close.)