I was hoping you were talking about audiogalaxy!:)
Can it compete with KDE?
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KDE seems to have matured really quickly from version 2 to version 3. I feel it the most productive desktop I have used on any system.
I always though of gnome as 'middle-level' (as in kde is 'high-level' and open/black box as 'low-level') and so the new flux of ex-Windows users never really notice it.
The author is indeed correct as the current state of open source exists now it is flawed.
If you can imagine a world without M$ and its greediness then there is a possibiliy that open source could work, and work well.
The problems are the licences. The GPL is great for non-profit and 'hobby' applications but just won't work for products such as, say, photoshop.
A licence could be written that states people can contribute to the commercial application but code cannot be taken from it and used elsewere, if this licence was obeyed by the users open source would work for capital. The thing is it wouldn't; you would always have script kiddies branching from the original source tree and posting thier code on a 'warez' site meaning loss of valuable capital for the company.
I would really like open source to take off in such a way that even big commercial companies used it. I just don't think it will ever happen.
I bloody well care about it! When I went through an Urban Terror (mod for Q3) faze I had to use them for GL. They are the buggiest piece of crap ever written.
They would play havoc with my console and mouse cursor in X. If I select text in Konq they would crash X completely meaning a reboot (unless I ssh'd in and killed it.)
NVidia card are also shite for video just ask the MPlayer hackers (you won't be hard pushed to get an oppinion!)
StarOffice 6.0 softwre is a commercial product aimed at organizations and consumers while OpenOffice.org 1.0 is aimed at users of free software, independent developers and the open source community.
I really like this attitude, I wish more companies would take it on. Most of all I'm hoping that educational establishments are going to snap it up. I may write a letter to the head of my computer and maths department suggesting the change. There is now no need for Office anymore.
'd like to know if anyone has succeeded in porting a Free operating system to the Xbox
Do we know if M$ has taken any special steps to stop another Os bieng used? Depending on thier licence wouldn't we be breaking the law by putting a *nix on it?
I showed my windozw friends open office (they all use MS office) and they where well impressed, so much so that one of them is using it on doze now.
Congrats to the OpenOffice team!
My main quip about the STL is how hard it is to debug. Its difficult code to follow.
The second quip I have isn't that big really: I always have to have a reference book handy becuse the header files may aswell be encripted!
Otherwise I love it!:)
It has so much to live up to, I know for a fact that if I hadn't seen the (first/last) three episodes epesode 1 would be one of my fave films this year!
Me tinks (sorry) that the Ewaks where pretty cool but thats as far as my love for stupid starwarsy animals go. I think Jar Jar should be ground into pod racer fuel in the next episode.... either that or he should be made a Jedi, that'll annoy them!:)
I don't understand how the richest man in the world can remain so greedy. He must know in the back of his mind that "real" open source is a very good thing, it benefits so many people in different ways. I'm really fed up of reading every second day about M$ fucking another small(er) companys/ideas/plans etc... to uphold thier monopoly(s).
Fuck M$ and fuck Gates.
I've been taking the anti-pregnancy pill for ages hoping for a pair of breasts of my own... no go tho:( I think I've been getting the offer of these pills in my email box for ages!:)
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I was hoping you were talking about audiogalaxy! :)
KDE seems to have matured really quickly from version 2 to version 3. I feel it the most productive desktop I have used on any system.
I always though of gnome as 'middle-level' (as in kde is 'high-level' and open/black box as 'low-level') and so the new flux of ex-Windows users never really notice it.
Is Gnome2 gonna change this?
The author is indeed correct as the current state of open source exists now it is flawed.
If you can imagine a world without M$ and its greediness then there is a possibiliy that open source could work, and work well.
The problems are the licences. The GPL is great for non-profit and 'hobby' applications but just won't work for products such as, say, photoshop.
A licence could be written that states people can contribute to the commercial application but code cannot be taken from it and used elsewere, if this licence was obeyed by the users open source would work for capital. The thing is it wouldn't; you would always have script kiddies branching from the original source tree and posting thier code on a 'warez' site meaning loss of valuable capital for the company.
I would really like open source to take off in such a way that even big commercial companies used it. I just don't think it will ever happen.
I'm just waiting for the "actually I think you mean crackers, hackers are..." comment!
...im so fed up of hearing about the bloody World Cup.
Well commented code can be a godsend but at the same time I find it difficult do debug code that is littered with un-needed comments:
//print the data
printf("The data is: %s", data);
I used a bare bones slackware boot disk and built up from there. I don't know if you would call it slack or LFS!
I bloody well care about it! When I went through an Urban Terror (mod for Q3) faze I had to use them for GL. They are the buggiest piece of crap ever written. They would play havoc with my console and mouse cursor in X. If I select text in Konq they would crash X completely meaning a reboot (unless I ssh'd in and killed it.) NVidia card are also shite for video just ask the MPlayer hackers (you won't be hard pushed to get an oppinion!)
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StarOffice 6.0 softwre is a commercial product aimed at organizations and consumers while OpenOffice.org 1.0 is aimed at users of free software, independent developers and the open source community.
I really like this attitude, I wish more companies would take it on. Most of all I'm hoping that educational establishments are going to snap it up. I may write a letter to the head of my computer and maths department suggesting the change. There is now no need for Office anymore.
'd like to know if anyone has succeeded in porting a Free operating system to the Xbox
Do we know if M$ has taken any special steps to stop another Os bieng used? Depending on thier licence wouldn't we be breaking the law by putting a *nix on it?
>"When will they learn that these memos always come back to haunt them" I hope they don't because /. will close.
unless they did g++ -g office.cpp I don't think you can!
...just how much GPL'd code in in M$ software.
Install Linux schoolwide cos there isn't any good p2p software! :)
I showed my windozw friends open office (they all use MS office) and they where well impressed, so much so that one of them is using it on doze now. Congrats to the OpenOffice team!
and I watched a couple the other day. Is it just me or do the transformers seem a little...camp?
My main quip about the STL is how hard it is to debug. Its difficult code to follow. The second quip I have isn't that big really: I always have to have a reference book handy becuse the header files may aswell be encripted! Otherwise I love it! :)
This is so posted from a desktop in Redmond
your a troubled young man
The xbox is like an American car, its big, its fast, it just doesn't turn corners! :)
> Definitely worth a look for us truly lazy folks And disabled folk?
It has so much to live up to, I know for a fact that if I hadn't seen the (first/last) three episodes epesode 1 would be one of my fave films this year!
Me tinks (sorry) that the Ewaks where pretty cool but thats as far as my love for stupid starwarsy animals go. I think Jar Jar should be ground into pod racer fuel in the next episode.... either that or he should be made a Jedi, that'll annoy them! :)
I don't understand how the richest man in the world can remain so greedy. He must know in the back of his mind that "real" open source is a very good thing, it benefits so many people in different ways. I'm really fed up of reading every second day about M$ fucking another small(er) companys/ideas/plans etc... to uphold thier monopoly(s). Fuck M$ and fuck Gates.
I've been taking the anti-pregnancy pill for ages hoping for a pair of breasts of my own... no go tho :( I think I've been getting the offer of these pills in my email box for ages! :)