As other posters have pointed out, the dual boot problem is not specific to Fedora, but for some mysterious reason everyone is insistent on picking on Fedora.
Much of it is factually wrong:
He doesn't even check his own system before claiming that Quanta and Abiword are not present. His evolution troll is so bad that the editor felt the need to add a note -- Correction: The author didn't look closely enough. Evolution has handled cryptographic signatures and message encryption correctly for a long while now.
Notice how almost all his "Fedora sucks" items are acually cribs about the component software! Like OO.o, gnome, evolution, and Gimp. If this idiot doesn't like these software how the f*** is it fedora's fault?!
His gnome troll is the worst of all. This is one piece of Free Software that dares to innovate on the desktop, and every release gets flamed to death by fools who have never used it at all. I won't bother with a point by point rebuttal, that's already been done in Open Letter to Nicholas Petreley - Crack Pipes for Everyone!.
The author is just trolling for publicity, just like our friend Ken Brown of the AdTI. What I don't understand is why/. falls for it.
...without the rest of the world on side, ICANN is master of nothing but its own backyard. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has already made it clear that it would like to take over, and if ICANN can't get worldwide consensus, the ITU will be in a strong position.
Could ICANN be committing suicide the way XFree86 did?
Re:okay, here's a challenge...
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Is Swap Necessary?
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Unfortunately, that's very difficult, perhaps impossible.
The users who are complaining about swap are saying that it decreases desktop responsiveness. Responsiveness is different from performance, and is frequently antithetical to it. It is inherently subjective and therefore hard to quantify.
Notice how sluggish the system is after doing something disk-intensive like watching a movie. That's because the kernel is caching as much of the movie as possible to memory and swapping your running apps out. And kernel developers think this is a good thing, so it isn't going to change any time soon. IMHO for a desktop system this makes no sense, that's why I run my 1GB RAM machines with zero swap.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Makes a nice punchline: "The 1990s called. They want their fonts back.":-) Joking aside, I think it is indeed a regression. The Burning Edge
Firefox nightly build blog says that gtk2 builds don't start (since May 11). It could be an unrelated firefox-specific problem, but I'm guessing there's a connection.
The Mallu connection is clear enough: Stallman's "GNU/communist manifesto" (not to be taken literally of course) appeals to them a lot. The majority of OSS adoption in Kerala is for philosophical than for pragmatic reasons. The Tamil Nadu govt. was also muddying its feet; I heard that TNEB switched (don't know if that meant servers or desktops) and some more stories too. From the central govt. side, there used to be a lot of news a year back (like http://atulchitnis.net/writings/oss-govt.php) but I haven't heard anything lately. And then of course there's the Abdul Kalam factor. Don't know if he can make any difference. On an unrelated note, a couple (perhaps more) of large banks are switching employees (yup, desktops) wholesale to linux this year.
Seriously, even if you are using something other than passwords, say biometric authentication, security will remain as shabby as it is today unless users understand the importance of keeping the system secure. And that is a tall order.
She got her results from the website, there was no problem. Which surprised me, since results websites are usually "slashdotted" when the resutls are announced.
No it won't. This has repeatedly been gone over before. The difference compared to OS/2 is the community. Do you think all of us linux zealots are going to stop writing apps if wine becomes good enough?:-)
There might be a slight tendency for commercial software vendors to not bother porting their apps to linux because of wine, but that's becoming harder and harder as linux edges closer to critical mass. And with heavyweights like IBM and Novell behind linux, I wouldn't be too worried.
Network install and hard disk install no longer work the old way with Fedora Core 2 (via bootdisk.img and netdrv.img), for the simple reason that the kernel no longer fits on a floppy disk. But there are workarounds. I made some notes on this issue.
Well you're right, all the shouting is childish and unproductive, but its hard to be impassionate when the topic under discussion involves so much killing, brutality and grief.
Moore's supporters, of course, feel the parent's link is a pack of lies and a (small part of a) smear campaign launched by right wing conservative fanatics.
K5's horrible hostility is not limited to people with mental problems. Its kind of the standard behavior on that site to be rude to people. It was originally caused by a handful of users who went around abusing everyone; the abusiveness of the rest of the users developed as a reaction; pre-emptive rudeness was a "defensive" measure, if you see what I mean. Pathetically, juvenile behavior is called "trolling" on K5. The underlying problem is the site owner's concept of the site as a place where anyone can say what they want with as little moderation as possible. The degeneration of the whole site into an ugly cesspool was inevitable. What takes the cake is the opinion of K5 users that they are an elite bunch who have escaped the lowlevelness of slashdot. That always makes me chuckle. The only (partly) non-broken feature of kuro5hin is the story voting system, so some decent stories turn up now and then.
Tim Berners-Lee had been saying right from the beginning that viewing a web page should be integrated with creating it. In the early 90s, of course, the infrastructure was just not there, but when the technology did catch up, look how wikis have succeeded! Of course, it is the social aspect as much as the technical that makes wikis like the good old 'pedia what they are, and I doubt if Berners-Lee anticipated that, but nevertheless I'd say that
the success of wikis proves him to be a true visionary.
Sorry, your theory about the Indian IT boom is mostly nonsense.
The cost of living is 8 times lower here in India than in the U.S. What would be an underpaid job in the U.S is a princely salary in India. Programmers are among the highest paid professions in India. So your opinion that Indian IT workers are exploited is just wrong, wrong, wrong.
Of course, if you say that offshore outsourcing is unfair to American IT workers I won't debate you on that. But please try to get it into your head that there are no IT sweatshops in India. IT has in fact made millions of workers filthy rich.
The IT boom has definitely helped all sections of society. Small companies greatly benefit from pervasive telecommunications, infrastructure that they couldn't have dreamed of a few years ago. Lots of villages (this is second hand info, I've never been to one) have an "internet hub" where farmers, take the help of an operator to learn about modern methods of agriculture, or compare prices in their locality to get the best prices etc.
I wonder where you looked? Linux is very common in universities here. I know for a fact that in the last year a large number of businesses, both IT and otherwise, have been switching employees to linux. Linux usage is definitely higher here than in the U.S.
Nice theory you've got, but the reason for the election result has little to do with technology. The old government, apart from being Hindu nationalist, was obsessed with macroeconomic growth parameters (GDP, Foreign investment etc) with the result that wealth was concentrated in the hands of a few and the poor became poorer. To top it off, their main electoral campaign was called "India shining" in which they showcased their economic "achievements" which the rural folk felt was of no relevance to them. On the other hand, the opposing party promised free power, water etc. As a result the right wing parties received a sound thrashing.
I know people who've worked to bring technology to villages in India, and its my opinion that its helped the country a lot.
Does anyone think its the slightest bit innovative to give a name to a very big number? I think this is just a publicity scam capitalizing on the coming IPO. Google's lawyers should have to trouble with this one.
Slashdot Mirror
As other posters have pointed out, the dual boot problem is not specific to Fedora, but for some mysterious reason everyone is insistent on picking on Fedora.
Much of it is factually wrong:
He doesn't even check his own system before claiming that Quanta and Abiword are not present. His evolution troll is so bad that the editor felt the need to add a note -- Correction: The author didn't look closely enough. Evolution has handled cryptographic signatures and message encryption correctly for a long while now.
Notice how almost all his "Fedora sucks" items are acually cribs about the component software! Like OO.o, gnome, evolution, and Gimp. If this idiot doesn't like these software how the f*** is it fedora's fault?!
His gnome troll is the worst of all. This is one piece of Free Software that dares to innovate on the desktop, and every release gets flamed to death by fools who have never used it at all. I won't bother with a point by point rebuttal, that's already been done in Open Letter to Nicholas Petreley - Crack Pipes for Everyone!.
The author is just trolling for publicity, just like our friend Ken Brown of the AdTI. What I don't understand is why /. falls for it.
Could ICANN be committing suicide the way XFree86 did?
The users who are complaining about swap are saying that it decreases desktop responsiveness. Responsiveness is different from performance, and is frequently antithetical to it. It is inherently subjective and therefore hard to quantify.
Notice how sluggish the system is after doing something disk-intensive like watching a movie. That's because the kernel is caching as much of the movie as possible to memory and swapping your running apps out. And kernel developers think this is a good thing, so it isn't going to change any time soon. IMHO for a desktop system this makes no sense, that's why I run my 1GB RAM machines with zero swap.
Article is by Daniel Lyons, one of the Forbes trolls.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Makes a nice punchline: "The 1990s called. They want their fonts back." :-) Joking aside, I think it is indeed a regression. The Burning Edge
Firefox nightly build blog says that gtk2 builds don't start (since May 11). It could be an unrelated firefox-specific problem, but I'm guessing there's a connection.
The Mallu connection is clear enough: Stallman's "GNU/communist manifesto" (not to be taken literally of course) appeals to them a lot. The majority of OSS adoption in Kerala is for philosophical than for pragmatic reasons. The Tamil Nadu govt. was also muddying its feet; I heard that TNEB switched (don't know if that meant servers or desktops) and some more stories too. From the central govt. side, there used to be a lot of news a year back (like http://atulchitnis.net/writings/oss-govt.php) but I haven't heard anything lately. And then of course there's the Abdul Kalam factor. Don't know if he can make any difference. On an unrelated note, a couple (perhaps more) of large banks are switching employees (yup, desktops) wholesale to linux this year.
Mark Pilgrim has a great article on his migration.
Seriously, even if you are using something other than passwords, say biometric authentication, security will remain as shabby as it is today unless users understand the importance of keeping the system secure. And that is a tall order.
because India's govt. makes a lot of noise about open source, and I was wondering if they are putting their money where their mouth is.
Incidentally
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=cbseresul ts.nic.in
cbseresults.nic.in was running Microsoft-IIS on Windows 2000 when last queried at 24-May-2004 08:16:18 GMT
*sigh*
This year, election result updates were also available through SMS.
There might be a slight tendency for commercial software vendors to not bother porting their apps to linux because of wine, but that's becoming harder and harder as linux edges closer to critical mass. And with heavyweights like IBM and Novell behind linux, I wouldn't be too worried.
The difference between "it will by the deadline" and "it will be released when its ready".
Network install and hard disk install no longer work the old way with Fedora Core 2 (via bootdisk.img and netdrv.img), for the simple reason that the kernel no longer fits on a floppy disk. But there are workarounds. I made some notes on this issue.
Well you're right, all the shouting is childish and unproductive, but its hard to be impassionate when the topic under discussion involves so much killing, brutality and grief.
You may want to read:
Michael Moore responds to the wacko attackos , in which he debunks most of this nonsense.
Michael Moore
In particular,
K5's horrible hostility is not limited to people with mental problems. Its kind of the standard behavior on that site to be rude to people. It was originally caused by a handful of users who went around abusing everyone; the abusiveness of the rest of the users developed as a reaction; pre-emptive rudeness was a "defensive" measure, if you see what I mean. Pathetically, juvenile behavior is called "trolling" on K5. The underlying problem is the site owner's concept of the site as a place where anyone can say what they want with as little moderation as possible. The degeneration of the whole site into an ugly cesspool was inevitable. What takes the cake is the opinion of K5 users that they are an elite bunch who have escaped the lowlevelness of slashdot. That always makes me chuckle. The only (partly) non-broken feature of kuro5hin is the story voting system, so some decent stories turn up now and then.
There have been many stories on Kuro5hin by people with mental disorders. Take a look at Living With Schizophrenia. More recent, but not very relevant to the question is Living with Asperger's Syndrome, also a fascinating read.
Tim Berners-Lee had been saying right from the beginning that viewing a web page should be integrated with creating it. In the early 90s, of course, the infrastructure was just not there, but when the technology did catch up, look how wikis have succeeded! Of course, it is the social aspect as much as the technical that makes wikis like the good old 'pedia what they are, and I doubt if Berners-Lee anticipated that, but nevertheless I'd say that the success of wikis proves him to be a true visionary.
The cost of living is 8 times lower here in India than in the U.S. What would be an underpaid job in the U.S is a princely salary in India. Programmers are among the highest paid professions in India. So your opinion that Indian IT workers are exploited is just wrong, wrong, wrong.
Of course, if you say that offshore outsourcing is unfair to American IT workers I won't debate you on that. But please try to get it into your head that there are no IT sweatshops in India. IT has in fact made millions of workers filthy rich.
The IT boom has definitely helped all sections of society. Small companies greatly benefit from pervasive telecommunications, infrastructure that they couldn't have dreamed of a few years ago. Lots of villages (this is second hand info, I've never been to one) have an "internet hub" where farmers, take the help of an operator to learn about modern methods of agriculture, or compare prices in their locality to get the best prices etc.
I wonder where you looked? Linux is very common in universities here. I know for a fact that in the last year a large number of businesses, both IT and otherwise, have been switching employees to linux. Linux usage is definitely higher here than in the U.S.
I know people who've worked to bring technology to villages in India, and its my opinion that its helped the country a lot.
Does anyone think its the slightest bit innovative to give a name to a very big number? I think this is just a publicity scam capitalizing on the coming IPO. Google's lawyers should have to trouble with this one.