It's fairly customizable? Damn, it is the f**ing Emacs of window managers. Maybe all those stupid lusers thinking sawfish is what you use for running Gnome on don't realize, but sawfish is a very, very cool window manager on its own, even, and especially, without the useless, bloated, eye-candy-is-more-important-than-useful-features-a nd-leenux-rox-cuz-the-other-guys-in-class-use-winX P-and -i'm-l33ter crap that Gnome is (not to mention KDE).
Ya know, there are people who value a powerfull tool more than an easy one. Those usually also like Unix-like operating systems, not Linux. And they couldn't care less if Sun, RedHat, SuSE, HP, Microsoft or SAP thinks some WM is more appropriate to include in a propriatary OS. Heck, you have the choice between Lisp and Hype - what do you choose?
First, Sendmail is a GREAT MTA when used properly. The way it is installed, and the way it interoperates with the system is very secure.
However, wouldn't it be more sane to report any patches upstream, and make a nice port of it, whith all patches and sane configuration? The benefit is even more obvious in the case of BIND - while one might argue that a Unix system without an MTA isn't complete, it is hardly true that every Unix box needs BIND, so why not make it optional?
Why would an "update ISO" be any better than upgrading via CVSup and friends? (For upgrading several boxen, either set up a local CVSup server, or man release) Most people who buy more than one OpenBSD CD set in their lifes do so to support the project, not to actually use them for an upgrade.
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I don't know how well Java runs on the BSDs, but I'm hoping to find out.
Depends on the BSD you're using. On FreeBSD, you can build a native version of Sun's JDK, on the others, you'll need Linux compatibility (you need this on FreeBSD also, but only to build the JDK, you can remove it afterwards).
So basically it runs quite well on OpenBSD, but you have to install the whole Linux base system (bad, bad thing if you have a small disk), as well as to enable Linux-compat in the kernel.
There Is More Than One Way To Be Drunk. You'll notice the difference once you wake up. Then again, those l33t "real beers" will probably not convince you that there are some really good beers out there.
It's not. It's very similar, but there are incompatibilities.
As well, there is C++ code in the Linux kernel. I guess the most accurate description would be that Linux is written in GCC. (Hey - that way, "GNU/Linux" suddenly makes a lot more sense!)
GCC can work as a C compiler or a C++ compiler...
Or as a Fortran compiler... or a Java compiler... or a Objective-C compiler... (Is the Ada frontend finished yet?)
I'd love to hear what the reviewer find better in Mozilla over IE/OE.
Tabs and that it saves complete Web pages perfectly, perhaps? IE does very funny things if you tell it to save a page, like converting valid XHTML to a pile of crap.
Do you want to say that "sudo rm -rf / tmp" is any better, or that one shouldn't try to clean/tmp? After all, you have to get root somehow to do such stuff.
The problem is, IMHO, the mere existence of root, as opposed to a more fine-grained approach - things would be much nicer if "may bind to a port <1024" wouldn't automatically imply "may rf -rf/". It's nice to see that some unixes seem to move in this direction, but, well, HURRY THE F*CK UP, developers!;)
They sued a publisher because of publishing a book with a cover in the colour both the telekom and the publisher called "magenta" (how do you invent colours, anyway? Isn't that like inventing numbers?), and they sued a company called "t-media AG" that didn't use those dots.
You're right that it was a trademark issue, however.
However, there are other languages with sane syntax, and not all of them are such a f**ing bullshit as Basic is. Try Python, Ruby, or Ocaml - the latter even comes with two syntaxes to chose, and you can easily modify it as you see fit.
Scince you mention it yourself, why not really use OCaml. The "speed hit" isn't too big compared with other languages, and optimizing "nasty algorithms over hairy data structures" will definitly work better than in C.
Of course, it has a portable IO lib - just because the corresponding module for more low level stuff is called "Unix" doesn't mean that it isn't available on Windows as well, with some restrictions.
You shouldn't compare Emacs with vi in this regard - it is more like KDE/Gnome, in that it provides an integrated environment for, well, everything, so you would rather port vi to Emacs than Emacs to KDE. Of course, this has been done long ago. KVim is just one more function in KDE that has been present in Emacs for years
First of all, using an RDBMS is not an answer to this question - just storing your password(s) somewhere will not automagically make it possible to actually use it for login
However, directory services are better suited than classical RDBMSes, because they are optimized for fast lookups. An RDBMS in contrast focuses on concurrent updates - all this ACID stuff is basically not needed if all you want to do is providing authentication services (as long as you don't frequently try to update your password from 10000 workstations at once).
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Ya know, there are people who value a powerfull tool more than an easy one. Those usually also like Unix-like operating systems, not Linux. And they couldn't care less if Sun, RedHat, SuSE, HP, Microsoft or SAP thinks some WM is more appropriate to include in a propriatary OS. Heck, you have the choice between Lisp and Hype - what do you choose?
Why would an "update ISO" be any better than upgrading via CVSup and friends? (For upgrading several boxen, either set up a local CVSup server, or man release) Most people who buy more than one OpenBSD CD set in their lifes do so to support the project, not to actually use them for an upgrade.
So basically it runs quite well on OpenBSD, but you have to install the whole Linux base system (bad, bad thing if you have a small disk), as well as to enable Linux-compat in the kernel.
As well, there is C++ code in the Linux kernel. I guess the most accurate description would be that Linux is written in GCC. (Hey - that way, "GNU/Linux" suddenly makes a lot more sense!)
Or as a Fortran compiler... or a Java compiler... or a Objective-C compiler... (Is the Ada frontend finished yet?)BTW: Is it possible to configure those key bindings? I tries to look it up in the Mozilla docs, but, well, there are no useful ones...
They managed to get other important parts of the GNU system to work in time, though.
The problem is, IMHO, the mere existence of root, as opposed to a more fine-grained approach - things would be much nicer if "may bind to a port <1024" wouldn't automatically imply "may rf -rf /". It's nice to see that some unixes seem to move in this direction, but, well, HURRY THE F*CK UP, developers! ;)
You're right that it was a trademark issue, however.
That's NOT funny. The german Telekom did exactly that: They sued people arguing they owed the rights on the color magenta, and the letter T.
As long as it brings those barrels of beer, I'd love it..
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However, there are other languages with sane syntax, and not all of them are such a f**ing bullshit as Basic is. Try Python, Ruby, or Ocaml - the latter even comes with two syntaxes to chose, and you can easily modify it as you see fit.
It works at least as good as on Windows, some things even are nicer, IMHO. Then again, it's mostly a different product, not just a simple port.
Prepare to pay much, though. I dunno what sendmail charges, but it requires Solaris and Oracle to run
Not that this would be legal in a SOAP message...
Of course, it has a portable IO lib - just because the corresponding module for more low level stuff is called "Unix" doesn't mean that it isn't available on Windows as well, with some restrictions.
You shouldn't compare Emacs with vi in this regard - it is more like KDE/Gnome, in that it provides an integrated environment for, well, everything, so you would rather port vi to Emacs than Emacs to KDE. Of course, this has been done long ago. KVim is just one more function in KDE that has been present in Emacs for years
index.hypertextmarkuplanguage.english_UNITEDSTATES OFAMERICA anyone?
(Come on, someone had to make that joke!)
Whoa, I didn't know that it's that absurd... 220 years is really quite a lot ;)
However, directory services are better suited than classical RDBMSes, because they are optimized for fast lookups. An RDBMS in contrast focuses on concurrent updates - all this ACID stuff is basically not needed if all you want to do is providing authentication services (as long as you don't frequently try to update your password from 10000 workstations at once).
How exactly does one use a web server as a "password server"?