It didn't seem very in-depth to me. They hardly covered applications, and I would have liked some more information as to what's changed since r5. There are still rumors that they do not have access to the source code. The biggest changes noted in the article were cosmetic or to new applications (i.e. the new preferences panel).
They have ported Firefox, which is great, but IMO they need Thunderbird and OpenOffice as well.
I am glad there is a new player in the OS market, but I doubt it's going to get much traction. I liked BeOS when I first tried it in 1997, but that was because the 1997 OS's were crap compared to it. The OS world has changed since then, and Zeta needs to keep up. I wish them luck and hope they make it.
You must read pretty short books, or you have lots of time. I can't see it done unless you spend 5-8 hours a day (at least I enjoy reading so I don't try to rush through it as if I have to take a test on it tomorrow).
Have you looked at the MediaWiki features? There's tons of dynamic features. What doesn't hit he cache, goes to the DB. Wikipedia is 67th in the Alexa ratings (Slashdot is 1,441th, of course not too many slashdotters use Alexa, but check some of the other sites, CNN is in the 20s, and Wikipedia gets more traffic in a day than/. gets in a month).
Additionally, Wikipedia's lag is a dampening factor to its popularity. As more servers are added, it becomes more responsive, servers go to capacity again, and yet more hardware is needed.
Hmm, I wonder if those reasons could have played a part in MS not adopting the OpenDocument format. I mean if Gnumeric couldn't see it as a flexible enough format, what could MS Excel make of it with all of the extra features and legacy support it has to shoe in?
So has anyone figured out if the new MS format will be license-compatible with the GPL or BSD or some OSS license?
It'd be great if OSS software had built-in support for the MS format before Office 12 was out. Sure MS, could break the format right before the release, but I bet they'd be reluctant as other companies would complain.
Why would it if it hasn't so far. What makes *Intel* macs different from PowerPC macs. It sure won't be the price as Intel isn't exactly cheap. Intel may throw some advertising Apple's way, but it's not like people hadn't heard of Apple before; it's one of the most recognized brands in the World. The only thing I can think of is performance. But that would only be important in servers, and we're talking desktops. In servers, the GUI is not as important.
Well, what's Ubuntu, it's a distro. So while Gnome may be a hog, Ubuntu is definitely. I can't believe people would consider KDE lightweight. I only look at the default state of the distro as that's what's been tested the most. Ubuntu comes with Gnome, Slackware comes with KDE. I fire each up and from the get-go Ubuntu uses more ram.
Umm, it's faster to build. How long would it take you build SQL-like commands with python/ruby that are generic enough to not have to rewrite for each output?
I also looked at the +/- caches size. That's also larger by about 200MB on Slack/KDE. As to why compare Gnome and KDE, because that's what comes by default with these two distros.
Funny that the author mentions some Slackers going to Ubuntu, seeing as this slacker just gave it a shot. I haven't installed too many distros after switching to Slackware from Mandrake, but after hearing so much hype I decided to try it. At least for my system, Ubuntu turned out to be too much of a memory hog for my taste. On my laptop I have a gig of memory. With Ubuntu I had close to 600MB free with no apps running (just Gnome), whereas with Slackware I had close to 900MB free (just KDE).
Wikis are good if you're trying to build something that does not contain opinionated material. Or at the very least you want to contain the editors to have pretty similar opinions. If you open it up to the public, there is no way you can come up with a coherent, opinionated view, because by definition people have their own opinions. The Wikipedia works because it has as one of its most fundamental rules the Neutral Point of View. Additionally, it's an effort to build an encyclopedia, which is meant to represent facts as they are. Wikis are also good for building documentation, which is pretty objective in its matter. Wikitorial has none of these qualities.
Let's start fragmenting Solaris into a bajillion distros that serves people's whim. Let's get it to the point where you don't know if you can ship binaries because you don't know what's supported. Let's get it to the point where you have to hunt down your favorite programs and their dependencies, and compile everything by hand. Let's take it a step further and shuffle all the program locations and make a distro out of that. Let's change the packaging system because the current one sucks, and let's replace it with an incompatible, but better! one. Diversity is good right? You get your OS just the way you like it, and damn the compatibility.
Sure it's no where near the Linux mess, but man would I hate for Solaris to become another Linux.
You should watch Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore. He explores how the media have made Americans afraid and jumpy in an effort to have them consume more products. It may not be truly real, but it is an interesting perspective.
You are correct, but if they're doing their math right (and I have no sane reason to believe that), someone else on the other end of the spectrum is using more than their share of pirated software (enough to make up for what you're not using). It doesn't meant that the BSA is doing any good statistical analysis, but I'm just saying that your argument doesn't necessarily prove them wrong.
So I went and got one for free at Radio Shack when they came out. I plugged it in, got the software, did a couple of lookups, and then threw it some bin where it's stayed since then. What do people use these for? I don't even see a $0.30 value in these.
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It didn't seem very in-depth to me. They hardly covered applications, and I would have liked some more information as to what's changed since r5. There are still rumors that they do not have access to the source code. The biggest changes noted in the article were cosmetic or to new applications (i.e. the new preferences panel).
They have ported Firefox, which is great, but IMO they need Thunderbird and OpenOffice as well.
I am glad there is a new player in the OS market, but I doubt it's going to get much traction. I liked BeOS when I first tried it in 1997, but that was because the 1997 OS's were crap compared to it. The OS world has changed since then, and Zeta needs to keep up. I wish them luck and hope they make it.
What the...Tux is a furry?
I submitted it now so it's not too far ahead, and yet still give time for interested parties to register and/or submit research papers.
You must read pretty short books, or you have lots of time. I can't see it done unless you spend 5-8 hours a day (at least I enjoy reading so I don't try to rush through it as if I have to take a test on it tomorrow).
That's cause you're looking only at en, try looking at all the other languages and projects which also run on the same hardware.
Have you looked at the MediaWiki features? There's tons of dynamic features. What doesn't hit he cache, goes to the DB. Wikipedia is 67th in the Alexa ratings (Slashdot is 1,441th, of course not too many slashdotters use Alexa, but check some of the other sites, CNN is in the 20s, and Wikipedia gets more traffic in a day than /. gets in a month).
Additionally, Wikipedia's lag is a dampening factor to its popularity. As more servers are added, it becomes more responsive, servers go to capacity again, and yet more hardware is needed.
Yes, it will be the default for Office 12, and it will be backported for Office XP and 2000 as a patch, read it here.
Hmm, I wonder if those reasons could have played a part in MS not adopting the OpenDocument format. I mean if Gnumeric couldn't see it as a flexible enough format, what could MS Excel make of it with all of the extra features and legacy support it has to shoe in?
So has anyone figured out if the new MS format will be license-compatible with the GPL or BSD or some OSS license?
It'd be great if OSS software had built-in support for the MS format before Office 12 was out. Sure MS, could break the format right before the release, but I bet they'd be reluctant as other companies would complain.
Why would it if it hasn't so far. What makes *Intel* macs different from PowerPC macs. It sure won't be the price as Intel isn't exactly cheap. Intel may throw some advertising Apple's way, but it's not like people hadn't heard of Apple before; it's one of the most recognized brands in the World. The only thing I can think of is performance. But that would only be important in servers, and we're talking desktops. In servers, the GUI is not as important.
Do you want the FSF to become the next BSA? I think it's fine as it is. After all what's important is that the code is released.
Well, what's Ubuntu, it's a distro. So while Gnome may be a hog, Ubuntu is definitely. I can't believe people would consider KDE lightweight. I only look at the default state of the distro as that's what's been tested the most. Ubuntu comes with Gnome, Slackware comes with KDE. I fire each up and from the get-go Ubuntu uses more ram.
Umm, it's faster to build. How long would it take you build SQL-like commands with python/ruby that are generic enough to not have to rewrite for each output?
You can have shorthands for the commands. Longhand is good for scripts as it improves readability. For everyday use, short aliases are just fine.
Maybe Miguel will do a port and call it Gono
I also looked at the +/- caches size. That's also larger by about 200MB on Slack/KDE. As to why compare Gnome and KDE, because that's what comes by default with these two distros.
Funny that the author mentions some Slackers going to Ubuntu, seeing as this slacker just gave it a shot. I haven't installed too many distros after switching to Slackware from Mandrake, but after hearing so much hype I decided to try it. At least for my system, Ubuntu turned out to be too much of a memory hog for my taste. On my laptop I have a gig of memory. With Ubuntu I had close to 600MB free with no apps running (just Gnome), whereas with Slackware I had close to 900MB free (just KDE).
Wikis are good if you're trying to build something that does not contain opinionated material. Or at the very least you want to contain the editors to have pretty similar opinions. If you open it up to the public, there is no way you can come up with a coherent, opinionated view, because by definition people have their own opinions. The Wikipedia works because it has as one of its most fundamental rules the Neutral Point of View. Additionally, it's an effort to build an encyclopedia, which is meant to represent facts as they are. Wikis are also good for building documentation, which is pretty objective in its matter. Wikitorial has none of these qualities.
Let's start fragmenting Solaris into a bajillion distros that serves people's whim. Let's get it to the point where you don't know if you can ship binaries because you don't know what's supported. Let's get it to the point where you have to hunt down your favorite programs and their dependencies, and compile everything by hand. Let's take it a step further and shuffle all the program locations and make a distro out of that. Let's change the packaging system because the current one sucks, and let's replace it with an incompatible, but better! one. Diversity is good right? You get your OS just the way you like it, and damn the compatibility. Sure it's no where near the Linux mess, but man would I hate for Solaris to become another Linux.
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To which year does the poster think he has traveled? This has been proposed many times before.
You should watch Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore. He explores how the media have made Americans afraid and jumpy in an effort to have them consume more products. It may not be truly real, but it is an interesting perspective.
You are correct, but if they're doing their math right (and I have no sane reason to believe that), someone else on the other end of the spectrum is using more than their share of pirated software (enough to make up for what you're not using). It doesn't meant that the BSA is doing any good statistical analysis, but I'm just saying that your argument doesn't necessarily prove them wrong.
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So I went and got one for free at Radio Shack when they came out. I plugged it in, got the software, did a couple of lookups, and then threw it some bin where it's stayed since then. What do people use these for? I don't even see a $0.30 value in these.