don't forget that Gobe Productive, the office suite bundled with it is perfect for this kind of thing. It's also easy to use and takes advantage of the OS's capabilities. Wordperfect is still a port and it's very complicated for beginners. BeOS and Gobe make a good package for the sub $500 market
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intel also has to make money and they're not doing it with the celerons. They make money off the xeons and now that's where AMD is heading
it IS big news because gimp is open source and EventLoop Inc will sell support (yay another example of selling open source software) and add back to the source.
yeah but now the linux community lost its reputation -which is what MS/Mindcraft wanted most. This is war folks! Accept a few casualties to do some real damage.
because taco's such a good guy...but we have to face the truth which is that there are probably more morons who post on slashdot than there are are AOL. Let's face it -the whole internet is full of stupidity, spam and morons. AOL has its share too but most of the junk is on the regular internet
Now that the war is over I hope that more people will take advantage of dvd's. But I won't get one for my tv until Star Wars comes out on it. That may not happen for awhile I'm afraid... Well it's on my pc so it's not such a big loss
oh so instead of downloading java apps we'll have C apps with the security problems, memory leaks etc. And please don't compare scripting languages to java. That's just silly
yes but competition among many distros of essentially the same OS isn't going to help much if the foundation of the OS isn't so good. I'd rather see several unique OS's competing against each other.
ok as long as Microsoft kills Windows too. I'm sick of crashing and a terribly thought out design and I'm sick of people promoting it as the greatest thing in the world and screwing those who don't agree.
Well it's also not surprising that Redhat would try to avoid potentially negative slashdot editorials/headlines such as the ones we've been seeing the past few days. I won't blame them because many headlines aren't real news-just opinions and rants to generate huge threads. When slashdot sticks to news only, then redhat looks like north korea. But until then it's just about getting rid of static
of course MS can sell their own linux distro just like Redhat and Caldera. There's no clause in the GPL that excludes MS. They can also take the kernel, completely change around the directory structure (which would be a good idea btw), dump xwindows (not bad either), add their own GUI and make MS Office for that distro. And forget about the LSB. Maybe they could call it Linux 2000 or something. You'd have an OS with a better kernel than NT but the GUI would be easier and much more reliable. Of course I still think that MS would just attack linux instead but if redhat really started to do ok in the corporate sector they just might do this
Many shareware/small software developers don't feel this way. Linux is either getting free stuff or expensive stuff from the big guys like IBM. What about the little guys like Opera? ok Trolltech is probably being nice to them but to other small developers, the QT fees are big bucks. And will linux users even support them? That remains to be seen... In order to have a healthy OS that's not a fad you need free software. You need commercial shrinkwrapped software. You need high-end stuff. But you also need shareware-it's all about supporting the little guys trying to make a few bucks
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the other thing is that a webtv doesn't come with an easy to use office suite like this one.
don't forget that Gobe Productive, the office suite bundled with it is perfect for this kind of thing. It's also easy to use and takes advantage of the OS's capabilities. Wordperfect is still a port and it's very complicated for beginners. BeOS and Gobe make a good package for the sub $500 market
intel also has to make money and they're not doing it with the celerons. They make money off the xeons and now that's where AMD is heading
the press release on be.com is pretty clear but be.com doesn't work for me yet. We also know that iDot will have BeOS
multi-monitor support is a Must and I'm sure BeOS R5 will support it by the end of the year or so
I think it's the hardware. I've seen many linux servers fall apart by slashdotters
it doesn't help user related problems
uncompressed HDTV quality video?
including Gimmick (www.gimmick.org) which looks pretty interesting.
someone ported gimp to windows too
it IS big news because gimp is open source and EventLoop Inc will sell support (yay another example of selling open source software) and add back to the source.
yeah but now the linux community lost its reputation -which is what MS/Mindcraft wanted most. This is war folks! Accept a few casualties to do some real damage.
scriptability? does that mean that W2K comes with a cli or is it still basically point and click?
and none of the apps of both-just like Mac OS X server
I'm afraid not as they are all Windows users
because taco's such a good guy...but we have to face the truth which is that there are probably more morons who post on slashdot than there are are AOL. Let's face it -the whole internet is full of stupidity, spam and morons. AOL has its share too but most of the junk is on the regular internet
Now that the war is over I hope that more people will take advantage of dvd's. But I won't get one for my tv until Star Wars comes out on it. That may not happen for awhile I'm afraid... Well it's on my pc so it's not such a big loss
oh so instead of downloading java apps we'll have C apps with the security problems, memory leaks etc. And please don't compare scripting languages to java. That's just silly
yes but competition among many distros of essentially the same OS isn't going to help much if the foundation of the OS isn't so good. I'd rather see several unique OS's competing against each other.
ok as long as Microsoft kills Windows too. I'm sick of crashing and a terribly thought out design and I'm sick of people promoting it as the greatest thing in the world and screwing those who don't agree.
Well it's also not surprising that Redhat would try to avoid potentially negative slashdot editorials/headlines such as the ones we've been seeing the past few days. I won't blame them because many headlines aren't real news-just opinions and rants to generate huge threads. When slashdot sticks to news only, then redhat looks like north korea. But until then it's just about getting rid of static
of course MS can sell their own linux distro just like Redhat and Caldera. There's no clause in the GPL that excludes MS. They can also take the kernel, completely change around the directory structure (which would be a good idea btw), dump xwindows (not bad either), add their own GUI and make MS Office for that distro. And forget about the LSB. Maybe they could call it Linux 2000 or something. You'd have an OS with a better kernel than NT but the GUI would be easier and much more reliable. Of course I still think that MS would just attack linux instead but if redhat really started to do ok in the corporate sector they just might do this
no he's not. You are. :) The best solution is to upgrade your virus checker and you're safe
Many shareware/small software developers don't feel this way. Linux is either getting free stuff or expensive stuff from the big guys like IBM. What about the little guys like Opera? ok Trolltech is probably being nice to them but to other small developers, the QT fees are big bucks. And will linux users even support them? That remains to be seen... In order to have a healthy OS that's not a fad you need free software. You need commercial shrinkwrapped software. You need high-end stuff. But you also need shareware-it's all about supporting the little guys trying to make a few bucks
BeOS has an integrated GUI (which linux will never have) and also bash. In fact you can drag icons into the terminal and get the entire path name