You guys are so silly. Everyone knows all a person needs to give that laptop long life is a portable generator from Home Depot. Uses diesel. Goes wherever you go, as long as you take your pickup.
I don't think many people are obsessed with Linux to the exclusion of *BSD, nor do they appear to be any more or less obsessed with *nix. From what I've seen many Linux users don't catch on to *BSD until after they've been around a while.
Also from what I've seen the Linux enews media, like Linux Today,/., and LWN, generally go out of their way to be respectful to the code base, its developers, users, and advocates.
There's some speculation about the copyleft model as a reason for Linux' popularity over *BSD; I don't know if it's that or the head start it got by not having to extract itself from the legal system as did *BSD. Whatever the reason, the fact is that Linux has the commercial momentum right now, although that could change overnight.
I think testing such as this is helpful in other ways as well. For one, I'm sure the testing was open, so true to any real research it can be duplicated and dissected by others. This is healthy and leads to improvements in the weak points of all the systems, the open ones anyway.
Also, the open systems ship with the code, or at least have it available. Strong points in the leaders can be looked at to find what it is they're doing right. I wouldn't advocate stealing the code outright without attribution, but more efficient ways of doing a particular thing can find their way into the weak links in any of these open systems, improving them all.
Finally, a little competitiveness between Linux and *BSD advocates keeps everybody sharp. I don't see a problem here.
In the first place we know Microsoft's legendary dirty tricks department is alive and well. In the second, the fact is that Oracle's spy activities found paydirt in three cases, the two mentioned in the trash episodes and the Ralph Reed fiasco.
The fact is that Oracle's activities uncovered Microsoft using front companies to manipulate public opinion to change politically what they could not change in court.
Ain't that the truth. What I hate is this "QPL" which had to be invented so Troll Tech could still gatekeep the libs. I would use KDE if it were either GPL or LGPL, and I mean the whole thing, including QT, or an LGPL replacement. It's too bad Harmony fell flat. I would have named it "dischord" or "QFree." KDE has some nice qualities but I won't touch it until they dump QT and that ridiculous licensng scheme.
I was the one who posted that link to Linux Today. At my agency (IRS) the borg has made a steady encroachment, so that now just about everything else has been pushed aside. IRS has just implemented a $120 million contract with beyond.com for supply of laptops and desktops. My laptop issue is a 233 mhz Micron running NT4 and Office. The govt still hasn't answered my question about the (alleged) C2 security problem with NT 4.
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You guys are so silly. Everyone knows all a person needs to give that laptop long life is a portable generator from Home Depot. Uses diesel. Goes wherever you go, as long as you take your pickup.
It's a little dated, but that was my first Linux book, fwd by Linus. Also, amazon has it on special right now with "Nutshell."
Right. Good luck. Maybe next month you'll be able to get on the site, but for now...
I don't think many people are obsessed with Linux to the exclusion of *BSD, nor do they appear to be any more or less obsessed with *nix. From what I've seen many Linux users don't catch on to *BSD until after they've been around a while.
/., and LWN, generally go out of their way to be respectful to the code base, its developers, users, and advocates.
Also from what I've seen the Linux enews media, like Linux Today,
There's some speculation about the copyleft model as a reason for Linux' popularity over *BSD; I don't know if it's that or the head start it got by not having to extract itself from the legal system as did *BSD. Whatever the reason, the fact is that Linux has the commercial momentum right now, although that could change overnight.
I think testing such as this is helpful in other ways as well. For one, I'm sure the testing was open, so true to any real research it can be duplicated and dissected by others. This is healthy and leads to improvements in the weak points of all the systems, the open ones anyway.
Also, the open systems ship with the code, or at least have it available. Strong points in the leaders can be looked at to find what it is they're doing right. I wouldn't advocate stealing the code outright without attribution, but more efficient ways of doing a particular thing can find their way into the weak links in any of these open systems, improving them all.
Finally, a little competitiveness between Linux and *BSD advocates keeps everybody sharp. I don't see a problem here.
In the first place we know Microsoft's legendary dirty tricks department is alive and well. In the second, the fact is that Oracle's spy activities found paydirt in three cases, the two mentioned in the trash episodes and the Ralph Reed fiasco.
The fact is that Oracle's activities uncovered Microsoft using front companies to manipulate public opinion to change politically what they could not change in court.
Ain't that the truth. What I hate is this "QPL" which had to be invented so Troll Tech could still gatekeep the libs. I would use KDE if it were either GPL or LGPL, and I mean the whole thing, including QT, or an LGPL replacement. It's too bad Harmony fell flat. I would have named it "dischord" or "QFree." KDE has some nice qualities but I won't touch it until they dump QT and that ridiculous licensng scheme.
I was the one who posted that link to Linux Today. At my agency (IRS) the borg has made a steady encroachment, so that now just about everything else has been pushed aside. IRS has just implemented a $120 million contract with beyond.com for supply of laptops and desktops. My laptop issue is a 233 mhz Micron running NT4 and Office. The govt still hasn't answered my question about the (alleged) C2 security problem with NT 4.