"This was also true before MLK and is true today. Part of me knows that apathy is a terrible thing. And yet I don't care enough that it is...:-("
Honest and insightful. Don't worry, it's natural to be apathetic to abstract dangers. The abstract danger being that you'll end up in a dictatorship if not all good guys act to supress small and big evils. The danger system of your brain isn't in the newest/modern/logical part but in the middle/mammalian/emotional part of your brain. And that part just doesn't make a big enough connection between not stopping little evils and then ending up in a dangerous society. It works much simpler than that, most of the time anyway. More on this phenomenon can be found in this article. (save it).
By definition, caring enough to act is a state of mind. It is possible to restructure your beliefs/your way of thinking so you'll be able to act in the right way when you see evil in the future. It seems to me you care enough about being able to care. I mean you care enough to change your ways. I personally find it helpful to take a step back and really think about my own thinking and changing the parts I don't like.
There are ways of doing this and most of those ways are called self-help. You have to be careful of quacks but there are genuine people among the self-help and neuro linguistic programming community. I suggest you download David DeAngelo's "Double Your Dating" video's from somewhere (I downloaded from eMule P2P). The reason is because it combines fun with important.
He talks a lot about other self-help stuff that he found to be good if you want to continue in that way but his vids are a great introduction. He also shows good ways to get laid. David DeAngelo takes a more biological/evolution/nature approach and Ross Jeffries takes a more "nurture" approach.
My suggestion, try to see the fun in taking action. Give your emotional brain some kind of reward for acting the right way like "satisfaction" or "logic buzz" or something.
Short term share-value thinking is what causes big corporate Enron type bankruptcy cases. It also shows stupid people in charge of your company's decisions.
I think a good solution to this problem would be to force Cisco to not sell to China somehow which would force Cisco to "lobby" the US government into stricter laws. That way competitors couldn't sell to China either.
Works for Cisco and works for the "good guys" and everyone's happy.
If you feel you're one of the good guys, you should always oppose bad guys. And think real hard about what opposing means to you.
Big corporations use all kinds of techniques to limit their badness in the eyes of the public. You know these techniques but may not be completely concious of it because of social influences.
One of these techniques is spin (half-lies). Another is spreading the guilt out over as many people as possible. For example, the nazi death camp machine was kept running by thousands of normal people who all did a little evil thing. HOWEVER, the end result was millions of people tortured and executed.
Do you really think that today there aren't any evil people in the world? Of course people who think like Hitler or Stalin exist today, some of them are even in the news. We are the good guys and everyone agrees (even the bad guys will) that evil and evil people need to be surpressed as much as possible.
YOU are not a good guy if you see evil and don't do anything about it. If you see someone breaking the law then that's something for the police, depending if you agree with that law you should call the cops. On the other hand, police can't be everywhere and not all evil is covered by law. There are evil things people can do without breaking the law. That's where the good guys come in.
A comment here, a small decision there will make a difference in the amount of evil in your society. The problem is that the culture is somehow against good guys in the: "nobody likes a smartass" kind of way. There are ways around that. You can give signals to evil doers in ways that do come across. One of them is mixing the message with something exciting or interesting, like humour or music. Another way is to send your message with conviction, if you really believe what you say and say it in a certain way, that will spill over in to your voice and body language. Show some balls in other words but don't be emotional about it, saying it as "matter of fact" works for me.
The reasons I'm saying this, well Cisco is saying, we're only doing this little thing and recently they've tried to supress the information about a security vulnerability in their router OS. Just so they could sit on it so they could spend the least amount of money. The great thing is, one guy showed balls and told everyone they were in danger. He got sued and the FBI were sicced on him (probably as an between-the-lines threat) but he knew that in advance and he still did the right thing. In his presentation he even said something like: "this will get me sued and fired but I want people to know about this". You should hire this guy because he proved he can be trusted.
Now I want YOU to do something to send a message to the evil in people's minds. Even though the people in Cisco individually might not be such bad guys, together they did end up doing the wrong thing in at least two instances. There are other ways of getting a good router for your network aren't there? Other brands, other kinds of solutions than a big router box, things like Eddie.
I'm not asking you to become an activist or something but let's admin this organization called "society" in the best possible way, us smart and aware people know the right way, all we have to do now is act on it. Do a little small thing here and there and bring it in the right way. I made this post and I'm stopping here so I don't get get overwhelmed but I DID do something as the submitter and slashdot editor did their things. Good luck doing your thing and enjoy it when you've done it.
#2) Follow the money. There would be no FBI without money, and they get their money from congress. Members of congress get elected, and that takes lots of money. I can't give/donate nearly as much money as organized groups like the RIAA, so members of congress won't listen to me. If the RIAA wants music file sharers chased, arrested and prosecuted, and members of congress want money for the next election, guess what the FBI will be doing?
#2 is also called corruption
A GUI version of FreeBSD with easy installer
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PC-BSD is a GUI-centric version of FreeBSD (KDE) with a program installation system similar to Mac OS X (application folders).
I didn't want to use it at first because you didn't have control over partitioning in the first few versions.
Thankfully, they changed the installer so that you can partition and install over multiple partitions in the newest versions.
I'm going to install it soon as a server even though it's intended as a desktop. The reason is that, in my opinion, text-only administration of my server is way too much hassle, I've got better things to do than memorize dozens of text commands and their flags. On top of that, the installation of programs is easier and cleaner, even easier and cleaner than Windows.
I'm a visual person and handling my FreeBSD 5.3 install with text-only programs was not good enough, not enough feedback and not enough usability. I didn't have a good mental overview of my system with shell-only programs and everytime I wanted to do anything I had to consult the (excellent) FreeBSD manual. With Windows I could figure things out just by clicking around the GUI. GUIs can be seen as having built-in manuals in my opinion.
One thing that worries me is that I've been told that X is a big security vulnerability. Is KDE an X system? Is it open to attacks by default? It'd be great if someone can help answer. Thanks for helping out a newcomer.
Re:RAID for "personal computers"? but why?
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How about this.
You do RAID 1 with 3 disks instead of 2. Two drives are for the RAID 1 setup and when it's time to do the backup you just power down or "prepare for hotswap", take out one of the RAID 1 drives which is now your newest backup and put the third drive back into the RAID.
You wouldn't have to do "full differential backups every 3 days" anymore.
Only think I've yet to look into, before I do this, is how to tell the RAID which of the drives it needs to update and which to mirror from. Wouldn't want it to overwrite all of my newest files with the versions of the old backup drive.
Just to elaborate on what my opinion is on this matter: If a woman is attractive I'd say good for her, you'll probably go far in this world. Statistics prove me right.
The part where I said: "If she's isn't that hot and is jealous of the virtual women then I disagree with her."
Was not really thought out well, a more accurate text version of what I wanted to say would be: Realize that hot looks are big weapons in the hands of women. You should celebrate the fact that women have this power. Women with hot bodies in games is only visual proof that women still have this influence.
Remember, the "disagree with her" is about her railing against stripper types in games which she didn't, she was misquoted. That part of my post WOULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IF SHE WAS NOT MISQUOTED. Read my original post.
Oh and no, people generally haven't moved on that much. We're still more mammals than anything else, you can see it all around you if you look carefully. The higher level thinking that transcends our mammalian brain is in short supply and if it IS there we're constantly fooled by our lower level brains into doing their bidding. People's mammalian/emotional brains are easily manipulated which is great news for the smart ones, evil and good.
What do you mean with that 70s documentary attitude exactly? I need a more detailed description.
Mod parent up, hint: look at the name of the poster. And it's not "insightful", it's "informative".
I was going to post about what Tara said in her interview like this:
She should realize that beatiful bodies are great assets to women. It's a great thing to have if you want to influence people the way you want them to be influenced.
If she's isn't that hot and is jealous of the virtual women then I disagree with her.
If she's disagreeing with the stereotypes because she's morally against men being manipulated then I agree with her although I personally think men shouldn't be so easy to manipulate in the first place.
(and then some stuff about how it's good to be in the group that's not easily manipulated and how great it is that you can talk the other group into things when it's needed).
Message to you Tara, EDGE has my respect and is the only print magazine I read at the moment. I don't know about the other magazines but I think they're just in it for the bribe money/ad revenues/"exclusive previews" the games makers give them.
Installing and uninstalling was nearly impossible because packages scattered files across a confusing, oblique filesystem, and it was a very common occurrence to find rpm entries had been corrupted and left unusable.
Read this page for a description of how to fix the installation usability/buggyness problem Linux has. It's a four-piece blog with a blueprint of how re reengineer Linux to use the appfolder system. Another way of explaining it is that the article explains how to make Linux application installation more like Mac OS X installations (installing is just dragging a folder over) but the articles go further than just using the Mac system, the resulting design is even easier.
There are already Linux and other OS systems that implement the appfolder way of installing, uninstalling and updating. The links to those as well as comments about these systems are all collected on those pages if you want a single source to get all your reading material from.
Artistic anarchy augmented by voluntary payment. People buy from iTunes or donate because they honestly want -- or are convinced by PR campaigns -- to support the artists they like. I think this is sort of wishful thinking. It might go for a while. But people don't like to spend money. Maybe this will blend into the 'patron' model, with a few rich people doing basically this.
I think smart, aware and well-wishing people will want to encourage artists with the right attitude. People like that are on the increase because of the internet (both categories of people are).
So I think it will work well enough. Hell, he got publicity/"PR" on slashdot by releasing his book for free didn't he? Would he have gotten as much attention if he hadn't released it in his new way of looking at the world? His method already works.
In the old world, publicity was something which cost a lot of money but was easy to force-feed to the public because the public only had a couple of sources of information (well, mostly data, not information). Nowadays there's so much info on the internet that you really have to fight for people's attention.
Do we really like the type of marketing from big corporations? The manipulation, the spinning? It's not as easy as putting it on TV anymore. You can't PUSH as much on the internet as you could push a product on TV or other exclusive, world-filling channels. You can only PULL. That's why the most compelling ways of PR will win out on the internet, and the most compelling is free and with goodwill to all mankind.
What Amazon's case is leading up to is that you can't run a business where you think up new things to get more customers who pay better or other ways to improve business, because pretty soon every smart business technique will be patented if you use any software at all (and don't they all?). They'll use "but it's in software" as an excuse but they're still patenting business methods.
In fact, patenting software is also bad, but since that bad thing has been allowed, it's a good way of getting the other bad thing allowed via this back door.
You think being able to start a business, selling something and making money is something that should be ok for you to do? Not in "their" reality. In their reality any competitor is something bad and needs to be destroyed in any way possible. After all, what's better for profit than having no competitors right? right!
In their reality, the big corporations are the emperors of the business world now and especially in this political climate it looks like it's going to stay this way. They see a world where there will be no more extra competitors incoming anymore and they will be the ones offering most of the goods and services that the people need, the ones they don't need we'll make them want, simple.
HEY, if we make a couple of acquisitions we might be the only company left in the country, won't that be nice? No competition at all, just like "The Company" in the movie "Aliens" although we'll have to somehow make the rest of the world heel to our reality as well, for even more easy profit!
This is the feeling I get when I read news out of the, shall we say, "corporate empires of America". Will it really turn out this way or do you have your own reality of how you see the world, of how you see the world changing in the future? A lot of you do but is your reality as strong as "their" reality? And are you busy making your reality happen or are you just focusing on pointing out the flaws in their plan (which means the only reality under discussion is still THEIR REALITY (there's no such thing as bad publicity eh Mr. Cruise?)).
Take a leaf out of their strategy book: don't waste all your energy on countering their propaganda and instead focus on spreading YOUR ideas into the world, self-replicating memes via the internet work well and don't take much effort except using your brain to come up with the concepts and vectors. Spreading something good instead of reinforcing the bad will improve how you enjoy life as well as how others enjoy it. The main theme of your life will not be negative but positive.
It sounds cloudy but it makes psychological sense.
You could, for example, take the recent rejection of software patents in the EU as something positive. The businesses in Europe will be able to do anything they want to do and in doing so will out-profit USA businesses, especially in an internet world. They'll be able to use any software they want and still sell in the USA, they'll be able to use any business method and still be able to sell in the USA, they'll be able to patent any weird idea in the USA and block out US businesses from competing with them.
Pretty soon, the corporate "emperors" will be left with invisible business suits and somehow "arrange" for the laws to be changed.
That's just a concept, a reality I hastily described during the typing of this post, it could do with some more positivity. Do you like it or would you like to construct one of your own? Be my guest but make it visionary and positive. It'll spread with a little "marketing" and if it's concepts are powerful enough.
How about the concept of changing voting behaviour? Whatever it is that's in your head, start typing.
You don't have a reality of your own? You've been watching a lot of TV haven't you? I pity a lot of North Americans, I wish for something better for them.
Anyway, I want every response to this post to have arguments against OR for this view of mine maybe coupled with how you see things, and not just any argument, it can't be some bullshit argument that just makes you FEEL good even though it doesn't make sense. It has to be a logical argument!
Sorry, I was too terse. What I meant was that some art makes you think about life or a certain subject in a different way, see things in a different light.
Excellent source code might have some insightful things in them that also make you think in a different way but the end-result of the source is a program. That's what I meant by source is not for public consumption.
Hope that satisfies your curiosity.
By the way, please read this if you want a better Linux than we have now. If not, don't:)
In my opinion, programming is like solving a puzzle.
It's not art because the finished product doesn't make you think about how you think about things. The source code might, but that's not for public consumption.
instead of just griping about problems with Linux, how it compares to other systems and how everything sucks.
I haven't read a post that really discusses the article and that's a bad sign for Linux because the article is very good. Instead I've read posts that have a lot of off topic negativity in them.
To set up the rest of this post, I have to make a side-track. Your brain has the older, more powerful subconcious and the newer, less powerful conciousness. People who study the mind will know that the way they work together is that "you" ask your subconcious a question and it will come up with an answer.
If you ask a negative question, like why can't I score with chicks, your subconcious mind will think "ah, so not scoring with chicks is the subject" and come up with answers to your questions and will give answers and work towards the goal of not getting laid. This is the mentality I see in this/. topic: "Why does Linux suck so much and why won't it ever get to where it needs to be". Alternatively, asking "How do I get to that spot" in a positive way will get you there without having to force yourself.
Another reason the positive is not discussed (apart from personalities focussing on the negative) is because some people have a subconcious resistance against progress within the Linux community because of the "payoff" they get from having cryptic knowledge. What do I mean? well there are certain advantages you gain by being in the small group that knows the archaic. You'll get an emotional kick when people say: "You're such an expert on Linux/PCs". People even make MONEY from being an expert on the cryptic and naturally, the selfish side of your subconcious will find subtle ways of convincing "you" that sabotaging change in the Linux system is a good thing. This self-delusion is perfectly normal in humans but aren't we striving for something better? Now that you know, please help humankind to go forward by giving humanity an ideal OS in the Free-Source way.
What the community needs to do instead of spouting negativity is to switch the "topic" to the positive, to the ideal situation that we want to end up with. Asking positive "how" questions will give results on the subject of our future Linux (and will make you happier during your life). Fortunately, the article of this topic has already spelled out the how and the ideal system. I'll be dreaming about this future version of Linux and anxiously waiting for the day that it'll be operational.
Linux is created bottom-up by a community of individuals instead of top-down like MacOS X is made by a company "dictator". The way forward, both for mentality of the community and of Linux. we have to spread the right ideals into the the community so that the bottom level of the development process will mostly work into the right, the positive direction which is towards the ideal, towards perfection. This process can only work if I can convince you with this post and that you convince others, the meme will spread from there. That's why people say, improving the world starts with you and that's especially true in the Linux world. THE ARTICLE IS EXCELLENT and is a good meme/link to spread!
Last point I want to make, It's true that PC users, not developers, choose an operating system based on the level of the UI and other high-level things, not on the level of what kind of kernel or what kind of file system is running underneath the things they see on screen. So on the level of Gnome, KDE and Aqua. However, everyone's overlooking GNUstep. From the article: 1. Installing Applications is complicated 2. Directory structures can be confusing to navigate 3. Interface is confusing and inconsistent 4. Steep learning curve required to understand system functions
Most of these problems will go away if you install GNUstep on top of Linux. GNUstep is not just a thin shell around Linx in the way Gnome and KDE are, it creates a consistent environm
Masamune Shirow, the Sci-Fi author of Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell says that removing organs will decrease brain activity. Replacing not only limbs but also organs or your whole torso might make you a mouth breathing idiot.
His characters don't have that problem but he's writing Sci-Fi.
He also said that total body cyborgification is better if you want superhuman strenght because a super strong arm is no good if lifting something heavy will just rip it off it's fleshy attachements.
While I was surfing for a better alternative to Leo I found there was no better alternative to Leo.
I also found out from this page that you CAN, sort of, put pictures and other kinds of files in Leo documents by naming a node:
@url [URL]
can be a http,mailto,ftp,file,etc. I'm going to put my Leo files in a directory which also has an "images" folder. That way I can put images into my notes and still keep that wonderful cloning feature.
I'm also going to switch my bookmarks organizing over to Leo, that way I can finally have my URLs in multiple folders/views but still have them synchronized.
Leo is an "outliner" for programmers but it doesn't have to be used like that. On your screen it just looks like a Windows or Mac folder browser, only they're not called folders but outlines or nodes. Every outline has text inside of it, or you can "hang" other outlines under it for more organization.
The reason I use it instead of folders to organize my notes is that I can "clone" a node (CTRL-`). This will duplicate a node and you can drag it into another part of your Leo document. The reason cloning is better than making a copy is because Leo will automatically keep cloned notes identical.
If you made a note about something and it's also helpful to have this information filed at another part of your notes collection, close to another subject, you make a clone. If you'd made a copy and you updated 1 copy, the other copies would be out of date. With clones, you don't have to worry about that.
As an example, I have a node with "All my hardware" and I also have a node called "My FreeBSD server documentation" One of my boxes is part of both categories of information. It's a cloned node ofcourse. Now, everytime I change something on my server's hardware, I only have to update 1 of the cloned nodes and the other will automatically have the same update.
That's one of the good features about Leo. Unfortunately, nodes contain only text, not formatted text or images. However, because it's open source you could add that yourself when you can program in Python. Python is also the reason it's cross-platform.
I use it for both my to-do/task document and my general notes (as 2 seperate files).
However, with.html files you could ofcourse keep notes identical by only organizing links as you would organise Leo nodes, every document you'd edit, even if that document would show it's link in multiple categories, would be editing the original document. So that way wouldn't introduce synchronisation difficulties either. It might be a little more cumbersome in exchange for gaining images and text with typefaces.
It's just a suggestion, give it a try. Just put the word "@nocolor" in the root node and hang all the other nodes under that to supress Leo's programming syntax coloring.
For easy HTML editing I'd use Dreamweaver or the open-source clone Nvu, it's about to go version 1.0
This is how Linux distributions should evolve to "survive":
GNUStep is the future of Free desktops because everyone agrees Mac OS X is the best desktop there is to buy at the moment. Why is GNUStep then the future? Because GNUStep is a copy of OpenStep, OpenStep is the open version of NextStep and NextStep is the basis for OS X (it's called Cocoa now).
What I'm saying is, GNUStep is almost the same as the thing Mac OS X is built with! It's open source and under a Freedom licence. GNUstep aims to be compatible with both the OpenStep specification and with Mac OS X. It should be easy to write an application that compiles cleanly under both GNUstep and Cocoa.
Users only care about user land. They care about where to find files and programs. The choice users make is on the level of KDE, GNOME, GNUStep or Cocoa not on the level of Linux, FreeBSD or Darwin.
- KDE and GNOME are, by comparison, just a thin shell around the underlying kernel. When you use FreeBSD, you will get confronted by FreeBSD. When you use Linux as a kernel, that will shine through in it's own way as well. However, Open/GNUStep create a complete user environment. A stable place for a human to call it's home on the PC. No matter what the underlying kernel is, the user will experience GNUStep.
One of the user land features of GNUStep that both KDE and GNOME do NOT have is application folders/bundles/appfolders. This means that an "installed" program is always completely encased in it's own directory called "program.app". Install the program by just copying one directory/.app file over to your PC. Uninstalling is just as easy. This is so great because it makes the PC so much better to use for a human being.
Traditionally, installing a program meant that the program's files were thrown all over different directories on your PC's hard drive. If you wanted to get rid of your program because it was misbehaving, you'd have to rely on something called an "installer" that had to have a perfect record of where all the individual files were thrown to in the past. This perfect record never happened of course.
This and a couple of other user land things that are really nice, like a standard directory structure which is the same no matter what kind of kernel is running under GNUStep, is why GNUStep will win the fight of becoming part of the ultimate operating system of the future.
- We've all fantasized about the ultimate operating system, and I now know what it will look like, at least for the forseeable future: A NetBSD, OpenBSD or *BSD kernel for their technical excellence and simplicity, GNUStep on top of that and lots and lots of programs ported to that new operating system in neat little ".app" appfolders. (I said ultimate, not only).
- Because Windows, MacOS X and Linux can also host GNUStep, programmers are able to write programs by only keeping in mind the GNUStep Programming Environment. Windows users that want to keep using their Windows games can keep running their usual OS while at the same time get used to the superiour GNUStep way of appfolders, it's GUI and the GNUStep programming language (Objective-C).
Another easy way for people to transition over to the "Ultimate OS" is with Intel processors with the "Lagrande" feature (AMD has something similar). This feature will allow you to run 2 operating systems on 1 processor AT THE SAME TIME. This means you can switch between the "Ultimate OS" and Windows/MacOS X without rebooting. Problem of the world moving over to Freedom and technical excellence is hereby solved.
- The only "tactical choice" that could improve the "Ultimate OS" is the programming language. The new programming language of GNOME (Mono C#) and GNUStep's language (Objective-C) compare like this:
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I would like the GNUStep OS to switch to another programming language because I th
This is how Linux distributions should evolve to "survive":
GNUStep is the future of Free desktops because everyone agrees Mac OS X is the best desktop there is to buy at the moment. Why is GNUStep then the future? Because GNUStep is a copy of OpenStep, OpenStep is the open version of NextStep and NextStep is the basis for OS X (it's called Cocoa now).
What I'm saying is, GNUStep is almost the same as the thing Mac OS X is built with! It's open source and under a Freedom licence. GNUstep aims to be compatible with both the OpenStep specification and with Mac OS X. It should be easy to write an application that compiles cleanly under both GNUstep and Cocoa.
Users only care about user land. They care about where to find files and programs. The choice users make is on the level of KDE, GNOME, GNUStep or Cocoa not on the level of Linux, FreeBSD or Darwin.
- KDE and GNOME are, by comparison, just a thin shell around the underlying kernel. When you use FreeBSD, you will get confronted by FreeBSD. When you use Linux as a kernel, that will shine through in it's own way as well. However, Open/GNUStep create a complete user environment. A stable place for a human to call it's home on the PC. No matter what the underlying kernel is, the user will experience GNUStep.
One of the user land features of GNUStep that both KDE and GNOME do NOT have is application folders/bundles/appfolders. This means that an "installed" program is always completely encased in it's own directory called "program.app". Install the program by just copying one directory/.app file over to your PC. Uninstalling is just as easy. This is so great because it makes the PC so much better to use for a human being.
Traditionally, installing a program meant that the program's files were thrown all over different directories on your PC's hard drive. If you wanted to get rid of your program because it was misbehaving, you'd have to rely on something called an "installer" that had to have a perfect record of where all the individual files were thrown to in the past. This perfect record never happened of course.
This and a couple of other user land things that are really nice, like a standard directory structure which is the same no matter what kind of kernel is running under GNUStep, is why GNUStep will win the fight of becoming part of the ultimate operating system of the future.
- We've all fantasized about the ultimate operating system, and I now know what it will look like, at least for the forseeable future: A NetBSD, OpenBSD or *BSD kernel for their technical excellence and simplicity, GNUStep on top of that and lots and lots of programs ported to that new operating system in neat little ".app" appfolders. (I said ultimate, not only).
- Because Windows, MacOS X and Linux can also host GNUStep, programmers are able to write programs by only keeping in mind the GNUStep Programming Environment. Windows users that want to keep using their Windows games can keep running their usual OS while at the same time get used to the superiour GNUStep way of appfolders, it's GUI and the GNUStep programming language (Objective-C).
Another easy way for people to transition over to the "Ultimate OS" is with Intel processors with the "Lagrande" feature (AMD has something similar). This feature will allow you to run 2 operating systems on 1 processor AT THE SAME TIME. This means you can switch between the "Ultimate OS" and Windows/MacOS X without rebooting. Problem of the world moving over to Freedom and technical excellence is hereby solved.
- The only "tactical choice" that could improve the "Ultimate OS" is the programming language. The new programming language of GNOME (Mono C#) and GNUStep's language (Objective-C) compare like this:
** Deleted a lot of technical stuff **
I would like the GNUStep OS to switch to another programming language because I th
It seems to me that this is going to impose a pretty big limitation on the capabilities of entry-level developers. Until somebody develops some sort of fire-and-forget race condition prevention tool, it's going to pay to have skills as a multi-threaded app developer.
Maybe the Erlang language is the thing you're looking for. I'm not sure about this one but I think it prevents multithreading/multiprocessing bug just like Java prevents buffer overflow bugs.
This is mainly because Erlang is a purely functional language. This is a problem if you're used to imperative programming languages but as you said. A new way of programming is needed anyway.
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"This was also true before MLK and is true today. Part of me knows that apathy is a terrible thing. And yet I don't care enough that it is... :-("
Honest and insightful. Don't worry, it's natural to be apathetic to abstract dangers. The abstract danger being that you'll end up in a dictatorship if not all good guys act to supress small and big evils. The danger system of your brain isn't in the newest/modern/logical part but in the middle/mammalian/emotional part of your brain. And that part just doesn't make a big enough connection between not stopping little evils and then ending up in a dangerous society. It works much simpler than that, most of the time anyway.
More on this phenomenon can be found in this article. (save it).
By definition, caring enough to act is a state of mind. It is possible to restructure your beliefs/your way of thinking so you'll be able to act in the right way when you see evil in the future. It seems to me you care enough about being able to care. I mean you care enough to change your ways. I personally find it helpful to take a step back and really think about my own thinking and changing the parts I don't like.
There are ways of doing this and most of those ways are called self-help. You have to be careful of quacks but there are genuine people among the self-help and neuro linguistic programming community. I suggest you download David DeAngelo's "Double Your Dating" video's from somewhere (I downloaded from eMule P2P). The reason is because it combines fun with important.
He talks a lot about other self-help stuff that he found to be good if you want to continue in that way but his vids are a great introduction. He also shows good ways to get laid. David DeAngelo takes a more biological/evolution/nature approach and Ross Jeffries takes a more "nurture" approach.
My suggestion, try to see the fun in taking action. Give your emotional brain some kind of reward for acting the right way like "satisfaction" or "logic buzz" or something.
Have fun with it.
Excellent post!
Short term share-value thinking is what causes big corporate Enron type bankruptcy cases. It also shows stupid people in charge of your company's decisions.
Mod up insightful please.
I think a good solution to this problem would be to force Cisco to not sell to China somehow which would force Cisco to "lobby" the US government into stricter laws. That way competitors couldn't sell to China either.
Works for Cisco and works for the "good guys" and everyone's happy.
Exactly!
If you feel you're one of the good guys, you should always oppose bad guys. And think real hard about what opposing means to you.
Big corporations use all kinds of techniques to limit their badness in the eyes of the public. You know these techniques but may not be completely concious of it because of social influences.
One of these techniques is spin (half-lies). Another is spreading the guilt out over as many people as possible. For example, the nazi death camp machine was kept running by thousands of normal people who all did a little evil thing. HOWEVER, the end result was millions of people tortured and executed.
Do you really think that today there aren't any evil people in the world? Of course people who think like Hitler or Stalin exist today, some of them are even in the news. We are the good guys and everyone agrees (even the bad guys will) that evil and evil people need to be surpressed as much as possible.
YOU are not a good guy if you see evil and don't do anything about it. If you see someone breaking the law then that's something for the police, depending if you agree with that law you should call the cops. On the other hand, police can't be everywhere and not all evil is covered by law. There are evil things people can do without breaking the law. That's where the good guys come in.
A comment here, a small decision there will make a difference in the amount of evil in your society. The problem is that the culture is somehow against good guys in the: "nobody likes a smartass" kind of way. There are ways around that. You can give signals to evil doers in ways that do come across. One of them is mixing the message with something exciting or interesting, like humour or music. Another way is to send your message with conviction, if you really believe what you say and say it in a certain way, that will spill over in to your voice and body language. Show some balls in other words but don't be emotional about it, saying it as "matter of fact" works for me.
The reasons I'm saying this, well Cisco is saying, we're only doing this little thing and recently they've tried to supress the information about a security vulnerability in their router OS. Just so they could sit on it so they could spend the least amount of money. The great thing is, one guy showed balls and told everyone they were in danger. He got sued and the FBI were sicced on him (probably as an between-the-lines threat) but he knew that in advance and he still did the right thing. In his presentation he even said something like: "this will get me sued and fired but I want people to know about this". You should hire this guy because he proved he can be trusted.
Now I want YOU to do something to send a message to the evil in people's minds. Even though the people in Cisco individually might not be such bad guys, together they did end up doing the wrong thing in at least two instances. There are other ways of getting a good router for your network aren't there? Other brands, other kinds of solutions than a big router box, things like Eddie.
I'm not asking you to become an activist or something but let's admin this organization called "society" in the best possible way, us smart and aware people know the right way, all we have to do now is act on it. Do a little small thing here and there and bring it in the right way. I made this post and I'm stopping here so I don't get get overwhelmed but I DID do something as the submitter and slashdot editor did their things. Good luck doing your thing and enjoy it when you've done it.
#2) Follow the money. There would be no FBI without money, and they get their money from congress. Members of congress get elected, and that takes lots of money. I can't give/donate nearly as much money as organized groups like the RIAA, so members of congress won't listen to me. If the RIAA wants music file sharers chased, arrested and prosecuted, and members of congress want money for the next election, guess what the FBI will be doing?
#2 is also called corruption
PC-BSD is a GUI-centric version of FreeBSD (KDE) with a program installation system similar to Mac OS X (application folders).
I didn't want to use it at first because you didn't have control over partitioning in the first few versions.
Thankfully, they changed the installer so that you can partition and install over multiple partitions in the newest versions.
I'm going to install it soon as a server even though it's intended as a desktop. The reason is that, in my opinion, text-only administration of my server is way too much hassle, I've got better things to do than memorize dozens of text commands and their flags. On top of that, the installation of programs is easier and cleaner, even easier and cleaner than Windows.
I'm a visual person and handling my FreeBSD 5.3 install with text-only programs was not good enough, not enough feedback and not enough usability. I didn't have a good mental overview of my system with shell-only programs and everytime I wanted to do anything I had to consult the (excellent) FreeBSD manual. With Windows I could figure things out just by clicking around the GUI. GUIs can be seen as having built-in manuals in my opinion.
One thing that worries me is that I've been told that X is a big security vulnerability. Is KDE an X system? Is it open to attacks by default? It'd be great if someone can help answer. Thanks for helping out a newcomer.
How about this.
You do RAID 1 with 3 disks instead of 2. Two drives are for the RAID 1 setup and when it's time to do the backup you just power down or "prepare for hotswap", take out one of the RAID 1 drives which is now your newest backup and put the third drive back into the RAID.
You wouldn't have to do "full differential backups every 3 days" anymore.
Only think I've yet to look into, before I do this, is how to tell the RAID which of the drives it needs to update and which to mirror from. Wouldn't want it to overwrite all of my newest files with the versions of the old backup drive.
What do you mean exactly?
Just to elaborate on what my opinion is on this matter: If a woman is attractive I'd say good for her, you'll probably go far in this world. Statistics prove me right.
The part where I said: "If she's isn't that hot and is jealous of the virtual women then I disagree with her."
Was not really thought out well, a more accurate text version of what I wanted to say would be:
Realize that hot looks are big weapons in the hands of women. You should celebrate the fact that women have this power. Women with hot bodies in games is only visual proof that women still have this influence.
Remember, the "disagree with her" is about her railing against stripper types in games which she didn't, she was misquoted. That part of my post WOULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IF SHE WAS NOT MISQUOTED. Read my original post.
Oh and no, people generally haven't moved on that much. We're still more mammals than anything else, you can see it all around you if you look carefully. The higher level thinking that transcends our mammalian brain is in short supply and if it IS there we're constantly fooled by our lower level brains into doing their bidding. People's mammalian/emotional brains are easily manipulated which is great news for the smart ones, evil and good.
What do you mean with that 70s documentary attitude exactly? I need a more detailed description.
Mod parent up, hint: look at the name of the poster. And it's not "insightful", it's "informative".
I was going to post about what Tara said in her interview like this:
She should realize that beatiful bodies are great assets to women. It's a great thing to have if you want to influence people the way you want them to be influenced.
If she's isn't that hot and is jealous of the virtual women then I disagree with her.
If she's disagreeing with the stereotypes because she's morally against men being manipulated then I agree with her although I personally think men shouldn't be so easy to manipulate in the first place.
(and then some stuff about how it's good to be in the group that's not easily manipulated and how great it is that you can talk the other group into things when it's needed).
Message to you Tara, EDGE has my respect and is the only print magazine I read at the moment. I don't know about the other magazines but I think they're just in it for the bribe money/ad revenues/"exclusive previews" the games makers give them.
But in all this consternation of you arresting me, bag over my head and all that. I totally forgot my passphrase.
Why are you hooking up that generator to two wires that go nowhere?
Oh
Wow, you are one brainwashed sheep, incredible. Don't watch so much TV.
One suggestion: cut some of that TV time down and read this instead.
Installing and uninstalling was nearly impossible because packages scattered files across a confusing, oblique filesystem, and it was a very common occurrence to find rpm entries had been corrupted and left unusable.
Read this page for a description of how to fix the installation usability/buggyness problem Linux has. It's a four-piece blog with a blueprint of how re reengineer Linux to use the appfolder system. Another way of explaining it is that the article explains how to make Linux application installation more like Mac OS X installations (installing is just dragging a folder over) but the articles go further than just using the Mac system, the resulting design is even easier.
There are already Linux and other OS systems that implement the appfolder way of installing, uninstalling and updating. The links to those as well as comments about these systems are all collected on those pages if you want a single source to get all your reading material from.
A good read.
1b. Second:
Artistic anarchy augmented by voluntary payment. People buy from iTunes or donate because they honestly want -- or are convinced by PR campaigns -- to support the artists they like. I think this is sort of wishful thinking. It might go for a while. But people don't like to spend money. Maybe this will blend into the 'patron' model, with a few rich people doing basically this.
I think smart, aware and well-wishing people will want to encourage artists with the right attitude. People like that are on the increase because of the internet (both categories of people are).
So I think it will work well enough. Hell, he got publicity/"PR" on slashdot by releasing his book for free didn't he? Would he have gotten as much attention if he hadn't released it in his new way of looking at the world? His method already works.
In the old world, publicity was something which cost a lot of money but was easy to force-feed to the public because the public only had a couple of sources of information (well, mostly data, not information). Nowadays there's so much info on the internet that you really have to fight for people's attention.
Do we really like the type of marketing from big corporations? The manipulation, the spinning?
It's not as easy as putting it on TV anymore. You can't PUSH as much on the internet as you could push a product on TV or other exclusive, world-filling channels. You can only PULL. That's why the most compelling ways of PR will win out on the internet, and the most compelling is free and with goodwill to all mankind.
What Amazon's case is leading up to is that you can't run a business where you think up new things to get more customers who pay better or other ways to improve business, because pretty soon every smart business technique will be patented if you use any software at all (and don't they all?). They'll use "but it's in software" as an excuse but they're still patenting business methods.
In fact, patenting software is also bad, but since that bad thing has been allowed, it's a good way of getting the other bad thing allowed via this back door.
You think being able to start a business, selling something and making money is something that should be ok for you to do? Not in "their" reality. In their reality any competitor is something bad and needs to be destroyed in any way possible. After all, what's better for profit than having no competitors right? right!
In their reality, the big corporations are the emperors of the business world now and especially in this political climate it looks like it's going to stay this way. They see a world where there will be no more extra competitors incoming anymore and they will be the ones offering most of the goods and services that the people need, the ones they don't need we'll make them want, simple.
HEY, if we make a couple of acquisitions we might be the only company left in the country, won't that be nice? No competition at all, just like "The Company" in the movie "Aliens" although we'll have to somehow make the rest of the world heel to our reality as well, for even more easy profit!
This is the feeling I get when I read news out of the, shall we say, "corporate empires of America". Will it really turn out this way or do you have your own reality of how you see the world, of how you see the world changing in the future? A lot of you do but is your reality as strong as "their" reality? And are you busy making your reality happen or are you just focusing on pointing out the flaws in their plan (which means the only reality under discussion is still THEIR REALITY (there's no such thing as bad publicity eh Mr. Cruise?)).
Take a leaf out of their strategy book: don't waste all your energy on countering their propaganda and instead focus on spreading YOUR ideas into the world, self-replicating memes via the internet work well and don't take much effort except using your brain to come up with the concepts and vectors. Spreading something good instead of reinforcing the bad will improve how you enjoy life as well as how others enjoy it. The main theme of your life will not be negative but positive.
It sounds cloudy but it makes psychological sense.
You could, for example, take the recent rejection of software patents in the EU as something positive. The businesses in Europe will be able to do anything they want to do and in doing so will out-profit USA businesses, especially in an internet world. They'll be able to use any software they want and still sell in the USA, they'll be able to use any business method and still be able to sell in the USA, they'll be able to patent any weird idea in the USA and block out US businesses from competing with them.
Pretty soon, the corporate "emperors" will be left with invisible business suits and somehow "arrange" for the laws to be changed.
That's just a concept, a reality I hastily described during the typing of this post, it could do with some more positivity. Do you like it or would you like to construct one of your own? Be my guest but make it visionary and positive. It'll spread with a little "marketing" and if it's concepts are powerful enough.
How about the concept of changing voting behaviour? Whatever it is that's in your head, start typing.
You don't have a reality of your own? You've been watching a lot of TV haven't you? I pity a lot of North Americans, I wish for something better for them.
Anyway, I want every response to this post to have arguments against OR for this view of mine maybe coupled with how you see things, and not just any argument, it can't be some bullshit argument that just makes you FEEL good even though it doesn't make sense. It has to be a logical argument!
Good luck in making it happen guys!
You're right.
Sorry, I was too terse. What I meant was that some art makes you think about life or a certain subject in a different way, see things in a different light.
:)
Excellent source code might have some insightful things in them that also make you think in a different way but the end-result of the source is a program. That's what I meant by source is not for public consumption.
Hope that satisfies your curiosity.
By the way, please read this if you want a better Linux than we have now. If not, don't
In my opinion, programming is like solving a puzzle.
It's not art because the finished product doesn't make you think about how you think about things. The source code might, but that's not for public consumption.
instead of just griping about problems with Linux, how it compares to other systems and how everything sucks.
/. topic: "Why does Linux suck so much and why won't it ever get to where it needs to be". Alternatively, asking "How do I get to that spot" in a positive way will get you there without having to force yourself.
I haven't read a post that really discusses the article and that's a bad sign for Linux because the article is very good. Instead I've read posts that have a lot of off topic negativity in them.
To set up the rest of this post, I have to make a side-track. Your brain has the older, more powerful subconcious and the newer, less powerful conciousness. People who study the mind will know that the way they work together is that "you" ask your subconcious a question and it will come up with an answer.
If you ask a negative question, like why can't I score with chicks, your subconcious mind will think "ah, so not scoring with chicks is the subject" and come up with answers to your questions and will give answers and work towards the goal of not getting laid. This is the mentality I see in this
Another reason the positive is not discussed (apart from personalities focussing on the negative) is because some people have a subconcious resistance against progress within the Linux community because of the "payoff" they get from having cryptic knowledge. What do I mean? well there are certain advantages you gain by being in the small group that knows the archaic. You'll get an emotional kick when people say: "You're such an expert on Linux/PCs". People even make MONEY from being an expert on the cryptic and naturally, the selfish side of your subconcious will find subtle ways of convincing "you" that sabotaging change in the Linux system is a good thing. This self-delusion is perfectly normal in humans but aren't we striving for something better? Now that you know, please help humankind to go forward by giving humanity an ideal OS in the Free-Source way.
What the community needs to do instead of spouting negativity is to switch the "topic" to the positive, to the ideal situation that we want to end up with. Asking positive "how" questions will give results on the subject of our future Linux (and will make you happier during your life). Fortunately, the article of this topic has already spelled out the how and the ideal system. I'll be dreaming about this future version of Linux and anxiously waiting for the day that it'll be operational.
Linux is created bottom-up by a community of individuals instead of top-down like MacOS X is made by a company "dictator". The way forward, both for mentality of the community and of Linux. we have to spread the right ideals into the the community so that the bottom level of the development process will mostly work into the right, the positive direction which is towards the ideal, towards perfection. This process can only work if I can convince you with this post and that you convince others, the meme will spread from there. That's why people say, improving the world starts with you and that's especially true in the Linux world. THE ARTICLE IS EXCELLENT and is a good meme/link to spread!
Last point I want to make, It's true that PC users, not developers, choose an operating system based on the level of the UI and other high-level things, not on the level of what kind of kernel or what kind of file system is running underneath the things they see on screen. So on the level of Gnome, KDE and Aqua. However, everyone's overlooking GNUstep.
From the article:
1. Installing Applications is complicated
2. Directory structures can be confusing to navigate
3. Interface is confusing and inconsistent
4. Steep learning curve required to understand system functions
Most of these problems will go away if you install GNUstep on top of Linux. GNUstep is not just a thin shell around Linx in the way Gnome and KDE are, it creates a consistent environm
I laughed out loud, that was funny :)
Masamune Shirow, the Sci-Fi author of Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell says that removing organs will decrease brain activity. Replacing not only limbs but also organs or your whole torso might make you a mouth breathing idiot.
His characters don't have that problem but he's writing Sci-Fi.
He also said that total body cyborgification is better if you want superhuman strenght because a super strong arm is no good if lifting something heavy will just rip it off it's fleshy attachements.
Oh, another thing.
While I was surfing for a better alternative to Leo I found there was no better alternative to Leo.
I also found out from this page that you CAN, sort of, put pictures and other kinds of files in Leo documents by naming a node:
@url [URL]
can be a http,mailto,ftp,file,etc.
I'm going to put my Leo files in a directory which also has an "images" folder. That way I can put images into my notes and still keep that wonderful cloning feature.
I'm also going to switch my bookmarks organizing over to Leo, that way I can finally have my URLs in multiple folders/views but still have them synchronized.
I really recommend Leo
Leo is an "outliner" for programmers but it doesn't have to be used like that. On your screen it just looks like a Windows or Mac folder browser, only they're not called folders but outlines or nodes. Every outline has text inside of it, or you can "hang" other outlines under it for more organization.
.html files you could ofcourse keep notes identical by only organizing links as you would organise Leo nodes, every document you'd edit, even if that document would show it's link in multiple categories, would be editing the original document. So that way wouldn't introduce synchronisation difficulties either. It might be a little more cumbersome in exchange for gaining images and text with typefaces.
The reason I use it instead of folders to organize my notes is that I can "clone" a node (CTRL-`). This will duplicate a node and you can drag it into another part of your Leo document. The reason cloning is better than making a copy is because Leo will automatically keep cloned notes identical.
If you made a note about something and it's also helpful to have this information filed at another part of your notes collection, close to another subject, you make a clone. If you'd made a copy and you updated 1 copy, the other copies would be out of date. With clones, you don't have to worry about that.
As an example, I have a node with
"All my hardware"
and I also have a node called
"My FreeBSD server documentation"
One of my boxes is part of both categories of information. It's a cloned node ofcourse.
Now, everytime I change something on my server's hardware, I only have to update 1 of the cloned nodes and the other will automatically have the same update.
That's one of the good features about Leo. Unfortunately, nodes contain only text, not formatted text or images. However, because it's open source you could add that yourself when you can program in Python. Python is also the reason it's cross-platform.
I use it for both my to-do/task document and my general notes (as 2 seperate files).
However, with
It's just a suggestion, give it a try. Just put the word "@nocolor" in the root node and hang all the other nodes under that to supress Leo's programming syntax coloring.
For easy HTML editing I'd use Dreamweaver or the open-source clone Nvu, it's about to go version 1.0
This is how Linux distributions should evolve to "survive":
GNUStep is the future of Free desktops because everyone agrees Mac OS X is the best desktop there is to buy at the moment. Why is GNUStep then the future? Because GNUStep is a copy of OpenStep, OpenStep is the open version of NextStep and NextStep is the basis for OS X (it's called Cocoa now).
What I'm saying is, GNUStep is almost the same as the thing Mac OS X is built with! It's open source and under a Freedom licence. GNUstep aims to be compatible with both the OpenStep specification and with Mac OS X. It should be easy to write an application that compiles cleanly under both GNUstep and Cocoa.
Users only care about user land. They care about where to find files and programs. The choice users make is on the level of KDE, GNOME, GNUStep or Cocoa not on the level of Linux, FreeBSD or Darwin.
- KDE and GNOME are, by comparison, just a thin shell around the underlying kernel. When you use FreeBSD, you will get confronted by FreeBSD. When you use Linux as a kernel, that will shine through in it's own way as well. However, Open/GNUStep create a complete user environment. A stable place for a human to call it's home on the PC. No matter what the underlying kernel is, the user will experience GNUStep.
One of the user land features of GNUStep that both KDE and GNOME do NOT have is application folders/bundles/appfolders. This means that an "installed" program is always completely encased in it's own directory called "program.app". Install the program by just copying one directory/.app file over to your PC. Uninstalling is just as easy. This is so great because it makes the PC so much better to use for a human being.
Traditionally, installing a program meant that the program's files were thrown all over different directories on your PC's hard drive. If you wanted to get rid of your program because it was misbehaving, you'd have to rely on something called an "installer" that had to have a perfect record of where all the individual files were thrown to in the past. This perfect record never happened of course.
This and a couple of other user land things that are really nice, like a standard directory structure which is the same no matter what kind of kernel is running under GNUStep, is why GNUStep will win the fight of becoming part of the ultimate operating system of the future.
- We've all fantasized about the ultimate operating system, and I now know what it will look like, at least for the forseeable future: A NetBSD, OpenBSD or *BSD kernel for their technical excellence and simplicity, GNUStep on top of that and lots and lots of programs ported to that new operating system in neat little ".app" appfolders. (I said ultimate, not only).
- Because Windows, MacOS X and Linux can also host GNUStep, programmers are able to write programs by only keeping in mind the GNUStep Programming Environment. Windows users that want to keep using their Windows games can keep running their usual OS while at the same time get used to the superiour GNUStep way of appfolders, it's GUI and the GNUStep programming language (Objective-C).
Another easy way for people to transition over to the "Ultimate OS" is with Intel processors with the "Lagrande" feature (AMD has something similar). This feature will allow you to run 2 operating systems on 1 processor AT THE SAME TIME. This means you can switch between the "Ultimate OS" and Windows/MacOS X without rebooting. Problem of the world moving over to Freedom and technical excellence is hereby solved.
- The only "tactical choice" that could improve the "Ultimate OS" is the programming language. The new programming language of GNOME (Mono C#) and GNUStep's language (Objective-C) compare like this:
** Deleted a lot of technical stuff **
I would like the GNUStep OS to switch to another programming language because I th
This is how Linux distributions should evolve to "survive":
GNUStep is the future of Free desktops because everyone agrees Mac OS X is the best desktop there is to buy at the moment. Why is GNUStep then the future? Because GNUStep is a copy of OpenStep, OpenStep is the open version of NextStep and NextStep is the basis for OS X (it's called Cocoa now).
What I'm saying is, GNUStep is almost the same as the thing Mac OS X is built with! It's open source and under a Freedom licence. GNUstep aims to be compatible with both the OpenStep specification and with Mac OS X. It should be easy to write an application that compiles cleanly under both GNUstep and Cocoa.
Users only care about user land. They care about where to find files and programs. The choice users make is on the level of KDE, GNOME, GNUStep or Cocoa not on the level of Linux, FreeBSD or Darwin.
- KDE and GNOME are, by comparison, just a thin shell around the underlying kernel. When you use FreeBSD, you will get confronted by FreeBSD. When you use Linux as a kernel, that will shine through in it's own way as well. However, Open/GNUStep create a complete user environment. A stable place for a human to call it's home on the PC. No matter what the underlying kernel is, the user will experience GNUStep.
One of the user land features of GNUStep that both KDE and GNOME do NOT have is application folders/bundles/appfolders. This means that an "installed" program is always completely encased in it's own directory called "program.app". Install the program by just copying one directory/.app file over to your PC. Uninstalling is just as easy. This is so great because it makes the PC so much better to use for a human being.
Traditionally, installing a program meant that the program's files were thrown all over different directories on your PC's hard drive. If you wanted to get rid of your program because it was misbehaving, you'd have to rely on something called an "installer" that had to have a perfect record of where all the individual files were thrown to in the past. This perfect record never happened of course.
This and a couple of other user land things that are really nice, like a standard directory structure which is the same no matter what kind of kernel is running under GNUStep, is why GNUStep will win the fight of becoming part of the ultimate operating system of the future.
- We've all fantasized about the ultimate operating system, and I now know what it will look like, at least for the forseeable future: A NetBSD, OpenBSD or *BSD kernel for their technical excellence and simplicity, GNUStep on top of that and lots and lots of programs ported to that new operating system in neat little ".app" appfolders. (I said ultimate, not only).
- Because Windows, MacOS X and Linux can also host GNUStep, programmers are able to write programs by only keeping in mind the GNUStep Programming Environment. Windows users that want to keep using their Windows games can keep running their usual OS while at the same time get used to the superiour GNUStep way of appfolders, it's GUI and the GNUStep programming language (Objective-C).
Another easy way for people to transition over to the "Ultimate OS" is with Intel processors with the "Lagrande" feature (AMD has something similar). This feature will allow you to run 2 operating systems on 1 processor AT THE SAME TIME. This means you can switch between the "Ultimate OS" and Windows/MacOS X without rebooting. Problem of the world moving over to Freedom and technical excellence is hereby solved.
- The only "tactical choice" that could improve the "Ultimate OS" is the programming language. The new programming language of GNOME (Mono C#) and GNUStep's language (Objective-C) compare like this:
** Deleted a lot of technical stuff **
I would like the GNUStep OS to switch to another programming language because I th
It seems to me that this is going to impose a pretty big limitation on the capabilities of entry-level developers. Until somebody develops some sort of fire-and-forget race condition prevention tool, it's going to pay to have skills as a multi-threaded app developer.
Maybe the Erlang language is the thing you're looking for. I'm not sure about this one but I think it prevents multithreading/multiprocessing bug just like Java prevents buffer overflow bugs.
This is mainly because Erlang is a purely functional language. This is a problem if you're used to imperative programming languages but as you said. A new way of programming is needed anyway.
Erlang is under a licence similar to Mozilla.