Linspire already has support for dvd playback so I kinda doubt he'll be working on DVD stuff... My bet is that he will be hacking on the Skype protocols to get Gizmo to be compatible with it. That way Gizmo will work on Skype, but not vice-versa.
"Microsoft felt that customers were better served by using Apple's browser, noting that Microsoft does not have the access to the Macintosh operating system that it would need to compete."
I believe that in truth they mean they don't have access to the Macintosh customers that they need to compete. MS is so used to having people get Ie on their computer, (and on their own OS whenever they want to upgrade their OS they go to windows update and get it pretty much automatically) that when another browser is geared to come with the OS they don't see any advantages to their browser (its only advantage currently being that it comes with the OS) so they decide to discontinue it. That's my take anyway.
The other thing that kills me is that the article mentions sites that require Internet Explorer compatability... Since when did Mac IE have the same rendering engine as windows IE? From what I recall if the page doesn't work in mozilla, it prolly won't work in Mac IE either. Oh well, I say no loss here, I'll take safari over IE any day.
After using Redhat 8, and then redhat 9, I can definately say that their talk about stability/bleeding-edginess of their consumer versions is true so maybe the rest of what they're talking about is too. You will definately want to ensure that whatever version of Redhat you choose is compatible with whatever software you're using. For instance, I use a perlTK app at work, the version that came with Redhat 8 AND 9 was missing things and wouldn't run the app. CPAN also refused to work, in the end I had to use a third party rpm to get my app working. However, once it got going it seemed to be fine. Just make sure what you want to run is compatible, setup a test box maybe, I mean you can't lose by using the free version to test it then decide from there.
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Tunneling X11 through ssh and using the -o CompressionLevel=9 argument helps decrease bandwidth requirements dramatically, albeit with the cost of slightly higher application response latency.
My gripe with the micromanagement concept is that they completely removed it with the autocasters. When someone can cast slow on an entire army while adding +5 armor and an attack bonus on their (and their allies) units without lifting a finger, it just gets rediculous. Cause then all they do is sheep my more important guys and kill everything... with really weak units. Take out autocast, THEN we'll see about those stupid all-caster armies.
But the sources.list *already* points to the main debian woody mirror site. I seriously think that people are overreacting to all this. They want to distribute a linux distribution that is designed for a product called Click-N-Run, that has commercial programs, and a gui setup screen. So? If you want to use something not in their "Warehouse" Then just apt it. It may conflict with one of their packages, but so what? You can morph it into a "plain" debian system just by removing their click-n-run packages or installing a package that conflicts with click-n-run. If you don't WANT to use click-n-run, then it's best to use another distro. They've always said that, you don't even have install anything extra to use apt, it's just a term away...
Soo if they're doing this to offset the costs of people downloading the music illegally, it would in turn make sense that you're paying for the music. And so any music you get from there out would be legal. Make sense to anyone else? Sure...that's probably why it'd never be the case.
Lindows is debian woody with additional commercial software accessible via their apt frontend called "Click-n-Run". Their latest "2.0" release is quite stable in my experience, and takes very little time to install. The default is to run as root, but multiple users *are* supported, and work fine...more integration of multiple users into their scheme of things is being planned for future revisions which you can upgrade to non-destructively at no additional cost for the duration of your subscription. I'd say the thing that makes this stand out from other easy-to-use distros is that it gets rid of the "I could install it but then what do I do" part of linux. Installing software is very easy, and dependencies resolve themselves thanks to apt... I'd say it's worth a try, if you don't like it you can always get a refund.
The Lindows preview release of AOL runs in wine, Netscape 7 (the default browser) allows access to many aol functions such as their messenger and email via the mail client. You can get Netscape 7 in any distro, but as far as I know, AOL doesn't run in standard wine.
Also, as far as I know, the AOL client is not being ported by AOL but by the Lindows staff. The preview release of AOL7 is definately in the early stages of being "ported" via wine.
They have support for dual booting on a seperate partition with Win2k/whatever on NTFS, just not using a "Friendly" install, which puts lindows inside the fat32 partition (this requires umsdos, to which equivalent there is none for ntfs)
The first time I installed debian I was entirely confused, and it took me three days. The next time I installed debian (with the same net install image) it took me 20minutes. Once you've put the time into figuring it out, it's very hard to remember how hard it was the first time...So I guess I won't go so hard on the people who have trouble with the installer.
I seem to be in the minority (haha) here... but I like product placement in movies as was done in Minority report.
I also liked the placement of Atari etc in blade runner.
I think that the placement of ads as was done in Minority Report not only gives us an interesting view of the future, but gives people from our future a glimpse into our views of the future (got it?).
>>Setup apache
And immediately get hacked because everything runs as root.
Lindows installs apache from debian packages, which automatically setup a sandbox user to run apache from.
Services do not run as root, they run as their own user like they do in debian.
It doesn't work right in Opera 6... If you'll notice the bands of brown are not semitransparent like they are in Moz.
Also, the filtered image does not seem to be aligned properly.
At least it doesn't display right on my copy of Opera 6 for Linux.
Lindows is just repackaged debian with a nice front end to apt-get.
From what I hear they're making OpenOffice available on their click-n-run warehouse in the near future, but the standard linux version of OpenOffice from openoffice.org runs fine.
I've been with Lindows for a little while now, that press release isn't accurate.
They've stated to insiders that their goal is not to run most, or even alot of windows applications...but just to run certain apps that are "critical".
I think that they're the ones who decide if it's "critical" or not.
Most of the time their response to questions about specific apps is met with "have you tried xxxx linux program?"
Calling those people (heh) who live on the "dark" side of the moon pale implies that they get no sunlight.
On the other hand, I'd imagine that if you lived on any side of the moon you'd never want to be exposed directly to the unfiltered radiation from our friendly neighborhood star, and would probably be as pale as most people who have continued reading this completely OT conversion that I got on. (note, my statements here are inteded to be entirely jovial and not serious whatsoever)
>>They don't want the pale Lunarians feeling left out of the loop.
Actually, the "dark side" of the moon gets just as much light as the "light side" of the moon.
Due to the moon having an irregular distribution of its mass, one side is continuously locked facing earth, but the entire moon gets sunlight (that's what we young people like to call "moon phases").
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It was a six day deadline. The union wouldn't let him work past friday.
Should have gone with Ford.
Linspire already has support for dvd playback so I kinda doubt he'll be working on DVD stuff... My bet is that he will be hacking on the Skype protocols to get Gizmo to be compatible with it. That way Gizmo will work on Skype, but not vice-versa.
http://www.gizmoproject.com/
More than likely their server application will run in linux. I really doubt they would make a linux native client, but hey, it'd be cool!
to quote the article
"Microsoft felt that customers were better served by using Apple's browser, noting that Microsoft does not have the access to the Macintosh operating system that it would need to compete."
I believe that in truth they mean they don't have access to the Macintosh customers that they need to compete. MS is so used to having people get Ie on their computer, (and on their own OS whenever they want to upgrade their OS they go to windows update and get it pretty much automatically) that when another browser is geared to come with the OS they don't see any advantages to their browser (its only advantage currently being that it comes with the OS) so they decide to discontinue it. That's my take anyway.
The other thing that kills me is that the article mentions sites that require Internet Explorer compatability... Since when did Mac IE have the same rendering engine as windows IE? From what I recall if the page doesn't work in mozilla, it prolly won't work in Mac IE either. Oh well, I say no loss here, I'll take safari over IE any day.
After using Redhat 8, and then redhat 9, I can definately say that their talk about stability/bleeding-edginess of their consumer versions is true so maybe the rest of what they're talking about is too. You will definately want to ensure that whatever version of Redhat you choose is compatible with whatever software you're using. For instance, I use a perlTK app at work, the version that came with Redhat 8 AND 9 was missing things and wouldn't run the app. CPAN also refused to work, in the end I had to use a third party rpm to get my app working. However, once it got going it seemed to be fine. Just make sure what you want to run is compatible, setup a test box maybe, I mean you can't lose by using the free version to test it then decide from there.
Tunneling X11 through ssh and using the -o CompressionLevel=9 argument helps decrease bandwidth requirements dramatically, albeit with the cost of slightly higher application response latency.
Brood war does not have a seperate key.
My gripe with the micromanagement concept is that they completely removed it with the autocasters. When someone can cast slow on an entire army while adding +5 armor and an attack bonus on their (and their allies) units without lifting a finger, it just gets rediculous. Cause then all they do is sheep my more important guys and kill everything... with really weak units. Take out autocast, THEN we'll see about those stupid all-caster armies.
But the sources.list *already* points to the main debian woody mirror site. I seriously think that people are overreacting to all this. They want to distribute a linux distribution that is designed for a product called Click-N-Run, that has commercial programs, and a gui setup screen. So? If you want to use something not in their "Warehouse" Then just apt it. It may conflict with one of their packages, but so what? You can morph it into a "plain" debian system just by removing their click-n-run packages or installing a package that conflicts with click-n-run. If you don't WANT to use click-n-run, then it's best to use another distro. They've always said that, you don't even have install anything extra to use apt, it's just a term away...
Soo if they're doing this to offset the costs of people downloading the music illegally, it would in turn make sense that you're paying for the music. And so any music you get from there out would be legal. Make sense to anyone else? Sure...that's probably why it'd never be the case.
Yeah, they'd never guess it was you... considering there's so many people with these things flying around the country.
Lindows is debian woody with additional commercial software accessible via their apt frontend called "Click-n-Run". Their latest "2.0" release is quite stable in my experience, and takes very little time to install. The default is to run as root, but multiple users *are* supported, and work fine...more integration of multiple users into their scheme of things is being planned for future revisions which you can upgrade to non-destructively at no additional cost for the duration of your subscription. I'd say the thing that makes this stand out from other easy-to-use distros is that it gets rid of the "I could install it but then what do I do" part of linux. Installing software is very easy, and dependencies resolve themselves thanks to apt... I'd say it's worth a try, if you don't like it you can always get a refund.
The Lindows preview release of AOL runs in wine, Netscape 7 (the default browser) allows access to many aol functions such as their messenger and email via the mail client. You can get Netscape 7 in any distro, but as far as I know, AOL doesn't run in standard wine. Also, as far as I know, the AOL client is not being ported by AOL but by the Lindows staff. The preview release of AOL7 is definately in the early stages of being "ported" via wine.
They have support for dual booting on a seperate partition with Win2k/whatever on NTFS, just not using a "Friendly" install, which puts lindows inside the fat32 partition (this requires umsdos, to which equivalent there is none for ntfs)
The first time I installed debian I was entirely confused, and it took me three days. The next time I installed debian (with the same net install image) it took me 20minutes. Once you've put the time into figuring it out, it's very hard to remember how hard it was the first time...So I guess I won't go so hard on the people who have trouble with the installer.
I seem to be in the minority (haha) here... but I like product placement in movies as was done in Minority report. I also liked the placement of Atari etc in blade runner. I think that the placement of ads as was done in Minority Report not only gives us an interesting view of the future, but gives people from our future a glimpse into our views of the future (got it?).
>>Setup apache And immediately get hacked because everything runs as root.
Lindows installs apache from debian packages, which automatically setup a sandbox user to run apache from. Services do not run as root, they run as their own user like they do in debian.
It doesn't work right in Opera 6... If you'll notice the bands of brown are not semitransparent like they are in Moz. Also, the filtered image does not seem to be aligned properly. At least it doesn't display right on my copy of Opera 6 for Linux.
Lindows is just repackaged debian with a nice front end to apt-get. From what I hear they're making OpenOffice available on their click-n-run warehouse in the near future, but the standard linux version of OpenOffice from openoffice.org runs fine.
I've been with Lindows for a little while now, that press release isn't accurate.
They've stated to insiders that their goal is not to run most, or even alot of windows applications...but just to run certain apps that are "critical".
I think that they're the ones who decide if it's "critical" or not.
Most of the time their response to questions about specific apps is met with "have you tried xxxx linux program?"
Calling those people (heh) who live on the "dark" side of the moon pale implies that they get no sunlight. On the other hand, I'd imagine that if you lived on any side of the moon you'd never want to be exposed directly to the unfiltered radiation from our friendly neighborhood star, and would probably be as pale as most people who have continued reading this completely OT conversion that I got on. (note, my statements here are inteded to be entirely jovial and not serious whatsoever)
>>They don't want the pale Lunarians feeling left out of the loop.
Actually, the "dark side" of the moon gets just as much light as the "light side" of the moon.
Due to the moon having an irregular distribution of its mass, one side is continuously locked facing earth, but the entire moon gets sunlight (that's what we young people like to call "moon phases").