Seriously though, the PDA. I need ssh or terminal access, aside from email notifications and general testing. Phones have been trying to merge into PDA's for a long time, some have even done reasonable jobs (none reasonable enough that I've ditched my Zaurus). But when you get right down to it Wifi/Cellular are both data/communication technologies and I don't see any good long term reason to keep cellular. Assuming Wifi as a technology (and an implementation) will continue to improve.
From a lot of the comments I've heard I'm begining to think a lot of slashdoters aren't connecting all the dots, not only is Wifi an inevidability, but its convienience stretches far beyond a single communication device. Numbers become portable as software and logins and hardware is simple a means to an end.
Voip over Wifi is a fact. You could be doing it right now using a SIP based program and your PDA. Good? No, of course its going to have to improve. But whats *is* important about it is right now I carry two devices in my pocket at any given time, a cellphone and a wifi enabled PDA. Both basically do the same thing, only the PDA does more and does some of the same things only better (contacts, calandering, etc).
Which do you think I rather carry?
Data communication isn't going to be going away, why should I have a device that can do the bare minimum but makes phone calls when I could in the not-to-distant future have both?
FTR, I'm not exactly a gadget guy, I legitmately need these for work. I'm a systems admin and bad things have a way of happening at inopportune times.
And is still available as a free (Beta) download here.
Don't know how long that will last and I image its not part of the OSS suite.
I haven't used it but would like to do some testing with it at work. For more general directory type support (domain controller, etc) I'd look at Suse LINUX Enterprise Server with their Novell Open Enterprise (sorry thats a PDF). It uses Samba and LDAP, but its the closest thing to a usable AD "killer" I've seen so far.
The Bush regime makes fewer attempts to hide this behavior and as an American I find that unacceptable.
At least Clinton knew there was a rest of the world and tried to make things look, for lack of a better word, democratic.
Bush started a likely unjust war, emptied the government coffers and seem likely to have lied, mislead and let down a large part of the American public. Clinton got a blow-job.
Maybe some of the 'fucktards' are a little angry and vent.
I'm guessing you're using Active Directory shares, which you *could* support using under Linux, but I haven't seen any distro make it reasonable for a regular person (Novell/Suse ENT make some strides in that direction but more from the server stand-point...still interesting stuff).
My guess is you're Linux laptop would simple be a support night-mare for them, so why would they "allow" it.:)
As a long time Mandrake user *and* a fulltime sys admin I'd say for users-space Mandrake's offering is one of the best. But I'd also suggest that thats no-where near where it needs to be if they are planning Windows/Mac area market penetration.
Its hardware detection has been some of the best for some time now, driver support, clean interface, all good things. Their configuration utilities knock Yast and FC.X off the butts, but they are a LONG way from providing either complete or reliable management solutions. Their package management solution is RPM based, but it excels well beyond YUM and its probably fair to say its on par with Debian's apt-get system, but you also have rpmdrake which wraps a comfy clear, easy-to-use GUI around it.
As far as commercial distros its the bee's-knees (although I haven't installed that free Linspire disk yet) and has the added bonus of being one of the few commercial companies going after the user desktop that still shows a commitment to the GPL.
That said, development hasn't shown any remarkable leaps in usability. Its a Linux distro and for the most part its about as good as any other favorite might be. It requires a hobbiest or enthusiast to use still, unless they've got something big they've been keeping under wraps, but 2005 (aka Mandriva) isn't remarkably better or worse then previous releases and they, along with most every other distro seem to be sticking pretty closely to the status quo, which isn't as innovative as I expect would be required to penetrate that particular consumer space, but I'm a sys admin, what do I know.:)
But then I realized you where probably being sincere. I agree that OSS development can be a little sticky at times, but Gimp or Gnome in general as an example is pretty unfair. They've made themselves pretty clear in that they are developing for themselves and not very open to the opinions from the masses. Such is their right, although I don't agree with it.
But there are lots of examples that work the other way, KDE continues to both involve their users and (not surprisingly) improve. Projects like Mozilla have revolutionized the way we view browsers. Even this project, even while being derided, is a perfect example of how good the OSS model really can be.
Gnome developers have seemed to remain in the old-school of OSS development.
Working right will do it. People have become accustomed to certain things just working. Drivers, multimedia, software bundled with digital cameras, etc. If you give someone a PC that doesn't let them do some of these basic things they've come to expect you're not going to make them very happy.
I use Linux on my home system *and* in my work, I have to go through a lot of hoops still just to get my Linux PC to function on par in a Windows world. Fortunately I like a good challenge and the power use pays in spades, but 99.99% of the users don't/won't care about that, and they shouldn't have to.
Ya, we just started beefing up our mail system, single machine. It gets hammered sometimes but generally the load is doable (from time to time we send out large quantities of mail, but not the kind you'd think).
I'll take a look at Exim, right now Sendmail is king mainly because thats what was installed previously and change can be...we, hard to encourage.
Spamassassin mainly annoys me because I don't think its so much the best answer as the most well known. But again, its what we use and our users are happy.
Great product, nightmare to learn. SLES happens to make it a little easier, even will help you setup domain logins with Samba without losing all your hair (highly recommened).
Spamassassin
Ew.
ClamAV
ClamAV is a wonderful tool. However keep in mind it can be set up a number of ways, it can scan incoming traffic, it can scan out-bound traffic, it can scan both incoming and outgoing traffic. It can use a lot of cycles, consider your outbound scanning and disable it if you feel comfortable with that (I work at a smaller shop and we have a pretty solid (read: managed) A/V policy on the workstations).
I didn't see anything mentioned about multi-queueing, maybe this isn't as important in your situation or isn't supported with a lot of mta's (we use sendmail). But adding queue limits and multiple queues can help speed things up. Disk speed (for the queues specifically) can also help reduce bottlenecks as I/O increases.
Well, with the GLX support your stuck. But many try you luck with a different (newer) card. I have been using them for at least 5 years now and never had an issue, which is why I'm so loyal (that and the fact that they support us OOTB).
I was being and asshole, sorry about that. But these little tiraids against compainies that actually take the time to support us in the first place tend to get my goat. Open is wonderful, but its ridiculous to think everything should be open, that is in and of itself limits peoples choice, accomplishing the exact opposite of the original intention. If you're happy with ATI thats great, its a perfectly good card. Just don't knock Nvidia for choosing to support our system but not every single users ideology.
With political freedom, there's something seriously wrong...and I'll give you a hint, its with you.
I'm sure your just a mouth-piece but Linux (and to a lesser degree Solaris) is my bread and butter. So before you get your panties all in a knot why don't you sit back down before you find some *more* stupid to point out. Like that hardware hypocrisy...but then you wouldn't be able to use computers so you'd have nothing to complain about.
Never had that problem. If its tit-for-tat you want try *not* to tell me an ATI horror story, because until you or one of the other idiots creates a serious video card with an open specification that meets or exceeds the current offerings all your doing is blowing smoke.
Of course its fine to flame about drivers but you don't even question the hardware...I guess software counts differently somehow...hmmmm.
Solid support is *much* more impotant to me then politics. I use Linux because it works for me and works well, same reason I use Nvidia cards under Linux.
Not to be unsypathetic, but TFB. Update your tools or learn to do the investigating with the old fashioned tools you've been born with (noggins still count right?).
I'm sure you are a musician and I'm sure you're speaking earnestly, for yourself. Musicians are people, and just like regular people there are ALL types. Idealists, realists, kooks, those driven for success, etc.
I happen to run a free internet radio program so I have the honor of talking to a fairly wide variety of musicians, most of which are happy to do what they can to get their music heard (I'm not doing the site for profit so I ask permission to play the tracks sans royalties, etc; bandwidth already costs me enough).
Anyhow, its not like I don't see where your coming from but I think its over simplifying the issue, I'm sure even Madonna would get pissed after the 100,000th sweaty kid told her he'd downloaded all her music for free and she might have to find a another means to support herself.
What I *am* seeing is the free download (as in encouraged) becoming the new single. But even indie artists can be (and I don't blame them) pretty protective of their music (most seem a bit nervous about being 'featured' with the flash applet I use while their more comfortable with the regular contiguous stream (aka Shoutcast).
I think...in reading the original post, the author himself was asking about a license that would disallow the original code working its way into closed/commercial projects. Strictly speaking this is my biggest objection to the BSD license.
Not to say I disagree that there should be a BSD license, but when *I* want to share something I want to share it plain and simple. Not have some jack-ass change the graphics around a bit do some re-tooling and market it themselves.
Anyhow, Mozilla seems to be a big OSS project that allows closed plugins to mix with it.
same thing. I'd rake it up to at least one of three things: 1)not very proactive support from Valve 2) it *is* written is C, so you can't just get a scriptor to really do thing...you need a programmer 3) this is *my* personal pet-peeve so bear with me; HL2DM, as the model upon which all SDK based mods are built...sucks. And sucks badly.
I've done portions of my own mod based on the source engine and jumping in there was (is?) a nightmare because I don't have a programming background. I've seen the hordes of requests on moddb for programmers go (understandably) mostly ignored.
I think the final stinker for HL2 mods goes hand-in-hand with the lack of serious Valve support: every mod is essentially a TOTAL CONVERSION (most of them don't really feel that way, but hey) and require you to download and install the package, then update it, then figure out how to launch it and before you know it I'm playing Battlefield 2 and my code sits and lingers.
A mod I really do enjoy and have had some (small) involvement on the dev team is HL2CTF. The programmer happens to be a quite good coder (he works for a major gaming company) and the team is solid (even if I'm late on my scripts...:)).
But frankly I think Valve tanked their own game. At least put the mods on Steam.
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Hmmm. Thats a tough one...
Seriously though, the PDA. I need ssh or terminal access, aside from email notifications and general testing. Phones have been trying to merge into PDA's for a long time, some have even done reasonable jobs (none reasonable enough that I've ditched my Zaurus). But when you get right down to it Wifi/Cellular are both data/communication technologies and I don't see any good long term reason to keep cellular. Assuming Wifi as a technology (and an implementation) will continue to improve.
From a lot of the comments I've heard I'm begining to think a lot of slashdoters aren't connecting all the dots, not only is Wifi an inevidability, but its convienience stretches far beyond a single communication device. Numbers become portable as software and logins and hardware is simple a means to an end.
I'd much rather carry the PDA.
We might have something to look at. Otherwise there's lots of stuff out there, of course managing it can be a nightmare...
Voip over Wifi is a fact. You could be doing it right now using a SIP based program and your PDA. Good? No, of course its going to have to improve. But whats *is* important about it is right now I carry two devices in my pocket at any given time, a cellphone and a wifi enabled PDA. Both basically do the same thing, only the PDA does more and does some of the same things only better (contacts, calandering, etc).
Which do you think I rather carry?
Data communication isn't going to be going away, why should I have a device that can do the bare minimum but makes phone calls when I could in the not-to-distant future have both?
FTR, I'm not exactly a gadget guy, I legitmately need these for work. I'm a systems admin and bad things have a way of happening at inopportune times.
I don't know about you, but I've tried watching those arabic theater pirated films and the noise level is unacceptable. UNACCEPTALBE!
:)
Anyhow, lay off the American's there are assholes everywhere. We just get in the news more.
And is still available as a free (Beta) download here.
Don't know how long that will last and I image its not part of the OSS suite.
I haven't used it but would like to do some testing with it at work. For more general directory type support (domain controller, etc) I'd look at Suse LINUX Enterprise Server with their Novell Open Enterprise (sorry thats a PDF). It uses Samba and LDAP, but its the closest thing to a usable AD "killer" I've seen so far.
The Bush regime makes fewer attempts to hide this behavior and as an American I find that unacceptable.
At least Clinton knew there was a rest of the world and tried to make things look, for lack of a better word, democratic.
Bush started a likely unjust war, emptied the government coffers and seem likely to have lied, mislead and let down a large part of the American public. Clinton got a blow-job.
Maybe some of the 'fucktards' are a little angry and vent.
I'll stick to performance reviews, its all a bit dice toss in reality and if you expected more from a publically held company you should reconsider.
There are no saints here.
I'm guessing you're using Active Directory shares, which you *could* support using under Linux, but I haven't seen any distro make it reasonable for a regular person (Novell/Suse ENT make some strides in that direction but more from the server stand-point...still interesting stuff).
:)
My guess is you're Linux laptop would simple be a support night-mare for them, so why would they "allow" it.
As a long time Mandrake user *and* a fulltime sys admin I'd say for users-space Mandrake's offering is one of the best. But I'd also suggest that thats no-where near where it needs to be if they are planning Windows/Mac area market penetration.
:)
Its hardware detection has been some of the best for some time now, driver support, clean interface, all good things. Their configuration utilities knock Yast and FC.X off the butts, but they are a LONG way from providing either complete or reliable management solutions. Their package management solution is RPM based, but it excels well beyond YUM and its probably fair to say its on par with Debian's apt-get system, but you also have rpmdrake which wraps a comfy clear, easy-to-use GUI around it.
As far as commercial distros its the bee's-knees (although I haven't installed that free Linspire disk yet) and has the added bonus of being one of the few commercial companies going after the user desktop that still shows a commitment to the GPL.
That said, development hasn't shown any remarkable leaps in usability. Its a Linux distro and for the most part its about as good as any other favorite might be. It requires a hobbiest or enthusiast to use still, unless they've got something big they've been keeping under wraps, but 2005 (aka Mandriva) isn't remarkably better or worse then previous releases and they, along with most every other distro seem to be sticking pretty closely to the status quo, which isn't as innovative as I expect would be required to penetrate that particular consumer space, but I'm a sys admin, what do I know.
But then I realized you where probably being sincere. I agree that OSS development can be a little sticky at times, but Gimp or Gnome in general as an example is pretty unfair. They've made themselves pretty clear in that they are developing for themselves and not very open to the opinions from the masses. Such is their right, although I don't agree with it.
But there are lots of examples that work the other way, KDE continues to both involve their users and (not surprisingly) improve. Projects like Mozilla have revolutionized the way we view browsers. Even this project, even while being derided, is a perfect example of how good the OSS model really can be.
Gnome developers have seemed to remain in the old-school of OSS development.
Working right will do it. People have become accustomed to certain things just working. Drivers, multimedia, software bundled with digital cameras, etc. If you give someone a PC that doesn't let them do some of these basic things they've come to expect you're not going to make them very happy.
I use Linux on my home system *and* in my work, I have to go through a lot of hoops still just to get my Linux PC to function on par in a Windows world. Fortunately I like a good challenge and the power use pays in spades, but 99.99% of the users don't/won't care about that, and they shouldn't have to.
The Darwin Awards.
:)
They really still do weed themselves out (just not always the ones *you'd* like).
Ya, we just started beefing up our mail system, single machine. It gets hammered sometimes but generally the load is doable (from time to time we send out large quantities of mail, but not the kind you'd think).
I'll take a look at Exim, right now Sendmail is king mainly because thats what was installed previously and change can be...we, hard to encourage.
Spamassassin mainly annoys me because I don't think its so much the best answer as the most well known. But again, its what we use and our users are happy.
Thanks.
OpenLDAP
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Great product, nightmare to learn. SLES happens to make it a little easier, even will help you setup domain logins with Samba without losing all your hair (highly recommened).
Spamassassin
Ew.
ClamAV
ClamAV is a wonderful tool. However keep in mind it can be set up a number of ways, it can scan incoming traffic, it can scan out-bound traffic, it can scan both incoming and outgoing traffic. It can use a lot of cycles, consider your outbound scanning and disable it if you feel comfortable with that (I work at a smaller shop and we have a pretty solid (read: managed) A/V policy on the workstations).
I didn't see anything mentioned about multi-queueing, maybe this isn't as important in your situation or isn't supported with a lot of mta's (we use sendmail). But adding queue limits and multiple queues can help speed things up. Disk speed (for the queues specifically) can also help reduce bottlenecks as I/O increases.
Well, with the GLX support your stuck. But many try you luck with a different (newer) card. I have been using them for at least 5 years now and never had an issue, which is why I'm so loyal (that and the fact that they support us OOTB).
So then its all really a matter of convenience...
I was being and asshole, sorry about that. But these little tiraids against compainies that actually take the time to support us in the first place tend to get my goat. Open is wonderful, but its ridiculous to think everything should be open, that is in and of itself limits peoples choice, accomplishing the exact opposite of the original intention. If you're happy with ATI thats great, its a perfectly good card. Just don't knock Nvidia for choosing to support our system but not every single users ideology.
With political freedom, there's something seriously wrong...and I'll give you a hint, its with you.
I'm sure your just a mouth-piece but Linux (and to a lesser degree Solaris) is my bread and butter. So before you get your panties all in a knot why don't you sit back down before you find some *more* stupid to point out. Like that hardware hypocrisy...but then you wouldn't be able to use computers so you'd have nothing to complain about.
Get over it.
Never had that problem. If its tit-for-tat you want try *not* to tell me an ATI horror story, because until you or one of the other idiots creates a serious video card with an open specification that meets or exceeds the current offerings all your doing is blowing smoke.
Of course its fine to flame about drivers but you don't even question the hardware...I guess software counts differently somehow...hmmmm.
Solid support is *much* more impotant to me then politics. I use Linux because it works for me and works well, same reason I use Nvidia cards under Linux.
Not to be unsypathetic, but TFB. Update your tools or learn to do the investigating with the old fashioned tools you've been born with (noggins still count right?).
I'm sure you are a musician and I'm sure you're speaking earnestly, for yourself. Musicians are people, and just like regular people there are ALL types. Idealists, realists, kooks, those driven for success, etc.
I happen to run a free internet radio program so I have the honor of talking to a fairly wide variety of musicians, most of which are happy to do what they can to get their music heard (I'm not doing the site for profit so I ask permission to play the tracks sans royalties, etc; bandwidth already costs me enough).
Anyhow, its not like I don't see where your coming from but I think its over simplifying the issue, I'm sure even Madonna would get pissed after the 100,000th sweaty kid told her he'd downloaded all her music for free and she might have to find a another means to support herself.
What I *am* seeing is the free download (as in encouraged) becoming the new single. But even indie artists can be (and I don't blame them) pretty protective of their music (most seem a bit nervous about being 'featured' with the flash applet I use while their more comfortable with the regular contiguous stream (aka Shoutcast).
$.02
I think...in reading the original post, the author himself was asking about a license that would disallow the original code working its way into closed/commercial projects. Strictly speaking this is my biggest objection to the BSD license.
Not to say I disagree that there should be a BSD license, but when *I* want to share something I want to share it plain and simple. Not have some jack-ass change the graphics around a bit do some re-tooling and market it themselves.
Anyhow, Mozilla seems to be a big OSS project that allows closed plugins to mix with it.
Ya, you'll read that rights..>> . Its a material world baby.
Shake that boody!
same thing. I'd rake it up to at least one of three things: 1)not very proactive support from Valve 2) it *is* written is C, so you can't just get a scriptor to really do thing...you need a programmer 3) this is *my* personal pet-peeve so bear with me; HL2DM, as the model upon which all SDK based mods are built...sucks. And sucks badly.
I've done portions of my own mod based on the source engine and jumping in there was (is?) a nightmare because I don't have a programming background. I've seen the hordes of requests on moddb for programmers go (understandably) mostly ignored.
I think the final stinker for HL2 mods goes hand-in-hand with the lack of serious Valve support: every mod is essentially a TOTAL CONVERSION (most of them don't really feel that way, but hey) and require you to download and install the package, then update it, then figure out how to launch it and before you know it I'm playing Battlefield 2 and my code sits and lingers.
A mod I really do enjoy and have had some (small) involvement on the dev team is HL2CTF. The programmer happens to be a quite good coder (he works for a major gaming company) and the team is solid (even if I'm late on my scripts...:)).
But frankly I think Valve tanked their own game. At least put the mods on Steam.
Rubber dolls still don't count. :)