"Further, imagine that, in its success, Mono displaces a large portion of traditional Linux software development over the next few years."
That's quite an assumption to make (along with a few other assumptions), that Mono will 'displace' a large portion of tradition Linux software development. Let's just assume all sorts of stuff that we have no reason to believe will happen and then derive the results of such assumptions and pass those results of as a threat. That always make a good argument to do, or not to do something. Not!
Sendmail is no more brocken or obsolete than Exchange. The fact that Sendmail is used widely says it is not at all obsolete. God knows how someone determined your commment was interesting.
Here's hoping for a summary judgement demanding SCO to remove all GPL'd code from their code or release it under the GPL and then giving them a bit or a slap around for being so stupid.
This is what I want to know, how can something that is not 'rated' be 'over-rated' as the parent of this reply is. Clearly there is an abuse of the system going on here and Slashdot needs to do somethign to make it that such abuses can not be continued.
I guess you are from US. Yahoo messenger(or even msn) wouldnt be very popular there. But thats not the case in other parts of world. Where I know(India and now Middle east) yahoo and msn are extremely popular and AIM is virtually absent. And regarding your comment on not using yahoo, its a fine idea but not practical IMHO . Because people use it and if you need to chat with them, you have to use it(or something like gaim which speaks that protocol). Also, I dont think yahoo protocol is inferior comparing to msn and all. It has some cool features like offline messaging and "invisible mode" which seems to be absent in others (atleast msn, I dont know about AIM).
ICQ has both of those features that you mentioned. It's also pretty prevelant in Australia.
Kernel Hacking for Dummies - So sco can start writting their own code instead of stealing from Linux and BSD World Domination for Dummies - George W might need this one.
As has been stated many times before (to no apparent effect... but this is/., so why am I surprised?), Redhat increments major version numbers only when there is binary incompatibility. Right now there's no reason not to make this 9.1. If they integrate the 2.6 kernel later on in beta, however, then this will probably need to become Redhat 10.
I think this will be version 10 or X (or some permutation there of) regardless of the kernel version (or any other changes, binary compatiblity or otherwise). I've read press releases and interviews from Red Hat people that pretty much state that the consumer releases from now on will be test beds for the enterprise releases. Hense the jump from 8 to 9 and as far as I can tell the likely jump from 9 to 10 (or whatever versioning system).
It's this simple those with power will try and take more and more, without end, if allowed to at the expense of all else. It's the same with wealth and that is the reason that laissez faire capitalism doesn't work. You soon end up with a few having the most and the rest having bugger all, then you're talking revolution time and nobody wants that.
I bought a new printer about 9 months ago (Epson c41UX) for $AU 100 and I've already spent more on black ink alone than I did on the printer and I don't print much. Hopefully some other governments will follow suit and resolve this rediculas situation.
Just because the maximum is 250,000 euros, there is no reason that a judge wouldn't fine them that, especially if they aren't liking the FUD SCO has been smearing everywhere it can.
Fair enough. I was pointing out that his statement that FLOPS are irrelevant is ridiculas, especially on a high end 64bit machine as the 2Ghz G5 was marketed.
Is this guy serious when he says that the number of Floating Point Operations is irreleveant. Hello genious, super computers are measored in FLOPS (Floating Point Operations).
The failure of the MS-Apple lookalike lawsuit is a precedent showing copying look and feel is A-OK. And the "SCO is Evil" crowd is naively believing it's impossible that the Linux Itanium code submitted by IBM is 100% free of code "inspired by" IBM's AIX team -- that is easily discountable by seeing the code, but it is certainly possible!
Even if the vanilla Linux Kernel contains some Itanium code which was contributed by IBM and inspired by SCO's IP (unless there are instances of cutting and pasting of SCO IP as SCO claims), as I understand it (with GPL issues, relating to SCO distributing the Linux Kernel, aside) that doesn't necessarily mean that the Linux Kernel breaches SCO's IP. It may certainly mean that IBM has a case to answer for breach of contract/trade secret violation (if SCO's claims are true). However that clearly does not excuse the defimation and slander being hurled at the Linux Kernel by SCO. A case could be made for all companies that sell products that make use of the Linux Kernel, whose bussiness's have been adversely affected by SCO's slander/defimation, launching a class-action suit against SCO.
I certainly hope so. If some of the clientalist linkages between big companies such as M$ and Intel can be broken up hopefully we can get increased competition and thus inovation.
RMS idea of saying GNU/Linux does avoid this confusion while at the same time giving credit to the GNU project. (After all, any given distro probably contains more lines of GNU code than Linux code (in fact emacs probably does that alone!))
I've been useing Mozilla since 0.8 and love it, the problem being that I only useing it's browser. I used Phoenix once before (most of been 0.2 or 0.1, can't quite remember) and although it was smaller than Mozilla, I don't think it had tabbed browsing at that stage. Now it does and it's great. The size really helps, at school I got only 50 Mb quota on my share space and I can't install on any of the machines, so I was stuck with IE at school till now. Can't wait until they start useing Phoenix as the browser in Mozilla instead of Navigator.
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anyone know of any good apt repositories with Fedora Core 1?
http://www.codefish.net.au/modules.php?op=modload& name=News&file=article&sid=450
"Further, imagine that, in its success, Mono displaces a large portion of traditional Linux software development over the next few years."
That's quite an assumption to make (along with a few other assumptions), that Mono will 'displace' a large portion of tradition Linux software development. Let's just assume all sorts of stuff that we have no reason to believe will happen and then derive the results of such assumptions and pass those results of as a threat. That always make a good argument to do, or not to do something. Not!
Sendmail is no more brocken or obsolete than Exchange. The fact that Sendmail is used widely says it is not at all obsolete.
God knows how someone determined your commment was interesting.
Here's hoping for a summary judgement demanding SCO to remove all GPL'd code from their code or release it under the GPL and then giving them a bit or a slap around for being so stupid.
This is what I want to know, how can something that is not 'rated' be 'over-rated' as the parent of this reply is. Clearly there is an abuse of the system going on here and Slashdot needs to do somethign to make it that such abuses can not be continued.
Destroyer of Unix.
Damn, that is one fine chick. Chicks like this make me want to use BSD more.
I guess you are from US. Yahoo messenger(or even msn) wouldnt be very popular there. But thats not the case in other parts of world. Where I know(India and now Middle east) yahoo and msn are extremely popular and AIM is virtually absent. And regarding your comment on not using yahoo, its a fine idea but not practical IMHO . Because people use it and if you need to chat with them, you have to use it(or something like gaim which speaks that protocol). Also, I dont think yahoo protocol is inferior comparing to msn and all. It has some cool features like offline messaging and "invisible mode" which seems to be absent in others (atleast msn, I dont know about AIM).
ICQ has both of those features that you mentioned. It's also pretty prevelant in Australia.
Kernel Hacking for Dummies - So sco can start writting their own code instead of stealing from Linux and BSD
World Domination for Dummies - George W might need this one.
As has been stated many times before (to no apparent effect... but this is /., so why am I surprised?), Redhat increments major version numbers only when there is binary incompatibility. Right now there's no reason not to make this 9.1. If they integrate the 2.6 kernel later on in beta, however, then this will probably need to become Redhat 10.
I think this will be version 10 or X (or some permutation there of) regardless of the kernel version (or any other changes, binary compatiblity or otherwise). I've read press releases and interviews from Red Hat people that pretty much state that the consumer releases from now on will be test beds for the enterprise releases. Hense the jump from 8 to 9 and as far as I can tell the likely jump from 9 to 10 (or whatever versioning system).
It's this simple those with power will try and take more and more, without end, if allowed to at the expense of all else. It's the same with wealth and that is the reason that laissez faire capitalism doesn't work.
You soon end up with a few having the most and the rest having bugger all, then you're talking revolution time and nobody wants that.
If you can't see how competition would benefit consumers perhaps you should think a little more about it.
I bought a new printer about 9 months ago (Epson c41UX) for $AU 100 and I've already spent more on black ink alone than I did on the printer and I don't print much. Hopefully some other governments will follow suit and resolve this rediculas situation.
Goody, someone who can comprehend simple english sentances. `bout time.
Just because the maximum is 250,000 euros, there is no reason that a judge wouldn't fine them that, especially if they aren't liking the FUD SCO has been smearing everywhere it can.
Fair enough. I was pointing out that his statement that FLOPS are irrelevant is ridiculas, especially on a high end 64bit machine as the 2Ghz G5 was marketed.
Is this guy serious when he says that the number of Floating Point Operations is irreleveant.
Hello genious, super computers are measored in FLOPS (Floating Point Operations).
The failure of the MS-Apple lookalike lawsuit is a precedent showing copying look and feel is A-OK. And the "SCO is Evil" crowd is naively believing it's impossible that the Linux Itanium code submitted by IBM is 100% free of code "inspired by" IBM's AIX team -- that is easily discountable by seeing the code, but it is certainly possible!
Even if the vanilla Linux Kernel contains some Itanium code which was contributed by IBM and inspired by SCO's IP (unless there are instances of cutting and pasting of SCO IP as SCO claims), as I understand it (with GPL issues, relating to SCO distributing the Linux Kernel, aside) that doesn't necessarily mean that the Linux Kernel breaches SCO's IP. It may certainly mean that IBM has a case to answer for breach of contract/trade secret violation (if SCO's claims are true). However that clearly does not excuse the defimation and slander being hurled at the Linux Kernel by SCO. A case could be made for all companies that sell products that make use of the Linux Kernel, whose bussiness's have been adversely affected by SCO's slander/defimation, launching a class-action suit against SCO.
Damn, that is one fine chick. My fav BSD chick is here.Then there is this hottie. Damn pics like this make me want to use BSD more.
They already do, to some extent.
I certainly hope so. If some of the clientalist linkages between big companies such as M$ and Intel can be broken up hopefully we can get increased competition and thus inovation.
RMS idea of saying GNU/Linux does avoid this confusion while at the same time giving credit to the GNU project. (After all, any given distro probably contains more lines of GNU code than Linux code (in fact emacs probably does that alone!))
emacs-21.3-1.src.rpm - 25,084 KB
linux-2.5.68.tar.bz2 - 31,166 KB
I've been useing Mozilla since 0.8 and love it, the problem being that I only useing it's browser. I used Phoenix once before (most of been 0.2 or 0.1, can't quite remember) and although it was smaller than Mozilla, I don't think it had tabbed browsing at that stage. Now it does and it's great. The size really helps, at school I got only 50 Mb quota on my share space and I can't install on any of the machines, so I was stuck with IE at school till now.
Can't wait until they start useing Phoenix as the browser in Mozilla instead of Navigator.
They may think US, UK, and Aussie forces are occupiers, but translation should never change the content or intent of the person speaking.
It turns out that US, UK and Aus are going to be occupiers despite what all have previously said. Confirms my cynisism.