Kucera said he would have considered Sun Microsystems Inc. products had they been available. But when he began hunting for a way to consolidate his infrastructure in 2003, Sun had nothing to offer in the way of blade servers or Linux.
I'm planning to buy a big Unix Server. Think I can go with Microsoft?
This is fantastic news! Opensource projects won't have to choose between Java Swing (and all the baggage that comes with Java), a heavyweight wrapper like wxWidgets (and BitTorrent, written in wxWidgets, isn't the prettiest app), or a fairly ugly port of GTK, which I've been forced to use.
Does this mean we'll see a port of KHTML (Konqueror/Safari) to Windows?
Move over Firefox, this is going to become a 3-way!
Exchange has already been emulated in OSS: Take a look here. The only problem is that Evolution runs only on Linux at the moment. But if you're going all OSS what does that matter? Though have a look at http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/17/ 190204
Take a look at google's privacy policy: http://www.google.com/privacy.html under "Links". Google reserves the right to use these tracking URLs. In practice, I read somewhere (I forget where), this happens about 1/10 searches. So if you get one of these, try refreshing the page or coming back later.
And about Acrobat Reader -- there's a "Save a Copy" button in the menu bar.
This doesn't look GPL compatible:... so long as you include the notices described in the licenses for the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas.
Also, isn't it funny that there's a link to the OSI website indicating approved open-source licenses? What does 'open-source purity' matter to them?
There's no need for social engineering. I remember on Red Hat 7.3, Windows.exe files were automatically launched with Wine under Gnome. Which meant that attachment viruses could be run from Evolution by clicking on the attachment.
I never tested to see if they worked, but then I never really wanted to find out!
1. What did Sun do with SCO? Any dealings they had were done with the intent of releasing OpenSolaris! This is the fruit of those dealings!
2. This is Open Source. This is the same freaking license as Firefox (CDDL ~= MPL), and we all love Firefox. The patents are granted as long as your code is under the CDDL. RTFF.
It means you read Slashdot too much: if you do, you'll never get mod points (from the FAQ). Try taking a 1 week break, when you come back you'll probably have points.
Actually, I realize I was a bit too hasty - at first glance, it definitely looked like you were charging for the product, or at least inciting developers to use the API so you could install your own product at the same time. Now it looks like you don't charge for the API? Then why not release the source?
Hey, chill, I was just pointing something out. I only commented because I thought the exact same thing before someone else pointed it out to me. Just returning the favor is some way -- don't hold the messenger responsible.
memory leak problems indeed! I usually browse with about 10 tabs open. I opened Firefox (+Adblock & Session Saver) on Thursday (~30 MB) and on Saturday night I had to restart it because it was paging at 250 MB!
Sucks for those of us who leave programs running all the time
That listing doesn't provide any information. The 135m you see counts the total RAM used by the application *and all libraries including shared ones*! For example, firefox on Linux is built with GTK+, and all the associated baggage, and this is counted towards the total for each application that uses them. There's probably a ton of overlap in the process space for firefox and thunderbird, so a lot of double counting is going on there too.
I'm not really sure how to do it otherwise, but I just check the amount of free ram before and after running firefox. Sure it's coarse-grained, but at least it's not impossibly wrong.
From what I understand, this is due to the Kernel.
In Windows, the application that is in the foreground (with the currently active window) actually gets a scheduler priority boost from the operating system.
Under Linux, this is not the case.
What does that mean? In Windows, interactive applications are snappier, but the background programs lag more. If you're running Windows, right-click on My Computer and hit Properties. Go to the Advanced tab and hit the Settings button under Performance. Go to the Advanced tab and the first option I believe controls this behaviour.
Isn't the Photoshop interface patented? If I remember correctly, Adobe and Macromedia have sparred over this in the past (Fireworks looking too much like Photoshop)
Microsoft, just like every other company, already operates like this internally. And like in every other company, every division must eventually turn a profit, or be cancelled. What Microsoft is opposed to is being split up into seperate corporate entities, which is not the issue being brought up here.
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People keep saying that none of the browsers (especially IE support XForms so it will never take off.
What they fail to realize is that XForms is not necessarily a client-side technology and can be used *right now* in ALL major browsers.
Take a look at Chiba for a server-side implementation that works pretty well. No plugins to install!
Here's the problem - quote:
Kucera said he would have considered Sun Microsystems Inc. products had they been available. But when he began hunting for a way to consolidate his infrastructure in 2003, Sun had nothing to offer in the way of blade servers or Linux.
I'm planning to buy a big Unix Server. Think I can go with Microsoft?
This is fantastic news!
Opensource projects won't have to choose between Java Swing (and all the baggage that comes with Java), a heavyweight wrapper like wxWidgets (and BitTorrent, written in wxWidgets, isn't the prettiest app), or a fairly ugly port of GTK, which I've been forced to use.
Does this mean we'll see a port of KHTML (Konqueror/Safari) to Windows?
Move over Firefox, this is going to become a 3-way!
Already been done!
OEone HomeBase.
Check out this screenshot:
http://www.linux.org.ru/gallery/bigbBdSgP.jpg
Although it's hard to find info about it, the product integrated OpenOffice into a Desktop written entirely in XUL.
Exchange has already been emulated in OSS:/ 190204
Take a look here.
The only problem is that Evolution runs only on Linux at the moment. But if you're going all OSS what does that matter?
Though have a look at http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/17
Take a look at google's privacy policy:
http://www.google.com/privacy.html under "Links".
Google reserves the right to use these tracking URLs.
In practice, I read somewhere (I forget where), this happens about 1/10 searches. So if you get one of these, try refreshing the page or coming back later.
And about Acrobat Reader -- there's a "Save a Copy" button in the menu bar.
This doesn't look GPL compatible: ... so long as you include the notices described in the licenses for the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas.
Also, isn't it funny that there's a link to the OSI website indicating approved open-source licenses? What does 'open-source purity' matter to them?
There's no need for social engineering. I remember on Red Hat 7.3, Windows .exe files were automatically launched with Wine under Gnome. Which meant that attachment viruses could be run from Evolution by clicking on the attachment.
I never tested to see if they worked, but then I never really wanted to find out!
Quicktime is Windows/Mac only.
1. What did Sun do with SCO? Any dealings they had were done with the intent of releasing OpenSolaris! This is the fruit of those dealings!
2. This is Open Source. This is the same freaking license as Firefox (CDDL ~= MPL), and we all love Firefox. The patents are granted as long as your code is under the CDDL. RTFF.
The FSF doesn't need to approve anything - it's not GPL compatible anyways.
It means you read Slashdot too much: if you do, you'll never get mod points (from the FAQ). Try taking a 1 week break, when you come back you'll probably have points.
Actually, I realize I was a bit too hasty - at first glance, it definitely looked like you were charging for the product, or at least inciting developers to use the API so you could install your own product at the same time.
Now it looks like you don't charge for the API? Then why not release the source?
Isn't this just a plug for the Airbear product? Look at the submitter!
Who would realistically use this API for anything serious? Google will probably break it on the next program update anyways (GMail notifiers, anyone?)
Hey, chill, I was just pointing something out.
I only commented because I thought the exact same thing before someone else pointed it out to me. Just returning the favor is some way -- don't hold the messenger responsible.
memory leak problems indeed!
I usually browse with about 10 tabs open.
I opened Firefox (+Adblock & Session Saver) on Thursday (~30 MB) and on Saturday night I had to restart it because it was paging at 250 MB!
Sucks for those of us who leave programs running all the time
That listing doesn't provide any information.
The 135m you see counts the total RAM used by the application *and all libraries including shared ones*!
For example, firefox on Linux is built with GTK+, and all the associated baggage, and this is counted towards the total for each application that uses them. There's probably a ton of overlap in the process space for firefox and thunderbird, so a lot of double counting is going on there too.
I'm not really sure how to do it otherwise, but I just check the amount of free ram before and after running firefox. Sure it's coarse-grained, but at least it's not impossibly wrong.
Can't believe no one's said this yet:
... but will it run Duke Nukem Forever?
Large filesystems are great
From what I understand, this is due to the Kernel.
In Windows, the application that is in the foreground (with the currently active window) actually gets a scheduler priority boost from the operating system.
Under Linux, this is not the case.
What does that mean? In Windows, interactive applications are snappier, but the background programs lag more. If you're running Windows, right-click on My Computer and hit Properties.
Go to the Advanced tab and hit the Settings button under Performance. Go to the Advanced tab and the first option I believe controls this behaviour.
Security is reason #4 to pick SCO UNIX over Linux.
Does that mean sco.com runs Linux? After all, their code would never get hacked.
Isn't the Photoshop interface patented?
If I remember correctly, Adobe and Macromedia have sparred over this in the past (Fireworks looking too much like Photoshop)
MSN recently came to profitability (for example: here. This has always been the plan. Which company is not out to make money??
Microsoft, just like every other company, already operates like this internally. And like in every other company, every division must eventually turn a profit, or be cancelled.
What Microsoft is opposed to is being split up into seperate corporate entities, which is not the issue being brought up here.
Wow, that's just crazy.
Firefox didn't even ask me if I wanted to load the XUL content. The popups were not very visibly launched by Firefox.
What's to prevent a malicious website from impersonating a native windows app and wreaking havok?
If you read the license agreement carefully, MSDN Universal only allows you to use your Windows licenses for development/testing work.
You *can't* use them in a production environment without technically violating the license.