I haven't seen a troll like this in a long time.
Cut and paste doesn't work? I spend the last 4 months of school doing vmware with RHEL and backtrack with a win7 host, and had no problems copying and pasting between any of these.
Also, I just bought a 15" dell monitor off craigslist yesterday and running stock Debian 6 on a Thinkpad T60, plugged it in and it did mirroring 100% correctly.
Tell MythTV users sound doesn't work reliably.
Five guis are a mess? Do you listen to Tween Wave?
If I apt-get source foobar I can build any debian package on my server and install it on my desktop.
Documentation is worthless? The GNU Emacs Reference manual is like 1000+ pages. Any package which lacks a man page is a bug in Debian.
Getting help online a problem? No one *owes* you help. Does your employer get free Windows tech support?
Separate point. I'm not saying that GNU/Linux isn't growing at all. But you are grossly misinformed if you think BSD isn't growing. OpenSSH is the most widely used open source software, FreeBSD is huge in the embedded market, UFS/2 is just an awesome bazillion-year old file system which still rocks (ZFS is cool too but it's not really "from" BSD), FreeBSD's SMP support is fucking incredible.
If you think FreeBSD+ZFS or OpenSSH is going away anytime soon, then apparently we have a different definition of progress. I guess soon TCP/IP stack is going away.
Given that OpenSSH alone is the most used FOSS program, and there is virtually no corporate contributions, I think Theo just has lost patience for people who come on the lists and complain.
First understand this: Slackware is Patrick's bread-and-butter. Granted I'm not too sharp on network management etc... but perhaps he wants his server to be within his control and not floating around in some nebulous cloud. He's been a dedicated GNU/Linux community member/leader for decades, so you should stop being such an ass and realize that as you get older you stick to the things you know; brick-and-mortar real servers which you have control over, the way it has been done for decades. He's not trying to build an empire; from the interviews I've read/heard he's just a down-to-earth guy that likes plays music and lives simply. Why would he try to expand, especially if it means giving up (albiet not too much) control over what provides his income. What's next, Steven King writing/storing his next novel on Google Documents?
The parent has no relevance to this article. What does debian's survivability have anything to do with slackware's webserver going down and a new project based on slackware (of which there are many).
Besides, slackware has been around as long as Debian. Ian Murdoc tried to recruit Patrick Volkerding for the Debian project at its beginning, but Pat respectfully declined and went ahead with Slackware. I'll give you Debian's survivability, but Slackware is just as old with far less resources than Debian. To use seniority as leverage to dismiss slackware shows you know nothing. This is the wrong way to promote Debian, which is a wonderful project which proves itself without such tactics. Since you don't mention any of these features, you again prove you know nothing.
Never had an account. Never will. I'm glad I've stuck to my guns this long and I hope others will push forward as well. I wonder if this correlates to me never having a girlfriend.
You don't. I've had my 4.8 CD set for a week now. It auto-partitioned everything fully utilizing my entire disk space, //home/tmp/var/usr and various/usr/*
I actually use Mac OS X and don't use gentoo so please don't say I'm a zealot. But... the only distro that makes sense to use in my mind for GNU/Linux is a source based distro such as gentoo because its all about freedom right, so why would you use a pre-packaged distro? Using gentoo you can practically exercise your freedoms, along with sourcemage and others. Furthermore when using binary packages you can never know what that package does, so unless you compile it yourself you can't be sure. Wait. Actually Ken Thomson or someother wrote about how you can't trust compilers because they can interject code into your binaries. So really you can't trust any programs. Which is why the "GNU is more secure" mantra is patently false. Stop being paranoid Mr. Stallman and just suck it up. Debian could have backdoors too.
So in the end use Debian if you want a 2 year old system made of binaries that you can't trust, or use a source distro which you also can't trust (at least your exhibiting your freedom in that case). Personally I choose OS X.
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We must be fair. Releasing Clang/LLVM is kinda a virtue of necessity. Once GCC went GPLv3, they kinda had no choice.
I haven't seen a troll like this in a long time. Cut and paste doesn't work? I spend the last 4 months of school doing vmware with RHEL and backtrack with a win7 host, and had no problems copying and pasting between any of these. Also, I just bought a 15" dell monitor off craigslist yesterday and running stock Debian 6 on a Thinkpad T60, plugged it in and it did mirroring 100% correctly. Tell MythTV users sound doesn't work reliably. Five guis are a mess? Do you listen to Tween Wave? If I apt-get source foobar I can build any debian package on my server and install it on my desktop. Documentation is worthless? The GNU Emacs Reference manual is like 1000+ pages. Any package which lacks a man page is a bug in Debian. Getting help online a problem? No one *owes* you help. Does your employer get free Windows tech support?
Separate point. I'm not saying that GNU/Linux isn't growing at all. But you are grossly misinformed if you think BSD isn't growing. OpenSSH is the most widely used open source software, FreeBSD is huge in the embedded market, UFS/2 is just an awesome bazillion-year old file system which still rocks (ZFS is cool too but it's not really "from" BSD), FreeBSD's SMP support is fucking incredible. If you think FreeBSD+ZFS or OpenSSH is going away anytime soon, then apparently we have a different definition of progress. I guess soon TCP/IP stack is going away.
Was anyone else upset this wasn't a story involving Andrew Tanenbaum?
If you're on slashdot and you just discovered that Apple hates the GPL, youre wrong. Your first clue was when they banned GPL from the crap store.
Mandriva and KDE are big in Europe.
It feels good to be living in freedom... you're all welcome to join.
Given that OpenSSH alone is the most used FOSS program, and there is virtually no corporate contributions, I think Theo just has lost patience for people who come on the lists and complain.
Is there any legit place where you can purchase non-drm lossless albums using GNU/Linux?
Because I fired my managers a long time ago.
First understand this: Slackware is Patrick's bread-and-butter. Granted I'm not too sharp on network management etc... but perhaps he wants his server to be within his control and not floating around in some nebulous cloud. He's been a dedicated GNU/Linux community member/leader for decades, so you should stop being such an ass and realize that as you get older you stick to the things you know; brick-and-mortar real servers which you have control over, the way it has been done for decades. He's not trying to build an empire; from the interviews I've read/heard he's just a down-to-earth guy that likes plays music and lives simply. Why would he try to expand, especially if it means giving up (albiet not too much) control over what provides his income. What's next, Steven King writing/storing his next novel on Google Documents?
The parent has no relevance to this article. What does debian's survivability have anything to do with slackware's webserver going down and a new project based on slackware (of which there are many). Besides, slackware has been around as long as Debian. Ian Murdoc tried to recruit Patrick Volkerding for the Debian project at its beginning, but Pat respectfully declined and went ahead with Slackware. I'll give you Debian's survivability, but Slackware is just as old with far less resources than Debian. To use seniority as leverage to dismiss slackware shows you know nothing. This is the wrong way to promote Debian, which is a wonderful project which proves itself without such tactics. Since you don't mention any of these features, you again prove you know nothing.
Never had an account. Never will. I'm glad I've stuck to my guns this long and I hope others will push forward as well. I wonder if this correlates to me never having a girlfriend.
Good reason to contribute to the FSF fundraiser
Thought crime?
It's called a flashlight.
A super secure OS running on the most easily stolen machine.
You don't. I've had my 4.8 CD set for a week now. It auto-partitioned everything fully utilizing my entire disk space, / /home /tmp /var /usr and various /usr/*
I would have expected the refurb powerbooks to be cheaper. Maybe they will start showing up on ebay for teh cheap.
In the words of RMS, "DRM is theft!"
How is this funny? Its the truth!
No binary is trustworthy, and no compiler is trustworthy, so no software is trustworthy therefore.
I actually use Mac OS X and don't use gentoo so please don't say I'm a zealot. But... the only distro that makes sense to use in my mind for GNU/Linux is a source based distro such as gentoo because its all about freedom right, so why would you use a pre-packaged distro? Using gentoo you can practically exercise your freedoms, along with sourcemage and others. Furthermore when using binary packages you can never know what that package does, so unless you compile it yourself you can't be sure. Wait. Actually Ken Thomson or someother wrote about how you can't trust compilers because they can interject code into your binaries. So really you can't trust any programs. Which is why the "GNU is more secure" mantra is patently false. Stop being paranoid Mr. Stallman and just suck it up. Debian could have backdoors too.
So in the end use Debian if you want a 2 year old system made of binaries that you can't trust, or use a source distro which you also can't trust (at least your exhibiting your freedom in that case). Personally I choose OS X.
Is it possible that 9/11 was engineered and carried-out by the Bush administration?
Does anyone else see the camera in the imac as a little bit like 1984?