Seriously you're asking a linux developer his opinion on BSD? What answer were you expecting?
Something that doesn't make him sound like a complete idiot?
The core of Mac OS X borrows heavily from BSD, so one could legitimately argue that BSD is now the most widespread UNIX variant. In fact, I wouldn't swear to it, but I suspect that makes BSD (and Mac OS X, specifically) more popular than all of the other Linux and UNIX variants put together.
1. Lennart is NOT a kernel developer. He is a userspace developer who wrote many important pieces of infrastructure for all free operating systems.
2. Lennart is trying to make Linux more like OSX.. What he is saying is that the other BSDs are way way behind in features. Apple had to radically change BSD to make it suitable for a desktop, and Lennart is doing the same.
The WebRTC code that was released is missing many important bits that are required to compete against Skype. The most important is probably a bandwidth management engine, the code that's currently public just sends at a pre-configured bitrate. That means it can only do low resolution video with a shitty quality.
That said, Google Talk in GMail and Android have a dynamic bitrate stuff, and I expect they will be released at some point. I should also mention that Farsight2/Farstream using in Empathy and Pidgin are currently gaining the same kind of bandwidth management that Google is doing. So we should get at least two independent open implementations soon.
ICE with TURN work really well.. TURN means using a relay.. And Google said that with Google Talk, less than 5% of calls use the relay, that means that NAT traversal is successful 95% if the time. With a relay,. you get very close to 100%.
Unlike what the summary says, I see nothing about PSFreedom in there. It seems to be mostly about PSJailbreak which if I understand correctly is a dongle, so there is a commercial side to it. If I'm wrong, please correct me.
Last year, when I visited India, the world's largest democracy, I tried to buy a pre-paid SIM card. They asked me for a photo, proof of address (like my hotel's address) and a photocopy of my passport. It seems it's standard in India since the Mumbai attack.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
It's interesting that women who sit more than 6 hours are 37% more likely to die. I'm curious to know the absolute percentage of women who die versus the women who don't die. I heard the Virgin Mary didn't die (but went to heaven directly). I'd be curious to about other women who have similar advantages.
The odds that you will get your stuff stolen are pretty low. Security systems are mostly a waste of money. Just get some realistic looking ADT stickers (from eBay) that will make the thieves think you have a security system. Having an actual system will get you ZERO extra security, just costs.
In case you get your stuff stolen, get home insurance, they will give you money and then you can buy newer toys! Actually, get insurance anyway, if the building burns or something and you are responsible, you really want insurance.
Clearly, you've never used git to think that some UI can make subversion usable.. Try merging a reasonably-sized branch with subversion (and you'll fail and cry and ask why oh why you didnt use git).
Frankly, let them use regular GMail and teach them what spam is. I had my first email account when I was like 9 or 10 and I turned out just fine. Frankly, spam will be part of the world for a long time and you should teach them to deal with it.. The same for Viagra or Penis Pumps or porn. Ever since it has been invented, parents have been trying to fight it and kids (well teenagers) have been getting their hands on it. Its a lost battle, instead make sure you teach them how to deal with it.
Empathy has video chat using jingle, it is compatible with Google Talk on windows (if you use Jabber). And it uses Telepathy, so it supports many many protocols. That said, Voice/Video are currently only supported for Jabber and SIP, there is ongoing work to make it work with MSN too.
The Pidgin-vv work is actually very much alive and you should see a release soon.
It really doesn't matter. If you use any popular media the technology will still be around to use it. We live in a big world, and there always geeks who love to collect stuff like that.
I don't know any digital storage can last 25 years.. Even burned CDs don't last that long (I think their stated lifetime is like 5-10 years). Even the NASA doesn't know, they have a program where they copy their digital archives every 5 years onto new media.
My advice is to use paper or some other material that deteriorates slowly and has been around for at least 25 years..
As far as I know, there is currently no complete solution. Farsight 2 aims to be a framework that will be used to build such applications (it does all of the hard work and you just have to plug it into some signalling. There are plans to make an XMPP extension for multi-party conferencing. And to then integrate it into Gnome using the Telepathy framework. But we're still building the pieces.
Most of the scientific community works that way. When someone in a university discovers something, he wants the world to know about it, but most of the time, they are interested in making money from it. So they have scientific journals in which they publish. And then these are distributed and everyone knows where its from.. Now if you want to be famous, make sure you publish it in something that is widely read (like Slashdot! or Nature). And not on your own blog or some obscure scientific journal.
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Something that doesn't make him sound like a complete idiot?
The core of Mac OS X borrows heavily from BSD, so one could legitimately argue that BSD is now the most widespread UNIX variant. In fact, I wouldn't swear to it, but I suspect that makes BSD (and Mac OS X, specifically) more popular than all of the other Linux and UNIX variants put together.
1. Lennart is NOT a kernel developer. He is a userspace developer who wrote many important pieces of infrastructure for all free operating systems.
2. Lennart is trying to make Linux more like OSX.. What he is saying is that the other BSDs are way way behind in features. Apple had to radically change BSD to make it suitable for a desktop, and Lennart is doing the same.
The WebRTC code that was released is missing many important bits that are required to compete against Skype. The most important is probably a bandwidth management engine, the code that's currently public just sends at a pre-configured bitrate. That means it can only do low resolution video with a shitty quality.
That said, Google Talk in GMail and Android have a dynamic bitrate stuff, and I expect they will be released at some point. I should also mention that Farsight2/Farstream using in Empathy and Pidgin are currently gaining the same kind of bandwidth management that Google is doing. So we should get at least two independent open implementations soon.
ICE with TURN work really well.. TURN means using a relay.. And Google said that with Google Talk, less than 5% of calls use the relay, that means that NAT traversal is successful 95% if the time. With a relay,. you get very close to 100%.
He says Gnome-Shell uses software rendering.. It's not true, fedora ships free 3D drivers for Intel, AMD/ATI and NVidia now.
Also, why use VLC when he could use Totem on all 3.And Why does he use apt-get in his test ?
Even though I like the result, it seems like a pretty lame test.
They went for C/C++. There is nothing in Python on the base Maemo platform.
For Meego, all UIs and higher-level stuff is in Qt so it's using C++
Unlike what the summary says, I see nothing about PSFreedom in there. It seems to be mostly about PSJailbreak which if I understand correctly is a dongle, so there is a commercial side to it. If I'm wrong, please correct me.
Last year, when I visited India, the world's largest democracy, I tried to buy a pre-paid SIM card. They asked me for a photo, proof of address (like my hotel's address) and a photocopy of my passport. It seems it's standard in India since the Mumbai attack.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
It's interesting that women who sit more than 6 hours are 37% more likely to die. I'm curious to know the absolute percentage of women who die versus the women who don't die. I heard the Virgin Mary didn't die (but went to heaven directly). I'd be curious to about other women who have similar advantages.
Empathy has already supported XMPP video chats for years! And has been compatible with Google non-standard variant almost since it was announced.
The odds that you will get your stuff stolen are pretty low. Security systems are mostly a waste of money. Just get some realistic looking ADT stickers (from eBay) that will make the thieves think you have a security system. Having an actual system will get you ZERO extra security, just costs.
In case you get your stuff stolen, get home insurance, they will give you money and then you can buy newer toys! Actually, get insurance anyway, if the building burns or something and you are responsible, you really want insurance.
The 64-bit beta that they had been distributing for Linux seems to have disappeared from the website today.
Clearly, you've never used git to think that some UI can make subversion usable.. Try merging a reasonably-sized branch with subversion (and you'll fail and cry and ask why oh why you didnt use git).
Frankly, let them use regular GMail and teach them what spam is. I had my first email account when I was like 9 or 10 and I turned out just fine. Frankly, spam will be part of the world for a long time and you should teach them to deal with it.. The same for Viagra or Penis Pumps or porn. Ever since it has been invented, parents have been trying to fight it and kids (well teenagers) have been getting their hands on it. Its a lost battle, instead make sure you teach them how to deal with it.
Empathy has video chat using jingle, it is compatible with Google Talk on windows (if you use Jabber). And it uses Telepathy, so it supports many many protocols. That said, Voice/Video are currently only supported for Jabber and SIP, there is ongoing work to make it work with MSN too.
The Pidgin-vv work is actually very much alive and you should see a release soon.
There are versions of Flash available for ARM and MIPS if you pay for them.. Example: the Nokia N8x0 devices...
It really doesn't matter. If you use any popular media the technology will still be around to use it. We live in a big world, and there always geeks who love to collect stuff like that.
Where can I find a Wang word processor?
I don't know any digital storage can last 25 years.. Even burned CDs don't last that long (I think their stated lifetime is like 5-10 years). Even the NASA doesn't know, they have a program where they copy their digital archives every 5 years onto new media.
My advice is to use paper or some other material that deteriorates slowly and has been around for at least 25 years..
Actually, they're forcing windows users to upgrade.. It has nothing to do with blocking alternative clients.
In other news, GnomeICU still works and pidgin has just made a new release with sends a newer version number.
As far as I know, there is currently no complete solution. Farsight 2 aims to be a framework that will be used to build such applications (it does all of the hard work and you just have to plug it into some signalling. There are plans to make an XMPP extension for multi-party conferencing. And to then integrate it into Gnome using the Telepathy framework. But we're still building the pieces.
PackageKit is only a front-end over yum (or any other backend), it does not replace it.
Last I checked, the Thinkpad X61 and X61s were still 4x3.
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9853693-16.html
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9853461-16.html?tag=nefd.only/
Most of the scientific community works that way. When someone in a university discovers something, he wants the world to know about it, but most of the time, they are interested in making money from it. So they have scientific journals in which they publish. And then these are distributed and everyone knows where its from.. Now if you want to be famous, make sure you publish it in something that is widely read (like Slashdot! or Nature). And not on your own blog or some obscure scientific journal.