First of all, I suspect that some of the more "user-friendly" distributions already support most of those features. What I'd like to have is a nice front-end to know what packages do what and to be able to easily install them. This means having a utility in X to automatically download and install packages.
Many of those front ends exist. I know there is one in debian (cant remember the name, probably KPackage or something -there should be GPackage too, hehe-). There is also a very good one for Mandrake that takes care of dependency (RpmDrake I think its called, anyway its in the control center)
I think Red Hat has Red Carpet too.
As for phone support I dont know, I personnally think IRC/Usenet/Mailing lists are faster. But I thought the whole point of PAYING for your distribution (Red Hat comes to mind) was to have that kind of support...
Knoppix has that button, in the K menu...
If everything works fine under knoppix, everything will work fine once you set up Debian. Now what would be cool would be to have a GUI installer (since we're already in KDE...) that asks what you want to install, and download from the apt sources if its not on the Knoppix CD. I'm pretty sure someone is already working on that:)
If not that is still VERY easy to use. (I dont know about the "partitioning" part of the install thoug, I already had a blank partition when I tried it)
Even easier is Mandrake 9.1 install, though. That is the easiest system I've ever installed. And urpmi is almost as good as apt-get, really.
I'll try not to give any spoiler but the part we're talking about Wolfwood and Legato are, imho, the most important part of the series... They do not last that long (couple of minutes) but they are the most important element of the show.
That and the episode with Vash & Knives as kids...
3) Create a "wedge" of non-geek, non-techie "real" people using Linux and exploit their existence to the hilt. Convince ordinary people that Linux is for them. (See Apple's "Switch" campaign.)
<?php function s($x){return($x==1?"":"s");} $a=99;$b=" bottle";$o=" of beer";$w=" on the wall"; $r="\n<br>";$p= "Take one down, pass it around,$r"; while($a>0){print("$a$b".s($a)."$o$w, $r$a$b".s($a)."$o,$r$p".(--$a==0?"No more ":$a).$b.s($a)."$o$w.$r$r"); } ?>
Well I keep hearing "There's a tax on CDR in Canada" but just yesterday I bought 100 cdrs for 35$ (thats 0,25$US/CD) so either that shop is "smuggling cdrs" or the tax is not that bad...
Not only that, but should all open source developers PAY for posting developments news/info/bugs/etc... to their mailing lists?? Obviously no... So who pays and who doesnt?
There have been MANY changes already since the last version (0.5) The last time I downloaded it it was stable too (cannot say that for every day, though)
The code doesnt belong to the employee. It belongs to the company. It is of their duties to make sure everything found in the code is legal etc... Of course, they could fire the guy, but the illegal s still their property. Their QA department should have noticed the bad code... (Of course, no company does that...)
I mean, most of the spammers won't care about this list, and most of them are already using techniques to make them "anonymous"...
ie. that nigerian guy who have some of my money will really care about that law, right?
Also, Rudy, in Cryptonomicon, used to be a librarian before becoming a geek. Actually, having all those books handy and his passion for table RPG are what got him into programming if I remember correctly. (that silly food simulation thing...)
What could be nice is to be able to "draw" a shape on the screen (think marquee select in gimp/photoshop) and every links within the shape loads in a new tab...
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Many of those front ends exist. I know there is one in debian (cant remember the name, probably KPackage or something -there should be GPackage too, hehe-). There is also a very good one for Mandrake that takes care of dependency (RpmDrake I think its called, anyway its in the control center)
I think Red Hat has Red Carpet too.
As for phone support I dont know, I personnally think IRC/Usenet/Mailing lists are faster. But I thought the whole point of PAYING for your distribution (Red Hat comes to mind) was to have that kind of support...
Knoppix has that button, in the K menu... If everything works fine under knoppix, everything will work fine once you set up Debian. Now what would be cool would be to have a GUI installer (since we're already in KDE...) that asks what you want to install, and download from the apt sources if its not on the Knoppix CD. I'm pretty sure someone is already working on that :)
If not that is still VERY easy to use. (I dont know about the "partitioning" part of the install thoug, I already had a blank partition when I tried it)
Even easier is Mandrake 9.1 install, though. That is the easiest system I've ever installed. And urpmi is almost as good as apt-get, really.
Rumors want this is the final release, but Im downloading and will see for myself...
That and the episode with Vash & Knives as kids...
Well Bush said he'd do everything he could to destroy terrorism didnt he?
There's one...
This one is too... lol
99 botles on the wall...
Any idea how to reduce it?
wxWindows (free)
Qt (license needed for commercial purposes)
Well I keep hearing "There's a tax on CDR in Canada" but just yesterday I bought 100 cdrs for 35$ (thats 0,25$US/CD) so either that shop is "smuggling cdrs" or the tax is not that bad...
(jk) :P
Not only that, but should all open source developers PAY for posting developments news/info/bugs/etc... to their mailing lists?? Obviously no... So who pays and who doesnt?
Just wait until every Chinese person owns a car, like americans do... (This _is_ happening, slowly. Change the stats, doesnt it?)
Distros already do that, dont they?
Or use this!
money?
There have been MANY changes already since the last version (0.5) The last time I downloaded it it was stable too (cannot say that for every day, though)
"your friend"...
The code doesnt belong to the employee. It belongs to the company. It is of their duties to make sure everything found in the code is legal etc... Of course, they could fire the guy, but the illegal s still their property. Their QA department should have noticed the bad code... (Of course, no company does that...)
I mean, most of the spammers won't care about this list, and most of them are already using techniques to make them "anonymous"... ie. that nigerian guy who have some of my money will really care about that law, right?
So what? Once it will be there it will. Being late or not won't matter anymore...
Sell Office 2000 for 4X the price of Office...
Prove the world (other software companies) EVEN OFFICE can't sell on Linux...
Also, Rudy, in Cryptonomicon, used to be a librarian before becoming a geek. Actually, having all those books handy and his passion for table RPG are what got him into programming if I remember correctly. (that silly food simulation thing...)
What could be nice is to be able to "draw" a shape on the screen (think marquee select in gimp/photoshop) and every links within the shape loads in a new tab...
As far as I know
Does good programming practice becomes illegal under DMCA