You'd be suprised at the sheer number of Americans who have no idea that british and canadian troops outnumbered american troops during the d-day invasion. Or who had any idea that Australia fought in WWII.
Most Americans are pretty ignorant about history in general. And while you can make a case that the pacific war was largely an American operation, there was a British fleet operating at the end of the war. The Royal Navy lent us one of their carriers back towards the beginning of the war when several of ours had been sunk or were out of action. And the only heavy cruiser escorting our forces during the battle of the coral sea was Australian. So important contributions by the commonwealth for sure.
I wasn't around at the time, but from what I read, Adolf Hitler's government certainly wasn't "instable"... until the United States kicked his ass.
You, sir, are not very well educated in history. The government of Germany under Hitler was indeed stable, but it could not have remained so for very long. Most of the increased industrial production that occured in the 30's in Germany was in the military/industrial sector, and the army was much too large for the economy to sustain.
There was constant plotting among mid and high level nazi officials, all of whom wanted to remove hitler from power. In fact, right before the invasion of the low countries and France, there were conspirators about to arrest him.
And I certainly don't think the United States "kicked his ass". We hastened his downfall is all.
I personally don't care about eye candy, but I do think the development is lagging behind.
Example: File Dialog. The Gnome file dialog is the most hideous and counter-intuitive piece of software I've ever seen. With the KDE file dialog, not only can I navigate easier, it's tied to their IO slaves, so I can save to FTP sites, SMB shares, etc. Pretty much anything.
With the GTK/Gnome dialog, I'm usually cursing and grumbling as I clumsily navigate around. And the programs that constantly reset the dialog to your home directory, even after you've called the dialog and navigated a few levels in, are way annoying.
Dude, yeah...
Sax2 really slows stuff down. I mean, you totally run it once when you install or change your video card, and it never runs any other time.
Clue, you're needed at comment #6602013!
There are a lot of technical issues with RHAS, which probably end up costing IBM a lot of time and manpower. That's been my experience with RHAS, and that's what I've heard from others.
SuSE Advanced Server, while not perfect, doesn't have as many of the gaping flaws that RHAS does.
If anyone will buy SuSE, it'll be IBM. They're already giving SuSE Advanced Server away with some of their pSeries line of servers, and they push people to use SuSE over redhat. When you throw in that Munich deal, where SuSE and IBM worked together, you seem to have a very cozy relationshipo between IBM and SuSE.
Personally, I *pay* for SuSE. It's good enough that I feel it's worth it.
However, there are tons of people who use the SuSE ftp install. They're getting SuSE, and they're not paying for it.
The only thing you can consider closed about SuSE is some of the software they ship (realplayer, mainactor, flash, etc). But then again, I suspect a lot of people go out and install those applications on whatever distro they use anyhow.
I use SuSE 8.2. When downloads are ready, the SuSE icon in the tray changes color. When I run it, the updates install quickly, I don't have to agree to any EULAs, and I don't have to reboot unless I'm changing the kernel.
On the other hand, WindowsUpdate itself is nice in that it will upgrade all MSFT software on your system. But the flip side to that is something like Synaptic/APT can do the same thing, just with a slightly less easy to use interface.
Then prepared to be shocked. It's not installed for licensing reasons... If you go to xmms.org you can download the mp3 plugins and whatnot, but how many new users are going to figure that out?
Any reasons why SuSE and Mandrake qualify as resource hungry? I've always thought RH was the heavier of the 3.
RHAS actually has a lot of nice features... the ability to push patches onto servers on your network using their utilities is really, really nice. The 800 hoops you need to jump thru to keep your servers up to date via registration is not as nice.
But, some things aren't as good. They've applied a lot of patches to their kernel and glibc to make it more of an enterprise-grade distro, fair enough. They also ship with IBM's JDK as opposed to sun's JDK. Fair enough. Apparently their patches break IBM's JDK on multi-cpu machines. This seems like something you'd want to test for an "Advanced Server" product, especially if you're going in and touting it to big financial companies as something you can use to run your application server. And even if you go get Sun's JDK/JRE, and then go and install Websphere, you're still screwed as WS installs it's own IBM JDK.
The lack of a good filesystem is another sore spot. Sure, you can force it to use ReiserFS with some command line switches before the boot, but ext3 is the default. ext3 also has performance issues, and while those will be fixed in the 2.6 series, they're of no help to people using this in a production environment right now. ext3 is nice as far as an easy upgrade from ext2, but who does that on production systems?
Let's face it, RH is *NOT* targeted at the types of users who are going to pick up software at Best Buy and CompUSA. Even people who want to try linux are going to be put off by RH.
It's just not desktop/home friendly. No flash, no mp3 abilities, and GNOME, while much improved, isn't quite there yet. (File selection dialog, you know it)
This means that the only distro you're going to find at BB and CompUSA is going to be SuSE, at least until or if Mandrake ever manages to find another retail distributor.
RH is choosing to concentrate on the business space. Which is good, since their efforts there are somewhat lacking. (RHAS is dreadful, but with improvement it'd be decent)
I think RH is the only distro that uses ext3 by default... And other than the easy upgrade path, I just don't get that. It's generally slower than Reiser, and it's a bit more immature than Reiser.
Would it kill them to show Doctor Who? They could run episodes for at least a decade, if they started with the old black and white ones.
And yes, I know, the special effects were special in that "riding the short bus" kinda way. Okay, they were awful. But you had good plots and multi episode story lines (hell, multi-year story lines).
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What theme were you using?
I seem to recall that BlueCurve doesn't work as well in the prefs sharing as Geramik and QTCurve do.
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Well, if you really want to make your GTK/GTK2 apps look like QT apps (colors, fonts, widgets) use the QTCurve or Geramik themes. They're QT/GTK/GTK2 themes that read your QT/KDE configs and make GTK apps use the QT/KDE prefs.
So, basically, you can use the KDE Control Center to configure your GTK apps. Nice stuff that.
Yes, but IBM's implementation is buggy as all hell.
Well, not entirely, but if you run it on an SMP system, it just won't work on some distros with some versions of glibc. I'm not sure what the magical combos are, but RH is one of them. IBM has even admitted the fact, and as far as I know is still working on it.
So why does RH ship a broken JDK/JRE with their advanced server product? Dunno. Makes no sense to me. Sun's works.
Java may be dead before it gets done? How long is RH planning on taking? Decades?
Cos I don't see any J2EE apps running in F5K companies gettin rewritten overnight. And all those phones that play those neat games (J2ME) won't disappear overnight.
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You'd be suprised at the sheer number of Americans who have no idea that british and canadian troops outnumbered american troops during the d-day invasion. Or who had any idea that Australia fought in WWII.
Most Americans are pretty ignorant about history in general. And while you can make a case that the pacific war was largely an American operation, there was a British fleet operating at the end of the war. The Royal Navy lent us one of their carriers back towards the beginning of the war when several of ours had been sunk or were out of action. And the only heavy cruiser escorting our forces during the battle of the coral sea was Australian. So important contributions by the commonwealth for sure.
Um... not to pick nits... but I hardly think 12 or 14 mpg is .0005 less than 20 or 25mpg.
History and Math. Care to dazzle with geography?
You, sir, are not very well educated in history. The government of Germany under Hitler was indeed stable, but it could not have remained so for very long. Most of the increased industrial production that occured in the 30's in Germany was in the military/industrial sector, and the army was much too large for the economy to sustain.
There was constant plotting among mid and high level nazi officials, all of whom wanted to remove hitler from power. In fact, right before the invasion of the low countries and France, there were conspirators about to arrest him.
And I certainly don't think the United States "kicked his ass". We hastened his downfall is all.
I personally don't care about eye candy, but I do think the development is lagging behind.
Example: File Dialog. The Gnome file dialog is the most hideous and counter-intuitive piece of software I've ever seen. With the KDE file dialog, not only can I navigate easier, it's tied to their IO slaves, so I can save to FTP sites, SMB shares, etc. Pretty much anything.
With the GTK/Gnome dialog, I'm usually cursing and grumbling as I clumsily navigate around. And the programs that constantly reset the dialog to your home directory, even after you've called the dialog and navigated a few levels in, are way annoying.
Dude, yeah... Sax2 really slows stuff down. I mean, you totally run it once when you install or change your video card, and it never runs any other time. Clue, you're needed at comment #6602013!
There are a lot of technical issues with RHAS, which probably end up costing IBM a lot of time and manpower. That's been my experience with RHAS, and that's what I've heard from others.
SuSE Advanced Server, while not perfect, doesn't have as many of the gaping flaws that RHAS does.
If anyone will buy SuSE, it'll be IBM. They're already giving SuSE Advanced Server away with some of their pSeries line of servers, and they push people to use SuSE over redhat. When you throw in that Munich deal, where SuSE and IBM worked together, you seem to have a very cozy relationshipo between IBM and SuSE.
Personally, I *pay* for SuSE. It's good enough that I feel it's worth it.
However, there are tons of people who use the SuSE ftp install. They're getting SuSE, and they're not paying for it.
The only thing you can consider closed about SuSE is some of the software they ship (realplayer, mainactor, flash, etc). But then again, I suspect a lot of people go out and install those applications on whatever distro they use anyhow.
You'll probably have to compile it in yourself for now.
RH probably will include it in the future, but probably won't give you the option to install on it without jumping thru major hoops.
RH seems to suffer from a big case of "not-invented-here-itis", and RH users sometimes suffer for it. Not having ReiserFS is one way in which they do.
Yes, that was also there in 8.1, but they've really improved it in 8.2.
A lot.
Dude, I dunno...
I use SuSE 8.2. When downloads are ready, the SuSE icon in the tray changes color. When I run it, the updates install quickly, I don't have to agree to any EULAs, and I don't have to reboot unless I'm changing the kernel.
On the other hand, WindowsUpdate itself is nice in that it will upgrade all MSFT software on your system. But the flip side to that is something like Synaptic/APT can do the same thing, just with a slightly less easy to use interface.
You know, you're wrong.
I'm not sure what your definition of pirate is, but it's probably entirely too wide.
If one of my cd's gets a scratch in it, and I go to download the tracks I like off Kazaa, am I a pirate?
If I want to download mp3s of stuff I already own (cassettes, cds), am I a pirate?
If I'm such a fan of a band that I own their entire catalog and I want to download rare live stuff that's never been released, am I a pirate?
Then prepared to be shocked. It's not installed for licensing reasons... If you go to xmms.org you can download the mp3 plugins and whatnot, but how many new users are going to figure that out?
Any reasons why SuSE and Mandrake qualify as resource hungry? I've always thought RH was the heavier of the 3.
RHAS actually has a lot of nice features... the ability to push patches onto servers on your network using their utilities is really, really nice. The 800 hoops you need to jump thru to keep your servers up to date via registration is not as nice.
But, some things aren't as good. They've applied a lot of patches to their kernel and glibc to make it more of an enterprise-grade distro, fair enough. They also ship with IBM's JDK as opposed to sun's JDK. Fair enough. Apparently their patches break IBM's JDK on multi-cpu machines. This seems like something you'd want to test for an "Advanced Server" product, especially if you're going in and touting it to big financial companies as something you can use to run your application server. And even if you go get Sun's JDK/JRE, and then go and install Websphere, you're still screwed as WS installs it's own IBM JDK.
The lack of a good filesystem is another sore spot. Sure, you can force it to use ReiserFS with some command line switches before the boot, but ext3 is the default. ext3 also has performance issues, and while those will be fixed in the 2.6 series, they're of no help to people using this in a production environment right now. ext3 is nice as far as an easy upgrade from ext2, but who does that on production systems?
Let's face it, RH is *NOT* targeted at the types of users who are going to pick up software at Best Buy and CompUSA. Even people who want to try linux are going to be put off by RH.
It's just not desktop/home friendly. No flash, no mp3 abilities, and GNOME, while much improved, isn't quite there yet. (File selection dialog, you know it)
This means that the only distro you're going to find at BB and CompUSA is going to be SuSE, at least until or if Mandrake ever manages to find another retail distributor.
RH is choosing to concentrate on the business space. Which is good, since their efforts there are somewhat lacking. (RHAS is dreadful, but with improvement it'd be decent)
No.
I think RH is the only distro that uses ext3 by default... And other than the easy upgrade path, I just don't get that. It's generally slower than Reiser, and it's a bit more immature than Reiser.
And their engineers are rather snotty about it.
Not everyone runs their own mail filter.
And not many, if any, ISPs will do spam filtering. What if they filter out legit mail by accident?
And sometimes, it's nicer to just point mozilla to your mail server, rather than set up a bunch of helper utilities to grab your mail.
Man, you're so right on...
Would it kill them to show Doctor Who? They could run episodes for at least a decade, if they started with the old black and white ones.
And yes, I know, the special effects were special in that "riding the short bus" kinda way. Okay, they were awful. But you had good plots and multi episode story lines (hell, multi-year story lines).
Is it fixed? I see dates on this going back to 2000, and I know the bug was still present in 2.4.19.
In addition, the fact that it's still limited to UDMA33 seems to scream that it's not fixed.
Well, I don't know if I'd call VIA proven technology.
I know, judging by the sheer number of posts on deja and the results on google, that their IDE chipset gave linux nightmares for ages.
In fact, my UDMA100 capable motherboard will only work at UDMA33 on Linux. If you try to go faster, you'll get massive data corruption.
Check it out... Via IDE Corruption and Linux.
What theme were you using?
I seem to recall that BlueCurve doesn't work as well in the prefs sharing as Geramik and QTCurve do.
Well, if you really want to make your GTK/GTK2 apps look like QT apps (colors, fonts, widgets) use the QTCurve or Geramik themes. They're QT/GTK/GTK2 themes that read your QT/KDE configs and make GTK apps use the QT/KDE prefs.
So, basically, you can use the KDE Control Center to configure your GTK apps. Nice stuff that.
Yes, but IBM's implementation is buggy as all hell.
Well, not entirely, but if you run it on an SMP system, it just won't work on some distros with some versions of glibc. I'm not sure what the magical combos are, but RH is one of them. IBM has even admitted the fact, and as far as I know is still working on it.
So why does RH ship a broken JDK/JRE with their advanced server product? Dunno. Makes no sense to me. Sun's works.
Java may be dead before it gets done? How long is RH planning on taking? Decades?
Cos I don't see any J2EE apps running in F5K companies gettin rewritten overnight. And all those phones that play those neat games (J2ME) won't disappear overnight.
Make sure to mention that unless your company has outlook web access turned on, exchange connector just won't look.
Crossover office is a better alternative at that point.