I use rdesktop when I need an RDP client, works pretty well... no idea about 3D support, I only use Windows for a few legacy servers at work (primarily pager routing crap). If you're into PC gaming, then sorry, Linux simply ain't right for you. I own most of the games ported to Linux, but most of them are still wrapped on the shelves. I support the practice of porting them, even if I could care less about playing them.
... or they'll just send you a paper bill and get their collections staff on you. Things get quite tricky when it's a service rather than a physical product.
Sorry to break it to you, you're not a capitalist. Capitalism is primarily about the private ownership of the means of producion. Under the free market school of capitalism, which is what the US follows, anybody who is making disproportionate profits, like MS, is rapidly brough back into line by the competition. If the market becomes distorted by a monopoly or a oligopoly, it is the duty of the government to bring the balance of power back into check so the the free market may operate. The approach you describe is called anarcho-capitalism, that's the brilliant school of thought that leads to depressions and support for it basically all but died in 1930s.
Jesus H, anybody who knows anything knows that Linux is not UNIX, and nobody besides a few noobs has ever suggested that Linux was UNIX. At best, it's a mix of SystemV and Berkley UNIX-like features, but guess what, it doesn't make a lick of difference. What! Shock? Horror? No, as you pointed out with your careful choice of words, UNIX is a specification -NOT- a standard. That's a very crucial distinction. Standards are meant for ***interoperability***. Standards are what allows that precious IE of yours to work with the Apache web server. Hell, it's what allows Window's TCPIP stack to work on the internet. On the other hand a specification, is about ***portability***, NOT interoperability. Conform to a specification, and you can be pretty well ensured of portability. People bash IE because MS constantly tries to violate standards. If MS used IE to comply with standards, rather than subvert them, but failed to make IE conform to, say the Mozilla XUL specification, then you'd have a valid point.
... except if you need to make use of a specialized ISA/PCI card, that's where the weakness of virtualized hardware comes into play. FWIW, I have a vmware image of Win98, just in case, I've only ever used it to spy on USB traffic from Win-only USB drivers, and even that's been a while.
From what I've seen, there's nothing on Windows that does what Logic Pro does either. That said, Logic Pro is incredibly deep and 90% of it is beyond what most amateur musicians simply recording tracks would use.
you really shouldn't get worked up because MS decided to put a web browser and a media player in their OS
The problem isn't that they included a browser and media player in theur OS, it's that they INTEGRATED their OWN browser and media player in their OS to specifically to stiffle competition. If they sinply included, not integrated into the OS, Firefox and Real, then this would be a non-issue. No Linux distro integrates add-ons like this. There's an argument that OSX might but even there, is Quicktime intergated into the OSX kernel or GUI to the extent that IE or WMP is... maybe... but I doubt it.
As for your war comment, that's priceless. So what if the EU declares all out war on MS... it will only benefit Apple, Novell, Redhat, Sun, IBM, etc. Do you honestly think reps and senators not from Washington state are going to shed a tear for MS when their local constituents stand to benefit most from something like this?
The surest way to perform non-patch release upgrades with Oracle is full export, install, full import. In place upgrades across major versions are inconsistent. Yeah, it's not the FASTEST way, but it's the best option, plus you get to compress extents, at least up until you get into the 300+ GB range. Once you reach that level, the downtime required just becomes too long. In place upgrades have to be practiced because the steps virtually always change between releases, it's clearly documented right there on pages 52 through 78 of the release notes!!!;-)
There's one MAJOR difference here, China will be an *economic* superpower, Russia was never anything more than a *military* superpower. However, on that note, I'll predict with great certainty that life in China will STILL suck big time, even after it supplants the US as the world's biggest economic superpower. I'd far rather deal with our minor crap back here than the kinda mega-crap they have to content with over there.
That OS already exists. There is so much cutting edge work going into Linux that Windows seems archaic in comparison. Yeah, the kernel is monolithic, that's because research over the past 10-15 years shows that microkernels are slooooow. File systems... pick one, they ALL exist for Linux. HCI... XGL anyone? Application development... there are more IDEs and toolkits on Linux than one could learn in a lifetime. Programming languages... all there. APIs... broad question... but anything that's not MS (and even some that are... WINEAPI) are there. Virutal machines... Bochs, VMWare, Win4LinPro, etc. Virutalization... KML and XEN.
You can lock down Linux as tight as you want, use the Oracle IFS db based file system, use Ruby, KDE, VMWare... I think you get the point. Now, having spewed all that, my impression is that you're waiting to see that "OS" from MS, nobody else, so you have to expect to be waiting a very long time, if ever for it. The fact is, if you want to be on the cutting edge, drop the past and use Linux. If you want to play games... stay on Windows, it's DESIGNED for people who want something familiar, doesn't obselete any software compiled 15 years ago, and isn't so revolutionary as to scare grandma or the receptionist.
Well, OS/2 (0/2/3) and Linux on Xen (0/1/3) both use 3. If you can take control of the hardware via a Xen-ed kernel, now that would be one for the hacker hall of fame.
... and encrypted partitions are also available out of the box on SuSE Linux and Fedora (I think). I have no idea how safe they really are but they're based on cryptfs and use blowfish as the encryption. That said, you could STILL copy the data and brute force it offline, it might take a while though since the min pwd length is 20 chars.
Sun's forte' has always been systems programming, not hardware
I'm going to disagree with you on that. Having purchased a fair amount of Sun hardware in my day, I never chose Sun for it's systems programming. We picked Sun because of a) rock solid hardware and b) excellent support. I mainly designed Oracle systems, so I could care less (over exagerating) about the OS, Oracle ran/runs on all the big ones. We could just as easily chosen an HP-UX, or DEC VAX, or SGI system. That said, that was then, when mid-range hardware didn't exist as a commodity. Today, you're right, Sun is in a commodity market. Low end hardware has scaled up to the point where it's just as powerful as proprietary mid-range hw. There's no reason to pick Sun unless you're shopping for a very high end system, and even then, that's under attack by clustering of commodity wares. Sun can survive, but they'll have to do it by selling branded *commodity* hardware with their support org to back it. If Sun really wants to only focus on 70% margin deals, that market is continually shrinking, and Sun will have to continually shrink in response. Their salvation lies in becoming the Dell of the back office (bad comparison... you get the gist), but time (and the competition) is certainly not on their side with regards to making that move.
Last I looked (and it's been a while), as a developer, you poll DX to find out if it supports a particular interface version. There is some level back compatibility, so an older game will work on a newer DX, but it's certainly not at the "all older DX API coded games work against DX new" level. That said, I would be completely shocked if MS didn't make DX 10 provide DX 9 compatible. That's a bit like begging for a game devs to choose another interface (eg. SDL + OpenGL) but MS isn't dumb, I just can't see them providing an opening like that.
games, hardware drivers, a good mp3 player, no command line and not too expensive.
You mean like a Mac mini at $599????? Oh, and I REALLY like this one "to register illegal repositories" because Windows users NEVER EVER pirate software, no sir-eee. Linux users may use software that encroaches on some IP with respect to DVDs and WMVs, but it's a FCUKING LONG way from there to pirating software which is the norm on home Windows PCs.
DSL is nice, but it's got a 2.4 kernel, PuppyLinux (one bone) fits in 25M and gives you a 2.6 kernel with all the accompanying hardware support goodness. To me that makes DSL very 2003, it's playing catch up in my books.
What? You're trying to say this HD-DVD and BlueRay won't have the same mind blowing suck-cess that DVD-Audio did? Besides, unless you've got 25/20 vision, HDD/BR isn't going to look one iota different to you than DVD on an HD tv.
Linux (SuSE 10.1) works just fine, ACPI included, on my IBM T42p (2004) and backup T20 (2001). In fact, I routinely get better battery life than my cohorts with WinXP on theirs. ACPI *was* a bit of a mess a year or two ago, but at least on the 2.6.16 kernel, ACPI support seems to be pretty much complete.
It's purposely cripped for Linux browsers. Works fine using FF on Win VMWare but fails with same rev from Linux client. Can't be bothered to change the user agent to prove that point however.
There's a decent EARLY replacement for Skype available in OpenWengo but it's super beta at best right now. The voice quality isn't as good as Skype yet (at least from NorthAm). However, it's got a ton of potential (and video!).
All moot points in SuSE 10.1 since 10.1 ships with Network Manager to handle your wireless sign on scripts and augments vanilla RPM with YUM/RUG. Do you think ANY boxed distro would have fared better... doubtful!
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I just stumbled upon the OpenWengo FF extension for Linux here
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You mean this one here? For some reason it fails to install for my with a "Coming soon..." message.;-) The non-FF extension Wengo is pretty cool though!
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I use rdesktop when I need an RDP client, works pretty well ... no idea about 3D support, I only use Windows for a few legacy servers at work (primarily pager routing crap). If you're into PC gaming, then sorry, Linux simply ain't right for you. I own most of the games ported to Linux, but most of them are still wrapped on the shelves. I support the practice of porting them, even if I could care less about playing them.
... or they'll just send you a paper bill and get their collections staff on you. Things get quite tricky when it's a service rather than a physical product.
Sorry to break it to you, you're not a capitalist. Capitalism is primarily about the private ownership of the means of producion. Under the free market school of capitalism, which is what the US follows, anybody who is making disproportionate profits, like MS, is rapidly brough back into line by the competition. If the market becomes distorted by a monopoly or a oligopoly, it is the duty of the government to bring the balance of power back into check so the the free market may operate. The approach you describe is called anarcho-capitalism, that's the brilliant school of thought that leads to depressions and support for it basically all but died in 1930s.
Jesus H, anybody who knows anything knows that Linux is not UNIX, and nobody besides a few noobs has ever suggested that Linux was UNIX. At best, it's a mix of SystemV and Berkley UNIX-like features, but guess what, it doesn't make a lick of difference. What! Shock? Horror? No, as you pointed out with your careful choice of words, UNIX is a specification -NOT- a standard. That's a very crucial distinction. Standards are meant for ***interoperability***. Standards are what allows that precious IE of yours to work with the Apache web server. Hell, it's what allows Window's TCPIP stack to work on the internet. On the other hand a specification, is about ***portability***, NOT interoperability. Conform to a specification, and you can be pretty well ensured of portability. People bash IE because MS constantly tries to violate standards. If MS used IE to comply with standards, rather than subvert them, but failed to make IE conform to, say the Mozilla XUL specification, then you'd have a valid point.
... except if you need to make use of a specialized ISA/PCI card, that's where the weakness of virtualized hardware comes into play. FWIW, I have a vmware image of Win98, just in case, I've only ever used it to spy on USB traffic from Win-only USB drivers, and even that's been a while.
From what I've seen, there's nothing on Windows that does what Logic Pro does either. That said, Logic Pro is incredibly deep and 90% of it is beyond what most amateur musicians simply recording tracks would use.
you really shouldn't get worked up because MS decided to put a web browser and a media player in their OS
... maybe ... but I doubt it.
... it will only benefit Apple, Novell, Redhat, Sun, IBM, etc. Do you honestly think reps and senators not from Washington state are going to shed a tear for MS when their local constituents stand to benefit most from something like this?
The problem isn't that they included a browser and media player in theur OS, it's that they INTEGRATED their OWN browser and media player in their OS to specifically to stiffle competition. If they sinply included, not integrated into the OS, Firefox and Real, then this would be a non-issue. No Linux distro integrates add-ons like this. There's an argument that OSX might but even there, is Quicktime intergated into the OSX kernel or GUI to the extent that IE or WMP is
As for your war comment, that's priceless. So what if the EU declares all out war on MS
The surest way to perform non-patch release upgrades with Oracle is full export, install, full import. In place upgrades across major versions are inconsistent. Yeah, it's not the FASTEST way, but it's the best option, plus you get to compress extents, at least up until you get into the 300+ GB range. Once you reach that level, the downtime required just becomes too long. In place upgrades have to be practiced because the steps virtually always change between releases, it's clearly documented right there on pages 52 through 78 of the release notes!!! ;-)
There's one MAJOR difference here, China will be an *economic* superpower, Russia was never anything more than a *military* superpower. However, on that note, I'll predict with great certainty that life in China will STILL suck big time, even after it supplants the US as the world's biggest economic superpower. I'd far rather deal with our minor crap back here than the kinda mega-crap they have to content with over there.
That OS already exists. There is so much cutting edge work going into Linux that Windows seems archaic in comparison. Yeah, the kernel is monolithic, that's because research over the past 10-15 years shows that microkernels are slooooow. File systems ... pick one, they ALL exist for Linux. HCI ... XGL anyone? Application development ... there are more IDEs and toolkits on Linux than one could learn in a lifetime. Programming languages ... all there. APIs ... broad question ... but anything that's not MS (and even some that are ... WINEAPI) are there. Virutal machines ... Bochs, VMWare, Win4LinPro, etc. Virutalization ... KML and XEN.
... I think you get the point. Now, having spewed all that, my impression is that you're waiting to see that "OS" from MS, nobody else, so you have to expect to be waiting a very long time, if ever for it. The fact is, if you want to be on the cutting edge, drop the past and use Linux. If you want to play games ... stay on Windows, it's DESIGNED for people who want something familiar, doesn't obselete any software compiled 15 years ago, and isn't so revolutionary as to scare grandma or the receptionist.
You can lock down Linux as tight as you want, use the Oracle IFS db based file system, use Ruby, KDE, VMWare
... or just startup vmware to use Windows for the few things that don't work perfectly in Linux natively (eg. IE only sites, a Win only progs).
and 4 privilege levels (instead of 2).
Well, OS/2 (0/2/3) and Linux on Xen (0/1/3) both use 3. If you can take control of the hardware via a Xen-ed kernel, now that would be one for the hacker hall of fame.
... and encrypted partitions are also available out of the box on SuSE Linux and Fedora (I think). I have no idea how safe they really are but they're based on cryptfs and use blowfish as the encryption. That said, you could STILL copy the data and brute force it offline, it might take a while though since the min pwd length is 20 chars.
Sun's forte' has always been systems programming, not hardware
... you get the gist), but time (and the competition) is certainly not on their side with regards to making that move.
I'm going to disagree with you on that. Having purchased a fair amount of Sun hardware in my day, I never chose Sun for it's systems programming. We picked Sun because of a) rock solid hardware and b) excellent support. I mainly designed Oracle systems, so I could care less (over exagerating) about the OS, Oracle ran/runs on all the big ones. We could just as easily chosen an HP-UX, or DEC VAX, or SGI system. That said, that was then, when mid-range hardware didn't exist as a commodity. Today, you're right, Sun is in a commodity market. Low end hardware has scaled up to the point where it's just as powerful as proprietary mid-range hw. There's no reason to pick Sun unless you're shopping for a very high end system, and even then, that's under attack by clustering of commodity wares. Sun can survive, but they'll have to do it by selling branded *commodity* hardware with their support org to back it. If Sun really wants to only focus on 70% margin deals, that market is continually shrinking, and Sun will have to continually shrink in response. Their salvation lies in becoming the Dell of the back office (bad comparison
Last I looked (and it's been a while), as a developer, you poll DX to find out if it supports a particular interface version. There is some level back compatibility, so an older game will work on a newer DX, but it's certainly not at the "all older DX API coded games work against DX new" level. That said, I would be completely shocked if MS didn't make DX 10 provide DX 9 compatible. That's a bit like begging for a game devs to choose another interface (eg. SDL + OpenGL) but MS isn't dumb, I just can't see them providing an opening like that.
games, hardware drivers, a good mp3 player, no command line and not too expensive.
You mean like a Mac mini at $599????? Oh, and I REALLY like this one "to register illegal repositories" because Windows users NEVER EVER pirate software, no sir-eee. Linux users may use software that encroaches on some IP with respect to DVDs and WMVs, but it's a FCUKING LONG way from there to pirating software which is the norm on home Windows PCs.
DSL is nice, but it's got a 2.4 kernel, PuppyLinux (one bone) fits in 25M and gives you a 2.6 kernel with all the accompanying hardware support goodness. To me that makes DSL very 2003, it's playing catch up in my books.
What? You're trying to say this HD-DVD and BlueRay won't have the same mind blowing suck-cess that DVD-Audio did? Besides, unless you've got 25/20 vision, HDD/BR isn't going to look one iota different to you than DVD on an HD tv.
Linux (SuSE 10.1) works just fine, ACPI included, on my IBM T42p (2004) and backup T20 (2001). In fact, I routinely get better battery life than my cohorts with WinXP on theirs. ACPI *was* a bit of a mess a year or two ago, but at least on the 2.6.16 kernel, ACPI support seems to be pretty much complete.
It's purposely cripped for Linux browsers. Works fine using FF on Win VMWare but fails with same rev from Linux client. Can't be bothered to change the user agent to prove that point however.
There's a decent EARLY replacement for Skype available in OpenWengo but it's super beta at best right now. The voice quality isn't as good as Skype yet (at least from NorthAm). However, it's got a ton of potential (and video!).
All moot points in SuSE 10.1 since 10.1 ships with Network Manager to handle your wireless sign on scripts and augments vanilla RPM with YUM/RUG. Do you think ANY boxed distro would have fared better ... doubtful!
I just stumbled upon the OpenWengo FF extension for Linux here
You mean this one here? For some reason it fails to install for my with a "Coming soon ..." message. ;-) The non-FF extension Wengo is pretty cool though!
You are correct ... well ... except for the fact this is extension is for Windoze only (abbeyphone-ff.xpi/components/SIPXPCOM.dll).