How often do we, here at/., ask if a new software development is going to change the world? Constantly. And how often does it? Never.
This is no exception. It's just a sort of more native version of Cygwin. Sure, it could be kind of nifty, but it's not some major breakthrough which will leave the world shocked.
Could people please stop being so melodramatic with their subject lines?
On the contrary, if you want to share a partition over Samba, to have read/write access to the Samba share, the kernel obviously needs read/write access to the actual partition.
They're trying to scare us.
It is particularly obvious that this is the case because of the specific situation: a mother pays so that her daughter can, as they were told, legally download songs, and the RIAA still makes them pay $2000? It absolutely makes me sick.
I love Slackware! It's simple and it gives me complete control--just what I want in a Linux distro. If it ever *ceases* to be around, I'll have to take up the Slack myself.;)
I just thought I'd point one thing out. Yes, user-friendly distros tend to get more bloated. But a lot of this is because of the very nature of user-friendliness. For example, GUIs are nearly always more user-friendly, but anyone else who's ever written, say, Windows code in C, will agree with me that GUIs are a pain, and they force the code to be bloated. We definitely want groups like Red Hat to make more user-friendly distributions, because that will draw users to Linux. So the way I see it, if the bloating is necessary, than that's a necessary trade-off. For those of us who don't want the bloating, there's always Slackware.
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How often do we, here at /., ask if a new software development is going to change the world? Constantly. And how often does it? Never.
This is no exception. It's just a sort of more native version of Cygwin. Sure, it could be kind of nifty, but it's not some major breakthrough which will leave the world shocked.
Could people please stop being so melodramatic with their subject lines?
On the contrary, if you want to share a partition over Samba, to have read/write access to the Samba share, the kernel obviously needs read/write access to the actual partition.
They're trying to scare us. It is particularly obvious that this is the case because of the specific situation: a mother pays so that her daughter can, as they were told, legally download songs, and the RIAA still makes them pay $2000? It absolutely makes me sick.
I love Slackware! It's simple and it gives me complete control--just what I want in a Linux distro. If it ever *ceases* to be around, I'll have to take up the Slack myself. ;)
Just a thought... I'm a student at Carnegie Mellon. We have /. meetups every day...they're called "class". ;)
I just thought I'd point one thing out. Yes, user-friendly distros tend to get more bloated. But a lot of this is because of the very nature of user-friendliness. For example, GUIs are nearly always more user-friendly, but anyone else who's ever written, say, Windows code in C, will agree with me that GUIs are a pain, and they force the code to be bloated. We definitely want groups like Red Hat to make more user-friendly distributions, because that will draw users to Linux. So the way I see it, if the bloating is necessary, than that's a necessary trade-off. For those of us who don't want the bloating, there's always Slackware.