I'm quite satisfied with FreeBSD 5 (running 5.4R right now on two machines), I find it fast and stable, but I've heard many complaints from others. If you find FreeBSD 5 disappointing, you may want to wait for FreeBSD 6, which was code-frozen a few days ago and should be out by August. I am looking forward to it, especially to WPA support.
This is a rather shallow review and has been discussed over at OSNews. Just read the comments and you'll finde you don't need to read the actual review.
From the summary: I would highly encourage the Linux community to take part of this open source petition as well due to the fact there are lots of interesting code base the they could benefit from.
Please remember Linux isn't the only player in the F/OSS world, there are several huge communities, too (although rumor has it they are dying, or something), and the entire open source community might benefit from this.:-)
I think what you used was the beta version. I used acroread7 on FreeBSD (installed it a few weeks ago), but it was rolled back to v5 again because v7 was still in beta.
Why has this been modded Troll? Parent is simply expressing his disgust with Microsofts business tactics, and so am I.
And before you jump at me saying "Well, duh, they are a business, and the whole point of a business is to make money", yes, I know that, and I still find it disgusting. There's a point where unethical behavior actually starts affecting peoples' lives.
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I don't see why people are so worried about advocacy. If you're not making money, what is the difference?
Donations. Many (maybe most) FOSS developers don't get paid, this is especially true of FreeBSD (or any of the BSDs) since there's less corporate backing than with Linux. A more vocal advocacy will surely change that by drawing more companies' attention to FreeBSD (look what IBM does for Linux) and get them to support the development, and a larger userbase will surely increase much needed donations, be that money or hardware.
Continue to refine the thing and get what you want out of it, and if other people don't get it, who loses?
The FreeBSD community loses, for the reasons laid out above. The more attention FreeBSD draws to itself, the more donations will flow, the more corporate backing they will get, the quicker native drivers will be written, etc. etc. Advocacy is important.
...and any problems that do come up will be fixed quickly.
Funny you should say that, I use Firefox on FreeBSD, and portaudit's been reporting a certain vulnerability for weeks. I don't know if it's the developers' fault or the maintainers' fault, but in either case it's bad for Firefox' reputation.
Don't get me wrong, I like Firefox very much, it is my browser of choice, and I cannot exclude the possibility that it's my own fault due to a mistake I maybe made.
Uhm. I think one could expect a vendor to provide drivers themeselves. You actually have to pay for their products, remember? You give them money, you make them rich. I really don't feel like giving money to a company just to find out that I also pay them for limiting my choice.
Not most, but quite a few. I wonder why they don't start working on importing pf from OpenBSD, FreeBSD started working on that a long time ago. Maybe it's a NetBSD vs. Theo thing, which would be a shame. I'm looking quite forward to pf on FreeBSD, which should be quite stable on 5.3 (and it's only around the corner! Code freeze is scheduled for Aug. 15th, as far as I know).
Anyway, I've used OpenBSD and FreeBSD for quite some time now, and only recently tried out NetBSD. What can I say? Their hardware support is amazing, it pretty much recognized everything on my Samsung X10, and it's been very, very stable this far. I'm quite in love with it.:) The only thing I don't like is the bloated GENERIC kernel, it takes way longer to boot that with OpenBSD or FreeBSD but that's probably the price you pay for good hardware support on installation, and you can always roll your own kernel. I'm pretty excited about NetBSD 2.0. Hurry up, guys!
Hello, don't hate me for it, but I followed the link and read the story. Seems like the bridge is replaced by motors that tune the guitar by moving the bridge slightly, thus increasing or lowering the string tension. I can't speak for everyone, but I for one like my strings in a fixed position from the frets. I want the distance between the strings and the frets as small as possible. Does anyone else see a problem with that, since moving the bridge alters that distance? Or do you think those movements would be so subtle that one could hardly tell there was a movement at all?
For those who don't know, Jimmy Page was the guitarist for Led Zeppelin. While he doesn't have the best technique when it comes to playing the guitar, he really really does have a grasp of melodies. He's a genius, you'd better listen to that guy.:)
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I'm quite satisfied with FreeBSD 5 (running 5.4R right now on two machines), I find it fast and stable, but I've heard many complaints from others. If you find FreeBSD 5 disappointing, you may want to wait for FreeBSD 6, which was code-frozen a few days ago and should be out by August. I am looking forward to it, especially to WPA support.
This is a rather shallow review and has been discussed over at OSNews. Just read the comments and you'll finde you don't need to read the actual review.
Someone mentioned a better review here. Enjoy!
I've had a post go from +5 insightful to 0 flamebait in 6 hours. The moderation system is broken.
True. How did it get 5, Insightful in the first place?
From the summary:
:-)
I would highly encourage the Linux community to take part of this open source petition as well due to the fact there are lots of interesting code base the they could benefit from.
Please remember Linux isn't the only player in the F/OSS world, there are several huge communities, too (although rumor has it they are dying, or something), and the entire open source community might benefit from this.
No sweat, we can tell it's a direct White House quote.
I have been using microbes to produce methane for a while now, why can't I run my computer from that?
I am not sure you'd like to try that, look what happened to goatse!
I need this, the amount of unwashed dishes and dirty laundry lying around could turn my entire apartment into a megastore of cheap energy!
Mod me up!!
I think what you used was the beta version. I used acroread7 on FreeBSD (installed it a few weeks ago), but it was rolled back to v5 again because v7 was still in beta.
May I touch your naughty words?
(actual quote, on IRC. It's funny; laugh.)
No, Ma'am, it's not, it really isn't, thank you.
Just like Microsoft's methods and tactics of spreading FUD.
Why has this been modded Troll? Parent is simply expressing his disgust with Microsofts business tactics, and so am I.
And before you jump at me saying "Well, duh, they are a business, and the whole point of a business is to make money", yes, I know that, and I still find it disgusting. There's a point where unethical behavior actually starts affecting peoples' lives.
I don't see why people are so worried about advocacy. If you're not making money, what is the difference?
Donations. Many (maybe most) FOSS developers don't get paid, this is especially true of FreeBSD (or any of the BSDs) since there's less corporate backing than with Linux. A more vocal advocacy will surely change that by drawing more companies' attention to FreeBSD (look what IBM does for Linux) and get them to support the development, and a larger userbase will surely increase much needed donations, be that money or hardware.
Continue to refine the thing and get what you want out of it, and if other people don't get it, who loses?
The FreeBSD community loses, for the reasons laid out above. The more attention FreeBSD draws to itself, the more donations will flow, the more corporate backing they will get, the quicker native drivers will be written, etc. etc. Advocacy is important.
...and any problems that do come up will be fixed quickly.
Funny you should say that, I use Firefox on FreeBSD, and portaudit's been reporting a certain vulnerability for weeks. I don't know if it's the developers' fault or the maintainers' fault, but in either case it's bad for Firefox' reputation.
Don't get me wrong, I like Firefox very much, it is my browser of choice, and I cannot exclude the possibility that it's my own fault due to a mistake I maybe made.
... who broke the SHA-1 algorithm.
They did not break it. They just found a way to reduce the number of trials needed to find a collision.
From Linus' announcement:
I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix.
The Hurd. Beautiful.
I think you missed a BETA there.
Uhm. I think one could expect a vendor to provide drivers themeselves. You actually have to pay for their products, remember? You give them money, you make them rich. I really don't feel like giving money to a company just to find out that I also pay them for limiting my choice.
Grandparent was right, you are wrong.
Not most, but quite a few. I wonder why they don't start working on importing pf from OpenBSD, FreeBSD started working on that a long time ago. Maybe it's a NetBSD vs. Theo thing, which would be a shame. I'm looking quite forward to pf on FreeBSD, which should be quite stable on 5.3 (and it's only around the corner! Code freeze is scheduled for Aug. 15th, as far as I know).
:) The only thing I don't like is the bloated GENERIC kernel, it takes way longer to boot that with OpenBSD or FreeBSD but that's probably the price you pay for good hardware support on installation, and you can always roll your own kernel. I'm pretty excited about NetBSD 2.0. Hurry up, guys!
Anyway, I've used OpenBSD and FreeBSD for quite some time now, and only recently tried out NetBSD. What can I say? Their hardware support is amazing, it pretty much recognized everything on my Samsung X10, and it's been very, very stable this far. I'm quite in love with it.
Yes. What is it?
What's sad about the above statement is it's not meant as humor.
That's ok, it wasn't funny anyway.
Then, the text anaysis routine checks for words that would make sense in English.
Maybe the routine could do checks for The Register too!
Hello, don't hate me for it, but I followed the link and read the story. Seems like the bridge is replaced by motors that tune the guitar by moving the bridge slightly, thus increasing or lowering the string tension. I can't speak for everyone, but I for one like my strings in a fixed position from the frets. I want the distance between the strings and the frets as small as possible. Does anyone else see a problem with that, since moving the bridge alters that distance? Or do you think those movements would be so subtle that one could hardly tell there was a movement at all?
For those who don't know, Jimmy Page was the guitarist for Led Zeppelin. While he doesn't have the best technique when it comes to playing the guitar, he really really does have a grasp of melodies. He's a genius, you'd better listen to that guy. :)