Ug... Hell no. If you don't want to loose the sites you are viewing, then don't close the browser. If I close my browser, then I obviously want the sites I was looking at gone.
Is poor old granny going to be tethered to her P4/Radeon forever?
Not really, Xouvert (a XFree86 fork) or Xserver (a new x server from freedesktop.org) will just replace XFree86 soon. When they are ready, the distros will just switch to them in the background, and granny won't even notice.
Lindows, Licoris, etc will just not include XFree86 4.4. Granny won't even know that XFree86 4.4 even exists. Nobody other than maybe XFree86 itself will be really hurt.
IANAL either, but it seems to me that "accept this License," in this context, means "comply with the terms of," and not "morally or ethically agree with." I strongly doubt that one can legally terminate a license because another vocally objects to it so long as they comply with the terms.
Yes, but SCO his violated Section 4 by selling lisences to run Linux. See http://sco.com/scosource/linuxlicense.html
Ironic that two decades ago the right wing flag wavers made a career of berating the Soviet Union for these same acts.
What makes you think many of us don't berate the US government and Bush for the Patriot Act?
Either way, killing millions of your own citizens is a hell of a lot worse than anything the Patriot Act allows the US governemnt to do. Yes, I know that things like what the USSR did usually start small like the Patriot Act. But that doesn't mean the Patriot Act is on the same level as those atrocities.
Aside from the various anti-competitive problems... I can bet that MS will shove their anti-virus into the kernel (alteast somewhat), even though stuff like that is far better as a user-space program. And we probably won't be able to disable it. Yes, some of us who aren't dumbasses don't need anti-virus programs working all the time.
Yes, but AMD never said that they developed a new instruction set and gave their own name to it withough telling anyone that it was really just SSE.
In this case, Intel came along and said, "Hey! We have a new instruction set called IA32e!" wihtout mentioning that it was even comatable with x86-64. It they has then it would be a non-issue.
Not when you've used KDE or Windows applications everyday for the past 7 years.
You should add X11 apps to that, also. I have NEVER seen an application with the OK/CANCEL buttons switched like that.
I remember the first time I used a GNOME app with the reversed buttons (actually, it wasn't a GNOME app - it was Mozilla Firebird, but it copies the GNOME settings). I didn't realise they were switched, and hit the wrong button several times. Finally I was like "WTF?" and looked closer.
Even though I still know what to expect when using GNOME apps, it is still annoying and requires that I spend a couple more seconds thinking.
Use the wrong tool and it isn't gonna be easy. IIRC Fedora has several GUIs for updating. If not, Mandrake has an extremely simple to use one. So does SuSE. And Debian (Synaptic).
First of all, the Apache lisence was never GPL compatable. So nothing will change with the new license. Second, XFree86 will be forked, thanks to the greatness of OSS. Third, GNOME can never be anything other than GPL, because it is already GPL. Same with the Linux kernel.
It's currently $0.21 (data CD) and $0.77 (audio CD)
Huh? A data CD and a audio CD are exactly the same thing, except for the format of the data on the disk (ISO-9660 for data CDs, and Redbook for audio). How exactly is the distinction made?
That's for the stuff that goes up into space. What would be really cool to have is the programs that they use on the ground. I imagine they have some really nice image processing programs, among other things.
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Except that they are blocking only XFree86, not X Free86, XFree, XFree8, XFree6, XFree 86, or XFree8 6.
No, they are specifically blocking XFree86.
Ug... Hell no. If you don't want to loose the sites you are viewing, then don't close the browser. If I close my browser, then I obviously want the sites I was looking at gone.
SSH anyone?
Or even simpler: ignore/reject more then say, 1 request from an ip address every 30 minutes.
IIRC, mostly new drivers and updates to old ones.
Not much in the way of new features are in XFree86, if you really want new and shiney, get freedesktop.org's Xserver.
Lindows, Licoris, etc will just not include XFree86 4.4. Granny won't even know that XFree86 4.4 even exists. Nobody other than maybe XFree86 itself will be really hurt.
Either way, killing millions of your own citizens is a hell of a lot worse than anything the Patriot Act allows the US governemnt to do. Yes, I know that things like what the USSR did usually start small like the Patriot Act. But that doesn't mean the Patriot Act is on the same level as those atrocities.
Aside from the various anti-competitive problems... I can bet that MS will shove their anti-virus into the kernel (alteast somewhat), even though stuff like that is far better as a user-space program. And we probably won't be able to disable it. Yes, some of us who aren't dumbasses don't need anti-virus programs working all the time.
Yes, but AMD never said that they developed a new instruction set and gave their own name to it withough telling anyone that it was really just SSE.
In this case, Intel came along and said, "Hey! We have a new instruction set called IA32e!" wihtout mentioning that it was even comatable with x86-64. It they has then it would be a non-issue.
Even if you don't count the French Revolution
Uh, What? How can the French NOT win when they are fighting against themselves. Obviously the French Revolution doesn't count.
The AMD K6-2's are 686's. So, yes, you can install it on your box.
I remember the first time I used a GNOME app with the reversed buttons (actually, it wasn't a GNOME app - it was Mozilla Firebird, but it copies the GNOME settings). I didn't realise they were switched, and hit the wrong button several times. Finally I was like "WTF?" and looked closer.
Even though I still know what to expect when using GNOME apps, it is still annoying and requires that I spend a couple more seconds thinking.
Use the wrong tool and it isn't gonna be easy. IIRC Fedora has several GUIs for updating. If not, Mandrake has an extremely simple to use one. So does SuSE. And Debian (Synaptic).
I think convincing Netscape to give us Mozilla is pretty damn cool...
First of all, the Apache lisence was never GPL compatable. So nothing will change with the new license. Second, XFree86 will be forked, thanks to the greatness of OSS. Third, GNOME can never be anything other than GPL, because it is already GPL. Same with the Linux kernel.
RTFA. RMS does approve of the Apache 2.0 license. But that doesn't make it any more GPL compliant.
No! Distrowatch is counting the number of hits each distro's page gets.
NO! It goes:
Q: Why does the French Navy have glass-bottom boats?
A: So they can see the French Air-Force.
Better version:
I'm a clueless newbie and proud of it:
Lycoris, Lindows, Xandros
I don't intend to be clueless forever:
Fedora, Mandrake, Mempis, SuSE
I am not afraid of computers:
Slackware, Debian, FreeBSD
I want SPEED:
Slackware, Gentoo, LFS
I like to tinker with stuff until it breaks:
Gentoo, LFS
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get me:
OpenBSD, Debian
I want to be l33t:
LFS, Gentoo
That's for the stuff that goes up into space. What would be really cool to have is the programs that they use on the ground. I imagine they have some really nice image processing programs, among other things.
No way! IMHO The C64 has the best game library ever. Nothing can touch some of the classics that it has.