Tell me how this isn't the best way to get peer reviews. I wonder why other fields don't follow the Physicists' lead and make themselves a preprint archive...
This shows nothing of the sort. Wind River plans to continue supporting the FreeBSD community, and FreeBSD is also open-source. If Linux were closed-source, you can bet that developers would
drop like flies.
However, you're right about the fact that Linux developers need to start thinking heavily about the GPL. I'm as much in favor of free information as the next guy, but licenses like BSD allow for much more flexibility when dealing with those who want to make money. Encumbering code with the GPL makes corporations run away from it, which no doubt is why BSD is Wind River's license of choice.
I'm running FreeBSD as a desktop OS with X 4.0.2, and the nv driver works just fine. SDL and everything. I used the same setup under RedHat, and I don't notice any difference in performance.
Fred Moody was the same guy who wrote a column last year saying that the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider project should be stopped because it might create a black hole and destroy the earth. A big deal was made of it by the RHIC people at the time (understandably), and dozens of physicists wrote letters to him explaining at great length why he was undeniably and totally wrong. Yet he refused to retract any of his statements, and remained convinced that the earth was in great danger. RHIC measured its first gold-on-gold collision a few weeks ago, and for better or for worse Long Island is still with us. The moral of the story is that Fred Moody can and should be ignored, and that nothing we say to him will serve any purpose whatsoever.
My school doesn't run sshd on all of their servers for reasons I don't understand, but they do offer Kerberos-aware versions of telnet and FTP. This makes a great deal of sense in a distributed Unix environment, and since most modern mail readers (i.e. Eudora, Outlook) don't choke on KPOP, it's reasonably convenient even for those without Unix boxes. But before you start thinking too highly of computing at Iowa State, note that there's an Ultrix box in my office...
Off-topic or not, I seldom miss a chance to extol the virtues of David Foster Wallace. At least within my own little microcosm here in Iowa, he has a rather devoted following. Gravity's Rainbow is a brilliant novel, but IJ is a different kind of work, one that I found much more enjoyable. If you're going to dive into his work, though, I would actually suggest the first two or three essays in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
Anyway, I'm starting Stephenson's latest tomorrow, so maybe soon I'll be able to say something on topic.:)
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Tell me how this isn't the best way to get peer reviews. I wonder why other fields don't follow the Physicists' lead and make themselves a preprint archive...
...and they named a perfectly good keyboard after this guy?!
(heh)
This shows nothing of the sort. Wind River plans to continue supporting the FreeBSD community, and FreeBSD is also open-source. If Linux were closed-source, you can bet that developers would
drop like flies.
However, you're right about the fact that Linux developers need to start thinking heavily about the GPL. I'm as much in favor of free information as the next guy, but licenses like BSD allow for much more flexibility when dealing with those who want to make money. Encumbering code with the GPL makes corporations run away from it, which no doubt is why BSD is Wind River's license of choice.
Let the religious war commence.
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I'm running FreeBSD as a desktop OS with X 4.0.2, and the nv driver works just fine. SDL and everything. I used the same setup under RedHat, and I don't notice any difference in performance.
Fred Moody was the same guy who wrote a column last year saying that the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider project should be stopped because it might create a black hole and destroy the earth. A big deal was made of it by the RHIC people at the time (understandably), and dozens of physicists wrote letters to him explaining at great length why he was undeniably and totally wrong. Yet he refused to retract any of his statements, and remained convinced that the earth was in great danger. RHIC measured its first gold-on-gold collision a few weeks ago, and for better or for worse Long Island is still with us. The moral of the story is that Fred Moody can and should be ignored, and that nothing we say to him will serve any purpose whatsoever.
My school doesn't run sshd on all of their servers for reasons I don't understand, but they do offer Kerberos-aware versions of telnet and FTP. This makes a great deal of sense in a distributed Unix environment, and since most modern mail readers (i.e. Eudora, Outlook) don't choke on KPOP, it's reasonably convenient even for those without Unix boxes.
But before you start thinking too highly of computing at Iowa State, note that there's an Ultrix box in my office...
Off-topic or not, I seldom miss a chance to extol the virtues of David Foster Wallace. At least within my own little microcosm here in Iowa, he has a rather devoted following. Gravity's Rainbow is a brilliant novel, but IJ is a different kind of work, one that I found much more enjoyable. If you're going to dive into his work, though, I would actually suggest the first two or three essays in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
:)
Anyway, I'm starting Stephenson's latest tomorrow, so maybe soon I'll be able to say something on topic.