Uh... what desktop OS expertise does Novell bring to the table that SuSE didn't already have? The last _desktop_ OS Novell produced was Novel DOS 7. (Or was it 8?)
It's Enterprise experience, not desktop, that is the resource Novell is bringing to the corporate market.
GNOME vs KDE isn't the issue there, it's Enterprise directory services and the ability for Joe User's login account across 2000 computers to be removed the instant the HR department fires him.
It's Virtual Office, iPrint, iFile and the other corporate desktop user orientied services that they offer.
Why is it always a good thing to be able to fork a software?
Because it meets the needs of the users. Look at Red Hat. They drop support of their old products but the user base still supports it with the legacy projects.
Handled like gasoline cars or better Accelerated like gasoline cars or better Had every other feature of gasoline cars or better
Or is close to what a gasoline car can do, but cheaper.
Personally I think fuel prices are just too cheap for alternatives right now. It's why no one cares that their SUV only gets 10 miles to the gallon instead of 40 that a compact will bring them.
As the prices go up though, people will start to want alternatives.
As such they are trying to be all things to all people (their own OS, own directory services, own productivity, etc.). I support the effort, but there are two many years and too much functionality of built up Microsfot competitive status to comprehensively replace in one package.
Er, not quite. First off NDS(now eDirectory) has been around longer than ADS, so Novell is hardly trying to match what MS is doing. What they are trying to do is put their services on top of Linux which badly needs that level of Enterprise functionality.
I've used Linux for close to 10 years and have been a senior Linux admin for the past 6. I just got my Novell Certified Linux Engineer certification(which covers their enterprise systems) and I can tell you it's a very good match for Linux.
The fact is that France, because of the Academie Francaise, is preventing language degeneration, unlike in the US, where any word you want you can put in a dictionary and people will start to use it.
Actually, thank you for this explanation as I hadn't considered that this was what France was doing. I've been REALLY concerned about how the English language is going to look in 50 years.
I mean, languages evolve and change and so on, you can't stop it, but if I were to pick up and read something written 500 years ago in English I could probably make out what it says fairly easily. Some of the words will have changed, there may be some words I don't know, but in general it'll still be the English I use today.
But in the last 10 years alone the internet has made all sorts of abbreviations like "u, 2, thx, cya, teh, k, gtg" and so on so common that it scares me to think what the language will be like in the next decade, nevermind the next century.
Here's my question: what if I want to make commercial software released under the GPL, and provide the source to my paying customers, do I have to buy a license?
If your software is released under the GPL, you do not have to buy a license. You are able to use the GPL QT libraries.
What if I don't sell the software but provide support for 120/hr?
Go right ahead. In fact, feel free to sell the software too if you'd like.
What if I GPL my software, including the Qt libs, and my customer turns around and sells it to 4000 other people, with source under the GPL? Do they have to get a commercial license?
They don't.
The answers aren't so obvious. Once something is GPL'd, it's not that easy to turn around and say: "Woah, sorry, no you can't use it anymore."
Actually the answers are pretty obvious, if you understand the GPL. If you plan on releasing your product under the GPL you can use the GPL libs. If you want to release your product under a closed source license, you have to buy the closed source compatible licensed libraries from Trolltech.
From chat on the Gentoo forums, it looks as though it's simply because even using OpenGL in Linux, UT2004 is optimised for Windows and DirectX and that's it.
Err no, it's because you have an ATI card. ATI card support blows under Linux because the company hasn't cared enough to put out decent drivers. So it's no suprised the game runs worse for you under Linux than Windows.
Yes, but it wasn't overused and overdone back then. It's like the Matrix bullet dodge slow motion effect. See it once or twice, it's pretty cool. But after 100 times it's stale and tired.
Apparently it was a conference attended by Tony Blair(PM of Britain) and Bill Gates. The press picked up the doodle thinking it was Tony Blair and had psy guys analyze it and come up with the "not a leader", "mentally unfocused" and so on analysis.
Then after publishing all that they found out it was Bill Gates' doodles. He may not be mentally focused or a leader, but he just happens to be the wealthiest man in the world.
I'd consider myself an "advanced" user, been using Linux since 1993 or so and am a full time Linux admin. Ubuntu is a very nice distribution because it just works and is very stable. It takes the best aspects of Debian and creates a stable up-to-date desktop distribution based on GNOME.
Gentoo, FC3, and Debian unstable are great but you also spend a lot of your time updating and tweaking the operating system. And even advanced users get tired of constantly managing their OS at some point:)
As for speed, Ubuntu has fewer services starting than Fedora does. It's more locked down by default(for example, no sshd). No idea why your system was so slow. I've run FC3 and Gentoo on my current box and Ubuntu performs the same. If it was slower, I'd notice it as I've run performance comparisons on World of Warcraft running under both FC3 and Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is not a newbie distribution. It's the best GNOME based dist out if you just want something that runs and doesn't need constant managing. That may make it good for newbies, but it doesn't make mean more advanced users wouldn't like it.
Enterprise has a really good cast, but the format or even the Star Trek genre is just stale and tired right now. I think the Star Trek universe could use a good 10 year break.
Right now we have shows like Stargate, Stargate: Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica which are fresh and kick a lot of butt. Galactica in particular is very good and a refreshing break from the same old same old that's a standard Star Trek episode.
I like Enterprise and watch it, but only because I'm a sci-fi junkie. We need newer and interesting shows, but unfortunately I think Berman only knows how to pump out the same ole tripe.
I mean it's just as easy to point out all the violence in the world, note that it's mostly male and say "they're not worthy of education because of what they'll do with it".
Yes and really most violent acts ARE committed by men and ignoring the fact hasn't helped that any.
We are very much animals driven by our natural instincts, however unlike other animals we have the ability to recognize our biological selves and rise above it. But you can only do that if you recognize the issues.
If we could recogonize and accept that men and women have born and bred problems then perhaps we could train around those systems. If there are male genes that cause violence then maybe men should be taught how to modify their bahavior to prevent those instincts.
Pretty much what the others said. But in addition Evolution comes with a free plugin that will allow you to use it with a MS Exchange mail server backend and it also works with Groupwise.
I'm guessing Novell is doing this for a better supported Windows email client that will work with their Groupwise mail system which now runs on Linux servers.
Windows Server 2003 Web Edition is $399. Per year that's $79.80 for 5 years or $39.90 for 10 years.
Except that those prices don't include any support contracts. If you call Microsoft with a problem you'd better have a credit card ready.
I can download Fedora Core for free and get free updates if I wanted to go the cheap route.
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The stuff might start off expensive, but eventually the process will be refined and more mass producable. A lot of processes start off like that: at first only the wealthy can afford it, then it becomes more common and mainstream.
The important thing is to get the initial process or idea out there in the first place. Then you can get people to work on it and refine it. But you need the right balance of: reward the inventors vs allow others to mass produce it.
If you don't reward the inventors, then you take away the incentive to think this stuff up. But on the other hand you can't let them keep a monopoly on it forever.
If the player feels that he can dispose of his character at any time, then the player inevitably doesn't care very much about his character. This works in a short term FPS model, but not so much in a game which is depending upon long term commitment.
First off many FPS games have been around as long as or longer than MMORPGs, so that arguement right there doesn't hold up. But players stick around in MMORPGs not because death penalties somehow give their characters depth, but because of the player community and because of the long term achievement goals.
I can't wait until World of Warcraft blows this myth out of the water.
Tivo has slowly been piling on advertisement after advertisement onto their boxes anyway. I'm already paying 13 bucks a month for their service(which is basically just a program guide listing), I don't need the ads.
If it's annoying enough maybe it'll finally motivate me to finish building my own PVR and save a 150 bucks a year.
Technologies get in the way of accuracy by adding steps. Each additional step means more potential errors, simply because no technology is perfect. Consider an optical-scan voting system. The voter fills in ovals on a piece of paper, which is fed into an optical-scan reader. The reader senses the filled-in ovals and tabulates the votes. This system has several steps: voter to ballot to ovals to optical reader to vote tabulator to centralized total.
A manual system has the same issues: voter to ballot to checkbox to person reading the checks to guy counting the votes to the central place holding all the tallies.
Computers just do it faster, make fewer mistakes and don't care who wins the election.
The problem isn't the errors, the errors can be fixed with better interfaces and solid code, it's the lack of proper checks in place to detect those errors and make sure the system isn't abused.
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Optical media doesn't last forever by any stretch of the imagination. Figure your WORM media disks will have a shelf life of 20-30 years.
So like, what if you refuse to pay the disconnection fee. Do they just not disconnect you?
I've had my Tivo for 3 or 4 years and each year it seems like I end up with more junk advertising all over the box.
Uh... what desktop OS expertise does Novell bring to the table that SuSE didn't already have? The last _desktop_ OS Novell produced was Novel DOS 7. (Or was it 8?)
It's Enterprise experience, not desktop, that is the resource Novell is bringing to the corporate market.
GNOME vs KDE isn't the issue there, it's Enterprise directory services and the ability for Joe User's login account across 2000 computers to be removed the instant the HR department fires him.
It's Virtual Office, iPrint, iFile and the other corporate desktop user orientied services that they offer.
Why is it always a good thing to be able to fork a software?
Because it meets the needs of the users. Look at Red Hat. They drop support of their old products but the user base still supports it with the legacy projects.
Handled like gasoline cars or better
Accelerated like gasoline cars or better
Had every other feature of gasoline cars or better
Or is close to what a gasoline car can do, but cheaper.
Personally I think fuel prices are just too cheap for alternatives right now. It's why no one cares that their SUV only gets 10 miles to the gallon instead of 40 that a compact will bring them.
As the prices go up though, people will start to want alternatives.
As such they are trying to be all things to all people (their own OS, own directory services, own productivity, etc.). I support the effort, but there are two many years and too much functionality of built up Microsfot competitive status to comprehensively replace in one package.
Er, not quite. First off NDS(now eDirectory) has been around longer than ADS, so Novell is hardly trying to match what MS is doing. What they are trying to do is put their services on top of Linux which badly needs that level of Enterprise functionality.
I've used Linux for close to 10 years and have been a senior Linux admin for the past 6. I just got my Novell Certified Linux Engineer certification(which covers their enterprise systems) and I can tell you it's a very good match for Linux.
The fact is that France, because of the Academie Francaise, is preventing language degeneration, unlike in the US, where any word you want you can put in a dictionary and people will start to use it.
Actually, thank you for this explanation as I hadn't considered that this was what France was doing. I've been REALLY concerned about how the English language is going to look in 50 years.
I mean, languages evolve and change and so on, you can't stop it, but if I were to pick up and read something written 500 years ago in English I could probably make out what it says fairly easily. Some of the words will have changed, there may be some words I don't know, but in general it'll still be the English I use today.
But in the last 10 years alone the internet has made all sorts of abbreviations like "u, 2, thx, cya, teh, k, gtg" and so on so common that it scares me to think what the language will be like in the next decade, nevermind the next century.
To clear up your questions:
Here's my question: what if I want to make commercial software released under the GPL, and provide the source to my paying customers, do I have to buy a license?
If your software is released under the GPL, you do not have to buy a license. You are able to use the GPL QT libraries.
What if I don't sell the software but provide support for 120/hr?
Go right ahead. In fact, feel free to sell the software too if you'd like.
What if I GPL my software, including the Qt libs, and my customer turns around and sells it to 4000 other people, with source under the GPL? Do they have to get a commercial license?
They don't.
The answers aren't so obvious. Once something is GPL'd, it's not that easy to turn around and say: "Woah, sorry, no you can't use it anymore."
Actually the answers are pretty obvious, if you understand the GPL. If you plan on releasing your product under the GPL you can use the GPL libs. If you want to release your product under a closed source license, you have to buy the closed source compatible licensed libraries from Trolltech.
From chat on the Gentoo forums, it looks as though it's simply because even using OpenGL in Linux, UT2004 is optimised for Windows and DirectX and that's it.
Err no, it's because you have an ATI card. ATI card support blows under Linux because the company hasn't cared enough to put out decent drivers. So it's no suprised the game runs worse for you under Linux than Windows.
Yes, but it wasn't overused and overdone back then. It's like the Matrix bullet dodge slow motion effect. See it once or twice, it's pretty cool. But after 100 times it's stale and tired.
Apparently it was a conference attended by Tony Blair(PM of Britain) and Bill Gates. The press picked up the doodle thinking it was Tony Blair and had psy guys analyze it and come up with the "not a leader", "mentally unfocused" and so on analysis.
Then after publishing all that they found out it was Bill Gates' doodles. He may not be mentally focused or a leader, but he just happens to be the wealthiest man in the world.
I'd consider myself an "advanced" user, been using Linux since 1993 or so and am a full time Linux admin. Ubuntu is a very nice distribution because it just works and is very stable. It takes the best aspects of Debian and creates a stable up-to-date desktop distribution based on GNOME.
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Gentoo, FC3, and Debian unstable are great but you also spend a lot of your time updating and tweaking the operating system. And even advanced users get tired of constantly managing their OS at some point
As for speed, Ubuntu has fewer services starting than Fedora does. It's more locked down by default(for example, no sshd). No idea why your system was so slow. I've run FC3 and Gentoo on my current box and Ubuntu performs the same. If it was slower, I'd notice it as I've run performance comparisons on World of Warcraft running under both FC3 and Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is not a newbie distribution. It's the best GNOME based dist out if you just want something that runs and doesn't need constant managing. That may make it good for newbies, but it doesn't make mean more advanced users wouldn't like it.
Enterprise has a really good cast, but the format or even the Star Trek genre is just stale and tired right now. I think the Star Trek universe could use a good 10 year break.
Right now we have shows like Stargate, Stargate: Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica which are fresh and kick a lot of butt. Galactica in particular is very good and a refreshing break from the same old same old that's a standard Star Trek episode.
I like Enterprise and watch it, but only because I'm a sci-fi junkie. We need newer and interesting shows, but unfortunately I think Berman only knows how to pump out the same ole tripe.
I mean it's just as easy to point out all the violence in the world, note that it's mostly male and say "they're not worthy of education because of what they'll do with it".
Yes and really most violent acts ARE committed by men and ignoring the fact hasn't helped that any.
We are very much animals driven by our natural instincts, however unlike other animals we have the ability to recognize our biological selves and rise above it. But you can only do that if you recognize the issues.
If we could recogonize and accept that men and women have born and bred problems then perhaps we could train around those systems. If there are male genes that cause violence then maybe men should be taught how to modify their bahavior to prevent those instincts.
Evolution is free. It uses OWA to connect to the exchange server so whatever licensing you need for that still applies though.
Pretty much what the others said. But in addition Evolution comes with a free plugin that will allow you to use it with a MS Exchange mail server backend and it also works with Groupwise.
I'm guessing Novell is doing this for a better supported Windows email client that will work with their Groupwise mail system which now runs on Linux servers.
People sure don't seem to be gushing about EQ2 and it came out at the same time WoW did.
The simple truth is that the guy is right, WoW is shattering a lot of long held silly beliefs about how MMORPGs should be designed.
Windows Server 2003 Web Edition is $399. Per year that's $79.80 for 5 years or $39.90 for 10 years.
Except that those prices don't include any support contracts. If you call Microsoft with a problem you'd better have a credit card ready.
I can download Fedora Core for free and get free updates if I wanted to go the cheap route.
The stuff might start off expensive, but eventually the process will be refined and more mass producable. A lot of processes start off like that: at first only the wealthy can afford it, then it becomes more common and mainstream.
The important thing is to get the initial process or idea out there in the first place. Then you can get people to work on it and refine it. But you need the right balance of: reward the inventors vs allow others to mass produce it.
If you don't reward the inventors, then you take away the incentive to think this stuff up. But on the other hand you can't let them keep a monopoly on it forever.
If the player feels that he can dispose of his character at any time, then the player inevitably doesn't care very much about his character. This works in a short term FPS model, but not so much in a game which is depending upon long term commitment.
First off many FPS games have been around as long as or longer than MMORPGs, so that arguement right there doesn't hold up. But players stick around in MMORPGs not because death penalties somehow give their characters depth, but because of the player community and because of the long term achievement goals.
I can't wait until World of Warcraft blows this myth out of the water.
One of the things Japan does with their infrastructure is they run everything overhead.
Wouldn't last one hurricane season down here in Florida.
Tivo has slowly been piling on advertisement after advertisement onto their boxes anyway. I'm already paying 13 bucks a month for their service(which is basically just a program guide listing), I don't need the ads.
If it's annoying enough maybe it'll finally motivate me to finish building my own PVR and save a 150 bucks a year.
It replaced telnet/rsh and wrapped your X session so you no longer had to deal with xhost this and xhost that.
It also let X pierce firewalls.
Technologies get in the way of accuracy by adding steps. Each additional step means more potential errors, simply because no technology is perfect. Consider an optical-scan voting system. The voter fills in ovals on a piece of paper, which is fed into an optical-scan reader. The reader senses the filled-in ovals and tabulates the votes. This system has several steps: voter to ballot to ovals to optical reader to vote tabulator to centralized total.
A manual system has the same issues: voter to ballot to checkbox to person reading the checks to guy counting the votes to the central place holding all the tallies.
Computers just do it faster, make fewer mistakes and don't care who wins the election.
The problem isn't the errors, the errors can be fixed with better interfaces and solid code, it's the lack of proper checks in place to detect those errors and make sure the system isn't abused.