well, you could install Gentoo Linux (don't need to compile a first installation) and emerge mplayer... all the codecs I know of is in there. Anyway it is not intuitive to download many different codecs for mediaplayer in windoze either (or download QT-player, but who wants a whole bunch of apps for the different codecs).
If SCO should succeed, which is clearly not looking like the case, governments around the world would overrule it, because of the good of society. There already many OSS-zealots in governments (I see linux-jobs all the time around European governments). The DVD-issue will surely fade out, when harddisks takes over (already happening, I know a lot of people that rips their own DVDs to DivX or such, just to have it easy available on their computer). I believe that DVDs don't exist in 5 years or so anymore, everyone buys/lent them through the Internet.
(I will take the discussion:)
There is huge gap between the "desktop culture" and the OSS-culture, because that was the idea about it. It is up to the distributors to make it "desktop-friendly" (and taking care of businesses), the developers have no obligation legally (like the Linux-kernel is a project for fun, not to make money. But who knew that their high competences actually would pay off for them in the end). Socially we should keep the division between the developers and the business-people, it is not a company, where developers are dictated by suits. OSS-projects are developed by the requests, bugfixing and suggestions of users (probably not joe-sixpack-users, but w00t-users or l33t-users). The Gentoo-Linux project keeps a close contact to their users by having a simple forum, where users not only cry, complain and suggest new additions, but also learns to behave as a OSS-user (if you find an error, search (and post) a bug-report!).
you are talking about Linux-distributions, not the Linux-kernel.
1) I use gentoo, and have no problem with flash & PDFs in MozillaFirebird... haven't given much though about integrated movies (really don't care)
2) Use ximian-oo, or better gnome-office (abiword and gnumeric are quite good for MS-documents)
3) Gnumeric
4) 3rd button?
5) I just: emerge sync & emerge -u world:) surely a apt-get could argue just as good
I don't care about 1% improvement either, but surely like the better responsiveness in X.
I get the same feeling... especially with 2.6.0-test5... test4 had some difficulties with XFree86 (mouse and windows would flicker or be quite inresponsive). I have no idea if it is faster, but I really don't care. The responsiveness is a great win, and the easiness of cryptoloop, but I thought they had stopped with SCSI-emulating IDE-CDR, this really annoys me.
!= EU, Switzerland and Monaco are Contracting States as well
Norway is also a contracting state. Weird that countries want to enjoy the Internal Market, pay the price with all the directives (laws) and still no decision-right on these same directives. Oh well, looks like my country (there is something rotten going on in this country, Armled!) is next (election this spring, so I heard, no=out of EU, so they said).
I never used the word "good"... I would like it to be a federation, where we, the people, have direct influence to the powers. But at the moment, I am not liking EU at all, because of:
1. Amendment of Software Patents (showing the stupidity of the representatives in EU),
2. No real consequenses for the "lazy countries" in the Euro-zone (showing the naivitity of the union),
3. The union is based on diplomacy, not democracy (need to move further).
Since EU has no real power, the discusion about democracy is overrated, every memberstate could just leave the EU. If the majority of a country cannot do this, it is not EU that is the problem, but the memberstate that you are living in, who has a democratic problem.
In my country, we have to vote for any changes to our constitution, and thereby the faith of a treaty (all memberstates have to accept a treaty before it can be accepted as total law). It makes us unpopular in Europe (for the EU-fanatics), but it gives us (the people) time to reflect on our situation. It could have been nice to vote on the amendment though:(
sorry, I haven't started counting yet... But from naming them, I think you are right: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Malta, Cypres, Slovenia, and the other candidates are Romania, Bulgaria, and at last Turkey (which is wayout in the future (if ever))
(I probably didn't write everyone right, I am not native english).
It is hard to compare it, since the EU is 15 (soon 20) individual countries with their own campaigns. The elections for the EU-Parlaments goes quite quiet in my country (Denmark), while the national elections are typically split up in The Liberals/Conservatives (payed by the industry) and The Socialdemocrats/Socialists (payed by the unions). I think many other countries in Europe are the same way?
Lobbism typically happens at the EU-Commision and Council, since they decide the faith of the Internal Market.
to emphasize:
EU-Parlament: elected every 4th year by the people.
EU-Commision: selected by the governments (that are elected by each country's people)
EU-Council: based on a theme, representatives of the governments from each country gather (again they are elected by each country's people).
The discussion about EU's (or to come soon, the European Federation) parlament is that they have no real power, but they keep discussions happening, which could influence the commisions and/or the councils. But remember that EU is an experiment, not a script to follow. (I hope) We are not to become a new-roman empire like other federations.
DirectX can only be used through Wine on Linux (and MacOSX?)... The discussion about DirectX is quite superficial, since it doesn't have a native port for *nices. LibSDL does a good job, and that is why Loki used it (Read the book "Programming Linux Games"). Programming OpenGL is done in a fly and you can choose from many programming-languages like C, C++, Python, Java. BTW, LibSDL is not freeware, it is Free Software, and it doesn't limit itself to one platform (works on *nix, windows and many more).
I don't think that you can count density by light. The US uses at least the double of energy than Europe, which has a population that is three times as big (and dense). A year ago (or more?) Belgium was having lights on all of their highways all night long, which can cheat (eventhough it is a dense country).
I ask the same for Denmark... some months ago another survey (can't find it though) counted it to be next to South Korea and other Broadband-dense countries (Number 1 in Europe with 8% broadband-use, 95% of the population is covered). It is all about investment (government and industry), not about human density. Sweden has the highest computer per capita in the world, followed by Denmark and Norway.
Just tried it (as he said later, remove the pdf in the link, and download 3dfm, configure, make, make install).
It is quite nice done, pretty fast and a nice overview. It looks like most of the features already are done, and there is also preferences... Since it compiled that easy, I will propose it to Gentoo.
It'd be rediculously trivial to have a.zaa file format that uses a form of compression along with a header with a checksum, description, etc to ensure that the file it claims it has, really is that file.
Lets call it edonkey/overnet mixed with forums like sharereactor.com. Users have been trying to control this network for long, and it is quite succesful. Sure kiddie-pr0n is still there, but with the forum, the search-function seems obsolete (and it is quite useless anyway).
a better solution is to use this link instead, it comes from IBM's homepage and is in a slightly better quality (mpeg):
click to download (cannot use Save Link As...)
but for optimal use, you still need to set it up. The reason that you cannot compare it to windows, is that you have the freedom to choose and modify your own kernel, whereas in windoze you get a service-pack that either works or not. Tweaking is the power of freedom, and when you "dare" to take the step to do it, it is fscking easy (even easier in 2.6).
Well, except if he changed his username (and email) this was his first SCO post. But you are right, there are fixed SCO stories for this at breakfast, lunch and dinner only on/. (As Seen On The Internet)
Like people sitting in tight suits in cubicles are trustworthy. If you want to develop for OSS you don't need to gain their trust (in most cases), just not misuse it. If you are violating the GPL, the developers have full power to cut support for those who did it. That is what the GPL is about, protecting individuals, who wants to develop free software. Forking is not disallowed though, but they still need to get the original project's accept if they choose another license.
Alan Cox is involved in discussions around (July XFree86 Open Discussion Mailing List), and is not ignored when speaking. I really liked what he did for the 2.2 to keep it strong, and when he comes back, the 2.4 might be waiting for him for the same task.
hmm, weird, I thought that was Scandinavian / Japanese functionalistic design. Everytime Danish companies produces to the german market (40% export goes to Germany), it has to be (or look like) luxurious products, with corny gold, leather and (black) wood-impregnated designs. And yes, I know Germans and their homes, because I live by the border and half my family live in Germany (or used to).
This really proves that a lot of this gets copied around in the UNIX-family (no trademark). Probably SCO copied at a time, and later some guy from the Linux kernel took it from BSD too. Maybe BSD even took it from AT&T back then, who knows. This claim can only be seen as totally irrelevant, since it has been public code/comment at least since 1984. In the Linux kernel you can see they copied the comment without any change, while SCO added an extra comment to it. Proves nothing, but doesn't disapprove anything (calculates all the double wording in my head. You get what I think, because I don't *grin*)
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well, you could install Gentoo Linux (don't need to compile a first installation) and emerge mplayer ... all the codecs I know of is in there. Anyway it is not intuitive to download many different codecs for mediaplayer in windoze either (or download QT-player, but who wants a whole bunch of apps for the different codecs).
If SCO should succeed, which is clearly not looking like the case, governments around the world would overrule it, because of the good of society. There already many OSS-zealots in governments (I see linux-jobs all the time around European governments). The DVD-issue will surely fade out, when harddisks takes over (already happening, I know a lot of people that rips their own DVDs to DivX or such, just to have it easy available on their computer). I believe that DVDs don't exist in 5 years or so anymore, everyone buys/lent them through the Internet.
:)
(I will take the discussion
There is huge gap between the "desktop culture" and the OSS-culture, because that was the idea about it. It is up to the distributors to make it "desktop-friendly" (and taking care of businesses), the developers have no obligation legally (like the Linux-kernel is a project for fun, not to make money. But who knew that their high competences actually would pay off for them in the end). Socially we should keep the division between the developers and the business-people, it is not a company, where developers are dictated by suits. OSS-projects are developed by the requests, bugfixing and suggestions of users (probably not joe-sixpack-users, but w00t-users or l33t-users). The Gentoo-Linux project keeps a close contact to their users by having a simple forum, where users not only cry, complain and suggest new additions, but also learns to behave as a OSS-user (if you find an error, search (and post) a bug-report!).
ok, I haven't even tried ... just noticed the option still were there, and felt like not going through that trouble again. Cool, lets burn them! :o=)
you are talking about Linux-distributions, not the Linux-kernel.
... haven't given much though about integrated movies (really don't care) :) surely a apt-get could argue just as good
1) I use gentoo, and have no problem with flash & PDFs in MozillaFirebird
2) Use ximian-oo, or better gnome-office (abiword and gnumeric are quite good for MS-documents)
3) Gnumeric
4) 3rd button?
5) I just: emerge sync & emerge -u world
I don't care about 1% improvement either, but surely like the better responsiveness in X.
I get the same feeling ... especially with 2.6.0-test5 ... test4 had some difficulties with XFree86 (mouse and windows would flicker or be quite inresponsive). I have no idea if it is faster, but I really don't care. The responsiveness is a great win, and the easiness of cryptoloop, but I thought they had stopped with SCSI-emulating IDE-CDR, this really annoys me.
hmm, lucky them :) I had not any idea what contracting meant, but I thought it was about those countries, who are part of EFTA.
!= EU, Switzerland and Monaco are Contracting States as well
Norway is also a contracting state. Weird that countries want to enjoy the Internal Market, pay the price with all the directives (laws) and still no decision-right on these same directives. Oh well, looks like my country (there is something rotten going on in this country, Armled!) is next (election this spring, so I heard, no=out of EU, so they said).
I never used the word "good" ... I would like it to be a federation, where we, the people, have direct influence to the powers. But at the moment, I am not liking EU at all, because of:
:(
1. Amendment of Software Patents (showing the stupidity of the representatives in EU),
2. No real consequenses for the "lazy countries" in the Euro-zone (showing the naivitity of the union),
3. The union is based on diplomacy, not democracy (need to move further).
Since EU has no real power, the discusion about democracy is overrated, every memberstate could just leave the EU. If the majority of a country cannot do this, it is not EU that is the problem, but the memberstate that you are living in, who has a democratic problem.
In my country, we have to vote for any changes to our constitution, and thereby the faith of a treaty (all memberstates have to accept a treaty before it can be accepted as total law). It makes us unpopular in Europe (for the EU-fanatics), but it gives us (the people) time to reflect on our situation. It could have been nice to vote on the amendment though
sorry, I haven't started counting yet ... But from naming them, I think you are right: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Malta, Cypres, Slovenia, and the other candidates are Romania, Bulgaria, and at last Turkey (which is wayout in the future (if ever))
(I probably didn't write everyone right, I am not native english).
It is hard to compare it, since the EU is 15 (soon 20) individual countries with their own campaigns. The elections for the EU-Parlaments goes quite quiet in my country (Denmark), while the national elections are typically split up in The Liberals/Conservatives (payed by the industry) and The Socialdemocrats/Socialists (payed by the unions). I think many other countries in Europe are the same way?
Lobbism typically happens at the EU-Commision and Council, since they decide the faith of the Internal Market.
to emphasize:
EU-Parlament: elected every 4th year by the people.
EU-Commision: selected by the governments (that are elected by each country's people)
EU-Council: based on a theme, representatives of the governments from each country gather (again they are elected by each country's people).
The discussion about EU's (or to come soon, the European Federation) parlament is that they have no real power, but they keep discussions happening, which could influence the commisions and/or the councils. But remember that EU is an experiment, not a script to follow. (I hope) We are not to become a new-roman empire like other federations.
DirectX can only be used through Wine on Linux (and MacOSX?) ... The discussion about DirectX is quite superficial, since it doesn't have a native port for *nices. LibSDL does a good job, and that is why Loki used it (Read the book "Programming Linux Games"). Programming OpenGL is done in a fly and you can choose from many programming-languages like C, C++, Python, Java. BTW, LibSDL is not freeware, it is Free Software, and it doesn't limit itself to one platform (works on *nix, windows and many more).
I don't think that you can count density by light. The US uses at least the double of energy than Europe, which has a population that is three times as big (and dense). A year ago (or more?) Belgium was having lights on all of their highways all night long, which can cheat (eventhough it is a dense country).
I ask the same for Denmark ... some months ago another survey (can't find it though) counted it to be next to South Korea and other Broadband-dense countries (Number 1 in Europe with 8% broadband-use, 95% of the population is covered). It is all about investment (government and industry), not about human density. Sweden has the highest computer per capita in the world, followed by Denmark and Norway.
Just tried it (as he said later, remove the pdf in the link, and download 3dfm, configure, make, make install). It is quite nice done, pretty fast and a nice overview. It looks like most of the features already are done, and there is also preferences ... Since it compiled that easy, I will propose it to Gentoo.
This is another one again: FSV
It'd be rediculously trivial to have a .zaa file format that uses a form of compression along with a header with a checksum, description, etc to ensure that the file it claims it has, really is that file.
Lets call it edonkey/overnet mixed with forums like sharereactor.com. Users have been trying to control this network for long, and it is quite succesful. Sure kiddie-pr0n is still there, but with the forum, the search-function seems obsolete (and it is quite useless anyway).
a better solution is to use this link instead, it comes from IBM's homepage and is in a slightly better quality (mpeg): click to download (cannot use Save Link As...)
but for optimal use, you still need to set it up. The reason that you cannot compare it to windows, is that you have the freedom to choose and modify your own kernel, whereas in windoze you get a service-pack that either works or not. Tweaking is the power of freedom, and when you "dare" to take the step to do it, it is fscking easy (even easier in 2.6).
godt sa :)
Well, except if he changed his username (and email) this was his first SCO post. But you are right, there are fixed SCO stories for this at breakfast, lunch and dinner only on /. (As Seen On The Internet)
Like people sitting in tight suits in cubicles are trustworthy. If you want to develop for OSS you don't need to gain their trust (in most cases), just not misuse it. If you are violating the GPL, the developers have full power to cut support for those who did it. That is what the GPL is about, protecting individuals, who wants to develop free software. Forking is not disallowed though, but they still need to get the original project's accept if they choose another license.
Alan Cox is involved in discussions around (July XFree86 Open Discussion Mailing List), and is not ignored when speaking. I really liked what he did for the 2.2 to keep it strong, and when he comes back, the 2.4 might be waiting for him for the same task.
hmm, weird, I thought that was Scandinavian / Japanese functionalistic design. Everytime Danish companies produces to the german market (40% export goes to Germany), it has to be (or look like) luxurious products, with corny gold, leather and (black) wood-impregnated designs. And yes, I know Germans and their homes, because I live by the border and half my family live in Germany (or used to).
This really proves that a lot of this gets copied around in the UNIX-family (no trademark). Probably SCO copied at a time, and later some guy from the Linux kernel took it from BSD too. Maybe BSD even took it from AT&T back then, who knows. This claim can only be seen as totally irrelevant, since it has been public code/comment at least since 1984. In the Linux kernel you can see they copied the comment without any change, while SCO added an extra comment to it. Proves nothing, but doesn't disapprove anything (calculates all the double wording in my head. You get what I think, because I don't *grin*)