Please keep on reading those release notes... Perl 5.7.0 does NOT have "full Unicode support". It has some Unicode bugs fixed compared to 5.6.0, but that's it.
this is the Perl patch pumpking (release wrangler, if you will) speaking. Please read the announcement letter carefully. The bottom line: you should NOT install 5.7.0 into production use. Unless you know who are the perl5-porters, what is perlbug, and preferably, how to pronounce my name:-) you should not even think about installing 5.7.0.
A pretty neat free site that offers comparison between dozens of Internet bookshops. You can see that Amazon is not the only one, and certainly not the cheapiest nor the speediest. No, I am not affiliated, except as a satisfied user.
Most of the readers seem to be unable to read so I wonder what they are frothing about, they couldn't have read the article.
The author isn't going to take away your CLI or your favorite window damagers or your favorite distro or anybody's freedom of choice or the poweruser interface. He is suggesting
*A* *NEW* *DISTRIBUTION*
that, in want of a better name, is called Linux for the Masses. A distribution that builds a GUI that "everybody's mother and accountant" can use.
Now repeat after me: you don't have to use that.
HCI isn't about building cooler looking widget sets or choosing sexier background images.
Linux is a kernel. You can write whatever set of utilities, daemons, and whatnot you want around it.
As the writer, I am also quite sick of the elitism of most red-eyed Linux nerds. Don't get me wrong: I myself use Linux. But I also use *BSD. I would use NeXTs if I still had access to them.
First and foremost I am a heavy-duty CLI user: my shell is zsh, my script language is Perl. And I count myself as a power user: 12 years now doing UNIX, 10 years as a "power user" (system admin in one or more machines.) But if I find a good CLI, I use it. (This phenomenon is very rare.)
But *demanding* that the user interface of Linux (or *BSD) stay user-hostile and painful is pure lunacy and advocates of such such be sentenced to end-user telephone support for the minimum of three years. They won't last four weeks. Those claiming that a user that can't handle more than two windows simultaneously is a moron should take a look in the mirror and ask themselves *why* would a Joe Random Luser *need* more than two windows (applications) simultaneously.
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Universal Translators?
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I'd take this with huge lumps of salt, thank you. First of all: since when even *recording* speech to text has been solved? Without the text form translating between languages sounds like hogwash. Oh yes, we humans can do it, witness simultaneous translation in UN and so, but a machine doing it now? Maybe in few decades or so when they work out about gazillion big and small problems in speech processing and natural language processing, let alone translating. But now? Rubbish.
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Please keep on reading those release notes... Perl 5.7.0 does NOT have "full Unicode support". It has some Unicode bugs fixed compared to 5.6.0, but that's it.
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this is the Perl patch pumpking (release wrangler, if you will) speaking. Please read the announcement letter carefully. The bottom line: you should NOT install 5.7.0 into production use. Unless you know who are the perl5-porters, what is perlbug, and preferably, how to pronounce my name :-) you should not even think about installing 5.7.0.
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jhi@iki.fi
A pretty neat free site that offers comparison
between dozens of Internet bookshops. You can see that Amazon is not the only one, and certainly not the cheapiest nor the speediest. No, I am
not affiliated, except as a satisfied user.
Most of the readers seem to be unable to read
so I wonder what they are frothing about, they
couldn't have read the article.
The author isn't going to take away your CLI or
your favorite window damagers or your favorite
distro or anybody's freedom of choice or the
poweruser interface. He is suggesting
*A* *NEW* *DISTRIBUTION*
that, in want of a better name, is called
Linux for the Masses. A distribution that
builds a GUI that "everybody's mother and
accountant" can use.
Now repeat after me: you don't have to use that.
HCI isn't about building cooler looking widget
sets or choosing sexier background images.
Linux is a kernel. You can write whatever
set of utilities, daemons, and whatnot you
want around it.
As the writer, I am also quite sick of the
elitism of most red-eyed Linux nerds. Don't
get me wrong: I myself use Linux. But I also
use *BSD. I would use NeXTs if I still had
access to them.
First and foremost I am a heavy-duty CLI user: my shell is zsh, my script language is Perl. And I
count myself as a power user: 12 years now
doing UNIX, 10 years as a "power user" (system
admin in one or more machines.) But if I find
a good CLI, I use it. (This phenomenon is very
rare.)
But *demanding* that the user interface of
Linux (or *BSD) stay user-hostile and painful
is pure lunacy and advocates of such such be
sentenced to end-user telephone support for
the minimum of three years. They won't last
four weeks. Those claiming that a user that
can't handle more than two windows simultaneously
is a moron should take a look in the mirror
and ask themselves *why* would a Joe Random
Luser *need* more than two windows (applications)
simultaneously.
I'd take this with huge lumps of salt, thank you.
First of all: since when even *recording* speech
to text has been solved? Without the text form
translating between languages sounds like hogwash.
Oh yes, we humans can do it, witness simultaneous
translation in UN and so, but a machine doing it
now? Maybe in few decades or so when they work out about gazillion big and small problems in speech processing and natural language processing, let alone translating. But now? Rubbish.