You can run RHEL3 binaries in RHEL4 however. And you can happily run Linux 1.0 binaries on the latest linux development snapshot. Thats because Linux DOES have a stable ABI: The syscall interface. That's the REAL ABI the Linux kernel has to support, and it's the one that it's really guaranteed to be stable. What you think as an abi it's not an "abi", it's an INTERNAL ABI. Drivers are not "software built in top of the kernel", they're plugins. And Linux developers do not care about it because linux is open source, in the open source world you can change source easily and it gets usually merged into the kernel. Basically, the Linux kernel gets more benefit from a internal unstable ABI that gets changed when it's needed and that improves all the linux drivers, than getting a stable internal ABI that only benefits a couple of external OSS drivers and another couple of propietary, illegal drivers.
Linux has no direction, no goals
That's what happens when you give everybody freedom to modify your code; everybody extends Linux in unexpected directions, that happen to be the directions the people (profesional world) desires because it's the people (profesional world) who actually develops the features. For example, some people have made Linux scale in machines with way more CPUS of what your beloved Solaris has ever run, and now other people are adding hard realtime support to the core Linux kernel, which happens to make Linux beat latency records on Wall Street servers. It all was unexpected; IT however seems to like it.
What I was interested in, was connecting to GTalk for VoIP. That isn't supported right now.
And that's after two years of development. It's laughable that slashdot needs to quote "smooth-scroll" and "new icons" as a major "feature".
Seriously, this is crazy. There's no webcam support - something that messenger has been doing since forever, and it's a major feature for IM. And no VOIP. That's why I keep using kopete, even if it's a memory pig: At least I do have MSN webcam support. It's sad that OSS IM's are in a so poor state.
The Dynticks integration will (hopefully) help lower power consumption and heat output.
Dynticks stil doesn't set the CPU to a power-savvy mode (it will in the future, but not in 2.6.21), so power consumption is more or less the same than without dynticks.
It's me who sent the headline. "Publicar" (to publish) is what people usually uses for those cases in spanish. So there you've the answer for your question:)
(I also planned to add the number of months of development (almost 3, 80 days), but I forgot it)
In fact, it's funny that Microsoft tries to promote their own document format because they say that interoperatibility is important and that they support open protocols blah blah blah, and then they don't release the specs for the protocols they're using in windows server, because those protocols is what make windows server succesful (because 95% of clients are windows and only windows server can serve them)
The problem with EEUU is not so much EEUU, but their foreign policy.
For example, I don't know many people that support EEUU views on the Iran nuclear issue. Because they know that EEUU has been the only country in the story of humanity that has actually dropped nuclear bombs to innocent people. So their thinking goes like "uh, the only country that has dropped nuclear bombs into a city and feels proud of it now tries to look like he is trying to stop other countries from doing the same?"
And we know that EEUU has a long track of supporting dictatorships that supported capitalism and declaring the war to democracies that tried to turn into a socialist economy. South-america hates EEUU, and for very good reasons. So we just don't believe when EEUU says he's trying to fight terrorism and promote freedom - we know quite well EEUU doesn't bothers about democracy or dictatorship, he just cares about capitalism (which allows EEUU companies to enter those countries) and communism, nothing else. IOW, they only care about money, not about freedom and rights.
Were did he said that Cuba was better?. He just said that EEUU is bad. Cuba is obviously worse, but should other countries stop people from fighting for freedom in their own countries?
Actually, there's a lot of people in Russia who wants to go back to communism. Mainly the old people who were born under communism, not the younger people. They were used to live in a country were selling/buying things was not usual, and many people has not gotten used to it, AFAIK. And the way Russia turned into a capitalist country (selling all the state-owned properties via corruption) has turned Rusia into a country where there's a lot of difference between richer people and poor people who hates all the rich guys who become rich when the state sold everything. So there's not a love for capitalism there - not because of communism or capitalism, but becaouse other reasons
Why hasn't Stallman said anything about other non democratic countries that treat people even worse
Because China or Cuba are NOT democratic countries. It's silly to write songs saying that they're dictatorships - everybody knows that already.
EEUU however is SUPOSED TO BE a democratic. EEUU is supposed to be the symbol of freedom and democracies in the world. IMO guantanamo it's WORSE than any other dictatorship. Dictatorships are supposed to torture people, EEUU is NOT
Indeed, X11 may have problems. There're more things - handling disconnection/reconnection in wifi environments, etc. But they are fixable. Hell, they may even need to release X12 to fix them, but the theorically perfect environment is that.
"Google OS"? I laught at those OSes. With X, you can setup a big remote server that serves a heavy ubuntu desktop and let users use the applications remotely. It's powerful enougth to allow to run an app both locally and remotely - the UI can be displayed anywhere, X fixes those details transparently.
Any time the firefox UI doesn't do what you want to do 1) the firefox team has failed 2) your needs are different from the needs of the vast majority of population
Every time I install firefox anywhere I set browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing to false. For me, this doesn't me that firefox's dev team has failed, it's just that I need different things than Joe User, who is the primary target of Firefox.
Bullshit. It's a GOOD thing that the whole Open Source community agrees in the GPLv3. Remember that the GPLv3 will automatically relicense most of the GPLv2 software out there (IMO, the FSF shouldn't have made the GPLv3 an update, but a completely different license that people can choose to use) and that there was rumours that people could fork important projects like libc or GCC due to GPLv2 vs v3 issues.
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Based on all the measurements I'm aware of, Linux has the fastest & most complete stack of any OS (source)
you can't even run FC3 binaries on FC4
You can run RHEL3 binaries in RHEL4 however. And you can happily run Linux 1.0 binaries on the latest linux development snapshot. Thats because Linux DOES have a stable ABI: The syscall interface. That's the REAL ABI the Linux kernel has to support, and it's the one that it's really guaranteed to be stable. What you think as an abi it's not an "abi", it's an INTERNAL ABI. Drivers are not "software built in top of the kernel", they're plugins. And Linux developers do not care about it because linux is open source, in the open source world you can change source easily and it gets usually merged into the kernel. Basically, the Linux kernel gets more benefit from a internal unstable ABI that gets changed when it's needed and that improves all the linux drivers, than getting a stable internal ABI that only benefits a couple of external OSS drivers and another couple of propietary, illegal drivers.
Linux has no direction, no goals
That's what happens when you give everybody freedom to modify your code; everybody extends Linux in unexpected directions, that happen to be the directions the people (profesional world) desires because it's the people (profesional world) who actually develops the features. For example, some people have made Linux scale in machines with way more CPUS of what your beloved Solaris has ever run, and now other people are adding hard realtime support to the core Linux kernel, which happens to make Linux beat latency records on Wall Street servers. It all was unexpected; IT however seems to like it.
It's not just Andrew Morton, it's basically every core linux kernel hacker that has spoken on the issue.
It's pretty obvious; I don't think that even the ZFS developers will deny it. They'll just say "it's a layering that was worth breaking".
What I was interested in, was connecting to GTalk for VoIP. That isn't supported right now.
And that's after two years of development. It's laughable that slashdot needs to quote "smooth-scroll" and "new icons" as a major "feature".
Seriously, this is crazy. There's no webcam support - something that messenger has been doing since forever, and it's a major feature for IM. And no VOIP. That's why I keep using kopete, even if it's a memory pig: At least I do have MSN webcam support. It's sad that OSS IM's are in a so poor state.
The Dynticks integration will (hopefully) help lower power consumption and heat output.
Dynticks stil doesn't set the CPU to a power-savvy mode (it will in the future, but not in 2.6.21), so power consumption is more or less the same than without dynticks.
It's me who sent the headline. "Publicar" (to publish) is what people usually uses for those cases in spanish. So there you've the answer for your question :)
(I also planned to add the number of months of development (almost 3, 80 days), but I forgot it)
Since it supports para/virtualization yes, of course, it runs linux!
(Damn, finally there's an answer for this!)
You're confusing Linux with this Windows 95/98. However, this problem or this another problem are even more funnier
Here.
Also, because it's just cheaper for them if they get it merged in the mainstream mysql tree. Basically, it's stupid not to release it.
In fact, it's funny that Microsoft tries to promote their own document format because they say that interoperatibility is important and that they support open protocols blah blah blah, and then they don't release the specs for the protocols they're using in windows server, because those protocols is what make windows server succesful (because 95% of clients are windows and only windows server can serve them)
The government shouldn't tell companies what to charge for their products, but they should ensure that companies can compete freely and make money.
The problem with EEUU is not so much EEUU, but their foreign policy.
For example, I don't know many people that support EEUU views on the Iran nuclear issue. Because they know that EEUU has been the only country in the story of humanity that has actually dropped nuclear bombs to innocent people. So their thinking goes like "uh, the only country that has dropped nuclear bombs into a city and feels proud of it now tries to look like he is trying to stop other countries from doing the same?"
And we know that EEUU has a long track of supporting dictatorships that supported capitalism and declaring the war to democracies that tried to turn into a socialist economy. South-america hates EEUU, and for very good reasons. So we just don't believe when EEUU says he's trying to fight terrorism and promote freedom - we know quite well EEUU doesn't bothers about democracy or dictatorship, he just cares about capitalism (which allows EEUU companies to enter those countries) and communism, nothing else. IOW, they only care about money, not about freedom and rights.
Were did he said that Cuba was better?. He just said that EEUU is bad. Cuba is obviously worse, but should other countries stop people from fighting for freedom in their own countries?
Actually, there's a lot of people in Russia who wants to go back to communism. Mainly the old people who were born under communism, not the younger people. They were used to live in a country were selling/buying things was not usual, and many people has not gotten used to it, AFAIK. And the way Russia turned into a capitalist country (selling all the state-owned properties via corruption) has turned Rusia into a country where there's a lot of difference between richer people and poor people who hates all the rich guys who become rich when the state sold everything. So there's not a love for capitalism there - not because of communism or capitalism, but becaouse other reasons
Why hasn't Stallman said anything about other non democratic countries that treat people even worse
Because China or Cuba are NOT democratic countries. It's silly to write songs saying that they're dictatorships - everybody knows that already.
EEUU however is SUPOSED TO BE a democratic. EEUU is supposed to be the symbol of freedom and democracies in the world. IMO guantanamo it's WORSE than any other dictatorship. Dictatorships are supposed to torture people, EEUU is NOT
I perosnally don't want Microsoft to port WMP to Linux. I want open, unpatented WMP specs and a way to bypass the stupid DRM.
Indeed, X11 may have problems. There're more things - handling disconnection/reconnection in wifi environments, etc. But they are fixable. Hell, they may even need to release X12 to fix them, but the theorically perfect environment is that.
"Google OS"? I laught at those OSes. With X, you can setup a big remote server that serves a heavy ubuntu desktop and let users use the applications remotely. It's powerful enougth to allow to run an app both locally and remotely - the UI can be displayed anywhere, X fixes those details transparently.
The correct answer is "web apps should be able to replace desktop apps in almost all cases"
X11 can do it. You can use any app locally. And then you also can use any app remotely in any computer over the world.
Why people is wasting time with javashit, CSS etc. when X11 is the perfect solution for web apps is beyond me.
Apparmor is a completely different thing.
No, other operative systems don't have this stupid notion of "protected processes", not even XP has it, only vista.
Why would you expect Vista to increase PC sales?
It would if Vista was different than XP and very innovative, but it isn't. For most of people, Vista is just XP with a different theme.
Any time the firefox UI doesn't do what you want to do 1) the firefox team has failed 2) your needs are different from the needs of the vast majority of population
Every time I install firefox anywhere I set browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing to false. For me, this doesn't me that firefox's dev team has failed, it's just that I need different things than Joe User, who is the primary target of Firefox.
KDE4-for-windows is supposed to use the Windows WM. Porting KDE 4 to windows doesn't mean porting EVERY piece of KDE of KDE 4 to windows.
Notice that in XP the WM is inside the kernel so in XP is just impossible to replace it.
Bullshit. It's a GOOD thing that the whole Open Source community agrees in the GPLv3. Remember that the GPLv3 will automatically relicense most of the GPLv2 software out there (IMO, the FSF shouldn't have made the GPLv3 an update, but a completely different license that people can choose to use) and that there was rumours that people could fork important projects like libc or GCC due to GPLv2 vs v3 issues.