RTFA and RTFC (code)!!! did you even bother downloading before posting? the license file explicitly states that the kernel patch is under the GPL and that the binary drivers are under nvidias license.
i too was a bit worried about this. but upon downloading the code (just to see), i found this
GNULicense.txt
sitting in the top level:-D. they even refer to "your GNU/Linux distribution" instead of just plain 'ol "Linux". after reading a few other posts on the subject about this helping out radeon support (me buys radeon), i am a very happy camper! this will certainly make it into linux.
interesting. i cant DNS lookup that domain. i have had a few bounces already from a few of the addresses i sent to (guess this is what spammers feel like), but none for the europarl.eu.int addresses yet. heres hoping they get through.
i also sent emails to my home (norn-irish) MEPs as well... id be surprised if they even had the brains to click the power button on their computers, let alone check their email...
hope you dont mind me plagerising most of your letter (spelling corrected, names/situations changed) to send to my local scottish MEPs. one of whom (Professor Sir Neil MacCormick) was very much on our side (better remeber to vote for him next time..)
there is more MEP info here for people in the UK, and search the same website for rest of europe. i cant believe this proposal passed parliament...
why bother with putting GNU/Linux on a laptop? i mean, we are all so fussy over which version of what-not we want anyway, that we'd just end up cfdisking it anyway...:-/
the best you can ask for with a laptop is a ditributor who is prepared to sell it OS free, and knock a few £ (or $) off the asking price because of that.
Europe is a way of talking about a geographical region... the EU is a political collection of countries, which (ever so neutral) switzerland is not a member of. so, Switerland is in Europe, but NOT in the EU. i never said otherwise:-P
youve gotta be kiddin me... most of the GNU/Linux operating system is written in-house at CERN. the only reason they use redhat is so they can tell other institutions which distro to install in order to be binary compatible and sure of sources compiling successfully. im actually surprised they haven't made their own distro... i remember hearing the arguments against it once, but the memory has faded.
CERN is only half in France, the other half being in switzerland (not even in the Europe Union). but, being American it must be hard for you to understand geography beyond your own backyard; my deepest regrets:-/
if you read the paper (which OK is not as bad as not reading the article), you would realise that this is not a project which is being performed only at CERN; when LHC (and others, eg ALICE) become active in a few years, the data is going to be piped to literally hundreds of participating instututions (this is the current list for one of the smaller experiments) for data analysis. so, no, this is not enough processing power, and yes they need it to be publically available. i also know people who are (or were?) working on the security implementations. believe me, at CERN, they think it through; its run by lots of really smart people who know what they are at, not politicians. the distributed processing that comes out of these projects will hopefully pave the way forward for the next generation of the internet (the grid).
i assume by "those computers" you mean the 1000 at CERN (not that they'd actually waste their time processing SETI data with the shit load of aliroot stuff going on these days...) well, CERN have been running GNU/Linux clusters for a looong time now, so this is no new thing. In fact, my friend actually had one of the older dual intel 500Mhz machines as his desktop machine, ripped out from the last generation cluster. they basically led him into the buzzing cluster room and said "grab one and follow me"...:-D
we are talking about a woman here who seems set in her mind about this... no matter what the evidence says. for example, neither i nor brussels has heard from any small/mid range software house which WANTS this proposal (the opposite in fact), but she seems firm in her mind that this is good for small business. despite all evidence she seems stubborn, almost religious.
i sent a letter with simliar points as the parent, but i really dont think any good will come from it. if anything, it will just prove that she cares nothing for open source by not wishing to make any changes; as we all know, politicians will say anything to try and quiet opposing voices and earn votes. they always forget that a technical audience often knows more than they do about the implications. her plans are full of holes. i read that she wants to allow patenting, so that the big comapines cannot patent the ideas before the smaller ones... which is just ridiculaous logic since the big companies cannot patent until the very system she wants is enforced... hmm.
i belive software patenting is a very bad thing in general, and i am glad that at least 2 of my local (edinburgh) MEPS are with me on this. i cannot say the same of my home (northern ireland) MEPS, who guite frankly, are a global political joke and their lack of interest in this proposal only goes to prove their lack of brains to the world, yet again.
if you want to use NS1.VASOFTWARE.COM as a nameserver, should you not enter this as
nameserver 198.186.202.135
in/etc/resolv.conf?? and it wasnt verisign's fuckup anyway.. if you read the article you would have seen it was PIR's fault. in fact; they didnt even notice the servers had fallen... verisign gave up the control on new years day.
i guess it will take a while for this to filter down the servers... how long does anyone guess it will be before we cant whois.org; and will this affect DNS??? that coudl be a REAL disaster!
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Ok, I know, pdfs are not GNU
why not? adobe have released the PS and PDF formats very openly and as a direct result GNU programs (such as ghostscript) are ready to read them with no patent issues or reverse engineering required.
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gcj only makes native binarys from java source, INFO or byte compiled java code to run on a virtual machine. it is NOT a virtual machine.
RTFA and RTFC (code)!!! did you even bother downloading before posting? the license file explicitly states that the kernel patch is under the GPL and that the binary drivers are under nvidias license.
GNULicense.txt
sitting in the top level :-D. they even refer to "your GNU/Linux distribution" instead of just plain 'ol "Linux". after reading a few other posts on the subject about this helping out radeon support (me buys radeon), i am a very happy camper! this will certainly make it into linux.
i also sent emails to my home (norn-irish) MEPs as well... id be surprised if they even had the brains to click the power button on their computers, let alone check their email...
anyone else think most of these MEP email addresses are dud? they are all AT europarl.eu.int, which isnt even a valid domain...
there is more MEP info here for people in the UK, and search the same website for rest of europe. i cant believe this proposal passed parliament...
the best you can ask for with a laptop is a ditributor who is prepared to sell it OS free, and knock a few £ (or $) off the asking price because of that.
no, but they have links with the chinese
maybe its so close to redhat that they burn the CD's with "redhat" written on it.
anyway, thanks for the link, if i had mod points i give you +1 informative
you actually checked? hehe...
youve gotta be kiddin me... most of the GNU/Linux operating system is written in-house at CERN. the only reason they use redhat is so they can tell other institutions which distro to install in order to be binary compatible and sure of sources compiling successfully. im actually surprised they haven't made their own distro... i remember hearing the arguments against it once, but the memory has faded.
CERN is only half in France, the other half being in switzerland (not even in the Europe Union). but, being American it must be hard for you to understand geography beyond your own backyard; my deepest regrets :-/
if you read the paper (which OK is not as bad as not reading the article), you would realise that this is not a project which is being performed only at CERN; when LHC (and others, eg ALICE) become active in a few years, the data is going to be piped to literally hundreds of participating instututions (this is the current list for one of the smaller experiments) for data analysis. so, no, this is not enough processing power, and yes they need it to be publically available. i also know people who are (or were?) working on the security implementations. believe me, at CERN, they think it through; its run by lots of really smart people who know what they are at, not politicians. the distributed processing that comes out of these projects will hopefully pave the way forward for the next generation of the internet (the grid).
i assume by "those computers" you mean the 1000 at CERN (not that they'd actually waste their time processing SETI data with the shit load of aliroot stuff going on these days...) well, CERN have been running GNU/Linux clusters for a looong time now, so this is no new thing. In fact, my friend actually had one of the older dual intel 500Mhz machines as his desktop machine, ripped out from the last generation cluster. they basically led him into the buzzing cluster room and said "grab one and follow me"... :-D
oh god.. my life has ended; i laughed at a factorial gag! (head in hands... shaking)
i sent a letter with simliar points as the parent, but i really dont think any good will come from it. if anything, it will just prove that she cares nothing for open source by not wishing to make any changes; as we all know, politicians will say anything to try and quiet opposing voices and earn votes. they always forget that a technical audience often knows more than they do about the implications. her plans are full of holes. i read that she wants to allow patenting, so that the big comapines cannot patent the ideas before the smaller ones... which is just ridiculaous logic since the big companies cannot patent until the very system she wants is enforced... hmm.
i belive software patenting is a very bad thing in general, and i am glad that at least 2 of my local (edinburgh) MEPS are with me on this. i cannot say the same of my home (northern ireland) MEPS, who guite frankly, are a global political joke and their lack of interest in this proposal only goes to prove their lack of brains to the world, yet again.
thanks for the links. (polite) email sent...
security updates?? remember the good 'ol kernel/kmod.c thread race condition which gives anyone root access? ;-)
Download it here
nameserver 198.186.202.135
in /etc/resolv.conf?? and it wasnt verisign's fuckup anyway.. if you read the article you would have seen it was PIR's fault. in fact; they didnt even notice the servers had fallen... verisign gave up the control on new years day.
why not? adobe have released the PS and PDF formats very openly and as a direct result GNU programs (such as ghostscript) are ready to read them with no patent issues or reverse engineering required.
surely you mean some hippy, as if you are in a rush to get to the office, you are clearly a yuppie yourself!
not a lot of people ever achieve anything after the age of 30... but then again; not a lot of people ever achieve anything before that either!
realone is different from realplayer... you are right though, realone really does take over your machine!