The dangers of this scenario combined with the fact the Gnome is LGPL'd are left as an excercise to the reader.
I'm tired of people trolling about GTK's licensing, the LGPL. I think that it's the only reasonable licensing for a toolkit.
If you're trying to create a general-purpose desktop, it's clear you've to allow closed source apps.
QT toolkit allows this by licensing for money, GTK is LGPL'ed. What would be a show-stopper is a GTK that's truly GPL, as you're excluding all closed source, as games, CAD/CAM, databases, etc... from your desktop, and the code is copyrighted by lots of people, so is very hard to license.
In your hipotetical scenario, there's no problem to Sun, as they could buy Trolltech, and make all the closed source apps they want.
Sorry, it's more correct to say "Donde esta Cecilia?" than "Adonde esta Cecilia?". The common acception of "Adonde" it's denoting going to somewhere: "Adonde vas?" -> Where are you going?.
Disclaimer: I'm a native spanish speaker and Slash doesn't allow ´ in HTML, sorry:)
" I was listening to Lucinda Williams' album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road when I ran into a glitch. I could hear all of "Lake Charles," but only 30 seconds of "I Lost It," a song from the same album. It turns out "I Lost It" was only available if I opted for the a la carte feature. I either had to buy the track for 99 cents or be content hearing just 30 seconds of it. What a pain."
taking care of linux users is just a BAD BUSINESS IDEA (at the time)
I'd call a GOOD BUSINESS IDEA tyind all your development to propietary API such DX.
Yes, mod me down, because I know nothing about bussines but you remeber me, five years ago in my university, when administrators laughed from us, because we're using Linux in a small departamental server. They said "what the heck is this Linux, we can't get support as we get with SunOS". You guess what are they running now?
Yeah, but Mac OSX is OpenGL based, right? You can run on it gcc, right? So if a game company designs it's product using some (I think, are the right) API and tools, can make it running in Windows, Linux, OSX and maybe *BSDs.
You have to face it: The reason I don't see hard-gamers switching to a Free OS is lack of support, both from game companies and (less) from hardware manufacturers.
I'm not saying "you, support Linux", I'm saying "let's make games using standart API such as OpenGL, and with minimal tweaking and minimal effort, you can support various OS platforms.
Yes, but using OpenGL and a multiplatform compiler (or coding in good C) a game company can make their games going in a variety of OS, just like ID with quake o RTCW.
What scares me is people doing those benchs in DirectX, and most, people doing games using DirectX. Nvidia certainly didn't made its card to perform good in DirectX's new API, and I don't see the problem.
What's about OpenGL; I only purchase OpenGL games, because I mostly can make them run in Linux, and WineX is only a ugly workaround to run games in non native enviroment. If I'd a game company, I'd take care of potential Linux customers.
I don't know what legal questions are you talkin' about, but the link given in the article, the mplayer homepage, about Mplayer legal problems with EPA (Europen Patent Agency) it's only a joke of the developers, protesting against Software Patents in Europe.
Yes, we know you slashdotters are mostly American, as said before, but please, this is a CRUTIAL fact to European Free Software, so please, help us, help you, and support the protest: change your page.
Sorry, this is an incomplete list for the 2.6 series, while the kernel released is 2.4.22.
For a almost complete list of features going into 2.6 you can see Linux Kernel 2.6 Status
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- Open attachment.
- Run, fork and become orphan process.
- Let's run in the background sending e-mails using users info, until somebody realize that it's running and kill it.
This kind of worm can run a looong time in your machine with your user privilege and you wouldn't notice.
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My feelings about this are that some people at distros or embedded market want to lock their hardware/software (as Microsoft made with Xbox) and has pushed on Linus to explicitely allow them to do this.
This journalling filesystem stores data and metadata on different partitions, reducing a lot of IO time in general, compared with others journalling filesystems. Benchmarks improves a lot if the device you choose for the metadata is a SSD.
Sadly, to get the source code you've to mail the autor.
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I'm tired of people trolling about GTK's licensing, the LGPL. I think that it's the only reasonable licensing for a toolkit.
If you're trying to create a general-purpose desktop, it's clear you've to allow closed source apps.
QT toolkit allows this by licensing for money, GTK is LGPL'ed. What would be a show-stopper is a GTK that's truly GPL, as you're excluding all closed source, as games, CAD/CAM, databases, etc... from your desktop, and the code is copyrighted by lots of people, so is very hard to license.
In your hipotetical scenario, there's no problem to Sun, as they could buy Trolltech, and make all the closed source apps they want.
Sorry, it's more correct to say "Donde esta Cecilia?" than "Adonde esta Cecilia?". The common acception of "Adonde" it's denoting going to somewhere: "Adonde vas?" -> Where are you going?.
Disclaimer: I'm a native spanish speaker and Slash doesn't allow ´ in HTML, sorry :)
" I was listening to Lucinda Williams' album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road when I ran into a glitch. I could hear all of "Lake Charles," but only 30 seconds of "I Lost It," a song from the same album. It turns out "I Lost It" was only available if I opted for the a la carte feature. I either had to buy the track for 99 cents or be content hearing just 30 seconds of it. What a pain."
They're using Visual Basic again.
taking care of linux users is just a BAD BUSINESS IDEA (at the time)
I'd call a GOOD BUSINESS IDEA tyind all your development to propietary API such DX.
Yes, mod me down, because I know nothing about bussines but you remeber me, five years ago in my university, when administrators laughed from us, because we're using Linux in a small departamental server. They said "what the heck is this Linux, we can't get support as we get with SunOS". You guess what are they running now?
Yeah, but Mac OSX is OpenGL based, right? You can run on it gcc, right? So if a game company designs it's product using some (I think, are the right) API and tools, can make it running in Windows, Linux, OSX and maybe *BSDs.
You have to face it: The reason I don't see hard-gamers switching to a Free OS is lack of support, both from game companies and (less) from hardware manufacturers.
I'm not saying "you, support Linux", I'm saying "let's make games using standart API such as OpenGL, and with minimal tweaking and minimal effort, you can support various OS platforms.
Yes, but using OpenGL and a multiplatform compiler (or coding in good C) a game company can make their games going in a variety of OS, just like ID with quake o RTCW.
What scares me is people doing those benchs in DirectX, and most, people doing games using DirectX. Nvidia certainly didn't made its card to perform good in DirectX's new API, and I don't see the problem.
What's about OpenGL; I only purchase OpenGL games, because I mostly can make them run in Linux, and WineX is only a ugly workaround to run games in non native enviroment. If I'd a game company, I'd take care of potential Linux customers.
I don't know what legal questions are you talkin' about, but the link given in the article, the mplayer homepage, about Mplayer legal problems with EPA (Europen Patent Agency) it's only a joke of the developers, protesting against Software Patents in Europe.
Afortunately, ATM SP have no validity in Europe.
Yes, we know you slashdotters are mostly American, as said before, but please, this is a CRUTIAL fact to European Free Software, so please, help us, help you, and support the protest: change your page.
Thank you.
Sorry, this is an incomplete list for the 2.6 series, while the kernel released is 2.4.22. For a almost complete list of features going into 2.6 you can see Linux Kernel 2.6 Status
Ups, also, if you want to be in the egde of X responsiveness, you should try Con Kolivas's scheduler patches.
There are not big core changes in this kernel, so it's believed to be very stable. Also, it includes some security fixes so you should upgrade.
I use:
emilio@ellugar:~$ uname -a
Linux ellugar 2.6.0-test3 #9 Wed Aug 20 15:21:40 CEST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
I can say 2.6 feels better (mainly from better disk I/O scheduling), but the process scheduler starves sometimes.
Anyway, worth trying it, I think it's almost ready.
So far, the copyright holder seems to be SGI
I don't see why Linux is so secure:
Making a linux worm:
- Open attachment.
- Run, fork and become orphan process.
- Let's run in the background sending e-mails using users info, until somebody realize that it's running and kill it.
This kind of worm can run a looong time in your machine with your user privilege and you wouldn't notice.
The MS IIS marketing team can help.
My feelings about this are that some people at distros or embedded market want to lock their hardware/software (as Microsoft made with Xbox) and has pushed on Linus to explicitely allow them to do this.
Only a thinking.
Another interesting filesystem is DualFS.
This journalling filesystem stores data and metadata on different partitions, reducing a lot of IO time in general, compared with others journalling filesystems. Benchmarks improves a lot if the device you choose for the metadata is a SSD.
Sadly, to get the source code you've to mail the autor.