Yes, but not in this case. It takes blinkered bias to believe Open Source developers aren't as capable as their proprietary peers, and ignorance not to know they're often one and the same.
True, but not the whole story. From the 'Projects' page:
DKMS
DKMS stands for Dynamic Kernel Module Support. It is designed to create a framework where kernel dependant module source can reside so that it is very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This will allow Linux vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel releases while also taking out the guesswork for customers attempting to recompile modules for new kernels.
For verteran Linux users it also provides some advantages since a separate framework for driver drops will remove kernel releases as a blocking mechanism for distributing code. Instead, driver development should speed up as this separate module source tree will allow quicker testing cycles meaning better tested code can later be pushed back into the kernel at a more rapid pace. Its also nice for developers and maintainers as DKMS only requires a source tarball in conjunction with a small configuration file in order to function correctly.
My only quibble with your post is the connotation of the "shamelessly biased" part. Shamelessly biased in the same sense that a vintage Mustang site is biased in favour of Fords, or a motorcycle forum in favour of bikes. Slagging of Chev's and cars? Cetainly, but it's a bias born mostly of enthusiasm for the site's purpose for being.
Conversly, I've been a Gentoo user since the first release of 1.2 and, always liking the clean structure of FreeBSD, decided to give it another spin on a spare machine. BSD installs with a simplicity which makes Gentoo users salivate, the ports package scheme is very nice and Gentoo was wise to steal from it, it ran well on the older Pentium platform, but when I installed Rox filer it was a jar to see something I'd totally forgotten about. The X desktop colour map changed as the cursor moved from desktop to Rox, the other always looked 'solarized'. This was a common flaw in older Linux distros but I haven't seen it in many years, and it was a suprose to discover it on such a common and important package.
Neither OS/distro is perfect, but of all the ones I've used Gentoo remains my favourite because after the unreasonably painful install basic things like this just work (for me, YMMV, the usual disclaimers.)
It wasn't like we said, "Oh, let's go find people and sue them." It was a gradual enforcement of our rights, stepping up, and then we finally got to a point of impasse with IBM where either we were going to back down, or we're going to continue to go after them.
No other meaning is apparent to me than "I decided all this Unix stuff belonged to SCO and we were only forced to sue when the rest of the world didn't agree and start paying up". What kind of f*cked up person lives in such a dishonest, self-delusional world?
I think that most of that computers will run MSWindows by companies that already have a windows license for their current computers and plan to trow their computers away.
This is based on the false premise that these contributors would continue to work on Linux if they were no longer "allowed" - whatever that concept is meant to imply here - on the things which interest them. Further to that it also implies the establishment of a Linux "authority", one determining which projects are valid or not. Linus himself disagrees with this.
Linux is not a proprietary top-down mandated project. It's a volunteer effort encompassing the gamut from multinationals to government to high school students. Your 'fix' is to make it subject to a single authority, and it will kill Linux as certainly as it killed the proprietary Unixes it's replacing.
In radio it's asigning the new hire to empty deleted audio from the magnetic tape bulk eraser at the end of the day's shift, a practice we had to drop when enterprising can-do types began dismantling the machine to find the storage tank.
More accurately, it takes a real Linux geek to figure out where he failed. For years now it's been possible to pop a one or another distro boot CD in and walk away from the install. In the dozen plus I've used I never ran across a floppy boot seek error. LILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILI LILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILI LILILILILI for sure, but never a floppy fail.
Really?! Thanks man!:):):) !! I MUST check that out on the 50 2k and XP desktops I support as a side-line at work, or on my 5 home machines!! You RAWK d00d!!!!
XFce4 has a clipboard widget with a history list. Every time text is highlighted, another entry is automatically made. No Crt-C. The entries survive application closings. My question is, if it's a function so trivially implemented in X that a dock widget of a niche windowmanager has it, what's the hysteria about? For long time X users it's perfectly intuitive, infinitely less intrusive than Windows' "stop-what-you're-doing-now-and-let-me-help-you" pop-up window paradigm, and doesn't require a two-handed approach - one on the mouse and the other on the keyboard. Anything that can be implemented in a trivial widget doesn't require a change to the architectural underpinnings of X.
Like the ability to reconfigure X on the fly. Right-click on desktop -> properties -> change desktop resolution. Why can't it be that simple?
Just because this is the way Windows works doesn't make it good. Why would such a powerful control location be used for such an rarely altered setting? Bury resolution switching the the Control Panel and have done with it, I'm willing to bet well over 95% of computer users set it once (if they do at all) and never look at it again.
Actually, he looks more like Biff from 'Back to the Future' in that shot. When timelines are once more righted expect to find him putting that second coat of wax on McFly's Bimmer.
So if I follow your logic correctly, since P2P music sharing is OK electronic espionage between political parties is permitted. Not exactly a tight chain of reasoning.
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Yes, but not in this case. It takes blinkered bias to believe Open Source developers aren't as capable as their proprietary peers, and ignorance not to know they're often one and the same.
DKMS
DKMS stands for Dynamic Kernel Module Support. It is designed to create a framework where kernel dependant module source can reside so that it is very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This will allow Linux vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel releases while also taking out the guesswork for customers attempting to recompile modules for new kernels.
For verteran Linux users it also provides some advantages since a separate framework for driver drops will remove kernel releases as a blocking mechanism for distributing code. Instead, driver development should speed up as this separate module source tree will allow quicker testing cycles meaning better tested code can later be pushed back into the kernel at a more rapid pace. Its also nice for developers and maintainers as DKMS only requires a source tarball in conjunction with a small configuration file in order to function correctly.
Dell is working on supporting kernel recompiles.
Look here for all the SCO-free libraries you could possibly want. Any chosen at random should be safe.
My only quibble with your post is the connotation of the "shamelessly biased" part. Shamelessly biased in the same sense that a vintage Mustang site is biased in favour of Fords, or a motorcycle forum in favour of bikes. Slagging of Chev's and cars? Cetainly, but it's a bias born mostly of enthusiasm for the site's purpose for being.
Didn't Microsoft invent this tactic?
I think it isn't until it's proven Groklaw withheld damaging information. Until then it's negative supposition and therefore bias.
Well.....shiat. Thanks.
Neither OS/distro is perfect, but of all the ones I've used Gentoo remains my favourite because after the unreasonably painful install basic things like this just work (for me, YMMV, the usual disclaimers.)
It wasn't like we said, "Oh, let's go find people and sue them." It was a gradual enforcement of our rights, stepping up, and then we finally got to a point of impasse with IBM where either we were going to back down, or we're going to continue to go after them.
No other meaning is apparent to me than "I decided all this Unix stuff belonged to SCO and we were only forced to sue when the rest of the world didn't agree and start paying up". What kind of f*cked up person lives in such a dishonest, self-delusional world?
Isn't this against the EULA?
Any chance of adding a 'Bigot' moderation category?
Linux is not a proprietary top-down mandated project. It's a volunteer effort encompassing the gamut from multinationals to government to high school students. Your 'fix' is to make it subject to a single authority, and it will kill Linux as certainly as it killed the proprietary Unixes it's replacing.
A) Tell developers what to code? Do it yourself.
B)Tell me what to use? Use it yourself.
Cue Clippy joke in 3....2.....1......
Dovetails nicely with DRM and the new legislation regarding databases. Isn't WinFS - Longhorn's file system - essentially a database in structure?
In radio it's asigning the new hire to empty deleted audio from the magnetic tape bulk eraser at the end of the day's shift, a practice we had to drop when enterprising can-do types began dismantling the machine to find the storage tank.
More accurately, it takes a real Linux geek to figure out where he failed. For years now it's been possible to pop a one or another distro boot CD in and walk away from the install. In the dozen plus I've used I never ran across a floppy boot seek error. LILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILI LILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILI LILILILILI for sure, but never a floppy fail.
You're assuming that because it's there usability experts "proved" it's makes the most sense. I would love to see that research. Any links?
Really?! Thanks man! :) :) :) !! I MUST check that out on the 50 2k and XP desktops I support as a side-line at work, or on my 5 home machines!! You RAWK d00d!!!!
XFce4 has a clipboard widget with a history list. Every time text is highlighted, another entry is automatically made. No Crt-C. The entries survive application closings. My question is, if it's a function so trivially implemented in X that a dock widget of a niche windowmanager has it, what's the hysteria about? For long time X users it's perfectly intuitive, infinitely less intrusive than Windows' "stop-what-you're-doing-now-and-let-me-help-you" pop-up window paradigm, and doesn't require a two-handed approach - one on the mouse and the other on the keyboard. Anything that can be implemented in a trivial widget doesn't require a change to the architectural underpinnings of X.
Just because this is the way Windows works doesn't make it good. Why would such a powerful control location be used for such an rarely altered setting? Bury resolution switching the the Control Panel and have done with it, I'm willing to bet well over 95% of computer users set it once (if they do at all) and never look at it again.
Actually, he looks more like Biff from 'Back to the Future' in that shot. When timelines are once more righted expect to find him putting that second coat of wax on McFly's Bimmer.
So if I follow your logic correctly, since P2P music sharing is OK electronic espionage between political parties is permitted. Not exactly a tight chain of reasoning.
Internal fans to provide air movement around cooking food. Don't ask me why, bagels don't seem to toast any different.
OpenLinux rocked in the RH 5.1 era. To this day one of my most fondly remembered distros. Damn shame what became of it.