KDE can be anything you want it to be. You might have to work at it, but unlike Gnome recently, KDE still gives you all of the configuration options you could want to make the system your own. Chances are that the default is 'Windows like' because since almost everyone has used that, its a good starting point and middle ground.
Maybe they noticed their throughput was a little lower and bringing up their porn took a little longer. Personally I think they're full of it but thats just me.
Different priorities for different projects. You could also say that OpenBSD has a low priority for desktop 'users' (as opposed to developers) with the stress on absolute security being the over-riding factor, everything else gets added in later. NetBSD works toward a clean implementation and portability of the code across many different platforms, everything else comes second. Not to say that NetBSD doesn't care about security, just that its not the number one driving factor, and that still sounds bad. On the other hand, Linux, as part of the fact that the parts that make a complete OS are created by different people for each part, seems to aim at whatever the most vocal of the parts wish it to do, and thats be a Microsoft killer, hence the appearance to attempt to gear it more to a desktop user.
I don't know about Sybase, but there are developer previews for OS X of Oracle9i and 10g. I don't know about any problems with them but since they are developer previews, some things might not work quite right yet. As OS X grows in popularity with the target audience of a software package, and proves its worth for serious computing, there will probably be more support for it in the future.
You expected an unbiased opinion from slashdot on a potentially inflammatory subject? I'm just glad slashdot, RMS and other vocal members of this OSS community tells me how to think about technologies.
While true, eating the bean directly will give you more then almost any made coffee, and he also said scarf down a whole bunch which would be a whole lot more then any cup of coffee.
Ignoring all that and moving on to your, 'to be a man have a light roast' some of us like a darker roasted coffee, and actually like espresso. If your drinking a coffee to impress people, your going to be a dick no matter what level of roast you drink.
All the previous is anecdotal evidence, but I do have extensive experience with many different types of coffee's, I go for taste, and while I do often prefer a stronger, darker roast I try all sorts of different ones. its nice that one beverage has so many different subtleties that change the experience just a little each time.
You might want to check some of those well known "facts" Before they make you seem like a runner up for the tinfoil hat of the year award. No matter what you feel about Microsoft, if the NSA is going to have MS and other US corporations add backdoors to their code, are they really going to be dumb enough to leave it named NSAKEY in plain sight in the registry? Incidentally, how many believe this 'theory' also install the SELinux additions to make their Linux more secure. You might want to go ahead and check who puts that together.
All depends on how they flaunt them, I can see it being a sore point in the porn industry, but do you really have a problem with people whipping it out at your office?
Like how emacs is a simple tool that does one thing and complex jobs are done by stringing many little programs together? That's oss tradition, simple apps is Unix tradition. Many today expect an app to do everything they ever want their system to do, if it doesn't they wont use it. Googles browser would have to become emacs for anyone to really take notice.
There's nothing wrong with close integration on its own, just that there is less room for error in each of the parts.
Laziness is not what keeps banks on AS/400, and laziness is not what keeps people coding in FORTRAN. If its not broke, don't fix it. Windows does everything people want it to and will run any software you buy, so even if you showed everyone on the planet Linux, a good deal would continue to use Windows.
FreeBSD only supports sparc64 aka UltraSPARC not the earlier sparc chips. NetBSD seems to have the best support for both sparc32 and sparc64, with Linux distros in a close second only because they don't all seem to be updated as often, except debian which is your best bet for linux on a sparc. OpenBSD's sparc support is excellent except for SMP which hopefully will come sometime, it just doesn't seem to be much of a priority.
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KDE can be anything you want it to be. You might have to work at it, but unlike Gnome recently, KDE still gives you all of the configuration options you could want to make the system your own. Chances are that the default is 'Windows like' because since almost everyone has used that, its a good starting point and middle ground.
Nothing. It just makes it sound like you know what your doing.
Windows.
Would the benefits of this be just for embedded devices, or would more traditional uses also benefit from these changes?
No its not. A small accident will destroy your data, desk, you and who knows what else.
And here I was hoping for a decent SNMP server for windows.
Did it hurt to have your sense of humour removed? There was a Mac users are gay, PC users are rednecks, I just kept it going.
You both sound like your hung up on labels. Makes sense considering the elitism of most Linux users I've met.
Maybe they noticed their throughput was a little lower and bringing up their porn took a little longer. Personally I think they're full of it but thats just me.
Then don't use gmail, or did you not think about that?
Different priorities for different projects. You could also say that OpenBSD has a low priority for desktop 'users' (as opposed to developers) with the stress on absolute security being the over-riding factor, everything else gets added in later. NetBSD works toward a clean implementation and portability of the code across many different platforms, everything else comes second. Not to say that NetBSD doesn't care about security, just that its not the number one driving factor, and that still sounds bad. On the other hand, Linux, as part of the fact that the parts that make a complete OS are created by different people for each part, seems to aim at whatever the most vocal of the parts wish it to do, and thats be a Microsoft killer, hence the appearance to attempt to gear it more to a desktop user.
So your saying the Mozilla foundation should be run by a bunch of assholes instead of people just trying to do a good job?
I don't know about Sybase, but there are developer previews for OS X of Oracle9i and 10g. I don't know about any problems with them but since they are developer previews, some things might not work quite right yet. As OS X grows in popularity with the target audience of a software package, and proves its worth for serious computing, there will probably be more support for it in the future.
You expected an unbiased opinion from slashdot on a potentially inflammatory subject? I'm just glad slashdot, RMS and other vocal members of this OSS community tells me how to think about technologies.
I believe it was 3 sets of doubles.
While true, eating the bean directly will give you more then almost any made coffee, and he also said scarf down a whole bunch which would be a whole lot more then any cup of coffee.
Ignoring all that and moving on to your, 'to be a man have a light roast' some of us like a darker roasted coffee, and actually like espresso. If your drinking a coffee to impress people, your going to be a dick no matter what level of roast you drink.
All the previous is anecdotal evidence, but I do have extensive experience with many different types of coffee's, I go for taste, and while I do often prefer a stronger, darker roast I try all sorts of different ones. its nice that one beverage has so many different subtleties that change the experience just a little each time.
You might want to check some of those well known "facts" Before they make you seem like a runner up for the tinfoil hat of the year award. No matter what you feel about Microsoft, if the NSA is going to have MS and other US corporations add backdoors to their code, are they really going to be dumb enough to leave it named NSAKEY in plain sight in the registry? Incidentally, how many believe this 'theory' also install the SELinux additions to make their Linux more secure. You might want to go ahead and check who puts that together.
All depends on how they flaunt them, I can see it being a sore point in the porn industry, but do you really have a problem with people whipping it out at your office?
Like how emacs is a simple tool that does one thing and complex jobs are done by stringing many little programs together? That's oss tradition, simple apps is Unix tradition. Many today expect an app to do everything they ever want their system to do, if it doesn't they wont use it. Googles browser would have to become emacs for anyone to really take notice.
There's nothing wrong with close integration on its own, just that there is less room for error in each of the parts.
If windows does everything people expect of it, its doing its job and as such can be described as 'not broke.'
Laziness is not what keeps banks on AS/400, and laziness is not what keeps people coding in FORTRAN. If its not broke, don't fix it. Windows does everything people want it to and will run any software you buy, so even if you showed everyone on the planet Linux, a good deal would continue to use Windows.
Active Directory ;) It has all those nice mmc config apps.
FreeBSD only supports sparc64 aka UltraSPARC not the earlier sparc chips. NetBSD seems to have the best support for both sparc32 and sparc64, with Linux distros in a close second only because they don't all seem to be updated as often, except debian which is your best bet for linux on a sparc. OpenBSD's sparc support is excellent except for SMP which hopefully will come sometime, it just doesn't seem to be much of a priority.
Look, if the devil has made one thing clear its that he's not a people person. I say we just leave him the hell alone.
So instead you want people to make this choice:
Windows - Everything you already use
Linux - Has none of the apps you already use
Looks like the decision is a no brainer to me.