Or maybe, like it's stated in the article, you overstimate your abilities. You think you are an adult and you can handle it.
The point is to pay attention to the road so you can react quickly to surprises. They key word here is surprise. This means you were not expecting the situation and may have thought it to be "safe phone time". Every moment you are delayed by your phone increases the risk of injuring others.
OK, I'll bite. Someone needs to teach you how this works.
You aren't going through bullshit. How is 'apt-get install foo' or 'yum install foo' or 'emerge foo' going through bullshit? It's one command! Do you want something easier? Must the OS read your mind and install the package for you?
These "200 other barely-related packages" are called dependencies. Pakcage managers don't just start downloading other packages willy-nilly. It installs those packages that your new package is dependant on. Some package managers can also download packages marked as suggested or recommended, but that is easily changed via a config option, menu choice, or dialog box.
If you change the user-agent string in Firefox to make it look like IE, any web sites that keep browser statistics will put another check in the IE column. Web sites won't change unless they see a good economic reason to support standards.
I hope you at least sent them a message that you use an alternative browser.
Except the problem here wasn't that the car died at a stop sign. It died when he drove it on the road to his bank. A road the bank built to work only with his old car.
You are right that Firefox did not exactly fit this user's needs. But don't forget that the bank is also at fault for building that crappy road.
I'm not quite sure how you can so decisively say that it was confirmed false when the link you gave has some questions about that conclusion. Also this reply flat out rejects the conclusion that Trillian was not using GPLed code.
Too much patent issues, too much packages not available because not all platforms support them, too much old packages, even in unstable.
I have no idea where you get this idea of too many unavailable packages. One of Debian's strength's is the sheer number of available packages. A quick check on my system shows well over 10K available packages.
They are still debating if XFree 4.2 should be default.
As someone else mentioned, unstable is using XFree 4.3
Even if you are using unstable, packages keep changing way too much
Then don't update all the time. There is no reason you have to update every day. If your system is running fine, leave it as is.
The problem with testing is if something breaks, it might be broken for a long time since it will take time for the fix to filter down from unstable.
For this reason, I prefer to run unstable. Sure, it might occasionally break. But with apt-listbugs alerting me of any major bug reports before I upgrade, I rarely get bitten by a major bug.
Try the apt-listbugs package. Before installing any packages it will list the critical bugs in the packages. If you see a bug titled "Breaks teh X!!1!", then abort the upgrade and try again in a day or two.
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You're speaking in half-truths.
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Doesn't the top half of the DS look like so much wasted space? The small screen leaves so much room for nothing but speakers. Why not make the top screen a wide format?
Having the server schedule the feed retrieval has lots of little problems:
- The server must keep state on every client, whether they want to retrieve news right now or not.
- The server either has to initiate the connection with the client (firewalls make this method a problem) or you keep persistent connections open (which wastes ports since most will not be in use).
If David Brin wrote The Postman, I hope the book was infinately better than the movie. The Postman one of those long useless Kiven Costner flicks. It felt like a terrible sequel to Waterworld.
I don't agree with what they are trying to do, but there is an important distinction between playing the music from your car radio and the music at a dentist's office. The dentists's office is a commercial establishment, so it is possible to claim that the music is being used for something other than personal use.
Do you reguarly visit sites that redirect your browser if you are not using IE? If not, you really shouldn't be spoofing your user-agent string. As you've just admitted, it can skew browser and OS statistics.
When is the last time you met someone who built their own laptop? Every linux laptop user I know bought a laptop (usually a Thinkpad) with Windows on it, then formatted and installed Linux.
Why do people insist on analogies between intillectual property and physical property? A refridgerator is a physical item. By opening the panels you may damage the internal workings if the appliance, hence the support contract is voided.
As for your example of the closed source router, how would hacking the firmware and redistributing it involve the DMCA? AFAIK the DMCA kicks in when a user tries to circumvent copy protection schemes built into a device. What you are talking about, hacking and redistributing the firmware, is called a copyright violation.
Redistributing software is not a copyright violation under the GPL.
We can no longer count on the bare kernels to have any stability and depend on companies to stabilize the kernel.
I don't see how you make the leap from "vendors will do the final stabilization" to "the bare kernel will have no stability".
Everyone still probably remembers when you had to use a bare kernel to recompile and get Nvidia HW Accel drivers to work with the 4k stack problem.
The 4k stack was not a problem. It was a well known feature going into the 2.6 kernel.
Also this will pose a problem with many distro's that do not have armies of people to sit around and stabilize the kernel for their distro.
But many distros do have armies of people to sit around and patch the kernel. And these stability patches will make it into the main kernel tree. In the end, you and every other distro will benefit.
Lastly this will increase costs for developers of distros such as Redhat and Novell due to them having to now employ kernel hackers to deal with problems that may exist in the Kernel.
Read above. Red Het already employs plenty of kernel developers. Now they may spend a little less time backporting features and a little more time making sure the current 2.6 kernel is as solid as possible.
A lot of people use the vanilla sources, myself included obviously, I should have to go RedHat to get a working kernel. The 2.6 branch is NOT a playground, that's what the -mm branch is for.....
Absolutely amazing! That's exactly what Andrew Morton said! Under the new development model patches will go into his -mm kernel. If they survive testing, they will get filtered into the main kernel tree.
This is a good thing. All these "final stabilization" patches from vendors will make it into the main kernel tree. This will be good for everyone.
I think it will do the exact opposite. Much of the kernel fragmentation from the 2.4 series came from backported patches. Now, up-to-date features will be there in the current 2.6 kernel, creating less need for patches.
As for the final stabilization from the vendors, I assume these patches will make their way into the main kernel tree. As I see it, this will help everyone.
Look at the 2.4 series of kernels that were not development kernels (except for the mm change in 2.4.10). How did the major distros ship those "stable" kernels? SuSE, Red Hat, and Mandrake all shipped heavily patched kernels with lots of backported features. All this time spend on backporting patches was not helping the main kernel tree.
So now things change a bit. The main kernel tree will have more development and stay current with the features the major distros want to ship. The army of kernel developers at SuSE, Red Hat, IBM, etc. can now spend more time stabalizing the current kernel. These are patches that most likely can help the main kernel tree.
Now this gets a little complicated, because Sveasoft decided to provide subscription access to the releases and to the support forums -- rather then selling individual release copies.
Right, and this is where the problem is. If Sveasoft were just charging $50 per release of the software, then I have no problem. Whether or not you distribute the source, buying three releases cost $150.
Instead Sveasoft has this subscription which includes support forums and more releases (I know he calls them pre-releases, but the GPL does not destinguish between the two). Now the cost of downloading 3 releases changes in cost, depending on whether or not you redistribute the source.
This comes close to charging a user for exercising their GPL rights. Except, instead of charging a fee, Sveasoft revokes a paid service. This forces the user to pay to have the service reinstated.
IANAL, so I don't know if this actually violates the letter of the GPL. But it sure as hell violates the spirit.
If you release the source your subscription is cancalled. If you want to keep getting the prerelease source you have to keep buying new subscriptions every time your current subscription is cancelled. The user acting on his redistribution rights is charged more than the user who is not.
The reason I say that he is not selling the binary & source is this:
If you buy a subscription, you are allowed to download as many pre-releases as you like. One. Five. 20. As many as he releases before an official release. As soon as you redistribute one of those releases, your subscription is revoked. If a user wanted to download and redistribute five releases, they would have to keep subscribing, since their subscription would be revoked for redistributing.
The user redistributing the binaries and code is being charged more than the user who is not.
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Or maybe, like it's stated in the article, you overstimate your abilities. You think you are an adult and you can handle it.
The point is to pay attention to the road so you can react quickly to surprises. They key word here is surprise. This means you were not expecting the situation and may have thought it to be "safe phone time". Every moment you are delayed by your phone increases the risk of injuring others.
OK, I'll bite. Someone needs to teach you how this works.
You aren't going through bullshit. How is 'apt-get install foo' or 'yum install foo' or 'emerge foo' going through bullshit? It's one command! Do you want something easier? Must the OS read your mind and install the package for you?
These "200 other barely-related packages" are called dependencies. Pakcage managers don't just start downloading other packages willy-nilly. It installs those packages that your new package is dependant on. Some package managers can also download packages marked as suggested or recommended, but that is easily changed via a config option, menu choice, or dialog box.
If you change the user-agent string in Firefox to make it look like IE, any web sites that keep browser statistics will put another check in the IE column. Web sites won't change unless they see a good economic reason to support standards.
I hope you at least sent them a message that you use an alternative browser.
Except the problem here wasn't that the car died at a stop sign. It died when he drove it on the road to his bank. A road the bank built to work only with his old car.
You are right that Firefox did not exactly fit this user's needs. But don't forget that the bank is also at fault for building that crappy road.
I'm not quite sure how you can so decisively say that it was confirmed false when the link you gave has some questions about that conclusion. Also this reply flat out rejects the conclusion that Trillian was not using GPLed code.
The problem with testing is if something breaks, it might be broken for a long time since it will take time for the fix to filter down from unstable.
For this reason, I prefer to run unstable. Sure, it might occasionally break. But with apt-listbugs alerting me of any major bug reports before I upgrade, I rarely get bitten by a major bug.
Try the apt-listbugs package. Before installing any packages it will list the critical bugs in the packages. If you see a bug titled "Breaks teh X!!1!", then abort the upgrade and try again in a day or two.
You're speaking in half-truths.
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Doesn't the top half of the DS look like so much wasted space? The small screen leaves so much room for nothing but speakers. Why not make the top screen a wide format?
Having the server schedule the feed retrieval has lots of little problems:
- The server must keep state on every client, whether they want to retrieve news right now or not.
- The server either has to initiate the connection with the client (firewalls make this method a problem) or you keep persistent connections open (which wastes ports since most will not be in use).
If David Brin wrote The Postman, I hope the book was infinately better than the movie. The Postman one of those long useless Kiven Costner flicks. It felt like a terrible sequel to Waterworld.
The Postman: Dustworld.
Assuming it is worth a +5 Funny, since when are amusing comments worth posting on the front page?
I don't agree with what they are trying to do, but there is an important distinction between playing the music from your car radio and the music at a dentist's office. The dentists's office is a commercial establishment, so it is possible to claim that the music is being used for something other than personal use.
Do you reguarly visit sites that redirect your browser if you are not using IE? If not, you really shouldn't be spoofing your user-agent string. As you've just admitted, it can skew browser and OS statistics.
When is the last time you met someone who built their own laptop? Every linux laptop user I know bought a laptop (usually a Thinkpad) with Windows on it, then formatted and installed Linux.
Why do people insist on analogies between intillectual property and physical property? A refridgerator is a physical item. By opening the panels you may damage the internal workings if the appliance, hence the support contract is voided.
As for your example of the closed source router, how would hacking the firmware and redistributing it involve the DMCA? AFAIK the DMCA kicks in when a user tries to circumvent copy protection schemes built into a device. What you are talking about, hacking and redistributing the firmware, is called a copyright violation.
Redistributing software is not a copyright violation under the GPL.
We can no longer count on the bare kernels to have any stability and depend on companies to stabilize the kernel.
I don't see how you make the leap from "vendors will do the final stabilization" to "the bare kernel will have no stability".
Everyone still probably remembers when you had to use a bare kernel to recompile and get Nvidia HW Accel drivers to work with the 4k stack problem.
The 4k stack was not a problem. It was a well known feature going into the 2.6 kernel.
Also this will pose a problem with many distro's that do not have armies of people to sit around and stabilize the kernel for their distro.
But many distros do have armies of people to sit around and patch the kernel. And these stability patches will make it into the main kernel tree. In the end, you and every other distro will benefit.
Lastly this will increase costs for developers of distros such as Redhat and Novell due to them having to now employ kernel hackers to deal with problems that may exist in the Kernel.
Read above. Red Het already employs plenty of kernel developers. Now they may spend a little less time backporting features and a little more time making sure the current 2.6 kernel is as solid as possible.
A lot of people use the vanilla sources, myself included obviously, I should have to go RedHat to get a working kernel. The 2.6 branch is NOT a playground, that's what the -mm branch is for.....
Absolutely amazing! That's exactly what Andrew Morton said! Under the new development model patches will go into his -mm kernel. If they survive testing, they will get filtered into the main kernel tree.
This is a good thing. All these "final stabilization" patches from vendors will make it into the main kernel tree. This will be good for everyone.
I think it will do the exact opposite. Much of the kernel fragmentation from the 2.4 series came from backported patches. Now, up-to-date features will be there in the current 2.6 kernel, creating less need for patches.
As for the final stabilization from the vendors, I assume these patches will make their way into the main kernel tree. As I see it, this will help everyone.
OK then. I take your point. Linux has now become useless to me.
If a kernel that gets developed and improved even faster is useless to you, then so be it.
Now here this slashdot: I give up. I'm going to buy a Mac.
Goodbye.
Ciao. You won't be missed.
No it's not bad.
Look at the 2.4 series of kernels that were not development kernels (except for the mm change in 2.4.10). How did the major distros ship those "stable" kernels? SuSE, Red Hat, and Mandrake all shipped heavily patched kernels with lots of backported features. All this time spend on backporting patches was not helping the main kernel tree.
So now things change a bit. The main kernel tree will have more development and stay current with the features the major distros want to ship. The army of kernel developers at SuSE, Red Hat, IBM, etc. can now spend more time stabalizing the current kernel. These are patches that most likely can help the main kernel tree.
Right, and this is where the problem is. If Sveasoft were just charging $50 per release of the software, then I have no problem. Whether or not you distribute the source, buying three releases cost $150.
Instead Sveasoft has this subscription which includes support forums and more releases (I know he calls them pre-releases, but the GPL does not destinguish between the two). Now the cost of downloading 3 releases changes in cost, depending on whether or not you redistribute the source.
This comes close to charging a user for exercising their GPL rights. Except, instead of charging a fee, Sveasoft revokes a paid service. This forces the user to pay to have the service reinstated.
IANAL, so I don't know if this actually violates the letter of the GPL. But it sure as hell violates the spirit.
If you release the source your subscription is cancalled. If you want to keep getting the prerelease source you have to keep buying new subscriptions every time your current subscription is cancelled. The user acting on his redistribution rights is charged more than the user who is not.
Is that not an extra restriction?
The reason I say that he is not selling the binary & source is this:
If you buy a subscription, you are allowed to download as many pre-releases as you like. One. Five. 20. As many as he releases before an official release. As soon as you redistribute one of those releases, your subscription is revoked. If a user wanted to download and redistribute five releases, they would have to keep subscribing, since their subscription would be revoked for redistributing.
The user redistributing the binaries and code is being charged more than the user who is not.