I got these same whois responses... People (ISC) is/are blaming it on an internal error, but from what I can see it was actually the work of some hacker...
Why? The Zaurus c760 is better in most ways...
(Zaurus vs. Clie)
Better screen (640x408 vs. 480x320)
Better processor (Xscale vs. ARM)
Better keyboard
Better OS;) (Linux vs. Palm)
Better (more) memory (128+64 vs. 32(16 usable)
Better (more) expandibility (CF+SD vs. nothing)
The only places where the Clie is better is:
Built in Wifi/BT (This could be negiative when you can't upgrade later on.)
Built in Camera
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying
Yet another
crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD
accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the
latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this
news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray,
as fittingly exemplified by
failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com]
to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future.
In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are
looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market
share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having
lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time
FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point
more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD
are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in
ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on
Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users
of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore
there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of
FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on,
FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled
OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick
and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will
be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could
save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
consistent user interface? what? if I go on linux box #1 and type echo "hi" then go to linux box #2 and type echo "hi". they will both spit out the same thing! whats not consistent about that?
umm I dont see anything hard about the debian installer... I first installed it right when I started using linux. The hardest part I think is the partitioning, but every distro has to do that.
Gentoo is much harder to install than debian.
Doesnt really matter what it does and what it dosent do... the proper way to upgrade from stable to unstable is to run apt-get upgrade then apt-get dist-upgrade
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I got these same whois responses... People (ISC) is/are blaming it on an internal error, but from what I can see it was actually the work of some hacker...
No shit sherlock, Duh using a non-GUI word processor will be harder than using a GUI word processor!
As a fair comparison:
Word: Type the text. File -> Print
AbiWord: Type the text. Click on the print button on the toolbar.
See! Linux IS easier!
But who are they targeting with this product? Who wants an expensive "gaming" device?
linux is nothing to microsoft. I dunno... Linux IS Microsoft's #2 threat.
also, if you don't like dynamism's price, just buy the zaurus from conics.
actually, if there were 300 leechers with big pipes, your download would fly. (afterall the leechers have to upload too!)
Why? The Zaurus c760 is better in most ways... (Zaurus vs. Clie) Better screen (640x408 vs. 480x320) Better processor (Xscale vs. ARM) Better keyboard Better OS ;) (Linux vs. Palm)
Better (more) memory (128+64 vs. 32(16 usable)
Better (more) expandibility (CF+SD vs. nothing)
The only places where the Clie is better is:
Built in Wifi/BT (This could be negiative when you can't upgrade later on.)
Built in Camera
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
Perhaps this will cause even more people to start codeing!
All the work must(should) be double checked to make sure everything is correct
2.1 is'nt even out yet! the latest is 2.0.46!
Can the OSS community now modify the firmware and make custom things for it?
I flick someone off?
BTW... great job at just writing the same flamebait over and over http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=68796&cid=6290 139
consistent user interface? what? if I go on linux box #1 and type echo "hi" then go to linux box #2 and type echo "hi". they will both spit out the same thing! whats not consistent about that?
well if you want it that bad... Just finish the project yourself :P
yes, but can you run a VNC server on PPCOS?
Opie rocks! It really is quite a bit better than Qtopia. (I run it on my zaurus running OpenZaurus distro.)
umm I dont see anything hard about the debian installer... I first installed it right when I started using linux. The hardest part I think is the partitioning, but every distro has to do that. Gentoo is much harder to install than debian.
I dunno, I would think it is harder to get RH working with apt, than to just install debian...
Doesnt really matter what it does and what it dosent do... the proper way to upgrade from stable to unstable is to run apt-get upgrade then apt-get dist-upgrade
I couldent have said it better myself!
new trade show huh?
you mean 2nd post?
wow! they can draw pictures of watches! Show me a real picture of a real prototype...