The Mozilla control is an ActiveX control that encapsulates the Gecko layout engine, allowing it to be used in any ActiveX container. Developers can use any ActiveX development tool such as VB, Visual C++, Delphi and even Internet Explorer to embed the Mozilla ActiveX control into a form.
The Mozilla control also uses the existing Internet Explorer interfaces meaning that it can be a drop in replacement for the Internet Explorer control in many cases.
Surely they won't have a hard time dragging files to the CD icon that automatically appears on insertion of a blank CD-R and pressing the obvious "burn" button?
Yes. That's why you should switch to Linux. Windows can't just be "simplified", they have created a monster in the form of NT kernel and now they need to deal with it. Switch to a lean, mean POSIX kernel.
Oi, I'm a longtime Linux user (I contract for $MAJORDISTROVENDOR too) and that's a complete troll. There's stacks of cruft in Linux (the OS) and Windows (the OS - because we're talking about OSs, remember). I nthe case of Linux, applications store their configs in a stack of different config file formats, major apps like XFree are filled with cruft, the/etc/passwd file typically stores everything but passwords, there's syslog facilities for nntp and uucp but not anything useful (like http, or ldap) etc.
While I've got my own views on open/closed source, why on earth is RPM a bad thing?
If your distro supports the Linux Standard Base, you can install RPMs, its that simple. Why should ATI manage multiple packages just because someone's bitter with that choice?
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There's a reason why web merchants have to pay more for their credit card services, and it's that insecurity.
No, its because the credit card company is taking advantage of pubic misconception. According to MasterCards own figures, there's a much greater chance of fraud happening offline.
Maybe what you're thinking is that they plan to release XFree86 with the FD.O Xlibs
Well, yes, that's why I said "The short term plan is to use the FDO Xlibs with the OSS XFree driver architecture". Maybe I should have been more specific and said the rest of XFree as well.
They are indeed doing something other than a wrapper. The specific comments about using fdo Xlibs with XFree's driver infrastructure came from Daniel Stone and seem to be corroborated by reports from the FDO planet site.
Red Hat is actually well known for pissing of its users by being strict about GPL compliance (no MP3, no NTFS, I think also no more pine, and now no UW-IMAP).
That's true in the case of Pine, but NTFS and MP3 were removed because of patent issues. It'd be fine to publish a Fedora including these packages in, for example, France or a Scandinavian country. WU-IMAP was removed because it was insecure (many of the Linux worms were written to exploit it) and slow as hell compared to Dovecot.
In two weeks the Freedesktop.org guys will release X11R6.7.
The short term plan is to use the FDO Xlibs with the OSS XFree driver architecture. This will give compatibility with existing drivers (particularly the binary NVidia / ATI drivers) and many of the features of the fdo X server, apparently including compositing.
Long term, though, there'll be a better driver model, and more communication between the guys writing your X server (fdo) and the vendors (one of the main beefs with XFree86 is that there wasn't much communication with vendors, who often waited up to a year for their drivers to get into XFree).
4.) Ease of use and security are inversely proportional.
Why? I think part of ease of use is ease of security. Making it easy to do what you need, includes making it easy to continue doing it - by stopping people from breaking into your machine.
Postfix is in many ways easier than Sendmail. Because it's capable of being understood by more people, people seem to find much easier to secure (against open relaying, spammers, viruses, etc) too.
Red Hat can and do maintain support for their desktop releases. RHEL3 Professional is $130 Australian, which IIRC is $fuckall US. For God's sake, could the editors either do some fucking research, or listen to anyone that keeps posting in reponse to these continual troll submissions.
And to the troll above: er, you can upgrade Red Hat 9 to Fedora just fine. Since Fedora is maintained and worked on by Red Hat employees, and is merely a Red Hat 10 from a technical POV, the 'untested' claim is pretty ripe. But if you want support, you'll pay for it by purchasing RHEL3.
Is the term source based distribution really accurate anyway? I rebuild source packages for my Red Hat system all the time.
'Source based distro' seems to mean 'distro that forces you to install from source and had a nifty system to fetch dependent packages from source rather than binary and build them with particular options'.
Maybe 'pure source distro' or 'compile packaging distro'
I've yet to make up my mind, cause I can see bost points of view
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Personally, I think they're each appropriate at different times.
The difference is that you paid for Windows 98. Red Hat currently plan to provide five years of support for RHEL3, which isn't to shabby at all. The professional workstation pricing is around the same as Windows too.
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what does Gnome have to do with Linux aside from the fact that its one of many programs that can run on Linux?
Most people, including most Linux uses, define Linux as an OS. Compare Linux.org and kernel.org.
The Mozilla control is an ActiveX control that encapsulates the Gecko layout engine, allowing it to be used in any ActiveX container. Developers can use any ActiveX development tool such as VB, Visual C++, Delphi and even Internet Explorer to embed the Mozilla ActiveX control into a form.
The Mozilla control also uses the existing Internet Explorer interfaces meaning that it can be a drop in replacement for the Internet Explorer control in many cases.
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Cmon! It's not a bad single, but we both know it's just a reworking of Violet from Live Through This...
Surely they won't have a hard time dragging files to the CD icon that automatically appears on insertion of a blank CD-R and pressing the obvious "burn" button?
;^)
Like Nautilus does?
Yes. That's why you should switch to Linux. Windows can't just be "simplified", they have created a monster in the form of NT kernel and now they need to deal with it. Switch to a lean, mean POSIX kernel.
Oi, I'm a longtime Linux user (I contract for $MAJORDISTROVENDOR too) and that's a complete troll. There's stacks of cruft in Linux (the OS) and Windows (the OS - because we're talking about OSs, remember). I nthe case of Linux, applications store their configs in a stack of different config file formats, major apps like XFree are filled with cruft, the
While I've got my own views on open/closed source, why on earth is RPM a bad thing?
If your distro supports the Linux Standard Base, you can install RPMs, its that simple. Why should ATI manage multiple packages just because someone's bitter with that choice?
There's a reason why web merchants have to pay more for their credit card services, and it's that insecurity.
No, its because the credit card company is taking advantage of pubic misconception. According to MasterCards own figures, there's a much greater chance of fraud happening offline.
Can't be arsed finding a link, but GIYF.
This is pretty much a me too post. There's lots of Linux PHP and JSP coders out there who'd love a good graphic HTML editor.
How many design-oriented folk writing Flash even test for Linux comaptibility, much less use it?
I'd buy a native Dreamweaver license.
Maybe what you're thinking is that they plan to release XFree86 with the FD.O Xlibs
Well, yes, that's why I said "The short term plan is to use the FDO Xlibs with the OSS XFree driver architecture". Maybe I should have been more specific and said the rest of XFree as well.
They are indeed doing something other than a wrapper. The specific comments about using fdo Xlibs with XFree's driver infrastructure came from Daniel Stone and seem to be corroborated by reports from the FDO planet site.
This is completely off topic from the parent post. But THE LINKED ARTICLE CONTAINS SOURCE CODE FOR WINDOWS.
The Slashdot editors should remove the link immediately. Its really dangerous to have on the front page of this site.
Red Hat is actually well known for pissing of its users by being strict about GPL compliance (no MP3, no NTFS, I think also no more pine, and now no UW-IMAP).
That's true in the case of Pine, but NTFS and MP3 were removed because of patent issues. It'd be fine to publish a Fedora including these packages in, for example, France or a Scandinavian country. WU-IMAP was removed because it was insecure (many of the Linux worms were written to exploit it) and slow as hell compared to Dovecot.
Told to me from one of the fdo guys:
In two weeks the Freedesktop.org guys will release X11R6.7.
The short term plan is to use the FDO Xlibs with the OSS XFree driver architecture. This will give compatibility with existing drivers (particularly the binary NVidia / ATI drivers) and many of the features of the fdo X server, apparently including compositing.
Long term, though, there'll be a better driver model, and more communication between the guys writing your X server (fdo) and the vendors (one of the main beefs with XFree86 is that there wasn't much communication with vendors, who often waited up to a year for their drivers to get into XFree).
the lameness filter sucks.
According to LinuxGames.
Unless I missed something, KDE is not a desktop environment that replaces the Windows GUI on Windows boxen.
Actually, it can be. This is what I was thinking of when I read that comment.
On reflection, though, it was probably just boring advocacy.
Check out NoMachine's X compression system. Performance is comparable to ICA. Its also Open Source, including clienbts for Windows. Get it here.
4.) Ease of use and security are inversely proportional.
Why? I think part of ease of use is ease of security. Making it easy to do what you need, includes making it easy to continue doing it - by stopping people from breaking into your machine.
Postfix is in many ways easier than Sendmail. Because it's capable of being understood by more people, people seem to find much easier to secure (against open relaying, spammers, viruses, etc) too.
Red Hat can and do maintain support for their desktop releases. RHEL3 Professional is $130 Australian, which IIRC is $fuckall US. For God's sake, could the editors either do some fucking research, or listen to anyone that keeps posting in reponse to these continual troll submissions.
And to the troll above: er, you can upgrade Red Hat 9 to Fedora just fine. Since Fedora is maintained and worked on by Red Hat employees, and is merely a Red Hat 10 from a technical POV, the 'untested' claim is pretty ripe. But if you want support, you'll pay for it by purchasing RHEL3.
Then why ship with graphical utilities that you know will destroy your server? Why not simply remove them?
That was Jesus.
He just thinks he's RMS.
Is the term source based distribution really accurate anyway? I rebuild source packages for my Red Hat system all the time.
'Source based distro' seems to mean 'distro that forces you to install from source and had a nifty system to fetch dependent packages from source rather than binary and build them with particular options'.
Maybe 'pure source distro' or 'compile packaging distro'
Put the most relevant (ie, recent) stuff at the top, just like every web page in existence. Older stuff goes down the bottom for those that need context
Have questions before answers
Personally, I think they're each appropriate at different times.
The difference is that you paid for Windows 98. Red Hat currently plan to provide five years of support for RHEL3, which isn't to shabby at all. The professional workstation pricing is around the same as Windows too.