Unlike the rest of the first world, they refuse to stop using landmines and rarely condemn the occupation of Palestinian land outside Israel's borders. They've also got one of the world's largest caches of
Oh yeah, and they keep prisoners of war in prison camps outside their country for years on end without access to lawyers.
They also could put pressure on Israel to sign the anti torture decree, but don't
Say, I run an important mailing list. A random power failure, severe disk corruption, nobody really knows what works OK and what is broken, week-old backup of data, no system backup, no network, no other computer to move the harddisk, I must work with this broken system. I must get it back up and running with as much of remaining database as possible, possibly fixing any corruption. Is the user support good enough to lead me through such landmine-ridden system?
Dunno. Maybe ask on one of the Debian lists once the machine hosting them is back up.
* Plug and play works ok during the initial setup but not very well after that. Try changing your video card after already doing the initial install.
True for some distros, but not for most modern ones. Plug in a new video card, Red Hat / Mandrake / whatever detects your old one was removed, your new card plugged in, configured your video settings and then continues booting.
Linux currently has better plug and play than XP (yes, less drivers, but way better plug and play). Pull a dual boot Fedora / XP hard disk out of one machine and pop it into another to compare the time it takes to detect and install all the new drivers. Fedora will kick XPs arse.
*Cut and paste doesnt work most of the time. A lot of the time. But yeah, I agree. I know how X cut and paste works. But I still can't reliably paste a large bunch of text out of OpenOffice 1.1 into Konqueror 3.1.
* Crappy fonts - most web pages look like crap, even slashdot. I dont consider stealing fonts from windows a fix to this problem.
Again, distro specific. Most modern distros come with some high quality fonts from Bitstream, including Bitstream Vera Sans, which looks a whole lot like MSs lovely verdana font.
FYI, Jennifer Vesperman is writing the Linux Annoyances book anyway.
Same here. This is really surprising - Red Hat Linux is one of the most popular distros around and Fedoras its logical successor for enthusiasts (who are generally the kind of people to jump on the latest release of something like Evo).
Look at expose, the only decent application of a `tile all windows' command I've yet seen.
Or dialog sheets, allowing me to see through the `would you like to save this unnamed document' to the document its talking about, and therefore know what I'm going to save.
does anyone else think that it is funny that this guy honestly thought that the government of New Zealand wouldn't have a problem with him building a cruise missile?
I don't. New Zealand is ostensibly a democracy that offers its citizens a reasonable degree of freedom
I think it can be argued that the Debian installer asks many questions that may not be easy to answer for a Linux newbie.
That's true, but the point is that most of those questions are unecessary. Every PCI device on my system has a number, and the Linux kernel comes with a map of device number to driver names.
I'm not a Linux newbie, but see it as a waste of time to answer silly questions about the modules I'd like to load for every bit of hardware in my system when my hardware is designed explicitly to avoid the need to do so.
Something known, something you have. That's the way its always been in security theory and I've yet to see an argument for the addition of anything else.
`Something instrinsic' is a biometric sellers way to tell you that that:
the something you have should be a biometric, preferably using the system they're selling you
due to issues with changing credentials, you'll need something you have which can be properly revoked in addition to their biometric
I'm aware of the history involved. What's surprising (to me anyway) that such a poor system administration idea (having bind installed on each host) is still mentioned. TFM on Linux is far too often a POS.
I presume you must mean USB memory key. Some (well everyone round here) people call them thus because they're pretty easy to put on your keychain, and you can insert them and pull them out from their end like a key.
only idiots write and maintain complicated code in shell script when there are tools like Perl and Python available. Shell script should only be used for trivial stuff.
(Yeah, go ahead, mod me flamebait, I'm still right.)
What makes you flamebait isn't what you're saying so much as the way you present it. People who use overly emotive language tend to be irrational, and your audience knows this. Even if you're making a good point, your language makes it seem as if you're emotionally rather than logically driven.
Bloody hell, he's using DNS as a distributed information serving resource, as it was designed to do! Bloody hell, the only point you have to make is criticise his spelling! Bloody hell you sound the comic book guy from the simpsons!
Bloody hell the overly violent geek reaction is so very two years ago, it makes me want to rape you with a porcupine.
If Red Hat advertise and support SpamAssassin as a feature in their distro, then it should be well documented and integrated.
The SpamAssassin documentation / packaging needs improvement, providing instructions and scripts to integrate SpamAssassin as a Postfix content filter or with Procmail for those using Sendmail. The package, as part of its post install scripts, could so much of this work as well.
Personally, the best thing I ever found on setting up SpamAssassin was a guide for Suse I adopted for my Red Hat system.
I contract for Red Hat, but (pretty obviously) this is my own opinion.
Just in case you missed the comment earlier, Fedora.us (which merged with Red Hat Linux Project to create Fedora) has been around longer than the University project.
The Linux Standards Base already deals with file locations and packaging formats. The main problem is that it isn't comprehensive enough. There's still no way you can reliably determine where the IP address for your network card lives across distros.
Something else that'd increase desktop Linux: accurate, up to date documentation. Man pages are hopelessly out of date (read man resolv.conf and find out that most machines should be running local copues of Bind, or the various setting up a SLIP PPP connector on kernel 2.0 docs on TLDP).
Motif looked ugly, wasn't very cross platfrom, and didn't support the wide variety of languages that GTK and QT do.
What will UserLinux do that we don't already have (yes, that's question, not a statement)? We already have a Free Software, user focused Linux distribution that ships with all the user apps mentioned in the article. Its called Fedora and is based on one of the most popular distro around (according to Netcraft and IDC). What will UserLinux do that Fedora doesn't?
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Unlike the rest of the first world, they refuse to stop using landmines and rarely condemn the occupation of Palestinian land outside Israel's borders. They've also got one of the world's largest caches of
Oh yeah, and they keep prisoners of war in prison camps outside their country for years on end without access to lawyers.
They also could put pressure on Israel to sign the anti torture decree, but don't
Say, I run an important mailing list. A random power failure, severe disk corruption, nobody really knows what works OK and what is broken, week-old backup of data, no system backup, no network, no other computer to move the harddisk, I must work with this broken system. I must get it back up and running with as much of remaining database as possible, possibly fixing any corruption. Is the user support good enough to lead me through such landmine-ridden system?
Dunno. Maybe ask on one of the Debian lists once the machine hosting them is back up.
*shoots hoop*
That last definition is fairly poor, and could be used to persecute someone. A better definition would be speech which specifically incites a crime.
That reminds me of something else.
Almost every dialog that has `no, yes, yes to all' option needs a `no to all' option.
I've never seen one, but I've needed it a stack of times.
* Plug and play works ok during the initial setup but not very well after that. Try changing your video card after already doing the initial install.
True for some distros, but not for most modern ones. Plug in a new video card, Red Hat / Mandrake / whatever detects your old one was removed, your new card plugged in, configured your video settings and then continues booting.
Linux currently has better plug and play than XP (yes, less drivers, but way better plug and play). Pull a dual boot Fedora / XP hard disk out of one machine and pop it into another to compare the time it takes to detect and install all the new drivers. Fedora will kick XPs arse.
*Cut and paste doesnt work most of the time.
A lot of the time. But yeah, I agree. I know how X cut and paste works. But I still can't reliably paste a large bunch of text out of OpenOffice 1.1 into Konqueror 3.1.
* Crappy fonts - most web pages look like crap, even slashdot. I dont consider stealing fonts from windows a fix to this problem.
Again, distro specific. Most modern distros come with some high quality fonts from Bitstream, including Bitstream Vera Sans, which looks a whole lot like MSs lovely verdana font.
FYI, Jennifer Vesperman is writing the Linux Annoyances book anyway.
I think the US would react a lot harder that what you're saying - probably detain him for an arbitrary period, perhaps without access to a lawyer.
All you've done is point out that other nations are worse. That doesn't make the US any good. A better test would be the US now versus ten years ago.
And also show that this is a good test of freedom of speech. Of which this man has none.
Same here. This is really surprising - Red Hat Linux is one of the most popular distros around and Fedoras its logical successor for enthusiasts (who are generally the kind of people to jump on the latest release of something like Evo).
I used to use E a long time ago
Me too. Its only when I stopped that I realized just how bad Binery Finary - 1999 really was.
Look at expose, the only decent application of a `tile all windows' command I've yet seen.
Or dialog sheets, allowing me to see through the `would you like to save this unnamed document' to the document its talking about, and therefore know what I'm going to save.
does anyone else think that it is funny that this guy honestly thought that the government of New Zealand wouldn't have a problem with him building a cruise missile?
I don't. New Zealand is ostensibly a democracy that offers its citizens a reasonable degree of freedom
Then again, so is the US. So I see your point.
Because they produce and distribute upgrades for free and contribute a great deal to the Open Source community.
I think it can be argued that the Debian installer asks many questions that may not be easy to answer for a Linux newbie.
That's true, but the point is that most of those questions are unecessary. Every PCI device on my system has a number, and the Linux kernel comes with a map of device number to driver names.
I'm not a Linux newbie, but see it as a waste of time to answer silly questions about the modules I'd like to load for every bit of hardware in my system when my hardware is designed explicitly to avoid the need to do so.
`Something instrinsic' is a biometric sellers way to tell you that that
I'm aware of the history involved. What's surprising (to me anyway) that such a poor system administration idea (having bind installed on each host) is still mentioned. TFM on Linux is far too often a POS.
I presume you must mean USB memory key. Some (well everyone round here) people call them thus because they're pretty easy to put on your keychain, and you can insert them and pull them out from their end like a key.
...to use the trademark. Hence they don't use the name Unix. Hence people talk about the stuff that does use the name Unix as Unix.
only idiots write and maintain complicated code in shell script when there are tools like Perl and Python available. Shell script should only be used for trivial stuff.
(Yeah, go ahead, mod me flamebait, I'm still right.)
What makes you flamebait isn't what you're saying so much as the way you present it. People who use overly emotive language tend to be irrational, and your audience knows this. Even if you're making a good point, your language makes it seem as if you're emotionally rather than logically driven.
Apple paid the Open Group to use the Unix trademark. Microsoft could probably do the same with Windows if they feel they needed to.
Bloody hell, he's using DNS as a distributed information serving resource, as it was designed to do! Bloody hell, the only point you have to make is criticise his spelling! Bloody hell you sound the comic book guy from the simpsons!
Bloody hell the overly violent geek reaction is so very two years ago, it makes me want to rape you with a porcupine.
Not really that funny now is it?
If Red Hat advertise and support SpamAssassin as a feature in their distro, then it should be well documented and integrated.
The SpamAssassin documentation / packaging needs improvement, providing instructions and scripts to integrate SpamAssassin as a Postfix content filter or with Procmail for those using Sendmail. The package, as part of its post install scripts, could so much of this work as well.
Personally, the best thing I ever found on setting up SpamAssassin was a guide for Suse I adopted for my Red Hat system.
I contract for Red Hat, but (pretty obviously) this is my own opinion.
Just in case you missed the comment earlier, Fedora.us (which merged with Red Hat Linux Project to create Fedora) has been around longer than the University project.
an is out of date for a reason - it's deprecated and hasn't been used for ages.
Is it? By whose standards? The Debian project insist that all commands must include man pages. The LSB has, AFAIK, nothing to say on the matter,
Oh yeah, and the info page for resolv.conf is wrong too.
What are you thinking on specifically, in terms of `fixing things which aren't broken' ?
The Linux Standards Base already deals with file locations and packaging formats. The main problem is that it isn't comprehensive enough. There's still no way you can reliably determine where the IP address for your network card lives across distros.
Something else that'd increase desktop Linux: accurate, up to date documentation. Man pages are hopelessly out of date (read man resolv.conf and find out that most machines should be running local copues of Bind, or the various setting up a SLIP PPP connector on kernel 2.0 docs on TLDP).
Motif looked ugly, wasn't very cross platfrom, and didn't support the wide variety of languages that GTK and QT do.
What will UserLinux do that we don't already have (yes, that's question, not a statement)? We already have a Free Software, user focused Linux distribution that ships with all the user apps mentioned in the article. Its called Fedora and is based on one of the most popular distro around (according to Netcraft and IDC). What will UserLinux do that Fedora doesn't?
The effect of articles like this is making true, realisitic criticism of MS security by Unix users look like the same kind of bullshit we see here.