IE is ActiveX. Look at the size of IEXPLORE.EXE. Do you think Microsoft managed to fit an entire modern web browser into a few hundred K? IEXPLORE is an ActiveX control that does little more than call other ActiveX controls, for displaying HTML, running J(ava)script, etc. If you're wondering why its so hard to lock down ActiveX entirely, its because that's all IE is.
You obviously haven't lived in Melbourne, Australia. We has real Greek and Italian baristas making high quality world class coffee for decades.
Mention Microsoft round here, people will tell you Bill Gates has a lot of money, but boy doesn't Windows crash a lot.
Mention StarBucks, and someone will mutter something about poor quality south American coffee, fake italian words, sugary `flavored' coffee, and their bizarre adherance to the USAmerican `let's fill it with cream and then eat it!' philosophy. Then they'll spit in your coffee:).
I don't think eweek / zdnet's articee is wrong at all. As much as many people who read/. believe Microsoft to be an monpolistic choke hold on the computer industry, people in the wider community just see Microsoft as a dominating force in their field, which is exactly what Red Hat is. According to Netcraft, IDC and most other sources, Red Hat has more market share than every other Linux distro combined. It also has the largest professional services organization, hardware support, and influence over the future of Linux, as well as the healthiest balance sheet. And more power to them, they make and integrate quality software.
I've been on the other side of this - asked to create a Linux desktop use class for a bunch of Windows developers new to the platform who'd picked KDevelop as their IDE. Management said (I quote) `we're not interested in any of this command line stuff', whereas staff were very much interested in the traditional CLI Unix aspects of Linux. My company built a course with a lot of specialist content, focusing on the different systems of Linux operation (users and groups, storage, rpm, and other basics) with carefully selected interfaces rather than base-level tools.
Come the day of a training, as a presenter I think I guaged staff reactions earlier on and beefed up the technical content, but post-course we were told that although the company was generally happy with that first day, `where were vi, sed, awk and emacs?' - this time from management. At this point we realized it wasn't so much a management / staff schism (the cmpany were fairly small) but more lack of a clear vision for what htey wanted from the course. I think most staff still gained a lot from that first day (more so if I'd focused on how to use a particular text editor, or started a text processing programming course) but the lack of a single cohesive vision for that first day stopped things being all they could.
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1) All of Red Hat's KDE apps still include every copyright, every license, and every author's name. That's because they live in About [Application}. About KDE is basically an advertisement for KDE.
2) Some people feel Red Hat's behaviour has always been disrespectful, just as I'm sure there are KDE developers who have had issues with Debian changing things in their package to improve (in the distro makers eyes) the output. But these people, in both cases, are a minority. Look at what the developers in the post actually said - they're all overwhelmingly not fussed about Red Hat's actions. Likewise the only KDE developer here approves.
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The copyright information, full license agreement, and list of authors is still intact on every KDE application. I'm looking at it right now.
Konquerer 3.03, using KDE 3.0.3-2 Web browser, file manager (c) 1999 - 2002, the Konqueror Developers http://www.konqueror.org
Authors: David Faure faure@kde.org developers (parts, I/Olib} and maintainer
[list of athors follows]
License agreement GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 [rest of license follows]
That's because all this information in contained in the About Konqueror screen. About KDE is an advertisement for KDE. You can remove about KDE from every KDE app and still thank every author, display every license, and show every author. And that;s exactly what Red Hat have done.
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Because Gnome apps don't know/care about KParts?
Again, the main apps involved, for webv browser and office suite, aren't Gnome apps. But more importantly, all those applications are still there in the menus (unless you're affected by the/etc/X11/applnk bug, but the menus are how I launched the Konq session I'm using to type this), contrary to Mosfet's lies.
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But I _explicitly_ chose to _not_ use the default (which is GNOME)
No, it isn't. The default is neither KDE nor Gnome. Red Hat aren't putting Galeon on your desktop, nor are they expecting to to actually use Abiword for anything serious. They've actually chosen two GNOME/KDE neutral apps for Office Suite and Web Browser.
You selected to use the KDE desktop. When you selected to install KDE, Red Hat installed Kong, KOffice, Kmail, etc. and pu them there in your menus. But most new users to linux would rather have the browser than renders more web pages and the office suite that's finished rather than the one that doesn't and the one that isn't. Likewise, Evolution is much more simialr to what a Windows users expects from a PIM than KMail is (because KMail isn't a PIM, its an email program and nothign more) The rest of us can change the defaults.
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When someone comes along and picks and chooses pieces from the whole
Please, please knwo that KDE is intact. The desktop, the panel, Konqueror, Knode, Koffice, etc. Moset is simply lying when he says Konqueror isn't avaliable in the menus. It is.
What Red Hat have doen is picked what they saw to be the best apps to handle some particular tasks by default.
Mozilla (although I love Konq) simply renders more pages out there than Konqueror. I think a new Linux user would simply be happier with a web browser than can view the most popular web site in his country (here, www.ninemsn.com.au) than one that can't. Because of this, Red hat (I believe) thinks it is the better tool, and logically makes it the default.
Likewise, OpenOffice can read, edit, and save to Microsoft Office documents, and unfortunate necessity in todays world, better than KOffice or Abiword/Gnumeric can. Because of this, Red hat (I believe) thinks it is the better tool, and logically makes it the default.
Neither Mozilla nor OpenOffice are GNOME or KDE packages (sadly, they use their own wacky toolkits and reinvent the wheel yet again). So this isn't a matter of Red Hat sabotaging KDE in favor of Gnome.
I'm a KDE user sitting in front of my machien usign the same apps I always do. All of KDE is here and I'm typing this into Konquror which I launched from the KDE menu.
The QT Konqueror window I'm looking at looks the same as the GTK1 xchat, XMMS, and the GTK2 Packages app behind it. This rocks.
Red Hat are picking the best apps for the job for their defaults. Just like real people do.
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RedHat must die. Red Hat. Two words. We all must die at some point, Mosfet;) Red Hat included KDE when the licensing situation was cleared up, and were one of the first distros to have KDE 3.03 packages for their stable release. As someone who posts frequently to RH bugzilla, I know that KDE issues are being fixed by other people than Bero.
When you select to use "KDE" as your default desktop you no longer get the KDE web browser, the KDE email program, etc. This is simply false. You are lying. Konqueror is still there I'm using it to type this in Red Hat null. its in the menus too, but not in the main menu because of a reported, acknowledged bug with/etc/X11/applnk - its in a menu maked extras instead. Personally I don't mind the Actually, the major apps on Red Hat's quiclauncher are Mozilla and OpenOffice, which are neither KDE nor Gnome apps. Although I love Konq, Mozilla *will* render more pages, so I think itsa good default. Likewise, Openoffie is useable for the 99.9% of people who need to open, edit, and save Microsoft office documents, and Koffice and Abiword / Gnumeric are not.
They have even gone so far as to remove KDE from the "About" boxes of the KDE apps you get to keep when using their fake KDE desktop. . You are lying, again. All my apps say Foo (using KDE 3.0.3-2) in thei abotu menus. Why not make your comments after installing Red Hat and attempting to know what you are talking about?
If users select to use the KDE desktop they should obviously get access to KDE applications as the default, not Gnome ones. Doing otherwise cripples the entire thing. Are you sure about that? I would have thought that users should obviously get access to the best applications as the default. Doing otherwise is a self-selving wank on behalf of the desktop. Sorry, Mozilla will work for more pages than Konq and therefore makes a good alternative to Konq, which is still there.
Not only does it make KDE less efficent because you have to have both toolkits runningUsers can and will expect to be able to run the best apps avaliable regardless of toolkit. Anything that stops them from doing that is a bug.
No more Konqueror:(. Really? The app I'm typing in sure *looks* like Konqeuror on Red Hat Null.
And you can forget about cool stuff like Liquid working properly because many of the KDE apps have been replaced. Which ones? I think the only reason Liquid wouldn't work properly is if you deliberately broke it to make it not work with Red Hat, which wouldn't surprise me.
you can forget about simple things like color schemes working properly everywhere. Color schemes DON'T work properly everywhere. That's one of the things that's broken about Linux. last time I checked KDE color schemes didn't affect GTK2 apps and vice versa. That said, KDE color schemes still work fine in Null.
You can forget about all the code sharing features of KDE Why?
You can forget about interoperability between KDE apps because many of them aren't used.. As I said before, all the apps are still there.
you can forget about the cool new default style and icons. I would rather forget about the cool new default style and icons than forget abotu consistent looking applications
I have always said RH were a bunch of bastards. God I hate these people. Grow up. You clearly haven't even used Null but you've already formed a very emotional opinion about it based on heresay.
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Which Linux kernel developers? When was the lat time they did `this'? How is providing a consistent desktop theme bad? What did Red Hat so with their packacged kernels that was bad?
I can't believe this load of unsupported tripe gets moderated up. If the author had anythign to say I'm sure he'd have provided some supporting arguments, but he's trolling instead.
Actually, by default, they do. The person that created this screenshots changed the KDE theme from BlueCurve to Keramik.
BlueCurve is a theme for KDE window decoartions, KDE styles, a GTK1 theme, a GTK2 theme, a Metacity theme, and an XMMS theme.
Yay consistency. Better yet, yay Gnome without endless unreadable dark grey/brown icons.
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And you're complaining?
I'm usign the Red Hat beta Null right now. I *like* the fact that all my apps - GTK1, GTK2, QT, XUL, and XMMS skins - look consistent. Other people I know have been asking for this for years.
Did people complain when people made their KDE and GNOME menus consistent? Not if I remeber correctly. Because nobody ever says `today, I feel like launching a GTK app.... and maybe it should be a web browser, Instead, they just want the best web browser avaliable and expect it to be in their goddamned internet menu.
Likewise, nobody says `today I wish half my app would look like X, and the other half Y'. The lack onconsistent theming between these two desktops is retarded (If you find that offensive, becausee it implies mentally retarded people are stupid, they are).
Red Hat have done some excellent work on Null and done a lot of useability improvements to their desktops. Consistent looking menus and widgets and comparable panel apps is just the start of what should hopefully become a linux desktop where people pick apps based on quality rather than toolkit, and the desktop reflects this.
MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2002--Sigma Designs, Inc. (Nasdaq:SIGM - News), a leader in IP video streaming solutions, today announced the release of the source code behind its free MPEG-4 video CODEC that works as a plug-in under Windows and encodes digitized video content into fully compatible ISO MPEG-4 video files. The complete source code will be available for download starting August 23, free of charge, through Sigma's website (www.sigmadesigns.com), to support developers wishing to enhance the MPEG-4 encoding.
"We are pleased to provide the development community with an open source MPEG-4 CODEC, and anticipate that this will accelerate technical improvements and enhance the proliferation of MPEG-4 content," stated Ken Lowe, Sigma Designs' vice president of business development.
About Sigma Designs, Inc.
Sigma Designs specializes in silicon-based MPEG decoding for streaming video, progressive DVD playback, and advanced digital set-top boxes. The company's award-winning REALmagic Video Streaming Technology is used in both commercial and consumer applications providing highly integrated solutions for high-quality decoding of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. Headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., the company also has sales offices in China, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.sigmadesigns.com/.
Hello, they're producing a non-embeddable, platform-specific web browser.
Hello. You'll find Opera in more embedded devices than Mozilla will, because its smaller, uses less resources, and uses the existing OSs toolkit rather than requiring its own. Its also almost as cross platform - there's Linux, Windows, MacOS, Solaris, and QNX Opera plus quite a few more.
If you're talking about Mozilla `producing a platform' (ie, XUL) then that's not a feature most users and I imagine embedded developers want or need.
This would be a huge mistake for any competitor. Why would you want to jump into line with MS?
Because a web browser is simply a document viewer. If a web browser can't view certain documents, because they happen to be written in non standard MSHTML, then the web browser is a failure from the users point of view. That's the number one thing users care about is can this view my document or not? If it can't, from the users perspective, it is broken.
The ideal browser should be able to `embrace and extend' nonstandard code - i.e., allow pages written in MSHTML to render properly (even perhaps applying different rendering rules if a document has no DTD, like IE does) but follow the spec for labelled documents in its entirety and as close to the cuttign edge as possible.
"Oh, you want to write a badly written MSHTML website? We'll render that - we need the marketshare to stop IE becoming the only feasable web browser. What's that? You want to use SVG graphics? Then stick to the spec, and we'll render it."
It is extremely easy to change anything into a recursive acronym.
Yes. It still, currently, stands for RPM package manager, whic haccurately reflects the fact that it is a project shared by many organizations and the standard method of installing software on Linux.
At least think about what you type before you post it in a public forum.
You haven't said why RPM is a hack, provided no supporting arguments, while childishly insulting me. Grow up.
The goal of LFP is to "make" legible, West-European and Cyrillic Public Domain bitmap fonts
Now that Freetype finally has a way of producing high quality scaled / hinted / antialiased / subpixel rendered truetype fonts withou violating the apple patent, and not now that there's tool out to manage that, I'm NEVER going to use fixed width fonts again if I can avoid it. I'm sitting here on a Red Hat beta machine and out of the box antialiasing is perfect - basically because work from the xfthack projects `half hinting' setup has made it into freetype itself in the last six months.
Actually,. the R in RPM stands for RPM (RPM Package Manager). And yes, just because someone invented it doesn't mean that other people (ie, most Linux Linux distributins) can't use it and improve it - all the major (usage) distributions do.
There are many front ends such as up2date, urpmi and apt for RPM that do dependency handling. Until a week ago, my Red Hat 7.3 machine has KDE 3.02 and GNOME 2 plus a bunch of other stuff from Freshrpms all fetched from apt.
There are things that RPM does better than Dpkg, including more detailed package verification, ghost files, and simpler source rebuilds. There are also things that Dpkg does better than RPM, including suggested/recommended dependencies. Policy issues aren't technical ones and there are many RPM based distributions with policy.
I think the real chickening out has beeen the acceptance the alien is an OK solution for RPM support.. Alien does not implement the RPM packaging system. It implements CPIO archives, stripping all the `management' facilities of the package. How many Debian users would install large chunks of their system using alien? They wouldn't, because its a hack and not much better than installing tarballs all over your system. Accepting Alien, seems to have been a compromise, and not a good one. If Debian doesn't want to use RPM in its current state, they should make RPM better, not try and get the LSB to let them avoid it.
The rapper mentioned, Ludacris, uses this word all the time. So do many top selling popular R + B and rap artists. Why can't I use it? Political correctness (attempts to censor thought) disgusts me. Mentioning that Microsoft might be the best tool for the job doesn't.
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...the downfall of Chinese civilisation:
Testing complete for http://www.stileproject.com. Result:
Reported as accessible in China
IE is ActiveX. Look at the size of IEXPLORE.EXE. Do you think Microsoft managed to fit an entire modern web browser into a few hundred K? IEXPLORE is an ActiveX control that does little more than call other ActiveX controls, for displaying HTML, running J(ava)script, etc. If you're wondering why its so hard to lock down ActiveX entirely, its because that's all IE is.
Does this mean that open source free ware is still...well...free??
No, it means it isn't. Its not Open Source if it doesn't meet the Open Source Definition and this violates sections 1 and 6.
Why not "The Starbucks of Linux?"
:).
You obviously haven't lived in Melbourne, Australia. We has real Greek and Italian baristas making high quality world class coffee for decades.
Mention Microsoft round here, people will tell you Bill Gates has a lot of money, but boy doesn't Windows crash a lot.
Mention StarBucks, and someone will mutter something about poor quality south American coffee, fake italian words, sugary `flavored' coffee, and their bizarre adherance to the USAmerican `let's fill it with cream and then eat it!' philosophy. Then they'll spit in your coffee
I don't think eweek / zdnet's articee is wrong at all. As much as many people who read /. believe Microsoft to be an monpolistic choke hold on the computer industry, people in the wider community just see Microsoft as a dominating force in their field, which is exactly what Red Hat is. According to Netcraft, IDC and most other sources, Red Hat has more market share than every other Linux distro combined. It also has the largest professional services organization, hardware support, and influence over the future of Linux, as well as the healthiest balance sheet. And more power to them, they make and integrate quality software.
I've been on the other side of this - asked to create a Linux desktop use class for a bunch of Windows developers new to the platform who'd picked KDevelop as their IDE. Management said (I quote) `we're not interested in any of this command line stuff', whereas staff were very much interested in the traditional CLI Unix aspects of Linux. My company built a course with a lot of specialist content, focusing on the different systems of Linux operation (users and groups, storage, rpm, and other basics) with carefully selected interfaces rather than base-level tools.
Come the day of a training, as a presenter I think I guaged staff reactions earlier on and beefed up the technical content, but post-course we were told that although the company was generally happy with that first day, `where were vi, sed, awk and emacs?' - this time from management. At this point we realized it wasn't so much a management / staff schism (the cmpany were fairly small) but more lack of a clear vision for what htey wanted from the course. I think most staff still gained a lot from that first day (more so if I'd focused on how to use a particular text editor, or started a text processing programming course) but the lack of a single cohesive vision for that first day stopped things being all they could.
1) All of Red Hat's KDE apps still include every copyright, every license, and every author's name. That's because they live in About [Application}. About KDE is basically an advertisement for KDE.
2) Some people feel Red Hat's behaviour has always been disrespectful, just as I'm sure there are KDE developers who have had issues with Debian changing things in their package to improve (in the distro makers eyes) the output. But these people, in both cases, are a minority. Look at what the developers in the post actually said - they're all overwhelmingly not fussed about Red Hat's actions. Likewise the only KDE developer here approves.
The copyright information, full license agreement, and list of authors is still intact on every KDE application. I'm looking at it right now.
Konquerer 3.03, using KDE 3.0.3-2
Web browser, file manager
(c) 1999 - 2002, the Konqueror Developers
http://www.konqueror.org
Authors:
David Faure
faure@kde.org
developers (parts, I/Olib} and maintainer
[list of athors follows]
License agreement
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
[rest of license follows]
That's because all this information in contained in the About Konqueror screen. About KDE is an advertisement for KDE. You can remove about KDE from every KDE app and still thank every author, display every license, and show every author. And that;s exactly what Red Hat have done.
Because Gnome apps don't know/care about KParts?
/etc/X11/applnk bug, but the menus are how I launched the Konq session I'm using to type this), contrary to Mosfet's lies.
Again, the main apps involved, for webv browser and office suite, aren't Gnome apps. But more importantly, all those applications are still there in the menus (unless you're affected by the
But I _explicitly_ chose to _not_ use the default (which is GNOME)
No, it isn't. The default is neither KDE nor Gnome. Red Hat aren't putting Galeon on your desktop, nor are they expecting to to actually use Abiword for anything serious. They've actually chosen two GNOME/KDE neutral apps for Office Suite and Web Browser.
You selected to use the KDE desktop. When you selected to install KDE, Red Hat installed Kong, KOffice, Kmail, etc. and pu them there in your menus. But most new users to linux would rather have the browser than renders more web pages and the office suite that's finished rather than the one that doesn't and the one that isn't. Likewise, Evolution is much more simialr to what a Windows users expects from a PIM than KMail is (because KMail isn't a PIM, its an email program and nothign more) The rest of us can change the defaults.
When someone comes along and picks and chooses pieces from the whole
Please, please knwo that KDE is intact. The desktop, the panel, Konqueror, Knode, Koffice, etc. Moset is simply lying when he says Konqueror isn't avaliable in the menus. It is.
What Red Hat have doen is picked what they saw to be the best apps to handle some particular tasks by default.
Mozilla (although I love Konq) simply renders more pages out there than Konqueror. I think a new Linux user would simply be happier with a web browser than can view the most popular web site in his country (here, www.ninemsn.com.au) than one that can't. Because of this, Red hat (I believe) thinks it is the better tool, and logically makes it the default.
Likewise, OpenOffice can read, edit, and save to Microsoft Office documents, and unfortunate necessity in todays world, better than KOffice or Abiword/Gnumeric can. Because of this, Red hat (I believe) thinks it is the better tool, and logically makes it the default.
Neither Mozilla nor OpenOffice are GNOME or KDE packages (sadly, they use their own wacky toolkits and reinvent the wheel yet again). So this isn't a matter of Red Hat sabotaging KDE in favor of Gnome.
I'm a KDE user sitting in front of my machien usign the same apps I always do. All of KDE is here and I'm typing this into Konquror which I launched from the KDE menu.
The QT Konqueror window I'm looking at looks the same as the GTK1 xchat, XMMS, and the GTK2 Packages app behind it. This rocks.
Red Hat are picking the best apps for the job for their defaults. Just like real people do.
Red Hat included KDE when the licensing situation was cleared up, and were one of the first distros to have KDE 3.03 packages for their stable release. As someone who posts frequently to RH bugzilla, I know that KDE issues are being fixed by other people than Bero.
Actually, the major apps on Red Hat's quiclauncher are Mozilla and OpenOffice, which are neither KDE nor Gnome apps. Although I love Konq, Mozilla *will* render more pages, so I think itsa good default. Likewise, Openoffie is useable for the 99.9% of people who need to open, edit, and save Microsoft office documents, and Koffice and Abiword / Gnumeric are not.
Are you sure about that? I would have thought that users should obviously get access to the best applications as the default. Doing otherwise is a self-selving wank on behalf of the desktop. Sorry, Mozilla will work for more pages than Konq and therefore makes a good alternative to Konq, which is still there.
Color schemes DON'T work properly everywhere. That's one of the things that's broken about Linux. last time I checked KDE color schemes didn't affect GTK2 apps and vice versa. That said, KDE color schemes still work fine in Null.
Which Linux kernel developers? When was the lat time they did `this'? How is providing a consistent desktop theme bad? What did Red Hat so with their packacged kernels that was bad?
I can't believe this load of unsupported tripe gets moderated up. If the author had anythign to say I'm sure he'd have provided some supporting arguments, but he's trolling instead.
They don't even have the same window decorations!
Actually, by default, they do. The person that created this screenshots changed the KDE theme from BlueCurve to Keramik.
BlueCurve is a theme for KDE window decoartions, KDE styles, a GTK1 theme, a GTK2 theme, a Metacity theme, and an XMMS theme.
Yay consistency. Better yet, yay Gnome without endless unreadable dark grey/brown icons.
And you're complaining?
.... and maybe it should be a web browser, Instead, they just want the best web browser avaliable and expect it to be in their goddamned internet menu.
I'm usign the Red Hat beta Null right now. I *like* the fact that all my apps - GTK1, GTK2, QT, XUL, and XMMS skins - look consistent. Other people I know have been asking for this for years.
Did people complain when people made their KDE and GNOME menus consistent? Not if I remeber correctly. Because nobody ever says `today, I feel like launching a GTK app
Likewise, nobody says `today I wish half my app would look like X, and the other half Y'. The lack onconsistent theming between these two desktops is retarded (If you find that offensive, becausee it implies mentally retarded people are stupid, they are).
Red Hat have done some excellent work on Null and done a lot of useability improvements to their desktops. Consistent looking menus and widgets and comparable panel apps is just the start of what should hopefully become a linux desktop where people pick apps based on quality rather than toolkit, and the desktop reflects this.
Grub for congress? Lilo works fine, damnit!
Bootloaders don't need shells, and they certainly don't need to run for congress, damnit!
MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2002--Sigma Designs, Inc. (Nasdaq:SIGM - News), a leader in IP video streaming solutions, today announced the release of the source code behind its free MPEG-4 video CODEC that works as a plug-in under Windows and encodes digitized video content into fully compatible ISO MPEG-4 video files. The complete source code will be available for download starting August 23, free of charge, through Sigma's website (www.sigmadesigns.com), to support developers wishing to enhance the MPEG-4 encoding.
"We are pleased to provide the development community with an open source MPEG-4 CODEC, and anticipate that this will accelerate technical improvements and enhance the proliferation of MPEG-4 content," stated Ken Lowe, Sigma Designs' vice president of business development.
About Sigma Designs, Inc.
Sigma Designs specializes in silicon-based MPEG decoding for streaming video, progressive DVD playback, and advanced digital set-top boxes. The company's award-winning REALmagic Video Streaming Technology is used in both commercial and consumer applications providing highly integrated solutions for high-quality decoding of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. Headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., the company also has sales offices in China, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.sigmadesigns.com/.
Hello, they're producing a non-embeddable, platform-specific web browser.
Hello. You'll find Opera in more embedded devices than Mozilla will, because its smaller, uses less resources, and uses the existing OSs toolkit rather than requiring its own. Its also almost as cross platform - there's Linux, Windows, MacOS, Solaris, and QNX Opera plus quite a few more.
If you're talking about Mozilla `producing a platform' (ie, XUL) then that's not a feature most users and I imagine embedded developers want or need.
This would be a huge mistake for any competitor. Why would you want to jump into line with MS?
Because a web browser is simply a document viewer. If a web browser can't view certain documents, because they happen to be written in non standard MSHTML, then the web browser is a failure from the users point of view. That's the number one thing users care about is can this view my document or not? If it can't, from the users perspective, it is broken.
The ideal browser should be able to `embrace and extend' nonstandard code - i.e., allow pages written in MSHTML to render properly (even perhaps applying different rendering rules if a document has no DTD, like IE does) but follow the spec for labelled documents in its entirety and as close to the cuttign edge as possible.
"Oh, you want to write a badly written MSHTML website? We'll render that - we need the marketshare to stop IE becoming the only feasable web browser. What's that? You want to use SVG graphics? Then stick to the spec, and we'll render it."
It is extremely easy to change anything into a recursive acronym.
Yes. It still, currently, stands for RPM package manager, whic haccurately reflects the fact that it is a project shared by many organizations and the standard method of installing software on Linux.
At least think about what you type before you post it in a public forum.
You haven't said why RPM is a hack, provided no supporting arguments, while childishly insulting me. Grow up.
The goal of LFP is to "make" legible, West-European and Cyrillic Public Domain bitmap fonts
Now that Freetype finally has a way of producing high quality scaled / hinted / antialiased / subpixel rendered truetype fonts withou violating the apple patent, and not now that there's tool out to manage that, I'm NEVER going to use fixed width fonts again if I can avoid it. I'm sitting here on a Red Hat beta machine and out of the box antialiasing is perfect - basically because work from the xfthack projects `half hinting' setup has made it into freetype itself in the last six months.
Actually,. the R in RPM stands for RPM (RPM Package Manager). And yes, just because someone invented it doesn't mean that other people (ie, most Linux Linux distributins) can't use it and improve it - all the major (usage) distributions do.
I think the real chickening out has beeen the acceptance the alien is an OK solution for RPM support.. Alien does not implement the RPM packaging system. It implements CPIO archives, stripping all the `management' facilities of the package. How many Debian users would install large chunks of their system using alien? They wouldn't, because its a hack and not much better than installing tarballs all over your system. Accepting Alien, seems to have been a compromise, and not a good one. If Debian doesn't want to use RPM in its current state, they should make RPM better, not try and get the LSB to let them avoid it.
The rapper mentioned, Ludacris, uses this word all the time. So do many top selling popular R + B and rap artists. Why can't I use it? Political correctness (attempts to censor thought) disgusts me. Mentioning that Microsoft might be the best tool for the job doesn't.
You're right. I used to post a lot more, so 2 weeks seems like a longer time...