One topic that really interests me is the Digital Video Recorder. Most of the other things I've done or don't care to do. The DVR links and information I have found haven't been that good. Does anyone here have good links to information about using an old linux box as a TIVO type system?
I know zero about this right now, only that a subscription service is required for TIVO and I am not a big fan of that. I was going to give a TIVO for christmas, but I hate giving gifts that require a subscription.
Perhaps you are in the enviable position of not having to rely on Microsoft software. There are simply some things that require Microsoft. The best example I have, and the one that affects me most directly, is Autocad. Call Autodesk today and ask them if they would consider developing Autodesk for Linux. At the time, the answer is absolutely not.
My point is maybe if Microsoft considers Linux a competitor, other companies will take notice. Also, I am always in favor of people trying to improve their product, even if it is not for the most altruistic of reasons.
Let's start with royalties, according to webster a royalty is:
"a payment to an author or composer for each copy of a work sold or to an inventor for each item sold under a patent"
Good point. My choice of word here was entirely incorrect. Nevertheless, the point still remains that a license needs to be bought in order to develop commercially under QT. OTOH, this is not the case for GTK. This is the only point that gave the nod to Gnome.
Thanks for the clarification though. There is an important distinction between a royalty and a one-time license fee.
If this is really from Microsoft and not a fake, it shows some real interesting trends.
Microsoft is viewing Linux as a real competitor and doing it publicly. This is a smart move by Microsoft IMO.
Isn't this the reason for having competition? When Microsoft has been uncontested on the PC they could dictate to the user what he uses. They could also create a monopoly in the browser market and office market quite easily. (OMG - They did do this! - Netscape & Wordperfect come to mind.)
I hate the FUD and bashing that Microsoft has used in the past. Is this going to stop now?
Anyway, if this is truly from Microsoft, it is an extremely interesting development.
License FUD. The KDE license problem is slashdot-fiction.
I am not trying to be a smart ass, but I would really appreciate it if you would enlighten me on this issue. I may be victim to the slashdot-fiction as IANAL and I have not studied either license in detail.
My understanding from what I have read is that if you are going to make a commercial product with QT, you need to buy a royalty license. Is that not the case?
You certainly have me at a disadvantage when it comes to the functionality and future of KDE. I use KDE daily, but not at an enterprise level so I am not aware or even interested in a lot of the features that you have detailed.
My point remains that for the target use of userlinux, this system should concentrate on 1 WM. Perens has made it very clear that the choice simply came down to the license issue.
There are dozens of distributions out there with different motives. The most successful distributions make clear and solid guidelines and stick to these. I like the fact that Perens has very clearly stated these directives and he should stick to them religously.
Again, I use KDE and love it. But this issue/choice is not about what environment works better or has feature x. It really boils down to licensing.
My understanding is this is to be an enterprise user system, not a home user or personal user. The whole point is enterprise management and distribution management. Think of an enterprise employment of windows. Every large shop that I know of uses a drive mirror installation and seriously limits any configuration choices that a user may have.
I've said it before. I agree 100% with including only one GUI. The reason for Gnome over KDE is simply a license issue. I personnaly like KDE better and it is what I will continue to use, as I am not the target "user" of userlinux.
Not only was this one of the worst films I have seen in years, but the effects were brutally unfitting. It reminded me of the movies where they take the cartoon charecter and put him in the real world. I don't think that was the desired effect though...
I must disagree...I mean look at something like XP. It is widely used and you have your choice between XP mode or 9x mode.
That is a pretty large over simplification. That is a graphical eye candy change for XP. This is more like a choice between XP & 98 all together. I have to agree with the original post and Bruce Perens letter. It is probably a good idea. Not so much from the enduser stand point but from a distrubution management standpoint.
Personally, I like KDE better, but I am not the target user of UserLinux
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Plenty of people have already posted to this obvious mis-statemet of yours. I am a huge linux advocate. I own a small business (~50 employees) and use it for every server need I have. But to blatently say that it is right for every application shows a lack of knowledge. Tell me what the replacement to Autocad is on linux/mac-os. And while openoffice has done a great job at word/excel interoperability, try to open an excel template with macros/visual basic routines. How about those that have special hardware needs. I am contemplating getting an M-audio firewire 410 for recording/MIDI purposes. This currently has not support under Linux. I hate to bring games into the argument, but I do play games and I currently only have two titles that work under Linux.
I just think you should think before posting comments like this. I use Linux in every situation that I can, but there are plenty of situations that there is no option available.
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I found it interesting to note that the judge listed on the case is a guy I know from my home town. He is an honest and straightforward guy. The down side is he has similar roots to Mcbride, both Mormon and growing up in a farming community/environment.
On a side note, it always cracks me up how many people post to every SCO story with "not again." You know there are alot of things that don't interest me on Slashdot, I just don't read them. We're all different folks, get over it. Don't bother posting if you don't care about the story!
I too live in Utah and I have heard about this. My company submitted a proposal to do right of way surveying for this project about 6 months ago (we didn't get it...) Anyway they are procuring bids for route planning, right of way, etc. I know that there is a lot of red tape, but this is a very serious effort.
As a small business owner in Utah, this is very exciting news. I have several small offices in the state and real-time data sharing is simply not possible on the bubget I have. This makes centralized data storage a reality. In addition, the word telecommuting becomes more than just a buzz word.
This can push the internet to the next step for businesses. I hope this becomes reality.
As a mormon living in Utah, I did know that McBride was a devout mormon. I also know many mormons that are not "good" people. I also know many Catholics, Protestants, etc. that are not "good" people. That he is a mormon is a complete non-issue. There is no fanatical religous motivation behind what is happening. He is simply a money grabbing, dishonest and deceptive individual.
People need to understand that contributing ones actions to their religion is stereotyping just like sexism or racism. Using this logic, one would assume, Darl McBride=Asshole, Darl McBride=Mormon; therefore all mormons are assholes. Do you see how wrong this is?
Once again, religous arguments aside, that Darl McBride is a mormon is as relevant as the fact that he is a white male.
By the same argument, were publishers ever critical of public libraries? There is no need for me to ever buy a book. I can check out any book on earth from the library for free... and its perfectly legal as far as I know. Yet I still buy books. Why? convenience? packaging? Doesn't this same argument hold for music?
The dual optical is a kick-ass mouse.
I remember the first time I upgraded from a ball mouse to an optical mouse, I liked everything except the movement in half-life. I don't know if spinning the ball was giving me more movement, but I just struggled with the optical mouse. And then I upgraded to the dual optical. Great precision, great tracking, etc.
The players name was Linux which was on his shirt along with other IBM "players". If I remember they were playing against people like "down-time", etc. Kind of catchy...
Printing in general in Linux is a huge annoyance for me. CUPS is definitely better than lpd and once installed is stable & productive. But the installation method & documentation is terrible. Yes, I know about the web configuration and it is seemingly easy, but never works without ALOT of tweaking.
Definitely printing!
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I know zero about this right now, only that a subscription service is required for TIVO and I am not a big fan of that. I was going to give a TIVO for christmas, but I hate giving gifts that require a subscription.
My point is maybe if Microsoft considers Linux a competitor, other companies will take notice. Also, I am always in favor of people trying to improve their product, even if it is not for the most altruistic of reasons.
Good point. My choice of word here was entirely incorrect. Nevertheless, the point still remains that a license needs to be bought in order to develop commercially under QT. OTOH, this is not the case for GTK. This is the only point that gave the nod to Gnome.
Thanks for the clarification though. There is an important distinction between a royalty and a one-time license fee.
Anyway, if this is truly from Microsoft, it is an extremely interesting development.
I am not trying to be a smart ass, but I would really appreciate it if you would enlighten me on this issue. I may be victim to the slashdot-fiction as IANAL and I have not studied either license in detail.
My understanding from what I have read is that if you are going to make a commercial product with QT, you need to buy a royalty license. Is that not the case?
My point remains that for the target use of userlinux, this system should concentrate on 1 WM. Perens has made it very clear that the choice simply came down to the license issue.
There are dozens of distributions out there with different motives. The most successful distributions make clear and solid guidelines and stick to these. I like the fact that Perens has very clearly stated these directives and he should stick to them religously.
Again, I use KDE and love it. But this issue/choice is not about what environment works better or has feature x. It really boils down to licensing.
I've said it before. I agree 100% with including only one GUI. The reason for Gnome over KDE is simply a license issue. I personnaly like KDE better and it is what I will continue to use, as I am not the target "user" of userlinux.
Not only was this one of the worst films I have seen in years, but the effects were brutally unfitting. It reminded me of the movies where they take the cartoon charecter and put him in the real world. I don't think that was the desired effect though...
That is a pretty large over simplification. That is a graphical eye candy change for XP. This is more like a choice between XP & 98 all together. I have to agree with the original post and Bruce Perens letter. It is probably a good idea. Not so much from the enduser stand point but from a distrubution management standpoint.
Personally, I like KDE better, but I am not the target user of UserLinux
I just think you should think before posting comments like this. I use Linux in every situation that I can, but there are plenty of situations that there is no option available.
I found it interesting to note that the judge listed on the case is a guy I know from my home town. He is an honest and straightforward guy. The down side is he has similar roots to Mcbride, both Mormon and growing up in a farming community/environment. On a side note, it always cracks me up how many people post to every SCO story with "not again." You know there are alot of things that don't interest me on Slashdot, I just don't read them. We're all different folks, get over it. Don't bother posting if you don't care about the story!
I too live in Utah and I have heard about this. My company submitted a proposal to do right of way surveying for this project about 6 months ago (we didn't get it...) Anyway they are procuring bids for route planning, right of way, etc. I know that there is a lot of red tape, but this is a very serious effort.
As a small business owner in Utah, this is very exciting news. I have several small offices in the state and real-time data sharing is simply not possible on the bubget I have. This makes centralized data storage a reality. In addition, the word telecommuting becomes more than just a buzz word. This can push the internet to the next step for businesses. I hope this becomes reality.
Any settlment that the user gets out of this will be infinitesimaly small, while the lawyers get paid the lions share.
In turn, all software companies will have a knee jerk reaction and purchase expensive insurance, which will show up as higher prices to consumers.
As a mormon living in Utah, I did know that McBride was a devout mormon. I also know many mormons that are not "good" people. I also know many Catholics, Protestants, etc. that are not "good" people. That he is a mormon is a complete non-issue. There is no fanatical religous motivation behind what is happening. He is simply a money grabbing, dishonest and deceptive individual. People need to understand that contributing ones actions to their religion is stereotyping just like sexism or racism. Using this logic, one would assume, Darl McBride=Asshole, Darl McBride=Mormon; therefore all mormons are assholes. Do you see how wrong this is? Once again, religous arguments aside, that Darl McBride is a mormon is as relevant as the fact that he is a white male.
By the same argument, were publishers ever critical of public libraries? There is no need for me to ever buy a book. I can check out any book on earth from the library for free... and its perfectly legal as far as I know. Yet I still buy books. Why? convenience? packaging? Doesn't this same argument hold for music?
The dual optical is a kick-ass mouse. I remember the first time I upgraded from a ball mouse to an optical mouse, I liked everything except the movement in half-life. I don't know if spinning the ball was giving me more movement, but I just struggled with the optical mouse. And then I upgraded to the dual optical. Great precision, great tracking, etc.
The players name was Linux which was on his shirt along with other IBM "players". If I remember they were playing against people like "down-time", etc. Kind of catchy...
Printing in general in Linux is a huge annoyance for me. CUPS is definitely better than lpd and once installed is stable & productive. But the installation method & documentation is terrible. Yes, I know about the web configuration and it is seemingly easy, but never works without ALOT of tweaking. Definitely printing!