then you'll whine aloud at the slightest, unproven, partisan assertation that the UN is writing *his* speeches about *our* country, right?
No? I didn't think so...
Kerry can't wait to bow before his UN Overlords. He's absolutely slavering at the chance to do just that. I DON"T want our foreign policy to be determined by whether or not it passes some "global test". Not mine, those are Kerry's words and sentiments from the debate this evening. Being such a politically-minded AC, you *did* watch the debate, right?
I *like* our sovereign nation. Please don't let him give it away.
Of course, there's always the (very) likely possibility that he would change his position on this.../boggled/
This "story" pushed me over the edge, to the point where I tried to exercise my slashpowers and permanently remove democratpartisanpolitics.slashdot.org from my homepage view. This "story" has absolutely nothing to do with what I expect from experience for this site to provide. It is as blatantly partisan and as factually inaccurate as a Dan Blather memo.
And the damned preference function doesn't work, either.
Where do we vote to remove politics from this tech site???
How long until SCO claims the phrase "ilovebees" is (C) TSG (they bought it from Novell, altho' Novell doesn't know that), that the composition of honey is a Trade Secret(TM) even though it has been in the wild for millions of years, and that the Halo gamemakers are really just IBM employees.
Oh, and they'll probably announce soon that they're suing EV1, because EV1 has some servers that ran Linux prior to the license agreement...
as SCOG shills and insiders desperately work to keep their SCOX shares viable...
I'm waiting for the desperate, WWF-style infighting to begin.
You know what I mean - when the SCO execs start battling it out to see who can make it out the door and to the SEC office first, in order to seek immunity by ratting out their criminal co-conspirators on the insider trading charges which will inevitably follow this fiaSCO,...
Heed these words: though this is "the beginning of the end" of the anti-Linux-FUD-by-litigation campaign, it is only the prelude to the Patent Wars.
Oh, and BTW - Darl, your Masters in Redmond are not happy with you. Better get busy on that pro-SCO spin press release...
Marshmallows taste better than silicon chips when squished between chocolate bars and graham crackers. The improvement in taste of marshmallow s'mores is immediately and at least 1.5x noticeably better with every silicon-based s'more eaten.
1. Buy Sun, use as tool to claim *nix compatability 2. Release some unimportant software under open/shared source license
3. Allow skinning of crappy m$ OS windowing environment
4. Spread more patently false FUD about how Linux suX0rs, make outrageous claims saying m$ is better 5. Have m$ OS be able to look like Linux 6. $$$!
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1404303,00.as p
Yet the Arse of Lindon continues to distribute (unsupported) Apache as well as other F/OSS products which adhere to the GPL.
Need we any other evidence of the duplicity of these scumbags?
Someone, please shut his piehole. I am sick and tired of listening to the lies and FUD and blastant misrepresentations made by this company and its executives and lawyers (same thing?).
It's April 2nd, fools. This should have been posted yesterday.
Besides, who would want to share *anything* with m$, given their history of dealing with "partners"?
m$ could be a character in "The Sopranos"...
A little more powerful than Xandros out of the box (w/o customization), and free (voluntary paid registration post d/l and install from US$5-$30 - support Linux with your wallet!). Uses KDE 3.1.4, and it has KPackage, a GUI frontend for apt that is even easier IMO than Synaptic. I've put 2 complete Linux newbies onto it in the past 2 weeks, and they are both loving it. For "power users" it is quite nice as well, since it uses a lot of packages from Sid. A 2.6 kernel version is due out soon that may also have KDE 3.2.
No, no, no - they didn't say winxp was the OS, it's Linux. You obviously are confused by the definition of the word "crappiest". S'ok, we expect that from windoze users.
Maybe if you knew enough to actually use Linux before making trollish comments, you'd be eXPosed to a new eXPerience, and see what an eXPonentially better OS runs like...
"It would seem we have little in common with these new Linux users."
I'm of 2 minds about the potential of widespread adoption of Linux. While I do my own part to push it to the unwashed winmasses (made more than a dozen converts so far this year alone), I like the "security through minority" aspect of Linux, in that the penguinistas are not yet a priority for the virus, trojan, and worm writing scum of the world. I can be lazier that way (shades of ms, I know).:)
That said... So, they give a chopped down version of Debian to your common cube inhabitant, how long is it before they discover apt, and begin customizing their workstation? Many of us "power users" stumbled our way into being just that, and I can see a future where many many more people than now will become more computer literate because they've discovered the amount of Choice that Linux gives them. It'll be an interesting thing to see, like when all the people took off their limiting headbands in "Harrison Bergeron".:)
to Matty, their web guy. He said " I'm looking into getting it back - it was gone for quite a while, just not sure why it was removed in the first place."
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Jan - I'll pass this on to their website design person. After that, it's up to them.:) Thanks for helping FS.
Oops - meant as a reply to post above parent.
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Sorry about that labradort, my post above was meant as a complement to yours. Doh!
X2 *does* do both SMP and Hyperthreading.
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The parent poster was referring to X1 and 1.1. I'm not surprised that he didn't notice the version number difference, as it seems RTFA is a common mantra here on/. because of the lack of thinking prior to posting.
X2 is much newer than both of those, and has these features. Also, keep your eyes out for Business and Server versions of Xandros early next year, from what I have heard and read.
Bug patch is out via Xandros Networks, and Mozilla 1.4 was used temporarily while the people there fixed a bug. When it is ready it will be on XN as well.
Have a nice day!
Enderle, last statement: "Going the other way in a knee jerk reaction to just one class of security threat seems poorly founded."
Seems to me that the "one class of security threat" he is referring to is the microsoft product line...
Really, this guy Enderle, he's just a paid shill for m$ and $CO. What a wuss. It must suck to wake up every day as a spineless, totally whipped pussyboy, knowing that your whole life is a sham, that all you are is a mouthpiece for the company that lines your pockets. I mean, where is the satisfaction in a good days work, a sense of accomplishment with what you are doing with your life? "Oh boy, I really lied to those suckers today. Whoot! Barkeep - Another round, on me!".
Glad I live a life unlike that one. I enjoy my freedom - life on a leash would *suck*.
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then you'll whine aloud at the slightest, unproven, partisan assertation that the UN is writing *his* speeches about *our* country, right?
/boggled/
No? I didn't think so...
Kerry can't wait to bow before his UN Overlords. He's absolutely slavering at the chance to do just that. I DON"T want our foreign policy to be determined by whether or not it passes some "global test". Not mine, those are Kerry's words and sentiments from the debate this evening. Being such a politically-minded AC, you *did* watch the debate, right?
I *like* our sovereign nation. Please don't let him give it away.
Of course, there's always the (very) likely possibility that he would change his position on this...
This "story" pushed me over the edge, to the point where I tried to exercise my slashpowers and permanently remove democratpartisanpolitics.slashdot.org from my homepage view. This "story" has absolutely nothing to do with what I expect from experience for this site to provide. It is as blatantly partisan and as factually inaccurate as a Dan Blather memo.
And the damned preference function doesn't work, either.
Where do we vote to remove politics from this tech site???
1) Release early Beta, numbered .2
2) Wait for overeager slashdot submitter to make typo, bumping version a factor of 1.8
3)???
4)Profit!
How long until SCO claims the phrase "ilovebees" is (C) TSG (they bought it from Novell, altho' Novell doesn't know that), that the composition of honey is a Trade Secret(TM) even though it has been in the wild for millions of years, and that the Halo gamemakers are really just IBM employees.
Oh, and they'll probably announce soon that they're suing EV1, because EV1 has some servers that ran Linux prior to the license agreement...
What are *you* smoking today?
Nothing could be more on topic! That is unless you want to keep the Patent War that m$ is soon to start out of the public eye...
It's inevitable, it's their last defense against eroding market share. It's even been covered on Groklaw, moron.
as SCOG shills and insiders desperately work to keep their SCOX shares viable...
I'm waiting for the desperate, WWF-style infighting to begin.
You know what I mean - when the SCO execs start battling it out to see who can make it out the door and to the SEC office first, in order to seek immunity by ratting out their criminal co-conspirators on the insider trading charges which will inevitably follow this fiaSCO,...
Should be better than BattleBots...
the (snicker snicker wink nudge) "SCOSource" "revenues"?
IIRC, last quarter they spent waaaay more than they took in with their bogus we-sell-'em-but-we-ain't-got-'em "Linux licenses".
Heed these words: though this is "the beginning of the end" of the anti-Linux-FUD-by-litigation campaign, it is only the prelude to the Patent Wars. Oh, and BTW - Darl, your Masters in Redmond are not happy with you. Better get busy on that pro-SCO spin press release...
Marshmallows taste better than silicon chips when squished between chocolate bars and graham crackers. The improvement in taste of marshmallow s'mores is immediately and at least 1.5x noticeably better with every silicon-based s'more eaten.
1. Buy Sun, use as tool to claim *nix compatability
2. Release some unimportant software under open/shared source license
3. Allow skinning of crappy m$ OS windowing environment
4. Spread more patently false FUD about how Linux suX0rs, make outrageous claims saying m$ is better
5. Have m$ OS be able to look like Linux
6. $$$!
to show me just where I said Apache used the GPL?
Get a nick...
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1404303,00.as p
Yet the Arse of Lindon continues to distribute (unsupported) Apache as well as other F/OSS products which adhere to the GPL.
Need we any other evidence of the duplicity of these scumbags?
Someone, please shut his piehole. I am sick and tired of listening to the lies and FUD and blastant misrepresentations made by this company and its executives and lawyers (same thing?).
compete with Infinium.
Sony wastes all that money in "production", "advertising", and "sales networks" of actual systems...
Noone else made the "Sopranos" connection!? The gall of some people...
It's April 2nd, fools. This should have been posted yesterday. Besides, who would want to share *anything* with m$, given their history of dealing with "partners"? m$ could be a character in "The Sopranos"...
www.mepis.org
A little more powerful than Xandros out of the box (w/o customization), and free (voluntary paid registration post d/l and install from US$5-$30 - support Linux with your wallet!). Uses KDE 3.1.4, and it has KPackage, a GUI frontend for apt that is even easier IMO than Synaptic. I've put 2 complete Linux newbies onto it in the past 2 weeks, and they are both loving it. For "power users" it is quite nice as well, since it uses a lot of packages from Sid. A 2.6 kernel version is due out soon that may also have KDE 3.2.
No, no, no - they didn't say winxp was the OS, it's Linux. You obviously are confused by the definition of the word "crappiest". S'ok, we expect that from windoze users.
Maybe if you knew enough to actually use Linux before making trollish comments, you'd be eXPosed to a new eXPerience, and see what an eXPonentially better OS runs like...
I'm of 2 minds about the potential of widespread adoption of Linux. While I do my own part to push it to the unwashed winmasses (made more than a dozen converts so far this year alone), I like the "security through minority" aspect of Linux, in that the penguinistas are not yet a priority for the virus, trojan, and worm writing scum of the world. I can be lazier that way (shades of ms, I know). :)
That said... So, they give a chopped down version of Debian to your common cube inhabitant, how long is it before they discover apt, and begin customizing their workstation? Many of us "power users" stumbled our way into being just that, and I can see a future where many many more people than now will become more computer literate because they've discovered the amount of Choice that Linux gives them. It'll be an interesting thing to see, like when all the people took off their limiting headbands in "Harrison Bergeron". :)
to Matty, their web guy. He said " I'm looking into getting it back - it was gone for quite a while, just not sure why it was removed in the first place."
Jan - I'll pass this on to their website design person. After that, it's up to them. :) Thanks for helping FS.
Sorry about that labradort, my post above was meant as a complement to yours. Doh!
The parent poster was referring to X1 and 1.1. I'm not surprised that he didn't notice the version number difference, as it seems RTFA is a common mantra here on /. because of the lack of thinking prior to posting.
X2 is much newer than both of those, and has these features. Also, keep your eyes out for Business and Server versions of Xandros early next year, from what I have heard and read.
Bug patch is out via Xandros Networks, and Mozilla 1.4 was used temporarily while the people there fixed a bug. When it is ready it will be on XN as well. Have a nice day!
X2 will do both.
Seems to me that the "one class of security threat" he is referring to is the microsoft product line...
Really, this guy Enderle, he's just a paid shill for m$ and $CO. What a wuss. It must suck to wake up every day as a spineless, totally whipped pussyboy, knowing that your whole life is a sham, that all you are is a mouthpiece for the company that lines your pockets. I mean, where is the satisfaction in a good days work, a sense of accomplishment with what you are doing with your life? "Oh boy, I really lied to those suckers today. Whoot! Barkeep - Another round, on me!".
Glad I live a life unlike that one. I enjoy my freedom - life on a leash would *suck*.