I've seen xservers available for NT that allow you to connect to an actual unix/linux box running X and run stuff on it. (all processing is done by the nix box and display comes up on the NT box)
I've used these before and it really works well, u can pretty much alt-tab between windows and linux (in appearance) of course you still dont get happy linux stability if your windows host goes away.:)
One that I've seen was called Exceed by Hummingbird software and it worked well. I've tried to use others but with my minimal effort/interest in them, I didnt get them to work.
BTW, Exceed is commercial software from what I recall.
Microsoft makes a lot of points that could be true, however we dont know the specifics of tests quoted (ie the kernel used, etc) and they neglect to mention that such statistics would now be obsolete as newer kernels and software versions are released. However, some points will not have changed since their 'research'. These points revolve around the linux communities lack of official organization. So far our most official representitive could be considered redhat, which doesnt represent all of us, of course. Help resources, bug tracking, and 'vendor' (distribution) nutral information is hard to find if you dont know exactly where to look, and it'd help us plenty, both internally and from a PR perspective.
I suggest, as others have, an association of developers, companies, distributions, etc to represent the community at large.
I'd be happy to work on such a project. With the amount of interest that andover.net appears to have interest in funding community efforts (like slashdot and freshmeat) maybe they'd be interested in something like this?
If someone out there is interested in organizing this, contact me, id love to help:)
As far as specific concepts for the site.. I suggest that representitives be given status of authority, and authority regarding specific projects, software, companies, etc. Thus we would have a layed out, available line of responcibility and contact, as well as the ability to track and rate the authority and the reliability of info sources. Sound good?
if its not listed appropriatly by slashdot, im at johnston@itactics.com:)
Heh, I would trust code that isnt worried about me getting into it's panties more than I would code that's hiding something. Back orrifice is NOT a trojan horse - it doesnt pretend to be what its not... if I call a spreadsheet a word processor it's still a spreadsheet... so... if someone calls back orrifice a Trojan, it's still a remote admin tool. And it doesnt mean that any portion of open source is inherrantly trojany, let alone any more than proprietary stuff.
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I've seen xservers available for NT that allow you to connect to an actual unix/linux box running X and run stuff on it. (all processing is done by the nix box and display comes up on the NT box)
:)
I've used these before and it really works well, u can pretty much alt-tab between windows and linux (in appearance) of course you still dont get happy linux stability if your windows host goes away.
One that I've seen was called Exceed by Hummingbird software and it worked well. I've tried to use others but with my minimal effort/interest in them, I didnt get them to work.
BTW, Exceed is commercial software from what I recall.
I suggest, as others have, an association of developers, companies, distributions, etc to represent the community at large.
I'd be happy to work on such a project. With the amount of interest that andover.net appears to have interest in funding community efforts (like slashdot and freshmeat) maybe they'd be interested in something like this?
If someone out there is interested in organizing this, contact me, id love to help :)
As far as specific concepts for the site.. I suggest that representitives be given status of authority, and authority regarding specific projects, software, companies, etc. Thus we would have a layed out, available line of responcibility and contact, as well as the ability to track and rate the authority and the reliability of info sources. Sound good?
if its not listed appropriatly by slashdot, im at johnston@itactics.com :)
Heh, I would trust code that isnt worried about me getting into it's panties more than I would code that's hiding something. Back orrifice is NOT a trojan horse - it doesnt pretend to be what its not... if I call a spreadsheet a word processor it's still a spreadsheet... so... if someone calls back orrifice a Trojan, it's still a remote admin tool. And it doesnt mean that any portion of open source is inherrantly trojany, let alone any more than proprietary stuff.