Gentoo provides the choice to compile your system with USE=systemd or USE=-systemd. OpenRC provides the choice of enabling or disabling parallel boot as you wish as well as increasing verbosity and turning color messages on and off.
It's not about moving to a stable distro with a stable (patched) systemd. What Linux needs is to be able to compile it's own init system from source (from the stable branch) and be able to boot.
I tried on Gentoo to move from OpenRC to Systemd and got the same results, the system was unbootable. I moved back to OpenRC since systemd is not worthwhile fixing.
I will better wait for sys-apps/uselessd to give it another try.
You might want to contribute to http://linux-not-gnu.org/ . I have already been able to replace glibc with uClibc and now clang is able to fully replace gcc so it's only matter of replacing a couple more libs to get a 100% non-GNU operating system with a Linux kernel.
For all those 100+ websites you should use your OpenID. if you don't have one It might be enough with your facebook account. Most of the sites now a days accept any of those so you don't have to memorize hundreds of passwords.
I have workers in differnt states of the country, some of whom I have never seen their face. I just need to know they are Online and they are delivering their work on time ad complete. The virtual office is just used for receiving bank statements and tax notifications. The first seven years of operation the virtual office was not even needed but I had to get one to be able to print my presentation cards with an address in a business zone instead of a residential zone like I was doing in the past.
Personal face-to-face meetings are sometimes required but they are way too expensive, cheapest plane tickets range between 1400 and 1800 MXN but some times I have had to pay 5,000 and some other times two or more people need to travel to the city the meeting is taking place on. So, after all that much expense and a sucessful meeting with a client not as upset as he was before the meeting, it's always a good oportunity to have some beers with co-worker friends before every one has to fly back to their homes and keep working as always.
I have some international clients but I don't have international workers (yet). I have had good experience working with international freelancers hired by a couple of my clients to participate in a particular project, but my experience with national workers has been as good enough as not to need to hire somebody outside of the country. It might happen some day but not yet.
OVH is one of the largest hosting providers in the world. Censoring sites hosted in OVH could do some damage on France's economy because clients might want to move their sites to other countries..
Such secret documents are no longer secret. Everybody has access to them. Since the documents are no longer secret, it's so stupid to keep them classified. They should better declassify them and stop wasting their time on blocking documents everybody else has access to.
Why do you need replacements for desktop apps when you can have online desktop apps?
Take a look at http://computadora.de and create an account. You will have email, instant messages, chat and also integrated online Abiword and Gnumeric.
In spanish (spoken in Perú) the correct term is 'Software libre' and it's an unambiguous term which refers exclusively to the freedom of software and has no relation to beer or Willy.
Since you can add multiple web servers running the same application in parallell and another one dedicated to serving images, you have to worry no more about the programming language you choose; any one will work just fine with enough machines.
The main problem is that all your web servers will be connecting to the same database server so you need a database wich allows you to have a very large number of concurrent connections (in the order of hundreds or even thousands, 100+ connections per web server) without a big performance hit.
Depending on the nature of your application you should also be thinking about the possibility of mirroring (for more selects than inserts/deletes/updates) or distributing (for the opposite) your database.
I am thinking about Postgres 7 or Oracle because I've worked with them and they've proved (with enough memory) to handle the load of busy and complex web pages, but you can ask slashdot about the fastest and most scalable database for web serving.
If you don't like the mentioned incompatibilities you are free to go to www.mozilla.org and follow the instructions to get the source, then fix the incompatibilites yourself and submit a patch.
If you don't want to do that then stop complaining!
Having worked with these "repressed" imprisoned individuals, my own conviction is that we have too many people breaking laws in the United States. This is not the fault of the laws,
Of course it's the fault of the laws.
The fact that there are people who break the laws is an obvious indicator that such laws are not good for everyone and should be changed. It's not a social problem in itself since society grows around it's laws, so that changing a law reflects on society's changes.
If you are the copyright holder you can license your library as GPL to somebody and license it with a propietary license to other and with LGPL to another.
I don't think it's right saying an Open Source RDBMS shouldn't be built because an RDBMS has to be complex. Perhaps it's the chance for a young hacker to begin writing an RDMBS with a simpler and modular design and breaking the myth about RDBMSs being necessarily complex. In fact, I'm not 100% convinced about the relational model (with it's SQL) being the best one for using at enterprise level, there should be better solutions for the 100.000% availability problem.
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> It is correct and accurate to say that most countries have
> *already* benefited from AI (even if it's not strong AI).
I don't think it's AI what most countries have benefited from. It's just electronics and 20th century IT.
Gentoo provides the choice to compile your system with USE=systemd or USE=-systemd. OpenRC provides the choice of enabling or disabling parallel boot as you wish as well as increasing verbosity and turning color messages on and off.
It's not about moving to a stable distro with a stable (patched) systemd. What Linux needs is to be able to compile it's own init system from source (from the stable branch) and be able to boot.
I tried on Gentoo to move from OpenRC to Systemd and got the same results, the system was unbootable. I moved back to OpenRC since systemd is not worthwhile fixing.
I will better wait for sys-apps/uselessd to give it another try.
You might want to contribute to http://linux-not-gnu.org/ . I have already been able to replace glibc with uClibc and now clang is able to fully replace gcc so it's only matter of replacing a couple more libs to get a 100% non-GNU operating system with a Linux kernel.
Actually I have been removing udev from all my gentoo vservers and replacing it with sys-fs/static-dev for dependency purposes.
Udev and eudev don't work anymore with kernel 3.2 (LTS) so I have been also replacing udev with sys-fs/static-dev on these servers too.
Money made of silver and gold is more trustful than money made of paper and ink and still as anonymous as the former.
For all those 100+ websites you should use your OpenID. if you don't have one It might be enough with your facebook account. Most of the sites now a days accept any of those so you don't have to memorize hundreds of passwords.
I have workers in differnt states of the country, some of whom I have never seen their face. I just need to know they are Online and they are delivering their work on time ad complete. The virtual office is just used for receiving bank statements and tax notifications. The first seven years of operation the virtual office was not even needed but I had to get one to be able to print my presentation cards with an address in a business zone instead of a residential zone like I was doing in the past.
Personal face-to-face meetings are sometimes required but they are way too expensive, cheapest plane tickets range between 1400 and 1800 MXN but some times I have had to pay 5,000 and some other times two or more people need to travel to the city the meeting is taking place on. So, after all that much expense and a sucessful meeting with a client not as upset as he was before the meeting, it's always a good oportunity to have some beers with co-worker friends before every one has to fly back to their homes and keep working as always.
I have some international clients but I don't have international workers (yet). I have had good experience working with international freelancers hired by a couple of my clients to participate in a particular project, but my experience with national workers has been as good enough as not to need to hire somebody outside of the country. It might happen some day but not yet.
to be the first ones to be prepared to show to the rest of the world how much their executices suck.
OVH is one of the largest hosting providers in the world. Censoring sites hosted in OVH could do some damage on France's economy because clients might want to move their sites to other countries..
Such secret documents are no longer secret. Everybody has access to them.
Since the documents are no longer secret, it's so stupid to keep them classified.
They should better declassify them and stop wasting their time on blocking documents everybody else has access to.
So I don't get the point.
Someone could just put a mirror somewhere else in the world (as allowed by the GPL) and allow other people to keep downloading it..
Why do you need replacements for desktop apps when you can have online desktop apps?
Take a look at http://computadora.de and create an account. You will have email, instant messages, chat and also integrated online Abiword and Gnumeric.
In spanish (spoken in Perú) the correct term is 'Software libre' and it's an unambiguous term which refers exclusively to the freedom of software and has no relation to beer or Willy.
Arc shapefiles are propietary, but, since they are XML-based they can be imported easily.
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Since you can add multiple web servers running the same application in parallell and another one dedicated to serving images, you have to worry no more about the programming language you choose; any one will work just fine with enough machines.
The main problem is that all your web servers will be connecting to the same database server so you need a database wich allows you to have a very large number of concurrent connections (in the order of hundreds or even thousands, 100+ connections per web server) without a big performance hit.
Depending on the nature of your application you should also be thinking about the possibility of mirroring (for more selects than inserts/deletes/updates) or distributing (for the opposite) your database.
I am thinking about Postgres 7 or Oracle because I've worked with them and they've proved (with enough memory) to handle the load of busy and complex web pages, but you can ask slashdot about the fastest and most scalable database for web serving.
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That's what IBM RS6000 servers are made for; they use multiple PowerPC chips and can run Linux.
http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
If you don't like the mentioned incompatibilities you are free to go to www.mozilla.org and follow the instructions to get the source, then fix the incompatibilites yourself and submit a patch.
If you don't want to do that then stop complaining!
I don't know why both Apache and IIS benchmarks are so slow... My 100Mhz 486 benchmarks 2.2M hits per day....
Now the FBI is looking for you Anonymous Coward and since you post comments to slashdot too many times a day they probably already know who are you.
Note that that strategy of posting your comments from different IP addresses every time is not helping you any more to remain anonymous.
Postgresql 7.0 (which is now up to Beta 5, will have support for foreign keys, and more goodies.
Wrong, it's up to 7.0RC5.
Of course it's the fault of the laws.
The fact that there are people who break the laws is an obvious indicator that such laws are not good for everyone and should be changed.
It's not a social problem in itself since society grows around it's laws, so that changing a law reflects on society's changes.
If you are the copyright holder you can license your library as GPL to somebody and license it with a propietary license to other and with LGPL to another.
If you're not the copyright holder you can't
I don't think it's right saying an Open Source RDBMS shouldn't be built because an RDBMS has to be complex.
Perhaps it's the chance for a young hacker to begin writing an RDMBS with a simpler and modular design and breaking the myth about RDBMSs being necessarily complex.
In fact, I'm not 100% convinced about the relational model (with it's SQL) being the best one for using at enterprise level, there should be better solutions for the 100.000% availability problem.