Not really - GNUstep can't read the OS X UI files for one, it's not complete,
Actually, this might change in the near future: I've read on the gnustep discussion list that someone is working on making OS X NIB files work on GNUstep. (iirc)
and the GNUstep team are explicitly not interested in 100% compatibility (for instance, replicating wierd/buggy semantics of Apples APIs).
There are a lot of people in the GNUstep community who are interested in near-100% compatibility. Most of the time, new features from OS X are added to GNUstep.
WRT the few times of not adopting buggy behaviour, you can always use #IFDEF _GNUSTEP_...
And you're right. Especially for business development GNUstep is superior. Why? Because it has a standardized API which does not change from release to release.
With KDE and GNOME you have to rewrite your apps everytime a new major revision comes out...
Maybe now some people might want to take a look at GNUstep which is a Free cross-platform API and library set. Besides Unix systems, it does run on Windows, but not completely and with some errors.
The worst computer usage in a series I've ever(well, recently) seen has been in The Sopranos.
First, the monitor in Toni's office has only one cable (the VGA one) but no power cable attached.
In season 3, I think, Toni's sister is chatting using a Powerbook (I think. It was black with a glowing apple logo). But when the screen is shown she is using ICQ or MSN on a windows box.. the widgets are just too different... I nearly screamed. (Oh wait, I did.)
Yet, The Sopranos is one of the best TV series I've ever enjoyed. Can't wait till season 5.
I don't think that simplicity is a difference between BSD and Linux. Of course, it always depends. But I find that the BSDs are much more in the unix tradition of "Keep it simple stupid" compared to most commercial Linux distributions. (I.e. the rpm command is not in that tradition.)
As for the language part of your comment. I don't think there is much difference between BSD and Linux when starting to learn. In the end you will run the same userland programs on both machines.
I don't want to put down Linux, but I find its lack of coherence and documentation more and more disturbing. (Thus, I appreciate that missing man pages is considered a bug for the Debian people.)
Oh. And I forgot to mention the *great* documentation. When something goes wrong, you really have a detailed manpage for everything. Ever tried to get decent documentation for a device driver on Linux? (Without having to read the the kernel sources!)
Personally, I'm replacing all my decent Linux systems with FreeBSD now. I find it way easier to maintain and keep uptodate - and that without losing stability. For system updates, you recompile it on one box, let the other systems mount the src folder via NFS and install the files. Same is true for the ports (i.e. all the additional software). The portupgrade(1) tools make software management *very* easy. If you don't want to reinstall from scratch once a year, you are on the good side with BSD: the system interfaces rarely change much, and upgrading even works fine between major versions.
Apart from that, BSD has - way better NFS support than Linux, especially when it comes down to stability - a great community. People on the mailinglists are both very helpful and inspiring. - a long history regarding universities.
all practical attempts of socialism or communism was basically a state-driven form of capitalism, exploiting the people. there never was true socialism or communism, as there was never a true people-governed state (in modern history).
but whether it's the state or big international corporations that exploit the people, I don't see much difference.
The European social market economies were very good in my opinion, but in a world with pure or nearly pure capitalism (read Globalization), social capitalist state forms, like the ones in France or Germany, can't survive. They're just not competitive because the taxes are too high (with a reason, though).
There are still some very good social systems like the ones in Sweden, Norway, Finland, etc. But they only stay that way because they shut themselves off from the rest of the world in many ways. I.e. not letting immigrants in.
In my opinion there has to be some way in the middle, but Europe is getting much too pure-capitalist lately. And people forget that economy should exist for the sake of the people - but that isn't the case nowadays, is it?
the problem is that we had worse far too many times already.
But people just don't learn from history.
Example: my dad is born 1930, thus lived through the decade of Hitler's regime, and luckily survived the bomb raids on Cologne as well as nearly being shot because his father told him not to go to the HJ.
Yet he does not see that today our freedom is taken away again, not by a dictator. But by the system itself.
Capitalism as we face it today is a holocaust in itself (and was since the beginning of industrialisation). The system tries to assimilate everything and everyone, erasing everything that's different (nature being one example). It makes us part of a machine: no choice, no freedom in the end. Just food for the money printers. Synchronized, automatized living - great. Of course, there are few people that take advantage of it. The low percentage of people that despite economic depression gets richer everyday. But they themselves don't understand that they are only part of a giantic world machine.
Panem et circenses.
I wish there was still a free, sane place on this planet.
I enjoyed Micheal Lucas' other book, "Absolute BSD", which mainly covers FreeBSD, very much. It helps alot, even for things that are covered in the (excellent) FreeBSD handbook by giving another perspective. I strongly recommend "Absolute BSD" - guess I might order myself a copy of "Absolute OpenBSD" soon.
I didn't know yet that SCO has lost so many ear rings ("earings") in the past years.
People that find the SCO ear rings please send them to their appropiate owners. For the rings to not get damaged, enclose them with a good amount of C4.
That's what I like about the German legal system: the party who loses the case, has to pay ALL the bills, including the other side's lawyers.
AFAIK we're the only (or one of the few) country doing this. And I think it's right.*
Because if someone's wrong, i.e. he as infridged the law or some other person's rights, then this someone (or company) should be held liable in every way.
Legal costs must in no way stop poor people to demand their rights.
* of course I think/know that *a lot* of things are wrong with the German legal system, but the basic thoughts are possibly the best you can have in a legal system.
in the letter the voter gets, list a unique password next to each candidate. That could be generated from Name, Address, social number and the candidates name + party + date of candidates birth / your postal code. whatever. Should be fairly unpredictable for an internet worm.
It's funny that some people on the FreeBSD mailinglists recommend you to get OS X if you want a shiny BSD desktop with lots of commercial apps.
OTOH I don't see why some/most vendors don't port their programs to the BSDs. If developed cleanly and standarized, there shouldn't be that much problems.
Of course, vmware is a bit different, because it relies on some kernel stuff I guess.
The section about the copyright holder strikes me as a tremendous struggle with what should be an easy question. Prof. Spindler or whatever says that since so many people may have contributed to the development of GPL'd software, in so many different countries, there may be huge problems identifying the copyright holder.
That's why GNU projects require authors to sign their copyright over to the FSF I think.
Not only because the FSF wants the software to stay free, even if the original author says "not anymore" - but also to more effectively protect the software as well as the authors.
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yeah, outside: that's where the dragons are.
Well, there are Klingon localizations of a few GNUstep apps iirc (Affiche being one, iirc). I don't know if those have been ported to OS X, though.
Not really - GNUstep can't read the OS X UI files for one, it's not complete,
Actually, this might change in the near future: I've read on the gnustep discussion list that someone is working on making OS X NIB files work on GNUstep. (iirc)
and the GNUstep team are explicitly not interested in 100% compatibility (for instance, replicating wierd/buggy semantics of Apples APIs).
There are a lot of people in the GNUstep community who are interested in near-100% compatibility. Most of the time, new features from OS X are added to GNUstep.
WRT the few times of not adopting buggy behaviour, you can always use #IFDEF _GNUSTEP_...
> Remember, FF is not yet out of Beta so a name change is trivial.
Well, Windows isn't out of Beta yet, too. But they still change names and numbers every two years.
Great idea. -- Now, where's the fun??
JA2 was a gorgeous game. I would love to see the development of a multiplayer mode; that would definitely be a lot of fun.
I guess you meant: GNUstep IS the place to start.
And you're right. Especially for business development GNUstep is superior. Why?
Because it has a standardized API which does not change from release to release.
With KDE and GNOME you have to rewrite your apps everytime a new major revision comes out...
Every helping developer is welcome!
It's an old CRT... and you see the black power jack - without the cable... :-)
The worst computer usage in a series I've ever(well, recently) seen has been in The Sopranos.
First, the monitor in Toni's office has only one cable (the VGA one) but no power cable attached.
In season 3, I think, Toni's sister is chatting using a Powerbook (I think. It was black with a glowing apple logo). But when the screen is shown she is using ICQ or MSN on a windows box.. the widgets are just too different... I nearly screamed. (Oh wait, I did.)
Yet, The Sopranos is one of the best TV series I've ever enjoyed. Can't wait till season 5.
I don't think that simplicity is a difference between BSD and Linux.
Of course, it always depends. But I find that the BSDs are much more in the unix tradition of "Keep it simple stupid" compared to most commercial Linux distributions. (I.e. the rpm command is not in that tradition.)
As for the language part of your comment. I don't think there is much difference between BSD and Linux when starting to learn. In the end you will run the same userland programs on both machines.
I don't want to put down Linux, but I find its lack of coherence and documentation more and more disturbing. (Thus, I appreciate that missing man pages is considered a bug for the Debian people.)
OMG. They all have that untruthful look as if they were to run for office. Horrible. Makes them all nontrustworthy to me.
Oh. And I forgot to mention the *great* documentation.
When something goes wrong, you really have a detailed manpage for everything.
Ever tried to get decent documentation for a device driver on Linux? (Without having to read the the kernel sources!)
Personally, I'm replacing all my decent Linux systems with FreeBSD now.
I find it way easier to maintain and keep uptodate - and that without losing stability.
For system updates, you recompile it on one box, let the other systems mount the src folder via NFS and install the files.
Same is true for the ports (i.e. all the additional software). The portupgrade(1) tools make software management *very* easy.
If you don't want to reinstall from scratch once a year, you are on the good side with BSD: the system interfaces rarely change much, and upgrading even works fine between major versions.
Apart from that, BSD has
- way better NFS support than Linux, especially when it comes down to stability
- a great community. People on the mailinglists are both very helpful and inspiring.
- a long history regarding universities.
HTH.
all practical attempts of socialism or communism was basically a state-driven form of capitalism, exploiting the people.
there never was true socialism or communism, as there was never a true people-governed state (in modern history).
but whether it's the state or big international corporations that exploit the people, I don't see much difference.
The European social market economies were very good in my opinion, but in a world with pure or nearly pure capitalism (read Globalization), social capitalist state forms, like the ones in France or Germany, can't survive. They're just not competitive because the taxes are too high (with a reason, though).
There are still some very good social systems like the ones in Sweden, Norway, Finland, etc. But they only stay that way because they shut themselves off from the rest of the world in many ways. I.e. not letting immigrants in.
In my opinion there has to be some way in the middle, but Europe is getting much too pure-capitalist lately.
And people forget that economy should exist for the sake of the people - but that isn't the case nowadays, is it?
Yes, apparently, that was the flaw of every socialsist or commonist approach as well.
There is always an elite exploiting the rest.
the problem is that we had worse far too many times already.
But people just don't learn from history.
Example: my dad is born 1930, thus lived through the decade of Hitler's regime, and luckily survived the bomb raids on Cologne as well as nearly being shot because his father told him not to go to the HJ.
Yet he does not see that today our freedom is taken away again, not by a dictator. But by the system itself.
Capitalism as we face it today is a holocaust in itself (and was since the beginning of industrialisation).
The system tries to assimilate everything and everyone, erasing everything that's different (nature being one example).
It makes us part of a machine: no choice, no freedom in the end. Just food for the money printers. Synchronized, automatized living - great.
Of course, there are few people that take advantage of it. The low percentage of people that despite economic depression gets richer everyday. But they themselves don't understand that they are only part of a giantic world machine.
Panem et circenses.
I wish there was still a free, sane place on this planet.
I enjoyed Micheal Lucas' other book, "Absolute BSD", which mainly covers FreeBSD, very much.
It helps alot, even for things that are covered in the (excellent) FreeBSD handbook by giving another perspective.
I strongly recommend "Absolute BSD" - guess I might order myself a copy of "Absolute OpenBSD" soon.
soylent green... but psst... don't tell the cops. ...Gotta do s.th. about the smell, too.
I didn't know yet that SCO has lost so many ear rings ("earings") in the past years.
People that find the SCO ear rings please send them to their appropiate owners.
For the rings to not get damaged, enclose them with a good amount of C4.
Thank you.
> Paying lawyers is expensive, even if you win.
That's what I like about the German legal system: the party who loses the case, has to pay ALL the bills, including the other side's lawyers.
AFAIK we're the only (or one of the few) country doing this. And I think it's right.*
Because if someone's wrong, i.e. he as infridged the law or some other person's rights, then this someone (or company) should be held liable in every way.
Legal costs must in no way stop poor people to demand their rights.
* of course I think/know that *a lot* of things are wrong with the German legal system, but the basic thoughts are possibly the best you can have in a legal system.
www.dilbert.com
I would do at least the following:
in the letter the voter gets, list a unique password next to each candidate.
That could be generated from Name, Address, social number and the candidates name + party + date of candidates birth / your postal code. whatever. Should be fairly unpredictable for an internet worm.
Should help a little at least.
It's funny that some people on the FreeBSD mailinglists recommend you to get OS X if you want a shiny BSD desktop with lots of commercial apps.
OTOH I don't see why some/most vendors don't port their programs to the BSDs. If developed cleanly and standarized, there shouldn't be that much problems.
Of course, vmware is a bit different, because it relies on some kernel stuff I guess.
The section about the copyright holder strikes me as a tremendous struggle with what should be an easy question. Prof. Spindler or whatever says that since so many people may have contributed to the development of GPL'd software, in so many different countries, there may be huge problems identifying the copyright holder.
That's why GNU projects require authors to sign their copyright over to the FSF I think.
Not only because the FSF wants the software to stay free, even if the original author says "not anymore" - but also to more effectively protect the software as well as the authors.