Well, they've made it configurable, using a bit of the Control Center or some gconf hacking would enable you to change themes to low-CPU ones, remove icons, etc. I have a full understanding for the GNOME folks wanting to have the default dekstop look nice.
Hm, this just proves a lot of things, in my opinion. First, there are a bunch of stupid users, and stupid users will do stupid things. Second, it proves that the OS can be secure as hell, but only secure to those who know how to handle it. This counts for any system that is supposed to be usable by "stupid" people.
These things about Linux do not alarm me. I do not rely on lazy, stupid and non-updating admins, I rely on myself. And I know I'm doing my job.
I love Linux, for its stability, security and scalability. As an average, these three beat any other operating system that I've played with, including BSDs. Kernel-wise and server-wise, I think it's unbeatable. That's why I'll keep using it.
I'm not trying to show off, but even though many servers might have gaping holes that lazy folks don't cover up, mine does not. At least, they're outside of my knowledge and are not gaping.
I agree with this. But by reading the article, I don't think Sun has that much of my respect when regarding Open Source Software. They say that their reasons for not Open Sourcing Java is that they've already done their job by USING Linux, not creating anything. I know they've created too, but that plus the IBM statement makes him look childish in my opinion.
I read ESRs letter and found out I agreed totally. It doesn't nescessarily need to be GPL, but something just permissive enough to keep Java as Java but allowing open development. I also believe that Sun's Java implementation is superior, and for that reason there is nothing to be done with the fact that it's what the Open Community needs, not a semi-finished implementation of it.
Clearly you weren't updated until recently. Mandrake was founded in 1998, which is not recent in my eyes. Mandrake also has a positive turnaround as from last year as far as I can remember, and thus is out of the discussion;)
I have Google as my number one source of information on the internet. I hope they will keep going like they have for years and years, and (no, I dislike monopolies) that they will withstand competition from others such as MSN. Which I believe will be the truth.
Not that this is something to celebrate, because having 6 billion pages alone does not tell me that they're the greatest of all search engines and will exist for a long time. And it's not like it's some kind of jubilee. But still: Way to go Google!:)
Noone else is demanding recognition for their work. They're a part of the global community and have accepted the terms. It all works nicely.
But that's not what stuns me the most about your post. It's your way of thinking - HOW, i say, HOW on earth could X be more important than Linux to Linux? There is a reason that Mandrake is Linux, not just because IT IS BASED on the Linux kernel in the way it works as of today, but also because this is the way one use and contribute to the GPL community. And it's named Mandrake Linux. That's why it's sold, downloaded and used. Jesus.
In the end, X is nothing without what's on top. Which is a lot of GPL. If GPL distributors refuse to use XFree4.4, but only distribute GPL compatible software, someone would have to create everything BUT X. With X licensing. Great.
In this just case it looks like it's the X Consortium not being able to adapt to a new way of developing and licensing. Even the BSD's went away from this bullcrap years ago. (Disclaimer: IANAL)
Can you imagine the workload given, first asking everyone for permission to, then changing, advertising for a package? Or even attempting to patch the damn thing? It's not happening.
It's okay to give credit, but to be part of such a community, you will need to do things on someone elses premises from time to time. And in this case, I do believe XFree is out of power.
Mandrake does a good choice by putting things out into the community with debate. These are big problems, and will eventually HAVE to be resolved. If it's with the X Consortium or not, is up to them.
Eventually, and hopefully, a much faster and better (compliant) alternative will be available.
I agree, and use the GPLs to avoid these kinds of troubles. I only go away from that when I have to.
You're not really asking for a flame, but I think you're disinsightful.
Open Source developers do business as well. Many developers run their business of OSS, or create OSS outside of their work time. Of course, when someone CREATE a business package, they'll have to know what to do with it. But I would agree that in some cases, the searching user would need some insight in what a product needs to offer.
What would customers know? Do you advertise on your enterprise site that you use this-and-that Inc. Accounting Software? Besides, OSS isn't insecure by default, by all means. And, in many countries, like Norway (mine), you own your own information. If a business f**ks up handling your information, they're up in their knees in lawsuits in no time, if users want that.
Bottom line, Open Source is Open Development, not Open Access.
I think this is a common problem. I run a business myself, with two friends. We've just started, but we're looking into getting things like customer related software in order before doing anything serious about ourselves. I've worked voluntary with organisations and economy before, and I know things screw up if things are not kept track of.
I think your questions are hard to answer, and even though I have searched a lot for software (not online shopping/CC, we send invoice by mail since we're only doing business inside Norway) I have yet to find anything free and useful.
We've really considered doing it ourselves, making a simpe customer registration and management system with a web frontend. Using f.i. perl modules, you can create Excel documents with tabular data, and such. So that might be a thing to do. If you accept a tiny bit of manual work, that is. Of course, that tiny bit isn't that tiny after you've got hundred customers to bill.
But at least, I know that GnuCash has some functions regarding invoicing and customer registry, but I haven't really had the time to try it out. The rest of GnuCash is good, though, so there should be a hope. So far we can keep track of our economy, and if it works, GnuCash might do our customers as well, even generating invoices.
Good luck, and I hope this post will create some feedback for myself as well. Feel free to email me if you want to discuss, by the way.
Oh, and I forgot - policy creation. Too many networks out there have zero security policy or a very bad existing one. This leads to a series of opportunities for intruders, and if these basic flaws are closed, they've taken a big step forward in securing their networks.
This might be unnescessary for "professionals", people who know these things from before and work with it. But for the average sysadmin, this is just great! He/she could know how to:
1. Find out what happened
2. Close the breach
3. Report the breach.
If the sysadmin doesn't know how to do this, they also know where to seek help.
I'll probably get messages back saying this is just dumb and generic, but it's better than not knowing anything at all. A lot better. All too few people know how to handle situations like this, and they will need somewhere to start.
I'll give this thing a skim read (just read contents and some interesting paragraphs now) and get back to this;)
Actually, as far as I know being a Norwegian, Jon Johansen is free to go in Norway. IANAL, but Norwegian laws are nothing like US laws on copyrights, so I'd say Jon has nothing to worry about. At least not with the DVD case. But he's already started pissing off others.
Yeah, okay. Sorry:-)
To adolph-thingie below (wont bother replying twice to myself): Troll. What do you know, I could be a club member as much as I wanted without you knowing.
10.0 beta is often, in Mandrake sense, half a year from release. And don't say that they're only KDE. They're GNOME focused as well, and all their configuration apps are written using Gtk.
As you mentioned, 10.0 will be 2.6-based. I'm using 2.6 with Mandrake Cooker (devel) now, and it works good.
I do agree on your point with 9.2. It wasn't very solid. Even bugs in the installer annoyed me.
I suppose electricity can be converted to other types;)
In a far future, these trains might even run by themselves using fuel cells.
I live in Norway. This place is everything else than flat, so we are having problems drinking our coffee on trains. I'd love an elevated maglev-thing from Oslo to Trondheim. It'd rock.
I might have been unclear, but I know that hydrogen cells are batteries. But they're not very environmentally friendly to create, and that's my point. Well, really, the point was that we might see ways of creating energy in the future that is very friendly to our planet, but, as you say, the're on the horizon.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, they've made it configurable, using a bit of the Control Center or some gconf hacking would enable you to change themes to low-CPU ones, remove icons, etc. I have a full understanding for the GNOME folks wanting to have the default dekstop look nice.
Hm, this just proves a lot of things, in my opinion. First, there are a bunch of stupid users, and stupid users will do stupid things. Second, it proves that the OS can be secure as hell, but only secure to those who know how to handle it. This counts for any system that is supposed to be usable by "stupid" people.
These things about Linux do not alarm me. I do not rely on lazy, stupid and non-updating admins, I rely on myself. And I know I'm doing my job.
I love Linux, for its stability, security and scalability. As an average, these three beat any other operating system that I've played with, including BSDs. Kernel-wise and server-wise, I think it's unbeatable. That's why I'll keep using it.
I'm not trying to show off, but even though many servers might have gaping holes that lazy folks don't cover up, mine does not. At least, they're outside of my knowledge and are not gaping.
I agree with this. But by reading the article, I don't think Sun has that much of my respect when regarding Open Source Software. They say that their reasons for not Open Sourcing Java is that they've already done their job by USING Linux, not creating anything. I know they've created too, but that plus the IBM statement makes him look childish in my opinion.
I read ESRs letter and found out I agreed totally. It doesn't nescessarily need to be GPL, but something just permissive enough to keep Java as Java but allowing open development. I also believe that Sun's Java implementation is superior, and for that reason there is nothing to be done with the fact that it's what the Open Community needs, not a semi-finished implementation of it.
My views only.
Clearly you weren't updated until recently. Mandrake was founded in 1998, which is not recent in my eyes. Mandrake also has a positive turnaround as from last year as far as I can remember, and thus is out of the discussion ;)
Just my two cents worth of updates.
I don't know. It hurts, but it made me cry.
Okay, that was just silly.
You're in a house full of geeks, and you post an URL. Hoping to get slashdotted and get bunches of hits, but you forgot one thing:
Noone visits a web site without proper linkage!
Your laziness doesn't exceed ours. You have lost.
I have Google as my number one source of information on the internet. I hope they will keep going like they have for years and years, and (no, I dislike monopolies) that they will withstand competition from others such as MSN. Which I believe will be the truth.
:)
Not that this is something to celebrate, because having 6 billion pages alone does not tell me that they're the greatest of all search engines and will exist for a long time. And it's not like it's some kind of jubilee. But still: Way to go Google!
Noone else is demanding recognition for their work. They're a part of the global community and have accepted the terms. It all works nicely.
But that's not what stuns me the most about your post. It's your way of thinking - HOW, i say, HOW on earth could X be more important than Linux to Linux? There is a reason that Mandrake is Linux, not just because IT IS BASED on the Linux kernel in the way it works as of today, but also because this is the way one use and contribute to the GPL community. And it's named Mandrake Linux. That's why it's sold, downloaded and used. Jesus.
In the end, X is nothing without what's on top. Which is a lot of GPL. If GPL distributors refuse to use XFree4.4, but only distribute GPL compatible software, someone would have to create everything BUT X. With X licensing. Great.
Yet another thing, I'm totally tired and forgot to change to plain text or add br's :P
In this just case it looks like it's the X Consortium not being able to adapt to a new way of developing and licensing. Even the BSD's went away from this bullcrap years ago. (Disclaimer: IANAL) Can you imagine the workload given, first asking everyone for permission to, then changing, advertising for a package? Or even attempting to patch the damn thing? It's not happening. It's okay to give credit, but to be part of such a community, you will need to do things on someone elses premises from time to time. And in this case, I do believe XFree is out of power. Mandrake does a good choice by putting things out into the community with debate. These are big problems, and will eventually HAVE to be resolved. If it's with the X Consortium or not, is up to them. Eventually, and hopefully, a much faster and better (compliant) alternative will be available. I agree, and use the GPLs to avoid these kinds of troubles. I only go away from that when I have to.
This immediately becomes an ever bigger problem if the business is running from several places and not one central office.
You're not really asking for a flame, but I think you're disinsightful.
Open Source developers do business as well. Many developers run their business of OSS, or create OSS outside of their work time. Of course, when someone CREATE a business package, they'll have to know what to do with it. But I would agree that in some cases, the searching user would need some insight in what a product needs to offer.
What would customers know? Do you advertise on your enterprise site that you use this-and-that Inc. Accounting Software? Besides, OSS isn't insecure by default, by all means. And, in many countries, like Norway (mine), you own your own information. If a business f**ks up handling your information, they're up in their knees in lawsuits in no time, if users want that.
Bottom line, Open Source is Open Development, not Open Access.
I think this is a common problem. I run a business myself, with two friends. We've just started, but we're looking into getting things like customer related software in order before doing anything serious about ourselves. I've worked voluntary with organisations and economy before, and I know things screw up if things are not kept track of.
I think your questions are hard to answer, and even though I have searched a lot for software (not online shopping/CC, we send invoice by mail since we're only doing business inside Norway) I have yet to find anything free and useful.
We've really considered doing it ourselves, making a simpe customer registration and management system with a web frontend. Using f.i. perl modules, you can create Excel documents with tabular data, and such. So that might be a thing to do. If you accept a tiny bit of manual work, that is. Of course, that tiny bit isn't that tiny after you've got hundred customers to bill.
But at least, I know that GnuCash has some functions regarding invoicing and customer registry, but I haven't really had the time to try it out. The rest of GnuCash is good, though, so there should be a hope. So far we can keep track of our economy, and if it works, GnuCash might do our customers as well, even generating invoices.
Good luck, and I hope this post will create some feedback for myself as well. Feel free to email me if you want to discuss, by the way.
Rumors have it that OpenBeOS is somewhere near. Maybe thiscould help.
Oh, and I forgot - policy creation. Too many networks out there have zero security policy or a very bad existing one. This leads to a series of opportunities for intruders, and if these basic flaws are closed, they've taken a big step forward in securing their networks.
This might be unnescessary for "professionals", people who know these things from before and work with it. But for the average sysadmin, this is just great! He/she could know how to:
;)
1. Find out what happened
2. Close the breach
3. Report the breach.
If the sysadmin doesn't know how to do this, they also know where to seek help.
I'll probably get messages back saying this is just dumb and generic, but it's better than not knowing anything at all. A lot better. All too few people know how to handle situations like this, and they will need somewhere to start.
I'll give this thing a skim read (just read contents and some interesting paragraphs now) and get back to this
Actually, as far as I know being a Norwegian, Jon Johansen is free to go in Norway. IANAL, but Norwegian laws are nothing like US laws on copyrights, so I'd say Jon has nothing to worry about. At least not with the DVD case. But he's already started pissing off others.
Yeah, okay. Sorry :-)
To adolph-thingie below (wont bother replying twice to myself): Troll. What do you know, I could be a club member as much as I wanted without you knowing.
10.0 beta is often, in Mandrake sense, half a year from release. And don't say that they're only KDE. They're GNOME focused as well, and all their configuration apps are written using Gtk.
As you mentioned, 10.0 will be 2.6-based. I'm using 2.6 with Mandrake Cooker (devel) now, and it works good.
I do agree on your point with 9.2. It wasn't very solid. Even bugs in the installer annoyed me.
Hm, selling an ISO? Sounds hard.
I wonder what software the synth does run for audio sequencing and sampling. Does anyone know?
Noone is forcing you NOT to connect another keyboard via MIDI.
Oh wait, what keyboard, the wide white one with black spots, or the one with all the funny buttons?
I suppose electricity can be converted to other types ;)
In a far future, these trains might even run by themselves using fuel cells.
I live in Norway. This place is everything else than flat, so we are having problems drinking our coffee on trains. I'd love an elevated maglev-thing from Oslo to Trondheim. It'd rock.
I might have been unclear, but I know that hydrogen cells are batteries. But they're not very environmentally friendly to create, and that's my point. Well, really, the point was that we might see ways of creating energy in the future that is very friendly to our planet, but, as you say, the're on the horizon.
They're not running only on top of the rails, but there are (like on rollercoasters) things on the sides as well :)
Quiet compared to a plane or a train. Remeber, no engine!