The problem is that urpmi is a good rpm manager but it is not 100% moron proof.
Furthermore it does not include a "dist-upgrade" feature wich can prevent a user eho want to upgrade his installation from doing some stupid errors.
I think that more efforts should be spended in improving apt and apt4rpm (which is already fully functional for Fedora and SuSE) instead of creating (a bit) lower quality tool such as urpmi and Yum.
If that's not the case, then you should think about using extremely large keys, like 4000bit, or use quantum encryption.
I hope you are joking, or you don't really know how both asymmetric and quantum cryptography work.
Quantum cryptography requires really expensive hardware.
Asymetric cryptography requires a very long time to encrypt/decrypt and it grows up the size of the message a lot. So it is only used to send a (long) symmetric key.
You say it's a very tiny niche. Maube it's between 1.5% to 2.5%, or even less.
In fact 1.5% is not tiny at all! There is a dozen of mainstream laptop producers, if one of them could increse its market share aquiring all the linux users it would be a 20% to 50% increase for its business.
Microsoft licences (EULA) can be violated in really strange and funny ways.
Did you knew that it is strictly forbidden to publish.NET benchmarks without microsoft agreement?
I agree that SUSE is one of the easier distributions to install but i think the mandrake is a bit more novice-friendly while partitioning.
If you partition the wrong way you can loose all you data so I would like to see some improvements in the SUSE installer.
I guess the poster was referring to the conversion of kde to run on Solaris.
If the source code has to be scanned and modified in order to be compiled for Solaris on sparc that could take weeks!
9.2 was the last one that didn't REALLY piss me off.
I hear someone saying
"(X-1).2 was the last one that didn't REALLY piss me off."
every time a new mandrake version is shipped.
It could be because many newbies used mandrake 1 version ago?
What makes those open source applications any different or any more protected from terrorists than Linux itself?
Of course nothing. The right question is:
What makes an open source system easier to infiltrate than a closed source one considering the thousand people are working on it?
A terorrist who insert malicious code in the linux kernel (assuming such an action is possible) cannot design the code in order to random crash, he would get caught. Futhermore I hope embedded military systems are not connected to the internet.
I think the funnier story I have ever read on this topic whos about a guy installing linux on his picture camera (I think it was Canon).
I can no more find the link, do anybody remeber?
The integral of omega on the frontier of theta is equal to the integral of d-omega on theta.
In LaTeX:
$\int_{\partial\theta}\omega=\int_{\theta}d\omega$
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The problem is that urpmi is a good rpm manager but it is not 100% moron proof. Furthermore it does not include a "dist-upgrade" feature wich can prevent a user eho want to upgrade his installation from doing some stupid errors. I think that more efforts should be spended in improving apt and apt4rpm (which is already fully functional for Fedora and SuSE) instead of creating (a bit) lower quality tool such as urpmi and Yum.
After all nobody wants to be laughed by a federal judge. There is no fedral judge in europe.
That would be a great idea if any of them would actually read the article.
If that's not the case, then you should think about using extremely large keys, like 4000bit, or use quantum encryption. I hope you are joking, or you don't really know how both asymmetric and quantum cryptography work. Quantum cryptography requires really expensive hardware. Asymetric cryptography requires a very long time to encrypt/decrypt and it grows up the size of the message a lot. So it is only used to send a (long) symmetric key.
You say it's a very tiny niche. Maube it's between 1.5% to 2.5%, or even less. In fact 1.5% is not tiny at all! There is a dozen of mainstream laptop producers, if one of them could increse its market share aquiring all the linux users it would be a 20% to 50% increase for its business.
Microsoft licences (EULA) can be violated in really strange and funny ways. Did you knew that it is strictly forbidden to publish .NET benchmarks without microsoft agreement?
POSIX is a *standard*. I don't want to start a flamebait, but did microsoft ever cared about standards?
Maybe you are right: but looking for C3 processor problems with linux does not find chipset-specific poblems at all.
It ain't native widgets, it's just skinned to fit the look.
I agree that SUSE is one of the easier distributions to install but i think the mandrake is a bit more novice-friendly while partitioning. If you partition the wrong way you can loose all you data so I would like to see some improvements in the SUSE installer.
The article says 35 Bilions.
I guess the poster was referring to the conversion of kde to run on Solaris.
If the source code has to be scanned and modified in order to be compiled for Solaris on sparc that could take weeks!
As far as I know most distributions offer DVDs right now.
I am using Bittorrent and I have uploaded twice what i have downloaded.
I am getting a bit tyred.
Wow, a live example of the Mandrake-Gentoo migration syndrome.
More info here: http://greenfly.org/mes.html
9.2 was the last one that didn't REALLY piss me off. I hear someone saying "(X-1).2 was the last one that didn't REALLY piss me off." every time a new mandrake version is shipped. It could be because many newbies used mandrake 1 version ago?
What makes those open source applications any different or any more protected from terrorists than Linux itself? Of course nothing. The right question is: What makes an open source system easier to infiltrate than a closed source one considering the thousand people are working on it? A terorrist who insert malicious code in the linux kernel (assuming such an action is possible) cannot design the code in order to random crash, he would get caught. Futhermore I hope embedded military systems are not connected to the internet.
I think the funnier story I have ever read on this topic whos about a guy installing linux on his picture camera (I think it was Canon). I can no more find the link, do anybody remeber?
The integral of omega on the frontier of theta is equal to the integral of d-omega on theta. In LaTeX: $\int_{\partial\theta}\omega=\int_{\theta}d\omega$