When I said easy to use I really meant updating and admining the system. Desktop and cli are, like you said, in Gentoo just like in any other Linux distro out there. Their usability doesn't really have anything to do with Gentoo.
I have to say that I agree with you on that it isn't a distro I would recommend for somebody new to linux unless they are willing to do some work for it. The installation process is very teaching but at the same time it can be quite frightening. I actually took a week or so to read the docs a familiarize my self with all the commands.(At that time I wasn't all that familiar with Linux, although I had used it for some years) As I almost knew the process by heart it felt almost easy by the time I finally did it.
"Wouldn't it be nicer to have a simple text-mode GUI which shows me the dependencies, and has checkboxes for the keywords I can allow or block? Not even anything graphical or excessively colourful. Just a small ncurses front-end or some such."
Latest versions of portage have something in this direction. When you do emerge -pv --tree it shows you the use flags and a dependency tree. Of course you'd still have to add the right flags to make.conf or packge.use.
Disclamer: I might be somewhat of a Gentoo zealot.
"To start with the punchline: actually that should IMHO read "if you're a masochist and want the computer equivalent of a kick in the teeth, you should try the power of Gentoo." Yep, that's some real power in that kick."
Like you said, gentoo installation can be hard and tedious. But after that it's all downhill. Gentoo is the easiest Linux distro I have ever used(and yes, I have used Mandrake, Fedora, Debian etc.), while still letting you be in charge of your own system. Portage is by far the best package managment system I have ever come across and USE flags are the best part of it.
Of course Gentoo has it downsides, like the etc-hell and the fact that not all packages manage compile.(On these situatons you'll most likely find a fix form Gentoo Bugzilla, but it might not be that obvious at first and quite often these fixes require some hacking from the user part) Contrary to common belief, compiling packages from source doesn't really affect your systems usability after the installation (unless you play a lot of games). I'm quite able to play mp3, surf the net or do some coding(yes, with vim) while portage is doing it's work in the background.
Oh, and about that automation thing. People are already working on it. Take a look at GLIS.
It's only a local exploit. So, if you are doing things correctly and other programs don't have any security issues that would give attacker access to your computer, you should be fine.
...but it is still a security risk. So, if I were you I'd patch.
Fusion _does_ create some radioactive waste though not as much as fisson does. You see, during the fusion neutrons are released making the walls of reactor radioactive. But as I said there will be a lot less of radioactive waste and it's half-life won't be as long as the that of fission reactor's waste.
And this is what it says about these figures in patent application:
[0013] FIG. 1A is a pictorial diagram illustrating a desktop of a graphical user interface according to the prior art.
[0014] FIG. 1B is a pictorial diagram illustrating one implementation of a panel containing a desk guide used to switch among multiple virtual desktops according to the prior art.
[0015] FIG. 1C is a pictorial diagram illustrating another implementation of a panel containing a desk guide used to switch among multiple virtual desktops according to the prior art.
MS clearly states that there is prior art, which makes me think that they aren't patenting desktop pagers but some kind of enhancement to it. (I only had a quick glance at the patent)
It's not I am against technology, but... do you really want to travel in a bus where 20 people are watching damn movies on their cell phones? Or listening to music?
I would bet that most of these people would use headphones and not distract you one bit. At least in here listening to music isn't really that uncommon in buses as portable players have been around for ages. In fact there already are lots of people who use their cell phones to listen to music and they haven't irritated me at all. And for movies, I don't think it will distract you more than somebody reading a newspaper or a book.
That and the fact that the writer has spread this story to everywhere gives me an impression that it was written just to prove what pile of shit you can get published if it just brings in a lot of money for the publisher.
..or maybe the writer really is just bloody stupid.
If you had just looked at some links in your Google search you would have found this:
To be precise, what we usually call the "speed of light" is really the speed of light in a vacuum (the absence of matter). In reality, the speed of light depends on the material that light moves through. Thus, for example, light moves slower in glass than in air, and in both cases the speed is less than in a vacuum.Link
Among other things, the zip contains the source code to Notepad (you always wanted that!)
Yes, screw Vi and Emacs! I can finally get Notepad on my Gentoo box. There is no need for some fancy syntax highlighting or keyboard shortcuts. Notepad is everything any self respecting geek needs.
Actually, according to manysources Deadhat/Vesser came before DoomJuice. So technically DoomJuice is the copycat. There's also a newvariant of Welchia that makes use of MyDoom backdoor and then tries to remove it.
As Bram stated in this article, Bittorrent was designed for big files. Most software packages aren't that big so BT won't really be ideal solution for this. I think I read somewhere that it will actually cause more problems it might soleve.(But I'm not 100% sure about this as I haven't studied inner workings of BT that good)
Don't get me wrong. I would love to have somekind of way to share my packages. I just don't think BT is an ideal solution for this.
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If DRM does gets into linux kernel it will be optional and nobody will be forced to use it. Due to the fact that all of kernel source is open you can't really force anybody to use some functionality they don't like. And as many people have already pointed out Linus didn't actually endorse it. Hell, he doesn't even like it.
Kernel 2.6 is very usable and stable. I've been running mm-sources since 2.5.5x and haven't had any major problems with it. There's hardly any need for recompiling packages (there are few exceptions though, mostly packages that install some kind of kernel module, svgalib for example). One thing you must do is to replace modutils with module-init-tools.
Gentoo forums are relly your friend. There are tons of threads concerning 2.4 to 2.6 upgrade, including some howtos.
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No, I think the final blow was given by the surface of Mars. Gravity just helped a little.
Beagle had no chance.
When I said easy to use I really meant updating and admining the system. Desktop and cli are, like you said, in Gentoo just like in any other Linux distro out there. Their usability doesn't really have anything to do with Gentoo.
I have to say that I agree with you on that it isn't a distro I would recommend for somebody new to linux unless they are willing to do some work for it. The installation process is very teaching but at the same time it can be quite frightening. I actually took a week or so to read the docs a familiarize my self with all the commands.(At that time I wasn't all that familiar with Linux, although I had used it for some years) As I almost knew the process by heart it felt almost easy by the time I finally did it.
"Wouldn't it be nicer to have a simple text-mode GUI which shows me the dependencies, and has checkboxes for the keywords I can allow or block? Not even anything graphical or excessively colourful. Just a small ncurses front-end or some such."
Latest versions of portage have something in this direction. When you do emerge -pv --tree it shows you the use flags and a dependency tree. Of course you'd still have to add the right flags to make.conf or packge.use.Disclamer: I might be somewhat of a Gentoo zealot.
"To start with the punchline: actually that should IMHO read "if you're a masochist and want the computer equivalent of a kick in the teeth, you should try the power of Gentoo." Yep, that's some real power in that kick."
Like you said, gentoo installation can be hard and tedious. But after that it's all downhill. Gentoo is the easiest Linux distro I have ever used(and yes, I have used Mandrake, Fedora, Debian etc.), while still letting you be in charge of your own system. Portage is by far the best package managment system I have ever come across and USE flags are the best part of it.
Of course Gentoo has it downsides, like the etc-hell and the fact that not all packages manage compile.(On these situatons you'll most likely find a fix form Gentoo Bugzilla, but it might not be that obvious at first and quite often these fixes require some hacking from the user part) Contrary to common belief, compiling packages from source doesn't really affect your systems usability after the installation (unless you play a lot of games). I'm quite able to play mp3, surf the net or do some coding(yes, with vim) while portage is doing it's work in the background.
Oh, and about that automation thing. People are already working on it. Take a look at GLIS.
There's a code for test program and instructions on how to compile and use it at the end of the report.
It's only a local exploit. So, if you are doing things correctly and other programs don't have any security issues that would give attacker access to your computer, you should be fine.
...but it is still a security risk. So, if I were you I'd patch.
Fusion _does_ create some radioactive waste though not as much as fisson does. You see, during the fusion neutrons are released making the walls of reactor radioactive. But as I said there will be a lot less of radioactive waste and it's half-life won't be as long as the that of fission reactor's waste.
MS clearly states in the application that these figures show prior art.
Here's staright link to the pdf: http://www.pat2pdf.com/20030189597.pdf
And this is what it says about these figures in patent application:
[0013] FIG. 1A is a pictorial diagram illustrating a desktop of a graphical user interface according to the prior art.
[0014] FIG. 1B is a pictorial diagram illustrating one implementation of a panel containing a desk guide used to switch among multiple virtual desktops according to the prior art.
[0015] FIG. 1C is a pictorial diagram illustrating another implementation of a panel containing a desk guide used to switch among multiple virtual desktops according to the prior art.
MS clearly states that there is prior art, which makes me think that they aren't patenting desktop pagers but some kind of enhancement to it. (I only had a quick glance at the patent)
..that came to my mind after reading the headline was this.
It's not I am against technology, but... do you really want to travel in a bus where 20 people are watching damn movies on their cell phones? Or listening to music?
I would bet that most of these people would use headphones and not distract you one bit. At least in here listening to music isn't really that uncommon in buses as portable players have been around for ages. In fact there already are lots of people who use their cell phones to listen to music and they haven't irritated me at all. And for movies, I don't think it will distract you more than somebody reading a newspaper or a book.
Why don't you just RTFA?
That and the fact that the writer has spread this story to everywhere gives me an impression that it was written just to prove what pile of shit you can get published if it just brings in a lot of money for the publisher.
..or maybe the writer really is just bloody stupid.
If you had just looked at some links in your Google search you would have found this:
To be precise, what we usually call the "speed of light" is really the speed of light in a vacuum (the absence of matter). In reality, the speed of light depends on the material that light moves through. Thus, for example, light moves slower in glass than in air, and in both cases the speed is less than in a vacuum. Link
So, which of them worked? Cat or sandwich?
BSD! Doesn't SCO even honor the dead?
The source code wasn't stolen from MS directly, but from some third party who had access to it?
Among other things, the zip contains the source code to Notepad (you always wanted that!)
Yes, screw Vi and Emacs! I can finally get Notepad on my Gentoo box. There is no need for some fancy syntax highlighting or keyboard shortcuts. Notepad is everything any self respecting geek needs.
I wonder when ebuild will be available.
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Actually, according to many sources Deadhat/Vesser came before DoomJuice. So technically DoomJuice is the copycat. There's also a new variant of Welchia that makes use of MyDoom backdoor and then tries to remove it.
As Bram stated in this article, Bittorrent was designed for big files. Most software packages aren't that big so BT won't really be ideal solution for this. I think I read somewhere that it will actually cause more problems it might soleve.(But I'm not 100% sure about this as I haven't studied inner workings of BT that good)
Don't get me wrong. I would love to have somekind of way to share my packages. I just don't think BT is an ideal solution for this.
If DRM does gets into linux kernel it will be optional and nobody will be forced to use it. Due to the fact that all of kernel source is open you can't really force anybody to use some functionality they don't like. And as many people have already pointed out Linus didn't actually endorse it. Hell, he doesn't even like it.
Mozilla is now smarter after the firebird incident. They have filed a trademark application for firefox
Kernel 2.6 is very usable and stable. I've been running mm-sources since 2.5.5x and haven't had any major problems with it. There's hardly any need for recompiling packages (there are few exceptions though, mostly packages that install some kind of kernel module, svgalib for example). One thing you must do is to replace modutils with module-init-tools.
Gentoo forums are relly your friend. There are tons of threads concerning 2.4 to 2.6 upgrade, including some howtos.