I am so happy to see that fine, upstanding corporate citizens such as the RIAA, are finally having their day in court. Our society will never be able to progress and move forward until the plebeian consumers finally understand their proper place in society. This example serves to prove why corporations should finally be given the right to vote in elections, according to how much money they attribute to the economy. Only when the corporations move forward, can the rest of our society follow.
I, for one, welcome our new copyright infringing, ip thieving, file-sharing, socialist, everyone-share-and-share alike overlords. I guess the RIAA bribe, I mean campaign contribution, didn't make it through on time.
It has been said the GPL has never been tried in court, because only a fool would try it. Enter SCO:
SCO has argued in the media, not in court, the GPL is unconstitutional. If the court found this to be true, then SCO is in violation of copyright, since by claiming it unconstitutional, SCO had no right to distribution under standard copyright law. Note in this case, IBM has not signed their copyrights over to the FSF, so still retains copyright on their code. This means, were the GPL found unconstitutional, IBM goes after SCO for standard copyright violation & SCO gets stomped by IBM in court. Regardless, SCO has presented no evidence to the court the GPL is invalid or unconstitutional. (OK, they haven't presented any evidence for anything, in any case)
Therefore, SCO HAS NO CHOICE but to argue the GPL is valid, otherwise, they themselves are in violation of copyright law and get sued into oblivion.
So what you are saying is He sacrificed Himself to Himself to appease Himself for having created sinful people Himself. And anyone who doesn't believe this will burn in hell for all eternity. Thanks so much for explaining. It makes perfect sense now.
Further, don't use the words boxen, ass-load, peeps, pissant, whiz, whacked or gonna. As a matter of fact, all slang terms should be outlawed, so we can keep the purity of our Merkin English. Everyone knows only terrorists and employees of Indian call centers use slang anyway.
"Sure we could use Debian [debian.org], or Gentoo [gentoo.org], or even go out on a limb and try FreeBSD [freebsd.org] - but none of these are desktop-oriented, though you can achieve a nice desktop system if you work at it."
How very odd. I used to use Mandrake as a desktop system. I got tired of "working at it," by having to install it twice a year, on each new release. Now I just emerge -uDp world and I never have to reinstall.
When I did install Mandrake twice a year, in order to keep current, I always had to procure the physical media. With Gentoo, should I ever need to reinstall, I can boot Knoppix and chroot from there. You don't have to have the media with Gentoo.
When I used Mandrake, it never failed that a new version of program foo would be released. Unfortunately, Mandrake was not necessarily quick to build mdk-rpms for new program foo. Of course, you could not configure, make and make install it on Mandrake, due to having unmet dependencies in the aged Mandrake release. Now I just emerge foo and I am done. Even if this didn't always work, like say with qtparted at this very moment, the source has always built without fail. This was never guaranteed with Mandrake or Redhat. With Gentoo it does not matter if a major release of KDE or GNOME happens. You will be able to install it. This is not true with the rpm based distros, especially if new app foo has many updated dependencies not present in your rpm distro.
When I used Mandrake & Redhat, I had no idea what a pure, unmodified KDE looked or felt like. Gentoo let me know and now I prefer my Linux distributor not mess around with KDE. Redhat & Mandrake both modify KDE.
When I used Mandrake and installed KDE, it installed every single app that each KDE package includes. For instance, you install kdenetwork and you get krdc, whether you will ever use it nor not. With Gentoo, my DO_NOT_COMPILE list is in my make.conf, so the only KDE apps built are those I specify. This was not possible with Mandrake or Redhat
Maybe you are correct that Mandrake is an easy desktop, particularly if you like reading those reviews that focus on installation. But over time, as with all rpm based distros, Gentoo was much easier to maintain and configure as I wished. For these reasons, for me, Gentoo is far MORE desktop oriented, than Mandrake, Redhat or any other rpm based distro.
Interesting. Jehovah also says you will have slaves from the nations surrounding you, you can purchase kids from the nations around you & make them slaves as well, and that your newly purchased slaves will then become your property which can be left as an inheritance to your descendants. (Leviticus 25:44-45)You'd have to actually read it to know that, though.
"The Bible reflects over and over that the default behavior of man is evil, not good."
Funny, I find it very evil that some god would tell us 'thou shalt have slaves.' So which is it, did god command slavery or did man write those words? Who benefits from slavery, man or god?
Further, as a Christian, do you own slaves as Jehovah has commanded? I mean, if you are going to base your life on the moral teachings of the Bible, surely you would wish to follow them all.
I install from source only, but then I use Gentoo. With binaries, you can never be sure you will get the app like you want it. Take Mplayer for instance. I am sure that Debian, Fedora, Mandrake, etc have this package in some form or another. But will that binary app be able to play all video formats, including windows media files, real player & quicktime files? Doubtful. If you install it from source though, you can be sure it will play ALL formats you choose.
Why does every other distro coming down the street feel it necessary to 'tweak' the standard desktop environments? I am not naming any distro names here as I don't wish to incite a flame war. But when I decide to use KDE, I want the full KDE experience, not some hacked up, modified, & allegedly tweaked monster that I no longer can recognize. I want my preferences on the taskbar where the KDE developers placed them for my convenience. And if I switch to GNOME tomorrow, I want the same thing - the unmodified GNOME desktop as the GNOME developers saw fit to release it.
More and more, the Linux distributors, and I am not just referring to Novell here (you know who you are), consistently believe it necessary to hack and morph the KDE & GNOME desktops to the point where you can no longer find what you need, or what you need is no longer conveniently placed. And when these distros do this, it is almost impossible to set these desktops back correctly without rebuilding them from scratch, wholly outside of said distros' package managers.
Kudos to the KDE & GNOME developers for providing two of the most useable and productive desktops around. I hope they remember there will always be those of us who wish to experience these desktops completely, rather than the hackjobs some distros are placing on them. We can only hope there will always be distros who don't do this, or LFS at the very least, will always exist.
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Isn't the Microsoft tax we pay per machine enough? Now we have to pay a Microsoft tax on email too? Since when did Microsoft become its own government? I say we dump all of the windows CDs in the harbor.
OK now let me make sure I have all of this straight. Wednesday is the day the SCO quarterly non-earnings report will be released, which most likely won't be good news. So, on Tuesday, the day before the report is released, SCO makes a stock, I mean lawsuit announcement. Do I detect a pattern here?
Install Gentoo from a chroot within Knoppix. Or better yet, from a chroot within a Linux distro on another drive. This allows you to use your computer while everything compiles. Even after the system is built you can chroot into the installation and build KDE, GNOME or whatever you want.
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Somebody wake me up when this has been integrated with various useful reiser4 plugins.
How dare we rob corporate America of the right to embrace and extend code with a silly license?
Bush claims prior art on synthetic vision.
I am so happy to see that fine, upstanding corporate citizens such as the RIAA, are finally having their day in court. Our society will never be able to progress and move forward until the plebeian consumers finally understand their proper place in society. This example serves to prove why corporations should finally be given the right to vote in elections, according to how much money they attribute to the economy. Only when the corporations move forward, can the rest of our society follow.
You forgot all of that filthy smut exchanged freely with no corporate oversite! Won't someone PLEASE think of the children!
I, for one, welcome our new copyright infringing, ip thieving, file-sharing, socialist, everyone-share-and-share alike overlords. I guess the RIAA bribe, I mean campaign contribution, didn't make it through on time.
It has been said the GPL has never been tried in court, because only a fool would try it. Enter SCO:
SCO has argued in the media, not in court, the GPL is unconstitutional. If the court found this to be true, then SCO is in violation of copyright, since by claiming it unconstitutional, SCO had no right to distribution under standard copyright law. Note in this case, IBM has not signed their copyrights over to the FSF, so still retains copyright on their code. This means, were the GPL found unconstitutional, IBM goes after SCO for standard copyright violation & SCO gets stomped by IBM in court. Regardless, SCO has presented no evidence to the court the GPL is invalid or unconstitutional. (OK, they haven't presented any evidence for anything, in any case)
Therefore, SCO HAS NO CHOICE but to argue the GPL is valid, otherwise, they themselves are in violation of copyright law and get sued into oblivion."Linux is a leprosy"
Leprosy? I thought it was cancer10 bucks says next it will be herpes.
And all this time I thought the new words for beta were "Fedora" & "Community Edition."
So what you are saying is He sacrificed Himself to Himself to appease Himself for having created sinful people Himself. And anyone who doesn't believe this will burn in hell for all eternity. Thanks so much for explaining. It makes perfect sense now.
Further, don't use the words boxen, ass-load, peeps, pissant, whiz, whacked or gonna. As a matter of fact, all slang terms should be outlawed, so we can keep the purity of our Merkin English. Everyone knows only terrorists and employees of Indian call centers use slang anyway.
"Sure we could use Debian [debian.org], or Gentoo [gentoo.org], or even go out on a limb and try FreeBSD [freebsd.org] - but none of these are desktop-oriented, though you can achieve a nice desktop system if you work at it."
How very odd. I used to use Mandrake as a desktop system. I got tired of "working at it," by having to install it twice a year, on each new release. Now I just emerge -uDp world and I never have to reinstall.
When I did install Mandrake twice a year, in order to keep current, I always had to procure the physical media. With Gentoo, should I ever need to reinstall, I can boot Knoppix and chroot from there. You don't have to have the media with Gentoo.
When I used Mandrake, it never failed that a new version of program foo would be released. Unfortunately, Mandrake was not necessarily quick to build mdk-rpms for new program foo. Of course, you could not configure, make and make install it on Mandrake, due to having unmet dependencies in the aged Mandrake release. Now I just emerge foo and I am done. Even if this didn't always work, like say with qtparted at this very moment, the source has always built without fail. This was never guaranteed with Mandrake or Redhat. With Gentoo it does not matter if a major release of KDE or GNOME happens. You will be able to install it. This is not true with the rpm based distros, especially if new app foo has many updated dependencies not present in your rpm distro.
When I used Mandrake & Redhat, I had no idea what a pure, unmodified KDE looked or felt like. Gentoo let me know and now I prefer my Linux distributor not mess around with KDE. Redhat & Mandrake both modify KDE.
When I used Mandrake and installed KDE, it installed every single app that each KDE package includes. For instance, you install kdenetwork and you get krdc, whether you will ever use it nor not. With Gentoo, my DO_NOT_COMPILE list is in my make.conf, so the only KDE apps built are those I specify. This was not possible with Mandrake or Redhat
Maybe you are correct that Mandrake is an easy desktop, particularly if you like reading those reviews that focus on installation. But over time, as with all rpm based distros, Gentoo was much easier to maintain and configure as I wished. For these reasons, for me, Gentoo is far MORE desktop oriented, than Mandrake, Redhat or any other rpm based distro.Steve Urkel
the sharks behind SCO ever expected their attack to birth Groklaw?
"It's in black and white in the Bible."
Interesting. Jehovah also says you will have slaves from the nations surrounding you, you can purchase kids from the nations around you & make them slaves as well, and that your newly purchased slaves will then become your property which can be left as an inheritance to your descendants. (Leviticus 25:44-45)You'd have to actually read it to know that, though.
"The Bible reflects over and over that the default behavior of man is evil, not good."
Funny, I find it very evil that some god would tell us 'thou shalt have slaves.' So which is it, did god command slavery or did man write those words? Who benefits from slavery, man or god?
Further, as a Christian, do you own slaves as Jehovah has commanded? I mean, if you are going to base your life on the moral teachings of the Bible, surely you would wish to follow them all.
"Does anyone know of a boot floppy that supports chrooting (Tom's didn't when I tried)?
Boot Knoppix. Enter virtual terminal. Proceed with well documented installation instructions. Done.I install from source only, but then I use Gentoo. With binaries, you can never be sure you will get the app like you want it. Take Mplayer for instance. I am sure that Debian, Fedora, Mandrake, etc have this package in some form or another. But will that binary app be able to play all video formats, including windows media files, real player & quicktime files? Doubtful. If you install it from source though, you can be sure it will play ALL formats you choose.
Why does every other distro coming down the street feel it necessary to 'tweak' the standard desktop environments? I am not naming any distro names here as I don't wish to incite a flame war. But when I decide to use KDE, I want the full KDE experience, not some hacked up, modified, & allegedly tweaked monster that I no longer can recognize. I want my preferences on the taskbar where the KDE developers placed them for my convenience. And if I switch to GNOME tomorrow, I want the same thing - the unmodified GNOME desktop as the GNOME developers saw fit to release it.
More and more, the Linux distributors, and I am not just referring to Novell here (you know who you are), consistently believe it necessary to hack and morph the KDE & GNOME desktops to the point where you can no longer find what you need, or what you need is no longer conveniently placed. And when these distros do this, it is almost impossible to set these desktops back correctly without rebuilding them from scratch, wholly outside of said distros' package managers.
Kudos to the KDE & GNOME developers for providing two of the most useable and productive desktops around. I hope they remember there will always be those of us who wish to experience these desktops completely, rather than the hackjobs some distros are placing on them. We can only hope there will always be distros who don't do this, or LFS at the very least, will always exist.
When doctors go on strike, the death rate goes down.
"discovered a serious vulnerability"
GPL SPYWARE NOW! Many eyes make bugs shallow!
Isn't the Microsoft tax we pay per machine enough? Now we have to pay a Microsoft tax on email too? Since when did Microsoft become its own government? I say we dump all of the windows CDs in the harbor.
Is it really necessary to make a movie about bladder control?
OK now let me make sure I have all of this straight. Wednesday is the day the SCO quarterly non-earnings report will be released, which most likely won't be good news. So, on Tuesday, the day before the report is released, SCO makes a stock, I mean lawsuit announcement. Do I detect a pattern here?
"On a more serious note: why do people run Gentoo?"
Did you ever hear Debian users bitch in the early days about how difficult it was to install Mplayer?
emerge kplayer
Done
That's why.
Install Gentoo from a chroot within Knoppix. Or better yet, from a chroot within a Linux distro on another drive. This allows you to use your computer while everything compiles. Even after the system is built you can chroot into the installation and build KDE, GNOME or whatever you want.