... or thinking really small scale. How many simultaneous ssh connections does your "ideal java sshd server" plan to supply? and what hardware do you want to run that on?
It's no use ssh-ing to a box if you won't be able tu use it afterwards due to low-memory slow responsiveness.
wow, not so fast, cowboy! uhh... make that Mac user instead. Go back, read the GP several times and meditate on the last sentence. Or, in case your Cinerama is blinding your brain, here's the clue: it's about a business model, not your beloved Mac (at least, not as it is now).
to rephrase the GP: "Apple-type business model" example: Sun -> used to kick ass -> where's the value in a Sun WS now? Apple -> kicks ass now (from some perspectives) -> where will be the Apple WS tomorrow?
now, the comparison is not entirely fair - Sun had/has the burden of significantly more R&D both in hardware (Apple does not design all itputs in the box, not nearly as much as Sun did) and software (OS-X is targeted to a significantly narrower market, and the server version is in no position to stand a comparison with Solaris). So maybe Apple has a fighting chance if they play their cards right. They do have traction in the laptop segment, which tends to get more and more significant these days. The problem is, Intel is going Apple-killer with the Centrino brand and they have the power of numbers. And, in general, the PC side of the market tends to react sooner or later to any new ideas, be them Apple's or not. So it's a tough living, but gee, what a surprise.
Time will tell about Apple dying or not, but you'd better pray for the latter, or your nice gig will have to run Linux if Apple sinks.
from the x86_64 documentation in the Linux kernel:
Non Executable Mappings
noexec=on|off
on Enable
off Disable
noforce (default) Don't enable by default for heap/stack/data,
but allow PROT_EXEC to be effective
noexec32=opt{,opt}
Control the no exec default for 32bit processes.
Requires noexec=on or noexec=noforce to be effective.
Valid options:
all,on Heap,stack,data is non executable.
off (default) Heap,stack,data is executable
stack Stack is non executable, heap/data is.
force Don't imply PROT_EXEC for PROT_READ
compat (default) Imply PROT_EXEC for PROT_READ
same here in Windows... while in Linux the average temperature is just below 40 deg. C and it jumps to about 55 under very heavy use. Ain't Linux cool ^_^
ok, windows and mac. Until they pull the plug, as with IE for mac. Not really a big deal, since Apple also does the same thing bundling QuickTime with the OS.
The last point is moot. 'ability' doesn't help - besides, it's poorly documented API-wise so nobody outside MS would try to shoot itself in the foot and unbundle WMP, only to risk triggering obscure crippling effects if the OS won't find its favorite player installed. Also, you equate WMP with compatibility (sic!), which is wrong. codec support is compatibility, not a default player. A default player limits codec support, thus limiting compatibility.
Novell today unveiled SUSE(R) LINUX 9.1 Personal and SUSE LINUX 9.1 Professional, the first complete commercial Linux* products based on the 2.6 kernel, providing the only significant retail Linux products on the market.
and ends with:
SUSE LINUX 9.1 will be available at http://store.suse.com and from bookstores and software suppliers on May 6.
so which is it? at least with Mandrke people can actually run the community edition now - same with RedHat/Fedora. What can I run based on SuSe 9.1 now? are they announcing the beta at this time?
Well, Monti's mandate is about to end this fall, isn't it? I hope they can close this thing before, or the path that was taken in the US will be significantly more at hand (delay until the court is changed to a more suitable one). as for the 626 MEPs, look at the latest IP law voted by them that made it to Slashdot - lobbying will always work to some extent. All it has to do is work well enough for the next commission to kiss and make up with MS, if they have their way.
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ok, let's give it a shot;-)
Open Source is nice, for example, but does that mean proprietary software is "unfair?"
not open source - monopolies are unfair. There's nothing unfair about normal competition, but a monopoly has a lot of weight to throw around and that usually has the effect of sheer quantity squashing undiscriminately all competition, be it qualitatively superior or not. Think IE for instance. And no, it's not that 'monopolies aren't allowed to innovate' - it was bundling IE with the ubiquitous OS that achieved the effect, not merely producing it.
For the car analogy to work, it should read there's one hugely dominant car brand and things like roads, carwashes and so on are slowly getting 'optimized' to work with tht car first. Otherwise you can just buy a new car, no harm done. You have to do a little research beforehand, but that's unavoidable. And you have some freedom of choice in the car market, at least.
The problem with WMP for instance is that it only exists for Windows - then Windows being so widespread the move that's already happening is WMP-type formats are (about to become, anyway) just as widespread. Would you want wmv to be accepted as THE standard HDTV codec?. This in MS leveraging its Windows monopoly to dominate the media - a WMP monopoly underway and the two combined will have a tighter control on the consumer market. After all, one would want to be able to play all those wmv discs on the home computer and windows will be the only way to do it, if this happens. (disclaimer - I realise the codecs aren't tied to the player, but this is not the point - different players would come with different default codecs and they can compete on merit instead of on the default player. What if. And there's always the problem of new codecs - if MS does not provide support for ogg/ogm and sets WMP to fail to retrieve the codec everytime, will the average consumer even know where to look for them? a player monopoly cn turn into a codec monopoly quite easily.)
So we can rag on all the losers that don't know a bit from a byte or what an OS even is, but if they are the majority and they want their "free" media player/browser/whatever installed when they buy the computer, is it "fair" to tell them they can't have that? Isn't this just making things difficult for the vast majority of the people involved?
Again, you're missing the point here. no default Windows Media player != no default player! it means OEMs are free to install whatever player they want. Right now, it's quite hard (and expensive) for a oem to untie WMP from the OS - so why would they do it? MS is effectively forcing people to use their player. And no, installing a second/third additional player won't help here - WMP already has an unfair position here. Besides, doe to the competition being MS, few people would try to produce an alternative, player or codec. And that brings the other point in - opening the APIs. Would you consider making a Windows movie player when you know WMP will always work better because the OS has a special 'embrace' for it (read as 'API hooks')?
So here's fair - or rather unfair. Your Mandrake subscription won't help them play WMP formats. And if MS locks the home media in their formats, that will drive Mandrake out of business sooner than bad management, since they in particular sell a desktop-oriented distro. Right now, you can play dvds with decss/dvdread and windows files with windows codecs. That's not a 'level field' already. What will happen when the next format war is won by MS?
I guess my biggest problem with all this is that it is not going to make MS go away, or even lose marketshare.
again, this is targeted at 'future market share', mostly (and here's the hope that it has at least partial success). I for one don't want MS imposing its Windows-only formats everywhere. OS now, media already happening, mobile phones next... it's funny to see their 'drea
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not listed so far: Opera (QT) Adobe Photoshop Album (QT)
2. I'm aware. Please read the entire discussion in the newbie forums. I ran into several conflict errors and unsatisfied dependencies.
on the forum you said 'i'm using rpmdrake to do installations' - did you configure the repositories? in particular adding stuff like contrib and plf?
#1. and #3. are way too general to be worth arguing. Far from me to argue that Mandrake's install is completely bug-free, but crashing constantly might mean a hardware problem. Check the memory.
4. RPMS did not automatically add shortcuts anywhere. I couldn't run any programs from my home directory either.
that doesn't sound believable if you did everything right. First, did you set up the repositories for urpmi? Second, 'run from my home directory' means...? any rpm you'd have installed (assuming it did install) would have placed the executables in the default path (more to the point, in/usr/bin) so a cli invocation would have worked. Not in your home directory, btw.
5. C-Media. The driver is supported, but installation instruction were very complicated. I couldn't do it in the end.
C-Media... which chipset version? alsa has support for cmedia chipsets and it's only a matter of starting the right service at boot to have it working.
and for #6: if the monitor was autodetected and the frequencies were wrong, that's a bug in the monitor database. If autodetect failed, it was up to you to look up frequencies in the monitor's manual at install time. Easy to fix later also.
So you had the download edition... you realize that is targeted to people who have some idea of how to deal with a Linux install. If you don't qualify, buy a box, read the manuals, get the tech support that comes with buying and you'll have it working and learn something in the process. Mandrake is easier than most, but that does not mean it's for the totally clueless.
Just as the web became riddled with OBJECT tags and Flash menus, Linux distros will follow the money and be ruled by the desires of the PHBs that control that money. There will be ads. There will be godawful UI's. Talking paperclips. And....DRM!!!
Sure, but you're talking commercial linux distros here. There will be always the side - Debian, Gentoo, Fedora and the people who care will just (e)merge the good (GPL) parts of the other side and leave the bad ones. I for one don't see Debian and DRM mixing too well >:)
It's not going to be much different from today - and the GP poster has a point. The "popular choice" will be something like Lindows or Lycoris for desktop users - and remember that Lindows already has those problems, default root and 'windows-type convenience' (hah!) So there will be 'secure Linux boxes' and 'insecure Linux boxes'... with the possibility of a trend in user education if the vendors will give a damn.
But the most important part is: if you're using a GPL distro you won't care about commercialized Linux! no, scratch that - you will probably get drivers due to commercial Linux distros, so it's not that bad.
XP came a long way from 2000? that would be interesting if true - but sadly it's not. Unless you call 'a long way' a bunch of styles and cosmetic changes added to the interface (don't you just love stuff like those systray bubbles telling you 'there are unused icons on your desktop'?), a useless attempt to a firewall (to be improved in the heavily-marketed SP2), a few equally useless programs (integrated cd burning? what's the point, every major burning software integrates packet writing in the Explorer shell and the usability contest is a no-brainer)... did I miss anything else? Granted, for instance the leap from WinME to XP Home was HUGE (hell, anything was better than ME), but 2000->XP Pro is sort of a 'regular upgrade cycle needed for balancing MS' financial books' type of thing. I highly doubt any of the extras in XP could not have been included in a SP to win2000 (some tweaks to NTFS, kernel, a bunch of new interface functions and so on). Look for instance at the rumored 'interim XP' release that will also be available as some kind of XP-SP - Longhorn is (financially) too far away and they need a new OS release sooner. Then there's the new licensing plan to consider as well ('look, you get your new release in time - we didn't say Longhorn would be the next one, did we?').
So unless you're an eyecandy type of guy, there's not much change from Win2000 to WinXP except making the computer appear slower at some tasks and faster at others. If the rumors are true, it's going to be about the same with the XP-SP1 -> XP-SP2 change, without any 'new OS' release. Besides, check the version number on 2000 and XP - it's only a minor version kernel change!! And the kernel IS important, since this makes for the much-touted app compatibility (although apps still have to do some kind of install-time detection and config to see whether they can use the few extra XP features or not).
my point: if you compare XP to NT4, you're right, there's a big change involved (man, NT4 was PAINFULL!!). For 200-XP comparisons, there's not much to say except that there's a fair share of people (some developers, too) that would rather use 2000, as they view XP as bloatware.
On the other hand, your linux opinions smack of a troll - unless you tried gentoo or lfs, which does not seem to be the case. If you're the Windows type of guy, stick to it and be happy. And if you're arguing its betterness, use valid points, not mudslinging, or you'll be swimming in it (this being/. and all).
Not all the time. See the anouncements about the upcoming XP SP2 that's supposed to break apps. Sure, in their view, only 'unsecure' apps will be broken (*) ^_^ That smacks of breaking backwards compatibility - not that it would really be such a bad thing for Windows.
And yeah, I don't much care of their notifying app vendors, if users will still have to buy the 'corrected' version of the software.
There aren't all that many unsigned packages in contribs (assuming you imported the relevant sigs) - and it's usually nice to know whether a sig check failed or not (it'd better not fail for the server stuff). Also, the plf sig gets imported by default, so that's one less.
Apparently profit is all that's about. If Apple insists on selling songs on 0.99$CURRENCY_UNIT, UK and Europe iTunes users might move to chinese proxies ^_^
urpmi, and the gui of it, gurpmi, as well as rpmdrake and mandrakeupdate. IMHO, it doesn't get easier than clicking on it through the mandrake control center.
yes, it does get easier;-)
put in/etc/bashrc
function apt-me { /usr/sbin/urpmi.update -a /usr/sbin/urpmi --auto-select --auto
}
add your user to the sudoers for/usr/sbin/urpmi and/usr/sbin/urpmi.update with appropriate exec rights.
no, no, you have the wrong idea. Read the MS anouncements more often - IE will become tightly integrated to the particular windows os version it was released for. It's not 'part of the os', it's the os itself now!
these people... why, they'll be asking MS to unbundle Windows from computers next! outrageous, simply outrageous!!!
BS indeed - yours though. Maybe in your world MS is selling Windows MediaPlayer, but afaik it comes 'free download' for antique versions of Windows and 'can't unbundle' for the new one.
It's not 'bundle the competition', the issue is 'unwire from the default install so that OEMs can unbundle it without (cost) penalties if they feel like doing so'. No sane retailer will ship a consumer Windows pc without a media player, but why does it have to be WMP by default? Because MS says it's a critical component of the operating system.
Please remind me how is WMP so critical to, say 2003 Server? and if it's not, how come the desktop variant is sooo diferent?
What they're doing is similar to what happens in the printer world - you buy the printer cheap and the cartriges expensive and with smart chips to fend off competition if not outright block it. You get WMP for free and then you have to stick to wm formats and their favorite flavor of rights management and such. How would you like WMP-only DVDs? they're coming to a store next to you anyway.
It's not about that. Right now, the content producers' mindset is 'everyone has MediaPlayer, so let's make all trailers/streamed content/whatnot wmv only'. I know, some offer quicktime for the poor Mac users, but wait for MS to entrench wmv in the collective mind of Hollywood (and in theaters).
Not having MediaPlayer by default is the issue. People want different default video formats, not merely different players. Remember that wmv is not an easy option for non-windows systems. This is the monopoly issue that US failed to act upon - MS forcing the 'windows is everywhere' + 'app X is a vital part of the Windows operating system' = 'develop only for app X' equation down the consumers' throats.
Maybe this way we can see 'see ogm video' links somewhere in the future near the wmv, rm and qt ones.
you mean it uses its own idea of scalable vector graphics format... not quite SVG. But hey, Longhorn will obsolete SVG as well! Take that, you open source freaks!
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It's no use ssh-ing to a box if you won't be able tu use it afterwards due to low-memory slow responsiveness.
wow, not so fast, cowboy! uhh ... make that Mac user instead. Go back, read the GP several times and meditate on the last sentence. Or, in case your Cinerama is blinding your brain, here's the clue: it's about a business model, not your beloved Mac (at least, not as it is now).
to rephrase the GP:
"Apple-type business model" example:
Sun -> used to kick ass -> where's the value in a Sun WS now?
Apple -> kicks ass now (from some perspectives) -> where will be the Apple WS tomorrow?
now, the comparison is not entirely fair - Sun had/has the burden of significantly more R&D both in hardware (Apple does not design all itputs in the box, not nearly as much as Sun did) and software (OS-X is targeted to a significantly narrower market, and the server version is in no position to stand a comparison with Solaris). So maybe Apple has a fighting chance if they play their cards right. They do have traction in the laptop segment, which tends to get more and more significant these days. The problem is, Intel is going Apple-killer with the Centrino brand and they have the power of numbers. And, in general, the PC side of the market tends to react sooner or later to any new ideas, be them Apple's or not. So it's a tough living, but gee, what a surprise.
Time will tell about Apple dying or not, but you'd better pray for the latter, or your nice gig will have to run Linux if Apple sinks.
from the x86_64 documentation in the Linux kernel:
Non Executable Mappings
noexec=on|off
on Enable
off Disable
noforce (default) Don't enable by default for heap/stack/data,
but allow PROT_EXEC to be effective
noexec32=opt{,opt}
Control the no exec default for 32bit processes.
Requires noexec=on or noexec=noforce to be effective.
Valid options:
all,on Heap,stack,data is non executable.
off (default) Heap,stack,data is executable
stack Stack is non executable, heap/data is.
force Don't imply PROT_EXEC for PROT_READ
compat (default) Imply PROT_EXEC for PROT_READ
same here in Windows ... while in Linux the average temperature is just below 40 deg. C and it jumps to about 55 under very heavy use. Ain't Linux cool ^_^
ok, windows and mac. Until they pull the plug, as with IE for mac. Not really a big deal, since Apple also does the same thing bundling QuickTime with the OS.
The last point is moot. 'ability' doesn't help - besides, it's poorly documented API-wise so nobody outside MS would try to shoot itself in the foot and unbundle WMP, only to risk triggering obscure crippling effects if the OS won't find its favorite player installed. Also, you equate WMP with compatibility (sic!), which is wrong. codec support is compatibility, not a default player. A default player limits codec support, thus limiting compatibility.
Fedora and Mandrake community are not commercial.
no, but Mandrake and RedHat will be. Same as "SuSe will be". When released, which is NOT NOW (and at least for mdk is about the same timeframe).
Novell is claiming the red herring here - the product is not there yet in the commercial form any more than Mandrake or RedHat are.
funny one, this release. It starts with:
Novell today unveiled SUSE(R) LINUX 9.1 Personal and SUSE LINUX 9.1 Professional, the first complete commercial Linux* products based on the 2.6 kernel, providing the only significant retail Linux products on the market.
and ends with:
SUSE LINUX 9.1 will be available at http://store.suse.com and from bookstores and software suppliers on May 6.
so which is it? at least with Mandrke people can actually run the community edition now - same with RedHat/Fedora. What can I run based on SuSe 9.1 now? are they announcing the beta at this time?
Well, Monti's mandate is about to end this fall, isn't it? I hope they can close this thing before, or the path that was taken in the US will be significantly more at hand (delay until the court is changed to a more suitable one). as for the 626 MEPs, look at the latest IP law voted by them that made it to Slashdot - lobbying will always work to some extent. All it has to do is work well enough for the next commission to kiss and make up with MS, if they have their way.
ok, let's give it a shot ;-)
... it's funny to see their 'drea
Open Source is nice, for example, but does that mean proprietary software is "unfair?"
not open source - monopolies are unfair. There's nothing unfair about normal competition, but a monopoly has a lot of weight to throw around and that usually has the effect of sheer quantity squashing undiscriminately all competition, be it qualitatively superior or not. Think IE for instance. And no, it's not that 'monopolies aren't allowed to innovate' - it was bundling IE with the ubiquitous OS that achieved the effect, not merely producing it.
For the car analogy to work, it should read there's one hugely dominant car brand and things like roads, carwashes and so on are slowly getting 'optimized' to work with tht car first. Otherwise you can just buy a new car, no harm done. You have to do a little research beforehand, but that's unavoidable. And you have some freedom of choice in the car market, at least.
The problem with WMP for instance is that it only exists for Windows - then Windows being so widespread the move that's already happening is WMP-type formats are (about to become, anyway) just as widespread. Would you want wmv to be accepted as THE standard HDTV codec?. This in MS leveraging its Windows monopoly to dominate the media - a WMP monopoly underway and the two combined will have a tighter control on the consumer market. After all, one would want to be able to play all those wmv discs on the home computer and windows will be the only way to do it, if this happens. (disclaimer - I realise the codecs aren't tied to the player, but this is not the point - different players would come with different default codecs and they can compete on merit instead of on the default player. What if. And there's always the problem of new codecs - if MS does not provide support for ogg/ogm and sets WMP to fail to retrieve the codec everytime, will the average consumer even know where to look for them? a player monopoly cn turn into a codec monopoly quite easily.)
So we can rag on all the losers that don't know a bit from a byte or what an OS even is, but if they are the majority and they want their "free" media player/browser/whatever installed when they buy the computer, is it "fair" to tell them they can't have that? Isn't this just making things difficult for the vast majority of the people involved?
Again, you're missing the point here. no default Windows Media player != no default player! it means OEMs are free to install whatever player they want. Right now, it's quite hard (and expensive) for a oem to untie WMP from the OS - so why would they do it? MS is effectively forcing people to use their player. And no, installing a second/third additional player won't help here - WMP already has an unfair position here. Besides, doe to the competition being MS, few people would try to produce an alternative, player or codec. And that brings the other point in - opening the APIs. Would you consider making a Windows movie player when you know WMP will always work better because the OS has a special 'embrace' for it (read as 'API hooks')?
So here's fair - or rather unfair. Your Mandrake subscription won't help them play WMP formats. And if MS locks the home media in their formats, that will drive Mandrake out of business sooner than bad management, since they in particular sell a desktop-oriented distro. Right now, you can play dvds with decss/dvdread and windows files with windows codecs. That's not a 'level field' already. What will happen when the next format war is won by MS?
I guess my biggest problem with all this is that it is not going to make MS go away, or even lose marketshare.
again, this is targeted at 'future market share', mostly (and here's the hope that it has at least partial success). I for one don't want MS imposing its Windows-only formats everywhere. OS now, media already happening, mobile phones next
not listed so far:
Opera (QT)
Adobe Photoshop Album (QT)
2. I'm aware. Please read the entire discussion in the newbie forums. I ran into several conflict errors and unsatisfied dependencies.
...? any rpm you'd have installed (assuming it did install) would have placed the executables in the default path (more to the point, in /usr/bin) so a cli invocation would have worked. Not in your home directory, btw.
... which chipset version? alsa has support for cmedia chipsets and it's only a matter of starting the right service at boot to have it working.
... you realize that is targeted to people who have some idea of how to deal with a Linux install. If you don't qualify, buy a box, read the manuals, get the tech support that comes with buying and you'll have it working and learn something in the process. Mandrake is easier than most, but that does not mean it's for the totally clueless.
on the forum you said 'i'm using rpmdrake to do installations' - did you configure the repositories? in particular adding stuff like contrib and plf?
#1. and #3. are way too general to be worth arguing. Far from me to argue that Mandrake's install is completely bug-free, but crashing constantly might mean a hardware problem. Check the memory.
4. RPMS did not automatically add shortcuts anywhere. I couldn't run any programs from my home directory either.
that doesn't sound believable if you did everything right. First, did you set up the repositories for urpmi? Second, 'run from my home directory' means
5. C-Media. The driver is supported, but installation instruction were very complicated. I couldn't do it in the end.
C-Media
and for #6: if the monitor was autodetected and the frequencies were wrong, that's a bug in the monitor database. If autodetect failed, it was up to you to look up frequencies in the monitor's manual at install time. Easy to fix later also.
So you had the download edition
Just as the web became riddled with OBJECT tags and Flash menus, Linux distros will follow the money and be ruled by the desires of the PHBs that control that money. There will be ads. There will be godawful UI's. Talking paperclips. And....DRM!!!
... with the possibility of a trend in user education if the vendors will give a damn.
Sure, but you're talking commercial linux distros here. There will be always the side - Debian, Gentoo, Fedora and the people who care will just (e)merge the good (GPL) parts of the other side and leave the bad ones. I for one don't see Debian and DRM mixing too well >:)
It's not going to be much different from today - and the GP poster has a point. The "popular choice" will be something like Lindows or Lycoris for desktop users - and remember that Lindows already has those problems, default root and 'windows-type convenience' (hah!) So there will be 'secure Linux boxes' and 'insecure Linux boxes'
But the most important part is: if you're using a GPL distro you won't care about commercialized Linux! no, scratch that - you will probably get drivers due to commercial Linux distros, so it's not that bad.
XP came a long way from 2000? that would be interesting if true - but sadly it's not. Unless you call 'a long way' a bunch of styles and cosmetic changes added to the interface (don't you just love stuff like those systray bubbles telling you 'there are unused icons on your desktop'?), a useless attempt to a firewall (to be improved in the heavily-marketed SP2), a few equally useless programs (integrated cd burning? what's the point, every major burning software integrates packet writing in the Explorer shell and the usability contest is a no-brainer) ... did I miss anything else? Granted, for instance the leap from WinME to XP Home was HUGE (hell, anything was better than ME), but 2000->XP Pro is sort of a 'regular upgrade cycle needed for balancing MS' financial books' type of thing. I highly doubt any of the extras in XP could not have been included in a SP to win2000 (some tweaks to NTFS, kernel, a bunch of new interface functions and so on). Look for instance at the rumored 'interim XP' release that will also be available as some kind of XP-SP - Longhorn is (financially) too far away and they need a new OS release sooner. Then there's the new licensing plan to consider as well ('look, you get your new release in time - we didn't say Longhorn would be the next one, did we?').
/. and all).
So unless you're an eyecandy type of guy, there's not much change from Win2000 to WinXP except making the computer appear slower at some tasks and faster at others. If the rumors are true, it's going to be about the same with the XP-SP1 -> XP-SP2 change, without any 'new OS' release. Besides, check the version number on 2000 and XP - it's only a minor version kernel change!! And the kernel IS important, since this makes for the much-touted app compatibility (although apps still have to do some kind of install-time detection and config to see whether they can use the few extra XP features or not).
my point: if you compare XP to NT4, you're right, there's a big change involved (man, NT4 was PAINFULL!!). For 200-XP comparisons, there's not much to say except that there's a fair share of people (some developers, too) that would rather use 2000, as they view XP as bloatware.
On the other hand, your linux opinions smack of a troll - unless you tried gentoo or lfs, which does not seem to be the case. If you're the Windows type of guy, stick to it and be happy. And if you're arguing its betterness, use valid points, not mudslinging, or you'll be swimming in it (this being
Not all the time. See the anouncements about the upcoming XP SP2 that's supposed to break apps. Sure, in their view, only 'unsecure' apps will be broken (*) ^_^ That smacks of breaking backwards compatibility - not that it would really be such a bad thing for Windows.
And yeah, I don't much care of their notifying app vendors, if users will still have to buy the 'corrected' version of the software.
(*) does that mean WinXP too?
There aren't all that many unsigned packages in contribs (assuming you imported the relevant sigs) - and it's usually nice to know whether a sig check failed or not (it'd better not fail for the server stuff). Also, the plf sig gets imported by default, so that's one less.
Apparently profit is all that's about. If Apple insists on selling songs on 0.99$CURRENCY_UNIT, UK and Europe iTunes users might move to chinese proxies ^_^
Nice troll, apparently fooled the hell out of the mods that gave it +4 Info.
And out of the people who took it seriously enough to debunk.
urpmi, and the gui of it, gurpmi, as well as rpmdrake and mandrakeupdate. IMHO, it doesn't get easier than clicking on it through the mandrake control center.
;-)
/etc/bashrc
/usr/sbin/urpmi.update -a
/usr/sbin/urpmi --auto-select --auto
/usr/sbin/urpmi and /usr/sbin/urpmi.update with appropriate exec rights.
;-)
yes, it does get easier
put in
function apt-me
{
}
add your user to the sudoers for
then do sudo apt-me and dare the Debian users
That's usually
urpmi --auto-select --auto
And after a visit to Easy Urpmi, preferably.
Gentoo 2004.0 amd64 is 2.6.x-only (read 2.4 unsupported). How's that for a default?
that being said, 2.6.x+kde3.2 mdk sounds nice. Worth a spin, anyway.
windows codecs only run on x86 systems. That means for instance no amd64, sparc, powerpc browser plugins for mplayer.
these people ... why, they'll be asking MS to unbundle Windows from computers next! outrageous, simply outrageous!!!
It's not 'bundle the competition', the issue is 'unwire from the default install so that OEMs can unbundle it without (cost) penalties if they feel like doing so'. No sane retailer will ship a consumer Windows pc without a media player, but why does it have to be WMP by default? Because MS says it's a critical component of the operating system.
Please remind me how is WMP so critical to, say 2003 Server? and if it's not, how come the desktop variant is sooo diferent?
What they're doing is similar to what happens in the printer world - you buy the printer cheap and the cartriges expensive and with smart chips to fend off competition if not outright block it. You get WMP for free and then you have to stick to wm formats and their favorite flavor of rights management and such. How would you like WMP-only DVDs? they're coming to a store next to you anyway.
It's not about that. Right now, the content producers' mindset is 'everyone has MediaPlayer, so let's make all trailers/streamed content/whatnot wmv only'. I know, some offer quicktime for the poor Mac users, but wait for MS to entrench wmv in the collective mind of Hollywood (and in theaters).
Not having MediaPlayer by default is the issue. People want different default video formats, not merely different players. Remember that wmv is not an easy option for non-windows systems. This is the monopoly issue that US failed to act upon - MS forcing the 'windows is everywhere' + 'app X is a vital part of the Windows operating system' = 'develop only for app X' equation down the consumers' throats.
Maybe this way we can see 'see ogm video' links somewhere in the future near the wmv, rm and qt ones.
you mean it uses its own idea of scalable vector graphics format ... not quite SVG. But hey, Longhorn will obsolete SVG as well! Take that, you open source freaks!