It's slow. Even with "quickstarter" it's very slow. Starting 10xlonger than the competition (any). Especially annoying when you open e-mail attachments. Yes you can always close the document not the app, expecting it will be needed in a moment, you can leave OOo running in the background all the time. But how happened the rest got it right, just OOO is sluggish? And that's probably the most important software used on Linux.
Any slashdotter worth their name should know very well what Symbolics was, what role it had in the life of RMS and how it contributed to forming the first version of GPL.
This no doubt a troll but I'll bite for all the confused kiddies out there who might take this argument seriously. If you lived in the Soviet Union the spies were OK right because if you weren't doing anything illegal you had nothing to hide right?
Of course it's not true. Many, many people were jailed and even killed innocently, without having done anything illegal. You could never be sure if someone turns you in and for what. The system needed victims, the officers needed to show they are efficient, and the result was a nightmare for everybody. In the peak period os Stalinism it was hard to find a family who hasn't been hurt by the regime in some way. These were normal people, not dissidents in any way!
This is true and sad. The role of the moderation system is to help us to weed out noise and to get to the essence. This can be done with comments, but what about misleading articles? How long will we be seeing the tabloid technique of using catching-but-not-entirely-true headlines in a place that was supposed to be designed in such a way as to avoid these things?
Wasn't ESR on heir board of directors? Didn't he write another pompous essay on how he had become a millionaire overnight? Didn't it all turn out to be... something else? Wasn't he then quietly removed from the board?
(Well, you can. Germany did, when it unified. Damn near destroyed West Germany, with zero benefit to East Germans. Virtually all the problems in the Middle East are due to mass population migrations. In fact, virtually all long-term problems in history have been because of mass population migrations.)
You sure do know what you're talking about, right? You know what the Eastern part was before and after, yes?
That's one of the biggest exaggerations i've ever seen.
Google maps etc. aren't really striking examples.
If you want to see something really cool, go to http://demo.atmail.com/. The web interface of their online e-mail client is, I dare say, superior to many traditional ones. It's an incredible example of what a modern Web browser (both IE and Mozilla-based) is capable of.
"The latest rejection means that now the bill on computer inventions must go back to the EU for re-consideration."
This is false!
Read http://wiki.ffii.org/Restart050217En: for correct info: "The new Commission is not obliged to follow the Parliament's request and they might still try to "keep all options open" and ask the Council to adopt the zombie agreement of last May as an A-item without a new vote." and so on.
Check out the demo distrubuted with Irrlicht. It's not a complete game, but could easily be. Sooner or later someone writes a game with Irrlicht as it's getting really good.
It's not GPL! Noone is going to create a game library under GPL, for obvious reasons. Even normal general-purpose libraries tend to be LGPL and less restrictive. A game library is a very special case: the developers are really interested in seeing a cool commercial game created with it.
It's strange that you've been modded up as obviously you haven't understood the article. The last quote you provide doesn't come from the French minister, but from a Mandrake representative. And it _does_ make sense -- if the French succeed with Mandrake, the company will have enough experience to be choosen by the governments of some other, especially French-speaking, countries.
in a vserver, you can control resources for a given vserver (in different ways). You can experiment with a fork bom inside a vserver, quite a good experience.
At least some of those are really working well in a vserver:
> 2) Integration with Global Zone. From the global > zone you can control each zone and watch and > cap resources within a zone. This means > modications to ps/prstat(solaris's top) and > other core OS utilities. How hard would this be > under Linux? Is the UML patch even accepted by > Linus yet?
Very similar. You also get vps, vpstree, vtop, vkill, vdu utilities for management starting from security context 0 (hosting server, which uses context 1 to "see" all processes).
> 3) Inteface bindings - can bind zone to specific > NIC.
very well working in vserver
> 4) Greenline - init.d replacement becomes > service aware and can stop/start zones at boot > and monitor services within a zone.
vserver also has a reboot manager; as for service monitoring, you can use userland aplications for any vserer or set them in a host server to switch to security context 1 and thus monitor all services globally.
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It's slow. Even with "quickstarter" it's very slow. Starting 10xlonger than the competition (any). Especially annoying when you open e-mail attachments. Yes you can always close the document not the app, expecting it will be needed in a moment, you can leave OOo running in the background all the time. But how happened the rest got it right, just OOO is sluggish? And that's probably the most important software used on Linux.
Any slashdotter worth their name should know very well what Symbolics was, what role it had in the life of RMS and how it contributed to forming the first version of GPL.
Of course it's not true. Many, many people were jailed and even killed innocently, without having done anything illegal. You could never be sure if someone turns you in and for what. The system needed victims, the officers needed to show they are efficient, and the result was a nightmare for everybody. In the peak period os Stalinism it was hard to find a family who hasn't been hurt by the regime in some way. These were normal people, not dissidents in any way!
Have you ever tried deleting messages that occupy most space in GMail?
Use tinyproxy on your computer at work, then you can comfortably post from home.
ROTFL!
:D
I especially like the part about peole being fined for using a "wrong" DNS server
We are not living in communist China, you know?
This is true and sad.
The role of the moderation system is to help us to weed out noise and to get to the essence. This can be done with comments, but what about misleading articles? How long will we be seeing the tabloid technique of using catching-but-not-entirely-true headlines in a place that was supposed to be designed in such a way as to avoid these things?
The guy is right to some extent.
Wasn't ESR on heir board of directors?
Didn't he write another pompous essay on how he had become a millionaire overnight?
Didn't it all turn out to be... something else?
Wasn't he then quietly removed from the board?
You sure do know what you're talking about, right?
You know what the Eastern part was before and after, yes?
That's one of the biggest exaggerations i've ever seen.
Google maps etc. aren't really striking examples. If you want to see something really cool, go to http://demo.atmail.com/. The web interface of their online e-mail client is, I dare say, superior to many traditional ones. It's an incredible example of what a modern Web browser (both IE and Mozilla-based) is capable of.
This is false!
Read http://wiki.ffii.org/Restart050217En: for correct info: "The new Commission is not obliged to follow the Parliament's request and they might still try to "keep all options open" and ask the Council to adopt the zombie agreement of last May as an A-item without a new vote." and so on.
We are very, very far away from victory.
> (besides the running kernel)
Actually the kernel is not an exception. Check out kexec (http://www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/kexec/).
Irrlicht
and
Crystal Space
Check out the demo distrubuted with Irrlicht. It's not a complete game, but could easily be. Sooner or later someone writes a game with Irrlicht as it's getting really good.
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/license.html
It's not GPL! Noone is going to create a game library under GPL, for obvious reasons. Even normal general-purpose libraries tend to be LGPL and less restrictive. A game library is a very special case: the developers are really interested in seeing a cool commercial game created with it.
It's strange that you've been modded up as obviously you haven't understood the article. The last quote you provide doesn't come from the French minister, but from a Mandrake representative. And it _does_ make sense -- if the French succeed with Mandrake, the company will have enough experience to be choosen by the governments of some other, especially French-speaking, countries.
in a vserver, you can control resources for a given vserver (in different ways). You can experiment with a fork bom inside a vserver, quite a good experience.
At least some of those are really working well in a vserver:
> 2) Integration with Global Zone. From the global
> zone you can control each zone and watch and
> cap resources within a zone. This means
> modications to ps/prstat(solaris's top) and
> other core OS utilities. How hard would this be
> under Linux? Is the UML patch even accepted by
> Linus yet?
Very similar. You also get vps, vpstree, vtop, vkill, vdu utilities for management starting from security context 0 (hosting server, which uses context 1 to "see" all processes).
> 3) Inteface bindings - can bind zone to specific > NIC.
very well working in vserver
> 4) Greenline - init.d replacement becomes
> service aware and can stop/start zones at boot
> and monitor services within a zone.
vserver also has a reboot manager; as for service monitoring, you can use userland aplications for any vserer or set them in a host server to switch to security context 1 and thus monitor all services globally.