Congratulations: you're the 1st guy I hear saying that winXP doesn't crash on him for more then 6 months. Wow: how did you managed it? Didn't install absolutelly nothing on the machine nor booted to it?
About the Mandrake box, Linux doesn't do miracles when we're talking about damaged hardware.
Don't forget that you can do plug-ins to Gimp without being part of the Gimp project. If it turns out stable and they like it, they add it.
The idea isn't to have the Gimp team to add this functionality, is that someone creates this plug-in.
At least if it was up to me, I wouldn't start a project like Inkscope if I could just do a plug-in to The Gimp that would do the same thing...
LSM/SEL is on the main kernel branch.
Am I the only to see the obvious advantages of this?
Yes, GRsec had some cute stuff that LSM/SEL doesn't have... yet. Want to hurry things up? Help develop LSM/SEL and stop whining about the loss of GRSec.
GRSec was important in many ways, now things must go on.
As a matter of fact, the best alternative I know (IMHO) is WOLK.
The WOLKs are stable and development kernels, containing many useful patches from many projects. Goal: Stability, Scalability, Performance and most important: Security. If you can, use 2.2-WOLK/2.6-WOLK. Kernel 2.4.* is braindamaged and can't be fix.
The only think I dislike about the project is that they don't have faith in 2.4 anymore (which is good) but they still have faith in 2.2 (useless waste of time...)
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It seems that/. per se is helping to find the next one...;-)
If Prof. Tanenbaum is known to you as only the "author of Minix" then I submit that you do not have much of a background in Computer Science.
I didn't state that, nor I only know him for that.
I said that Minix is the best known thing from him (mainly caused by the discussion he had with Linus).
Minix is exacatly as Prof. Tanenbaum said, an exercise to help his students study operating systems.
Undobtly, I didn't questioned his motives to build Minix, nor if he achieved them or not (which he did). I said that, as a side effect, lot's of people started to use it because it was a free implementation of an Unix-based system. More, it's completely obvious that Minix and Linux objectives were quite different, as well as the motivations of their authors to do them. Although, lot's of people that used both had the same interest in them: free implementations of Unix. When those who used Minix because of that saw that Linux was getting better then Minix (for their purpose) the started migrating.
Of course I do, seeing I was talking about the category of people who used to use Minix and what they changed to.
I didn't say that I am "big and important" nor something like that, the point here was to discuss about who used minix, why and what did they used after leaving minix.
I don't agree with any of you two...
Tanenbaum is known by "the guy who wrote Minix" above all his other achievements,
Minix was mainly known and used because it was a free implementation of an Unix-based system. People (like me, like Linus) used to use it before using Linux. As a matter of fact Linus left Minix when he started using Linux in it's v0.99, and I (unfortunatly) only started using it with 1995's Mini-Linux distro (I don't recall which Linux Kernel version it has, but I suppose it was 1.1.?).
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And no, it's not the fall of Rome... Rome had lot's of interesting things that influenced in a good way what the world is now.
Micro$oft? None.
Oh, sorry, I forgot how NTFS sometimes decides to get bitchy and doesn't let you resize it...
About the Mandrake box, Linux doesn't do miracles when we're talking about damaged hardware.
Don't crap on me...
Take XOrg as an example...
If they managed to fork XFree, why woudn't other team be able to do the same with Apache?
Yeah...
:-P
Fortunatly for us (old BBS users) BBS's started to have a command named "talk" that then evolved to what talkers are now..
And, fortunatly (yet again), there are talker bases that run on Linux
Anyway, I don't see how all this conversation is on-topic, but if parent messages aren't considered offtopic I don't think this one should...
Linus Torvalds is an excellent father and coder. He can do both... so why wouldn't you?
Don't forget that you can do plug-ins to Gimp without being part of the Gimp project. If it turns out stable and they like it, they add it. The idea isn't to have the Gimp team to add this functionality, is that someone creates this plug-in. At least if it was up to me, I wouldn't start a project like Inkscope if I could just do a plug-in to The Gimp that would do the same thing...
This is really good... But wouldn't it be better if there was a Gimp plug-in to add vectorial drawing support?
End the software patents: the only good way to fix all this mess.
AFAIK there's 100% for granted, at least I never heard of a denied proposal for a Software Patent.
I agree, and a good example of that can be seen here.
Right. Sweet. People like you helps the rest of us being doomed. Wake up.
LSM/SEL is on the main kernel branch. Am I the only to see the obvious advantages of this? Yes, GRsec had some cute stuff that LSM/SEL doesn't have... yet. Want to hurry things up? Help develop LSM/SEL and stop whining about the loss of GRSec. GRSec was important in many ways, now things must go on.
See this link, named Timeline of GNU/Linux and Unix, as it has several info about the issue.
Besides this points, I generally agree with you.
I didn't say that I am "big and important" nor something like that, the point here was to discuss about who used minix, why and what did they used after leaving minix.
'Some notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle' was the name of the first AST's writing on this issue.
It was really slashdot'ed when I read it first time.
I don't agree with any of you two... Tanenbaum is known by "the guy who wrote Minix" above all his other achievements, Minix was mainly known and used because it was a free implementation of an Unix-based system. People (like me, like Linus) used to use it before using Linux. As a matter of fact Linus left Minix when he started using Linux in it's v0.99, and I (unfortunatly) only started using it with 1995's Mini-Linux distro (I don't recall which Linux Kernel version it has, but I suppose it was 1.1.?).
That already exists a long time ago, and it's better then those technologies this news talk about...
Ever heard about GNUnet?
Well, even today it has been lower that it is now (minium of today 5.15, now 5.20). Anyways, expect it to keep going down and down...