Unfortunately it has its own networking problems such as font rendering etc.
On the other hand, windowing systems progress slowly and that's why linux forces are pushing through client side. They mature very fast, and can do many tricks but not all (see transparency).
Still, I don't see the harm of a well designed, capable windowing system, which is at least easily extendable.
One should also consider the fact that an important fraction of slashdotters are non native speakers of English. This fraction should be at least more than mac users with similar reasoning.
Community-driven Linux distribution provider Debian held on to the third spot with a 15.9 percent market share rating, up a half percentage point.
and
For Netcraft, the fastest growing distribution this time around is Gentoo Linux, which showed a rate of 49.5 percent. But that's growth toward a 1 percent market share.
THAT means Gentoo's growth is around.5 percent MARKET SHARE which is around Debian's. A draw if you ask me.
Relative percentage doesn't make sense considering all new distributions around.
I wonder what happens when those 4 people start browsing and using openoffice at the same time. Not to mention technical stuffs like matlab (which runs on java)
On a side note, anyone ever take an up-to-date testing machine and convert it to stable at release time? Did it, uh, work?
I didn't try it , but as someone using all three repositories, I would say
just adding stable to your sources.conf
and changing the default-release (apt.conf) to stable should be sufficient, given that you do that before the release.
are you talking about social contract or postponing it?
how can postponing can be bad for debian desktop usage?
for the former, Debian is very strong all over the world, so if debian starts enforcing social contract, most developers will have to fallow Debian rules in order to penetrate to debian repository.
finally, just for you information, new debian installer is much better than knoppix hd installer.
I don't know about other countries, but I have a friend who owns an internet cafe in Turkey. I can say for sure there is no such direct support from the goverment.
The reasons for low prices, however maybe related to the fact that minors go to internet cafes a lot to play Counter Strike, GTA etc. Obviously this is because, in Turkey, many houses don't have computer. As the minors are the main customer group, and they cannot effort expensive prices, I think math is clear.
I should also mention that, my friend's internet cafe is always full during the summer.
I don't know much about the school period though.
Correct me if I am wrong, but here is what I remember :
Bab5 guy first went to Star Trek guys with the idea of Babylon 5. But they didn't accept the "space station" suggestion at that time, so Bab5 was born independently.
Later Star Trek guys came up with DS9. (no comments here)
I wasn't planning to post here but I feel like I have to comment on your last sentence.
Personally, I go with Mozilla, but then again, I like having all that extra functionality in one place.
Obviously, this is about choice. So I cannot judge anything or anybody here. Still, I am glad that Mozilla guys decided to go with "Unix Way" instead of "Netscape Way". Afterall, everybody should do what they do best.
I was very unhappy with the fact that I had to install Mozilla suite even though I wasn't planning to use anything but the browser.
Fortunately they changed that some time ago.
Then again, I am still looking for compiling firefox and thunderbird togather hoping that they can operate togather flawlessly.
But, I don't think ctrl-k works for (most) non gtk applications or gtk without emacs keybindings:).
Still whatever application it is, keyboard selection shouldn't override the copy buffer.
I honestly don't care about whether "options" is under tools or edit menu, though the latter seems to make more sense.
I love firefox but not because it resembles ie but because it is extremely usable unlike ie. Furthermore it isn't trying to make every single person in the world happy, unlike mozilla suite. Hence Mozilla become something that really deserves it's monstrous name with all those options, etc.
And finally, firefox follows minimal+modular approach which is the most important thing I would like to see in an application.
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1)Most of firefox is in XUL/javascript, meaning XUL+javascript+chrome can be very powerful.
2) There are binary extensions,
The moral of the story is: Don't install anything you don't know/trust.
"on the internet" part is kinda unnecessary.
Anyway, wikipedia is a good point to start searching and in most cases pretty accurate.
Everthing actually comes from the mozilla suite which is ONE APPLICATION.
Sunbird is stand alone implementation of Mozilla Calendar (ext), similar to browser (Firefox), or email (Thunderbird)
Obviously they want to control the technology.
Then they can make profit.
There is a 96-CPU Workstation .
Specs should be somewhere there.
At this to your to compare list.
http://www.theimac.com/info/graphics_2002/top_grap hic_left_side.jpg
Now which one is cool?
Plus, a 19-inch laptop is still a keyboard+monitor and can be much better looking than the new iMac.
Ok, it is just monitor, which should be a good thing, but what happened to esthetics?
what is the relation between recommending FOSS and promoting capitalism?
UN should help nations, especially developing ones.
Clearly communication and computers are important parts of development process. What is wrong with suggesting a cheap way?
now, they can have more data to analyze.
The only thing left is finding an unintrusive way to show google adds for the file system.
On the other hand, windowing systems progress slowly and that's why linux forces are pushing through client side. They mature very fast, and can do many tricks but not all (see transparency).
Still, I don't see the harm of a well designed, capable windowing system, which is at least easily extendable.
One should also consider the fact that an important fraction of slashdotters are non native speakers of English. This fraction should be at least more than mac users with similar reasoning.
Community-driven Linux distribution provider Debian held on to the third spot with a 15.9 percent market share rating, up a half percentage point.
and
For Netcraft, the fastest growing distribution this time around is Gentoo Linux, which showed a rate of 49.5 percent. But that's growth toward a 1 percent market share.
THAT means Gentoo's growth is around .5 percent MARKET SHARE which is around Debian's. A draw if you ask me.
Relative percentage doesn't make sense considering all new distributions around.
I wonder what happens when those 4 people start browsing and using openoffice at the same time. Not to mention technical stuffs like matlab (which runs on java)
This would be what I call context-switching.
I didn't try it , but as someone using all three repositories, I would say just adding stable to your sources.conf and changing the default-release (apt.conf) to stable should be sufficient, given that you do that before the release.
are you talking about social contract or postponing it? how can postponing can be bad for debian desktop usage?
for the former, Debian is very strong all over the world, so if debian starts enforcing social contract, most developers will have to fallow Debian rules in order to penetrate to debian repository. finally, just for you information, new debian installer is much better than knoppix hd installer.
As the title says he can advise though :)
The reasons for low prices, however maybe related to the fact that minors go to internet cafes a lot to play Counter Strike, GTA etc. Obviously this is because, in Turkey, many houses don't have computer. As the minors are the main customer group, and they cannot effort expensive prices, I think math is clear.
I should also mention that, my friend's internet cafe is always full during the summer. I don't know much about the school period though.
Bab5 guy first went to Star Trek guys with the idea of Babylon 5. But they didn't accept the "space station" suggestion at that time, so Bab5 was born independently.
Later Star Trek guys came up with DS9. (no comments here)
Now, I wonder what will be different.
Personally, I go with Mozilla, but then again, I like having all that extra functionality in one place.
Obviously, this is about choice. So I cannot judge anything or anybody here. Still, I am glad that Mozilla guys decided to go with "Unix Way" instead of "Netscape Way". Afterall, everybody should do what they do best.
I was very unhappy with the fact that I had to install Mozilla suite even though I wasn't planning to use anything but the browser. Fortunately they changed that some time ago.
Then again, I am still looking for compiling firefox and thunderbird togather hoping that they can operate togather flawlessly.
I know people who give their email username AND password even when trying to use "send/forward to a friend" links in a newspaper.
That said, I don't think lying is an option for many people.
But, I don't think ctrl-k works for (most) non gtk applications or gtk without emacs keybindings :).
Still whatever application it is, keyboard selection shouldn't override the copy buffer.
I honestly don't care about whether "options" is under tools or edit menu, though the latter seems to make more sense.
I love firefox but not because it resembles ie but because it is extremely usable unlike ie. Furthermore it isn't trying to make every single person in the world happy, unlike mozilla suite. Hence Mozilla become something that really deserves it's monstrous name with all those options, etc.
And finally, firefox follows minimal+modular approach which is the most important thing I would like to see in an application.
There are six pages of review, lots of pretty photos
yep, lots of pretty photos for better slashdotting.