It's very very good at what it does: business logic. Exactly. And in most cases where COBOL is used, being a good programmer is not important. It is all about your business domain. So if you're looking for a programmer for a mortgages system, and your choice is between someone who knows C and Assembler and someone that knows everything about mortgages but just finished his COBOL-course, you'd better pick the latter.
If there'd be one package manager, there would be somebody who had an idea how to make a better one. And then you'd have two package managers. And if this package manager is better than the previous one, there will be a distro that will use it. And if it really makes a difference, more and more people will start using that distro.
That is how open source gets better and better every day. The choice steers the evolution. It's that simple.
You could try http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm. That will add livna's rpm repositories to your yum configuration. After that it should be straightforward to install stuff like mplayer or xine (yum install mplayer xine).
Actually, Prince did that with Alphabet Street. All tracks were combined into one big track. Very annoying.
What i don't understand is that there is no file format for a cd. How difficult can that be? Make a tarball of a bunch of oggs, throw in an albumcover and a tracklist, and there you go. I would love that. Plus, it would make downloading an entire album from alloffmp3.com much easier.
Wasn't OO supposed to be the panacea for reuse a few years ago? Never happenned... (it turned out that massively complex multiple inheritence trees were worse than the rewritten objects they were trying to replace).
I'd think OO did result in more reuse, but OO always stayed an IT concept. The difference here is that services are more a business concept than an IT concept. I work at a large company that started thinking about SOA a couple of years ago. At first services were difficult to implement, largely due to costs and image. But now the number of services has come to a critical mass, and it becomes obvious that they provide the best way to bring back-end products to sales channels. I never heard any business person talk about object or classes, but i did hear them talk about services.
With SOA, you will not just reuse code, you will reuse back-ends. There's one drawback, and that is that testing becomes more complex, simply because there are back-ends.
So as more and more companies jump on the community bandwagon, will the community of communities be big enough to help them all out?
How many people actually take part in an OSS community project? Is that number still rising? Won't it become more and more difficult to attract more people to a project like this?
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Apparently, you can make your own install disks: http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/05/31/remixing- fedora-7/
If there'd be one package manager, there would be somebody who had an idea how to make a better one. And then you'd have two package managers. And if this package manager is better than the previous one, there will be a distro that will use it. And if it really makes a difference, more and more people will start using that distro. That is how open source gets better and better every day. The choice steers the evolution. It's that simple.
You could try http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm. That will add livna's rpm repositories to your yum configuration. After that it should be straightforward to install stuff like mplayer or xine (yum install mplayer xine).
> Then why not sell the album as one track?
Actually, Prince did that with Alphabet Street. All tracks were combined into one big track. Very annoying.
What i don't understand is that there is no file format for a cd. How difficult can that be? Make a tarball of a bunch of oggs, throw in an albumcover and a tracklist, and there you go. I would love that. Plus, it would make downloading an entire album from alloffmp3.com much easier.
I'd think OO did result in more reuse, but OO always stayed an IT concept. The difference here is that services are more a business concept than an IT concept. I work at a large company that started thinking about SOA a couple of years ago. At first services were difficult to implement, largely due to costs and image. But now the number of services has come to a critical mass, and it becomes obvious that they provide the best way to bring back-end products to sales channels. I never heard any business person talk about object or classes, but i did hear them talk about services.
With SOA, you will not just reuse code, you will reuse back-ends. There's one drawback, and that is that testing becomes more complex, simply because there are back-ends.
Has anyone mentioned http://www.quirksmode.org/?
So, should we expect a webbased IM?
So as more and more companies jump on the community bandwagon, will the community of communities be big enough to help them all out? How many people actually take part in an OSS community project? Is that number still rising? Won't it become more and more difficult to attract more people to a project like this?
It says on the website that it is based on the latest Fedora Core. Guess that would be Fedora Core 2 Test 3.