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it would be quite cool if they could set up at least something something resembling homepage. you know, the thing with announcements, news, and, ooooh, release notes ! wiki probably would be too much to ask.
from the end user perspective, bugzilla is the best system out there. guess what that makes of the other systems. it's absolutely annoying to see reports where developers want to get more information, but nobody responds because report submitting was anonymous. as a bug reporter, i dislike passionately systems that do not allow me to register so that i can receive notifications on any updates or questions to my reports. now what might be a middle ground - openid support in bugzilla (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:OpenID_Auth_Plugin). having that in upstream codebase and polished could help with the registering problem somewhat.
heh. well, i think it is important to be precise regarding licensing issues. besides, a commercial os that would be modified inhouse wouldn't have to release the changes, so gpl applies to everybody equally. even if the said os is distributed, i think it is important to fully understand what exactly does gpl require.
"I've shown you the code, if you use it, show your code to anyone who wants it". a bit wrong. if you use it, nobody cares. if you modify and then give somebody else, you have to give them code of the modfications as well. distribution, as opposed to use.
i'd like to second-third and whatnot this. looked at nx when i tried to run x app over a shitty gprs. was unbearable. 15 minutes or so to start thunderbird. enter nx - it now takes 10-15 seconds. it's still slow, but at least somewhat usable. with decent connections nx could do wonders. setting up freenx server was doable, setting up freenx client was biaaatch, so i gave up and started using nx client - at least for now.
frankly, russia has turned into a totalitarian state once more. that's darn scary - just look at what they did in georgia. putin himself is a modern day napoleon or hitler - short man with huge ambitions, heartless, ruthless and huge powers. maybe we'll get another history record of a great war started by a small man. i do hope russians will shrug him off, but the hope is small, given that they (at least as reported by media) tend to keep his photo right besides holy virgin.
i spend most of my day in console. i never change widget themes, and i use default or plain desktop background. but damn kde 4 is pretty =) ok, some of the prettiness reduces usability (that oxygen titlebar blending comes to mind), but i hope they'll deal with these issues until slackware moves to kde4:)
"The real accomplishment was to be able to write memory and other early initialization code in C. Which is much easier to write and maintain then assembler. Assembly code is fragile when you change it, especially when you don't have a stack. C is much more robust â" the code is easier to change without breaking everything. This makes coreboot easier to work on, to contribute to and to maintain."
some fully supported desktop mobos is what coreboot needs;) if a mobo was fully supported, that would be a huge plus when i'd choose. we've seen a lot of issues where even if a bios isn't massively buggy by itself, future development of hardware leaves a lot to be desired, but vendor has dropped any support. this includes servers by ibm, hp, desktop boards... problems have been various during the years (and i really mean only the problems that can be fixed in bios) - larger disk drive support, larger memory support, proper booting from hdd (for example, ibm netfinity 5000 stops booting when an ide drive is attached), proper booting from all cdroms, usb booting... so, amd, if your products will be fully supported by - or even shipped with - coreboot before everybody else, it is very likely that my future purchases will go to you:)
my suggestion, though ? find a project that you use (preferably with a large enough community - those projects usually are in need for dedicated marketing people), and offer your help there. don't settle for single project, try to find out several of those - it is also possible that your skills are needed for several smaller projects.
i'll take the funny route here - along with the serious one:)
It only took ~6GB when I installed it.
that's pretty much for a plain os. try any decent linux distro. either several times less for base system, or comparable with almost any software normal user would be interested in.
7 ran quite well on 512 MB RAM.
a joke, i hope ?:)
Turns off defragmenter for SSDs More efficient SSD formatting Boot from VHD CableCARD and H.264 support built-in MP4, MOV, 3GP, AVCHD, ADTS, M4A, and WTV multimedia containers, with native codecs for H.264, MPEG4-SP, ASP/DivX/Xvid, MJPEG, DV, AAC-LC, LPCM, AAC-HE
while these sound good, they seem to be minor improvements that could easily be delivered with updated packages on the previous os revision.
UAC is way better--less prompts
ok, that probably is beaten to death already;)
Windows Biometric Framework DNSSEC support Powershell built in
app-specific, not os-specific.also, doesn't sound too exciting
Can burn ISOs
ok, this, hopefully, is a joke:)
Wordpad supports OOXML and ODF
while cool, i mean... wordpad ?
Libraries Federated Search via OpenSearch
like... what ?
Re-arrange things on taskbar...yes you can make it look almost exactly like the Vista taskbar if you want. Jump Lists
not sure what these mean. doesn't sound like a revolutionary os upgrade, though
WinKey+Arrow Key for moving applications to one half of the monitor or the other
oh, so they added new global keyboard shortcut !!!11~
Touch integration
Yes a lot of these things can be had on Linux/through 3rd party programs. But now they are included in the OS, which 99% of the time means less problems/slowness/crashes. And developers can count on them to be there.
well, does such a collection of minor improvements warrant paying a shitload of money (think corporate) and a new major os release ?
wouldn't those people use some sort of a service that isn't a plain file - more likely a database accessing solution, that has no such problems with concurrent data access ? which has nathing to do with samba. fileservers are not used (or really - should not be used) for such access scenarious.
oo.org has qt/kde widget support. that wasn't the best example:) thinking about gtk apps i use - thunderbird and gimp. while i think about migrating to kmail now and then, simple differences always put me off =) gimp, i'm too used to, at least for now. these two apps have taught me one thing - i passionately hate many, many aspects of gtk file dialogs... having gimp use qt/kde would be a blessing in that regard:)
because creating an opensource _project_ is not equivalent of throwing some code out. it takes social, communication, management and a bunch of other skills.
what you describe is a code dump. chances of that taking off are slim, of course.
i'm wondering why upper level tech guys have missed an opportunity here. they could have created a decent hardware, average software to run on it... and create an oss project around that. advertise heavily. if they would have done that right, my last camera purchase would have went to them... instead it did go to canon, mostly because of chdk.
and still your country has quite huge crime rates. maybe, just maybe, something's wrong with that system. of course, we also have crime, but at least no such idiotic requirements (though getting a new pasport requires fingerprinting...)
With OpenOffice there are all sorts of little annoyances that start to add up quickly that make it quite unuseable, for instance it would only let me drag position floating boxes and items in a document by increments of roughly twenty pixels.
would you mind expanding on this ? in writer, i can drag objects to pixel precision at any zoom level (though they have snapping, of course). in writer, you can show grid and snap to that. but can choose not to use that.
It doesnt have an off document scratch area in the space surrounding the document, etc.
what would that be ? i might be ignorant here, but i'm not sure what you mean. i could suggest off-page areas in draw or something, but i don't know the requirements.
There is nothing in OpenOffice that can do what Word or Publisher does.
this is suspicious. publisher ? the one really unsuccessful mso suite product ?
obviously ! in the central server:) so yes, server has to keep all these versions, but all your users do not have to. if you have only one or two users, that might not matter much, but if you expect your users to become testers and contributors, you don't want the repository checkout size make them running screaming away.
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it would be quite cool if they could set up at least something something resembling homepage.
you know, the thing with announcements, news, and, ooooh, release notes !
wiki probably would be too much to ask.
from the end user perspective, bugzilla is the best system out there. guess what that makes of the other systems.
it's absolutely annoying to see reports where developers want to get more information, but nobody responds because report submitting was anonymous. as a bug reporter, i dislike passionately systems that do not allow me to register so that i can receive notifications on any updates or questions to my reports.
now what might be a middle ground - openid support in bugzilla (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:OpenID_Auth_Plugin). having that in upstream codebase and polished could help with the registering problem somewhat.
bash: sudoapt-get: command not found
"This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original..."
doh.
heh. well, i think it is important to be precise regarding licensing issues.
besides, a commercial os that would be modified inhouse wouldn't have to release the changes, so gpl applies to everybody equally. even if the said os is distributed, i think it is important to fully understand what exactly does gpl require.
"I've shown you the code, if you use it, show your code to anyone who wants it".
a bit wrong.
if you use it, nobody cares. if you modify and then give somebody else, you have to give them code of the modfications as well.
distribution, as opposed to use.
i'd like to second-third and whatnot this.
looked at nx when i tried to run x app over a shitty gprs. was unbearable. 15 minutes or so to start thunderbird.
enter nx - it now takes 10-15 seconds.
it's still slow, but at least somewhat usable. with decent connections nx could do wonders.
setting up freenx server was doable, setting up freenx client was biaaatch, so i gave up and started using nx client - at least for now.
frankly, russia has turned into a totalitarian state once more. that's darn scary - just look at what they did in georgia.
putin himself is a modern day napoleon or hitler - short man with huge ambitions, heartless, ruthless and huge powers. maybe we'll get another history record of a great war started by a small man. i do hope russians will shrug him off, but the hope is small, given that they (at least as reported by media) tend to keep his photo right besides holy virgin.
i spend most of my day in console. i never change widget themes, and i use default or plain desktop background. :)
but damn kde 4 is pretty =)
ok, some of the prettiness reduces usability (that oxygen titlebar blending comes to mind), but i hope they'll deal with these issues until slackware moves to kde4
Can we please remove the above post it is very lame and should not be on slashdot.
as coreboot targets many bioses and platforms, i'd expect portability to become so much more important.
btw, i found an interview with coreboot developer at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/The-Open-Source-BIOS-is-Ten-An-interview-with-the-coreboot-developers--/features/112353/2. from there :
"The real accomplishment was to be able to write memory and other early initialization code in C. Which is much easier to write and maintain then assembler. Assembly code is fragile when you change it, especially when you don't have a stack. C is much more robust â" the code is easier to change without breaking everything. This makes coreboot easier to work on, to contribute to and to maintain."
some fully supported desktop mobos is what coreboot needs ;) :)
if a mobo was fully supported, that would be a huge plus when i'd choose.
we've seen a lot of issues where even if a bios isn't massively buggy by itself, future development of hardware leaves a lot to be desired, but vendor has dropped any support. this includes servers by ibm, hp, desktop boards...
problems have been various during the years (and i really mean only the problems that can be fixed in bios) - larger disk drive support, larger memory support, proper booting from hdd (for example, ibm netfinity 5000 stops booting when an ide drive is attached), proper booting from all cdroms, usb booting...
so, amd, if your products will be fully supported by - or even shipped with - coreboot before everybody else, it is very likely that my future purchases will go to you
..and it's in flash, which i do not want to load in my browser. dang. could have been interesting. maybe i should fire (eh) up firefox...
http://en.opensuse.org/Standards/One_Click_Install :)
i've seen this on opensuse pages, but haven't used myself - but some howtos refer to this method, so i guess it's working
actually, most projects would be happy for such a help. i know for sure kde (http://ev.kde.org/workinggroups/mwg.php) and amarok (http://rokymotion.pwsp.net/wiki/Main_Page) have quite intensive awareness building teams, that include marketing as well.
my suggestion, though ? find a project that you use (preferably with a large enough community - those projects usually are in need for dedicated marketing people), and offer your help there. don't settle for single project, try to find out several of those - it is also possible that your skills are needed for several smaller projects.
i'll take the funny route here - along with the serious one :)
It only took ~6GB when I installed it.
that's pretty much for a plain os. try any decent linux distro. either several times less for base system, or comparable with almost any software normal user would be interested in.
7 ran quite well on 512 MB RAM.
a joke, i hope ? :)
Turns off defragmenter for SSDs
More efficient SSD formatting
Boot from VHD
CableCARD and H.264 support built-in
MP4, MOV, 3GP, AVCHD, ADTS, M4A, and WTV multimedia containers, with native codecs for H.264, MPEG4-SP, ASP/DivX/Xvid, MJPEG, DV, AAC-LC, LPCM, AAC-HE
while these sound good, they seem to be minor improvements that could easily be delivered with updated packages on the previous os revision.
UAC is way better--less prompts
ok, that probably is beaten to death already ;)
Windows Biometric Framework
DNSSEC support
Powershell built in
app-specific, not os-specific.also, doesn't sound too exciting
Can burn ISOs
ok, this, hopefully, is a joke :)
Wordpad supports OOXML and ODF
while cool, i mean... wordpad ?
Libraries
Federated Search via OpenSearch
like... what ?
Re-arrange things on taskbar...yes you can make it look almost exactly like the Vista taskbar if you want.
Jump Lists
not sure what these mean. doesn't sound like a revolutionary os upgrade, though
WinKey+Arrow Key for moving applications to one half of the monitor or the other
oh, so they added new global keyboard shortcut !!!11~
Touch integration
Yes a lot of these things can be had on Linux/through 3rd party programs. But now they are included in the OS, which 99% of the time means less problems/slowness/crashes. And developers can count on them to be there.
well, does such a collection of minor improvements warrant paying a shitload of money (think corporate) and a new major os release ?
wouldn't those people use some sort of a service that isn't a plain file - more likely a database accessing solution, that has no such problems with concurrent data access ?
which has nathing to do with samba. fileservers are not used (or really - should not be used) for such access scenarious.
btw, qtopia is now named qt extended - http://qtopia.net/.
i liked qtopia name better - shorter, easier to remember, more distinct...
oo.org has qt/kde widget support. that wasn't the best example :) :)
thinking about gtk apps i use - thunderbird and gimp. while i think about migrating to kmail now and then, simple differences always put me off =)
gimp, i'm too used to, at least for now. these two apps have taught me one thing - i passionately hate many, many aspects of gtk file dialogs... having gimp use qt/kde would be a blessing in that regard
because creating an opensource _project_ is not equivalent of throwing some code out. it takes social, communication, management and a bunch of other skills.
what you describe is a code dump. chances of that taking off are slim, of course.
i think google summer of code program has been one of the most widely known experiments and examples showing how this can work.
i'm wondering why upper level tech guys have missed an opportunity here.
they could have created a decent hardware, average software to run on it... and create an oss project around that. advertise heavily.
if they would have done that right, my last camera purchase would have went to them...
instead it did go to canon, mostly because of chdk.
and still your country has quite huge crime rates.
maybe, just maybe, something's wrong with that system.
of course, we also have crime, but at least no such idiotic requirements (though getting a new pasport requires fingerprinting...)
With OpenOffice there are all sorts of little annoyances that start to add up quickly that make it quite unuseable, for instance it would only let me drag position floating boxes and items in a document by increments of roughly twenty pixels.
would you mind expanding on this ? in writer, i can drag objects to pixel precision at any zoom level (though they have snapping, of course).
in writer, you can show grid and snap to that. but can choose not to use that.
It doesnt have an off document scratch area in the space surrounding the document, etc.
what would that be ? i might be ignorant here, but i'm not sure what you mean. i could suggest off-page areas in draw or something, but i don't know the requirements.
There is nothing in OpenOffice that can do what Word or Publisher does.
this is suspicious. publisher ? the one really unsuccessful mso suite product ?
you can access ext3 as ext2 on windows with http://www.fs-driver.org/
obviously ! :)
in the central server
so yes, server has to keep all these versions, but all your users do not have to. if you have only one or two users, that might not matter much, but if you expect your users to become testers and contributors, you don't want the repository checkout size make them running screaming away.