The parent apparently doesn't know everything about how the Gentoo Hardened project and spender got along. To put it kindly, they didn't get along. The manager of the Hardened project did not agree with spender on much and they got into several outright flame wars in public. It got so bad a few weeks back, that solar, the person who maintains grsecurity for Gentoo, was trying to get the Hardened project broken out, simply to remove the Hardened manager from the equasion.
I prefer the grsecurity patches to the other forms of additional kernel security and will be quite sad to see the project die. At the same time, I can't help but think that anyone who expects to make a living from their pet OSS project really needs to take a dose or two of reality. There's a reason that most OSS projects are someone's pet project and manned by volunteers. Company's want our software, and they don't want to pay for it. If they wanted to pay for it, they'd hire someone to write it and patent the hell out of it.
A previous poster had mentioned that consulting is the way to go for an OSS developer, and I can't help but agree with him. It is so much easier for companies to swallow and also it gives more legitimacy to your work, since you're being paid for what you do, rather than taking a handout simply for running a project that the sponsor has no control over.
Actually, Doom3 has been *engineered* to run on a PC, then ported to Xbox. Also, Doom3 has one MAJOR advantage (at least for the Slashdot crown) and that is that, unlike Far Cry, it will run on Linux.
Steven has been a good friend of mine for many years. I can remember him trying to get StarCraft and IE working in WINE years ago. At the time, I thought that it was a wasted effort. I still do in a way, since I prefer native applications to using any form of Windows applications, but I am glad to see that Steven is now able to make a living off of something he loves. The article was quite good, and if you would have seen the improvements in ReactOS in the past year or two, you would be shocked. There wasn't even a GUI (at all) or a file manager even 2 years ago!
...and to anyone running Gentoo, I should have an ebuild in portage some time next week, so a simple "emerge ut2004-redorchestra" would give you the mod.
It will be interesting to see how Intel responds to these challenges - c't speculates that the future Pentiums will use the architecture they have in the Pentium M line (developed in Israel). If they're smart they'll introduce a dual core CPU based on the Pentium M architecture, if AMD is smart they'll modify their existing designs and beat intel to the punch again.
Funny enough, that is exactly what Intel has planned. They will also be shooting for dual-core, and then quad-core CPUs in the next 2-3 years. On the flip side, AMD has announced that they are already capable of producing dual-core Opterons, and are simply waiting for the market demand to meet their capabilities. After all, it doesn't make much sense to introduce something now that can wait until later. It extends the life of the current line and increases the return on R&D.
I don't want anyone to think that this is a put down against Fedora, they do some wonderful work, but nothing that you mentioned has anything to do with Red Hat/Fedora. You should instead be thanking the kernel and Gnome developers for making your distribution faster.
This is especially true if you're using it as a server. With the low level of Microsoft Volume Licensing, a copy of Windows XP Professional is approximately $130US. A copy of Windows 2003 Server Standard is approximately $650US.
This does seem to be a growing trend with Linux companies. All I can say is that I am glad to see Novell is doing the right thing and opening much of what was once proprietary software. I can only hope to see this trend increase in the coming years.
I believe that both Sun and Apple can pull this off only because they also sell hardware. There's nothing wrong with having a mostly open, yet still proprietary operating system on hardware that you control. After all, it allows you do make optimizations that would otherwise be impossible, or at least very complex, to create in an open environment.
Linux can very well become quite splintered, but due to its open nature, I tend to belive that distributors whom diverge too heavily from the norm will be left out simply due to the lack of mindshare. Linux's biggest strong point is the fact that underneath all of the "value add" from your distribution, it is still Linux and it still works the same way.
It really is a shame that Valve is not more commited to Linux. As an avid Linux gamer, I find it disturbing that Valve can simply ignore the Linux market. I understand that we are a very small group, but as id and Epic have shown us, it really isn't that hard to write code that is fairly portable to begin with, then have a small team do the porting. I'm sure there are quite a few programmers out there that would do the work for peanuts, or even free.
Maybe by the time Halflife 3 hits the shelves, Linux will have become a viable gaming market and we'll see the games being released for our favorite platform, too.
With everything I have seen regarding Doom III, I am so stoked about this game finally being released. John C and crew have done it once again, proving that they can deliver a very visually stunning masterpiece of an engine, then put a great game on top of it to force us all to upgrade our video cards, yet again.
There's 3 lines I simply cannot wait to type in for Gentoo:
I have worked for several companies now that made their living on FOSS, even if they weren't in the market of making software. As a good example, I now work at a company that uses FOSS almost exclusively on its ISP business. Being an ISP, profits can be slim, especially when sending money by the truckload to a certain location in Washington state.
I always have found it funny how everyone seems to think that just because something is free you can't make money from it.
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You mean you don't run with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 anyway? (...or ~amd64, for the rest of us... ;p)
The parent apparently doesn't know everything about how the Gentoo Hardened project and spender got along. To put it kindly, they didn't get along. The manager of the Hardened project did not agree with spender on much and they got into several outright flame wars in public. It got so bad a few weeks back, that solar, the person who maintains grsecurity for Gentoo, was trying to get the Hardened project broken out, simply to remove the Hardened manager from the equasion.
I prefer the grsecurity patches to the other forms of additional kernel security and will be quite sad to see the project die. At the same time, I can't help but think that anyone who expects to make a living from their pet OSS project really needs to take a dose or two of reality. There's a reason that most OSS projects are someone's pet project and manned by volunteers. Company's want our software, and they don't want to pay for it. If they wanted to pay for it, they'd hire someone to write it and patent the hell out of it.
A previous poster had mentioned that consulting is the way to go for an OSS developer, and I can't help but agree with him. It is so much easier for companies to swallow and also it gives more legitimacy to your work, since you're being paid for what you do, rather than taking a handout simply for running a project that the sponsor has no control over.
Actually, Doom3 has been *engineered* to run on a PC, then ported to Xbox. Also, Doom3 has one MAJOR advantage (at least for the Slashdot crown) and that is that, unlike Far Cry, it will run on Linux.
Steven has been a good friend of mine for many years. I can remember him trying to get StarCraft and IE working in WINE years ago. At the time, I thought that it was a wasted effort. I still do in a way, since I prefer native applications to using any form of Windows applications, but I am glad to see that Steven is now able to make a living off of something he loves. The article was quite good, and if you would have seen the improvements in ReactOS in the past year or two, you would be shocked. There wasn't even a GUI (at all) or a file manager even 2 years ago!
That has to be one of the best comments ever... if I had moderator points, you'd get them all for that one.
...and to anyone running Gentoo, I should have an ebuild in portage some time next week, so a simple "emerge ut2004-redorchestra" would give you the mod.
No, no... my favorite is the last 2 words.
If that doesn't say a lot about how he would see computing today, I don't know what does.
Funny enough, that is exactly what Intel has planned. They will also be shooting for dual-core, and then quad-core CPUs in the next 2-3 years. On the flip side, AMD has announced that they are already capable of producing dual-core Opterons, and are simply waiting for the market demand to meet their capabilities. After all, it doesn't make much sense to introduce something now that can wait until later. It extends the life of the current line and increases the return on R&D.
I don't want anyone to think that this is a put down against Fedora, they do some wonderful work, but nothing that you mentioned has anything to do with Red Hat/Fedora. You should instead be thanking the kernel and Gnome developers for making your distribution faster.
This is especially true if you're using it as a server. With the low level of Microsoft Volume Licensing, a copy of Windows XP Professional is approximately $130US. A copy of Windows 2003 Server Standard is approximately $650US.
This does seem to be a growing trend with Linux companies. All I can say is that I am glad to see Novell is doing the right thing and opening much of what was once proprietary software. I can only hope to see this trend increase in the coming years.
I believe that both Sun and Apple can pull this off only because they also sell hardware. There's nothing wrong with having a mostly open, yet still proprietary operating system on hardware that you control. After all, it allows you do make optimizations that would otherwise be impossible, or at least very complex, to create in an open environment.
Linux can very well become quite splintered, but due to its open nature, I tend to belive that distributors whom diverge too heavily from the norm will be left out simply due to the lack of mindshare. Linux's biggest strong point is the fact that underneath all of the "value add" from your distribution, it is still Linux and it still works the same way.
It really is a shame that Valve is not more commited to Linux. As an avid Linux gamer, I find it disturbing that Valve can simply ignore the Linux market. I understand that we are a very small group, but as id and Epic have shown us, it really isn't that hard to write code that is fairly portable to begin with, then have a small team do the porting. I'm sure there are quite a few programmers out there that would do the work for peanuts, or even free.
Maybe by the time Halflife 3 hits the shelves, Linux will have become a viable gaming market and we'll see the games being released for our favorite platform, too.
With everything I have seen regarding Doom III, I am so stoked about this game finally being released. John C and crew have done it once again, proving that they can deliver a very visually stunning masterpiece of an engine, then put a great game on top of it to force us all to upgrade our video cards, yet again. There's 3 lines I simply cannot wait to type in for Gentoo:
I don't even think words can describe the anticipation. I'm really looking forwarding to doing the cvs commit for that ebuild into portageI have worked for several companies now that made their living on FOSS, even if they weren't in the market of making software. As a good example, I now work at a company that uses FOSS almost exclusively on its ISP business. Being an ISP, profits can be slim, especially when sending money by the truckload to a certain location in Washington state.
I always have found it funny how everyone seems to think that just because something is free you can't make money from it.
This just goes to show how nice a program PuTTY can be and how much the world needs a simple, yet powerful and FREE SSH client.