Im one of really few people besides any company that know enough about computers(or have been stuipd enough to show it) and everyone calls me, people who know some people that know some people and so on.. for some reason they think i have started a company or something(and make funny jokes about that since im not really that old).
so i usually spend 15 minutes to tell them to buy a new computer, this one is screwed..
The point is not to make the software run on the same hardware for 200 years. But to make software that still serves its purpose for a long time.
Take accounting: They still use the system they started with. A telnet(or ssh) client connecting to a console or menu based server running the database, the server itself is about 1/10th to 1/20th of the physical size it was first, and the client machines has been upgraded and replaced. But the old system is still in use because of the speed and usability.
Same with libraries with large databases of their books, they cannot change database and update every year or third for that sake.. It would cost a lot of time and money.. and there is no real point in it. It works!
First I have to say: In the beginning I hated the spatial file mangaer, but then I got realy fast used to it. And if I intend to browse alot I placed a shortcut with the --browser (or whatever) argument.
Metaphors: The article speeks about real-life metaphors such as books and drawers. I can understand why this was nesecarry in the early life of computers to make things more understandable, but now computers is as much used as drawers and books, if not more.. and there shouldn't be any reason to try to be like those.
It is a physical thing and should have its own design.
Fedora may very well have some problems, but then i use it for experimenting. And I like it.. people have always liked different distros for different reasons.
Don't realy see why RPM is a broken system.
It is a good way to handle dependencies, however it is so advanced that a package manager is useful. like yum/apt-get. or a GUI like the great ones mandrake provide.
advanced doesn't mean difficult as you said. i didn't mean the distros were difficult for advaced users, then it is just an advantage when you can configure performance and services as you want them. But i guess you can do that with every distro since they still got a command line..:)
To me it seems like three diffrent levels of distros in userfrendlyness, to the new linux user.
- Lindows for the newbie
- Mandrake for the more novice
- Fedora for the more expreienced and experimenting
This could be the package for people new to linux wanting to try it out.. And ready to blow their machine up some times.
Lindows is indeed a soft switch for those migrating to linux from windows. But somewhat locked into that position.
This would perhaps mean that the user buys at least one CnR license, then realizes he doesn't realy have to pay anything and switches to the one with the cutest penguin(mandrake?).
Perhaps better for Linux in general than for the Lindows distro.
Yes, but if you can see something that happened 13.5 billion light years away, you see something that took 13.5 billion years to come to this point. Ergo you see something that happened 13.5 billion years ago.
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Licence Linux under BSD.
Or they just put a note that they are not responsible for it, and put it in the agreement with the advertiser that the advertiser is responsible.
eu is not europe, eu is in europe. blurp blurp
why didn't you just replace the notepad.exe file with the new one? Would save you some work i guess :p
Im one of really few people besides any company that know enough about computers(or have been stuipd enough to show it) and everyone calls me, people who know some people that know some people and so on.. for some reason they think i have started a company or something(and make funny jokes about that since im not really that old). so i usually spend 15 minutes to tell them to buy a new computer, this one is screwed..
haha eat that windows suckers!!
They don't get flushed down the toilet.
When someone sends a personal message to me about bugs I forward them to a mailinglist as fast as possible, otherwise it _will_ be lost.
Like in feature not bug.
But one could close down shell access like sf.net did when evil.c arrived.
Well it got a better starting point than The Passion of The Christ.. but then again, the Passion wasn't really good.
Why is it so that the user of a product not made by himself which violates a patent can be sued?
Everyone know those venus people are stupid anyway
The point is not to make the software run on the same hardware for 200 years. But to make software that still serves its purpose for a long time.
Take accounting: They still use the system they started with. A telnet(or ssh) client connecting to a console or menu based server running the database, the server itself is about 1/10th to 1/20th of the physical size it was first, and the client machines has been upgraded and replaced.
But the old system is still in use because of the speed and usability.
Same with libraries with large databases of their books, they cannot change database and update every year or third for that sake.. It would cost a lot of time and money.. and there is no real point in it. It works!
Here are some screenshots i found: http://anyweb.kicks-ass.net/linux/fedora/index1.ht ml
The link posted here: http://www.cmu.edu/ does not work, however http://cmu.edu/ does.
This is truly great! I come from Norway and can hardly wait, though I will probably be done with schools like that before it gets common enough..
:) Firstly i don't like KDE, but then at least they could have used kde3.
But what is it with kde2?
Might have been to make resource requirements lower for the thin clients.. but..
First I have to say: In the beginning I hated the spatial file mangaer, but then I got realy fast used to it. And if I intend to browse alot I placed a shortcut with the --browser (or whatever) argument.
Metaphors: The article speeks about real-life metaphors such as books and drawers. I can understand why this was nesecarry in the early life of computers to make things more understandable, but now computers is as much used as drawers and books, if not more.. and there shouldn't be any reason to try to be like those.
It is a physical thing and should have its own design.
Justice to the computers!
Fedora may very well have some problems, but then i use it for experimenting. And I like it.. people have always liked different distros for different reasons.
:)
Don't realy see why RPM is a broken system.
It is a good way to handle dependencies, however it is so advanced that a package manager is useful. like yum/apt-get. or a GUI like the great ones mandrake provide.
advanced doesn't mean difficult as you said. i didn't mean the distros were difficult for advaced users, then it is just an advantage when you can configure performance and services as you want them.
But i guess you can do that with every distro since they still got a command line..
To me it seems like three diffrent levels of distros in userfrendlyness, to the new linux user.
- Lindows for the newbie
- Mandrake for the more novice
- Fedora for the more expreienced and experimenting
This could be the package for people new to linux wanting to try it out.. And ready to blow their machine up some times.
Lindows is indeed a soft switch for those migrating to linux from windows. But somewhat locked into that position.
This would perhaps mean that the user buys at least one CnR license, then realizes he doesn't realy have to pay anything and switches to the one with the cutest penguin(mandrake?).
Perhaps better for Linux in general than for the Lindows distro.
how to produce an x86 clone with a few million dollars and a few dozen engineers
I just can't understand why more people haven't done this!
According to the comparison Webb is able to see 13.5 billion light years back in time, not 13.7. And Hubble able to see 13.3 not 13.5.
Yes, but if you can see something that happened 13.5 billion light years away, you see something that took 13.5 billion years to come to this point. Ergo you see something that happened 13.5 billion years ago.
Yep! Just look at open source software?
It's what i've always said: When it comes to it, all that matters is hamburgers.