Concerning recent releases of Free- and OpenBSD, isn't that time to start thinking about new icon? NetBSD changed their symbol lately to orange flag and because two other BSD's use the same logo as Net, maybe it's time to put this flag on/.?
These apps? Oh, damn you, guys! If you don't want to make support for Thunderbird or other alternatives to M$ apps, at least give it some API capability for people to use it with their favourite applications.
If you make it plugin-enabled, I'm in! But not unless.
Sorry guys, but I don't see a lot of talent in writing mail-sending software that's just inserting proper e-mail adress and (not always) name in appropiate positions.
Same for e-mail extracting software. Damn, it's so popular and extremely easy with all these adresses written on public forums, it must take a 101 programming course attendant to make it challenging.
One of (American or British, can't remember) soldiers that fought in WWII said in one interview "Yes. I was killing. And I enjoyed that. And I feel ashamed.". It was first and last interview, he refused to give any after that.
Many things can give pleasure. Take a look at computer games, their aim (let's say DOOM3) and realize the fact, that this - not "winning" the whole game itself (as it's impossible in most multiplayer games) - is pleasant.
Killing, destroying, burning, making money in not-always-legal ways, ruining other people. Yes, that can give pleasure. Thanks to computer games everyone can do these things without harming anyone.
There's been some controversy about benchmarks being set up in favor of Intel, thus allowing it's processors - even having lower amount of MHz - to win most.
But I've seen some computers which, having only switched from AMD to comparable (in clock frequency) Intel processor, got some boost in speed. Especially in games. And I've seen some changing from Intel to AMD, suffering loss of speed - mainly in games.
I don't know if recent games (I've seen these effects mainly with Neverwinter Nights) are compiled with optimization for Intel line of 686, but that's the fact - AMD performed worse. In these particular computers, with some particular games of course.
The fact is, Baystar wanted SCO to focus only on cases concerning Linux and SCO's Intellectual "Property".
Baystar is the second bad boy here, angry on SCO for not being bad enough and practically losing case against Daimler-Chrystler (as we all recall from latest news). So, Baystar isn't on Linux side. They're taking their money away from SCO because they aren't efficient enough in their cases against Linux.
Thus said, the parent topic interpretation isn't the proper one:].
I will add to Your list Aurox, a Linux distro based on Re... Fedora. Created in Poland, but growing in popularity in all Mid-Eastern Europa.
There's also DaNiX, Czech Live distro, as shown on www.linuxsoft.cz the most popular distribution in its homecountry.
I think Asia will go the same way and every country will develop it's own distro, based on one of the Major Ones (RH/Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware). But still the Major Distros will have a big share of the market, just like in Poland, where some guys (e.g. me:)) just like to have OS in English.
As I understood, it means that a bulk of IE users (the ones that don't download small "security updates", but only full SPs) will be vulnerable to well-known bug till (hopefully) August?
Well, now that just shouldn't even be compared to Mozilla's bugfixes.
(because who would be able to compare 24 hours with 24 days and not laugh to death?)
"high identity-theft value" - That's some point here. You're asking people for literary every piece of personal ID info.
I don't know how it's resolved in US, but in Poland, where I live, every man has a unique PESEL number, given at the date of birth. This number consists of birthdate (first 6 digits) and few other digits, containing (besides some pretty random data) info about sex and a checksum of all the previous data. Maybe you could use something like that? This way you could make it with just person's name, sex, birthdate and such number - voila! ?
It'll be like that until everyone realize that it takes a scientist to properly control output of other scientists.
Well, but maybe USA needs more and more outsourcing and maybe some hi-tech crisis to realize that. But that's not something we'd like to see (and I'm not American).
Exactly. It's not monopoly that sucks. It's abusing monopoly position that sucks.
It's still quite surprising to see company which, being a monopoly, doesn't induce hate of everyone around. Actually, I can't recall any other example of such situation.
It seems that Knoppix doesn't stop surprising everyone, being probably the most innovative Linux distro (introduced LiveCD and great hardware detection).
It would be great if other distro's developers tried going the same way - be innovative, be creative!. Now it's quite boring to have hundred of Kno* and *pix distros, every one built with philosophy "take Knoppix and replace two apps with your favourite ones".
Is there any way to financially support Knoppix?
I haven't seen a comment mentioning Midnight Commander! And this app is great, show me a Linux geek who hadn't used it at least once.
Nautilus and Konqueror can go away in shame when you start seriously using xterm+MC;).
(don't take sentence above as flamebait, just kiddin', using Konqueror myself)
Hey, so maybe now it's time to steal some Linux code (just like Linus stole some from Minix) and put it into Minix? I'm giving this idea just in case Minix community grows to three-digit number (and developers' number grows to a dwo-digit).
1: r341 h4ck0rz uz3 LinuxFromScratch
2. f*ck GNOME and KDE, r341 h4ck0rz uz3 WindowMaker
3. r341 h4ck0rz uz3 vi/emacs (choose your favorite and stand near one side of this neverending flamewar)
4. r341 h4ck0rz uz3... I mean they don't use...
Yes, I think that MY concept of book would make a great basic reading for all those linux-users-to-be.
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Concerning recent releases of Free- and OpenBSD, isn't that time to start thinking about new icon? NetBSD changed their symbol lately to orange flag and because two other BSD's use the same logo as Net, maybe it's time to put this flag on /.?
Google-like engine? Awesome!
These apps? Oh, damn you, guys! If you don't want to make support for Thunderbird or other alternatives to M$ apps, at least give it some API capability for people to use it with their favourite applications.
If you make it plugin-enabled, I'm in! But not unless.
Sorry guys, but I don't see a lot of talent in writing mail-sending software that's just inserting proper e-mail adress and (not always) name in appropiate positions.
Same for e-mail extracting software. Damn, it's so popular and extremely easy with all these adresses written on public forums, it must take a 101 programming course attendant to make it challenging.
For Real and Apple to reimplement and promote their own codecs the same way. Well, if we really want it - because Theora really does well.
One of (American or British, can't remember) soldiers that fought in WWII said in one interview "Yes. I was killing. And I enjoyed that. And I feel ashamed.". It was first and last interview, he refused to give any after that.
Many things can give pleasure. Take a look at computer games, their aim (let's say DOOM3) and realize the fact, that this - not "winning" the whole game itself (as it's impossible in most multiplayer games) - is pleasant.
Killing, destroying, burning, making money in not-always-legal ways, ruining other people. Yes, that can give pleasure. Thanks to computer games everyone can do these things without harming anyone.
Well, now, after Reiser4 has been released and announced "stable", M$ can start working on "their" WinFS and porti...*cough* scaling it to WinXP.
I have a lot of respect for all the admins and webmasters for not banning their sites/servers from people-coming-thx-to-slashdot.
There's been some controversy about benchmarks being set up in favor of Intel, thus allowing it's processors - even having lower amount of MHz - to win most.
But I've seen some computers which, having only switched from AMD to comparable (in clock frequency) Intel processor, got some boost in speed. Especially in games. And I've seen some changing from Intel to AMD, suffering loss of speed - mainly in games.
I don't know if recent games (I've seen these effects mainly with Neverwinter Nights) are compiled with optimization for Intel line of 686, but that's the fact - AMD performed worse. In these particular computers, with some particular games of course.
The fact is, Baystar wanted SCO to focus only on cases concerning Linux and SCO's Intellectual "Property". :].
Baystar is the second bad boy here, angry on SCO for not being bad enough and practically losing case against Daimler-Chrystler (as we all recall from latest news). So, Baystar isn't on Linux side. They're taking their money away from SCO because they aren't efficient enough in their cases against Linux.
Thus said, the parent topic interpretation isn't the proper one
Nothing new, if you remember famous interview with Bjarne Stoustroup about C++.
I've always heard that it takes a very good programmer to write effective and powerful virus.
I will add to Your list Aurox, a Linux distro based on Re... Fedora. Created in Poland, but growing in popularity in all Mid-Eastern Europa. :)) just like to have OS in English.
There's also DaNiX, Czech Live distro, as shown on www.linuxsoft.cz the most popular distribution in its homecountry.
I think Asia will go the same way and every country will develop it's own distro, based on one of the Major Ones (RH/Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware). But still the Major Distros will have a big share of the market, just like in Poland, where some guys (e.g. me
Oh, come on, after about five years this joke became a little boring!
(not that I'm not dreaming of Desktop market dominated by penguin...)
Brand new big full install of Firefox 0.7.2 shouldn't be considered a "small downloadable fix". So no, you didn't get it right ;-P.
As I understood, it means that a bulk of IE users (the ones that don't download small "security updates", but only full SPs) will be vulnerable to well-known bug till (hopefully) August?
Well, now that just shouldn't even be compared to Mozilla's bugfixes.
(because who would be able to compare 24 hours with 24 days and not laugh to death?)
"high identity-theft value" - That's some point here. You're asking people for literary every piece of personal ID info.
I don't know how it's resolved in US, but in Poland, where I live, every man has a unique PESEL number, given at the date of birth. This number consists of birthdate (first 6 digits) and few other digits, containing (besides some pretty random data) info about sex and a checksum of all the previous data. Maybe you could use something like that? This way you could make it with just person's name, sex, birthdate and such number - voila! ?
It'll be like that until everyone realize that it takes a scientist to properly control output of other scientists.
Well, but maybe USA needs more and more outsourcing and maybe some hi-tech crisis to realize that. But that's not something we'd like to see (and I'm not American).
Exactly. It's not monopoly that sucks. It's abusing monopoly position that sucks.
It's still quite surprising to see company which, being a monopoly, doesn't induce hate of everyone around. Actually, I can't recall any other example of such situation.
It seems that Knoppix doesn't stop surprising everyone, being probably the most innovative Linux distro (introduced LiveCD and great hardware detection).
It would be great if other distro's developers tried going the same way - be innovative, be creative!. Now it's quite boring to have hundred of Kno* and *pix distros, every one built with philosophy "take Knoppix and replace two apps with your favourite ones".
Is there any way to financially support Knoppix?
I haven't seen a comment mentioning Midnight Commander! And this app is great, show me a Linux geek who hadn't used it at least once. ;).
Nautilus and Konqueror can go away in shame when you start seriously using xterm+MC
(don't take sentence above as flamebait, just kiddin', using Konqueror myself)
Hey, we charge for a single [song] almost the same cash as iTunes! - RIAA
Hey, so maybe now it's time to steal some Linux code (just like Linus stole some from Minix) and put it into Minix? I'm giving this idea just in case Minix community grows to three-digit number (and developers' number grows to a dwo-digit).
Maybe even seven if we count Linus. After all he should have some good memories about Minix, shouldn't he?
...so that SCO could sue you / your users and de Tocqueville Foundation call you source code thieves.
Or... wait, you are already using existing Minix? Just adding and linking some software with it?
That's it. AdTF, where are you?
Actually, I have another proposals:
1: r341 h4ck0rz uz3 LinuxFromScratch
2. f*ck GNOME and KDE, r341 h4ck0rz uz3 WindowMaker
3. r341 h4ck0rz uz3 vi/emacs (choose your favorite and stand near one side of this neverending flamewar)
4. r341 h4ck0rz uz3... I mean they don't use...
Yes, I think that MY concept of book would make a great basic reading for all those linux-users-to-be.