Um...RedHat's software is all Free (as in Freedom)/Open-Source. In fact, their EULA specifically says (and the GPL and other open-source licenses guarantee) that you can redistribute the source code for their products, so long as you remove their trademarks and logos and whatnot. In fact, this is what White Box Enterprise Linux aims to do: be binary compatible with RH EL by rebuilding and distributing RH's source RPMs. Or you can always check out The Fedora Project...
I hope you know that the GPL can apply to things other than software, and in this case the "source code" would consist of (for example, with SVGs) the XML used to create it, or the image data itself in an open format such as PNG.
So if they open-source their SPARC Solaris, would that mean better support for SPARC hardware on an F/OSS operating system such as FreeBSD and [GNU/]Linux?
Yes, it can be slower and perform better. It just needs to do more per clock cycle. For example, An Athlon XP @ 1.8 GHz can most likely match or outperform a Pentium 4 @ 2.2 GHz because the Athlon XP core (especially the Bartons) can do more things and process more instructions per clock cycle than the P4 can.
Unless you use it for a networkless install (i.e. Stage3+GRP), whenever you install Gentoo you will download stage tarball(s) from the internet, so they will always be pretty much the newest available. In fact, the only real reaons I see to use newer LiveCDs is better hardware support and newer versions of things on the LiveCD (like links2 and irssi). And for those who already have Gentoo installed, you do not need to "upgrade" to 2004.3: a simple `emerge --sync && emerge -uD world` will upgrade everything you have installed and all the dependencies required therein.
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Qt is only open-source for Mac OS X and X11 (*nix). For Windows applications, it is not open-source. GTK+ is, however.
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(to the non-Klingonese speakers: "Yes. Do you speak Klingon? Nice!")
Um...RedHat's software is all Free (as in Freedom)/Open-Source. In fact, their EULA specifically says (and the GPL and other open-source licenses guarantee) that you can redistribute the source code for their products, so long as you remove their trademarks and logos and whatnot. In fact, this is what White Box Enterprise Linux aims to do: be binary compatible with RH EL by rebuilding and distributing RH's source RPMs. Or you can always check out The Fedora Project...
...is no security at all
have you tried running Evolution from within Cygwin/X?
http://x.cygwin.com/
composed of human dendrites holding dead HIV viruses
Shouldn't it be "virii"?
Dang, even Wikipedia seems to be slashdotted. =( Google Cache of Wikipedia Site
Games Are Violent. News at 11.
Why are you running as root? Bad /.-er! No cookie for you!
Tahn how will we access the pr0n on teh intarweb? AppleTalk?!! -_-
firefox is awesome
Now show me how to do it in OpenOffice.org and Il be a happy camper...
DO NOT CLICK THEM
So will this be like the Johnny TaxiCabs from "Total Recall"?
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thank God! We didn't want Joe Q Public running their own unpatched IIS servers, did we?
Netscape->Mozilla->FireFox->Netscape!?!?!
You forgot "->???->Profit!!".
...version of this?"
Hopefully not too long...
I hope you know that the GPL can apply to things other than software, and in this case the "source code" would consist of (for example, with SVGs) the XML used to create it, or the image data itself in an open format such as PNG.
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So if they open-source their SPARC Solaris, would that mean better support for SPARC hardware on an F/OSS operating system such as FreeBSD and [GNU/]Linux?
Actually, you can get Gentoo's Portage on Solaris if you try hard enough, and it's in some respects similar to FreeBSD's Ports system.
Yes, it can be slower and perform better. It just needs to do more per clock cycle. For example, An Athlon XP @ 1.8 GHz can most likely match or outperform a Pentium 4 @ 2.2 GHz because the Athlon XP core (especially the Bartons) can do more things and process more instructions per clock cycle than the P4 can.
Because not everything compiles correctly with GCC 3.4 yet, namely OO.o and a few others.
Unless you use it for a networkless install (i.e. Stage3+GRP), whenever you install Gentoo you will download stage tarball(s) from the internet, so they will always be pretty much the newest available. In fact, the only real reaons I see to use newer LiveCDs is better hardware support and newer versions of things on the LiveCD (like links2 and irssi). And for those who already have Gentoo installed, you do not need to "upgrade" to 2004.3: a simple `emerge --sync && emerge -uD world` will upgrade everything you have installed and all the dependencies required therein.