I am aware that eMule has no spyware/addware since its opensource. In this case, the issues the author raises do not concern me. Since this discussion is primarily based on Windows, Linux is offtopic, but in that area, we have KMLdonkey and Limewire.
The best thing that happened to Linux in my opinion is the fact that Linus and his early lietenants agreed on what kind of license to use. If I were Linus, I doubt that I'd have given away all my work "for free." The GPL as a new form of licensing is the best thing that happened to Linux. It is also good to hear that it's a living document, i.e., it's being modified here and there to reflect the "hostile" environments FOSS programmers are forced to operate in.
If it were not for that license, slashdot would not have had Linux as a sub-topic and Apache would not be having the standing it has on the web. This applies to many other software that I even do not know about.
They will publich remotely using servers in a 3rd country. The info can still be obtained. When will the bureaucracy understand how today's IT world operates? Heck, drugs (cocaine, marijuana) and the like are illegal but still obtainable by anyone who trys.
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I cannot open a file like http://www.marcusevans.com.au/pdf/413.pdf from any GNOME native application! In this case, I have to save the file on the disk then open it after. I was even more dissapointed when Adobe based their recently released PDF reader for Linux on GTK. This means that this issue lingers. Meanwhile, all that I am dissapointed with in GNOME is a snap and works like a charm in any KDE applcation. What the hell....!
Does this Corel product open files based on the OASIS standard, which include OpenOffice.org and KOffice? It has been some time since I last heard of this Corel product. In Canada, which I call home and Toronto, where the magic of the Financial might happens, Corel's products are not that well known. It's ironic that Canadians know MS Office as a product for every office than their own Corel.
My issues with OpenOffice are the ugly fonts on Linux. The fact that OO.o is still too slow to start can be excused by that fact that it is still in beta. Whay did they choose to package it that way? I mean the core stuff? I hope they will provide some kind of installation script to handle the installation to make it similar to Office 2K.
This is only a beta, so things can only get better.
[...], said the move to Windows-based systems is "not great news for the security of the system. I'm sure there's a lot of holes that will be created because of this."
Now the question to answer is: Whose hands were greased?
Yahoo mail does the same. From another browser, email addresses/nicknames are filled in as one types if that email address or nickname is in the address book. For Konqueror, nothing of the sort happens. I have contacted them on this but nothing has changed!
This is to the [Linux] zealots: You must be celebrating this news somehow. Of course you wish for even better news. Remember one thing...after SCO, another will be minted. Also remember that according to Microsoft's Ballmer, there is no significant Linux deployment anywhere on earth. One wonders where those revenues are coming from.
I am happy that Gmail/Google have listened and added support for the Konqueror. Or, is it that the KDE programmers have added support for Gmail? I say this because I am now using KDE's latest Konqueror release candidate (3.4rc1) which works on Gmail just like other browsers do. Any Slashdotter sees this as positive I know.
The FCC should fine this company US$15,000 per blocked call and the fine should attract interest at current rates. If this company has pockets as deep as those of M$, I suggest going further and holding the executives to account. I hope I am not being too "right wing" or extremist.
...but I was just curious and queried http://www.netcraft.co.uk/ to fine out what the site https://lg3d-livecd.dev.java.net/ was running. You see, I wanted to ascertain whether Solaris that I thought SUN would be using, could withstand the [Slashdot] effect.
It seems that Netcraft cannot find the site! How can a curions Slashdotter know with certainity, what a particular site is running?
For me, it's the startup speed; 31 seconds on SuSE 9.2 with KDE! Why won't "the team" team up and reduce this time? I also wonder whether we shall have macros and modules in its database component just as M$ Access does.
I hope things will improve since this is just a release candidate.
Yes, because the BSDs continue to shine where Linux and Windows seem to fall short IMHO. This is software pakgage management. I am using Debian now and was shocked to find that even for Debian, with its much acclaimed apt tool, Debian got confused and made my system unstable when I decided to upgrade it.
I also heard that Windows used or at least used some BSD work in it's internet capability push years ago. One question will always dog me: Why aren't the BSD's as popular with their very good license at least in the eyes of the IBMs and HPs?
I will be quick. What OS are they deploying now? I guess it's the one from M$. Connectiva would be OK since it's from neighboring Brazil and has strong foundations in Spanish. If multimedia with the ability of sanely playing streamed radio from the internet is ever considered, do not forget Streamtuner http://www.nongnu.org/streamtuner/. There is no sane way of playing these kinds of streams.
What we need is an "pensource" ink formula for both color and black & white categories. Then our kernel hackers can design a chip to exploit the strengths of the ink. Governments round the world can then churn out printers.
Then we will be free of these greedy companies. How far have we gone with the opensource BIOS?
Can someone inform me/us what the advantages of running the Linux version would be? I already assume it would be cheaper to aquire such a phone dollar wise , and being immune to viruses (sp), but what about in day-to-day operations?
[...]The US R&D expenditure is bigger than the next five countries put together, and India is nowhere in the picture."
This I should mention includes inflated costs and bribes for bureaucrats. The Russians do much more and produce very durable space and nuclear equipment for less than one-third of our cost as Americans. This same reasoning presumes that if an individual lives on less than a dollar a day, they must be very badly off. I visited Uganda where a meal costing 4 US dollars was more than enough for me for two days!
Yes, India can and will be superpower whether we like it or not. It's not how much money one spends guys. The latest Russian aircraft costs less than half as much as our most advanced one, yet delivers more power and is even easily maintained. I wish our politicians get this into their heads.
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How does Opensource software Xen measure up to other virtualization software like VMWare and others I even do not know? Are there more anyway?
For sure, nobody knows. We at Slashdot can only speculate. After all. Apple and the BSDs were supposed to be dead now. Right?
There is Firefox 1.0 and the soon to be 1.1 and if Mozilla 1.8 will not be there, theremight be 1.9 or 2.0 since development continues. Right?
Aren't AMD kind-of late? When one talks about mobile computing, "centrino" comes to mind. Right?
I am aware that eMule has no spyware/addware since its opensource. In this case, the issues the author raises do not concern me. Since this discussion is primarily based on Windows, Linux is offtopic, but in that area, we have KMLdonkey and Limewire.
Apple better launch an iPOD cell phone line. Watch out Apple.
If it were not for that license, slashdot would not have had Linux as a sub-topic and Apache would not be having the standing it has on the web. This applies to many other software that I even do not know about.
They will publich remotely using servers in a 3rd country. The info can still be obtained. When will the bureaucracy understand how today's IT world operates? Heck, drugs (cocaine, marijuana) and the like are illegal but still obtainable by anyone who trys.
I cannot open a file like http://www.marcusevans.com.au/pdf/413.pdf from any GNOME native application! In this case, I have to save the file on the disk then open it after. I was even more dissapointed when Adobe based their recently released PDF reader for Linux on GTK. This means that this issue lingers. Meanwhile, all that I am dissapointed with in GNOME is a snap and works like a charm in any KDE applcation. What the hell....!
Does this Corel product open files based on the OASIS standard, which include OpenOffice.org and KOffice? It has been some time since I last heard of this Corel product. In Canada, which I call home and Toronto, where the magic of the Financial might happens, Corel's products are not that well known. It's ironic that Canadians know MS Office as a product for every office than their own Corel.
This is only a beta, so things can only get better.
Now the question to answer is: Whose hands were greased?
Yahoo mail does the same. From another browser, email addresses/nicknames are filled in as one types if that email address or nickname is in the address book. For Konqueror, nothing of the sort happens. I have contacted them on this but nothing has changed!
This is to the [Linux] zealots: You must be celebrating this news somehow. Of course you wish for even better news. Remember one thing...after SCO, another will be minted. Also remember that according to Microsoft's Ballmer, there is no significant Linux deployment anywhere on earth. One wonders where those revenues are coming from.
I am happy that Gmail/Google have listened and added support for the Konqueror. Or, is it that the KDE programmers have added support for Gmail? I say this because I am now using KDE's latest Konqueror release candidate (3.4rc1) which works on Gmail just like other browsers do. Any Slashdotter sees this as positive I know.
The FCC should fine this company US$15,000 per blocked call and the fine should attract interest at current rates. If this company has pockets as deep as those of M$, I suggest going further and holding the executives to account. I hope I am not being too "right wing" or extremist.
It seems that Netcraft cannot find the site! How can a curions Slashdotter know with certainity, what a particular site is running?
I hope things will improve since this is just a release candidate.
I also heard that Windows used or at least used some BSD work in it's internet capability push years ago. One question will always dog me: Why aren't the BSD's as popular with their very good license at least in the eyes of the IBMs and HPs?
I thought it's already done. Am I wrong?
I will be quick. What OS are they deploying now? I guess it's the one from M$. Connectiva would be OK since it's from neighboring Brazil and has strong foundations in Spanish. If multimedia with the ability of sanely playing streamed radio from the internet is ever considered, do not forget Streamtuner http://www.nongnu.org/streamtuner/. There is no sane way of playing these kinds of streams.
...it's all about the MONEY!
Then we will be free of these greedy companies. How far have we gone with the opensource BIOS?
Can someone inform me/us what the advantages of running the Linux version would be? I already assume it would be cheaper to aquire such a phone dollar wise , and being immune to viruses (sp), but what about in day-to-day operations?
This I should mention includes inflated costs and bribes for bureaucrats. The Russians do much more and produce very durable space and nuclear equipment for less than one-third of our cost as Americans. This same reasoning presumes that if an individual lives on less than a dollar a day, they must be very badly off. I visited Uganda where a meal costing 4 US dollars was more than enough for me for two days!
Yes, India can and will be superpower whether we like it or not. It's not how much money one spends guys. The latest Russian aircraft costs less than half as much as our most advanced one, yet delivers more power and is even easily maintained. I wish our politicians get this into their heads.