These distros are clearly not ready to take on OS X, which will soon be the primary x86 alternative to Windows XP not only because of OS X's dedicated and outspoken user base but because of its slick looks and ease of use.
I will hasten to add: "And the fact that for easy software installation, one is *always* tied to a particular vendor..." This makes matters worse.
Imagine this:
You are told that the best video editing software for Linux is package ABC. You google it and find thousands of entries. You go for one and find that it will not even install because you're on an rpm based distro and the software is a.deb package!
You go for an rpm package you grab and realise that it's the wrong version. To make matters worse, it's for a different distro. What we need to do for Linux is to adopt autopackage http://autopackage.org/.No one will be encouraged by flames or the so called rpm hell. To me, it looks simple but for many, the decision to adopt autopackage is a non-starter.
To make matters worse, many editors and pundits do not even see autopackage as a viable option and Debian which I use (but is not perfect though good), dismissed it all together!
I don't think this is valid at all. It reminds me of what I have come across in the west as a black African. Many people here think all Africa is HOT and that temperatures are in the 40+ degrees Celcius, and that that's why we are black!
They find it hard to believe that in places like Nairobi, Kampala and even Kinshasa, one needs a sweater/jacket at night. Heck, there are rivers formed by ice too. They do not believe this. I had to have one check the BBC weather website to see what I was talking about.
While people were dying of heat in France, India and Italy, no deaths were reported anywhere in Africa because of heat.
I digress, but my point is, this research is invalid period. Why are the Japanese doing so well yet their bodies are significantly smaller? The Russians are doing well with so little but their brains are not that much bigger either. Einstein head does not look big at all. Invalid premise...invalid results. Period.
You want one field? Affordable medicare. How many Americans can afford costs resulting from a visit to a doctor?
For your information, some Americans visit Cuba to have especially hip-replacement surgeries performed on them. They cannot think of America. Why? I guess you know why. And ohh plastic surgeries will be next. Just wait.
Our government has misplaced priorities in my opinion.
We currently run a huge deficit. All economists tell you this isn't good for the country.
Our healthcare system is in shambles. It is shameful to hear that Cuba, that has had our economic sanctions for decades, still beats us in some specific medical fields.
Our education system is in disarray. Students are non-achievers these days. We are also un-able to attract bright students from abroad!
Out-sourcing is out of hand. We are exporting our manufacturing base. I hear that if the present rate continues, one-third of our entire defense equipment will be manufactured abroad.
Need I mention immigration? The illeagal immigrants do not pay into any social security system here. When this is going on, you then hear politicians saying that the syetem is nearly broke. Heck, it's nearly broke because not enough people are paying into the system...why?...because a good chunk of people are being payed "under the table".
Let me stop...I could go on and on. But our politicians have got their priorities wrong in my opinion. Do not be supprised to hear the following: "billions disappear at NASA!" or "NASA still dogged by technical problems despite billions"! Let's wait and see.
I wish the patent madness continues the more. This is because when it goes far enough to the point of hurting, things will change. Change will be faster when the madness begins to hurt sales/technology/growth.
And when changes do come, the direction of change will be for the better. As Americans, we pride ourselves for being objective and reasonable, but I wonder why this madness cannot be seen by those on positions of power. WHY?
I thouhgt all software will have its own constituency of people it satisfies no matter how good or unfinished or unpolished it is...just like Linux distros do satisfy some. So why go on advising a potential customers to like "Stay as far away from Acrylic as you can...?" This is not fair.
This is because when I read the headline, I thought the Blackberry's future was uncertain because of a massive sales/advertising/marketing assault from Microsoft. I understand M$ is also selling it's own version of a Blackberry....How wrong I was!
My trouble with Linux are the fonts. They look somewhat blury as compared to their windows counterparts. I have installed M$ fonts and this has made the situation a bit better, but left the situation still wanting.
My other trouble is in trying to find a package for my distro. Many times, you find a package not built for your distro in the `rpm' format. When you do a `rpm -ivh package-name.rpm --force' you have to be lucky if it works.
Last but not least, 2 points:
1: All Linux distros I have tried feel somewhat heavy - not snappy! Even when I remove all packages that are "server" related , nothing seems to change.
2: I keep wondering why distros do not adopt the promising autopackge system http://autopackage.org/. We must remember that in order to attract users to our Linux system, installations and maintenance of systems MUST be easy and seen to be so. Otherwise, the situation we have now is a pipe dream. Windows still beats us here hands down.
flaw in the headline should have been written as "flaw" in my opinion, because what they are talking about is not a flaw as such. It is a "flaw." See the difference?
Of course it has nothing to do with Windows (you didn't think it had, did you?);-)
Of course I thought it's the infamous Windows native Blue Screen of Death! Any query among computer users on this will support me on what BSOD stands for.
Comapre the vulurabilities in 2003 to the vulurabilities in 2000 and its quite a difference. How many of the big name worms were a big issue for 2003?
The figures you want to see are proportional to how widespread the OS is. Windows 2003, though quite capable, is not that widely deployed. Netcraft backs me up here.
Fellow slashdotters, wasn't this Windows2000's period, the same period that M$ talked of Trusted Computing? What happened to this thing called "Trusted Computing?" Is it still alive?
This type of news, especially in the chip business reminds me of "Cyrix" - the chip, in the mid/late 90s! In the chip business, it must be tough to be a newcomer. Texas Instruments manufactured some of these, IBM did too and a host of other companies. Some people still believe this chip still has advantages over the pentium! http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/rep orts/592/2/. But who is buying that? No wonder, Transmeta may be forced to see the real world. I wish them luck though. All in all, the chip biz must be tough.
Software to me is a set of instructions to a device that understands binary data. As such, it is a form of free speech.
Therefore, I do not see how these instructions can be patented.
If in an effort to establish wheher an individual is mature or otherwise, I need to subtract their DoB from the current date, I could also keep subtracting month by month from the current date till the remaning date value is equal to the subject's DoB.
End result: Same age.
So why should one patent such an entity? What M$, IBM and the like have been doing for years, does not make sense IMNSHO.
How were the previous kernels being tested? Were sources for improvement/change/modification, bugs and areas requiring refactoring being discovered by chance?
> The government recently introduced a national campaign, urging the Japanese to replace their older appliances and buy hybrid vehicles, all part of a patriotic effort to save energy and fight global warming
And Japan will succeed. Meanwhile, here in America, our government and big bisiness seem to be each others' ally as their policies still encourage heavy dependence on foreign oil and the use of fuel-inefficient vehicles! No wonder the best selling cars are Japanese.
It seems all the so called American innovation is no where to be seen. I'd like to know in which field America is leading the world.
We fly the oldest fleet of passenger aircraft among the industrialised countries,
All our electronics are Asian imports,
We are outsourcing our industrial base to the extent that the home grown textile industry is under seige,
I hear with the present policies, almost one-half of our defense hardware will be manufactured by foreign companies by 2018!
Briliant academicians now rather to to Scandinavia than come to USA,
Our healthcare system is the worst performer in the G7, even Cuba beats us in some cases, and on and on and on.
I have been using Konqueror a bit more that usual recently because it loads quicker that Firefox, and I still find myself switching to Fx for pages that render wrong
Care to paste the URLs or are you simply on a rant?
Slashdot Mirror
I will hasten to add: "And the fact that for easy software installation, one is *always* tied to a particular vendor..." This makes matters worse.
Imagine this: You are told that the best video editing software for Linux is package ABC. You google it and find thousands of entries. You go for one and find that it will not even install because you're on an rpm based distro and the software is a .deb package!
You go for an rpm package you grab and realise that it's the wrong version. To make matters worse, it's for a different distro. What we need to do for Linux is to adopt autopackage http://autopackage.org/.No one will be encouraged by flames or the so called rpm hell. To me, it looks simple but for many, the decision to adopt autopackage is a non-starter.
To make matters worse, many editors and pundits do not even see autopackage as a viable option and Debian which I use (but is not perfect though good), dismissed it all together!
Isn't ASUS the company that does not play well with Linux? I am not very interested, sorry.
They find it hard to believe that in places like Nairobi, Kampala and even Kinshasa, one needs a sweater/jacket at night. Heck, there are rivers formed by ice too. They do not believe this. I had to have one check the BBC weather website to see what I was talking about.
While people were dying of heat in France, India and Italy, no deaths were reported anywhere in Africa because of heat.
I digress, but my point is, this research is invalid period. Why are the Japanese doing so well yet their bodies are significantly smaller? The Russians are doing well with so little but their brains are not that much bigger either. Einstein head does not look big at all. Invalid premise...invalid results. Period.
Question: Does this effort have Linux or Open Standards in mind or does my system have to be compatible to M$?
For your information, some Americans visit Cuba to have especially hip-replacement surgeries performed on them. They cannot think of America. Why? I guess you know why. And ohh plastic surgeries will be next. Just wait.
We currently run a huge deficit. All economists tell you this isn't good for the country.
Our healthcare system is in shambles. It is shameful to hear that Cuba, that has had our economic sanctions for decades, still beats us in some specific medical fields.
Our education system is in disarray. Students are non-achievers these days. We are also un-able to attract bright students from abroad!
Out-sourcing is out of hand. We are exporting our manufacturing base. I hear that if the present rate continues, one-third of our entire defense equipment will be manufactured abroad.
Need I mention immigration? The illeagal immigrants do not pay into any social security system here. When this is going on, you then hear politicians saying that the syetem is nearly broke. Heck, it's nearly broke because not enough people are paying into the system...why?...because a good chunk of people are being payed "under the table".
Let me stop...I could go on and on. But our politicians have got their priorities wrong in my opinion. Do not be supprised to hear the following: "billions disappear at NASA!" or "NASA still dogged by technical problems despite billions"! Let's wait and see.
I have a feeling that any success with that would be caught by M$ pretty fast!
Note: Those letters in "Dem0cr@cy" and "Freed0m" are zeros and not an "o".
Question: Is there a way we in the Free Open Source Movement can increase pressure on M$?
Real solutions are needed.
And when changes do come, the direction of change will be for the better. As Americans, we pride ourselves for being objective and reasonable, but I wonder why this madness cannot be seen by those on positions of power. WHY?
I thouhgt all software will have its own constituency of people it satisfies no matter how good or unfinished or unpolished it is...just like Linux distros do satisfy some. So why go on advising a potential customers to like "Stay as far away from Acrylic as you can...?" This is not fair.
How do you do this? I found that building a laptop is not an easy task. The most difficult itme to find in my case was the case/outer shell.
This is because when I read the headline, I thought the Blackberry's future was uncertain because of a massive sales/advertising/marketing assault from Microsoft. I understand M$ is also selling it's own version of a Blackberry....How wrong I was!
My other trouble is in trying to find a package for my distro. Many times, you find a package not built for your distro in the `rpm' format. When you do a `rpm -ivh package-name.rpm --force' you have to be lucky if it works.
Last but not least, 2 points:
1: All Linux distros I have tried feel somewhat heavy - not snappy! Even when I remove all packages that are "server" related , nothing seems to change.
2: I keep wondering why distros do not adopt the promising autopackge system http://autopackage.org/. We must remember that in order to attract users to our Linux system, installations and maintenance of systems MUST be easy and seen to be so. Otherwise, the situation we have now is a pipe dream. Windows still beats us here hands down.
flaw in the headline should have been written as "flaw" in my opinion, because what they are talking about is not a flaw as such. It is a "flaw." See the difference?
Of course I thought it's the infamous Windows native Blue Screen of Death! Any query among computer users on this will support me on what BSOD stands for.
If and when Apple learns of this, the EULA will be modified to make any attempt to convert an Apple illegal. Time will tell.
I do not see why.
Was there any Linux role here? If not someone should be fired.
The figures you want to see are proportional to how widespread the OS is. Windows 2003, though quite capable, is not that widely deployed. Netcraft backs me up here.
Fellow slashdotters, wasn't this Windows2000's period, the same period that M$ talked of Trusted Computing? What happened to this thing called "Trusted Computing?" Is it still alive?
This type of news, especially in the chip business reminds me of "Cyrix" - the chip, in the mid/late 90s! In the chip business, it must be tough to be a newcomer. Texas Instruments manufactured some of these, IBM did too and a host of other companies. Some people still believe this chip still has advantages over the pentium! http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/rep orts/592/2/. But who is buying that? No wonder, Transmeta may be forced to see the real world. I wish them luck though. All in all, the chip biz must be tough.
Therefore, I do not see how these instructions can be patented.
If in an effort to establish wheher an individual is mature or otherwise, I need to subtract their DoB from the current date, I could also keep subtracting month by month from the current date till the remaning date value is equal to the subject's DoB.
End result: Same age.
So why should one patent such an entity? What M$, IBM and the like have been doing for years, does not make sense IMNSHO.
How were the previous kernels being tested? Were sources for improvement/change/modification, bugs and areas requiring refactoring being discovered by chance?
And Japan will succeed. Meanwhile, here in America, our government and big bisiness seem to be each others' ally as their policies still encourage heavy dependence on foreign oil and the use of fuel-inefficient vehicles! No wonder the best selling cars are Japanese.
It seems all the so called American innovation is no where to be seen. I'd like to know in which field America is leading the world.
We fly the oldest fleet of passenger aircraft among the industrialised countries,
All our electronics are Asian imports,
We are outsourcing our industrial base to the extent that the home grown textile industry is under seige,
I hear with the present policies, almost one-half of our defense hardware will be manufactured by foreign companies by 2018!
Briliant academicians now rather to to Scandinavia than come to USA,
Our healthcare system is the worst performer in the G7, even Cuba beats us in some cases, and on and on and on.
I pitty the generations to come.
Care to paste the URLs or are you simply on a rant?