At least from this part of the US, an Accoona search turns up quite a few anti-Chinese links for the query 'free tibet'. That is, once you get past the ten or so sponsored results.
On OpenBSD, take the even better approach than rejecting spam straight up: use pf to route SMTP connections from known spammers to the spamd tarpit. Make them transmit the message at 1 character per second, and then given them 4xx "Try again later".
People who have "got with the program and switched to Ubuntu" aren't the target audience of Sarge. Sarge is for users who want to use an unchanging base system for well over a year.
This isn't copyright infringement, but there is an effort to make sheet music freely available at http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ using out-of-copyright scores.
If the firmware for your DSL modem was licensed such that it could be freely redistributed, operating systems like OpenBSD and FreeBSD could include that firmware and save you the "pain" of downloading it. Good documentation doesn't cut it if it says 'go here and download this' and you say 'but I have no network connection.'
Just because WINE is 'open source' does not mean that it is GPL. WINE has not been licesened under the LGPL (as it is now) for most of its history.
WINE changed its license from the less restrictive X11 license to the more restrictive LGPL in response to Transgaming not submitting any code back to the project. Transgaming was well within the bounds of the original WINE license (I'm not sure if they grabbed code when it was a BSD-style or the X11) not to contribute any of its changes back to the community.
"Is Python out of the question for such a project, since it's not GPL?"
You seem to be concerned about the limitations the license puts on you. Python's license is less restrictive than the GPL - read about it (http://python.org/psf/license.html).
One of many things this means is that if you decide the Python License isn't restrictive enough for you, you can relicense the combination of Python plus your changes under the GPL, as long as you adhere to Python's license (leaving its copyright and other required information intact).
"He [Linus] created the currently most distributed free operating system, did he?"
No, he didn't. He wrote a large part of the Linux kernel, which is combined with GNU software to produce an operating system. This distinction is what gets RMS hopping mad.
The kernel is only one part of (Open|Free|Net)BSD. The *BSDs are operating systems because they include userland tools.
I was very disappointed with the article "IBM Tells SCO Court It Can't Find AIX-on-Power Code" (http://www.linuxworld.com/story/46800_p.htm) by Maureen O'Gara. I was offended by the demeaning tone of the article which shamelessly mixed personal opinion with reported fact. However, it has come to my attention that the article may not even have fact in it - another reputable news site, Groklaw, apparently had several people on hand at that particular hearing and not only reported that nothing Ms. O'Gara claims to have happend did, but also that Ms. O'Gara was never there. The full article is available here (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041023 153851359).
I hope you investigate this matter to discover if Groklaw's claims are true. This is a serious breach of journalistic integrity that should not be ignored if LinuxWorld expects itself to be seen as a source of reliable news.
I tend to agree, the analysis is rather uninformative. They don't include the wireless coverage, the quality of the network (how often does it go down? gigabit?), the quality of the network connection (redundancy? internet2?), or the availability of public computer labs (!= # of computers on campus).
Also, I was quite irked that the information for my institution was incorrect - a blind monkey could have reported more accurately, to be perfectly honest.
I'm not interested in being a dick, but I do want to see the sources from which you got the statistics. What is the scope of those statistics? Is it the US or the world? I wouldn't be surprised if half of the working population worldwide is not employed full time, but I would be if that figure were specific to first-world countries or one of them in particular.
I think it's hardly fair to call this story a dupe; the one you link to is four years old. I'd be surpried if the recommendations from those comments reflect the market today.
I set it up for some friends and it's worked well. Scheduling, automatic backups, backups to just about anything (CD/DVD/FTP/filesystem location), multivolume backups. Cheap, too.
This is modded insightful, but am I the only one who sees the inherent contradiction in those two statements? I laughed, and then saw the mod rating...
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At least from this part of the US, an Accoona search turns up quite a few anti-Chinese links for the query 'free tibet'. That is, once you get past the ten or so sponsored results.
On OpenBSD, take the even better approach than rejecting spam straight up: use pf to route SMTP connections from known spammers to the spamd tarpit. Make them transmit the message at 1 character per second, and then given them 4xx "Try again later".
The acronym that accompanies RTFM is STFW.
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.h
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/STF
A nicer alternative is GIFY.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/GIYF.htm
Two thoughts in reponse to your post:
Debian provides more platforms than Gentoo.
NetBSD runs on many, many more platforms than any Linux does.
X.org is top on the list post-Sarge.
People who have "got with the program and switched to Ubuntu" aren't the target audience of Sarge. Sarge is for users who want to use an unchanging base system for well over a year.
This isn't copyright infringement, but there is an effort to make sheet music freely available at http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ using out-of-copyright scores.
If the firmware for your DSL modem was licensed such that it could be freely redistributed, operating systems like OpenBSD and FreeBSD could include that firmware and save you the "pain" of downloading it. Good documentation doesn't cut it if it says 'go here and download this' and you say 'but I have no network connection.'
Just because WINE is 'open source' does not mean that it is GPL. WINE has not been licesened under the LGPL (as it is now) for most of its history.
WINE changed its license from the less restrictive X11 license to the more restrictive LGPL in response to Transgaming not submitting any code back to the project. Transgaming was well within the bounds of the original WINE license (I'm not sure if they grabbed code when it was a BSD-style or the X11) not to contribute any of its changes back to the community.
"this is a 1.5 year old laptop"
That laptop was pretty new when the game was supposed to be released.
"Is Python out of the question for such a project, since it's not GPL?"
You seem to be concerned about the limitations the license puts on you. Python's license is less restrictive than the GPL - read about it (http://python.org/psf/license.html).
One of many things this means is that if you decide the Python License isn't restrictive enough for you, you can relicense the combination of Python plus your changes under the GPL, as long as you adhere to Python's license (leaving its copyright and other required information intact).
It's been hit and miss, with the hit ones being the older and the miss ones being the newer.
"He [Linus] created the currently most distributed free operating system, did he?"
No, he didn't. He wrote a large part of the Linux kernel, which is combined with GNU software to produce an operating system. This distinction is what gets RMS hopping mad.
The kernel is only one part of (Open|Free|Net)BSD. The *BSDs are operating systems because they include userland tools.
You're a troll and should be modded as such.
The message was also sent to a FreeBSD list. That caused quite a chuckle.
Hello LinuxWorld editors,
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I was very disappointed with the article "IBM Tells SCO Court It Can't Find AIX-on-Power Code" (http://www.linuxworld.com/story/46800_p.htm) by Maureen O'Gara. I was offended by the demeaning tone of the article which shamelessly mixed personal opinion with reported fact. However, it has come to my attention that the article may not even have fact in it - another reputable news site, Groklaw, apparently had several people on hand at that particular hearing and not only reported that nothing Ms. O'Gara claims to have happend did, but also that Ms. O'Gara was never there. The full article is available here (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2004102
I hope you investigate this matter to discover if Groklaw's claims are true. This is a serious breach of journalistic integrity that should not be ignored if LinuxWorld expects itself to be seen as a source of reliable news.
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I tend to agree, the analysis is rather uninformative. They don't include the wireless coverage, the quality of the network (how often does it go down? gigabit?), the quality of the network connection (redundancy? internet2?), or the availability of public computer labs (!= # of computers on campus).
Also, I was quite irked that the information for my institution was incorrect - a blind monkey could have reported more accurately, to be perfectly honest.
I'm not interested in being a dick, but I do want to see the sources from which you got the statistics. What is the scope of those statistics? Is it the US or the world? I wouldn't be surprised if half of the working population worldwide is not employed full time, but I would be if that figure were specific to first-world countries or one of them in particular.
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I think it's hardly fair to call this story a dupe; the one you link to is four years old. I'd be surpried if the recommendations from those comments reflect the market today.
http://www.handybackup.com/
I set it up for some friends and it's worked well. Scheduling, automatic backups, backups to just about anything (CD/DVD/FTP/filesystem location), multivolume backups. Cheap, too.
I have used hn.org in the past, and it works very well. For $5/hostname/year, DHS.org will do the same, and they are also reliable.
svk is an attempt to use the svn backend to implement a changeset-oriented distributed revision control system.
This is modded insightful, but am I the only one who sees the inherent contradiction in those two statements? I laughed, and then saw the mod rating...
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/07/msg01 659.html
From a few months back, talks about what and why.