How much damage have the commercially packaged Linux distros done to BSDI's market share?
Joining with FreeBSD may be a way for BSDI to get on the open source bandwagon, and save their jobs in the process.
I bought a BSDI distro once, to make my idiot IT manager happy. (He wanted to be sure we we're only running liscensed software.) It was funny to see that BSDI was at least a year behind FreeBSD on features and architecture. Looked like a bad Slakware knockoff.
The next question is, when will RH or VA buy SCO? Are there any good reasons to do so? Tarantella for example?
Be Inc. has no appreciable market share, and unless it eventually becomes profitable, it might make a good front end replacement for X. (It already implements a UNIX-flavoured backend.) But who would be willing to put up with Fearless Leader?
I'd guess that 90% of the ISPs out there are selling someone else's dialup pools. (Can anyone with inside information back this up?)
I've been using a UTAH based pyramid-scheme ISP for the last year, and they just sell someone else's modem pools. Everyone does it. As long as the continue to have unlimited access for 19.95 a month, I'll stay with them. (I like the fact that they have POPs wherever I travel.)
I recently received promo material for earthlink. What are they like? (They offer website space, something I'm not getting now.)
If the governments of the world decide to regulate website content, why not invent a new transport type that conventional browsers can't access.
Maybe call it httpe for hypertext transport protocol explicit. Require browser authors who implement the transport to include and EULA that keep kids away.
I've seriously considered putting up a naked jpeg on my homepage, just to keep kids away. I don't think unsupervised kids belong on the internet.
At first the web was accessible to college students. Eventually it'll be dumbed down for the common populace. Its sad.
What is it with Sun? What product that they've touched hasn't died?
I tend to call it the touch-o-shit.
I don't like the fact that they have to screw with the license of any languages that they touch.
First tcl/wish, now Java. I'd argue that they've done more to screw up the UNIX world than Microsoft. At least Gates isn't poisoning the language license pool.
If the lousy bastards don't try to rewrite the whole package in Java, it would supprise me.
Sun is the biggest bunch of impotent morons in the computer world. They've been at it for years, and they still need Linux to have a fighting chance of taking on Microsoft.
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Well, it they can't be too bad, we do have intel nic support after all.
Does anyone support the security chip on the Intel NICs?
Its not under the GPL.
Joining with FreeBSD may be a way for BSDI to get on the open source bandwagon, and save their jobs in the process.
I bought a BSDI distro once, to make my idiot IT manager happy. (He wanted to be sure we we're only running liscensed software.) It was funny to see that BSDI was at least a year behind FreeBSD on features and architecture. Looked like a bad Slakware knockoff.
The next question is, when will RH or VA buy SCO? Are there any good reasons to do so? Tarantella for example?
Be Inc. has no appreciable market share, and unless it eventually becomes profitable, it might make a good front end replacement for X. (It already implements a UNIX-flavoured backend.) But who would be willing to put up with Fearless Leader?
Its all a big conspiracy.
I'd guess that 90% of the ISPs out there are selling someone else's dialup pools. (Can anyone with inside information back this up?)
I've been using a UTAH based pyramid-scheme ISP for the last year, and they just sell someone else's modem pools. Everyone does it. As long as the continue to have unlimited access for 19.95 a month, I'll stay with them. (I like the fact that they have POPs wherever I travel.)
I recently received promo material for earthlink. What are they like? (They offer website space, something I'm not getting now.)
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If the governments of the world decide to regulate website content, why not invent a new transport type that conventional browsers can't access.
Maybe call it httpe for hypertext transport protocol explicit. Require browser authors who implement the transport to include and EULA that keep kids away.
I've seriously considered putting up a naked jpeg on my homepage, just to keep kids away. I don't think unsupervised kids belong on the internet.
At first the web was accessible to college students. Eventually it'll be dumbed down for the common populace. Its sad.
People in Turkey don't have safe houses to live in, and we're trying to put people into orbit?
Here goes the Mir all over again.
Oh come on, ORA makes a living printing and selling books. Can't you figure out that? They make a living selling info.
The internet will become the playtoy of those who stand to make a profit off of it. Ebooks included.
What is it with Sun? What product that they've touched hasn't died?
I tend to call it the touch-o-shit.
I don't like the fact that they have to screw with the license of any languages that they touch.
First tcl/wish, now Java. I'd argue that they've done more to screw up the UNIX world than Microsoft. At least Gates isn't poisoning the language license pool.
Down with Sun!
Everyone is dumping any division that has anything to do with the Alpha. Its days are numbered.
AMD can't live long without becoming profitable, and Intel is going to do everything they can see AMD die.
Cyrix was sold.
Transmeta or Intel are the only hope.
WC has supported a few of the Linux dists as well. FTP.cdrom.com has done quite a bit to make the whole open source thing work.
Soemone has to pay the bills.
The two NetBSD users and the three OpenBSD users are welcome to attend.
No one will mind.
If the lousy bastards don't try to rewrite the whole package in Java, it would supprise me.
Sun is the biggest bunch of impotent morons in the computer world. They've been at it for years, and they still need Linux to have a fighting chance of taking on Microsoft.
Very sad.