I meant community support -- Advice for Red Hat and Mandrake seems to grow on trees -- SuSE advice does not. I'm assuming this is because SuSE costs $$$.
Everything is tightly integrated in SuSE -- the KDE desktop is pretty amazing, but GNOME support is almost non-existant.
The nice thing regarding GNOME is that, now that SuSE and Ximian are part of Novell, Ximian actually works very well on SuSE. It hasn't always, in the past. That's probably the route you'll want to go if you want GNOME on SuSE.
It's probably not bad for novice and intermediate computer users; I'd reccomend that experienced users who want a pretty desktop with little hassle use Mandrake.
These are my two favorite RPM-based distros and I've found SuSE releases to be of a much higher quality than Mandrake over the years. On the other hand it took a long time for SuSE to get their setup and admin tools usable to the point where the comparison seems valid. They are fundamentally similar enough that a user who is happy with one will probably be happy with the other.
I also found that you HAD to do things SuSE's way -- if there wasn't a button for it in YaST, the SuSE configurator (and generally, there was.. YaST is probably the most comprehensive config tool for Linux), or YaST didn't give you all the options you needed, you couldn't do it yourself because YaST would stomp all over your changes.
One has to wonder what "things" you're talking about. I've never had that particular problem. You need to be careful where you put changes, of course, just as you have to with any other OS.
(again, you can't just update say, package X from a source tarball because SuSE will throw a fit).
That rather depends on the package, with any distro. If all the package's dependencies can be met with the distro's prepackaged libraries, there's absolutely no reason why this shouldn't work. Other than the obvious problem that a lot of Linux development kiddies tend to target their build process to, well, their personal machine.
I knew he was a one man show so the
marketing foibles didn't bother me.
"Lies". The word is "lies". I suppose the decision to get outraged about being lied to is sort of a personal thing, perhaps it doesn't bother everyone.
Linux doesn't really have development environments as someone used to using Visual Studio would understand them, with Kylix being the one possible exception.
Off the top of my head, I can also think of Boa. It has the usual IDE code editing, as well as a form designer and drag n' drop code components.
If you're talking about Boa Constructor, I've tried that and it certainly doesn't qualify in terms of features or usability. That's not the end of the world, either, since not everybody wants or needs the feature set of Visual Studio, particularly if they will be using gcc with automake and friends. It's just that there's a whole set of expectations Visual Studio users have when they try this stuff, and it's pretty consistently not met.
As for me, I really wanted to like Boa Constructor. I haven't entirely given up on it yet, but the interface just seems pretty horrible to me. To continue the comparison, it's much less powerful than Visual Studio, but the interface throws even more iconic UI horror in your face right off the bat. Maybe I just need a decent tutorial.
I like kylix but it's got its own set of problems. Alas for the Borland I grew up with.
My favorite cross-platform RAD-type IDE today is Visual Tcl. It's vastly less capable than something like Visual Studio but it's got a simple interface that I really like - the simplicity of the interface seems commensurate with what the thing actually does. Tomorrow it might be something different.:)
Bit Torrent is of course going to produce a fragmented file on any FAT-based file system. The only way to not get a fragmented file is to write all of your data in sequence at that same time, and even then you have to hope that the free space you're writting to doesn't run into a used block.
Just as a matter of interest, percentage-wise there are probably more Linux users still on a block-based filesystem (ext3) than there are Windows users on a block-based filesystem (FAT32). Most of the Windows users have moved on to NTFS, which is extent-based.
So, the service offered by this company is non-trivial and is fulfilling an expressed desire.
Oh, it's pretty trivial, in the scheme of things. Writing a book is non-trivial. Acting as the publisher that brings a new book to market is non-trivial. Correctly transcribing an ancient book into electronic format is non-trivial. Researching the legal issues involved in releasing old books is non-trivial.
Tweaking pagination and saving a file to pdf is, well, pretty trivial. Ditto on putting the files up on a web page and creating a web storefront to sell the files.
And I wouldn't have any problem with them profiting from their trivial improvements to Project Gutenberg's work, but they shouldn't try to confuse the public into believing they are a replacement to Project Gutenberg. Of course, that's likely to be the only way they could sell such trivial improvements.
Glade isn't a "development environment", it's an interface designer. Linux doesn't really have development environments as someone used to using Visual Studio would understand them, with Kylix being the one possible exception.
Do you think C# on Linux/BSD/*nix is going to be near as fast as C# on Windows? Think again. It may eventually catch up, but not before it gets a reputation for being dog slow. (See Java as an example).
I actually trust the developers of "C# on Linux" (of course Mono is what you actually mean) infinitely more than Sun or the Blackdown people. See Java as an example.:p
Defying SCO is not "civil disobedience." Civil disobedience refers to breaking a governmental law or policy for a political end. Often the end is having the law changed.
Defying SCO is a matter of simple contract law, and it would not be meant to serve a political end.
Consider this, though: They care enough about their customers and their own business that they're willing to take this "voluntary" hit of over a million bucks just to protect themselves and their customers. Even if SCO isn't right (preaching to the choir, I know) then they've still made a major step in the direction of "we'd take a bullet for you."
Since the customers will ultimately pay for the SCO agreement, and since the customers would never have been liable to SCO in the first place (EV1 owns the servers, not the end user), this can't possibly be true.
None of which makes them even remotely important in the context of the discussion, which is "commercial backing" for databases. The only company you mentioned which matters for that is Redhat. And it appears to be a teeny-tiny part of redhat's business.
Not sure about what she may have said, but looks pretty acurate to me:
Yes, it's the quote that I'm more skeptical about, not the picture. I mean, she's a peacenik, or she goes around talking about how she wants to shoot down airplanes, but BOTH seems unlikely.
If you send your resume and you don't hear back from me, its fine to send one follow up email. However don't start calling, faxing, and emailing on a daily basis to make sure I read your resume. Rest assured if you do
that I will read your resume but there's no chance you'll get hired. Same goes for post interview follow ups. Feel free to call me once. If I want to talk to you, I'll call you. If I don't call there's a reason.
The right way to make these people go away is to call them back and tell them you're not interested. If someone calls you several times they might just assume their messages are getting lost in voice mail.
They might just assume that if you had made a decision, you'd do them the courtesy of returning their call, and your not doing so was because you were busy or something. Crazy, huh?
Anyone needing more than 8 CPU's ? Seriously, go to IBM/HP/Dell and then try to configure a system that has the same capacity as something from Sun. When you reach the same specs, you will most probably have the same price.
Right, except your Alpha or PA-RISC machine with the same number of CPUs will be much, much faster.
There's a very important lesson hidden in here, which I hope the other hardware vendors will see and take note.
Linksys is a hardware company. They make money by selling hardware. By opening up the software (and making their hardware "hackable"), they will increase their hardware sales.
I imagine other hardware vendors will also take note of all the GPL brouhaha Linksys has had to face, and weigh the revenue potential of the Linux hacker crowd against their occasional rabid obnoxiousness. For all we know Linksys might have already said "fuck it, it's not worth the trouble or the potential liability" when it comes to using Linux in its stuff.
of course business owners have the "right" to restrict their business to whatever potential customers they want.
No, actually they don't, here in the US. This hasn't even been a point of contention and you're obviously not aware of our laws if you believe this. Try to keep up.
forcing businesses to allow everyone in damages society.
How?
it takes away personal choice, and institutes government control of our own lives. even yours.
How is forcing businesses to serve everyone taking away anyone's personal choice? Aside from the "personal choice" of a bigoted store owner, to use the earlier example.
and what do zoning laws have to do with letting people into a business?
It's a simple example of how the community exercises a rather high degree of control over its businesses in order to ensure that they are serving the community, NOT just themselves - something one of you anonymous weenies seems to have disputed with the moronic comment "the store owner, however, is there for whatever purpose he deems fit."
The community determines where businesses ought to operate for the greater good of the community. The community determines what sort of storefronts are permissable, what business hours are permissible, and what sorts of businesses can go in which part of the city, etc etc. One has to be extremely ignorant of American government to state that businesses only exist to serve themselves.
So you're advocating the abolition of laws that are based on a determination of right and wrong? I guess that will leave us with... part of the tax code, maybe...
If the guy wants to kick all blacks out of his store, why shouldn't he have that right?
He doesn't, and shouldn't, have that right because it's damaging to the society he lives in.
The store owner, however, is there for whatever purpose he deems fit.
This is pretty obviously false - he is there to serve the community. If this isn't immediately obvious to you, consider why we have zoning laws, and the way they are typically implemented.
i like it when leftists complain about MS voilating human rights in china and not the Chinese communist gov. I think people are ignoring the main thing here becasue it looks bad for their side. Simply put a leftist gov in china is voilating human rights.
This is modded up as insightful?!? Even if you don't know anything about Amnesty International, this is obviously not well thought out.
Amnesty International has plenty to say about the communist government's countless human rights abuses in China. What they are saying here is that MS ought not make it easier for China to commit human rights violations, and ought not ignore the use to which their technology is put.
Where's the inconsistency?
(saving a rebuke regarding the idiocy of grouping everyone who doesn't agree with you together as "leftists" for another post...)
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I think that's probably quite correct.
The nice thing regarding GNOME is that, now that SuSE and Ximian are part of Novell, Ximian actually works very well on SuSE. It hasn't always, in the past. That's probably the route you'll want to go if you want GNOME on SuSE.
These are my two favorite RPM-based distros and I've found SuSE releases to be of a much higher quality than Mandrake over the years. On the other hand it took a long time for SuSE to get their setup and admin tools usable to the point where the comparison seems valid. They are fundamentally similar enough that a user who is happy with one will probably be happy with the other.
One has to wonder what "things" you're talking about. I've never had that particular problem. You need to be careful where you put changes, of course, just as you have to with any other OS.
That rather depends on the package, with any distro. If all the package's dependencies can be met with the distro's prepackaged libraries, there's absolutely no reason why this shouldn't work. Other than the obvious problem that a lot of Linux development kiddies tend to target their build process to, well, their personal machine.
No I don't. Perhaps you do. In which case, you also have my condolences.
"Lies". The word is "lies". I suppose the decision to get outraged about being lied to is sort of a personal thing, perhaps it doesn't bother everyone.
If you're talking about Boa Constructor, I've tried that and it certainly doesn't qualify in terms of features or usability. That's not the end of the world, either, since not everybody wants or needs the feature set of Visual Studio, particularly if they will be using gcc with automake and friends. It's just that there's a whole set of expectations Visual Studio users have when they try this stuff, and it's pretty consistently not met.
As for me, I really wanted to like Boa Constructor. I haven't entirely given up on it yet, but the interface just seems pretty horrible to me. To continue the comparison, it's much less powerful than Visual Studio, but the interface throws even more iconic UI horror in your face right off the bat. Maybe I just need a decent tutorial.
I like kylix but it's got its own set of problems. Alas for the Borland I grew up with.
My favorite cross-platform RAD-type IDE today is Visual Tcl. It's vastly less capable than something like Visual Studio but it's got a simple interface that I really like - the simplicity of the interface seems commensurate with what the thing actually does. Tomorrow it might be something different.
Just as a matter of interest, percentage-wise there are probably more Linux users still on a block-based filesystem (ext3) than there are Windows users on a block-based filesystem (FAT32). Most of the Windows users have moved on to NTFS, which is extent-based.
You have to wonder why that change was made...
Oh, it's pretty trivial, in the scheme of things. Writing a book is non-trivial. Acting as the publisher that brings a new book to market is non-trivial. Correctly transcribing an ancient book into electronic format is non-trivial. Researching the legal issues involved in releasing old books is non-trivial.
Tweaking pagination and saving a file to pdf is, well, pretty trivial. Ditto on putting the files up on a web page and creating a web storefront to sell the files.
And I wouldn't have any problem with them profiting from their trivial improvements to Project Gutenberg's work, but they shouldn't try to confuse the public into believing they are a replacement to Project Gutenberg. Of course, that's likely to be the only way they could sell such trivial improvements.
Glade isn't a "development environment", it's an interface designer. Linux doesn't really have development environments as someone used to using Visual Studio would understand them, with Kylix being the one possible exception.
I actually trust the developers of "C# on Linux" (of course Mono is what you actually mean) infinitely more than Sun or the Blackdown people. See Java as an example.
Defying SCO is not "civil disobedience." Civil disobedience refers to breaking a governmental law or policy for a political end. Often the end is having the law changed.
Defying SCO is a matter of simple contract law, and it would not be meant to serve a political end.
Since the customers will ultimately pay for the SCO agreement, and since the customers would never have been liable to SCO in the first place (EV1 owns the servers, not the end user), this can't possibly be true.
Perhaps he played the demo. It was sure enough to convince me not to spend money on this thing, and I loved the original Deus Ex.
Ooooh. You go girl!
The CUPS people have tried to make the software you're talking about, the software to make configuration easier. They failed miserably.
None of which makes them even remotely important in the context of the discussion, which is "commercial backing" for databases. The only company you mentioned which matters for that is Redhat. And it appears to be a teeny-tiny part of redhat's business.
Yes, it's the quote that I'm more skeptical about, not the picture. I mean, she's a peacenik, or she goes around talking about how she wants to shoot down airplanes, but BOTH seems unlikely.
Oh yes, commandprompt.com. I don't know how I could have overlooked THEM!
Sure she did.
You could say the same thing about MaxDB (aka SAP DB) as well, and the "commercial backing" part would actually be true.
http://www.mysql.com/products/maxdb/index.html
The right way to make these people go away is to call them back and tell them you're not interested. If someone calls you several times they might just assume their messages are getting lost in voice mail.
They might just assume that if you had made a decision, you'd do them the courtesy of returning their call, and your not doing so was because you were busy or something. Crazy, huh?
Right, except your Alpha or PA-RISC machine with the same number of CPUs will be much, much faster.
I imagine other hardware vendors will also take note of all the GPL brouhaha Linksys has had to face, and weigh the revenue potential of the Linux hacker crowd against their occasional rabid obnoxiousness. For all we know Linksys might have already said "fuck it, it's not worth the trouble or the potential liability" when it comes to using Linux in its stuff.
No, actually they don't, here in the US. This hasn't even been a point of contention and you're obviously not aware of our laws if you believe this. Try to keep up.
How?
How is forcing businesses to serve everyone taking away anyone's personal choice? Aside from the "personal choice" of a bigoted store owner, to use the earlier example.
It's a simple example of how the community exercises a rather high degree of control over its businesses in order to ensure that they are serving the community, NOT just themselves - something one of you anonymous weenies seems to have disputed with the moronic comment "the store owner, however, is there for whatever purpose he deems fit."
The community determines where businesses ought to operate for the greater good of the community. The community determines what sort of storefronts are permissable, what business hours are permissible, and what sorts of businesses can go in which part of the city, etc etc. One has to be extremely ignorant of American government to state that businesses only exist to serve themselves.
So you're advocating the abolition of laws that are based on a determination of right and wrong? I guess that will leave us with... part of the tax code, maybe...
He doesn't, and shouldn't, have that right because it's damaging to the society he lives in.
This is pretty obviously false - he is there to serve the community. If this isn't immediately obvious to you, consider why we have zoning laws, and the way they are typically implemented.
This is modded up as insightful?!? Even if you don't know anything about Amnesty International, this is obviously not well thought out.
Amnesty International has plenty to say about the communist government's countless human rights abuses in China. What they are saying here is that MS ought not make it easier for China to commit human rights violations, and ought not ignore the use to which their technology is put.
Where's the inconsistency?
(saving a rebuke regarding the idiocy of grouping everyone who doesn't agree with you together as "leftists" for another post...)