* you insert a device (ipod), but it doesn't mount. you have to explicitly mount it
Sensible default - I find these automounters really annoying.
* no mp3 playback out of the box (probably strictly an [k]ubuntu issue)
Surely any current distro will have a package for amarok/juk/whatever/whatever?
* sluggish filesystem browsing (it takes a while to launch konqueror to start viewing the filesystem. that should be loaded on boot so it fires instantly)
OK, now you're taking the piss. Who in the hell wants to "view the filesystem" at start-up in a graphical file manager? Like 1 in 100000 users? Besides, if you really want to then leave Konqueror running when you log out and the KDE session manager will reload it next time.
* doesn't remember the system volume between reboots (easy enough to fix, coding wise)
WTF?
* package manager really needs a more advanced user to utilize properly. it should have a function to view popular packages and more robust categorizing of packages (you really need to know exactly what you're looking for in order to install it)
Oh yeah, Synaptic is really tough to use - browse the categories, or search, then double click something, click Apply and it installs with all its dependencies. Should come with an "Only for geniuses" warning.
* slow boot time, then really slow login time (relative to OSX, at least; I'm really not familiar with windows boot time)
Ok, so this costs you a couple of seconds once every six months when there's a power cut... not a big issue.
* most apps still feel cluttered. the GUI toolkits don't really help with designing clean looking interfaces. maybe web-based apps really are the answer! (not)
Use Gnome then - applications so streamlined that you can't actually access half the functionality they had in the previous version because it was stripped out of the GUI to make it "less cluttered".
* overly complex system settings. most things should be hidden in an "advanced" tab since no one is going to fiddle with many of those settings
A specific example would help - the statement as it stands is so general it's meaningless.
* still very poor laptop support; although it supports many things on my powerbook, it gets weird when I close the lid, then open it. plus it takes forever to go to sleep when I close it.
Ask your hardware manufacture to release the specs or a Free driver.
* when you boot the live-CD, it really should pop up with a window saying "do you want to install [this]?" and the installer should let you just agree to erase the drive and get going... (for non-tech savvy users)
Yeah right. Why bother asking at all, why not just hose their Doze partition without further ado as soon as the live cd boots? WTF?
The people who modded this "Funny" obviously have projects on SF themselves, and know exactly what their uptime is like - put politely, nothing to write home about.
"I'm a Windows user, and I happened to receive the summons the day before my monthly OS-reinstall" would probably chime with the experiences of most of the jury...
This patch restricts the field of endeavour of the Program in such a way that this
license collides with paragraph 6 of the Open Source Definition. Therefore, this
modified version of the GPL is no more OSI compliant.... You can find the full text of the license at: http://gpu.sourceforge.net/GPL_license_modified.tx t
To summarize: this is a project released under a non-Free license, and is also not Open Source according
to the OSI. I hope that Sourceforge (which claims to provide hosting and resources only to Free
software) will immediately stop hosting their project files.
This is a violation of Stallman's Freedom 0 - military users don't even have the freedom to run the
software, let alone modify it! Sourceforge should take a stand on principle.
Anybody still wanting to use Automatix after reading this thread is helpless.
Bloody hell. I'm embarrassed to share the same planet as arnieboy. What a complete asshole. On the other hand, seeing Lord Hunter's patience on that thread gives me a lot of hope: let's pray that there's always someone around to mount a clear and well-argued defence of security concerns in the face of script-kiddie dickheads and their "i think u r a moron" replies.
Was I the only one who found that this article didn't really shed too much light on whether or not you should compile your software from source?
No, you weren't the only one. The author seemed to be staggeringly ignorant about the subject he was writing about, and I find it hard to believe he got paid for writing it.
By the way, I know the benefits of compiling from source, but how this made slashdot, I don't know.
It's a subject that people feel passionate about, so posting it is likely to start a flame war? That's my guess.
Well, since you compile the compiler as well as everything else.
It does accumulate...
That's hilarious - because you've compiled gcc with "optimized" use flags or whatever, thus making gcc 0.0001% faster, that means you can save literally microseconds every day of your Gentoo life, as gcc is constantly running, compiling all the other stuff that would run 0.0001% faster if the CPU wasn't constantly spending all its cycles running gcc... madness.
Who does this format war even benefit? I'm glad that some vendors will support both formats, but I for one will be waiting for things to die down before I invest in either format.
Certainly not DVD Jon - with two different formats to crack he might need to spend two afternoons working on it instead of one.
As long as the program bypasses, rather than enforces DRM, there shouldn't be a problem.
Likewise and patent free-use licenses must be propagated downstream, and "If you distribute a covered work knowingly relying on a patent license, you must act to shield downstream users against the possible patent infringement claims from which your license protects you."
Is that why the whole FA was about how Take Two's profits are going to go down in the next quarter? I think the point is that Walmart or whatever crazy mega-supermarkets you have in the US won't stock a title rated 18+ with "prolonged strong sexual content" (but of course, a 17+ title with just "strong sexual content" is fine...).
I wonder how this graphical installer for Gentoo will compare.
I think the aims are different - judging by the FAQ, the Gentoo installer just aims to provide a graphical frontend to each of the steps found in the traditional install guide. VidaLinux is really an attempt to improve on the bad bits of Gentoo. It keeps the portage system (no. 1 reason to use Gentoo), but the installer is altogether more sophisticated: it seemed to do some pretty comprehensive hardware detection on my system. I moved from Gentoo to Vida and have never looked back.
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* you insert a device (ipod), but it doesn't mount. you have to explicitly mount it
Sensible default - I find these automounters really annoying.
* no mp3 playback out of the box (probably strictly an [k]ubuntu issue)
Surely any current distro will have a package for amarok/juk/whatever/whatever?
* sluggish filesystem browsing (it takes a while to launch konqueror to start viewing the filesystem. that should be loaded on boot so it fires instantly)
OK, now you're taking the piss. Who in the hell wants to "view the filesystem" at start-up in a graphical file manager? Like 1 in 100000 users? Besides, if you really want to then leave Konqueror running when you log out and the KDE session manager will reload it next time.
* doesn't remember the system volume between reboots (easy enough to fix, coding wise)
WTF?
* package manager really needs a more advanced user to utilize properly. it should have a function to view popular packages and more robust categorizing of packages (you really need to know exactly what you're looking for in order to install it)
Oh yeah, Synaptic is really tough to use - browse the categories, or search, then double click something, click Apply and it installs with all its dependencies. Should come with an "Only for geniuses" warning.
* slow boot time, then really slow login time (relative to OSX, at least; I'm really not familiar with windows boot time)
Ok, so this costs you a couple of seconds once every six months when there's a power cut... not a big issue.
* most apps still feel cluttered. the GUI toolkits don't really help with designing clean looking interfaces. maybe web-based apps really are the answer! (not)
Use Gnome then - applications so streamlined that you can't actually access half the functionality they had in the previous version because it was stripped out of the GUI to make it "less cluttered".
* overly complex system settings. most things should be hidden in an "advanced" tab since no one is going to fiddle with many of those settings
A specific example would help - the statement as it stands is so general it's meaningless.
* still very poor laptop support; although it supports many things on my powerbook, it gets weird when I close the lid, then open it. plus it takes forever to go to sleep when I close it.
Ask your hardware manufacture to release the specs or a Free driver.
* when you boot the live-CD, it really should pop up with a window saying "do you want to install [this]?" and the installer should let you just agree to erase the drive and get going... (for non-tech savvy users)
Yeah right. Why bother asking at all, why not just hose their Doze partition without further ado as soon as the live cd boots? WTF?
Surely an OSS Community...
(sorry)
Here is a long-standing (and excellent) example of prior art: http://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.htm.
The people who modded this "Funny" obviously have projects on SF themselves, and know exactly what their uptime is like - put politely, nothing to write home about.
Ah yes, a lightweight browser/MUA combo ideal for any rescue disk!
"I'm a Windows user, and I happened to receive the summons the day before my monthly OS-reinstall" would probably chime with the experiences of most of the jury...
To summarize: this is a project released under a non-Free license, and is also not Open Source according to the OSI. I hope that Sourceforge (which claims to provide hosting and resources only to Free software) will immediately stop hosting their project files.
This is a violation of Stallman's Freedom 0 - military users don't even have the freedom to run the software, let alone modify it! Sourceforge should take a stand on principle.
Was the submitter's username gwb by any chance?
Slashdot - the perfect place to file bug reports??
Likewise and patent free-use licenses must be propagated downstream, and "If you distribute a covered work knowingly relying on a patent license, you must act to shield downstream users against the possible patent infringement claims from which your license protects you."
...die by the sword.
Yeah, Microsoft and Yahoo, hardly a pair you'd trust with your life...
Is that why the whole FA was about how Take Two's profits are going to go down in the next quarter? I think the point is that Walmart or whatever crazy mega-supermarkets you have in the US won't stock a title rated 18+ with "prolonged strong sexual content" (but of course, a 17+ title with just "strong sexual content" is fine...).
Why wait? Why not release specifications of all current and previous Office document formats today?
I think the aims are different - judging by the FAQ, the Gentoo installer just aims to provide a graphical frontend to each of the steps found in the traditional install guide. VidaLinux is really an attempt to improve on the bad bits of Gentoo. It keeps the portage system (no. 1 reason to use Gentoo), but the installer is altogether more sophisticated: it seemed to do some pretty comprehensive hardware detection on my system. I moved from Gentoo to Vida and have never looked back.
...die by the sword.
I have one thing to say to dumb moderators like that: