Slack and Debian was for hobbiests. Lack of "support" pushed most organizations to Red Hat and SUSE.
In a corporate environment in North America if you were using Linux it was likely Red Hat for most of the 90s.
I do concur about RH packaging being a nightmare. One of the more recent releases shipped a milestone build of Firefox where the ABI for xulrunner was incompatible with both previous releases and the actual final release; as a result any application that integrated with Firefox had a fairly high chance of failure. For example Eclipse actually failed to run on that release until you upgraded xulrunner to something sane.
"The Marching Morons" is a science fiction story written by Cyril M. Kornbluth, originally published in Galaxy in April 1951. It was included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two after being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965. The story is set hundreds of years in the future: the date is 7-B-936. John Barlow, a man from the past put into suspended animation by a freak accident involving a dental drill and anesthesia, is revived in this future. The world seems mad to Barlow until Tinny-Peete explains the Problem of Population: Due to a combination of intelligent people not having children and excessive breeding by less intelligent people, the world is full of morons, with the exception of an elite few who work slavishly to keep order. Barlow, who was a shrewd real estate con man in his day, has a solution to sell to the elite, in exchange for being made World Dictator.
...
Barlow derives a solution based on his experience in scamming people into buying worthless land and knowledge of lemmings' mass migration into (and subsequent drowning in) the sea: convince the morons to travel to Venus in spaceships that will kill their passengers once they fly out of view of land (possibly, the story implies, because they are built by morons, though obtaining consistent destruction in the proper flight phase might be beyond their competence). (The story predates the Moon landing, and the safety of future space travel is summed up in a description of a rocket that crashed on the moon.) Propaganda depicts Venus as a tropical paradise, with "blanket trees," "ham bushes," and "soap roots." In a nationalistic frenzy, every country tries to send as many of their people to Venus as possible to stake their claim. Barlow's help includes using his knowledge of Nazi propaganda tactics. Fake postcards are sent from the supposedly happy new residents of Venus to relatives left behind, describing the wonderful, easy life — in the same way as fraudulent postcards were sent to relatives of those imprisoned in the Nazi work-camps.
Settle down, NumbNuts. They happened to use an iPad because it contains an ARM chip. It's idiots like you that make Slashdot basically unreadable.
To be fair, the very mention of Apple products seems to have this effect on all public forums. It's as if there is some kind of Apple field that shuts down higher brain functions and forces everyone to revert to purely emotional reactions.
I don't get why Christians / Catholics get so pissy about Darwin being a theory and that a maker must've just spawned everything out of thin air. Both theories aren't mutually exclusive. The initial spores could've spawned out of thin air, then evolved into men and women.
Exactly. While I am a lifelong atheist with a science based education (from a family of lifelong atheists with science based educations) even I admit that a LITERAL reading of Genesis in no way contradicts the Big Bang or Evolution theories, from that perspective they just become Gods tools.
Only because we've decided that arbitrarily cleaning the gene pool is unjust, illegal and immoral.
Though if the religious war in the US ever turns into a shooting war it could get ugly for the atheists since I suspect that the Bible thumpers the same demographic as the gun owners who think owning automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition is a constitutional right.
... George W Bush defend what we did in Asia as an excuse for what he did in the Middle East.
I spoke about the ideological struggle that our Nation faces in the 21st century and the lessons we can draw from the advance of freedom in Asia in the 20th century. America's enduring presence and perseverance on that continent aided the rise of democracy, helped transform American enemies into American allies, and made our country safer.
I suspect he was referring to Korea more than Vietnam, but then he's not often considered as the clearest of thinkers.
You can take away their rights, and you can take away their money, but take away their porn, and the people will revolt.:-D
I guess you don't know much about Indonesian history then, they overthrew their dictator 14 years ago. That said, even in the 80's Indonesia was one of the most liberal of muslim countries, and since 1998 have become one of the most democratic as well.
From a western perspective they still have a long way to go, but they are a million miles ahead of the "Arab Spring" countries.
It's a beautiful country full of beautiful, kind, gentle people. Please learn more before you shoot your mouth off.
I'm not in the market for an SUV myself, but I can certainly see why an efficient one appeals if you have the need for that extra capacity. So I looked it up and it would appear that there are currently 11 different SUV models available as hybrids.
Is there some reason why one of these does not meet your needs?
This is the most unnecessarily pessimistic summary that I've ever seen. It should be: "Oh look, this experimental Amiga based OS has just updated! Isn't that kitchy and fun?"
Why focus on the lack of wireless networking, running on Power PC (Which still deserves respect as an amazing processor you witless bastard kids), or having a cost of about 1/20th of a computer? It's a custom kernel underdog operating system written for unique and impressive platform. If that doesn't get your juices rolling, turn in your geek card.
20 years ago it was cool. And it was cool for a couple of years, very very cool.
But your average cell phone today is more powerful in every way, hell the iPhone is running a micro-kernel and Android phones are Linux.
Amiga died, mourn it if you like, but please stop trying to drag the rest of geekdom into your sad little world.
I know Ubuntu has ABI compatibility with X11/Linux applications (because it is an X11/Linux distribution) and Windows applications (sudo apt-get install wine). Perhaps the advantage of MorphOS is ABI compatibility with Amiga applications, running them faster than UAE.
I suspect that you'll find a wider customer base for an emulator for Babbage's Difference Engine than for Amiga on Linux, nobody is doing it because nobody gives a flying.
Amiga is dead, they should have called it Zombie OS and code named the release Apocalypse, then at least they'd get some attention.
The U.S. could do a lot better, most nations could, but trying to compare civil rights in the U.S. and China is just apples and oranges. (And I'm a Canadian socialist who thinks of America as a country of right-wingnut gun-toting redneck rebels.)
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Used Redhat back in the day. Everybody did.
Nope. Only the noobs. ;)
Rest of us were running Slack or Debian.
Slack and Debian was for hobbiests. Lack of "support" pushed most organizations to Red Hat and SUSE.
In a corporate environment in North America if you were using Linux it was likely Red Hat for most of the 90s.
I do concur about RH packaging being a nightmare. One of the more recent releases shipped a milestone build of Firefox where the ABI for xulrunner was incompatible with both previous releases and the actual final release; as a result any application that integrated with Firefox had a fairly high chance of failure. For example Eclipse actually failed to run on that release until you upgraded xulrunner to something sane.
So you're saying it wasn't a legitimate drive-by Linux install?
"The Marching Morons" is a science fiction story written by Cyril M. Kornbluth, originally published in Galaxy in April 1951. It was included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two after being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965.
The story is set hundreds of years in the future: the date is 7-B-936. John Barlow, a man from the past put into suspended animation by a freak accident involving a dental drill and anesthesia, is revived in this future. The world seems mad to Barlow until Tinny-Peete explains the Problem of Population: Due to a combination of intelligent people not having children and excessive breeding by less intelligent people, the world is full of morons, with the exception of an elite few who work slavishly to keep order. Barlow, who was a shrewd real estate con man in his day, has a solution to sell to the elite, in exchange for being made World Dictator.
...
Barlow derives a solution based on his experience in scamming people into buying worthless land and knowledge of lemmings' mass migration into (and subsequent drowning in) the sea: convince the morons to travel to Venus in spaceships that will kill their passengers once they fly out of view of land (possibly, the story implies, because they are built by morons, though obtaining consistent destruction in the proper flight phase might be beyond their competence). (The story predates the Moon landing, and the safety of future space travel is summed up in a description of a rocket that crashed on the moon.) Propaganda depicts Venus as a tropical paradise, with "blanket trees," "ham bushes," and "soap roots." In a nationalistic frenzy, every country tries to send as many of their people to Venus as possible to stake their claim.
Barlow's help includes using his knowledge of Nazi propaganda tactics. Fake postcards are sent from the supposedly happy new residents of Venus to relatives left behind, describing the wonderful, easy life — in the same way as fraudulent postcards were sent to relatives of those imprisoned in the Nazi work-camps.
... it was an awesome machine if you had the right kinds of problems for it to solve...
Indeed it was, I got to use one briefly in the 90's that ran Unicos and it took my breath away. (When I typed "emacs" it started immediately!!)
Settle down, NumbNuts. They happened to use an iPad because it contains an ARM chip. It's idiots like you that make Slashdot basically unreadable.
To be fair, the very mention of Apple products seems to have this effect on all public forums. It's as if there is some kind of Apple field that shuts down higher brain functions and forces everyone to revert to purely emotional reactions.
If you have an iOS development account, it's a general purpose computer. If you don't, it's an appliance.
You can make the same argument for any computer, for my parents and most of siblings all computers are appliances.
I don't get it, if you are old, you'd know enough about the 2600 to see that what was done was very impressive.
I've been a gamer since the 2600 was new, so no, not really. What I see is a massive waste of time.
This must be a new usage of "impressive" with which I was previously unfamiliar
And stay off the lawn... uh, ugly dead weeds.... damn drought.
I live in a country that is far more "free" than the US and yet we have rather severe gun laws. Go figure.
I don't get why Christians / Catholics get so pissy about Darwin being a theory and that a maker must've just spawned everything out of thin air. Both theories aren't mutually exclusive. The initial spores could've spawned out of thin air, then evolved into men and women.
Exactly. While I am a lifelong atheist with a science based education (from a family of lifelong atheists with science based educations) even I admit that a LITERAL reading of Genesis in no way contradicts the Big Bang or Evolution theories, from that perspective they just become Gods tools.
Only because we've decided that arbitrarily cleaning the gene pool is unjust, illegal and immoral.
Though if the religious war in the US ever turns into a shooting war it could get ugly for the atheists since I suspect that the Bible thumpers the same demographic as the gun owners who think owning automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition is a constitutional right.
Well said, +1 internets for you sir.
I don't even want to know what the few Windows-using relatives I have left are going to think
They're all going to wonder why you're trying to run a tablet OS as a desktop. :)
... George W Bush defend what we did in Asia as an excuse for what he did in the Middle East.
I suspect he was referring to Korea more than Vietnam, but then he's not often considered as the clearest of thinkers.
But ain't that Mellencamp (not Springsteen)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Houses
Correct, it just popped into my head when I saw the original post and the comment about newspeak.
Perhaps I should have explained more about how my brain doesn't work rather than just jumping in to quote another example.
You only think that because you're thinking in english rather than the newspeak.
Interstate running through his front yard and he think's he's got it so good. But ain't that America?
As a Canadian I found it pretty funny at the time that the song not only charted but became an anthem for (clueless?) patriots.
You can take away their rights, and you can take away their money, but take away their porn, and the people will revolt. :-D
I guess you don't know much about Indonesian history then, they overthrew their dictator 14 years ago. That said, even in the 80's Indonesia was one of the most liberal of muslim countries, and since 1998 have become one of the most democratic as well.
From a western perspective they still have a long way to go, but they are a million miles ahead of the "Arab Spring" countries.
It's a beautiful country full of beautiful, kind, gentle people. Please learn more before you shoot your mouth off.
I'm not in the market for an SUV myself, but I can certainly see why an efficient one appeals if you have the need for that extra capacity. So I looked it up and it would appear that there are currently 11 different SUV models available as hybrids.
Is there some reason why one of these does not meet your needs?
My tablet is full of WebKit.
Engineer: antithesis of a 'foodie'
PBJ for lunch every day!
Correlation does not equal causation; just because you are an engineer and a cretin does not mean that all engineers are cretins.
This is the most unnecessarily pessimistic summary that I've ever seen. It should be: "Oh look, this experimental Amiga based OS has just updated! Isn't that kitchy and fun?"
Why focus on the lack of wireless networking, running on Power PC (Which still deserves respect as an amazing processor you witless bastard kids), or having a cost of about 1/20th of a computer? It's a custom kernel underdog operating system written for unique and impressive platform. If that doesn't get your juices rolling, turn in your geek card.
20 years ago it was cool. And it was cool for a couple of years, very very cool.
But your average cell phone today is more powerful in every way, hell the iPhone is running a micro-kernel and Android phones are Linux.
Amiga died, mourn it if you like, but please stop trying to drag the rest of geekdom into your sad little world.
I know Ubuntu has ABI compatibility with X11/Linux applications (because it is an X11/Linux distribution) and Windows applications (sudo apt-get install wine). Perhaps the advantage of MorphOS is ABI compatibility with Amiga applications, running them faster than UAE.
I suspect that you'll find a wider customer base for an emulator for Babbage's Difference Engine than for Amiga on Linux, nobody is doing it because nobody gives a flying.
Amiga is dead, they should have called it Zombie OS and code named the release Apocalypse, then at least they'd get some attention.
The U.S. has been engaged is what is now called "cyberwarfare" through "Active SIGINT" for decades, the only difference is people are catching on.
You just hit the nail on the head.
The U.S. could do a lot better, most nations could, but trying to compare civil rights in the U.S. and China is just apples and oranges. (And I'm a Canadian socialist who thinks of America as a country of right-wingnut gun-toting redneck rebels.)
Pay per view, I'd buy it.