This is just plain FUD, or some kind of commercial service provider has found a cheap and easy way too get a lot of publicity. Not only is the number so low that it is within the error margin of their results, furthermore, there are other sources which even say that Firefox' market share hasrisen 2% in the same period.
From my experience, Novell Linux Desktop 9 is buggy, and support is worth nothing.
The product lacks a lot of packages which are really needed (pam_mount for example is a must if you want to connect your business users to their network shares, there's no (k)vpnc,...), also multimedia support is below par (xine was stripped from the open source WMA and WMV ffmpeg decoders, there's only MP3 support in RealPlayer, no usable multimedia plug-in for Firefox, like mplayerplug-in).
And worst of all, the product still contains a lot of visible bugs, even now at this moment, six months after its original release. To name a few: the use of dead keys hang KDE applications such as Konqueror, KDEs file chooser does not use the correct charset when your locale is ISO-8859-*, USB Mass Storage Devices with FAT partitions are mounted UTF-8, making all file names with special characters written in windows garbled and the file system case sensitive, i18n support is much worse than other distro's (with latest OOo security upgrade, even several languages which were only added in Novells SP1, were removed again, according to support, because the community has not finished translation, which is simply not true, as the translation was just fine), RealPlayer starts copying all files in your homedir to a temporary subdirectory if you start it from the KDE menu because of a bug in RealPlayers launch script, CIFS has problems saving files with apostroph in the name, while SMBFS, which is not officially supported by NLD, works fine,...
On several of these issues, support has confirmed that there is indeed a problem, but there are no bug fixes more than a month after my reports, neither do I have any news wether these bugs actually will be fixed.
I'll be looking to Centos in the future, at least it won't cost anything, and will also have years of updates. With KDE 3.3, it will also solve some of the small issues related to the older KDE 3.2 in NLD, and hopefully it will also be a bit less buggy in general.
I really have the feeling that Novell has rushed out this distro to become the first one before RHEL4 and MDK Corporate 3. I cannot understand why the reviewer has such a positive review about the distro.
It's just a marketing technique, please ignore it
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By attacking Linux like that, McVoy just tries to keep the name Bitkeeper in the news. Let's just stop giving him free publicity and ignore this shit.
It's just a question of marketing. By limiting the patches to once a month, it/seems/ as if the number of security vulnerabilities actually is not that big. A lot more Joe Users would start raising questions if they saw that they have a security flash popping up twice a week...
Hey, give these guys a bit of time, will you? Sun developers, don't take it too personally, osnews is known for being the trolling site bu excellence in free software land.
It's unbelievable that big MS managers still are tempted to tell such things, haven't they still learned that bashing does not work? And that less than one week after MS sent out one of its biggest bunch of critical security patches of the last year...
With Creative's products, you will be able to purchase music from major online vendors.
Actually they mean: "from Microsoft". Even when buying songs from a non-MS company in WMA DRM format, you are actually supporting MS, as you'll use Windows Media Player ánd you are limiting yourself to playing your bought songs only on that number of hardware devices that MS/the music industry does allow.
Going from Apple AAC DRM to MS WMA DRM is like going from one evil to another one.
I would not count on this happening anytime soon (i.e. in the coming year). The GRE is still not shared between applications (I think this has been planned for two years or something like that?), and it seems there are too much fans of the actual Mozilla suite. Merging Firefox and Thunderbird in one suite, would not bring any advantages either, except that you would have to do one installation instead of two, which is not that a big issue...
According to someone on http://www.tweakers.net, you can verify with filemon from http://www.sysinternals.com that skype is accessing files related to IE history. Seems rather scary, isnt't it? Could someone confirm this?
JetAudio: http://www.jetaudio.com . Has a free version, with support for MP3, WMA and free formats like Ogg, FLAC and several others. And it can play Real and Quicktime too if you install the codecs.
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This is just plain FUD, or some kind of commercial service provider has found a cheap and easy way too get a lot of publicity. Not only is the number so low that it is within the error margin of their results, furthermore, there are other sources which even say that Firefox' market share has risen 2% in the same period.
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See also http://www.webstandards.org/buzz/archive/2005_08.
Nothing to see here people, move along!
Well, than it's aobut time they adapt edit.com to the new situation. Or they could just include VI!
The command prompt shows C:\USERS\ADMINI~1\ . Funny how they still have problems with long file names and case anno 2005.
From my experience, Novell Linux Desktop 9 is buggy, and support is worth nothing.
The product lacks a lot of packages which are really needed (pam_mount for example is a must if you want to connect your business users to their network shares, there's no (k)vpnc,...), also multimedia support is below par (xine was stripped from the open source WMA and WMV ffmpeg decoders, there's only MP3 support in RealPlayer, no usable multimedia plug-in for Firefox, like mplayerplug-in).
And worst of all, the product still contains a lot of visible bugs, even now at this moment, six months after its original release. To name a few: the use of dead keys hang KDE applications such as Konqueror, KDEs file chooser does not use the correct charset when your locale is ISO-8859-*, USB Mass Storage Devices with FAT partitions are mounted UTF-8, making all file names with special characters written in windows garbled and the file system case sensitive, i18n support is much worse than other distro's (with latest OOo security upgrade, even several languages which were only added in Novells SP1, were removed again, according to support, because the community has not finished translation, which is simply not true, as the translation was just fine), RealPlayer starts copying all files in your homedir to a temporary subdirectory if you start it from the KDE menu because of a bug in RealPlayers launch script, CIFS has problems saving files with apostroph in the name, while SMBFS, which is not officially supported by NLD, works fine,...
On several of these issues, support has confirmed that there is indeed a problem, but there are no bug fixes more than a month after my reports, neither do I have any news wether these bugs actually will be fixed.
I'll be looking to Centos in the future, at least it won't cost anything, and will also have years of updates. With KDE 3.3, it will also solve some of the small issues related to the older KDE 3.2 in NLD, and hopefully it will also be a bit less buggy in general.
I really have the feeling that Novell has rushed out this distro to become the first one before RHEL4 and MDK Corporate 3. I cannot understand why the reviewer has such a positive review about the distro.
By attacking Linux like that, McVoy just tries to keep the name Bitkeeper in the news. Let's just stop giving him free publicity and ignore this shit.
1) Sell OS with lots of vulnerabilities enabling viruses
2) Create anti-virus software
3) ???
4) Profit!!!
It's just a question of marketing. By limiting the patches to once a month, it /seems/ as if the number of security vulnerabilities actually is not that big. A lot more Joe Users would start raising questions if they saw that they have a security flash popping up twice a week...
Hey, give these guys a bit of time, will you? Sun developers, don't take it too personally, osnews is known for being the trolling site bu excellence in free software land.
For very complete and more practical information, reviews and good advise for silencing your computer I can really recommend SilentPCReview.
It's unbelievable that big MS managers still are tempted to tell such things, haven't they still learned that bashing does not work? And that less than one week after MS sent out one of its biggest bunch of critical security patches of the last year...
Actually they mean: "from Microsoft". Even when buying songs from a non-MS company in WMA DRM format, you are actually supporting MS, as you'll use Windows Media Player ánd you are limiting yourself to playing your bought songs only on that number of hardware devices that MS/the music industry does allow.
Going from Apple AAC DRM to MS WMA DRM is like going from one evil to another one.
Guys, wake up, old news. According to the article, all bugs were fixed in Mozilla 1.7.5 and Firefox 1.0.
Move on people,nothing to see here!
I would not count on this happening anytime soon (i.e. in the coming year). The GRE is still not shared between applications (I think this has been planned for two years or something like that?), and it seems there are too much fans of the actual Mozilla suite. Merging Firefox and Thunderbird in one suite, would not bring any advantages either, except that you would have to do one installation instead of two, which is not that a big issue...
According to someone on http://www.tweakers.net, you can verify with filemon from http://www.sysinternals.com that skype is accessing files related to IE history. Seems rather scary, isnt't it? Could someone confirm this?
JetAudio: http://www.jetaudio.com . Has a free version, with support for MP3, WMA and free formats like Ogg, FLAC and several others. And it can play Real and Quicktime too if you install the codecs.
Try to remove your old profile. You can export your bookmarks first and reimport them later on.
Try the IAUDIO (http://www.iaudio.com). It has Ogg Vorbis and Ogg FLAC support, and a radio tuner.