FIRST is just an acronymn. The competition has been going on for years (my old high school is team 007), and kicks off at Capitol College every January (horray kicking off at my school!).
I'll bite
6 years ago nobody I knew used wifi
6 years ago I was using OpenOffice and Abiword just fine.
6 years ago I was using a graphical interface to configure XFree86
6 years ago I was using several IDE's for Linux. EMACS and C-Forge come to mind.
6 years ago my install of Red Hat Linux rans circles around my install of XP.
Can;t speak for binary launch time.
6 years ago plenty of video cards were 2d cards anyway (although my nVidia and Intel Chipsets from back then both worked just fine).
6 years ago there was NTFS write support (marked dangerous, but it was there.)
6 years ago plenty of people under Linux were using AfterStep, Window Maker, FVWM, and the such as well.
6 years ago OSS worked just fine for everyone I knew that used Linux
Linux is far from a failure. Linux kept my interest in Computers after I grew disgusted with Windows (What do you mean I can't just get a new disk to reinstall the OS?).
I'll take the ad-hominem as well. I can't write scripts in Windows. I could write batch files in DOS, I can write bash/perl/php/etc in *NIX, but I cannot for Windows. Windows just doesn't fit my needs
PS - Many of us can't play Fallout 3 in Windows anyway.
He never said he can't use Windows. He merely said that he does not enjoy the Windows experience. And just because something is designed for Ease of Use doesn't mean that people can't find other things more usable.
Yes and no. The concepts are the same, but I'd use a more lightweight distrobution then Fedora to do it on P3's (I've got a stack of P3 1GHz laying around too)
RH/Fedora is good. I started on RH6.1 and moved to Slackware 8.1 from there. Slackware has come a long way since the old days without sacrificing simplicity.
I'm still running OS 9 in "Classic" Mode on my Mac for some apps. Like Photoshop, for example. And it runs just fine (OS 10.4, 800MHz G4 w/ 768MB PC133 RAM). And by doing so they avoided breaking backwards compatibility for many years (OS X debuted in 1999 on server, 2001 on desktop).
I guess I'll be having a sitdown at Groklaw this afternoon. I still doubt that SGI's IRIX and Sun's Solaris are effectivly pirateware, otherwise Novell would be taking action against them. (SGI also had some sort of license deal with SCO if you recall)
And by that tone so is all of the installs of Solaris from Solaris 8 onwards. I see no reason to think that Solaris is pirate software any more then Linux, Mac OS X, or *BSD are.
Sun's License vs. GPL?
Solaris comes with multimedia codecs (such as MP3) that Linux distro's don't ship out of the box. Solaris (and maybe OpenSolaris) also comes with the proprietary nVidia video driver already installed for use.
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FIRST is just an acronymn. The competition has been going on for years (my old high school is team 007), and kicks off at Capitol College every January (horray kicking off at my school!).
I'll bite 6 years ago nobody I knew used wifi 6 years ago I was using OpenOffice and Abiword just fine. 6 years ago I was using a graphical interface to configure XFree86 6 years ago I was using several IDE's for Linux. EMACS and C-Forge come to mind. 6 years ago my install of Red Hat Linux rans circles around my install of XP. Can;t speak for binary launch time. 6 years ago plenty of video cards were 2d cards anyway (although my nVidia and Intel Chipsets from back then both worked just fine). 6 years ago there was NTFS write support (marked dangerous, but it was there.) 6 years ago plenty of people under Linux were using AfterStep, Window Maker, FVWM, and the such as well. 6 years ago OSS worked just fine for everyone I knew that used Linux Linux is far from a failure. Linux kept my interest in Computers after I grew disgusted with Windows (What do you mean I can't just get a new disk to reinstall the OS?). I'll take the ad-hominem as well. I can't write scripts in Windows. I could write batch files in DOS, I can write bash/perl/php/etc in *NIX, but I cannot for Windows. Windows just doesn't fit my needs PS - Many of us can't play Fallout 3 in Windows anyway.
I can't get any 3d accel with the open source R300 driver, and writing it myself is far beyond my current programing knowledge.
Bit torrent is not an illegal application.
How will it fail? Marketing, support, and supported hardware, plus ready to go out of the box always seems to work IMO.
He never said he can't use Windows. He merely said that he does not enjoy the Windows experience. And just because something is designed for Ease of Use doesn't mean that people can't find other things more usable.
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Yes and no. The concepts are the same, but I'd use a more lightweight distrobution then Fedora to do it on P3's (I've got a stack of P3 1GHz laying around too)
I do know that Baltimore County allows laptops to the general students as long as they are not disruptive...
RH/Fedora is good. I started on RH6.1 and moved to Slackware 8.1 from there. Slackware has come a long way since the old days without sacrificing simplicity.
So...you're still using that system or haven't used Slackware in the past 15 years?
The sparc port of OpenSolaris is still in progress. There are other flavor's of solaris that run on Sparc hardware though.
C-Forge, KDevelop, EMACS, vim, and a few others are great alternatives to Eclipse.
Actually mine told me not to reduce, as it helps to see where they came from.
Depends on if you have an internet connection available. I know some Linux users that don't.
There is no support for sparc64 in OpenSolaris at this time. I don't remember Nexenta having x64 support, but, opensolaris does support it.
I'm still running OS 9 in "Classic" Mode on my Mac for some apps. Like Photoshop, for example. And it runs just fine (OS 10.4, 800MHz G4 w/ 768MB PC133 RAM). And by doing so they avoided breaking backwards compatibility for many years (OS X debuted in 1999 on server, 2001 on desktop).
In comparison, Avira's once a day popup isn't so bad.
You know, I never saw that coming...
I know some that do too. But, they're not supposed to ship with the MP3 codecs.
I guess I'll be having a sitdown at Groklaw this afternoon. I still doubt that SGI's IRIX and Sun's Solaris are effectivly pirateware, otherwise Novell would be taking action against them. (SGI also had some sort of license deal with SCO if you recall)
And by that tone so is all of the installs of Solaris from Solaris 8 onwards. I see no reason to think that Solaris is pirate software any more then Linux, Mac OS X, or *BSD are.
Sun's License vs. GPL? Solaris comes with multimedia codecs (such as MP3) that Linux distro's don't ship out of the box. Solaris (and maybe OpenSolaris) also comes with the proprietary nVidia video driver already installed for use.
Looks awfully similar to the start of a fork bomb...