I still have a soft spot for NetBSD, it's minimalist nature is something I like. It was the first UNIX I ever installed too IIRC. I hope that the issues get resolved or if necessary an active fork is made and it lives on.
Yes they would also be the same libraries that Apple forked for WebKit, which is used by Safari. I don't think you can say that Konqueror is not a capable browser. Its much lighter than Firefox and has much better desktop integration, such as with the system wide KDE wallet and inline spell checking.
One of the most gratifying things about Microsoft is that privacy is a core tenet of the company. It's part of the Trustworthy Computing Initiative, which was proclaimed by Bill Gates four-and-a-half years ago.
Yeah TCI is to protect users privacy, not stop piracy and enforce DRM.
From my experience the reason that Australian companies are less eager to use open source is because of support. In the US and Europe support for OSS products is readily available. Whereas in AU the support is just not there for these products and using the US support companies just isn't a viable solution. Having said that, personally I don't think that having someone to blame/sue when something goes wrong should drive the ultimate decision on whether to use OSS or not.
Wow I've been using Cyberduck for ages and never knew it was a Java app. Sure enough a quick check of the CVS repository reveals that this is indeed the case. It shows how well the Cocoa-Java implementation is. However it does explain which Cyberduck can be a little unresponsive at times.
So this is based on X11 and Gtk which makes it somewhat more appealing than the Qt Embedded that the Zaurus uses. However the Zaurus has a keyboard, better connectivity and storage options. So I'm thinking that since maemo is open source a Zaurus port wouldn't be out of the question and quite useful.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even SubEthaEdit is straining to keep up as I type this.
Sounds to me like the mini is out of memory and paging. That would explain why it is taking so long and also why the rest of the system slows down.
Now imagine if Ubuntu had instead been a group of developers who decided to combine their efforts with the Debian group to improve Debian?
It would seem that the Ubuntu people are already more or less doing this:
Many Ubuntu developers are also recognized members of the debian community. They continue to stay active in contributing to debian both in the course of their work on Ubuntu and directly in debian.
When Ubuntu developers fix bugs that are also present in debian packages -- and since the projects are linked, this happens often -- they send their bugfixes to the Debian developers responsible for that package in debian and record the patch URL in the debian bug system. The long term goal of that work is to ensure that patches made by the full-time Ubuntu team members are immediately also included in debian packages where the debian maintainer likes the work.
From Ubuntu's Debian and Ubuntu page.
There is little need for a GDS version for Mac OS X since with the release of Mac OS 10.4 system wide content indexing will be built into the system via the Spotlight functionality.
It was a reference to a bug regarding the incorporation of code to allow a kiosk mode. The patch was rejected. However the patch was re-implemented as an extension. I can't see how this is an important bug that is being ignored as there are readily available extensions to perform this function.
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does the motherf***er run *bsd?
The iPod can't run BSD, Darwin or any other system like that because it does not have a hardware memory management unit. iPod linux is based on the uClinux distribution, which is, "a port of Linux to systems without a Memory Management Unit (MMU)".
I'd rather not throw away the warranty on day one.
For sometime now Apple has supported certain do-it-yourself upgrades. My iMac came with instructions on how to add an AirPort card or more RAM. It also includes these details inside the base if you take it off. The same for my 4 year old iBook. The Apple support site also includes instructions on user serviceable parts for many current systems, for example: http://www.apple.com/support/imac/g4/doityourself/ usb2/. So you can safely buy and install thirdparty RAM without voiding your warranty.
I don't think iWork will be an issue regarding stealing business from Office, potentially resulting in MS dropping Office:mac. The reason? They don't include it for free with new machines like iLife. If it came free then I think it would be a whole different story.
Since they are intending to sell this product for.. profit..
I was going to ask whether it was a free download or not. If that's the case then the whole idea pretty much sucks. I find it quite ridiculous that they would chnage for something that is essentially patching flaws in the Windows.
Having got that out of the way it really does look very nicely done, can't really complain about the interface. I would use it... if I had a use for such things.
I don't assume you mean software I'm allowed to view the source of but not modify for my own profit (FreeBSD and such).
The BSD licence does allow this, therefore you can take FreeBSD and make a product out of it and not release the changes. It is the GPL that prevents closed-source derivative works.
The OS you're after is BeatrIX. Is is a minimal Linux distro based on Knoppix and Ubunto which of course makes it Debian at heart. The default desktop has 4 icons to do what most people need. You can of course apt-get anything else you want. The final release is scheduled for early 2005. And yes the developer is quite obsessed by his cat. I have set it up on an old 400Mhz PII PC for my brother who has never used Linux before, it runs very nicely.
5) Database access to MSSQL needs to Just Work. freetds is not fully stable yet, thus not useable in prod environment. Throw some resources that way someone please...
FWIW the company I work for uses freetds in a production environment and it has not caused a single issue.
I think most people feel "stuck" with Windows, rather than actually liking it. They are comfortable with the UI, though. The only way to change the power structure is to let them know there are other alternatives that are much better than Windows and still operate in very similar ways, thus allowing comfort and change.
This is actually a very good argument for the ReactOS project that was mentioned on Slashdot earlier today. Clearly ReactOS provides the ultimate combination of familiarity with FOSS.
So where's the work on standardizing a Linux desktop?
"freedesktop.org is a free software project to work on interoperability and shared technology for desktop environments for the X Window System. The most famous X desktops are GNOME and KDE but any developers working on Linux/UNIX GUI technology are welcome to participate. Find more X related software projects here."
This group has published several standards with this goal in mind.
The iPod supports AIFF, WAV (always has) and now Apple Lossless formats... Granted it doesn't play Ogg or FLAC but if it is just lossless formats you want they are available.
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I still have a soft spot for NetBSD, it's minimalist nature is something I like. It was the first UNIX I ever installed too IIRC. I hope that the issues get resolved or if necessary an active fork is made and it lives on.
Yes they would also be the same libraries that Apple forked for WebKit, which is used by Safari. I don't think you can say that Konqueror is not a capable browser. Its much lighter than Firefox and has much better desktop integration, such as with the system wide KDE wallet and inline spell checking.
One of the most gratifying things about Microsoft is that privacy is a core tenet of the company. It's part of the Trustworthy Computing Initiative, which was proclaimed by Bill Gates four-and-a-half years ago.
Yeah TCI is to protect users privacy, not stop piracy and enforce DRM.
From my experience the reason that Australian companies are less eager to use open source is because of support. In the US and Europe support for OSS products is readily available. Whereas in AU the support is just not there for these products and using the US support companies just isn't a viable solution. Having said that, personally I don't think that having someone to blame/sue when something goes wrong should drive the ultimate decision on whether to use OSS or not.
Wow I've been using Cyberduck for ages and never knew it was a Java app. Sure enough a quick check of the CVS repository reveals that this is indeed the case. It shows how well the Cocoa-Java implementation is. However it does explain which Cyberduck can be a little unresponsive at times.
So this is based on X11 and Gtk which makes it somewhat more appealing than the Qt Embedded that the Zaurus uses. However the Zaurus has a keyboard, better connectivity and storage options. So I'm thinking that since maemo is open source a Zaurus port wouldn't be out of the question and quite useful.
Sounds to me like the mini is out of memory and paging. That would explain why it is taking so long and also why the rest of the system slows down.
Any chance of a link to that mp3car article? I had a quick look but couldn't find it.
It would seem that the Ubuntu people are already more or less doing this:
Many Ubuntu developers are also recognized members of the debian community. They continue to stay active in contributing to debian both in the course of their work on Ubuntu and directly in debian. When Ubuntu developers fix bugs that are also present in debian packages -- and since the projects are linked, this happens often -- they send their bugfixes to the Debian developers responsible for that package in debian and record the patch URL in the debian bug system. The long term goal of that work is to ensure that patches made by the full-time Ubuntu team members are immediately also included in debian packages where the debian maintainer likes the work. From Ubuntu's Debian and Ubuntu page.There is little need for a GDS version for Mac OS X since with the release of Mac OS 10.4 system wide content indexing will be built into the system via the Spotlight functionality.
NetBSD is currently not an option for the Zaurus. It's either Linux or a very experimental port of OpenBSD.
It was a reference to a bug regarding the incorporation of code to allow a kiosk mode. The patch was rejected. However the patch was re-implemented as an extension. I can't see how this is an important bug that is being ignored as there are readily available extensions to perform this function.
The iPod can't run BSD, Darwin or any other system like that because it does not have a hardware memory management unit. iPod linux is based on the uClinux distribution, which is, "a port of Linux to systems without a Memory Management Unit (MMU)".
For sometime now Apple has supported certain do-it-yourself upgrades. My iMac came with instructions on how to add an AirPort card or more RAM. It also includes these details inside the base if you take it off. The same for my 4 year old iBook. The Apple support site also includes instructions on user serviceable parts for many current systems, for example: http://www.apple.com/support/imac/g4/doityourself/ usb2/. So you can safely buy and install thirdparty RAM without voiding your warranty.
I don't think iWork will be an issue regarding stealing business from Office, potentially resulting in MS dropping Office:mac. The reason? They don't include it for free with new machines like iLife. If it came free then I think it would be a whole different story.
I was going to ask whether it was a free download or not. If that's the case then the whole idea pretty much sucks. I find it quite ridiculous that they would chnage for something that is essentially patching flaws in the Windows.
Having got that out of the way it really does look very nicely done, can't really complain about the interface. I would use it... if I had a use for such things.
As you can see if you take out all the Microsoft owned sites and the eBay entried duplicated for each country there isn't a lot left...
The BSD licence does allow this, therefore you can take FreeBSD and make a product out of it and not release the changes. It is the GPL that prevents closed-source derivative works.
The OS you're after is BeatrIX. Is is a minimal Linux distro based on Knoppix and Ubunto which of course makes it Debian at heart. The default desktop has 4 icons to do what most people need. You can of course apt-get anything else you want. The final release is scheduled for early 2005. And yes the developer is quite obsessed by his cat. I have set it up on an old 400Mhz PII PC for my brother who has never used Linux before, it runs very nicely.
This is how it's done. There are also a couple of other .calcviews in there that you can enable by following the same procedure.
Very large multinational pharmaceutical company.
FWIW the company I work for uses freetds in a production environment and it has not caused a single issue.
This is actually a very good argument for the ReactOS project that was mentioned on Slashdot earlier today. Clearly ReactOS provides the ultimate combination of familiarity with FOSS.
"freedesktop.org is a free software project to work on interoperability and shared technology for desktop environments for the X Window System. The most famous X desktops are GNOME and KDE but any developers working on Linux/UNIX GUI technology are welcome to participate. Find more X related software projects here."
This group has published several standards with this goal in mind.
The iPod supports AIFF, WAV (always has) and now Apple Lossless formats... Granted it doesn't play Ogg or FLAC but if it is just lossless formats you want they are available.