Photopaint is by far my favorite bitmap editing program. At home I keep a windose box going (an old 200MHz Pentium / 32M), just so I can run PhotoPaint and Quicken.
Will there be Linux versions of Corel Photopaint and Corel Draw? I could live without Quicken, but I cannot live without Photopaint. I would also like to use it on my more capable hardware. You would definitely have one sale:).
Exactly. By closing the source, you simply make it harder to expose weaknesses to either the potential cheater and potential developer/auditor. Who do you think will make the extra effort? Remember the supposed "Russian super computer" on distributed.net.
I can only recall 1 time in recent years that an X server has crashed on me. I was running MATLAB with an early KDE, and a certain action in MATLAB would take X down. This was very repeatable. (I wish I could say the same thing everytime NT has crashed on me -- the NT crashes can never be repeated and take NT down for the count.) In this case it would not crash Linux, just throw you out of X. Anyway, after upgrading to the latest rev of KDE at the time, it was fixed, and has never happened again.
I have had great success and stability with the various XFree servers I have used (S3V, SVGA, and Mach64). And if I did have problems, I would expect them to be resolved in short order).
Now keeping Netscape from crashing, that is another story. Of course, it has never brought down X on me.
This is a rather timely article for me. At work We have been using Suns since the Sun 3/xxx days, and Vaxen running BSD before that. We however, never jumped to Solaris. In the mean-time all of our old SPARCstations have been slowly been replaced by Linux boxen. Anyway, I just recently acquired a new Sun Ultra w/ Solaris 7. Right out of the box Solaris 7 is useless. Its not a trivial task to download and install all the various tools that I depend on. All of which come straight out of the box with RH. Maybe if Solaris were truely free, someone would have created a distribution that was worth a damn. Instead, not only has Sun not improved the number and quality of the tools delivered with Solaris, they have reduced them since SunOS (What kind of UNIX distribution comes without a C compiler?).
Agreed. This has always bugged me about other UNIX ditributions as well (SunOS in particular): they come right out of the box wide open, and everything on. I always thought it would make far more sense to have everything closed or off and have to explicitly enable and configure additional services. It gets very anoying, even for an experienced admin, to have to clean up a fresh install after a few dozen installs.
I think that a good aproach would be to give choices such as 'desktop' and 'server'. The desktop would install a clean, very tight system. The server choice would offer choices based on the primary role of the server: 'web server', 'mail server', 'nfs server', 'samba server', etc. or combinations of these roles. The server choice would install only the services required, and install them in a secure manner, nothing wide open. Any additional services or packages would have to be explicitly loaded and configured. The 'install everything' option should be discouraged by making it a wizard option: available but not visible and documented elsewhere (the word would get around to those in the know.)
I believe that most states that have sales taxes, also have use taxes. Meaning you are supposed to also pay these taxes on all retail items that are brought/shipped into state. It has been basically a voluntary tax, since it has been up to the consumer to report such purchases. For the last 10 years or so, Virginia has been escalating its education(threats) about these taxes in their income tax instruction booklets. States such as Virginia have also been attempting to get out-of-state mail order retailers to collect this tax for them. Mail order retailers have not been responsive, since 'no sales tax' is a great sales incentive and since they have no presence in these states, they cannot be held accountable. For the last several years, there has been some sort of attempt at an agreement amongst the states to force mail order retailers to collect sales/use taxes for all out-of-state sales and send that money to the appropriate states. A common TV news story for the last couple of xmas seasons, has been how "this will be the last year you will be able to do sales-tax-free mail order shopping."
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Photopaint is by far my favorite bitmap editing program. At home I keep a windose box going (an old 200MHz Pentium / 32M), just so I can run PhotoPaint and Quicken.
:).
Will there be Linux versions of Corel Photopaint and Corel Draw? I could live without Quicken, but I cannot live without Photopaint. I would also like to use it on my more capable hardware. You would definitely have one sale
Exactly. By closing the source, you simply make it harder to expose weaknesses to either the potential cheater and potential developer/auditor. Who do you think will make the extra effort? Remember the supposed "Russian super computer" on distributed.net.
Nothing beats real life. I met my wife at work.
I can only recall 1 time in recent years that an X server has crashed on me. I was running MATLAB with an early KDE, and a certain action in MATLAB would take X down. This was very repeatable. (I wish I could say the same thing everytime NT has crashed on me -- the NT crashes can never be repeated and take NT down for the count.) In this case it would not crash Linux, just throw you out of X. Anyway, after upgrading to the latest rev of KDE at the time, it was fixed, and has never happened again.
I have had great success and stability with the various XFree servers I have used (S3V, SVGA, and Mach64). And if I did have problems, I would expect them to be resolved in short order).
Now keeping Netscape from crashing, that is another story. Of course, it has never brought down X on me.
This is a rather timely article for me. At work We have been using Suns since the Sun 3/xxx days, and Vaxen running BSD before that. We however, never jumped to Solaris. In the mean-time all of our old SPARCstations have been slowly been replaced by Linux boxen. Anyway, I just recently acquired a new Sun Ultra w/ Solaris 7. Right out of the box Solaris 7 is useless. Its not a trivial task to download and install all the various tools that I depend on. All of which come straight out of the box with RH. Maybe if Solaris were truely free, someone would have created a distribution that was worth a damn. Instead, not only has Sun not improved the number and quality of the tools delivered with Solaris, they have reduced them since SunOS (What kind of UNIX distribution comes without a C compiler?).
Unfortunately, everyone thinks they are a 'Power User.' The term tends to apeal to the ego.
Agreed. This has always bugged me about other UNIX ditributions as well (SunOS in particular): they come right out of the box wide open, and everything on. I always thought it would make far more sense to have everything closed or off and have to explicitly enable and configure additional services. It gets very anoying, even for an experienced admin, to have to clean up a fresh install after a few dozen installs.
I think that a good aproach would be to give choices such as 'desktop' and 'server'. The desktop would install a clean, very tight system. The server choice would offer choices based on the primary role of the server: 'web server', 'mail server', 'nfs server', 'samba server', etc. or combinations of these roles. The server choice would install only the services required, and install them in a secure manner, nothing wide open. Any additional services or packages would have to be explicitly loaded and configured. The 'install everything' option should be discouraged by making it a wizard option: available but not visible and documented elsewhere (the word would get around to those in the know.)
I believe that most states that have sales taxes, also have use taxes. Meaning you are supposed to also pay these taxes on all retail items that are brought/shipped into state. It has been basically a voluntary tax, since it has been up to the consumer to report such purchases. For the last 10 years or so, Virginia has been escalating its education(threats) about these taxes in their income tax instruction booklets.
States such as Virginia have also been attempting to get out-of-state mail order retailers to collect this tax for them. Mail order retailers have not been responsive, since 'no sales tax' is a great sales incentive and since they have no presence in these states, they cannot be held accountable. For the last several years, there has been some sort of attempt at an agreement amongst the states to force mail order retailers to collect sales/use taxes for all out-of-state sales and send that money to the appropriate states. A common TV news story for the last couple of xmas seasons, has been how "this will be the last year you will be able to do sales-tax-free mail order shopping."