The GPL thrives on the delusion that someone who programs for a living (or their bosses, etc) is a monopolistic idiot that can't embrace open source. That's not true; release back the majority of your changes, and if you must, hold on to that 1% that gives you the definite advantage to your competitors.
::sigh:: What else do you expect from an anonymous coward.
Re:Wow... a *BSD ported to x86, that's impressive.
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...for FreeBSD is almost a spread as Linux.
I'll assume you meant NetBSD rather than FreeBSD. Oh and btw...NetBSD currently runs on 29 different architectures. Linux is about 10 less. Go troll somewhere else little boy.
Investor my ass. You're probably just some 15 year old kid or you're at best a day trader which hardly qualifies you to the mantle of "investor." BSDi is recording record profits right now and Wasabi just pulled down half a million after only ten weeks of business. Go troll somewhere else. Now go read up on some BSD history rather than creating fud little boy.
Why would people ignore Mandrake and go with Red Hat?
What they hear is all that matters. Some newbie r33t h4x0r hears of Linux so he uses RedHat. Now if you move up (so to speak) you'll realize that RedHat has some third party software other distro's don't.
...server installs are where most of the market interest is at the moment.
Uhm...no. Most of the Linux installs are done as desktops. Don't believe me? Go look at the SuSE FAQ.
How did Corel tar the good name of Linux? Corel has arguably done the most for Linux in the past year than any other company! Its nice to see how you ignored Word Perfect 2000 suite and Corel Draw. Plus you bypassed their contributions to WINE. Even though I may HATE Linux, Corel has done a lot of good for it. Go troll somewhere else son.
MFS is basically a RAM disk. It's a filesystem that resides entirely in RAM hence Memory FileSystem. I don't know why you have to bring Linux into it unless you're going for another flame war.
I was awakened this morning by a call from my aunt who was having problems with her modem. Her modem couldn't get a dialtone on the phone line but any phone could. It was, of course, an E-Machine with Windows98. So I played with all the control panel options for almost an hour uninstalling and reinstalling the modem. After about an hour she came in and told me it stopped working after a lightning storm. Being in central florida this happens quite often. She made me cuss and swear at the Windows box for over an hour until she told me the lightning bit. Great. All she needs is a new modem. I told her it would be about $20 for a PCI one at any local store. The thought of touching hardware was terrifying to her. Panic had set in. She even offered to pay me to run up and get one for her but I refused so she could learn a little bit. She thought she'd have to ask for an E-Machines modem plus tell them ALL the specs on her PC. It took quite a while to dispell that thought. I recieved two calls from Circuit City with her asking me if it was CIP or PSI. When she got back I was called again and now I was being begged to install the card in the PCI slot. Computers aren't easy to use for the average schmuck still and won't be for a very long time.
Just about. Over at Toddpw.org there is, with pictures of NetBSD on many different architectures. NetBSD Architecture Farm I counted 11 NetBSD boxes, 2 HP-UX 10.20, and 1 iMAC with MacOS.
I just graduated from a brand spanking new high school. Conventional thinking would tell you that since a new school we'd be getting the best teachers and curriculum, instead I had to deal with administrators who had never heard of Kosovo and teachers who had lived 40 something years only to never hear of the game cricket. Now I couldn't even begin to describe the mentality of the student populus. I found something intrinsically wrong with class model to pass students on attendance and work completion rather than test scores and coherent thinking. In my senior year I had "peers" who asked "Was Caesar was a real person?" and "Which came first, The Great War or WW1?" These were the kinds of drones being given A's and churned into liberal state colleges. Now a true iconoclast like myself would be given an F for calling the Kosovo-unaware teacher an idiot. After incidents like that I'd be sent to the dean of students who would tell me I have no right to accuse "his" teachers of anything since I don't have my diploma yet. Ah well screw em! I'm 18 now making over 50K a year as an installation engineer for SIEMENS ICN! Not bad huh? Most of us geek types are considered gifted having IQ's well over 135. Actions like those which happened to me are what make many of us dropout. One third of all dropouts are gifted. MENSA has documented it. I find it sad that our great spirits are being met with violence from the mediocre.
Here's something that comes as a surprise to broke college students (myself included) and the pimple faced 15 year olds who love to troll on slashdot: open-source isn't mandatory and not everyone accepts it. If RMS and his like where that militant for their precious GPL they would openly censure proprietary big-name software for Linux like Oracle but instead they like it when it benefits them.
One thing which I can never quite get about Linux is the GPL stand on mandatory open-source. It seems to think that EVERYONE loves it. Guess what? Not everyone does. It doesn't pay the bills. Believe it or not but most of the people purchasing all those SuSE cd's are newbie pimple faced 15 year olds on dialups. Don't believe me? Go look at the SuSE FAQ. So when we all have our own broad-band connection Freenix cd sales will plummet. But the GPL advocates seem to love it when Oracle ports closed-source software over to Linux. Big deal if KDE is(was) linking their source against proprietary widgets? Go write your own widgets that can take the KDE source. Its open-source so it shouldn't be too hard. Trolltech isn't exactly making money allowing people to download their full product for FREE from their site. Think about it, they have to put up a system, pay someone to administer it, bandwidth costs money, and room to keep it in. It reminds me of the situation with Solaris 2.7 and Tadpole RDI. Tadpole isn't putting their Solaris 2.7 patches on their FTP, instead they have chosen to sell them. Good for them! It's capitolism at its best! Food for my family or free software.....
Very true, but if the PHB's really valued technology they wouldn't be using x86 to they extent they are. x86 is a 20 year old arch with MANY flaws compared to something modern like a sun4u for example.
The reason these big companies are starting to back Linux is mainly a GREATLY reduction in R&D costs. Plus Linux has a lot of hype going for it whether it deserves it or not. Many commercial UNIX are technically superior to Linux but why would Company F dish out the money for some HP-RISC with HP-UX licenses when they could get some cheaper x86 with Linux on it?
Now the DoD model was created back in the early to mid 80's. Everything, if not 99%, is obsolete standards by now. If you still want to bother with what the US government considers secure, then check out TrustedBSD
Uhm.....you seem to imply that capitolism is a sin? Capitolism is progress. It tends to let things work themselves out in good and bad. Rather than socialism/communism that Canada is close to. Don't think communism is evil? Look at the acts EVERY communist country has done on those who oppose it.
I know FreeBSD and BSD/OS are Netware capable. Both can be configured as a Novell file/print server. IPX/SPX are supported. As well as IPX to TCP/IP gateway services on the BSD/OS side. FreeBSD can as well just
ipxgateway_enable="YES"
There are some other tools in/usr/ports for NDS, etc.
I'm not sure about Net/Open, never used them extensively.
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The GPL thrives on the delusion that someone who programs for a living (or their bosses, etc) is a monopolistic idiot that can't embrace open source. That's not true; release back the majority of your changes, and if you must, hold on to that 1% that gives you the definite advantage to your competitors.
::sigh:: What else do you expect from an anonymous coward.
I'll assume you meant NetBSD rather than FreeBSD. Oh and btw...NetBSD currently runs on 29 different architectures. Linux is about 10 less. Go troll somewhere else little boy.
Obviously you havent tried :pserver:user@anoncvs.publicsource.apple.com:/cvs/ Darwin
Investor my ass. You're probably just some 15 year old kid or you're at best a day trader which hardly qualifies you to the mantle of "investor." BSDi is recording record profits right now and Wasabi just pulled down half a million after only ten weeks of business. Go troll somewhere else. Now go read up on some BSD history rather than creating fud little boy.
You lack any empirical evidence. Try not to be as ambiguous as you are.
What they hear is all that matters. Some newbie r33t h4x0r hears of Linux so he uses RedHat. Now if you move up (so to speak) you'll realize that RedHat has some third party software other distro's don't.
Uhm...no. Most of the Linux installs are done as desktops. Don't believe me? Go look at the SuSE FAQ.
How did Corel tar the good name of Linux? Corel has arguably done the most for Linux in the past year than any other company! Its nice to see how you ignored Word Perfect 2000 suite and Corel Draw. Plus you bypassed their contributions to WINE. Even though I may HATE Linux, Corel has done a lot of good for it. Go troll somewhere else son.
MFS is basically a RAM disk. It's a filesystem that resides entirely in RAM hence Memory FileSystem. I don't know why you have to bring Linux into it unless you're going for another flame war.
I was awakened this morning by a call from my aunt who was having problems with her modem. Her modem couldn't get a dialtone on the phone line but any phone could. It was, of course, an E-Machine with Windows98. So I played with all the control panel options for almost an hour uninstalling and reinstalling the modem. After about an hour she came in and told me it stopped working after a lightning storm. Being in central florida this happens quite often. She made me cuss and swear at the Windows box for over an hour until she told me the lightning bit. Great. All she needs is a new modem. I told her it would be about $20 for a PCI one at any local store. The thought of touching hardware was terrifying to her. Panic had set in. She even offered to pay me to run up and get one for her but I refused so she could learn a little bit. She thought she'd have to ask for an E-Machines modem plus tell them ALL the specs on her PC. It took quite a while to dispell that thought. I recieved two calls from Circuit City with her asking me if it was CIP or PSI. When she got back I was called again and now I was being begged to install the card in the PCI slot. Computers aren't easy to use for the average schmuck still and won't be for a very long time.
Just about. Over at Toddpw.org there is, with pictures of NetBSD on many different architectures. NetBSD Architecture Farm I counted 11 NetBSD boxes, 2 HP-UX 10.20, and 1 iMAC with MacOS.
I just graduated from a brand spanking new high school. Conventional thinking would tell you that since a new school we'd be getting the best teachers and curriculum, instead I had to deal with administrators who had never heard of Kosovo and teachers who had lived 40 something years only to never hear of the game cricket. Now I couldn't even begin to describe the mentality of the student populus. I found something intrinsically wrong with class model to pass students on attendance and work completion rather than test scores and coherent thinking. In my senior year I had "peers" who asked "Was Caesar was a real person?" and "Which came first, The Great War or WW1?" These were the kinds of drones being given A's and churned into liberal state colleges. Now a true iconoclast like myself would be given an F for calling the Kosovo-unaware teacher an idiot. After incidents like that I'd be sent to the dean of students who would tell me I have no right to accuse "his" teachers of anything since I don't have my diploma yet. Ah well screw em! I'm 18 now making over 50K a year as an installation engineer for SIEMENS ICN! Not bad huh? Most of us geek types are considered gifted having IQ's well over 135. Actions like those which happened to me are what make many of us dropout. One third of all dropouts are gifted. MENSA has documented it. I find it sad that our great spirits are being met with violence from the mediocre.
Here's something that comes as a surprise to broke college students (myself included) and the pimple faced 15 year olds who love to troll on slashdot: open-source isn't mandatory and not everyone accepts it. If RMS and his like where that militant for their precious GPL they would openly censure proprietary big-name software for Linux like Oracle but instead they like it when it benefits them.
I right software for my company, they sell it, profits trickle down to me.
One thing which I can never quite get about Linux is the GPL stand on mandatory open-source. It seems to think that EVERYONE loves it. Guess what? Not everyone does. It doesn't pay the bills. Believe it or not but most of the people purchasing all those SuSE cd's are newbie pimple faced 15 year olds on dialups. Don't believe me? Go look at the SuSE FAQ. So when we all have our own broad-band connection Freenix cd sales will plummet. But the GPL advocates seem to love it when Oracle ports closed-source software over to Linux. Big deal if KDE is(was) linking their source against proprietary widgets? Go write your own widgets that can take the KDE source. Its open-source so it shouldn't be too hard. Trolltech isn't exactly making money allowing people to download their full product for FREE from their site. Think about it, they have to put up a system, pay someone to administer it, bandwidth costs money, and room to keep it in. It reminds me of the situation with Solaris 2.7 and Tadpole RDI. Tadpole isn't putting their Solaris 2.7 patches on their FTP, instead they have chosen to sell them. Good for them! It's capitolism at its best! Food for my family or free software.....
Kernel 2.2.17 just came out, time for all the distributors to roll out a new release!
Judging by YOUR user number it's clear you're the newbie while bugg is the seasoned veteran.
All the info you need is in /usr/share/doc and /sys.
Very true, but if the PHB's really valued technology they wouldn't be using x86 to they extent they are. x86 is a 20 year old arch with MANY flaws compared to something modern like a sun4u for example.
The reason these big companies are starting to back Linux is mainly a GREATLY reduction in R&D costs. Plus Linux has a lot of hype going for it whether it deserves it or not. Many commercial UNIX are technically superior to Linux but why would Company F dish out the money for some HP-RISC with HP-UX licenses when they could get some cheaper x86 with Linux on it?
Now the DoD model was created back in the early to mid 80's. Everything, if not 99%, is obsolete standards by now. If you still want to bother with what the US government considers secure, then check out TrustedBSD
capitolism describes the main economic policy, NOT the government architecture.
Uhm.....you seem to imply that capitolism is a sin? Capitolism is progress. It tends to let things work themselves out in good and bad. Rather than socialism/communism that Canada is close to. Don't think communism is evil? Look at the acts EVERY communist country has done on those who oppose it.
ipxgateway_enable="YES"
There are some other tools in /usr/ports for NDS, etc.
I'm not sure about Net/Open, never used them extensively.
Is procfs still being used as a replacement for sysctl?
Has pre-emptive swapping been integrated yet? If it does, how does it compare to FreeBSD's?
And finally, how has the VM system grown since Matt Dillons Daemonnews Article?