You can have a project that gets tons of hits yet no one seems to actually want to maintain. Case in point, what has to be one of the most pointless pieces of eye candy ever created, CMatrix. Gets lots of downloads, mind you, but I posted (one year to the day as a matter of fact, what kind of coincidence is that) about needing a new maintainer. There have been about three volunteers since then, none of the applicants really mentioned having any experience in programming in curses (the toolkit used), let alone managing a project written in it.
Basically what it comes down to is most people (even GNU/Linux users) want to download and run the program, MAYBE poke at the code a little. But take over actual maintainership (even if it's next no no actual work), fugedabouit!
Does anyone know why they only made INDIVIDUAL GAME DISKS for Bleemcast?! I believe the MGS Bleemcast disk was only $10 at EB, but I'm not going to pay per game! Even if it were a 10 disk set for $100 (the same price as a PSOne), I still woulda bought it just to be able to play higher-res versions of many many PS games on my DC. Instead I bought a PS2 and the DC sits gathering dust (not that it wasn't already dying). Maybe next year when the other "next gen" consoles get a reasonable number of games, for now it's a PS2 world.
Sid is unstable, woody is testing. Sid will always be unstable, and never be released. New testing branches will be released as the previous one stabilizes. I have to agree I didn't think sid stood for anything, but it's certainly a nice backronym =)
IIRC, The First version of VMWare was $99, until they "diversified" the product line and made running NT/2K $300! The 95/98 version is still $100 (I believe it's called VMWare Workstation). So how long before this becomes a $300 product?
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You mean using control keys for builtin functions? Well, nano does have F-keys, check out the help screen for what the equivalent F-key sequences are. Also, what about the justify function do you dislike?
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The vi part is freaking hillarious. Hmm, that soda doesn't seem as satisfying when it's coming out my nose 'cause I'm laughing so hard =)
gtk-gnutella is coming along nicely for Linux, but more competition is always better.
As has been already said, gtk-gnutella is not doing anything nicely, it seems to crash after just a few minutes of use. What other didn't seem to mention is that Napshare,
while it looks almost identical to gtk-gnutella, has no stability problems whatsoever, even though it's version 1.0 * 10^-7 or something =-) I guess that show that version #s really don't mean squat. Try napshare if you want an X11 gnutella client, it fits the bill quite well.
Why doesn't the author just face up to his ideologies and admit he just doesn't like how the UW license restricts modified redistribution, and say instead that he prefers the way the GPL restricts the same thing ?
This is true! I'm sorry, I thought I got that point across in my article. I do like the way GPL restricts freedom, because I feel that the freedom gained by using the GPL outweighs the freedom lost by not being able to take software proprietary, or what have you. That's why I put nano under the GPL and later submitted it for addition to the GNU project. If I felt the opposite way, I would probably be a BSD advocate, but I would still dislike the pine license.
I assume that is a libc issue and not a gcc issue, since it seems gcc under *BSD does not suffer from this bug. It is still a bit disheartening however, have you notified the libc people about this?
I really wish there were some simple way to encrypt data to write to a CD-ROM. Actually I found this project to produce encrypted CD data on Freshmeat awhile back. This patch only encrypted the files themselves not the filesystem (i.e. all filenames are visible) which is very much suboptimal, plus there were other buglets. Now it appears that the project pages are all history.
I even volunteered to try and help out with the current block limitation on the international kernel patch to allow using CDRs but received no reply to my email. Sigh.
You may want to sign the
Tuxg ames petition for the game. There are currently over 2200 signatures for Diablo 2, but the more there are the more chance there could be to convince someone up top at Blizzard to port it.
Any PDA that has a version of Arkanoid (Breakout for the old school folks) BUILT INTO IT has my $$, I don't care if I have to sell a kidney to buy it. And re: battery life, I don't care if the thing only gets 12, 6 or even 3 hours per charge, that's still better than my laptop on a good day. YAY Yopy!
IMO, nano isn't up to snuff with pico just yet. The former didn't behave properly on my Slackware box, but the latter worked just fine.
I started nano less than a year ago. Pico has been around for, what, 10 years? Actually you are correct, but nano is getting better, quickly. Try version 0.9.10, i18n in particular works much better.
It certainly sounds like Lars is at least trying to get as educated as possible to answer these questions. His point about there not being a middle ground in the music sharing scene is certainly a good one., and it made me think more about this whole issue. The book of the month club is probably not a good analogy when you think about it though, because you do sign up for the service, even if "8 books for a buck" is waved in your face, you see the terms and conditions right where you sign up. But overall a pretty good response.
EXCEPT that in this case, the server is completely unreachable, and hence this is the only way for people to get *any* information at all about the project. Therefore it's the most useful comment in the list as far as I'm concerned.
I don't have to see a "boogie man" around every corner to know that there are forces in the world that will treat me as a mere resource to be exploited. Some of them want my money. Some of them want my votes. Some of them just want to be able to tell me what to do because they enjoy controlling people.
o/~ Some of them want to use you... Some of them want to get used by you... Some of them want to abuse you... Some of them want to be abused... o/~
Sorry, this popped into my head as I was reading, and it seemed apropriate;-)
*had* to be the stage right before the last boss (the Count) when you have to walk through that empty castle, down all those stairs or whatever. I loved that music! Too bad they didn't put that in their Castkevania track, though their version stil kicks ass!
I suggest making the little Reserved Symbol (R) ni the Apple icon at least as big as the Apple icon itself. Maybe reverse the sizes of the reserved symbol and the Apple symbol?
Minix is Linux's daddy, and is is finally available under a Good license. I haven't seen any "too little too late!" comments, which is good, because it's not too little too late. Minix runs on the 80[2]86 whereas Linux still doesn't AFAIK (ELKS doesn't seem too far along as of yet). Perhaps we will see an increase in Minix activity now that it's BSD licensed.
Although I do think this whole thing is funny, perhaps Linus will post a "MINIX is obsolete!" comment on the comp.os.minix newsgroup, that would be priceless! =)
Flamebait this is not! Jesus, where does everyone's sense of humor go whenever the topic of Linux's (or Open Source in general)'s viability in the marketplace? I laughed more at this post than I have at Microsoft's "The Truth" pages on TCO of Windows vs. a ball of twine.
Also, do open source project automatically have a right to the dot org? I think this is presumptuous. What makes any project "the official" openssh project other than when it becomes the de facto standard? Maybe this guy has a right to create another open source or proprietary "openssh" package.
He does indeed have that right, but it doesn't appear *yet* that this person is starting a new project with the exact same goal as OpenSSH.
When you think of an open source development project, you automatically think of.org as the TLD (non-profit). Well at least I do.
Since this guys seems to want an SSH portal, why don't they just swap domains, since a portal would be considered more commercial (.com) and the open development project considered more nor for profit (.org)
First, I much prefer elvis to vim, I think it should be there, after all there are two emacsen there.
Second, I don't think the Pico license meeets the Open Source Definition, which is why I started the nano project in the first place...the category is best *open source* editor, not best *nix editor.
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You can have a project that gets tons of hits yet no one seems to actually want to maintain. Case in point, what has to be one of the most pointless pieces of eye candy ever created, CMatrix. Gets lots of downloads, mind you, but I posted (one year to the day as a matter of fact, what kind of coincidence is that) about needing a new maintainer. There have been about three volunteers since then, none of the applicants really mentioned having any experience in programming in curses (the toolkit used), let alone managing a project written in it.
Basically what it comes down to is most people (even GNU/Linux users) want to download and run the program, MAYBE poke at the code a little. But take over actual maintainership (even if it's next no no actual work), fugedabouit!
Does anyone know why they only made INDIVIDUAL GAME DISKS for Bleemcast?! I believe the MGS Bleemcast disk was only $10 at EB, but I'm not going to pay per game! Even if it were a 10 disk set for $100 (the same price as a PSOne), I still woulda bought it just to be able to play higher-res versions of many many PS games on my DC. Instead I bought a PS2 and the DC sits gathering dust (not that it wasn't already dying). Maybe next year when the other "next gen" consoles get a reasonable number of games, for now it's a PS2 world.
Sid is unstable, woody is testing. Sid will always be unstable, and never be released. New testing branches will be released as the previous one stabilizes. I have to agree I didn't think sid stood for anything, but it's certainly a nice backronym =)
IIRC, The First version of VMWare was $99, until they "diversified" the product line and made running NT/2K $300! The 95/98 version is still $100 (I believe it's called VMWare Workstation). So how long before this becomes a $300 product?
You mean using control keys for builtin functions? Well, nano does have F-keys, check out the help screen for what the equivalent F-key sequences are. Also, what about the justify function do you dislike?
The vi part is freaking hillarious. Hmm, that soda doesn't seem as satisfying when it's coming out my nose 'cause I'm laughing so hard =)
gtk-gnutella is coming along nicely for Linux, but more competition is always better.
As has been already said, gtk-gnutella is not doing anything nicely, it seems to crash after just a few minutes of use. What other didn't seem to mention is that Napshare,
while it looks almost identical to gtk-gnutella, has no stability problems whatsoever, even though it's version 1.0 * 10^-7 or something =-) I guess that show that version #s really don't mean squat. Try napshare if you want an X11 gnutella client, it fits the bill quite well.
This is true! I'm sorry, I thought I got that point across in my article. I do like the way GPL restricts freedom, because I feel that the freedom gained by using the GPL outweighs the freedom lost by not being able to take software proprietary, or what have you. That's why I put nano under the GPL and later submitted it for addition to the GNU project. If I felt the opposite way, I would probably be a BSD advocate, but I would still dislike the pine license.
I assume that is a libc issue and not a gcc issue, since it seems gcc under *BSD does not suffer from this bug. It is still a bit disheartening however, have you notified the libc people about this?
I really wish there were some simple way to encrypt data to write to a CD-ROM. Actually I found this project to produce encrypted CD data on Freshmeat awhile back. This patch only encrypted the files themselves not the filesystem (i.e. all filenames are visible) which is very much suboptimal, plus there were other buglets. Now it appears that the project pages are all history.
I even volunteered to try and help out with the current block limitation on the international kernel patch to allow using CDRs but received no reply to my email. Sigh.
You may want to sign the Tuxg ames petition for the game. There are currently over 2200 signatures for Diablo 2, but the more there are the more chance there could be to convince someone up top at Blizzard to port it.
Any PDA that has a version of Arkanoid (Breakout for the old school folks) BUILT INTO IT has my $$, I don't care if I have to sell a kidney to buy it. And re: battery life, I don't care if the thing only gets 12, 6 or even 3 hours per charge, that's still better than my laptop on a good day. YAY Yopy!
IMO, nano isn't up to snuff with pico just yet. The former didn't behave properly on my Slackware box, but the latter worked just fine.
I started nano less than a year ago. Pico has been around for, what, 10 years? Actually you are correct, but nano is getting better, quickly. Try version 0.9.10, i18n in particular works much better.
It certainly sounds like Lars is at least trying to get as educated as possible to answer these questions. His point about there not being a middle ground in the music sharing scene is certainly a good one., and it made me think more about this whole issue. The book of the month club is probably not a good analogy when you think about it though, because you do sign up for the service, even if "8 books for a buck" is waved in your face, you see the terms and conditions right where you sign up. But overall a pretty good response.
EXCEPT that in this case, the server is completely unreachable, and hence this is the only way for people to get *any* information at all about the project. Therefore it's the most useful comment in the list as far as I'm concerned.
I don't have to see a "boogie man" around every corner to know that there are forces in the world that will treat me as a mere resource to be exploited. Some of them want my money. Some of them want my votes. Some of them just want to be able to tell me what to do because they enjoy controlling people.
;-)
o/~ Some of them want to use you...
Some of them want to get used by you...
Some of them want to abuse you...
Some of them want to be abused... o/~
Sorry, this popped into my head as I was reading, and it seemed apropriate
*had* to be the stage right before the last boss (the Count) when you have to walk through that empty castle, down all those stairs or whatever. I loved that music! Too bad they didn't put that in their Castkevania track, though their version stil kicks ass!
I suggest making the little Reserved Symbol (R) ni the Apple icon at least as big as the Apple icon itself. Maybe reverse the sizes of the reserved symbol and the Apple symbol?
Note that my post was almost two hours ahead of the one you refer to :P How could I have seen it then?
Minix is Linux's daddy, and is is finally available under a Good license. I haven't seen any "too little too late!" comments, which is good, because it's not too little too late. Minix runs on the 80[2]86 whereas Linux still doesn't AFAIK (ELKS doesn't seem too far along as of yet). Perhaps we will see an increase in Minix activity now that it's BSD licensed.
Although I do think this whole thing is funny, perhaps Linus will post a "MINIX is obsolete!" comment on the comp.os.minix newsgroup, that would be priceless! =)
Flamebait this is not! Jesus, where does everyone's sense of humor go whenever the topic of Linux's (or Open Source in general)'s viability in the marketplace? I laughed more at this post than I have at Microsoft's "The Truth" pages on TCO of Windows vs. a ball of twine.
Also, do open source project automatically have a right to the dot org? I think this is presumptuous. What makes any project "the official" openssh project other than when it becomes the de facto standard? Maybe this guy has a right to create another open source or proprietary "openssh" package.
.org as the TLD (non-profit). Well at least I do.
He does indeed have that right, but it doesn't appear *yet* that this person is starting a new project with the exact same goal as OpenSSH.
When you think of an open source development project, you automatically think of
Since this guys seems to want an SSH portal, why don't they just swap domains, since a portal would be considered more commercial (.com) and the open development project considered more nor for profit (.org)
First, I much prefer elvis to vim, I think it should be there, after all there are two emacsen there.
Second, I don't think the Pico license meeets the Open Source Definition, which is why I started the nano project in the first place...the category is best *open source* editor, not best *nix editor.
Yup, again I'm nominating my own project, not for the sake of nominating it but so I can get the word out about it and get help/patches =-)
nano - nano's another editor, a GPLed pico clone with a few enhancements.