I don't know anything about Microfocus Cobol, but if it's something close to ANSI COBOL compliant, perhaps you should look at Kobol http://thekompany.com/products/kobol/, to migrate. To anywhere else than SCO, I'd guess.
No, it's not correct. You can develop with any sort of open source license on KDE. The KDE library's are LGPL or BSD (While most applications are GPL, but that does not affect other application developers) and the Qt libs are GPL or QPL. The QPL gives you right to develop using the Qt libs using any open source license, the only restriction are that the source has to be freely available(But again that's more or less what the open in open source means:-). If you want to develop closed source programs, you have to buy a developer license for Qt from TrollTech. So the correct answer is, you can develop non-GPL application for KDE, as the Qt licenses makes it possible.
Rather hard to get right, since you have to change all the differences in your document. And that's rather difficult when you don't know what they are. That's why you always should use somebody else copy when leaking....
You are correct in that using distrowatch.com as measurement in this discussion are flawed. Although Mandriva actually have a bigger presence in commercial organizations than most people choose to believe. But the most telling are the position of RedFlag and TurboLinux on the list, they are huge in Asia.
And you are exaggerating, RHEL are perhaps the number one commercial distribution, but the difference to Suse are more like 3 to 2 worldwide. Besides the biggest part of RHEL's customers and their main focus area, are servers not the desktop. When removing servers from the picture RHEL does not make the same impact on the numbers, where it's a much more even field. I'm not surprised if pure desktop distributions like Linspire and Xandros are close to RHEL on the desktops in commercial organizations.
Debian does it this way.
I think all moder distributions does this, like Suse and Mandriva.
I wonder if it is not a nightmare to maintain
Why should it be, it's done automatically when building the packages. The same way distributors have split packages into app, lib and devel packages for years.
True and I'd say it's the color schema who is to blame for the majority of those comments, using clear blue colors like windows. As an example compare comments to reviews of Mandriva and Suse, you never see the "copying windows" comments for Suse. The reason are Suse's default green colors. Try writing a Gnome review using the clear blue colors in the screenshots, I bet you get the "copying windows" comments in the first 20 comments.
Ok time for some reality check. NLD is GNOME based
Wrong, in NLD you have to chose KDE or Gnome (or both) at install as there is no default, and the configuration tool is still Yast2, which is Qt/KDE based.
As for Suse, if you bother to check rather than spreading lies, it's what gives the most income of Novell's Linux ventures.
No doubt Mandrive. Since the configuration tools it has are superior to what Ubuntu offers, making any tweaking necessary to get the best available performance out of the hardware much more user-friendly.
to assume that CPU design is an American specialty of some sort.
True, and if one even bothers to look at the different CPU architectures and their history one it's rather plain. Take one of the most widely used architectures like ARM, it's pure British. The strongARM was a cooporation with the old Alpha team so it's partly American. And it's that Indian guy, whats his name? Who is considered the main architect of the SPARC line(Or was it the MIPS? I always mix those up). And in the little simpler segment we have the Atmel AVR family, which was developed in Norway.
the system will have a button which will allow the user to verify that they are indeed at the bank's website and not at some scammer's fake site."
Brilliant idea, not. If the phisher don't make a similar feature, they are rather incompetent I'd say. Something like: Click here -> Oh yes, it's us don't worry. Just give us your banking data, we are not some scammer's.
WordPRo was initially called AmiPro and was the first usable wordprocessor on windows. It was far superior to MS Word for windows both 1.x and 2.0. But succumbed to MS marketing muscle at the time when MS jumped the version number and released word 6.0, and started bundling several applications as the office package.
There are some things making me believe and hope, this actually are going to get handled in a rational and effective manner. It may, if the media refrains from creating a mass hysteria kind of situation out of it. So I think most will depend on how the press handles it. Afterall terrorist bombs in London are not a new thing, sadly the citizens of London have lived with the treat for years. They have the experience of handling this kind of situations from the IRA bombs in the '70s and '80s.
I can install every installable package on my Linux by clicking on it in the file manger.
If you don't want to use "./configure; make; make install" don't bloody use LFS. This is 2005, you only have to use a modern distribution. Stating otherwise are either FUD or a lame attempt on trolling, like the "the tedium of poring through manpages and configuring text files" part of your comment. All the modern distributions have configuration tools for this, but like everything else with computers you need to have some knowledge to use them correctly. In that regard Linux does not differ from any other system.
Seatbelts are unnecessary as they don't stop that fast, even in an emergency. The deacceleration you get in your average family car when flooring the breaks are significantly higher, and it's no big problem handling that. Steel wheels against steel tracks have much lower friction than rubber against tarmack. Some breakage of bones may happen, with people standing and all, but most likely nothing major. Usually preferable to what may happen if not engaging the emergency breaks.
The maintainer at the time when the name changed to Krita was Swedish, if I remember correctly. And the translation was also correct, it's chalk. My swedish is a bit rusty, but I seem to recall that rita (loose the K) means 'draw' in swedish.
I think Nokia was working on and founding a project for an embedded version of Mozilla/Gecko to use on PDAs an phones. Since this was started some time ago, before Mozilla/Gecko was at a particular usable state(0.9ish or before). I'd guess they also had to support Mozilla to get it usable. Or was that embedded thingy sponsored/worked on by Ericksson, don't quite remember:-)
I rather think it will become positive for Linux, since it opens a new market and revenuestream for Linux companies. Transgamer and CodeWeavers will get a whole new market, increasing their revenue and making more money available to improve their products. Both on Mac and Linux.
Those clever hackers will have to do a whole lotta device driver writing to get it working on "stock" hardware. Take one example. If Apple decides to use some graphics chip from Intel, all users of nVidia, ATi, S3, SiS and users of other Intel GPUs are all out of the picture. And considering the amount of chips Apple would buy, there would be no surprise if they get a slightly modified chip sold only to Apple. And then you have all the other chips needed in a complete system. Those clever hacker's have to become mighty busy. As a reference, do you know how many % the device drivers are of the total code in the Linux kernel?
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And he ends up with +5, Insightful. There's Karma for you.
I don't know anything about Microfocus Cobol, but if it's something close to ANSI COBOL compliant, perhaps you should look at Kobol http://thekompany.com/products/kobol/, to migrate. To anywhere else than SCO, I'd guess.
No, it's not correct. You can develop with any sort of open source license on KDE. The KDE library's are LGPL or BSD (While most applications are GPL, but that does not affect other application developers) and the Qt libs are GPL or QPL. The QPL gives you right to develop using the Qt libs using any open source license, the only restriction are that the source has to be freely available(But again that's more or less what the open in open source means:-). If you want to develop closed source programs, you have to buy a developer license for Qt from TrollTech. So the correct answer is, you can develop non-GPL application for KDE, as the Qt licenses makes it possible.
Rather hard to get right, since you have to change all the differences in your document. And that's rather difficult when you don't know what they are. That's why you always should use somebody else copy when leaking....
You are correct in that using distrowatch.com as measurement in this discussion are flawed. Although Mandriva actually have a bigger presence in commercial organizations than most people choose to believe. But the most telling are the position of RedFlag and TurboLinux on the list, they are huge in Asia. And you are exaggerating, RHEL are perhaps the number one commercial distribution, but the difference to Suse are more like 3 to 2 worldwide. Besides the biggest part of RHEL's customers and their main focus area, are servers not the desktop. When removing servers from the picture RHEL does not make the same impact on the numbers, where it's a much more even field. I'm not surprised if pure desktop distributions like Linspire and Xandros are close to RHEL on the desktops in commercial organizations.
Debian does it this way.
I think all moder distributions does this, like Suse and Mandriva.
I wonder if it is not a nightmare to maintain
Why should it be, it's done automatically when building the packages. The same way distributors have split packages into app, lib and devel packages for years.
the similarity with XP is only skin deep
True and I'd say it's the color schema who is to blame for the majority of those comments, using clear blue colors like windows. As an example compare comments to reviews of Mandriva and Suse, you never see the "copying windows" comments for Suse. The reason are Suse's default green colors. Try writing a Gnome review using the clear blue colors in the screenshots, I bet you get the "copying windows" comments in the first 20 comments.
Ok time for some reality check.
NLD is GNOME based
Wrong, in NLD you have to chose KDE or Gnome (or both) at install as there is no default, and the configuration tool is still Yast2, which is Qt/KDE based.
As for Suse, if you bother to check rather than spreading lies, it's what gives the most income of Novell's Linux ventures.
No doubt Mandrive. Since the configuration tools it has are superior to what Ubuntu offers, making any tweaking necessary to get the best available performance out of the hardware much more user-friendly.
As you can get the predecessor that way, Godson-1 based mini-ITX boards(search for it). I'd say it's rather possible.
to assume that CPU design is an American specialty of some sort.
True, and if one even bothers to look at the different CPU architectures and their history one it's rather plain. Take one of the most widely used architectures like ARM, it's pure British. The strongARM was a cooporation with the old Alpha team so it's partly American. And it's that Indian guy, whats his name? Who is considered the main architect of the SPARC line(Or was it the MIPS? I always mix those up). And in the little simpler segment we have the Atmel AVR family, which was developed in Norway.
Well re-phrase it somewhat then, look at all the different chip vendors who make 8085 compatible processors. None of them get sued over it.
And you can still buy them today....
the system will have a button which will allow the user to verify that they are indeed at the bank's website and not at some scammer's fake site."
Brilliant idea, not. If the phisher don't make a similar feature, they are rather incompetent I'd say. Something like: Click here -> Oh yes, it's us don't worry. Just give us your banking data, we are not some scammer's.
WordPRo was initially called AmiPro and was the first usable wordprocessor on windows. It was far superior to MS Word for windows both 1.x and 2.0. But succumbed to MS marketing muscle at the time when MS jumped the version number and released word 6.0, and started bundling several applications as the office package.
There are some things making me believe and hope, this actually are going to get handled in a rational and effective manner. It may, if the media refrains from creating a mass hysteria kind of situation out of it. So I think most will depend on how the press handles it. Afterall terrorist bombs in London are not a new thing, sadly the citizens of London have lived with the treat for years. They have the experience of handling this kind of situations from the IRA bombs in the '70s and '80s.
I can install every installable package on my Linux by clicking on it in the file manger. If you don't want to use "./configure; make; make install" don't bloody use LFS. This is 2005, you only have to use a modern distribution. Stating otherwise are either FUD or a lame attempt on trolling, like the "the tedium of poring through manpages and configuring text files" part of your comment. All the modern distributions have configuration tools for this, but like everything else with computers you need to have some knowledge to use them correctly. In that regard Linux does not differ from any other system.
You really don't want to slightly annoy the bored Norvegian's.
You really don't want to piss of the Norvegian's, it's common knowledge what happend the last time. Remember Lindisfarne.
Seatbelts are unnecessary as they don't stop that fast, even in an emergency. The deacceleration you get in your average family car when flooring the breaks are significantly higher, and it's no big problem handling that. Steel wheels against steel tracks have much lower friction than rubber against tarmack. Some breakage of bones may happen, with people standing and all, but most likely nothing major. Usually preferable to what may happen if not engaging the emergency breaks.
The maintainer at the time when the name changed to Krita was Swedish, if I remember correctly. And the translation was also correct, it's chalk. My swedish is a bit rusty, but I seem to recall that rita (loose the K) means 'draw' in swedish.
I think Nokia was working on and founding a project for an embedded version of Mozilla/Gecko to use on PDAs an phones. Since this was started some time ago, before Mozilla/Gecko was at a particular usable state(0.9ish or before). I'd guess they also had to support Mozilla to get it usable. Or was that embedded thingy sponsored/worked on by Ericksson, don't quite remember:-)
I rather think it will become positive for Linux, since it opens a new market and revenuestream for Linux companies. Transgamer and CodeWeavers will get a whole new market, increasing their revenue and making more money available to improve their products. Both on Mac and Linux.
Those clever hackers will have to do a whole lotta device driver writing to get it working on "stock" hardware. Take one example. If Apple decides to use some graphics chip from Intel, all users of nVidia, ATi, S3, SiS and users of other Intel GPUs are all out of the picture. And considering the amount of chips Apple would buy, there would be no surprise if they get a slightly modified chip sold only to Apple. And then you have all the other chips needed in a complete system. Those clever hacker's have to become mighty busy. As a reference, do you know how many % the device drivers are of the total code in the Linux kernel?
And not to forget a new place for Transgaming and CodeWeavers to make money.