Yes sure, I expressed myself badly. I meant the application name in the title bar of the window. It's now Debian Thunderbird and not Mozilla Thunderbird.
There was a simillar problem for mozilla thunderbird. When it first appeared in Debian Sid, it was called Mozilla Thunderbird. Now it is called Debian Thunderbird.
This name change was asked by the Mozilla Foundation because Mozilla Thunderbird is trademarked by the Mozilla Foundation and they don't seem to enjoy unofficial builds (i.e. builds that are not downloaded from mozilla.org or one of its mirrors)
So now I use Debian Thunderbird, and I suppose sooner or later I will use "Debian Firefox". So what ? I don't mind at all..
Yeah actually it happened twice. It's *way* too much for me. I agree artists and even the music industry need to protect their work from stealing, but CD was *not* designed to be copy protected, back in 1982. So new copy protection techniques will only upset legitimate customers.
I'm tired of being f*cked up when I buy a CD in a shop, and the CD doesn't play in my Discman or my DVD player.
Protection schemes are only applied in the mainstream production. For the labels that cry they don't earn enough $$$. Crap about that, I don't buy anymore mainstream production. I *much* prefer spending my money for more underground artists who deserve my money *much* more than Britney does.
A: No. there is not a version of Evolution for Windows.
Same can be said for KDE PIM of course... sure these are great apps, but if an opensource product wants to gain market shares, it has to run on WINDOWS, sad but true... Well sad, not so sad after all, as it produces great applications for linux. See for example open office, I don't mind if their primary target is windows, as long as I have a great office suite for linux:)
As it's been already stated in those comments, gcj can run openoffice almost completely. Now, the Apache foundation started a free (as in speech) implementation of j2se 1.5, so sooner or later, I'm sure the integration of JAVA won't be a problem anymore, and people will stop whining Java is not free (I'm one of those whiners, becoming more and more confident).
I hope Classpath license will become compatible with Apache license, so that it will help both projects. As FAQ says:
13) Does this compete with Kaffe and Classpath?
People from Kaffe and Classpath are helping start this project! Their experience in the open source VM and class library is invaluable, and they bring problems that the larger architecture community discussion can help solve.
We will have an implementation under the Apache License, but we think of this as complementary rather than competitive. And when we solve a few small license interoperability issues, we expect we'll be able to complement each other even more.
My mother cannot use Word properly, that's a fact. Anyway, as she had many problems with Word XP, I suggested her to upgrade to Word 2003.
But, as she saved her Word XP imported document into the new Word 2K3 format, Word crashed and the document was unrecoverable (all word could do was retrieve some strings from the document, no formatting, no embedded images, nothing interesting).
As a last hope, I tried to transfer the crashed document on my Debian box, in order to see how could OOo handle this crashed DOC file.
I was very surprised to say the least, but the document got opened without any problem. Even more, I was able to export it to a Word (either 95, 97, 2000,...) format, and she could retrieve all her data.
As I already said my mother cannot use word properly at all, so there is no complex formatting in her documents. Anyway, this is absolutely not a reason for Word to crash badly.
Conclusion : Open Office really rocks ! That time, it was OOo 1.1.3, and I'm really looking forward to the next release !
A good programmer, in the meaning of a programmer who has good ideas, and has a good conception of the problem he/she has to solve, can make stupid bugs (for example forget to check somewhere if a pointer is not NULL). So all his work is lost because some user trying the program, and seeing "segmentation fault" will immediately trash it.
If the program is open source, maybe someone will look at the code and fix the stupid bug, and the program will reveal all its power.
So clearly open source is the best program distribution model.
Well, Java is great. But for the moment it's not opensource. But you know, it's like what C, C++,... were : it's only a matter of time when gnu catches up with gcj, as they already did with gcc/g++.
Not exactly... Acroread has been removed from debian for a while now. The Debian team judged acroread was "too much non-free" to be in non-free. So in order to get acrobat reader for debian you have to include Christian Marillat's deb source in your/etc/apt/sources.list : add the line
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
I used to think so, but now I'm not so convinced of that. I think the main problem for software patents is the time they last. 18 years, right ? You know, 2005 - 18 = 1987. Wow ! In 1987 Windows was 2.0. In computer world 18 years is an eternity.
What would you think of a patent lasting one year ? Don't you think it could stimulate innovation ? And the evil effect of a patent would be reduced ?
Debian does a new release *when it is ready* only. IMHO deadlines are the way to make bad products. Debian privileges quality over quantity. I remember when woody become stable, it was already outdated (Woody has KDE 2.2 and the current version was 3.0 at that time for example). Anyway I've been using Debian SID for more than two years now, and this distro is rock stable. I've never run an OS for a so long period of time without having to reformat or so.
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Yes sure, I expressed myself badly. I meant the application name in the title bar of the window. It's now Debian Thunderbird and not Mozilla Thunderbird.
There was a simillar problem for mozilla thunderbird. When it first appeared in Debian Sid, it was called Mozilla Thunderbird. Now it is called Debian Thunderbird.
This name change was asked by the Mozilla Foundation because Mozilla Thunderbird is trademarked by the Mozilla Foundation and they don't seem to enjoy unofficial builds (i.e. builds that are not downloaded from mozilla.org or one of its mirrors)
So now I use Debian Thunderbird, and I suppose sooner or later I will use "Debian Firefox". So what ? I don't mind at all ..
Yeah actually it happened twice. It's *way* too much for me. I agree artists and even the music industry need to protect their work from stealing, but CD was *not* designed to be copy protected, back in 1982. So new copy protection techniques will only upset legitimate customers.
I'm tired of being f*cked up when I buy a CD in a shop, and the CD doesn't play in my Discman or my DVD player.
Protection schemes are only applied in the mainstream production. For the labels that cry they don't earn enough $$$. Crap about that, I don't buy anymore mainstream production. I *much* prefer spending my money for more underground artists who deserve my money *much* more than Britney does.
There will be no *official* Sarge/AMD64. But unofficial Sarge is available and will also be supported by the security.debian.org team.
After Sarge is released, AMD64 officially enters debian. So the first official Debian/AMD64 release will be etch
Maybe there
IBM is gonna release the CPU specs, not the PS3 specs, big difference.
For example, the PS1 uses a MIPS R3000. You can find the specs for this processor in a lot of places (just google "mips r3000" if interested).
Knowing that, you know about NOTHING of the Playstation, as there are a lot of additional hardware.
A game console has more CPU dedicated to a special task than a PC.
From evolution FAQ :
Q: Is there an version of Evolution for Windows?
A: No. there is not a version of Evolution for Windows.
Same can be said for KDE PIM of course ... sure these are great apps, but if an opensource product wants to gain market shares, it has to run on WINDOWS, sad but true ... Well sad, not so sad after all, as it produces great applications for linux. See for example open office, I don't mind if their primary target is windows, as long as I have a great office suite for linux :)
Microsoft offers full virus defense, and Linux doesn't even have virus. Once again open source lagging behind, what a shame ...
Time to get a new job ehhh ;-)
As it's been already stated in those comments, gcj can run openoffice almost completely. Now, the Apache foundation started a free (as in speech) implementation of j2se 1.5, so sooner or later, I'm sure the integration of JAVA won't be a problem anymore, and people will stop whining Java is not free (I'm one of those whiners, becoming more and more confident).
I hope Classpath license will become compatible with Apache license, so that it will help both projects. As FAQ says :
13) Does this compete with Kaffe and Classpath?
People from Kaffe and Classpath are helping start this project! Their experience in the open source VM and class library is invaluable, and they bring problems that the larger architecture community discussion can help solve.
We will have an implementation under the Apache License, but we think of this as complementary rather than competitive. And when we solve a few small license interoperability issues, we expect we'll be able to complement each other even more.
My mother cannot use Word properly, that's a fact. Anyway, as she had many problems with Word XP, I suggested her to upgrade to Word 2003.
...) format, and she could retrieve all her data.
But, as she saved her Word XP imported document into the new Word 2K3 format, Word crashed and the document was unrecoverable (all word could do was retrieve some strings from the document, no formatting, no embedded images, nothing interesting).
As a last hope, I tried to transfer the crashed document on my Debian box, in order to see how could OOo handle this crashed DOC file.
I was very surprised to say the least, but the document got opened without any problem. Even more, I was able to export it to a Word (either 95, 97, 2000,
As I already said my mother cannot use word properly at all, so there is no complex formatting in her documents. Anyway, this is absolutely not a reason for Word to crash badly.
Conclusion : Open Office really rocks ! That time, it was OOo 1.1.3, and I'm really looking forward to the next release !
Hmmm topic talks about the Sony PSP, not the Nintendo DS ...
... or another "unofficial" msn messenger client ? They are not compatible with all that virii crap ...
A good programmer, in the meaning of a programmer who has good ideas, and has a good conception of the problem he/she has to solve, can make stupid bugs (for example forget to check somewhere if a pointer is not NULL). So all his work is lost because some user trying the program, and seeing "segmentation fault" will immediately trash it.
If the program is open source, maybe someone will look at the code and fix the stupid bug, and the program will reveal all its power.
So clearly open source is the best program distribution model.
it's only a matter of days before it is cracked... I don't see why this scheme could be an exception to this rule.
Well, Java is great. But for the moment it's not opensource. But you know, it's like what C, C++, ... were : it's only a matter of time when gnu catches up with gcj, as they already did with gcc/g++.
Not exactly ... Acroread has been removed from debian for a while now. The Debian team judged acroread was "too much non-free" to be in non-free. So in order to get acrobat reader for debian you have to include Christian Marillat's deb source in your /etc/apt/sources.list : add the line
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
(Note that this apt source also contains mplayer)
Is your right hand OK ? Err maybe you're lefthanded ;-).
I used to think so, but now I'm not so convinced of that. I think the main problem for software patents is the time they last. 18 years, right ? You know, 2005 - 18 = 1987. Wow ! In 1987 Windows was 2.0. In computer world 18 years is an eternity.
What would you think of a patent lasting one year ? Don't you think it could stimulate innovation ? And the evil effect of a patent would be reduced ?
That read "Double-Shit Experiment in Time, Not Space" :-)
Debian does a new release *when it is ready* only. IMHO deadlines are the way to make bad products. Debian privileges quality over quantity. I remember when woody become stable, it was already outdated (Woody has KDE 2.2 and the current version was 3.0 at that time for example).
Anyway I've been using Debian SID for more than two years now, and this distro is rock stable. I've never run an OS for a so long period of time without having to reformat or so.
MOD PARENT UP !!!!
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