But the only way for Linux to get out of its rut (and yes, unless you think it should stay as a 1% niche to only be accessibly by geeks and techheads it really is still stuck in a rut) it needs at least SOME standardization in important areas like a broken init system.
systemd will not magically make major vendors pre-install Linux on inexpensive PCs and laptops. Until that happens, we're stuck at 1%.
The things X does well (e.g. network transparency) are really irrelevant nowadays (you can just send video instead of a render command stream, it will be better)
How am I to use a GUI application on a remote device witha video stream? How does that render menus, etc?
Schools are buying them. I know at least 2 schools in chicago are using them, so I'm sure there are more. It makes sense to me. I hope it's not some ripoff.
With... RDP that does not entirely suck it appears MS is close to catching up with the Enlightenment window manager on X...
Actually, RDP is one of the things I must concede (as much as I hate it) where MS is ahead. Straight X over a WAN with any latency really sucks. (Caveat: I haven't tried xrdp yet.)
Nothing forces anybody to write that way. Perl 5 is plenty good and CPAN still rocks. I suppose the Python community has something comparable. I'll admit I haven't checked.
I've tried to make myself learn Python twice - the second time I remembered "syntactically significant whitespace - that's why I laughed at this last time". Don't feel like the Lone Ranger though, I hate BEGIN and END almost as much - maybe more.
Hm, my spidey sense is tingling... I think they are full of crap.
I thought SCO was full probably full of it early on. But I knew it was all crap when they wouldn't show any infringing code, except to know-nothing journalists like Didio and Enderle, under NDA. At that point, I knew they had nothing.
Frankly, I'm not sure what the article is trying to state.
Obviously. The point of the article is that access to the "good stuff" - decoded video data, video decoding keys, in the example - can only be had thru a separate, non-GPL OS running in in another VM. SO loading a hacked GPLv3 OS in place of the one provided still doesn;t give you the keys to the kingdom. It doesn't in fact violate GPLv3 as I understand it - it just makes the loading of the hacked version less fun and useful.
If I run CentOS at home, what commercial distro am I most comfortable with?
And if I'm already running RHEL at work (which I do), I can pre-test anything I want to do at home on CentOS.
I don't maind a static image. It's the popup windows or animated GIFs or FLash crapoloa that keeps flashing, flashing, flashing that I will not tolerate and will do everything possible to block. If he doesn't like that, he did it to himself. fuck him.
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I've started to learn python twice. Each time I run into the concept of "Syntactically significant white-space" I run away screaming. Give me braces, damnit.
"Microsoft's bought-and-paid-for whore.." And who's bought and paid for you, holy one? IBM?
MS gave Sun 2 Biliion Dollars. Sun abruptly changed course on some issues, including patents, in a way that - surprise! - favors MS.
IBM has given me nothing personally. They *have* made many contributions to FOSS, which I appreciate. Sun, in spite of past contributions (the original OpenOffice was a huge break for FOSS, for example), is now moving in exactly the opposite direction and the new movement dates to the MS cash infusion. Go ahead - tell me it's a coincidence.
the post liked to a Sun page that stated it was for Solaris. Although compatilbility with linux is mentioned, I'm betting that refers to JDS2. I bet JDS3 is Solaris-only and if it isn't, JDS4 will be. Now that Sun is Microsoft's bought-and-paid-for whore, there will be no Linux floating about Sun offereings a year from now.
The title of the artcicle was "Anatomy of a Successful Enterprise Linux Distro?"
Maybe that is the fault of an idiot Slashdot editor rather than the intent of of the original poster. If so, I stand corrected.
If not - JDS is NOT a linux distro, whatever else it is.
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But the only way for Linux to get out of its rut (and yes, unless you think it should stay as a 1% niche to only be accessibly by geeks and techheads it really is still stuck in a rut) it needs at least SOME standardization in important areas like a broken init system.
systemd will not magically make major vendors pre-install Linux on inexpensive PCs and laptops. Until that happens, we're stuck at 1%.
The things X does well (e.g. network transparency) are really irrelevant nowadays (you can just send video instead of a render command stream, it will be better)
How am I to use a GUI application on a remote device witha video stream? How does that render menus, etc?
Schools are buying them. I know at least 2 schools in chicago are using them, so I'm sure there are more. It makes sense to me. I hope it's not some ripoff.
With ... RDP that does not entirely suck it appears MS is close to catching up with the Enlightenment window manager on X...
Actually, RDP is one of the things I must concede (as much as I hate it) where MS is ahead. Straight X over a WAN with any latency really sucks. (Caveat: I haven't tried xrdp yet.)
Nothing forces anybody to write that way. Perl 5 is plenty good and CPAN still rocks. I suppose the Python community has something comparable. I'll admit I haven't checked. I've tried to make myself learn Python twice - the second time I remembered "syntactically significant whitespace - that's why I laughed at this last time". Don't feel like the Lone Ranger though, I hate BEGIN and END almost as much - maybe more.
While your at it, check out the "red pills" (with respect to women) at Men Going Their Own Way Forum
Why is it that airports have special significance?
Maybe because it's the common public place most likely to be overstocked with people who are paid to be paranoid and have guns?
Hm, my spidey sense is tingling... I think they are full of crap.
I thought SCO was full probably full of it early on. But I knew it was all crap when they wouldn't show any infringing code, except to know-nothing journalists like Didio and Enderle, under NDA. At that point, I knew they had nothing.
Frankly, I'm not sure what the article is trying to state.
Obviously. The point of the article is that access to the "good stuff" - decoded video data, video decoding keys, in the example - can only be had thru a separate, non-GPL OS running in in another VM. SO loading a hacked GPLv3 OS in place of the one provided still doesn;t give you the keys to the kingdom. It doesn't in fact violate GPLv3 as I understand it - it just makes the loading of the hacked version less fun and useful.
And when I come back, if I see Enderle linked, I won't read for *another* month.
Enderle is a whore: he has stated, in public, in writing, that he will come down on either side if any issue for money.
And he is stupid too - he is one of those that was convinced that SCO had a great case against IBM.
I'm hoping I die and/or retire before perl5 is discontinued.
gack!
Holocaust revisionism
Umm. there is some reason to regard this as something other than pure manure?
The Spammers can thank Microsoft for the army of zombies they used to counter-attack.
Once again Microsoft ruins the internet.
I took a 20K/year pay cut just so I could wear blue jeans and sandles.
I've told my bos that the toothpaste is out of the tube, as far as going back to suit and tie goes.
BUT, for $20,000/year extra, I'd wear pretty much whatever they asked for.
If I run CentOS at home, what commercial distro am I most comfortable with? And if I'm already running RHEL at work (which I do), I can pre-test anything I want to do at home on CentOS.
That's all I need. Thank you very much.
I don't maind a static image. It's the popup windows or animated GIFs or FLash crapoloa that keeps flashing, flashing, flashing that I will not tolerate and will do everything possible to block. If he doesn't like that, he did it to himself. fuck him.
I've started to learn python twice. Each time I run into the concept of "Syntactically significant white-space" I run away screaming. Give me braces, damnit.
I work doing router and server admin.
The shortest path between "need" and "have" is usually a perl script. CPAN alone puts perl above anything else I know of.
and send them an email telling them that you are and why.
MS gave Sun 2 Biliion Dollars. Sun abruptly changed course on some issues, including patents, in a way that - surprise! - favors MS.
IBM has given me nothing personally. They *have* made many contributions to FOSS, which I appreciate. Sun, in spite of past contributions (the original OpenOffice was a huge break for FOSS, for example), is now moving in exactly the opposite direction and the new movement dates to the MS cash infusion. Go ahead - tell me it's a coincidence.
the post liked to a Sun page that stated it was for Solaris. Although compatilbility with linux is mentioned, I'm betting that refers to JDS2. I bet JDS3 is Solaris-only and if it isn't, JDS4 will be. Now that Sun is Microsoft's bought-and-paid-for whore, there will be no Linux floating about Sun offereings a year from now.
The title of the artcicle was "Anatomy of a Successful Enterprise Linux Distro?" Maybe that is the fault of an idiot Slashdot editor rather than the intent of of the original poster. If so, I stand corrected. If not - JDS is NOT a linux distro, whatever else it is.
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