I was had the idea that HURD developement was not that great and that a great deal of functionality was missing. It does not make any sense for people to be shipping HURD on a machine.
Those bloody big icons are supposed to like how M$ puts their running apps right on the taskbar. It is a very *nix or perhaps more correctly Next/Open Step thing to re-implement icons onto the desktop as running apps.
Time for the real question. Does this new version have a real maximize button? I never really liked Apple's way of maximizing things, I always ended up just resizing apps by hand to take up the whole screen.
Hey Taco, it is about time that you check out Sawmill.
Red Flag Linux?!? Is that becoming the official Linux for them or something? Guess this is good for Linux.
I hope for some one to come with a distro name Capitalist Linux. Or would that be taking too much from the Linux stock craze? LinuxOne are you listening?
Well first of all let me establish the fact that I have yet to try Corel Linux. My understanding of Corel's goals sound like I will not benefit from their distro but perhaps someday my parents will. From everything I heard, Corel is targeting a stupid end user (what my CS teachers are so fond of just calling "the user"). Targeting the real end user is not a stupid idea and some one was bound to do it sooner or later.
Well I was not happy to see that Corel embraced KDE like they did, but that is just because my personal dislike of KDE. I realize that Corel does not use pure KDE because they have their own file manager (their own KDE splinter perhaps?). It will be interesting to see what Corel does with KDE in the future.
Though I doubt to ever seriosly have benefit from the distro it seems that a lot of people will could benefit from some of Corel's work. I read in a Linuxworld article awhile back that Corel does not want to port their office apps to linux but instead use wine. The reasoning was that they would only have to maintain one code base instead of two. I only ever read the one code base idea in linuxworld but Corel is very much in love with wine for whatever reason. Corel has been one of the few companies to contract out people to do work on wine. A lot of people could benefit from a good wine.
Redhat does not seem that concerned about the quality of their shipping product because they seem to think that is what errata is for. RH's new priority upgrade service seems to support the upgrade idea. In Redhat defense, they could never ship a product if they waited for the newest and greatest of all the software.
The remarks about GNOME in RH 6.0 are very valid. It is a well known fact that GNOME reached a stable 1.0 release a few months too early such a version resides on RH 6.0. The GNOME team realized that there stable version was not that stable and spent a great deal of effort debugging all aspects of GNOME. Those efforts resulted in a very stable release known as OCTOBER GNOME. It is unfortanate to report but RH 6.1 did not shp with OCTOBER GNOME. This new version of GNOME has never crashed on me.
Wow, ten choices for 1,000 years is very limiting. Think of how many nerds and geeks and other brillant social undesirables there have been. My list would include Einstein, Decartes, Newton and Woz. It is far easier to make up a list of the top ten worst- with our little friend gates leading the way.
Well this well known but I just thought I would point out that Windows (not the beer and smokes) will still suck in this new year. It will still crash a whole lot and frequent reboots are still the norm.
I had wrist pain for most of high school. It turns out that I had a whole bunch of torn cartilage in my wrist. Had a surgey and the recovery time was a bear but it is pretty good now. I have had wrist pain since then but because of my job (shoveling). I saw a thing on television about computers and posture and they suggested that the little legs on the keyboard not be used- it seems to actually help a lot!
Last time I checked there was no official napster linux client. Fine, I went to freshmeat and found some linux clients. I admit I am not napster guru, so I do not know exactly how it works but these clients have to use napster's make-shift network. With all that said, is the RIAA going to sue only napster or the various authors of napster clients?
A virtual machine can be developed a lot quicker than a system emulator for a closed OS (i.e. Windows).
The list of supported application are going to be a lot larger than most closed source emulators.
And some disadvantages are:
A virtual machine still requires a copy of the desired OS. This is not important if you want to run run a virtual FreeBSD but if you want to run a closed source os then you have to still pay for it.
This virtual machine idea has proven to be slow whereas a good system emulator is as fast as the original OS.
I am sure there are more advantages and disadvantages but I could not list them all.
FUD is everywhere anymore. All this FUD is because people find it easy to disprove others than to prove themselves. It easy really a sad state of affairs if you think about it. Of course, the Linux FUD is big and so is political FUD. You might know the political FUD better as mudd flinging or negative advirtisement. Why does anyone not want to prove themselves instead of disproving others?
I always thought there was somekind of law against false advertising which I would think this was suppose to be, perhaps entrapment. Well I am no lawyer/law man- so this is just proof that M$ is never happy and always wants more money. Perhaps they are exploring unknown revenues of cash so they can delay Win2k until say 2010- when it could be stable if they start working on non-stop from now to then.
I listen a lot John Lennon for most of my programming. Towards the end of a program, I usually switch to the reckless abandonness of Jimi Hendrix. And if it is just late at night, I listen to the Doors. Oh, almost forgot- just as a wild card I listen to Weird Al Yankovic . . . he is always good for a stumper.
In the near future I will need to evaluate Mozilla/netscape, opera, and then there is the underdop aramadilla. Netscape sucks right now, opera is non-existant, and armadilla is still pre-beta (alpha). Mozilla surprisingly is not too bad even though it is pre-beta. The nicest thing I remember about opera is that it offered a nice browser in a nice small package. Netscape is bloatware and mozilla is half the size but still a a lot bigger than the other browsers. Linux is in need of a browser, that is it.
There are other choices out there. Of course, there is opera and lynx but opera costs a little money and lynx just does not display pictures but displays complex pages horribly. This brings me to a pre-beta open source browser fomerly known as gzilla. gzilla is changing its name to armadillo because gzilla confuses people and make it think it is related to mozilla. Interestingly too, armadillo feels that people where looking at it as a linux based app so they have a armadillo for their mascot now. Despite its identity problems and pre-beta status, armadillo is something to keep an eye on.
Well way back in the spring of '99 before I became a full linux convert I fooled around with the IE 5.0. It was really unimpressive to me, it just intergrated more M$ junk with M$ junk. But then I found a real OS, and surprise M$ does not support it (but is that bad)!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well way back in the spring of '99 before I became a full linux convert I fooled around with the IE 5.0. It was really unimpressive to me, it just intergrated more M$ junk with M$ junk. But then I found a real OS, and surprise M$ does support it (but is that bad)!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course some certain events happen everyday, but that does not mean you call them regular. Murder happens everyday and it is always news. Besides, how often does our little OS have any kind of freeze?
Simply put, the MS boys would try to simplfy the powerful os and make it user friendly. They just fool with it until it resembled and ran (and crashed) like Windows. I can see ms making a universal user- so that people do not have to fool with accounts, why not a autoroot account. MS- please leave linux alone
In the old old days, the slogan was to vote early and often. The current voting system is not perfect but it is more legitimate than any internet system would be today. I remember reading not too long ago that Bob Dole (the coolest dude, even with e.d.) managed to cause a huge "traffic jam" by prompting people to go to his site after a debate. In closing, I would like to note that the people have been known to manage to rig elections even today (where I live, a special election is being held for a school board position because the original vote my of been rigged) but it is a lot safer than what the internet offers at the moment.
It is so unfair that Blizzard makes killer games and have yet to share these games to the linux crowd. Yes WINE should get this to work, but WINE is also buggy and cannot figure out how-to configure the thing (the truth hurts). I am running an all linux box and do not have window system files and cannot figure out what do.
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I was had the idea that HURD developement was not that great and that a great deal of functionality was missing. It does not make any sense for people to be shipping HURD on a machine.
Those bloody big icons are supposed to like how M$ puts their running apps right on the taskbar. It is a very *nix or perhaps more correctly Next/Open Step thing to re-implement icons onto the desktop as running apps.
Time for the real question. Does this new version have a real maximize button? I never really liked Apple's way of maximizing things, I always ended up just resizing apps by hand to take up the whole screen.
Hey Taco, it is about time that you check out Sawmill.
Red Flag Linux?!? Is that becoming the official Linux for them or something? Guess this is good for Linux.
I hope for some one to come with a distro name Capitalist Linux. Or would that be taking too much from the Linux stock craze? LinuxOne are you listening?
Well first of all let me establish the fact that I have yet to try Corel Linux. My understanding of Corel's goals sound like I will not benefit from their distro but perhaps someday my parents will. From everything I heard, Corel is targeting a stupid end user (what my CS teachers are so fond of just calling "the user"). Targeting the real end user is not a stupid idea and some one was bound to do it sooner or later.
Well I was not happy to see that Corel embraced KDE like they did, but that is just because my personal dislike of KDE. I realize that Corel does not use pure KDE because they have their own file manager (their own KDE splinter perhaps?). It will be interesting to see what Corel does with KDE in the future.
Though I doubt to ever seriosly have benefit from the distro it seems that a lot of people will could benefit from some of Corel's work. I read in a Linuxworld article awhile back that Corel does not want to port their office apps to linux but instead use wine. The reasoning was that they would only have to maintain one code base instead of two. I only ever read the one code base idea in linuxworld but Corel is very much in love with wine for whatever reason. Corel has been one of the few companies to contract out people to do work on wine. A lot of people could benefit from a good wine.
Redhat does not seem that concerned about the quality of their shipping product because they seem to think that is what errata is for. RH's new priority upgrade service seems to support the upgrade idea. In Redhat defense, they could never ship a product if they waited for the newest and greatest of all the software.
The remarks about GNOME in RH 6.0 are very valid. It is a well known fact that GNOME reached a stable 1.0 release a few months too early such a version resides on RH 6.0. The GNOME team realized that there stable version was not that stable and spent a great deal of effort debugging all aspects of GNOME. Those efforts resulted in a very stable release known as OCTOBER GNOME. It is unfortanate to report but RH 6.1 did not shp with OCTOBER GNOME. This new version of GNOME has never crashed on me.
Wow, ten choices for 1,000 years is very limiting. Think of how many nerds and geeks and other brillant social undesirables there have been. My list would include Einstein, Decartes, Newton and Woz. It is far easier to make up a list of the top ten worst- with our little friend gates leading the way.
Well this well known but I just thought I would point out that Windows (not the beer and smokes) will still suck in this new year. It will still crash a whole lot and frequent reboots are still the norm.
I had wrist pain for most of high school. It turns out that I had a whole bunch of torn cartilage in my wrist. Had a surgey and the recovery time was a bear but it is pretty good now. I have had wrist pain since then but because of my job (shoveling). I saw a thing on television about computers and posture and they suggested that the little legs on the keyboard not be used- it seems to actually help a lot!
Last time I checked there was no official napster linux client. Fine, I went to freshmeat and found some linux clients. I admit I am not napster guru, so I do not know exactly how it works but these clients have to use napster's make-shift network. With all that said, is the RIAA going to sue only napster or the various authors of napster clients?
And some disadvantages are:
I am sure there are more advantages and disadvantages but I could not list them all.
let me take you down because I am going to
strawberry fields nothing is real
and stevie wonder and see there it is a place where you can never understand
FUD is everywhere anymore. All this FUD is because people find it easy to disprove others than to prove themselves. It easy really a sad state of affairs if you think about it. Of course, the Linux FUD is big and so is political FUD. You might know the political FUD better as mudd flinging or negative advirtisement. Why does anyone not want to prove themselves instead of disproving others?
Is there going to be any money left after Redhat buys up the rights of Mozilla from AOL?
I always thought there was somekind of law against false advertising which I would think this was suppose to be, perhaps entrapment. Well I am no lawyer/law man- so this is just proof that M$ is never happy and always wants more money. Perhaps they are exploring unknown revenues of cash so they can delay Win2k until say 2010- when it could be stable if they start working on non-stop from now to then.
I listen a lot John Lennon for most of my programming. Towards the end of a program, I usually switch to the reckless abandonness of Jimi Hendrix. And if it is just late at night, I listen to the Doors. Oh, almost forgot- just as a wild card I listen to Weird Al Yankovic . . . he is always good for a stumper.
In the near future I will need to evaluate Mozilla/netscape, opera, and then there is the underdop aramadilla. Netscape sucks right now, opera is non-existant, and armadilla is still pre-beta (alpha). Mozilla surprisingly is not too bad even though it is pre-beta. The nicest thing I remember about opera is that it offered a nice browser in a nice small package. Netscape is bloatware and mozilla is half the size but still a a lot bigger than the other browsers. Linux is in need of a browser, that is it.
There are other choices out there. Of course, there is opera and lynx but opera costs a little money and lynx just does not display pictures but displays complex pages horribly. This brings me to a pre-beta open source browser fomerly known as gzilla. gzilla is changing its name to armadillo because gzilla confuses people and make it think it is related to mozilla. Interestingly too, armadillo feels that people where looking at it as a linux based app so they have a armadillo for their mascot now. Despite its identity problems and pre-beta status, armadillo is something to keep an eye on.
I like LYNX, but I think it is going to have a major overhaul or lose following after opera comes out with their text browser.
Well way back in the spring of '99 before I became a full linux convert I fooled around with the IE 5.0. It was really unimpressive to me, it just intergrated more M$ junk with M$ junk. But then I found a real OS, and surprise M$ does not support it (but is that bad)!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well way back in the spring of '99 before I became a full linux convert I fooled around with the IE 5.0. It was really unimpressive to me, it just intergrated more M$ junk with M$ junk. But then I found a real OS, and surprise M$ does support it (but is that bad)!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course some certain events happen everyday, but that does not mean you call them regular. Murder happens everyday and it is always news. Besides, how often does our little OS have any kind of freeze?
Simply put, the MS boys would try to simplfy the powerful os and make it user friendly. They just fool with it until it resembled and ran (and crashed) like Windows. I can see ms making a universal user- so that people do not have to fool with accounts, why not a autoroot account. MS- please leave linux alone
In the old old days, the slogan was to vote early and often. The current voting system is not perfect but it is more legitimate than any internet system would be today. I remember reading not too long ago that Bob Dole (the coolest dude, even with e.d.) managed to cause a huge "traffic jam" by prompting people to go to his site after a debate. In closing, I would like to note that the people have been known to manage to rig elections even today (where I live, a special election is being held for a school board position because the original vote my of been rigged) but it is a lot safer than what the internet offers at the moment.
It is so unfair that Blizzard makes killer games and have yet to share these games to the linux crowd. Yes WINE should get this to work, but WINE is also buggy and cannot figure out how-to configure the thing (the truth hurts). I am running an all linux box and do not have window system files and cannot figure out what do.
This dude is asking for trouble- the topic has nothing to do with linux. I would like to see more of his poems(?)/songs though