STSF was started at Sun long before Sun Linux, and
is not at all dependent on Sun Linux to continue development. Sun still sells desktop computers,
running Solaris and eventually Linux as well, and
STSF is developed to support them.
X.org is the replacement for the old X Consortium, and it is working on new technologies for X, including the Media Application Server (MAS), a "network transparent sound protocol that runs in parallel with X to deliver the sound portion of apps."
Admittedly, it has been almost two years since X.org released X11R6.6, but work is in progress on X11R6.7.
Nobody is working on X12, because X12 implies breaking compatibility with X11, and no one has yet come up with a compelling reason to do so that can't be handled via extensions to X11.
No, The Open Group owns the Unix trademark, and licenses it to any OS that meets their certification requirements. Novell gave it away before selling USL to SCO.
OpenWindows, CDE & GNOME all run on top of X, they do not replace it. You don't need to install XFree86 or any other Xserver to run a different window manager - just install the window manager of your choice and run it with Xsun.
... that no matter how early you arrive you cannot take Scott McNealy's office.
Yep. And no matter how early you arrive, you can't have mine either, even though I often don't show up until 11am, and I'm a mere low-level engineer. As the article said, only about half the company is on this system - for some types of jobs it makes sense, for others it doesn't. (Besides, I turned down the SunRay since I don't have room with the Sparc 20, Ultra 10, & SunBlade 100 already in my office.)
Sun is working on advanced font rendering and layout in the X server. The project is still in the early stages of development, but since it's open source, you can see what's there so far at http://stsf.sourceforge.net/.
Except that as the article states, your student is on the residential halls network, which uses separate bandwidth cap and doesn't affect the SETI bandwidth.
Actually, the network admins have pointed the finger at Kazaa & gnutella. According to the UCB Director of Communications & Network Services, "kazaa and gnutella account for more than half the bits in aggregate". And it's not just SETI that's suffering - all network users have been affected. Unfortunately, a lower priority or outright ban on those services has been rejected due to policy and legal issues.
trn is still slowly under development (http://trn.sourceforge.net/) and version 4 is pretty stable and still my favorite newsreader, despite being in beta for the better part of a decade.
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I don't have a copy handy, and it's been a long time since I read it, but I seem to remember it including descriptions of what was basically e-commerce with micro-payments.
No you won't. The beauty of X is that the X server works with any window manager you throw at it - you don't need to recompile the server just to run another window manager.
Even if your business is decentralized, telecommutting can help in disaster recovery.
For instance, I work for a company with offices around the world, including one in the WTC. Fortunately, the offices were very low in the building and everyone escaped. Thanks to offsite backups and a telecommuting infrastructure already in place, within two days of the attack, they had setup everyone to be able to work as telecommuters out of our New Jersey office, so those who were ready to get back to work could do so. (Of course, management completely understands that not everyone is ready to go back to work yet, but just getting e-mail for those workers back online helped in determining everyone was okay and in giving them a way to communicate with their friends and colleagues.)
While the odds of your office being destroyed by terrorists are low, there are dozens of other reasons your office could be unavailble (fire, flood, earthquake, power blackouts, etc.) and the only way your workers have to be productive is via telecommuting - but waiting until you need it to set it up is usually too late.
But there's no reason to replace the PDF format (which is *NOT* just PostScript compressed). Adobe has clearly documented it and there are third party tools available to replace Acrobat Writer, such as ps2pdf.
Also, the "Xserver jumbo patch" is just the SunOS or Solaris patch for the Xserver, available from sunsolve.sun.com. (For most OS versions, it's included in the OpenWindows patches and labeled as the Xsun patch.)
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STSF was started at Sun long before Sun Linux, and is not at all dependent on Sun Linux to continue development. Sun still sells desktop computers, running Solaris and eventually Linux as well, and STSF is developed to support them.
X.org is the replacement for the old X Consortium, and it is working on new technologies for X, including the Media Application Server (MAS), a "network transparent sound protocol that runs in parallel with X to deliver the sound portion of apps."
Admittedly, it has been almost two years since X.org released X11R6.6, but work is in progress on X11R6.7.
Nobody is working on X12, because X12 implies breaking compatibility with X11, and no one has yet come up with a compelling reason to do so that can't be handled via extensions to X11.
No, The Open Group owns the Unix trademark, and licenses it to any OS that meets their certification requirements. Novell gave it away before selling USL to SCO.
OpenWindows, CDE & GNOME all run on top of X, they do not replace it. You don't need to install XFree86 or any other Xserver to run a different window manager - just install the window manager of your choice and run it with Xsun.
Check out the Sun GNOME 2.0 Performance Troubleshooting Guide. Perhaps it can help you.
It installs in /usr/bin, so you probably don't want to rm -rf that. There is a remove-gnome script to pkgrm all the packages though.
Xlib was made thread safe in the X11R6 release in 1994, but only if you initialize the locks it needs to do it properly via XInitThreads.
... that no matter how early you arrive you cannot take Scott McNealy's office.
Yep. And no matter how early you arrive, you can't have mine either, even though I often don't show up until 11am, and I'm a mere low-level engineer. As the article said, only about half the company is on this system - for some types of jobs it makes sense, for others it doesn't. (Besides, I turned down the SunRay since I don't have room with the Sparc 20, Ultra 10, & SunBlade 100 already in my office.)
Sun is working on advanced font rendering and layout in the X server. The project is still in the early stages of development, but since it's open source, you can see what's there so far at http://stsf.sourceforge.net/.
Except that as the article states, your student is on the residential halls network, which uses separate bandwidth cap and doesn't affect the SETI bandwidth.
Actually, the network admins have pointed the finger at Kazaa & gnutella. According to the UCB Director of Communications & Network Services, "kazaa and gnutella account for more than half the bits in aggregate". And it's not just SETI that's suffering - all network users have been affected. Unfortunately, a lower priority or outright ban on those services has been rejected due to policy and legal issues.
trn is still slowly under development (http://trn.sourceforge.net/) and version 4 is pretty stable and still my favorite newsreader, despite being in beta for the better part of a decade.
I don't have a copy handy, and it's been a long time since I read it, but I seem to remember it including descriptions of what was basically e-commerce with micro-payments.
Published in 1990.
There is no xinerama library in the standard X11R6.6 distribution. If your software depends on it, then it is not designed to be portable.
Almost a decade ago, as part of the whole USL vs. BSDi lawsuit (see the section "The Lawsuit" in McKusick's history of BSD for details), one of the complaints was for trademark infringement for advertising their phone number as "1-800-ITS-UNIX".
No you won't. The beauty of X is that the X server works with any window manager you throw at it - you don't need to recompile the server just to run another window manager.
Well, there is an Amtrak station not too far away in Oakland, and Amtrak does offer a lot more leg & laptop room than any airline.
Even if your business is decentralized, telecommutting can help in disaster recovery.
For instance, I work for a company with offices around the world, including one in the WTC. Fortunately, the offices were very low in the building and everyone escaped. Thanks to offsite backups and a telecommuting infrastructure already in place, within two days of the attack, they had setup everyone to be able to work as telecommuters out of our New Jersey office, so those who were ready to get back to work could do so. (Of course, management completely understands that not everyone is ready to go back to work yet, but just getting e-mail for those workers back online helped in determining everyone was okay and in giving them a way to communicate with their friends and colleagues.)
While the odds of your office being destroyed by terrorists are low, there are dozens of other reasons your office could be unavailble (fire, flood, earthquake, power blackouts, etc.) and the only way your workers have to be productive is via telecommuting - but waiting until you need it to set it up is usually too late.
But there's no reason to replace the PDF format (which is *NOT* just PostScript compressed). Adobe has clearly documented it and there are third party tools available to replace Acrobat Writer, such as ps2pdf.
I haven't tried it, but http://sunblade100.wells.org.uk/cgi-bin/bladefaq.c gi?file=60 has instructions for installing SuSE 7.1 on a SB100, along with notes about which device drivers just aren't there yet (like the floppy drive).
Finally, there is some crosstalk between the sound outputs and the video outputs leading to "buzzes" on certain screen backgrounds.
According to the UnOfficial SunBlade 100 FAQ, people who have complained about this to Sun have gotten replacement motherboards that fix the problem.
Of course not - everyone should remember when he rwall'ed the entire ARPAnet and in doing so single-handedly forced the invention of the firewall...
Also, the "Xserver jumbo patch" is just the SunOS or Solaris patch for the Xserver, available from sunsolve.sun.com. (For most OS versions, it's included in the OpenWindows patches and labeled as the Xsun patch.)