You will then be able to install any Debian package that you desire.
most maybe but certainly not all. The thing is ubuntu rebuild everything after pulling it from and some packages either have problems that prevent autobuilding or require an older version of themselves to compile (for example freepascal which is written in pascal)
i bugged the ubuntu universe guys about freepascal a few days ago but it doesn't seem anythings been done about it yet.
i'm not sure about multiverse but i think its thier equivilent of the debian contrib/non-free repositries
testing is the current testing distribution currently pointed at (symlinked to on the servers) sarge
stable is the current stable distribution currently pointed at woody
oldstable is the previous stable distribition currently pointed at potato
when sarge releases testing will be pointed at the new testing distribution (etch) stable will be pointed at sarge and oldstable will be pointed at woody
iirc the rules for CD1 are based on things like standard package groups its only the higher cds (and possiblly spare space on cd1 i'm not sure) that are based on popcon output.
1: was GNU just the biggest single contributer or was it bigger than everything else put together? 2: was this a minimal command line only install or was it a full desktop system 3: do you have a link to this study? 4: iirc the bsds have versions of most command line tools and there are other C compilers and standard C library implementations around as free software. Sure it would be a pain to try and build a linux system with no gnu stuff because everything is set up for building with it but calling the gnu stuff irreplaceable is a major stretch.
i'd say a battery is not user replaceable (which is not the same thing as not replaceable period) if any of the following holds
1: the manufacturer specifically tells you not to replace it and/or tells you if you do replace it then you will void the warranty
2: the manufacturer takes deliberare steps to stop you getting at the battery and/or requires special tools to do it (e.g. soldering the battery in using security screws etc)
3: the battery is of a non-standard type and the manufacturer does not make spares availible.
with your car the manufacturer generally tells you how to replace the battery and what type to replace it with. you only need standard spanners to disconnect it with, and they warn you of any issues with disconnecting it (such as radio security codes)
i've also had calculators and test equipment where you have to unscrew the back to change the batteries but there were instructions in the manual on doing this and the batteries were a standard size so theese batteries were perfectly user replaceable
iirc the situation with amd64 is that thier are some technical issues keeping it out of the main archive but they are doing a sarge release through a seperate archive and there will be security updates and cd images made for it through the normal debian processes.
CD1 is plenty for getting the base system and other reccomended stuff installed. and once you get a net link working you can pull in everything over the net anyway
you only need the full collection of CDs if you wan't debians full software collection availible without a net link.
debian point releases don't really change a great deal anyway they replace a few packages that are really badly broken and rollup the security updates into the main tree but thats about it
this one also rolled in a certain update that will prevent a possible major problem for those who try and upgrade from woody-sarge without following the instructions.
no it checks if its still referenced. depending on your design referenced does not nessacerally mean still in use.
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the other issue is that they change the headers to get slight performance improvements at the cost of binary compatibility with older versions of the library
ie if you write an app using only stuff that was in gtk 2.2 but compile it using gtk 2.4 headers the result will NOT run on gtk 2.2
standard linux library development practices assume you will update your libraries but they assume you won't take a binary built on your system to a system with older libraries.
debian point releases have always been a bit on the minimal side mainly because of strict rules on whats allowed in.
however the reason this point release was made now is because the infrastructure won't allow for a woody point release once sarge is stable which fingers crossed should be happening this weekend!
Most of the people I know think.com is "the big part" of the internet and everything else is the poor schmucks who were too slow to get the name they wanted.
and thier pretty much right. appart from the national tlds (which are good for one country services) and some of the very specilist tlds (mil gov etc) the tld concept has basically failed. if you can't get.com with your name of choice get a new name thats the reality of it.
all theese new tlds are just a misguided cash grab nothing more.
as already mentioned someone closer to the exchange
also afaict there are a lot of places where T1s are availble but more reasonablly priced broadband options aren't. so if there is a buisness who don't care about wireless security around..... or alternative you get together and share the cost of a T1 line.
gcc4 breaks a lot of existing C++ code but thats not an issue that will effect existing binary packages.
C++ abi versions are a nightmare anyway they KEEP breaking it (though apparently they didn't actually break it with 4.0 surprisingly) and whilst you can paralell install versions of the standard C++ library there can be issues with C++ interfaces between other shared libraries if you do this.
debian tends to do things on an as needed basis so as long as the major version of the lib your package needs is availible from an archive in your sources.list apt will be able to get it on the other hand something that was there by default in one release may not be in the next.
the broke backwards compatibility system works well for shared libs but it doesn't mean a great deal for other stuff.
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iirc the cds for corp are different not just the activation codes.
i dunno how many licenses you have to buy to get the no-activation version legally though.
were there any exceptions to anywhere in the world or could you be called out to a cash machine in say an antarctic base or something?
You will then be able to install any Debian package that you desire.
most maybe but certainly not all. The thing is ubuntu rebuild everything after pulling it from and some packages either have problems that prevent autobuilding or require an older version of themselves to compile (for example freepascal which is written in pascal)
i bugged the ubuntu universe guys about freepascal a few days ago but it doesn't seem anythings been done about it yet.
i'm not sure about multiverse but i think its thier equivilent of the debian contrib/non-free repositries
i'm sure i heared that in the first days of linux linus got stuff building on his kernel and put together minimal archives so it would actually run
but it would have been the early distros who actually extended that into something people could use
so one of the last distros to actually support the minor platforms is finally giving up on them :(
unstable is always sid
testing is the current testing distribution currently pointed at (symlinked to on the servers) sarge
stable is the current stable distribution currently pointed at woody
oldstable is the previous stable distribition currently pointed at potato
when sarge releases testing will be pointed at the new testing distribution (etch) stable will be pointed at sarge and oldstable will be pointed at woody
iirc the rules for CD1 are based on things like standard package groups its only the higher cds (and possiblly spare space on cd1 i'm not sure) that are based on popcon output.
1: was GNU just the biggest single contributer or was it bigger than everything else put together?
2: was this a minimal command line only install or was it a full desktop system
3: do you have a link to this study?
4: iirc the bsds have versions of most command line tools and there are other C compilers and standard C library implementations around as free software. Sure it would be a pain to try and build a linux system with no gnu stuff because everything is set up for building with it but calling the gnu stuff irreplaceable is a major stretch.
one thing i'd like to do at some point is go through a typical "GNU/linux" install and sort the packages into source categories maybe something like:
linux: for the linux kernel itself and directly related stuff like util-linux and module-init-tools
GNU: for stuff from the gnu project
BSD: for stuff from the bsds
OTHER: for everything else
then we could do some totals by both package count and total size and see how much of a distribution really is gnu
i'd say a battery is not user replaceable (which is not the same thing as not replaceable period) if any of the following holds
1: the manufacturer specifically tells you not to replace it and/or tells you if you do replace it then you will void the warranty
2: the manufacturer takes deliberare steps to stop you getting at the battery and/or requires special tools to do it (e.g. soldering the battery in using security screws etc)
3: the battery is of a non-standard type and the manufacturer does not make spares availible.
with your car the manufacturer generally tells you how to replace the battery and what type to replace it with. you only need standard spanners to disconnect it with, and they warn you of any issues with disconnecting it (such as radio security codes)
i've also had calculators and test equipment where you have to unscrew the back to change the batteries but there were instructions in the manual on doing this and the batteries were a standard size so theese batteries were perfectly user replaceable
they may bury it on thier own land but if your aim is to stop toxins leaking into the environment thats not really an acceptable altermative
they may on the other hand just decide to illigally dump it somewhere
the reason for charging at purchase time is because if the disposal costs are already paid up people are far more likely to dispose of items properly.
iirc the situation with amd64 is that thier are some technical issues keeping it out of the main archive but they are doing a sarge release through a seperate archive and there will be security updates and cd images made for it through the normal debian processes.
CD1 is plenty for getting the base system and other reccomended stuff installed. and once you get a net link working you can pull in everything over the net anyway
you only need the full collection of CDs if you wan't debians full software collection availible without a net link.
debian point releases don't really change a great deal anyway they replace a few packages that are really badly broken and rollup the security updates into the main tree but thats about it
this one also rolled in a certain update that will prevent a possible major problem for those who try and upgrade from woody-sarge without following the instructions.
no it checks if its still referenced. depending on your design referenced does not nessacerally mean still in use.
the other issue is that they change the headers to get slight performance improvements at the cost of binary compatibility with older versions of the library
ie if you write an app using only stuff that was in gtk 2.2 but compile it using gtk 2.4 headers the result will NOT run on gtk 2.2
standard linux library development practices assume you will update your libraries but they assume you won't take a binary built on your system to a system with older libraries.
debian point releases have always been a bit on the minimal side mainly because of strict rules on whats allowed in.
however the reason this point release was made now is because the infrastructure won't allow for a woody point release once sarge is stable which fingers crossed should be happening this weekend!
Most of the people I know think .com is "the big part" of the internet and everything else is the poor schmucks who were too slow to get the name they wanted.
.com with your name of choice get a new name thats the reality of it.
and thier pretty much right. appart from the national tlds (which are good for one country services) and some of the very specilist tlds (mil gov etc) the tld concept has basically failed. if you can't get
all theese new tlds are just a misguided cash grab nothing more.
iirc you can but if you do you then become subject to ham radio rules which means doing any buisness over the connection isn't legal
i'm not sure if its legal to use encryption on ham radio either but i'm not sure.
whilst slashcodes html is pretty damn horrid this was definately a bug in firefox.
iirc firefox could render the page fine if it did so all at once but sometimes fucked it up when rendering incrementally.
as already mentioned someone closer to the exchange
also afaict there are a lot of places where T1s are availble but more reasonablly priced broadband options aren't. so if there is a buisness who don't care about wireless security around..... or alternative you get together and share the cost of a T1 line.
gcc4 breaks a lot of existing C++ code but thats not an issue that will effect existing binary packages.
C++ abi versions are a nightmare anyway they KEEP breaking it (though apparently they didn't actually break it with 4.0 surprisingly) and whilst you can paralell install versions of the standard C++ library there can be issues with C++ interfaces between other shared libraries if you do this.
what are taxes if not forcing you to give up something you produce?
or fines in criminal court?
or judgements in civil court?
according to the EU courts ms broke the law. If they wan't to remain trading in the EU they have to accept the courts judgements.
ofc it could come down to a game of chicken and a case of does the EU need MS more than MS needs the EU.
can't say i have had any problems with hardware with the new sarge installer though i haven't tried it on a box where i needed anything like sound.
ubuntu only care about a small number of architectures. If thats what they wan't to do then good for them.
also i belive that ubuntu don't care anywhere near as much as debian do about bugs in non-core stuff which may help them release faster too.
it depends
debian tends to do things on an as needed basis so as long as the major version of the lib your package needs is availible from an archive in your sources.list apt will be able to get it on the other hand something that was there by default in one release may not be in the next.
the broke backwards compatibility system works well for shared libs but it doesn't mean a great deal for other stuff.