As in who pays for RMS' living and traveling expenses? Donations to the FSF? Someone with insight please comment. I think in many ways RMS is brilliant, but how has he paid his bills promoting FOSS for the last 20+ odd years?
I agree with many of the statements that Linus made. I have been GNOME-faithful for 2 years and features disapear ALL of the time! Examples:
The Open Terminal in the right-click menu on the desktop.. required a hack to get it back and many other right click functionality on the desktop and in Nautilus. I can't seem to remember what is missing anymore because they are GONE!
Overall, I tried KDE and it's so-so. I can't get used to using it, I feel like many people in the community, it has toooo many options and other stuff. I happen to enjoy the look and feel of GNOME but hate it when they remove shit that I use.
They sent me this email after I asked why they where doing this:
Hello,
You do not understand the issues here, so perhaps, it is best for you to sit this one out on the side.
Why must I become involved in the Wikipedia website? If there is offending or inaccurate content, about me, my business or family, why should I be required to become a user and edit the content?
I am interested to learn why you thought I would be interested in your comments.
I agree that they are not the tech elite because a lot of bloggers don't understand the actual _technology_ behind the architectures and principles behind this whole revolution. I'm talking about platforms such as RSS and related formats, and open source (Wordpress) being a big part of it and makes it possible. Normal everyday casual internet users do not care about things such as RSS and tagging, only early adopters, but hopefully this stuff will go mainstream one day.
I also checked out your blog and this is an example of what I like about the blogosphere (that word makes/me shudder). I enjoy when someone creates something useful and shares information about the experience with everyone. Not just some political junkie making non-informed commentary.
Great suggestion, because right now i'm digging Opera over Firefox because of the speed, but there is only one caveat.. i can't import my OMPL file into the Opera feed reader.
I loved using Thunderbird for fetching and reading RSS feeds but since i'm attempting to do some application redux around here, I just use Sage within Firefox. I hate having two applications open to do one thing.. it seems no one wants to bridge the gap properly.
Thunderbird 1.07 doesnt allow you to export OMPL, although 1.5 does.
But honestly i'm waiting on mutt to integrate some new AJAX RSS extension.:)
I have never used Libranet (on Ubuntu since 4.10) but come on, let's have some respect for the vision and product of Jon Danzig. It does'nt have to be the biggest distro, but I for one support anyone that has done something for the community.
How dare you suggest this.. you want people in need of relief to wait on FEMA and the time it takes to compile a Gentoo Live CD? You insensi.. oh, nevermind.
I will proudly say that I moved from Red Hat/Fedora Core and not because of the hype, but for very good reasons that I will explain.
* Centralized resources: Everything is one spot. You say that you use 'public' repositories. Almost all of the packages that you could ever want are available within the Ubuntu ecosystem. Fedora Core uses yum and I preferred apt-4-rpm. Some repos support apt4rpm, some do not. I do not know what the case is now. APT is much faster and mature than yum. Also, you may run into trouble with mixing repos with Fedora Core. Everyone doesnt package apps uniformly.
* Superior hardware detection: Developers test, improve and fix alot of thingsand as a result, more functions work out-of-the-box. The latest development release automatically configured many items I could'nt get working with Fedora Core. Examples: Processor Speed Scaling (P4 mobile), the laptop Function keys for display dimming, volume, CD eject, etc. YMMV with wireless.
* Community: The best community ever. Nice people that help anyone out. Everyone is welcomed. From power-users to noobs. Server, Desktop, Gaming, programmers. Everyone is welcomed. Less corporate politics and leet-ness with user contributions. I will admit that I still use Debian Sarge for servers.
* Vision and milestones: Criticise if you like, but Mark Shuttleworth has a great vision of what he wants to accomplish with the distro. He gives so much back to education and people. Everything also happens in the public.
If you want a stable Linux distro based on Debian with a great selection of packages and easy install, you can't go wrong with Ubuntu.
Most people just criticise the color of the default theme, or Debian ABI compatibilty or the stupid controversy regarding the codenames. These are all ignorant arguments IMHO. No one rants this much about Linspire, or Xandros..
Now that would be a great idea.. for coffee shops, libraries or maybe even the airport. Imagine if you don't have a laptop or any other internet capable device and you could walk in to the library and pickup one of these from the front desk and turn in back in before you leave. Just a thought.
You insensitive clod.. Are you crazy? That's Mr. Brian Lamb to you, and that's his style of interviewing people. He was probably reffering to where Jimbo's location when he started Wikipedia (i.e. in parents bedroom, etc.) C-SPAN exists as one of the only media outlets that I watch for non partisan news and interviews on a number of relevant topics. Show some respect to the SPAN! Lately, I believe that Mr. Lamb is interested in technology and the web. He recently intervied dKos of the Daily Kos and asked many questions about the tech behind the site.
Matter of fact, i'm watching right now... back to Washington Journal.:)
Could someone please tell me, what are developers waiting on to infuse Linux into this market? I'm not just stating this because I am a fan of Linux vs. Microsoft.. I just want to see competition in this space. The ubiquity of Windows just makes me shudder.
...breaking Real's technology to remove the consistent malware that is throught Real Player. (I know it has been done, some one has built Real Player without the cruft.)
I don't understand this from the perspective that Real wouldn't like it if other companies are trying to use thier software other than what it is intended for. They just want some of Apple's marketshare and they will cry and moan until they accomplish this.
With the evolution of podcasting (which is nothing new, other than the buzzword and hype) and other formats like RSS and all of these other social networking sites for bookmarking, blogging and what have you.. I just wonder about what will be the next wave.
This is what needs to happen: Someone needs to be implement wireless technology country wide the same as cell phones. Think of this.. iPod (or any other player) with wireless access, streaming whatever you want. Im talking about music, video, podcasts, whatever. Will replace satellite, radio and all of the rest of the redundant crap media in this age.
Some of you guys might be more saavy than me and might be able to explain why this isnt happening yet..?
..Microsoft is trying to gain on Google's success with the recent attempt to copy the mapping application and the 'Start preview' website http:///http://www.start.com/3/> they will not make the mistake of disabling the ability to use these tool bars and search functions in the final release of IE7. That would be a self-imposed massacre of IE's browser market place.
They should be spending this time to disable the various malware search boxes that magically appear in the browser.
Futhermore, is anyone else sick of the hype of IE7? How long does it take to update and release a browser?
I guess this is one of the reasons that they have hired open-source developers to find out how to 'release early and release often'
I'm sick of Microsofts continuing efforts to dominate everything IT.
How long does or will it take to put build/develop a layer on top of Linux that will make the underlying technologies and processes transparent from the average user?
I agree with his assumption and that was an easy one to make with the sucess of Mac OS X and Linux.
I would rather see Linux succeed because of the freedom and the ability to customize it for any given application.
"This is a bottleneck the engineer sees being removed in future, although he thinks the simplicity of the current Web browsing experience needs to be maintained."
How much functionality and use do we expect to extract from the casual web browser? Current and the near future.
Internet Explorer has shown us how "bottleneck" can improve or hamper the web browsing and/or overall desktop experience.
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As in who pays for RMS' living and traveling expenses? Donations to the FSF? Someone with insight please comment. I think in many ways RMS is brilliant, but how has he paid his bills promoting FOSS for the last 20+ odd years?
It could possibly turn your site http://www.rabbitears.info/ into a web2.0 application with fancy ajax and sociable, tag-gable rabbit ears.
I agree with many of the statements that Linus made. I have been GNOME-faithful for 2 years and features disapear ALL of the time! Examples:
The Open Terminal in the right-click menu on the desktop.. required a hack to get it back and many other right click functionality on the desktop and in Nautilus. I can't seem to remember what is missing anymore because they are GONE!
Overall, I tried KDE and it's so-so. I can't get used to using it, I feel like many people in the community, it has toooo many options and other stuff. I happen to enjoy the look and feel of GNOME but hate it when they remove shit that I use.
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http://52reasons.ath.cx/
HEY! I happen to like those eyeballs... or maybe not :)
http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/
They sent me this email after I asked why they where doing this:
Hello,
You do not understand the issues here, so perhaps, it is best for you to
sit this one out on the side.
Why must I become involved in the Wikipedia website? If there is
offending or inaccurate content, about me, my business or family, why
should I be required to become a user and edit the content?
I am interested to learn why you thought I would be interested in your
comments.
Regards,
--
http://52reasons.ath.cx/
It matters to me only because it's nessesary to wipe before it turns into those funny smelling brown crumbs.
I agree that they are not the tech elite because a lot of bloggers don't understand the actual _technology_ behind the architectures and principles behind this whole revolution. I'm talking about platforms such as RSS and related formats, and open source (Wordpress) being a big part of it and makes it possible. Normal everyday casual internet users do not care about things such as RSS and tagging, only early adopters, but hopefully this stuff will go mainstream one day. I also checked out your blog and this is an example of what I like about the blogosphere (that word makes /me shudder). I enjoy when someone creates something useful and shares information about the experience with everyone. Not just some political junkie making non-informed commentary.
Great suggestion, because right now i'm digging Opera over Firefox because of the speed, but there is only one caveat.. i can't import my OMPL file into the Opera feed reader.
I loved using Thunderbird for fetching and reading RSS feeds but since i'm attempting to do some application redux around here, I just use Sage within Firefox. I hate having two applications open to do one thing.. it seems no one wants to bridge the gap properly.
:)
Thunderbird 1.07 doesnt allow you to export OMPL, although 1.5 does.
But honestly i'm waiting on mutt to integrate some new AJAX RSS extension.
I have never used Libranet (on Ubuntu since 4.10) but come on, let's have some respect for the vision and product of Jon Danzig. It does'nt have to be the biggest distro, but I for one support anyone that has done something for the community.
"apt-get/dpkg was an absolute nightmare even for an advanced user like me"
APT/dpkg use is almost brain dead - maybe you should'nt creating your own distro if you can't figure out how to use these tools.
Don't buy it. I could deal with copy protection, but not some form of war of the proprietary formats and players. This is abosolute nonsense.
How dare you suggest this.. you want people in need of relief to wait on FEMA and the time it takes to compile a Gentoo Live CD? You insensi.. oh, nevermind.
I will proudly say that I moved from Red Hat/Fedora Core and not because of the hype, but for very good reasons that I will explain.
* Centralized resources: Everything is one spot. You say that you use 'public' repositories. Almost all of the packages that you could ever want are available within the Ubuntu ecosystem. Fedora Core uses yum and I preferred apt-4-rpm. Some repos support apt4rpm, some do not. I do not know what the case is now. APT is much faster and mature than yum. Also, you may run into trouble with mixing repos with Fedora Core. Everyone doesnt package apps uniformly.
* Superior hardware detection: Developers test, improve and fix alot of thingsand as a result, more functions work out-of-the-box. The latest development release automatically configured many items I could'nt get working with Fedora Core. Examples: Processor Speed Scaling (P4 mobile), the laptop Function keys for display dimming, volume, CD eject, etc. YMMV with wireless.
* Community: The best community ever. Nice people that help anyone out. Everyone is welcomed. From power-users to noobs. Server, Desktop, Gaming, programmers. Everyone is welcomed. Less corporate politics and leet-ness with user contributions. I will admit that I still use Debian Sarge for servers.
* Vision and milestones: Criticise if you like, but Mark Shuttleworth has a great vision of what he wants to accomplish with the distro. He gives so much back to education and people. Everything also happens in the public.
If you want a stable Linux distro based on Debian with a great selection of packages and easy install, you can't go wrong with Ubuntu.
Most people just criticise the color of the default theme, or Debian ABI compatibilty or the stupid controversy regarding the codenames. These are all ignorant arguments IMHO. No one rants this much about Linspire, or Xandros..
Now that would be a great idea.. for coffee shops, libraries or maybe even the airport. Imagine if you don't have a laptop or any other internet capable device and you could walk in to the library and pickup one of these from the front desk and turn in back in before you leave. Just a thought.
Well mod me up! my karma has been modded to oblivion or sumsuch.
You insensitive clod.. Are you crazy? That's Mr. Brian Lamb to you, and that's his style of interviewing people. He was probably reffering to where Jimbo's location when he started Wikipedia (i.e. in parents bedroom, etc.) C-SPAN exists as one of the only media outlets that I watch for non partisan news and interviews on a number of relevant topics. Show some respect to the SPAN! Lately, I believe that Mr. Lamb is interested in technology and the web. He recently intervied dKos of the Daily Kos and asked many questions about the tech behind the site.
:)
Matter of fact, i'm watching right now... back to Washington Journal.
Could someone please tell me, what are developers waiting on to infuse Linux into this market? I'm not just stating this because I am a fan of Linux vs. Microsoft.. I just want to see competition in this space. The ubiquity of Windows just makes me shudder.
...breaking Real's technology to remove the consistent malware that is throught Real Player. (I know it has been done, some one has built Real Player without the cruft.)
I don't understand this from the perspective that Real wouldn't like it if other companies are trying to use thier software other than what it is intended for. They just want some of Apple's marketshare and they will cry and moan until they accomplish this.
With the evolution of podcasting (which is nothing new, other than the buzzword and hype) and other formats like RSS and all of these other social networking sites for bookmarking, blogging and what have you.. I just wonder about what will be the next wave.
This is what needs to happen: Someone needs to be implement wireless technology country wide the same as cell phones. Think of this.. iPod (or any other player) with wireless access, streaming whatever you want. Im talking about music, video, podcasts, whatever. Will replace satellite, radio and all of the rest of the redundant crap media in this age.
Some of you guys might be more saavy than me and might be able to explain why this isnt happening yet..?
"I wish I had more hands, so I could give those titties four thumbs down."
Listen here: http://www.goyk.com/flash.asp?path=659/
..Microsoft is trying to gain on Google's success with the recent attempt to copy the mapping application and the 'Start preview' website http:///http://www.start.com/3/> they will not make the mistake of disabling the ability to use these tool bars and search functions in the final release of IE7. That would be a self-imposed massacre of IE's browser market place. They should be spending this time to disable the various malware search boxes that magically appear in the browser. Futhermore, is anyone else sick of the hype of IE7? How long does it take to update and release a browser? I guess this is one of the reasons that they have hired open-source developers to find out how to 'release early and release often' I'm sick of Microsofts continuing efforts to dominate everything IT.
How long does or will it take to put build/develop a layer on top of Linux that will make the underlying technologies and processes transparent from the average user?
I agree with his assumption and that was an easy one to make with the sucess of Mac OS X and Linux.
I would rather see Linux succeed because of the freedom and the ability to customize it for any given application.
"This is a bottleneck the engineer sees being removed in future, although he thinks the simplicity of the current Web browsing experience needs to be maintained."
How much functionality and use do we expect to extract from the casual web browser? Current and the near future.
Internet Explorer has shown us how "bottleneck" can improve or hamper the web browsing and/or overall desktop experience.
Does this further lower the TCO for Linux? Instead of paying some sysadmin 50-60K plus health and dental, you could use this solution.
So lets add up the prospect of this:
1. Debian GNU/Linux: $0
2. Magic box from TFA: $8,000
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3. PROFIT!
Oh, wait...