How do you license instructions for a computer? Oh, wait, like this: http://opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php If you can license code, you can license instructions for humans as well
And even more interesting, it is the one and only (to my knowledge) piece of Microsoft-developed software in the Ubuntu repositories, and universe (meets open-source standards) at that.
Not on Linux. It's not exactly God's video player, and I'm not giving up VLC for it anytime soon, but it is usable, mostly works, shares very little code with it's Windows bretheren, and is open source (Helix) if you don't want the proprietary DRM bits. I believe Ubuntu even has Helix in it's repos
My grade school constantly used ClarisWorks. We were an all-Apple shop until roughly '99, at which point we began to put out Win95 running PCs, which also ran ClarisWorks. We didn't completely push out Apple and ClarisWorks until 2001-2002
click on a "special" link, like <URL:ed2k://|file|ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.[conten t.emule-project.net].iso|731797504|E239215147FA03E 5DB3D6C816291BFCA|/> (If you look at that URI, it's for an ed2k download of Ubuntu 7.04)<br> Opera says: "Would you like to open $PROGRAM to use this link?"
Yes, they are. Red Hat: while their binaries are not free, the source is, and there are people dedicated to converting the source back into binaries to hand out freely (CentOS). SuSE: openSUSE is free, and SLED is more or less a freeze of openSUSE. In addition, SLED can be had for free (beer), but you can't update from the SLED repositories (openSUSE's repos works just fine though)
You want to look into GTK#. It's a port of GTK+ (the widget kit used by GNOME, the GIMP, and Pidgin/Gaim for a few examples) to.NET and Mono. As the name implies, it works with C#. As far as IDEs go, you can continue to use VS on Windows, and use Mono's form designer (Glade). On Linux, you want MonoDevelop, which is a port/fork of SharpDevelop (a Free.NET IDE on Windows) to Mono/GTK#/Linux
The packages from the official Ubuntu repositories are PGP-signed, and APT will: a) If a signature is not present, it will cough up a big fat warning b) If a signature check fails (doesn't match the repo key), it refuses to install
Me, to $RANDOM_EMPLOYEE: Hey, you see that machine there? I need you to plug the Cat5 cable back in for me (slides a jackson) ***$RANDOM_EMPLOYEE plugs machine back in, un-securing the machine.
Sorry, but don't pull out the Guinness just yet: 1) Microsoft isin't writing it, it's the Mono team, with guidance from MS 2) And they aren't really writing it for Linux, they're writing it for Mono, which is a cross-OS develpoment platform (like Java) that happens to run on Linux, as well as other OSes.
ActiveX? Are you fracking kidding me? Microsoft itself has admitted that ActiveX was a major cluster-fuck from a security view. It seems more like they want Silverlight to replace ActiveX.
Someone get the 'itsatrap' tag in here quick! We know it's impossible for Microsoft to directly support a competitor in any way./sarcasm Seriously, if they actually make good on this and continue to support the Mono version, more power to them.
When we're saying Novell should open up Unix, we are referring to the original System V Unix source, which is the "gold standard" Unix implementation that everything else (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, Darwin that) is judged by.
I agree. We've already got an open-source UNIX (Solaris), and a few Unix-likes (*BSDs, Linux, Minix, Hurd, etc.), but I believe it would be a great contribution to open up "the real thing". They would have to wait to be able to tear up their contract with SCOX though (which won't take long judging by their stock)
As an aside, would "classic" UNIX actually be useful on modern x86-based hardware?
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Good news everybody! There is indeed prior art. http://www.google.com/patents?id=_QMjAAAAEBAJ
How do you license instructions for a computer?
Oh, wait, like this: http://opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php
If you can license code, you can license instructions for humans as well
QEMU and Xen are both virtual machines*. They run on a lot of things, not just Linux.
*Technically, pure QEMU is an emulator, but paired with the KQEMU module, it becomes a sort of fusion emulator/VM
What, like running Windows on QEMU or Xen?
And even more interesting, it is the one and only (to my knowledge) piece of Microsoft-developed software in the Ubuntu repositories, and universe (meets open-source standards) at that.
I suggest you change your sig to reflect this story
Not on Linux. It's not exactly God's video player, and I'm not giving up VLC for it anytime soon, but it is usable, mostly works, shares very little code with it's Windows bretheren, and is open source (Helix) if you don't want the proprietary DRM bits. I believe Ubuntu even has Helix in it's repos
It's actually Sunday.
http://consumerist.com/consumer/victories/cingular s-class-arbitration-waiver-ruled-unconscionable-by -9th-circuit-court-of-appeals-290806.php
It was edited out of the Firehose entry (by mistake, I assume)
My grade school constantly used ClarisWorks. We were an all-Apple shop until roughly '99, at which point we began to put out Win95 running PCs, which also ran ClarisWorks. We didn't completely push out Apple and ClarisWorks until 2001-2002
Flash 9 Linux is NOT beta.
PageMaker's been deprecated. It's been replaced by Adobe InDesign.
Sorry, but this is music, therefore the RIAA. And that last "A" stands for America, so they have no (legitimate) influence outside of the US
In Opera:
n t.emule-project.net].iso|731797504|E239215147FA03E 5DB3D6C816291BFCA|/> (If you look at that URI, it's for an ed2k download of Ubuntu 7.04)<br>
click on a "special" link, like <URL:ed2k://|file|ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.[conte
Opera says: "Would you like to open $PROGRAM to use this link?"
Yes, they are.
Red Hat: while their binaries are not free, the source is, and there are people dedicated to converting the source back into binaries to hand out freely (CentOS).
SuSE: openSUSE is free, and SLED is more or less a freeze of openSUSE. In addition, SLED can be had for free (beer), but you can't update from the SLED repositories (openSUSE's repos works just fine though)
You want to look into GTK#. It's a port of GTK+ (the widget kit used by GNOME, the GIMP, and Pidgin/Gaim for a few examples) to .NET and Mono. As the name implies, it works with C#. As far as IDEs go, you can continue to use VS on Windows, and use Mono's form designer (Glade). On Linux, you want MonoDevelop, which is a port/fork of SharpDevelop (a Free .NET IDE on Windows) to Mono/GTK#/Linux
The packages from the official Ubuntu repositories are PGP-signed, and APT will:
a) If a signature is not present, it will cough up a big fat warning
b) If a signature check fails (doesn't match the repo key), it refuses to install
Me, to $RANDOM_EMPLOYEE: Hey, you see that machine there? I need you to plug the Cat5 cable back in for me (slides a jackson)
***$RANDOM_EMPLOYEE plugs machine back in, un-securing the machine.
This is a problem with OLDER hardware in newer kernels.
Sorry, but don't pull out the Guinness just yet:
1) Microsoft isin't writing it, it's the Mono team, with guidance from MS
2) And they aren't really writing it for Linux, they're writing it for Mono, which is a cross-OS develpoment platform (like Java) that happens to run on Linux, as well as other OSes.
ActiveX? Are you fracking kidding me? Microsoft itself has admitted that ActiveX was a major cluster-fuck from a security view. It seems more like they want Silverlight to replace ActiveX.
Someone get the 'itsatrap' tag in here quick! We know it's impossible for Microsoft to directly support a competitor in any way. /sarcasm
Seriously, if they actually make good on this and continue to support the Mono version, more power to them.
When we're saying Novell should open up Unix, we are referring to the original System V Unix source, which is the "gold standard" Unix implementation that everything else (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, Darwin that) is judged by.
So you would rather us wait for HURD to be finished?* And by your own arguments, we would benefit more from having UNIX opened up.
I agree. We've already got an open-source UNIX (Solaris), and a few Unix-likes (*BSDs, Linux, Minix, Hurd, etc.), but I believe it would be a great contribution to open up "the real thing". They would have to wait to be able to tear up their contract with SCOX though (which won't take long judging by their stock)
As an aside, would "classic" UNIX actually be useful on modern x86-based hardware?