Wow, the Virus could be Blogging's father. That is if he's not reading slashdot - in this case older brother is the best he can be (not old enough to be even Vlogging's dad).
You're talking about syntax as a thing that's defining the difference between wikis and CMSs while in fact this is just a way of entering data. As my sibling noted, you can use wiki-like syntax in Drupal. You can use a regular html, bb-code, a few different wysiwyg editors and heck knows what else.
What I don't like about Joomla and all those WYSIWYG-Editors is, that the homepage is not standardized. Every editor has his own way of formatting and making headlines and so you get many pieces instead of _one_ homepage. With MediaWiki you just enter
== Headline ==
and every headline looks the same.
It's even less "standarized". It's converted to <h2> (or h1, h3, h4...) and they way it actually looks is specified in a CSS file.
Sys-Con is hardly "our" friend. They had been more than happy to publish (and defend) Maureen O'Gara's crap. Also, the flash ad I've seen next to TFA told me how cool Windows server is. That's a bit far from Linux zealotry.
Also, am I the only person that doesn't really see a great amount of outrageous pro-linux bias on Slashdot?
I don't give a shit if Big Mac is the tastiest and healthiest food on earth. What makes it a "no go" is how McDonalds treats its workers, customers, business "partners" and the environment.
The GPL is used in licensing many components of the Linux operating system.
Finally a summary that contains a very much needed and comprehensive definition of the GPL. That's something every geek's been dreaming about since Slashdot was born!
You forget one thing... RMS is not a man of compromise. He doesn't make decisions based on the resulting change to FOSS' image in the eyes of wider public. That's one thing.
Another one is that while it (lack of compromise) sometimes hurts the movement, IMO it's necessary. In the same way we need Debian purists. Part of Ubuntu's success is in going for the compromise (example: proprietary drivers) whenever it gives considerable advantages for the user. But without purists, the community would go for bigger and bigger compromises all the time... to the point that it would be as rotten as the coroporate software industry.
Last time I used Fedora was over 2 years ago. At that time, there was no decent gui font-end to yum. Anyways, all you need to do is to type yum equivalent of apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.
Another important thing is your release being supported. I know the fedora legacy project was introduced to support older releases, but they're being shut down now. Last update to FC3 was made almost half a year ago.
If you don't want to upgrade your distro often, Ubuntu LTS (long term support) might be a good solution. They will release patches for 5 years. Last one (6.06, Dapper Drake) was released in June 2006 (we'll probably have to wait a full year for the next LTS, at least that's what M. Shuttleworth is predicting). By default, Ubuntu shows a icon in a taskbar whenever there are some updates. You can, however, choose the option of having them installed automatically.
I've read in one of his essays (don't know which one, it was a long time ago) that he uses FreeBSD. It's possible that he switched to OS X since then, but I kinda doubt it.
Try finding a decent domain name these days. Everything's taken and a vast majority of registered domains are parked. I wish domains would cost like $50 or $100 per year. The extra cash could go to charity.
I was hosting my friend's site for 2 or 3 years. Completely irrelevant domain name (htskrotownik.org) which will never be of any use to anyone. It got PageRank 1 (could be 2 before). Anyways, he abandoned the site and didn't renew the domain. It was picked up in no time after it was back on the market and is happily parked ever since.
Yeah, but Webmin doesn't quite make things easier. Looking at BIND module still makes me want to cry. It makes things easier for those that feel uncomfortable with CLI, though.
What I was talking about is a thing that kinda dumbs everything down, letting users set up the most common things. Example: in Apache few most common options + adding of virtual domains. In BIND, add domains, record type and target address.
I just briefly looked at what Zenoss does... not what I was hoping for. I see a great need for FOSS web server management software. Some neat tools that would make configuring various services (apache, postfix, bind, vsftpd, sshd... stuff like that) easier for newbies. I've had my own dedicated server for a year now and still there are areas that I'm lacking at. I wanted to go 100% FOSS, so didn't get any proprietary control panel for that server. I'm using afraid.org, because I'm scared to touch BIND. I'm not sure if my Postfix configuration is 100% correct. Sure, I could spend a few days on configuring all that stuff and making sure I'm fine (e.g. not being rejected by other SMTP servers), but:
* being a web developer, I should spend as much of my time as possible on actual websites, not on the backend.
* being a small scale administrator, I'm sure I'll have to re-read every piece of documentation the next time I need to configure something. Meaning I don't do that stuff frequently and I simply forget everything related to it after a week or so. Stuff that I tinker with frequently (Apache, php, mysql configuration) is getting more and more familiar over time, but if I wanted to change something in other services, I'd have to spend many hours researching and testing.
Having said that - I'm not complaining, just pointing out that this kind of stuff makes many people not want to go with Linux - core services are just too difficult to configure.
AFAIR they haven't, because they were submitted after the feature freeze (or some other kind of a freeze). Don't quote me on that, my memory is a tricy thing.
Keep in mind all that crapware that brings down the price of hardware with Windows pre-installed. I can't see anything like that happening with Linux in a long while... somehow worthless proprietary stuff becomes of use (by reducing the price).
Yeah... one of my sites gets ~30k U.S. visitors monthly (very few of them are returning) according to Google Analytics. My own stats (I record data of every opened session) are quite similar. Quantcast tells me that there were 13k visitors. Such an underestimation pretty much says how usefull this service is.
They also hurt AdSense publishers. That $1500 could end up in my pocket. Even if advertizer ain't pissed after seeing worthless traffic comming from parked domains and doesn't cut his budget, I have to share the pie with those crooks.
Don't you just love posts full of f-words that are 100% right?
I really hope OLPC project will create a situation when 3rd world countries will be able to produce services that we'll want to buy and won't cost us $0.01 per work hour. I believe OLPC is a huge opportunity.
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Wow, the Virus could be Blogging's father. That is if he's not reading slashdot - in this case older brother is the best he can be (not old enough to be even Vlogging's dad).
If you knew how much effort they put into creating those cute 11 pages, you wouldn't have rushed to destroy everything.
Drupal
Sys-Con is hardly "our" friend. They had been more than happy to publish (and defend) Maureen O'Gara's crap. Also, the flash ad I've seen next to TFA told me how cool Windows server is. That's a bit far from Linux zealotry.
Also, am I the only person that doesn't really see a great amount of outrageous pro-linux bias on Slashdot?
I don't give a shit if Big Mac is the tastiest and healthiest food on earth. What makes it a "no go" is how McDonalds treats its workers, customers, business "partners" and the environment.
Same here.
The GPL is used in licensing many components of the Linux operating system.
Finally a summary that contains a very much needed and comprehensive definition of the GPL. That's something every geek's been dreaming about since Slashdot was born!
and Frozen Bubble
You forget one thing... RMS is not a man of compromise. He doesn't make decisions based on the resulting change to FOSS' image in the eyes of wider public. That's one thing.
Another one is that while it (lack of compromise) sometimes hurts the movement, IMO it's necessary. In the same way we need Debian purists. Part of Ubuntu's success is in going for the compromise (example: proprietary drivers) whenever it gives considerable advantages for the user. But without purists, the community would go for bigger and bigger compromises all the time... to the point that it would be as rotten as the coroporate software industry.
I, for one, welcome our new time-travelling overlords! Could you please tell us if 2007 was the year of Linux on the desktop?
Last time I used Fedora was over 2 years ago. At that time, there was no decent gui font-end to yum. Anyways, all you need to do is to type yum equivalent of apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.
Another important thing is your release being supported. I know the fedora legacy project was introduced to support older releases, but they're being shut down now. Last update to FC3 was made almost half a year ago.
If you don't want to upgrade your distro often, Ubuntu LTS (long term support) might be a good solution. They will release patches for 5 years. Last one (6.06, Dapper Drake) was released in June 2006 (we'll probably have to wait a full year for the next LTS, at least that's what M. Shuttleworth is predicting). By default, Ubuntu shows a icon in a taskbar whenever there are some updates. You can, however, choose the option of having them installed automatically.
I've read in one of his essays (don't know which one, it was a long time ago) that he uses FreeBSD. It's possible that he switched to OS X since then, but I kinda doubt it.
Try finding a decent domain name these days. Everything's taken and a vast majority of registered domains are parked. I wish domains would cost like $50 or $100 per year. The extra cash could go to charity.
I was hosting my friend's site for 2 or 3 years. Completely irrelevant domain name (htskrotownik.org) which will never be of any use to anyone. It got PageRank 1 (could be 2 before). Anyways, he abandoned the site and didn't renew the domain. It was picked up in no time after it was back on the market and is happily parked ever since.
Yeah, but Webmin doesn't quite make things easier. Looking at BIND module still makes me want to cry. It makes things easier for those that feel uncomfortable with CLI, though.
What I was talking about is a thing that kinda dumbs everything down, letting users set up the most common things. Example: in Apache few most common options + adding of virtual domains. In BIND, add domains, record type and target address.
I just briefly looked at what Zenoss does... not what I was hoping for. I see a great need for FOSS web server management software. Some neat tools that would make configuring various services (apache, postfix, bind, vsftpd, sshd... stuff like that) easier for newbies. I've had my own dedicated server for a year now and still there are areas that I'm lacking at. I wanted to go 100% FOSS, so didn't get any proprietary control panel for that server. I'm using afraid.org, because I'm scared to touch BIND. I'm not sure if my Postfix configuration is 100% correct. Sure, I could spend a few days on configuring all that stuff and making sure I'm fine (e.g. not being rejected by other SMTP servers), but:
* being a web developer, I should spend as much of my time as possible on actual websites, not on the backend.
* being a small scale administrator, I'm sure I'll have to re-read every piece of documentation the next time I need to configure something. Meaning I don't do that stuff frequently and I simply forget everything related to it after a week or so. Stuff that I tinker with frequently (Apache, php, mysql configuration) is getting more and more familiar over time, but if I wanted to change something in other services, I'd have to spend many hours researching and testing.
Having said that - I'm not complaining, just pointing out that this kind of stuff makes many people not want to go with Linux - core services are just too difficult to configure.
System -> Preferences -> Mouse
I'm using Ubuntu 6.10 with Gnome 2.16
I thought that the first "KDE is better" post in a Gnome thread will end with "first post!". I'm disappointed.
AFAIR they haven't, because they were submitted after the feature freeze (or some other kind of a freeze). Don't quote me on that, my memory is a tricy thing.
Keep in mind all that crapware that brings down the price of hardware with Windows pre-installed. I can't see anything like that happening with Linux in a long while... somehow worthless proprietary stuff becomes of use (by reducing the price).
Yeah... one of my sites gets ~30k U.S. visitors monthly (very few of them are returning) according to Google Analytics. My own stats (I record data of every opened session) are quite similar. Quantcast tells me that there were 13k visitors. Such an underestimation pretty much says how usefull this service is.
1) Charge by the (giga)byte of any data traffic (ignore protocol)
You've just made my list, pal.
Floppyless installation, aye? I've heard that they applied for a patent...
They also hurt AdSense publishers. That $1500 could end up in my pocket. Even if advertizer ain't pissed after seeing worthless traffic comming from parked domains and doesn't cut his budget, I have to share the pie with those crooks.
Don't you just love posts full of f-words that are 100% right?
I really hope OLPC project will create a situation when 3rd world countries will be able to produce services that we'll want to buy and won't cost us $0.01 per work hour. I believe OLPC is a huge opportunity.