Microsoft Office is certainly the biggest thing. I mean, you can game on consoles now and various games are coming to Linux through Steam. But Office is required very often at the workplace and the education world and, products like LibreOffice do still not offer good enough real-world compatibility. Even the official Mac version of Office is not as punchy as the real McCoy. You can do many of the traditional tasks even on cheap Android tablets these days, but Office is the last big island which still keeps people quite nicely glued to Windows.
It's odd that they removed Aero as it worked fine and looked good for the most part. Just the right amount of eye candy and good performance. I guess they had to create something to match the ugly look of Start screen and Modern UI.:P
Have a look at the Windows 8.1 Preview thread at Reddit and over there NormalDefault's comment with the image link "Is THIS normal?" It seems that at some point the description of the update in Windows Store has been modified to look like leetspeak by somebody. Was this a prank by somebody inside the company or was the server cracked, I don't know.
It would seem to me that most hardware vendors would benefit from open sourcing their main drivers and documenting them lightly so that they could offload maintenance costs for smaller OSes to "the community" while relying on patent law to protect novel inventions.
I'd rather have a manufacturer-supported, in-house, full-feature, high-performance driver than something that is left in the hands of unpaid "community members", with a driver which supports the hardware properly 10 years after the device has been on the market.
Why would you have to make kernel changes just to support a graphic driver? No wonder Linux is still just a child's toy.
This is a perfectly valid question.
I bet that if it was in the form "Why would you have to make kernel changes just to support a graphic driver? No wonder Windows is still just a child's toy." (assuming that graphics drivers were done like that in Windows), the comment would be +5 Insightful instead of being modded down by the Slashdot Linux-lover-bots.
So please, tell me why does the Linux kernel need manufacturer-specific modules to support graphics cards? Shouldn't the kernel just include the basic things like the ability to talk to a PCI Express device, and then graphics drivers would be implemented at a higher level?
For those that didn't hear already, KDE 4.11 will be the last Plasma Workspaces feature release in the KDE4 series and this upcoming version will be maintained for a period of two years. It will be feature-frozen and the developers will just provide bug-fixes.
Once KDE 4.11 is out the door, KDE developers can begin focusing much more of their efforts on KDE Frameworks 5, Qt 5, and KDE Plasma Workspaces 2.
This should also make Plasma Desktop 4.11 an excellent candidate for inclusion in distributions that have a longer shelf-life.
An exception is if you have a website where you show some of your projects. It can work as a portfolio.
But yes, if we are talking about some silly social media profiles or blogs, don't bother writing some dummy content, if you aren't passionate about that kind of media otherwise.
This is an important point. While I myself like IE10, for the ultimate privacy you should disable the SmartScreen feature.
For those who don't know, the SmartScreen system is designed to help protect users against attacks that utilize social engineering and drive-by downloads to infect a system by scanning URLs accessed by a user against a dynamic blacklist of websites containing known threats.
On the other hand, the system has been very effective. Back in July 2010, Microsoft claimed that SmartScreen on Internet Explorer had already blocked over a billion attempts to access sites containing security risks.
While you can perform simple HTTP requests using Telnet, technically the protocol is not completely suitable for it. It's a terminal protocol. My point being, Telnet does not mean "a raw socket", unlike how many people often think. If you want to tinker around, using something like netcat to send raw data is more proper.
The trick it that the datamining and stuff happens behind the scenes, and thus people do not sense their privacy being compromised. When people get to choose what they upload to the site, and they can set in the preferences which users can see the material, they feel that they are in control well enough and feel protected enough to keep using the site. They never receive the report stating where their data was sent to (with unlimited access to it), what kind of complex advertising profiles were created based on it, and so on.
And when we add to the equation the actual positive features of FB (hey, it's a damn powerful communication tool), it's a win for most.
Well, I was talking about BSDs in general. But on the other hand, I today saw the official Products based on NetBSD list to mention Darwin. Maybe Darwin pulls from various BSDs?
+ FreeBSD is used in certain hardware appliances, and some ISPs use it for shared hosting etc.
+ OpenBSD seems to be the security nerd's choice when they're setting up a really, really secure router. Or so they say.
+ NetBSD? Ummmm. I guess you can install it on some 1990s RISC hardware and brag to slashdot about it? (Except you have to go back to your x86 to run a browser.)
Seriously, after 25 years in the business I've never seen or heard about anyone using NetBSD in production ever. Is this a real legit OS, or is Netcraft just being lazy?
The most important area is probably providing the base for the Darwin kernel. It's good for other commercial products too as the BSD license doesn't require the source to be redistributed and thus you can better protect your intellectual property. But on the other hand, for many BSD setups, Linux would do the job just as fine. It's nice to have variety though.
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Microsoft Office is certainly the biggest thing. I mean, you can game on consoles now and various games are coming to Linux through Steam. But Office is required very often at the workplace and the education world and, products like LibreOffice do still not offer good enough real-world compatibility. Even the official Mac version of Office is not as punchy as the real McCoy. You can do many of the traditional tasks even on cheap Android tablets these days, but Office is the last big island which still keeps people quite nicely glued to Windows.
I still cringe a bit how they made a really good product with Windows 7 and immediately after that started to go downhill with the next Windows.
It's odd that they removed Aero as it worked fine and looked good for the most part. Just the right amount of eye candy and good performance. I guess they had to create something to match the ugly look of Start screen and Modern UI. :P
Have a look at the Windows 8.1 Preview thread at Reddit and over there NormalDefault's comment with the image link "Is THIS normal?" It seems that at some point the description of the update in Windows Store has been modified to look like leetspeak by somebody. Was this a prank by somebody inside the company or was the server cracked, I don't know.
It would seem to me that most hardware vendors would benefit from open sourcing their main drivers and documenting them lightly so that they could offload maintenance costs for smaller OSes to "the community" while relying on patent law to protect novel inventions.
I'd rather have a manufacturer-supported, in-house, full-feature, high-performance driver than something that is left in the hands of unpaid "community members", with a driver which supports the hardware properly 10 years after the device has been on the market.
Why would you have to make kernel changes just to support a graphic driver? No wonder Linux is still just a child's toy.
This is a perfectly valid question.
I bet that if it was in the form "Why would you have to make kernel changes just to support a graphic driver? No wonder Windows is still just a child's toy." (assuming that graphics drivers were done like that in Windows), the comment would be +5 Insightful instead of being modded down by the Slashdot Linux-lover-bots.
So please, tell me why does the Linux kernel need manufacturer-specific modules to support graphics cards? Shouldn't the kernel just include the basic things like the ability to talk to a PCI Express device, and then graphics drivers would be implemented at a higher level?
BTW the the spiritual successor Planetary Annihilation is nearing completion. It seems to be shaping quite nicely.
Or prosthetic ARMs...
Apart the crappy thermal solution, what kind of problems did you have with the Cyrix CPU?
What do you mean shotty support?
Brace yourselves, KDE 5 is coming!
For those that didn't hear already, KDE 4.11 will be the last Plasma Workspaces feature release in the KDE4 series and this upcoming version will be maintained for a period of two years. It will be feature-frozen and the developers will just provide bug-fixes.
Once KDE 4.11 is out the door, KDE developers can begin focusing much more of their efforts on KDE Frameworks 5, Qt 5, and KDE Plasma Workspaces 2.
This should also make Plasma Desktop 4.11 an excellent candidate for inclusion in distributions that have a longer shelf-life.
Citation?
An exception is if you have a website where you show some of your projects. It can work as a portfolio.
But yes, if we are talking about some silly social media profiles or blogs, don't bother writing some dummy content, if you aren't passionate about that kind of media otherwise.
you arrogant little turds ... fucks sake, no god damned shit ... based on unicorn farts ... little asshat turds
You'll get your point better across if you cut that childish angry cursing.
Security should begin at the hardware level, the kernel should be inaccessible from a hardware perspective.
SecureBoot, while often shunned here, actually helps to take computing to the direction you are talking about.
This is an important point. While I myself like IE10, for the ultimate privacy you should disable the SmartScreen feature.
For those who don't know, the SmartScreen system is designed to help protect users against attacks that utilize social engineering and drive-by downloads to infect a system by scanning URLs accessed by a user against a dynamic blacklist of websites containing known threats.
On the other hand, the system has been very effective. Back in July 2010, Microsoft claimed that SmartScreen on Internet Explorer had already blocked over a billion attempts to access sites containing security risks.
What? You're basically complaining that while IE is becoming more standard compliant, your crusty bubblegum hacks won't work anymore.
While you can perform simple HTTP requests using Telnet, technically the protocol is not completely suitable for it. It's a terminal protocol. My point being, Telnet does not mean "a raw socket", unlike how many people often think. If you want to tinker around, using something like netcat to send raw data is more proper.
More info: Telnet data - Telnet - Wikipedia
At least the Wikipedia page for Airport Extreme states that it runs VxWorks.
The trick it that the datamining and stuff happens behind the scenes, and thus people do not sense their privacy being compromised. When people get to choose what they upload to the site, and they can set in the preferences which users can see the material, they feel that they are in control well enough and feel protected enough to keep using the site. They never receive the report stating where their data was sent to (with unlimited access to it), what kind of complex advertising profiles were created based on it, and so on.
And when we add to the equation the actual positive features of FB (hey, it's a damn powerful communication tool), it's a win for most.
Sony and Apple make their batteries on China, too.
Well, I was talking about BSDs in general. But on the other hand, I today saw the official Products based on NetBSD list to mention Darwin. Maybe Darwin pulls from various BSDs?
Aaaaaaaaaaaa!
Honest question, who uses NetBSD?
+ FreeBSD is used in certain hardware appliances, and some ISPs use it for shared hosting etc.
+ OpenBSD seems to be the security nerd's choice when they're setting up a really, really secure router. Or so they say.
+ NetBSD? Ummmm. I guess you can install it on some 1990s RISC hardware and brag to slashdot about it? (Except you have to go back to your x86 to run a browser.)
Seriously, after 25 years in the business I've never seen or heard about anyone using NetBSD in production ever. Is this a real legit OS, or is Netcraft just being lazy?
The most important area is probably providing the base for the Darwin kernel. It's good for other commercial products too as the BSD license doesn't require the source to be redistributed and thus you can better protect your intellectual property. But on the other hand, for many BSD setups, Linux would do the job just as fine. It's nice to have variety though.
They make the AirPort gear, but that's pretty much it. I haven't seen mention of BSD, but the AirPort Extreme is known to run VxWorks.