Much of open source is based around philosophy. It is an entirely valid reason to abandon a project and has been using many times as a valid reason to fork a project.
Yes, they were. They released the source code and even mentioned it was Blender. They were using copyrighted images without permission, nothing else was wrong with it.
I've recently rediscovered OpenSUSE, and despite my traditional loathing for RPM-based distributions, I am liking it quite a bit. It is definitely a great alternative to Ubuntu and seems to have a lot more polish. My TrackPoint scrolling and middle click work out of box (not on Ubuntu), my finger print reader works with a couple of clicks (not on Ubuntu), and the system recognizes my volume keys which haven't worked in Ubuntu since probably 2008.
Their main focus is KDE, but the Gnome distribution does not feel abandoned or "second thought" at all.
I would not consider stability a selling point of Arch. Sure, it is generally stable, but it can also break itself quite nicely when it wants to. It's a symptom that Gentoo suffers as well, especially when running the more bleeding edge software versions. It's not a dig against Arch, it's probably my favorite distro, but a user needs to be willing and able to fix a broken box.
Right now on the online store the 13 inch and 2GHz 15 inch are $100 off, the others are $200 off. Not the best deal ever but it is a little better than their full retail.
Mac kernel panic is "pretty" compared to the others. If it happens in Linux and you're in an x session it will most likely just lock up and flash the num-lock, scroll-lock and caps-lock leds. It's possible you've observed a panic and not noticed it, but they are few and far between in most of them these days.
Take a class. Apple student discount is around $150, that at least meets your wants for the 13 inch. When I bought my Mac they also gave away a free iPod touch, which I promptly sold for another $100+ off the laptop bill.
I would not put a rolling release on any business system. There's simply too much activity (thus update overhead) and too little benefit. Most of the changes are not for security, but functionality and features. Most package changes such as broken library dependancies can be fixed by manually recompiling the package. It's one of the reasons Arch includes the ABS, so you can rebuild using the exact scripts the maintainers used.
If Ubuntu does this and does not at least keep their LTS, they are showing they really want to be used for the home computer, the user computer, but not the business computer.
I see it now... BSD Linux, the Linux of the future!
Lot of distros trying to put a BSD kernel into a GNU userland. How soon until people try the reverse (at least from a design standpoint)?
The only problem I see is the complete lack of true consensus of "core" versus "applications" in the Linux world as well as the difficulty of dealing with the myriad of projects that would make up that "core", with different development styles, priorities and schedules. BSD operating systems are able to function that way because the core is defined and developed as one entity, which includes the kernel and userland. You can rebuild the entire system with one "make" command.
I have long been tempted to try to create (for myself) a similar system, utilizing a basic LFS install as my "core" and going from there, but I don't really have the time nor skill to pull it off.
Rolling release distributions do not put untested updates out to the masses. They all have a testing repository where updates are fielded before making it into the stable system. That is one reason even Arch isn't truly bleeding edge at all times, but close to it.
I'm betting it had more to do with the Tropical Storm that hit the US East Coast, as referenced in the announcement and "back online" emails sent from the US Army. Maybe they're in on the conspiracy.
Calm down, it's not FaceBook that went down. The redundancy is designed specifically so these machines are allowed to go down from time to time, and designed that way in a time when redundancy behind the address was not very likely.
The net effect of this was a little more traffic on the other servers.
Er... the Navy has outsourced to HP. In fact, to get out of the agreement they are having to pay to even receive information about the network configuration.
They also lose money on consoles, so he actually ensured Sony gets more money from game sales and didn't lose the money on someone buying a new console!
It looks for abnormal activity. If you register in China and use it from China, the warning probably reads 'Your account was recently accessed from the USA'
If I turn on the option to hide AC posters, Slashdot is stripping my freedoms? Really? Or it's stripping their freedoms to throw their comments into my brain?
I don't care if someone in China has the freedom to access my account, and I think your reading comprehension may have been on the fritz.
Why is it when the US is criticized, responses in the vein of "other countries do it too" is unacceptable and often labeled troll, yet when a different country is under the radar, responses in the vein of "the US does it too" is the first and greatest comeback, and in this case labeled "Insightful"?
Because the US has presented itself as a moral high ground and example for the rest of the world, or tried to. When the role model does wrong excuses don't fly.
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It's a private industry, like most infrastructure in the US.
Much of open source is based around philosophy. It is an entirely valid reason to abandon a project and has been using many times as a valid reason to fork a project.
Yes, they were. They released the source code and even mentioned it was Blender. They were using copyrighted images without permission, nothing else was wrong with it.
I've recently rediscovered OpenSUSE, and despite my traditional loathing for RPM-based distributions, I am liking it quite a bit. It is definitely a great alternative to Ubuntu and seems to have a lot more polish. My TrackPoint scrolling and middle click work out of box (not on Ubuntu), my finger print reader works with a couple of clicks (not on Ubuntu), and the system recognizes my volume keys which haven't worked in Ubuntu since probably 2008. Their main focus is KDE, but the Gnome distribution does not feel abandoned or "second thought" at all.
The only one that is marginally a contribution is the app indicators, and even then Gnome 3's new indicators seem much more useful.
I would not consider stability a selling point of Arch. Sure, it is generally stable, but it can also break itself quite nicely when it wants to. It's a symptom that Gentoo suffers as well, especially when running the more bleeding edge software versions. It's not a dig against Arch, it's probably my favorite distro, but a user needs to be willing and able to fix a broken box.
Right now on the online store the 13 inch and 2GHz 15 inch are $100 off, the others are $200 off. Not the best deal ever but it is a little better than their full retail.
Mac kernel panic is "pretty" compared to the others. If it happens in Linux and you're in an x session it will most likely just lock up and flash the num-lock, scroll-lock and caps-lock leds. It's possible you've observed a panic and not noticed it, but they are few and far between in most of them these days.
Take a class. Apple student discount is around $150, that at least meets your wants for the 13 inch. When I bought my Mac they also gave away a free iPod touch, which I promptly sold for another $100+ off the laptop bill.
Slashdot is pretty much dying. Nobody really cares anymore :(
In this story from 2005, Netcraft confirms slashdot is in fact, dead!
I would not put a rolling release on any business system. There's simply too much activity (thus update overhead) and too little benefit. Most of the changes are not for security, but functionality and features. Most package changes such as broken library dependancies can be fixed by manually recompiling the package. It's one of the reasons Arch includes the ABS, so you can rebuild using the exact scripts the maintainers used.
If Ubuntu does this and does not at least keep their LTS, they are showing they really want to be used for the home computer, the user computer, but not the business computer.
I see it now... BSD Linux, the Linux of the future!
Lot of distros trying to put a BSD kernel into a GNU userland. How soon until people try the reverse (at least from a design standpoint)?
The only problem I see is the complete lack of true consensus of "core" versus "applications" in the Linux world as well as the difficulty of dealing with the myriad of projects that would make up that "core", with different development styles, priorities and schedules. BSD operating systems are able to function that way because the core is defined and developed as one entity, which includes the kernel and userland. You can rebuild the entire system with one "make" command.
I have long been tempted to try to create (for myself) a similar system, utilizing a basic LFS install as my "core" and going from there, but I don't really have the time nor skill to pull it off.
Rolling release distributions do not put untested updates out to the masses. They all have a testing repository where updates are fielded before making it into the stable system. That is one reason even Arch isn't truly bleeding edge at all times, but close to it.
Did you happen to post a bug, or just assume they knew that their stable security update had actually broken something?
If there was a bug, it would have been fixed.
Gnome is GPL, "handing it over" would be rather hard.
They own the copyrights on the source code.
The trademark is owned by The Open Group.
I'm betting it had more to do with the Tropical Storm that hit the US East Coast, as referenced in the announcement and "back online" emails sent from the US Army. Maybe they're in on the conspiracy.
Calm down, it's not FaceBook that went down. The redundancy is designed specifically so these machines are allowed to go down from time to time, and designed that way in a time when redundancy behind the address was not very likely.
The net effect of this was a little more traffic on the other servers.
Er... the Navy has outsourced to HP. In fact, to get out of the agreement they are having to pay to even receive information about the network configuration.
You should have bought a reliable Xbox 360.
They also lose money on consoles, so he actually ensured Sony gets more money from game sales and didn't lose the money on someone buying a new console!
Way to show 'em.
It looks for abnormal activity. If you register in China and use it from China, the warning probably reads 'Your account was recently accessed from the USA'
If I turn on the option to hide AC posters, Slashdot is stripping my freedoms? Really? Or it's stripping their freedoms to throw their comments into my brain?
I don't care if someone in China has the freedom to access my account, and I think your reading comprehension may have been on the fritz.
Why is it when the US is criticized, responses in the vein of "other countries do it too" is unacceptable and often labeled troll, yet when a different country is under the radar, responses in the vein of "the US does it too" is the first and greatest comeback, and in this case labeled "Insightful"?
Because the US has presented itself as a moral high ground and example for the rest of the world, or tried to. When the role model does wrong excuses don't fly.
Wait, is that the Supreme Court of the United States?