That's fine if you won't read the link; but my point was that HURD wasn't done when Linux was because it was a more complex implementation. It wasn't because of some imaginary scenario you made up in your head.
This is a poor excuse. Linux went from nothing to a whole operating system in an extremely short space of time. Sure it used GNU tools which makes it all the more curious why GNU Hurd managed to go nowhere. Weren't those same tools available to the Hurd kernel too? One could also ask what's Hurd's excuse SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER STARTING that it still isn't a viable alternative to Linux?
He has also said other things on the topic. From Revolution OS:
Interviewer:
-If some people asked you to describe this GNU/Linux, I mean, what's your
thought about this, does that justify, or...
Linus Torvalds:
-Well, I think it's justified, but it's justified if you actually make a GNU
distribution on Linux. The same way that I think that Red Hat Linux is fine, or
SuSE Linux, or Debian Linux, because if you actually make your own
distribution of Linux, you get to name the thing. But calling Linux in general
GNU/Linux, I think it's just ridiculous.
I agree with the things you said, however, I'll raise you one more and say that it is also because Linux doesn't have some kind of unified marketing team. This is apparent from your argument about LDAP solutions for Linux, when a few exist such as Novell's eDirectory and Red Hat's Directory Server. There's probably quite a few other implementations, but it's very hard to find out about these things unless you spend the time hunting them down. A person making these type of big decisions doesn't have time to do this, but they do have time to sit down with someone from MS and have them go over things for them. After all, marketing is a big reason why MS is top dog right now.
If that chap in the audience can't make Free software pay then why the heck are Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Novell et al. still in business?!
Umm, by offering or making available proprietary solutions. If any of those companies you mentioned followed RMS' very strict views on the topic, well, it would be safe to say that we would know those names today (go ahead, type in google 'proprietary solutions [company name]'). You just can't be as liberal as he is about such things and even get a university education nowadays anyway! I can see RMS now, "can I view the source code to WebCT and your class registration application?"
I'm not saying that F/OSS doesn't pay, but that sometimes you need to make compromises to accomplish your own goals. Maybe it's because I don't think CSS is immoral, just not preferable. I do respect F/OSS and what RMS has done for me in regards to free software, but I live in the real world where I am (somewhat) sometimes forced to use proprietary technologies to make a living. And if you have a problem with that, give me some money or fuck off; not everyone is fortunate enough to work on F/OSS for a living, and right now, not everyone can be.
There are also too many flavors of ice cream. I mean, with the hundreds of flavors around, how can businesses buying ice cream for their employees ever narrow it to just a few flavors that their employees will likely approve of? The choice is just too difficult.
The next release will be interesting to see. Being a LTS version, I can see it spreading rather quickly and staying there for quite a while. It definitely has had a lot of upgrades since the last LTS flavor.
This is incorrect. Shuttleworth says here that it will not be a LTS release. I remember him saying somewhere that it will probably be gutsy+1.
Oh yeah, no need to tell us the location of the Canadian store because, you know, all we have to do is ask Steve. He lives in Canada, and it's such a small place that everybody knows about everything.
To go anywhere in Canada, you just follow the only road.
There's only one road in Canada. We call it the Road, the only road.
Hip-hip, hooray, let's hear it for our Road.
Why not use more laptops so they have a smaller chance of GUESSING the right one? Or do they have to prove why they think its one over the other? In that case why use more than one?
In some ways it reminds me of a trackpad. Very cool looking and futuristic (back when they were first introduced) until you try to use it for anything, at which point it becomes a burden which slows down and degrades the accuracy of all of your pointing and selection operations.
Couldn't agree with you more; the thing looks like it would give me an anxiety attack after about 5 minutes. Not to mention the cloth cover for the thing; imagine how dirty it would get after a week. Maybe some other type of device that tracks my eye movement and responds to commands (like I look at the X in the top right and click some type of input button and it closes). Don't think about it too long, I came up with that in a few seconds. You'd think these people would save themselves some time and just rip off some of Bruce Tognazzini's stuff.
Besides, once I get to eliminate my desk, end table, couch, and bed, where should I put my keyboard - or will they come up with a 60wpm on-screen soap-mouse-pick keyboard?
From that video you link to, it looks like the person playing the FPS (UT something?) has some sort of keyboard on his belt (?). Although I definitely couldn't see anyone typing on such a thing.
Either way, I don't want something cute, I want something practical.
This is one of the weaker examples of "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." that I've seen in a while...
No shit man, someone could have been helpful enough to tag this with "slownewsday" so I wouldn't have to bother reading the summary! Or Zonk could have posted it, which would have the same affect for me.
So, you're serious about that huh? From a site titled 'ultraparanoid', I wouldn't expect any less. I mean, this person uses 4 different web browsers to protect his privacy... what...the...fuck...
This information that google has, for the most part, isn't read by a human. When you enter a search into google, they only know what a person is searching for, they don't know who. They don't care who, just so long as they can send that IP address back targeted adds. Why anyone would care at all about that, I have no idea. Last, what top secret information do you people get in your email? Why not encrypt anything that's important? I'm not saying that Google is some super safehouse or that they haven't done 'evil' stuff in the past, but come on people, you can find stuff more hardcore than google to be paranoid about. Just don't blink, that's when they get you.
Because even in states in the US where it's legal for two underage people to have sex, it's usually not legal for them to make photographs/video and distribute them.
Where did you hear this? In my high school (in GA), it was always talked about by the teachers/'guidance counselor' that underage sex was statutory rape. Of course, if that weren't true, it wouldn't be the first time I've been lied to at school! Oh well, I'm too old to care now.
For one thing, there's this little area called antitrust law, under which I'm fairly sure Microsoft aren't allowed to pull that kind of stunt any more.
Oh ya, definitely. M$ would NEVER violate any antitrust law, ever. Not after what happened. The US really showed em who's boss there. Wait, wtf are you smoking, and can you bring me some?
Anyway, I had it in parallels for a while and although it wasn't enough to convince me to abandon ubuntu, I will say that installing software was brain dead easy -- not that synaptic is hard, but with synaptic you do need to know the name of what you want. With PC-BSD, you just pick from a menu of shiny icons and descriptions
In Ubuntu, go to the Applications Menu to Add/Remove. There is a list, broken down into categories, of many different programs you can install like you describe (although I haven't seen the PC-BSD one yet). Although I'm not quite sure what you're talking about, when you say you need to know the name of the program you want in Synaptic; you can type anything you want into the search box, not just the name of the package.
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That's fine if you won't read the link; but my point was that HURD wasn't done when Linux was because it was a more complex implementation. It wasn't because of some imaginary scenario you made up in your head.
Interviewer: Linus Torvalds:
You truly have a dizzying intellect.
Please pay attention mods, I have mentioned both in this post!!
I agree with the things you said, however, I'll raise you one more and say that it is also because Linux doesn't have some kind of unified marketing team. This is apparent from your argument about LDAP solutions for Linux, when a few exist such as Novell's eDirectory and Red Hat's Directory Server. There's probably quite a few other implementations, but it's very hard to find out about these things unless you spend the time hunting them down. A person making these type of big decisions doesn't have time to do this, but they do have time to sit down with someone from MS and have them go over things for them. After all, marketing is a big reason why MS is top dog right now.
I'm not saying that F/OSS doesn't pay, but that sometimes you need to make compromises to accomplish your own goals. Maybe it's because I don't think CSS is immoral, just not preferable. I do respect F/OSS and what RMS has done for me in regards to free software, but I live in the real world where I am (somewhat) sometimes forced to use proprietary technologies to make a living. And if you have a problem with that, give me some money or fuck off; not everyone is fortunate enough to work on F/OSS for a living, and right now, not everyone can be.
Hmmm, I wonder how much their equipment cost.
disclaimer: I am not actually from Canadia
Why not use more laptops so they have a smaller chance of GUESSING the right one? Or do they have to prove why they think its one over the other? In that case why use more than one?
From that video you link to, it looks like the person playing the FPS (UT something?) has some sort of keyboard on his belt (?). Although I definitely couldn't see anyone typing on such a thing.
Either way, I don't want something cute, I want something practical.
This information that google has, for the most part, isn't read by a human. When you enter a search into google, they only know what a person is searching for, they don't know who. They don't care who, just so long as they can send that IP address back targeted adds. Why anyone would care at all about that, I have no idea. Last, what top secret information do you people get in your email? Why not encrypt anything that's important? I'm not saying that Google is some super safehouse or that they haven't done 'evil' stuff in the past, but come on people, you can find stuff more hardcore than google to be paranoid about. Just don't blink, that's when they get you.
Dude, that's something you need to post anonymously. That way I don't have to bother reading it. kthnx
what is this "popup" you speak of?