NetBSD was in fact the only BSD at LW03 in New York. A short review is available online. Considering that we were stuck way in the depth of the.org pavillon, it was still quite a success, with many interested people stopping by.
Yes, it works beautifully. There have even been reports of a Linux installation that is _entirely_ managed by pkgsrc (that is, including the base system, glibc, kernel etc.). Certainly beats rpm, apt and the like.
Also, FreeBSD's new scheduler gets on the main page, every semi-serious release of Debian-, Slackware-, Mandrake-, and Foo-Linux get on the main page, premature announcements of *any*thing get on the main page, but a long awaited release of the most portable operating system in the world does not get on the main page.
I wonder if 1.6, when it is announced, will be considered worthy.
Well, given that it runs on NetBSD under linux emulation (see this message to netbsd-users), I wouldn't be surprised if it works under FreeBSD as well...
Wanna take a guess which words in the phrase "I hereby deny Microsoft the right to add any links using their smart-tag technology" are going to be linked, right-away, to Microsofts website about how great "smart-tag technology" is?
He probably just gave up - happens to me, too. People tend to call me "Dschen", and if they don't get it after I correct them once or twice, I don't bother. I doubt Linus gives a crap.
Am I just dense or did they never bother to explain the actual end of "The Endgame"? At one point they were being chased by the Borg Sphere, they took a turn somewhere so that everybody thought they'd go back to the Delta-quadrant and then the sphere is barfed into the Alpha-quadrant, the Federation shoots and shoots, and finally Voyager pops up, destroying the sphere.
So what happened? They somehow (how?) managed to get [behind|inside|over|under] the sphere (did a circle-jerk in the tubes?) and nuked it?
Hrumpf.
Oh well, usually Voyager two-part-edpisodes are really cool in the first part and then the second part is ladida-everythings-peachy, just like that (in the last 10 Minutes) - at least this one (even though still following this approach) was entertaining.
And it (obviously) gives us Geeks a lot to talk about...
Following the logic at the end of the article, it seems to me it would make sense to assume that this problem can scale:
One can apply the exact same logic for every number, thus concluding that four sinners left the fourth day, five sinners left the fifth day and ultimately n sinners (the entire village) leaves the nth day.
Ok, ok, I see the problem states they leave the third day, but nonetheless, this feels stupid.
If you use a text browser such as link (http://links.sourceforge.net), lynx or w3m you wouldn't see any ads either way. The best way to/read/ anything on the web is by using a text browser.
I know somebody probably already said this somewhere in this huge long thread that I (bad boy!) did not bother to read, but havingit run under wine does not make it any less an MS-Application. I think wine is nice and all, but it is the wrong approach - instead of trying to run programs intended for one OS, people should focus on making better software for this OS.
Support abiword and gnumeric! Learn LaTeX and don't use any "word-processor" at all!
I might even consider paying for it, if it was good enough -- though I may be in the minority there.
I'm afraid so - I can't imagine that the majority of people would be willing to pay for yet another browser when they can have IE or NS for free. Besides, I really do NOT hope that just because it might turn out to be a good piece of software people might consider asking money for it.
Well, Galeon may be a good browser, but to use it, you need to install Mozilla first. So you end up downloading two browsers to use one?? That's ridicolous. When I saw the last galeon-announcement on freshmeat, I wanted to try it out and downloaded and installed Mozilla and Galeon. Both (or either) took *forever* to start up - I wish there was a good graphical browser that starts up in no time and displays webpages according to the standards.
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NetBSD/spacestation.
Or 64bit. Like the NetBSD/alpha-, NetBSD/sh5-, NetBSD/sparc64- or NetBSD/x86_64-Ports.
In the above, it should read 'NetBSD 1.6.1 has been tagged', not branched. Sorry for the confusion.
NetBSD was in fact the only BSD at LW03 in New York. A short review is available online. Considering that we were stuck way in the depth of the .org pavillon, it was still quite a success, with many interested people stopping by.
Search the NetBSD mailinglists for ``linux pkgsrc'' (Google powered NetBSD searches are here). One helpful message should be this one.
Yes, it works beautifully. There have even been reports of a Linux installation that is _entirely_ managed by pkgsrc (that is, including the base system, glibc, kernel etc.). Certainly beats rpm, apt and the like.
a ges.html#bootstrap for details.
Furthermore, pkgsrc also works under Darwin, FreeBSD, IRIX, OpenBSD and Solaris. See http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/pack
SMP is in NetBSD-current. And it's working quite nicely - I'm using it on several servers.
pkgsrc also works beautifully on Linux, making it possible to break package-manager-hell for those who must run linux. Shweet.
I wonder if 1.6, when it is announced, will be considered worthy.
Well, given that it runs on NetBSD under linux emulation (see this message to netbsd-users), I wouldn't be surprised if it works under FreeBSD as well...
Also, the scripts to create the CD are included, so you can re-create it with whatever language settings you prefer.
NetBSD installation ISO images are available
here.
They just don't have the graphical KDE installer that many Linux users depend on.
A better lynx: links.
Also, from what I've heard, screen(1) might be of interest to you.
Wanna take a guess which words in the phrase "I hereby deny Microsoft the right to add any links using their smart-tag technology" are going to be linked, right-away, to Microsofts website about how great "smart-tag technology" is?
He probably just gave up - happens to me, too. People tend to call me "Dschen", and if they don't get it after I correct them once or twice, I don't bother. I doubt Linus gives a crap.
FWIW, I submitted the news last night around 10pm or so...
I have Cable from TW in the East Village and it does carry Food Network.
Am I just dense or did they never bother to explain the actual end of "The Endgame"? At one point they were being chased by the Borg Sphere, they took a turn somewhere so that everybody thought they'd go back to the Delta-quadrant and then the sphere is barfed into the Alpha-quadrant, the Federation shoots and shoots, and finally Voyager pops up, destroying the sphere.
So what happened? They somehow (how?) managed to get [behind|inside|over|under] the sphere (did a circle-jerk in the tubes?) and nuked it?
Hrumpf.
Oh well, usually Voyager two-part-edpisodes are really cool in the first part and then the second part is ladida-everythings-peachy, just like that (in the last 10 Minutes) - at least this one (even though still following this approach) was entertaining.
And it (obviously) gives us Geeks a lot to talk about...
In addition, he wrote the funniest book on animals I've ever read: Last Chance to See. The funniest part is that it's all true.
Following the logic at the end of the article, it seems to me it would make sense to assume that this problem can scale:
One can apply the exact same logic for every number, thus concluding that four sinners left the fourth day, five sinners left the fifth day and ultimately n sinners (the entire village) leaves the nth day.
Ok, ok, I see the problem states they leave the third day, but nonetheless, this feels stupid.
If you use a text browser such as link (http://links.sourceforge.net), lynx or w3m you wouldn't see any ads either way. The best way to /read/ anything on the web is by using a text browser.
I know somebody probably already said this somewhere in this huge long thread that I (bad boy!) did not bother to read, but havingit run under wine does not make it any less an MS-Application.
I think wine is nice and all, but it is the wrong approach - instead of trying to run programs intended for one OS, people should focus on making better software for this OS.
Support abiword and gnumeric! Learn LaTeX and don't use any "word-processor" at all!
I might even consider paying for it, if it was good enough -- though I may be in the minority there.
I'm afraid so - I can't imagine that the majority of people would be willing to pay for yet another browser when they can have IE or NS for free. Besides, I really do NOT hope that just because it might turn out to be a good piece of software people might consider asking money for it.
Just my $0.02
-Jan
Well, Galeon may be a good browser, but to use it, you need to install Mozilla first. So you end up downloading two browsers to use one?? That's ridicolous.
When I saw the last galeon-announcement on freshmeat, I wanted to try it out and downloaded and installed Mozilla and Galeon. Both (or either) took *forever* to start up - I wish there was a good graphical browser that starts up in no time and displays webpages according to the standards.
Note: this may sound more funny if you know that I am French myself.
No, it doesn't.
-Jan