Much as a certain large software company located in the North-West of the United States of America might wish otherwise, there are many different operating systems and platforms in use in the world today.
As a matter of that it's been like that since "ancient times" when there were bunches of unixes, and the reason unix didn't prevail was supposedly that people preffered coding for one OS, instead of 12 unix variants. I don't think this has changed. Of course above reasoning was taken from an article to promote the linux standard base, which I'm against anyway:)
Add to that the fact that most software is installed as root, and there is no limit to the damage that spyware-infected software could do.
Good thing all my software comes from portage and has been past a whole lot of maintainers of my operating system to ensure I get safe software:)
Yes there are always going to be risks to third party software, but when an operating system like Gentoo Linux provides the packages for anything I need, (in my case it has so far) the risk is minimal.
the man is missing the point. These enterprise distributions are based on all sorts of software packages that people CAN all make adjustments too. This means that the law of Linus applies to them, and bugs are more quickly fixed.
I'm going to sell extra-risk cigarettes for those rebellious people. I will advertise: "Live dangerous. Smake extra-risk!" It will have more cancerous chemicals and less tar and nicotine so people will buy more! It'll be the perfect marketing ploy!
I've been using Abiword and Gnumeric for some time, and I like it much better, especially on my Gentoo system where everything is compiled from source. I guess these pieces of software aren't as featureful yet (they don't have easy integration, and still lack the rest of a productivity suite, but at least when I start them, they, start.
(Of course by that logic, I could get some Free DOS-thing and run WordPerfect and Lotus 123)
I'd choose the one with the biggest company backing it, because that's what governments tend to do, and well, surprise, surprise, what did New Zealand do?
Now, I know that 64MB of video ram and 128MB of RAM isn't much, but 3 minutes to start an xterm was a bit much for my taste. maybe it was something I did, maybe I should have given some options at boot, but the way it looked now, I won't be using this for a looong time.
of some program I used to use back when I still used windows. It was called SphereXP and you'd have a sort of room you could place windows in and move around in. It was quite useless and used too many resources. I'm only half way downloading it, but I can't say I believe it will live up to the hype, even with the positive comments of the slashdotters before me. (but who knows perhaps I'll be suprprised)
"Peter Rees, executive producer of "Myth Busters," said the experiment at the Hunters Point Shipyard showed that Archimedes' death ray was most likely a myth."
The ants in my backyard don't agree. They say my magnifying glass absolutely excists.
Use a program to schedule scary things inbetween tv. Maybe you could use a tv-card AND tv-out to do this, so you could make it very real, as in it would interfere with actual news. You'd set up a tv-program to run at fullscreen, with the tv as a screen, and schedule the pc to interrupt at certain time with scary things, or maybe even better, you could override only the sound. Maybe make your favorite anchorman say "Your souls belong to Satan", assuming you plan when the news runs.
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That titile has two words too many. No, wait, actually, the entire article is reduntant.
Much as a certain large software company located in the North-West of the United States of America might wish otherwise, there are many different operating systems and platforms in use in the world today. As a matter of that it's been like that since "ancient times" when there were bunches of unixes, and the reason unix didn't prevail was supposedly that people preffered coding for one OS, instead of 12 unix variants. I don't think this has changed. Of course above reasoning was taken from an article to promote the linux standard base, which I'm against anyway :)
Add to that the fact that most software is installed as root, and there is no limit to the damage that spyware-infected software could do.
:)
Good thing all my software comes from portage and has been past a whole lot of maintainers of my operating system to ensure I get safe software
Yes there are always going to be risks to third party software, but when an operating system like Gentoo Linux provides the packages for anything I need, (in my case it has so far) the risk is minimal.
the man is missing the point. These enterprise distributions are based on all sorts of software packages that people CAN all make adjustments too. This means that the law of Linus applies to them, and bugs are more quickly fixed.
Ha. I played Chu Chu Rocket on the Gameboy advence! it rocked. Too bad the DS broke compatibility with the link cable because that game is awesome.
I'm going to sell extra-risk cigarettes for those rebellious people. I will advertise: "Live dangerous. Smake extra-risk!" It will have more cancerous chemicals and less tar and nicotine so people will buy more! It'll be the perfect marketing ploy!
...that the little search box by default set to google is enough to warrant this?
That's ok. Us Linux geeks never go out and see the sun (that big yellow sphere in the ceiling). Why would we bother with seeing the moon?
First Microsoft Shell and now this? Looks like MS Linux is nearly becoming a reality!
When I read the title I just thought: "No I don't use MS Office"
Exchange is even keeping my dad from using firefox on his company laptop let alone Linux. (Yes it works in firefox, but half-assed)
I know all this, I've used ubuntu, I love it, and I know what it means. I also know that to most people it sounds silly, hence the comment.
Don't forget to pass up the opportunity to mention Ballmers chairthrowing. Good for free karma in any Microsoft topic.
At least there's no distro called Ubuntu... oh, wait...
to see how it's alright whatever happens to Novell, as long as it doesn't hurt one of our precious Linux distros, it's okay to the slashdot community.
Not that I would dare to ever disagree.
*Quickly looks around hoping no-one read this unpopular statement*
I've been using Abiword and Gnumeric for some time, and I like it much better, especially on my Gentoo system where everything is compiled from source. I guess these pieces of software aren't as featureful yet (they don't have easy integration, and still lack the rest of a productivity suite, but at least when I start them, they, start.
(Of course by that logic, I could get some Free DOS-thing and run WordPerfect and Lotus 123)
I'd choose the one with the biggest company backing it, because that's what governments tend to do, and well, surprise, surprise, what did New Zealand do?
Now, I know that 64MB of video ram and 128MB of RAM isn't much, but 3 minutes to start an xterm was a bit much for my taste. maybe it was something I did, maybe I should have given some options at boot, but the way it looked now, I won't be using this for a looong time.
of some program I used to use back when I still used windows. It was called SphereXP and you'd have a sort of room you could place windows in and move around in. It was quite useless and used too many resources. I'm only half way downloading it, but I can't say I believe it will live up to the hype, even with the positive comments of the slashdotters before me. (but who knows perhaps I'll be suprprised)
"the whole of which he directed upon the ships that lay at anchor in the path of the fire,"
It is suggested that they were not moving much, yeah.
"Peter Rees, executive producer of "Myth Busters," said the experiment at the Hunters Point Shipyard showed that Archimedes' death ray was most likely a myth." The ants in my backyard don't agree. They say my magnifying glass absolutely excists.
So it's pretty much a festival for obsolete computers? I guess I can bring my AMD 2400+-pc, too, then.
Use a program to schedule scary things inbetween tv. Maybe you could use a tv-card AND tv-out to do this, so you could make it very real, as in it would interfere with actual news. You'd set up a tv-program to run at fullscreen, with the tv as a screen, and schedule the pc to interrupt at certain time with scary things, or maybe even better, you could override only the sound. Maybe make your favorite anchorman say "Your souls belong to Satan", assuming you plan when the news runs.
From the article: "The substance itself is light years ahead of glass," Guess we have to travel pretty far to mine it then.