This is a honest question: how is it possible that Windows drivers are written in a couple of days while drivers for Linux get written sometimes in a year or so (or never - as in ATI 3d drivers)? Isn't hardware proprietary in both circumstances? I'm jealous...
I guess most of the things in that article applies to Ubuntu (root disabled, sudo-only access to root privileges) as well. I wonder how Ubuntu devs and users feel about this.
Call Schwarzenegger now, before my cat intentionally infects my microwave oven, which then will try to eat my dog and pass the infection along to other microwave ovens as well as american passports!
While there, they should fix the slow firefox issue that plagued Breezy and overflowed to Dapper.
See slow
firefox problem in Dapper and the un-upgrade-able
firefox 1.0.7 still vulnerable to security issues in Breezy.
They also need to fix the fact that they cannot update firefox because
everything else in the distro depends on it...
I highly enjoy the fact that I can read your post using my choice of web browser, but that choice is based on common agreements like Ethernet, TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, and CSS.
You might have a good point if your analogy was valid. Webbrowser is an application that is functionable only in the presence of internet, and its common standards. As such, in your analogy, webbrowser => distro while internet standards => kernel.
To clarify, your analogy doesn't say more than: "firefox and internet explorer is to web 1 and 2" ; while "distro is to kernel 2.4 and 2.6".
If we are ever to eliminate the mind-numbing status quo, we have to be pragmatic and offer solutions to problems without introducing a swarm of new problems.
Sorry to dissapoint you, but eliminating the status-quo has the inescapable consequence of introducing "a swarm of" new problems. Because, as you said, status-quo is "mind-numbing" while eliminating it requires great intellectual effort.
Some cities have implemented systems where you can borrow one of the public bicycles that are painted with an ugly colorscheme and use it to go where you need to go. Someone can then, in turn, borrow that bike from you after you've parked it. It's an interesting system because the bikes are just community property and everyone has the right to ride them.
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This is a honest question: how is it possible that Windows drivers are written in a couple of days while drivers for Linux get written sometimes in a year or so (or never - as in ATI 3d drivers)? Isn't hardware proprietary in both circumstances? I'm jealous...
Sorry, typo: was meant to say Linspire. I'm tired. and I guess I have that same habit as well ;)
A business that uses vmware/qemu? Isn't that the new trend??
Will its release be delayed as well? Oh wait... Never mind.
It's called Lindows, and you screwed your grandmother's fixed income (no offense) by downgrading her to a fee-based distro...
Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo for sudo use in Ubuntu. Enabling root password (as you did) is not recommended for Ubuntu...
I guess most of the things in that article applies to Ubuntu (root disabled, sudo-only access to root privileges) as well. I wonder how Ubuntu devs and users feel about this.
sudo -> Ubuntu -> ??
In Russia, the government pwns Google. Ehm, oh -wait
See slow firefox problem in Dapper and the un-upgrade-able firefox 1.0.7 still vulnerable to security issues in Breezy. They also need to fix the fact that they cannot update firefox because everything else in the distro depends on it...
To clarify, your analogy doesn't say more than: "firefox and internet explorer is to web 1 and 2" ; while "distro is to kernel 2.4 and 2.6".
You ./'d Microsoft!.. You bastards!
Argh, here goes my karma...
sorry to feed but, you are much better than I was in proving my own point. Thanks :)
MonopoLinux 6.10?
just provide the drivers... the community will deal with the rest...
typical...
and scary at least...
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http://ssshotaru.homestead.com/files/aolertranslat or.html
...running a linux firewall will throw bolmer's chair at us backdoors.
He doesn't even know that US is not in europe / middle east / africa