There's no need to buy a Ferrari if you use it twice a year, just rent it.
Most of the supercomputing locations where I worked at are very shy about their occupation rates. I think it is probably very low except at very active universities. All other places are wating their money buying hardware which will become useless while is not used.
See Powua http://www.powua.com/ as a general implementation or PurePowua http://www.purepowua.com/ as a more specialized one, in this case XSI rendering.
1) RPM IT IS 'basically dead'.
Take a look at: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-maint/2 007-March/thread.html nobody is contributing to a RPM site launched with a big fanfare from Redhat. Even your former founder went APT when decided to go alone. "RPM Hell is a common way of referring to it". RPM doesn't allow concurrent version of libraries in a simple way and we can go on with arguments like this ones for a long time. Also if Redhat and Mandriva and Suse are using it, that doesn't mean it's a good system. Most Fedora people use APT and so do many Mandriva and Opensuse users. Their number is increasing.
2) I'm not talking about freeness of Mandriva. I had a very good time when French parliament decided to go with Ubuntu. That's freedom.
3) If you don't switch to Debian base soon you'll die soon. Time will prove it. Switch, soon.
4) RPM distributions are bad for Linux because commercial software producers are doing packages in this format and that's not for a technical reason but only for commercial agreements. We need autopackage-style for commercial software and APT based for free ones.
Thats all folks, everybody can judge by them self...
Mandriva is based on RPM -> RPM is basically dead -> all people using RPM distros are using APT (Debian) derived package managers.
We need to have a common Linux base on Debian (completely free OS) and stop pushing at all levels proprietary and commercial distributions, they have the money to do this and they don't need our help. Please stop this PR (and we all doubt it is free, in fact we are sure someone here - maybe not the poor/. writer - are getting payed). There are over 150 Debian-derived distros out there: write about them...
Blender is and always will be (as I can imagine) in Mediainlinux.
Our environment breaths Blender, we know Ton and we love his work and commitment.
This post on Slashdot was to just make people know about a Public institution's effort about multimedia and GNU/Linux.
Many other media Distro are/were Public founded (Agnula/Demudi, Planet CCRMA and maybe also Dyne:bolic).
GNU/Linux is about creativity and we all like it. Peace.
MG
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There's no need to buy a Ferrari if you use it twice a year, just rent it. Most of the supercomputing locations where I worked at are very shy about their occupation rates. I think it is probably very low except at very active universities. All other places are wating their money buying hardware which will become useless while is not used. See Powua http://www.powua.com/ as a general implementation or PurePowua http://www.purepowua.com/ as a more specialized one, in this case XSI rendering.
1) RPM IT IS 'basically dead'. Take a look at: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-maint/2 007-March/thread.html nobody is contributing to a RPM site launched with a big fanfare from Redhat. Even your former founder went APT when decided to go alone. "RPM Hell is a common way of referring to it". RPM doesn't allow concurrent version of libraries in a simple way and we can go on with arguments like this ones for a long time. Also if Redhat and Mandriva and Suse are using it, that doesn't mean it's a good system. Most Fedora people use APT and so do many Mandriva and Opensuse users. Their number is increasing.
2) I'm not talking about freeness of Mandriva. I had a very good time when French parliament decided to go with Ubuntu. That's freedom.
3) If you don't switch to Debian base soon you'll die soon. Time will prove it. Switch, soon.
4) RPM distributions are bad for Linux because commercial software producers are doing packages in this format and that's not for a technical reason but only for commercial agreements. We need autopackage-style for commercial software and APT based for free ones.
Thats all folks, everybody can judge by them self...
Mandriva is based on RPM -> RPM is basically dead -> all people using RPM distros are using APT (Debian) derived package managers. We need to have a common Linux base on Debian (completely free OS) and stop pushing at all levels proprietary and commercial distributions, they have the money to do this and they don't need our help. Please stop this PR (and we all doubt it is free, in fact we are sure someone here - maybe not the poor /. writer - are getting payed). There are over 150 Debian-derived distros out there: write about them...
Blender is and always will be (as I can imagine) in Mediainlinux. Our environment breaths Blender, we know Ton and we love his work and commitment. This post on Slashdot was to just make people know about a Public institution's effort about multimedia and GNU/Linux. Many other media Distro are/were Public founded (Agnula/Demudi, Planet CCRMA and maybe also Dyne:bolic). GNU/Linux is about creativity and we all like it. Peace. MG