Your file association problems are probably a result of Gnome's overzealous dumbing down of its features.
Err... no. GNOME uses the same interface as Mac OS X for changing file associations: right click a file, select 'Properties' and then the 'Open With' tab. There you can pick the default application for opening that file.
Since the parent had no problems with Mac OS X I'm surprised to see this complaint about GNOME.
It sure is. I use it exclusively as my operating system, and I know many people that do the same. What you meant was that it doesn't have complete support for all hardware combinations available; that's true, in fact it's true for all operating systems.
Since this is a beta you should expect some problems. Maybe you could report this one to their bug system?
If Nokia can put GNOME on a system with 128MB flash memory, why can't Red Hat with the $100 laptop?
Fedora Core, the base for the laptop OS, could be considered fat; it has a large number of packages, supports more than one arch and can be used to do many different things. But it's not hard to remove all the unnecessary things and optimize the system to run on the laptop specs (like running on flash instead of a hard disk).
Because if we manage to do so, there will be much more remaining cpu cycles to waste with eye candy:-)
Actually, we're getting getting more CPU cycles as we add eye-candy to the desktop, because things are being moved to the GPU.:)
Ironically, GNOME can be configured to use the same order as Windows and KDE, but KDE can't be configured to work like MacOS and GNOME. Found this on google:
http://svn.navi.cx/misc/branches/fyre-meta-histo grams/build/gtkrc-win32
(see the gtk-alternative-button option).
I have a few observations: Cancel/Ok is bad, just like Ok/Cancel. A sane dialog would use verbs like Cancel/Restart or Cancel/Save. I think this is so obvious I have no idea why Microsoft and specially KDE haven't adopted it yet.
Another thing that I don't quite agree with you is that people will use both GNOME and KDE apps. As applications on both environments mature I think this is more and more unlikely to happen. They have a different set of UI guidelines, a GNOME user is more likely to prefer an application that follows its way of doing things and the same goes for KDE.
Of course, there will always be people that use a simple window manager and a set of apps that look and feel nothing like each other, like we were all forced to do a long time ago.
Stallman is the very embodiment of the Free Software the Free Software movement, but his relevance to what the movement has become since then is fading.
"Yes - nVidia have non-gpl drivers which is why they're not included in the distro, however a new kernel is NOT required to install them."
On FC5 you need a new kernel, the official one has a bug that prevents non-free modules from being loaded.
"If you can legally use the MP3 format where you are doing a "yum install xmms-mp3" (if you use xmms) is hardly a problem... "
xmms-mp3 is not in Fedora Core or Fedora Extras. (also, if you're getting the packages from elsewhere I'd recommend just getting the gstreamer plugins, so you can use the default players).
"Sounds like there's a few bugs in the version of disk druid - still not a problem if you use the emergency shell (ctrl-alt-f2) and use fdisk and return with ctrl-alt-f7 to tell disk druid which partitions you want as which."
If the user is requered to use fdisk during a Fedora install then something is wrong - a reviewer should definetely report it. Hopefully the bug will be fixed eventually.
"perhaps he should move back to Windows if that's the case!"
NO! Using a Free operating system is not about manually partitioning the hard drive.
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That's not true. The change was done in the development cycle but it was reverted way before the final release.
You're forgetting a few things. RMS was a hacker (a very good one btw) who only started the GNU project and later the FSF because he had to. So you could say he became an idealogue, and without that hapenning there would be no Free tools for Linus or other engineers to write software at all.
You're also dead wrong on saying that "RMS wants to restrict you to only using it for things that are "free"." That could not be more wrong! I quote from the GPL: "Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted"
The GPL doesn't restrict your use of a program, and it couldn't because that's out of the scope of the license.
The ones restricting you from using something are those who stand up for things that could make free software impossible (software patents, DRM, etc).
You should put a question mark next to KDE 4 too. The chances of it being available in stable distros by October are not that great, some devs are even talking of early 2007 for a release date. (it doesn't have a schedule yet).
"My understanding while talking to David Reveman this past week was that
the complexity of keeping a compositing manager as a separate process
from the window manager was too high (too much bookkeeping that made it
error prone, and there were some fundamental problems that he could not
solve).
So some time ago he abandoned his effort to patch Metacity and have a
separate composition manager, reduced the complexity and eliminated a
lot of bugs and the source of these bugs.
That is what David explained to me, but I can only understand about 50%
of the technical stuff that he talks about, so keep that in mind."
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/ 2006-February/msg00120.html
The GPL v3 may be considered a rant for those who stand up for "open source" software but it's perfectly aligned with the ideals of the FSF, the same ideals since the GNU Manifesto.
That's correct, but nobody's saying anything about modification of the GPL. You don't have to modify the GPL to add a special clause to the license of your program.
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Your file association problems are probably a result of Gnome's overzealous dumbing down of its features.
Err... no. GNOME uses the same interface as Mac OS X for changing file associations: right click a file, select 'Properties' and then the 'Open With' tab. There you can pick the default application for opening that file.
Since the parent had no problems with Mac OS X I'm surprised to see this complaint about GNOME.
Its just not ready for prime time.
It sure is. I use it exclusively as my operating system, and I know many people that do the same. What you meant was that it doesn't have complete support for all hardware combinations available; that's true, in fact it's true for all operating systems.
Since this is a beta you should expect some problems. Maybe you could report this one to their bug system?
If Nokia can put GNOME on a system with 128MB flash memory, why can't Red Hat with the $100 laptop?
:-)
:)
Fedora Core, the base for the laptop OS, could be considered fat; it has a large number of packages, supports more than one arch and can be used to do many different things. But it's not hard to remove all the unnecessary things and optimize the system to run on the laptop specs (like running on flash instead of a hard disk).
Because if we manage to do so, there will be much more remaining cpu cycles to waste with eye candy
Actually, we're getting getting more CPU cycles as we add eye-candy to the desktop, because things are being moved to the GPU.
They've been using non-free free products for years...
Ironically, GNOME can be configured to use the same order as Windows and KDE, but KDE can't be configured to work like MacOS and GNOME. Found this on google:
o grams/build/gtkrc-win32
http://svn.navi.cx/misc/branches/fyre-meta-hist
(see the gtk-alternative-button option).
I have a few observations: Cancel/Ok is bad, just like Ok/Cancel. A sane dialog would use verbs like Cancel/Restart or Cancel/Save. I think this is so obvious I have no idea why Microsoft and specially KDE haven't adopted it yet.
Another thing that I don't quite agree with you is that people will use both GNOME and KDE apps. As applications on both environments mature I think this is more and more unlikely to happen. They have a different set of UI guidelines, a GNOME user is more likely to prefer an application that follows its way of doing things and the same goes for KDE.
Of course, there will always be people that use a simple window manager and a set of apps that look and feel nothing like each other, like we were all forced to do a long time ago.
Do you plan to relicense Linux too? That's the only way to get rid of the GNU GPL (written by Stallman).
Stallman is the very embodiment of the Free Software
the Free Software movement, but his relevance to what the movement has become since then is fading.
Maybe it's the movement itself that is fading?
"Yes - nVidia have non-gpl drivers which is why they're not included in the distro, however a new kernel is NOT required to install them." On FC5 you need a new kernel, the official one has a bug that prevents non-free modules from being loaded. "If you can legally use the MP3 format where you are doing a "yum install xmms-mp3" (if you use xmms) is hardly a problem... " xmms-mp3 is not in Fedora Core or Fedora Extras. (also, if you're getting the packages from elsewhere I'd recommend just getting the gstreamer plugins, so you can use the default players). "Sounds like there's a few bugs in the version of disk druid - still not a problem if you use the emergency shell (ctrl-alt-f2) and use fdisk and return with ctrl-alt-f7 to tell disk druid which partitions you want as which." If the user is requered to use fdisk during a Fedora install then something is wrong - a reviewer should definetely report it. Hopefully the bug will be fixed eventually. "perhaps he should move back to Windows if that's the case!" NO! Using a Free operating system is not about manually partitioning the hard drive.
That's not true. The change was done in the development cycle but it was reverted way before the final release.
You're also dead wrong on saying that "RMS wants to restrict you to only using it for things that are "free"." That could not be more wrong ! I quote from the GPL:
"Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted"
The GPL doesn't restrict your use of a program, and it couldn't because that's out of the scope of the license.
The ones restricting you from using something are those who stand up for things that could make free software impossible (software patents, DRM, etc).
Actually, I've been using GNOME for years and I never had to do that.
You should put a question mark next to KDE 4 too. The chances of it being available in stable distros by October are not that great, some devs are even talking of early 2007 for a release date. (it doesn't have a schedule yet).
"Yet that Novell lacks the balls to openly admit that it's inspired by OS X and Expose goes to show what losers they are."
u gins/expose.c?rev=1.2&view=markup
Have you looked at the code?
http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/glxcompmgr/pl
The plugin is called, let's see, expose. (it will probably be renamed due to legal reasons though).
"My understanding while talking to David Reveman this past week was that the complexity of keeping a compositing manager as a separate process from the window manager was too high (too much bookkeeping that made it error prone, and there were some fundamental problems that he could not solve). So some time ago he abandoned his effort to patch Metacity and have a separate composition manager, reduced the complexity and eliminated a lot of bugs and the source of these bugs. That is what David explained to me, but I can only understand about 50% of the technical stuff that he talks about, so keep that in mind." http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/ 2006-February/msg00120.html
The GPL v3 may be considered a rant for those who stand up for "open source" software but it's perfectly aligned with the ideals of the FSF, the same ideals since the GNU Manifesto.
That's correct, but nobody's saying anything about modification of the GPL. You don't have to modify the GPL to add a special clause to the license of your program.