Quote from Linus himself in a documentary called The Code.
FREAX from free, freak and the 'X' for unix. Ari Lemmke, the guy who put it up for ftp (at the University of Helsinki) didn't like that name at all. So when he put it up he just called it Linux, since he knew that was the "working" name. That name stuck:)
I pay 0$ for incoming calls, I pay 0$ in subscription fee, I payed 0$ in start-up fee and I pay 0$ for the first 142 minutes and 99 sms every month. I do pay a lot for everything over those limits. However I have yet to go above the monthly free min/sms. So far the only thing I have paid for is the phone itself. How cheap are your outgoing calls?
In my case, the min above the 142, is 1,5 NOK per min, that is 0,27249 US$ acording to Google. I could get a subscription that I pay from the first min, (0$ in monthly fixed subscription fees) those would cost 0,1071794 US$ for per minute.
Please tell me what is the "normal" rate in the US.
From Wiki
By the terms of the international diplomacy recognized Norwegian sovereignty. Norway took over administration of Svalbard in 1925. However, under the terms of this unique treaty, citizens of various other countries have rights to exploit mineral deposits and other natural resources "on a footing of absolute equality".
Apparently there is some confusion caused by bad coverage: it's the successor of Novell Linux Desktop 9, a rebranded NLD 10 - if you like to say so - which gives you the choice to use either KDE or GNOME. As Nat Friedman stated to some press you will not lose functionality when you choose to use KDE: every desktop's applications will run on the other desktop, OpenOffice.org will integrate into both equally, desktop search is available under both and Xgl/Compiz (if supported on your graphic card) is desktop-agnostic too. Also the KDE desktop inherits from SUSE Linux 10.1 nice stuff developed at SUSE like kpowersave and knetworkmanager which other distributions maybe will only adopt in their next but one release.
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Link to The Code http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3498228245415745977&q=the+code&total=57660&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
No, he wanted to called it Freax.
:)
Quote from Linus himself in a documentary called The Code.
FREAX from free, freak and the 'X' for unix. Ari Lemmke, the guy who put it up for ftp (at the University of Helsinki) didn't like that name at all. So when he put it up he just called it Linux, since he knew that was the "working" name. That name stuck
I was like, and he was like......
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When the did cheerleaders start reading and posting to
Oooh, Hi Satan, I see you are getting quite good on those ice-skates. You'll be doing triple Axel-jumps in no time.
Interesting
I pay 0$ for incoming calls, I pay 0$ in subscription fee, I payed 0$ in start-up fee and I pay 0$ for the first 142 minutes and 99 sms every month.
I do pay a lot for everything over those limits. However I have yet to go above the monthly free min/sms. So far the only thing I have paid for is the phone itself. How cheap are your outgoing calls?
In my case, the min above the 142, is 1,5 NOK per min, that is 0,27249 US$ acording to Google. I could get a subscription that I pay from the first min, (0$ in monthly fixed subscription fees) those would cost 0,1071794 US$ for per minute.
Please tell me what is the "normal" rate in the US.
No thats wrong. Paris Hilton is famous because we all saw her get it in her "promo" video.
Uhm, say what?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard
From Wiki
By the terms of the international diplomacy recognized Norwegian sovereignty. Norway took over administration of Svalbard in 1925. However, under the terms of this unique treaty, citizens of various other countries have rights to exploit mineral deposits and other natural resources "on a footing of absolute equality".
Well, I guess that depends on where you get your kernel from. Here on my Suse 10.1 x86_64 (amd) it runs like a charm.
zaitor@box:~> sudo cat /var/log/boot.msg | grep taints
:)
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
zaitor@box:~>
Oh, it is still going on, but maybe with less direct words
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Quote from http://www.planetsuse.org/
Apparently there is some confusion caused by bad coverage: it's the successor of Novell Linux Desktop 9, a rebranded NLD 10 - if you like to say so - which gives you the choice to use either KDE or GNOME. As Nat Friedman stated to some press you will not lose functionality when you choose to use KDE: every desktop's applications will run on the other desktop, OpenOffice.org will integrate into both equally, desktop search is available under both and Xgl/Compiz (if supported on your graphic card) is desktop-agnostic too. Also the KDE desktop inherits from SUSE Linux 10.1 nice stuff developed at SUSE like kpowersave and knetworkmanager which other distributions maybe will only adopt in their next but one release.
KDE is still there, just select it during install, and you get SuSE with KDE like you always have.
http://scr3.golem.de/?d=0603/Novell_Next_Generatio n_Desktop&a=43914