I used P133Mhz and 144Mb RAM on 800x600px screen with latest puppylinux and DSL. Both worked very fine when using just writing for emails and documents or file management. Boottime was under 15 seconds and usage was nice if you can say so with such keyboard and stick-mouse and screen size.
But using Firefox was very fine (2.x series) as long as the websites did not have flash on them or heavy JS like slashdot. Basic usage was fine with those machine but the quality of screen resolution made it worse.
P133Mhz computer is fine with over 96Mb RAM when needing just simple writer computer. But I would just buy so cheap computer as possible under 100$ somewhere and push for such over 1Ghz computer same system and it would FLY!
P133Mhz is great for servers and very basic desktop use, but not great otherwise. P3 500Mhz is very great too, but more is needed for flash.
I wanted to buy a sub-notebook (aka netbook) with linux but I could not find such on my country anywhere from shelf itself. Ordering could over one month and the extra bucks was included when comparing windows. Biggest resellers are just simply saying that Linux versions has be sold out since start and about 6 months ago they were marked such that they will not come back to the selling lines. So only way to get such computer is to buy it with Windows. Even that I never booted Windows but throw right in the mandriva disk and installed it over windows.
It is not nice to be forced to be MS client in statics but not a client for Linux OS. At least Mandriva could get their own static about me because I registered this machine too for their database.
If world would be fair, I could call to MS or Asus and say that I want my information of selling be removed from statics as MS user.
Those projects are very important to give a boost of Linux on OS markets. Linux rules supercomputers and has good share on webserver markets. But the desktop markets it is missing shares almost totally.
For avarage joe, the KDE and GNOME will give what person is waiting from "the OS". So KDE and GNOME can be very important to allow other OS's than just Linux to gain market share. Thanks to projects like PC-BSD what use FreeBSD and KDE, there is even more choises!
Because it is again the "They against us" situation. US is the "homeland" of Democracy (if we do not count that Democracy was invented in Creek) where you need to vote those who media say. And because the media is controlled by the people who has the real power behind curtains. You never get real democratic votes and but you get having puppet show.
Now the US and UK media is spreading FUD about Iran (mostly only those two countries) who had history about biggest media control ever.
What can you actually do? UN and EU does concern about the elections, but they have not started investigations. US and UK has pushed their media control up and people is brainwashed totally to be loyal for their own masters who disagree with Iran's politics about Israel situation.
The US and UK working together with Israel is something what most people (who gives critics about Iran) does not even know, because they do not hear about that about their own media. How can you even ask them then to give something fair ideas about Iran then?
Well, I do need. School gives new laptop for every new computer technology student on our university. I got 2 years ago a laptop and it's price was nice 1800 euros (2545 dollars) what was without taxes (22%) because it was university what bought them. That year school bought 67 units. Year ago 71 units and on next year it is 64 units. Those are used for all classes, almost all the lessons can be done with computers if wanted, you can use pencil and paper if you like. But some classes like mathematics or electricity science is harder to do by using computer;)
But if someone wants to design nuclear powerplant networking with paper and pen, I think it comes bretty heavy when the information needs to be shared;)
What NASA now tried to tell, is that they went to Mars with technology what wasn't tested on the Earth at all.
We have very expensive small machine on Mars, what we use by remote control and delays of hours. And all what we can find out is that tests what it was doing, can not be succeed even on here on Earth!
Great... So what is left to hand? Nice photos of Mars? Are those even real?
We have so much problems to get even the satelites work on the Earth orbit by using current technology. And still decades ago we supposly went to moon landing and now we should be studying on the Mars and we fail on that too?
And still we have more serious and basic problems on earth what could be solved with that money what is used to Mars study. If we just would want to.
1) The whole reason they are doing the ODF thing is pressure from the EU with regards to anti-trust. Part of that pressure is that "You have to do it according to the standard." They don't want MS to go and say "Well we implemented some of the standard, but changed it in ways we like." So MS has been sticking strictly to the standard. Not all the other implementations do. So, you get a difference in results. Now you can argue that the right way of doing things is everyone else doing the same thing, even if it isn't the standard, but that really isn't an option for MS. They need the CYA ability to say "We implemented the standard 100% to spec, no deviation."
I think many has left the old record playing around on this case now.
a) Microsoft did implent the stable ODF standard. b) Microsoft did not implent the unstable ODF draft. c) Other softwares, including OpenOffice.org includes and uses ODF 1.2 draft version what might need fixing a lot, so the compatibility between 1.2 draft and 1.2 stable gets broken.
We should always stick on the standard and develop the standard on test versions of the software while the stable software always use only the accepted standard. Otherwise I do not see any reasons to follow standards if we do not follow it after all we demand Microsoft to follow it!
And I dont care about OpenOffice.org being open source, even that I use it daily purposes and I develope open software myself. It just does not make it correct action to push draft version to end users.
Just develop the 1.2 version faster and well and then take it to use and push new version of Openoffice.org to endusers where is the 1.2 final and not draft used.
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There is a problem with manufacturers who decide to keep their hardware specs secret and so make it difficult to have device driver support under Linux. It is true. It is a lot less common, but still true.
That ain't problem if they accept Linux OS developers to write GPL'd drivers by signing NDA.
Many companies has done that now. Linux OS developers sign NDA, they get specs and they write driver what they then include to Linux OS and licensed as GPL. Linux community gets working driver what to maintain but does not get specs of the hardware, either does any competitor.
We are a group of Linux kernel developers (over 200 strong) and project managers (over 10) that develop and maintain Linux kernel drivers. We work with the manufacturers of the specific device to specify, develop, submit to the main kernel, and maintain the kernel drivers. We are willing and able to sign NDAs with companies if they wish to keep their specifications closed, as long as we are able to create a proper GPLv2 Linux kernel driver as an end result.
but I need the engine power to accelerate if I need to... join to traffic from ramp... so I can accelerate to traffic speed.
But yes, that does not mean that I need to drive any faster than the max speed is allowed on the road. All what I need is fast acceleration, not higer speed. Two different things;-)
There might be some situations where it would be good to accelerate over the max speed, but I still dont get any other good reasons than you are a) chased by police b) you want to show how long your penis is or c) you have dying person in your car and you need to get to hospital as fast as possible, because every second counts...
When speed gets up, your reaction time stays still same, driver does not get faster reaction time!
If you drive 20km/h and 20 meter away from leading car, you manage to brake before you hit it when sudden braking happens.
But if you drive 50km/h and 20 meter away from leading car, you do not manage react the sudden brake and you hit the car.
The speed change, your reaction time does not and you should keep distance x meter where x is same as your speed in km/h. That is the thumbrule to avoid crashes.
Faster you drive, less time you have time to notice small things what can cause accidents.
Faster you drive, smaller wheeling actions causes the car start acting way how you loose the control of the vehicle and it turns just to be a big giant metal junk what rolls.
Faster you drive, more momentum is reserved to your car and more dificult it is to get stopped. And when there comes water/snow/ice/sand between road and your car tiers, more harder it is to get that car stop.
So go a head and be stupid and drive faster, you do not only risk your life but all others as well.
The cause of almost all problems is the speed. The speed need to be relative correct to every situation, weather, other cars, distance and even for your tires and the cars weight.
Only way to get better results is to lower the speed.
There is three things what everyone can think on different situations. What happens when you 1) lower the speed 2) you keep current speed 3) you accelerate for higer speed.
The speed is the main problem, not just the distance. Distance is problem only on some situations, speed is almost on everyone, it includes city, highway and almost all. When you are driving in the city, you are moving among walking people, cycling people, running people, childrens, deaf people, blind people, injured people and all kind other possibilities where other people just does not notice the car and the driver do not notice things outside of the car.
And I hope you can say how the most common cause danger to accident on highways is the safety distance to next car, when in front of you jumps the moose or rabbit or any other animal and you get panic and you try to avoid it and.... yeah... the distance really saved your life when your car is trashed to tree, next line car or you have droved car few times around.
Mandriva, better than Ubuntu but not having such popularity among ex-windows users because all what they hear is Ubuntu this and Ubuntu that and Ubuntu ubuntu buntu tuntu bububuntu...
Many Ubuntu users do not even understand they use Linux.
So there will never come the "Year of of the Linux on the desktop", thanks to Ubuntu and Canonical propaganda it is "Year of the Ubuntu on the desktops".
Only thing what seems to happend is that Linux and GNU has both lost, and fault for that is Ubuntu.
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Apple has lots (I mean LOTS) of money on their account and now in current money markets situation, there might come good deals... but everyone is hoping Apple would buy a company "X" to profit etc.
If Apple aquires the EA, we end up having games where you have one button middle of the screen what allows you to shoot or jump. All the graphics are white/chrome/black combinations and starts with i. Like iGame, iLike, iSports, iFPS, iRTS.
But games quality rises like a phoenix from ashes. That would be the only good point...
Just place SSD drives to usenet or torrent servers and use them as/var/log mountpoints... you soon see real tests how well those work when comparing to old fashion harddrives!
Mandriva is a KDE distribution. Altough the KDE does not get more attention than GNOME. Both are very well supported and if weighted Ubuntu and Mandriva with KDE and GNOME support, Mandriva wins, because of Kubuntu quality.
And Mandriva takes the security very seriously and use root account correctly. It use sudo too, but it is used just how it should be used, to defined a specific permissions for specific users and only for specific tasks. It does not make the same idiotic act like canonical with sudo using it wrong, by making first user almost exactly as root user.
Sudo was never meant to be a root replacement. It was meant to allow root to give specific people a specific rights for system settings, while root could do still all things and manage all sudoers.
Now Ubuntu is terrible in security. It teach wrong idea that user should have one password only, what is most likely to be a very short/dictionary word what is easy to hack. And the username ain't hard to quess. By default Ubuntu place username as the users first name. Social hacking is just too easy.
I have got inside of most Ubuntu users computer just by using their first name and quessing few times their password, from very typical sources (birthdays, midlename, school, mother/fater name etc) and it's done.
And usually you can even get the password by asking them (hey, usually they are your friends and clients!) and while they give you their userpassword, you get the root password on same time and you can do what ever you want.
No one of many Linux users who understands the root/user difference, has not gaved to me the root password when I have asked that. I have got the user password but never the root. They understands THE root password is needed to keep in their self and not any one else.
Ubuntu is coming more and more samekind like Windows. Most users are from windows and that's the reason why Ubuntu teaches wrong and unwise security for it's users.
You can even now found out on Ubuntu forums in small periods commands for helps what does something "evil" to executers computer. Normal Ubuntu users does not think much what they type to the commandline, it is just 'sudo this' and 'sudo that' and there we go...
I have seen so many normal users to type all commands on commandline with sudo. The sudo comes to their typical prefix for all commands, even when they really dont need to use it!
Ubuntu's one good security is that there ain't services listening network. But same thing goes for other distributions. They have firewalls and disabled connections and especially root logins etc. Ubuntu ain't on special situation on that either.
When comparing Ubuntu for other distributions what takes security wery sesiously, they are almost bottom of line. Only distributions what only runs all software as root, are below Ubuntu...
We could argue how much we want about sudo vs root. But we can not argue about how Ubuntu is using sudo by wrong way. Or we can not argue how Ubuntu teaches for new users the totally wrong password usage. And not the correct one where you need to have different passwords for different places and usually even different usernames.
Ubuntu is trying to get there where the window is low... that just means the thief's are getting inside always sooner or later because of that.
Even Microsoft has learn since Windows Vista that computer need to have at least two passwords, one for user and one for Admin.
Linux problem is the critic. Check out the Linux operating system how even the Linus Torvalds, the father of the operating system, gives critic about it.
We do not need critics but marketing. We do not see Microsoft giving critic about Windows NT or the whole software system like Vista or 7 until they are the older versions and new one is coming out.
Check out how RedHat or Mandriva gives critic about their distribution. KDE developers giving it for KDE and Gnome developers about KDE and vice versa.
And to proof of this is the infamous distrowars about who is building best software system and who configures the linux operating system best way.
And the critic is very constructive, you always find out what is wrong and how it should be fixed and that is the problem. Those who would like to use Linux OS on their product, they end up to see only problems on it and they look more likely to MS products because they dont see ciritic of them any where else then from FOSS side.
Just type with l33t text or other slang what words ain't on the dictionary and they just cant find out what you are typing.
Even school kids knows this and thats why they write short messages with their cell phones and for tests so the kid on the next bench can not copy what they write....
Sorry, Linux is just a Operating System and it has not a GUI. You need to check out those Desktop Environments projects or Window Manager projects mailing lists to find out such. Or if you are looking just CLI, then you can check GNU project mailing list for Bash or other vendors who makes others.
From there you can find what people suggest for the KDE4 UI. If you want to know what the Linux Operating System does not get for next release, go to check the kernel.org postlists.
Yes, Space technology helps humans. But you do not need to move all technology to space first before it can help humans on earth.
Lots of different kind things is invented in space. And some only in space. But same thing is for war. Somethings are only invented on war times, like nuclear power.
We could just focus these developments for daily usage, without need to spend so much money and time to fight each other or dream how to help to build a "camp" on the Mars etc.
In this case, why this technology should only be used for space technology when there is more need on earth?
Military and Space R&D are both as important for human kind, but that does not mean those technologies should only be used for those areas or allow them to be used in normal life later when they are "old technology".
Usually people only think that military technology is just weapons, armors, vehicles etc. There comes lots of other inventions what were not predicted.
We already have technology to build machines, computers and daily stuff so tough, that they would not brake for many years or what you could fix your self easily. But still we can not get those because it would drive most of the companies out of the business because no one would like to buy anymore their products what wont last.
Why almost everything is needed to aim for space or war? Okay, those two areas has most of the money for development. But be a real, this kind technology could help humans. Old people, paralyzed people and those who has lost their limb.
And think how much this would help in the situations where you can have a "suit" like for construction sites etc, helping for heavy lifting. I believe many is now thinking "Crysis nanosuite" but it would not be a far away from truth what to get, not just for wars but for in real life usage where extra strength is needed. Like rescue people if they need to lift heavy rocks etc.
The problem actually might be the electricity. Thats why this cant be used as military situations because all what you need to do, is shoot a electricity slug to soldiers who wear them, and they die right away because the suite would just squeeze them.
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I used P133Mhz and 144Mb RAM on 800x600px screen with latest puppylinux and DSL. Both worked very fine when using just writing for emails and documents or file management. Boottime was under 15 seconds and usage was nice if you can say so with such keyboard and stick-mouse and screen size.
But using Firefox was very fine (2.x series) as long as the websites did not have flash on them or heavy JS like slashdot. Basic usage was fine with those machine but the quality of screen resolution made it worse.
P133Mhz computer is fine with over 96Mb RAM when needing just simple writer computer. But I would just buy so cheap computer as possible under 100$ somewhere and push for such over 1Ghz computer same system and it would FLY!
P133Mhz is great for servers and very basic desktop use, but not great otherwise. P3 500Mhz is very great too, but more is needed for flash.
I wanted to buy a sub-notebook (aka netbook) with linux but I could not find such on my country anywhere from shelf itself. Ordering could over one month and the extra bucks was included when comparing windows. Biggest resellers are just simply saying that Linux versions has be sold out since start and about 6 months ago they were marked such that they will not come back to the selling lines. So only way to get such computer is to buy it with Windows. Even that I never booted Windows but throw right in the mandriva disk and installed it over windows.
It is not nice to be forced to be MS client in statics but not a client for Linux OS. At least Mandriva could get their own static about me because I registered this machine too for their database.
If world would be fair, I could call to MS or Asus and say that I want my information of selling be removed from statics as MS user.
Those projects are very important to give a boost of Linux on OS markets. Linux rules supercomputers and has good share on webserver markets. But the desktop markets it is missing shares almost totally.
For avarage joe, the KDE and GNOME will give what person is waiting from "the OS". So KDE and GNOME can be very important to allow other OS's than just Linux to gain market share. Thanks to projects like PC-BSD what use FreeBSD and KDE, there is even more choises!
Because it is again the "They against us" situation. US is the "homeland" of Democracy (if we do not count that Democracy was invented in Creek) where you need to vote those who media say. And because the media is controlled by the people who has the real power behind curtains. You never get real democratic votes and but you get having puppet show.
Now the US and UK media is spreading FUD about Iran (mostly only those two countries) who had history about biggest media control ever.
What can you actually do? UN and EU does concern about the elections, but they have not started investigations. US and UK has pushed their media control up and people is brainwashed totally to be loyal for their own masters who disagree with Iran's politics about Israel situation.
The US and UK working together with Israel is something what most people (who gives critics about Iran) does not even know, because they do not hear about that about their own media. How can you even ask them then to give something fair ideas about Iran then?
Libre Software!
Free Sofware is Free, even that Free can mean the freedom, like as well the free price.
But Libre, is what just can not be mistaken to price.
Landlines? Cables? Telephones? WTF! Something from stoneage?
Too many people believe that PC stands for the personal computer and they use PC to mark any computer what they see.
Can not agree more. But the PC brand has got too widely used on wrong situations.
Well, I do need. School gives new laptop for every new computer technology student on our university. I got 2 years ago a laptop and it's price was nice 1800 euros (2545 dollars) what was without taxes (22%) because it was university what bought them. That year school bought 67 units. Year ago 71 units and on next year it is 64 units. Those are used for all classes, almost all the lessons can be done with computers if wanted, you can use pencil and paper if you like. But some classes like mathematics or electricity science is harder to do by using computer ;)
But if someone wants to design nuclear powerplant networking with paper and pen, I think it comes bretty heavy when the information needs to be shared ;)
What NASA now tried to tell, is that they went to Mars with technology what wasn't tested on the Earth at all.
We have very expensive small machine on Mars, what we use by remote control and delays of hours. And all what we can find out is that tests what it was doing, can not be succeed even on here on Earth!
Great... So what is left to hand? Nice photos of Mars? Are those even real?
We have so much problems to get even the satelites work on the Earth orbit by using current technology. And still decades ago we supposly went to moon landing and now we should be studying on the Mars and we fail on that too?
And still we have more serious and basic problems on earth what could be solved with that money what is used to Mars study. If we just would want to.
1) The whole reason they are doing the ODF thing is pressure from the EU with regards to anti-trust. Part of that pressure is that "You have to do it according to the standard." They don't want MS to go and say "Well we implemented some of the standard, but changed it in ways we like." So MS has been sticking strictly to the standard. Not all the other implementations do. So, you get a difference in results. Now you can argue that the right way of doing things is everyone else doing the same thing, even if it isn't the standard, but that really isn't an option for MS. They need the CYA ability to say "We implemented the standard 100% to spec, no deviation."
I think many has left the old record playing around on this case now.
a) Microsoft did implent the stable ODF standard.
b) Microsoft did not implent the unstable ODF draft.
c) Other softwares, including OpenOffice.org includes and uses ODF 1.2 draft version what might need fixing a lot, so the compatibility between 1.2 draft and 1.2 stable gets broken.
We should always stick on the standard and develop the standard on test versions of the software while the stable software always use only the accepted standard. Otherwise I do not see any reasons to follow standards if we do not follow it after all we demand Microsoft to follow it!
And I dont care about OpenOffice.org being open source, even that I use it daily purposes and I develope open software myself. It just does not make it correct action to push draft version to end users.
Just develop the 1.2 version faster and well and then take it to use and push new version of Openoffice.org to endusers where is the 1.2 final and not draft used.
There is a problem with manufacturers who decide to keep their hardware specs secret and so make it difficult to have device driver support under Linux. It is true. It is a lot less common, but still true.
That ain't problem if they accept Linux OS developers to write GPL'd drivers by signing NDA.
Many companies has done that now. Linux OS developers sign NDA, they get specs and they write driver what they then include to Linux OS and licensed as GPL. Linux community gets working driver what to maintain but does not get specs of the hardware, either does any competitor.
http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view
We are a group of Linux kernel developers (over 200 strong) and project managers (over 10) that develop and maintain Linux kernel drivers. We work with the manufacturers of the specific device to specify, develop, submit to the main kernel, and maintain the kernel drivers. We are willing and able to sign NDAs with companies if they wish to keep their specifications closed, as long as we are able to create a proper GPLv2 Linux kernel driver as an end result.
but I need the engine power to accelerate if I need to... join to traffic from ramp... so I can accelerate to traffic speed.
But yes, that does not mean that I need to drive any faster than the max speed is allowed on the road. All what I need is fast acceleration, not higer speed. Two different things ;-)
There might be some situations where it would be good to accelerate over the max speed, but I still dont get any other good reasons than you are a) chased by police b) you want to show how long your penis is or c) you have dying person in your car and you need to get to hospital as fast as possible, because every second counts...
80/90/100 kph.
I have seen 50/60/70 kph signs as well.
That was modded as insightful?
When speed gets up, your reaction time stays still same, driver does not get faster reaction time!
If you drive 20km/h and 20 meter away from leading car, you manage to brake before you hit it when sudden braking happens.
But if you drive 50km/h and 20 meter away from leading car, you do not manage react the sudden brake and you hit the car.
The speed change, your reaction time does not and you should keep distance x meter where x is same as your speed in km/h. That is the thumbrule to avoid crashes.
Faster you drive, less time you have time to notice small things what can cause accidents.
Faster you drive, smaller wheeling actions causes the car start acting way how you loose the control of the vehicle and it turns just to be a big giant metal junk what rolls.
Faster you drive, more momentum is reserved to your car and more dificult it is to get stopped.
And when there comes water/snow/ice/sand between road and your car tiers, more harder it is to get that car stop.
So go a head and be stupid and drive faster, you do not only risk your life but all others as well.
The cause of almost all problems is the speed.
The speed need to be relative correct to every situation, weather, other cars, distance and even for your tires and the cars weight.
Only way to get better results is to lower the speed.
There is three things what everyone can think on different situations. What happens when you 1) lower the speed 2) you keep current speed 3) you accelerate for higer speed.
The speed is the main problem, not just the distance. Distance is problem only on some situations, speed is almost on everyone, it includes city, highway and almost all. When you are driving in the city, you are moving among walking people, cycling people, running people, childrens, deaf people, blind people, injured people and all kind other possibilities where other people just does not notice the car and the driver do not notice things outside of the car.
And I hope you can say how the most common cause danger to accident on highways is the safety distance to next car, when in front of you jumps the moose or rabbit or any other animal and you get panic and you try to avoid it and.... yeah... the distance really saved your life when your car is trashed to tree, next line car or you have droved car few times around.
Mandriva, better than Ubuntu but not having such popularity among ex-windows users because all what they hear is Ubuntu this and Ubuntu that and Ubuntu ubuntu buntu tuntu bububuntu...
Many Ubuntu users do not even understand they use Linux.
So there will never come the "Year of of the Linux on the desktop", thanks to Ubuntu and Canonical propaganda it is "Year of the Ubuntu on the desktops".
Only thing what seems to happend is that Linux and GNU has both lost, and fault for that is Ubuntu.
Apple has lots (I mean LOTS) of money on their account and now in current money markets situation, there might come good deals... but everyone is hoping Apple would buy a company "X" to profit etc.
Just stypid rumors...
If Apple aquires the EA, we end up having games where you have one button middle of the screen what allows you to shoot or jump.
All the graphics are white/chrome/black combinations and starts with i. Like iGame, iLike, iSports, iFPS, iRTS.
But games quality rises like a phoenix from ashes. That would be the only good point...
Just place SSD drives to usenet or torrent servers and use them as /var/log mountpoints... you soon see real tests how well those work when comparing to old fashion harddrives!
Mandriva is a KDE distribution. Altough the KDE does not get more attention than GNOME. Both are very well supported and if weighted Ubuntu and Mandriva with KDE and GNOME support, Mandriva wins, because of Kubuntu quality.
And Mandriva takes the security very seriously and use root account correctly. It use sudo too, but it is used just how it should be used, to defined a specific permissions for specific users and only for specific tasks. It does not make the same idiotic act like canonical with sudo using it wrong, by making first user almost exactly as root user.
Sudo was never meant to be a root replacement. It was meant to allow root to give specific people a specific rights for system settings, while root could do still all things and manage all sudoers.
Now Ubuntu is terrible in security. It teach wrong idea that user should have one password only, what is most likely to be a very short/dictionary word what is easy to hack. And the username ain't hard to quess. By default Ubuntu place username as the users first name. Social hacking is just too easy.
I have got inside of most Ubuntu users computer just by using their first name and quessing few times their password, from very typical sources (birthdays, midlename, school, mother/fater name etc) and it's done.
And usually you can even get the password by asking them (hey, usually they are your friends and clients!) and while they give you their userpassword, you get the root password on same time and you can do what ever you want.
No one of many Linux users who understands the root/user difference, has not gaved to me the root password when I have asked that. I have got the user password but never the root. They understands THE root password is needed to keep in their self and not any one else.
Ubuntu is coming more and more samekind like Windows. Most users are from windows and that's the reason why Ubuntu teaches wrong and unwise security for it's users.
You can even now found out on Ubuntu forums in small periods commands for helps what does something "evil" to executers computer. Normal Ubuntu users does not think much what they type to the commandline, it is just 'sudo this' and 'sudo that' and there we go...
I have seen so many normal users to type all commands on commandline with sudo. The sudo comes to their typical prefix for all commands, even when they really dont need to use it!
Ubuntu's one good security is that there ain't services listening network. But same thing goes for other distributions. They have firewalls and disabled connections and especially root logins etc. Ubuntu ain't on special situation on that either.
When comparing Ubuntu for other distributions what takes security wery sesiously, they are almost bottom of line. Only distributions what only runs all software as root, are below Ubuntu...
We could argue how much we want about sudo vs root. But we can not argue about how Ubuntu is using sudo by wrong way. Or we can not argue how Ubuntu teaches for new users the totally wrong password usage. And not the correct one where you need to have different passwords for different places and usually even different usernames.
Ubuntu is trying to get there where the window is low... that just means the thief's are getting inside always sooner or later because of that.
Even Microsoft has learn since Windows Vista that computer need to have at least two passwords, one for user and one for Admin.
But that is what KDE people does, not Mandriva.
Linux problem is the critic. Check out the Linux operating system how even the Linus Torvalds, the father of the operating system, gives critic about it.
We do not need critics but marketing. We do not see Microsoft giving critic about Windows NT or the whole software system like Vista or 7 until they are the older versions and new one is coming out.
Check out how RedHat or Mandriva gives critic about their distribution. KDE developers giving it for KDE and Gnome developers about KDE and vice versa.
And to proof of this is the infamous distrowars about who is building best software system and who configures the linux operating system best way.
And the critic is very constructive, you always find out what is wrong and how it should be fixed and that is the problem. Those who would like to use Linux OS on their product, they end up to see only problems on it and they look more likely to MS products because they dont see ciritic of them any where else then from FOSS side.
Just type with l33t text or other slang what words ain't on the dictionary and they just cant find out what you are typing.
Even school kids knows this and thats why they write short messages with their cell phones and for tests so the kid on the next bench can not copy what they write....
Sorry, Linux is just a Operating System and it has not a GUI. You need to check out those Desktop Environments projects or Window Manager projects mailing lists to find out such.
Or if you are looking just CLI, then you can check GNU project mailing list for Bash or other vendors who makes others.
http://forum.kde.org/kde-brainstorm-f-83.html
From there you can find what people suggest for the KDE4 UI.
If you want to know what the Linux Operating System does not get for next release, go to check the kernel.org postlists.
Yes, Space technology helps humans. But you do not need to move all technology to space first before it can help humans on earth.
Lots of different kind things is invented in space. And some only in space. But same thing is for war. Somethings are only invented on war times, like nuclear power.
We could just focus these developments for daily usage, without need to spend so much money and time to fight each other or dream how to help to build a "camp" on the Mars etc.
In this case, why this technology should only be used for space technology when there is more need on earth?
Military and Space R&D are both as important for human kind, but that does not mean those technologies should only be used for those areas or allow them to be used in normal life later when they are "old technology".
Usually people only think that military technology is just weapons, armors, vehicles etc. There comes lots of other inventions what were not predicted.
We already have technology to build machines, computers and daily stuff so tough, that they would not brake for many years or what you could fix your self easily. But still we can not get those because it would drive most of the companies out of the business because no one would like to buy anymore their products what wont last.
Why almost everything is needed to aim for space or war? Okay, those two areas has most of the money for development. But be a real, this kind technology could help humans. Old people, paralyzed people and those who has lost their limb.
And think how much this would help in the situations where you can have a "suit" like for construction sites etc, helping for heavy lifting. I believe many is now thinking "Crysis nanosuite" but it would not be a far away from truth what to get, not just for wars but for in real life usage where extra strength is needed. Like rescue people if they need to lift heavy rocks etc.
The problem actually might be the electricity. Thats why this cant be used as military situations because all what you need to do, is shoot a electricity slug to soldiers who wear them, and they die right away because the suite would just squeeze them.