Ron bought a dollar for a dime, it's Ballmer that should be the one who's head is examined. Microsoft can only lose in a patent fight with Novell and Linux.
I don't believe that Novell can just simply "reconsider" they have entered into a contractual agreement and for good or bad have to abide with the terms or breech the contract. From what I have read it will end in five years. Besides, we all know that the patent clause is simply FUD. It may be lame that Novell did it this way, but you have to admit it was a clever way to get MS to fork over ~300 Million for nothing. The flip side is that it will help keep Novell in business which in turn will help Samba since Novell contributes. I have to admit that in the age of FUD, the tone of the Samba press release was rather nice though. Kudos for that.
Actually, Gnome KDE have had quite a few if not hundreds of focus groups from a variety of different populations doing useability studies. See http://www.betterdesktop.org/ for more information.
Fair enough. His review of XGL on 10.1 was pretty good, although it is in the article that you linked that he uses the phrase "Vista Killer", which may be where all the top thread confusion is from.
The thing that I really like about XGL, and he commented on this more than once, is that it is more than eye candy, it is actually a productivity enhancer. The other great thing about it is how it is all handled by your gpu instead of the cpu, so if you have a nice vga card then it does not degrade your cpu performance at all. As a long time OSX user, I thought that I would not be impressed by it, but I was pleasantly surprised.
Lastly, XGL has come a long way in SLED since 10.1. The integrated Driver installer/configurator is pretty slick. Never before have I had the OS install a proprietary driver from ATI or NVidia with a wizard. The flip side is that if you are not supported, then the wizard will come out and tell you so that you don't waste time trying to make it work. This is the sort of thing that everyone is pretty well used to in Windows, but always have had to do it the hard way in Linux. This is the sort of thing that used to turn newbs off to linux. This is the sort of thing that can make easy adoption of Linux something real. I thought that the "revolution in driver installation" from Novell was all hype, but this was pretty sweet.
The reviewer totally spaced off the coolest part of SLED, seamless support for XGL. SLED has an XGL configurator built into the control panel. It even makes installing vga drivers easy on Linux for once, no mucking with the xorg.conf to get dual monitors or XGL working.
Seriously, if you like eye candy, Linux has never had it better. This will even impress the guys using a Mac. Remember how cool it was to play with the Dock the first time? This is like that only better.
If you could care less for eye candy but like the productivity boost of Apple's Expose, then you need to look into SLED. If you like accessability, XGL does zoom better than any other desktop, even Windows. No other distro has XGL like SLED does since Novell sponsored its development. http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/ Its hard for me to believe that this guy missed that in his review.
I don't think that SLED 10 is a Vista killer, but it does make Desktop linux look good even to Windows fanboys. Seriously, give XGL on SLED a look.
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Things have changed since you initially tried this which I suspect is the whole point of the Slashdot article. In the past, the only way to get the Enterprise server was to buy OES. Now, the iFolder team has open-sourced the server which means they have some motivation to make packages for whatever your favorite distro is. They have also created fedora core 4/5 packages in a yum repository with a corresponding howto. I got it working on FC4 in about 10 minutes.
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Ron bought a dollar for a dime, it's Ballmer that should be the one who's head is examined. Microsoft can only lose in a patent fight with Novell and Linux.
I don't believe that Novell can just simply "reconsider" they have entered into a contractual agreement and for good or bad have to abide with the terms or breech the contract. From what I have read it will end in five years. Besides, we all know that the patent clause is simply FUD. It may be lame that Novell did it this way, but you have to admit it was a clever way to get MS to fork over ~300 Million for nothing. The flip side is that it will help keep Novell in business which in turn will help Samba since Novell contributes. I have to admit that in the age of FUD, the tone of the Samba press release was rather nice though. Kudos for that.
Actually, Gnome KDE have had quite a few if not hundreds of focus groups from a variety of different populations doing useability studies. See http://www.betterdesktop.org/ for more information.
Fair enough. His review of XGL on 10.1 was pretty good, although it is in the article that you linked that he uses the phrase "Vista Killer", which may be where all the top thread confusion is from.
The thing that I really like about XGL, and he commented on this more than once, is that it is more than eye candy, it is actually a productivity enhancer. The other great thing about it is how it is all handled by your gpu instead of the cpu, so if you have a nice vga card then it does not degrade your cpu performance at all. As a long time OSX user, I thought that I would not be impressed by it, but I was pleasantly surprised.
Lastly, XGL has come a long way in SLED since 10.1. The integrated Driver installer/configurator is pretty slick. Never before have I had the OS install a proprietary driver from ATI or NVidia with a wizard. The flip side is that if you are not supported, then the wizard will come out and tell you so that you don't waste time trying to make it work. This is the sort of thing that everyone is pretty well used to in Windows, but always have had to do it the hard way in Linux. This is the sort of thing that used to turn newbs off to linux. This is the sort of thing that can make easy adoption of Linux something real. I thought that the "revolution in driver installation" from Novell was all hype, but this was pretty sweet.
The reviewer totally spaced off the coolest part of SLED, seamless support for XGL. SLED has an XGL configurator built into the control panel. It even makes installing vga drivers easy on Linux for once, no mucking with the xorg.conf to get dual monitors or XGL working.
Seriously, if you like eye candy, Linux has never had it better. This will even impress the guys using a Mac. Remember how cool it was to play with the Dock the first time? This is like that only better.
If you could care less for eye candy but like the productivity boost of Apple's Expose, then you need to look into SLED. If you like accessability, XGL does zoom better than any other desktop, even Windows. No other distro has XGL like SLED does since Novell sponsored its development. http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/ Its hard for me to believe that this guy missed that in his review.
I don't think that SLED 10 is a Vista killer, but it does make Desktop linux look good even to Windows fanboys. Seriously, give XGL on SLED a look.
Check it out http://www.ifolder.com/index.php/HowTo:Configure_i Folder_Enterprise_Server_on_Fedora_Core_4
You may still have some difficulty getting binaries for the client on Fedora, but I have suspicions that will change shortly as well.