So how does that really differ from Linux? If you stick with a single Linux distro, then the management for that distro decides what goes in and what doesn't.
Linux distributions are collections of programs that are maintained by different people with different visions. Like KDE is made a totally different bunch of people than the kernel and the X server. Haiku OS will have the entire system be made by the same team.
Even if a Linux distro has a management, it's still a collection of different programs.
If Haiku gets big, why do you expect that it won't end up just like Linux - same basic core, but multiple almost-but-not-quite-compatible distributions?
The problem with that statement is that Haiku won't just be a kernel; it'll be a distro in itself: the official distro.
If people start making distros that use, for example, an entirely different window manager, it's not really Haiku anymore.
What if someone adds a really cool feature to a forked Haiku, and 50% of Haiku users switch to that new Haiku distro?
Then that's good for them. I don't see any issues with that.
That's why there's a management. They'll decide what patches go in and which not. If some other people want to take the project elsewhere, they can fork it.
I have some reasons that I will be using it. It's better than Windows, it's geared at the desktop, and it has a unified vision. That's what I dislike about Linux; there's no unified vision, everyone runs about doing their own thing.
Exactly. It's Microsoft's stupid browser sniffing scripts that are at fault here. Such an ancient, retarded idea. The full version of Hotmail, for instance, only works with IE6+ and Firefox 1,5+. If you use another web browser, like SeaMonkey, you're left out in the cold.
slowly but surely XHTML compliance was bringing together browsers and sites
What are you blathering about? 95% of XHTML sites out there:
Use the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DOCTYPE
Are served as text/html
Would break upon being served with the correct MIME type, which is application/xhtml+xml
developing Standards compliant code for the latest generation of browsers is much less of a headache than it's ever been
Which has zilch to do with XHTML and everything to do with better CSS support.
less presentation tags
Only if you bothered to use Strict, and few people did.
The most important concept with XHTML was separation of presentation from content coupled with a strict syntax
Really, HTML 4.01 was about the same thing, sans the strict syntax, which is really just another way of saying "show an unhelpful error dialog to users of a website if some syntax is wrong".
Additionally, many XHTML hippies forget the following:
A well-formed XHTML document is not necessarily valid
A valid XHTML document is not necessarily semantically rich
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You don't need WGA for IE7 anymore since months ago.
Wait, what? Since when? No bookstore ever let me do that.
Linux distributions are collections of programs that are maintained by different people with different visions. Like KDE is made a totally different bunch of people than the kernel and the X server. Haiku OS will have the entire system be made by the same team.
Even if a Linux distro has a management, it's still a collection of different programs.
The problem with that statement is that Haiku won't just be a kernel; it'll be a distro in itself: the official distro.
If people start making distros that use, for example, an entirely different window manager, it's not really Haiku anymore.
Then that's good for them. I don't see any issues with that.
Firefox was never meant to be light. The mission statement is to make a great web browser for Windows with the "right set of features".
I'm so tired of seeing this question posted so many times here on Slashdot that I think this link is very appropriate: http://www.fuckinggoogleit.com/
That's why there's a management. They'll decide what patches go in and which not. If some other people want to take the project elsewhere, they can fork it.
I have some reasons that I will be using it. It's better than Windows, it's geared at the desktop, and it has a unified vision. That's what I dislike about Linux; there's no unified vision, everyone runs about doing their own thing.
Exactly. It's Microsoft's stupid browser sniffing scripts that are at fault here. Such an ancient, retarded idea. The full version of Hotmail, for instance, only works with IE6+ and Firefox 1,5+. If you use another web browser, like SeaMonkey, you're left out in the cold.
http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
Have you actually tried to run XP on those specs? Because it will crawl, I tell you.
It's bought, dammit! Bought! Will people stop misspelling it already?!
I guess Ballmer had paid them a visit.
What are you blathering about? 95% of XHTML sites out there:
Which has zilch to do with XHTML and everything to do with better CSS support.
Only if you bothered to use Strict, and few people did.
Really, HTML 4.01 was about the same thing, sans the strict syntax, which is really just another way of saying "show an unhelpful error dialog to users of a website if some syntax is wrong".
Additionally, many XHTML hippies forget the following:
I thought video chat was considered bloat in an Instant Message client.
Please read this, sir: http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
Or you could, you know, use an alternative client to access the MSN network.
They don't know much. Especially in the US. But hey, you have to classify it as something 'abnormal' somehow.
It's not a disease. It's something in the brain that is wired differently. People with Asperger's Syndrome are just different.
It's kind of like saying homosexual have a disease. No, they're just different.
Except that Asperger's Syndrome is not a mental illness.
I wish editors like CmdrTaco would stop trolling with unrelated lines like "maybe-they-can-fix-the-leaks".
It's just CmdrTaco trolling, I guess. Just look at the "dept." line: "how-about-trying-to-leak-less".
There already is a lite version of Windows. It's called Windows 95. Won't run your newest games, though. :(
A new version once a year is too often for you?!
I don't think you get what I mean. You wrote "grammer" when it's actually "grammar". :)
Somehow, I don't think you did a good job...
It lives on in SeaMonkey. Not only in the concept, but also the default theme, which looks just like Netscape 4.