Mac OS X does not allow uploads with the mounted ftp server. I.e. you can copy files from the window containing the files of the ftp server but you cannot copy files to that window. It continues to amaze me (and others) how such a detail was left unimplemented.
I develop commercial software on Linux and I feel the pain.
LSB is badly needed to enable the birth of commercial applications on Linux. Even with the amazing things that open source hackers have written, there are lots of application areas that just aren't sexy enough to attract people to develop them after they've put the kids to bed in the evening.
Commercial applications cannot sell if they just offer Red Hat RPM packages. On the other hand it is prohibitively expensive to make packages for every distro out there including all their versions from the last 5 years.
The way I see it, Linux is still a hobbyist OS that just isn't mature enough. I would much rather develop for Solaris or OSX, but amazingly the customers shy away from these platforms and love the penguin instead.
Some VC systems are slow also because they need to access the repository for every operation they do. Others maintain enough knowledge locally that they only have to access the repository very rarely. One such system is GNU Arch. I have used it for almost a year now and it is by far the best VC system I know. Granted, it is a bit rough on the edges and user-friendliness was nowhere near the developers' minds but when you know it well, it makes just about everything possible. Arch is by far the most flexible VC system I have used.
I am running Windows XP Pro and each member of my family has a limited user account. Additionally there is one account named "root" that has admin priviledges.
I have found some software that does not work properly but usually I have found something to replace them.
I have no problem with OpenOffice. I do not remember if I ran the setup while logged in as root or did I just right-click->RunAs it. Anyway, the limited user setup has to be done with a special -net switch. Read the installation docs.
I used to have to install firefox extensions while logged as root, otherwise they would not install. However, I find that with Firefox 1.0 the extensions install just fine with my normal, limited account.
Dr. Divx requires that I'm logged in as root. Why would a software that reads a file, crunches some numbers and writes another file, require admin priviledges? I have filed a bug report about it but I don't think the vendor took it seriously.
I just hope more and more developers realize it is unacceptable to require admin priviledges on this day and age. If you find software that does a bad job with this, find something else to replace it and tell the vendor/developer that you dropped his software because it did not run without admin permissions.
So, are you suggesting that a person without a car should tell his boss he will be taking half a day off to visit his bank? It will not only be less convenient, it means losing half a days salary.
Even if you have car, you are not going to like the visit in a bank, at least not in Finland. The offices are few and far between and they have far too few tellers to serve the customers in a timely fashion.
Also, the banks would very much like you to do your banking over the net. It is cheaper to them. In Finland, the banks actually encourage the use of their online banks by charging obsene amounts of money for using the services of a real live human being. Some ATM transactions are no longer free either.
If you are poor or cost-conscious the only options you have are ATMs and online banking.
But, of course you are entitled to your opinion. After all, you live in a coutry where the modern way to pay is to put money or checkque in an envelope. And you think that is secure and safe!
I think the original writer was missing a point. (Or maybe I missed him not missing the point.)
I believe the reason why people use RPM-based distributions, like Red Hat, is that they are stable, tested and polished. When you use the ISO images to upgrade your Red Hat, yes, you wind up installing a lot of stuff. But on the other hand you wind up installing stuff that Red Hat has verified will work together. To reap the benefits of that is well worth a couple of cdroms.
Perhaps another reason is that the biggest RPM-based distributions, like Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake really have added value when compared to the sexier non-RPM distros. You get tools that simplify management. You get a system on which everything just clicks together.
I have used Gentoo. It's pretty ok, but when you have used Red Hat before Gentoo, you'll be disappointed. A lot of things you take for granted in Red Hat, just aren't there. It takes a lot of time to tweak everything to get a system with the same features as Red Hat.
Someone commented that they've never seen anyone go back to an RPM-based distro after trying a source-based distro. Well, I have. You can read my Slashdot Journal if you are interested in the details.
Interestingly, I have never had too much trouble with installing RPMs. I realize that an RPM created on SuSE probably does not work on my Red Hat, so I'll try to find a Red Hat RPM. Many times I'm in luck. When I'm not, I grab the SRPM and failing that download the source. I might even spend a bit of time to see if it would be easy to write a.spec file and wrap my own RPM. If I have to configure and compile it myself, I./configure --prefix=/opt/programname-version, which allows me to fairly painlessly get rid of the program.
For 99% of computer users none of the features you list above have any meaning.
For most people the multitude of window managers is merely confusing.
I, too, can remember the good old times when the mainframes were faster than desktops and it made sense to run some applications in the mainframe with the display on the desktop. Those days are gone. For the rare occasion that one needs to control something remotely, one can use VNC over ssh.
Cross-platform is mostly meaningless since most desktop computers run Windows.
Windows already comes with a graphics system bundled, so X being free is meaningless
And I bet the MSWindows folks have some fast-action 3D games they can dazzle you with:)
That said, I have to admit XFree86 has come a long way since the early days. Good work, guys!
I got the idea that the whole point with WB was to try to push two versions of the DVDs: one for rental and one for resale.
I live in Finland and, curiously, this is the way we've always had it. The DVD I rent from shop down the street has a text in the cover saying "For rental only. If you've bought this DVD, call xxxxx". The DVD I buy has a cover text saying "reselling, renting, copying and public presentation of this movie is prohibited."
Still, the video and DVD rental prices are exactly the same (3 EUR)!
I'd say XFce belongs to the light-weight league. The nice thing about XFce is that it's almost like a desktop system. It has much more than just a simple window manager.
dairyless milkshake??? Here in Finland, where a good proportion of people have lactose intolerance, a dairyless milkshake would actually be a good thing. I wonder when the local McDonalds gets that on their menu.
BeOS supports a lot less hardware than Linux does. So even if BeOS would be GPL'ed it wouldn't work on many peoples PCs. I, for one, downloaded the BeOS free version but it didn't even boot on my PC.
There is actually a way to do diffserv that is consistent with the end-to-end principle, at least I think it is.
The idea is that you pay your ISP for a right to send at a certain nominal bandwidth. If you send faster, your packets will be marked with lower priority. At the network's core routers the lower priority packets will be dropped if congestion occurs.
I think that a good example of a Hack is what the one guy did to be able to play Quake on an ascii terminal! Sorry I don't remember the link.
The Linux emulation is not perfect!
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I had a project where we needed to use the Linux version of MpegTV on FreeBSD under the Linux emulator. The problem was that if MpegTV crashed, it didn't clean up the SYSV shared memory segments it was using. After about a dozen crashes the FreeBSD box was out of shm and had to be rebooted. This is _not_ something you should have to do with a Unix!
I haven't encountered the problem on native Linux.
Of course the problem could just as well be in the implementation of SYSV shm on FreeBSD.
I've used several IPv6 stacks on FreeBSD and rarely had any problems. I've also tried to compile and use the network utilities for Linux and have always had lots of problems. It seems to me that Linux simply is not IPv6-ready (yet).
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Mac OS X does not allow uploads with the mounted ftp server. I.e. you can copy files from the window containing the files of the ftp server but you cannot copy files to that window. It continues to amaze me (and others) how such a detail was left unimplemented.
I develop commercial software on Linux and I feel the pain.
LSB is badly needed to enable the birth of commercial applications on Linux. Even with the amazing things that open source hackers have written, there are lots of application areas that just aren't sexy enough to attract people to develop them after they've put the kids to bed in the evening.
Commercial applications cannot sell if they just offer Red Hat RPM packages. On the other hand it is prohibitively expensive to make packages for every distro out there including all their versions from the last 5 years.
The way I see it, Linux is still a hobbyist OS that just isn't mature enough. I would much rather develop for Solaris or OSX, but amazingly the customers shy away from these platforms and love the penguin instead.
Some VC systems are slow also because they need to access the repository for every operation they do. Others maintain enough knowledge locally that they only have to access the repository very rarely. One such system is GNU Arch. I have used it for almost a year now and it is by far the best VC system I know. Granted, it is a bit rough on the edges and user-friendliness was nowhere near the developers' minds but when you know it well, it makes just about everything possible. Arch is by far the most flexible VC system I have used.
But the learning curve is pretty steep.
I am running Windows XP Pro and each member of my family has a limited user account. Additionally there is one account named "root" that has admin priviledges.
I have found some software that does not work properly but usually I have found something to replace them.
I have no problem with OpenOffice. I do not remember if I ran the setup while logged in as root or did I just right-click->RunAs it. Anyway, the limited user setup has to be done with a special -net switch. Read the installation docs.
I used to have to install firefox extensions while logged as root, otherwise they would not install. However, I find that with Firefox 1.0 the extensions install just fine with my normal, limited account.
Dr. Divx requires that I'm logged in as root. Why would a software that reads a file, crunches some numbers and writes another file, require admin priviledges? I have filed a bug report about it but I don't think the vendor took it seriously.
I just hope more and more developers realize it is unacceptable to require admin priviledges on this day and age. If you find software that does a bad job with this, find something else to replace it and tell the vendor/developer that you dropped his software because it did not run without admin permissions.
So, are you suggesting that a person without a car should tell his boss he will be taking half a day off to visit his bank? It will not only be less convenient, it means losing half a days salary.
Even if you have car, you are not going to like the visit in a bank, at least not in Finland. The offices are few and far between and they have far too few tellers to serve the customers in a timely fashion.
Also, the banks would very much like you to do your banking over the net. It is cheaper to them. In Finland, the banks actually encourage the use of their online banks by charging obsene amounts of money for using the services of a real live human being. Some ATM transactions are no longer free either.
If you are poor or cost-conscious the only options you have are ATMs and online banking.
But, of course you are entitled to your opinion. After all, you live in a coutry where the modern way to pay is to put money or checkque in an envelope. And you think that is secure and safe!
I think the original writer was missing a point. (Or maybe I missed him not missing the point.)
.spec file and wrap my own RPM. If I have to configure and compile it myself, I ./configure --prefix=/opt/programname-version, which allows me to fairly painlessly get rid of the program.
I believe the reason why people use RPM-based distributions, like Red Hat, is that they are stable, tested and polished. When you use the ISO images to upgrade your Red Hat, yes, you wind up installing a lot of stuff. But on the other hand you wind up installing stuff that Red Hat has verified will work together. To reap the benefits of that is well worth a couple of cdroms.
Perhaps another reason is that the biggest RPM-based distributions, like Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake really have added value when compared to the sexier non-RPM distros. You get tools that simplify management. You get a system on which everything just clicks together.
I have used Gentoo. It's pretty ok, but when you have used Red Hat before Gentoo, you'll be disappointed. A lot of things you take for granted in Red Hat, just aren't there. It takes a lot of time to tweak everything to get a system with the same features as Red Hat.
Someone commented that they've never seen anyone go back to an RPM-based distro after trying a source-based distro. Well, I have. You can read my Slashdot Journal if you are interested in the details.
Interestingly, I have never had too much trouble with installing RPMs. I realize that an RPM created on SuSE probably does not work on my Red Hat, so I'll try to find a Red Hat RPM. Many times I'm in luck. When I'm not, I grab the SRPM and failing that download the source. I might even spend a bit of time to see if it would be easy to write a
Sorry but I just had to take the bait...
:)
For 99% of computer users none of the features you list above have any meaning.
For most people the multitude of window managers is merely confusing.
I, too, can remember the good old times when the mainframes were faster than desktops and it made sense to run some applications in the mainframe with the display on the desktop. Those days are gone. For the rare occasion that one needs to control something remotely, one can use VNC over ssh.
Cross-platform is mostly meaningless since most desktop computers run Windows.
Windows already comes with a graphics system bundled, so X being free is meaningless
And I bet the MSWindows folks have some fast-action 3D games they can dazzle you with
That said, I have to admit XFree86 has come a long way since the early days. Good work, guys!
I got the idea that the whole point with WB was to try to push two versions of the DVDs: one for rental and one for resale.
I live in Finland and, curiously, this is the way we've always had it. The DVD I rent from shop down the street has a text in the cover saying "For rental only. If you've bought this DVD, call xxxxx". The DVD I buy has a cover text saying "reselling, renting, copying and public presentation of this movie is prohibited."
Still, the video and DVD rental prices are exactly the same (3 EUR)!
Ion looks a bit like Ratpoison. Also small and designed to be used without touching the mouse.
I'd say XFce belongs to the light-weight league. The nice thing about XFce is that it's almost like a desktop system. It has much more than just a simple window manager.
dairyless milkshake??? Here in Finland, where a good proportion of people have lactose intolerance, a dairyless milkshake would actually be a good thing. I wonder when the local McDonalds gets that on their menu.
BeOS supports a lot less hardware than Linux does. So even if BeOS would be GPL'ed it wouldn't work on many peoples PCs. I, for one, downloaded the BeOS free version but it didn't even boot on my PC.
There is actually a way to do diffserv that is consistent with the end-to-end principle, at least I think it is.
The idea is that you pay your ISP for a right to send at a certain nominal bandwidth. If you send faster, your packets will be marked with lower priority. At the network's core routers the lower priority packets will be dropped if congestion occurs.
This idea is called SIMA. You can learn more about it at http://www-nrc.nokia.com/sima/.
(I have no relation to them. I just know these guys and really think they've come up with something useful.)
I think that a good example of a Hack is what the one guy did to be able to play Quake on an ascii terminal! Sorry I don't remember the link.
I had a project where we needed to use the Linux version of MpegTV on FreeBSD under the Linux emulator. The problem was that if MpegTV crashed, it didn't clean up the SYSV shared memory segments it was using. After about a dozen crashes the FreeBSD box was out of shm and had to be rebooted. This is _not_ something you should have to do with a Unix!
I haven't encountered the problem on native Linux.
Of course the problem could just as well be in the implementation of SYSV shm on FreeBSD.
I've used several IPv6 stacks on FreeBSD and rarely had any problems. I've also tried to compile and use the network utilities for Linux and have always had lots of problems. It seems to me that Linux simply is not IPv6-ready (yet).