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December 3, 2004 Leave a comment
Well, this sucks. Thinkpads have been the only laptop I have purchased for quite some time now (I recently got a T42). The quality will almost certainly go down after this purchase. Now, to see who actually makes the acquisition. The end of an era, indeed.
–jeremy
December 2, 2004 5 Comments
Another mini LQ podcast. Pop free topics include more feedback, a guest Podcaster, LinuxWorld Sponsorship and intro music.
–jeremy
December 1, 2004 Leave a comment
I have to admit that I don't entirely understand the mentality in this article. Entitled “Apache chokes on open-source philosophy”, it seems to insinuate that maturing is synonymous with choking. Brian Behlendorf is right, volunteers don't like to carry pagers. One quote from the article that I find odd, is:
Such a comment is likely to leave commercial competitors in fits of laughter.
I doubt they're laughing – Apache is still eating their lunch. To Brian and the ASF I say kudos. They have gained enough of my trust and respect that I think they will do the right thing. They are setting a precedent here and are once again trailblazers. Someday I hope LQ has to worry about having full-time people. Apache and the ASF have helped change the world. In the process of changing the world they themselves have changed, and now they are adapting.
–jeremy
November 30, 2004 Leave a comment
I am proud to announce that LinuxQuestions.org is a sponsor of the upcoming LinuxWorld Expo in Boston. LQ has been exhibiting at LWE for a while now, and it's great to be able to give something back. The Expo runs February 15-17. We should find out if we'll be exhibiting again “real soon now”.
–jeremy
November 30, 2004 2 Comments
In response to this, we really do change things. For an example, you need look no further than a few posts down in this Blog. Due to a bug in the iPod and the addition of EFI to the kernel, my iPod no longer worked. Not only was I able to see what the problem was, I was able to roll an RPM and offer it to whoever wanted to download it (in addition to letting the vendor know, so they could address it). In this case the fix was trivial and hopefully I've gained enough trust in the community that people weren't too scared to try the code (and judging by the feedback I got, many people did). Now, admittedly this isn't always the case and random people arbitrarily making kernel changes is obviously a bad thing. Don't forget though, the strength of Open Source isn't solely the ability to change the code (although that is a huge benefit in itself). It's the right to fork, the ability to avoid vendor lockin…the freedom.
–jeremy
November 29, 2004 Leave a comment
Haven't blogged in a couple days, but here are a few things that happened:
As a followup to this, here are a couple of comments from Linus on the subject. In summary, his opinion seems to be: So while I may have some niggling concerns with the GPL, they are in the details, and in the end, I actually think that the GPL simply is the best license for the kernel..
The SCO site was defaced twice over the last couple of days. While they are twits (at best), this kind of thing doesn't really hurt them at all and gives them something to point at the Linux community (whether it was someone from that community or not) about. The second crack was fairly subtle and actually easy to miss if you didn't look closely…and it stayed online for a long time. Almost makes you wonder if they did it themselves.
ESR responds to the silly claim that “Sun's Java is developed more in the mode of the bazaar than Linux is”. He explains: Anyone who doesn't like Linus' decisions about Linux can fork the code base, start his own effort, and compete for developer and user attention on a legally equal footing. That is the essence of the bazaar,” Raymond wrote. Raymond then went on to explain that, from where he sits, JCP is anything but open source.
–jeremy
November 26, 2004 7 Comments
Here's the latest LinuxQuestions.org Podcast. Topics include LQ updates, our potential Podcast hardware (will it be Apple?), NoSoftwarePatents.com, my Audacity problems, LQ sponsoring the OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit and my Fedora iPod kernel for FC3. BTW, the mic is a bit misplaced which caused the occasional pop – I'll make sure to get the fixed for the next podcast.
–jeremy
November 26, 2004 Leave a comment
Microsoft recently supplied a screencap of its new BETA MSN search to the Associated Press. Not all that interesting you're thinking to yourself. Take a closer look though – they are using FireFox. Nice!
–jeremy
November 26, 2004 Leave a comment
As Dave Winer points out, Blogtorrent looks pretty cool and could make things quite a bit easier. It'd be great to be able to do the LQ Podcast (next podcast should hopefully be online later today) via Blog Torrent. The problem? It only runs on Windows. Have to love this line from the Blogtorrent site though:
We only have a Windows version of the Blogtorrent client (help fix that!) so for now we just detect when people aren't using Windows browsers, and don't show them the easy download links. For Mac users, we give them instructions on how to download and install the OS X Bittorrent client. And for non-Mac, non-Windows users, we assume that since they're running some weird OS, they can probably figure Bittorrent out themselves.
Although I have been using Linux on my main desktop (well, on almost all my machines really), it's lines like the above that make me remember just how much work we have ahead of us. Should prove to be a fun journey though. The revolution may not be televised, but it will be blogged ;)
–jeremy
November 26, 2004 Leave a comment
Just imagine – 60,000 BSOD's. …and it appears that it's not even Microsoft's fault. EDS was set to upgrade a small number of test machines that were running WindowsXP. Instead of deploying the patch to those machines, the patch went to about 80% of all of the machines, which happened to be running Windows 2000. As you may have guessed, the results were less than stellar. With about 60,000 machines being out for over 4 days, you're talking a minimum of 240,000 work hours that were likely, um…less than productive ;) What's amazing to me is that EDS continually seems to botch things (although this mishap was especially egregious) but continues to get new contracts. Although not directly MSFT's fault, you have to wonder how the people that made this decision are feeling right about now.
–jeremy
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