Open-source programming embraces a philosophy that states programmers should make their code available to everyone rather than keeping it proprietary. The Linux operating system has had much success as an open-source code.
What are other advantages of open-source code (Linux or MACs "Snow Leppard")?

Why do you think that companies such as Microsoft maintain proprietary restrictions on their code?

I am developing a small embedded debian linux device with firefox/iceweasel and a 7" touchscreen display. I need to create a custom action/response/page/redirect when the device boots and can not connect to the network (i.e. some 4xx http error, can’t reach http://www.linux.org/). Is there something built into firefox? If not, any other ideas? Thank You!!!

I really don’t know very much about Linux but I am very anxious to learn about it. In your opinion, which version would be the best for someone who is looking to learn the "in’s & out’s" of Linux (Red Hat, Linspire, Mandrake, etc.)? Which is the most user friendly? I have heard a lot of good things about Linspire. What is your take on this? Thanks in advance for your advice.

Nivram

IE, could I boot Puppy from BIOS, OR just proceed to windows and access a "toolbox" for fixing computers, without negatively affecting how Puppy boots?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110106/ap_on_re_eu/eu_romania_witchcraft_7

"Everyone curses the tax man, but Romanian witches angry about having to pay up for the first time hurled poisonous mandrake into the Danube River on Thursday to cast spells on the president and government."
sieg: Lighten up, Francis. Besides, two months ago you guys were complaining that the TEA Party was running a witch.

I’m looking for some pictures online of mandrake roots, and so far, I’ve only stumbled upon photoshopped pictures of people reinforcing the idea of mandrakes resembling the human form.

Where are the ACTUAL pictures? lol are people scared of pulling them out themselves and taking a REAL picture of it due to it’s "deathly scream"? xD
EDIT: if any of you have any original pictures, I appreciate the links to it. I’m interested in seeing more of the perspective that inspired the lore that connects soo heavily with it.

I currently have Fedora 10 and I installed VLC media player. When ever I open it to play a song it gives me 2 errors and the song sounds real choppy. These are the errors I get… How do I fix them?
Summary:

SELinux is preventing vlc from loading /usr/lib/sse2/libswscale.so.0.6.1 which
requires text relocation.

Detailed Description:

The vlc application attempted to load /usr/lib/sse2/libswscale.so.0.6.1 which
requires text relocation. This is a potential security problem. Most libraries
do not need this permission. Libraries are sometimes coded incorrectly and
request this permission. The SELinux Memory Protection Tests
(http://people.redhat.com/drepper/selinux-mem.html) web page explains how to
remove this requirement. You can configure SELinux temporarily to allow
/usr/lib/sse2/libswscale.so.0.6.1 to use relocation as a workaround, until the
library is fixed. Please file a bug report
(http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi) against this package.

Allowing Access:

If you trust /usr/lib/sse2/libswscale.so.0.6.1 to run correctly, you can change
the file context to textrel_shlib_t. "chcon -t textrel_shlib_t
‘/usr/lib/sse2/libswscale.so.0.6.1′" You must also change the default file
context files on the system in order to preserve them even on a full relabel.
"semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t ‘/usr/lib/sse2/libswscale.so.0.6.1′"

Fix Command:

chcon -t textrel_shlib_t ‘/usr/lib/sse2/libswscale.so.0.6.1′

Additional Information:

Source Context unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_execmem_t:s0
Target Context system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0
Target Objects /usr/lib/sse2/libswscale.so.0.6.1 [ file ]
Source vlc
Source Path /usr/bin/vlc
Port <Unknown>
Host Andrew.Altizer
Source RPM Packages vlc-core-0.9.8a-1.fc10
Target RPM Packages ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.fc10
Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.5.13-18.fc10
Selinux Enabled True
Policy Type targeted
MLS Enabled True
Enforcing Mode Enforcing
Plugin Name allow_execmod
Host Name Andrew.Altizer
Platform Linux Andrew.Altizer 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 #1 SMP
Tue Nov 18 12:19:59 EST 2008 i686 athlon
Alert Count 4
First Seen Mon 05 Jan 2009 01:43:28 PM AST
Last Seen Mon 05 Jan 2009 01:56:42 PM AST
Local ID 143b1d8e-4c8f-4189-a377-d97326d786c4
Line Numbers

Raw Audit Messages

node=Andrew.Altizer type=AVC msg=audit(1231153002.320:27): avc: denied { execmod } for pid=3452 comm="vlc" path="/usr/lib/sse2/libswscale.so.0.6.1" dev=dm-0 ino=2551557 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_execmem_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0 tclass=file

node=Andrew.Altizer type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1231153002.320:27): arch=40000003 syscall=125 success=no exit=-13 a0=21c000 a1=2c000 a2=5 a3=bfb3d1e0 items=0 ppid=1 pid=3452 auid=500 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=500 fsgid=500 tty=(none) ses=1 comm="vlc" exe="/usr/bin/vlc" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_execmem_t:s0 key=(null)

and……

Summary:

SELinux is preventing vlc from loading /usr/lib/sse2/libpostproc.so.51.2.0 which
requires text relocation.

Detailed Description:

The vlc application attempted to load /usr/lib/sse2/libpostproc.so.51.2.0 which
requires text relocation. This is a potential security problem. Most libraries
do not need this permission. Libraries are sometimes coded incorrectly and
request this permission. The SELinux Memory Protection Tests
(http://people.redhat.com/drepper/selinux-mem.html) web page explains how to
remove this requirement. You can configure SELinux temporarily to allow
/usr/lib/sse2/libpostproc.so.51.2.0 to use relocation as a workaround, until the
library is fixed. Please file a bug report
(http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi) against this package.

Allowing Access:

If you trust /usr/lib/sse2/libpostproc.so.51.2.0 to run correctly, you can
change the file context to textrel_shlib_t. "chcon -t textrel_shlib_t
‘/usr/lib/sse2/libpostproc.so.51.2.0′" You must also change the default file
context files on the system in order to preserve them even on a full relabel.
"semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t ‘/usr/lib/sse2/libpostproc.so.51.2.0′"

Fix Command:

chcon -t textrel_shlib_t ‘/usr/lib/sse2/libpostproc.so.51.2.0′

Additional Information:

Source Context unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_execmem_t:s0
Target Context system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0
Target Objects /usr/lib/sse2/libpostp
Am I able to uninstall SELinux?

In John Donne’s "Song", one of the lines reads "get with child a mandrake root." Would someone mind clarifying this line for me? I know that it is a poisonous root, and that it is shaped like a human’s lower half. Could someone elaborate on this? Thanks

Whenever i download a new program in my PClinuxOS, it shows it as a ".exe" file but doesn’t open it.For example in my desktop a file lies as "AdbeRdr920_en_US.exe" but when i try to open it they ask me which application to open it with and shows a bunch of applications already installed by linux only.

Other then packaging:

variant choices of desktop environment (slim or not)
preinstalled application.
distro name
logo
community
rpm or deb.

I’m not putting down Linux I think it is a great operating system, but also see that it is run by a community that has a mindset with no real focus. Reinventing the wheal over and over and over again. Nothing wrong with doing so to learn or even share. But there should be one and only one officially supported and managed operating system for the home and business sector. The rest should only be considered results from personal development, enhancing code, features, creating new proposed software for the official version . personal use and sharing. And should be noted as such. Linking back to one officially managed standard Linux and package system. Linux could be so many more years ahead of Microsoft and OSX.

Linux is it’s own worst enemy. They think they are fighting a war against Microsoft. But the troops are only marching to drum beats of distro’s egos. So many chiefs. Microsoft is just laughing. How does Microsoft manage to sale products that are known to unstable over free products. Well its the only choice. Linux just has too……… many choices (really just pkg customization, custom names, and logos). But the average person doesn’t know that. And linux user will argue differently. But it is the same. Some better packaged then others. But the same nonetheless. None linux user think "which way do i go, which way do i go, ah yes Microsoft the choice is clear." Same thing applies for Game development Shops.

You might not agree with this scary thought ( I say scary because for some linux people its like tearing off their hearts) but what doesn’t grow eventually goes out of scope in life. Remember Eventually Microsoft, OSX will master each and every technology to great perfection. The effort of Linux will become nothing more then a college project and history knowledge. Your passions lives through the code past down and perfected, from one generation to another. Your code.

I hope the Linux community gets its act together. Or there is always PC-BSD (Free-BSD + user friendly). They are short on developers but they have one and one focus. Real centralize effort with infocies on quality all the way from the code. If I may say so.
I much rather on the deb side I much rather use Debian then any of the forks. mint, unbuntu,kubuntu,ubuntu ultimate addition,etc … Xandros, Knoppix etc… I tried ubuntu and loved it, I got curios so I tried debian. I didn’t see a difference, Other then the fact that debian is much more stable and the others are prepackaged. The difference is an illusion. Its just some logos here, name there,wall paper, prepackage so software, packaged choices of desktop, etc..

From the deb side I would go with Debian. On the rpm side I would go with Centos. Debian = Centos.

imho their should be only one official standard linux. Runned by some form consortium. If only the distros could put their ego aside.
I much rather on the deb side I much rather use Debian then any of the forks. mint, unbuntu,kubuntu,ubuntu ultimate addition,etc … Xandros, Knoppix etc… I tried ubuntu and loved it, I got curios so I tried debian. I didn’t see a difference, Other then the fact that debian is much more stable and the others are prepackaged. The difference is an illusion. Its just some logos here, name there,wall paper, prepackage so software, packaged choices of desktop, etc..

From the deb side I would go with Debian. On the rpm side I would go with Centos. Debian = Centos.

imho their should be only one official standard linux. Runned by some form consortium. If only the distros could put their ego aside.

Looking for website feedback and viewers. I feel that open code makes a more secure program. Internet Exploder got Firefox, Windows got Ubuntu Linux and both open counterparts beat their closed, buggy, security holed, softwares.

Here’s my question, Do you think we deserve a DAILY VOTE for N America’s 360,000,000+ people alongside our 5 YEAR vote???? (of least worst guy)

What problems would every day voters cause?
Security problems? How would YOU secure an online, open voting system for 7 billion humans on Earth? Server OS? Open/closed source code? Hackproof?
Should 90% in favour or displeased be enough to have citizen reforendums FORCING votes on popular opinions? 90% against sueing music fans? 90% against wasting money on wall street bail outs BEFORE it’s spent?

Open by design, linux manages MANY users opinions on writing new code, only in THIS case the code would be our laws and I feel ALL Americans/Canadians/Earth people DESERVE to vote every day under their "elected" "leaders".

http://www.opensourceg.com is my 15 dollar contribution in tribute to Linux! Anyone know any coders that can build this?

Even if just (to start) for stats, iVote app (free) and a website would freaking ROCK, no? I often thought 3rd party do gooders would spear head this b/c it’s not "profitable" to give up THAT MUCH power to every day citizens, ignorant about the world and all having problems to drown out the society. I say organize their thoughts and collect their votes!
Thanks for the posts, as for Andy H, well, that’s kinda the point. I don’t care if the elite and rich lose SOME power and wealth. That’s the friggan POINT. The ignorant kind who’d vote OUT basic health care for all. lmao.

"This President will NEVER allow electronic voting unless ACORN controls it the way they have gamed the paper ballot process in 2006 and 2008."…….pffffft. I’m not interested in "leadder" opinions, just regular people’s.

3rrd party will build this and won’t NEED permission for simple stats collecting (to prevent tampering). I agree official channels will NEVER want this. (so it’s worthwhile…lmao, just like p2p file sharing)

Well if injected UNDER our official politician’s regular votes (that count, public can be just stats for a few introductory years to get it right)

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few…

I have SuSE Linux 10.1 installed along with Windows. Now I want to uninstall it. So can anyone tell me how i can uninstall it? I tried using the partitioner to delete all the partitions but the linux partition just like it is explained in the manual at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:How_to_Uninstall_Linux but its not working. I am getting an error message when I press the "Apply" button in the partitioner. So any other way to uninstall it? I cant use the Linux CD cause my CD Drive is not working.
Didn’t I mention that my CD-Drive is not working?

I’m running Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 on an old Powermac 8500. I would like to update the software using the "yup update" command in the terminal. It polls the RPM database, runs the dependency sanity check, the server signals ready — but then it fails with the message "Error: 550 Cannot get file size." This is making me crazy. Anyone have any ideas?
The problem is not simply downloading the file, which I can do. I’m trying to use the command line update tool so that I don’t have to handle the updates manually, which can be done but is a nuisance.

i have fedora 10 if that helps
ive followed instructions
extracted file.tar.gz
up to ./configure
no such command as make
and tried to follow instructions
and it said that I need a file to compile it
went to website and it was in source code

is there an easier way that has a "GUI" program
to compile source code to .rpm or .deb packages
or a website to do this please dont tell me to use the Terminal
or Konsol
sorry the program is terminal

Can anyone plzz suggest a linux program with which i can open the windows partitions of the harddisk in the debian My Computer.. When i tries to open windows local disk partitions through linux. Its telling " can’t mount volume" Pllzzz suggest a program to open this partitions so tht i can access all the files in my harddisk in linux so i need not need to copy all my pics, videos and musics again to linux file system to use it.

I received an Asus EEE PC 900 as a gift. It came with a bunch of games and "learning" software. I’m just wondering how to get rid of it. A fairly detailed response would be appreciated. I’m new to Linux.

I have a Xampp for Linux installed on a Debian 4 Linux box.

I have to login as root and issue the following to start.

/opt/lampp/lampp start
… starting apache
….starting mysql
…starting ….

However when I reboot, I would like this to be automated.

I can’t remember if it has to do with the "inet" or do I have to write a separate script with "sh" or something?

any help would be great.

i am instaling java, im as superuser, on the java directory in the terminal, i put in "chmod a+x jre-1_5_0_06-linux-i586-rpm.bin" to change the permision for instaling the java and it said there is no such file or directory, help?
oh i am in the java directory, and i downloaded the java linux rpm(self extracting file). plz help, and hey, if it wprks, ull get 10points, plz help!
cmon ppl, answer me!
i have 2! use it, i have a chat room, i used 2 go on with lot of friends and a high lvl runescape account!
answer and help me plz! im never gunna give up!

i wish to download a debian image on a "faster" computer and set debian boot cd up on a deferent computer when i down load the powerpc from this link will it download linux to the "faster" computeR????

please help!!!

http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst

it powerpc in small cd!!

Hi, I am in a minority of Net users who is against open-source software On msg. boards, it seems that any criticism of Linux or OSS is "trolling" or "FUD." I just feel that OSS made it harder for smaller biz. to develop software. Also, it is very easy to compare OSS to slave labor, since while major transnational corporations like IBM pay their employees to work on open-source projects, professors and individuals think they are supporting "freedom" or "charity." While the recent redefining of copyrights and patents as a property right may be wrong, abolishing it entirely is just too extreme. Often, people will defend OSS due to this, or support the slave labor as "choice."

But what bothers me the most is that every time I do a search on "anti-open source" or "against open-source", I get "anti-OSS attitudes" or "anti-OSS lawsuits." Also, I find it strange that "open source" encyclopedias ripe with politics and errors are first in the results. Why are both search engines so biased?

please help me.I want to remove the redhat linux enterprise 5. "Thanks a lot"