On 05 Dec 2005 07:33:48 GMT Rahul Siddharthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> walt wrote: > >DragonFly is known for its messaging infrastructure, so this > >seems like a good place to ask about D-BUS: > > > >http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus > > > >D-BUS is strictly userland, AFAIK. I've suddenly started seeing > >dbus processes running in the background on linux and NetBSD, so > >developers in mainstream projects are beginning to use it. > > > >Anyone know about it, or have any thoughts to share? > > I've been very impressed with linux lately: I installed ubuntu 5.10 > on my wife's laptop, and if you insert a CD or a memory stick or > a digital camera or whatever, it "just works" -- an icon pops up on > the desktop and you can look at the contents, drag and drop etc > (with either gnome or KDE). This sort of thing is really needed for > non-techie users, but even I find it pretty convenient. > > As I understand, it works with dbus and hal > http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal > and hal, at least, requires kernel support: it seems to work only with > linux kernel 2.6, not 2.4. > > In my opinion, the *only* thing holding linux back now is lack of > support for some esoteric hardware and lack of the most popular > windows software (eg, you can use gaim or kopete for instant > messaging, but you really don't get all the bells and whistles that > MSN or Yahoo messengers have). In terms of intrinsic > userfriendliness, something like Ubuntu is already there now -- far > ahead of Windows actually. > > It would be nice to see the BSDs in the same state sometime. We're working on DesktopBSD (desktopbsd.net) and there is a PCBSD as well. And it would be nice to see more developer support helping out the projects :) Cheers, Marcin.
