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[edit] Hello Safwan

  • Happy to see you here :) . KEMU page was the page that always came when i searched for RxPG. On seeing that RxPG doesnt have a wiki page, i made one. After that i always wondered, why do KEMU page come up in the list always when i search for RxPG? So just went through the article and found that there is a reference about RxPG in the article. So added an internal link to RxPG there. KEMU article is good, Did you make it? Binoj Mathew 22:15, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

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  • RxPG is registered in Australia & the Website founders are now in UK. And the RXPG team is spread in US,UK,India & Australia. So RxPG is truly spread all over the world and belong to every nation. I am thankful to RxPG to bring two people from 2 nations in conflict together as friends :) All the best pal. May all ur dreams come true.. Binoj Mathew 16:35, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Acid Arena

Hello again, just though I'd let you know you can change the AfD tag on Acid Arena to {{Db-userreq}}; if you are sure want it deleted no discussion is required since you are the only contributor to it, and it can be speedily deleted. MarašmusïneTalk 14:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Forgot to welcome you!

Welcome!

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[edit] Cellfactor: Revolution

A {{prod}} template has been added to the article Cellfactor: Revolution, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with {{db-author}}. Marasmusine 08:38, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Linux

Hi. Sorry it's taken so long to reply to your question.

> I have a question regarding Linux: Nobody gets paid to write code for the GNU and Linux, how practical is that?

There are two answers to this question, corresponding to the two sources that contributions to Free software come from.

The first answer is that a good part of GNU/Linux code is written by paid developers. Red Hat, for example, operate a Professional open-source business model; whereby they provide their own Linux distribution along with applications and management solutions, as well as support, training, and consulting services. Since their main product is their Linux distribution, it is in their interests to make it as good as possible. Now, Red Hat are a reasonable size comany, with something like a thousand employees; most of whom are probably programmers. So they improve the Linux kernel and the various GNU applications according to bug reports sent in, their customers needs, etc. But here is the main point: GNU applications and the Linux code are distributed under the GPL, which requires that any changes made to the code be released under the same terms as the original code. The improvements Red Hat make are contributed back into the main Linux kernel, where anyone can use them. Which means that any company selling Linux distributions not only gets the improvements they themselves make, they get all the improvements any company makes The end result is that all the companies win, since all their products are much, much better (and better able to compete with, say, Microsoft) then they would be if they had to develop everything all on their own.

The second answer is simpler: hobbyists. A lot of programmers enjoy tinkering around with the software they use, to get the features they want. For example, if a GNU paint program does not have, say, a spraypaint tool, but Joe Coder wants one, he can write one himself, and recompile the software. S/he gets the tool he wanted, but S/he also contributes that code back to the main program maintainer, so it can be permanently built into the program and everyone else can take advantage of it -- and maybe contribute their own patches and improve on it. Again, everyone wins.

> I figured this when i myself used Linux and found that it lacked the consistency that Windows provides

Consistency is always going to be a problem if you've got so many different people with different needs, but the situation is improving: for example, if you get a distribution that uses, say, the GNOME desktop environment, and only use programs designed to be used with GNOME (i.e. using the GtK toolkit), then the level of consistency is excellent.

I think the biggest gap at the moment between Linux and Windows/Mac isn't consistency (which, after all, isn't exactly steller on Windows and Mac OS -- Windows Media player and Quicktime, anyone?), but the X Window System; which is fine for basic setups, but a pain to configure for anything more complicated, such as dual monitor setups (something that Windows has been able to do with ease since Windows 98). But even this is getting better: the next release of Ubuntu, for example, includes a shiny new configuration utility for X Windows.

Will Linux ever be as good as, say, Mac OS is now? Yes, undoubtedly. But will it keep up with the commercial software's development pace? Only time will tell.

-- simxp (talk) 21:41, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

I moved your userbox to userspace at User:Acetylcholine/User Pakistan. NawlinWiki 21:25, 19 September 2007 (UTC)