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  • @cediddi
    @cediddi Před 9 lety +277

    linus, please record a video about linux, just once, please.

    • @Nau4aa
      @Nau4aa Před 9 lety +49

      Umut KARCI he doesn't know a thing about Linux. he's a M$ fan.
      watch TekSyndicate, they know Linux (from more known, popular channels).

    • @joshuasprucie8933
      @joshuasprucie8933 Před 9 lety +1

      Umut KARCI Yeah if you visit their TekLinux channel they have some good Linux videos already

    • @flavasava1992
      @flavasava1992 Před 9 lety +8

      Captain Technology the only drawback with syndicate that their shortest video is longer than linus' longest video... oh also syndicate hosts take their fandom to the offensive level unlike LTT guys.

    • @joshuasprucie8933
      @joshuasprucie8933 Před 9 lety +1

      I haven't seen any offensive things happening in tek syndicate. Also it doesn't matter about the video length as long as it stays interesting that is fine. I have noticed with Linustechtips (and this is no hate against his business) but too many of their product reviews sound like they were scripted in a certain way maybe because they were paid to make the product sound amazing. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

    • @insect212
      @insect212 Před 9 lety +3

      Umut KARCI Linus should give Linux a try like he did with Mac.

  • @SamNorrell
    @SamNorrell Před 9 lety +74

    Linus is incorrect in this video. Open source software does not have to be given to users for no cost.

    • @diegomarquez3293
      @diegomarquez3293 Před 3 lety +8

      Yeah but then whats the point if you can have the source code cant you compile it and get it for free?

    • @nofate0007
      @nofate0007 Před 3 lety +2

      @@diegomarquez3293 Yeah. I have done that for some Android apps that are FOSS but require payment on the Play Store.

    • @fabiandrinksmilk6205
      @fabiandrinksmilk6205 Před 2 lety +4

      @@diegomarquez3293 True, but I have seen software that are payed in app stores, but free from the repository or when you compile it. Normies will still pay because it's easier or because of updates.

  • @NikolajLepka
    @NikolajLepka Před 9 lety +51

    Some open source software is paid for though.. I mean the developers need food on the table. The big difference is that the software code is freely available to everyone who wants to use it.
    I'm glad you point out the difference between Free and Open software.
    The GPLv3 (GNU Public Licence version 3) is actually terrible for businesses because of some of the restrictions it imposes onto its users. It's great for small businesses who want their stuff to get out there, but the one big gotcha with GPL is that *it forces you to share the modifications under the same licence*. This is bad because you can't use the modifications for say software used internally in your company and nowhere else, sofware you may or may not want to get leaked.
    The BSD licence on the other hand doesn't give a shit, you can re-distribute the software with a proprietary licence if you so desire. This is why Apple and Sony can sell their own modified versions of the BSD operating system (PlayStation, OSX, iOS) under a proprietary licence *keeping the rights to their own changes*. So while BSD on its own is FOSS (Free and Open Source Software), Apple's and Sony's variants are not, and that's totally fine.
    Using the BSD licence over the GPL ensures that you can distribute your software as far and wide as you want *so long as you don't take credit for the parts you didn't change*.
    The main major advantage of FOSS is the community aspect of it. If you have one small core of developers you have shit you need to make in time, and things sometimes get overlooked, which leads to bugs that may or may not get fixed later.
    While having a big sprawling community of eager programmers that *constantly* go through and make sure the code is of the very highest quality, you don't get the mess of buggy code that doesn't work properly for months on end because the developers either don't care or don't have time to fix it. If the product's community is big enough, someone will always care.

    • @NikolajLepka
      @NikolajLepka Před 9 lety +1

      ***** that's what I said...
      About not being able to include the code in closed source software

    • @CapsAdmin
      @CapsAdmin Před 9 lety +4

      Nikolaj Lepka
      The GPL does not require you to release your modified version, or any part of it. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization.
      But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the program's users, under the GPL.
      Thus, the GPL gives permission to release the modified program in certain ways, and not in other ways; but the decision of whether to release it is up to you.
      source: www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic

    • @NikolajLepka
      @NikolajLepka Před 9 lety +2

      ***** you have to remember, Linus Torvalds doesn't want to use GPLv3 for a reason. It's TOO restrictive

    • @NikolajLepka
      @NikolajLepka Před 9 lety +1

      ***** I never prevented that the GPL prevented developers from earning money, quite on the contrary. I'm just saying the BSD licence is better in a lot of cases because it doesn't force its users to use the same licence. It's up to the individual whether or not they want to make their software free or not, we as developers shouldn't take that away. Which is why I believe libraries should be released under BSD to give freedom of use, but complete software can be released under either for all I care. On one hand you can get stuff like OSX and PlayStation, on the other hand you can get stuff like GNU and Linux

    • @CapsAdmin
      @CapsAdmin Před 9 lety +1

      Nikolaj Lepka It being forced is a bad thing in your opinion because you probably don't think proprietary software is bad. To make an extreme example it's like saying a society where people are free to kill each other is a better society in one where you can't. Free software is not just about the developer behind the software it's also, if not more about the users.

  • @Mehrunes201
    @Mehrunes201 Před 9 lety +109

    Techquickie request: What the heck does a CPU cache do?

    • @tpcs8667
      @tpcs8667 Před 9 lety +10

      Örvar "Wheeze" Arnórsson It is like desktop and notebook ram in the context of its primary purpose ( a temporary place of high speed storage).
      It goes like this in terms of FASTEST information processing speed:
      1. Video card
      2. Cpu's L1 cache
      3. CPu's L2 cache ( 3. could be L3 but you get the point)
      4. Cpu itself
      5. Ram
      6. Storage drive- ssd
      7. Storage drive 15k rpm hdd
      8. Storage drive 10k rpm hdd
      9. storage drive 7200 rpm hdd
      10.storage drive 5900 rpm hdd, etc.

    • @Oertijn
      @Oertijn Před 9 lety +1

      Örvar "Wheeze" Arnórsson The CPU cache holds a stack of data. This usually means that whichever data needs to be accessed really fast can get copied into it. It's usually just a few instructions for the CPU to do. Like a little grocery list for the CPU to traverse a program: Go to this address, or, this functions returned this value, hold it here for later (already specified) use.

    • @sauron1427
      @sauron1427 Před 9 lety

      Örvar "Wheeze" Arnórsson faster ram simply put.

    • @thefinder8087
      @thefinder8087 Před 9 lety

      Örvar "Wheeze" Arnórsson What Lifeform said. Also the higher the number (L1 cache vs L2 cache) the farther away from the CPU core it's stored, and the slower it is.

    • @supervegito2277
      @supervegito2277 Před 9 lety

      P@r@m3d!© his list is how a computer will store data in decreasing importance and speed.
      The cpu caches are notoriously small though.
      In gaming i can say this regarding vram, ram and hdds.
      A game stores info in the vram to draw images, the more vram the more detail per frame, if there isnt enough vram it goes for ram, and if that isnt enough then ssd. Thkng is though decreasing speed also dramatically drops fps, and increases time for, well fx just seeing what you have stored on your system.
      With all lf these it seems there is one golden rule, if you dont have enough then performance is decreased and getting more will help, but if you arent using all of it to begin with getting more wont increase performance

  • @ElbadriEgyption
    @ElbadriEgyption Před 8 lety +28

    Well not all Open-source softwares are free of charge for instance RedHat Enterprise is not free at all. imho open-source usually refers to free as in freedom and not free of charge

    • @Betacak3
      @Betacak3 Před 8 lety +3

      +Ahmad Elbadri Yep. The only thing that bothered me (a little) in this video.

    • @wertiaaudit5746
      @wertiaaudit5746 Před 3 lety

      No it does not. Open source is free of charge. That's the point

    • @ElbadriEgyption
      @ElbadriEgyption Před 3 lety +1

      @@wertiaaudit5746 well this is simply not true ...

    • @iskamag
      @iskamag Před 3 lety

      @@wertiaaudit5746 I've paid for an open source program, so i would like to disagree

  • @tjlawson09
    @tjlawson09 Před 5 lety

    @Techquickie I thought your video presentation was well put together and covered the main points of open vs closed sources. I think you could emphasize that open source is publicly shared in more detail at a later time if you so choose and define who the public is in your mind if you so chose to do so. *thumbs up*

  • @IgnoreSolutions
    @IgnoreSolutions Před 9 lety +12

    Personally I like to release my code under some form of open source license. I learned programming mostly by reading other people's source code, so I feel like I'm sort of giving back by doing this.

  • @blueboired6135
    @blueboired6135 Před 7 lety +1

    lmao the way you throw in sponsors on techquickie is great

  • @pavelexpertov
    @pavelexpertov Před 9 lety +5

    Thumbs up for making distinction between free and opensorurce, some people don't get that unfortunately :S

  • @kostapoumpouridis2530
    @kostapoumpouridis2530 Před 9 lety +41

    On Linux the open source AMD is better then the Catalyst(closed).

    • @joshuasprucie8933
      @joshuasprucie8933 Před 9 lety +9

      ***** unfortunately it can't run applications that depend on the closed source driver such as steam. This makes many a sad panda

    • @joshuasprucie8933
      @joshuasprucie8933 Před 9 lety

      I heard that you need the official amd driver to run applications such as steam or steam will complain at you for using the wrong driver.

    • @joshuasprucie8933
      @joshuasprucie8933 Před 9 lety +4

      Ah ok. Never really knew that thank you.

    • @elgoreloco3370
      @elgoreloco3370 Před 9 lety

      For me it works horribly

    • @MrWizardjr9
      @MrWizardjr9 Před 9 lety

      El Gore Loco works better than nvidia closed source drivers that only shows the wallpaper and my mouse cursor when i reboot so i need to uninstall and reinstall every time

  • @alexstromberg7696
    @alexstromberg7696 Před 9 lety +49

    So, nothing nvidia does?

    • @noahhounshel104
      @noahhounshel104 Před 9 lety

      alex strömberg They do have some open source drivers

    • @alexstromberg7696
      @alexstromberg7696 Před 9 lety

      c:

    • @IIGrayfoxII
      @IIGrayfoxII Před 9 lety

      alex strömberg nVidia has more open source things than AMD last time i checked

    • @alexstromberg7696
      @alexstromberg7696 Před 9 lety

      IIGrayfoxII you've fallen for my b8 m8

    • @familydude-lq7ec
      @familydude-lq7ec Před 9 lety +1

      alex strömberg Little tip for next time after a successful b8: Don't reply at all xD. You should watch how quickly people start arguing.

  • @scyther1141
    @scyther1141 Před 9 lety

    That seamless transition

  • @IlDeimos
    @IlDeimos Před 8 lety +31

    I believe everything should be Open Source, besides military software. Because when something is open source, the public then can contribute to the project to make it better and better. It's the reason why the Android and Linux Operating systems have come so far so fast. And why Mac and iOS has been the same for years because Apple doesn't believe in open source.

    • @DodoGTA
      @DodoGTA Před 8 lety

      Android example:
      Because closed source binaries, libraries are forced to work only with a specific way (like on Android phones), Android source code needs to suit these requirements (otherwise they won't work)

    • @jazilzaim
      @jazilzaim Před 7 lety

      Well what about the entrepreneurs that want to be millionaires and billionaires. The only thing great about closed source software is that it has created lots of jobs for the economy. While open source hasn't helped job creations as much. But it will soon change as more startups are going open source. Even software companies are using open source licenses that allow users to only inspect the code because community collaboration benefits these companies and it also allows companies to identify more vulnerabilities in their software.

    • @Cough_Drop76
      @Cough_Drop76 Před 7 lety

      Thetechgenius If it wasn't for the military we wouldn't have the internet 😂

    • @RadiusNightly
      @RadiusNightly Před 7 lety +2

      Sometimes you want your code closed, because you made a backdoor inside your project. Or to make harder reverse engineering, because you are making money from it.

    • @grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic1636
      @grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic1636 Před 5 lety

      Thetechgenius cough cough Darwin os and open source Apple cough cough

  • @nand3kudasai
    @nand3kudasai Před 9 lety

    haha, this time the sponsorship was actually related to the topic.
    very good topic, i hope you can expand.

  • @Gamelovers90
    @Gamelovers90 Před 9 lety +2

    every time I watched Linus's Tech quickie's I always realize how dirty my screen is ...

  • @thez28camaroman
    @thez28camaroman Před 9 lety +10

    Copyleft...I like that. Let's make a movement.

    • @PiddeBas
      @PiddeBas Před 9 lety +1

      ***** Please tell me you are sarcastic. This was done in the 80's by Richard Stallman

    • @thez28camaroman
      @thez28camaroman Před 9 lety +2

      Pidde Bas It was a joke, nor was I around in the 80's so I have no clue who Richard Stallman is.

    • @PiddeBas
      @PiddeBas Před 9 lety +1

      ***** I'm eased it was a joke. Richard Stallman is the founder of free software and his license GPL follows the philosophy behind copyleft, which he pioneered.

  • @layndr6859
    @layndr6859 Před 9 lety +38

    Next: Server side and client side explained, pls

    • @Gameactive
      @Gameactive Před 9 lety +1

      LayndR I’ll let Linus go more in-depth with it, but the difference between server-side and client-side versions is their purpose. Generally, the server-side software executes operations as specified by one or more client-side instances, then sends the results back to the client-side.
      Using _Minecraft_ for a simple example, there’s the server software and the client software. The client software is what everyone downloads to play the game; it contains everything that the game needs to run in either single-player or multi-player, including its graphics, sounds, music, game code, ect. The server software contains mainly game code and little else, making it impossible to play the game; that is, unless there is a client to link into it (using the client’s multi-player mode). The server first sends data regarding the world loaded on its side to the client, which interprets and renders it on the client side. When the player inputs actions to the client, this information is sent back to the server, which updates the world accordingly, and relays the changes back to the client.
      So while the server software hosts the world data, the client acts as a means of interacting with it. The only interface the server software has is a text-based console, which allows commands to be used and returns from events to be viewed but little else. The client gets a fully-rendered viewpoint and standard game interactions, which includes commands for those with such privileges, and allows for normal game-play. Now, this isn’t the only use of server- and client-side software differences and interaction, but it’s the best example I could do.

    • @Navhkrin
      @Navhkrin Před 9 lety +1

      LayndR You sound like computer science student that missed some courses lol

    • @Gameactive
      @Gameactive Před 9 lety

      Navhkrin More like a self-taught home engineer who spouts what he thinks is correct.

    • @Navhkrin
      @Navhkrin Před 9 lety

      Gameactive I responded to LayndR not you bro

    • @Gameactive
      @Gameactive Před 9 lety

      Navhkrin Oh, whoops… ah, that’s embarrassing.

  • @ramblesrandom
    @ramblesrandom Před 9 lety +16

    Apple = double padlocked source

    • @toma4474
      @toma4474 Před 6 lety

      Apple devices just feels locked because the OSs are designed that way in order to protect from malwares. It has nothing to do with source code. The Darwin kernel is actually open source.

  • @DanielZorroF
    @DanielZorroF Před 9 lety +2

    Nice video, and... just for fun; Linus, can you explain Linux?

  • @mremil101ify
    @mremil101ify Před 9 lety +16

    No DVI cable at 1:43

    • @Norwegian_Auto
      @Norwegian_Auto Před 9 lety +1

      B3NGt_McSW4G no VGA, HDMI or DP either!!

    • @TalesOfWar
      @TalesOfWar Před 9 lety

      sew0077 Could be WiDi! lol

    • @Norwegian_Auto
      @Norwegian_Auto Před 9 lety

      TalesOfWar hahaha yeah xD

    • @TalesOfWar
      @TalesOfWar Před 9 lety

      ***** Wireless Display. It's something built into the newer Intel integrated graphics processors. It let's you mirror or extend your display over your WiFi network to a compatible receiver (AirPlay on the Macs use this hardware support for example).

    • @CatFace8885
      @CatFace8885 Před 6 lety

      I think you meant display output... DVI isn't the only display output standard out there...

  • @CapsAdmin
    @CapsAdmin Před 9 lety +1

    People keep pointing out that GPL forces you to share modifications as if it's a flaw in the license but it's actually intended. The free software people _don't want_ proprietary consumer software to exist because they think it's bad for society as whole. This is to prevent companies from taking free software and turning it into proprietary software.
    To make a hardware analogy: Imagine if we lived in a world where most desktop computers were usually rented proprietary computers with AMD CPUs that would be either illegal, strongly discouraged or very difficult to modify. Intel doesn't want to contribute to this market because they think it's bad for society (I'm assuming you guys don't want to live in a world like this). The reason they think it's bad is these computers are often used to spy on users, put people in jail because they tried to modify it, discourages tinkering and programming ETC. So they take a strong stance by having a license on their CPUs that makes it illegal for companies to make prebuilt rented computers with them.

  • @SonariNeiracchen
    @SonariNeiracchen Před 8 lety +24

    "You cannot make people pay for something that was designed to be free."
    -Sam Flynn (TRON Legacy)

    • @xCwieCHRISx
      @xCwieCHRISx Před 5 lety

      You can by scaring a companies that the linux community wont help them if theres a problem. Microsoft offers support. Thats why my Uncle who has its own company is using Micorsoft software..... . By the way its illegal to use microsoft software without license but microsoft dont care about private users but as a company u get fucked with 2 fists if u dont have the licenses. Thats the real money making modell of microsoft spread his software by ignoring illegal private users and go rock hard against companys.
      PS: Dont use microsoft without license being a private user. Microsoft can fuck u, but like 99% they wont. Its your risk.

  • @VampiresDarkCreed
    @VampiresDarkCreed Před 9 lety

    That had to be one of the best segways I've seen in a bit xD

  • @mygum100
    @mygum100 Před 9 lety

    Good video, really enjoy your channels.

  • @chaquator
    @chaquator Před 9 lety +6

    you guys think linus speaks quickly?
    turn up the speed to 2x,
    watch a little bit,
    turn it back to normal,
    and really see how SLOWLY he speaks

    • @freddyj3968
      @freddyj3968 Před 9 lety +1

      chaquator Or turn it to half speed and enjoy listening to drunk Linus ;)

    • @chaquator
      @chaquator Před 9 lety

      Yoosuf Muneer
      that one from NCIX?
      that was me too lol

  • @nervoushorse
    @nervoushorse Před 9 lety

    Thanks for making the distinction between free software and open source. The FSF needs more attention.

  • @ats1995
    @ats1995 Před 9 lety +1

    Your description of Open Source made me want to throw my phone to the wall -.-

  • @TheUndyingShadow
    @TheUndyingShadow Před 9 lety

    love linus hand moves when explaining something :D this would be boring when it was only linus explaining stuff without him being shown

  • @fobusas
    @fobusas Před 9 lety

    Couple of things missing:
    - Explanation of open source vs source code/executable
    - The benefit for companies of bug patching and new functionality, because dev teams a lot of the time cant possibly manage that on their own. There's a reason many open sourced projects explode in popularity

  • @CocoaNutCakery
    @CocoaNutCakery Před 9 lety +1

    One thing not mentioned was resources. Proprietary software tends to have better monetary resources and you can see the effects of that in Microsoft Office vs. Open Office. I'm not sure if this has changed in the past few years, but Word offers speech to text functionality (last time I checked, Open Office did not) and Excel's trend lines offer multiple options (again, haven't seen this in Open Office). A large community is all well and good, but these people are implementing features in their own time in a fairly chaotic way. When you need a focused team working full time for key features, that's just not going to cut it. Also, why doesn't Firefox have automatic tab groups yet? Internet Explorer has had them for years. Speaking of, the benchmarks I've seen has IE leading the pack (or at least near the front) in terms of memory leakage. That's something that's related to the coding quality, I suppose.

    • @yasd8493
      @yasd8493 Před 5 lety +1

      What you made are observations. The purpose of this video (that was not well made) is define Open/Close source, not that.
      PS: IDK why I'm writing a response to a comment made 3 years ago.

    • @OrchestratedChicanery
      @OrchestratedChicanery Před rokem +3

      @@yasd8493 For me to read!

  • @haloshadowsnipe3014
    @haloshadowsnipe3014 Před 9 lety +131

    Basically why iOS sucks.

    • @polmes
      @polmes Před 9 lety +6

      haloShAdOwSnIpE iOS may suck (and I partially agree), but there's little open
      source to the Android you might be using...

    • @Valansch
      @Valansch Před 9 lety +8

      Pol Mesalles "but there's little open
      source to the Android you might be using" whats your point? Elaborate pls.

    • @LAKAMEMAN
      @LAKAMEMAN Před 9 lety +13

      Valansch A large part of what makes Android good, namely Google's apps, are not open source. I think that's what Pol Mesalles means.

    • @effeKtSVK
      @effeKtSVK Před 9 lety +1

      haloShAdOwSnIpE have you ever heard word "jailbreak"? :)

    • @JeasonFire
      @JeasonFire Před 9 lety +3

      Valansch He probably means that Android has a lot of closed source programs even if the OS is open source.

  • @theuselessmember
    @theuselessmember Před 9 lety

    what does that paper say at 1:42?

  • @MustangsbyMatt
    @MustangsbyMatt Před 9 lety

    How about a Fast As Possible about the differences between the types of wireless sound signals, i.e. Bluetooth vs RF, etc?

  • @dotcomGone
    @dotcomGone Před 9 lety

    Would have appreciated a Dan "Toasty" Forden cameo for the weird roommate, can't win em all I guess

  • @ChocolateBrocoli
    @ChocolateBrocoli Před 8 lety

    Haha best sponsor ever : 'Buy this thing. They paid us to say that.'

  • @andreaslegomovies
    @andreaslegomovies Před 8 lety

    I would say Open source, like free software, is a philosophy too - Many linux distributions are based on entirely open source software mainly on principle.
    Archlinux and Gentoo can download and compile the source code of everything needed to run specifically to your system optimizing for your specific processor using custom compilation flags.
    The computer scientists I know (and myself) will be quite upset if they are required to have any kind of proprietary software installed (maybe other than windows, that might be fair enough, sometimes, however NOT microsoft office!).

  • @worldhello1234
    @worldhello1234 Před 8 lety

    @0:45 Which ain't necessarily considered a contract in some areas of the world.
    @1:08 Which is illegal in the EU. Therefore, a hackintosh wouldn't get you in trouble from the get go.

  • @liannaphilisam9145
    @liannaphilisam9145 Před 2 lety +1

    Is Padlet an open source software?

  • @xurtis
    @xurtis Před 9 lety

    What you have described here is the difference in licencing for software rather than the difference of sourced-ness.

  • @geronimojak6007
    @geronimojak6007 Před 6 lety

    Is 24 ctu computer software jack baeur accurate

  • @subbuktek
    @subbuktek Před 9 lety

    hmm. " open source doesnot have tech support hotline reducing its use-ability"...well thanks for the info...I am wondering ..whats the tech support hotline for windows 8.1

  •  Před 8 lety +3

    Your explanation is wrong. I will mention two very clear errors:
    1) Neither "Free Software" as defined by the Free Software Foundation nor Open Source as defined by the Open Source Initiative require the software to be free of charge. On the contrary, both explicitly state that commercialization / sale is a right which cannot be taken - if you were forbidden to sell it, it would be neither Free Software nor Open Source.
    There are well-known examples of open-source software which is sold. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is one such example.
    Of course, the problem is that once you sell it once, you cannot possibly prevent the buyer from offering it for free. Red Hat works around it by keeping the code open-source but their binaries proprietary. You can recompile all of it and distribute it for free to others, sure, and that's what Scientific Linux and CentOS do, but you would not have Red Hat's brandies and warranties.
    2) "Closed-source" is not the opposite of "Open Source". That happens because Open Source is a formal definition with 10 requirements. Closed source however is an informal expression which can mean anything and at face value could mean just that the code is not available. So you could have something which is not closed source (because the code is available somehow) but also not Open Source (because it does not allow modification or redistribution without permission).

  • @Snoopod
    @Snoopod Před 9 lety

    Some information (as mentioned by others) but mostly a pretty damn good explanation. 4chan might even approve.

  • @angryidahobusdriver
    @angryidahobusdriver Před 8 lety

    Anyone have any idea on how to install Ubuntu server with pixe network boot?

  • @WWoodyW
    @WWoodyW Před 9 lety

    I was surprised by how accurate this was. I came here expecting to criticize this. You might as well do a video on open source vs free software now.

  • @eamonnmccallum2282
    @eamonnmccallum2282 Před 9 lety

    what about the four freedoms ? and gpl is not free software as in lunch but it is free as in freedom

  • @stratman1234
    @stratman1234 Před 7 lety

    How is security maintained? Isn't it possible for someone to add malware to it? How do you know you have a safe copy of open source software?

    • @seangibbz
      @seangibbz Před 7 lety +2

      Most major open source projects have "maintainers" who review and reject/approve potential code contributions provided by developers.

  • @notkenji
    @notkenji Před 9 lety +17

    Linus doesn't seem to understand Open Source/Free Software that much.

  • @rifin1
    @rifin1 Před 9 lety

    idk whether closed source vis a vis open source or not, but i like the cat pictures.

  • @sitirozzy2690
    @sitirozzy2690 Před 9 lety +1

    When Linus said about a paid copy of MS Office, there was a police siren outside my house and it scared me.

  • @SigurdKristvik
    @SigurdKristvik Před 9 lety

    Oh yeah, This is one episode I wanted!

  • @Bambood1987
    @Bambood1987 Před 9 lety

    Have a little suggestion, is it possible that you lower your voice pitch a little bit in the later videos? No discrimination, it's just a normal tone of voice helps me to better follow your thoughts :)

  • @merttuncer1788
    @merttuncer1788 Před 9 lety

    Thank you Linux for making this video :)

  • @joshuasprucie8933
    @joshuasprucie8933 Před 9 lety

    No mention of Eric S Raymond there in the section explaining about people who believe in open source. Although Eric doesn't closely attach himself to the movement since he wanted the movement to have a life of its own. He is the one who developed the daemon that sits next to applications on devices handing them location data from the gps. He worked with the .png format. Not too long ago he got a computer upgrade tested and built by Tek Syndicate and before that computer he was doing a lot of work on a core 2 duo. You people should be contributing to open source. If you need motivation to get started then go and install linux in dual boot. TekLinux will help you get started.

  • @randomlegos58
    @randomlegos58 Před 9 lety

    Is it just me or is this videos color quality lower than usual?

  • @ProjSHiNKiROU
    @ProjSHiNKiROU Před 9 lety

    I would use closed-source image and photo editing software like Photoshop, but I'm barely comfortable about closed-source programming languages (I wish they are open-source) and I will never use the closed-source version control system Perforce.

  • @lovasz1084
    @lovasz1084 Před 9 lety +93

    I got tired of pirating Microsoft office so i eventually bought it.

    • @lovasz1084
      @lovasz1084 Před 9 lety +60

      Rhiza A few months later, "Please activate Microsoft office"... And i'm right back to pirating.

    • @lovasz1084
      @lovasz1084 Před 9 lety +39

      SWOgottaGO Maybe i'm gay? or female?

    • @papaalex4961
      @papaalex4961 Před 9 lety +42

      Get libre office. It's a free, open source alternative to Microsoft Office

    • @homeycdawg
      @homeycdawg Před 9 lety +10

      Rhiza I use openoffice instead. Works just fine and free.

    • @insect212
      @insect212 Před 9 lety +6

      Alex Serban Just use LaTeX because I said so.

  • @technictitan1148
    @technictitan1148 Před 9 lety +1

    AMD and Intels manufacturing and competition relationship for example amd owns the 64 bit arch and Intel own the the x86 but, they allow each other to use their respective architectures. This would she'd light on cooperative competition between the two of the largest tech companies

  • @1e1001
    @1e1001 Před 7 lety +1

    open source is life, open source is love

  • @Alkhaldi92
    @Alkhaldi92 Před 9 lety +1

    H.265 vs H.264 video codec as fast as possible?

  • @bearlydave
    @bearlydave Před 9 lety

    Linus and folks, can you do a fast as possible on web scale architecture?

  • @ethanakers2586
    @ethanakers2586 Před 8 lety

    Can you do an episode on HBM?

  • @tamrielguardian2691
    @tamrielguardian2691 Před 9 lety

    Where you got those cat pics?

  • @Jaqen-HGhar
    @Jaqen-HGhar Před 9 lety +1

    HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Apache, Linux. Can you imagine what the internet would be if those weren't free?

    • @Jaqen-HGhar
      @Jaqen-HGhar Před 9 lety

      well I'm not mixing them up I mean I understood the difference I just should've been more clear.

  • @joejoe4games
    @joejoe4games Před 9 lety

    Open source content sometimes also comes from companys that use the software and then add features as they need them...

  • @kimoyofficial
    @kimoyofficial Před 9 lety

    Sponsor segway always gets me

  • @clockworkgnome
    @clockworkgnome Před 9 lety +2

    This video did not contain enough Stallman. I am displeased. x)

  • @TheCodeCutie
    @TheCodeCutie Před 9 lety

    hey linus do they have language courses at linda.com

  • @ShockDD
    @ShockDD Před 9 lety

    Linus, how did you do that? My weird roommate actually did say that to me a while back!

  • @CFGrabster
    @CFGrabster Před 9 lety

    TechQuickie request: How does a waterblock work?

  • @PixelOutlaw
    @PixelOutlaw Před 9 lety

    Unfortunately, it has become a marketing term too, which means some suit in the advertising will misapply it and fool people into giving away their right to modify software on their computer.

  • @ErichHaubrich
    @ErichHaubrich Před 8 lety

    Well done.

  • @preethamdasari
    @preethamdasari Před 9 lety

    Make a small series for pc maintainance

  • @Germanwtb
    @Germanwtb Před 8 lety

    I dont think he should have generalized Free Software and Open Source Software together, because the idea behind the use of one or another is often pretty important...

  • @TorrentialTech
    @TorrentialTech Před 9 lety

    Actually free software can have support and can be paid. Look at Red Hat. All the source is available (what turned into CentOS) and they do provide support.

  • @IIGrayfoxII
    @IIGrayfoxII Před 9 lety

    Each has its pros can cons.
    Gimp is not as powerful as photroshop, requires many plug ins to be installed to get some similar options but it costs nothing compared to $1000.
    Firefox went downhill since they started to pump out a new version every few months so they could compete with chrome, then they gave us "Australius" where they limit the point of firefox, choice to mod things.

  • @yamaan93
    @yamaan93 Před 8 lety +1

    why would any one dislike this!?!?!?

    • @lucasmagno9148
      @lucasmagno9148 Před 8 lety

      +yamaan93 why would anyone dislike this video as fast as possible kkk

    • @Jango1989
      @Jango1989 Před 8 lety +3

      +yamaan93 Becuase he completely failed to explain it properly!

  • @jhonyortiz5
    @jhonyortiz5 Před 9 lety

    "We are telling you about it. They paid us for it." LOL

  • @srivastava767
    @srivastava767 Před 9 lety

    Accidently paused between 9th and 10th sec.... This could become a new meme

  • @elgoreloco3370
    @elgoreloco3370 Před 9 lety

    Not every open-source program is free. And example is Ardour, an audio editing software that you have to pay.

  • @Eric_D_6
    @Eric_D_6 Před 9 lety

    No mention of how closed source software can contain (not always legally) and learn from open source software? The way I see it, closed source is usually better quality, especially when they have open source competition, there are exceptions to that though. Although open source is always easier to tweak however you want it provided you know a bit of what you are doing so has much more potential than closed source.

    • @nofate0007
      @nofate0007 Před 3 lety

      Closed Source is not necessarily better quality. It might be more polished and good looking though.

  • @mariosskl8347
    @mariosskl8347 Před 9 lety

    Linus please do a Bandwidth as fast as possible video. I have read every article but still I fail to understand what bandwidth is and how it affects performance. Thanks anyway btw your videos are awsome

    • @BWTHeuSeD
      @BWTHeuSeD Před 9 lety

      Think of bandwidth as a road. If 500 card need to get from city A to city B, a 4 lane road would be significantly better at it than a one lane road. Bandwidth is the same thing, where a larger bandwidth (wider road) allows more information (cars) to travel quicker to its destination.

    • @Thewho456
      @Thewho456 Před 9 lety

      Marios Sklavenitis Bandwidth? Not sure what can be misunderstood - you're probably looking at a "internet connection as Fast as Possible" since there isn't much to explain.
      Bandwidth is simply the amount of data you're pulling or pushing in bits per second - traversal is in bits, storage is in bytes.
      Since it's bits, you need 8 bits for a byte. 20 megabits download, (20/8 = 2.5MBps) (megaBYTES) theoretical maximum. 2megabits up is (2/8 = 0.25MBps) or 250 kiloBYTES per second.

    • @mariosskl8347
      @mariosskl8347 Před 9 lety

      Thnks all of you but what bandwidth in graphics cards memory mean and most importantly does it matter ?

    • @mariosskl8347
      @mariosskl8347 Před 9 lety

      oh thanks

    • @RWoody1995
      @RWoody1995 Před 9 lety +1

      Marios Sklavenitis if you mean the memory bandwidth as in the bandwidth between the memory and the gpu then it is very important when running high resolutions as this is the pipeline from which textures go from the memory to the gpu so the faster it can get them to the gpu the more frames it can render. for PCIE bandwidth as p@r@m3d! said its not so important (although i think that may change as the internal memory bandwitdh that i was describing before starts to increase now HBM has come around with its 512GB/s memory speeds which i think will easily reach 1TB/s either in HBM2 or HBM3.

  • @Hollyweed1
    @Hollyweed1 Před 4 lety

    Can someone tell me TECHNICALLY whats the difference of open source vs closed source. Where exactly can you see that its open or closed? Are there files available that you can edit? Why cant hackers or jailbreakers cant “hack” the OS itself. Where does the difference lie, technically?!

    • @nofate0007
      @nofate0007 Před 3 lety

      Open Source software allows you to look at the source code and also fork it. You can see if the software is open or closed from their main page duh. Bruh you can get the source from wherever they are hosting it and edit it and redistribute it if you want to. Open source OSes tend to be more secure since anybody can check for vulnerabilities. In proprietary software only the company and hackers can look at the source code.

  • @GfuseDigital
    @GfuseDigital Před 9 lety

    Blender is a Great example of open source at its best.

  • @SuperMarley0
    @SuperMarley0 Před 9 lety

    ARM vs X86. Im very confused by the differance.

    • @nofate0007
      @nofate0007 Před 3 lety

      They are two different CPU architectures.

    • @SuperMarley0
      @SuperMarley0 Před 3 lety

      @@nofate0007 Well obviously, but HOW are the different

  • @kibethnehema2069
    @kibethnehema2069 Před 9 lety

    I have this conversation every day. A lot of customers believe they own their software and covet their install disks because its an actual tangible item.

  • @epicKiipa
    @epicKiipa Před 9 lety +8

    There are some errors in here. Closed source software does not have to be proprietary, and open source software can be proprietary. For a project to be open source (or "free"/"libre" as Richard Stallman loves to call it) you have to be able to study, modify, and redistribute the source code. That requires you to have access to the source code, of course. However there are NO requirements on price, so "free" software (please let this saying die, and just say open source) should not be confused as free as in beer, but "free as in freedom".
    So, closed source software should not be confused with proprietary. "Free software" is not the same as gratis software. Free software is equal to open source software (but saying that makes Richard Stallman and his followers angry).

    • @yvrelna
      @yvrelna Před 5 lety +2

      You actually are incorrect. At the very least, you are not using the industry-standard definition of the terms, a.k.a. you are making up your own definitions.
      All closed source software are proprietary, though not all proprietary software are closed source. You are partially correct though, that there are source-available software that are proprietary.
      The definition of "Open source" and "Free software" are defined by "Open Source Initiative" and "Free Software Foundation" respectively. While there are a lot of overlaps, they are not all the same and there are licenses that have been judged acceptable by one that are rejected by the other.
      Neither proprietary, open source, or free software talks about price. Any of them can be gratis or paid.

  • @Benni1000games
    @Benni1000games Před 9 lety +1

    OSS does NOT need to be free of charge. There is OSS out there which you have to pay for! The only things which OSS has to follow are listed on the website of the open source initiative. Free as in freedom not free as in free beer.

  • @appperson1125
    @appperson1125 Před 5 lety

    1:45 that monitor isn't plugged in.

  • @akwasiduah3764
    @akwasiduah3764 Před 9 lety

    For the next fast as possible you should take about windows readyboost

  • @Ianuarius
    @Ianuarius Před 9 lety

    As fast as possible suggestion:
    Wired vs. wireless mouses.
    I still have no idea why people prefer wired mouses (except to maybe have 6 million dpi that of course is super usable to everyone) and I haven't owned one in 15 years. Whenever I'm forced to use one I hate it. It's just the worst.
    I seriously can't think of one sensible upside to having a wired mouse because wireless gives you just SO MUCH more freedom.

    • @RWoody1995
      @RWoody1995 Před 9 lety

      Ianuarius85 2 reasons (and neither of them are DPI because noone will need more than 1600dpi until 8k monitors start to become a thing)... battery life and accuracy. until recently most wireless mice had crappy battery life and the ones that had good battery life did so by using low power parts which reduced the accuracy of the sensor (accuracy is not in any way related to dpi btw)

    • @Ianuarius
      @Ianuarius Před 9 lety

      Yeah, so video would be nice.

  • @callmebilly4907
    @callmebilly4907 Před 9 lety

    Maybe do a video explaining green screens?

  • @UnDutchAbleHD
    @UnDutchAbleHD Před 9 lety +1

    Bring me to the top!

  • @Thewho456
    @Thewho456 Před 9 lety

    Should've mentioned what the "free" philosophy meant. That's the beauty of free, open source software in my opinion, but I am more of a fan of Richard Stallman - a very controversial but influential man.

  • @slowpitsh2049
    @slowpitsh2049 Před 5 lety

    Can anyone tell me about the bad sides of open source philosophy and the good sides of closed source philosophy????

  • @IvexRodriguez
    @IvexRodriguez Před 9 lety

    Linus, lets take care of those eyebrows eh? They're falling in love and joining as one.

  • @Potenti4lz
    @Potenti4lz Před 9 lety

    0:09 I believe that was meant to be Microsoft Windows, no?

  • @TrabberShir
    @TrabberShir Před 9 lety

    Best segue ever.

  • @karras6239
    @karras6239 Před 9 lety

    girl at 1:44 forgot to install her dvi cable.

  • @samljer
    @samljer Před 9 lety

    we would be 50 years ahead of day if everything was open source.