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NewsPosted by michael on Tuesday October 08, @11:59AM - “from the hitting-the-books dept.”

e8johan writes: “Avaya Labs Research has presented a paper studying the open source process in the cases of Apache and Mozilla. They reach a number of interesting conclusions, the ones I find most interesting are: * Open source projects tend to have a core team of 10-15 coders, producing almost all code. The next layer is a set of developers submitting new features and bugfixes. The next layer is a set of advanced users submitting bug reports. * Open source projects tend to have a lower bug-rate than commercial projects. * Open source projects are generally quicker to respond to user requests. The article also discusses the differences between projects that have always been open source (such as Apache) and projects having a proprietary history (such as Mozilla).“

How I did this… Fist I’ve installed 10.1 (10.2 or OS 9.2 should work also) the normal way. Then I’ve downloaded and installed XPostFacto.
Restarted the machine. After it was booted again, I’ve inserted the
MacOS X 10.3 installer disk and started XPostFacto again. There you
find now an option ‘install from CD’. When this is still unavailable,
wuit XPostFacto and restart it again until you have the option. When
you start the option XPostFacto will patch your current installation
and restarts the machine. Now it’s installing 10.3… After 45 minutes
it’s time for beer!A note, after installing, some times after rebooting the monitor blacks out. This is a bug, here is a doc and maybe a sollution, more info is comming later… What I do now is just reset the machine until it works again ;)

I’m now running the great editor quanta under MacOSX! It runs realy nice. This is how I did it. Firt I’ve downloaded and installed ‘Fink‘, that’s an ‘apt-get’ for MacOS X / Darwin. (Just like the debian apt-get!). Install and run ‘FinkCommander’, the GUI for fink. Now search for ‘quanta’ and install it. You also nead the ‘kdepim3′ packages (also in fink) so you can use the scp/sftp upload function called ‘fish’, sftp doesn’t work but fish does the trick. You also need the ‘X11‘ package from Apple. (Xdarwin will be installed by Fink but when you use XDarwin, you’ll have to start kdeinit and quanta manualy. I use X11
only because it’s easyer with AppleScript.) So now you should have everything to execute quanta. I’ve written this little AppleScript to fire up Quanta:run application “X11″do shell script “/sw/bin/kdeinit”do shell script “/sw/bin/quanta -display :0.0″…saved it as an application and dubble clicked it and opend a bottle of beer. Here you can download my quanta applescript as an application. Have fun with your quanta!