PC-BSD Meets Software Piracy?

I fully support LXer's policy of publishing news and opinions from all sources. When other readers have complained about "why did you post this! It's too stupid to see the light of day!" I staunchly defended LXer.

But.

Hartley's twaddle is awful. It's not even twaddle- it's twaddle lite. If the fine brainiacs behind LXer ever decide to code a tagging backend so that readers can automatically tag certain topics, authors, or sites, I'm putting in my vote for a "twaddle" tag.

> Hartley's twaddle is awful.

Yep. He stinks. I've taken to avoiding anything with his name on it.

Yes, agreed 100%. And not only is it twaddle, but the link to the alleged site has gone missing. And what is this stuff about installing Windows apps without Wine??? Bring on the twaddle tag ASAP.

? How can they run a Windows app on BSD in KDE without using something Wine?

Did I miss something?

The article leaves more questions than answers. Unfortunately, the questions are uninteresting (not interesting enough to go finding the answers to).

I'd already learned not to read LXer articles from OSWeekly.com, but I just had to check one more time. Very disappointed.

He had the address to the site in question near the end of the article, but not as a link. I also wondered about the missing link. And the article in general....

Quoting:Did I miss something?

Good question. Downloading a PBI now and going to rip it apart and see what's in it. It must be Wine or something. Has to be. Probably something similar to IEs4Linux where the Wine part is preconfigured for that one application and hidden away from the user (effecitively making one wine-drive per application instead on one big wine-drive for all your applications. Easier to tune but eats space).

Well, that was easier said than done. I can't unpackage it, though it looks to be done with tar. But the actual archive is somewhere inside the PBI and I can't find the beginning and end-point. Oh well, I am a hacker, not a cracker. Someone boot a PC-BSD Live CD and run PBI Extract on that package and see what's in it. On install it (ugh) and look in /Programs.

I agree that Matt Hartley's article are usually suspect, and rightfully so.

Believe me when I tell you that there have been many articles written by him that have not made it anywhere near the newswire.

Besides, without him where would most of my FUD articles of the week come from?

;-)

Funny, nothing from that author makes me feel any fear, uncertainty or doubt. Maybe a bit of exhaustion from having to mentally erase it after exposure.

> ...nothing from that author makes me feel any fear, uncertainty or doubt.

He sometimes leaves me uncertain that English is his native language. Does that count?

>leaves me uncertain that English is his native language

Me too think him english talk bad bad bad.

Is he actually suggesting that Windows apps can be run on PC-BSD natively? Does this guy even own a computer?

http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=8467

Quoting:Find your Photoshop serial number in your old CDs somewhere in the dust, and type it in.

(Same for Dreamweaver)

Found that within 5 minutes...

However, it IS illegal to install IE6 without Windows (like 'winetools' tells you when trying to install it in Linux).

I read it again. Is it humor?

"Rather than relying on WINE for your Windows applications, some creative users have been using the PBI packaging format to make getting those critical applications like Dreamweaver on your BSD box just that much quicker."

Is he being sarcastic, or if not, what is he talking about? And why does the site show Office 97 as a bsd install? Must be missing the point of this. Please, help!

Don't hurt yourself trying to find sense in this :)