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Notes On The Future of Video on Linux
Dina's Dream points out two interesting articles currently running on LinuxPower, and linked from Gnotices (GNOME news site) as well. "The first article is a really good
summary of the current state of affairs of video under Linux and the direction we should take. Questions are bounced back between a few very knowledgeable people, including
GStreamer developers, SGI people and Alan Cox. The second article is
a set of lessons learned by Chris Pirazzi while working at SGI. Chris was involved in a lot of Video API programming at Silicon Graphics, and raises a few very good points based on his experience. All people even remotely working on video drivers or software should read these points and take them to heart."
It is ... da bomb. Plays every damn thing including WMVs. Oh yeah Joe Barr is a poodle.
Heres googles cahce of the article ;)
/stand/sysinstall
.x to .y versions!!! I hate Linux distros. When people use it I tell them they are idiots, if you use your computer that much and it's that useful then it's worth paying for a top quality operating system on the desktop. FreeBSD, however, earned that in the x86 server market by remaining centralized and well defined on it's objectives. Face it, there's a larger gap growing between desktops and servers. The most important part of a desktop is the monitor, keyboard, and mouse!! After all, give someone a Pentium III or Athlon and it will satisfy 99% of the users in the world. The rest can go out and buy expensive workstation, all 1% of them. FreeBSD is squarely aimed at non-home users and the server market. It kicks ass for development use and custom apps. It kicks ass as a server. Linux distros need to pick a direction and go with it. Quit fooling around trying to be everything when you can't get a single thing right.
This single utility makes me LOVE FreeBSD.
RedHat can't keep the UI consistent from
You know what. Bullshit. I'm sorry - I see this comment all the time and in all the time that I've been using windows I have *never* had a problem with my .dlls. This includes a win2k machine in heavy use every day, 7 days a week, for 2 years without a reload. And you know what? It ran just fine...
Ok, don't get me wrong. I love linux just as much as everyone else here does, I use it all day long at work, by choice. But I must say that installing software, in general, is a pain in the ass. Am I blaming anyone? no. Is microsoft the answer? no. But they sure as hell do have the installation part down pat.
S.t.e.v.e.