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Desktop Linux Summit Highlights

Posted by timothy on from the no-joke dept.

mo writes "The Desktop Linux Summit has just concluded in San Diego. There were a number of exhibitors, including Novell, AMD, and Mozilla. I've put together a summary of some of the more interesting announcements and booths at the conference. Highlights include a Linux-only 3D game, DRM-free music services, and a new Asterisk GUI."

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  1. Haha ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Desktop Linux Summit"

    -- A place for fat Linuxtards to gather and talk about how great their overhyped OS is, while completely avoiding the downsides, such as the fact that Fedora Core 3 performs like shit on my laptop and freezes after running glxgears for 5 seconds.

    1. Re:Haha ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Fedora Core 3
      - Shitty 3D, hard-locks
      - No hibernate
      - No suspend
      - Battery died in 30 minutes after CPU was running at full power regardless of what I was doing
      - Molasses-like performance

      So I went back to XP Pro, and had the following out of the box:
      - Hibernation
      - Suspend
      - Dynamic CPU scaling (PowerNow)
      - Snappy performance
      - Proper 3D after installing drivers

      Why the fuck should I bother with Linux if it can't do any of those out of the box on my machine? Why is modern Linux so bloated and slow?

  2. Re:great timing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Weeee, yes a Mech Assault clone! I am convinced already. I should just delete HL2 and Doom 3 and pack my bags.

    THERE IS A MECH ASSAULT CLONE FOR LINUX !!!

  3. Re:Linspire 5 by As+Seen+On+TV · · Score: 0, Troll

    Linspire 5 seems awesome

    Linspire is some Linux-like operating system, right? I googled around and found what appear to be screen shots.

    They're profoundly ugly.

    What about this seems awesome to you? What wonderful thing am I missing by only looking at the screen shots?

  4. Re:Linux...mainstream? by kayak334 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wake up rip van winkle - we've been gaming on linux for years, and sad to say, you were asleep and missed it all. For a gentle heads-up, see doom 1/2/3, quake 1/2/3, ut 2000/2003/2004, RtCW, etc etc...

    That is just asking for trouble. Linux sucks ass at games, face it. That isn't an argument to be won right now.

  5. Re:great timing by rjdohnert · · Score: 0, Troll

    OOOOOOOOOOOO, WOOOOOOOOOOW One game, you really made the choice and all you get is an OS with a bunch of design problems and usability issues, and one decent 3D games. It might be funny if it wasnt so idiotic.