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Linux 2.6.36 Released
diegocg writes "Version 2.6.36 of the Linux kernel has been released. This version includes support for the Tilera architecture, a new filesystem notification interface called fanotify, CIFS local caching, support for Intel Intelligent Power Sharing in i3/5 systems, integration of the kernel debugger and KMS, inclusion of the AppArmor security system, a redesign of workqueues optimized for concurrency, and several new drivers and small improvements. See the full changelog here for more details."
2.6.36-th post :)
The one post where 90% of /. users will actually read TFA
linus trolling on everyone that disagrees with him...
Because of desagreement in the ABI the fanotify is disabled in this kernel.
This is why I come here.
Actually, I'll come back in 4 hours and read the top comments not modded funny. That's why I come here.
They should make a slashdot that's just about linux projects, nasa/physics stuff, and DIY routers. Like slashdot vintage. It'd be classy. Elastic band jeans and plaid tie dress code. God I miss the good old days. *pours mad dog 20/20 on anti-static carpeting*
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
fanotify syscalls are disabled because people still can't agree on the API.
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In other words, Loonix is not ready for the mainstream desktop user.
There, fixed that for you
What the hell is it with file notification? It never seems to be reliable or stable. There was inotify, dnotify, fsnotify, fam, gamin, incrond... and since fam/gamin always ended up using 100% CPU or causing other problems, I've just avoided the whole idea, even though I regularly think of situations that I could use incrond in.
I would have thought that setting a flag/triggering an event when a file was altered would be a matter of adding a small queue/bit system for events and about one line of code to vfs functions that modify files, but obviously not.
So... does anyone use incrond and get good, reliable results? Will fanotify help at all?
I'm using it right now.
The problem that prevents flash from playing fullscreen is that it's closed source crap, not that Linux is in any way incomplete.
Windows: "So superior, you're always an Anonymous Coward!"
Have you heard about SoylentNews?
Ask Adobe if it can play Flash. It's their product after all.
I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
The problem that prevents flash from playing fullscreen is that it's closed source crap
So that's why Gnash plays videos so much better? Oh wait, it's actually worse.
not that Linux is in any way incomplete.
No, the problem isn't incompleteness it's the fact that one has to traverse a jungle of incompatible audio and video APIs to make sure it even works at all across the various distributions.
The problem is in the fragmentation of distributions and the fragmentation in the GUI.
Fragmentation of resources (both human and economic), I mean.
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
I thought linux was up to version 10.10? (Maverick something)
Hey. It's still me, Anonymous Coward. I take back everything I just said. Linux is awesome. And my penis is small.
haha it went over their heads
Julia Lawall (1):
SERIAL: ioc3_serial: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure
I guess he won't be releasing anymore albums.
Any updates to the Compressed RAM subsystem, and is this suitable for Android and XO yet? How about Desktop Debian/Ubuntu?
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Now where did I leave those mod points...
you had me at #!
http://freshmeat.net/projects/loonix/
I'm guessing it doesn't play flash since it's a server distribution. Silly question really.
linux doesn't have poor support for flash. flash has poor support for linux.
May we conclude the same thing about iOS based on this logic, too? If Flash isn't considered 'necessary' for Linux, why should it be deemed 'necessary' for any other device or platform?
I'm still waiting to see the open source community's "Thank You!" to Steve Jobs for helping to start the demise of Flash on the web. After all - closed source is never good, so making a device that publishers want to target which doesn't allow them to use shitty flash technology is a great win for the consumer - isn't it? Or are you all just bent that Apple is succeeding in doing something you've never been able to accomplish despite all the flowery, toe-jam-eating rhetoric Stallman spouts?
But can it play fullscreen flash video smoothly yet?
Yes.
Well, Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop certainly doesn't seem to have any problem playing full screen Flash video. However, flash does hog the audio so I have to kill the damn thing if I want to play sound from anything else.
If there's one valid complaint in your post it's the crappy state of audio on Linux.
How come Slashdot keeps posting stuff about Linux? Where are our Apple-related news? Lion, iLife '11, FaceTime for Mac and new MacBook Air notebooks were announced yesterday! We never speak about Apple it's always Linux, Linux, Linux! *
* for the slow-minded, this is a parody of the "Apple news again? We never get any Linux news!" posts. As long as it's not freakin' Microsoft, I'm fine with it.
If it was a Microsoft troll shouldn't it be about Silverlight and mono?
The problem that prevents flash from playing fullscreen is that it's closed source crap, not that Linux is in any way incomplete.
Yup, that's 100% Adobe's fault... and also 100% Linux problem.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
lol.. touche my good man.
Sounds like 2.6.36 has one of everything. I'm going to have to start building my own, because I already have a kitchen sink.
Actually, all the relevant particulars of Flash are openly available (see Adobe's Open Screen project). The big exception is Sorenson Spark, but that's already available via ffmpeg. Basically, Gnash just isn't there yet.
Bah, both groups seem to be united in pissing and moaning in every single Apple story that comes along these days.
Wait, wait, wait. You're praising Apple for helping get rid of something closed-source? Really? Apple?
Whatever it is, it's notablog.
A new kernel version for a Linux nerd is like xmas to a 5 year old.
damn, just compiled 2.6.36RC8 to fix suspend issues on thinkpad x200.
ps it compiled out of box (no patches) with icc and intel libraries!
Accroding to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TILE64 the Tilera CTO and co-founder is Anant Agarwal. According to http://www.csail.mit.edu/user/723 he is from Madras, India.
Imagine all Indian computer gurus moving back to India, backed by the wealth of Tata (www.tata.com) or the like.
Do you think China and other high focus companies have the right to be scared?
Yet, before then, show me the benchmarks
Yes Apple, the same company that runs this site: http://www.opensource.apple.com/ They are big contributors and users of open source.
Enough of Flash is an open standard for an implementation to exist on Linux that could play full screen video.
It's just that nobody has bothered to do so because arcane features nobody on earth cares about are more fun to work on.
The offtopic mod is offtopic on its own!
The new kernels are OK since long now. A few new things and a lot more fixes. But what's that for if the distros are leaving it behind as well as creating a whole new mess with their idiosyncracies.
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
Windows has done that for years, if you are referring to suspend-to-disk.
But can it play fullscreen flash video smoothly yet? Do we have stable APIs and ABIs? Can we ditch the dozens of competing audio APIs? In other words, Loonix is still garbage.
But can it go a single day without getting a virus yet? Can we see the source code? Can we get something that doesn't have to be so totally locked down at work (to avoid said viruses) that everything we try to do takes 3 times as long and we cannot even access our gmail accounts?
In other words, Windows is still garbage.
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Finally, 2011 must be year of Linux
Yes, they support open-source, but they are by no means supporters of openness. They certainly aren't "liberating" users by going against Flash.
Whatever it is, it's notablog.
Linux does it even if you don't suspend/hibernate.
...so that when I cold boot the machine it comes up in the state I left it when I powered down, like Linux does?
I'm not sure what you mean here. (Maybe because I don't run Windows.) Linux always boots in a "known-good" state - which is exactly the way I like it. I really hate it when I see fag-ends or other artifacts of previous sessions appearing in a new session after reboot.
The only thing worse than closed source is a walled garden.
it's the crappy state of both kinds of audio on Linux. that's the only place in the GNU/Linux realm where having choices don't seem to be a good idea (when they're both bad)
Not any Linux that I've used. Do you mean that half-baked, barely working session-management built into KDE/GNOME?
Linux doesn't have poor support for desktop users. Desktop users have poor support for Linux.
Fair enough. I was responding in the context of open/close source code, not openness as an abstract concept.
No, the problem isn't incompleteness it's the fact that one has to traverse a jungle of incompatible audio and video APIs to make sure it even works at all across the various distributions.
Then how come mplayer works on every common Linux distribution, and has been able to do smooth fullscreen video for as long as I can remember?
Linux sound isn't so bad if you use PulseAudio.
But can it play fullscreen flash video smoothly yet?
Yes. Even on 64-bit.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
What MS fanboys? The ones you imagined up to excuse an anti-Microsoft rant?
The two posts you refer to:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1832598&cid=33973294
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1832598&cid=33973202
The first is an obvious example of reverse trolling, a lot like yours, discrediting Windows by making a stupid post from the PoV of a retarded Windows user.
The second post could just as well be from an OS X fanboy.
Or did you make the above posts for free karma points?
No, he's not trolling Adobe fans (if there actually ARE Adobe fans), he's trolling Linux users.
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Lovely streamofconsciousness bollocks there. I salute you.
Now put your brain back in.
You were only modded down because you spoke the 1 thing the "Pro-*NIX/Linux Penguinistas" around here CANNOT HANDLE: The truth...
I.E. - So, see my subject-line, & recall how UNIX was destroyed by nearly the same thing you're saying (except it was @ the "kernel level", e.g.-> Bell Labs UNIX vs. BSD UNIX for example): Too many diff. versions with binary incompatibility etc..
Here @ least @ the kernel level, Linus T. controls THAT much from happening to Linux!
However/Again:
I agree with you that there are TOO MANY damned Linux distros out there (just see distrowatch.com as proof thereof). I think this actually hurts Linux to an extent by fragmenting the efforts directed to any 1 distro really...
Now, don't get me wrong - I use KUbuntu 10.10 here/2.6.35 kernel build, and I do like it well enough to use it at home daily... but, it often makes me wonder how truly great & farther ahead than it is now Linux, as a whole, would be IF they only concentrated on say, 1-2 diff. distros in total summation (e.g., say, only KUbuntu that uses KDE & regular Ubuntu that use GNOME)?
Yup, that's 100% Adobe's fault... and also 100% Linux problem.
To be fair (FWIW), Adobe didn't actually create the Flash can of worms. For some bizarre reason, they apparently thought the technology was actually worth buying.
How come Slashdot keeps posting stuff about Linux? Where are our Apple-related news? Lion, iLife '11, FaceTime for Mac and new MacBook Air notebooks were announced yesterday! We never speak about Apple it's always Linux, Linux, Linux! *
* for the slow-minded, this is a parody of the "Apple news again? We never get any Linux news!" posts. As long as it's not freakin' Microsoft, I'm fine with it.
Here, I'll make an Apple user feel right at home:
The newest version of Linux, Snow Penguin, has been released and this changes everything! This version includes support for the Tilera architecture, a beautiful new filesystem notification interface called iNotify, Spacewarp local caching, support for Intel Intelligent Power Sharing so your computer will otomaticaly [spelled correctly] turn off unused appliances in your house to save you thousands of dollars in power bills every year, developer improvements and a revolutionary AppArmor security system. It's speedy. It works–better. See the full keynote for more details.
Big apple, new Yorik, undig it, something's unrotting in Edenmark.
On 10.04 and 10.10, my wireless connection flips out with full screen flash video. It's weird, and annoying.
How come Slashdot keeps posting stuff about Linux? Where are our Apple-related news? Lion, iLife '11, FaceTime for Mac and new MacBook Air notebooks were announced yesterday! We never speak about Apple it's always Linux, Linux, Linux! *
* for the slow-minded, this is a parody of the "Apple news again? We never get any Linux news!" posts. As long as it's not freakin' Microsoft, I'm fine with it.
Here, I'll make an Apple user feel right at home: The newest version of Linux, Snow Penguin, has been released and this changes everything! This version includes support for the Tilera architecture, a beautiful new filesystem notification interface called iNotify, Spacewarp local caching, support for Intel Intelligent Power Sharing so your computer will otomaticaly [spelled correctly] turn off unused appliances in your house to save you thousands of dollars in power bills every year, developer improvements and a revolutionary AppArmor security system. It's speedy. It works–better. See the full keynote for more details.
Dammit...I forgot to call it "magic."
Big apple, new Yorik, undig it, something's unrotting in Edenmark.
So what's that all about? Is it ready for the desktop yet? Will it upgrade nicely for the cousins I have persuaded to use Ubuntu, and whose schoolchildren are still puzzled?
flash has poor support for linux.
Exactly. And, to be honest, I don't really care. I wouldn't even consider taking the time to view a full-length Flash movie. Flash support for Linux is more than adequate for viewing crappy YouTube movie clips, which is just about all Flash is good for in the first place.
Many site designers seem to think it's cool to embed the entire content of their webpage into a Flash presentation, but I find this irritating enough that unless I have already decided I am really keen on investigating the content for some compelling reason, I will usually just pass the site by.
>Basically, Gnash just isn't there yet.
Some real progress was made in the early development of Gnash. There were people underwriting the project who were willing and able to pay a living wage to developers who could finish it, but that talent didn't really come forward. Those people have pretty much moved on to other projects. (You know who you are, and I know way more about this than I'm going to say in a slashdot post.) I was plugged into the Gnash project for a while, and I thought it was really interesting. But even a commercial venture will fail if it can't acquire talent.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
A Google product search for "tilera" returns Decorations for a Haunted House.
"May we conclude the same thing about iOS based on this logic, too? If Flash isn't considered 'necessary' for Linux, why should it be deemed 'necessary' for any other device or platform?"
Flash isn't "necessary." What's "necessary" is a medium for interactive games and amateur videos on the web. Flash created a medium for that, it became so popular that it helped define the internet, and people want to create and consume that content. It may not be 'necessary', but then neither is corn, petroleum, or helium.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
However, flash does hog the audio so I have to kill the damn thing if I want to play sound from anything else.
Doesn't ubuntu use pulse audio by default? It might be because of it..
I only have alsa in my laptop, no alsa config files created, and everything can play concurrently. Even closed source applications like flash and skype access alsa using dmix so they don't hog the audio device anymore.
Despite for network audio (which jack also do, and do better) I don't really see why pulseaudio is needed.
I realize I wasn't particularly clear. As long as we're on the same page now :)
Whatever it is, it's notablog.
Despite for network audio (which jack also do, and do better) I don't really see why pulseaudio is needed.
s/do\([^n]\)/does\1/g
1. full screen flash works fine on my linux machines
2. mplayer seems never to have such issues, so more likely flash just sucks.
No, it is flash not talking to pulse like it should. The Flash linux developer is either lazy or incompetent.
Since when is Linux an operating system?
Then how come mplayer works on every common Linux distribution, and has been able to do smooth fullscreen video for as long as I can remember?
That's a bug they've been trying to chase down for years.
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This isn't informative, this is IRRATIONAL SHIT. If it's closed source, an open source implementation will take longer to achieve good success, especially if documentation sucks ass. Now go play with your flash crap, as I've turned mine off for a long time now.
Have you heard about SoylentNews?
No, but they did add the garbage video player, which uses software to perform scaling and colorspace conversion. Prior to that, flash was just an animation and scripting plugin.
Unless you want to do video playback, and have to deal with the awful latency issues in PulseAudio.
Despite for network audio (which jack also do, and do better) I don't really see why pulseaudio is needed.
For the vast majority of users, it is not needed at all. It just gives people a fancy interface where they can adjust the volume per-application like in Windows. Look! Pretty!
Hahaha, disregard that, I suck cocks.
Yes, indeed! Why would this make your little head explode? A company that does not fully embrace the GPL and fully open principles across its line of products can still advocate for open standards that everybody can implement on their platforms. It's almost like your brain only works in black and white, and has never known the beauty of grayscale, where things don't have to be "this" OR "that", but instead can be "partially this" AND "partially that".
Have they or have they not been a primary driver in the sudden proliferation of non-Flash versions of popular web sites? (Hint: They have.)
Steve Jobs is waiting for his "Thank you" at sjobs@apple.com. You can send it anytime. He might even respond from his iPad, if you're lucky.
Incidentally, how are Ubuntu and Mozilla faring with pushing things like Theora, Vorbis, and FLAC? Any major breakthroughs to report?
look. useful.
when they're both bad
Both? There's far more than that (pulse, alsa, oss3, oss4, ...?) and they all suck in some form or another.
Though I like the unixy elegance of oss: cat data > /dev/dsp to play and cat /dev/dsp > file to record. Nice.
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If not, then what good is it?
to be fair, well behaved ALSA apps work great for me. Flash isn't a well behaved app as it does't seem to understand that it needs to grab a threaded instance of alsa and not just write to the device.
It sure would be nice if ssh could set up audio forwarding, and per app gain control. Other that those, not sure i'm wanting much more. Maybe a nice way to make my 5.1 sound card look like 2 or 3 stereo devices. Game audio over the speakers, voicechat over the headphones.
All of the above was encrypted with a Quad ROT-13 method. Unauthorized decryption is in violation of the DMCA.
You don't know what the fuck your talking about. Are you saying that Ubuntu should come out with a "damned small" edition? Or a router edition? Or a ______ edition?
A large portion of the distributions on distrowatch have a narrow target niche to fill. It's not like they are all competing to be The One. Why should we limit our selves to Ubuntu, for example, if we're really interested in some non desktop stuff like running a router with ~30MB of RAM?
Really the only place Linux is really hurting is in the Desktop market. So lets look at how having around 150 desktop distributions impact that.
I'm an noob looking to try out Linux. Ten minutes later I'm downloading Ubuntu, Fedora, or something else on the top 5 list. I don't have a clue that there are 300+ other distributions out there, at best I know what the top 5 distributions are and after 10~20 minutes minutes I manage to pick one of the top 2. That's right, I'm saying that distributions not on the top 5 just aren't relevant to people looking for "on the desktop" for their OS.
There aren't "TOO MANY" distributions because it really isn't hurting anything in a significant way. Of the reasons commonly mentioned for not using Linux, "TOO MANY" isn't one of them. "My games don't work" or "My Flash doesn't do full screen" are much more likely. From an end user perspective, "to many" isn't an issue.
So how about from the development side? Ok yes, sometimes fragmentation hurts the Linux ecosystem some of the time (sometimes it helps believe it or not). But we're looking for fragmentation caused by having many distributions and specifically the bad kind and that which hurts desktop Linux.
I'm drawing a blank here because almost all fragmentation seems to be happening upstream of the distributions at the individual projects that get packaged by the distributions. That's right, the fragmentation of effort mostly happens independently of distributions.
Almost always (at least where it's significant) either A) the distribution isn't involved in the real development of the stuff it packages, or B) the development work that the distribution does do gets merged with the upstream where all distributions benefit from it. In neither case is fragmentation present on the distribution side.
The reason for the "O-M-G-! Teh Linux haz millions of distributions worth of fragmentation!!" FUD is that people genuinely don't understand how open source development generally works in the Linux ecosystem. It's crap that sounds good to the system admin type who doesn't participate in any real development effort (and thus doesn't know any better--despite probably having been told as much many times).
Give it up, Richard...
What I mean is (and it may be a KDE thing and not a Linux thing) if I have Occular open reading Doctorow's book, and Firefox open to the local newspaper, and OpenOffice open writing a letter to grandma and shut the computer down, when I turn it back on Occular is displaying the book, OpenOffice is displaying the letter, and and Firefox is displaying the newspaper. It behaved like that with Mandrake, and it behaves like that with kubuntu. I don't know about Gnome or other desktops, I've always been happy with KDE. And that's how I like it; if I want a program shut down I'll do it myself. If it's bedtime and I'm halfway through a book and shut off the computer, I want that book to be open when I restart it in the morning.
In Windows, when you restart the machine, the only apps that are open are the ones that are in your startup directory; it closes all your programs when you shut it down, even if you haven't saved your data (although it will give you a few seconds to save before it does). And Windows isn't as retarded about making you reboot all the time as it used to be, but you still have to reboot Windows a LOT. Almost any change to almost any app requires a reboot for the changes to take effect, and often the damned thing will nag you every five minutes to reboot. Linux only makes you reboot if you're making changes to the kernel.
I used to run dual-boot back in the Mandrake days when I was heavily into PC games, and the netbook I'm using now came with Windows 7 but is no longer installed on the machine. I'll tell you, you're not running Windows? You're not missing a thing.
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I've heard this claim many a time, but I've never had issues with full screen Flash when running linux, even back in the Ubuntu 5.x days. Maybe the issue is hardware related? I've always used Nvidia cards and (since I'm a gamer and dual boot) tend to have pretty powerful systems.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
It's a KDE feature, not sure about Gnome. And it's been fully baked and fully working since at least the Mandrake days.
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But can it go a single day without getting a virus yet?
Yes. I have never had one. What were you doing to get yourself infected?
Can we see the source code?
I don't know about you but some people have.
Can we get something that doesn't have to be so totally locked down at work (to avoid said viruses) that everything we try to do takes 3 times as long and we cannot even access our gmail accounts?
It sounds like a problem between you and your company. Maybe you have a performance issue and they don't want you accessing your gmail account?
In other words, Windows is still garbage.
Your words. Not my experience. One troll response deserves another.
Would you mind telling me what brand/model your laptop is? I've still got a desktop soundcard with 32 channel hardware mixing (so ALSA-only isn't a problem) but I've been worrying about having to use Pulseaudio one day/in a laptop.
It's a hell of a thing you guys are doing.
Would you mind telling me what brand/model your laptop is? (..) I've been worrying about having to use Pulseaudio one day/in a laptop.
It is a HP dv6535ep, the sound card is
$ lspci | grep Audio
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP65 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
a Intel HDA with a Conexant CX20549 (Venice) chipset. No hardware mixing.
From http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Dmix
NOTE: For ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher you don't need to setup dmix for analogue output. Dmix is enabled by default for soundcards which don't support hardware mixing. You still need to set it up for digital outputs.
Pretty much everything uses dmix now a days, even gnome that was using the crappy esound interface moved to gstreamer long time ago, which supports pretty much everything (alsa, oss4, pulseaudio).
Unless you need some outdated piece of audio software, I don't think you have to worry about something hogging your sound device.
No, that's the point: Gnash is having to play catch-up, just like nouveau is having to play catch-up with nvidia drivers.
Hell, can Windows play flash video smoothly yet?
Well, wikipedia says that it is an OS. refers to the family of Unix-like computer operating systems using the Linux kernel
Hell, even kernel.org says "Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix". Which implies that Linux is an operating system. Sure there are different distros of it that change it a little bit, but its still considered to be in the "top 3" for desktop OSs. You don't say that Windows, OS X and Ubuntu are the top 3, you would most likely say that Windows, OS X and Linux are the top 3.
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Hm, I see a lot of complaints about sound not working in this or that (say Skype or Flash) on forums. I've had hardware mixing for most of my Linux life, even with my onboard sound, so I'm not sure how tricky it gets when you *have* to rely on dmix or a sound server like Pulse. I do recall fiddling with dmix slaves (successfully, but I would rather not repeat it). I sometimes run JACK for some audio production apps and I suppose it's best with a hardware channel unto itself.
Because writing implementations for the most important open source projects is necessary to get it "out there", it's a cost whoever wants to make yet another audio system takes. For the people creating applications it's another cost with no benefit.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SteadyState
What I read somewhere was that flash video is much more complex than simply showing a video, because it needs to be able to composite vector animation on top of the video.
This was from a post from a adobe engineer working on flash AFAIR.
I don't understand enough about this in order to say otherwise, but compiz sure seems to be able to compose HD video on my desktop without any problems.
Good job anonymous coward! Ok, here goes:
But can it go a single day without getting a virus yet?
Yes. I have never had one. What were you doing to get yourself infected?
Yes. I hear this one all the time... 2 weeks later they're having to admit that they just got infected
Can we see the source code?
I don't know about you but some people have.
Have you??? Not without signing a NDA. Can you modify that windows source code and compile from your modifications? No?
Can we get something that doesn't have to be so totally locked down at work (to avoid said viruses) that everything we try to do takes 3 times as long and we cannot even access our gmail accounts?
It sounds like a problem between you and your company. Maybe you have a performance issue and they don't want you accessing your gmail account?
Good try, but no. They are just so afraid of viruses that EVERYTHING is locked down except intranet and about 10 internet sites. (But again, good try.)
In other words, Windows is still garbage.
Your words. Not my experience. One troll response deserves another.
No.. windows is just garbage, anonymous troll. Get used to it: that is why Microsoft has to bully everyone around into doing things the way they want it. Windows sucks and Microsoft knows it.
Again, good try.
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There's a solution for that. I know it because I had to fix that on both my laptop and my media center.
Unfortunately I can't tell you the solution because I deleted the link after re-installing Ubuntu 10.04 (after a botched 10.10 instal due to bad nvidia drivers) two weeks ago, and noticing that the problem was magically gone.
The solution was something about creating a config file for either pulse or alsa but I can't find it now (I still have it done on my media center). Maybe this will help you search for it.
Sorry that I can't be of more help, but now at least you know there's a solution :-)
IME the distros still break it for at least a few days several times a year.
I am trolling
That is brilliant. I'm replying to it so that I have a copy of it somewhere on my account.
Linux is a kernel, nothing more. The most common variant is GNU/Linux, using the GNU operating system with the Linux kernel. Many embedded systems use busybox for the operating system, with the Linux kernel.
On the opposite side, you can find Debian being run with the Linux kernel, the FreeBSD kernel, the NetBSD kernel, and the Hurd kernel.
"a new filesystem notification interface called fanotify"
This code was merged, but the interface to use it has been removed, as there were some concerns. So it cannot be used right now.
s/do\([^n]\)/does\1/g
Hey, would someone please call an ambulance? I think miknix just had a seizure.
"A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book
But can it play fullscreen flash video smoothly yet?
Decently enough, yes. But this is hardly a kernel problem.
I am not devoid of humor.
"Microsoft announces Windows SteadyState will no longer be available after December 31, 2010. Microsoft will continue to let users to download the software through December 31, 2010. Support for Windows SteadyState will continue to be available through the Microsoft Knowledge Base portal through June 30, 2011."
From the article you linked, it looks like it's part of MS's network software, not Windows. AND they're killing it in two months.
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"living wage?" That probably means $10-$15 an hour. Fine if you're looking for college students, I guess, but it's a pretty significant pay cut for the kind of talent they probably want.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
meh, why would I want to watch amateur porn (with a shitty flash player) when I can just fuck an actual girl instead?
Why do you assume it was a low wage? There were some investors that were pretty interested in the project. When I was considering it, there was something in the ballpark of $75K on the table. But I wasn't willing to quit my job to do this, and neither was anyone else, and the investors moved on. I'd name the investors and everyone who was in the project, but this is the wrong place to do that, and I've said too much already.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
oh please. shut up. wikipedia is never wrong.
That indeed is a KDE (or any other UI) thing which happens if you want it.
I prefer a reboot to leave me with no applications running, but their "state" to be recoverable if I want it.
"What I read somewhere was that flash video is much more complex than simply showing a video, because it needs to be able to composite vector animation on top of the video."
That's not difficult; you just render to a surface, and overlay another surface. Mplayer does that with subtitles, for instance.