The P4 is doing well on classic benchmarks like Q3, SPECviewperf(some of it), 3DMark and Sysmark.
Intel even optimized FlaskMPEG just to make it score higher when it was benched on tomshardware.
To bad this doesn't show in other realworld situations.
SSE is for floating point numbercrunching. Neither a compiler or a database uses floating point mainly, but it did well in the Q3 bench which is both floating point and SSE optimized.
The Geforce2 MX is a great choice. Some would say that a Geforce2GTS/Geforce3 would be nicer but recent NV cards have 200-250mhz DDR memory just to keep up with the GPU. There is no way without faster mem it would make any difference in speed. Maybe if they put the framebuffer/texture buffer on the board but that costs money. 1024x768 16bit color is well above enough for a integrated chipset. If you want faster go for a standalone GFX card.
On the day/days of redhat7.1 release the sunet ftp server was unreachable. This is the fastest server in Sweden and probably one of the fastest in Europe, it was down due to the release of a Linux dist. When you do your serveys do you check download stats from the major servers as most Linux users gets their distros from there?
This is certanly not true. When you load up X in Linux you load many libraries, libraries(similiar) windows have already loaded at boot time. Thats why it is slow to load. If you only load X once it isn't that slow. KDE and Gnome may be slow but that has nothing to do with X.
Much of what DirectX does like blitting and 3Drendering already is in the kernel as part of your driver and since X seems to be the most instable thing in a Linux system today smallest amount possible should be in the kernel. As we see windows and Linux has similar performence in OpenGL(Linux) and Direct3D(windows) so it should be one big accomplishment to double those numbers by putting X in the kernel.
X can not also be directly compared to winGUI the way you do. X is biger, have network and multiple platforms and the price is performance.
To sum this up. The slow in X mostly comes from other libraries than X itself such as Gnome/KDE.
I don't know what the heck that mean and the writer doesn't do a very good job convincing me either.
I have a hard time beliving sending heads over the internet has anything to do with the graphic card.
And if he had known just a little bit about XFree he would know it can know do fast OpenGL over TCP/IP. At least on nvidia card and NVIDA doesn't boost any headcasting feature.
Remember, GPL is a licence. The original author have the choice to do whatever he want's with his code but if it is released under GPL newer versions may or may not be GPL. What is released GPL stays GPL. If other programmers make changes and included it in his code he may not just take that source and release it with another licence.
In short. you are still the owner of te source when you release GPL.
MS is just followinf their normal use of other peoples code as a base for their own products.
This time the code where licensed GPL and it is code to see they include the source as they must.
They probably will not make a full blown program out of this one as they have done to IE, BSD TCP/IP, paint etc. But in the name of the GPL other programmers can.
I can not really understand the point of the article.
As he states player choose the first server that has activity at lowest ping. Often that is within 150ms. Thats more of a fact than preferenace of ping time.
Applause to the slashdot readers this time. Only a couple of comments saying "there is no use", "what is it good for" and all that shit.
Who cares if it's playable, this is prime time research. Awfully cool, very geeky and hopefully some part of it is usefull in a real world situation sometime in the future. Great job!
A filemanager for Unix would need to do much better than copying explorer and put pretty icons in it. You have to compete with the standard toolbox (cp, mv, rm etc.). No matter how nice it is users tend choose the best tool for the job. And cp in a good shell (like bash) is a fair bit faster than clicking around in a window for your directorys.
I think we should look at Directory Opus for Amiga, one of the most rewarded Amiga proggies of all time and one of the longest survivors in a small market. Opus is not a replacement for the shell (which was also quite good). It is also totaly customizable and easy to use.
You can be a experienced unix user without knowing the flags for building a tar package. This is a good example where a filemanager can be a good replacement for the shell. watching images and playing mp3 is not very usefull when you know how to start gqview and xmms.
Linux is a scalable OS that runs on 20 different processors, you can install it on a floppy or a 100gb harddisk. You can have it 10 times as bloated as windows and you can have it as slim as dos. Linux is much more than windows. Personally I think embedded devices is the future of Linux.
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Intel even optimized FlaskMPEG just to make it score higher when it was benched on tomshardware.
To bad this doesn't show in other realworld situations.
SSE is for floating point numbercrunching. Neither a compiler or a database uses floating point mainly, but it did well in the Q3 bench which is both floating point and SSE optimized.
The main point of Crusoe is that it isn't a hardware only solution and is nothing you can bash it for.
You have to beat the game to compile your kernel. I know Linux was the gamers choice. All we miss now is OpenGL support.
"0" = No AGP
"1" = Nvidia AGP
"2" = kernel agpgart
"3" = Nvidia AGP. If fail, agpgart. If fail, No AGP
Think I got that right. It's from memory. No AGP "should" be the safest option in terms of stability.
The Geforce2 MX is a great choice. Some would say that a Geforce2GTS/Geforce3 would be nicer but recent NV cards have 200-250mhz DDR memory just to keep up with the GPU. There is no way without faster mem it would make any difference in speed. Maybe if they put the framebuffer/texture buffer on the board but that costs money. 1024x768 16bit color is well above enough for a integrated chipset. If you want faster go for a standalone GFX card.
On the day/days of redhat7.1 release the sunet ftp server was unreachable. This is the fastest server in Sweden and probably one of the fastest in Europe, it was down due to the release of a Linux dist. When you do your serveys do you check download stats from the major servers as most Linux users gets their distros from there?
Much of what DirectX does like blitting and 3Drendering already is in the kernel as part of your driver and since X seems to be the most instable thing in a Linux system today smallest amount possible should be in the kernel. As we see windows and Linux has similar performence in OpenGL(Linux) and Direct3D(windows) so it should be one big accomplishment to double those numbers by putting X in the kernel.
X can not also be directly compared to winGUI the way you do. X is biger, have network and multiple platforms and the price is performance.
To sum this up. The slow in X mostly comes from other libraries than X itself such as Gnome/KDE.
As long as there is an option to turn it ON I don't see any problems with it. If surfers want MS commersials on every other word that is ok with me.
Of course It should be off as of standard. To bad they mention nothing about user-controling this.
The most disturbing thing with this would be how to distinguish from "in-site" links and MS provided links.
I have a hard time beliving sending heads over the internet has anything to do with the graphic card.
And if he had known just a little bit about XFree he would know it can know do fast OpenGL over TCP/IP. At least on nvidia card and NVIDA doesn't boost any headcasting feature.
Should have been and it is good to see they include the source as they must. Sorry about that, made it hard to follow :)
Remember, GPL is a licence. The original author have the choice to do whatever he want's with his code but if it is released under GPL newer versions may or may not be GPL. What is released GPL stays GPL. If other programmers make changes and included it in his code he may not just take that source and release it with another licence. In short. you are still the owner of te source when you release GPL.
MS is just followinf their normal use of other peoples code as a base for their own products.
This time the code where licensed GPL and it is code to see they include the source as they must.
They probably will not make a full blown program out of this one as they have done to IE, BSD TCP/IP, paint etc. But in the name of the GPL other programmers can.
I can not really understand the point of the article. As he states player choose the first server that has activity at lowest ping. Often that is within 150ms. Thats more of a fact than preferenace of ping time.
Good luck finding those celeron 366. Will it have a sid chip too?
Who cares if it's playable, this is prime time research. Awfully cool, very geeky and hopefully some part of it is usefull in a real world situation sometime in the future. Great job!
A filemanager for Unix would need to do much better than copying explorer and put pretty icons in it. You have to compete with the standard toolbox (cp, mv, rm etc.). No matter how nice it is users tend choose the best tool for the job. And cp in a good shell (like bash) is a fair bit faster than clicking around in a window for your directorys. I think we should look at Directory Opus for Amiga, one of the most rewarded Amiga proggies of all time and one of the longest survivors in a small market. Opus is not a replacement for the shell (which was also quite good). It is also totaly customizable and easy to use. You can be a experienced unix user without knowing the flags for building a tar package. This is a good example where a filemanager can be a good replacement for the shell. watching images and playing mp3 is not very usefull when you know how to start gqview and xmms.
Linux is a scalable OS that runs on 20 different processors, you can install it on a floppy or a 100gb harddisk. You can have it 10 times as bloated as windows and you can have it as slim as dos. Linux is much more than windows. Personally I think embedded devices is the future of Linux.