Yep. Essentially this trend is killing off netbooks as they were originally intended. By introducing Windows, netbooks have become slightly shrunken subnotebooks at just the same price.
And the weirdest part is, it profits nobody. The customer pays more than he should, Microsoft loses money on every Windows netbook license, and the vendors and sellers don't see one cent more either. Free market at its best!
Same for KDE 4.2 desktop effects. They run smooth like butter on my EEE 701. 3D gets quite jerky when hooking it up to my 1680x1050 LCD however, so I switch them off then.
Fullscreen DVD playback at that resolution works perfectly without skipping frames. Not bad for for a machine powered by a 630 MHz CPU and Intel 915 graphics.
Real men don't upgrade operating systems -- they just buy the upgrade kit (because it's cheaper), and Google a good method for doing a clean install with it.
As long as the operating system is Windows.
Surely a reinstall is more economic on a Linux install that hasn't been updated for years - but the typical scenario on a desktop or web server is more or less continuos updating via the package manager, which doesn't introduce enough breakage to consider shoving in an install CD.
Linux is safer in that software installs onto the root partition, where normal user accounts have read-only access. A buffer overrun could still be able to affect/modify data in a user's/home, though.
Well... for most of us a reader is just a reader. It doesn't need dozens of advanced features besides navigation and bookmarks. I, for one, are happy with Okular (and KPDF before that). They are both not spartanic, but not bloated either.
I waited until KDE 4.2 until making the switch on my main machine. I can say without reservation that this release is finally feature equivalent with 3.5.x. The network GUI is there, too.
BTW, I find *buntu to be very overrated and their KDE distribution lacks polish. On a second thought, it plain sucks. If you want to play with KDE, you are way better off with a KDE centric distro like Mandriva.
all this means is that when these kids graduate, they are going to have to take remedial classes to learn windows and os x, real operating systems where real work gets done.
Me, and millions others, have the guts. Namely by running Linux on all systems and thus not being affected by phenomenons which make the internet seem "not well-functioning" or even "dangerous".
There exist quite a few online stores offering neatly refurbished and tested second-hand laptops. Even if such a laptop comes with Windows preinstalled, it is the previous owner who paid for the license - thus, no tax implied!
I mean if you break out of jail it is obviously going to be illegal
In the jurisdictions I know, breaking from jail by itself is NOT illegal, because pursuing freedom is a human right. However it is hardly possible to break out without committing a crime in the process (damage to property etc.). Caught fugitives can only be punished for these, and they get detention for the time out.
I agree. Kubuntu was a big hassle; it's just Ubuntu with vanilla KDE smashed on top, and without the nice configuration tools. I switched back to Mandriva, which has a KDE 4 that doesn't suck.
It would be a better idea to switch your brother to Linux first using everyday software before bothering with IDEs. Once he becomes accustomed with a Linux system and the philosophy around Open Source, he will probably be less insisting on using a specific software product.
Well, the average user doesn't get into touch with the file system structure anyway, instead he/she interacts exclusively with his/her home directory. Installing packages is fully transparent, too, as they just unpack into the default location. I don't see a problem at all...
Both OpenGL and Direct3D are good graphics APIs. It's just that DirectX in its first incarnations provided anything and the kitchen sink at a time when there were no good cross-platform libraries for audio, input handling etc. This locked game developers somewhat into Microsoft platforms and led to a situation where games have to be "ported" with great effort.
Sticking to this lock-in is somewhat of a strange idea, as all platforms except Windows and XBox use OpenGL as their standard graphics acceleration API. Using standards-oriented C++ and SDL together with any additional libraries needed would make porting games to whatever platform a matter of a single recompile. An example of this is the 3D roguelike S.C.O.U.R.G.E., which I am co-developing. It compiles and runs perfectly on Linux, OSX, Solaris, *BSD, all flavors of Windows and Playstation 3. It would probably even run on a 3D accelerated smartphone.
Regarding artists, it's not that that there weren't enough artistically inclined people in Open Source, IMO it's more the lack of specialized tools/plugins for graphical work beyond generic drawing and modeling.
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Yep. Essentially this trend is killing off netbooks as they were originally intended. By introducing Windows, netbooks have become slightly shrunken subnotebooks at just the same price.
And the weirdest part is, it profits nobody. The customer pays more than he should, Microsoft loses money on every Windows netbook license, and the vendors and sellers don't see one cent more either. Free market at its best!
...that is based on the vanilla kernel with maybe slightly different build options and a few patches.
Same for KDE 4.2 desktop effects. They run smooth like butter on my EEE 701. 3D gets quite jerky when hooking it up to my 1680x1050 LCD however, so I switch them off then.
Fullscreen DVD playback at that resolution works perfectly without skipping frames. Not bad for for a machine powered by a 630 MHz CPU and Intel 915 graphics.
Real men don't upgrade operating systems -- they just buy the upgrade kit (because it's cheaper), and Google a good method for doing a clean install with it.
As long as the operating system is Windows.
Surely a reinstall is more economic on a Linux install that hasn't been updated for years - but the typical scenario on a desktop or web server is more or less continuos updating via the package manager, which doesn't introduce enough breakage to consider shoving in an install CD.
COCOL?
The Communicate STX works perfectly in Linux. That's the reason I bought the cam in the first place.
Linux is safer in that software installs onto the root partition, where normal user accounts have read-only access. A buffer overrun could still be able to affect/modify data in a user's /home, though.
Well... for most of us a reader is just a reader. It doesn't need dozens of advanced features besides navigation and bookmarks. I, for one, are happy with Okular (and KPDF before that). They are both not spartanic, but not bloated either.
I waited until KDE 4.2 until making the switch on my main machine. I can say without reservation that this release is finally feature equivalent with 3.5.x. The network GUI is there, too.
BTW, I find *buntu to be very overrated and their KDE distribution lacks polish. On a second thought, it plain sucks. If you want to play with KDE, you are way better off with a KDE centric distro like Mandriva.
all this means is that when these kids graduate, they are going to have to take remedial classes to learn windows and os x, real operating systems where real work gets done.
Like playing games and removing malware?
They used Catalan money to buy their Linux licenses.
Spain pays in Euros, like every decent country.
Me, and millions others, have the guts. Namely by running Linux on all systems and thus not being affected by phenomenons which make the internet seem "not well-functioning" or even "dangerous".
And I wondered why it sounds like a burp, followed by an agonized rattle.
Everyone who modded this "Troll" has apparently never given oral love to a woman. The less hair down there, the better.
There exist quite a few online stores offering neatly refurbished and tested second-hand laptops. Even if such a laptop comes with Windows preinstalled, it is the previous owner who paid for the license - thus, no tax implied!
I believe windows firefox is also compiled for i686 or even pentium3, whereas on linux it's typically compiled for i386.
All distros I have seen are compiled against i686, with the Firefox package not being an exception.
I mean if you break out of jail it is obviously going to be illegal
In the jurisdictions I know, breaking from jail by itself is NOT illegal, because pursuing freedom is a human right. However it is hardly possible to break out without committing a crime in the process (damage to property etc.). Caught fugitives can only be punished for these, and they get detention for the time out.
OS/2?
Unfortunately, many of my fellow Germans understand "frei" as "Freibier", so one again ends up with people who think it is umsonst :-(
I agree. Kubuntu was a big hassle; it's just Ubuntu with vanilla KDE smashed on top, and without the nice configuration tools. I switched back to Mandriva, which has a KDE 4 that doesn't suck.
My Sansa with Rockbox, Mandriva laptop, Kubuntu netbook, LinuxMCE based DVR and my fluffy stuffed penguin are all working just fine!
It would be a better idea to switch your brother to Linux first using everyday software before bothering with IDEs. Once he becomes accustomed with a Linux system and the philosophy around Open Source, he will probably be less insisting on using a specific software product.
Well, the average user doesn't get into touch with the file system structure anyway, instead he/she interacts exclusively with his/her home directory. Installing packages is fully transparent, too, as they just unpack into the default location. I don't see a problem at all...
Both OpenGL and Direct3D are good graphics APIs. It's just that DirectX in its first incarnations provided anything and the kitchen sink at a time when there were no good cross-platform libraries for audio, input handling etc. This locked game developers somewhat into Microsoft platforms and led to a situation where games have to be "ported" with great effort.
Sticking to this lock-in is somewhat of a strange idea, as all platforms except Windows and XBox use OpenGL as their standard graphics acceleration API. Using standards-oriented C++ and SDL together with any additional libraries needed would make porting games to whatever platform a matter of a single recompile. An example of this is the 3D roguelike S.C.O.U.R.G.E., which I am co-developing. It compiles and runs perfectly on Linux, OSX, Solaris, *BSD, all flavors of Windows and Playstation 3. It would probably even run on a 3D accelerated smartphone.
Regarding artists, it's not that that there weren't enough artistically inclined people in Open Source, IMO it's more the lack of specialized tools/plugins for graphical work beyond generic drawing and modeling.
Yes. With "free" meaning "free to rape the consumer".