weird, beryl is quite easy to compile, and doesn't take that long too, it worked for me quite well, and I've tested a lot of its releases, but I ain't no beryl fan as I don't see the point of it, it's just bloated bloat on top of bloat, which isn't functional, and the whole spinning box thingie is useless, I prefer e17's (Enlightenment \,,/) multidesktop feature, it JUST WORKS, is fast and easy to use, and quite handy if you need to run a lot of apps at the same time
Talking about 'Commander Keen', how cool would it be, if iD could finally release CK4 sources, so we could port it to linux and enjoy one of the best (imho) games ever made.
It's exactly that way of thinking that produces so much bloat these days, you say there's no point in making echo smaller and more simple (of course, you DO realise it's just an example, right?), and people take that to a higher level, 'why should I optimise, rethink my code, when we have 2 GB's of RAM, dualcore cpu's, 300 GB HDD's' and so on.
Um, what's wrong in redoing something to make it faster and smaller ? Nowadays most programmers just take all libraries they can get, to simplify the process of programming, and produce bloated code, when they could just write their own functions, smaller which would suit their needs, and yes, I do that quite a lot, and when I need to use a library, I take time to choose the better one.
Do you have any idea what a pain it is to deal with a package that comes in source form only and depends on three obscure libraries available only in source form on a flaky server in Nowhereistan?
In fact, I do, but I don't find it as pain. Compiling programs/libraries/etc from source is one of the best way to learn how your OS is built, what influences what and so on, and most of all, a programmer shouldn't have ANY problem with compiling stuff from source.
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I'm getting my amiga500 next week, gonna SLIP it through my linux box, IRC the hell out of it and smash some pixels in cannon fodder, oh boy :D
weird, beryl is quite easy to compile, and doesn't take that long too, it worked for me quite well, and I've tested a lot of its releases, but I ain't no beryl fan as I don't see the point of it, it's just bloated bloat on top of bloat, which isn't functional, and the whole spinning box thingie is useless, I prefer e17's (Enlightenment \,,/) multidesktop feature, it JUST WORKS, is fast and easy to use, and quite handy if you need to run a lot of apps at the same time
Talking about 'Commander Keen', how cool would it be, if iD could finally release CK4 sources, so we could port it to linux and enjoy one of the best (imho) games ever made.
It's exactly that way of thinking that produces so much bloat these days, you say there's no point in making echo smaller and more simple (of course, you DO realise it's just an example, right?), and people take that to a higher level, 'why should I optimise, rethink my code, when we have 2 GB's of RAM, dualcore cpu's, 300 GB HDD's' and so on.
Um, what's wrong in redoing something to make it faster and smaller ? Nowadays most programmers just take all libraries they can get, to simplify the process of programming, and produce bloated code, when they could just write their own functions, smaller which would suit their needs, and yes, I do that quite a lot, and when I need to use a library, I take time to choose the better one.