Really? Have you seen the progress that Nouveau has made recently? it's a complete free software driver that accelerates 2D and even 3D, and it's all reverse engineered and created WITHOUT any documentations.
You can also get paid to develop free software. e.g. when someone hires to you write software, you can give the person the source code and release it under the GPL, then charge for further development of said software, etc.
Free Software is about freedom of choice, freedom as in free speech, NOT as in free beer (price).
I find that most hardware works just fine these days, I have access to 6 computers and most of the hardware in those computers is all different. Linux detects all the hardware just fine.
Take a look at the nouveau driver for example, it accelerates 2d and even 3d and it's all reversed engineered and created without documentation. What I suggest is that you try Linux with your hardware and if you have any problems, always report the bugs to the developers so they can fix it.
Getting Linux installed on a machine without optical disks is very easy. All you have to do is grab a Linux ISO image (installer or live cd) and dd the ISO file to a USB flash drive.
e.g.
> dd if=/dev/linux.iso of=/dev/sdb
(assuming that/dev/sdb is your USB flash drive)
Then reboot the computer, hit F8 (depending on your BIOS) and boot from the USB flash drive.
I can't recall when was the last time I used optical media, USB flash drive FTW.
OSX is designed for a single hardware specification, Linux runs on countless of hardware, and we have to reverse engineer some drivers and try to make most hardware work. Your comments are clearly disrespectful, and you should go bitch the hardware manufacturers instead.
That's why I love my ThinkPad so much, I run Linux on my ThinkPad and I can stress it and put it on a bed and it will never overheat, it's an awesome piece of hardware.
Is it going to be possible to choose the back-end to use for the network transparency in Wayland? like NX, SPICE, or any other protocol that performs better than others, I'd like to see some competition in then network transparent protocols. And if Wayland makes that plug-able it would be even better.
Maybe adding some definitions in the protocol for network transparency would be nice, and make that plug-able, in the sense that we could use different back-ends for the network transparency, like X11, NX, SPICE, RDP, VNC, whatever.
The Wayland people seems to be focusing on making sure the core of the compositor is as good as it can be. Delivering what it has promised, a smooth desktop experience without tearing, lag, redrawing or flicker.
I believe we'll see network transparency in Wayland just after it has been adopted. The reason we don't see network transparency support in the Wayland core at this time it's because they are busy working on making sure that Wayland will deliver the smooth desktop experience and graphics.
You seem to have some of your facts wrong. While it's true that Wayland itself doesn't have support for network transparency in the core, it's certainly possible to do network transparency with it. Protocols like SPICE and RDP will make it possible to send individual windows over the network as well as the full root window. There's nothing preventing this, and it will be possible in the future.
I'm not saying that Linux is at fault here. Nevertheless I apologize for the way I expressed myself before. All I'm trying to say is that I hope the situation improves with Wayland or with new drivers, whatever the solution might be, I believe we need to embrace developments like Wayland instead of bashing them. I know network transparency is an important thing and still used today but we need to learn to work together towards a solution and improve things.
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Really? Have you seen the progress that Nouveau has made recently? it's a complete free software driver that accelerates 2D and even 3D, and it's all reverse engineered and created WITHOUT any documentations.
You can also get paid to develop free software. e.g. when someone hires to you write software, you can give the person the source code and release it under the GPL, then charge for further development of said software, etc.
Free Software is about freedom of choice, freedom as in free speech, NOT as in free beer (price).
I'd rather have Emacs than any Apple stuff any-day. Apple just sucks.
Fuck Apple and all their fan-boys.
Stallman has always been right to me, and to me, he's the only one who cares about users' freedom these days. Agreed completely.
Agreed 100% too.
I agree with RMS too.
Free software is not about price, it's about freedom as in free speech. Nobody is saying you can't sell your work.
I find that most hardware works just fine these days, I have access to 6 computers and most of the hardware in those computers is all different. Linux detects all the hardware just fine.
Take a look at the nouveau driver for example, it accelerates 2d and even 3d and it's all reversed engineered and created without documentation. What I suggest is that you try Linux with your hardware and if you have any problems, always report the bugs to the developers so they can fix it.
When they haven't been in retard mode? They always been IMHO.
Getting Linux installed on a machine without optical disks is very easy. All you have to do is grab a Linux ISO image (installer or live cd) and dd the ISO file to a USB flash drive.
/dev/sdb is your USB flash drive)
e.g.
> dd if=/dev/linux.iso of=/dev/sdb
(assuming that
Then reboot the computer, hit F8 (depending on your BIOS) and boot from the USB flash drive.
I can't recall when was the last time I used optical media, USB flash drive FTW.
OSX is designed for a single hardware specification, Linux runs on countless of hardware, and we have to reverse engineer some drivers and try to make most hardware work. Your comments are clearly disrespectful, and you should go bitch the hardware manufacturers instead.
Math fail.
I wish I could +1 you.
Good riddance.
I pretty much feel the same way as you.
That's why I love my ThinkPad so much, I run Linux on my ThinkPad and I can stress it and put it on a bed and it will never overheat, it's an awesome piece of hardware.
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T510.
where is the Linux version? I won't buy it if there isn't one.
when is bugzilla.kernel.org coming back as well?
Don't move to OpenBSD, improve Linux security instead.
Nice, doesn't network transparency belong to Qt/GTK though?
With your contributions, Wayland itself will be able to do network transparency?
Is it going to be possible to choose the back-end to use for the network transparency in Wayland? like NX, SPICE, or any other protocol that performs better than others, I'd like to see some competition in then network transparent protocols. And if Wayland makes that plug-able it would be even better.
Thanks and keep up the great work. Wayland rocks.
So we are never stuck with a single and obsolete protocol like X11 that doesn't even perform that well. Wouldn't that be a good idea?
Maybe adding some definitions in the protocol for network transparency would be nice, and make that plug-able, in the sense that we could use different back-ends for the network transparency, like X11, NX, SPICE, RDP, VNC, whatever.
The Wayland people seems to be focusing on making sure the core of the compositor is as good as it can be. Delivering what it has promised, a smooth desktop experience without tearing, lag, redrawing or flicker.
I believe we'll see network transparency in Wayland just after it has been adopted. The reason we don't see network transparency support in the Wayland core at this time it's because they are busy working on making sure that Wayland will deliver the smooth desktop experience and graphics.
You seem to have some of your facts wrong. While it's true that Wayland itself doesn't have support for network transparency in the core, it's certainly possible to do network transparency with it. Protocols like SPICE and RDP will make it possible to send individual windows over the network as well as the full root window. There's nothing preventing this, and it will be possible in the future.
I'm not saying that Linux is at fault here. Nevertheless I apologize for the way I expressed myself before. All I'm trying to say is that I hope the situation improves with Wayland or with new drivers, whatever the solution might be, I believe we need to embrace developments like Wayland instead of bashing them. I know network transparency is an important thing and still used today but we need to learn to work together towards a solution and improve things.
All the best.