creative has free software drivers for gnu/linux. and as far as I know there are some sort of specs that would make it easy to port to another platform.
As has been noted in other posts, but needs to be addressed again, this is not the game source. This is the small amount of source needed to make modifications to the game. This is largely irrelevant for the majority of developers.
Hm, I think I'll stick to AbiWord. It crashes as much, but it starts much more quickly.
OpenOffice takes about 25 seconds under normal system load, whilst AbiWord takes no more than 3, and has sufficient functionality (except for utterly worthless font support). OpenOffice crashed immediately when I was to save a presentation.
if you can't make the distinction, religion is probably how you'd prefer to try (religion isn't as humble as science in admitting it is merely attempting an explanation, or the beginning of one) to explain what is around us.
What is necessary for these computers games is already present in a larger extent on a GNU/Linux platform than Apple's in most parts proprietary, closed platform OS X.
Why post stories about these computer games? They are not coming to any free platforms -- only those that force you to use proprietary software for every damn thing you do. (and don't tell me about dual boot -- what a moronic idea that is).
One thing I miss in the GIMP are simple scriptable (SIMPLE, no Script-Fu) Actions, like in Photoshop, and the ability to assign macros to these. This saves me a lot of time when I'm forced to use the proprietary software that Photoshop is.
In the end, the choice of distribution is up to the end-user, and the choices are plenty. The software you utilize - down the core - are decided by your own preferences. If you aren't interested in this control, I don't see why you would want to be interested in a *nix system. And the term _distribution_ is very abstract, as opposed to the singular distribution of Windows 9x (concurrently)... if you upgrade to glibc 2.1 for example, and compile a new shiny kernel, and play with your startup scripts a bit Distribution X.x would hard to recognize.
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Star Wars IS NOT science fiction.
creative has free software drivers for gnu/linux. and as far as I know there are some sort of specs that would make it easy to port to another platform.
As has been noted in other posts, but needs to be addressed again, this is not the game source. This is the small amount of source needed to make modifications to the game. This is largely irrelevant for the majority of developers.
I hate Flash more than anything.
Why should be obvious (no, it's not that 99.9% of all Flash designs are awful and add nothing).
fortune 500, you say? we have to act, act now! (I need caps: FORTUNE 500, YOU SAY? WE HAVE TO ACT, ACT NOW!
What you COULD DO is turn it once again into a hobby activity, not something you should expect to make money out of.
The money from current banner ads should more than enough pay for hosting services.
Or?
Hm, I think I'll stick to AbiWord. It crashes as much, but it starts much more quickly.
OpenOffice takes about 25 seconds under normal system load, whilst AbiWord takes no more than 3, and has sufficient functionality (except for utterly worthless font support). OpenOffice crashed immediately when I was to save a presentation.
science is not a religion.
if you can't make the distinction, religion is probably how you'd prefer to try (religion isn't as humble as science in admitting it is merely attempting an explanation, or the beginning of one) to explain what is around us.
And if you'd go ahead and run VMWare inside of that, emulating perhaps x86 GNU/Linux...
How can they be a free software company when some of the components in their products are closed?
"You will be helping to provide a much needed source of income to a Free Software company [...]"
"VA is Slashdot's corporate parent"
And therefore Slashdot cannot criticize them, even if there are very valid reasons for doing so.
Doing anything in Windows forces you to use components within Windows, which are all closed. The logic is pretty simple and dumb.
What is necessary for these computers games is already present in a larger extent on a GNU/Linux platform than Apple's in most parts proprietary, closed platform OS X.
Point me to a post where I claim I use that particular kernel.
Decent web browser?
I judge web browsers by
a) standards compliance
b) user interface
In my opinion, Galeon, and even Mozilla and Konqueror are far better than Internet Explorer (even on Mac OS)
Why post stories about these computer games? They are not coming to any free platforms -- only those that force you to use proprietary software for every damn thing you do. (and don't tell me about dual boot -- what a moronic idea that is).
One thing I miss in the GIMP are simple scriptable (SIMPLE, no Script-Fu) Actions, like in Photoshop, and the ability to assign macros to these. This saves me a lot of time when I'm forced to use the proprietary software that Photoshop is.
In the end, the choice of distribution is up to the end-user, and the choices are plenty. The software you utilize - down the core - are decided by your own preferences. If you aren't interested in this control, I don't see why you would want to be interested in a *nix system. And the term _distribution_ is very abstract, as opposed to the singular distribution of Windows 9x (concurrently)... if you upgrade to glibc 2.1 for example, and compile a new shiny kernel, and play with your startup scripts a bit Distribution X.x would hard to recognize.