I think educational institutions should be very worried about how Microsoft is redifining what an Operating System is.
Windows 2005, now includes Quake 6 technology! Oh it also has a browser, a video player, a CD player, a word processor, spreadsheet and database, a financial package (of which core functions are built into the operating system and can't be separated)........ and so the list goes on.
My only problem with this, and the Crossover plugins, is that for me Wine takes several seconds before it will run anything. Primarly I think that it is doing something with fonts but say I visit a site that uses Flash, the browser will pause for 5 seconds, and then the flash animation will start. It's the same running any app under Wine. I start the app using Wine, and then 5-10 seconds later the app starts. I'm fairly sure that I must be the only suffering this, otherwise why would anyone suffer this kind of delay? Am I alone in suffering this?
Windows loads faster on my PC, and applications generally load quicker. For example (and I'm going to make this comparison), opening the File Explorer onto my C: drive takes a fraction of a second, whereas Konqueror in KDE 2.2.1 takes several seconds. My PC isn't brand new, but it is a P3-700, 256Mb with a 20Gb Seagate.
The TD Canada Trust bank uses OS/2. The people in the bank log on to the TD Canada Trust servers through some kind of terminal app, and everything is then text based. It looks scary to use!
I remember the Natwest bank in England used NT, and the one time I actually sat down with someone do some personal banking there, they couldn't use the computer system, as the they couldn't log onto the server.
The case will get directed to another judge, and he/she will reverse the decision due to the unwieldy power and influence of Microsoft. Isn't that what always happens?
Desktop/lx definitely has potential. My main concerns at the moment are:
performance
font rendering
I used Desktop/lx for several weeks, and I found it to be slower than Mandrake 8., which I normally use. If I had to quantify the drop in performance I would guess at around 15%. Not that much but enough for KDE+Linux to lose its snappy-feeling.
This isn't a great problem, as there are performance enhanced contributed RPMs that you can download from an ftp site. These drop the performance decrease to somewhere around 5%-10% at a guess.
I had great problems with the font rendering. I installed my Truetype fonts, the same ones that I use under Mandrake.
In general I found that the fonts didn't render as well (read look as good) under Desktop/lx as they do under Mandrake. Also, Opera 6 TP3 had major problems rendering some sites; I think the worst site was the forum at Arstechnica. The forum index page was about 10 screen wide! I don't know why this was, but it doesn't happen under Mandrake.
I will be keeping a close eye on Desktop/lx. After Lycoris and Mandrake have released new versions, I will revist the former to see how it fares. I like to maintain a profile in the Lycoris community, as I feel the project deseves all the support it can get.
I never thought that Enlightenment was a real product; I thought it was a joke! No seriously! When I ran it for the first time, I thought "you have to be kidding! You expect people to use this?". Actually I thought it more an experiment than a joke, but I laughed regardless.
I agree to a certain extent, but I think that if an aim is to pull Windows users to Linux, then for a certain portion of that group you need to provide a familiar environment.
Magazine reviews are worthless anyway. The quality and quantity of the writing are so poor that I wouldn't pay to buy a magazine.
Somehow I managed to get a free 6 months subscription to CGW and I don't think it's even worth the princely sum of $0.
The writing is so immature and they spend half of the written content trying to crack stupid jokes that I would probably have laughed at when I was about 13.
The reviews are so short, that by the time you've skipped the opening paragraph where they usually try to crack another crappy joke, you've finished the review before they've told you anything about the game. So basically the review is worthless, as I haven't learnt enough (anything) about the game to make a decision about whether to buy it or not.
The best alternative for a while has been to browse the web until you find a games review site that you are comfortable with, that fits your needs. Who needs computer gaming magazines? I don't; they're a waste of time.
Shame there's no tabbed browsing in Konqueror. Also I was quite surprised at the number of changes listed for console! That made me chuckle; it's like saying this is the program that most people use so it's the most important.:P
As a side note, how much obsolete and legacy code is in KDE right now? I mean, Windows contains lots of legacy code for DOS support. Any thoughts?
So far I've had zero success with winex for games. Nothing works for me, although I don't have Windows installed, so I'm stuck with installing games through winex. Half-Life won't install through winex for example. Winex is too immature to be worth trumpeting just yet. I think anyone who loves DirectX would just laugh at the state of Winex.
I'd like some cheaper books. I really don't see any justification in the price of many computer books these days. CAN$75 to CAN$100 for a book? I don't think so.
I'm pretty sure it's a hoax. If it were true, Microsoft would then be admitting something that most people know; they write buggy, unstable software. It would be a marketing no-no I think.
Slashdot Mirror
Enough already - don't waste my time with this obvious, humourless crap!
I think educational institutions should be very worried about how Microsoft is redifining what an Operating System is.
........ and so the list goes on.
Windows 2005, now includes Quake 6 technology! Oh it also has a browser, a video player, a CD player, a word processor, spreadsheet and database, a financial package (of which core functions are built into the operating system and can't be separated)
My only problem with this, and the Crossover plugins, is that for me Wine takes several seconds before it will run anything. Primarly I think that it is doing something with fonts but say I visit a site that uses Flash, the browser will pause for 5 seconds, and then the flash animation will start. It's the same running any app under Wine. I start the app using Wine, and then 5-10 seconds later the app starts. I'm fairly sure that I must be the only suffering this, otherwise why would anyone suffer this kind of delay? Am I alone in suffering this?
As far as I'm concerned, yes it does.
Windows loads faster on my PC, and applications generally load quicker. For example (and I'm going to make this comparison), opening the File Explorer onto my C: drive takes a fraction of a second, whereas Konqueror in KDE 2.2.1 takes several seconds. My PC isn't brand new, but it is a P3-700, 256Mb with a 20Gb Seagate.
If you're bound to a license, where's the freedom? Freedom is having no license and the freedom to do anything you wish with the software/code.
:P
There, that's my bad mood expunged for the day.
I never thought that productivity was measured in lines of code. To me, it's progress against a schedule.
The TD Canada Trust bank uses OS/2. The people in the bank log on to the TD Canada Trust servers through some kind of terminal app, and everything is then text based. It looks scary to use!
I remember the Natwest bank in England used NT, and the one time I actually sat down with someone do some personal banking there, they couldn't use the computer system, as the they couldn't log onto the server.
The case will get directed to another judge, and he/she will reverse the decision due to the unwieldy power and influence of Microsoft. Isn't that what always happens?
performance
font rendering I used Desktop/lx for several weeks, and I found it to be slower than Mandrake 8., which I normally use. If I had to quantify the drop in performance I would guess at around 15%. Not that much but enough for KDE+Linux to lose its snappy-feeling.
This isn't a great problem, as there are performance enhanced contributed RPMs that you can download from an ftp site. These drop the performance decrease to somewhere around 5%-10% at a guess.
I had great problems with the font rendering. I installed my Truetype fonts, the same ones that I use under Mandrake.
In general I found that the fonts didn't render as well (read look as good) under Desktop/lx as they do under Mandrake. Also, Opera 6 TP3 had major problems rendering some sites; I think the worst site was the forum at Arstechnica. The forum index page was about 10 screen wide! I don't know why this was, but it doesn't happen under Mandrake.
I will be keeping a close eye on Desktop/lx. After Lycoris and Mandrake have released new versions, I will revist the former to see how it fares. I like to maintain a profile in the Lycoris community, as I feel the project deseves all the support it can get.
I for one, will visit OSNews when it's not Slashdotted and re-read the article and comments that are posted to it. So I guess I'm a gift-horse.
I wouldn't quite agree with this. I think that StarOffice is probably the more powerful, and it certainly seems to be the more stabler of the two.
I presume people will switch from Sun to OpenOffice, once OpenOffice proves it itself, which hopefully won't be too far away.
Who pays for this kind of research?
Now let's see. Shall we apply for a grant for curing mental diseases, or shall we examine comic books?
I never thought that Enlightenment was a real product; I thought it was a joke! No seriously! When I ran it for the first time, I thought "you have to be kidding! You expect people to use this?". Actually I thought it more an experiment than a joke, but I laughed regardless.
I agree to a certain extent, but I think that if an aim is to pull Windows users to Linux, then for a certain portion of that group you need to provide a familiar environment.
God Gnome looks so much better with Truetype fonts! (As does anything IMO).
Does anyone think that a major distro will include a Gnome beta in future releases?
I know I could download, compile and install it, but I just don't have the time for that.
Be thankful you have a job. Six months of unemployment here and counting.
Magazine reviews are worthless anyway. The quality and quantity of the writing are so poor that I wouldn't pay to buy a magazine.
Somehow I managed to get a free 6 months subscription to CGW and I don't think it's even worth the princely sum of $0.
The writing is so immature and they spend half of the written content trying to crack stupid jokes that I would probably have laughed at when I was about 13.
The reviews are so short, that by the time you've skipped the opening paragraph where they usually try to crack another crappy joke, you've finished the review before they've told you anything about the game. So basically the review is worthless, as I haven't learnt enough (anything) about the game to make a decision about whether to buy it or not.
The best alternative for a while has been to browse the web until you find a games review site that you are comfortable with, that fits your needs. Who needs computer gaming magazines? I don't; they're a waste of time.
Shame there's no tabbed browsing in Konqueror. Also I was quite surprised at the number of changes listed for console! That made me chuckle; it's like saying this is the program that most people use so it's the most important. :P
As a side note, how much obsolete and legacy code is in KDE right now? I mean, Windows contains lots of legacy code for DOS support. Any thoughts?
So far I've had zero success with winex for games. Nothing works for me, although I don't have Windows installed, so I'm stuck with installing games through winex. Half-Life won't install through winex for example. Winex is too immature to be worth trumpeting just yet. I think anyone who loves DirectX would just laugh at the state of Winex.
I hear ya buddy. Unfortunately it's easier to dream up wonderful ideas for the future than it is to sit down and fix the crappy OSes we have now.
I'd like some cheaper books. I really don't see any justification in the price of many computer books these days. CAN$75 to CAN$100 for a book? I don't think so.
I'm pretty sure it's a hoax. If it were true, Microsoft would then be admitting something that most people know; they write buggy, unstable software. It would be a marketing no-no I think.
Does anyone else think that old Miguel is looking for financial support from Microsoft. Follow the beast and it will eventually repay you?
Are there any mirrors that hold screenshots of the changes?