that's £50 ID got from me because quake runs on linux.
Finally! I was going to write my own 3d opengl
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NT 3.51 did all the rendering in user space outside of the kernel and it was terriblely slow and linux works like this today.:-(
in kernel graphics is not faster than user-space graphics.
Why does everyone think that graphics *acceleration* has to be in kernel space? "Wheee let's throw everything into the kernel that has the slightest thing to do with hardware" and we'll end up with a monster kernel ala NT4!
(kernel/s/ i know, NT4 is a micro-kernel arch).
So why aren't the SANE scanner backends integrated into the kernel? They send whatever scsi commands they want to a scanner via the scsi generic interface. surely we can't allow that in user-space!!
get a clue people.
unix is good precisely because the all the functions aren't integrated into the kernel. because the kernel implements a simple safe interface to hardware, and leaves the rest to userspace.
ie simple framebuffer that can do some simple functions like change video modes, reset the card, etc. And leave the accelerated and 3d graphics to X or *whatever*.
If the whatever cocks up, the kernel can always recover.
linux has problems multitasking, or at least keeping different servers on their respective sides of the couch
uhmmm let's see. i have two machines at home. of which one, and AMD k6, 64MB runs:
a small news server (INN) an email server, sendmail. an SQL database, postgres. nfs serves/net/usr and/net/home to the second machine. (kernel nfsd) NIS server web server (apache) dial-up server. (diald) dns server for two small zones. (named) ftp server.. more i can't think of out my head. 3 X servers always running.
and it runs rc5des at nice 20 all the time, as does the second machine.
none of the servers are heavily loaded, but there are a lot of them, and from experience linux scales pretty well, as long as you have enough memory to avoid active apps being swapped out.
performance is excellent even with 64MB, netscape and staroffice are my biggest performance problems (memory hogs)
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get your facts straight.
OpenPIC is a cross platform, external PIC implementation, and doesn't need explicit processor support.
So the K6 could be run in SMP configuration, it's just there are no x86 motherboards that support it..
pls get a clue...
i bought q1 and q2.
that's £50 ID got from me because quake runs on linux.
NT 3.51 did all the rendering in user space outside of the kernel and it was terriblely slow and linux works like this today. :-(
in kernel graphics is not faster than user-space graphics.
Why does everyone think that graphics *acceleration* has to be in kernel space? "Wheee let's throw everything into the kernel that has the slightest thing to do with hardware" and we'll end up with a monster kernel ala NT4!
(kernel/s/ i know, NT4 is a micro-kernel arch).
So why aren't the SANE scanner backends integrated into the kernel? They send whatever scsi commands they want to a scanner via the scsi generic interface. surely we can't allow that in user-space!!
get a clue people.
unix is good precisely because the all the functions aren't integrated into the kernel. because the kernel implements a simple safe interface to hardware, and leaves the rest to userspace.
ie simple framebuffer that can do some simple functions like change video modes, reset the card,
etc. And leave the accelerated and 3d graphics to X or *whatever*.
If the whatever cocks up, the kernel can always recover.
KISS!!!!
linux has problems multitasking, or at least keeping different servers on their respective sides of the couch
/net/usr and /net/home to the second machine. (kernel nfsd)
uhmmm let's see. i have two machines at home. of which one, and AMD k6, 64MB runs:
a small news server (INN)
an email server, sendmail.
an SQL database, postgres.
nfs serves
NIS server
web server (apache)
dial-up server. (diald)
dns server for two small zones. (named)
ftp server..
more i can't think of out my head.
3 X servers always running.
and it runs rc5des at nice 20 all the time, as does the second machine.
none of the servers are heavily loaded, but there are a lot of them, and from experience linux scales pretty well, as long as you have enough memory to avoid active apps being swapped out.
performance is excellent even with 64MB, netscape and staroffice are my biggest performance problems (memory hogs)