They could always make a new OS based off of XP designed for use in a virtual machine and bundle it with the new Windows. They have the code, they can do whatever they like with it.
The problem comes with running legacy games. We can't virtualise the GPU yet so Microsoft may loose gamers to an older Windows version. So expect to see the Wine team do a full port to Windows, possibly attracting more development and funding.
It's an Acer Aspire 3680 I used for about 10 months before installing Ubuntu 7.10 which didn't suspend and had problems with swapping audio outputs when inserting headphones. 8.04 worked perfectly except for when using WPA-EAP at university. Ubuntu's MadWifi modules didn't seem to work well with my card and I fixed that by using a simple enough script I found.
My laptop is now very well supported by Ubuntu (probably others too) since they now have the acer_acpi module and fixed the sound problem (effected most Intel HD audio cards). Even Fn+F5 now automatically configures the display.
I even installed it on a friends Asus laptop when Vista died (old Alcohol 120% version blue screened it after login) and it works perfectly, even the web-cam. [/life story]
I too wish for vendors to publicly show support for Linux operating systems because there's still enough stuff which doesn't play well filling the support forums. HP printers have been well supported out of the box for ever and I haven't seen a penguin logo on them (do they now? Been a while since I checked).
I have no idea how to implement module versioning, but it doesn't matter anyway. It only takes a minute to run the auto-install script and also ensures that I am using my compiled module instead of the Ubuntu one that may have overwritten it in the update
I just use a script found here that seems to use MadWifi defaults. I have no idea why Ubuntu's module didn't work. I really don't know much about anything to help upstream with this.:P
It's an Atheros 5005G chipset, works fine with the supplied modules until I use WPA-EAP at university, where it will lock up the system every 2nd connection attempt. Compiling from source is the easiest way to fix it, but (back on topic) needs to be recompiled every kernel update.
Not to mention Apple sneaking in Safari with an iTunes critical update and many programs having regressions in updates.
Can we trust Apple not to issue a firmware update that makes the iPod stop working with 3rd party media players?
I myself keep everything updated (as much as Ubuntu repos let me anyway). But things like kernel updates force my to recompile my wifi driver so I can understand how people don't upgrade.
I have never had this happen to me. I use the Firegestures addon (adds mouse gestures) which uses right-click-drag and it may indirectly be fixing this.
Ubuntu would lock up on me sometimes, but at university it was almost constant. Turned out to be the MadWifi driver would sometimes choke on WPA-PSK and always choked on WPA-EAP
I recompiled the MadWifi driver and haven't locked up since.
Students coming home from high school is a plausible explanation.
The counter isn't really "Live". It just seems to update every 30 sec to give a new overall count and then JavaScript fakes the "Live"ness with the counts per second value. Similar to how Gmail's available space is continuously counting without any network activity.
My Aspire 3680 has an Atheros AR5005g with Madwifi (compiled from SVN because the regular module with Ubuntu crashes on WPA-EAP) and the switch works but the orange LED doesn't turn off.
This is where the boundary of OS and Application gets fuzzy.
Would the burning functionality of (eg) Nautilus be considered part of the OS since the entire Gnome environment can be removed and the OS is still functional?
However mounting an image with "mount -o loop image.iso" would be considered a part of the Linux/GNU OS.
It's always the low-tech pranks that take people the longest to fix. We used to turn on the System fan/temp alarm in the BIOS. These old PCs would constantly beep and no one knew what was making them do it.
Them my friend typed "netsend * Hello" and everybody would get a dialog box with "Hello" and his username. Instant 2 week block from loging in.
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Thanks for that. I'll look for existing bug reports first before filing one.
I can't really test it until the new semester starts, but I'm glad to know there is a reason behind this.
And a big thank you to all the others who helped out as well.
They could always make a new OS based off of XP designed for use in a virtual machine and bundle it with the new Windows. They have the code, they can do whatever they like with it.
The problem comes with running legacy games. We can't virtualise the GPU yet so Microsoft may loose gamers to an older Windows version. So expect to see the Wine team do a full port to Windows, possibly attracting more development and funding.
It's an Acer Aspire 3680 I used for about 10 months before installing Ubuntu 7.10 which didn't suspend and had problems with swapping audio outputs when inserting headphones. 8.04 worked perfectly except for when using WPA-EAP at university. Ubuntu's MadWifi modules didn't seem to work well with my card and I fixed that by using a simple enough script I found.
My laptop is now very well supported by Ubuntu (probably others too) since they now have the acer_acpi module and fixed the sound problem (effected most Intel HD audio cards). Even Fn+F5 now automatically configures the display.
I even installed it on a friends Asus laptop when Vista died (old Alcohol 120% version blue screened it after login) and it works perfectly, even the web-cam.
[/life story]
I too wish for vendors to publicly show support for Linux operating systems because there's still enough stuff which doesn't play well filling the support forums. HP printers have been well supported out of the box for ever and I haven't seen a penguin logo on them (do they now? Been a while since I checked).
I have no idea how to implement module versioning, but it doesn't matter anyway. It only takes a minute to run the auto-install script and also ensures that I am using my compiled module instead of the Ubuntu one that may have overwritten it in the update
I just use a script found here that seems to use MadWifi defaults. I have no idea why Ubuntu's module didn't work. I really don't know much about anything to help upstream with this. :P
It is supported, just badly.
It's an Atheros 5005G chipset, works fine with the supplied modules until I use WPA-EAP at university, where it will lock up the system every 2nd connection attempt. Compiling from source is the easiest way to fix it, but (back on topic) needs to be recompiled every kernel update.
Not to mention Apple sneaking in Safari with an iTunes critical update and many programs having regressions in updates.
Can we trust Apple not to issue a firmware update that makes the iPod stop working with 3rd party media players?
I myself keep everything updated (as much as Ubuntu repos let me anyway). But things like kernel updates force my to recompile my wifi driver so I can understand how people don't upgrade.
I have never had this happen to me. I use the Firegestures addon (adds mouse gestures) which uses right-click-drag and it may indirectly be fixing this.
Try it and see if it fixes it.
Wine is just an API computability layer, whilst DOSbox is an actual emulator which emulates the actual CPU.
If you want to see how cross-architecture Wine is it can run on PPC Macs using Qemu: http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/QemuWork
Mine is about:blank
I'm sure most people here just use a session manager
Ubuntu would lock up on me sometimes, but at university it was almost constant. Turned out to be the MadWifi driver would sometimes choke on WPA-PSK and always choked on WPA-EAP
I recompiled the MadWifi driver and haven't locked up since.
So YMMV.
Students coming home from high school is a plausible explanation.
The counter isn't really "Live". It just seems to update every 30 sec to give a new overall count and then JavaScript fakes the "Live"ness with the counts per second value. Similar to how Gmail's available space is continuously counting without any network activity.
Or more importantly keep them from grabbing your keystrokes when you type your bank passwords in
I put a camera in front of the screen...
All DRM is easily circumvented. You just loose the HD quality but the pirates still get to see the movie.
WHOOOOSH!!
What chipset/driver do you have?
My Aspire 3680 has an Atheros AR5005g with Madwifi (compiled from SVN because the regular module with Ubuntu crashes on WPA-EAP) and the switch works but the orange LED doesn't turn off.
This is where the boundary of OS and Application gets fuzzy.
Would the burning functionality of (eg) Nautilus be considered part of the OS since the entire Gnome environment can be removed and the OS is still functional?
However mounting an image with "mount -o loop image.iso" would be considered a part of the Linux/GNU OS.
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The Big Bang?Them my friend typed "netsend * Hello" and everybody would get a dialog box with "Hello" and his username. Instant 2 week block from loging in.
They can put advertising on the walls around the queue to the bathroom to pay for the free beer
Everyone wins