Now that Mac OS 10 can run XFree, calling it "OS X" is no longer misleading. Forgive me if I sound a bit weird, but to me "Mac OS X Server" suggests X11 ported to Mac OS.
They wouldn't need to rewrite GIMP just to hack in CMYK. They'd just figure out a way to link a grayscale (K) channel to an RGB (aka [1 1 1]^T - CMY) channel. And if you want prepress, that's why there's something called "plugins." It would be really cool if some fella made a plugin adapter (Lesser GPL) that let WinPhotoshop plugins run in WinGIMP. Any takers?
> to launch a program you double click it Except that so many unix programs have no GUI's. Double clicking those will do nothing.
One way of coding in a fix for this would be to insert code into the graphical shell so that if an app isn't linked against libX11, it gets an rxvt. This would be similar to the terminal window that DOS programs and some Windows programs pull up.
So they have an X server on OS 10. Does this mean "OS X" is no longer false advertising, specially in the "Mac OS X Server" department?
Now all XFree86.org needs to do is get its server running on OS 10 (if it works on iMac and G4 under netbsd-ppc it'll be no sweat); then it'll really be OS X.
the PUBLIC RELEASE is occuring late this summer (as previously scheduled) as a "public beta" rather than a 1.0, ala W2K
But will this beta expire? "This public beta version of Mac OS X has expired. To start your computer, purchase and install the official release version. It is now safe to switch off your computer."
features and misfeatures of X. (running graphical programs on other machines on the network, no integration of graphics into the kernel, etc.)
I saw two features and no misfeatures. Aren't buggy video drivers running in kernelspace one of the problems that make Windows NT Workstation (and Windows 2000 Professional) so unstable?
Will this public beta version expire (must set back system clock with OS 9 boot disk to boot the system again) when Mac OS 10 is scheduled to be released?
...you even link to GPLed libraries then you need to release the source code to your software
Which means it's illegal to release a GPL'd plugin for Winamp, right? Winamp plugins are DLLs, which are dynamically linked to the closed-source audio player. Or would Winamp be part of the "operating system" the plugin runs on under section 3 of the GNU GPL?
The invention in U.S. Patent 6,foo,bar may be used freely in any software program that complies with the
Open Source Definition as published by the Open Source Initiative.
these problems (eg, assumptions of 100% CPU access) are present in the API as well
Sorry, but you're right. Allegro was originally written for DOS. As such, it didn't get sleeping routines until 3.9.32, it displays the mouse cursor as a sprite in the game window, and it draws all graphics by blitting from an internal framebuffer to the X11 screen. But it also runs on framebuffer-console (fbcon), and many of the problems you experienced are gone. (If you care about cpu usage, why are you running an Allegro game on the server anyway?)
But it's still beta. Try Allegro 3.9.32 (from the Work in Progress page); it's quite stable now.
emulator is, namely, that which emulates (tries to act like, but is not) an origial product.
So the second system to implement an API is the emulator? All X11 servers but the first implementation (incl. XF86) are emulators, right? And all Java VMs other than the first are emulators, right? And the GNU system is a UNIX® system emulator, right? Microsoft IIS is an NCSA-httpd (now Apache Server) emulator?
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GNOME's VB-compatible scripting host is sandboxed; scripts can't touch anything outside their sandbox.
Now that Mac OS 10 can run XFree, calling it "OS X" is no longer misleading. Forgive me if I sound a bit weird, but to me "Mac OS X Server" suggests X11 ported to Mac OS.
They wouldn't need to rewrite GIMP just to hack in CMYK. They'd just figure out a way to link a grayscale (K) channel to an RGB (aka [1 1 1]^T - CMY) channel. And if you want prepress, that's why there's something called "plugins." It would be really cool if some fella made a plugin adapter (Lesser GPL) that let WinPhotoshop plugins run in WinGIMP. Any takers?
> to launch a program you double click it
Except that so many unix programs have no GUI's. Double clicking those will do nothing.
One way of coding in a fix for this would be to insert code into the graphical shell so that if an app isn't linked against libX11, it gets an rxvt. This would be similar to the terminal window that DOS programs and some Windows programs pull up.
No, it merely restricts it to "any copyleft license". Artistic and NPL may qualify.
X Windows runnings on top of Darwin
So they have an X server on OS 10. Does this mean "OS X" is no longer false advertising, specially in the "Mac OS X Server" department?
Now all XFree86.org needs to do is get its server running on OS 10 (if it works on iMac and G4 under netbsd-ppc it'll be no sweat); then it'll really be OS X.
the PUBLIC RELEASE is occuring late this summer (as previously scheduled) as a "public beta" rather than a 1.0, ala W2K
But will this beta expire? "This public beta version of Mac OS X has expired. To start your computer, purchase and install the official release version. It is now safe to switch off your computer."
features and misfeatures of X. (running graphical programs on other machines on the network, no integration of graphics into the kernel, etc.)
I saw two features and no misfeatures. Aren't buggy video drivers running in kernelspace one of the problems that make Windows NT Workstation (and Windows 2000 Professional) so unstable?
and then spend $500 on photoshop for windows
Are you saying The GIMP isn't advanced enough yet? It runs just fine for me on Sindows 98.
x11(which generally is much too ugly for a mac user to stand
Or the Aqua themes for GTK and Sawmill that look so not ugly, Apple is suing?
lets see is it "#start x", "#start x windows", hmmmmm how about
How about gdm? 100% GUI from startup to shutdown.
# tell application "X" to open
Interesting... I wonder why nobody has made a CLI shell for Mac OS yet, based on AppleScript and the Open Scripting Architecture.
Will this public beta version expire (must set back system clock with OS 9 boot disk to boot the system again) when Mac OS 10 is scheduled to be released?
browse a few of the patent documents ... converted them to gifs
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black; the compression behind GIF itself is patented. On the other hand, had you said PNG images...
Which means it's illegal to release a GPL'd plugin for Winamp, right? Winamp plugins are DLLs, which are dynamically linked to the closed-source audio player. Or would Winamp be part of the "operating system" the plugin runs on under section 3 of the GNU GPL?
How's that?
how many people really speak Z80 any more?
Game Boy programmers, graphing calculator programmers, etc. Have you been to Zilog's Z80 Microprocessor page?
Then remove the stylesheet markup with DeCSS :-)
(before you flame or mod down, CTFL (click the fscking link))Microsofts slogan for windows should be - "Windows98 - crashes loads but runs games really well. HONEST.".
So what you're saying is that Microsoft Windows is in essence a Wintendo.
bash-2.03$ info less
You forget,, less is more.
sign a support contract with someone like UNISYS, Compaq (ex DEC)
Buy support contracts from Compaq. Boycott Unisys for reasons discussed here.
The real world uses Windows 95 or 98, and Microsoft Office.
AbiWord is enough of a Word clone, and Gnumeric is enough of an Excel clone, that it almost doesn't matter.
It's a Coke® and Pepsi® issue. Some fellas like Mathematica; others (myself included) like Waterloo Maple. It depends on what your school pushes.
In other words, Mesa is to OpenGL as GNU is to UNIX.
these problems (eg, assumptions of 100% CPU access) are present in the API as well
Sorry, but you're right. Allegro was originally written for DOS. As such, it didn't get sleeping routines until 3.9.32, it displays the mouse cursor as a sprite in the game window, and it draws all graphics by blitting from an internal framebuffer to the X11 screen. But it also runs on framebuffer-console (fbcon), and many of the problems you experienced are gone. (If you care about cpu usage, why are you running an Allegro game on the server anyway?)
But it's still beta. Try Allegro 3.9.32 (from the Work in Progress page); it's quite stable now.
emulator is, namely, that which emulates (tries to act like, but is not) an origial product.
So the second system to implement an API is the emulator? All X11 servers but the first implementation (incl. XF86) are emulators, right? And all Java VMs other than the first are emulators, right? And the GNU system is a UNIX® system emulator, right? Microsoft IIS is an NCSA-httpd (now Apache Server) emulator?
Metacrawler now searches . But it seems that Microsoft's homepage has dropped off the top 30 on the more evil than Satan himself scale.
OpenGL ... No true Open-Source "implementations,"
Then what's Mesa? It implements the OpenGL API on several platforms.