I'm not sure exactly what you mean. It sounds as though you're thinking a hacker is a bad thing. In my book, hackers are the people that make things *work*. They hack together code to create usable projects - not just software, but many different useful tools. Software just seems to be the biggest, most recognizable. Adopting Linux does seem to encourage this behaviour, however. Maybe it's the easy access to many different distributions? Maybe, it's because all the source is easily obtainable, making it easier for less experienced people to see *how* things work?
Maybe it's because, straight out of the box, it comes with all the needed tools to create c/c++, perl, html, etc... I dunno, seemed to work for me when I started using it 4 years ago.
My thoughts exactly. It's a scary thought to think how many *more* vulnerabilities might be in win9x/nt *if* only we had the source to look at. When development models are closed, the general public *assumes* that the developer plugged up all the holes. When source is released, however, *everyone* can see the holes and plug them up - thereby eliminating (or at least minimizing) security concerns.
I agree - performance is a key issue. However, 2d/3d acceleration has been available for Nvidia based cards for quite some time now (since 6/99 I believe). The old super-slow KDE logout hasn't been around since. Even at 32 bit. True, there is no 3d acceleleration at 32bpp, but, it'll happen. Nvidia has since opened their drivers and specs, and I suspect that the next set of drivers to be released will offer much better performance.
Don't give up just yet...
Technically speaking....
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Quite the technical article, very informative...
Gives whole new meaning to the phrase "Talking with a lisp."
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean. It sounds as though you're thinking a hacker is a bad thing. In my book, hackers are the people that make things *work*. They hack together code to create usable projects - not just software, but many different useful tools. Software just seems to be the biggest, most recognizable. Adopting Linux does seem to encourage this behaviour, however. Maybe it's the easy access to many different distributions? Maybe, it's because all the source is easily obtainable, making it easier for less experienced people to see *how* things work?
Maybe it's because, straight out of the box, it comes with all the needed tools to create c/c++, perl, html, etc... I dunno, seemed to work for me when I started using it 4 years ago.
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My thoughts exactly. It's a scary thought to think how many *more* vulnerabilities might be in win9x/nt *if* only we had the source to look at. When development models are closed, the general public *assumes* that the developer plugged up all the holes. When source is released, however, *everyone* can see the holes and plug them up - thereby eliminating (or at least minimizing) security concerns.
I agree - performance is a key issue. However, 2d/3d acceleration has been available for Nvidia based cards for quite some time now (since 6/99 I believe). The old super-slow KDE logout hasn't been around since. Even at 32 bit. True, there is no 3d acceleleration at 32bpp, but, it'll happen. Nvidia has since opened their drivers and specs, and I suspect that the next set of drivers to be released will offer much better performance.
Don't give up just yet...
Quite the technical article, very informative...
Gives whole new meaning to the phrase "Talking with a lisp."
Thorry, I'll thut up now...