Actually tehre is some project called UFO2000,\ (or XCOM2000) which is a free XCOM. But i cannot remember the homepage and it was very very far from finished.
There is also LinCity which is a simcity clone, FreeCraft which is a warcraft clone, and NiL which is a liero clone.
Well people complain that sequels are worse. And some point to "good" ones. (Like star wars not counting EP1).
Yes it's true that most of the sequels, written after the success of first movie, are bad.
But if the story was written, and shot, in more than one piece, it changes.
For example Titanic II would be bad, because they have to "make up" things. But, "the emprire strikes back" was good, because the story included that from the beginning.
When the previous releases were announced there were many people posting comments that told, "Konqi is much better than Moz". Today I cannot see them. (Maybe this is due to I'm browsing at +2, anyway).
The exception is for programs that call linux system calls directly (eg: interrupts).
It's not for regular programs. Programs linked to libc does not need it anyway.
[ Linux application does not specifically "require" linux. They require an ELF loader and some dynamic bindings. If you'd supply them for Windows, you can natively run Linux applications on Windows. Thus ordinary Linux cannot violate GPL, unless they do not claim to run on Linux ]
Well today standalone web browsers may be a big thing, but this surely will change.
By the introduction of the.NET service, web browsers (%90 of them, eg: IE) will become "web platforms". Everybody will access their applications via IE.
That day konqi will not have even the slightest chance to stand against IE. Even Linux would die, if it didn't have moz.
* Re: Moz stability. its also slow on Windows on an Athlonn 500 / 128, a Pii 400 w/ 128, a PII 300 running at 450 w/ 128. I've also ran it on my friends machines who are Mozilla fans and consider their installations to be fast. I still consider its GUI incredibly slow on these machines, and I think people who look and run mozilla objectively would agree.
What are they using? I am using 0.9.1 now, and since 0.9 it is rock solid and fast! (My machine is NT4 running on PIII 700 with 192MB RAM). Everyone looking over my shoulder asks what this beautiful thingie is...
In the old days (windows days) every application semmed to be ablt to "talk to" and "incorperate with" each other.
Later I found the true way. There came Linux and after a painful 6 months I was able to do most of my job on the command line. The applications were still coorperating with each other. Oh, yes there was X, too with ugly but "coorperating" motif applications.
Then the dark side of the code emerged. We were all bound with project who do not like each other and all duplicating efforts. (see: KDE, GNOME and 80 million media players). I was unable to undestand all the *.desktop and *.nautilus horrors.
At last the sun starts to shine again. People start to realize that choices are good (vi/emacs/rhide) but code duplication (KDE/GNOME) and uncoorperation is not (*.desktop, *.nautilus).
I only wonder when the Moz/Konqi was will be over.
me too!
Well i have been using slackware for the last 4 years. Yes, i admit i 'tried' to switch. But i failed!
The reason i chose linux was it gave back the freedom windows took from me. (DOS was free enough). But when i installed RedHad, it took only a few hours to uninstall it, because it allowed 'no customization' other than that's available (i had a nonstandard lan card, with a nonstandard module name, which linuxconf couldn't configure).
Two days ago i tried to switch to Debian. A read all the docs until i found that, it does no allow me touch any part of the distro other than/usr/local. Adding the fact that i do not like SysV init, i gave up.
I will download slackware-current begin using autoslack, no borders, no problems, long live slack!
(Not this is not a TROLL i am really confused)
i checked the article. it says (as an answer to a post), moz-qt uses chrome. They why would we need the port anyway?
I think i am wrong somewhere. QT is a toolkit and moz is 'toolkit-independant'. So what is the point in the port? What parts of QT does moz use?
Making wine compatibility layer is a good thing (TM). But it is painful, and development will take years to complete.
If all we need is running games on linux, why don't we emulate consoles?
Until two years ago the only console available (with good games) was the PlayStation and there existed no emulator for Linux. Even freeware Windows emulators fade away.
The main problem with PlayStation emulators was they had to emulate too many thing (the CPU, the Memory [aka BigEndian], Video hardware, ROM, joystick, cdrom, etc,...)
But the upcoming consoles (aka XBox) are more similar to the PC. So it may be more feasible to implement a Xbox (or gamecube) compatibility layer than implementing a windows compatiblity layer.
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Does anyone remember the DOOM 3 demo movie? It was more like "Resident Evil" style game than a FPS.
(Please do not get me wrong. I really would like to see RE4 on DOOM3 engine).
There is also LinCity which is a simcity clone, FreeCraft which is a warcraft clone, and NiL which is a liero clone.
(Not to mention GnoMines...)
Yes it's true that most of the sequels, written after the success of first movie, are bad.
But if the story was written, and shot, in more than one piece, it changes.
For example Titanic II would be bad, because they have to "make up" things. But, "the emprire strikes back" was good, because the story included that from the beginning.
(Sorry for my bad english)
But the problem is, for every little strip, you have to wait for at least a day. When you but a book, you get hundreds of strips in one step.
I doubt microsoft can ignore all these systems. People will not easily dump their workstations for NT...
But, who cares? The games in the list are good, and the #1 is definately the #1!
(By the way, I still prefer DOOM to "anything" else over LAN)
When the previous releases were announced there were many people posting comments that told, "Konqi is much better than Moz". Today I cannot see them. (Maybe this is due to I'm browsing at +2, anyway).
GCC 3.0 is in /contrib. It comes with a 2.9.x version as default.
Silly! But cannot the authot claim the name comes from "kill us traitor"?
Most of the browsers tend to gUNzip files they download. The file was is .tar.gz format. It was just saved uncompressed after you downloaded.
It's not for regular programs. Programs linked to libc does not need it anyway.
[ Linux application does not specifically "require" linux. They require an ELF loader and some dynamic bindings. If you'd supply them for Windows, you can natively run Linux applications on Windows. Thus ordinary Linux cannot violate GPL, unless they do not claim to run on Linux ]
By the introduction of the .NET service, web browsers (%90 of them, eg: IE) will become "web platforms". Everybody will access their applications via IE.
That day konqi will not have even the slightest chance to stand against IE. Even Linux would die, if it didn't have moz.
People do not seem to look from this side.
In the old days (windows days) every application semmed to be ablt to "talk to" and "incorperate with" each other.
Later I found the true way. There came Linux and after a painful 6 months I was able to do most of my job on the command line. The applications were still coorperating with each other. Oh, yes there was X, too with ugly but "coorperating" motif applications.
Then the dark side of the code emerged. We were all bound with project who do not like each other and all duplicating efforts. (see: KDE, GNOME and 80 million media players). I was unable to undestand all the *.desktop and *.nautilus horrors.
At last the sun starts to shine again. People start to realize that choices are good (vi/emacs/rhide) but code duplication (KDE/GNOME) and uncoorperation is not (*.desktop, *.nautilus).
I only wonder when the Moz/Konqi was will be over.
Well, abiword is also using XML to save data. Just open an abiword file, it's not even compressed!
Note: There is also a gzipped abiword format, I am not talking about that
Well also slackware-current has mozilla. This means slackware will be the one of the first distributions to include moz.
me too! /usr/local. Adding the fact that i do not like SysV init, i gave up.
Well i have been using slackware for the last 4 years. Yes, i admit i 'tried' to switch. But i failed!
The reason i chose linux was it gave back the freedom windows took from me. (DOS was free enough). But when i installed RedHad, it took only a few hours to uninstall it, because it allowed 'no customization' other than that's available (i had a nonstandard lan card, with a nonstandard module name, which linuxconf couldn't configure).
Two days ago i tried to switch to Debian. A read all the docs until i found that, it does no allow me touch any part of the distro other than
I will download slackware-current begin using autoslack, no borders, no problems, long live slack!
(Not this is not a TROLL i am really confused)
i checked the article. it says (as an answer to a post), moz-qt uses chrome. They why would we need the port anyway?
I think i am wrong somewhere. QT is a toolkit and moz is 'toolkit-independant'. So what is the point in the port? What parts of QT does moz use?
No i mean running comsole games on as native x86 code.
Then what is SDL for? (SDL is now used in many linux games for windows, etc. compatibility. It is developed by loki)
If all we need is running games on linux, why don't we emulate consoles?
Until two years ago the only console available (with good games) was the PlayStation and there existed no emulator for Linux. Even freeware Windows emulators fade away.
The main problem with PlayStation emulators was they had to emulate too many thing (the CPU, the Memory [aka BigEndian], Video hardware, ROM, joystick, cdrom, etc, ...)
But the upcoming consoles (aka XBox) are more similar to the PC. So it may be more feasible to implement a Xbox (or gamecube) compatibility layer than implementing a windows compatiblity layer.
You mean koules is not a Linux game! :)
You must be joking...
There is also freemware (now called plex86) available at http://www.plex86.org, which is an open source clone of VMWare.
They'll release their code in AFPL (aladin free public license) which is not completely free. You won't be able to make commercial products out of it.
They also talk about subscription licensing. They will steer according to the need of their customers (aka subscribers).
[btw: ie just make me kill one of my download by poping it up at a random time! how can we turn of this crap?]
So what is the license to thier code? Will we be tied to them for future improvments (like darwin)?