...all this news of major instability. I run KDE 4.5.5 with a Radeon HD 4570 on my laptop and it's very stable. It's also performs well enough. And that's with compositing enabled...
What tosh!
Everyone knows that EQ is just a load of horeshit made up my moronic HR people who can't compete intellectually but
have a burning desire to feel superior on some level or other, never mind the fact that they're all incompetent retards.
Another problem is the fact that it has very poor crash recovery options. I losted a whole home partition thanks to the BTRFS getting corrupted on some level or other due to a power outage during as read operation, of all things. Not cool.
Come of it, it's not *THAT* hard to run multiple versions of Python at once. In fact, it's mostly pretty easy. This is one reason why I use a proper IDE for my python work now. It tends to handle multiple python versions very well.
I have no faith in this being any good. Ridley Scott used to make good movies. Blade Runner and Alien are examples. Since the end of the 80's though he has mostly gone to pot, producing
awful movie after awful movie.
Now if you had a time machine you could just travel back to my country (South Africa) 40 years ago and "enjoy" all that crackpot shit without bothering anyone.
...needs to be shot.
Mandriva is still the best desktop linux distro out there. Ubuntu is made of fail because it loves Gnomes. OpenSuse is made of fail because it's full of clunky "enterprise" (Another word for "crap") admin stuff. Fedora is made of fail because RedHat is more interested in RHEL than anything else.
That leaves Mandriva. It's fast, it's free (Despite OP might think. Hint: Try visiting the Mandriva website and clicking on the Download link...), boasts great repos, wonderful configuration tools and is all round a top noch desktop experience. It's what I use at work because I need a distro I can rely on to install right, work properly and not throw up a fuss when it comes to installing software, playing music and getting things done.
I've tried Haiku builds in VMWare and VBox now and then.
Frankly, I get the feeling BeOS was 90% marketing hype and 10% fanboys hype.
Maybe back when it started out it had a shot at being relevant, but that fell away when they failed to make any market headway in any direction.
Haiku is cute and it's nice to see all these people claiming that it's so responsive, etc, etc, etc but honestly, it's not as though there are any running instances of Haiku at the moment loaded up with more than a trivial set of software. My Linux work system, on the other hand, is busy running multiple web-browsers, multiple database servers, a full-text search engine and VirtualBox without breaking a sweat.
it's easy to think your horse is fast when it's not loaded down with anything that impedes its movement.
...I find Windows 7 pleasant to use. I run it via VirtualBox at work in order to doing Windows-platform testing (Because in web-dev IE running through Wine is not always the same as IE running on Windows) and the performance level is actually great, as compared to XP running in VirtualBox which performs only moderately well. Maybe this "performance" is just a responsive GUI and nothing else, but I'm not complaining:-)
Took a look at the Free60 Wiki. Getting a 360 to run homebrew is a rather painful and involved process. By comparison, softmodding a wii is childs play.
A common refrain, but not necessarily true. By and large UNIX-based OSes have proven themselves far harder to penetrate in general with regards to security and I personally do not believe the rota "If your OS had a 90% marker share it'd be spammed by viruses too..." retoric of windows apologists.
When it comes down to it, Windows is just plain insecure and no amount of arguing to the contrary and sidelining into market shares will change this fact.
If, the day after tomorrow, all Windows machines suddenly became Macs running OS X there would be a marked drop in malware infection levels that would not suddenly ramp up again in a few months as malware authors adjusted. Personally, I think most malware authors are simply not on the level of the people attending the Black Hat conferences and could barely make the leap from Pascal to C without some hand holding...
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Google AsbestOS. PS3 Linux is already back.
...all this news of major instability. I run KDE 4.5.5 with a Radeon HD 4570 on my laptop and it's very stable. It's also performs well enough. And that's with compositing enabled...
Woah, so every transcode something into x264 using handbrake I shoudl be paying?
As an SA resident I was under the impression that thieves here usually dump the SIM card as soon as they steal a phone for precisely this reason...
Not that common, really. I live in Cape Town and power outages are rare here.
What tosh! Everyone knows that EQ is just a load of horeshit made up my moronic HR people who can't compete intellectually but have a burning desire to feel superior on some level or other, never mind the fact that they're all incompetent retards.
Another problem is the fact that it has very poor crash recovery options. I losted a whole home partition thanks to the BTRFS getting corrupted on some level or other due to a power outage during as read operation, of all things. Not cool.
Indeed. Ones admin skills should extend beyond the "Click to install ALL upgrades" style anyway.
Come of it, it's not *THAT* hard to run multiple versions of Python at once. In fact, it's mostly pretty easy. This is one reason why I use a proper IDE for my python work now. It tends to handle multiple python versions very well.
I disagree. I run Sabayon linux and I find the rolling release system actually works very well.
I have no faith in this being any good. Ridley Scott used to make good movies. Blade Runner and Alien are examples. Since the end of the 80's though he has mostly gone to pot, producing awful movie after awful movie.
Meh, I'll stick with my XTreamer thanks. Cheap, flexibly and useful.
Now if you had a time machine you could just travel back to my country (South Africa) 40 years ago and "enjoy" all that crackpot shit without bothering anyone.
I'm running Chromium right this second. What are you on about?
...needs to be shot. Mandriva is still the best desktop linux distro out there. Ubuntu is made of fail because it loves Gnomes. OpenSuse is made of fail because it's full of clunky "enterprise" (Another word for "crap") admin stuff. Fedora is made of fail because RedHat is more interested in RHEL than anything else. That leaves Mandriva. It's fast, it's free (Despite OP might think. Hint: Try visiting the Mandriva website and clicking on the Download link...), boasts great repos, wonderful configuration tools and is all round a top noch desktop experience. It's what I use at work because I need a distro I can rely on to install right, work properly and not throw up a fuss when it comes to installing software, playing music and getting things done.
I've tried Haiku builds in VMWare and VBox now and then. Frankly, I get the feeling BeOS was 90% marketing hype and 10% fanboys hype. Maybe back when it started out it had a shot at being relevant, but that fell away when they failed to make any market headway in any direction. Haiku is cute and it's nice to see all these people claiming that it's so responsive, etc, etc, etc but honestly, it's not as though there are any running instances of Haiku at the moment loaded up with more than a trivial set of software. My Linux work system, on the other hand, is busy running multiple web-browsers, multiple database servers, a full-text search engine and VirtualBox without breaking a sweat. it's easy to think your horse is fast when it's not loaded down with anything that impedes its movement.
Meh. Your post fills me with a desire to say: nyerr-nyerr-nyerr Which is a first for me.
Tested this on my own system, using my Linux dev box to attack Windows 7 running inside VirtualBox 3. No luck, Windows just sits there.
I hated Fable from the get go. Take a guess what I think of this :-)
...I find Windows 7 pleasant to use. I run it via VirtualBox at work in order to doing Windows-platform testing (Because in web-dev IE running through Wine is not always the same as IE running on Windows) and the performance level is actually great, as compared to XP running in VirtualBox which performs only moderately well. Maybe this "performance" is just a responsive GUI and nothing else, but I'm not complaining :-)
Took a look at the Free60 Wiki. Getting a 360 to run homebrew is a rather painful and involved process. By comparison, softmodding a wii is childs play.
A common refrain, but not necessarily true. By and large UNIX-based OSes have proven themselves far harder to penetrate in general with regards to security and I personally do not believe the rota "If your OS had a 90% marker share it'd be spammed by viruses too..." retoric of windows apologists.
When it comes down to it, Windows is just plain insecure and no amount of arguing to the contrary and sidelining into market shares will change this fact.
If, the day after tomorrow, all Windows machines suddenly became Macs running OS X there would be a marked drop in malware infection levels that would not suddenly ramp up again in a few months as malware authors adjusted. Personally, I think most malware authors are simply not on the level of the people attending the Black Hat conferences and could barely make the leap from Pascal to C without some hand holding...
Not just many languages, many GOOD languages :-)
This has not been the case since NetBeans 5.5.
The current release, NetBeans 6.7 supports:
Java
C/C++
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
JavaScript
Scheme
Also, at this point, NetBeans beats Eclipse hands down when it comes to speed, stability and installation size.
Pish pish, US cities? Don't make me laugh? Try Rio or Johannesburg if you're looking for crime.