Legacy OpenGL hardware can be a pain in the ass to support. You want to use shaders and all the latest OpenGL features but you can't because 90% of your user base is still using some old ass version of OpenGL.
It's really only been a grass roots movement, without serious backing from a company like Microsoft or Apple (or Google). Expecting a linux-based desktop to just explode without a huge marketing push is ridiculous.
For example, there have been other Linux-based phone operating systems. Non of them got very far until Google started pimping Android and it took over the market in short order.
Lets see Google or some other large company push a nice Linux desktop, say Ubuntu (or Valve;) ), and see if it fails.
Games are at the far fringes of a software stack. As you get further from the core (kernel / critical userland) free/open source software becomes less important.
Games are also different from most open source software, as they aren't a tool to do something. They're an artistic expression as well as a software program.
I love Deus Ex but it was Warren Spector and Harvey Smith's baby.
It's probably a good thing that Romero worked at a separate Ion Storm group, which was totally fucked up. It was so bad employee staged rebellions and walk outs.
Check out Masters of Doom, it goes into the whole Ion Storm/Romero cluster fuck. I quite enjoyed the book.
While I'd be first in line to try this out, isn't it a bit like what Microsoft and Windows 8 are getting railed for?
Google would be taking a tablet OS and trying to make it a desktop OS, which is a radically different paradigm. Windows 8 being the same thing in the opposite direction.
I wish they'd get rid of compiz or spend a lot of time optimizing it. I notice performance issues on high end hardware with Unity (which uses compiz) and horrible battery life.
But with GNOME 3's mutter window manager, it's smooth with decent battery life.
Compiz was the first major compositing window manager, so I wonder how much cruft is in the codebase.
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Technically all opengl implementations are supposed to fallback to software when features are unsupported in hardware.
But this article wasn't about the fucking User Experience.
You totally miss the point.
They were comparing how fast the application ran on the different platforms.
It wasn't a user experience benchmark.
That would actually be an interesting article.
Legacy OpenGL hardware can be a pain in the ass to support. You want to use shaders and all the latest OpenGL features but you can't because 90% of your user base is still using some old ass version of OpenGL.
You just need to start thinking fourth dimensionally.
Millions of windows users can't be wrong.
Whoohoo a headless DOS shell!
I'm not a lawyer either but I believe putting something in the public domain means you relinquish your copyright.
Has Linux really failed on the desktop?
It's really only been a grass roots movement, without serious backing from a company like Microsoft or Apple (or Google). Expecting a linux-based desktop to just explode without a huge marketing push is ridiculous.
For example, there have been other Linux-based phone operating systems. Non of them got very far until Google started pimping Android and it took over the market in short order.
Lets see Google or some other large company push a nice Linux desktop, say Ubuntu (or Valve ;) ), and see if it fails.
I totally agree.
Games are at the far fringes of a software stack. As you get further from the core (kernel / critical userland) free/open source software becomes less important.
Games are also different from most open source software, as they aren't a tool to do something. They're an artistic expression as well as a software program.
I love Deus Ex but it was Warren Spector and Harvey Smith's baby.
It's probably a good thing that Romero worked at a separate Ion Storm group, which was totally fucked up. It was so bad employee staged rebellions and walk outs.
Check out Masters of Doom, it goes into the whole Ion Storm/Romero cluster fuck. I quite enjoyed the book.
It indemnifies the original author from any damages arising from use of the software.
i.e. if some company uses it and their product kills 50 people, the original author can't be held liable.
Better ones than Romero, that's for sure.
Id's games are great but Romero's aren't event mediocre.
Why because they didn't market it like:
"THIS GAME IS GONNA SUCK ASS! Daikatana from Ion Storm... Coming Soon"
"The huge clusterfuck abomination of a game you've been waiting for... by John Romero and Ion Storm!"
That was doom, not quake.
While I'd be first in line to try this out, isn't it a bit like what Microsoft and Windows 8 are getting railed for?
Google would be taking a tablet OS and trying to make it a desktop OS, which is a radically different paradigm. Windows 8 being the same thing in the opposite direction.
Those bastards! Next thing you know, someone going to start building phones based on Linux!
I wish they'd get rid of compiz or spend a lot of time optimizing it. I notice performance issues on high end hardware with Unity (which uses compiz) and horrible battery life.
But with GNOME 3's mutter window manager, it's smooth with decent battery life.
Compiz was the first major compositing window manager, so I wonder how much cruft is in the codebase.
Go tell your fat, bald master that the barbarians are at the gate.
Who the fuck wants terrible J2ME apps on their smartphones?
Only on slashdot would a post this stupid get modded up.
That's almost correct, except Larry Ellison prefers to dress up like a woman and hide behind his lawyers.
And then hunt them like animals.
Why would you want a desktop app on a phone anyway?
Except for certain very narrow use cases, it's better to have an app written for phones.
Hell, ATI/AMD has been trying to make working OpenGL drivers for longer than that!
Stability for their legal department.