I know when I run Puppy Linux, which fits entirely within ~30 megabytes of RAM, the system is the most responsive OS I've ever seen. No HDD caching means no slowdown or pregnant pauses.
Yeah, and modern heavyweight systems do the same: cache as much of the important OS stuff in memory as possible. Sure makes them faster, wouldn't you think?
Only idiots are going to click links containing "pharma" in the title and then enter their password on the resulting page when they know they're already logged in.
Closed-source software is designed not to play well with anything else, so open-source software gets more work towards adding that compatibility back in. Office 2007 documents don't look so bad in OpenOffice.org 3.1.
As for UI quirks, it's just a matter of getting a designer to work on the app, or even paying the developers to do it for you, or at least report the quirk. If the software is popular enough and your idea/report deemed valid enough, it'll be fixed or improved no problem, sometimes even by the app's original developer.
Just because the first- and second-world countries have more computers than they know what to do with, doesn't mean that the same goes for all those billions of people in other countries .
WoW is not a Linux game. If you want to make a good comparison, try installing a Linux game in Windows - it will require the same amount of effort (or more) to get working properly.
You're taking it a bit too far, or you haven't been looking very far, because there's plenty of originality in modern games if you know where to look (which is mostly NOT the mainstream). Many indie games are actually a very nice or interesting play, and there's even commercially sold (usually cheap) games that are a lot of fun because of their humor and personality.
Check out Psychonauts. And basically anything released by Telltale Games. Members of the old LucasArts games team have worked on those games.:)
As for indie games, there's Knytt Stories, and Cave Story, and World of Goo... Plenty to go around, actually. tigsource.com should help there, a lot of people there are also into retro gaming so there should be plenty of choice.
- mplayer WITHOUT an external hardware accelerated decoding library WILL be able to play 720p HD fine, mostly.
First-hand experience, I've done it for months when my netbook was my only laptop. And my netbook even was a pre-Atom one. Most HD video will be fine if you set it up correctly.
I'm not sure how true that is... ATI sure took away support for my card at some point, and not even all features worked before that (S-Video)...
I guess the argument is more about having a nice, open-source driver that anyone can work on and which has potential to actually become better than the prop driver at some point.
...They didn't actually finish or polish the game, hope that open-source devs will pick up the code to do it for them, and have open-source haters criticize how bad the game is and how it's all the fault of open-source, right?
ALL switching has costs, Microsoft upgrades cost as much as Switching to OSS lately and it will only get worse.
How did you get to that conclusion when you mentioned the point new hardware had to be bought for Windows 7 - where it wouldn't need to be bought for an open-source OS? These costs are now placed in training or something?
DSL also feels very outdated, won't support many new wireless cards because it uses an old kernel and generally feels very limited until the user downloads and installs more useful software from the software manager.
If you want to talk about light, good systems, pick a better subject. SliTaZ is pretty decent. Puppy is, too. Had a much better initial experience than I ever had with DSL.
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Actually, I've seen that exact comment before. It's probably half a joke.
Um... Linux and now Windows 7? It's called memory caching.
I know when I run Puppy Linux, which fits entirely within ~30 megabytes of RAM, the system is the most responsive OS I've ever seen. No HDD caching means no slowdown or pregnant pauses.
Yeah, and modern heavyweight systems do the same: cache as much of the important OS stuff in memory as possible. Sure makes them faster, wouldn't you think?
Plenty of floss to be made from sheepl wool.
Only idiots are going to click links containing "pharma" in the title and then enter their password on the resulting page when they know they're already logged in.
I guess that means plenty of victims on Twitter.
Closed-source software is designed not to play well with anything else, so open-source software gets more work towards adding that compatibility back in. Office 2007 documents don't look so bad in OpenOffice.org 3.1.
As for UI quirks, it's just a matter of getting a designer to work on the app, or even paying the developers to do it for you, or at least report the quirk. If the software is popular enough and your idea/report deemed valid enough, it'll be fixed or improved no problem, sometimes even by the app's original developer.
Millions.
Just because the first- and second-world countries have more computers than they know what to do with, doesn't mean that the same goes for all those billions of people in other countries .
WoW is not a Linux game. If you want to make a good comparison, try installing a Linux game in Windows - it will require the same amount of effort (or more) to get working properly.
So first you avoided/boycotted them, and now you won't (through pirating)? Huh.
You're taking it a bit too far, or you haven't been looking very far, because there's plenty of originality in modern games if you know where to look (which is mostly NOT the mainstream). Many indie games are actually a very nice or interesting play, and there's even commercially sold (usually cheap) games that are a lot of fun because of their humor and personality.
Check out Psychonauts. And basically anything released by Telltale Games. Members of the old LucasArts games team have worked on those games. :)
As for indie games, there's Knytt Stories, and Cave Story, and World of Goo... Plenty to go around, actually. tigsource.com should help there, a lot of people there are also into retro gaming so there should be plenty of choice.
No more free market? Way to go, guys.
Is the PS2 portable
Yes, but you'll likely miss out on the modding and homebrew capabilities.
and viable as a generic computer?
Only if you have a big one and get that commercial Linux distro from Sony.
I like paying programmers who do a good job, too. Guess I'll donate to the MPlayer project for a bit. Heck, they provide the codecs for free.
- mplayer WITHOUT an external hardware accelerated decoding library WILL be able to play 720p HD fine, mostly.
First-hand experience, I've done it for months when my netbook was my only laptop. And my netbook even was a pre-Atom one. Most HD video will be fine if you set it up correctly.
The PDA's at fault here, not the processor.
Xfce not so much. For example, I've been missing a way to set up the window and control colors - they're picked for you when you switch themes.
I'm not sure how true that is... ATI sure took away support for my card at some point, and not even all features worked before that (S-Video)...
I guess the argument is more about having a nice, open-source driver that anyone can work on and which has potential to actually become better than the prop driver at some point.
Why come with a 2.49-based book now, when 2.5 is just around the corner, sporting a completely revamped UI?
Because alternative OSes have started picking up more market share and general use ever since back then.
I'm not saying they should've ported it, I'm just answering your question about why you could expect ports to exist.
...They didn't actually finish or polish the game, hope that open-source devs will pick up the code to do it for them, and have open-source haters criticize how bad the game is and how it's all the fault of open-source, right?
ALL switching has costs, Microsoft upgrades cost as much as Switching to OSS lately and it will only get worse.
How did you get to that conclusion when you mentioned the point new hardware had to be bought for Windows 7 - where it wouldn't need to be bought for an open-source OS? These costs are now placed in training or something?
And you'll tell your visitors to browse your site with the W3C Validator?
Sure, though my validator is called Google Chrome.
...in 2014!
From the 4chan status blog:
Verizon should be unblocking boards.4chan.org later tonight.
I'll post a more detailed explanation tomorrow, but the issue is similar to the one we had with AT&T last year.
DSL also feels very outdated, won't support many new wireless cards because it uses an old kernel and generally feels very limited until the user downloads and installs more useful software from the software manager.
If you want to talk about light, good systems, pick a better subject. SliTaZ is pretty decent. Puppy is, too. Had a much better initial experience than I ever had with DSL.