I know that a portion of the Open Solaris code is closed source. Will this hamper any effort to actually fork it? I'm asking from a place of ignorance, as I just know that "some code" is closed, but I'm not sure if it's the code that would be essential to actually forking the project.
I remember seeing him on PBS when I was a child. He really made astronomy fun to think about. Because of him I got my first telescope!
Between him and Carl Sagan, a lifelong interest in the universe was spawned.
If I could play the Valve games, and if WoW supported a hardware cursor in Open GL, I'd ditch Windows 7 in a heartbeat. At this point those are the only things keeping on Windows.
Normally I don't buy in to these types of conspiracy theories, but the wording you use there really does sound like an Apple employee that gets paid to post this type of crap to message boards...
It reads like it was written, and approved of, by a marketing team...
It's okay, she let Alaska off the hook. She quit half way through her first term. In conservative-land, this is now a courageous move, that shows leadership.
Have you tried playing WoW or HL2 lately? Both games have had engine improvements over the years, that have made their support in Wine very shaky. WoW in Wine runs like crap compared to the Mac or Win ports of the game, and the last time I tried using it, I couldn't even get it to display WoW's cursor properly. Nothing I would put up with when trying to raid.
Same with HL2. they have patched in the newest version of the Source engine to it, with the dynamic shadows and other features, and it runs like ass in Wine these days. It runs as good as Left4Dead and TF2 do, and that's not saying much.
So yes, my "10 year old 2D" comment was unfair, but the examples you just gave pretty much confirm the point I was making. WoW will run, but nothing I would consider stable enough to raid with, and HL2 support has decreased over the years, to now be in line with Team Fortress 2 and Left4Dead...
Serious question: Have you actually tried to use Wine for running new games? By new I mean games made within the past 5 years. I actually have, and let me tell you, Wine is no replacement for Windows when it comes to gaming. Not even close. Unless you only play 10 year old 2D games, you're not going to have a whole lot of fun playing games with Wine. Even the games that are on Wine's platinum list do not run full speed, are full of graphical glitches, and really just look like they're running in an emulator.
As someone who would love to see better game support for Linux, and be done with MS forever, it annoys me to see people hyping up Wine as if it were actually a replacement for Windows and gaming.
With that type of misinformation out there it does two negative things: A) People try Linux/Wine, and see for themselves that it doesn't do a great job on modern games, and then blame Linux as a whole for it. B) It gives the impression that no work is needed, because Wine plays everything just fine.
Except most citizens can't also offer the politician they're lobbying a free vacation on a private jet, or funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to their campaign fund. And thanks to the recent SC decision, they can now throw money at political campaigns with no restrictions.
You make the mistake of assuming they aren't lobbying for this.
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I know that a portion of the Open Solaris code is closed source. Will this hamper any effort to actually fork it? I'm asking from a place of ignorance, as I just know that "some code" is closed, but I'm not sure if it's the code that would be essential to actually forking the project.
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I remember seeing him on PBS when I was a child. He really made astronomy fun to think about. Because of him I got my first telescope! Between him and Carl Sagan, a lifelong interest in the universe was spawned.
Not this again... Phoronix offers no quote from anyone at Valve, and the link they refer doesn't either. It's a rumor.
That is pretty bad. A native client would run full speed. Sometimes Wine just doesn't cut it.
This is where they should just say "we officially support Ubuntu at this time, and you're free to try it out on other distros."
If I could play the Valve games, and if WoW supported a hardware cursor in Open GL, I'd ditch Windows 7 in a heartbeat. At this point those are the only things keeping on Windows.
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/apache-foundation-hit-targeted-xss-attack-041310
Ok here you go.
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/apache-foundation-hit-targeted-xss-attack-041310
Didn't the Apache Foundation have one of their main machines that host the web server get a trojan, which compromised the machine?
Honestly if you're worried with local tampering, then no OS in the world is going to be secure at that site...
If it's a non-story then why did Linus patch it today? Apparently he didn't agree with your flippant way of looking at OS security.
"Nothing to see here....." says Lt. Frank Drebin, as the fireworks factory behind him burns to the ground.
Are you actually that dense?
But liars love to use numbers!
Normally I don't buy in to these types of conspiracy theories, but the wording you use there really does sound like an Apple employee that gets paid to post this type of crap to message boards...
It reads like it was written, and approved of, by a marketing team...
Honestly, if you're having to reformat Windows every few months, it's a user problem.
Oh the humanity!
Let me just open up my PDF reader and see what thi
It's okay, she let Alaska off the hook. She quit half way through her first term. In conservative-land, this is now a courageous move, that shows leadership.
Have you tried playing WoW or HL2 lately? Both games have had engine improvements over the years, that have made their support in Wine very shaky. WoW in Wine runs like crap compared to the Mac or Win ports of the game, and the last time I tried using it, I couldn't even get it to display WoW's cursor properly. Nothing I would put up with when trying to raid.
Same with HL2. they have patched in the newest version of the Source engine to it, with the dynamic shadows and other features, and it runs like ass in Wine these days. It runs as good as Left4Dead and TF2 do, and that's not saying much.
So yes, my "10 year old 2D" comment was unfair, but the examples you just gave pretty much confirm the point I was making. WoW will run, but nothing I would consider stable enough to raid with, and HL2 support has decreased over the years, to now be in line with Team Fortress 2 and Left4Dead...
Serious question: Have you actually tried to use Wine for running new games? By new I mean games made within the past 5 years. I actually have, and let me tell you, Wine is no replacement for Windows when it comes to gaming. Not even close. Unless you only play 10 year old 2D games, you're not going to have a whole lot of fun playing games with Wine. Even the games that are on Wine's platinum list do not run full speed, are full of graphical glitches, and really just look like they're running in an emulator.
As someone who would love to see better game support for Linux, and be done with MS forever, it annoys me to see people hyping up Wine as if it were actually a replacement for Windows and gaming.
With that type of misinformation out there it does two negative things: A) People try Linux/Wine, and see for themselves that it doesn't do a great job on modern games, and then blame Linux as a whole for it. B) It gives the impression that no work is needed, because Wine plays everything just fine.
This will revolutionize the way we use iPads!!!!
A small penis isn't the only thing you'll need to compensate for!
Except most citizens can't also offer the politician they're lobbying a free vacation on a private jet, or funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to their campaign fund. And thanks to the recent SC decision, they can now throw money at political campaigns with no restrictions.
You make the mistake of assuming they aren't lobbying for this.