I'm not really sure what you mean by "Major success". It certainly is not bad though, but Microsoft is simply doing what makes sense for them in terms of profit, legality, and to some extent, public opinion.
I'm not sure that it unfolded like that, unless you're talking about the comments on Slashdot. You would think that most people here would have grown out of the "M$" phase.
Yes, Microsoft publishing Linux kernel source code for their own benefit and because they were not aware that it was GPL licensed already. It's actually not that big of a deal, to quote Linux Format it's not like they're feeding poor people, this is in their best interest.
As someone mentioned in the original story, Microsoft does not write all of its code itself but sometimes hires other companies to write a specific tool for them. Such was the case here. As for it taking a week, I think that's a pretty short period of time for something to take in a bureaucracy.
It's still in pre-beta right now, a number of features haven't been ported to the new interface and it has a fair share of bugs but for most functionality it's great.
If you're looking for a build of 2.5 (As some people call it; I'm not sure why the 0 just disappeared) go to http://graphicall.org./
I agree. You wouldn't know that it was an app used by thousands of people if it wasn't for the pretty decent site design. I mean, on the list of the most boring sites of large open source projects ever, gimp.org is undeniably #1.
It does not seem to me that you have seen the Blender 2.50 UI yet. There's probably a better place to see it, but this gives an overview of the changes. I think they're excellent and make it all a lot more user-friendly.
Blender 2.50's UI is completely recoded. At least they know when to improve.
But honestly, although I had the same WTF moment when seeing Blender 3D for the first time, after a while it clicked. 2.4x's UI is definitely nowhere near as intuitive as 2.50's however, although the idea is roughly (Like, really roughly) the same.
I have kind of seen this coming. We all know that the current (Stable) UI is bad, not just the multiple windows part of it. I haven't seen an update to the GIMP, stable or unstable, for more than three months now. There doesn't seem to be the active community around GIMP that I was at least under the impression existed before. Learn from Blender, GIMP devs: Don't leave your site purely informational, listen to the community about the UI, build a community and promote it on your site and you are sure to stay in more distributions and attract more developers.
I'm not sure about being yelled at by the fanboys, but I don't think I've seen a single GIMP user, no matter how happy with GIMP, that doesn't want a Photoshop UI.
This was in all honesty a very stupid article. It's supposed to be funny- But it isn't, if I understand it right it's supposed to be in some way informative- But it's biased.
My vote at the moment would go to the European plug. It's reversible, even with ground and stays where it should- Unlike the Danish plug. If you pull on it a little bit accidentally- For example by pulling a vacuum cleaner a bit too far- It comes out and your vacuum stops. Not exactly as ingenious as this useless article said.
They seriously did? Another reason to dump these newfangled USB keyboards.
All I can think of is how useful a pressure-sensitive mouse would be in graphics. It would be a cheap alternative to a tablet, if you had a really steady hand.
Seems to me it's just the opposite; I can easily see it being mainstream for the next few years at least. And anyway, MySpace never grew at the same pace as facebook at any point, did it?
Also, MySpace seems to have more of a reputation for being for 13-17 year-olds and pedophiles, while facebook has more of an aura of an "Every-man's social network".
I pray that one day, the GNOME developers will realize that incremental change is extremely boring. I use GNOME, but seriously, I don't remember feeling much different about it two years ago. Two years ago KDE still had its plastic look, and now it's all glass and shiny stuff, what looks to the end user like they scrapped the entire code base and admitted "Ok that sucked, let's do something actually appealing this time". And it worked. And GNOME released another version, 2.2whatever, and nobody cared beyond the developers because nobody noticed a thing.
Instead of spouting junk on/. and having endless arguments about why Linux should or shouldn't be able to work as a desktop OS, let's go and fix one of those problems. I mean, there must be someone on here that can code, and you would have to be an idiot not to realize and/or admit that Linux distributions- Just like any other OSes- Have at least some serious problems. How about that?
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I'm not really sure what you mean by "Major success". It certainly is not bad though, but Microsoft is simply doing what makes sense for them in terms of profit, legality, and to some extent, public opinion.
I'm not sure that it unfolded like that, unless you're talking about the comments on Slashdot. You would think that most people here would have grown out of the "M$" phase.
Yes, Microsoft publishing Linux kernel source code for their own benefit and because they were not aware that it was GPL licensed already. It's actually not that big of a deal, to quote Linux Format it's not like they're feeding poor people, this is in their best interest.
The tool in question puts a downloaded Windows 7 installer on a USB or DVD automagically.
As someone mentioned in the original story, Microsoft does not write all of its code itself but sometimes hires other companies to write a specific tool for them. Such was the case here. As for it taking a week, I think that's a pretty short period of time for something to take in a bureaucracy.
It's good that Microsoft took responsibility for this, kudos to them.
Wouldn't that rule out a whole lot of ISPs and governments?
It's still in pre-beta right now, a number of features haven't been ported to the new interface and it has a fair share of bugs but for most functionality it's great. If you're looking for a build of 2.5 (As some people call it; I'm not sure why the 0 just disappeared) go to http://graphicall.org./
I agree. You wouldn't know that it was an app used by thousands of people if it wasn't for the pretty decent site design. I mean, on the list of the most boring sites of large open source projects ever, gimp.org is undeniably #1.
It does not seem to me that you have seen the Blender 2.50 UI yet. There's probably a better place to see it, but this gives an overview of the changes. I think they're excellent and make it all a lot more user-friendly.
Blender 2.50's UI is completely recoded. At least they know when to improve. But honestly, although I had the same WTF moment when seeing Blender 3D for the first time, after a while it clicked. 2.4x's UI is definitely nowhere near as intuitive as 2.50's however, although the idea is roughly (Like, really roughly) the same.
I have kind of seen this coming. We all know that the current (Stable) UI is bad, not just the multiple windows part of it. I haven't seen an update to the GIMP, stable or unstable, for more than three months now. There doesn't seem to be the active community around GIMP that I was at least under the impression existed before. Learn from Blender, GIMP devs: Don't leave your site purely informational, listen to the community about the UI, build a community and promote it on your site and you are sure to stay in more distributions and attract more developers.
I'm not sure about being yelled at by the fanboys, but I don't think I've seen a single GIMP user, no matter how happy with GIMP, that doesn't want a Photoshop UI.
This was in all honesty a very stupid article. It's supposed to be funny- But it isn't, if I understand it right it's supposed to be in some way informative- But it's biased. My vote at the moment would go to the European plug. It's reversible, even with ground and stays where it should- Unlike the Danish plug. If you pull on it a little bit accidentally- For example by pulling a vacuum cleaner a bit too far- It comes out and your vacuum stops. Not exactly as ingenious as this useless article said.
It's Moterola's fault for making such a crappy device that the firmware can be bypassed like that. And once it's possible, it has to be done, right?
As I said in a reply to my own post, MHZ, not GHZ. But the reply doesn't seem to have appeared.
Full Ubuntu runs quite nicely on my 256mb/366ghz 11 year old laptop, so I would disagree.
They seriously did? Another reason to dump these newfangled USB keyboards. All I can think of is how useful a pressure-sensitive mouse would be in graphics. It would be a cheap alternative to a tablet, if you had a really steady hand.
You stole my comment, or at least the title.
Seems to me it's just the opposite; I can easily see it being mainstream for the next few years at least. And anyway, MySpace never grew at the same pace as facebook at any point, did it? Also, MySpace seems to have more of a reputation for being for 13-17 year-olds and pedophiles, while facebook has more of an aura of an "Every-man's social network".
I pray that one day, the GNOME developers will realize that incremental change is extremely boring. I use GNOME, but seriously, I don't remember feeling much different about it two years ago. Two years ago KDE still had its plastic look, and now it's all glass and shiny stuff, what looks to the end user like they scrapped the entire code base and admitted "Ok that sucked, let's do something actually appealing this time". And it worked. And GNOME released another version, 2.2whatever, and nobody cared beyond the developers because nobody noticed a thing.
Instead of spouting junk on /. and having endless arguments about why Linux should or shouldn't be able to work as a desktop OS, let's go and fix one of those problems. I mean, there must be someone on here that can code, and you would have to be an idiot not to realize and/or admit that Linux distributions- Just like any other OSes- Have at least some serious problems. How about that?