VMwares patent will be worthless because of prior art in the form of SCO's MERGE. VMWare is simply a linux clone of merge. The new features that VMWare has over merge are not at all revolutionary.
How odd. Researching your facts before posting helps avoid mistakes like this. SCO has had a program called MERGE for at least a year, and possibly more that virtualizes an x86 on an x86 running SCO unix. And it runs win95, so it isn't just a vm86 trick.
Its really funny when someone flames someone else for being stupid, and makes an equally (if not more) stupid mistake in their own post. Go check out the in progress Alpha port of FreeBSD. Good day.
no, you really don't understand. Bogomips aren't just an inaccurate benchmark, but they only have ANY meaning with the same type of CPUs, for example, you can't compare PIIs bogomips to a Pentium. Whole different architecures such as PPC and Intel is absolutely meaningless. At least office benchmarks, while very bad, aren't completly meaningless.
perhaps you simply did not read the post that you are replying to. the panel crashed for this person once per day, and automatically restarted itself. Quite different from the usual windows crashes.
First off, I use glibc2 because its threadsafe. However, I recommend getting the libc5 version of netscape because it is at least an order of magnitude more stable for me. Other's results may vary, but I went from netscape crashing every third time I closed a browser window to very rarely crashing. I'm now very happy with netscape's stability, which is not something I see very often among linux users.
regardless of whether you think the new QT license is good enough or not, the simple fact which all the redhat conspiracy theorists ignore is that QT 2.0 is STILL not out, and so the old license is still used for KDE 1.1. Don't let your personal hatred of redhat make you spout this stupidity.
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The point is that those insanely high frame rates let you increase the resolution. I get about the same frame rate at 1152x864 playing quake2 on my TNT than I used to at 640x480 before I sold my G200. And believe me, Quake looks a LOT better at super high resolutions.
I hope Gnome will one day have features KDE doesn't have. That way KDE can copy from Gnome as well....I hope Gnome will one day have features KDE doesn't have. That way KDE can copy from Gnome as well....
Yeah, I can hardly wait to see KDE copy a feature from gnome. I was really happy when I saw that Gnome would have themes just like KDE always has. Oh wait, we're still waiting for vaporware QT2.0 and the new license. Fool.
I used to have netscape crashing problems ALL the time, as in at least once a day. I finally solved it (well, almost.. now netscape runs for several days nonstop). I ditched the 4.5 glibc version, and got 4.08 libc5 version. Before the flamewar starts, it may very well be netscape's fault not glibc's. I hope this helps anyone out there who has problems with netscape.
maybe you should take your own advice, the web page clearly and repeatedly states that it runs real mode or protected mode OSes, including NT4. This of course is not new, since you can do this on SCO unix using "Merge."
only 400K/s? Just 10 minutes ago I got 500K/s downloading some RPMs from sunsite. The only times I have slow downloads is from anything having to do with redhat.com
If you look at www.gnome.org, you'll see they only announced rpms for the versions that have rpms available. 0.99.7 does, and had no problems getting them. Once I got in, the transfer was 300K/s. I don't see the availability problems to which you allude.
I keep seeing people talk about how Redhat "owns" or "sponsors" GNOME, as if this is a bad thing. I'll assume that these people are new to linux and don't know that redhat also pays Alan Cox to hack the kernel. I've never seen a message saying well, since Redhat sponsors the kernel, they'll release 2.2 in time for Redhat 6.0's ship date. Also, allow me to point out that Troll Tech employs some of the KDE developers. I suppose some people just don't like Redhat, and will delude themselves. Their loss.
This is almost as funny as the guy who started a flamewar on the kernel mailing list by suggesting that "we" rewrite the kernel in C++ so it would be faster, smaller, and bugfree.
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GNOME and all its apps compiled on my OpenBSD box fairly easily. KDE core and libs compiled, but kvirc simply refuses. Since that's the only KDE app I've found so far that I prefer over the alternatives, I can free up some diskspace by nuking KDE.
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VMwares patent will be worthless because of prior art in the form of SCO's MERGE. VMWare is simply a linux clone of merge. The new features that VMWare has over merge are not at all revolutionary.
How odd. Researching your facts before posting helps avoid mistakes like this. SCO has had a program called MERGE for at least a year, and possibly more that virtualizes an x86 on an x86 running SCO unix. And it runs win95, so it isn't just a vm86 trick.
Its really funny when someone flames someone else for being stupid, and makes an equally (if not more) stupid mistake in their own post. Go check out the in progress Alpha port of FreeBSD. Good day.
no, you really don't understand. Bogomips aren't just an inaccurate benchmark, but they only have ANY meaning with the same type of CPUs, for example, you can't compare PIIs bogomips to a Pentium. Whole different architecures such as PPC and Intel is absolutely meaningless. At least office benchmarks, while very bad, aren't completly meaningless.
perhaps you simply did not read the post that you are replying to. the panel crashed for this person once per day, and automatically restarted itself. Quite different from the usual windows crashes.
First off, I use glibc2 because its threadsafe. However, I recommend getting the libc5 version of netscape because it is at least an order of magnitude more stable for me. Other's results may vary, but I went from netscape crashing every third time I closed a browser window to very rarely crashing. I'm now very happy with netscape's stability, which is not something I see very often among linux users.
regardless of whether you think the new QT license is good enough or not, the simple fact which all the redhat conspiracy theorists ignore is that QT 2.0 is STILL not out, and so the old license is still used for KDE 1.1. Don't let your personal hatred of redhat make you spout this stupidity.
The point is that those insanely high frame rates let you increase the resolution. I get about the same frame rate at 1152x864 playing quake2 on my TNT than I used to at 640x480 before I sold my G200. And believe me, Quake looks a LOT better at super high resolutions.
check out wxWindows. It's C++, does windows, mac, motif, GTK+, and soon BeOS and maybe OS/2.
I hope Gnome will one day have features KDE doesn't have. That way KDE can copy from Gnome as well....I hope Gnome will one day have features KDE doesn't have. That way KDE can copy from Gnome as well....
Yeah, I can hardly wait to see KDE copy a feature from gnome. I was really happy when I saw that Gnome would have themes just like KDE always has. Oh wait, we're still waiting for vaporware QT2.0 and the new license. Fool.
I used to have netscape crashing problems ALL the time, as in at least once a day. I finally solved it (well, almost.. now netscape runs for several days nonstop). I ditched the 4.5 glibc version, and got 4.08 libc5 version. Before the flamewar starts, it may very well be netscape's fault not glibc's. I hope this helps anyone out there who has problems with netscape.
nmap sez: solaris 2.3-2.4
maybe you should take your own advice, the web page clearly and repeatedly states that it runs real mode or protected mode OSes, including NT4. This of course is not new, since you can do this on SCO unix using "Merge."
only 400K/s? Just 10 minutes ago I got 500K/s downloading some RPMs from sunsite. The only times I have slow downloads is from anything having to do with redhat.com
If you look at www.gnome.org, you'll see they only announced rpms for the versions that have rpms available. 0.99.7 does, and had no problems getting them. Once I got in, the transfer was 300K/s. I don't see the availability problems to which you allude.
I keep seeing people talk about how Redhat "owns" or "sponsors" GNOME, as if this is a bad thing. I'll assume that these people are new to linux and don't know that redhat also pays Alan Cox to hack the kernel. I've never seen a message saying well, since Redhat sponsors the kernel, they'll release 2.2 in time for Redhat 6.0's ship date. Also, allow me to point out that Troll Tech employs some of the KDE developers. I suppose some people just don't like Redhat, and will delude themselves. Their loss.
This is almost as funny as the guy who started a flamewar on the kernel mailing list by suggesting that "we" rewrite the kernel in C++ so it would be faster, smaller, and bugfree.
GNOME and all its apps compiled on my OpenBSD box fairly easily. KDE core and libs compiled, but kvirc simply refuses. Since that's the only KDE app I've found so far that I prefer over the alternatives, I can free up some diskspace by nuking KDE.