Bah, maybe if you use it for a server. I installed it on a workstation and besides sound, 3d graphics, i18n everything was quite fine (I've chosen minimal instalation and then used apt instead that pigdoggish green spit dselect;). After a day or two I had everything working fine but mdk or redhat is another story.
Just try to replace a videocard - what will Debian with default xdm do?
Some people deliberately delete essencial system files or run email viruses. Once they have "easy" access to anything dangerous, the machine will be completely unusable (which is, correct me, the opposite of usable;).
I think there's no dispute between us. I didn't mean to credit Linux for everyting. I credit Linux for that amount of attention without which we won't have oss programs as usable as they are.
It's certainly a big question whether a BSD (and similar) OSS licenced software would make the same boom as GPLed Linux.
the vasy majority of open source projects aren't Linux-centric
Hopefully, I like variety. However if there was nothing such as OSS (GPLed) Linux many of them probably wouldn't exist in their current state. I mean things of daily use as Gimp, Vim, Cygwin, gcc...
In Windows world it was at best: "err, ok, take this but don't touch my-cool-bugless-ultracool-sources to my ultra-mega-tetris, you pigdog!". Something must have changed....
Well, I contributed the bug reports that's all I can do about it. Yes, I have no intent to fix those bugs personally. I don't have time to fix every oss program which I use, especially if the codebase is as huge as mozilla's. I participate on other projects so I prefer fix and enhance those.
As to my comment, I just noted that windows bugs have higher priority. Maybe I'm just bitching....
Too bad that the Linux version has much lower priority than Windows. Some bugs I reported half of year (or even more) still show off - just becouse they're Linux specific. Some others, mostly all platform bugs, have been fixed in a few weeks or months.
Browsing large parts of web doesn't cost you anything until you really visit the site.
The analogy would be a program which consists of many small modules which would be stored on (many) cheap media or so. You want the feature you insert the media and load the stuff...
This is obviously not the case of 90 RSS megabytes of StarOffice (loading more than 50 seconds) just to write a five lines long letter.
So no failures in NASA, right? No failures of computers in space... umm, think a moment and you'll certainly remember a few (or you don't read newspaper).
Of course, software for surgery, weaponery etc. is heavily tested. Like hardware they use. I wonder how much a casual mixer for your kitchen would cost if it had to be tested so heavily and so long.
There are other mechanisms to avoid this (time limited warranty of some qualities for instance) and I think those should be used. But what would all american lawyers do?
You're kidding;). So you're one of those who wants to taste the complete boring install process - setting it all up instead of just take and customize a working thing!
I wonder if you also move your furniture by yourself if you can have someone moving it for you;)
This claims that linux is a bussiness OS, not ready for toy applications;)
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3) Choice is complexity and complexity is bad.
You are an American, aren't you? So now I know why there is only one button on my american alarm clock - press once to set alarm, press twice to set alarm time, press three times to set normal time, hold three seconds to enter settings...;))
Instead of unix camp supporting those ideals we should be supporting things like java or creating or own stuff. Just because windows developers love it doesn't mean it's not java with a couple of addons. If it was wildly different in any manner I would agree that we should be looking to use it; however this is not the case. A standard already exists and that standard is java.
You say java is a long term standard? No way - it has essencially changed in terms of language specs (between java 1.0 and java 1.1) and API (java 1.1 versus java 1.2). New java 1.3 and 1.4 is also another cup of coffee. It's far more usable today, that's clear, but it has changed dramatically.
Even though I think Miguel is way too naive about MS tactics I think there's nothing bad about adopting any idea which his team really likes. If the adopted API can evolve itself (not only to try to keep with MS) I don't see anything special about this.
This piece of software should kick cvs off the door. It should also provide even something like ViewCVS (cvs web interface by Greg Stein, author of Subversion).
It has about 40k of sources.
Umm, it's either an ingenious piece of software xor bullshit and plain kidding using strong words.
Exactly, there is something missing in the article
The Intel's compiler does not support anything else but x86. (gcc works much more generally) - this is an advantage for Intel's compiler since they don't have to mess up with improvements which would break the result on another CPU arch.
They ran synthetic benchmarks which are often misleading (i I took gunzip as a part of my test only a slight modificiations of 3 instructions within the main loop would certainly give me very different results)
What gcc version did they measure? GCC 3.x (which they obviously haven't used) has at least 10% performance boost than old 2.95 on average (it may differ a lot for specialized tasks)
This sound somewhat like a bit biased comparison - even though I think that Intel's compiler is indeed better in x86 optimization - most of gcc developers would confirm this...
Everything could compile faster and run slower. Shorter compile time has always been Borland's strength but nothing has convinced me about the result binaries. They had always run slower than Watcom (which was comparable to gcc). Lets see...
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Bah, maybe if you use it for a server. I installed it on a workstation and besides sound, 3d graphics, i18n everything was quite fine (I've chosen minimal instalation and then used apt instead that pigdoggish green spit dselect ;). After a day or two I had everything working fine but mdk or redhat is another story.
Just try to replace a videocard - what will Debian with default xdm do?
Has OpenGL 2.0 a chance now? Is anyone capable to compare those?
Some people deliberately delete essencial system files or run email viruses. Once they have "easy" access to anything dangerous, the machine will be completely unusable (which is, correct me, the opposite of usable ;).
Final 'screwing' chance for all slashdot techies ;)
Precisely - I'm still waiting for a real embbedded (both qt and gtk) vim component - My evolution, kmail and a bunch of others desire for it ;).
such as linux
I think there's no dispute between us. I didn't mean to credit Linux for everyting. I credit Linux for that amount of attention without which we won't have oss programs as usable as they are.
It's certainly a big question whether a BSD (and similar) OSS licenced software would make the same boom as GPLed Linux.
the vasy majority of open source projects aren't Linux-centric
Hopefully, I like variety. However if there was nothing such as OSS (GPLed) Linux many of them probably wouldn't exist in their current state. I mean things of daily use as Gimp, Vim, Cygwin, gcc...
In Windows world it was at best: "err, ok, take this but don't touch my-cool-bugless-ultracool-sources to my ultra-mega-tetris, you pigdog!". Something must have changed....
Well, I contributed the bug reports that's all I can do about it. Yes, I have no intent to fix those bugs personally. I don't have time to fix every oss program which I use, especially if the codebase is as huge as mozilla's. I participate on other projects so I prefer fix and enhance those.
As to my comment, I just noted that windows bugs have higher priority. Maybe I'm just bitching....
If those were actual real number this would refer to the same number ;))
Too bad that the Linux version has much lower priority than Windows. Some bugs I reported half of year (or even more) still show off - just becouse they're Linux specific. Some others, mostly all platform bugs, have been fixed in a few weeks or months.
Browsing large parts of web doesn't cost you anything until you really visit the site.
The analogy would be a program which consists of many small modules which would be stored on (many) cheap media or so. You want the feature you insert the media and load the stuff...
This is obviously not the case of 90 RSS megabytes of StarOffice (loading more than 50 seconds) just to write a five lines long letter.
The difference is now only in formulation. But the MIT licence is way shorter so I prefer that one ;)
Hey, moderate this up!
Actually, the first compiler of Pascal was N. Wirth himself becouse he was the one who "compiled" the source into the binary ;))
There are some people in SuSE working on gcc Hammer optimizations this is a part of the contract between AMD and SuSE.
So no failures in NASA, right? No failures of computers in space... umm, think a moment and you'll certainly remember a few (or you don't read newspaper).
Of course, software for surgery, weaponery etc. is heavily tested. Like hardware they use. I wonder how much a casual mixer for your kitchen would cost if it had to be tested so heavily and so long.
There are other mechanisms to avoid this (time limited warranty of some qualities for instance) and I think those should be used. But what would all american lawyers do?
You're kidding ;). So you're one of those who wants to taste the complete boring install process - setting it all up instead of just take and customize a working thing!
;)
I wonder if you also move your furniture by yourself if you can have someone moving it for you
This claims that linux is a bussiness OS, not ready for toy applications ;)
3) Choice is complexity and complexity is bad.
;))
You are an American, aren't you? So now I know why there is only one button on my american alarm clock - press once to set alarm, press twice to set alarm time, press three times to set normal time, hold three seconds to enter settings...
You can sync or backup via downloading daily cvs tree snapshot:j ec t-cvsroot.tar.gz
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/your_pro
Instead of unix camp supporting those ideals we should be supporting things like java or creating or own stuff. Just because windows developers love it doesn't mean it's not java with a couple of addons. If it was wildly different in any manner I would agree that we should be looking to use it; however this is not the case. A standard already exists and that standard is java.
You say java is a long term standard? No way - it has essencially changed in terms of language specs (between java 1.0 and java 1.1) and API (java 1.1 versus java 1.2). New java 1.3 and 1.4 is also another cup of coffee. It's far more usable today, that's clear, but it has changed dramatically.
Even though I think Miguel is way too naive about MS tactics I think there's nothing bad about adopting any idea which his team really likes. If the adopted API can evolve itself (not only to try to keep with MS) I don't see anything special about this.
This piece of software should kick cvs off the door. It should also provide even something like ViewCVS (cvs web interface by Greg Stein, author of Subversion).
It has about 40k of sources.
Umm, it's either an ingenious piece of software xor bullshit and plain kidding using strong words.
This sound somewhat like a bit biased comparison - even though I think that Intel's compiler is indeed better in x86 optimization - most of gcc developers would confirm this...
Everything could compile faster and run slower. Shorter compile time has always been Borland's strength but nothing has convinced me about the result binaries. They had always run slower than Watcom (which was comparable to gcc). Lets see...
Try the low-latency patches to 2.4 tree. They have much better impact than those call "preemptive".
/usr/bin/X11/X
Also
nice -n -10
helps quite a lot on an average desktop linux