Re:Mozilla vs. Konq, development time...
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QT Mozilla Port
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But Konq already supports running on fbdev, and in the qt palm enviroment, also qt is portable between unix and windows (no mac however), and porting konq to windows whould be no harder than porting moz imho.
Well, actually the internet has always thrived in Canada, as well, we have not been subject to most of the legal messiness of the Internet in U.S. (no UCITA, no DMCA, internet patents harder to get)
That is not the problem, the problem is that you
can't make changes to the source code for your
own or buisness use, without returning all your
changes to apple.
That means you can't write a driver for your
custom hardware, or make inprovememts to the
libraries for use in your custom applications
without returning all code to apple either.
This may not mean much to the average/. user,
but it does mean that making apples license a
OSI approved license whould open the door to
licenses that infringe your right to privacy.
That's funny because my computer is more reliable than any of those devices (toaster keeps popping up before the toast is done, my vacuum gets jammed, lawn mower needs a kick in the ass to start).
Umm, that and there are no real alternatives for a good display server with all the features you would expect. DirectFB is step backward, and Berlin developement is more than a little slow. X can run in small devices no problem, it's just that XFree is not the ideal embeded X server.
I always find it intersting that Americans complain and complain about taxes (even if they have the lowest in the G7), and that the government does nothing for it's citizens, then two minutes later I hear them saying "We need to spend more money on the military".
From the packaging tribe2 seems to run best on nvidia hardware.
And in my experience the windows and linux drivers are more or less even.
I don't know why so many people rush out to buy games the day they came
out only to find that they will have to wait several weeks (sometimes months)
to get an update to make the game work the way it should.
If Tribes 1 is indication, you going to need to wait a least a little while
for game to become fully stable anyway, so just wait for the Linux version.
Re:FLAME:It's good to see large companies dominati
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Preview Of Linux 2.5
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There aree a few, namely full acpi (said to be ready in 2.6 or later 2.4 releases), Alsa sound system replacing OSS/lite, and maybe improved video4linux support.
So in other words you want X, but you would just
rather call it "framebuffer".
There is nothing slow about X on my hardware. The
only valid complaint other than "X is old" is that you can't change color depths without a
restart, and X render extention still needs work.
Option 5. If you guys agreed to add support for aim adds would AOL consider supporting gaim???
I know everyone hates add banners, but surely this is the real source of the problem, and I would be willing to tolerate them if it meant I could use gaim with full support for Aol features.
Interesting features in Nautilus (and why it's better than Explorer)
1. Preview on Mouse over - With Nautilus you can preview images, web pages, and even music files by simply hovering the mouse over the files.
2. Resizeable icons and and markers - Ever opened a folder with hundreds of identical icons? With Eazel you can resize and add special markers to help you figure out where you are, and what files you need.
3. Eazel Services make it easier to install software that any other system. You can simply click on the link to software applications you want, and presto software begins installing.
In addition Nautilus is a good file manager with all the drag and drop goodness that windows and Mac have and more.
When MS get bought out by Redhat!:)
But, seriously this is a babystep in the right direction for MS. You can bash'em for not being open enough, but I can't say this is a bad thing.
All you need to get AA fonts is to compile X and freetype2 (or download X with render for Mandrake 7.2 from www.mandrakeuser.org) amd get qt-copy from Kde CVS and compile with the -xft option.
That should be it. You should never have to compile KDE to make it work.
The only thing is that not all drivers for X support Xft, namely the Nvidia's own drivers and some of the drivers from X. Read the docs to see if your driver is supported.
The problem many people have with X are related to slow drivers. If you have an Nvidia card like myself, you really notice the difference between diffenrent drivers.
X 3.3 is dog slow, X 4 with default drivers is nearly as fast as windows, and with the Nvidia drivers X runs like a dream.
I hear alot of people bitching about performance issues, but most of them either have vid cards with shitty drivers, or have misconfigured system (e.g. all the people who complain kde is slow because the don't have their host file and hostname setup right).
Actually the reason you could not upgrade previous versions without reformatting is because reiserfs had still not finalized their file tables, but I recently upgraded my RH 6.2 that was installed with reiserfs (go to www.reiserfs.org if you want install floppies) to kernel 2.4.1 with no trouble. So I am pretty sure you can upgrade any mandrake 7.2 system to reiser without trouble.
If I was building the machine of my dreams it would have to be a dual proc machine, and I certainly not let Windows ME anywhere near it.
The price of Dual processor machines has become quite cheap lately, and even if your the gamming type Win2K makes a good gamming OS, and Linux for doing any actual work.
Granted Tom is trying to build a machine that gets the highest possible Unreal/Quake numbers, and most games don't take advantage SMP at all (Quake 3 being the exception).
I wonder how long until having 2 processors becomes the new geek sheek in all the computer magazines.
Just Wait until Windows XP comes out sporting the most God awful, butt ugly interface I have ever seen. Windows 2000 may be a decent single user workstation, but If you have a few seperate users you find out fast just how difficult that thing can be to manage.
Linux has many flaws, but atleast I can teach everyone how in my household how to use it, and keep everyone from installing unwanted software and avoid damaging my installation.
Windows may have alot of good applications, but how many people have/know what to buy/can afford them? Most of the windows users make do with the preinstalled garbage they got with their computer, aside from 1 or 2 apps they bought (and had to get me to install for them)
Funny how a bunch of "rag tagle programmers" can make the most popular online action game on the net ( Counter-Strike for Half-Life). granted CS is not Open Source, but it does show just what a group of motivated amateur game developers can do.
The music industry is not about to abandon cd audio anytime soon, and that people will probably just continue to do what they are doing now. rip cd into mp3s, and them trade them over the net with napster, gnutella, freenet etc..
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But Konq already supports running on fbdev, and in the qt palm enviroment, also qt is portable between unix and windows (no mac however), and porting konq to windows whould be no harder than porting moz imho.
Oh yeah, and we have the cheapest internet accsee in the world.
Well, actually the internet has always thrived in Canada, as well, we have not been subject to most of the legal messiness of the Internet in U.S. (no UCITA, no DMCA, internet patents harder to get)
That is not the problem, the problem is that you
/. user,
can't make changes to the source code for your
own or buisness use, without returning all your
changes to apple.
That means you can't write a driver for your
custom hardware, or make inprovememts to the
libraries for use in your custom applications
without returning all code to apple either.
This may not mean much to the average
but it does mean that making apples license a
OSI approved license whould open the door to
licenses that infringe your right to privacy.
That's funny because my computer is more reliable than any of those devices (toaster keeps popping up before the toast is done, my vacuum gets jammed, lawn mower needs a kick in the ass to start).
Umm, that and there are no real alternatives for a good display server with all the features you would expect. DirectFB is step backward, and Berlin developement is more than a little slow. X can run in small devices no problem, it's just that XFree is not the ideal embeded X server.
I always find it intersting that Americans complain and complain about taxes (even if they have the lowest in the G7), and that the government does nothing for it's citizens, then two minutes later I hear them saying "We need to spend more money on the military".
From the packaging tribe2 seems to run best on nvidia hardware.
And in my experience the windows and linux drivers are more or less even.
I don't know why so many people rush out to buy games the day they came
out only to find that they will have to wait several weeks (sometimes months)
to get an update to make the game work the way it should.
If Tribes 1 is indication, you going to need to wait a least a little while
for game to become fully stable anyway, so just wait for the Linux version.
There aree a few, namely full acpi (said to be ready in 2.6 or later 2.4 releases), Alsa sound system replacing OSS/lite, and maybe improved video4linux support.
So in other words you want X, but you would just
rather call it "framebuffer".
There is nothing slow about X on my hardware. The
only valid complaint other than "X is old" is that you can't change color depths without a
restart, and X render extention still needs work.
Option 5. If you guys agreed to add support for aim adds would AOL consider supporting gaim???
I know everyone hates add banners, but surely this is the real source of the problem, and I would be willing to tolerate them if it meant I could use gaim with full support for Aol features.
What about the ten percent of people who use
their computer as their main stereo (my PC
speakers are better than my stereo)?
If I can't play it on my PC I won't buy it at all.
Interesting features in Nautilus (and why it's better than Explorer)
1. Preview on Mouse over - With Nautilus you can preview images, web pages, and even music files by simply hovering the mouse over the files.
2. Resizeable icons and and markers - Ever opened a folder with hundreds of identical icons? With Eazel you can resize and add special markers to help you figure out where you are, and what files you need.
3. Eazel Services make it easier to install software that any other system. You can simply click on the link to software applications you want, and presto software begins installing.
In addition Nautilus is a good file manager with all the drag and drop goodness that windows and Mac have and more.
When MS get bought out by Redhat! :)
But, seriously this is a babystep in the right direction for MS. You can bash'em for not being open enough, but I can't say this is a bad thing.
All you need to get AA fonts is to compile X and freetype2 (or download X with render for Mandrake 7.2 from www.mandrakeuser.org) amd get qt-copy from Kde CVS and compile with the -xft option.
That should be it. You should never have to compile KDE to make it work.
The only thing is that not all drivers for X support Xft, namely the Nvidia's own drivers and some of the drivers from X. Read the docs to see if your driver is supported.
The problem many people have with X are related to slow drivers. If you have an Nvidia card like myself, you really notice the difference between diffenrent drivers.
X 3.3 is dog slow, X 4 with default drivers is nearly as fast as windows, and with the Nvidia drivers X runs like a dream.
I hear alot of people bitching about performance issues, but most of them either have vid cards with shitty drivers, or have misconfigured system (e.g. all the people who complain kde is slow because the don't have their host file and hostname setup right).
Actually the reason you could not upgrade previous versions without reformatting is because reiserfs had still not finalized their file tables, but I recently upgraded my RH 6.2 that was installed with reiserfs (go to www.reiserfs.org if you want install floppies) to kernel 2.4.1 with no trouble. So I am pretty sure you can upgrade any mandrake 7.2 system to reiser without trouble.
How can your "secret wrinkel" be secret if everyone has the source code dumb ass..
If I was building the machine of my dreams it would have to be a dual proc machine, and I certainly not let Windows ME anywhere near it.
The price of Dual processor machines has become quite cheap lately, and even if your the gamming type Win2K makes a good gamming OS, and Linux for doing any actual work.
Granted Tom is trying to build a machine that gets the highest possible Unreal/Quake numbers, and most games don't take advantage SMP at all (Quake 3 being the exception).
I wonder how long until having 2 processors becomes the new geek sheek in all the computer magazines.
Just Wait until Windows XP comes out sporting the most God awful, butt ugly interface I have ever seen. Windows 2000 may be a decent single user workstation, but If you have a few seperate users you find out fast just how difficult that thing can be to manage.
Linux has many flaws, but atleast I can teach everyone how in my household how to use it, and keep everyone from installing unwanted software and avoid damaging my installation.
Windows may have alot of good applications, but how many people have/know what to buy/can afford them? Most of the windows users make do with the preinstalled garbage they got with their computer, aside from 1 or 2 apps they bought (and had to get me to install for them)
Compiling Software requires no "technical expirience" it just sucks away your free time. Compiling gnome on a standard desktop machine takes __DAYS__.
Funny how a bunch of "rag tagle programmers" can make the most popular online action game on the net ( Counter-Strike for Half-Life). granted CS is not Open Source, but it does show just what a group of motivated amateur game developers can do.
Win3.1 did not have AA, even windows 95 needed the plus pack to enable AA. Granted the Mac has had Anti-aliasing for years.
rpm command line options are a bit better than debian. Also using the -Uvh options give you a pretry little fill bar made of hash marks.
The music industry is not about to abandon cd audio anytime soon, and that people will probably just continue to do what they are doing now. rip cd into mp3s, and them trade them over the net with napster, gnutella, freenet etc..