If memory serves me correctly, Half-Life is a modified Quake2 Engine which is already in linux.
As far as I know, memory serves you quite well. And yes, I've seen Half-Life Counter Strike under Linux. There's even a nice HOWTO. Don't remember the URL, but a google probarbly finds it. As an other poster implies, Starcraft runs under Wine.
Linux currently has the problem that there are a gazzilion different ways to access damn nearly everything.
While Linux is a great (the best?) OS around, you're touching at one of it's most debated problem, or feature. One can argue back and forth for both, but personally I think that it is, in some cases (like gaming), a problem. OpenGL is the only thing around that's rather standard, in terms of "one way of doing things." DirectX is a great all-in-one-package for game developers that just works, both for the end user and the developer ("works" here is meant like "how it works when it works"). Wise installer on Windows installs your new game, installs the required version of DirectX, and *poof* - you're in. Try to install a game on Linux - a thousand ways of doing things, and it's not just like "upgrading DirectX..."
Our local (that's Norway) power-company has advertised this since september, and it's supposed to hit customers approximatly now. They're saying 10Mbit. That's what I call broadband.. AND, it's pretty cheap. 350NOK (around 40$) a month.
Bark at me if someone else has pointed this out already.. I haven't read the whole discussion (-8
Now, that's a good question. I would think not. Italics is used on Slashdot-stories when quoting what the users contribute - and the text not italicized is the poster's comment on that. As such, it would be confusing to make RMS' quote in italics. IMHO.
If so, in my opinion, there is nothing to argue about. Sorry - my first post implied that Windows XP actually updated itself without asking. But if your statement is right (and I beleive it is), there is no problem! Hey, it's Microsofts software. It is actually a good feature. A lot of programs has such features, as noted. Good. I still won't use XP, but that's another issue.
It seems like, maybe, as implied by many other posters,/.ers bash every Microsoft bug, even if it's a feature (-8 I'm in love with Linux, and use it almost exclusivly, as everybody else, but it had been great if people analyzed the problems with open source software instead of Microsofts all the time. That way, we could be even better!
I thought it was even worse than that - more along the lines of "if you sell any computer with some OS that's not Windows, we won't sell you Windows at all"? Possibly - I know little about the internals of MS Marketing Strategy..
(I help my more hackerish friends install Linux, but much as I hate to say it, I don't think pushing non-hackerish people into leaving Windows is necessarily justified yet).
You're touching a touchy issue there.. I help hackerish people install linux myself, and I'm doing Linux-propaganda to everybody who is somewhat above the average Joe User. But as you say, I have trouble recommending Linux to Joe User. But not for te same reasons as you - I really beleive that Linux is ready for the average desktop (just look at the latest Mandrake or Redhat - even my grandma could have installed and used one of those). But I fear for the average people around, using Windows. "What's that? How does it work? Hey - it doesn't work (the way Windows does)!" The average user doesn't know what an OS is, and how should it then know the difference between different file systems, file formats and way of doing things? In other words, a plain Unix/Linux-world had been perfect. But as long as Windows has the monopoly, the average user won't be able to cooperate.
But in an organization, such as a school, I think Linux is perfect, given the right system administrators.
(This post is probarbly unclear and not very well componated - sorry for that)..
You're damn right. This is Microsoft's software, not yours.
Agreed. Whatever they do or do not do to (wow) there software is their buisness. If you don't like it, then don't install it. *duut!* Not agreed. How many computers do you see in sales WITHOUT Windows? How many users would know what an OS is? Are the users given a choice? Nope - they have to stick with Windows. That's what's bothering me. And it all ends up in MS' marketing strategy - "if you sell ALL of your computers with Windows, we'll give you a BIG rebate!" Not many computer-sales-companies says no to that.
We have of course our beloved Macintosh, but that's a different story..
You've got a point, but I think even the average user would like to have _some_ control of what's happening to its computer. Like a dialog that says "There is a new upgrade available for Windows XP. Do you want it downloaded and installed?" Lots of software (Winamp, for instance) has this feature. Even I get tired of checking for updates. I like it when programs to it themselves. But I do NOT approve that they install themselves without asking me!
One is that Microsoft sucks for doing this... I think most people can agree to that.
Agreed. Two is that people are stupid if they don't read those agreements.
Now that's something else. I wouldn't call myself stupid. I have actually read the Windows 98 EULA, but all the software that's downloaded and tried through the years' EULAs, I don't bother to read. I mean, how many people actually read EULAs?
Man, why aren't there more girls like you in the world? (-8 I mean, I only know ONE girl who even knows what a kernel is (and she can recompile one, too). And this girl is out of my range anyway. Your boyfriend is a lucky guy (-8
Dinner, wine, etc...
You mean, like,/etc? So that we (me and my fictional lady) can go trough it and optimize all the confi..
Or did you mean something else? (-8
I agree with you, but there is a difference between what they _can_ do and what they _should_ do. Even though they can do whatever they want with MSN, doesn't mean that it's ethicly acceptable. I would certainly have a (yet another) problem with Micrsoft if they stopped my sister from checking her Hotmail with Opera. (Not that they could stop her, as Opera can spoof UserAgent, but you get the point). There are limits of what kind of monopoly that's morally acceptable. OK, no monopoly is morally acceptable, but you get the point.. (-8
Or, you could do rpm -i shinynewsoftware-3.2.1.rpm. Just because it's possible, doesn't mean you have to do things the difficult way. That's what's distros like RedHat and Mandrake are for..
(-8
But isn't the main strength of the gcc it's crosscompiling abilities ? Never heard of any compiler supporting so much platforms.
I agree. I give up pretty much speed to get cross-compiling. After all, compiling (kernels) is something you do at night (-8
Love your.sig, BTW (-8
Re:What, specifically, is the problem?
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Slashdot is also fast and for me takes under a second to load.
Naa.. on my ISDN-line,/. loads in about..10 seconds. That's with cached images. And the comments (I read at Threshold 1, Nested, Oldest first) takes ages to load.. Especially when it's reaching 400 comments.. lot's of HTML there.
Anyway,/. is a great site to use. It looks horrible (who choosed these colours?), but it works. I have to admit that the first time I used/., I was kind of confused by it's UI. Maybe there was too much information at once. But once you get to know it, it's the best (maybe).. (-8 In other words, keep up the good work!
Berge S. Bjørlo
Trivini Productions
www.trivini.com
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"There are no significant bugs in our released software that
any significant number of users want fixed." -Bill Gates.
Read the post you're replying to. Nobody denied the fact that you had to register.
That said, I think it's worth the hassle to register Kylix. It's really a great iniative to get non-pro pre-Windows-programmers like me up and running with Linux development quickly. That's just what the community needs right now.
If the open editon of Kylix is *really* open they should just let you download it
I agree with you here, but I suspect Borland has it's reasons. I imagine they want to keep track on how many copies of Kylix is out there, and so find out if this project is worth the costs of further development. IMHO, they should just change the name from "Open Edition" to "Personal" or something.
cp -a? Anyone? I'm pretty sure DOS had a way to move or copy entire directories as well.
Yep, but it was called xcopy. You did something like c:\>xcopy -e MP3s a:\
wich could copy the MP3s-folder, files and all directories, including empty once (hence the -e) in your C-drive onto a floppy disk in a: (-8
I miss DOS already, even though I switched to a much more powerful command line (bash) with Linux. DOS tought me so much.. ah.. I remember QBasic and.BAT-files. Those where the days..
Quick question, have you ever actually run X on cygwin?
Yep, I have. I agree to some extend, it may seem a bit slow. A lot slower than native Windows, anyway. But I use Cygwin/XFree solely for the purpose of running X-programs over SSH from a Linux-powered computer over broadband Internet-connections, wich it rocks at. I love the feeling when Konqueror shows up on a Windows-box at my school, for instance. (-8 I agree that Cygwin isn't for everyday use, but when you need a GUI (although I can do most of my work on a command-line), Cygwin/XFree is there to help.
-B
The ting about Linux is that it's.. well, Linux. Why would you run Linux on a wrist watch when you can run Casio's wrist-OS (or whatever it is named, the thing that shows the time)? Because it's great fun (-8
I dunno about the perfomance of OSX (I haven't got a chance to get my hands dirty on it yet, unfortunatly), but the way I see it is that Linux might rock compared to OSX. I've seen it before on older Macs..
And there's a lot of things you can do with Linux that you can't do with OSX. I won't get technical, you all know. (-8
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This is extremly OT, but..
..that's about the best .sig I've seen on /... Great movie, great platform (-8 Keep up!
If memory serves me correctly, Half-Life is a modified Quake2 Engine which is already in linux.
As far as I know, memory serves you quite well. And yes, I've seen Half-Life Counter Strike under Linux. There's even a nice HOWTO. Don't remember the URL, but a google probarbly finds it. As an other poster implies, Starcraft runs under Wine.
Linux currently has the problem that there are a gazzilion different ways to access damn nearly everything.
While Linux is a great (the best?) OS around, you're touching at one of it's most debated problem, or feature. One can argue back and forth for both, but personally I think that it is, in some cases (like gaming), a problem. OpenGL is the only thing around that's rather standard, in terms of "one way of doing things." DirectX is a great all-in-one-package for game developers that just works, both for the end user and the developer ("works" here is meant like "how it works when it works"). Wise installer on Windows installs your new game, installs the required version of DirectX, and *poof* - you're in. Try to install a game on Linux - a thousand ways of doing things, and it's not just like "upgrading DirectX..."
IMHO, anyway.
mkdir /mnt/windows /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows /mnt/windows /mnt/windows
/dev/hda1
mount -t vfat
rm -rf
umount
Yep, this is pretty OT, but wouldn't it be better to just do a
mke2fs
(-8
Our local (that's Norway) power-company has advertised this since september, and it's supposed to hit customers approximatly now. They're saying 10Mbit. That's what I call broadband.. AND, it's pretty cheap. 350NOK (around 40$) a month.
Bark at me if someone else has pointed this out already.. I haven't read the whole discussion (-8
BTW, love your smileys..
Now, that's a good question. I would think not. Italics is used on Slashdot-stories when quoting what the users contribute - and the text not italicized is the poster's comment on that. As such, it would be confusing to make RMS' quote in italics. IMHO.
If so, in my opinion, there is nothing to argue about. Sorry - my first post implied that Windows XP actually updated itself without asking. But if your statement is right (and I beleive it is), there is no problem! Hey, it's Microsofts software. It is actually a good feature. A lot of programs has such features, as noted. Good. I still won't use XP, but that's another issue.
/.ers bash every Microsoft bug, even if it's a feature (-8 I'm in love with Linux, and use it almost exclusivly, as everybody else, but it had been great if people analyzed the problems with open source software instead of Microsofts all the time. That way, we could be even better!
It seems like, maybe, as implied by many other posters,
I thought it was even worse than that - more along the lines of "if you sell any computer with some OS that's not Windows, we won't sell you Windows at all"?
Possibly - I know little about the internals of MS Marketing Strategy..
(I help my more hackerish friends install Linux, but much as I hate to say it, I don't think pushing non-hackerish people into leaving Windows is necessarily justified yet).
You're touching a touchy issue there.. I help hackerish people install linux myself, and I'm doing Linux-propaganda to everybody who is somewhat above the average Joe User. But as you say, I have trouble recommending Linux to Joe User. But not for te same reasons as you - I really beleive that Linux is ready for the average desktop (just look at the latest Mandrake or Redhat - even my grandma could have installed and used one of those). But I fear for the average people around, using Windows. "What's that? How does it work? Hey - it doesn't work (the way Windows does)!" The average user doesn't know what an OS is, and how should it then know the difference between different file systems, file formats and way of doing things? In other words, a plain Unix/Linux-world had been perfect. But as long as Windows has the monopoly, the average user won't be able to cooperate.
But in an organization, such as a school, I think Linux is perfect, given the right system administrators.
(This post is probarbly unclear and not very well componated - sorry for that)..
You're damn right. This is Microsoft's software, not yours.
Agreed. Whatever they do or do not do to (wow) there software is their buisness.
If you don't like it, then don't install it.
*duut!* Not agreed. How many computers do you see in sales WITHOUT Windows? How many users would know what an OS is? Are the users given a choice? Nope - they have to stick with Windows. That's what's bothering me. And it all ends up in MS' marketing strategy - "if you sell ALL of your computers with Windows, we'll give you a BIG rebate!" Not many computer-sales-companies says no to that.
We have of course our beloved Macintosh, but that's a different story..
You've got a point, but I think even the average user would like to have _some_ control of what's happening to its computer. Like a dialog that says "There is a new upgrade available for Windows XP. Do you want it downloaded and installed?" Lots of software (Winamp, for instance) has this feature. Even I get tired of checking for updates. I like it when programs to it themselves. But I do NOT approve that they install themselves without asking me!
One is that Microsoft sucks for doing this... I think most people can agree to that.
Agreed.
Two is that people are stupid if they don't read those agreements.
Now that's something else. I wouldn't call myself stupid. I have actually read the Windows 98 EULA, but all the software that's downloaded and tried through the years' EULAs, I don't bother to read. I mean, how many people actually read EULAs?
No, I'm not confused.
I'm really confused. How would one know when a woman want something or not? You'd have to guess! And THAT can lead to some serious misunderstandings.
Man, why aren't there more girls like you in the world? (-8 I mean, I only know ONE girl who even knows what a kernel is (and she can recompile one, too). And this girl is out of my range anyway. Your boyfriend is a lucky guy (-8
Cool sig, BTW.
Dinner, wine, etc... /etc? So that we (me and my fictional lady) can go trough it and optimize all the confi..
You mean, like,
Or did you mean something else? (-8
I agree with you, but there is a difference between what they _can_ do and what they _should_ do. Even though they can do whatever they want with MSN, doesn't mean that it's ethicly acceptable. I would certainly have a (yet another) problem with Micrsoft if they stopped my sister from checking her Hotmail with Opera. (Not that they could stop her, as Opera can spoof UserAgent, but you get the point). There are limits of what kind of monopoly that's morally acceptable. OK, no monopoly is morally acceptable, but you get the point.. (-8
Last time I checked (wich is a couple of weeks ago), tomsrtbt was on kernel 1.x.. And it works like a dream on laptops.
Or, you could do rpm -i shinynewsoftware-3.2.1.rpm. Just because it's possible, doesn't mean you have to do things the difficult way. That's what's distros like RedHat and Mandrake are for.. (-8
Seriously, you can grab the PDF files and make your own copies for free.
Of course, except for the fact that the PDF-files aren't there..
Resource not found
Sorry, the requested Zope resource does not exist.
Check the URL and try again.
Oh, well. They'll come up soon, I hope.
But isn't the main strength of the gcc it's crosscompiling abilities ? Never heard of any compiler supporting so much platforms.
.sig, BTW (-8
I agree. I give up pretty much speed to get cross-compiling. After all, compiling (kernels) is something you do at night (-8
Love your
Anyway,
Berge S. Bjørlo
Trivini Productions
www.trivini.com
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"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed." -Bill Gates.
I couldn't agree more. For those interested, please check out http://www.trivini.com/20010911.html, wich a friend of mine wrote.
Please, America, use your head instead of your force.
-B
I had to register
Read the post you're replying to. Nobody denied the fact that you had to register.
That said, I think it's worth the hassle to register Kylix. It's really a great iniative to get non-pro pre-Windows-programmers like me up and running with Linux development quickly. That's just what the community needs right now.
If the open editon of Kylix is *really* open they should just let you download it
I agree with you here, but I suspect Borland has it's reasons. I imagine they want to keep track on how many copies of Kylix is out there, and so find out if this project is worth the costs of further development. IMHO, they should just change the name from "Open Edition" to "Personal" or something.
-egreB
cp -a? Anyone? I'm pretty sure DOS had a way to move or copy entire directories as well.
.BAT-files. Those where the days..
Yep, but it was called xcopy. You did something like
c:\>xcopy -e MP3s a:\
wich could copy the MP3s-folder, files and all directories, including empty once (hence the -e) in your C-drive onto a floppy disk in a: (-8
I miss DOS already, even though I switched to a much more powerful command line (bash) with Linux. DOS tought me so much.. ah.. I remember QBasic and
-B
Quick question, have you ever actually run X on cygwin?
Yep, I have. I agree to some extend, it may seem a bit slow. A lot slower than native Windows, anyway. But I use Cygwin/XFree solely for the purpose of running X-programs over SSH from a Linux-powered computer over broadband Internet-connections, wich it rocks at. I love the feeling when Konqueror shows up on a Windows-box at my school, for instance. (-8 I agree that Cygwin isn't for everyday use, but when you need a GUI (although I can do most of my work on a command-line), Cygwin/XFree is there to help.
-B
The ting about Linux is that it's.. well, Linux. Why would you run Linux on a wrist watch when you can run Casio's wrist-OS (or whatever it is named, the thing that shows the time)? Because it's great fun (-8
I dunno about the perfomance of OSX (I haven't got a chance to get my hands dirty on it yet, unfortunatly), but the way I see it is that Linux might rock compared to OSX. I've seen it before on older Macs..
And there's a lot of things you can do with Linux that you can't do with OSX. I won't get technical, you all know. (-8
-B