I reported 3 bugs during the 8.1 beta. 2 of them were fixed within 24hrs. The result was that when the final 8.1 came out, my modem and printer worked flawlessly. Please report your bugs, it makes a difference. thanks.
Wow. I've recently had to deal with this in a big way. On vacation. Only computer i can use right now is a p200 toshiba laptop with 32MB of RAM and a 56k pcmcia modem.
First thing I did was clear some room and d/l some floppy images and install debian ( for the first time! )
Anyway, i'm used to kde. so I apt-get kde. When i boot into it UGH! it's slower than any computer i've ever used before!
The big problem is the hard disk. I would wager it's slower than that of most 386's. It's CRAP. If the swap fills up more than 10MB that's it. it immediately begins to crawl slower than a slug over the salt plains.
I had to apt-get blackbox and give that a go. It worked a charm. But, still a little disheartened by konqueror, which as it turns out, is more ram hungry than IE5, I decided to find another web browser. I found Dillo! Dillo is awesome. It's got some problems rendering and doesnt support any advanced features, but what do you want for 97k? I've been using it ever since. Even with several windows open it doesn't even touch swap!
I also found that gtk programs like gaim are much less resource intensive than their kde equivalents.
on a side note. Debian is awesome. My jaw dropped when i started using apt-get. Also, the distro seems very well put together. I love the little touches like the menu program which controls menus in all the WMs and DEs. Just using debian on this laptop has already made me vow to switch away from mandrake when i get back to my normal box. It's very weird that a distribution put together by volunteers has turned out to be my favourite, I've tried many others before sticking with mandrake because it's what i give out to my friends.
Another side note. Although i hate windows, win95 actually runs quite well on this machine. It's crap but it's lean i guess.
When are the GCC people and everyone else who is needed to fix it, fix the damn C++ loading problem that slows down every c++ app? All of kde would get a nice speedboost, what was it 30-40%?
Also, it's interesting but maybe the kde folks have been holding themselves to a very high standard *because* of that bug. Maybe it just forced them to write code as slim as possible and when that bug is removed it will really pay off:)
Ok, having built several personal distro's from scratch, I can say that linux is easy to configure. I'm no CS major, I managed to do everything from scratch, making it up as i went along (loosely following LFS). It doesn't take long, everything comes out as u want it. And yes I have gnome 1.4 and kde 2.2 on there.
The trick to configuring CLI progs is reading the manual (really, it only takes 2 minutes) and linux has plenty of GUI tools where u dont even need to read the manuals.
I have recently converted several of my friends to linux. None of them new to computers but also none had previous *nix experience. They're all doing fine on it, typing on staroffice 6, browsing on mozilla or konqueror.
I wonder why the linux version is the same price as the windows version.. I see mozilla, xmms.. all free as in beer. Are they charging everyone the Microsoft tax?
Too bad this is just a joke, if there were any truth to it and M$ actually had to go through their hundreds of millions of lines of code to find something like this.. they'd be doing it for a WHILE to come.
They have actually done a good job as far as how long their 'official support' has lasted for their OS's.
My friend works at BorisFX, a company which makes graphics tools, and they:
1. Don't properly support their current versions. Most of the tech support answers are upgrade your computer, buy the latest version of our software and theres nothing we can do because it's XYZ's fault.
2.Stop supporting their old versions THE DAY their new versions are released (pretty much):)
Not that i know the meaning of what M$ actually does for support... other than service paks!:)
GOD man, if i'd written software that worked perfectly the first time like that, i would MOVE ON and do something else to sell. Also, if you've sold your software to all the people who want to buy it (i'm assuming this is your point, that plp already own your earlier working copy thus you cannot charge them again), then you should have made a lot of money in the first place.
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as far as i know it's still there under konqueror. I've never properly got it to work though because i have no need for it and you need lisa or whatever. Try it when the final comes out:)
current state from a user's perspective:
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I've been using the kde development versions from cvs since before kde2 was released.
I used kde 2 for a while.
Right now I'm using last night's cvs of kde3 called kde 2.9.0.
Not much has changed as far as looks go. Here are some changes i've noticed as i have both cvs and 2.2.1 installed on the same machine:
Konqueror : slightly different buttons, renders a lot more web pages correctly, deals with POST much better than b4, javascript much improved, slightly different menu workings. Oh, and better filebrowsing look and improved filebrowsing sidebar with more options.
kdemultimedia: noatun (kde media player) actually works as opposed to 2.2, kaboodle a new useless (for now) little embedded multimedia player mostly works
Overall: slight performance increase, slight loading time decrease, better general feel, K menu has a win2k style bar on the left side of it, start splash screen has new spiffy graphics with dragon, pull down menus etc work a little better but look a little larger, slight improvements in konsole, taskbar is different but don't know how, kwin works a little better (not sure whats changed tho)
Not a huge change as kde1 -> kde2 but enough of one that i always choose my kde3 session instead of kde2.
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actually, anti aliasing has been a feature of qt and kde since early kde2 betas:-/
I believe I'll explain.
Wine is NOT an emulator because it is NOT imitating windows. It is making the windows API a part of the linux system.
BTW, by that definition of an emulator, every analogous implementation of an OS feature could be considered emulation, therefore I belive dictionary.com is wrong. Is porting an aplication emulation then?.. it alows the imitating system to accept the same data, and execute the same programs.
They aren't trying to train people. They just want to get people interested in joining the army. The army funds and helps several movies which make them look good too. Not a new practice. Top gun for example.
If you had read the documentaion, you would have realised that you had to download the codec package. Also you wouldnt have wasted so much time if you had read the./configure output from mplayer and just used the --disable-gcc-checking option.
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I reported 3 bugs during the 8.1 beta. 2 of them were fixed within 24hrs. The result was that when the final 8.1 came out, my modem and printer worked flawlessly. Please report your bugs, it makes a difference. thanks.
First thing I did was clear some room and d/l some floppy images and install debian ( for the first time! )
Anyway, i'm used to kde. so I apt-get kde. When i boot into it UGH! it's slower than any computer i've ever used before!
The big problem is the hard disk. I would wager it's slower than that of most 386's. It's CRAP. If the swap fills up more than 10MB that's it. it immediately begins to crawl slower than a slug over the salt plains.
I had to apt-get blackbox and give that a go. It worked a charm. But, still a little disheartened by konqueror, which as it turns out, is more ram hungry than IE5, I decided to find another web browser. I found Dillo! Dillo is awesome. It's got some problems rendering and doesnt support any advanced features, but what do you want for 97k? I've been using it ever since. Even with several windows open it doesn't even touch swap!
I also found that gtk programs like gaim are much less resource intensive than their kde equivalents.
on a side note. Debian is awesome. My jaw dropped when i started using apt-get. Also, the distro seems very well put together. I love the little touches like the menu program which controls menus in all the WMs and DEs. Just using debian on this laptop has already made me vow to switch away from mandrake when i get back to my normal box. It's very weird that a distribution put together by volunteers has turned out to be my favourite, I've tried many others before sticking with mandrake because it's what i give out to my friends.
Another side note. Although i hate windows, win95 actually runs quite well on this machine. It's crap but it's lean i guess.
what a great interview and what a smart guy he is! It's great to see that we have people like him on OUR side because if he was on the other team :(
Check out Urban Terror! it's an awesome q3 mod that is so complete it's a totally new game wich pushes the Q3 engine to brilliance.
Good thing it was intentional! Being brazilian I recognized it as a common spelling mistake for brazilian english and thought the worst haha :)
Also, it's interesting but maybe the kde folks have been holding themselves to a very high standard *because* of that bug. Maybe it just forced them to write code as slim as possible and when that bug is removed it will really pay off :)
The trick to configuring CLI progs is reading the manual (really, it only takes 2 minutes) and linux has plenty of GUI tools where u dont even need to read the manuals.
I have recently converted several of my friends to linux. None of them new to computers but also none had previous *nix experience. They're all doing fine on it, typing on staroffice 6, browsing on mozilla or konqueror.
I wonder why the linux version is the same price as the windows version.. I see mozilla, xmms.. all free as in beer. Are they charging everyone the Microsoft tax?
Too bad this is just a joke, if there were any truth to it and M$ actually had to go through their hundreds of millions of lines of code to find something like this.. they'd be doing it for a WHILE to come.
What's the deal with ogg-tarkin? Is it making progress? Is it going to be good when it's done?
get a spare hard disk and run it in raid, mirror mode. done.
My friend works at BorisFX, a company which makes graphics tools, and they: :)
:)
1. Don't properly support their current versions. Most of the tech support answers are upgrade your computer, buy the latest version of our software and theres nothing we can do because it's XYZ's fault.
2.Stop supporting their old versions THE DAY their new versions are released (pretty much)
Not that i know the meaning of what M$ actually does for support... other than service paks!
GOD man, if i'd written software that worked perfectly the first time like that, i would MOVE ON and do something else to sell. Also, if you've sold your software to all the people who want to buy it (i'm assuming this is your point, that plp already own your earlier working copy thus you cannot charge them again), then you should have made a lot of money in the first place.
as far as i know it's still there under konqueror. I've never properly got it to work though because i have no need for it and you need lisa or whatever. Try it when the final comes out :)
I used kde 2 for a while.
Right now I'm using last night's cvs of kde3 called kde 2.9.0.
Not much has changed as far as looks go. Here are some changes i've noticed as i have both cvs and 2.2.1 installed on the same machine:
Not a huge change as kde1 -> kde2 but enough of one that i always choose my kde3 session instead of kde2.
actually, anti aliasing has been a feature of qt and kde since early kde2 betas :-/
the penalty is not contempt of court. It's 5 years in jail.
One for every window you have open too.
Friendly reminder screens as they are called couldn't be further from the truth.
The quicktime pluggin seems to be working fairly well.
It's not really usable unless u buy it i guess.
Not too bad if you're using the player and not the plugin, since you can move the screen away from the nagboxes and still view it.
Wine is NOT an emulator because it is NOT imitating windows. It is making the windows API a part of the linux system.
BTW, by that definition of an emulator, every analogous implementation of an OS feature could be considered emulation, therefore I belive dictionary.com is wrong. Is porting an aplication emulation then? .. it alows the imitating system to accept the same data, and execute the same programs.
They aren't trying to train people. They just want to get people interested in joining the army. The army funds and helps several movies which make them look good too. Not a new practice. Top gun for example.
How many more would you like?
If you had read the documentaion, you would have realised that you had to download the codec package. Also you wouldnt have wasted so much time if you had read the ./configure output from mplayer and just used the --disable-gcc-checking option.
All anyone has to do is tap a wire. I'm sure they're not gonna be guarding the wires.
God almighty, I am sick of people miss-pronouncing and miss-spelling it in this way. The chip has been out for years.