At my job, about 50% use OS X, and 50% use Ubuntu on their work PCs. With myself being the only exception to those OS. So I think it's quite safe to say Ubuntu is used in professional enviroments.
So you congratulate Ubuntu for integrating the OS driver so neatly, but critize nvidia for not integrating their own so well? Shouldn't the Ubuntu devs be the ones integrating the binary blob, if you expect so nice an integration?
I tried using OS X at my new job, but it just resulted in 3 days of me not getting any work done. In the end, I was given a good old PC to install whatever I wanted onto it.
I find that OS X is really green and lacking. I couldn't, for example, globally enlarge the font size (I have bad sight), or change the mouse acceleration. Most actions are done with tiny buttons, and keyboard-only usage is almost impossible.
Linux is a kernel, Windows is an OS. Naturally, Linux doesn't have a user-friendly way of installing drivers because it's just a kernel. Installing stuff isn't the kernel's job.
You seem to have it all wrong. There's no need for the manufacturer to even SUPPORT drivers. If they just release documentation, each OS's developers will gradually develop, and maintain drivers for their respective OSs. Period.
The difference is that real documentation would help any OS run better on nvidia, while just giving pointers to the guys at nouveau would only improve linux support.
Plus, drivers designed from proper documentation tend to be more efficient and well-finished that reverse engineered drivers.
There are, however, other more important disputes, like the amount of continents, which varies according to each country's POV. - America is considered one continent in some places, and two (South America and North America) in others). Oceania has similar disputes.
I've done it plenty of times (on every update actually).
The only issues is that if I try to run/usr/bin/firefox, and an older version alreardy running, a new window won't open. I need to hit ctrl+n on an existing window.
I think you're just trolling. Why would you need more than 128MB to connect to a VM, that'd be a simple dumb terminal... I'm pretty sure dumb terminals at that resolution can run just fine with those specs.
If this is true, then GPs point is even more invalid; the company should not sign the application for it to run on ~100 devices if it's deemed illegal.
As I said before; I only know two people who use skype, while I have circa 100 XMPP (mostly gmail) contacts. Skype isn't the dominant player in the market, and there's no reason for people to adopt it unless it offers extra feature/benefits. "just works" isn't enought to migrate over to a non-dominating platform.
But my mom already used something different. Why would I want to adopt skype because there's a new version, if I don't have a reason to do so, and why would my mom? Or anyone else?
I expect MORE benefits on skype if I'm to ever consider using it. Otherwise, I'll just stick to what works.
The point of widespread communication systems is that you can get in touch with people.
The answer to "why skype [on Linux]?" is "because it works".
"Because it works" isn't enough. There's plenty of solution that "just work", I expect more. Like reliability, the ability to use it anywhere, a standard protocol, and no "unknown stuff" going on in the background. The client reading/etc/passwd and lots of encrypted transmission even when not in use isn't an atractive feature when there's plenty of other choices that don't do obscure stuff.
How is the increased number of choices bad? It's almost infinitely more likely that someone will be reachable via Skype than via something that really doesn't have traction beyond geeks using Linux and OSS exclusively.
I know two people who use skype. I have circa 100 XMPP contacts. Mainly gmail users, but I still say people are most reachable by skype.
All conversations in one windows? Sounds like most clients already have tabbed views. (it surprises me to find out skype still didn't!)
The rest is mostly sugar candy, new emoticons and stuff. As for "more webcams support"... if voice+video is your main bussiness, it sounds like a bug-fix, not a "new feature".
Did the same banker who calculates interests calculate the changes of getting caugh. One raid, 20% change of getting caught, you need two raids a year, and that increases changes to over 50%, WTF!?
Why does the company have to go to such complicated measures for every one of it's clients, because Apple won't allow their clients to continue updating the product with no appropiate reason?
It would be good on their behalf, but their still a bussiness.
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Lucky for use, the Linux Kernel is licensed under GPLv2.
At my job, about 50% use OS X, and 50% use Ubuntu on their work PCs. With myself being the only exception to those OS. So I think it's quite safe to say Ubuntu is used in professional enviroments.
Why is it late? I see nothing better, and no really FLOSS alternative, so it's nice to see them opensourcing more and more of webOS.
So you congratulate Ubuntu for integrating the OS driver so neatly, but critize nvidia for not integrating their own so well?
Shouldn't the Ubuntu devs be the ones integrating the binary blob, if you expect so nice an integration?
I tried using OS X at my new job, but it just resulted in 3 days of me not getting any work done. In the end, I was given a good old PC to install whatever I wanted onto it.
I find that OS X is really green and lacking. I couldn't, for example, globally enlarge the font size (I have bad sight), or change the mouse acceleration. Most actions are done with tiny buttons, and keyboard-only usage is almost impossible.
Linux is a kernel, Windows is an OS.
Naturally, Linux doesn't have a user-friendly way of installing drivers because it's just a kernel. Installing stuff isn't the kernel's job.
You seem to have it all wrong. There's no need for the manufacturer to even SUPPORT drivers. If they just release documentation, each OS's developers will gradually develop, and maintain drivers for their respective OSs. Period.
The difference is that real documentation would help any OS run better on nvidia, while just giving pointers to the guys at nouveau would only improve linux support.
Plus, drivers designed from proper documentation tend to be more efficient and well-finished that reverse engineered drivers.
That's what the article basically says they're doing.
There are, however, other more important disputes, like the amount of continents, which varies according to each country's POV. - America is considered one continent in some places, and two (South America and North America) in others). Oceania has similar disputes.
I've done it plenty of times (on every update actually).
The only issues is that if I try to run /usr/bin/firefox, and an older version alreardy running, a new window won't open. I need to hit ctrl+n on an existing window.
I think you can chroot Ubuntu onto those, IIRC.
You could run latex there.
I think you're just trolling. Why would you need more than 128MB to connect to a VM, that'd be a simple dumb terminal... I'm pretty sure dumb terminals at that resolution can run just fine with those specs.
If this is true, then GPs point is even more invalid; the company should not sign the application for it to run on ~100 devices if it's deemed illegal.
As I said before; I only know two people who use skype, while I have circa 100 XMPP (mostly gmail) contacts.
Skype isn't the dominant player in the market, and there's no reason for people to adopt it unless it offers extra feature/benefits. "just works" isn't enought to migrate over to a non-dominating platform.
XMPP. Google Talk also speaks XMPP, so you get a huge userbase from them.
Personally, I use pidgin as an XMPP client.
But my mom already used something different.
Why would I want to adopt skype because there's a new version, if I don't have a reason to do so, and why would my mom? Or anyone else?
I expect MORE benefits on skype if I'm to ever consider using it. Otherwise, I'll just stick to what works.
So my grandma uses that too, right?
The point of widespread communication systems is that you can get in touch with people.
The answer to "why skype [on Linux]?" is "because it works".
"Because it works" isn't enough. There's plenty of solution that "just work", I expect more. Like reliability, the ability to use it anywhere, a standard protocol, and no "unknown stuff" going on in the background. The client reading /etc/passwd and lots of encrypted transmission even when not in use isn't an atractive feature when there's plenty of other choices that don't do obscure stuff.
How is the increased number of choices bad? It's almost infinitely more likely that someone will be reachable via Skype than via something that really doesn't have traction beyond geeks using Linux and OSS exclusively.
I know two people who use skype. I have circa 100 XMPP contacts. Mainly gmail users, but I still say people are most reachable by skype.
All conversations in one windows? Sounds like most clients already have tabbed views. (it surprises me to find out skype still didn't!)
The rest is mostly sugar candy, new emoticons and stuff. As for "more webcams support"... if voice+video is your main bussiness, it sounds like a bug-fix, not a "new feature".
Did the same banker who calculates interests calculate the changes of getting caugh.
One raid, 20% change of getting caught, you need two raids a year, and that increases changes to over 50%, WTF!?
The Galaxy S, and Galaxy S II are pretty common in Argentina, so you shouldn't just generalize and say "South America".
Why does the company have to go to such complicated measures for every one of it's clients, because Apple won't allow their clients to continue updating the product with no appropiate reason?
It would be good on their behalf, but their still a bussiness.
Ooops, my bad for not double checkins this.
I'm curious to the laptop's fate in this particular case!
The HTTP specification refers to the destination server, on "any server that feels like grabbing the request on the way".
Yes, power users will do that, the other 99% will say "huh?".