You're right I wish there were some form of Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual that would tell programmers a standard way of communicating between X apps.
http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/
Also I find leaving an xterm open running 'cat >/dev/null' convenient for dump text to and from apps as a little temporary buffer for text. This is useful when you want to copy text from Firefox on your Linux machine into a Word doc on a Windows machine you connect to through x2vnc.
These people haven't even kicked the Y2k problem yet. Just look at the lower left corner of their homepage: "This page was updated on December 13, 1901"
Am I the only person who fears that large corporate companies will start to use the Open Source buzzword as selling points? See Microsofts recent blasphemy. The Open Source community used to be a closer knit collection of programmers, althought now it would seem that more and more largre companies, i.e. IBM, Dell, Microsoft, Apple, et. al. are trying to jump on this subcultural bandwagon to benifit themselves financially. The beautity that lies in opensource is it's freedom, also though, an unwritten beauty comes from it's elite nature. The fact that not everyone and their brother uses this magically open source operating system and it's components it what makes it special. I only hope that the acceptance of more and more licensing standards doesn't fractionalize the open source community more, thereby dividing the power it has. I think we need to keep these big companies, who probably don't see the ideals behind OSS out of our game. There is fewer recorded benifits from commercialization of things like OSS than there are from letting the community continue on it's own. In the up coming months the OSS community is going to see a larger and larger acceptance among Industry. Many people see this as a light at the end of the tunnel. But remember that Microsoft's products were once a hobbiest style software, and where are they now that commericialization and popularity are on their side? Is this the same course that we want GNU/Linux to take? I would rather it remain quality and not in the mainstream than to sell out for popularity.
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So, 198% of game developers are morons?
You're right I wish there were some form of Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual that would tell programmers a standard way of communicating between X apps.
/dev/null' convenient for dump text to and from apps as a little temporary buffer for text. This is useful when you want to copy text from Firefox on your Linux machine into a Word doc on a Windows machine you connect to through x2vnc.
http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/
Also I find leaving an xterm open running 'cat >
These people haven't even kicked the Y2k problem yet. Just look at the lower left corner of their homepage:
"This page was updated on December 13, 1901"
Quantuum Leap? Where was Al throughout the whole show. Kinda disappointed me. And he only did the leap thing once. Oh well.
Am I the only person who fears that large corporate companies will start to use the Open Source buzzword as selling points? See Microsofts recent blasphemy. The Open Source community used to be a closer knit collection of programmers, althought now it would seem that more and more largre companies, i.e. IBM, Dell, Microsoft, Apple, et. al. are trying to jump on this subcultural bandwagon to benifit themselves financially. The beautity that lies in opensource is it's freedom, also though, an unwritten beauty comes from it's elite nature. The fact that not everyone and their brother uses this magically open source operating system and it's components it what makes it special. I only hope that the acceptance of more and more licensing standards doesn't fractionalize the open source community more, thereby dividing the power it has. I think we need to keep these big companies, who probably don't see the ideals behind OSS out of our game. There is fewer recorded benifits from commercialization of things like OSS than there are from letting the community continue on it's own. In the up coming months the OSS community is going to see a larger and larger acceptance among Industry. Many people see this as a light at the end of the tunnel. But remember that Microsoft's products were once a hobbiest style software, and where are they now that commericialization and popularity are on their side? Is this the same course that we want GNU/Linux to take? I would rather it remain quality and not in the mainstream than to sell out for popularity.
Just my worthless meandering.