To be fair, this could be that the programmer knew Motif better than the GTK. Motif has been around a while, and many programmers have more experience with it.
Here is a link that I thought was interesting, written by the guy who updated the 6b volume on what he thinks the adavantages over QT and GTK are.
http://unix.oreilly.com/news/motif_0400.html
I think his point about legacy code and the fact the Motif is on every UNIX is dead on. You may not like Motif, but odds are your employer might.
Seriously, If you know your way around Linux (command line), you will have no problems with FreeBSD. I personaly prefer FreeBSD to Linux, mostly because "make world" is just plain fun to run. You synch to the current CVS tree, and away you go. Like most BSD based systems, Kernel configuration is done via a text file, which I prefer to the Linux way. I like that too.
The only big disadvantage I know of is lack of Accelerated Graphics for Nvidia chipsets, but others like Voodoo chips are supported. I ran Unreal Tournement (for Linux) in Linux emulation mode with one a few years back. I think the Nvidia support is being worked on, but in the meantime, 3d games are out. Almost everything else is the same. Gnome, KDE, gimp, samba, blah blah blah are avail, and can be compiled from source via the ports collection and installed. All in all, a good system. I like it.
My problem is that I *want* to get a degree, and finished all the general ed for it. However, the required upper level classes for the degree are only offered at times when I have to be at work to pay for Food, clothing, shelter. I asked the dept chair about this and he said-
"Well, we only want serious students."
I am 35 and except for a few classes here and there, have a 4.0 gpa. I did this mostly while *having* to work full time. I thought I *was* a serious student, but guess not, because I have to work for a living.
It's easy for Universities to scream about the importance of degrees, but it seems what they really want to do is sell class time to parents of 18-22 year olds rather than us older, returning students. Anyway, rant off. By the way, this was University of Colorado.
In the U.S, when a Executive of a company goes to "pursue his personal and professional interests." that's ususally a nice way of saying he was fired. Does it work the same way overseas? I had not heard of any financial trouble with Sude, what might be the cause of this?
I think you hit the nail on the head. I think the majority of Americans that go to College want to get the B.A./B.S and get out, whereas other countries seem to value the importance of knowledge over "getting that degree to put on my Resume to get that REAL job I want."
I think they mean Life and Physical Sciences. Where I come from, Psychology is considered a Social Science, like Geography. I don't think this is fair (Psch has a lot of Bio, Geography has a lot of Geology and Climatology, etc) but that's the label.
From what I can tell, if they win at the supreme court, it helps the retrying of the penalty phase in the lower courts, which could still rule breakup, despite the MS spin when it was first sent back to them.
Chris IANAL
I have to agree on this one- and it's a tactic that's worked for them before. If I recall, when the justice dept investigation was going on they delayed until the release of windows was past.
Chris
FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS
I know this guy is just a troll, but it shows how little they know of the subject matter. FreeBSD went out of buisness? it isn't EVEN a buisness!! Arghh! Good trolls at least get the facts straight!
Although I thought that the BSDI merger was okay, I'm not so sure about this latest merger is a good thing for FreeBSD.
That said, it's important to remember that *all* walnut creek was doing was distribution for FreeBSD, like Infomagic does for the Linux distributions. BSDI and now Wind River are just the company pressing the official CD, and running the ftp servers. If things don't go well, I suspect the FreeBSD team will go shop around for a company more reponsive to the goals of the FreeBSD development team. Like Linux, no company *owns* FreeBSD. It's a community driven software project like the Linux Kernel (although different licensing of course.) Anyway time will tell.
And another interesting thing to me at least, is that they started "hiring", what a year ago? So I'l bet they would start having to remberse those 100 employees soon. Going out of buisness is a neat way of avoiding that nightmare.
Isn't it possible that many people bought the Windows version of Q3 and downloaded the linux binaries? It sounds like we're talking about strict linux only sales, but is that figure actually representative of how many people play games on Linux?
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To be fair, this could be that the programmer knew Motif better than the GTK. Motif has been around a while, and many programmers have more experience with it.
Here is a link that I thought was interesting, written by the guy who updated the 6b volume on what he thinks the adavantages over QT and GTK are.
http://unix.oreilly.com/news/motif_0400.html
I think his point about legacy code and the fact the Motif is on every UNIX is dead on. You may not like Motif, but odds are your employer might.
You have my permission :)
Seriously, If you know your way around Linux (command line), you will have no problems with FreeBSD. I personaly prefer FreeBSD to Linux, mostly because "make world" is just plain fun to run. You synch to the current CVS tree, and away you go. Like most BSD based systems, Kernel configuration is done via a text file, which I prefer to the Linux way. I like that too.
The only big disadvantage I know of is lack of Accelerated Graphics for Nvidia chipsets, but others like Voodoo chips are supported. I ran Unreal Tournement (for Linux) in Linux emulation mode with one a few years back. I think the Nvidia support is being worked on, but in the meantime, 3d games are out. Almost everything else is the same. Gnome, KDE, gimp, samba, blah blah blah are avail, and can be compiled from source via the ports collection and installed. All in all, a good system. I like it.
Chris (FreeBSD since '97)
My problem is that I *want* to get a degree, and finished all the general ed for it. However, the required upper level classes for the degree are only offered at times when I have to be at work to pay for Food, clothing, shelter. I asked the dept chair about this and he said-
"Well, we only want serious students."
I am 35 and except for a few classes here and there, have a 4.0 gpa. I did this mostly while *having* to work full time. I thought I *was* a serious student, but guess not, because I have to work for a living.
It's easy for Universities to scream about the importance of degrees, but it seems what they really want to do is sell class time to parents of 18-22 year olds rather than us older, returning students. Anyway, rant off. By the way, this was University of Colorado.
In the U.S, when a Executive of a company goes to "pursue his personal and professional interests." that's ususally a nice way of saying he was fired. Does it work the same way overseas? I had not heard of any financial trouble with Sude, what might be the cause of this?
I think you hit the nail on the head. I think the majority of Americans that go to College want to get the B.A./B.S and get out, whereas other countries seem to value the importance of knowledge over "getting that degree to put on my Resume to get that REAL job I want."
I think they mean Life and Physical Sciences. Where I come from, Psychology is considered a Social Science, like Geography. I don't think this is fair (Psch has a lot of Bio, Geography has a lot of Geology and Climatology, etc) but that's the label.
From what I can tell, if they win at the supreme court, it helps the retrying of the penalty phase in the lower courts, which could still rule breakup, despite the MS spin when it was first sent back to them. Chris IANAL
I have to agree on this one- and it's a tactic that's worked for them before. If I recall, when the justice dept investigation was going on they delayed until the release of windows was past. Chris
"Hovered in the air the way bricks don't".
FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS I know this guy is just a troll, but it shows how little they know of the subject matter. FreeBSD went out of buisness? it isn't EVEN a buisness!! Arghh! Good trolls at least get the facts straight!
Although I thought that the BSDI merger was okay, I'm not so sure about this latest merger is a good thing for FreeBSD. That said, it's important to remember that *all* walnut creek was doing was distribution for FreeBSD, like Infomagic does for the Linux distributions. BSDI and now Wind River are just the company pressing the official CD, and running the ftp servers. If things don't go well, I suspect the FreeBSD team will go shop around for a company more reponsive to the goals of the FreeBSD development team. Like Linux, no company *owns* FreeBSD. It's a community driven software project like the Linux Kernel (although different licensing of course.) Anyway time will tell.
And another interesting thing to me at least, is that they started "hiring", what a year ago? So I'l bet they would start having to remberse those 100 employees soon. Going out of buisness is a neat way of avoiding that nightmare.
Isn't it possible that many people bought the Windows version of Q3 and downloaded the linux binaries? It sounds like we're talking about strict linux only sales, but is that figure actually representative of how many people play games on Linux?