I remember Cyrix alredy tried this trick. I had 6x86 166+ which was just 133MHz CPU. Cyrix failed... why could AMD succeed?
You can say AMD CPUs are great, and Cyrix wasn't. But I disagree - my Cyrix was stable for years.
LyX is my primary word processor, and I really hate Xforms interface. I think gtklyx, gnomelyx, qtlyx or kdelyx would be killer apps, but we will wait ages for it. I don't like MSWord-style editing, so abiword, kword or StartWriter (IIRC) are useless for me.
Maybe in 2002 LyX will say bye bye to Xforms?
Look at Wine - it's opensource, it's quite small, and it lets me run
Fallout2 in Linux, without a single file from Microsoft Windows.
I amazed this is possible, and I don't think Wine is "unready", it's already usefull.
I really don't understand why application called "web browser" must be so slow and so big. Everyone talks "get Netscape 4.x, it's fast" while it's huge and damned slow.
What's so special in rendering html that binary Mozilla is 10MB gziped? And why there is "mail/news", "irc", and "composer" included? Why no pinball or Quake clone (well.. it's GPL) ?
How it's possible that projects like dillo exists?
And yes - I use Mozilla all the time, but I am unhappy - after so many years still my computer power is wasted. I can only wait for next release of dillo and other good-written browsers...
They didn't write anything about 4th chipset - SiS 735. I want to buy new motherboard soon, and I am not sure - is SIS 735 supported by Linux kernel? What about stability? Any problems like with VIA chipsets? Do you know where can I find that information?
>but what is so exciting about:
>- Alan Cox: more driver merges
there was a very nasty bug, since 2.4.3, all VIA MVP3 systems (most of K6-2 users have that motherboard) were heavy slowed down, for example it was impossible to watch movies in mplayer/avifile, that problem was fixed in -ac series (IIRC 2.4.4-ac2)
Linux 2.4.7 is still very slow (for example when playing video with mplayer) on VIA MVP3 systems.
I really don't understand why they can't remove one buggy line from kernel source. There are many K6-2 users... And it's fixed for ages in -ac series.
that line is in arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c
{ PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C598_1, pci_fixup_via691_2 },
....and this kernel has still broken support for VIA MVP3, you will see it when trying to use
fast video, for example when playing movies - you will get about 10 fps instead of 30. Solution is in every -ac patch, but it's very
simple, you have to find file: /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c
and delete one line :
{ PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C598_1, pci_fixup_via691_2 },
that's all! your kernel will be fast again (that fixup is not needed for old VIA motherboards)
Oh no! They killed Napster! They bastards!
I guess how opensource napster-clients developers feels now:-(
Of course we can still connect to open-nap servers, but I think it's really time for everyone to move. Audiogalaxy is not opensource, kaaza is even not for Linux, but there is Gnutella, and quite good MojoNation (still not so many files - so please join it!).
> it may not be quite so small, but at least it's completely *free*, and storage isn't so much of an issue these days...
I though size of files was _only_ reason for mp3 being so popular
isn't wav (and other uncompresed audio formats) free?
I am Voodoo3 owner. New XFree86 works faster, and more stable. 4.0.3 was bad - no Xv support, troubles with console and framebuffer. However - OpenGL in current CVS (and 4.1.0) is still broken. In all tests or benchmarks you just write about Quake or UT, never about less popular stuff. There are serious problems with Blender for example (but works much better than before!).
When I use software renderer - everytihing is OK, but slow. When I turn on hardware accelerated 3D - some object are not drawed, blinking, etc... you won't notice it in pure OpenGL apps, but try gtkglarea, SDL/paragui or anything else with 2D widgets...
Should I change video card? But what should I choose? Nvidia has binary only drivers, tdfx dirvers are buggy... is it any other way?
What exactly is GNOME? Gnome-libs? Gnome-core?
When I use XFree86, icewm and xchat - do I use GNOME, too, becouse xchat is linked with gnome-libs? What about galeon and gqview?
I am tired listening "KDE is better than GNOME" and "GNOME is better than KDE". I can use both at one time... (killustrator+galeon or xchat+kwintv)
well... I am confused
"We all want multiplayer"
Am I the only one who don't?
I think that multiplayer and realtime killed the spirit of old computer games. The problem is - you don't have time. Don't have time to lose for "thinking and clicking next turn". Don't have time to lose for play with AI - so play with humans. Don't have time to choose hard way - then go easy...
But what about magic of games? What about that nights only with computer? What about sitting alone and thinking how to win?
Was Quake really so great game like Doom? Are RTS so playable for you like turn-based-strategy? Well... My answer is NO. I still belive in roguelike (I love NH) and I still can play single-player Doom or DN3D...
And what's with mojonation and other systems? What is really forbidden? If I share pr0n movies - is it OK? If I share classic games is it ok? If I share free mp3 - how can anybody check if it's really free?
Will they do something if we will _use_ systems like gnutella/mojonation, or if we share their music? And how they will check what we are doing in mojonation?
I hope at least they won't ban ftp...
Excuse me, but what is "music industry" ? If two guys buy guitar and drums, and create band - will Napster pay them? Who decide, that Britney Spears is more important to music world than this two guys?
I think we shouldn't pay music corporations, we shouldn't pay Napster, we should pay artists... Will it be ever possible?
Well... and I must disagree with you.
Tetris isn't art? Then what about 8-bit-times
games? Do you mean todays crap-games are more "art" than old, becouse they have more graphics and soundtracks?
If we talk about programmer - we can't think about graphics, 3d-meshes, soundtracks. We should think about methods to display this graphics, 3d-algorithms, etc... Tetris was a big thing years ago, and I think "shareware programmers" are (or were) bigger artists than commercial programmers, just like GNU developers...
In some comments I read "SuSE is bad/good",
"RedHat didn't do that and that", I think
you can't think that way. Corporations and
organizations aren't people. You can't tell
"that corporation is OK, while that sucks",
becouse there is _set_of_people_ who create
organization, and it can change...
You can't trust _any_ organization (not sure
about FSF), they become evil when they are bigger
and bigger... you can like their products, you can
use it, but never _trust_, never _love_.
Just my 0,03 something...
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I remember Cyrix alredy tried this trick. I had 6x86 166+ which was just 133MHz CPU. Cyrix failed... why could AMD succeed?
You can say AMD CPUs are great, and Cyrix wasn't. But I disagree - my Cyrix was stable for years.
LyX is my primary word processor, and I really hate Xforms interface. I think gtklyx, gnomelyx, qtlyx or kdelyx would be killer apps, but we will wait ages for it. I don't like MSWord-style editing, so abiword, kword or StartWriter (IIRC) are useless for me.
Maybe in 2002 LyX will say bye bye to Xforms?
I am afaird dosemu is not perfect - I still can't play Duke Nukem 3D with sound.
Look at Wine - it's opensource, it's quite small, and it lets me run
Fallout2 in Linux, without a single file from Microsoft Windows.
I amazed this is possible, and I don't think Wine is "unready", it's already usefull.
PS. and who needs graphical instator ?
It's already Wednesday here!
I am sorry, should be "dillo" not "dilllo"
correct link is:
http://dillo.sourceforge.net
I really don't understand why application called "web browser" must be so slow and so big. Everyone talks "get Netscape 4.x, it's fast" while it's huge and damned slow.
What's so special in rendering html that binary Mozilla is 10MB gziped? And why there is "mail/news", "irc", and "composer" included? Why no pinball or Quake clone (well.. it's GPL) ?
How it's possible that projects like dillo exists?
And yes - I use Mozilla all the time, but I am unhappy - after so many years still my computer power is wasted. I can only wait for next release of dillo and other good-written browsers...
They didn't write anything about 4th chipset - SiS 735. I want to buy new motherboard soon, and I am not sure - is SIS 735 supported by Linux kernel? What about stability? Any problems like with VIA chipsets? Do you know where can I find that information?
>but what is so exciting about:
>- Alan Cox: more driver merges
there was a very nasty bug, since 2.4.3, all VIA MVP3 systems (most of K6-2 users have that motherboard) were heavy slowed down, for example it was impossible to watch movies in mplayer/avifile, that problem was fixed in -ac series (IIRC 2.4.4-ac2)
Linux 2.4.7 is still very slow (for example when playing video with mplayer) on VIA MVP3 systems. I really don't understand why they can't remove one buggy line from kernel source. There are many K6-2 users... And it's fixed for ages in -ac series.
that line is in arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c
{ PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C598_1, pci_fixup_via691_2 },
....and this kernel has still broken support for VIA MVP3, you will see it when trying to use fast video, for example when playing movies - you will get about 10 fps instead of 30. Solution is in every -ac patch, but it's very simple, you have to find file:
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c
and delete one line :
{ PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C598_1, pci_fixup_via691_2 },
that's all! your kernel will be fast again (that fixup is not needed for old VIA motherboards)
then what about nvidia binary drivers? there is no source - how many linux people uses that drivers?
Oh no! They killed Napster! They bastards! :-(
I guess how opensource napster-clients developers feels now
Of course we can still connect to open-nap servers, but I think it's really time for everyone to move. Audiogalaxy is not opensource, kaaza is even not for Linux, but there is Gnutella, and quite good MojoNation (still not so many files - so please join it!).
> it may not be quite so small, but at least it's completely *free*, and storage isn't so much of an issue these days...
I though size of files was _only_ reason for mp3 being so popular
isn't wav (and other uncompresed audio formats) free?
I am Voodoo3 owner. New XFree86 works faster, and more stable. 4.0.3 was bad - no Xv support, troubles with console and framebuffer. However - OpenGL in current CVS (and 4.1.0) is still broken. In all tests or benchmarks you just write about Quake or UT, never about less popular stuff. There are serious problems with Blender for example (but works much better than before!). When I use software renderer - everytihing is OK, but slow. When I turn on hardware accelerated 3D - some object are not drawed, blinking, etc... you won't notice it in pure OpenGL apps, but try gtkglarea, SDL/paragui or anything else with 2D widgets...
Should I change video card? But what should I choose? Nvidia has binary only drivers, tdfx dirvers are buggy... is it any other way?
What exactly is GNOME? Gnome-libs? Gnome-core?
When I use XFree86, icewm and xchat - do I use GNOME, too, becouse xchat is linked with gnome-libs? What about galeon and gqview?
I am tired listening "KDE is better than GNOME" and "GNOME is better than KDE". I can use both at one time... (killustrator+galeon or xchat+kwintv)
well... I am confused
it's available for few days here:- 2.95.3.tar.bz2
ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-2.95.3/gcc
Will GNOME become Britney? Good looking, friendly for young girls, and empty inside? :)
PS. it's not flame, I use GNOME
"We all want multiplayer"
Am I the only one who don't?
I think that multiplayer and realtime killed the spirit of old computer games. The problem is - you don't have time. Don't have time to lose for "thinking and clicking next turn". Don't have time to lose for play with AI - so play with humans. Don't have time to choose hard way - then go easy...
But what about magic of games? What about that nights only with computer? What about sitting alone and thinking how to win?
Was Quake really so great game like Doom? Are RTS so playable for you like turn-based-strategy? Well... My answer is NO. I still belive in roguelike (I love NH) and I still can play single-player Doom or DN3D...
And what's with mojonation and other systems? What is really forbidden? If I share pr0n movies - is it OK? If I share classic games is it ok? If I share free mp3 - how can anybody check if it's really free?
Will they do something if we will _use_ systems like gnutella/mojonation, or if we share their music? And how they will check what we are doing in mojonation?
I hope at least they won't ban ftp...
Linux 3.0? :-) ;-)
Oh, you mean this year? 2.4.3? And probably tommorow we will see 2.4.2-ac3. Yes! It's the time of number 3
Excuse me, but what is "music industry" ? If two guys buy guitar and drums, and create band - will Napster pay them? Who decide, that Britney Spears is more important to music world than this two guys?
I think we shouldn't pay music corporations, we shouldn't pay Napster, we should pay artists... Will it be ever possible?
Well... and I must disagree with you.
Tetris isn't art? Then what about 8-bit-times games? Do you mean todays crap-games are more "art" than old, becouse they have more graphics and soundtracks?
If we talk about programmer - we can't think about graphics, 3d-meshes, soundtracks. We should think about methods to display this graphics, 3d-algorithms, etc... Tetris was a big thing years ago, and I think "shareware programmers" are (or were) bigger artists than commercial programmers, just like GNU developers...
In some comments I read "SuSE is bad/good", "RedHat didn't do that and that", I think you can't think that way. Corporations and organizations aren't people. You can't tell "that corporation is OK, while that sucks", becouse there is _set_of_people_ who create organization, and it can change... You can't trust _any_ organization (not sure about FSF), they become evil when they are bigger and bigger... you can like their products, you can use it, but never _trust_, never _love_. Just my 0,03 something...