Benchmarks in the article shows that it is slower than XEN. Do you know why? Xen requires some support from virtualized operating system, what about KVM?
Block whole website because one so-called-star? What if they block wikipedia because someone will wrote there that politicians from Brazil are assholes? Oh, maybe Slashdot is already blocked;)
The problem is that someone who is not using Linux (but Windows) knows only KDE and GNOME and thinks, that this is Linux Desktop. It is not.
Linux desktop is build on xorg. That's the most important thing.
Probably most important high-level parts of Linux desktop are Mozilla Firefox and players like mplayer, xmms or audacious/amarok. Just think how much time you spend in your browser (you are using it right now).
And what is between xorg and applications? It may be big desktop manager like xfce or just a window manager like icewm, Window Maker or fluxbox.
There is also another layer - access to devices. And here we have brand new udev, plus some stuff like hal/dbus. Is it Linux Desktop for you? No? Then how do you connect your mp3 player to Linux machine?
GNOME and KDE can both die. That's not the problem. We just need gtk/QT and maybe some libs from GNOME and KDE to support the applications. Other things are not critical for the system. Person who can't live without KDE/GNOME is probably just an Windows user.
Good distribution for experienced users is Arch Linux. You don't need to compile stuff. You don't need to configure everything. You just need to configure things like in each other distribution (but without any clickable dialogs). It's simple as Slackware, has very good package manager and is current. And it's not Gentoo or Debian.
I was using Slackware for few years before I switched to Arch Linux.
I don't understand why it still uses xorg 6.9. Maybe the reason is that nobody has the time to make so many packages for xorg7? IIRC that was the reason why there is no full GNOME in Slackware.
Kernel 2.4 - OK, as long as it is 2.6 ready (and it is).
But guys... what's the point to use so old software? If you don't want to put new desktop stuff, then just remove all desktop packages from distro.
Assuming whole story is fake produced by politicians (because conflict and Liban, and because Blair needs votes), can anyone check what was the status of airline put options in last days?
Now that's a progress! After Linux 7.0 and Linux 10.0 we finally can expect GNU/Linux 4.0. Congratulations to whole Debian Team for great improvement in Linux (cough! GNU/Linux) versions numbering.
There's a slight chance that AMD might be smart and release hardware specs for ATI cards, or make the drivers Free Software. If either of those things happen, this would be a very good thing, in my opinion.
That would be not good but AWESOME, but why AMD would release specs for Radeons? Is AMD known for releasing documentation for their products?
You don't know what you are talking about. He wrote "Free Software" not "without paying any money". You can play Quake3 using only the Free Software, as long as you are using Radeon or Intel supported by DRI.
Skype for Linux works very badly, there are even problems with using it two times without restarting - you will notice "sound device error" message. Interface is very unfriendly and I am sure it would be much better to use Open Source client. But there is no any! I believe that making this protocol public would help community a lot.
"exe files"? How they will affect Linux? I heard lots of about "Linux viruses" or "Linux malware", when I will be happy to see them instead just reading about them? What kind of serious people use Windows anyway?
Enron's Kenneth Lay, who died of natural causes last week, shortly after being sentenced to prison.
Do you really believe that? I have no idea who this guy is (I heard about Enron, but haven't read any news about it in last months), but it sounds very unlikely. It is always "Natural Causes" in prison.
ATI and NVidia basically have the market for aftermarket cards cornered, to the best of my knowledge, and in both cases their drivers are closed-source.
I use Radeon 9800 Pro with DRI, driver is not perfect, but it works. There is no closed source software in my kernel and I use OpenGL a lot.
I am not a BSD user and I am not going to even test it, but I think this is a good thing - bigger free desktop market will lead to better Free Software, more people will report bugs and more people will discuss new features.
But after my studies I had choice: - stay in my home city and work for awerage wage - move to western Poland to big city and work for foreign company - emigrate to another country
I have chosen second option, I moved far away from my home city, but many people just emigrate as fast as they can.
And now there is one more reason to emigrate: terrible political state (PIS, Lepper and Giertych).
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Benchmarks in the article shows that it is slower than XEN.
Do you know why?
Xen requires some support from virtualized operating system, what about KVM?
Block whole website because one so-called-star? What if they block wikipedia because someone will wrote there that politicians from Brazil are assholes? Oh, maybe Slashdot is already blocked ;)
Well, you see, there are viruses for linux
Yeah, sure, millions of them.
I read this lie for many years and never seen any true virus for Linux, only "examples which don't work".
The problem is that someone who is not using Linux (but Windows) knows only KDE and GNOME and thinks, that this is Linux Desktop. It is not.
Linux desktop is build on xorg. That's the most important thing.
Probably most important high-level parts of Linux desktop are Mozilla Firefox and players like mplayer, xmms or audacious/amarok.
Just think how much time you spend in your browser (you are using it right now).
And what is between xorg and applications? It may be big desktop manager like xfce or just a window manager like icewm, Window Maker or fluxbox.
There is also another layer - access to devices. And here we have brand new udev, plus some stuff like hal/dbus. Is it Linux Desktop for you? No? Then how do you connect your mp3 player to Linux machine?
GNOME and KDE can both die. That's not the problem. We just need gtk/QT and maybe some libs from GNOME and KDE to support the applications. Other things are not critical for the system. Person who can't live without KDE/GNOME is probably just an Windows user.
This video doesn't show anything interesting.
/proc, but someone just logged on root and... called startx.
After boot there was a console, I wanted to see
Then author just move mouse cursor over menu and read menu items, like he never seen it bfore.
Everything looks quite lame.
Good distribution for experienced users is Arch Linux. You don't need to compile stuff. You don't need to configure everything. You just need to configure things like in each other distribution (but without any clickable dialogs). It's simple as Slackware, has very good package manager and is current.
And it's not Gentoo or Debian.
This robot is awesome, do you know that it's build just with standard Lego Mindstorms NXT for $250? And comments are really boring.
I was using Slackware for few years before I switched to Arch Linux.
I don't understand why it still uses xorg 6.9. Maybe the reason is that nobody has the time to make so many packages for xorg7? IIRC that was the reason why there is no full GNOME in Slackware.
Kernel 2.4 - OK, as long as it is 2.6 ready (and it is).
But guys... what's the point to use so old software? If you don't want to put new desktop stuff, then just remove all desktop packages from distro.
Assuming whole story is fake produced by politicians (because conflict and Liban, and because Blair needs votes), can anyone check what was the status of airline put options in last days?
Now that's a progress! After Linux 7.0 and Linux 10.0 we finally can expect GNU/Linux 4.0. Congratulations to whole Debian Team for great improvement in Linux (cough! GNU/Linux) versions numbering.
There's a slight chance that AMD might be smart and release hardware specs for ATI cards, or make the drivers Free Software. If either of those things happen, this would be a very good thing, in my opinion.
That would be not good but AWESOME, but why AMD would release specs for Radeons? Is AMD known for releasing documentation for their products?
You don't know what you are talking about. He wrote "Free Software" not "without paying any money". You can play Quake3 using only the Free Software, as long as you are using Radeon or Intel supported by DRI.
They even mentioned DRI.
Skype for Linux works very badly, there are even problems with using it two times without restarting - you will notice "sound device error" message. Interface is very unfriendly and I am sure it would be much better to use Open Source client. But there is no any!
I believe that making this protocol public would help community a lot.
...and Orkut is still nr 1 in Brasil, is there any alternative website that you can recommend?
"exe files"? How they will affect Linux? I heard lots of about "Linux viruses" or "Linux malware", when I will be happy to see them instead just reading about them? What kind of serious people use Windows anyway?
Enron's Kenneth Lay, who died of natural causes last week, shortly after being sentenced to prison.
Do you really believe that? I have no idea who this guy is (I heard about Enron, but haven't read any news about it in last months), but it sounds very unlikely. It is always "Natural Causes" in prison.
I want to buy gp2x, but I can't find place to buy it without a credit card (i.e. in real shop). Could you recommend place in California?
I think most of these replies were from some kind of Nigerian Bank President or Pharmacy Company ;)
Do you know where can I buy gp2x in California (SF Bay Area)? I am searching for real shop, not online purchase.
ATI and NVidia basically have the market for aftermarket cards cornered, to the best of my knowledge, and in both cases their drivers are closed-source.
I use Radeon 9800 Pro with DRI, driver is not perfect, but it works.
There is no closed source software in my kernel and I use OpenGL a lot.
I am not a BSD user and I am not going to even test it, but I think this is a good thing - bigger free desktop market will lead to better Free Software, more people will report bugs and more people will discuss new features.
I'm working as IT engineer in Poland and got salary of 1200$ per month (after taxing).
In which city?
There are good programmers here in Poland.
But after my studies I had choice:
- stay in my home city and work for awerage wage
- move to western Poland to big city and work for foreign company
- emigrate to another country
I have chosen second option, I moved far away from my home city, but many people just emigrate as fast as they can.
And now there is one more reason to emigrate: terrible political state (PIS, Lepper and Giertych).
Is S3 going to release Linux drivers and specs for their new cards? No? Then thank you, go to hell.