Do the GNOME and KDE development efforts have any UI designers, usability people, or even graphic artists, on their teams? Both puke rabbit pellets as far as look and feel go. Totally inconsistent, totally fugly. Looks like a rabid bunch of kitchen table programmers designed it. Oh wait, they did.:-(
I think that you would be quite surprised at how many of the XFree86 video drivers simply set up a (dumb) frame buffer and let the X code write into it, with next to no assistance from any hardware acceleration from the video chip in 2D.
You can blame this on the open source software development model.
The dominant mode at the beginning of the 21'st century is continuation of the dominant mode since the beginning of the last century, and that is to remove every single penny from your pocket into a corporate coffer. These days this is being accomplished by marketing and advertising. When is the last time you watched TV and noticed that about 15 minutes of every hour are stupid ads? And how much of this advertising is trying to hype the product, make it look 'cool', thus if you buy it, you will be 'cool' too.
With all of the dot-com's biting the dust, including several 'open source' companies in Sillycon Valley, you shouldn't have trouble finding people. Try harder.
This is my close to two year old entertainment system:
Sony 32" WEGA TV
Sony STR-925 receiver
Sony DVP-7700 DVD player
Sony 5 disc CD player
Two Sony VCRs
Paradigm speakers (front, center, rear, sub-woofer)
The TV hooks up to the DVD player using component outputs. The audio interface from the DVD player to the receiver is optical, as is the interface from the CD player.
When I read/hear about people wanting to watch DVDs on their desktops or laptops, I scratch my head wondering why they would even want to do that - might as well make yourself half blind and half deaf. Not to mention wanting to listen to quality reduced MP3 shite...
What will they think of next? A waste disposal fee every time you pinch of a loaf or take a tinkle? Clean air in a bottle? People already pay money to drink water from a plastic bottle (that ends up in a garbage dump, further polluting ground water).
I know! Since you read these creative words of high knowledge as extruded by my wee braine, you owe me $0.01 US.
This copyright in a hard drive brain phart sounds really practical...
FWIW, I'm running an ad hoc benchmark under XFree86 4.0.2 (using x11perf -all) with the following video cards:
ATI Rage Pro Turbo PCI/AGP (Mach 64-based)
ATI Rage Fury/Xpert/WTF AGP (Rage 128-based)
ATI Rage Fury MAXX AGP (Rage 128-based)
ATI Rage Fury Pro DVI AGP (Rage Pro 128-based)
3DLabs Oxygen VX1-1600SW PCI (Permedia 3-based)
Number Nine Revolution IV 1600SW AGP (TTR4-based)
nVidia GeForce2 GTS AGP
nVidia RIVA 128 AGP
Matrox G400 DVI AGP
Matrox G400 Max DH AGP
Matrox Millennium II AGP
Should be done in a couple of weeks (hollerdays in the middle, don't ya know).
>The difference was that Emacs by default uses its own Xt based toolkit, rather than using Motif.
The lesson to be learned here is not to depend on bloated toolkits if you want performance. Unless if you want to support the current hardware manufacturer business model which relies of bigger, slower code to sell new machines - who cares if it takes 10 million processor instructions to draw a menu, it came up just as fast to the end user as when it took only 1 million instructions.
Jeepers, we just gave away over a dozen Pentium II class machines and 17" monitors to a couple of schools in the Silicon Valley / South Bay area. You would figure that being in the middle of the world's technology mecca, schools would have plenty of computer equipment, instead they have next to nothing - what a truly sad state of affairs...
Trinitrons look like dog wank once you have used one of these SGI 1600SW flat panels. Best part is, you can get them direct from SGI for either $1495 or $1395 w/video card if you know how.
Gaming is great. With the constantly increasing population, it is the perfect way of keeping them inside, brainwashed and sedate. Kidz, play more games - spend more time at it! This way the rest of us can enjoy less traffic and humanity where ever we go in the real world.
>The building I live in has built-in ethernet, I pay $20 us/month for a switched 10Mbps feed.
Muther McRae!!! I should move back to Canada. I'm here in the heart of Sillycon Valley, can't get DSL (too far away from the CO) and can't get cable ("equipment hasn't been upgraded yet"). The best I can get via modem is 28.8 because the infrastructure around here is so old, and I even get hang ups because of line noise. What a farce. You would figure this area would have the best connectivity for people at home.
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Linux is a kernel, not an OS nor a religion - me
You can blame this on the open source software development model.
Linux is a kernel, not an OS nor a religion - me
Could it be that there is no market for Linux on laptops?
Linux is a kernel, not an OS nor a religion - me
About oxymoronic as you can get.
THX, the audience is deaf - not me
Me.
Linux is a kernel, not an OS nor a religion - me
The dominant mode at the beginning of the 21'st century is continuation of the dominant mode since the beginning of the last century, and that is to remove every single penny from your pocket into a corporate coffer. These days this is being accomplished by marketing and advertising. When is the last time you watched TV and noticed that about 15 minutes of every hour are stupid ads? And how much of this advertising is trying to hype the product, make it look 'cool', thus if you buy it, you will be 'cool' too.
Welcome to capitalism kids.
Linux is a kernel, not an OS nor a religion - me
I'd pay money to see someone infiltrate Area 51...
With all of the dot-com's biting the dust, including several 'open source' companies in Sillycon Valley, you shouldn't have trouble finding people. Try harder.
You did start by contacting a lawyer, right?
Someone please start up a site called "www.f*ckedproductnames.com".
Sony 32" WEGA TV
Sony STR-925 receiver
Sony DVP-7700 DVD player
Sony 5 disc CD player
Two Sony VCRs
Paradigm speakers (front, center, rear, sub-woofer)
The TV hooks up to the DVD player using component outputs. The audio interface from the DVD player to the receiver is optical, as is the interface from the CD player.
When I read/hear about people wanting to watch DVDs on their desktops or laptops, I scratch my head wondering why they would even want to do that - might as well make yourself half blind and half deaf. Not to mention wanting to listen to quality reduced MP3 shite...
Linux is a kernel, not an OS nor a religion - me.
...and every company needs a Chief IS Troll.
What will they think of next? A waste disposal fee every time you pinch of a loaf or take a tinkle? Clean air in a bottle? People already pay money to drink water from a plastic bottle (that ends up in a garbage dump, further polluting ground water).
I know! Since you read these creative words of high knowledge as extruded by my wee braine, you owe me $0.01 US.
This copyright in a hard drive brain phart sounds really practical...
ATI Rage Pro Turbo PCI/AGP (Mach 64-based)
ATI Rage Fury/Xpert/WTF AGP (Rage 128-based)
ATI Rage Fury MAXX AGP (Rage 128-based)
ATI Rage Fury Pro DVI AGP (Rage Pro 128-based)
3DLabs Oxygen VX1-1600SW PCI (Permedia 3-based)
Number Nine Revolution IV 1600SW AGP (TTR4-based)
nVidia GeForce2 GTS AGP
nVidia RIVA 128 AGP
Matrox G400 DVI AGP
Matrox G400 Max DH AGP
Matrox Millennium II AGP
Should be done in a couple of weeks (hollerdays in the middle, don't ya know).
XFree86 4.0.2, released this week, does support the #9 card: http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/Status23.html#23 - even in dual-head combinations!
Quake, being a wanker program anyway, has a hacked implementation of DGA 1.0 mouse support.
Me reads that 4.0.2 should improve things somewhat...
The lesson to be learned here is not to depend on bloated toolkits if you want performance. Unless if you want to support the current hardware manufacturer business model which relies of bigger, slower code to sell new machines - who cares if it takes 10 million processor instructions to draw a menu, it came up just as fast to the end user as when it took only 1 million instructions.
C:\Linux Sux>ping 69.69.69.69
Pinging 69.69.69.69 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 157.130.205.213: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 157.130.205.213: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 157.130.205.213: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 157.130.205.213: Destination host unreachable.
C:\Linux Sux>ping 42.42.42.42
Pinging 42.42.42.42 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 157.130.205.253: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 157.130.205.253: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 157.130.205.253: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 157.130.205.253: Destination host unreachable.
Damn, I really wanted those two IPs! =:-p
Jeepers, we just gave away over a dozen Pentium II class machines and 17" monitors to a couple of schools in the Silicon Valley / South Bay area. You would figure that being in the middle of the world's technology mecca, schools would have plenty of computer equipment, instead they have next to nothing - what a truly sad state of affairs...
Trinitrons look like dog wank once you have used one of these SGI 1600SW flat panels. Best part is, you can get them direct from SGI for either $1495 or $1395 w/video card if you know how.
"Linux sux!" - me
You've been suckered.
First we give you something for free. Then we make some legal foo-foo stink. Then we charge you money for it.
Bait and switch, you've been had - pffht!
Gaming is great. With the constantly increasing population, it is the perfect way of keeping them inside, brainwashed and sedate. Kidz, play more games - spend more time at it! This way the rest of us can enjoy less traffic and humanity where ever we go in the real world.
Eh, why are things so fugly in the first place? Linux and *BSD distros really need to be beaten badly about with a beauty stick.
Muther McRae!!! I should move back to Canada. I'm here in the heart of Sillycon Valley, can't get DSL (too far away from the CO) and can't get cable ("equipment hasn't been upgraded yet"). The best I can get via modem is 28.8 because the infrastructure around here is so old, and I even get hang ups because of line noise. What a farce. You would figure this area would have the best connectivity for people at home.
Don't fiddle around wasting yer money on some cheap cr*p: get yourself a Sony DVP-7700 for $599 - do the research.