Linux not ready for the desktop, perhaps you are right, but my experience are different from yours for sure.
1) I don't know what you mean by talking badly about X, but I have never seen X not work. Perhaps you were talking about drivers for accelerated 3D in XFree ? I can say things about X too : it's cross-platform, efficient, extensible and scalable.
2) Standardization is pretty advanced, and go on advancing thanks to freedesktop.org. Cut and Paste is standardized since a long time ago, and all *compliant* apps can Cut & Paste with every other compliant app. And it's impressive, because there are still 3 different ways to Cut & Paste.
3) I don't know any system that can autodetect a multibutton mouse. Even under Windows XP, I had to install a driver for a mouse !!! As mice do not yet advertise their buttons, I wonder how X could know about it, and so, how it should configure them, it's no magician, you know ! Anyway, distributions do a good job for wheel mice. They should put a wizard to configure mice with more buttons, but it's supported only on XFree > 4.3.0.
4) Lack of support for popular apps ? This is nonsense ! The apps have to support the OS, that doesn't work the other way around ! Stupid argument for that matter. We all agree Adobe and Co should release their soft. They are the one which do not agree...
5) I think you swapped the times to setup a Windows and a Linux box. Windows does not come configured with even Photoshop and MS Office in one hour, but a Linux distro does (with Gimp and Open Office). Most home user do NOT need more than that, and will not even buy Photoshop. Actually, I've installed a lot of Mandrake in my neighboorhood (and upgraded them all to 9.2 last Sunday), and they are pretty happy with it : no more ANY call from them.
6) Package management in Linux distro is actually pretty good and efficient, and my years of experience with Windows and install problems (even when talking to vendors) is entirely different from yours. And no, there are no library conflicts, that's on Windows only. And no, there is no need to compile anything with most Linux distro. Bad software happens though. So stop trolling.
Perhaps for you a Linux distro is not good enough, but I assure you for me, my family, and most people I know who do not know anything about computers, it is actually pretty good. For me and my family, it's even far more usable and powerful than any Windows released till today (and far less expensive).
You must be kidding me ! A Video Player in Linux is ready out of the box on most Linux distributions. You have only to do step 1. I think even MPlayer is installed already.
Now, you can't play every content with the default, because of patents or copyrights, I do not know. But for sure, you can read more video formats on a default Linux install than on Windows.
You cannot play encrypted DVD, because of patents or copyrights, but you can not either on Windows (except if your PC came with a DVD Player).
The steps you give are to play EVERY file formats in existence actually. And you dare to say it requires no step on Windows ? On Windows, you cannot read any Xvid or Divx out of the box, for example. You have a great deal of complicated steps needed to play those on MS Windows, and it does not even work well most of the time. I actually installed Linux or give a Geexbox CD to a lot of newbies around me, who could not play their files on Windows.
I agree with most of your other points though, but I would not say multimedia is Linux one of weak points.
Since many Linux distributions are trying hard to get convert desktop users, they are also diminishing the steps required for the launching of an executable virus thus, diminishing security.
Only non Linux users could mod this Insightful.
In every distribution and every email program on Linux I know, you just have no way of executing any executable : the only option is saving it to disk. The only exe you can launch are the ones you have installed with packages.
If Linux becomes more popular, media recognition and increasingly "dumbed down" distros will make it a good platform virus writers
What is that stupid prediction ?
Do you imply that distro makers are stupid ?
So they will make distros that deliberately permit execution of viruses ?
The only thing on which I agree with you is the Lindows case. But even if it is a good platform for virus writers, that still does not tell me how this will lead to mass worms infection, as even on Lindows, an email program can still not launch an exe in an email.
It has yet to come... The article clearly states that the virus will have a harder time to come and execute.
And you say that the home directory is everything ?
But when your OS is gone and you have to wipe out everything (that's what the people we talk about will have to do), it's even *worse*.
I could just as easily compile some code without reading every line of the source and have my entire home directory wiped out
Your point seems moot to me.
You could do that, but the people we are talking about cannot.
Or are you trying to tell me that source tarballs are adequate to everyone ?
Yes, every system can be damaged, the point is not there. The point is how difficult it is.
I'm genuinely surprised. simpleinit-msb is available and stable for more than a year, and that's what I use on all of my custom LFS boxes.
No more headache with links, all is very simple, and it boots very fast, as most of the services start simultaneously (and I have a lot of them).
Actually, if you choose to do so, you can even have X started very early in the boot process, having a graphical login even before all your other services have started.
I know most distributions do not use it (even LFS, as they want to be as LSB and FHS compliant as possible), because it isn't standard and so is not LSB compliant.
Shouldn't the developers of Open Office then be able to simply download the DOC specs off of Microsoft.com and build it into their system? Or, am I assuming that the "settlement" was an actual binding agreement?
They should, but they can't, as it's riddled with NDAs and the like, making these documents utterly unusable, or, as you say, it was a binding agreement:(
How about SVG ? But SVG for what ? At home, I have SVG icons since months on my Gnome desktop (they are in the luvola theme in the gnome-theme-extras package). As for your parent, I don't mean to say Expose is not good, but actually, my virtual desktops works pretty well for me, better than Expose would ever actually, as there are less interactions needed, plus it's already there.
I think there are pretty good evolutions already in Linux desktops, but most people won't see them until they appear in Windows.
This is the argument I always get into when my friends ask me why I don't use Linux or BSD or whatever. There is not enough non-server software out there
You forgot "for me" at the end of your sentence. Because for me, there is already way too much, and for free. I say this, because *all my needs* are covered by Free Software (even Video editing), and it's a shame, because then I do not need to buy any commercial package. Ah, except perhaps a DVD Video Mastering software.
GIMP is pretty much the only raster graphics package out there, Win32 has Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Corel Photo Paint, Fireworks, Painter, etc. I can chose between Illustrator, Freehand and Corel Draw for vector graphics. Combustion, Avid, Premiere, After Effects, etc.
That is where I can not understand complaining guys like you. On one hand they complain that there are too much similar apps on Linux, and on the other hand complain that there is only one. Looks like empty bitching to me.
It's all good and fine that I can write a letter, do my taxes and the like on a *nix machine, but I need to actually work now and then and the applications *still* aren't there.
*Your* applications still are not there. That's not here or to Linux you have to complain, that is to Adobe, Corel, etc. That is *their* fault, not Linux'.
Fortunately, you have very specialised needs, so it doesn't look so bad.
I wonder how the parent could be modded up so much, when his parent clearly stated it was talking about a default Windows installation. And no, Mozilla, the google bar or "multiple desktops" are nowhere in a default Windows install. Talking about "multiple desktop", it is nowhere as powerful as a Linux desktop one, be it Gnome or KDE. And don't get me started on sessions. Let me count... I have 11 applications that automatically get started and placed where I left them before logging off, on the virtual desktop I left them on. On Windows XP, I can't even have Explorer there at the place I left it in some circumstances. Don't get me started on watching videos too : I just can't read correctly all the videos I have on Windows (and most where created on a Windows machine), event though I have *4* different players on the Windows XP client, and all of them pass without a hitch on Linux with MPlayer. These are the "innovations" that makes me reluctant to use any Windows desktop nowadays.
Though I agree with you that Linux is too hard and it needs a 'truely intuitive' desktop, I don't think you give enough credit to MS for the work they did on the Windows UI. Millions of people wouldn't have flocked to it if they couldn't figure out how to make it work. Windows wasn't always on top.
You think people flocked to Windows because they could figure how to make it work ? You are beyond me. I have still to see a newcomer grasp anything about Windows. Most people are forced to use it and go to formations (learning courses, I don't know the exact english term) ! And even then, they do not grasp everything, if even one thing. Most of them have their notes for a time, until they can remember what they must do to do a specific task, and if you change anything, they are lost. And that is a LOT of the users.
Actually, for Samba and Apache, on a Linux box (and surely on a AIX box too), the downtime is the time of stopping and restarting the service, as you can install the new version on top of the old one, without disrupting anything (as long as there's no ldconfig or several hours between the install and the restart). And the time of the stopping/restarting is so low that your users won't be able to tell their ssl session was killed because of your Apache server restarting;)
I do not think that the good learning experience is the real benefit of LFS. I think it's the incentive. I installed my first LFS (a pre 3.0) for two reasons: - learning - there was no distro with what I needed ! I have had a hard time with distros. I started with Linux on 1999 only, and for 2 years, I stumbled upon a lot of issues, only to see that they were solved already, but not in distros. So I installed my first LFS near the end of 2000. Yes, the worst thing about LFS is that it's time consuming. Actually, that's one of the reasons that my desktop is a bi-pro right now (for fast compilations:) ). Well, going back to the real benefit of LFS : the perfect desktop. For example, until two months ago, I always wondered why people said X was slow. Even on my old Athlon 500 (my first LFS system), it was really fast, with Gnome 1 and KDE 2. I discovered that the problem was in the distros (again) as Gentoo users did not see the slowness and me neither. Well, it took me one week to install a complete LFS system last time, and the benefit are endless: - I can choose my init ! simpleinit-msb is the fastest and the easiest around to setup. Even my old PII 266 laptop boot faster than any machine with a distro installed on it (except my actual desktop). Even the gentoo system is slower (but use the same system for rc scripts). - I had LVM a long time ago, and it's not even there in distros. - When people are still whining about drag & drop between Gnome and Kde, or were whining about desktop resizing, etc., I had all of those months ago. - When people whine of Gnome/Kde being slow/crash prone, I experience none of these behaviours (except on the PII 266 laptop with 32 Mo, where it's slow, but does not crash...). - All my users are on an LDAP server (LDAPv3 with kerberos actually), with pam for authentication/identification/..., for access on all my little network. - I have already switched all fonts to Bitstream ones. - My wife was pretty pleased with her Kde desktop with mosfet's Liquid and Noia icons. - I use cups since a loooong time. - ans so on and so on.
And I'm no leet, I'm not even searching to be leet, I just want a good desktop, as all my family use it (we are three actually). If I'm so happy, that's all thanks to LFS, LFS Hints, BLFS and Freshmeat (and some work on my part too).
Actually, anyone planning to install a LFS as his main system need a good package management. I've scripted one that works good for me, but most of it comes from a LFS hint, the one on installwatch. That's what I use, with the nuke script. This is truely the best IMHO.
I have a decent connection (1 Mbps download) and I get more than half the speed off bittorrent than from these aol servers. Actually, I get basically the same speed, at modt (meaning near full speed) from sites that have far less bandwidth. If you don't, that's because your ISP tune his routers in a way incompatible with BitTorrent, but more compatible with one machine sending you one file at a time. My ISP does this too, but with traffic shaping on my Linux router and BitTorrent, I get those 175 MB files in less than 30 minutes.
I know a lot of casual computer users : they do not even understand what ftp is. So the kind of GUI ftp clients you are talking about would be irrelevant to them. I think they would just use Konqueror or Nautilus or a Web browser, like they all do on Windows...
Well, I'm used to read such nonsense from people which don't know a thing about anime. It's really sad. The article is seriously stupid, and the author doesn't know a thing ! Point by point: - Yes, Yamato was a shift in anime, but it didn't cause a boom : the boom was a long time before 1977, and that's why Yamato came. The major thing Yamato changed, was in the songs used in anime. Before Yamato, there were 5 assigned singers (3 men, 2 women) for anime (I remember some names like Mizuki Ichirou, Kooro Gi, and of course the great Horie Mitsuko). Since the Yamato film, which used pop artists, every anime started to use people whose it was the job to sing:) - A lot of anime were indeed adult and successful before 1977, Yamato being one of them. The guy is sickening now... - Nausicaa was NOT a big success ! Nausicaa was renowned among anime fans, that's true. Miyazaki didn't overturn anything. Toei made more bucks with his films than those of Miyazaki, until Mononoke. Miyazaki started to be a success in Japan since Mononoke Hime, when more money was put on ads. Only anime fans reverred Miyazaki well before that time. - The gold years of anime where the 80s, NOT 90s ! 90s where the decline, and then, the end of cellulo. It seems to be going back nowadays. - this guy clearly doesn't know a thing about animation : the biggest mistake he makes is the same 99% of people do. He takes it all backwards, thinking anime is a subset of live movie. But it's the other way : live movie is the simplest and less powerful animation : it's limited to still images of reality, and not even perfect images at that. That's why there was always the need to blend special effects or other forms of animation (like CG) in live action films, because it's too limited. On the other hand, drawn animation is the most powerful of animation (the only limit is your imagination and skills), but as such, the most difficult to master. Some people I know who study animation don't even know when live animation started to be predominant, but I think one of the reason was that it looked more real ! Remember the Frères Lumières and their first show:) - The only thing that made people think that animation is for children is Dysney !!!! Animation, in the start, was NOT considered for children !!! It was for adults, were presented in theater, and even served as propaganda during war ! Sone like this guy saying anime was for children principally is a cretin which doesn't even know history... And to add to the bad things Dysney have done, they shut down every other animation (be it japanese or from east Europe), threatening festivals were they were broadcasted, from the start until now. But I guess a lot of people do not know that, taht was the goal. They even continue nowadays. - Anime can be as, even more convincing than live. But a lot of the performance is dependent on the voice actors. The "fleshy presence" is a nonsense. Anime can be more powerful than any live. You can't dismiss the power of pictures because they are not taken from "reality". Sone tell this guy that horror or porn in anime can not be shown to small kids : even without "flesh" presence, the subjective power is still stronger than anything. Imagination has always been more powerful than reality. - The guy is stuck on "visual realism". That is, he can't even understand animation, as "visual realism" is only one feature of live animation. You can not judge anime by "visual realism", that's not one of it's features, though you can put such pictures in anime (it has even been done already). The purpose of anime is to present sth, not to be "realist". - Another common pitfall. The author himself falls in it without even knowing. One of the power of anime, is that you can more easily identify yourself to a character. I mean, a japanese, looking at an anime character, will see a japanese. And an european will see an european, an american will see an american (except if it's too "realistic"). That's why the guy doesn't see a japanese in the characters. And the eyes have nothing to do with nationality : look at Tintin ! Or think that nobody has so wide round open eyes as you can see sometimes, or has blue or pink hairs:) And then I read nonsense about asians not beinat advantages on screens : very sad to read such stupid things... - The author apparently comes from the "caste" of people which rejects Japan history. All japanese are not among this group, and there is conflict, even in manga, on the subject. This turns into politics after that, and I'm tired already of this guy. Surely, I don't love all japanese (and surely not this one)...
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You forgot the supermount patch :)
Lindows is to Windows as OS is to OS.
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Mythic it to Mythica as Company is to game?
You're wrong.
LindowsOS is the OS, Lindows is the company name.
So yes, it's exactly the same situation here
Lindows is to Windows as Company is to OS (product)
Mythic is to Mythica as Company is to game (product)
Linux not ready for the desktop, perhaps you are right, but my experience are different from yours for sure.
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1) I don't know what you mean by talking badly about X, but I have never seen X not work. Perhaps you were talking about drivers for accelerated 3D in XFree ? I can say things about X too : it's cross-platform, efficient, extensible and scalable.
2) Standardization is pretty advanced, and go on advancing thanks to freedesktop.org. Cut and Paste is standardized since a long time ago, and all *compliant* apps can Cut & Paste with every other compliant app. And it's impressive, because there are still 3 different ways to Cut & Paste.
3) I don't know any system that can autodetect a multibutton mouse. Even under Windows XP, I had to install a driver for a mouse !!! As mice do not yet advertise their buttons, I wonder how X could know about it, and so, how it should configure them, it's no magician, you know ! Anyway, distributions do a good job for wheel mice. They should put a wizard to configure mice with more buttons, but it's supported only on XFree > 4.3.0.
4) Lack of support for popular apps ? This is nonsense !
The apps have to support the OS, that doesn't work the other way around ! Stupid argument for that matter. We all agree Adobe and Co should release their soft. They are the one which do not agree
5) I think you swapped the times to setup a Windows and a Linux box. Windows does not come configured with even Photoshop and MS Office in one hour, but a Linux distro does (with Gimp and Open Office). Most home user do NOT need more than that, and will not even buy Photoshop. Actually, I've installed a lot of Mandrake in my neighboorhood (and upgraded them all to 9.2 last Sunday), and they are pretty happy with it : no more ANY call from them.
6) Package management in Linux distro is actually pretty good and efficient, and my years of experience with Windows and install problems (even when talking to vendors) is entirely different from yours. And no, there are no library conflicts, that's on Windows only. And no, there is no need to compile anything with most Linux distro. Bad software happens though. So stop trolling.
Perhaps for you a Linux distro is not good enough, but I assure you for me, my family, and most people I know who do not know anything about computers, it is actually pretty good. For me and my family, it's even far more usable and powerful than any Windows released till today (and far less expensive).
Le KeepAlive est suffisant pour ce probleme.
You must be kidding me !
A Video Player in Linux is ready out of the box on most Linux distributions. You have only to do step 1. I think even MPlayer is installed already.
Now, you can't play every content with the default, because of patents or copyrights, I do not know.
But for sure, you can read more video formats on a default Linux install than on Windows.
You cannot play encrypted DVD, because of patents or copyrights, but you can not either on Windows (except if your PC came with a DVD Player).
The steps you give are to play EVERY file formats in existence actually. And you dare to say it requires no step on Windows ? On Windows, you cannot read any Xvid or Divx out of the box, for example. You have a great deal of complicated steps needed to play those on MS Windows, and it does not even work well most of the time. I actually installed Linux or give a Geexbox CD to a lot of newbies around me, who could not play their files on Windows.
I agree with most of your other points though, but I would not say multimedia is Linux one of weak points.
With 15 % of the shares ?
How could that be ?
Have you RTFA ?
Only non Linux users could mod this Insightful.
In every distribution and every email program on Linux I know, you just have no way of executing any executable : the only option is saving it to disk. The only exe you can launch are the ones you have installed with packages.
If Linux becomes more popular, media recognition and increasingly "dumbed down" distros will make it a good platform virus writers
What is that stupid prediction ? Do you imply that distro makers are stupid ? So they will make distros that deliberately permit execution of viruses ?
The only thing on which I agree with you is the Lindows case. But even if it is a good platform for virus writers, that still does not tell me how this will lead to mass worms infection, as even on Lindows, an email program can still not launch an exe in an email.
It has yet to come ... The article clearly states that the virus will have a harder time to come and execute.
And you say that the home directory is everything ? But when your OS is gone and you have to wipe out everything (that's what the people we talk about will have to do), it's even *worse*.
Your point seems moot to me.
You could do that, but the people we are talking about cannot.
Or are you trying to tell me that source tarballs are adequate to everyone ?
Yes, every system can be damaged, the point is not there. The point is how difficult it is.
I'm genuinely surprised.
simpleinit-msb is available and stable for more than a year, and that's what I use on all of my custom LFS boxes. No more headache with links, all is very simple, and it boots very fast, as most of the services start simultaneously (and I have a lot of them). Actually, if you choose to do so, you can even have X started very early in the boot process, having a graphical login even before all your other services have started.
I know most distributions do not use it (even LFS, as they want to be as LSB and FHS compliant as possible), because it isn't standard and so is not LSB compliant.
Shouldn't the developers of Open Office then be able to simply download the DOC specs off of Microsoft.com and build it into their system? Or, am I assuming that the "settlement" was an actual binding agreement?
:(
They should, but they can't, as it's riddled with NDAs and the like, making these documents utterly unusable, or, as you say, it was a binding agreement
How about SVG ?
But SVG for what ?
At home, I have SVG icons since months on my Gnome desktop (they are in the luvola theme in the gnome-theme-extras package).
As for your parent, I don't mean to say Expose is not good, but actually, my virtual desktops works pretty well for me, better than Expose would ever actually, as there are less interactions needed, plus it's already there.
I think there are pretty good evolutions already in Linux desktops, but most people won't see them until they appear in Windows.
This is the argument I always get into when my friends ask me why I don't use Linux or BSD or whatever. There is not enough non-server software out there
You forgot "for me" at the end of your sentence. Because for me, there is already way too much, and for free. I say this, because *all my needs* are covered by Free Software (even Video editing), and it's a shame, because then I do not need to buy any commercial package. Ah, except perhaps a DVD Video Mastering software.
GIMP is pretty much the only raster graphics package out there, Win32 has Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Corel Photo Paint, Fireworks, Painter, etc. I can chose between Illustrator, Freehand and Corel Draw for vector graphics. Combustion, Avid, Premiere, After Effects, etc.
That is where I can not understand complaining guys like you. On one hand they complain that there are too much similar apps on Linux, and on the other hand complain that there is only one.
Looks like empty bitching to me.
It's all good and fine that I can write a letter, do my taxes and the like on a *nix machine, but I need to actually work now and then and the applications *still* aren't there.
*Your* applications still are not there. That's not here or to Linux you have to complain, that is to Adobe, Corel, etc. That is *their* fault, not Linux'.
Fortunately, you have very specialised needs, so it doesn't look so bad.
I wonder how the parent could be modded up so much, when his parent clearly stated it was talking about a default Windows installation. ... I have 11 applications that automatically get started and placed where I left them before logging off, on the virtual desktop I left them on.
And no, Mozilla, the google bar or "multiple desktops" are nowhere in a default Windows install.
Talking about "multiple desktop", it is nowhere as powerful as a Linux desktop one, be it Gnome or KDE. And don't get me started on sessions. Let me count
On Windows XP, I can't even have Explorer there at the place I left it in some circumstances.
Don't get me started on watching videos too : I just can't read correctly all the videos I have on Windows (and most where created on a Windows machine), event though I have *4* different players on the Windows XP client, and all of them pass without a hitch on Linux with MPlayer.
These are the "innovations" that makes me reluctant to use any Windows desktop nowadays.
Though I agree with you that Linux is too hard and it needs a 'truely intuitive' desktop, I don't think you give enough credit to MS for the work they did on the Windows UI. Millions of people wouldn't have flocked to it if they couldn't figure out how to make it work. Windows wasn't always on top.
You think people flocked to Windows because they could figure how to make it work ? You are beyond me.
I have still to see a newcomer grasp anything about Windows. Most people are forced to use it and go to formations (learning courses, I don't know the exact english term) ! And even then, they do not grasp everything, if even one thing. Most of them have their notes for a time, until they can remember what they must do to do a specific task, and if you change anything, they are lost. And that is a LOT of the users.
Actually, for Samba and Apache, on a Linux box (and surely on a AIX box too), the downtime is the time of stopping and restarting the service, as you can install the new version on top of the old one, without disrupting anything (as long as there's no ldconfig or several hours between the install and the restart). ;)
And the time of the stopping/restarting is so low that your users won't be able to tell their ssl session was killed because of your Apache server restarting
I do not think that the good learning experience is the real benefit of LFS. I think it's the incentive. I installed my first LFS (a pre 3.0) for two reasons : :) ). : ...).
- learning
- there was no distro with what I needed !
I have had a hard time with distros. I started with Linux on 1999 only, and for 2 years, I stumbled upon a lot of issues, only to see that they were solved already, but not in distros.
So I installed my first LFS near the end of 2000. Yes, the worst thing about LFS is that it's time consuming. Actually, that's one of the reasons that my desktop is a bi-pro right now (for fast compilations
Well, going back to the real benefit of LFS : the perfect desktop. For example, until two months ago, I always wondered why people said X was slow. Even on my old Athlon 500 (my first LFS system), it was really fast, with Gnome 1 and KDE 2. I discovered that the problem was in the distros (again) as Gentoo users did not see the slowness and me neither.
Well, it took me one week to install a complete LFS system last time, and the benefit are endless
- I can choose my init ! simpleinit-msb is the fastest and the easiest around to setup. Even my old PII 266 laptop boot faster than any machine with a distro installed on it (except my actual desktop). Even the gentoo system is slower (but use the same system for rc scripts).
- I had LVM a long time ago, and it's not even there in distros.
- When people are still whining about drag & drop between Gnome and Kde, or were whining about desktop resizing, etc., I had all of those months ago.
- When people whine of Gnome/Kde being slow/crash prone, I experience none of these behaviours (except on the PII 266 laptop with 32 Mo, where it's slow, but does not crash
- All my users are on an LDAP server (LDAPv3 with kerberos actually), with pam for authentication/identification/..., for access on all my little network.
- I have already switched all fonts to Bitstream ones.
- My wife was pretty pleased with her Kde desktop with mosfet's Liquid and Noia icons.
- I use cups since a loooong time.
- ans so on and so on.
And I'm no leet, I'm not even searching to be leet, I just want a good desktop, as all my family use it (we are three actually).
If I'm so happy, that's all thanks to LFS, LFS Hints, BLFS and Freshmeat (and some work on my part too).
Actually, anyone planning to install a LFS as his main system need a good package management. I've scripted one that works good for me, but most of it comes from a LFS hint, the one on installwatch. That's what I use, with the nuke script. This is truely the best IMHO.
I have a decent connection (1 Mbps download) and I get more than half the speed off bittorrent than from these aol servers. Actually, I get basically the same speed, at modt (meaning near full speed) from sites that have far less bandwidth.
If you don't, that's because your ISP tune his routers in a way incompatible with BitTorrent, but more compatible with one machine sending you one file at a time.
My ISP does this too, but with traffic shaping on my Linux router and BitTorrent, I get those 175 MB files in less than 30 minutes.
I know a lot of casual computer users : they do not even understand what ftp is. ...
So the kind of GUI ftp clients you are talking about would be irrelevant to them.
I think they would just use Konqueror or Nautilus or a Web browser, like they all do on Windows
Well, I'm used to read such nonsense from people which don't know a thing about anime. It's really sad. : :) :) :) And then I read nonsense about asians not beinat advantages on screens : very sad to read such stupid things...
The article is seriously stupid, and the author doesn't know a thing !
Point by point
- Yes, Yamato was a shift in anime, but it didn't cause a boom : the boom was a long time before 1977, and that's why Yamato came. The major thing Yamato changed, was in the songs used in anime. Before Yamato, there were 5 assigned singers (3 men, 2 women) for anime (I remember some names like Mizuki Ichirou, Kooro Gi, and of course the great Horie Mitsuko). Since the Yamato film, which used pop artists, every anime started to use people whose it was the job to sing
- A lot of anime were indeed adult and successful before 1977, Yamato being one of them. The guy is sickening now...
- Nausicaa was NOT a big success ! Nausicaa was renowned among anime fans, that's true. Miyazaki didn't overturn anything. Toei made more bucks with his films than those of Miyazaki, until Mononoke. Miyazaki started to be a success in Japan since Mononoke Hime, when more money was put on ads. Only anime fans reverred Miyazaki well before that time.
- The gold years of anime where the 80s, NOT 90s ! 90s where the decline, and then, the end of cellulo. It seems to be going back nowadays.
- this guy clearly doesn't know a thing about animation : the biggest mistake he makes is the same 99% of people do. He takes it all backwards, thinking anime is a subset of live movie. But it's the other way : live movie is the simplest and less powerful animation : it's limited to still images of reality, and not even perfect images at that. That's why there was always the need to blend special effects or other forms of animation (like CG) in live action films, because it's too limited. On the other hand, drawn animation is the most powerful of animation (the only limit is your imagination and skills), but as such, the most difficult to master. Some people I know who study animation don't even know when live animation started to be predominant, but I think one of the reason was that it looked more real ! Remember the Frères Lumières and their first show
- The only thing that made people think that animation is for children is Dysney !!!! Animation, in the start, was NOT considered for children !!! It was for adults, were presented in theater, and even served as propaganda during war ! Sone like this guy saying anime was for children principally is a cretin which doesn't even know history... And to add to the bad things Dysney have done, they shut down every other animation (be it japanese or from east Europe), threatening festivals were they were broadcasted, from the start until now. But I guess a lot of people do not know that, taht was the goal. They even continue nowadays.
- Anime can be as, even more convincing than live. But a lot of the performance is dependent on the voice actors. The "fleshy presence" is a nonsense. Anime can be more powerful than any live. You can't dismiss the power of pictures because they are not taken from "reality". Sone tell this guy that horror or porn in anime can not be shown to small kids : even without "flesh" presence, the subjective power is still stronger than anything. Imagination has always been more powerful than reality.
- The guy is stuck on "visual realism". That is, he can't even understand animation, as "visual realism" is only one feature of live animation. You can not judge anime by "visual realism", that's not one of it's features, though you can put such pictures in anime (it has even been done already). The purpose of anime is to present sth, not to be "realist".
- Another common pitfall. The author himself falls in it without even knowing. One of the power of anime, is that you can more easily identify yourself to a character. I mean, a japanese, looking at an anime character, will see a japanese. And an european will see an european, an american will see an american (except if it's too "realistic"). That's why the guy doesn't see a japanese in the characters. And the eyes have nothing to do with nationality : look at Tintin !
Or think that nobody has so wide round open eyes as you can see sometimes, or has blue or pink hairs
- The author apparently comes from the "caste" of people which rejects Japan history. All japanese are not among this group, and there is conflict, even in manga, on the subject. This turns into politics after that, and I'm tired already of this guy. Surely, I don't love all japanese (and surely not this one)...