For low-level work, use the safe ALSA subset that works for PA and ALSA, or Jack for producing pro audio.
Media playing? GStreamer in Gnome, Phonon in KDE.
Simple notification sounds and the like? libcanberra in Gnome, and Phonon again in KDE.
Pretty straightforward, really. Yeah, it might be nice to have one way to do it for everything, but that is rarely the case for anything in Linux. For high level stuff, like media playing, it is hardly surprising Gnome and KDE have different systems (and Phonon is a wrapper, so it can be just a very abstracted layer above GST)
It would be nice if there wasn't the consumer audio/pro audio divide between PA and Jack. Maybe someday those to can merge, or one take over for the other (won't happen by next Wednesday, though).
It doesn't seem unreasonable to have a library like OpenAL dedicated to gaming.
Instead of Wave, what Google should do with XMPP is evolve it into a replacement for SMTP/POP3 and probably IMAP. At the same time, evolve Atom (the format, not the protocol, obviously) to replace parts of RFC 5322 that are not covered in XMPP. Properly done the transition could be gradual and invisible to the end users. Then IM, multi-user chat, email, and feeds would all have the same underpinnings.
LTE (4G/3.9G) supports IPv6 as well as 4, and Verizon (who is rolling out LTE in 30 markets this year) is actually mandating that devices on their LTE network have IPv6
We are on something like the 3rd or 4th gen of SSDs, and yes, there are many improvements from the earlier gens. Check out a hardware site like Anandtech for details.
Memory costs a lot, and so do usb flash drives and sd/cf cards. R&D is still going like mad, as SSDs still aren't as fast as they could be, and they need other things like write-intensity improvements (see sandforce). And the cost of SSDs has come way down from what it was not that long ago. As for why they are going "mainstream" (well, somewhat) while still expensive, well, they offer so much for that money.
Yeah, that was never really an official policy. It shouldn't have gone out in the newsletter, or at least not worded as something definite. It was an idea one group had, and they thought they had enough support to do it, but they didn't.
Bleh, Amazon is the Wal-Mart of bookstores. Some of there low price comes from not having stores, but a lot of it comes from their size allowing them to push around publishers and authors. Cheap and convenient as it is, I have basically given up buying books, or anything else from them. Which reminds me, I should delete my wishlist over there...
They certainly have not. Mono is not part of the Gnome platform and it is unlikely in the extreme that it ever will be.
(and thus C#) although it has quite a few Mono lead devs on its board
I don't know that much about who's who in the Gnome and Mono communities, but looking at the list of board members, (http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/CurrentBoardGroup) I only see one that seems to have much in the way of ties to Mono (Jorge works on Tomboy, which is written in Mono). Certainly Miguel hasn't been part of Gnome leadership in quite some time.
Oh, well in that case, yes, that works. Winetricks makes it just a checkbox away. It's still not necessarily 100%, but better than Mono for things that are not written with Mono in mind.
I'd be much obliged if you could point out a source for that.
Everything I can find on the subject indicates that you can use Mono, or you can use Wine to install MS.NET. I see nothing about Wine having it's own implementation, and it would seem to be rather redundant.
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For games? OpenAL, like he said.
For low-level work, use the safe ALSA subset that works for PA and ALSA, or Jack for producing pro audio.
Media playing? GStreamer in Gnome, Phonon in KDE.
Simple notification sounds and the like? libcanberra in Gnome, and Phonon again in KDE.
Pretty straightforward, really. Yeah, it might be nice to have one way to do it for everything, but that is rarely the case for anything in Linux.
For high level stuff, like media playing, it is hardly surprising Gnome and KDE have different systems (and Phonon is a wrapper, so it can be just a very abstracted layer above GST)
It would be nice if there wasn't the consumer audio/pro audio divide between PA and Jack. Maybe someday those to can merge, or one take over for the other (won't happen by next Wednesday, though).
It doesn't seem unreasonable to have a library like OpenAL dedicated to gaming.
Instead of Wave, what Google should do with XMPP is evolve it into a replacement for SMTP/POP3 and probably IMAP. At the same time, evolve Atom (the format, not the protocol, obviously) to replace parts of RFC 5322 that are not covered in XMPP. Properly done the transition could be gradual and invisible to the end users. Then IM, multi-user chat, email, and feeds would all have the same underpinnings.
Perl doesn't get into that stuff until Perl 6... or Perl 5.x is fully ported to Parrot.
Ruby 1.9/2.0 is also stuck in development hell.
Python... just doesn't seem to be interested, although Google's Unladen Swallow should improve perf a lot without any JITting
Some scripting languages, like Lua, have done JIT for some time. And things like IronRuby, IronPython, JPython, etc. allow for JIT via the JVM or CLR
AFAIK, SpiderMonkey has advantages over all other JS engines, just not in speed (but JägerMonkey aims to fix that).
LOL, Windows.
Even with many more dev-hours aimed at the Windows version, the Linux version is still just naturally better.
LTE (4G/3.9G) supports IPv6 as well as 4, and Verizon (who is rolling out LTE in 30 markets this year) is actually mandating that devices on their LTE network have IPv6
We are on something like the 3rd or 4th gen of SSDs, and yes, there are many improvements from the earlier gens. Check out a hardware site like Anandtech for details.
Memory costs a lot, and so do usb flash drives and sd/cf cards. R&D is still going like mad, as SSDs still aren't as fast as they could be, and they need other things like write-intensity improvements (see sandforce). And the cost of SSDs has come way down from what it was not that long ago. As for why they are going "mainstream" (well, somewhat) while still expensive, well, they offer so much for that money.
MS basing IE on Webkit is incredibly unlikely - but not as unlikely as Debian undergoing a fork like that.
http://live.tolweb.org/Octopoteuthidae/19834
some of them are
But please remember, sea urchins are echinoderms, not cnidarians (those would be corals, sea anemones, hydra and jellyfish).
>Bellevue
Well there's your problem.
GNU plus Linux
That sounds like a BSDish kernel made by Gnu
I don't. Although I do wish there was a way for unstable to keep moving without affecting testing during the freeze.
>don't call it FreeBSD.
that's why its kFreeBSD (notice the "k")
anyway, what else would you call it?
Yeah, that was never really an official policy. It shouldn't have gone out in the newsletter, or at least not worded as something definite. It was an idea one group had, and they thought they had enough support to do it, but they didn't.
Bleh, Amazon is the Wal-Mart of bookstores. Some of there low price comes from not having stores, but a lot of it comes from their size allowing them to push around publishers and authors. Cheap and convenient as it is, I have basically given up buying books, or anything else from them. Which reminds me, I should delete my wishlist over there...
They certainly have not. Mono is not part of the Gnome platform and it is unlikely in the extreme that it ever will be.
I don't know that much about who's who in the Gnome and Mono communities, but looking at the list of board members, (http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/CurrentBoardGroup) I only see one that seems to have much in the way of ties to Mono (Jorge works on Tomboy, which is written in Mono). Certainly Miguel hasn't been part of Gnome leadership in quite some time.
O rly? And how would this work exactly?
DisplayPort isn't dead at all, and in fact it is the way out of this mess.
Oh, well in that case, yes, that works. Winetricks makes it just a checkbox away. It's still not necessarily 100%, but better than Mono for things that are not written with Mono in mind.
I'd be much obliged if you could point out a source for that.
Everything I can find on the subject indicates that you can use Mono, or you can use Wine to install MS .NET. I see nothing about Wine having it's own implementation, and it would seem to be rather redundant.
Wine doesn't do .NET at all, AFAIK