The most functional and minimalist (!) interface I use is the CDE. It's ugly and depressive, but some basic tuning produces a UI that just does not get in the way of what I want to do.
I think that most of the UI are the same (I use CDE, macs, windows, KDE/GNOME, windowmaker, etc). Some more functional than others. Some shade windows, others minimize windows... whatever you want.
Why not use linux/other_free_os to come up with experimental (revolutionary) UIs? Since we are not profit-bound, some inovation is affordable.
The most dramatic improvement in productivity I experienced was not UI related, it was when I switched to 17" screens.
Skins are only good for one thing, to look at them. I've been drooling over screenshots of themable and skinable applications, windowmanagers and wingets.
Once you start having themes and skins in the desktop:
1. You never decide which is the good theme or skin for the next hour of work.
2. If you have different themes for different applications colors and skins clash... Change themes, download skins, test, tec...
3. You never find the correct shade of blue for window titles and the correct gray level for the buttons.
4. you end up with 10^8 themes and skins and spend hours browsing them (see #1).
Not really. The discussion of CPU speed for specific tasks is a very important one for scientific applications, which usualy only require a small set of programs.
I would direct the interested people to the "Computational Chemistry List" (CCL) which, among other things, is also interested in CPU x CPU performance.
http://www.ccl.net/chemistry/
Browse the archive. This week some of the mailings regard Athlon x p3. This is probably not the best source for this kind of information, but may still be usefull for some of you.
Olha q ha mais paises q falam Português alem do Brazil. Ok, a contribuição desses países pode nao ser significativa, mas e simpatico lembrar-nos deles.
Translation: More people speak Portuguese than Brazilians.
I am very disapointed with all this. Some months ago i decided to go for the tnt2 insted of a voodoo. I made this decision ultimately because of 32 bit rendering and the anouncement of a linux driver. (The choices were not many because of my low-end cpu).
Now i regret my choice. Quake2 does not run (prob my fault) and Quake3 is 5X slower (and uglier) in linux than in windows. I am also very sceptical about binary only drivers for linux. I expect them to work only for some combination of versions of hardware, distributions, kernels, X, etc. I am certain that at least one of those versions will always be wrong on my system. Why did i upgrade if this board if it's doing the same job in linux as my old virge DX?
I am now trying to talk my brother into buying a 3dfx to exchange for my tnt.
> Meanwhile, AN OPEN SOURCE MATH PACKAGE > WOULD BE A GODSEND!!!!!!!
I could not agree more! I like using mathematica, and I have been using it for some time now. I only wish there was something functionally equivalent and open source.
I hate having to use digital unix on alpha stations simply because there is no version for linux-alpha. That CDE desktop is really depressing and is getting seriously on my nerves.
On the mac, if you defragment the filesystem, the password is invalidated and you have to ask and wait for a new one... Ummm... I suppose Dilbert did not use this yet.
I downloaded one of the glx servers from the nvidia site. It works at 16 bit color and the image quality is not very good. With my p2@300 and the TNT2U i get around 14 fps (800x600, timedemo 1, q3demo1). In windows98 i get 40+ fps using the high quality setting.
Hope this improves on the next version of XFree86.
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The most functional and minimalist (!) interface I use is the CDE. It's ugly and depressive, but some basic tuning produces a UI that just does not get in the way of what I want to do.
I think that most of the UI are the same (I use CDE, macs, windows, KDE/GNOME, windowmaker, etc). Some more functional than others. Some shade windows, others minimize windows... whatever you want.
Why not use linux/other_free_os to come up with experimental (revolutionary) UIs? Since we are not profit-bound, some inovation is affordable.
The most dramatic improvement in productivity I experienced was not UI related, it was when I switched to 17" screens.
JBv
p2@300, 800x600, tnt2 ultra.
:(
win: ~40 fps (32 bit)
linux: ~8 fps (16 bit)
conclusion:
I wish I had bought a v3000
Skins are only good for one thing, to look at them. I've been drooling over screenshots of themable and skinable applications, windowmanagers and wingets.
Once you start having themes and skins in the desktop:
1. You never decide which is the good theme or skin for the next hour of work.
2. If you have different themes for different applications colors and skins clash... Change themes, download skins, test, tec...
3. You never find the correct shade of blue for window titles and the correct gray level for the buttons.
4. you end up with 10^8 themes and skins and spend hours browsing them (see #1).
Well, i could say more... but this is enough
i think...
Jbv
Not really. The discussion of CPU speed for specific tasks is a very important one for scientific applications, which usualy only require a small set of programs.
I would direct the interested people to the "Computational Chemistry List" (CCL) which, among other things, is also interested in CPU x CPU performance.
http://www.ccl.net/chemistry/
Browse the archive. This week some of the mailings regard Athlon x p3. This is probably not the best source for this kind of information, but may still be usefull for some of you.
They also have some links on beowolf and such.
JBv
Olha q ha mais paises q falam Português alem do Brazil. Ok, a contribuição desses países pode nao ser significativa, mas e simpatico lembrar-nos deles.
Translation:
More people speak Portuguese than Brazilians.
I must say i was very surprised to see /. speaking Portuguese... I though /. was viction of some sort of crack.
Impressive, most impressive... With accented characters and all. UAU!!!!
JBv
900Mb!?!?!?!?
Thats about 33% of my harddrive! Is it only the OS or does it include latex, emacs, netscape, compilers, etc...
Ummm... for me win2k would surely be faster, simply because i would need a new computer to run it.
I am very disapointed with all this. Some months ago i decided to go for the tnt2 insted of a voodoo. I made this decision ultimately because of 32 bit rendering and the anouncement of a linux driver. (The choices were not many because of my low-end cpu).
Now i regret my choice. Quake2 does not run (prob my fault) and Quake3 is 5X slower (and uglier) in linux than in windows. I am also very sceptical about binary only drivers for linux. I expect them to work only for some combination of versions of hardware, distributions, kernels, X, etc. I am certain that at least one of those versions will always be wrong on my system. Why did i upgrade if this board if it's doing the same job in linux as my old virge DX?
I am now trying to talk my brother into buying a 3dfx to exchange for my tnt.
JBv
> Meanwhile, AN OPEN SOURCE MATH PACKAGE
> WOULD BE A GODSEND!!!!!!!
I could not agree more! I like using mathematica, and I have been using it for some time now. I only wish there was something functionally equivalent and open source.
I hate having to use digital unix on alpha stations simply because there is no version for linux-alpha. That CDE desktop is really depressing and is getting seriously on my nerves.
On the mac, if you defragment the filesystem, the password is invalidated and you have to ask and wait for a new one... Ummm... I suppose Dilbert did not use this yet.
-- me
I give some of my time to opensource and expect others, that use the products of this labour, to do the same.
It's simply direct excange of labour.
Well, this is just my patial and biased opinion.
If for natural US citizens it is outrageous to have an ID code, for me that have nothing to do with either the FBI, CIA or whatever, its espionage.
Ummm... Probably after this i will never be able to enter the USA.
I downloaded one of the glx servers from the nvidia site. It works at 16 bit color and the image quality is not very good. With my p2@300 and the TNT2U i get around 14 fps (800x600, timedemo 1, q3demo1). In windows98 i get 40+ fps using the high quality setting.
Hope this improves on the next version of XFree86.
Man, I remember the very first day I used Linux. It was in a 'new' pentium 120. It was running a slackware dist, with doom instaled.
I also remember using win95 for the first time. It was even funnier because it kept on crashing the p90 not letting us try the new features of the OS.
Well... Playing action quake2 is not exactly browsing the internet is it?