Either run the software on windows 7 in xp compatibility mode or run the xp in a Virtual Machine like vmware or virtualbox on windows 7 or linux host. At my company, I'm running netware 5.1(old early 1990's 2 custom program no source code that ran on netware 3 but migrated to 5.1 and 6.5) and netware 6.5 both in virtual machines temporarily in opensuse until we migrate the old software data to the new software on windows server 2012. No issues.
What's the Custom Medical Software database back end it's running on or is it a custom one?FoxPro, MS sql, MySql,MS access(hahahaha, can't be this)?????
People have been complaining about new MS OS's releases since windows 95. People just don't like change it's that simple. WTF is so complicated about the new start menu? It's as easy as the old start menu and it should not take you more then 20 minutes to figure out the whole thing(metro, charm bar) if you have been using a computer for the past 5 - 20 years. Why are people saying the metro looks kiddy looking and it does not belong in the corporate business world? does the gui have to look old, bland, shitty looking to meet corporate standards? I guess that's why corporations want employees wearing those damn awful, uncomfortable, penguin suits.
You can always use classical shell which is free and has the old 98, xp, 7 start menu to choose from if you feel metro is too complicated for you. I mentioned before windows 8 is actually faster to install, update, and setup than windows 7. Works nice on my dual screen no issues. The only thing I bitch about is the pricing for a single license and that's it.
People can always stay with windows 7 or even try out linux but be warned that all linux distro's are complicated to deal with if you don't have the right hardware. The open source drivers for ati radeon 6570 does not work for me i get horrible graphical glitches, crashes unless i use nomodeset and install the ati proprietary drivers but in recovery mode which I doubt regular joe knows how to do it.
Thank You. Regardless of religion or political stance people will always murder, rape, terrorize other people. We are a violent race who haven't evolved enough.
Bradley Manning a complete dumbass. Why risk prison or even death? we all know our government is crooked run by corporate puppet whores. We know the past atrocities this government has committed against other nations in the name of freedom and liberation. Regardless of somebody proving u.s government is a genocidal maniac killing for resources nothing will be done, because the people of this country are too weak and too busy playing with their Nintendo to really do anything to stop them. Where is the financial disaster accountability? Iraq invasion accountability? 17 trillion debt accountability? NONE!
I remember a couple of occasions when I had no internet and same time had Hard Drives failure and had to reinstall Windows on a new hd or just do a fresh install(this was windows xp) to get rid of the old bloat. If i were using Linux as my primary OS I would have been screwed since it needs the internet to solve software dependency issues but with windows software it's not an issue since everything is packed into the.exe or.msi.
The windows 8 desktop(charm bar) and metro UI is better than windows 7, xfce, lxde, cinnamon, mate, kde(confusing mess). Unity is pretty damn good as well. Gnome 3 still needs a lot of work. Until we see software applications with all dependencies in.deb &.rpm available, stable, reliable, easy for the average joe to install and use I don't think linux will overtake windows. With shitty and overpriced internet services in the u.s it's going to be a big problem for linux.
No, we need to control our government from going tyrannical. First they blamed literature, than pot, than liquor, than music, than movies, and now video games. How about we blame and get rid of the bible and Quran since these 2 books have a very major negative influence on society causing nothing but bigotry and violence, if we are going to play the blame game.
You will always have assholes lurking in any society using religion or some other ideology to rape, murder, enslave, control the masses through government propaganda. Video games, movies, music, sports, art, literature, automobiles are the best things in life to keep you from going insane.
They don't seem to understand fios or other fiber internet technologies are not available throughout the whole country so people either go with dsl or cable which drop to 1mbps around 4:pm in the afternoon. U.S way behind on internet speeds and reliability compared to europe and some asian countries.
If Microsoft wants to alienate their customers and push them towards ps3, wiiU, that's fine it's their loss. Microsoft are also ignoring the folks who want the old start menu for windows 8, this is fine as well users will either stick with windows 7 or find another alternative. That's corporations for you, shitty products and services at a high price.
Firefox freezes and crashes with no plugins in windows 7/8 on my amd machine but in Linux it's fine. I'm using IE in windows 8 and it runs fast with no issues.
I like linux as much as the next guy but it won't replace the desktop for home or business anytime soon. I tried installing Linux applications without the internet in.deb,.rpm, and even compile them and it could not be done except for LibreOffice and blender, dependency issues. With windows 8 i just download whatever applications I need and save them on my external storage just in case I need to redo my machine(hard drive go bust) and my internet is out and I had this happen to me a couple of times. Unless the whole u.s goes wi-fi free or prices go below $30 with more competition like most of Eastern Europe Linux has no chance.
I don't understand why people find the metro so complex it's actually better and simple compared to the old start menu styles. I find the linux lxde, xfce, mate, cinnamon all look shitty, buggy, look like they belong in the 1990's and time consuming compared to the unity or metro. Kde looks more modern than the other linux DE's but the start menu navigation is pretty confusing.
I have no problem running all my windows 98/xp/7 applications under windows 8. Eventually, the metro will grow on the complainers and those who are too stubborn to move on. It happened with windows 95/xp/7.
I guess it depends on the hardware you have to make the quick transition to linux. I have a radeon 6570 card and every time i boot into the mint or ubuntu installer without the nomodeset i get graphical glitches and impossible to see anything. The ati opensource drivers suck. After installing the OS's under nomodeset I still can't go into normal mint or ubuntu boot because it crashes so I boot into recovery mode and drop down to terminal to start downloading the latest ati proprietary video drivers to make mint and ubuntu work.
I hate lxde, xfce, cinnamon, mate all these look like they belong in the 1990's. Unity looks more modern and kde can be modified to look modern. I had my linux fun and sticking to windows 8. Plus, windows blue updates and features will allow windows 8 metro apps to run on a dual screen. 4 metro apps same time with 2 full and 2 snapped. $90-$140 for basic and pro is a pretty good damn investment. Linux is free but I need to run my software so I need windows 8.
The U.S is a horrible country to live in if you get fucked by the government this way. It's a fucking feudal system. But the huge hypocrisy in this country is regarding privacy and it's no different than the way the so called communist or dictatorships(which are really feudal systems) past and present spy on you. Our 4th Amendment gone and pretty much the whole constitution is going down the toilet. Even Obama in 2001 said the Constitution is outdated and flawed, well that's because it puts constraints on the government from going tyrannical. Not to mention all the fucking lies and atrocities this country has committed all over the world, no one held accountable for the financial crisis which a lot of people lost their 401k's and homes. And yet, this guy is going to 3 1/2 years in prison.
The only thing he did was post the emails(did not see any other info) nothing else like SS, Credit Card #'s, home addresses, etc... How is this damaging. Google probably sells my gmail data linked to my personal info to the big corporations anyway. SO WHAT THE FUCK!
"Yes, those reforms need to be passed. It's getting harder and harder to find highly skilled professionals willing to work for 20K/year. All American IT workers payed between 60K-120K are standing in the way for companies to be competitive in the global market. Let MBA's make the rules. Unemployment will be history and everybody happily will earn $5/hr."
20k/year? are you serious. Here in New York in Brooklyn and Queens the apartment rentals cost between $18-$27k/year without utilities. Obamacare(will fail) which is not even implemented fully yet, because the insurance companies, doctors, and states are confused how to go about it. If successful this will force individuals to purchase regular healthcare insurance and it will go up with less treatments available. I was paying 2 years ago $650Month/$7800Year which I got rid of. Expenses are going up while salaries are stagnant. So 20k a year? I don't think so.
Who cares now if netflix does not run natively on linux anymore. The netflix linux app runs pretty well in ubuntu 12.10 there is some jerkiness for a few seconds but it's usually when i'm running other intensive applications.
I'm guessing canonical wants more flexibility, better control, take advantage of today's hardware technologies. Better organization to improve development and to rely less on others to get things fixed. Like not having to wait on xorg to fix issues so canonical can improve it's compiz windows manager. It's probably same situation with wayland which the project and documentation seems to be disorganized just. It seems to me a lot of linux developers are stuck in the 80's and 90's mindset no need to create new technologies just stick with what works even if it does not take advantage of newer hardware technologies, this is what killed unix. This is why Microsoft is #1 at home and business they change and improve their software they always moved forward not backwards. Metro and Ribbon are both revolutionary and it's sad ppl don't see that.
And why do linux zealots with their mental illness think what canonical is doing will destroy the whole linux foundation? There will always be tons of different linux distros out there. I personally like ubuntu(disabled amazon) and unity and it looks modern compared to the rest of the 1990's lxde, xfce, mate, etc.... Even kde(although graphics and text kind of fuzzy or blurry) is pretty damn nice but not a fan of the windows type start menu's. Canonical wants to turn their ubuntu distro into a usable gaming, business, home desktop to attract more users. I hope Canonical has great success with Mir and hopefully the rest would adapt and move forward on instead of living in the past.
U.S has a long history of blaming things like literature, booze, guns, video games, music, MJ, and not the person committing the crimes. The world has the good people and also the assholes.
With windows 7 and 8 you can download and install applications later without the need for internet connection or deal with software dependency issues since all the libraries are packaged already in the.msi or.exe, unlike with linux which needs the internet to download updates for the.deb software package to install and work correctly well some of the software not all if you have the latest distro.
I ran team fortress 2 steam no multi cpu rendering(all my six cores run at 86-98% usage) natively in ubuntu 12.10 with the latest amd radeon 6570 drivers and my gpu fan started going berserk vibrating my whole freaking chassis so I had to stop. Gaming under windows on the same machine have no gpu fan issue. Gonna download and try team fortress 2 on windows 8 see if it makes my fan go bonkers. Ubuntu 12.10 does run sluggish at times probably because my cpu runs at 800mhz and rarely jumps to 2700mhz only when running gaming, but the majority of time the performance is on par with windows 7 and 8. If i set my cpu in the bios to run at it's full speed at 2700mhz or with turbo at 3200mhz than ubuntu 12.10 runs smooth consistently. Laptops and netbooks running linux(even xubuntu and lubuntu) or even windows 8 are hotter than windows 7.
All firefox versions including the latest freezes up especially when viewing images in google and brings windows 7 and 8 to a crawl but in linux it's actually stable no issues. Every OS has their pros and cons. I know few ppl including myself who have used OSX and seen crashes and freezes.
So Tesla does not like the truth about their cars having lower mpg distance, breaking down, or taking hours just to charge the damn car. I seen that episode. Only rich idiots buy these ridiculous overpriced shithole cars.
I hope they commit themselves to this project if it will improve graphic performance for the desktop and games. I don't understand why ppl hate unity so much. I think it's very intuitive and easy to access anything on your machine just by typing 3 to 4 letters and you have your documents or programs showing in the dash. I actually like unity better than metroUI although this is another UI that is just fast as intuitive as unity. Not a big fan of the old start menu I always used rocketdock on windows 7.
BSD is not ahead of linux on the desktop because it's still stuck in the unix past and this is why linux like windows should always improve and create newer technologies to improve the desktop experience. A lot of these linux zealots need to take a chill pill. Just because ubuntu is morphing into something not their liking doesn't mean it's the end of linux as we know it. There are so many damn distros out there to choose from and a lot of window managers to pick from. I hate lxde, xfce, mate, cinnamon, because they are all windows 95/xp type start menu's which i despise. I hope gnome also improves.
This government is no different from any other government past and present including those labeled communist, they are all run by the rich, the oligarchy or what we call the capitalist. The hypocrisy "All man are created equal" and yet our government oppressed and mistreated pretty much everybody in the u.s and overseas. Has anybody in our government ever been held responsible for the atrocities they have caused overseas for the past 60 years? NO!. What about the bullshit Iraq invasion which lead to hundreds of thousands dead, in poverty, sold into sex trade, etc... We were the aggressors, we had no right to invade. Do you really think u.s did it to liberate the people from saddam especially when this country did not give a shit about the 1990's iraq sanctions which left nearly 1 million Iraqi people dead mostly children. What happens if the whole world sanctioned us, no more imports? u.s threatens everybody with nukes? probably.
Look at the way the u.s treats it's citizens here, why was it so shocking to hear how the cia tortured the prisoners? cops can beat the crap out of you, shoot you if you run away even if you are not armed, prison is completely hell and it does not rehabilitate anyone, overzealous prosecutors. U.S is a failed ideology.
This is the problem with corporations, selling you a shitty product at a high price because of lack of competition. Microsoft would be selling their products for $40 if linux had the same quality software. Had TWC service and their speed never reached 20mbps and funny thing after 3 or 4pm the speed drops to 1mbps and below. Same issue with dsl. With FIOS i get none of that garbage plus no cap. Fios speed is constant and actually higher than whats advertised. Same with hospitals charging whatever the fuck they want to.
firefox has gone to complete shit. It freezes and crashes to often. I switched over to chrome and IE 10 which both run faster and more stable than FF. Chrome has plenty of plugins anyway. Opera switching to webkit.
So, it's okay for the u.s government and even corporations to spy on our communications(facebook, phone calls, chats), emails, and whatever we upload to the cloud without a court warrant but when somebody does it to a corporation or government it's time for the feudal u.s system to go bat shit crazy on his/her ass. If u.s does not follow the constitution why should we, remember by the people for the people. Hah, who cares it's a feudal system. People just stop hacking it's not worth losing your life over.
All humans are born self serving, narcissistic, assholes but some eventually grow out of it. A country is just an ideology with virtual borders and regardless of political ideology that fuels the government, eventually, it will fail due to corruption and human rights abuse. Well, people fight back.
Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro(filthy rich) were and 1 still is a pure Capitalist con artist who duped millions into a feudal system(pure capitalism) aka communism and socialism(far from the real socialist systems), turning the majority into serfs just like here in the U.S where the rest of us are living off the scraps the rich throw away or trickle down economics. Or what i like to call trickle down, pee pee on the people.
Was anybody ever prosecuted over the near economic collapse? Housing bubble crisis triggered by wall street, banks, Fannie Mae, which left 1.5 million without a home, 401k's destroyed? Was there an investigation on Bush's lies that lead to the Iraq and basically middle east invasion? Nope.
Today you can basically turn any pc into a dedicated console using windows 8. With windows 8 you can build a custom microatx machine connected to an lcd tv which you can play and surf the web from your bed or couch without squinting thanks to the metroUI. Hopefully, if steam on linux gets better games like far cry, crysis, grid, dirt, f1 2013, tomb raider games, cod, etc... you can build a ubuntu gaming console, i prefer unity as a gaming console since you can enlarge the dock icons, i would even go as far as gnome 3.
It's pretty sad how developers are more concerned with graphics than gameplay. Got rid of the ps3 3 years ago and just using emulators to play nes, snes, genesis,sms, tubro graphics, arcade mameui64, gamecube, and ps2 games. There is a ps3 emulator that's being worked on it does play some games pretty damn well especially on a quadcore system.
and this card will run your current games at 200+ fps at 1080p while newer games will run at 40fps which means you will then have to buy a newer card. What is the wattage usage? 1000 watt psu minimum requirement.
What we need is gameplay which is missing in today's pc games this is why I always find myself going back to emulators. These day's pc's are consuming watts like air conditioners.
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Either run the software on windows 7 in xp compatibility mode or run the xp in a Virtual Machine like vmware or virtualbox on windows 7 or linux host. At my company, I'm running netware 5.1(old early 1990's 2 custom program no source code that ran on netware 3 but migrated to 5.1 and 6.5) and netware 6.5 both in virtual machines temporarily in opensuse until we migrate the old software data to the new software on windows server 2012. No issues.
What's the Custom Medical Software database back end it's running on or is it a custom one?FoxPro, MS sql, MySql,MS access(hahahaha, can't be this)?????
People have been complaining about new MS OS's releases since windows 95. People just don't like change it's that simple. WTF is so complicated about the new start menu? It's as easy as the old start menu and it should not take you more then 20 minutes to figure out the whole thing(metro, charm bar) if you have been using a computer for the past 5 - 20 years. Why are people saying the metro looks kiddy looking and it does not belong in the corporate business world? does the gui have to look old, bland, shitty looking to meet corporate standards? I guess that's why corporations want employees wearing those damn awful, uncomfortable, penguin suits.
You can always use classical shell which is free and has the old 98, xp, 7 start menu to choose from if you feel metro is too complicated for you. I mentioned before windows 8 is actually faster to install, update, and setup than windows 7. Works nice on my dual screen no issues. The only thing I bitch about is the pricing for a single license and that's it.
People can always stay with windows 7 or even try out linux but be warned that all linux distro's are complicated to deal with if you don't have the right hardware. The open source drivers for ati radeon 6570 does not work for me i get horrible graphical glitches, crashes unless i use nomodeset and install the ati proprietary drivers but in recovery mode which I doubt regular joe knows how to do it.
Thank You. Regardless of religion or political stance people will always murder, rape, terrorize other people. We are a violent race who haven't evolved enough.
Bradley Manning a complete dumbass. Why risk prison or even death? we all know our government is crooked run by corporate puppet whores. We know the past atrocities this government has committed against other nations in the name of freedom and liberation. Regardless of somebody proving u.s government is a genocidal maniac killing for resources nothing will be done, because the people of this country are too weak and too busy playing with their Nintendo to really do anything to stop them. Where is the financial disaster accountability? Iraq invasion accountability? 17 trillion debt accountability? NONE!
I remember a couple of occasions when I had no internet and same time had Hard Drives failure and had to reinstall Windows on a new hd or just do a fresh install(this was windows xp) to get rid of the old bloat. If i were using Linux as my primary OS I would have been screwed since it needs the internet to solve software dependency issues but with windows software it's not an issue since everything is packed into the .exe or .msi.
The windows 8 desktop(charm bar) and metro UI is better than windows 7, xfce, lxde, cinnamon, mate, kde(confusing mess). Unity is pretty damn good as well. Gnome 3 still needs a lot of work. Until we see software applications with all dependencies in .deb & .rpm available, stable, reliable, easy for the average joe to install and use I don't think linux will overtake windows. With shitty and overpriced internet services in the u.s it's going to be a big problem for linux.
"We need video game control"
No, we need to control our government from going tyrannical. First they blamed literature, than pot, than liquor, than music, than movies, and now video games. How about we blame and get rid of the bible and Quran since these 2 books have a very major negative influence on society causing nothing but bigotry and violence, if we are going to play the blame game.
You will always have assholes lurking in any society using religion or some other ideology to rape, murder, enslave, control the masses through government propaganda. Video games, movies, music, sports, art, literature, automobiles are the best things in life to keep you from going insane.
They don't seem to understand fios or other fiber internet technologies are not available throughout the whole country so people either go with dsl or cable which drop to 1mbps around 4:pm in the afternoon. U.S way behind on internet speeds and reliability compared to europe and some asian countries.
If Microsoft wants to alienate their customers and push them towards ps3, wiiU, that's fine it's their loss. Microsoft are also ignoring the folks who want the old start menu for windows 8, this is fine as well users will either stick with windows 7 or find another alternative. That's corporations for you, shitty products and services at a high price.
Firefox freezes and crashes with no plugins in windows 7/8 on my amd machine but in Linux it's fine. I'm using IE in windows 8 and it runs fast with no issues.
I like linux as much as the next guy but it won't replace the desktop for home or business anytime soon. I tried installing Linux applications without the internet in .deb, .rpm, and even compile them and it could not be done except for LibreOffice and blender, dependency issues. With windows 8 i just download whatever applications I need and save them on my external storage just in case I need to redo my machine(hard drive go bust) and my internet is out and I had this happen to me a couple of times. Unless the whole u.s goes wi-fi free or prices go below $30 with more competition like most of Eastern Europe Linux has no chance.
I don't understand why people find the metro so complex it's actually better and simple compared to the old start menu styles. I find the linux lxde, xfce, mate, cinnamon all look shitty, buggy, look like they belong in the 1990's and time consuming compared to the unity or metro. Kde looks more modern than the other linux DE's but the start menu navigation is pretty confusing.
I have no problem running all my windows 98/xp/7 applications under windows 8. Eventually, the metro will grow on the complainers and those who are too stubborn to move on. It happened with windows 95/xp/7.
I guess it depends on the hardware you have to make the quick transition to linux. I have a radeon 6570 card and every time i boot into the mint or ubuntu installer without the nomodeset i get graphical glitches and impossible to see anything. The ati opensource drivers suck. After installing the OS's under nomodeset I still can't go into normal mint or ubuntu boot because it crashes so I boot into recovery mode and drop down to terminal to start downloading the latest ati proprietary video drivers to make mint and ubuntu work.
I hate lxde, xfce, cinnamon, mate all these look like they belong in the 1990's. Unity looks more modern and kde can be modified to look modern. I had my linux fun and sticking to windows 8. Plus, windows blue updates and features will allow windows 8 metro apps to run on a dual screen. 4 metro apps same time with 2 full and 2 snapped. $90-$140 for basic and pro is a pretty good damn investment. Linux is free but I need to run my software so I need windows 8.
The U.S is a horrible country to live in if you get fucked by the government this way. It's a fucking feudal system. But the huge hypocrisy in this country is regarding privacy and it's no different than the way the so called communist or dictatorships(which are really feudal systems) past and present spy on you. Our 4th Amendment gone and pretty much the whole constitution is going down the toilet. Even Obama in 2001 said the Constitution is outdated and flawed, well that's because it puts constraints on the government from going tyrannical. Not to mention all the fucking lies and atrocities this country has committed all over the world, no one held accountable for the financial crisis which a lot of people lost their 401k's and homes. And yet, this guy is going to 3 1/2 years in prison.
The only thing he did was post the emails(did not see any other info) nothing else like SS, Credit Card #'s, home addresses, etc... How is this damaging. Google probably sells my gmail data linked to my personal info to the big corporations anyway. SO WHAT THE FUCK!
"Yes, those reforms need to be passed. It's getting harder and harder to find highly skilled professionals willing to work for 20K/year.
All American IT workers payed between 60K-120K are standing in the way for companies to be competitive in the global market.
Let MBA's make the rules. Unemployment will be history and everybody happily will earn $5/hr."
20k/year? are you serious. Here in New York in Brooklyn and Queens the apartment rentals cost between $18-$27k/year without utilities. Obamacare(will fail) which is not even implemented fully yet, because the insurance companies, doctors, and states are confused how to go about it. If successful this will force individuals to purchase regular healthcare insurance and it will go up with less treatments available. I was paying 2 years ago $650Month/$7800Year which I got rid of. Expenses are going up while salaries are stagnant. So 20k a year? I don't think so.
Who cares now if netflix does not run natively on linux anymore. The netflix linux app runs pretty well in ubuntu 12.10 there is some jerkiness for a few seconds but it's usually when i'm running other intensive applications.
I'm guessing canonical wants more flexibility, better control, take advantage of today's hardware technologies. Better organization to improve development and to rely less on others to get things fixed. Like not having to wait on xorg to fix issues so canonical can improve it's compiz windows manager. It's probably same situation with wayland which the project and documentation seems to be disorganized just. It seems to me a lot of linux developers are stuck in the 80's and 90's mindset no need to create new technologies just stick with what works even if it does not take advantage of newer hardware technologies, this is what killed unix. This is why Microsoft is #1 at home and business they change and improve their software they always moved forward not backwards. Metro and Ribbon are both revolutionary and it's sad ppl don't see that.
And why do linux zealots with their mental illness think what canonical is doing will destroy the whole linux foundation? There will always be tons of different linux distros out there. I personally like ubuntu(disabled amazon) and unity and it looks modern compared to the rest of the 1990's lxde, xfce, mate, etc.... Even kde(although graphics and text kind of fuzzy or blurry) is pretty damn nice but not a fan of the windows type start menu's. Canonical wants to turn their ubuntu distro into a usable gaming, business, home desktop to attract more users. I hope Canonical has great success with Mir and hopefully the rest would adapt and move forward on instead of living in the past.
U.S has a long history of blaming things like literature, booze, guns, video games, music, MJ, and not the person committing the crimes. The world has the good people and also the assholes.
With windows 7 and 8 you can download and install applications later without the need for internet connection or deal with software dependency issues since all the libraries are packaged already in the .msi or .exe, unlike with linux which needs the internet to download updates for the .deb software package to install and work correctly well some of the software not all if you have the latest distro.
I ran team fortress 2 steam no multi cpu rendering(all my six cores run at 86-98% usage) natively in ubuntu 12.10 with the latest amd radeon 6570 drivers and my gpu fan started going berserk vibrating my whole freaking chassis so I had to stop. Gaming under windows on the same machine have no gpu fan issue. Gonna download and try team fortress 2 on windows 8 see if it makes my fan go bonkers. Ubuntu 12.10 does run sluggish at times probably because my cpu runs at 800mhz and rarely jumps to 2700mhz only when running gaming, but the majority of time the performance is on par with windows 7 and 8. If i set my cpu in the bios to run at it's full speed at 2700mhz or with turbo at 3200mhz than ubuntu 12.10 runs smooth consistently. Laptops and netbooks running linux(even xubuntu and lubuntu) or even windows 8 are hotter than windows 7.
All firefox versions including the latest freezes up especially when viewing images in google and brings windows 7 and 8 to a crawl but in linux it's actually stable no issues. Every OS has their pros and cons. I know few ppl including myself who have used OSX and seen crashes and freezes.
So Tesla does not like the truth about their cars having lower mpg distance, breaking down, or taking hours just to charge the damn car. I seen that episode. Only rich idiots buy these ridiculous overpriced shithole cars.
I hope they commit themselves to this project if it will improve graphic performance for the desktop and games. I don't understand why ppl hate unity so much. I think it's very intuitive and easy to access anything on your machine just by typing 3 to 4 letters and you have your documents or programs showing in the dash. I actually like unity better than metroUI although this is another UI that is just fast as intuitive as unity. Not a big fan of the old start menu I always used rocketdock on windows 7.
BSD is not ahead of linux on the desktop because it's still stuck in the unix past and this is why linux like windows should always improve and create newer technologies to improve the desktop experience. A lot of these linux zealots need to take a chill pill. Just because ubuntu is morphing into something not their liking doesn't mean it's the end of linux as we know it. There are so many damn distros out there to choose from and a lot of window managers to pick from. I hate lxde, xfce, mate, cinnamon, because they are all windows 95/xp type start menu's which i despise. I hope gnome also improves.
This government is no different from any other government past and present including those labeled communist, they are all run by the rich, the oligarchy or what we call the capitalist. The hypocrisy "All man are created equal" and yet our government oppressed and mistreated pretty much everybody in the u.s and overseas. Has anybody in our government ever been held responsible for the atrocities they have caused overseas for the past 60 years? NO!. What about the bullshit Iraq invasion which lead to hundreds of thousands dead, in poverty, sold into sex trade, etc... We were the aggressors, we had no right to invade. Do you really think u.s did it to liberate the people from saddam especially when this country did not give a shit about the 1990's iraq sanctions which left nearly 1 million Iraqi people dead mostly children. What happens if the whole world sanctioned us, no more imports? u.s threatens everybody with nukes? probably.
Look at the way the u.s treats it's citizens here, why was it so shocking to hear how the cia tortured the prisoners? cops can beat the crap out of you, shoot you if you run away even if you are not armed, prison is completely hell and it does not rehabilitate anyone, overzealous prosecutors. U.S is a failed ideology.
This is the problem with corporations, selling you a shitty product at a high price because of lack of competition. Microsoft would be selling their products for $40 if linux had the same quality software. Had TWC service and their speed never reached 20mbps and funny thing after 3 or 4pm the speed drops to 1mbps and below. Same issue with dsl. With FIOS i get none of that garbage plus no cap. Fios speed is constant and actually higher than whats advertised. Same with hospitals charging whatever the fuck they want to.
firefox has gone to complete shit. It freezes and crashes to often. I switched over to chrome and IE 10 which both run faster and more stable than FF. Chrome has plenty of plugins anyway. Opera switching to webkit.
So, it's okay for the u.s government and even corporations to spy on our communications(facebook, phone calls, chats), emails, and whatever we upload to the cloud without a court warrant but when somebody does it to a corporation or government it's time for the feudal u.s system to go bat shit crazy on his/her ass. If u.s does not follow the constitution why should we, remember by the people for the people. Hah, who cares it's a feudal system. People just stop hacking it's not worth losing your life over.
All humans are born self serving, narcissistic, assholes but some eventually grow out of it. A country is just an ideology with virtual borders and regardless of political ideology that fuels the government, eventually, it will fail due to corruption and human rights abuse. Well, people fight back.
Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro(filthy rich) were and 1 still is a pure Capitalist con artist who duped millions into a feudal system(pure capitalism) aka communism and socialism(far from the real socialist systems), turning the majority into serfs just like here in the U.S where the rest of us are living off the scraps the rich throw away or trickle down economics. Or what i like to call trickle down, pee pee on the people.
Was anybody ever prosecuted over the near economic collapse? Housing bubble crisis triggered by wall street, banks, Fannie Mae, which left 1.5 million without a home, 401k's destroyed? Was there an investigation on Bush's lies that lead to the Iraq and basically middle east invasion? Nope.
Today you can basically turn any pc into a dedicated console using windows 8. With windows 8 you can build a custom microatx machine connected to an lcd tv which you can play and surf the web from your bed or couch without squinting thanks to the metroUI. Hopefully, if steam on linux gets better games like far cry, crysis, grid, dirt, f1 2013, tomb raider games, cod, etc... you can build a ubuntu gaming console, i prefer unity as a gaming console since you can enlarge the dock icons, i would even go as far as gnome 3.
It's pretty sad how developers are more concerned with graphics than gameplay. Got rid of the ps3 3 years ago and just using emulators to play nes, snes, genesis,sms, tubro graphics, arcade mameui64, gamecube, and ps2 games. There is a ps3 emulator that's being worked on it does play some games pretty damn well especially on a quadcore system.
Can't wait for the ubuntu tablet and phone.
and this card will run your current games at 200+ fps at 1080p while newer games will run at 40fps which means you will then have to buy a newer card. What is the wattage usage? 1000 watt psu minimum requirement.
What we need is gameplay which is missing in today's pc games this is why I always find myself going back to emulators. These day's pc's are consuming watts like air conditioners.