Blender in general still is free ('beer'). For everything classical 3D packages are actually used (stills, videos, sfx, etc.).
Only if you want to produce stand alone realtime 3D applications or web content without the blender logo displayed in a corner at the bottem do you have to buy a license.
Which is, on top of that, somewhat resonable in pricing (around 300$, single license) for such a package.
Notice that the other thing in this game is NeMo/Virtools for something like 5000$. And that's a windows-only gadget.
Oh, and btw, just for the book:-) , Blender's most outstanding feature is - believe it or not - it's user interface and workspace management. Unmatched speed, usability, versatility and customizability. No shit. The first two weeks I thought their GUI designers had smoked some really bad stuff (everybody does!) - then I caught on.
Once you've grasped what they were up to when they programed this, you'll NEVER ever touch any other 3D Modeller again. I actually consider Blenders interface on of the most remarkable feats in interface design in general.
I honestly thought cinema4d was king in this area. It actually is just another also-ran.
That Houdini was first on Linux is a common misbelief strewn about by the Houdini people (can't grasp that name of theirs...?...)
In fact, Blender was the first full range 3D Package for Linux. It's been around for quite a while now (+- 2 years). The plugin and their 'pay money for Logo-free Blender creator' is what's fairly new.
/. remarks == loads of BS moded to +2
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Did ANYBODY on/. actually read the ML Thread on this problem the kernelpeople have?
Rob Landley and Linux Torwalds aren't bashing their heads in on one another nor is ANYBODY of the Kernel Team about to 'dethrone' Linus. Whatever that may be.
In fact Landley suggest a "Patch Penguin' to actually EMPOWER Linus in his actuall job as an arcitect of Linux.
Linus in turn says that officially shifting patchin jobs to somebody else (the said Patch Penguin) won't save the problem of, for instance, people being to lazy to clean up their code dependencies.
Linus wants to see a sort of 'web of maintainers' where everyone knows and works with a overseeable amount of others (just like he does) rather than a big patcheritis boiling around a main single/pair/group of developers.
It may, IMHO of a absolute non-kernel savy guy, kinda boil down to the monolitic/modular kernel discussion that comes up every know and then.
Then again, on the other hand I gather the impression that Rob Langley and Linus Torwals aren't that far apart in seeing the issue that needs to be addresses rather than seeing different ways of aproaching a solution to it.
Anyhow,/.ers should read the actual thread before they post every instant and absurd mindfart that comes to them. Be it about jelousy amongst kernelhackers or Linus supposedly bossing around or whatever other sorts of utter bullshit.
All you Dual Boot Suckers killed Loki! (FLAMEBAIT)
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I didn't go Linux until about 4 Months ago. And until then had to take LOTS of shit from Linux biassed buddys. Even now, bugging me 'bout KMail having no encrypted/multipart support and that I still use it so I'm conclusively a dickhead. You all stick your ultimate geekness and 1 Bit colored Mutt up your ass.
Sissies are you! All together! Those who call themselves Geeks at War with MS and dualboot Windoze to play games. You stink. Only 3 Months ago it was clear that the Heat was around the corner for Loki and the slashdot community did absolutely NADA about it.
It makes me wanna puke just thinking about that it might be only half a year away for people to NEED WinXP to play a proper game on PC Hardware.
This +2 and higher moded "Mickeysoft stinks" "AOL Sux", "AOL kicks Mickeysofts ass - great" is not just boring anymore. It's so frequent it's getting seriously anoying!
That eternal turf war of OSes only exists in your head. There's nothing to it. Really. Good grief, get with the Programm. Linux and it's stuff has reached desktop parity with Windoze and co, for crisake! Even the unpredictable KDE buggines has! (laugh or cry... it has)
This or simular stuff happening was so foreseable.
And this day will come aswell: MS Linux.
I dunno, maybe it's an american thing, but all this conveyor-belt stile Nazi fragging just isn't in my game (pun intended).
And talking about the o-so-hailed multiplayer expierience, Tribes 2 still kicks the ass of every other game up and down the street.
And Loki has a very good boxed T2 in their programm for quite a while now.
When it comes to being a major public pain in the butt, Gravenreuth dwarves Gates and Balmer by far.
This german guy is so f*cking full of sh*t, he's even a shame to the lawyers trade on this whole flippin' planet!
From what I gather he needs bodyguards whenever he moves in public. Note that this is germany where violence in public is considerably more seldom than in the US. Anyhow, he'd better have them if I ever bumb into this creep.
>Over the course of this week, we've given full
>trade access to China, despite the fact that it
>is a communist nation of the worst kind that
>openly hunts, tortures, and kills people for
>belonging to a
> religion that isn't sanctioned by the government
>or coming anywhere near defying the government's
>will, and we've punished Ukraine for abetting
>piracy.
Yeah, dig that "communist nation" fellas! Isn't even this thoughtworthy post so clice all american it dripps? LOL!
To the point:
This is actually quite fitting, since the US are - alongside with China - amongst the 5 (in words: FIVE !) countrys worldwide that still have the death toll as a legal and operational means of punishment.
Figure that the other three are (don't know exactly) something like some country somewhere in Indonesia and 2 diktator-nations somewhere in some 3rd world jungle boondocs where humanity was abandoned long ago anyway.
Not to forget the 150 per 1000 people in jail the US has got. Like Chile in Pinochet times. Probably even more.
Checking on those details and some other concerning their foreing policy - especially with, but not limited to - 3rd world countries - it has allready long ago been objectively conclusive that the US are quite on par with crook nations like Lybia or China.
Think twice about it and note that this isn't just your standard foreign anti-americanism. I was an american citizen myself for more than 18 years, and am frightend by the rate im growing happy I ain't anymore.
The most interessting point about that is that Linux is in a position where one can't acctually speak of "winning" or "losing". Windows has won, yes, but that's far away from a battlefield that interessts Linux.
Linux will never go "out of service" like Be did.
It's simply not possible. A company offernig something like Linux would've died before they could say "ningcompoop".
But Linux is OSS. It not an OS, it's an entire "methology" or "philosophy" if you will. It has totally differen't obstacles and totally different aproaches to problems than a Software company living from Inhouse Oses and their Software. Linux most certainly won't win when it get's good enough, it will win when the "Inhouse" only policy of M$ and Co. won't generate enough revenue anymore to keep them going.
That's when M$ will start offering their Linux distribution. A thing which/.ers just don't seem to believe:-)
Mark my word.
1st of all:
Until about 3 Month ago (until NS 6 and the newer Konquerors) surfing with Linux was a mucho-ultra-grande pain in the anus. And it still sux enough to get any non-Linux-biassed user to drop it like a glowing charcoal.
2nd of all:
Linux has reached desktop-parity (quality wise) with Mickeysoft OSes only about half a year ago - kinda around the release of KDE 2 (but not only due to KDE 2).
3rd of all:
As someone pointed out allready: that makes one out of 400 Users. Which isn't that bad, given that the 'desktopability' and specially 'surfability' of Linux was a bad joke just about a year ago.
4th of all:
Just about that half a year ago Mickeysoft raised the 'OSS-infection' and licencing issues and got dork-ord attracted to the issue in the first place. It' a mere 2 Months ago they released an OS that has a pricing and registration policy attached to it, that will have the actual Linux-rush still coming. Since every standard user has the geek-friend or two who keeps pressing the issue of the 'Pro-OS' Linux (at least in germany that's so).
As I said on/. before, this upcoming 'rush' will probably be the time when M$ anounces their own Linux-Distro. Mickeysoft isn't dumb, y'know?
5th:
Servers. Who in holy hell's gonna build an IT startup nowadays using M$ for the backend stuff? Look at the VCs dropping out left, right and center and you'll gather: Nobody! M$ cost a shitload of money it you wan't to use it legally. At virtually no gain. Linux has 93,5% (in words: thirty-nine point five !!!) grouth on the servermarket (Computerwoche) - M$ only about 25% - and that been causing Billyboy and Balmer headaches for more that a year now.
How about a cable conduct at standard height around every room?
You can get these in plastic by the meter readymade with snap-on and removeable coverbrackets. If you make shure that you sink them flat into the walls at a height where you don't wanna drill a hole to hang something you'll have all the time in the world to decide wether CAT 5, 6, 7, fibre or that brandnew Cat Tenmillion (TM) thats bound to leave the specs-drawer in just 6 months or so. No matter what cables come in the future, you can put the all into that conduct and never have to sweat about scalability anymore.
BTW: That's the way im gonna do that as soon as I build my first house.:-)
Nice Gadget. I prefer the Wheelman (TM) though...
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The Wheelman comes in 3 different flavors, sports an internal combustion engine and therefore packs a tad more oomph to climb steep slopes and the occasional scateboard-halpipe.:-)
And what sissy needs a handlebar anyway?
Well, I don't know cURL, but I shure do know Flash. And from what I get from the cURL site it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Flash or it's "niche".
I wonder what this guy is talking about.
At times when Windows would take a minute to boot into the GUI, BeOS would take 15 Seconds the most. BeOS followed the GUI idea front to back - and still is the only OS that does so, imho.
Honestly now:
Who gives a shit about the new rubbish being slower than the old one? DOS was faster than 3.11, Win95 slower than DOS (and about 2000% larger!).
Mickeysoft allways bloats it's OSes and calls it technological improvement. Often enough Intel, AMD and Co. kiss their feet for that 'cause that's how they can sell new processors 'n stuff.
How much have I learned to thank Linus Torwalds for fighting tooth and nail for tried & true real technological improvements and not just the bananabloatware those ancient inhouse OSes and graphical enviroments constantly incorporate.
It's one big moneymaking ratrace. Take it or leave it, but picking at it time over time is just plain silly and starting to get boring.
I gather the 2.4 Kernel runs rock solid and smooth on my 486/DX4/100 with 16MB to make for the best rooter I could ever wish for. Examples for two completely different aproaches in Software technology.
It's sad enough that BeOS has drowned. But to build the B API around a Linux Kernel for the sake of B and to rescue it is just so plain silly it hurts.
BeOS wasn't very pretty. Enlightenment is. It wasn't the eyecandy that made BeOS, it was the seamless integration of the kernel and widgets and grafic stuff that made BeOS. And made it so f+cking fast.
I doupt they'll make BlueOS boot into the Desktop in 10 seconds flat with a Linuxkernel. Which the original B actually does.
They might as well take the BeOS Theme for E.
Though Java rox as a language and was the first to implement the VM principle and has a huge set of APIs (which make for it's biggest advantage but often are written very haphazardly), it has one big downside in comparsion to Python.
Python is GPLd. Java is not.
If the other-way-around aproach IBM is taking now is crappy, there be no one stopped from enhancing it or writing a better one. Everyone can go by and rewrite any part of the Standard library if he thinks it's to slow. If IBM wants to bug SUN a little in the "nifty new language concept" dept., this is not the stupidest thing to do.
What if Mickeysoft FINALY gets the message and publishes their own distribution of Linux? What I wouldn't be supprised about at all if they sink any further trying to press the issue of this inhouse software only buisness model even though it's withering faster than Balmer can hopp behind to catch up.
Note that Mickeysoft is trying to establish a model with XP, that Linux vendors are allready using a few years and slowly having success with. I know lots of people who are gonna switch to Linux as soon as support for NT stops. If Billyboy is as smart as I suspect he is, he's got a distro in his drawer allready. As soon as more than 50 percent of his advisors tell him it's more gain than loss to push it into the market, Red Hat and SuSE are gonna have a real trouble, not because of XP 2 or something but because there's a Mickeysoft Linux on the rise.
Mark my word: Mickeysoft is either gonna be so irrationally Windows focused that it's gonna dig their grave, or their gonna get it just in time (like wih IE vs. Netscape, remember?) and offer us a jawdropping Linux-Distro with some nifty install-tool that will make YaST 2 look like Netscape 4.3 compared to IE 5.
The only point that they're so tight assed about 'doze and switching complete revenue strategies is, that their a big company, used to being the best and thus, naturally, need to learn the hard way (see IBM).
Either way you put it, I seen Linux gaining momentum slowly, but bit by bit more every second. It runs on wristwatches and the biggest computers in the world and it's just about ready to make for a better desktop than 'doze. It's comming on strong, Mickeysoft's passport and lets-turn-you-computer-into-a-proprietary-microsof t-console befor-you-know-it registration policy is pissing of even the dimest of unpolitical users and making them - figure this - think about Licence terms!!!
No way is Linux a goner - it's just warming up and when it's fired up, M$ is gonna pull some tricky stunt with all their weapons and take a lead of the ever-growing Linux-bandwagon. Sooner than you think.
You really want to see me burst in tears? Here in Germany everyone fears to be outpaced by the US as far as technology and economy in general are concerned. The US are still far ahead in the usage of the internet and electronic services in general as an everyday means of communication.
Das ist ein typisch deutscher Irrglaube - allerdings gewissermaßen ein gesunder, denn so ruht man sich hier (in Deutschland) nicht auf seinen Lorbeeren aus.
(too lazy to translate, I'll paraphrase: I'm telling him that that's a typical german misbeliev - but a someway healthy one, because it keeps them on the edge)
An US Citizen saying "Technologically speaking, we're the cream of the digital era crop." LOL!
How do I know you're an US CItizen? You say "we" without mentioning an oganization or a nation.
For your information: I'm just know sitting in Krefeld/Germany, way across the pond, writing this. It's called Internet and is somewhat "international". Take a dictionary and look it up ( i-n-t-e-r-n-a-t-i-o-n-a-l ). And you've wondered where that "Inter" in the "Net" came from. Believe it or not, there are other Nations in the World and - would you guess? - most of the technological inovations come from outside the US. Because the outside world is a little bigger than you might think.
As a former american citizen this stupid talk on/. embaresses me every time. So please give us a break on this bull. What kind of world do you live in? I wouldn't be suprised if you'd think the Nazis still ruled germany because of all the WW2 movies you've seen on TV. I've met people who believed that - no kidding! And of course they were americans.
I'm a former american citizen (now german) and must say you observe very accurate. From the distance from across the pond and a few years back I get the very same impression. America needs a change, just like Europe is changing now. Or better, even more so - so to get things really right.
What was that last election all about? Are you guys back in gods own country gonna change your election laws? Just as an example...
Postal is one big hunk of outdated crapp.
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AFAIK, Germany has the highest amount of Linux users per capita. Germany often officially considers itself behind in the IT race with other nations, especially the US, but that's mostly due to a typical US focused view.
A good Joke about that is "gang und gäbe" with IT professionals: "If we (the germans) wanna take a wordwide lead in IT, we shouldn't try do so by focusing on the lousiest propritary american OS we can lay hands on."
Quite my position:-).
OSS is cool, '133+, democratic and modern, and the density of tech savy people, due to the high education level (compred to USA) reaches critical mass well enough. Which means politians don't wanna out themselves as 'not tech savy' by not joining in the "oss is the future" policy.
I wouldn't be suprised if Europe realy takes the lead in IT tech by doing a solid amount of OSS lobbying.
BTW: IMHO, succes of Linux in Germany is also widely based on the famos SuSE Distro.
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Blender in general still is free ('beer'). For everything classical 3D packages are actually used (stills, videos, sfx, etc.).
:-) , Blender's most outstanding feature is - believe it or not - it's user interface and workspace management. Unmatched speed, usability, versatility and customizability. No shit. The first two weeks I thought their GUI designers had smoked some really bad stuff (everybody does!) - then I caught on.
Only if you want to produce stand alone realtime 3D applications or web content without the blender logo displayed in a corner at the bottem do you have to buy a license.
Which is, on top of that, somewhat resonable in pricing (around 300$, single license) for such a package.
Notice that the other thing in this game is NeMo/Virtools for something like 5000$. And that's a windows-only gadget.
Oh, and btw, just for the book
Once you've grasped what they were up to when they programed this, you'll NEVER ever touch any other 3D Modeller again. I actually consider Blenders interface on of the most remarkable feats in interface design in general.
I honestly thought cinema4d was king in this area. It actually is just another also-ran.
That Houdini was first on Linux is a common misbelief strewn about by the Houdini people (can't grasp that name of theirs...?...)
In fact, Blender was the first full range 3D Package for Linux. It's been around for quite a while now (+- 2 years). The plugin and their 'pay money for Logo-free Blender creator' is what's fairly new.
Did ANYBODY on /. actually read the ML Thread on this problem the kernelpeople have?
/.ers should read the actual thread before they post every instant and absurd mindfart that comes to them. Be it about jelousy amongst kernelhackers or Linus supposedly bossing around or whatever other sorts of utter bullshit.
Rob Landley and Linux Torwalds aren't bashing their heads in on one another nor is ANYBODY of the Kernel Team about to 'dethrone' Linus. Whatever that may be.
In fact Landley suggest a "Patch Penguin' to actually EMPOWER Linus in his actuall job as an arcitect of Linux.
Linus in turn says that officially shifting patchin jobs to somebody else (the said Patch Penguin) won't save the problem of, for instance, people being to lazy to clean up their code dependencies.
Linus wants to see a sort of 'web of maintainers' where everyone knows and works with a overseeable amount of others (just like he does) rather than a big patcheritis boiling around a main single/pair/group of developers.
It may, IMHO of a absolute non-kernel savy guy, kinda boil down to the monolitic/modular kernel discussion that comes up every know and then.
Then again, on the other hand I gather the impression that Rob Langley and Linus Torwals aren't that far apart in seeing the issue that needs to be addresses rather than seeing different ways of aproaching a solution to it.
Anyhow,
I didn't go Linux until about 4 Months ago. And until then had to take LOTS of shit from Linux biassed buddys. Even now, bugging me 'bout KMail having no encrypted/multipart support and that I still use it so I'm conclusively a dickhead. You all stick your ultimate geekness and 1 Bit colored Mutt up your ass.
Sissies are you! All together! Those who call themselves Geeks at War with MS and dualboot Windoze to play games. You stink. Only 3 Months ago it was clear that the Heat was around the corner for Loki and the slashdot community did absolutely NADA about it.
It makes me wanna puke just thinking about that it might be only half a year away for people to NEED WinXP to play a proper game on PC Hardware.
This +2 and higher moded "Mickeysoft stinks" "AOL Sux", "AOL kicks Mickeysofts ass - great" is not just boring anymore. It's so frequent it's getting seriously anoying!
That eternal turf war of OSes only exists in your head. There's nothing to it. Really. Good grief, get with the Programm. Linux and it's stuff has reached desktop parity with Windoze and co, for crisake! Even the unpredictable KDE buggines has! (laugh or cry... it has)
This or simular stuff happening was so foreseable.
And this day will come aswell: MS Linux.
I dunno, maybe it's an american thing, but all this conveyor-belt stile Nazi fragging just isn't in my game (pun intended).
And talking about the o-so-hailed multiplayer expierience, Tribes 2 still kicks the ass of every other game up and down the street.
And Loki has a very good boxed T2 in their programm for quite a while now.
When it comes to being a major public pain in the butt, Gravenreuth dwarves Gates and Balmer by far.
This german guy is so f*cking full of sh*t, he's even a shame to the lawyers trade on this whole flippin' planet!
From what I gather he needs bodyguards whenever he moves in public. Note that this is germany where violence in public is considerably more seldom than in the US. Anyhow, he'd better have them if I ever bumb into this creep.
>Over the course of this week, we've given full
>trade access to China, despite the fact that it
>is a communist nation of the worst kind that
>openly hunts, tortures, and kills people for
>belonging to a
> religion that isn't sanctioned by the government
>or coming anywhere near defying the government's
>will, and we've punished Ukraine for abetting
>piracy.
Yeah, dig that "communist nation" fellas! Isn't even this thoughtworthy post so clice all american it dripps? LOL!
To the point:
This is actually quite fitting, since the US are - alongside with China - amongst the 5 (in words: FIVE !) countrys worldwide that still have the death toll as a legal and operational means of punishment.
Figure that the other three are (don't know exactly) something like some country somewhere in Indonesia and 2 diktator-nations somewhere in some 3rd world jungle boondocs where humanity was abandoned long ago anyway.
Not to forget the 150 per 1000 people in jail the US has got. Like Chile in Pinochet times. Probably even more.
Checking on those details and some other concerning their foreing policy - especially with, but not limited to - 3rd world countries - it has allready long ago been objectively conclusive that the US are quite on par with crook nations like Lybia or China.
Think twice about it and note that this isn't just your standard foreign anti-americanism. I was an american citizen myself for more than 18 years, and am frightend by the rate im growing happy I ain't anymore.
>Currently the biggest issue with linux gaming is a
>lack of easily configurable 3D which translates to
>a lack of decent 3D games.
I've got 'Descent 3' in 3D for Linux. It run's great. And you can't get any more of that on other plattforms. Wokawoka, hehehe!
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
>The Windows monopoly has -won-.
/.ers just don't seem to believe :-)
The most interessting point about that is that Linux is in a position where one can't acctually speak of "winning" or "losing". Windows has won, yes, but that's far away from a battlefield that interessts Linux.
Linux will never go "out of service" like Be did.
It's simply not possible. A company offernig something like Linux would've died before they could say "ningcompoop".
But Linux is OSS. It not an OS, it's an entire "methology" or "philosophy" if you will. It has totally differen't obstacles and totally different aproaches to problems than a Software company living from Inhouse Oses and their Software. Linux most certainly won't win when it get's good enough, it will win when the "Inhouse" only policy of M$ and Co. won't generate enough revenue anymore to keep them going.
That's when M$ will start offering their Linux distribution. A thing which
Mark my word.
1st of all: /. before, this upcoming 'rush' will probably be the time when M$ anounces their own Linux-Distro. Mickeysoft isn't dumb, y'know?
Until about 3 Month ago (until NS 6 and the newer Konquerors) surfing with Linux was a mucho-ultra-grande pain in the anus. And it still sux enough to get any non-Linux-biassed user to drop it like a glowing charcoal.
2nd of all:
Linux has reached desktop-parity (quality wise) with Mickeysoft OSes only about half a year ago - kinda around the release of KDE 2 (but not only due to KDE 2).
3rd of all:
As someone pointed out allready: that makes one out of 400 Users. Which isn't that bad, given that the 'desktopability' and specially 'surfability' of Linux was a bad joke just about a year ago.
4th of all:
Just about that half a year ago Mickeysoft raised the 'OSS-infection' and licencing issues and got dork-ord attracted to the issue in the first place. It' a mere 2 Months ago they released an OS that has a pricing and registration policy attached to it, that will have the actual Linux-rush still coming. Since every standard user has the geek-friend or two who keeps pressing the issue of the 'Pro-OS' Linux (at least in germany that's so).
As I said on
5th:
Servers. Who in holy hell's gonna build an IT startup nowadays using M$ for the backend stuff? Look at the VCs dropping out left, right and center and you'll gather: Nobody! M$ cost a shitload of money it you wan't to use it legally. At virtually no gain. Linux has 93,5% (in words: thirty-nine point five !!!) grouth on the servermarket (Computerwoche) - M$ only about 25% - and that been causing Billyboy and Balmer headaches for more that a year now.
So chill out everybody.
How about a cable conduct at standard height around every room?
:-)
You can get these in plastic by the meter readymade with snap-on and removeable coverbrackets. If you make shure that you sink them flat into the walls at a height where you don't wanna drill a hole to hang something you'll have all the time in the world to decide wether CAT 5, 6, 7, fibre or that brandnew Cat Tenmillion (TM) thats bound to leave the specs-drawer in just 6 months or so. No matter what cables come in the future, you can put the all into that conduct and never have to sweat about scalability anymore.
BTW: That's the way im gonna do that as soon as I build my first house.
The Wheelman comes in 3 different flavors, sports an internal combustion engine and therefore packs a tad more oomph to climb steep slopes and the occasional scateboard-halpipe. :-)
And what sissy needs a handlebar anyway?
Well, I don't know cURL, but I shure do know Flash. And from what I get from the cURL site it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Flash or it's "niche".
I wonder what this guy is talking about.
At times when Windows would take a minute to boot into the GUI, BeOS would take 15 Seconds the most. BeOS followed the GUI idea front to back - and still is the only OS that does so, imho.
Honestly now:
Who gives a shit about the new rubbish being slower than the old one? DOS was faster than 3.11, Win95 slower than DOS (and about 2000% larger!).
Mickeysoft allways bloats it's OSes and calls it technological improvement. Often enough Intel, AMD and Co. kiss their feet for that 'cause that's how they can sell new processors 'n stuff.
How much have I learned to thank Linus Torwalds for fighting tooth and nail for tried & true real technological improvements and not just the bananabloatware those ancient inhouse OSes and graphical enviroments constantly incorporate.
It's one big moneymaking ratrace. Take it or leave it, but picking at it time over time is just plain silly and starting to get boring.
I gather the 2.4 Kernel runs rock solid and smooth on my 486/DX4/100 with 16MB to make for the best rooter I could ever wish for. Examples for two completely different aproaches in Software technology.
Guess which one's got the edge.
It's sad enough that BeOS has drowned. But to build the B API around a Linux Kernel for the sake of B and to rescue it is just so plain silly it hurts.
BeOS wasn't very pretty. Enlightenment is. It wasn't the eyecandy that made BeOS, it was the seamless integration of the kernel and widgets and grafic stuff that made BeOS. And made it so f+cking fast.
I doupt they'll make BlueOS boot into the Desktop in 10 seconds flat with a Linuxkernel. Which the original B actually does.
They might as well take the BeOS Theme for E.
Though Java rox as a language and was the first to implement the VM principle and has a huge set of APIs (which make for it's biggest advantage but often are written very haphazardly), it has one big downside in comparsion to Python.
Python is GPLd. Java is not.
If the other-way-around aproach IBM is taking now is crappy, there be no one stopped from enhancing it or writing a better one. Everyone can go by and rewrite any part of the Standard library if he thinks it's to slow. If IBM wants to bug SUN a little in the "nifty new language concept" dept., this is not the stupidest thing to do.
What if Mickeysoft FINALY gets the message and publishes their own distribution of Linux?
f t-console befor-you-know-it registration policy is pissing of even the dimest of unpolitical users and making them - figure this - think about Licence terms!!!
What I wouldn't be supprised about at all if they sink any further trying to press the issue of this inhouse software only buisness model even though it's withering faster than Balmer can hopp behind to catch up.
Note that Mickeysoft is trying to establish a model with XP, that Linux vendors are allready using a few years and slowly having success with. I know lots of people who are gonna switch to Linux as soon as support for NT stops. If Billyboy is as smart as I suspect he is, he's got a distro in his drawer allready. As soon as more than 50 percent of his advisors tell him it's more gain than loss to push it into the market, Red Hat and SuSE are gonna have a real trouble, not because of XP 2 or something but because there's a Mickeysoft Linux on the rise.
Mark my word: Mickeysoft is either gonna be so irrationally Windows focused that it's gonna dig their grave, or their gonna get it just in time (like wih IE vs. Netscape, remember?) and offer us a jawdropping Linux-Distro with some nifty install-tool that will make YaST 2 look like Netscape 4.3 compared to IE 5.
The only point that they're so tight assed about 'doze and switching complete revenue strategies is, that their a big company, used to being the best and thus, naturally, need to learn the hard way (see IBM).
Either way you put it, I seen Linux gaining momentum slowly, but bit by bit more every second. It runs on wristwatches and the biggest computers in the world and it's just about ready to make for a better desktop than 'doze. It's comming on strong, Mickeysoft's passport and lets-turn-you-computer-into-a-proprietary-microso
No way is Linux a goner - it's just warming up and when it's fired up, M$ is gonna pull some tricky stunt with all their weapons and take a lead of the ever-growing Linux-bandwagon. Sooner than you think.
You really want to see me burst in tears? Here in Germany everyone fears to be outpaced by the US as far as technology and economy in general are concerned. The US are still far ahead in the usage of the internet and electronic services in general as an everyday means of communication.
Das ist ein typisch deutscher Irrglaube - allerdings gewissermaßen ein gesunder, denn so ruht man sich hier (in Deutschland) nicht auf seinen Lorbeeren aus.
(too lazy to translate, I'll paraphrase: I'm telling him that that's a typical german misbeliev - but a someway healthy one, because it keeps them on the edge)
You got it wrong. English with german gramar goes more like this:
"Zo? Haff you your lizence Papiere? WHY HAFF YOU NOT ZE PAPIERE?"
An US Citizen saying "Technologically speaking, we're the cream of the digital era crop." LOL! /. embaresses me every time. So please give us a break on this bull. What kind of world do you live in? I wouldn't be suprised if you'd think the Nazis still ruled germany because of all the WW2 movies you've seen on TV. I've met people who believed that - no kidding! And of course they were americans.
How do I know you're an US CItizen? You say "we" without mentioning an oganization or a nation.
For your information: I'm just know sitting in Krefeld/Germany, way across the pond, writing this. It's called Internet and is somewhat "international". Take a dictionary and look it up ( i-n-t-e-r-n-a-t-i-o-n-a-l ). And you've wondered where that "Inter" in the "Net" came from. Believe it or not, there are other Nations in the World and - would you guess? - most of the technological inovations come from outside the US. Because the outside world is a little bigger than you might think.
As a former american citizen this stupid talk on
I'm a former american citizen (now german) and must say you observe very accurate. From the distance from across the pond and a few years back I get the very same impression. America needs a change, just like Europe is changing now. Or better, even more so - so to get things really right.
What was that last election all about? Are you guys back in gods own country gonna change your election laws? Just as an example...
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A good Joke about that is "gang und gäbe" with IT professionals: "If we (the germans) wanna take a wordwide lead in IT, we shouldn't try do so by focusing on the lousiest propritary american OS we can lay hands on."
Quite my position
OSS is cool, '133+, democratic and modern, and the density of tech savy people, due to the high education level (compred to USA) reaches critical mass well enough. Which means politians don't wanna out themselves as 'not tech savy' by not joining in the "oss is the future" policy.
I wouldn't be suprised if Europe realy takes the lead in IT tech by doing a solid amount of OSS lobbying.
BTW: IMHO, succes of Linux in Germany is also widely based on the famos SuSE Distro.