> Bah! Linux is good but it can't do client stuff as well as some. BeOS: way of the future baby;)
Can't do client stuff as well? Huh? As an experienced BeOS and Linux user I can tell you Linux does just as well, if not better, than BeOS on the client side. I'm not about to introduce an OS tax in my future computing so BeOS is, uhm, a nice toy, good idea pool, etc, but no way my main OS. The fact that Be is going to drop PPC support soon also doesn't help me very much with my BeBox:/...Oh well, at least LinuxPPC runs on it...
I would like to someday earn my bread doing Linux related work. So commercialism in the form of supporting and developing new computing solutions on Linux is a good thing IMHO.
With the proper permissions (root) you can force a higher scheduling priority by calling sched_setscheduler() with the appropiate values. You can even achieve 1ms reschedules on a standard kernel!! If you check out "real-time" audio applications on Linux you'll see these programs do just that.
I'm working on an ALL software solution. alsaplayer.It's not quite ready yet. Mixed with terminatorX it should do the same. The Vinyl interface is cool though (hi Markjan!:)
The menu is in the wrong place (bottom) and it's really really slow, but other than that it renders everything perfectly!
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It does work from my school account, but I get the same blank page as you do from my Linux box at home. I suspect it might have something to do with Junkbuster and proxy forwarding I'm using:) Try turning of your proxy settings and see if that works...
vmware can be sped up (/dev/hda vs. virtual hd)
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Installing the vmware-tools made all the difference for me. I'ts now running acceptibly in a 1152x900 window off a virtual hardisk..
Hehe, that's also the only reason I keep a win98 partition on my system. Unfortunately I don't think DVD will work wwith VMWare, at least not with this beta version. It's supports CDROM only I think (via a NECVmware sort of driver, internally). I've also not seen any ioport region protection/visibility configurations so I doubt you'll get to the MPEG decoder card...
Well, BeOS is multiplatform. A simple re-compile and it will work on PowerPC. Sure, not 100 platforms, but the two biggest. If Apple wasn't blocking the specs to their G3 machines, then Be would have three platforms to play with. Not a single line of code would need to be changed.
Have you checked out the state of BeOS PPC lately? It's not that good, in fact rumor has it the PPC port of BeOS will be abandoned by years end (to coincide with dropping of BeBox support). Simple case in point: BeOS PPC is still PEF and not ELF, there are no plans to convert it to ELF, which means people are dependant on the Metrowerks tools which are licensed to Be since MW doesn't see profit in there anymore. Which platform will prevail do you think? Already you see only x86 versions of most apps coming out. Oh, and just simply recompiling your app for PowerPC is not true (not unless you create a whole bunch of #ifdefs and many won't bother)
And that makes it exactly the opposite of almost all other platforms/OSes out there now.
What we'll see happening is for real open standards to emerge. I.e. that companies/organizations let go of their proprietary interface in order for them to become standards (no strings attached). That, or they could see the whole market go by their noses (think mp3 and RIAA for example). At least that is my hope.
That was not the point was it? The point was to show the original poster that Open Source is capable of producing very good (I would even say the best) software projects...
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make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/disk/opt/src/WindowMaker-0.60.0/src'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I../wrlib -I../WINGs -I/opt/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DLOCALEDIR=\"/opt/lib/locale\" -g -O2 -c dock.c
dock.c:3551: parse error before `else'
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Seesh, you remind me of myself a few months back. Be this, Be that, Been! aarghl! :) -adnans
The ALSA drivers should support the SB 128 very well.
-adnans
Wait, you can do that in Linux too :)
esound + alsaplayer + ALSA
My PII 233 can just barely make it at 9 mp3's playing simultaneously. After that the distortion and CPU usage is too large/high.
-adnans
That's my list. I'm sure there are tons of new things. Ah, maybe USB support?
-andy
> Bah! Linux is good but it can't do client stuff as well as some. BeOS: way of the future baby ;)
:/ ...Oh well, at least LinuxPPC runs on it...
Can't do client stuff as well? Huh? As an experienced BeOS and Linux user I can tell you Linux does just as well, if not better, than BeOS on the client side. I'm not about to introduce an OS tax in my future computing so BeOS is, uhm, a nice toy, good idea pool, etc, but no way my main OS. The fact that Be is going to drop PPC support soon also doesn't help me very much with my BeBox
Bedev #E-1516
I would like to someday earn my bread doing Linux related work. So commercialism in the form of supporting and developing new computing solutions on Linux is a good thing IMHO.
-Andy
Now that would kick ass...
aieeee!
With the proper permissions (root) you can force a higher scheduling priority by calling sched_setscheduler() with the appropiate values. You can even achieve 1ms reschedules on a standard kernel!! If you check out "real-time" audio applications on Linux you'll see these programs do just that.
I'm working on an ALL software solution.
:)
alsaplayer.It's not quite ready yet. Mixed with terminatorX it should do the same. The Vinyl interface is cool though (hi Markjan!
Adnans
The menu is in the wrong place (bottom) and it's really really slow, but other than that it renders everything perfectly!
It does work from my school account, but I get the same blank page as you do from my Linux box at home. I suspect it might have something to do with Junkbuster and proxy forwarding I'm using :)
Try turning of your proxy settings and see if that works...
Installing the vmware-tools made all the difference for me. I'ts now running acceptibly in a 1152x900 window off a virtual hardisk..
-Adnans
Hehe, that's also the only reason I keep a win98 partition on my system. Unfortunately I don't think DVD will work wwith VMWare, at least not with this beta version. It's supports CDROM only I think (via a NECVmware sort of driver, internally). I've also not seen any ioport region protection/visibility configurations so I doubt you'll get to the MPEG decoder card...
:)
C'mon SIGMA! Linux driver, pleeaaase
-Adnans
Well, BeOS is multiplatform. A simple re-compile and it will work on PowerPC. Sure, not 100 platforms, but the two biggest. If Apple wasn't blocking the specs to their G3 machines, then Be would have three platforms to play with. Not a single line of code would need to be changed.
Have you checked out the state of BeOS PPC lately? It's not that good, in fact rumor has it the PPC port of BeOS will be abandoned by years end (to coincide with dropping of BeBox support). Simple case in point: BeOS PPC is still PEF and not ELF, there are no plans to convert it to ELF, which means people are dependant on the Metrowerks tools
which are licensed to Be since MW doesn't see profit in there anymore. Which platform will prevail do you think? Already you see only x86 versions of most apps coming out. Oh, and just simply recompiling your app for PowerPC is not true (not unless you create a whole bunch of #ifdefs and many won't bother)
And that makes it exactly the opposite of almost all other platforms/OSes out there
now.
What we'll see happening is for real open standards to emerge. I.e. that companies/organizations let go of their proprietary interface in order for them to become standards (no strings attached). That, or they could see the whole market go by their noses (think mp3 and RIAA for example). At least that is my hope.
It was never a real challenge to begin with :)
It's like trying to prove the air you breath is not usefull..
That was not the point was it?
The point was to show the original poster that Open Source is capable of producing very good (I would even say the best) software projects...
-adnans
Be was using the Metrowerks compiler tool up until R3. Guess what they're using now, egcs. Egcs is an Open Source project. Whiner... 'nuff said
-adnans
Ow, just install your Linux server and be happy ;-)
-adnans
Hmm, the Preferences section was not there. But hey I found password!!! Whoopee :)