They'd stop android, or replace it with GNUstep... the only chance for Linux on the desktop is GNUstep. Because gtk, qt, fltk and what not are a pain, seriously (and by gtk, qt I mean GNOME and KDE). Likewise goes for Canonical/Ubuntu.
"One could say that GNUstep is a very nice woman, but without proper make-up and with a shabby dress. Although the expert eye could see the star sparkle, the average person maybe would prefer a more normal female with choosen make-up and dress." -- http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13189460&postID=112497309425424497
That's absolutely right, even today, GNUstep is 15 years ahead of KDE(qt) and GNOME(gtk). Look at the API's, try to write one single graphical app with qt or gtk. Compare the lines of code and time compared to develop the same graphical application made with GNUstep (or Xcode on Mac OS X) using the Cocoa API (which is nothing else but Foundation Kit and Application Kit).
I went like Canon IXUS v3, Canon Ixus 80, Canon EOS 500D (DSLR), got my first prime L lens some time later, then sold the EF-S lenses, then the 500D, got the EOS 5D II (which is very nice). Got some more L lenses. Got my own photo studio and studio lights, light formers, and then I
took this picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aiei/6385882661/
Now I'm with Phase One 645 DF with a Phase One P25 (digital medium format).
The DSLRs are great to learn about aperture and time variables. Oh and once you start with the lights, don't forget the light meter. I don't want to miss it. My friends are like taking 5 - 20 pictures with flash to finally get an approximately right lightning.
A good picture is made of 60 % light, 30 % lens, 10 % camera.
Unless they add a real time edit css/html and display, this is just a big disaster of software project. Luckily there's Google Chrome and Chromium.
Mozilla didn't manage to fix some bugs in their code since > 5 years, that makes it a hell to use if you've got your config files on NFS.
Links 2.1pre22. does braille, text and graphics modes, alots of configuration, much better downloadmanager, can do graphics in framebuffer or svgalib as well. Much smaller, much faster, alot of languages, auto size single pictures *hint, hint*...
And they have lost some important things:
see here for some features.
Another thing that I find annoying, stuff are slow, even on a G5 dual cpu machine. I run OPENSTEP on a Pentium 233 mhz machine, with 64mb memory, and it's rock solid, and damn fast. Everything, see here for some nice apps.
And an excerpt from a book (I can find you
the title and ISBN if you want):
Although both Objective-C and C++ derive from C, C++ is a systems-level language, whereas Objective-C is an applications-level language. The distinction can be summarized by saying that C++ was designed with program efficiency in mind, while Objective-C is geared more toward programmer efficiency. The difference is substantial--C++ is driven by a philosophy of efficiency and compatibility with existing C which, while necessary for a low-level language, proves quite restrictive in other contexts.
And now, the almighty Allen-Booze study:
Quote of the Booz-Allen Study
* took 100+ senior programmers and trained them on NeXTstep, then asked them to write the same app on both NeXT and their previous system.
* First application written was written 2 - 5 times faster.
* Savings were 90%
* 83% less lines of code in the NEXTstep version
* 82% said NeXTstep was better in ALL categories
* It isn't faster to code on NeXTstep; you just have to write less of it. The revolution is "getting rid of software".
GNUstep is a free implementation of the OpenStep specification by NeXT and SUN in 1994. It is really good now. The InterfaceBuilder (Gorm) is great. The Foundation classes are finished long ago, and the AppKit works very well too. Give it a try, Live CD
i don't use windows! i haven't for years.
it is the worst user interface i've seen. and for games? i play GNU Robbo, nethack, jump n bump, xrick, luola, gtetrinet and tons of other cool games (which can be found on freshmeat.net).
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they'd rather make a gnustep version on par with the google-chrome on osx (isn't that already based on cocoa)?
They'd stop android, or replace it with GNUstep... the only chance for Linux on the desktop is GNUstep. Because gtk, qt, fltk and what not are a pain, seriously (and by gtk, qt I mean GNOME and KDE). Likewise goes for Canonical/Ubuntu.
"One could say that GNUstep is a very nice woman, but without proper make-up and with a shabby dress. Although the expert eye could see the star sparkle, the average person maybe would prefer a more normal female with choosen make-up and dress." -- http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13189460&postID=112497309425424497
http://goliat.eik.bme.hu/~balaton/gnustep/opal/ https://github.com/gnustep/gnustep-opal
It isn't faster to code on NeXTstep; you just have to write less of it. The revolution is "getting rid of software". -- http://www.paullynch.org/NeXTSTEP/Savoy.1992.htmld/
I went like Canon IXUS v3, Canon Ixus 80, Canon EOS 500D (DSLR), got my first prime L lens some time later, then sold the EF-S lenses, then the 500D, got the EOS 5D II (which is very nice). Got some more L lenses. Got my own photo studio and studio lights, light formers, and then I took this picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aiei/6385882661/ Now I'm with Phase One 645 DF with a Phase One P25 (digital medium format). The DSLRs are great to learn about aperture and time variables. Oh and once you start with the lights, don't forget the light meter. I don't want to miss it. My friends are like taking 5 - 20 pictures with flash to finally get an approximately right lightning. A good picture is made of 60 % light, 30 % lens, 10 % camera.
they had OPENSTEP, the father of Mac OS X (Cocoa). but they stomped it for Java.... FAIL!
Unless they add a real time edit css/html and display, this is just a big disaster of software project. Luckily there's Google Chrome and Chromium. Mozilla didn't manage to fix some bugs in their code since > 5 years, that makes it a hell to use if you've got your config files on NFS.
Luckily there's GNUstep, however it could be where GNOME/KDE are now. If SUN would have released the Lighthouse Applications: http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/01/23/the-sun-also-sets/ http://talblog.info/archives/2007/01/sundown.html http://livecd.gnustep.org/ Scott McNealy unfortunately failed to find theses sources... saying he can't find it. I hope Java dies soon. And Sony SNAP gets born... but I doubt, it's SONY.
Links 2.1pre22. does braille, text and graphics modes, alots of configuration, much better downloadmanager, can do graphics in framebuffer or svgalib as well. Much smaller, much faster, alot of languages, auto size single pictures *hint, hint*...
Past with OPENSTEP Future with GNUstep
No, Afterstep is only a window manager, that is only working on X11. See here, what the OpenStep specification is about. While you do so, you might also read up the Savoy 1992, Booz-Allen Study results
And they have lost some important things: see here for some features. Another thing that I find annoying, stuff are slow, even on a G5 dual cpu machine. I run OPENSTEP on a Pentium 233 mhz machine, with 64mb memory, and it's rock solid, and damn fast. Everything, see here for some nice apps.
Actually there is people doing just that. Check these: GNUstep and Gorm on Windows. See the screenshots of train data exchange software and train simulation software.
The OpenStep Standard. And the object oriented C. And how Interface Builder looked on OPENSTEP. And the live CD with the older version (soon to be updated).
Let's have a look at programming languages http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/langs.txt
And an excerpt from a book (I can find you the title and ISBN if you want): Although both Objective-C and C++ derive from C, C++ is a systems-level language, whereas Objective-C is an applications-level language. The distinction can be summarized by saying that C++ was designed with program efficiency in mind, while Objective-C is geared more toward programmer efficiency. The difference is substantial--C++ is driven by a philosophy of efficiency and compatibility with existing C which, while necessary for a low-level language, proves quite restrictive in other contexts.
And now, the almighty Allen-Booze study: Quote of the Booz-Allen Study
* took 100+ senior programmers and trained them on NeXTstep, then asked them to write the same app on both NeXT and their previous system.
* First application written was written 2 - 5 times faster.
* Savings were 90%
* 83% less lines of code in the NEXTstep version
* 82% said NeXTstep was better in ALL categories
* It isn't faster to code on NeXTstep; you just have to write less of it. The revolution is "getting rid of software".
more about all this stuff, here: http://livecd.gnustep.org/
Thanks Department of Physics, ETHZ, GNUSTEP-i386-0.9.4.iso
Thanks inode.at and Robe GNUSTEP-i386-0.9.4.iso
Thanks Lyle E. Dodge, GNUSTEP-i386-0.9.4.iso
Thanks Philipp, GNUSTEP-i386-0.9.4.iso
Thanks Daniel Aubry, GNUSTEP-i386-0.9.4.iso
Thanks Peter Samuelson, GNUSTEP-i386-0.9.4.iso
Read the OpenStep specification. Try a GNUstep Live CD.
GNUstep is a free implementation of the OpenStep specification by NeXT and SUN in 1994. It is really good now. The InterfaceBuilder (Gorm) is great. The Foundation classes are finished long ago, and the AppKit works very well too. Give it a try, Live CD
make up your own mind: www.linuks.mine.nu/people/kord/
for some screenshots of mine check screenshots or my guide on using linux as a workstation.
if you have a webpage with alot of visitors, feel free to use banners to make users switch to open source, apt-get.mine.nu my banners, and my friends banners (volkany)
blender-source-2.25b.tar.gz
http://www.jumpbump.mine.nu/
http://www.linuks.mine.nu/workstation/
dillo homepage
yeah my absolute favourite! faster than opera!
links is a nice browser too btw
and and if you just need porn, you don't need a browser but porn-get