Except IBM could take all of the SuSE sources and make "IBM Linux" that was nothing more than a rebranded SuSE in a heartbeat. This is how Mandrake started -- as an enhanced Red Hat.
And, more to the point, isn't that exactly what Sun did with SuSE when they created their Java Desktop System?
Much of SuSE's workforce is in Germany, not the USA, so the employment situation is different. In any case, what's stopping them from taking the SuSE codebase (GPL'ed anyway), start a new company and continue where they left off?
You've had tough luck. I've compiled ALSA into the kernel, use UDEV exclusively and have never had emerge world break anything. I do agree with the grandparent that gentoo is a breeze to use if you're among the more proficient Linux users.
That's like saying that there are more wheels than Mercedes or Volvo. KDE and Gnome are frameworks where the window manager is a small and least important part. If you decide to base your app on KDE, you get:
Complete network transparency Scriptability through DCOP Ability to embed complete components such as HTML engine or a document viewer A gazillion ready-to-use widgets and dialogs Themability and instant fit with all other KDE apps...and a lot more
You can use your minimalist window manager, but then each application you use (Mozilla, OpenOffice etc) will basically have to reinvent KDE to function. I actually used to run KDE with AfterStep, because I disliked KWin and liked the rest of KDE. Nowadays, I don't need to do that either.
The GNOME folks do have some distance to go as well. Desktop integration is still not quite there - some apps play ball, some apps don't. What GNOME does have in its corner is the apps that have the mindshare of most users - Mozilla, Evolution, GAIM, OpenOffice etc. I am not claiming these are "better", just commenting on momentum.
You forgot some other very prominent GNOME applications:
Adobe Photoshop Microsoft Office DooM3 Konqueror...
You are seriously exaggerating the importance of fantasy and sci-fi on anyone but the hardcore geek. What about Karl Marx' "Capital" or Sartre's existentialist novels, starting with "Nausea" or Kafka's surrealism? All way more important than Tolkien.
Not that I dislike Tolkien, quite on the contrary.
Dude, you expect interesting take on FPSes from a DOOM game? You're probably the type of guy who goes to watch 'Dumb and dumber' and then complain how it lacks depth, how its take on existentialism is shallow when compared to Sartre's early works yada yada.
It's DOOM. It's a legend. It should stay the way it is. Leave FPS 'plots' to other games, it's DOOM and we want to shoot some zombies.
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And what makes this better than a low wagon for transporting trucks? You simply drive a truck onto the wagon and off you go. It's used all over Europe.
...as using PLANETS as speakers, which immediately reminded me of Hotblack from the Hitchhiker's Guide. I should read something more mainstream for a change...
I had a different experience. The guys with 486 DX2 (Intel, not Cyrix or anything else) were actually moving faster in LAN parties than the guys with 386 DX/40 machines (of which I was one). Not to mention that they didn't need to enable "low quality" mode to get decent frame rate.
A GeForce FX 5200 is bottom-of-the-line graphics card. Doom3 will work, but don't expect miracles. If you want a nice experience, upgrade your graphics card.
I don't have that option (laptop user, my card is FX 5350, which is basically FX 5200's big brother), but at least UT2004 runs relatively well at 1024x768. A bit jumpy at times, but Doom3 was meant to be a slower-paced game, so I hope that I'll be able to enjoy it.
A 386DX 40 could run Doom, but barely. The kids with the 486DX2 machines had a much much better experience. Really, a 386 back then was the minimum requirement.
id wanted to do a remake of the original DooM with new technology, and part of the charm of the original DooM was its completely nonsense storyline: you get teleported to hell, kill kill kill.
Without this, it wouldn't be DooM anymore, it would be Daikatana or some other shit like that, leave DOOM ALONE, YOU NOOOOOB!:)
Where the hell are all these people? I've never met a person who thinks of computers as microwave ovens. Even the biggest neophytes understood that you can exchange components. Same with this 'average user' who finds everything 'too difficult' to the extent that clicking on a red icon makes him/her cry because he/she is used to a blue icon. I've never met one.
For tasks other than multimedia, the P4 was actually SLOWER than the P3, per clock tick.
Yeah, but 4 is a 33% improvement over 3, get it?:) I never intended for my post to be taken seriously.
The P3 design had hit the ceiling for speed, so the P4 was a redesign that was optimized for desktop stuff, like video, etc.
No, P4 was a redesign with the explicit goal of ramping the clock as high as it goes. The lower IPC measure was a tradeoff, as you cannot maximise both at the same time. The video performance has to do with extra SSE2 circuitry and associated registers, which are quite unrelated to the main pipeline/speed issue.
Compilers are generally optimised for an architecture, not the OS. The OS simply provides the routines which the compiled code gets to call. The underlying architecture here would be the same, so the assembly the compiler generates would be extremely similar, regardless of the OS. A GCC-based Darwin vs GCC-based Linux on PowerPC architecture sounds like a very fair comparison.
The video drivers are written by NVidia, not Apple or Intel. It's possible that they work better on Intel-based machines because it's a more important market for NVidia, though.
Yeah, but you get double the bits (32 -> 64) for only a little bit of extra cash (20%)!!! It's a bargain! The last such bargain was when Pentium2 came out.
Since then, the progress has slowed down. I mean, Pentium3 -> Pentium4 was only a 33% improvement, but the Pentium4 cost a LOT more. It goes to show that the innovation has slowed in the CPU market. But now we get double the bits!
At least other branches of IT are still showing amazing improvements: Win98 -> Win2000, more than 2000% bigger. nVidia GeForce4 -> nVidia GeForce FX 5200 !
Linux runs on more than just Intel/AMD processors. It runs happily on PowerPC and, in fact, uses the same compiler as OS X (GCC). A comparison would definitely make sense.
Good for you! Many people seem to believe that money makes a person happy and that being a manager is the wet dream of everyone who enters university. But I could easily earn as much money by selling my body to old ladies. The reason I don't is because I don't want to. To be a manager, you have to:
- wear a suit all the time, probably with some stupid corporate identity dictating what you may/may not wear - lie most of the time. All managers lie - spend time with other managers (eeeek) - write boring Powerpoint presentations - act smug. I hate acting smug
Now why on earth would I want to do that? I'd gladly go to school so I DON'T have to be a bloody manager. Most of them are just people who couldn't cut it in a real discipline. MBA is just a bunch of hot air and buzzwords anyway.
Not to mention that the best managers just have a talent for it, and didn't learn it in an MBA programme.
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More to the point, the multiplayer aspect will be handled by Quake4, which will be based on the new Doom engine.
Until then, Quake3 scene is still alive, especially finely-tweaked competition mods such as CPMA.
Except IBM could take all of the SuSE sources and make "IBM Linux" that was nothing more than a rebranded SuSE in a heartbeat. This is how Mandrake started -- as an enhanced Red Hat.
And, more to the point, isn't that exactly what Sun did with SuSE when they created their Java Desktop System?
Much of SuSE's workforce is in Germany, not the USA, so the employment situation is different. In any case, what's stopping them from taking the SuSE codebase (GPL'ed anyway), start a new company and continue where they left off?
You've had tough luck. I've compiled ALSA into the kernel, use UDEV exclusively and have never had emerge world break anything. I do agree with the grandparent that gentoo is a breeze to use if you're among the more proficient Linux users.
That's like saying that there are more wheels than Mercedes or Volvo. KDE and Gnome are frameworks where the window manager is a small and least important part. If you decide to base your app on KDE, you get:
...and a lot more
Complete network transparency
Scriptability through DCOP
Ability to embed complete components such as HTML engine or a document viewer
A gazillion ready-to-use widgets and dialogs
Themability and instant fit with all other KDE apps
You can use your minimalist window manager, but then each application you use (Mozilla, OpenOffice etc) will basically have to reinvent KDE to function. I actually used to run KDE with AfterStep, because I disliked KWin and liked the rest of KDE. Nowadays, I don't need to do that either.
The GNOME folks do have some distance to go as well. Desktop integration is still not quite there - some apps play ball, some apps don't. What GNOME does have in its corner is the apps that have the mindshare of most users - Mozilla, Evolution, GAIM, OpenOffice etc. I am not claiming these are "better", just commenting on momentum.
You forgot some other very prominent GNOME applications:
Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Office
DooM3
Konqueror...
Is there an AVI/DivX/anything else version of this available for those of us without QuickTime?
You are seriously exaggerating the importance of fantasy and sci-fi on anyone but the hardcore geek. What about Karl Marx' "Capital" or Sartre's existentialist novels, starting with "Nausea" or Kafka's surrealism? All way more important than Tolkien.
Not that I dislike Tolkien, quite on the contrary.
Dude, you expect interesting take on FPSes from a DOOM game? You're probably the type of guy who goes to watch 'Dumb and dumber' and then complain how it lacks depth, how its take on existentialism is shallow when compared to Sartre's early works yada yada.
It's DOOM. It's a legend. It should stay the way it is. Leave FPS 'plots' to other games, it's DOOM and we want to shoot some zombies.
And what makes this better than a low wagon for transporting trucks? You simply drive a truck onto the wagon and off you go. It's used all over Europe.
The Linux kernel has a special provision added to the GPL which specifically allows linking against binary-only kernel modules.
Well, with Linux Desktop hovering around 3% and at 699 dollars a pop, it's pretty obvious.
:-)
Or are you saying you haven't paid your 699 yet?
...as using PLANETS as speakers, which immediately reminded me of Hotblack from the Hitchhiker's Guide. I should read something more mainstream for a change...
I had a different experience. The guys with 486 DX2 (Intel, not Cyrix or anything else) were actually moving faster in LAN parties than the guys with 386 DX/40 machines (of which I was one). Not to mention that they didn't need to enable "low quality" mode to get decent frame rate.
Doom3 will work on a GeForce3 Ti.
A GeForce FX 5200 is bottom-of-the-line graphics card. Doom3 will work, but don't expect miracles. If you want a nice experience, upgrade your graphics card.
I don't have that option (laptop user, my card is FX 5350, which is basically FX 5200's big brother), but at least UT2004 runs relatively well at 1024x768. A bit jumpy at times, but Doom3 was meant to be a slower-paced game, so I hope that I'll be able to enjoy it.
Correction: Doom3 uses parts of DirectX, when running on Windows. It's far from being a DirectX game.
A 386DX 40 could run Doom, but barely. The kids with the 486DX2 machines had a much much better experience. Really, a 386 back then was the minimum requirement.
id wanted to do a remake of the original DooM with new technology, and part of the charm of the original DooM was its completely nonsense storyline: you get teleported to hell, kill kill kill.
:)
Without this, it wouldn't be DooM anymore, it would be Daikatana or some other shit like that, leave DOOM ALONE, YOU NOOOOOB!
Where the hell are all these people? I've never met a person who thinks of computers as microwave ovens. Even the biggest neophytes understood that you can exchange components. Same with this 'average user' who finds everything 'too difficult' to the extent that clicking on a red icon makes him/her cry because he/she is used to a blue icon. I've never met one.
Is this an American phenomenon or something?
For tasks other than multimedia, the P4 was actually SLOWER than the P3, per clock tick.
:) I never intended for my post to be taken seriously.
Yeah, but 4 is a 33% improvement over 3, get it?
The P3 design had hit the ceiling for speed, so the P4 was a redesign that was optimized for desktop stuff, like video, etc.
No, P4 was a redesign with the explicit goal of ramping the clock as high as it goes. The lower IPC measure was a tradeoff, as you cannot maximise both at the same time. The video performance has to do with extra SSE2 circuitry and associated registers, which are quite unrelated to the main pipeline/speed issue.
Errr, I'm a bit confused...
Compilers are generally optimised for an architecture, not the OS. The OS simply provides the routines which the compiled code gets to call. The underlying architecture here would be the same, so the assembly the compiler generates would be extremely similar, regardless of the OS. A GCC-based Darwin vs GCC-based Linux on PowerPC architecture sounds like a very fair comparison.
The video drivers are written by NVidia, not Apple or Intel. It's possible that they work better on Intel-based machines because it's a more important market for NVidia, though.
Yeah, but you get double the bits (32 -> 64) for only a little bit of extra cash (20%)!!! It's a bargain! The last such bargain was when Pentium2 came out.
Since then, the progress has slowed down. I mean, Pentium3 -> Pentium4 was only a 33% improvement, but the Pentium4 cost a LOT more. It goes to show that the innovation has slowed in the CPU market. But now we get double the bits!
At least other branches of IT are still showing amazing improvements: Win98 -> Win2000, more than 2000% bigger. nVidia GeForce4 -> nVidia GeForce FX 5200 !
Linux runs on more than just Intel/AMD processors. It runs happily on PowerPC and, in fact, uses the same compiler as OS X (GCC). A comparison would definitely make sense.
Good for you! Many people seem to believe that money makes a person happy and that being a manager is the wet dream of everyone who enters university. But I could easily earn as much money by selling my body to old ladies. The reason I don't is because I don't want to. To be a manager, you have to:
- wear a suit all the time, probably with some stupid corporate identity dictating what you may/may not wear
- lie most of the time. All managers lie
- spend time with other managers (eeeek)
- write boring Powerpoint presentations
- act smug. I hate acting smug
Now why on earth would I want to do that? I'd gladly go to school so I DON'T have to be a bloody manager. Most of them are just people who couldn't cut it in a real discipline. MBA is just a bunch of hot air and buzzwords anyway.
Not to mention that the best managers just have a talent for it, and didn't learn it in an MBA programme.