Okay, here's the thing: No, FreeBSD does not have SVGAlib natively for FreeBSD itself. However, we do have libvgl (which is definitely more primitive, but I wouldn't say coded less well). The Linux SVGAlib has been modified so it can run and interact (correct ioctl()s) with FreeBSD's syscons et al, and Quake 2 worked... but things with the mouse and keyboard were going strangely. I think I'll look at SVGAlib and add the correct ioctl() translation for it to run unmodified on FreeBSD. There's no reason FreeBSD can't have Display Doctor, as we do have native VGA/VESA support.
If this comes out for FreeBSD and the SVGAlib works flawlessly, I'm definitely going to buy it! However, I'm not going to use Linux just so I can run Display Doctor.
I don't know what's wrong with your system, but have you thought about hardware? StarOffice 5 is stable for me on FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT, so I don't know what you're having a problem with here. In addition, I've been using StarOffice for many months on my K6 (now K6-2 300) and the speed is quite acceptable. It's not as fast as something highly optimized for Unix, but didn't you notice they use a cross-platform toolkit to mediate between SO and the OS? Kinda like what Mozilla is doing with NSPR...
It's not a bad license. It's mainly a BSDish license, but no advertising clause; the license must be reproduced if the software is distributed in source form, and ALSO if the software is distributed in executable form. Great job SGI, this can really but put to some use!
Gee, and people say Linux users are flamers.
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Time for the latest release! Being the second release on the 3.X branch, a lot of things were worked out that were strange in 3.0. I now wholeheartedly recommend a FreeBSD 3.X release to anyone!
Honestly, this is the best FreeBSD release ever; so many new drivers have been added, features added, bugs fixed, and so on. When everyone does their best to improve upon such a great OS, it's evident wonderful things [read: 3.1] happen!
If you are Microsoft, you'd think this way:
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You must mean Spyglass. NCSA Mosaic is much freer than that.
Uhm, what the fuck are you talking about? There was never a time without a non-commercial UNIX: ever heard of AT&T letting universities have UNIX? And the BSD project?
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I need to start noting things to myself. One such thing is that Anonymous Cowards are always the most clueless people.
You're probably right. Noone uses console graphics. Now if GGI works right with its SVGAlib wrapper... ;)
Okay, here's the thing: No, FreeBSD does not have SVGAlib natively for FreeBSD itself. However, we do have libvgl (which is definitely more primitive, but I wouldn't say coded less well). The Linux SVGAlib has been modified so it can run and interact (correct ioctl()s) with FreeBSD's syscons et al, and Quake 2 worked... but things with the mouse and keyboard were going strangely. I think I'll look at SVGAlib and add the correct ioctl() translation for it to run unmodified on FreeBSD. There's no reason FreeBSD can't have Display Doctor, as we do have native VGA/VESA support.
If this comes out for FreeBSD and the SVGAlib works flawlessly, I'm definitely going to buy it! However, I'm not going to use Linux just so I can run Display Doctor.
I don't know what's wrong with your system, but have you thought about hardware? StarOffice 5 is stable for me on FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT, so I don't know what you're having a problem with here. In addition, I've been using StarOffice for many months on my K6 (now K6-2 300) and the speed is quite acceptable. It's not as fast as something highly optimized for Unix, but didn't you notice they use a cross-platform toolkit to mediate between SO and the OS? Kinda like what Mozilla is doing with NSPR...
I'm certain you must mean -funroll-workstations, right? :)
1. This is totally bull****. There is no violation of the GPL here since source changes are provided. There is no case of anything against MOSIX.
2. If this kind of thing ever happens for real with the GPL, think about it: would this be happening if you were using a different license?
Might be nice to be able to write KoRn correctly on a computer :)
It's not a bad license. It's mainly a BSDish license, but no advertising clause; the license must be reproduced if the software is distributed in source form, and ALSO if the software is distributed in executable form. Great job SGI, this can really but put to some use!
What in the HELL are you talking about?
Time for the latest release! Being the second release on the 3.X branch, a lot of things were worked out that were strange in 3.0. I now wholeheartedly recommend a FreeBSD 3.X release to anyone!
Honestly, this is the best FreeBSD release ever; so many new drivers have been added, features added, bugs fixed, and so on. When everyone does their best to improve upon such a great OS, it's evident wonderful things [read: 3.1] happen!
You must mean Spyglass. NCSA Mosaic is much freer than that.
> struct s[20]; ....
> for ( struct s *iter = s; iter != s + 20; ++ iter ) s->value;
You know you cannot do that in C, don't you?
No, it owes a lot to a certain engineer who was a designer of the Alpha, among other things.
I don't know about you, but I don't want Joe Random Luser using my wok! It's not open source, damnit!
I think he'll probably be easily coerced to provide compiled Mesa GLide-like "plugins" for FreeBSD, which would be a wonderful thing!
Linux is a nice operating system, and this is an important release!
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Remember, FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE on Feb. 15th 1999!
And heck, everyone else is including theirs:
FreeBSD green.dyn.ez-ip.net 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #19: Mon Jan 25 21:15:50 EST 1999 green@green.dyn.ez-ip.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/FE
Give it an 5x86-133 and a nice little heatsink? :)
Enjoy em! 3.1-RELEASE is truly the best ever, by far, with so many new features... it's just not even funny!
Uhm, what the fuck are you talking about? There was never a time without a non-commercial UNIX: ever heard of AT&T letting universities have UNIX? And the BSD project?
It does indeed work fine on Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50 (MGv, the best GS frontend, works quite nicely too, I might add :).
I'm relatively certain he's referring to how one could pay $10 and use while still using MSN "premium" sites, etc.