Games for Linux are cool! I mean, the games are one of the areas where windows still offers better choicec than Linux / Unix. As more desktop users move over to Linux (or at least install it on a partition on their harddisks), games are needed.
For myself, I have grown tired of games. I settle for some old Amiga-games with the UAE emulator...
This should be good. When one of the larger computer-makers starts shipping linux away pre-installed, I bet the other ones will get on the train and install it as well. Of course, this is only good as long as you can buy a computer w/o operating-system.
Sorry Hooptie, your argument doesn't hold. There is a clear correlation between the availability of firearms and the rate of violence. This is the main reason school-killings like this last one rarely happens in Europe, where the laws for firearms are much more restrictive than in the USA. I can recall but one school-massacre in europe, in the UK a few years ago.
To kill is not a civil liberty, and the society doesn't get safer with more guns. Quite the opposite.
I also believe that TV / movie / game violence has an effect on the youth. Especially the kind of "mild" violence thats so prominent in American large-budget Action/Comedy movies. You get used to violence and dont think much of it. Street-violence is however much worse than on the big screen, but people care less about that too as it appears so often in movies (often uses by the "good guys" to solve problems...)
This is sort of cool, from a nostalgic point of view. I remember reading in an old computer-magazine (which sure is funny, blocky graphics, 20kg portables etc) about GEM. The reviewers thought it was quite good. The funny thing was a small side article about GUI:s. There they mentioned, briefly, one other GUI: Windows from Microsoft.
Which GUI:s best is of course something that's not easy to establish. Probably impossible.
The good thing about windows is that it, being the desktop environment, has a consistent look and feel for all (almost) programs. Otherwise, I dont think it has much to give.
The X-windows system has it's main point in being configurable, I reckon. You can get your windowmanager to look, AND FEEL, exactly like you want (take a look at my homepage for some screenshots of my FVWM2-setup). And I love being able to run programs over the network as effortlessly as you can do in Unix.
I too have had problems using both GCC and EGCS in Linux, not to mention the problems it caused when I tried to install PGCC. One over-arching compiler should make things easier.
Have anyone noticed any differences in performance by compiling the Linux kernel with EGCS or PGCC?
400mhz P-II? Wow. So they finally found a use for these computers, besides games and webserving. I choose to wait for the movie to show up on the local cinema (which will be in August here in Sweden:-( )
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Games for Linux are cool! I mean, the games are one of the areas where windows still offers better choicec than Linux / Unix. As more desktop users move over to Linux (or at least install it on a partition on their harddisks), games are needed.
For myself, I have grown tired of games. I settle for some old Amiga-games with the UAE emulator...
// Simon
This should be good. When one of the larger computer-makers starts shipping linux away pre-installed, I bet the other ones will get on the train and install it as well. Of course, this is only good as long as you can buy a computer w/o operating-system.
// Simon
Sorry Hooptie, your argument doesn't hold. There is a clear correlation between the availability of firearms and the rate of violence. This is the main reason school-killings like this last one rarely happens in Europe, where the laws for firearms are much more restrictive than in the USA. I can recall but one school-massacre in europe, in the UK a few years ago.
To kill is not a civil liberty, and the society doesn't get safer with more guns. Quite the opposite.
I also believe that TV / movie / game violence has an effect on the youth. Especially the kind of "mild" violence thats so prominent in American large-budget Action/Comedy movies. You get used to violence and dont think much of it. Street-violence is however much worse than on the big screen, but people care less about that too as it appears so often in movies (often uses by the "good guys" to solve problems...)
// Simon
This is sort of cool, from a nostalgic point of view. I remember reading in an old computer-magazine (which sure is funny, blocky graphics, 20kg portables etc) about GEM. The reviewers thought it was quite good. The funny thing was a small side article about GUI:s. There they mentioned, briefly, one other GUI: Windows from Microsoft.
:-)
// Simon
Which GUI:s best is of course something that's not easy to establish. Probably impossible.
The good thing about windows is that it, being the desktop environment, has a consistent look and feel for all (almost) programs. Otherwise, I dont think it has much to give.
The X-windows system has it's main point in being configurable, I reckon. You can get your windowmanager to look, AND FEEL, exactly like you want (take a look at my homepage for some screenshots of my FVWM2-setup). And I love being able to run programs over the network as effortlessly as you can do in Unix.
// Simon
I too have had problems using both GCC and EGCS in Linux, not to mention the problems it caused when I tried to install PGCC. One over-arching compiler should make things easier.
Have anyone noticed any differences in performance by compiling the Linux kernel with EGCS or PGCC?
// Simon
400mhz P-II? Wow. So they finally found a use for these computers, besides games and webserving. I choose to wait for the movie to show up on the local cinema (which will be in August here in Sweden :-( )
// Simon
Scary stuff this. Back to 1984?
// Simon
Sure does. Tetris is a neat idea. I remember playing nibbles while loading some C64-games. Sort of the same thing..
// Simon