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I have never seen a Doon III screenshot posted on the front page on any web site. If you browse the sort of sites that would show such a thing, and if it's really a big deal for you, then perhaps you should talk to them instead of bitching on slashdot. Even better, you could just disable images for those sites.
Occasionally there have been some really wacko non-news stories that have appeared and then disappeared (stuff like "Cowboyneal please read this"). I don't think/. has ever removed a news story.
When will people realize that slashdot ads (including the MS Visual Studio ads) are completely random, not fixed to any one story, and have nothing to do with the content? If such an ad is shown for this story it is pure coincidence.
Other distros do. Mandrake, Red Hat, SeSU all have superb hardware detection. Knoppix is different only in that it detects hardware on startup, which is the only way to make a CD-only, no-install distro.
Do a fair comparison. Comepare the truck to a "slightly used" Prius or Insight. The truck may still be slightly cheaper than the hybrid, but the difference will be a lot smaller. Besides, cost isn't the only reason to get a hybrid.
Also, Hondas and Toyotas tend to have much lower maintenance costs than Ford pickups.
Sure they can, a Radeon 9700 retails at $400. Besides, you can get a cheap 17" CRT for $100 these days. It all depends on what you want to spend your money on.
You might want to read the Constitution sometime. The right to bear arms is the second amendment. The fourth amendment concerns the rights of the government to search private property.
Linux/BSD != Windows
Nautilus/Konqueror != Explorer
Mozilla/Galeon/Phoenix != IE
Evolution != Outlook
Gnumeric != Excel
Blender != Maya
Apache != IIS
The list goes on and on. While some opensource products have names similar to proprietary ones (Abiword, OpenOffice, Lindows), the vast majority don't. For that matter, many proprietary products have names similar to others (WordPerfect Office). Open source projects are not disproportionally guilty of name theft.
Of course not, it probably won't have a Linux-supported 3D card. If you want >100fps un Unreal 2003, get yourself a GeForce4 or Radeon 9700. It's a lot cheaper.
Slashdot automatically inserts spaces in long words (URLs included) to prevent page-widening. If you don't want a URL to get a space in it, make it a link.
WTF? There are a helluva lot of problem's with Debian's installer, but this isn't one of them. It allows you to instantly move to any step of the installation process, so if you messed up at the beginning, you can go back, fix your mistake, and return to where you were.
Remember that Linux doesn't see.exe as an executable, it sees it as just another data type. How can KMail tell the difference between opening a JPEG with GIMP and opening an EXE with WINE?
The menu can be edited, and a graphical menu editor should be in Gnome 2.2.
Personally, I like the file dialog. It's the one thing in Gnome that's not newbie-friendly, and I like it that way. I haven't used KDE for a while, so I won't compare the two, but I know you don't get tab-completion in the Windows or Mac file dialogs, and Windows makes it so tedious to find a file in a big directory it's criminal. I don't want a two-dimensional display of file names that I have to scroll horizontally and read vertically. I just want a simple list. Hopefully, the new file dialog in 2.2 will have more eye candy but retain the same usability.
In Debian's case, good == stable, easy to administer, and consistant across 11+ architectures, in the case of the release versions. For testing and sid, good == mostly stable and up to date. With the exception of KDE 3, I think Debian's been doing quite well. There were experimental Debian packages (which were quite stable for me) available for GNOME 2.0 the day it was released.
"Red Hat is OK, but I was burned one too many times with RPM dependency conflicts"
Apt-rpm. Although I certainly can relate to problems that used to occur years ago.
Have you ever actually used apt-rpm? And then gone back and used Debian? apt-rpm is a hack which has its useful points but is nowhere near apt-get for Debian.
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I have never seen a Doon III screenshot posted on the front page on any web site. If you browse the sort of sites that would show such a thing, and if it's really a big deal for you, then perhaps you should talk to them instead of bitching on slashdot. Even better, you could just disable images for those sites.
Occasionally there have been some really wacko non-news stories that have appeared and then disappeared (stuff like "Cowboyneal please read this"). I don't think /. has ever removed a news story.
When will people realize that slashdot ads (including the MS Visual Studio ads) are completely random, not fixed to any one story, and have nothing to do with the content? If such an ad is shown for this story it is pure coincidence.
Whistler (XP), Longhorn, and Blackcomb are all names of mountains near MS headquarters.
Slashdot is not one person. Slashdot is many people with many opinions. Not all of them are anti-MPAA zealots.
That's exactly what the Hibernate feature in Win2K/XP and the swsusp feature in Linux kernel 2.5 do. Many laptop BIOS's also havbe it built in.
Other distros do. Mandrake, Red Hat, SeSU all have superb hardware detection. Knoppix is different only in that it detects hardware on startup, which is the only way to make a CD-only, no-install distro.
Also, Hondas and Toyotas tend to have much lower maintenance costs than Ford pickups.
Sure they can, a Radeon 9700 retails at $400. Besides, you can get a cheap 17" CRT for $100 these days. It all depends on what you want to spend your money on.
You might want to read the Constitution sometime. The right to bear arms is the second amendment. The fourth amendment concerns the rights of the government to search private property.
There is a sniper rifle in GTA3. I assume there's probably one in Vice City too.
Well I dunno, but this can't related, as it isn't available yet and won't be freely downloadable even when it is.
Might want to update your sig.
Nautilus/Konqueror != Explorer
Mozilla/Galeon/Phoenix != IE
Evolution != Outlook
Gnumeric != Excel
Blender != Maya
Apache != IIS
The list goes on and on. While some opensource products have names similar to proprietary ones (Abiword, OpenOffice, Lindows), the vast majority don't. For that matter, many proprietary products have names similar to others (WordPerfect Office). Open source projects are not disproportionally guilty of name theft.
Of course not, it probably won't have a Linux-supported 3D card. If you want >100fps un Unreal 2003, get yourself a GeForce4 or Radeon 9700. It's a lot cheaper.
Slashdot automatically inserts spaces in long words (URLs included) to prevent page-widening. If you don't want a URL to get a space in it, make it a link.
You can do it on linux with mplayer -vo aa $filename.mov.
WTF? There are a helluva lot of problem's with Debian's installer, but this isn't one of them. It allows you to instantly move to any step of the installation process, so if you messed up at the beginning, you can go back, fix your mistake, and return to where you were.
Because Windows only runs of x86 machines with display hardware. Also, I recently installed XP Pro, and the first half of the install is text based.
Remember that Linux doesn't see .exe as an executable, it sees it as just another data type. How can KMail tell the difference between opening a JPEG with GIMP and opening an EXE with WINE?
Personally, I like the file dialog. It's the one thing in Gnome that's not newbie-friendly, and I like it that way. I haven't used KDE for a while, so I won't compare the two, but I know you don't get tab-completion in the Windows or Mac file dialogs, and Windows makes it so tedious to find a file in a big directory it's criminal. I don't want a two-dimensional display of file names that I have to scroll horizontally and read vertically. I just want a simple list. Hopefully, the new file dialog in 2.2 will have more eye candy but retain the same usability.
As for gconf, what's wrong with it?
In Debian's case, good == stable, easy to administer, and consistant across 11+ architectures, in the case of the release versions. For testing and sid, good == mostly stable and up to date. With the exception of KDE 3, I think Debian's been doing quite well. There were experimental Debian packages (which were quite stable for me) available for GNOME 2.0 the day it was released.
Probably around 2 FPS, unless they've got a supported 3D card.
"Red Hat is OK, but I was burned one too many times with RPM dependency conflicts"
Apt-rpm. Although I certainly can relate to problems that used to occur years ago.
Have you ever actually used apt-rpm? And then gone back and used Debian? apt-rpm is a hack which has its useful points but is nowhere near apt-get for Debian.
Why the fuck would they care? Debian is about making a good distribution, not getting good reviews.