A Linux-based digital media lab will get you nowhere, unless you can come up with a few tens of thousands of dollars for Maya liscences, or you're one of the three people in the world who can create decent work with Cinellara and Blender. Do yourself a favor and buy a few low-end Power Macs with Final Cut Express and Cinema 4D.
On top of it, there is no good network browser. Apple gives me splat-K and pops shares up on my desktop. Windows gives me Network Neighborhood and acts as if all shares on a network are already in my filesystem.
I don't believe any distro sets this up by default, but with Samba and the gnome-vfs libraries, Nautilus can do a fair job mimicing Network Neighborhood. Just type smb:// in the location bar.
Please answer me this one question: Suppose Windows 95's DOS/Win3.1 emulaton is perfect. Suppose Win32 gamers by thousands load up their games and enjoy the latest Win16 games. Suppose as a result Win16 game developers see incrementally better sales (less than 5%, probably closer to 1-2%). Now, why in the world would they suddenly throw away all the code, tools, and experience they have on their current platform to grab some tiny extra percentage by learning, developing for, and testing on a new platform?
After all they can happily tell those Windows 95 people "You're unsupported. But run it with the compatibility layer!" When it fails, they simply say "You're unsupported!" They already have your money, after all, and it's your own fault for trying it on an unsupported platform.
Let's be honest: Isn't the win16 compatibility layer just a bandage for all those Windows 95 users (former Windows 3.1 users) that can't give up Win16 games? It isn't bloody likely to convince anyone to leave Windows 3.1, the platform for which those games were made in the first place.
Look at Bleemcast (PSX emulator for Sega Dreamcast). It emulated the original games on a different platform, even with graphical enhancements, but it didn't convince anyone who already had a PSX to jump on the Dreamcast...it just made already-committed Dreamcast owners happier.
Set up user accounts during the install. That's what RedHat 8 does - I haven't tried RedHat 9. And don't give me bullshit about the installer running as root - I consider "logged in" as root to mean in a standard desktop session, as far as new users are concerned.
If you had read the fucking comment, you would have seen that he was asking if Wal-Mart had any plans of selling the computers in the actual stores, instead of the website where they are now.
I can just see a huge flock of birds getting mowed down one by one as they come to this invisible line. If it weren't so sad, it'd be hilariously funny.
Of course bittorrent is legal, why whouldn't it be? It's just a way to download files from a server, like FTP (although, in this case, the.torrent file is the only thing on the server). Bittorent isn't a p2p network, it's a distributed download system.
Evolution is obviously a fact, and very few people will argue against that. What creationists oppose is macro-evolution, which states that evolution on a large scale is the sole cause of the diverse species of life on Earth.
If you're using a recent distro with fontconfig (RedHat 8+ and Debian come to mind, though there are others), you can put them in ~/.fonts/ and they shoudl appear. Otherwise, you'll have to find out where X stores its fonts (check/etc/X11/XF86Config-4) and go through all sorts of voodoo to copy the fonts to those directories and make sure X knows about them.
Carmack has said Doom III will be quite playable on a GeForce3. Besides, you can get a Radeon 9700 PRO for $250, or a Radeon 9500 for $130. By the time Doom III comes out, they'll be cheaper than that. For those people (mostly the ones with integrated video - generally not gamers anyway) who need a video card upgrade for Doom III, it won't be a major hurdle.
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It crashes every open application using the IE engine, including Winamp, KaZaa, etc.
They can aim theirs.
Really?
Then why does every MiniDV camcorder ever made connect to a computer via FireWire?
It gets its ass kicked by the GeForce 4 MX in half the tests. There's not much you can do to defend that.
A Linux-based digital media lab will get you nowhere, unless you can come up with a few tens of thousands of dollars for Maya liscences, or you're one of the three people in the world who can create decent work with Cinellara and Blender. Do yourself a favor and buy a few low-end Power Macs with Final Cut Express and Cinema 4D.
I don't believe any distro sets this up by default, but with Samba and the gnome-vfs libraries, Nautilus can do a fair job mimicing Network Neighborhood. Just type smb:// in the location bar.
Redhat 9 will do that at least as often, if not more frequently, as Windows XP.
Please answer me this one question:
Suppose Windows 95's DOS/Win3.1 emulaton is perfect. Suppose Win32 gamers by thousands load up their games and enjoy the latest Win16 games. Suppose as a result Win16 game developers see incrementally better sales (less than 5%, probably closer to 1-2%). Now, why in the world would they suddenly throw away all the code, tools, and experience they have on their current platform to grab some tiny extra percentage by learning, developing for, and testing on a new platform?
After all they can happily tell those Windows 95 people "You're unsupported. But run it with the compatibility layer!" When it fails, they simply say "You're unsupported!" They already have your money, after all, and it's your own fault for trying it on an unsupported platform.
Let's be honest: Isn't the win16 compatibility layer just a bandage for all those Windows 95 users (former Windows 3.1 users) that can't give up Win16 games? It isn't bloody likely to convince anyone to leave Windows 3.1, the platform for which those games were made in the first place.
Look at Bleemcast (PSX emulator for Sega Dreamcast). It emulated the original games on a different platform, even with graphical enhancements, but it didn't convince anyone who already had a PSX to jump on the Dreamcast...it just made already-committed Dreamcast owners happier.
Set up user accounts during the install. That's what RedHat 8 does - I haven't tried RedHat 9. And don't give me bullshit about the installer running as root - I consider "logged in" as root to mean in a standard desktop session, as far as new users are concerned.
Yes, they have. It sucked, though.
If you had read the fucking comment, you would have seen that he was asking if Wal-Mart had any plans of selling the computers in the actual stores, instead of the website where they are now.
Debian, Redhat, Lycoris, Mandrake, SuSE ...
Not really. If the emulation is good, you can just run IA-32 Windows on it and run apps from there, as is currently done with Virtual PC.
A 3Ghz P4 or Athlon 3000 would be twice as fast, cost an order of magnitude less, and probably have better compatibility with DOS demos.
I can just see a huge flock of birds getting mowed down one by one as they come to this invisible line. If it weren't so sad, it'd be hilariously funny.
I'd hope not, seeing as it was timothy that posted the original. :-)
Neither are Linux or BSD. What's your point?
Of course bittorrent is legal, why whouldn't it be? It's just a way to download files from a server, like FTP (although, in this case, the .torrent file is the only thing on the server). Bittorent isn't a p2p network, it's a distributed download system.
Evolution is obviously a fact, and very few people will argue against that. What creationists oppose is macro-evolution, which states that evolution on a large scale is the sole cause of the diverse species of life on Earth.
I have regular Bellsouth DSL and I get about 350Kbps. It all depends on where you live and how far you are from the central office.
If you're using a recent distro with fontconfig (RedHat 8+ and Debian come to mind, though there are others), you can put them in ~/.fonts/ and they shoudl appear. Otherwise, you'll have to find out where X stores its fonts (check /etc/X11/XF86Config-4) and go through all sorts of voodoo to copy the fonts to those directories and make sure X knows about them.
You could run MacOnLinux to get you into MacOS (at close to full speed), and then run Virtual PC inside there. It's not exactly zippy, but it works.
Only problem - you can't, you'd have to get Xeons. For that price, you could probably buy dual Opterons, a gig of RAM, and a Radeon 9700 PRO.
Carmack has said Doom III will be quite playable on a GeForce3. Besides, you can get a Radeon 9700 PRO for $250, or a Radeon 9500 for $130. By the time Doom III comes out, they'll be cheaper than that. For those people (mostly the ones with integrated video - generally not gamers anyway) who need a video card upgrade for Doom III, it won't be a major hurdle.