It's there - called Raptor. We haven't done gcc-e support yet but its coming soon. You can set up a cliuster of Linux machines and run it on them to speed up your builds
(I am a Nokia employee - sorry if it's not proper Slashdot etiquette to post like this.
You can only claim something is good if it is better than something else - it's relative. What else other than Windows and the Mac does Linux have to be related to? Isn't it inevitable that someone says "Linux doesn't suffer viruses like, er, the 'other operating system?'"
Nick Pope has written two science fiction books about alien contact, Operation Thunderchild and Operation Lightning Strike.
I've read Operation Thunderchild and enjoyed it a lot. It is set in Britain, which is nice for us because so much of the other material is set in the US and copies from itself so much that one film is like another. It also deals quite well with the whole difficulty that governments have in working out what's happening from lots of confused reports, deciding how to tackle the problem, understanding the intent of the ufos and when and what to tell the population.
I like it because the humans have a hard time and I think that's likely.
Various people want various things out of him and he arbitrates somehow.
It's impossible for a lot of people not to be disappointed. I have experienced it - people can demand a lot of contradictory things from a maintainer and be cross when they don't get them.
His mistake is not to have trusted lieutenants - a posse to support him and also moderate him.
But I have little respect for the moaners on this thread. Fork and do the work yourself if you're not happy.
GUIs are only "more important" now in your opinion because you have one - on your Windows PC. When people only had MS-DOS and then Windows 3.1, GUIs were considered "flashy" and "unnecessary" by the people who didn't have them.
I also take exception to the IBM thing - MS had the clout even in those days, not IBM.
No he wont' make his project irrelevant. He was right in this instance against some pressure from commercial embedded device interests who have no concerns except their own and would crap on everyone else's code in a second if it helped them.
... after all, MSDOS had huge popularity and it was totally useless compared the the Atari ST or MacOS or whatever - much less friendly and much harder to use.
That "wise" man is just another one of the people who don't know but have a much expressed and not very insightful opinion.
I think that people get their software from the "king of the hill" and the that being the "king of the hill" makes everything much easier for an OS. It's just self reinforcing because everyone pays respect to the king e.g. manufacturers of hardware and software make their products work on windows.
If you want linux to go your way then pay for it to happen or do some work.
I was a big OS/2 fan before Linux, especially when IBM started to fix all the mess that Microsoft left behind. Unfortunately I could only read about it, being in the third world and having no convertible currency.
Linux was something that I eventually *could* have. I felt like someone getting a Challenger II tank with 40-volume manual after being used to driving a moped.
That stuff about it being hard and having to select a filesystem is crap.
My Fedora system comes with it all switched on and with the right filesystems.
The problem of it being too complicated and people perverting it by giving excessive permissions is similar. Having said that I haven't felt a need to switch it off yet in F10 or 11.
Mod up. It happens to us all - one can't be master of everything and the more time you put into one aspect the less good you become at another People should ideally change roles occasionally to remind themselves how things work from the other point of view.
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It's there - called Raptor. We haven't done gcc-e support yet but its coming soon. You can set up a cliuster of Linux machines and run it on them to speed up your builds
(I am a Nokia employee - sorry if it's not proper Slashdot etiquette to post like this.
You can only claim something is good if it is better than something else - it's relative. What else other than Windows and the Mac does Linux have to be related to? Isn't it inevitable that someone says "Linux doesn't suffer viruses like, er, the 'other operating system?'"
Since it's multithreaded, it can do that already.
It's all in the codecs. VLC uses ffmpeg quite heavily. A full port of the ffmpeg library might help.
Making silly luxuries for the rich is the poor man's chance to get some of that wealth back at an advantageous rate:-)
I didn't have any of these problems but I started from a new profile.
"Nokia" is 100,000+ people. I promise that at least one of them is happy with Theora.
Nick Pope has written two science fiction books about alien contact, Operation Thunderchild and Operation Lightning Strike.
I've read Operation Thunderchild and enjoyed it a lot. It is set in Britain, which is nice for us because so much of the other material is set in the US and copies from itself so much that one film is like another. It also deals quite well with the whole difficulty that governments have in working out what's happening from lots of confused reports, deciding how to tackle the problem, understanding the intent of the ufos and when and what to tell the population.
I like it because the humans have a hard time and I think that's likely.
There are lots of comments on this thread from people who didn't take the responsibility of starting a fork.
One can't value their complaints all that highly because they didn't care enough to take up the burden themselves.
As for eglibc, good for them and we'll see how they get along.
Probably something specific to your machine and configuration which you don't say much about, BTW.
Various people want various things out of him and he arbitrates somehow.
It's impossible for a lot of people not to be disappointed. I have experienced it - people can demand a lot of contradictory things from a maintainer and be cross when they don't get them.
His mistake is not to have trusted lieutenants - a posse to support him and also moderate him.
But I have little respect for the moaners on this thread. Fork and do the work yourself if you're not happy.
They only have to make it work on netbsd, perhaps?
GUIs are only "more important" now in your opinion because you have one - on your Windows PC. When people only had MS-DOS and then Windows 3.1, GUIs were considered "flashy" and "unnecessary" by the people who didn't have them.
I also take exception to the IBM thing - MS had the clout even in those days, not IBM.
No he wont' make his project irrelevant. He was right in this instance against some pressure from commercial embedded device interests who have no concerns except their own and would crap on everyone else's code in a second if it helped them.
You should be singing his praises.
They will fall by the wayside.
It seems that he was completely correct in this case, if you read what he says. Oh, but you didn't . . .
... after all, MSDOS had huge popularity and it was totally useless compared the the Atari ST or MacOS or whatever - much less friendly and much harder to use.
That "wise" man is just another one of the people who don't know but have a much expressed and not very insightful opinion.
I think that people get their software from the "king of the hill" and the that being the "king of the hill" makes everything much easier for an OS. It's just self reinforcing because everyone pays respect to the king e.g. manufacturers of hardware and software make their products work on windows.
If you want linux to go your way then pay for it to happen or do some work.
Sorry to reply to myself, but it just occurred to me to mention that the idea of having to watch adverts is repulsive - I'd much rather pay directly.
It would rock utterly if the big TV and video libraries could be on it. e.g. the BBC's.
I was a big OS/2 fan before Linux, especially when IBM started to fix all the mess that Microsoft left behind. Unfortunately I could only read about it, being in the third world and having no convertible currency.
Linux was something that I eventually *could* have. I felt like someone getting a Challenger II tank with 40-volume manual after being used to driving a moped.
:-) cool.
Couldn't be done on Windows at that time. Was blown away. Never looked back.
That stuff about it being hard and having to select a filesystem is crap.
My Fedora system comes with it all switched on and with the right filesystems.
The problem of it being too complicated and people perverting it by giving excessive permissions is similar. Having said that I haven't felt a need to switch it off yet in F10 or 11.
Mod up. It happens to us all - one can't be master of everything and the more time you put into one aspect the less good you become at another People should ideally change roles occasionally to remind themselves how things work from the other point of view.
I think that the more layers of people that there are between developers and users, the less appropriate or useful the product will eventually be.
. . . but that's what's happening now . . . ??