Hey, I would buy your IDE. So when does it come out?:-)
Honestly, VC6 is a pretty slick programming environment. I just wished that it wasn't that integrated, so you could exchange editor, debugger or compiler.
NVidia has passed 3dfx as best gaming 3D card creator. NVidia has also released their first 3D drivers for Linux, slow but they are promising that it will be much faster when Xfree 4.0 arrives. 3dfx never released the source for glide.
I am a non-proud owner of a VooDoo 2 card, and this was the last hardware I *ever* bought from 3dfx. The V2 has brought me many hours of fun fragging in Quake and Quake 2, but now I had it.
Because rpm wouldn't know anything of your other installed software. In Debian it wouldn't know of any installed deb packages. Converting it with the alien tool would not make it as good as a normal deb-package.
As long as rpm isn't standard I get highly offended by rpm only packages. No problem with tar-files because it works for everyone (and has existed forever). And rpm will never be standard, because it is inferior to deb.
Freeamp works on both Linux and Windows. Not as good as WinAmp but good enough for me and it's free (I think the license was GPL but I can't remember exactly).
I really hope that the G400 can be used (when it's released) with the G200 drivers. That would be the final push for dumping my old V2 card. Low level drivers should be open sourced. Pronto!
Interesting that a news of Microsoft porting Internet Explorer draws hundreds of comments and this one almost none? I couldn't care less about IE, may it rot in windows.
Instead of crackers breaking in to computers... Or game crackers... why don't have Linus as role model.
But as he is (almost) always political correct in his statements, he sees that a lot of people do a lot of work on the Linux OS and he gets the credits. So it is his obligation to tell the world that he alone didn't made Linux possible.
Don't think so. For Q2 they used the 3dfx minigl. As stated above, the Q3 demands more features so maybe they must use Mesa for Linux. Goosh, my PPro 200 will crawl.
Guess I have to buy a new one.;-) A machine with Mac OS X and Linux would be awesome, but that will be too expensive for me. A PII 450 is more what my budget allows me.
Thanks. Here's the information that I found about it:
A. Mac OS X Server is built on UNIX technologies, implementing most of the POSIX APIs, which makes it easy to port UNIX applications, particularly those from a BSD heritage. The main exception is applications with a graphical user interface, because Mac OS X Server doesn't include the X Window System UI toolkits. Mac OS X Server is built around a graphical interface, unlike traditional UNIX systems that rely on the command line. However, Mac OS X Server cannot be called a UNIX operating system, as it does not fully comply with the POSIX and X/OPEN specifications required for use of the UNIX trademark. ------------ No big deal that it can't call itself UNIX. Linux can't either.;-) No X and that is worse.
Those lucky bastards will get Q3T first. But then Carmack continues to say that Mac hardware is not as fast as Wintel. Then he says that he might consider MacOS X as his development machine. And last he says 'MacOS still suck'. And not a word about Linux, *sob*.
But my question is how close to UNIX is MacOS X? Does it support X11 and UNIX98? How easy is it to port Linux/UNIX applications to it?
Well my point really wasn't about C++, I was targeting Delphi. If Borland drops C++, there are alternatives, but not if they drop Delphi.
But to continue why we didn't choose BCB. Can you say OWL? At that time, BCB was not ready for developing large applications. And our trust that Borland would survive and continue to keep up with Microsoft weren't high. Not to mention that their last release of BC++ was one of the buggiest software I have ever used.
And proprietary software doesn't become less proprietary just because it runs on Linux.
I don't get this. What can be worse than a proprietary language owned by a company? Personally I refuse to touch things like Object Pascal and Visual Basic.
I can tell you the story about Borland C++, their former flagship which they abandonded two years ago. If this had been Object Pascal, our company would have been in deep trouble. OK, it wasn't fun but we survived and ported to Visual C++ (yuck).
Conclusion... avoid proprietary languages at all cost. (Unless you make throw-away prototypes)
To be recognized MS Word98. (yeah right, when pigs fly.)
So if Kevin can't make a living on computer, he should at least thinking about making Free Software instead. It's not like he committed murder or something.
I am very disappointed why this article appeared at Slashdot. And this time it is someone at Slashdot (maybe CmdrTaco) that screwed up. They/He should have read through and pointed out the obvious errors, both spelling and grammatical. No disrespect to Roman, which (probably) like me isn't a native English speaker.
Really, you must be kidding. A company that can put 4-5 programmers on a port to Linux must have the money to pay for Qt.
I also work for a small company (8 programmers) that creates commercial software. We've recently bought a software that did cost us $18000 and that is just for one developer.
Our company doesn't consider porting to Linux. And that is mainly because of the development costs of porting applications, not the tools which is nothing compared of the labour cost. I just wished that we had used Qt, then porting to Linux would have been much easier.
And see it in another way. Since Troll Tech also is a small company, they will certainly listen to your opinions and questions.
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Hey, I would buy your IDE. So when does it come out? :-)
Honestly, VC6 is a pretty slick programming environment. I just wished that it wasn't that integrated, so you could exchange editor, debugger or compiler.
Well let me think.
NVidia has passed 3dfx as best gaming 3D card creator. NVidia has also released their first 3D drivers for Linux, slow but they are promising that it will be much faster when Xfree 4.0 arrives. 3dfx never released the source for glide.
I am a non-proud owner of a VooDoo 2 card, and this was the last hardware I *ever* bought from 3dfx. The V2 has brought me many hours of fun fragging in Quake and Quake 2, but now I had it.
So long and thanks for the fish 3dfx.
Because rpm wouldn't know anything of your other installed software. In Debian it wouldn't know of any installed deb packages. Converting it with the alien tool would not make it as good as a normal deb-package.
As long as rpm isn't standard I get highly offended by rpm only packages. No problem with tar-files because it works for everyone (and has existed forever). And rpm will never be standard, because it is inferior to deb.
Freeamp works on both Linux and Windows. Not as good as WinAmp but good enough for me and it's free (I think the license was GPL but I can't remember exactly).
I really hope that the G400 can be used (when it's released) with the G200 drivers. That would be the final push for dumping my old V2 card. Low level drivers should be open sourced. Pronto!
Interesting that a news of Microsoft porting Internet Explorer draws hundreds of comments and this one almost none? I couldn't care less about IE, may it rot in windows.
Donald Becker for president!
You're right, it is a 1.1.2 product.
And July 1, it will be released as the official GNU compiler.
http://egcs.cygnus.com/gcc-2.95/schedule.html
Seconded.
;-)
I remember that he said in an interview that he doesn't like worshiping and idolizing of programmers. But it is his own god damn fault.
Everything he does is cool, so I can't help admiring him. Luckily enough I have an SMP board and now I only have to buy a second PPro.
BSD license more successful in business? Well maybe, but from the user and developer point of view GPL is much more successful.
As a developer I would very much like to see my software contributions still to be free, and not used in a proprietary product by some company.
I prefer RedHat before Sun, and companies like RedHat are quickly winning ground against proprietary providers.
I don't believe that Microsoft workers are evil (just a bit misguided), and the question was well founded. There aren't a lot of games for Linux.
PS.
Yesterday I bought my first Linux game (Civilization CTP)
Kids needs heroes...and Linus is a perfect hero.
Instead of crackers breaking in to computers... Or game crackers... why don't have Linus as role model.
But as he is (almost) always political correct in his statements, he sees that a lot of people do a lot of work on the Linux OS and he gets the credits. So it is his obligation to tell the world that he alone didn't made Linux possible.
Another one to the Hall of Fame. David Becker really deserves this award. He wrote the driver to my card also.
That raises a question. Has a Microsoft programmer ever won this award? Or do they only have armies of anonymous programmers?
Don't think so. For Q2 they used the 3dfx minigl. As stated above, the Q3 demands more features so maybe they must use Mesa for Linux. Goosh, my PPro 200 will crawl.
;-)
Guess I have to buy a new one.
A machine with Mac OS X and Linux would be awesome, but that will be too expensive for me. A PII 450 is more what my budget allows me.
Yes, the teasing of the Windows lusers has begun.
I love it. Yes! Yes! Some days are better than others.
OK, maybe I'll invite them for a quick look at my superior Linux system running Q3 Test.
Thanks.
;-) No X and that is worse.
Here's the information that I found about it:
A. Mac OS X Server is built on UNIX technologies, implementing most of the POSIX APIs,
which makes it easy to port UNIX applications, particularly those from a BSD heritage. The
main exception is applications with a graphical user interface, because Mac OS X Server
doesn't include the X Window System UI toolkits. Mac OS X Server is built around a graphical
interface, unlike traditional UNIX systems that rely on the command line. However, Mac OS X
Server cannot be called a UNIX operating system, as it does not fully comply with the POSIX
and X/OPEN specifications required for use of the UNIX trademark.
------------
No big deal that it can't call itself UNIX. Linux can't either.
Actually, Carmack is not spreading FUD and he never has. It's just that some Mac Evangelists can't take critizism.
And if the Mesa GL is the same as on Linux, I wish you luck in getting the same performance as 3dfx GL.
Those lucky bastards will get Q3T first. But then Carmack continues to say that Mac hardware is not as fast as Wintel. Then he says that he might consider MacOS X as his development machine. And last he says 'MacOS still suck'. And not a word about Linux, *sob*.
But my question is how close to UNIX is MacOS X? Does it support X11 and UNIX98? How easy is it to port Linux/UNIX applications to it?
Can somebody enlighten me, maybe with an URL?
Well my point really wasn't about C++, I was targeting Delphi. If Borland drops C++, there are alternatives, but not if they drop Delphi.
But to continue why we didn't choose BCB. Can you say OWL? At that time, BCB was not ready for developing large applications. And our trust that Borland would survive and continue to keep up with Microsoft weren't high. Not to mention that their last release of BC++ was one of the buggiest software I have ever used.
And proprietary software doesn't become less proprietary just because it runs on Linux.
I don't get this. What can be worse than a proprietary language owned by a company? Personally I refuse to touch things like Object Pascal and Visual Basic.
... avoid proprietary languages at all cost. (Unless you make throw-away prototypes)
I can tell you the story about Borland C++, their former flagship which they abandonded two years ago. If this had been Object Pascal, our company would have been in deep trouble. OK, it wasn't fun but we survived and ported to Visual C++ (yuck).
Conclusion
I had you problems until I bought a "3M Precise Mousing Surface". As a bonus you get a really good mouse-mat.
To be recognized MS Word98. (yeah right, when pigs fly.)
So if Kevin can't make a living on computer, he should at least thinking about making Free Software instead. It's not like he committed murder or something.
Surprise us Kevin.
I am very disappointed why this article appeared at Slashdot. And this time it is someone at Slashdot (maybe CmdrTaco) that screwed up. They/He should have read through and pointed out the obvious errors, both spelling and grammatical. No disrespect to Roman, which (probably) like me isn't a native English speaker.
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Shame on you
That was mean. I know Ph.D.:s who can't spell correctly.
(No english is not my first language)
Really, you must be kidding. A company that can put 4-5 programmers on a port to Linux must have the money to pay for Qt.
I also work for a small company (8 programmers) that creates commercial software. We've recently bought a software that did cost us $18000 and that is just for one developer.
Our company doesn't consider porting to Linux. And that is mainly because of the development costs of porting applications, not the tools which is nothing compared of the labour cost. I just wished that we had used Qt, then porting to Linux would have been much easier.
And see it in another way. Since Troll Tech also is a small company, they will certainly listen to your opinions and questions.
I am with you bunge. :-)
Gates only pashion is to make more money. Linux (and programming) is my pashion.