If you want to go that route, OpenGL, at version 1.2, is 5.8 versions behind DirectX 7.0a! Wow, Microsoft sure rules!
Direct3D just got caught up to OpenGL 1.1 in 6.x, IIRC. The "new features" in DX7 and DX8 are mostly already present in OpenGL, or they're bogged down in some standards body.
DirectX is also a lot more than just a 3D API; I'm always amazed at people comparing "DirectX" (which is a hole bag of stuff) vs. OpenGL (which is just a 2D/3D graphics API).
You guys really take the cake. Here's an entire distribution full of modified GPL software, and you take a "let's be friendly" approach. Be accidentally includes some GPL'd debugging code, which wasn't even usable by applications, and the whole OSS community freaks out.
Abit is a huge company, that presumably has the resources (legal, QA, whatever) to check into this sort of thing. Be is a small company that's struggling to survive in a Microsoft-dominated world (you know, just like Linux was until a year or two ago). Did you mean to suggest that small companies are to be reamed at every opportunity, while large companies are to be given the benefit of the doubt?
I'd love to find a decent flat-panel display that can do 1280x1024 for less than the price of an entire computer (with 15" monitor). These things are absurdly expensive in Canada.
All this "BeOS must suck because it's not Linux" is just as stupid as the Amiga/Mac/Windoze fanboys that go on and on and on about how Linux/BeOS/QNX/BSD/Amiga/Mac/Atari/whatever suck because they're not their platform of choice, without ever taking a look at the stuff they're slagging.
Only having one OS around would really suck, even if it was something useful like BeOS or Linux. Trying out new things expands your brain.
Playing a bunch of movies at once is evidence that BeOS is good at handling streaming media without throwing huge amounts of hardware at the problem. I'm guessing this is so offensive for Linux fans because X sucks so hard for this sort of work, and it's not the sort of thing that matters to your typical code jock.
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If you want to go that route, OpenGL, at version 1.2, is 5.8 versions behind DirectX 7.0a! Wow, Microsoft sure rules!
Direct3D just got caught up to OpenGL 1.1 in 6.x, IIRC. The "new features" in DX7 and DX8 are mostly already present in OpenGL, or they're bogged down in some standards body.
DirectX is also a lot more than just a 3D API; I'm always amazed at people comparing "DirectX" (which is a hole bag of stuff) vs. OpenGL (which is just a 2D/3D graphics API).
You guys really take the cake. Here's an entire distribution full of modified GPL software, and you take a "let's be friendly" approach. Be accidentally includes some GPL'd debugging code, which wasn't even usable by applications, and the whole OSS community freaks out.
Abit is a huge company, that presumably has the resources (legal, QA, whatever) to check into this sort of thing. Be is a small company that's struggling to survive in a Microsoft-dominated world (you know, just like Linux was until a year or two ago). Did you mean to suggest that small companies are to be reamed at every opportunity, while large companies are to be given the benefit of the doubt?
Slashdot's banner says "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." not "Linux news for Linux Nerds."
I'm sure the graphic artist who did almost all of Be's icons would be surprised to hear that "most" were actually done by Bill Bull...
I'd love to find a decent flat-panel display that can do 1280x1024 for less than the price of an entire computer (with 15" monitor). These things are absurdly expensive in Canada.
All this "BeOS must suck because it's not Linux" is just as stupid as the Amiga/Mac/Windoze fanboys that go on and on and on about how Linux/BeOS/QNX/BSD/Amiga/Mac/Atari/whatever suck because they're not their platform of choice, without ever taking a look at the stuff they're slagging.
Only having one OS around would really suck, even if it was something useful like BeOS or Linux. Trying out new things expands your brain.
Playing a bunch of movies at once is evidence that BeOS is good at handling streaming media without throwing huge amounts of hardware at the problem. I'm guessing this is so offensive for Linux fans because X sucks so hard for this sort of work, and it's not the sort of thing that matters to your typical code jock.