You're absoluetley, positively correct. Instead of giving priority to either background or foreground processes like you can choose in windows, there should be an option to give priority to whatever the interactive user is trying to do.
If this patch is causing great excitement, then I can only assume linux is now more responsive on the desktop than windows.
Not as long as Xwindows exists. We have VNC, why does X need to go through TCP/IP to draw a window? This is why Apple dumped X and wrote their own system independently of X. X is outdated. Once KDE gains enough market share, they should just dump X in favor of performance. When a Linux GUI can use things like hardware acceleration, only then will it outperform windows. Until then, it doesn't have a chance.
I've been a long time user of IE. Mostly due to its performance. But two things finally got me to switch to Mozilla: Popup blocking and tabs. That and if I don't like something, I can just change it and recompile it. The only complaint I had was the google bar that was missing. But you can get that for mozilla at www.someurl.com. I forget where, but I have it and it works. +5 half-assed informative.
Debian is still running the 2.2 kernel and xfree 2.3 right?:)
Debian has a nice tool called kpkg that makes compiling and installing kernels directly from source a pleasure. Sometimes I recompile my kernel just for fun. But make sure you download the pentium-builder package to make sure your new kernel is optimized to the max. My only complaint about debian is that all the binaries are only optimized for my 386 Packard Bell.
You're on crack if you think Debian peforms anywhere near RedHat. I run Debian and guess what? Except for the kernel, unless you re-compile everything from source (including X windows, KDE, apache, etc) you're only going to get binaries optimized for a 386. Lame-O.
Anyone got a freenet key? Better yet, anyone manage to get freenet working on Debian with Blackdown Java? And how the fsck do you install sun's java on Debian?
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That's nice. Besides the fact that the chip is small, I see no point in sticking it in a dead fly. In fact, that seems quite pointless and the main focus of the article should be on the tiny chip, not the fact that it happens to be inside a dead fly. That's not impressive whatsever.
Microsoft never claimed this to be their innovation. They purchased the technology from Citrix. If the number of concurrent clients is going to be any more than 20, either get Citrix Winframe or a damn fast machine. Same goes for Linux. X is an incredible bandwidth hog compared to Terminal services. Get XVNC if you want to do remote linux desktops.
This sounds familiar. Just out of curiosity, what motherboard? In my case "these fscking unstable drivers" turned out to be bad capacitors on my Abit VP6. New caps from mouser.com, a soldering iron, and bam - a perfectly stable MB.
My Linksys 4 port KVM does the same thing. But only if switch computers while X is loading. Windows doesn't seem to have a problem, so it's definetely a software issue. The pointer just starts behaving erratically.
What does this seriesof bytes tell my mouse to do? If this works, I think I'll take your Perls script and write myself a fix in C++. You know, a real language;)
Hey after all the kernel reconfiguration and recompilation and code-tweaks, I really do feel like it's mine! My preciousssss...
BTW, I've got a dual P3 866 w/ 512 Mb. But good piont on the X11. I forget that there's an entire communication protocol between KDE and my video card. I think it's interesting to run a remote KDE session and all over X & TCP/IP, but this is one instance where a feature should be scrapped in favor of performance.
Despite what you slashdot monkeys may think (half of you have probably never ran Linux), Linux is incredibly slow when compared to Windows. Windows simply handles multithreading better. Mozilla takes 2x as long to open in linux and if I try to open multiple apps at once, it takes minutes for any of them to come up. And you can tell the I/O is crap just by looking at KDE's performance when compared to Win2k. Windows just flies. Part of this of course is that my version of Linux (Debian) can be recompiled to run on many platforms and everyone can tell you that portability comes at the cost of platform-specific performance. But still the i/o and multithreading in linux sucks. But then again, I didn't pay for it.
You have: Windows XP Home Windows XP Pro Windows 2000 Pro Windows 2000 Server Windows 2000 Advanced Server Windows 98 Windows 95 Windows 95 B Windows 3.11 Windows For Workgroups 3.11 Windows 3.1 etc, etc...
Good point. They also don't mention anything about reading books being defined as a "right". Finally I we can start banning access to contrivercial books at the library.
So what? As reported a while back, it's well-known that most/. readers are using IE on some version of Windows. IE was simply the best. I've switched from IE to Mozilla, but only because of its popup blocking features. Otherwise, I'd keep IE - it just a damn fast browser. Opera be damned - on my dual Athlon 2100 w/ 1 gig of ram, IE beats everything else. Although Opera seems to perform better on my laptop with 256M of ram/
Really? X crashes on me on a daily basis. I was hoping for more of this "stability" you claim, but so far my XP box is 1,000 times more stable than my Linux box. I'd like to know how to get KDE to stop crashing. If you know, please tell me.
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For that matter, DOS was faster as well. Obvious guy says "Linux was faster because windows actually ran a real GUI."
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You're absoluetley, positively correct. Instead of giving priority to either background or foreground processes like you can choose in windows, there should be an option to give priority to whatever the interactive user is trying to do.
If this patch is causing great excitement, then I can only assume linux is now more responsive on the desktop than windows.
Not as long as Xwindows exists. We have VNC, why does X need to go through TCP/IP to draw a window? This is why Apple dumped X and wrote their own system independently of X. X is outdated. Once KDE gains enough market share, they should just dump X in favor of performance. When a Linux GUI can use things like hardware acceleration, only then will it outperform windows. Until then, it doesn't have a chance.
I've been a long time user of IE. Mostly due to its performance. But two things finally got me to switch to Mozilla: Popup blocking and tabs. That and if I don't like something, I can just change it and recompile it. The only complaint I had was the google bar that was missing. But you can get that for mozilla at www.someurl.com. I forget where, but I have it and it works. +5 half-assed informative.
Debian is still running the 2.2 kernel and xfree 2.3 right? :)
Debian has a nice tool called kpkg that makes compiling and installing kernels directly from source a pleasure. Sometimes I recompile my kernel just for fun. But make sure you download the pentium-builder package to make sure your new kernel is optimized to the max. My only complaint about debian is that all the binaries are only optimized for my 386 Packard Bell.
You're on crack if you think Debian peforms anywhere near RedHat. I run Debian and guess what? Except for the kernel, unless you re-compile everything from source (including X windows, KDE, apache, etc) you're only going to get binaries optimized for a 386. Lame-O.
Their new guildline for variable-naming in .NET is to not use variable type notation.
Anyone got a freenet key? Better yet, anyone manage to get freenet working on Debian with Blackdown Java? And how the fsck do you install sun's java on Debian?
That's nice. Besides the fact that the chip is small, I see no point in sticking it in a dead fly. In fact, that seems quite pointless and the main focus of the article should be on the tiny chip, not the fact that it happens to be inside a dead fly. That's not impressive whatsever.
Microsoft never claimed this to be their innovation. They purchased the technology from Citrix. If the number of concurrent clients is going to be any more than 20, either get Citrix Winframe or a damn fast machine. Same goes for Linux. X is an incredible bandwidth hog compared to Terminal services. Get XVNC if you want to do remote linux desktops.
I was just trolling... don't take it personally.
Comments like that only aid the Linux terrorists.
But he's too l33t to install Windows! Actually this stupid fucker probably only runs Windows, but won't admit it on /. because he's too l33t.
apt-spy -d unstable
apt-get update
apt-get install xserver-common
apt-spy -d stable
apt-get update
This sounds familiar. Just out of curiosity, what motherboard? In my case "these fscking unstable drivers" turned out to be bad capacitors on my Abit VP6. New caps from mouser.com, a soldering iron, and bam - a perfectly stable MB.
My Linksys 4 port KVM does the same thing. But only if switch computers while X is loading. Windows doesn't seem to have a problem, so it's definetely a software issue. The pointer just starts behaving erratically.
What does this seriesof bytes tell my mouse to do? If this works, I think I'll take your Perls script and write myself a fix in C++. You know, a real language ;)
Hey after all the kernel reconfiguration and recompilation and code-tweaks, I really do feel like it's mine! My preciousssss...
BTW, I've got a dual P3 866 w/ 512 Mb. But good piont on the X11. I forget that there's an entire communication protocol between KDE and my video card. I think it's interesting to run a remote KDE session and all over X & TCP/IP, but this is one instance where a feature should be scrapped in favor of performance.
Despite what you slashdot monkeys may think (half of you have probably never ran Linux), Linux is incredibly slow when compared to Windows. Windows simply handles multithreading better. Mozilla takes 2x as long to open in linux and if I try to open multiple apps at once, it takes minutes for any of them to come up. And you can tell the I/O is crap just by looking at KDE's performance when compared to Win2k. Windows just flies. Part of this of course is that my version of Linux (Debian) can be recompiled to run on many platforms and everyone can tell you that portability comes at the cost of platform-specific performance. But still the i/o and multithreading in linux sucks. But then again, I didn't pay for it.
They're both unemployed!
What are you talking about?!
You have:
Windows XP Home
Windows XP Pro
Windows 2000 Pro
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows 98
Windows 95
Windows 95 B
Windows 3.11
Windows For Workgroups 3.11
Windows 3.1
etc, etc...
Good point. They also don't mention anything about reading books being defined as a "right". Finally I we can start banning access to contrivercial books at the library.
So what? As reported a while back, it's well-known that most /. readers are using IE on some version of Windows. IE was simply the best. I've switched from IE to Mozilla, but only because of its popup blocking features. Otherwise, I'd keep IE - it just a damn fast browser. Opera be damned - on my dual Athlon 2100 w/ 1 gig of ram, IE beats everything else. Although Opera seems to perform better on my laptop with 256M of ram/
And yet they still "need" loads of H-1B monkeys.
Really? X crashes on me on a daily basis. I was hoping for more of this "stability" you claim, but so far my XP box is 1,000 times more stable than my Linux box. I'd like to know how to get KDE to stop crashing. If you know, please tell me.