The could be implemented in Gnome. Also, how many corporate desktops are locked down as much as a standard kiosk is? I built a kiosk system for the company I work for and it is in over 1,600+ locations. The system is *very* locked down. I don't think having a kiosk for a corporte desktop would be that useful. Thought the kiosk feature is nice and could come in handy for some deployments, over all it won't be very useful. What I think give more weight to Gnome is Ximain Evolution and Ximian connector. I use both to get my mail from our MS Exchange 2003 server. I cannot do that under KDE. The other issue is with QT. If you want to develop commercial applications, you have to pay QT. With GTK+, you can develop closed source or Open Source free of charge. Look at MS Windows and Mac OS X. You don't have to pay extra to develop commercial, closed source applications on those platforms, it would be silly to require that under Linux.
It is a mistake to geeks like us, however in the Corporate World(tm), too much choice is a bad thing. Admins don't want to worry about which desktop the user has, they want ONE standardized desktop. KDE and GNOME are _both_ great programming efforts IMO. Though, eventually the Corporate World(tm) would have to standardize on ONE. The ball fell in the Gnome court. That doesn't mean KDE will or has to die off.
I use Fedora Core and MS Window XP as development workstaions at work. I use Gnome under Fedora Core. Why, becuase of Evolution and Ximian Connector. I need to get my email from a crappy MS Exchange 2003 server. I have been pushing for the company to switch to a standard IMAP server or even the new SuSe Open Exchange server. Though it is a hard battle in a fortune 500 company with 110,000+ employees. I think many corporations in the USA are tied into MS and their products. There is no groupware solution under KDE. Kontact, which is based on KMail is no where near as polished as Evolution. Kolab Server, the KDE based groupware solution, is not something large corporations are going to swtich to. So KDE not having any native Exchange support is a real killer for KDE. The second thing that hurt KDE is that SUN picked Gnome as its new desktop. That means corporations can get enterprise level support for a Gnome based desktop and not KDE.
The other thing killing KDE IMO is QT. With QT you either have to develop Open Source software or pay QT to develop commercial/proprietary software. With GTK+ being under the LGPL, you can develop Open Source OR closed proprietary software without having to pay extra to use the toolkit. Developers don't have to pay MS to use the Win32 API, and it would seem silly to have to pay QT to develop a commercial, closed source app under Linux. Look at the latest version of the Linux NVidia drivers. They now include a GUI to tweak the settings for an NVIdia card under Linux similar to the one under MS Windows. The GUI is written in GTK+2.x and NVidia did not have to pay QT just to be able to write a GUI for some OS.
I am not trying to flame KDE, as I said, it is a great desktop. I just think that for Linux to be more accepted in the Corporate World(tm), a corporate Linux distro needs to REALLY limit the choices of packages, pick what the distro builders feel are the best and focus on making those packages work well together. This way commercial companies can focus on ONE toolkit to build their applications. Many people in the Linux community (myself included) complain about lack of commercial desktop software. The reason is because there are TOO MANY CHOICES. If a commercial company is looking to offer a closed source product under Linux for the desktop user, it would currently be a nightmare to choose what resources to use. KDE/QT, arts, dcop, kdeprint, etc vs. Gnome/GTK+, esd, gconf, gnomevfs, etc. Think about how your "average" home user can walk into a software store and pick up some little app that prints greeting cards. There is no commercial offering like that under Linux. Why, too much choice IMO. I do love the chioces in Linux, though for corporate approval, there needs to be some leader that comes along and picks and choses for the corporate suit and slap a label on it and sell it to them. IMO, I think UserLinux is making the right choice. It may be a little hard to swallow now, though I think in the end it will be best thing that happend to help Linux get on the corporate desktop.
Damn! Why would Walmart give users a test file that does not actaully TEST if it will work on their system? Has someone tried to see if they can get it all working Media Player and Wine?
I think a few thousand Linux and Mac using/.ers should email Walmart, asking them to make a better servive and to use an open format such as OGG.
I personally don't understand the mentality of music stores stores like Walmart and even iTMS. They put DRM crap on their music files that can easily be stepped around. With Walmart music and iTMS you can burn regular audio CD's and rip to a non-DRM'ed format. So the DRM is just political BS and does nothting to stop people from stealing the music.
I don't know why Walmart went with a crappy proprietary audio format such as wma. Anyway, you can easily convert those files with MPlayer to OGG or if you must, MP3.
First, make sure you have MPlayer installed and then go to the Mplayer site and download all the win32 codecs. Extract all the codecs to/usr/lib/win32. Now MPlayer, Xine and Totem can play just about any audio/video file you throw at it.
All of our production servers run Red Hat AS 2.1. My workstation is running FC1 right now and I needed the Oracle client installed to connect/work with the Oracle servers running under AS 2.1.
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As I posted, in my experience FC1 is just as stable as Red Hat has been for me. I have not had any stability problems with it at all. The only problems I have ran into is with 3rd party applications that do not yet have support for the newer NPTL, glib or exec-shield.
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I am using Fedora Core 1 now and find it very stable, fast and well put together. The only problem is that it is a little "bleeding" edge for 3rd party apps. My Netlock VPN client doesn't work with the stock FC1 kernel so I had to install a Red Hat 9 kernel. I cannot get the Corda graphing server to run, and various issues with the newer NPTL and glibc stuff that requires patches to get Oracle to run. Though with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 with similar packages, the 3rd party support should pick up soon. Overall it is a good desktop, especially with freshrpms.net to get tons of extra packages.
Well, none of our fortune 500 critical data is allowed to be in an MS SQL server based on corporate policy. Second, the majority of the SQL code is standard SQL that doesn't lock us into one RDBMS vendor and could trivially be ported to another RDBMS. The third party apps we use that work wit Oracle all support at least one other RDBMS, such as People Soft. Fourth, there is nothing proprietary about PL/SQL. Any other RDBMS vendor could implement a compatible PL/SQL layer if they wanted or make a tool that will convert form PL/SQL to their own procedural SQL language. You cannot do that with MS Office.
I thought I just read on/. that one of the new Linux based "Smart Phones" has Quicktime support? Apple doesn't need to release the GUI, just the backend processes to work with iTMS and a binary release of QT libraries. Though I doubt Apple will do something like that since their goal is to have you purchase their OS : (
You usually pay per/CPU with Oracle. Last I checked it was around $30,000 USD per/CPU. We are constantly trying to use the smallest hardware for our Oracle servers where I work because of the excessive (IMO) fees. You figure if you have a few 2-way Oracle servers, it adds up. We have a bunch of 4-way, 6-way and 8-way servers. As far a/.ing goes, if you put Oracle on some 1-way box with 256MB ram, (a common MySQL setup), you will probaly get/.ed quicker then with MySQL due to Oracle DB being a resource hog.
Most people who use PHP/MySQL use something like mysql_pconnect() to use persistant connection to speed the site up. However, that backfires on you when your site gets heavy load and you run out of connections. There is a warning about this in the PHP docs mysql-pconnect
Using persistent connections can require a bit of tuning of your Apache and MySQL configurations to ensure that you do not exceed the number of connections allowed by MySQL.
A better solution would be a resource pool manager for PHP/MySQL that starts to free the connections when a certain numbers of configurable connections get in the pool to try to help with the infamous
"Too many connections in/usr/XXX" MySQL error. Though, in the end, there are only so many connections you can get through a little box. Put the www.moviemistakes.com site on a nice 4-8 way box with the same setup and see how well it can do against Oracle. I am not knocking Oracle, I think it is the best Enterprise class DB out there. It comes down to using the right tool for the right job. Orcale for a dynamic web site is overkill and too expensive. Orcale for financial, e-commerce, data warehousing is a much better fit IMO.
A. I didn't say that OO didn't have COM objects. I just said that MS has good ones which makes writing apps quick and cheap.
OOo/StarOffice has good a very good Automation API as well, which makes writing apps quick and cheap. Though I am really not one to call something an "application" that is basically a front-end that just calls some MS Office objects.
B. I said the API is open. I don't give two shits about the doc formats. That's another discussion. But good attempt at a troll.
It is pretty sad that you don't care about your data being locked into ONE vendor, I sure do. That is why NOTHING important to me or the fortune 500 company I am a Senior developer at is locked into MS Office. All of our critical data is in an Oracle DB on non-MS OS'es, (Solaris, Linux).
C. When I write VBA apps, I generally do use RTF and CSV, thank you. I didn't say that I didn't. But the format has nothing to do with this discussion.
Then why write a VBA app? You can write ANY app and have it spit out RTF, CSV, HTML, etc. No need to lock yourself into VBA.
Put some graphs, mail merge or other "IP" related stuff in the document and then you will see the proprietary crap. MS is not going to hand over their MS Office cash cow, now matter how bad you may want them to. A simple MS Doc with "Hello World" doesn't cut it. It is pretty easy to reverse engineer a binary file with only "Hello World" in it. MS makes just about ALL of their money for MS Windows and MS Office. Their not going to hand over the MS Office format. Nice try.
You obviously never used OpenOffice before. You can work with OOo through COM under MS Windows just as you can with MS Office.
Here is a little VB Script example, copy n paste the text below into a text file and save it as ooo.vbs, then just double click it and watch.
'The service manager is always the starting point 'If there is no office running then an office is started up Set objServiceManager= WScript.CreateObject("com.sun.star.ServiceManager" ) 'Create the Desktop Set objDesktop= objServiceManager.createInstance("com.sun.star.fra me.Desktop") 'Open a new empty writer document Dim args() Set objDocument= objDesktop.loadComponentFromURL("private:factory/s writer",_ "_blank", 0, args) 'Create a text object Set objText= objDocument.getText 'Create a cursor object Set objCursor= objText.createTextCursor 'Inserting some Text objText.insertString objCursor, "The first line in the newly created text document."&_ vbLf, false
There is nothing open about MS Office. Where can I download the specs of the MS Office formats? Oh, that is right, they are proprietary "IP". But wait, MS Office 2003 uses "open" XML. Gee that is just great, too bad the encoded data in the XML is proprietary "IP" and the XML wrapper is more of a PR stunt then MS truly opening up the MS Office documents formats.
A better solution is to use OPEN STANDARDS. Instead of having your application spit out some MS Word doc, have it spit out HTML or PDF. Then anyone, anywhere can read it. Instead of spitting out an MS Excel file, have it spit out a plain ole CSV file. Then you can import it to just about any app or DB and work with the data any way you want.
Debian is great. However for a desktop with newer hardware, it falls short. SID still doesn't have XFree 4.3.0! I need XFree 4.3.0 for my graphics card, also, XFree 4.3.0 has all the XFont changes that finally give an X desktop pretty fonts. These two things are want turned me away from Debian. Fedora Core as well as Red Hat AS 2.1/3 have all been very stable for me. It is pretty unfair to compare Debian stable, based on much older/mature code on something more current. Red Hat AS 2.1 and Red Hat 7.3 are both as stable as Debian Stable from my experience. Though agian, I would not use any of them as my desktop.
There were other articles on/. about this. Basically, XFree86 development is SLOW and a tight, closed circle. Xouvert wants to OPEN it up, to get cool new features in FASTER. ATI have put code to XFree86 that is just basically sitting around since no XFree86 developers get around to it. Xouvert, would try to get a new version out every 6 months or so which could make card support grow MUCH faster then is possible with the current XFree86 development group.
So basically, Xouvert would allow the community to take part in getting XFree86 moving faster. Allowing companines like ATI to submit code for support of their video cards and actaully see that code put to use. As I stated, with current XFree86, it can take a LONG, LONG time for that code to get to the masses.
I personally think Xouvert is a great thing. More of the community can get involved, commercial/non-commercial, etc can all contribute. I think I also read that Xouvert wants to make it FAR easier for a graphics card makers to put out binary modules that a user could just install and have it work with Xouvert, no kernel recompiles, no compiling at all.
I have been looking into using eclipse with tomcat. Is there any plugin that can export a war file for uploads? I have looked around, but haven't found any yet.
Unaccelerated means that dialog box painting, web page scrolling, and Flash animations will run like molasses. Yes, Flash animations are important to novice users, many of whom frequent Flash portals such as killfrog, newgrounds, and the like. If painting and scrolling are slow, then "this computer is slower than the one that came with Windows."
Debian is based on older code. Fedora Core 1 supports my Radeon out-of-the-box with 2D and 3D acceleration. ATI does release specs on their cards. They just keep a few things proprietary. If you want that little extra that ATI keeps, you can download their binary driver. NVidia on the other hand does not realease specs, though their proprietary drivers are top notch IMO and work great under Linux.
Also there are two types of accelration. 2D and 3D. If you are using Debian based on older code, you may not have 3D acceleration, but you will still have full 2D acceleration, so your flash, web pages, dialog boxes, etc will *not* be slow. In fact you won't even notice that there is no 3D acceleration under an older code base such as Debian until you try to run something like Tux Racer. If you want that 3D acceleration, use Fedora or SuSE. The Radeon on my laptop has very fast 2D and 3D and the GeForce 3 Ti 500 on my desktop has very, very fast 2D and 3D with the NVidia binaries, both under Linux.
That is just the dumbest thing I have heard. Where did you get your stats that Linux users cannot afford an iPod? And where does it state that you *need* an iPod to use iTMS? I tried it out and I never purchased an iPod. Porting to Linux would be pretty simple. Apple doesn't need to port the GUI. Just the back-end services that a regular Linux GUI can talk to, thats all. I think that Apple wants all iTMS users to use Max OS X. The *only* reason they ported to MS Windows was because they would not have made any money if they did not. And they certainly would not have 1 million + downloads from just Apple users. It would be nice to see some stats on what percentage of those downloads are from Apple users. My guess would be 1% - 2% at the most. I just don't understand how Apple could justify the cost of the development under Mac OS X with such little return from the Mac user base, and then not put out a Linux version that could have similar returns.
Thanks for the Musik link. I was looking for something that would work under Linux since Apple is being idiots over supporting Linux. Yes I know that sounds trollish, though Apple is lucky to have 2%-3% of the desktop market, so they are not making any huge profits from their Apple users. Second, it wouldn't be that hard to port the services of iTMS to Linux from their BSD based system. Linux users are not choosy, give us a simple GTK+ GUI to the services and we would be happy. Heck, just realease the services/daemons as a closed binary with the specs on how to use them and the Linux community would make their own front end GUI in no time. You would have GiTMS, KiTMS, QiTMS in a few weeks.
I have to agree. I am a Gnome user so I never tried K3b until this week. The interface and functionality is just great. I wish this or a similar app would come out for Gnome/GTK. Until one does, I will stick with k3b, though the integration with Gnome of course is non-existent : (
Ahh, ok. This story is a little trollish by making it sound as if it was a "official" Gentoo server. Though, one of the Gentoo guys should check the "official" rsync mirrors and pull them from the DNS round robin if they are not patched correctly. Of course if there are tons of rsync servers, that could be a little bit too much work.
I'd have to agree to this "trollish" post. Fedora Core 1 came out of the box with a kernel that was patched against this hole. The patch was out, Gentoo and Debian just didn't apply it. Though, the rsync hole did require an apt-get under Fedora to upgrade it.
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The could be implemented in Gnome. Also, how many corporate desktops are locked down as much as a standard kiosk is? I built a kiosk system for the company I work for and it is in over 1,600+ locations. The system is *very* locked down. I don't think having a kiosk for a corporte desktop would be that useful. Thought the kiosk feature is nice and could come in handy for some deployments, over all it won't be very useful. What I think give more weight to Gnome is Ximain Evolution and Ximian connector. I use both to get my mail from our MS Exchange 2003 server. I cannot do that under KDE. The other issue is with QT. If you want to develop commercial applications, you have to pay QT. With GTK+, you can develop closed source or Open Source free of charge. Look at MS Windows and Mac OS X. You don't have to pay extra to develop commercial, closed source applications on those platforms, it would be silly to require that under Linux.
You do know that there are C++ bindings for GTK+? As well as bindings for python, and Java and perl and C# and ...
I use Fedora Core and MS Window XP as development workstaions at work. I use Gnome under Fedora Core. Why, becuase of Evolution and Ximian Connector. I need to get my email from a crappy MS Exchange 2003 server. I have been pushing for the company to switch to a standard IMAP server or even the new SuSe Open Exchange server. Though it is a hard battle in a fortune 500 company with 110,000+ employees. I think many corporations in the USA are tied into MS and their products. There is no groupware solution under KDE. Kontact, which is based on KMail is no where near as polished as Evolution. Kolab Server, the KDE based groupware solution, is not something large corporations are going to swtich to. So KDE not having any native Exchange support is a real killer for KDE. The second thing that hurt KDE is that SUN picked Gnome as its new desktop. That means corporations can get enterprise level support for a Gnome based desktop and not KDE.
The other thing killing KDE IMO is QT. With QT you either have to develop Open Source software or pay QT to develop commercial/proprietary software. With GTK+ being under the LGPL, you can develop Open Source OR closed proprietary software without having to pay extra to use the toolkit. Developers don't have to pay MS to use the Win32 API, and it would seem silly to have to pay QT to develop a commercial, closed source app under Linux. Look at the latest version of the Linux NVidia drivers. They now include a GUI to tweak the settings for an NVIdia card under Linux similar to the one under MS Windows. The GUI is written in GTK+2.x and NVidia did not have to pay QT just to be able to write a GUI for some OS.
I am not trying to flame KDE, as I said, it is a great desktop. I just think that for Linux to be more accepted in the Corporate World(tm), a corporate Linux distro needs to REALLY limit the choices of packages, pick what the distro builders feel are the best and focus on making those packages work well together. This way commercial companies can focus on ONE toolkit to build their applications. Many people in the Linux community (myself included) complain about lack of commercial desktop software. The reason is because there are TOO MANY CHOICES. If a commercial company is looking to offer a closed source product under Linux for the desktop user, it would currently be a nightmare to choose what resources to use. KDE/QT, arts, dcop, kdeprint, etc vs. Gnome/GTK+, esd, gconf, gnomevfs, etc. Think about how your "average" home user can walk into a software store and pick up some little app that prints greeting cards. There is no commercial offering like that under Linux. Why, too much choice IMO. I do love the chioces in Linux, though for corporate approval, there needs to be some leader that comes along and picks and choses for the corporate suit and slap a label on it and sell it to them. IMO, I think UserLinux is making the right choice. It may be a little hard to swallow now, though I think in the end it will be best thing that happend to help Linux get on the corporate desktop.
I think a few thousand Linux and Mac using /.ers should email Walmart, asking them to make a better servive and to use an open format such as OGG.
I personally don't understand the mentality of music stores stores like Walmart and even iTMS. They put DRM crap on their music files that can easily be stepped around. With Walmart music and iTMS you can burn regular audio CD's and rip to a non-DRM'ed format. So the DRM is just political BS and does nothting to stop people from stealing the music.
First, make sure you have MPlayer installed and then go to the Mplayer site and download all the win32 codecs. Extract all the codecs to /usr/lib/win32. Now MPlayer, Xine and Totem can play just about any audio/video file you throw at it.
Go to Walmart's Music Sample page and download the test wma file named 829757140926_01_02.wma.
From your favorite terminal, type this command:
This will make a RAW PCM/WAVE file named audiodump.wav.Encode with oggenc:
Or, if you need MP3 (though I recommend you support a great and open format such as OGG) do this:All of our production servers run Red Hat AS 2.1. My workstation is running FC1 right now and I needed the Oracle client installed to connect/work with the Oracle servers running under AS 2.1.
As I posted, in my experience FC1 is just as stable as Red Hat has been for me. I have not had any stability problems with it at all. The only problems I have ran into is with 3rd party applications that do not yet have support for the newer NPTL, glib or exec-shield.
I am using Fedora Core 1 now and find it very stable, fast and well put together. The only problem is that it is a little "bleeding" edge for 3rd party apps. My Netlock VPN client doesn't work with the stock FC1 kernel so I had to install a Red Hat 9 kernel. I cannot get the Corda graphing server to run, and various issues with the newer NPTL and glibc stuff that requires patches to get Oracle to run. Though with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 with similar packages, the 3rd party support should pick up soon. Overall it is a good desktop, especially with freshrpms.net to get tons of extra packages.
Well, none of our fortune 500 critical data is allowed to be in an MS SQL server based on corporate policy. Second, the majority of the SQL code is standard SQL that doesn't lock us into one RDBMS vendor and could trivially be ported to another RDBMS. The third party apps we use that work wit Oracle all support at least one other RDBMS, such as People Soft. Fourth, there is nothing proprietary about PL/SQL. Any other RDBMS vendor could implement a compatible PL/SQL layer if they wanted or make a tool that will convert form PL/SQL to their own procedural SQL language. You cannot do that with MS Office.
I thought I just read on /. that one of the new Linux based "Smart Phones" has Quicktime support? Apple doesn't need to release the GUI, just the backend processes to work with iTMS and a binary release of QT libraries. Though I doubt Apple will do something like that since their goal is to have you purchase their OS : (
Most people who use PHP/MySQL use something like mysql_pconnect() to use persistant connection to speed the site up. However, that backfires on you when your site gets heavy load and you run out of connections. There is a warning about this in the PHP docs mysql-pconnect
A better solution would be a resource pool manager for PHP/MySQL that starts to free the connections when a certain numbers of configurable connections get in the pool to try to help with the infamous "Too many connections in /usr/XXX" MySQL error. Though, in the end, there are only so many connections you can get through a little box. Put the www.moviemistakes.com site on a nice 4-8 way box with the same setup and see how well it can do against Oracle. I am not knocking Oracle, I think it is the best Enterprise class DB out there. It comes down to using the right tool for the right job. Orcale for a dynamic web site is overkill and too expensive. Orcale for financial, e-commerce, data warehousing is a much better fit IMO.
It is pretty sad that you don't care about your data being locked into ONE vendor, I sure do. That is why NOTHING important to me or the fortune 500 company I am a Senior developer at is locked into MS Office. All of our critical data is in an Oracle DB on non-MS OS'es, (Solaris, Linux).
Then why write a VBA app? You can write ANY app and have it spit out RTF, CSV, HTML, etc. No need to lock yourself into VBA.
Put some graphs, mail merge or other "IP" related stuff in the document and then you will see the proprietary crap. MS is not going to hand over their MS Office cash cow, now matter how bad you may want them to. A simple MS Doc with "Hello World" doesn't cut it. It is pretty easy to reverse engineer a binary file with only "Hello World" in it. MS makes just about ALL of their money for MS Windows and MS Office. Their not going to hand over the MS Office format. Nice try.
You obviously never used OpenOffice before. You can work with OOo through COM under MS Windows just as you can with MS Office.
Here is a little VB Script example, copy n paste the text below into a text file and save it as ooo.vbs, then just double click it and watch.
office_automation
writerdemo
There is nothing open about MS Office. Where can I download the specs of the MS Office formats? Oh, that is right, they are proprietary "IP". But wait, MS Office 2003 uses "open" XML. Gee that is just great, too bad the encoded data in the XML is proprietary "IP" and the XML wrapper is more of a PR stunt then MS truly opening up the MS Office documents formats.
A better solution is to use OPEN STANDARDS. Instead of having your application spit out some MS Word doc, have it spit out HTML or PDF. Then anyone, anywhere can read it. Instead of spitting out an MS Excel file, have it spit out a plain ole CSV file. Then you can import it to just about any app or DB and work with the data any way you want.
Debian is great. However for a desktop with newer hardware, it falls short. SID still doesn't have XFree 4.3.0! I need XFree 4.3.0 for my graphics card, also, XFree 4.3.0 has all the XFont changes that finally give an X desktop pretty fonts. These two things are want turned me away from Debian. Fedora Core as well as Red Hat AS 2.1/3 have all been very stable for me. It is pretty unfair to compare Debian stable, based on much older/mature code on something more current. Red Hat AS 2.1 and Red Hat 7.3 are both as stable as Debian Stable from my experience. Though agian, I would not use any of them as my desktop.
So basically, Xouvert would allow the community to take part in getting XFree86 moving faster. Allowing companines like ATI to submit code for support of their video cards and actaully see that code put to use. As I stated, with current XFree86, it can take a LONG, LONG time for that code to get to the masses.
I personally think Xouvert is a great thing. More of the community can get involved, commercial/non-commercial, etc can all contribute. I think I also read that Xouvert wants to make it FAR easier for a graphics card makers to put out binary modules that a user could just install and have it work with Xouvert, no kernel recompiles, no compiling at all.
I have been looking into using eclipse with tomcat. Is there any plugin that can export a war file for uploads? I have looked around, but haven't found any yet.
Also there are two types of accelration. 2D and 3D. If you are using Debian based on older code, you may not have 3D acceleration, but you will still have full 2D acceleration, so your flash, web pages, dialog boxes, etc will *not* be slow. In fact you won't even notice that there is no 3D acceleration under an older code base such as Debian until you try to run something like Tux Racer. If you want that 3D acceleration, use Fedora or SuSE. The Radeon on my laptop has very fast 2D and 3D and the GeForce 3 Ti 500 on my desktop has very, very fast 2D and 3D with the NVidia binaries, both under Linux.
That is just the dumbest thing I have heard. Where did you get your stats that Linux users cannot afford an iPod? And where does it state that you *need* an iPod to use iTMS? I tried it out and I never purchased an iPod. Porting to Linux would be pretty simple. Apple doesn't need to port the GUI. Just the back-end services that a regular Linux GUI can talk to, thats all. I think that Apple wants all iTMS users to use Max OS X. The *only* reason they ported to MS Windows was because they would not have made any money if they did not. And they certainly would not have 1 million + downloads from just Apple users. It would be nice to see some stats on what percentage of those downloads are from Apple users. My guess would be 1% - 2% at the most. I just don't understand how Apple could justify the cost of the development under Mac OS X with such little return from the Mac user base, and then not put out a Linux version that could have similar returns.
Thanks for the Musik link. I was looking for something that would work under Linux since Apple is being idiots over supporting Linux. Yes I know that sounds trollish, though Apple is lucky to have 2%-3% of the desktop market, so they are not making any huge profits from their Apple users. Second, it wouldn't be that hard to port the services of iTMS to Linux from their BSD based system. Linux users are not choosy, give us a simple GTK+ GUI to the services and we would be happy. Heck, just realease the services/daemons as a closed binary with the specs on how to use them and the Linux community would make their own front end GUI in no time. You would have GiTMS, KiTMS, QiTMS in a few weeks.
I have to agree. I am a Gnome user so I never tried K3b until this week. The interface and functionality is just great. I wish this or a similar app would come out for Gnome/GTK. Until one does, I will stick with k3b, though the integration with Gnome of course is non-existent : (
I thought most +R's don't play in most home DVD players? Is this still the case?
Ahh, ok. This story is a little trollish by making it sound as if it was a "official" Gentoo server. Though, one of the Gentoo guys should check the "official" rsync mirrors and pull them from the DNS round robin if they are not patched correctly. Of course if there are tons of rsync servers, that could be a little bit too much work.
I'd have to agree to this "trollish" post. Fedora Core 1 came out of the box with a kernel that was patched against this hole. The patch was out, Gentoo and Debian just didn't apply it. Though, the rsync hole did require an apt-get under Fedora to upgrade it.
Any good links for a budding audiophile to read up on this stuff? Especailly what is THD, the best cone material, etc.