Given the fact that the 2.4 kernel is a little
flakey with AGP and USB, and XFree86 4 has very
poor reliability, I think that distributions
need an easy way to update drivers. All this
really requires is to put the XFree driver modules
and stock kernel modules in individual packages.
I think most distros configure themselves well,
it's just that most newbies I talk to say linux
has poor reliability because X locks up on them
all the time...
Agreed!
My Amiga 1200 barely managed 9 mips(not a good performance metric, I know) yet could decode MPEG1 at 25fps quarter screen, and that was to a slow planar display. The Nancy algorithm sounds strangely similar to MS-Video1 and Cinepak, so I'm not expecting quality to be anywhere near as good as even MPEG1...
This has probably been pointed out a thousand times before, but it's important to realise that subscribing to Transgaming so that they can pay for copy protection patent licences etc can be a good thing. If people start running Windows games on Linux then the games companies will likely start writing native linux games, with the patents etc ready-licenced. This will massively increase the uptake of linux, introduce people to Free Software, convince hardware manufacturers to properly support Linux, kick-start the effort to make Linux distributions truly usable by the majority. The list is endless.
Mart
I wholeheartedly agree! By 1980 in the UK you
could get a Sinclair machine for less than £100
and there was loads of free software in magazines
etc. If anything MS slowed down the open
microcomputer movement until things like Linux came along.
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Not really, I'm sure you'll be able to buy chipped xboxes in bulk from some company eventually, just like dvd players.
Given the fact that the 2.4 kernel is a little flakey with AGP and USB, and XFree86 4 has very poor reliability, I think that distributions need an easy way to update drivers. All this really requires is to put the XFree driver modules and stock kernel modules in individual packages. I think most distros configure themselves well, it's just that most newbies I talk to say linux has poor reliability because X locks up on them all the time...
Agreed!
My Amiga 1200 barely managed 9 mips(not a good performance metric, I know) yet could decode MPEG1 at 25fps quarter screen, and that was to a slow planar display. The Nancy algorithm sounds strangely similar to MS-Video1 and Cinepak, so I'm not expecting quality to be anywhere near as good as even MPEG1...
This has probably been pointed out a thousand times before, but it's important to realise that subscribing to Transgaming so that they can pay for copy protection patent licences etc can be a good thing. If people start running Windows games on Linux then the games companies will likely start writing native linux games, with the patents etc ready-licenced. This will massively increase the uptake of linux, introduce people to Free Software, convince hardware manufacturers to properly support Linux, kick-start the effort to make Linux distributions truly usable by the majority. The list is endless. Mart
I wholeheartedly agree! By 1980 in the UK you could get a Sinclair machine for less than £100 and there was loads of free software in magazines etc. If anything MS slowed down the open microcomputer movement until things like Linux came along.