I know what you mean, I love Linux but wish the support for proprietary formats weren't so kludgey. Codeweavers seem to have the right approach, or at least the best approach i've seen so far in terms of bringing decent web-based multimedia to the Linux desktop.
I know this topic has been done to death, but there *are* folks out there running they're offices MSFT - free! I am currently working on a contract replacing 12 desktop systems with Mandrake (as it seems the most professional and stable ditro at this time). The file / print servers were switched over to FreeBSD months ago.
This can be done!A great resource can be found..Here..
This will probably get modded down as a troll, but I have a slightly deviant perspective on the subject of patents. I believe that patent law is essential in order to protect inventors and provide incentive to innovate. Open standards discourage development of new technologies, and makes a sort of religion or fetish out of what are quite often outmoded tech. Web patents are just as necessary. Now, this is not to say that there haven't been some overzealous lawyers in the mix, but it seems to me that people forget the necessity of patents and overemphasize the negative aspects.
Plus don't forget to set devfs=nomount to free up any resources needed by the processor's L2 cache. This can cause timing hiccups which are made worse by the AGP caching bug.
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I know what you mean, I love Linux but wish the support for proprietary formats weren't so kludgey. Codeweavers seem to have the right approach, or at least the best approach i've seen so far in terms of bringing decent web-based multimedia to the Linux desktop.
I know this topic has been done to death, but there *are* folks out there running they're offices MSFT - free! I am currently working on a contract replacing 12 desktop systems with Mandrake (as it seems the most professional and stable ditro at this time). The file / print servers were switched over to FreeBSD months ago. This can be done!A great resource can be found ..Here..
This will probably get modded down as a troll, but I have a slightly deviant perspective on the subject of patents. I believe that patent law is essential in order to protect inventors and provide incentive to innovate. Open standards discourage development of new technologies, and makes a sort of religion or fetish out of what are quite often outmoded tech. Web patents are just as necessary. Now, this is not to say that there haven't been some overzealous lawyers in the mix, but it seems to me that people forget the necessity of patents and overemphasize the negative aspects.
LOL No,I'm running it headless!
Plus don't forget to set devfs=nomount to free up any resources needed by the processor's L2 cache. This can cause timing hiccups which are made worse by the AGP caching bug.
This is true; I'm running FreeBSD on an AMD processor and haven't noticed any issues. But chipsets are flaky things.
I've got some of the foot powder. Will that suffice?