Some distro's do.
Mandrake for instances compiles for Pentium and above (i586) because it considers itself a "desktop" form of linux and noone in their right mind is using less than a pentium for a desktop system.
Redhat, Debian, and the like are need to be more platform independent because they are used on all kinds of hardwaref for all kinds of applications. Redhat has platform specific rpms for important thinks like glibc, the kernel, etc but a major selling point on linux is that it will run out of the box on anything.
I don't consider -03 experimental. The only thing you get with 03 over 02 is -fomit-frame-pointer on platforms where -fomit-frame-pointer has no effect on debug information. So, on i386, -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer is the same as -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer.
Actually, I was running Redhat 7.2 and their i386 binaries. KDE was unusable. Even Blackbox and Fluxbox had very poor GUI response.
After switching to Gentoo I can use KDE 3.1.1 with all the bells and whistles on a 600Mhz laptop no problem, transparent menus and everything.
The only thing I can attribute to the huge increase in graphican peformance itis compiling the whole system from source.
Not to mention, doesn't using things like MMX,3DNOW, SSE, etc speed up graphical applications as long as the application is written to take advantage of the instructions? I don't know this for sure but doesn't X integrate MMX and other extentions to i386 that speed up performance.
I remember when MMX came out I patched my photoshop with an MMX update and operations that were taking around 5 minutes to complete were now taking 3. At the time, that was huge.
Anyway, It was a lame article but I do think that binaries optimized for a particular processor do make a huge differenece in peformance when the software is written to take advantage of it.
The only plugin I was able to get to work was Shockwave and it ate 100% CPU. I tried in Phoenix, Mozilla, and Netscape Communicator. Mozilla isn't even loading up anymore. Plus there is some bug where the Crossover Plugin just spawns hundreds of Galeon processes.
And why is this? Half-Life Dedicated Server is not multi-threaded and neither are many of the other popular game servers.
>they're making chips with Hyper Threading (great for >game servers).
At some point, Slashdot is going to have to get rid of the "Your Rights Online" topic since we won't have any left...or change the name to something like "The rights you used to have", or "Your rights, NOT", or "Don't read this when they are watching".
While our whole country is focused on the huge tragedy of Sept 11, there is an even bigger tragedy unfolding right in front of everyone but as long as they have their Starbucks and TV, noone gives a shit. I'm not afraid of Terrorist. They can kiss my ass. I'm more afraid of having to live out the rest of my life in a communist country.
You people read like 2 lines of the article then get so worked up you comment without finishing the post.
Here is the basis. I buy documentation to WebGUI. I learn all kinds of neat stuff. My buddy "Bob" doesn't by it for whatever reason and he asks me for some help configurating it. I help "Bob"..and then technically I violated DMCA law or some crap. Its BS. Its just another group of losers who have no clue what they are doing.
I saw a lot of people comparing this to Redhat or MySQL. They are charging for phone support and stuff, not for documentation. There is ample free documentation that will tell you how to do anything you want to do for both of those products. What they charge for is when you screw up your system so bad you need a real geek to fix it. There is a difference between being able to call a 1-800 number to talk to a support rep and asking your buddy a question about how to configure some software. So therin lies the problem. Open source is all about helping each other out.
Uhhh, you've heard of the American Civil War right? The war was over states rights and since the North won that means your crappy little state laws don't mean shit.
Ashcroft scoffs at you.
You people actually want Sony developing Linux? WTF is going on here. Sony is basically our worst enemy. They practically are the RIAA. They just want to get their hands dirty with kerenl development so they can magically appear with DRM patches for the kernel when USA outlaws non-DRM enabled Operating systems and hardware.
Whats really funny is the mental image I get when I see the guy at the RIAA tasked with going though all the CDRS and coming up with this number.
"Ok Bob. As our main tech tech guru, your job is catalog the make and model of all of these CDRs, noting the speed of each CDR. Also, remember last weeks meeting...some CDRs are acually MORE than 1 CDR."
"Uhhh, heheh heheh heheheh hehehhe. Yeah."
"Great Bob, now who's my little tech guy?"
"Uhh, me? hehe hehehhe hehehh"
"You didn't tell anyone about last night did you?"
"Uhh hehe, hhehehe hehe, no"
The first time I went to Walmart I had at least 15 good mullet sightings. I'm talking mullet ratio's of like 15:1. I thought there was a Natty light sale or something but its like that everyday.
Ok. So, if I take my digital camera and take a picture of the price $14.95, I can copyright $14.95 and then go around using the DMCA to stop people from selling items at $14.95? Cool.
Unless I am missing something here, which is just about as likely as snow falling outside right now (oh, crap, it *is*), why would corporations be uptight about their sales info getting pushed out to a wider audience? Isn't this exactly what their advertisements are supposed to do?
Probably another study bought and paid for by Microsoft. What its basically saying is that since Windows admins come a dime a dozen and most are probably begging for jobs right now its cheapter to go with Win2k than it would be to hire a real IT staff with Unix knownledge.
I don't know of a clueful outfit in existance that uses Win2k for anything besides workstations or specialized apps that require it. Its just ignorant.
Of course many of the rumors are very silly. (i.e. the rumors going around that OSX will run on AMD's Hammer chips - difficult if not impossible due to the difficulty of emulating PPC code on a x86 platform)
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I don't know if you know this or not but it was a posted on/. back in October I think. Apple has been maintaining a i386 version of OSX since the beginning and keeps its features in step with the PowerPC version. I like to think of it as a big giant Microsoft f*cker.
I went to the anti leech.com site and when I clicked on a link I got 2 pop up adds. They even make it annoying for people to surf their own site. These dudes are hard core.
Thats not really how the law was written. You should read before posting. It doesn't say anyone can make someone shutup for any reason, it says:
"any written material, any image or any other representation of ideas or theories, which advocates, promotes or incites hatred, discrimination or violence, against any individual or group of individuals, based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion if used as pretext for any of these factors."
Extra phone line + AOL =~ $40/month
Comcast = $45/month with modem
What a lame article that is. Speaking of lame, I heard star power advertising their cable modem service with this line "Now you can be on the phone and the Internet, AT THE SAME TIME!". Oh wow.
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Excuse us for twisting your arm and forcing you to read every article posted.
Some distro's do. Mandrake for instances compiles for Pentium and above (i586) because it considers itself a "desktop" form of linux and noone in their right mind is using less than a pentium for a desktop system. Redhat, Debian, and the like are need to be more platform independent because they are used on all kinds of hardwaref for all kinds of applications. Redhat has platform specific rpms for important thinks like glibc, the kernel, etc but a major selling point on linux is that it will run out of the box on anything.
I don't consider -03 experimental. The only thing you get with 03 over 02 is -fomit-frame-pointer on platforms where -fomit-frame-pointer has no effect on debug information. So, on i386, -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer is the same as -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer.
Actually, I was running Redhat 7.2 and their i386 binaries. KDE was unusable. Even Blackbox and Fluxbox had very poor GUI response. After switching to Gentoo I can use KDE 3.1.1 with all the bells and whistles on a 600Mhz laptop no problem, transparent menus and everything. The only thing I can attribute to the huge increase in graphican peformance itis compiling the whole system from source. Not to mention, doesn't using things like MMX,3DNOW, SSE, etc speed up graphical applications as long as the application is written to take advantage of the instructions? I don't know this for sure but doesn't X integrate MMX and other extentions to i386 that speed up performance. I remember when MMX came out I patched my photoshop with an MMX update and operations that were taking around 5 minutes to complete were now taking 3. At the time, that was huge. Anyway, It was a lame article but I do think that binaries optimized for a particular processor do make a huge differenece in peformance when the software is written to take advantage of it.
How come every terrorist laptop or computer they find is running Windows?
The only plugin I was able to get to work was Shockwave and it ate 100% CPU. I tried in Phoenix, Mozilla, and Netscape Communicator. Mozilla isn't even loading up anymore. Plus there is some bug where the Crossover Plugin just spawns hundreds of Galeon processes.
Wow, I think this review actually took down Toms. I can't even get to the site. "Contacting www.tomshardware.com..."
If RPM was good then this news post would not have happened on April 1st.
And why is this? Half-Life Dedicated Server is not multi-threaded and neither are many of the other popular game servers. >they're making chips with Hyper Threading (great for >game servers).
At some point, Slashdot is going to have to get rid of the "Your Rights Online" topic since we won't have any left...or change the name to something like "The rights you used to have", or "Your rights, NOT", or "Don't read this when they are watching".
While our whole country is focused on the huge tragedy of Sept 11, there is an even bigger tragedy unfolding right in front of everyone but as long as they have their Starbucks and TV, noone gives a shit. I'm not afraid of Terrorist. They can kiss my ass. I'm more afraid of having to live out the rest of my life in a communist country.
You people read like 2 lines of the article then get so worked up you comment without finishing the post. Here is the basis. I buy documentation to WebGUI. I learn all kinds of neat stuff. My buddy "Bob" doesn't by it for whatever reason and he asks me for some help configurating it. I help "Bob"..and then technically I violated DMCA law or some crap. Its BS. Its just another group of losers who have no clue what they are doing. I saw a lot of people comparing this to Redhat or MySQL. They are charging for phone support and stuff, not for documentation. There is ample free documentation that will tell you how to do anything you want to do for both of those products. What they charge for is when you screw up your system so bad you need a real geek to fix it. There is a difference between being able to call a 1-800 number to talk to a support rep and asking your buddy a question about how to configure some software. So therin lies the problem. Open source is all about helping each other out.
Uhhh, you've heard of the American Civil War right? The war was over states rights and since the North won that means your crappy little state laws don't mean shit. Ashcroft scoffs at you.
You people actually want Sony developing Linux? WTF is going on here. Sony is basically our worst enemy. They practically are the RIAA. They just want to get their hands dirty with kerenl development so they can magically appear with DRM patches for the kernel when USA outlaws non-DRM enabled Operating systems and hardware.
Whats really funny is the mental image I get when I see the guy at the RIAA tasked with going though all the CDRS and coming up with this number. "Ok Bob. As our main tech tech guru, your job is catalog the make and model of all of these CDRs, noting the speed of each CDR. Also, remember last weeks meeting...some CDRs are acually MORE than 1 CDR." "Uhhh, heheh heheh heheheh hehehhe. Yeah." "Great Bob, now who's my little tech guy?" "Uhh, me? hehe hehehhe hehehh" "You didn't tell anyone about last night did you?" "Uhh hehe, hhehehe hehe, no"
The first time I went to Walmart I had at least 15 good mullet sightings. I'm talking mullet ratio's of like 15:1. I thought there was a Natty light sale or something but its like that everyday.
Ok. So, if I take my digital camera and take a picture of the price $14.95, I can copyright $14.95 and then go around using the DMCA to stop people from selling items at $14.95? Cool.
Unless I am missing something here, which is just about as likely as snow falling outside right now (oh, crap, it *is*), why would corporations be uptight about their sales info getting pushed out to a wider audience? Isn't this exactly what their advertisements are supposed to do?
its because they have lawyer people.
genious
Why do Mac users use the word "emulate" so much.
Probably another study bought and paid for by Microsoft. What its basically saying is that since Windows admins come a dime a dozen and most are probably begging for jobs right now its cheapter to go with Win2k than it would be to hire a real IT staff with Unix knownledge.
I don't know of a clueful outfit in existance that uses Win2k for anything besides workstations or specialized apps that require it. Its just ignorant.
Of course many of the rumors are very silly. (i.e. the rumors going around that OSX will run on AMD's Hammer chips - difficult if not impossible due to the difficulty of emulating PPC code on a x86 platform) > I don't know if you know this or not but it was a posted on /. back in October I think. Apple has been maintaining a i386 version of OSX since the beginning and keeps its features in step with the PowerPC version. I like to think of it as a big giant Microsoft f*cker.
I went to the anti leech.com site and when I clicked on a link I got 2 pop up adds. They even make it annoying for people to surf their own site. These dudes are hard core.
Thats not really how the law was written. You should read before posting. It doesn't say anyone can make someone shutup for any reason, it says:
"any written material, any image or any other representation of ideas or theories, which advocates, promotes or incites hatred, discrimination or violence, against any individual or group of individuals, based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion if used as pretext for any of these factors."
I wish we had this law in the US.
Extra phone line + AOL =~ $40/month Comcast = $45/month with modem What a lame article that is. Speaking of lame, I heard star power advertising their cable modem service with this line "Now you can be on the phone and the Internet, AT THE SAME TIME!". Oh wow.
w0rd to your mother