I've been an nVidia advocate since 1999 when I bought a TNT2 Ultra for playing Quake III Arena under Linux on my (then) K6-2 400.
I'm on my 4th nVidia graphics card, and I have 6 machines, all running Linux. One is a 10-year-old UltraSPARC, one has an ATI card.
Despite slashbot rantings about the closed-source nVidia drivers, and despite my motley collection of Frankenstein hardware, I've never had a problem with the nVidia stuff. The ATI stuff is junk. The drivers are pathetic (open source) and the display is snowy, and the performance it rubbish.
I hope AMD do something about the Linux driver situation.
My next machine will be another AMD, this time with dual dual-core processors and I'll be doing my own Slackware port, but I'll be buying an nVidia graphics card.
Can you explain the precise mechanism of this Unix binary backwards compatibility you're talking about? I work with Linux every day and have since 1998.
So go and read about Solaris. They guaratantee 15 years.
Linux, in the "brave new world" of compile-it-yourself software, does not consider backwards compatibility at all significant.
Why should Novell listen to the Samba team? It's too late, the deal is done, and anyway, by doing the deal, Novell has shown that it doesn't get the whole Open Source/Free Software thing.
It will be full of sage advice and code samples from MSCEs.
We have a tester at work who is an MCSE. I've been teaching him shell scripting using bash in Linux, for which he is immensely grateful, embarrassingly so, as he bows and scrapes and calls me "Mr Unix Genius." His productivity has improved 10-fold, and now he has a new job at another company with better pay.
One Monday morning he proudly informed me that he'd spent a lot of time over the weekend reading the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide and that he'd, "copied and pasted it," so that he could, "read it on Windows." He'd spent hours copying and pasting all 800 pages from the web browser into Microsoft Word.
I asked him why he didn't just download the file. "But I want to read it on Windows."
I'm a developer....Seriously, we spend endless hours debating which is less evil---java or mono---and we complain that both don't offer us the flexibility we have grown accustomed to in the F/OSS world, so why haven't we just started from scratch and done our own linux-centric framework to ease RAD work and simplify the task of getting started in Linux development.
But back to the subject, do you think that Novell's lawyers are just going to be like "oh, MS promised they wouldn't sue us. Go to it!"? They aren't exactly stupid either...
And do you think Microsoft's "promises" not to charge for patents, and so forth, will be worth the paper they're written on, if they are indeed written down at all?
I dont understand why Microsoft has been so friendly to OSS sofwtare on windows, but this is well strange.
By getting their technology ("Intellectual Property", patents etc.) into SuSE Linux, the automatically get Novell and all of its SuSE customers hooked on MS IP. Then, other users will succumb, because they will see the features in SuSE and either migrate or demand it in their own distros.
Then, Microsoft goes back on the deal and wipes out corporate Linux, and probably forces all of those users on to Windows by some upgrade plan that's impossible to refuse.
Anyone remember OS/2? It was going to run DOS, Windows and OS/2 programs.
Then NT came along...
Plan B is if Windows dies, Microsoft has a foot in the door of corporate Linux.
We do a lot of embedded linux projects - mainly custom boards, done around some sort of ARM chip with standard connectivity - LCD, ethernet, or wireless options.
NetBSD is also extensively used in similar situations, so it goes.
What whith the ubiquity of pr0n, avaliable readily for free and without embarrassment on the Intarweb Tubes, the testosterone no longer has a chance to build up in the male body.
Congratulations! Your thought crime just won you an all-expenses paid holiday at Her Majesty's Pleasure in Belmarsh Prison. Please pack your pyjamas and toothbrush. MI5 will be calling shortly to escort you to begin your holiday of a lifetime!
China is far from perfect, but the general direction they are moving is towards a more open society and a market economy.
And the USA and UK are far from perfect either, and have market economies, and are moving towards a more Chinese style of government where eccentricity amd anit-estsblishment views can lead to detension without trial in Guantanamo Bay and Belmarsh Prison. Communications are being monitored and "suspects" of crimes are punished rather that people found guilty through Due Process.
Don't listen to me. I've been using Slackware since 1995, I don't have Windows, I program Linux for a living and the doctor gives me pills.
And what's more, it's perfectly fair and just, since the police here in Blighty aren't sexist, racist, homophobic or politically or religiously biased any more. They say so on TeeVee and Radio, on the BBC as well and in the news papers.
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I've been an nVidia advocate since 1999 when I bought a TNT2 Ultra for playing Quake III Arena under Linux on my (then) K6-2 400.
I'm on my 4th nVidia graphics card, and I have 6 machines, all running Linux. One is a 10-year-old UltraSPARC, one has an ATI card.
Despite slashbot rantings about the closed-source nVidia drivers, and despite my motley collection of Frankenstein hardware, I've never had a problem with the nVidia stuff. The ATI stuff is junk. The drivers are pathetic (open source) and the display is snowy, and the performance it rubbish.
I hope AMD do something about the Linux driver situation.
My next machine will be another AMD, this time with dual dual-core processors and I'll be doing my own Slackware port, but I'll be buying an nVidia graphics card.
Can you explain the precise mechanism of this Unix binary backwards compatibility you're talking about? I work with Linux every day and have since 1998.
So go and read about Solaris. They guaratantee 15 years.
Linux, in the "brave new world" of compile-it-yourself software, does not consider backwards compatibility at all significant.
We might as well face it... settlements on planets is never going to happen.
They said the same thing about unix on the desktop.
Why should Novell listen to the Samba team? It's too late, the deal is done, and anyway, by doing the deal, Novell has shown that it doesn't get the whole Open Source/Free Software thing.
Novell is dead. Weep for them and move on.
No need to make some poor souls work on New Years ...
What? On triple time?
It will be full of sage advice and code samples from MSCEs.
We have a tester at work who is an MCSE. I've been teaching him shell scripting using bash in Linux, for which he is immensely grateful, embarrassingly so, as he bows and scrapes and calls me "Mr Unix Genius." His productivity has improved 10-fold, and now he has a new job at another company with better pay.
One Monday morning he proudly informed me that he'd spent a lot of time over the weekend reading the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide and that he'd, "copied and pasted it," so that he could, "read it on Windows." He'd spent hours copying and pasting all 800 pages from the web browser into Microsoft Word.
I asked him why he didn't just download the file. "But I want to read it on Windows."
I'm a developer....Seriously, we spend endless hours debating which is less evil---java or mono---and we complain that both don't offer us the flexibility we have grown accustomed to in the F/OSS world, so why haven't we just started from scratch and done our own linux-centric framework to ease RAD work and simplify the task of getting started in Linux development.
So, what's stopping you?
/me ducks.
I want to be able to develop applications in both Windows and Linux.
Haven't you heard of Java and Netbeans?
What will enrich you? What will make you grow? What will form your mind in a manner that will be condusive to a lifetime's development?
What is your passion (other than human flesh and financial gain)?
Wherein lies your natural curiosity?
Are computers a means to an end or is there intrinsic beauty?
Are you naturally curious as to the workings of the universe, philosphy or merely in pursuit of a first-class ticket to a PHB's personal entourage?
Can you tell that I listen to too much BBC Radio 4 and watch to many TV period dramas? Jane Austen and Charles Dickens have a lot to answer for.
The funny thing is, people are still being robbed, assaulted, raped and murdered here in Blighty.
I wish I were on Mars right now.
World war's a-coming...
...Oh wait.
What's the point in manned space exploration?
Sarcasm is the lowest form of Humour. Heavy metal is the lowest form of music. We're all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
I am the lowest form of life.
But back to the subject, do you think that Novell's lawyers are just going to be like "oh, MS promised they wouldn't sue us. Go to it!"? They aren't exactly stupid either...
Who's got the most money?
And do you think Microsoft's "promises" not to charge for patents, and so forth, will be worth the paper they're written on, if they are indeed written down at all?
RMS is indeed a wise man.
I dont understand why Microsoft has been so friendly to OSS sofwtare on windows, but this is well strange.
By getting their technology ("Intellectual Property", patents etc.) into SuSE Linux, the automatically get Novell and all of its SuSE customers hooked on MS IP. Then, other users will succumb, because they will see the features in SuSE and either migrate or demand it in their own distros.
Then, Microsoft goes back on the deal and wipes out corporate Linux, and probably forces all of those users on to Windows by some upgrade plan that's impossible to refuse.
Anyone remember OS/2? It was going to run DOS, Windows and OS/2 programs.
Then NT came along...
Plan B is if Windows dies, Microsoft has a foot in the door of corporate Linux.
As Scott G. McNealy said to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown back in 2001, "The first hit of heroin's always free."
...mod this up by +Aboot a Thoosand Insightful.
We do a lot of embedded linux projects - mainly custom boards, done around some sort of ARM chip with standard connectivity - LCD, ethernet, or wireless options.
NetBSD is also extensively used in similar situations, so it goes.
You find me a wife or girlfriend who is not on performance-enhancing drugs who will do it more that four times a day, and I'll give you a dollar.
And I don't see why facts are pertinent to a discussion on slashdot. I thought I might get a "funny" but instead I got an "interesting."
/me ducks.
What whith the ubiquity of pr0n, avaliable readily for free and without embarrassment on the Intarweb Tubes, the testosterone no longer has a chance to build up in the male body.
Can I have a PhD please?
How long do you think till you can pick up a Cloak of Invisiblity at your local MegaMart?
Maybe you can already, but I've never seen one myself.
Congratulations! Your thought crime just won you an all-expenses paid holiday at Her Majesty's Pleasure in Belmarsh Prison. Please pack your pyjamas and toothbrush. MI5 will be calling shortly to escort you to begin your holiday of a lifetime!
China is far from perfect, but the general direction they are moving is towards a more open society and a market economy.
And the USA and UK are far from perfect either, and have market economies, and are moving towards a more Chinese style of government where eccentricity amd anit-estsblishment views can lead to detension without trial in Guantanamo Bay and Belmarsh Prison. Communications are being monitored and "suspects" of crimes are punished rather that people found guilty through Due Process.
Don't listen to me. I've been using Slackware since 1995, I don't have Windows, I program Linux for a living and the doctor gives me pills.
I've never used Powerpoint.
And what's more, it's perfectly fair and just, since the police here in Blighty aren't sexist, racist, homophobic or politically or religiously biased any more. They say so on TeeVee and Radio, on the BBC as well and in the news papers.