Way too fast eh? Xfree 4.3.0 took over a year, and everyone knew it was coming like 3 months before it acctualy came out. Infact people were complaining of the slow Xfree devel cycle. And for the counter point, NVidia drivers worked with Xfree86 on day one (Even the older 3123).
For some reason i wouldn't be supprized if it ended up being the other way around some SCO drone copied linux source code and now SCO thinks we copied theirs. This way around there is at least a shread of probability.
Acctualy no, when i first switched to linux with my Geforce 1 GTS, and played qIII in 1024x768 in 16 bit, the game ran about ~5-10fps more (even did timedemo test) and it felt considerably smoother. This was a long time ago, so I can't claim that the preformance is still like this, but i know my experience.
Acctualy it seams that the popup blocker in mozilla dosn't acctualy block the popups i want to use (only unrequested stuff). So I still get to use the popups i need (except one site, on which i enable popups).
Same with directX 9, ATI and Microsoft got around and created lots of directX 9 together (becased on the cards features and such). It's kind of like saying: should NVIDIA really want to use this?
I don't think Microsoft realizes that sometimes they are their own worst enemy, and even if Linux is not "there" yet, it will only push customers towards Linux (and other OSes, such as the BSDs and even the apple OSX). At some moment the overbaring costs of Microsoft software will outweight the petpeaves of Linux.
Number one: it's Bioware, not Blizzard.
Number two: chances are if you were using Windows, and someone didn't port a game they __promised__ they would (it's a seprete issue if they said upfront, we don't support it) you'd be the first person to bitch.
Number three: not veryone can shell out $200 for an OS, while many people can spare 30-40$ to buy a game.
Cheers!
Well redhats latest test distro called "Limbo" it's been out i think like 2 or 3 weeks, already has Gcc(3.1) and gnome2, and kde3.0.2, and all that stuff. So mandrake isn't the first "major" distro to ship with it. I wonder when debian will ship with gcc3.x?
I wonder if Linux 2.6.x is going to be out yet by that time, since the AMD-X86-64 is supported only in the 2.5 tree. I doubt it, because the feature freeze is going to go in on October 31st (correct me if I'm wrong). Who wants to run 32 bit code on this anyways (yes, i know all the Windows users). I wonder if major distributions like redhat, or mandrake, suse, or debian (debian will for sure) will have support for AMD-X86-64. I bet gentoo will be a popular distribution for runing these babies on.
Well soon enouth (or already) you will be able to use mono. So not only is it goign to be free as money but free as in speach too. http://www.go-mono.com/ If i would have the choice of using ms tools (somewhat free), and mono (free as in speach. I would definately go for mono.
As i remember reading on kerneltrap.org a little while ago kbuild 2.5 one is done, the only thing thats stoping it form being in the release is Linus, i rember reading that he dosn't like big kernel patches so he is makeing Keith Owens submit it pice by pice, i don't know but makeing picers of the new kbuild be compatible with kbuild 2.5 is takeing a lot of time from bug testing/stabilzing 2.5. Quoute from kerneltrap.org: "fear Keith might go SPC if this had to wait for 2.7"
Did anyone notice this: "...hot-fix support, and hierarchical storage management...." (windows 2000).
"Furthermore, Linux offers no support for hot fixes and does not have a hierarchical storage management capability." (Linux)
Hmmm, starange what are kernel patches then? By the way hotfixes (that usualy break something elses) from ms are always way to late.
Also this hummors me:
"Windows 2000-based server appliances provide advanced reliability features including a mature, well-tested journaling file system (JFS), which enables easy,..."
"Linux now has over five options for a JFS. All of these are new to Linux and the depth of integration and regression testing can be scattered and the number of real-world implementations limited. The OEM will need to verify for itself the integration, depth of testing, and in-field results. With Linux, the OEM will have to take on the extra integration work to incorporate an add-in..."
So what happened to the best file systems ever (NTFS) that ms was promoting. Also according to ms extra work on JFS by distributions, that increase realiabitly and stabilty is a bad thing according to M$.
Last couple funny things i will leave of with:
"..And no functionality equivalent to Windows File Protection--significantly increasing difficulty and time when recovering from a failure."
I alays thought linux had file portecting, using users and groups and modes. (did Ms chmod -Rf 777 / after linux installs). "significantly increasing difficulty and time when recovering from a failure." - did these people ever try to use nt recovery console, to save windows (i think not). Hmm, resucing linux data using a boot disk, is so easy.
Seams like a great idea to me, but tbis isn't a new idea at least i don't think so, did yoy see the distibution kernels (esp. Mandrake) it's very patch happy (not thats a bad thing because ther are ton of fixes).
I wonder if they skip with XFS, i wish XFS would be merged into the kernel because it's very stable (i run it on many systems) unlike raiser (which btw is in the offical tree) it's fast, and why now:) But as far as i know it's not even in the 2.5.x tree (correct me if i'm wrong), and those guys are probly having a hard time makeing patches both agains 2.5.x and 2.4.x when new versions come out.
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Way too fast eh? Xfree 4.3.0 took over a year, and everyone knew it was coming like 3 months before it acctualy came out. Infact people were complaining of the slow Xfree devel cycle. And for the counter point, NVidia drivers worked with Xfree86 on day one (Even the older 3123).
For some reason i wouldn't be supprized if it ended up being the other way around some SCO drone copied linux source code and now SCO thinks we copied theirs. This way around there is at least a shread of probability.
Acctualy no, when i first switched to linux with my Geforce 1 GTS, and played qIII in 1024x768 in 16 bit, the game ran about ~5-10fps more (even did timedemo test) and it felt considerably smoother. This was a long time ago, so I can't claim that the preformance is still like this, but i know my experience.
Acctualy it seams that the popup blocker in mozilla dosn't acctualy block the popups i want to use (only unrequested stuff). So I still get to use the popups i need (except one site, on which i enable popups).
Same with directX 9, ATI and Microsoft got around and created lots of directX 9 together (becased on the cards features and such). It's kind of like saying: should NVIDIA really want to use this?
MPlayer already plays that stuff (plus a ton more), so why would be want windows media player with it's DRM and spyware technology?
I though it was my property and i could do whatever i wanted with it. Soon we'll be hearing: licenced not owned?
I don't think Microsoft realizes that sometimes they are their own worst enemy, and even if Linux is not "there" yet, it will only push customers towards Linux (and other OSes, such as the BSDs and even the apple OSX). At some moment the overbaring costs of Microsoft software will outweight the petpeaves of Linux.
... and in the year 2000 we will have flying cars; erm, Wait.
As far as i rember from my astronomy class (HS level only, mind you), it needs to make two full rotations around the body.
No one is forcing them to swipe the code, and when they swipe it they should be aware of the consequences!
Number one: it's Bioware, not Blizzard. Number two: chances are if you were using Windows, and someone didn't port a game they __promised__ they would (it's a seprete issue if they said upfront, we don't support it) you'd be the first person to bitch. Number three: not veryone can shell out $200 for an OS, while many people can spare 30-40$ to buy a game. Cheers!
Isn't this what nvidia does with their binary drivers right now. So, no it's not broken.
Well redhats latest test distro called "Limbo" it's been out i think like 2 or 3 weeks, already has Gcc(3.1) and gnome2, and kde3.0.2, and all that stuff. So mandrake isn't the first "major" distro to ship with it. I wonder when debian will ship with gcc3.x?
I wonder if Linux 2.6.x is going to be out yet by that time, since the AMD-X86-64 is supported only in the 2.5 tree. I doubt it, because the feature freeze is going to go in on October 31st (correct me if I'm wrong). Who wants to run 32 bit code on this anyways (yes, i know all the Windows users). I wonder if major distributions like redhat, or mandrake, suse, or debian (debian will for sure) will have support for AMD-X86-64. I bet gentoo will be a popular distribution for runing these babies on.
Well soon enouth (or already) you will be able to use mono. So not only is it goign to be free as money but free as in speach too. http://www.go-mono.com/ If i would have the choice of using ms tools (somewhat free), and mono (free as in speach. I would definately go for mono.
As i remember reading on kerneltrap.org a little while ago kbuild 2.5 one is done, the only thing thats stoping it form being in the release is Linus, i rember reading that he dosn't like big kernel patches so he is makeing Keith Owens submit it pice by pice, i don't know but makeing picers of the new kbuild be compatible with kbuild 2.5 is takeing a lot of time from bug testing/stabilzing 2.5. Quoute from kerneltrap.org: "fear Keith might go SPC if this had to wait for 2.7"
I just wrote how ms is wrong, and i get moded down, can some one tell me how am I trolling?
blah, crappy formating, i guess Enter is broken.
Did anyone notice this: "...hot-fix support, and hierarchical storage management...." (windows 2000). "Furthermore, Linux offers no support for hot fixes and does not have a hierarchical storage management capability." (Linux) Hmmm, starange what are kernel patches then? By the way hotfixes (that usualy break something elses) from ms are always way to late. Also this hummors me: "Windows 2000-based server appliances provide advanced reliability features including a mature, well-tested journaling file system (JFS), which enables easy,..." "Linux now has over five options for a JFS. All of these are new to Linux and the depth of integration and regression testing can be scattered and the number of real-world implementations limited. The OEM will need to verify for itself the integration, depth of testing, and in-field results. With Linux, the OEM will have to take on the extra integration work to incorporate an add-in..." So what happened to the best file systems ever (NTFS) that ms was promoting. Also according to ms extra work on JFS by distributions, that increase realiabitly and stabilty is a bad thing according to M$. Last couple funny things i will leave of with: "..And no functionality equivalent to Windows File Protection--significantly increasing difficulty and time when recovering from a failure." I alays thought linux had file portecting, using users and groups and modes. (did Ms chmod -Rf 777 / after linux installs). "significantly increasing difficulty and time when recovering from a failure." - did these people ever try to use nt recovery console, to save windows (i think not). Hmm, resucing linux data using a boot disk, is so easy.
Why stop at LANs, lets outlaw electricity, all those impulses, 1's and 0's that can travel have the capabilty of exchanging movies and songs.
First of this comes from __MS__ NBC, notice the two words MS. So william is up to his old tricks again.
Seams like a great idea to me, but tbis isn't a new idea at least i don't think so, did yoy see the distibution kernels (esp. Mandrake) it's very patch happy (not thats a bad thing because ther are ton of fixes). I wonder if they skip with XFS, i wish XFS would be merged into the kernel because it's very stable (i run it on many systems) unlike raiser (which btw is in the offical tree) it's fast, and why now :) But as far as i know it's not even in the 2.5.x tree (correct me if i'm wrong), and those guys are probly having a hard time makeing patches both agains 2.5.x and 2.4.x when new versions come out.