"Don't expect: CPU intensive apps (games for example) to suddenly speed up 50%;"
Indeed , 50% is absurd. But they might speed up 5% or so depending on whether the process schedular and memory management have had a rewrite. For a machine with a lot of processes running and an app using a lot of memory those page and cache miss percentage can make a noticable difference as well as how intellgently the OS swaps in and out processes of varying priorities.
I've never heard of setting your own wallpaper breaking a PC either. The OP unfortunately just seems like a typical little Hitler sys admin type who *must* have full control over what the users do no matter what. The usual reason for this is that they're fairly incompetent so generaly lock everything down so they don't have issues they don't know how to solve arising.
I was under the impression that W7 would have a modified kernel , but if it is nothing more than the Vista kernel warmed over with the same core libraries then nothing much will change so I guess no surprise there.
As is the way with MS , they update all the eye candy first to get the drooling masses interested , then they get down to the core stuff where it really matters later on - ie the exact opposite way round to the way it should be done.
I have no problem with people liking Ubunto and saying so , but it seems to have a huge momentum behind it with all and sundry proclaiming it as the greatest dist yet built. From what I've seen however its no better or worse than many others so I'm just wondering what the big deal is.
"'ve never run into a distro that ISN'T a pig when something goes wrong except SLACKWARE. And slackware is only simple since it offers almost no package management and no autoconfiguration"
I'd agree with you, though of course with Slackware a lot of stuff never goes wrong because its not there to start with! Even USB stick automount isn't enabled by default in 12.1
Apparently its easy to set up? Is it? I've read that when things go wrong its a pig to sort out. I've used Suse for years now and wifi aside I've never had any issues getting it to work on desktops or laptops (we won't mention the KDE 4.0 debarcle in 10.3). And as an added bonus it has a half decent colour scheme, grown up name and has a standard system setup (uses nice and simple inittab instead of yet another over complicated replacement called upstart).
Is Ubunto really nothing more than Linux for Dummies or does it have anything extra a power user might want that the other dists don't?
I have a small LAN with 2 machines at home behind a hardware firewall thats generally not connected to the internet anyway. Why do I need to run sshd on them when telnetd does me fine?
The investigators will at least be able to rule in or out problems with the aircraft - unless theres been some very hungry aluminium chomping wildlife around that area recently!
"A morally equivalent X server today would be written in Python. And I'm not kidding, it would be a huge success... "
Don't be an idiot. Do you have *any* idea of the amount of CPU intensive processing and mathematics a graphics system has to do?
"and tells the hardware what to do. Even a scripting language can do that."
Please name one scripting language that can talk directly to the hardware.
But hey , you give it a try mate, we'll all have a good laugh.
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"I lift for about an hour 5 days/week and run about 30-40mpw"
Expect joint and tendon issues Real Soon Now if thats true since you're way overdoing it. Pro athletes might do that much but they have expert trainers who know exactly what to do when. I doubt you do.
Its either via donations made by companies who earn their money via the capitalist system you so dislike or its students writing code for free while they earn money through other jobs or , more likely, are supported by their parents.
You need to get real - nothing in life is free apart from the air (and not even that if you work under the sea!)
Or at least until the kid stumbles across some p0rn links or pictures of drunk 18 year old girls and quickly forgets all about his l337 hacking attempts.
Why do we still use ethernet? Ethernet was designed to work with multiple access cables in 10B2 and 10B5 layouts with backoff algorithms and all the other stuff that goes with detecting and avoiding collisions. With 10BT all that stuff is irrelevant now - what 10 base T is effectively is a highly complex serial cable carrying just one machines data to a router or switch. All the overhead of frame encoding and decoding and the collision system should be ditched and something more appropriate to a 1 -> 1 connection used instead.
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"Don't expect: CPU intensive apps (games for example) to suddenly speed up 50%;"
Indeed , 50% is absurd. But they might speed up 5% or so depending on whether the process schedular and memory management have had a rewrite. For a machine with a lot of processes running and an app using a lot of memory those page and cache miss percentage can make a noticable difference as well as how intellgently the OS swaps in and out processes of varying priorities.
I've never heard of setting your own wallpaper breaking a PC either. The OP unfortunately just seems like a typical little Hitler sys admin type who *must* have full control over what the users do no matter what. The usual reason for this is that they're fairly incompetent so generaly lock everything down so they don't have issues they don't know how to solve arising.
I was under the impression that W7 would have a modified kernel , but if it is nothing more than the Vista kernel warmed over with the same core libraries then nothing much will change so I guess no surprise there.
As is the way with MS , they update all the eye candy first to get the drooling masses interested , then they get down to the core stuff where it really matters later on - ie the exact opposite way round to the way it should be done.
I have no problem with people liking Ubunto and saying so , but it seems to have a huge momentum behind it with all and sundry proclaiming it as the greatest dist yet built. From what I've seen however its no better or worse than many others so I'm just wondering what the big deal is.
"'ve never run into a distro that ISN'T a pig when something goes wrong except SLACKWARE. And slackware is only simple since it offers almost no package management and no autoconfiguration"
I'd agree with you, though of course with Slackware a lot of stuff never goes wrong because its not there to start with! Even USB stick automount isn't enabled by default in 12.1
I was thinking more of the childish release names - Intrepid Ibex , Hardy Heron etc. Who are they aimed at , 8 year olds?
Duh , that should have read 11, not 10.3.
Apparently its easy to set up? Is it? I've read that when things go wrong its a pig to sort out. I've used Suse for years now and wifi aside I've never had any issues getting it to work on desktops or laptops (we won't mention the KDE 4.0 debarcle in 10.3). And as an added bonus it has a half decent colour scheme, grown up name and has a standard system setup (uses nice and simple inittab instead of yet another over complicated replacement called upstart).
Is Ubunto really nothing more than Linux for Dummies or does it have anything extra a power user might want that the other dists don't?
"why not run sshd on them?"
Hassle. telnetd is fire and forget.
Silly me , this is /.
Carry on...
I have a small LAN with 2 machines at home behind a hardware firewall thats generally not connected to the internet anyway. Why do I need to run sshd on them when telnetd does me fine?
This telnetd didn't ask for a login or password - it just went straight to a root shell prompt.
The investigators will at least be able to rule in or out problems with the aircraft - unless theres been some very hungry aluminium chomping wildlife around that area recently!
"X11 protocol management is not the bottleneck,"
Given that a heavily used X11 session could max out an old 10 meg ethernet connection I'd beg to differ.
"You get 99% of the performance of pure C with 1/100th the development time"
You'd also have to have a python interpreter with every X server - yet another point of failure.
"1) NO ONE programs with xlib"
Speak for yourself pal - Xlib is very useful for certain tasks. I've written a number of utilities and simple games in it.
*Most* people might not use it but *most* people don't code in assembler - that doesn't mean nobody does.
"A morally equivalent X server today would be written in Python. And I'm not kidding, it would be a huge success... "
Don't be an idiot. Do you have *any* idea of the amount of CPU intensive processing and mathematics a graphics system has to do?
"and tells the hardware what to do. Even a scripting language can do that."
Please name one scripting language that can talk directly to the hardware.
But hey , you give it a try mate, we'll all have a good laugh.
"I lift for about an hour 5 days/week and run about 30-40mpw"
Expect joint and tendon issues Real Soon Now if thats true since you're way overdoing it. Pro athletes might do that much but they have expert trainers who know exactly what to do when. I doubt you do.
"How has the emergence of WebKit and Chrome changed the market for you"
When they can be bothered to release a linux version let me know then I might be able to give answer.
I guess it didn't heal so well then?
Its either via donations made by companies who earn their money via the capitalist system you so dislike or its students writing code for free while they earn money through other jobs or , more likely, are supported by their parents.
You need to get real - nothing in life is free apart from the air (and not even that if you work under the sea!)
The whole of western civilisation is DOOMED!!
Or at least until the kid stumbles across some p0rn links or pictures of drunk 18 year old girls and quickly forgets all about his l337 hacking attempts.
Speak for yourself troll.
If I want to pay for software I'll buy it , I don't want to have to start paying for it through friggin taxes FFS!
You can just imagine the high class of people that would want to live in this tin can.
Perhaps its time these "artists" stopped reading comic books reconnected with the real world.
Why do we still use ethernet? Ethernet was designed to work with multiple access cables in 10B2 and 10B5 layouts with backoff algorithms and all the other stuff that goes with detecting and avoiding collisions. With 10BT all that stuff is irrelevant now - what 10 base T is effectively is a highly complex serial cable carrying just one machines data to a router or switch. All the overhead of frame encoding and decoding and the collision system should be ditched and something more appropriate to a 1 -> 1 connection used instead.