Why not just use a lightweight browser? there's a few about, like dillo for linux or k-meleon for windows (plenty of others too, these are just the ones i know off hand). If you want lightweight, you should give up on firefox right now and move on. I happen to like all the crazy crap it can do though.
That breaks a very important rule i've set for myself though, never install an os/ rebuild a pc with more than 3 beers under your belt or after 12:30 at night... Something always goes horribly wrong.
Eh, a linux port of halo/halo 2 would be pretty much as irrelivent to linux gaming as every other major port has been, the only reason that game did any well is that it was far and away the best *console* shooter, the pc/mac releases were pretty much met with a resounding "Meh".
Debian was given permission to use the trademarks, and adopted the Firefox name. However, because the artwork in Firefox has a proprietary copyright license which is not compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines, the substituted logo had to remain.
They have a bunch of patents on.NET framework, the mono team has basically acknowledged that ms could shut them down with a snap of their fingers. MS said they super swear not too but they have not put anything in writing so everyone's just kinda pretending everything is ok.
I agree that package managment does in fact rock, however i in general will use google to find out about a program then go to the package manager to install it, since the package manager in general doesn't give you much idea on the actual quality or usefulness to your purpose the program will have until you actually install the little bugger. Not that it's that hard, but it can be annoying to for example use 4 different 3d modellers before finding one you actually like.
Both methods have their down sides, however i'd say synaptic's downside could easily be fixe by making it so you could click a link in a website which brings up that particular package in synaptic/yast. It could probably be extended (and made less secure ofc) to allow you to optionally allow it to add 3rd party repositories from the info in that link at the same time. I'd like that a lot, rather than borking around searching for the package and possibly finding it's not included in $linux_distro's repository.
Oh I absolutely acknowledge that major os projects have died, i'd be interested in hearing about others that have in fact. However i'd say XMMS is a pretty bad example, it was forked twice, once to BMP which was forked again to become audacious... both projects are now in the process of killing off all of the legacy code from XMMS, but i don't think that's really that relevent, as at the root of it, XMMS spawned 2 projects to fill the void of it's passing. It's actually a pretty good ( but mostly irrelevent, it is a music player after all, you can't turn around without some uni student cranking one out) example of how resilient oss can be. That's just my opinion anyways... it's not like i'm making any decisions as to which software our company is going with.
I'd disagree with this one, if you find an open source project that has progressed to the point of it actually being a useful application it's very likely to be interesting to at least a few developers which will in turn make it's likelyhood of "boredom death" (to pull a phrase out of my ass) very unlikely. Whereas a thousands of smaller companies create millions of tiny apps that fill a niche and become useful very quickly, are picked up by a company that needs that niche filled, followed by the developing company tanking/being aquired/owners giving up and moving on to greener pastures. In a way the fact that it is quite rare that an oss project "makes it" and becomes useful is a pretty good guarantee that it will continue to be developed, the same way that a larger company guarantees to a degree continuing support for your app.
heh, how many junky chinese blu-ray manufacturers do you think will have a go at making players before there are an excess of easily hackable units on the market? As it is the software player in question leaves the key sitting unencrypted in memory, so somehow i doubt they're got a crack squad of hardware/software auditors running around making sure no-one fucks up the implementation.
Unfortunately it won't increase the speed of games; using this driver will probably significantly reduce the speed of games in fact. the main reasoning behind it is that it will provide a stable open source driver that can be distributed with the operating system that at least partially makes use of your hardware, and is better than just defaulting to a 2d driver with no real acceleration at all.
Why bother? who cares if they're unused, i'd prefer it to be open slather on tlds, then we could stop arguing about this crap and i could have mail@firstname.lastname or mebee even firstname@lastname as an email
I would assume it would just replace the explorer.exe shell, which does the desktop icons, the taskbar & start menu etc. There's already a bunch of apps that replace this, it prolly wouldn't require too many running apps to have duplicate functionality
There is no way in hell that anything sony ever creates (before it is 3 months away from bankruptcy) will be even mildly open. It's not how sony works.
You're looking at it wrong, there's plenty of people running pirate wow servers RIGHT NOW, i'm pretty sure they don't have any full time sys-admins, support teams or server farms, the trick is to limit the player numbers per server. It may cost a buttload to run a 10000 player server, but a 1000 player server can be run cheaply from an altruistic isp with little difficulty and a bit of donated time.
The market may have spoken but it's still one of the most highly regarded games on mmorpg.com, I think in general most people think it's a good game, but you need more than that to be a commercial success.
heh, there is little chance of even running an n64 emulator on sony's butchered version of linux, software rendering on a 600mhz (that's right, they even shut down the extra processors) pc is pretty much a slideshow. microsoft is crap, but sony is worse and also fucking stupid
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Why not just use a lightweight browser? there's a few about, like dillo for linux or k-meleon for windows (plenty of others too, these are just the ones i know off hand). If you want lightweight, you should give up on firefox right now and move on. I happen to like all the crazy crap it can do though.
you call that living?
That breaks a very important rule i've set for myself though, never install an os/ rebuild a pc with more than 3 beers under your belt or after 12:30 at night... Something always goes horribly wrong.
Eh, a linux port of halo/halo 2 would be pretty much as irrelivent to linux gaming as every other major port has been, the only reason that game did any well is that it was far and away the best *console* shooter, the pc/mac releases were pretty much met with a resounding "Meh".
It wouldn't be the stock answer if it wasn't for bloody norton internet security
Debian was given permission to use the trademarks, and adopted the Firefox name. However, because the artwork in Firefox has a proprietary copyright license which is not compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines, the substituted logo had to remain.
They have a bunch of patents on .NET framework, the mono team has basically acknowledged that ms could shut them down with a snap of their fingers. MS said they super swear not too but they have not put anything in writing so everyone's just kinda pretending everything is ok.
I agree that package managment does in fact rock, however i in general will use google to find out about a program then go to the package manager to install it, since the package manager in general doesn't give you much idea on the actual quality or usefulness to your purpose the program will have until you actually install the little bugger. Not that it's that hard, but it can be annoying to for example use 4 different 3d modellers before finding one you actually like.
Both methods have their down sides, however i'd say synaptic's downside could easily be fixe by making it so you could click a link in a website which brings up that particular package in synaptic/yast. It could probably be extended (and made less secure ofc) to allow you to optionally allow it to add 3rd party repositories from the info in that link at the same time. I'd like that a lot, rather than borking around searching for the package and possibly finding it's not included in $linux_distro's repository.
I think it's safe to say that while OSX is not going to be the dominant os any time soon apple still sells enough desktops to be considered a success.
After the burst of rage i felt after reading that story summary i feel it was a pretty moderate response
Oh I absolutely acknowledge that major os projects have died, i'd be interested in hearing about others that have in fact. However i'd say XMMS is a pretty bad example, it was forked twice, once to BMP which was forked again to become audacious... both projects are now in the process of killing off all of the legacy code from XMMS, but i don't think that's really that relevent, as at the root of it, XMMS spawned 2 projects to fill the void of it's passing. It's actually a pretty good ( but mostly irrelevent, it is a music player after all, you can't turn around without some uni student cranking one out) example of how resilient oss can be. That's just my opinion anyways... it's not like i'm making any decisions as to which software our company is going with.
I'd disagree with this one, if you find an open source project that has progressed to the point of it actually being a useful application it's very likely to be interesting to at least a few developers which will in turn make it's likelyhood of "boredom death" (to pull a phrase out of my ass) very unlikely. Whereas a thousands of smaller companies create millions of tiny apps that fill a niche and become useful very quickly, are picked up by a company that needs that niche filled, followed by the developing company tanking/being aquired/owners giving up and moving on to greener pastures. In a way the fact that it is quite rare that an oss project "makes it" and becomes useful is a pretty good guarantee that it will continue to be developed, the same way that a larger company guarantees to a degree continuing support for your app.
The difference between scientology and "traditional" religions is their efficiency. That's what scares the crap out of me.
I think you got france and the entire human race confused
heh, how many junky chinese blu-ray manufacturers do you think will have a go at making players before there are an excess of easily hackable units on the market? As it is the software player in question leaves the key sitting unencrypted in memory, so somehow i doubt they're got a crack squad of hardware/software auditors running around making sure no-one fucks up the implementation.
Yep, it should do pretty much the binary driver does, though mebee some of the fancier 3d effects might not be implemented
Unfortunately it won't increase the speed of games; using this driver will probably significantly reduce the speed of games in fact. the main reasoning behind it is that it will provide a stable open source driver that can be distributed with the operating system that at least partially makes use of your hardware, and is better than just defaulting to a 2d driver with no real acceleration at all.
Why bother? who cares if they're unused, i'd prefer it to be open slather on tlds, then we could stop arguing about this crap and i could have mail@firstname.lastname or mebee even firstname@lastname as an email
I would assume it would just replace the explorer.exe shell, which does the desktop icons, the taskbar & start menu etc. There's already a bunch of apps that replace this, it prolly wouldn't require too many running apps to have duplicate functionality
There is no way in hell that anything sony ever creates (before it is 3 months away from bankruptcy) will be even mildly open. It's not how sony works.
You're looking at it wrong, there's plenty of people running pirate wow servers RIGHT NOW, i'm pretty sure they don't have any full time sys-admins, support teams or server farms, the trick is to limit the player numbers per server. It may cost a buttload to run a 10000 player server, but a 1000 player server can be run cheaply from an altruistic isp with little difficulty and a bit of donated time.
The market may have spoken but it's still one of the most highly regarded games on mmorpg.com, I think in general most people think it's a good game, but you need more than that to be a commercial success.
Or you could just set them to check a ntp server, it's not like it's hard.
heh, there is little chance of even running an n64 emulator on sony's butchered version of linux, software rendering on a 600mhz (that's right, they even shut down the extra processors) pc is pretty much a slideshow. microsoft is crap, but sony is worse and also fucking stupid