It's on the voting list if I remember right.
don't know about the status. I do know that they have a brand new alsa backend for sound, so I wouldn't be suprised to see EAX very, very soon.
There is picture on the site showing a "no spyware, no spam" logo. so I guess we are on the good site. not that saying something means it is also true, but if they wanted spyware in there product, there probably wouldn't show such a picture on their site.
Well, about privacy. Gmail seems to be scanning all it's mail. that will include the mail from people that send mail to gmail users. but don't forget that you sometimes HAVE to send mails to people with gmail accounts. just think about what email providers will come up with next. "your mail will now have a 4% chance of being send to a random user, he or she can then pay us in order to know where the mail is from, we think this is a very geeky way to create a dating service, if you press accept, you agree, otherwise you won't be able to use our service." the bigger companies are the only ones that can stop a privacy disaster.
well, in two years, harddisks will contain much more space, so this problem might just solve itself. and also note that way not every user is going to fill up there entire mailbox. think about granny!
why not go yahoo? they already give users 100mb. and it's availible here and now. and who cares about other 900mb anyway? it's not like your going to send yourself movies split into dozends of small files tranfered over a slow mail protocol. I really don't see a reason why I should wait for gmail. go yahoo!
this is all great fun, but why not first make some decent 2d linux laptops? it is very hard find yourself a laptop with linux installed and also with good specs (wireless, lan, long living batery, all the things you expect from a laptop). now I can say I don't give a damn about 3d and stuff. I just want to send my mail, read documents, share files, browse internet etc... are all those other features really needed? why can't I but a normal laptop and can I buy a 3d laptop? why?
not to mention that i read reviews of wordperfect office 12 that say it isn't that good at opening microsoft word files. that could have been my only reason to buy it. now it is just "yet another useless office thingy for linux" I am not paying 4 times the staroffice price for a worse office set. thanks.
yet anothing redhat kernel war? don't get me wrong, but I never liked redhats patchparty really much. there gcc 2.96 compiler used to segfault the hell out of my redhat distro, and the kernel itself was the biggest patch pile I have ever seen in my entire live. I never was never succesful in compiling it. (not to mention compiling non-kernel.org modules.) there "performence" patches also gave me lots of trouble with more advanced code. (wine emulator anyone?) in short: I hope this fork will be soon forgotten, and redhat will spend its time in sending patches to linus for inclusion in the linux 2.6 kernel instead.
well, the benifits are quite simple.
1. being able to write code easy will help coders build there apps faster and more stable. so coders will have time to add additional features. (webcam support in kopete perhaps)
2. less ram and disk usage. more bit for your buck! less diskusage means less disk spins and thus faster loading. less ram usage means you can run heavy or multiple tasks at the same time faster then before.
3. faster and more responsive widgets! come on, this is something every end user loves. almost all the user joe's that I showed kde 3.2 where just creaming to get ik because konqy started 1000x faster.
QT 4 really is a must have.
just wondering, why do you think many of the windows 2000 folks upgraded to XP? because it had a shiny happy interface. it might not be a good reason to upgrade, but it is a fact that 99% of the users love eye candy over stability/usability/security whatever. I myself think kde and such have enough eye candy already. I really can't care is they use real or fake transparantie. I agree with you that it is time to work on creating stable good code. there is allready enough candy for everybody.
indeed, it is very neat. the problem is that all the drivers will need to be rewritten/ported. you can't just write wrappers around the old drivers. right now we only have fbdev/vesa stuff and some other stuff you really don't want to use right now. getting the drivers finisched right now is more important then ever.
no, this is a good move from the distro side.
x11 needs to be gpl compatible. it is madness to rewrite all the progs using it. I really hope freedesktop shows there head in this round. they truly have a great potential.
well, you can mount the iso, copy all it's files, chroot into it, edit, configure, compile and install everything the way you want it, leave the chroot, and then burn the entire stuff with the right options back on CD.... or just get yourself an USB stick.
This IS a very good thing, IF we are ever going to replace X or if you would want to use KDE under your framebuffer you would be able to do this by using a QT version designed for it. so framebuffer qt/kde without X at all isn't that far away, it is also a goal for kde 3.3 to remove all X depenencies in kdelibs and kdebase, if that is archived go can run kde on anything that has a QT port. it is not only cool, it is also a very flexible and orginized way of designing apps. GOOD WORK.
mplayer has osd console that lets you display a console on top of your movie. I am sure it can be modified to load bash as console and then compile the kernel while watching. that would surely make it the most loved LOTR geek movie ever!
wasn't that/sys ? and you'll have to mount it as well: mount -t sysfs sysfs/sys KDE 3.2 seems to already make use of sysfs for displaying hardware information.
simple, they will very likely have everything installed using a "rescue cd" like tactic. this cd will not very likely run happily on your older machines because it does checks on the hardware before dumping everything back. a ghost image is not going to be very happy either since your old machine has other hardware then your new box. I am sure their are tricks to work around that but their aren't that many who can do that.
yes! linux is about progres and develepment...
and we want to see that!
but DO skip the final version.
we don't need to see the final result.
we want to see the progres, not the end of it!!
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don't forget Savage! I loved that game. www.s2games.com
It's on the voting list if I remember right. don't know about the status. I do know that they have a brand new alsa backend for sound, so I wouldn't be suprised to see EAX very, very soon.
you can't seriously want to play windows games on a mac could you? that's way to much emulation, you'll never make a single frame.
There is picture on the site showing a "no spyware, no spam" logo. so I guess we are on the good site. not that saying something means it is also true, but if they wanted spyware in there product, there probably wouldn't show such a picture on their site.
Well, about privacy. Gmail seems to be scanning all it's mail. that will include the mail from people that send mail to gmail users. but don't forget that you sometimes HAVE to send mails to people with gmail accounts. just think about what email providers will come up with next. "your mail will now have a 4% chance of being send to a random user, he or she can then pay us in order to know where the mail is from, we think this is a very geeky way to create a dating service, if you press accept, you agree, otherwise you won't be able to use our service." the bigger companies are the only ones that can stop a privacy disaster.
well, in two years, harddisks will contain much more space, so this problem might just solve itself. and also note that way not every user is going to fill up there entire mailbox. think about granny!
why not go yahoo? they already give users 100mb. and it's availible here and now. and who cares about other 900mb anyway? it's not like your going to send yourself movies split into dozends of small files tranfered over a slow mail protocol. I really don't see a reason why I should wait for gmail. go yahoo!
this is all great fun, but why not first make some decent 2d linux laptops? it is very hard find yourself a laptop with linux installed and also with good specs (wireless, lan, long living batery, all the things you expect from a laptop). now I can say I don't give a damn about 3d and stuff. I just want to send my mail, read documents, share files, browse internet etc... are all those other features really needed? why can't I but a normal laptop and can I buy a 3d laptop? why?
not to mention that i read reviews of wordperfect office 12 that say it isn't that good at opening microsoft word files. that could have been my only reason to buy it. now it is just "yet another useless office thingy for linux" I am not paying 4 times the staroffice price for a worse office set. thanks.
The site works for me using konqy from kde3.2.2 that I compiled today.
yet anothing redhat kernel war? don't get me wrong, but I never liked redhats patchparty really much. there gcc 2.96 compiler used to segfault the hell out of my redhat distro, and the kernel itself was the biggest patch pile I have ever seen in my entire live. I never was never succesful in compiling it. (not to mention compiling non-kernel.org modules.) there "performence" patches also gave me lots of trouble with more advanced code. (wine emulator anyone?) in short: I hope this fork will be soon forgotten, and redhat will spend its time in sending patches to linus for inclusion in the linux 2.6 kernel instead.
well, the benifits are quite simple. 1. being able to write code easy will help coders build there apps faster and more stable. so coders will have time to add additional features. (webcam support in kopete perhaps) 2. less ram and disk usage. more bit for your buck! less diskusage means less disk spins and thus faster loading. less ram usage means you can run heavy or multiple tasks at the same time faster then before. 3. faster and more responsive widgets! come on, this is something every end user loves. almost all the user joe's that I showed kde 3.2 where just creaming to get ik because konqy started 1000x faster. QT 4 really is a must have.
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just wondering, why do you think many of the windows 2000 folks upgraded to XP? because it had a shiny happy interface. it might not be a good reason to upgrade, but it is a fact that 99% of the users love eye candy over stability/usability/security whatever. I myself think kde and such have enough eye candy already. I really can't care is they use real or fake transparantie. I agree with you that it is time to work on creating stable good code. there is allready enough candy for everybody.
indeed, it is very neat. the problem is that all the drivers will need to be rewritten/ported. you can't just write wrappers around the old drivers. right now we only have fbdev/vesa stuff and some other stuff you really don't want to use right now. getting the drivers finisched right now is more important then ever.
no, this is a good move from the distro side. x11 needs to be gpl compatible. it is madness to rewrite all the progs using it. I really hope freedesktop shows there head in this round. they truly have a great potential.
it is easier to port to different platforms and to include in open source distro's.
now we can store entire linux distro's on it instead of a hack to install a bootloader. :p
a non commercial version for windows? I thought there wasn't a non commercial version of qt for windows.
well, you can mount the iso, copy all it's files, chroot into it, edit, configure, compile and install everything the way you want it, leave the chroot, and then burn the entire stuff with the right options back on CD.... or just get yourself an USB stick.
This IS a very good thing, IF we are ever going to replace X or if you would want to use KDE under your framebuffer you would be able to do this by using a QT version designed for it. so framebuffer qt/kde without X at all isn't that far away, it is also a goal for kde 3.3 to remove all X depenencies in kdelibs and kdebase, if that is archived go can run kde on anything that has a QT port. it is not only cool, it is also a very flexible and orginized way of designing apps. GOOD WORK.
mplayer has osd console that lets you display a console on top of your movie. I am sure it can be modified to load bash as console and then compile the kernel while watching. that would surely make it the most loved LOTR geek movie ever!
wasn't that /sys ? and you'll have to mount it as well: mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys KDE 3.2 seems to already make use of sysfs for displaying hardware information.
simple, they will very likely have everything installed using a "rescue cd" like tactic. this cd will not very likely run happily on your older machines because it does checks on the hardware before dumping everything back. a ghost image is not going to be very happy either since your old machine has other hardware then your new box. I am sure their are tricks to work around that but their aren't that many who can do that.
yes! linux is about progres and develepment... and we want to see that! but DO skip the final version. we don't need to see the final result. we want to see the progres, not the end of it!!