"Yes, it should be a big advantage of Open Source that it emphasizes portability."
It is a big advantage. Without Open Source any Linux for the PowerPC distro would not exist or have like 3 programs. Due to opensource, 1000s of programs can run on Linux for the PowerPC now!
"Why does it seem that Linux is so x86-centered?"
Linux is not x86 centered as you may think, any more. Many Linux developers use Alphas or PowerPCs now, hell their is even RedHat for Alphas. Yes, many binaries are x86 only, but guess what, many of those same companies are considering at least PowerPC/Linux ports (examples: IBM DB2, RealPlayer G2 (under consideration at Real)).
"Let's ask instead why the other low-end platform is so antagonistic to Linux."
I think that's kind of flame bait. But i'll bite. The x86 platform has the greatest choice of equipment and x86 machine can be built/bought really cheap. Many Linux developers are streched for cash as is it.
Thanks,
Andrew B. Arthur, aka AArthur arthur99@global2000.net
"X was broken in both LinuxPPC 4 and in YellowDog Server 1.0 after install on my iMac..."
Just to set the record straight. The iMac is a pretty new machine, only 1 year old.
The iMac uses different technology in it display / graphics card, so of course their will be issues.
Heck, The iMac didn't even work until October 1998, getting USB drivers have been a pain in the ass also.
Apple hasn't gaven us much help at all, and the systems are pretty complex.
LinuxPPC R4 was realeased before any support of the iMac in Linux, so of course it going to require a special kernel and patches and stuff to make it work.
Yellow Dog Server 1.0 has some problems with X since it is a new kid on the block (give it some slack), and the default X Server, Xfree86-3.3.1 is also a new kid on the block. (Older Powermac systems used Xpmac, a autoconfiguring server, that plug and play basically). Xfree86-3.3.1 is vastly better, but it needs work on the powerpc to up to snuff. This is one reason for LinuxPPC R5 delay, JCarr has been busy playing with, making it more user friendly, and plug and play. (No playing with crap like configuration files).
I hope you now understand.
Thanks,
Andrew B. Arthur aka AArthur arthur99@global2000.net
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Of course that link change is due to they are out of R4.1 CD's and don't want to make up more.
Bad News.
It won't be right away, from what I have heard. No CD have been pressed yet, nor have it been finalized. Yes, it is being finlized up, (last pre-R5 distro was May 13), but still work is being done.
Tonight Tom Rini (glibc2.1/ppc app developer/porter) was working on getting some more patches (on gnome-core and esd) to JCarr (LinuxPPC CEO). Also the next two weeks JHazz (Marketing Manger/WebSite/FTP) is on vacation, so I don't think he we will be seeing web site updates or any major updates.
Also, LinuxPPC R5 is suppost to be including Netscape Communicator 4.6, but Netscape hasn't gotten it's ass together enought to do a glibc2.1/ppc port of Netscape Communicator. We are waiting Netscape.;-)
Anyways that MacOS Rumors article was summitted by BillyH, which nobody is really sure if he knows someting we don't know.
It will be at least 2 weeks till it goes off to the CD printer in California?, and that will take some time.
If you want to download, the lastest pre-R5 is stable and usable, but lacks Netscape Communicator.
Netscape also does the tempory memory crap to.. Visit a page with lots of tables and graphics and it will start using alot more memory then it was assigned.
This has something to do with the way web browser need more memory on complex pages..
At any rate Netscape nor Internet Exploiter don't release memory properly when done. (Until you quit the application).
Your probally forgeting some of the things (benefits) you get from Linux system that add bloat not found on Windows (Windows is bloated because of the code, Unix is bloated with optional functionality). You can definatly trim this down, since how much do you really use if you want a system the size or smaller then Windows?
1) X11 Windowing System, provides much more functionality then Windows, including remote Windowing (try that with a standard Win95 config), support for more flexable/multiple desktop enviroments on Windows (Try running a non-Microsoft desktop on Windows!) and more. X11 isn't the fastest, that's why Berlin project is under the way.
2) More Services on by default. Do you have SendMail or Apache running? It's will to bitch if you have those services enabled under Linux, but disabled under Microsoft Windows.
3) Netscape Bloat. Most of that can be blamed on Motif, although Netscape Communicator 4.5.1 is bloated on all platforms (just as bad as Internet Exploiter too)! On the Mac OS Communicator wants around 13-16 megs of RAM, and on Windows it wants about the same. OF course Mozilla is soon ushering a whole new era of speed and smallness in web surfing... Also if you are using KDE check out Kommander, the intergrated browser in the KDE file manger. It's comming along nicely, although it's not yet even close to Windows Internet Explorer.
5) OLE on a 386/486(33mhz) is a joke... it's completely unusable unless you have alot of free time (importing OLE on a 386 machine can take a half hour in Word 6).
The fact is features require memory. Linux uses a fair chunk of memory for features, Windows just wastes memory on unefficent code.
Of course disable anything you don't need in Linux, upgrade to the lastest stable versions of everything, and watch your machine run faster, more stable, and better then a Windows machine.
Sure their are jurks out their, script kiddies and the alike, but others probaly have the same host.
Give the kiddy a second chance. If he continues to spam, report it to the admin of his isp, but don't ban him. Talking to an ISP can often help such issues, but I would save banning him for a last resort.
It's a free country and their is free speech. Since some might consider this offensive, it's rated -1, blockable if your to imature for reading 'slashdot' hard and uncut.
AIX doesn't have Applixware yet (as far as I know, I have been known to wrong!), nor gnome on AIX doesn't seem to going anywheres fast, although it's probally not to much of a modification to run on AIX.
It's also a great attraction to develop on the Linux for the PowerPC platform... create binaries (for commerical software, that opensource cannot work pratically in), and run them on LinuxPPC, MkLinux, Yellow Dog Linux, Turbo Linux PPC and AIX.
While that does sorta make sense, it brings the really old question to mind: Why develop Linux at all?
Windows 98 is only $89 and comes without us people wasting time coding something that might only be used by 10% of the people and would be behind Windows in some ways.
Get Real. GNU software works pretty well, and is nipping on the heals of commerical software all the time, like KDE/GNOME vs. Windows desktop, like Apache vs. IIS, like bash vs. DOS.
The fact is that GNU software often out-preforms the best of commerical software, and yes commerical software needs serious competion from GNU, so we all can improve, and get better then GNU and commerical software.
It comes down to this: Freemware will spark vmware development, vmware people will need to work hard to keep up with free software's progress.
Actually, I really doubt any (or little) of the code from Mac-on-Linux would be useful, since the systems are so drastically different, (at least from what you need to provide a OS to work). Yes some the kernel patches *might* be useful (if the makefiles were changed to change the i386 spefic parts of linus's kernel. Mac-on-Linux is quite different from vmware, since it is a kernel patch, not just remapping code.
I think the debate on vmware vs. freeware is basically the same as SheepShaver vs. Mac-on-Linux, one promises advanced features, sooner, while the other provides a powerful open-base of code that any one could use, and might even find it's way on to your favorite distro cds.
I think Freemware is a great consept, since it will be publicly shareable, unlike vmware, but vmware will remain one step ahead (just like wabi vs. wine, in the past).
Just like Copyprotection and the Macintosh, about 1986. Major comapnies came up with this 'wonderful' crack proof schemes that came up.
Example 1: You must run the program off the orginal disk to make it work (using invalid blocks not copied by the System 5.0 Finder), was cracked quickly by the event of bit-to-bit exact digital disk image copies. It hurt the honest Joe Blow, and didn't stop the pirtater. That's why that died around 1987. Then again Mac OS X is kind of like that, since it requires you to use a CD to install from (although a copied CD will work).
Example 2: Then their was the serial numbers, and that's when good ole' Crack Serial BBS(s) came populuar. This also hurt Joe Blow, since who the hell want to type a 11 digit serial number to register a product.... lame...
Example 3: Dongles, things that hook to your serial port to make software run. Of course they were cracked by crackers and made obsolete. They hurt honest Joe Blow since they were often incompatible with common hardware.
Really, Copy-protection doesn't work. Get real. The majority of people don't need copy-protection...
Same thing can be said with intellegal freedom, gun control, law, etc.
Internet in Albany, NY seems pretty damn expensive compared to even Utica or NYC.
1) Most dailup connections (not all 56k either) start at around $20 and the most populuar are about $25. This is much higher then other local areas. Connections are extermely on reliable, frequent disconnects and websites not loading is the norm (I've switch ISPs like 5 times and used other machines it seems to be a problem in general).
2) Cable Modems are both hard to get and are really expensive. Prices start slightly short of $45 a month on top of cable TV, only from Time Warner/RoadRunner. So if you don't have Time Warner, you don't get a cable modem, even people living a few miles from the city are screwed in that way.
3) ADSL is super expensive even for a cheap up 128/down 356 connection, starting at like $60-70, lacking features that other places throw in for free (like static ip). Only providor of this in the area is Bell Altantic, and again it doesn't reach far out of the city at all.
It's too bad the connections are so expensive and so unreliable.
> This is akin to verifying the correctness of code > (mathematically proving that it cannot fail), an > incredably extensive and expensive process. But > sometimes it needs to be done. An exam such as > the Professional Engineer exam is an attempt at > making sure the people who work on these projects > that affect the public know when and how to do > this.
If you read the license to 99% of software out thier, including free and commerical software, their is no-warrenties and guarrenttes. Most software may not be allowed to be used in Nuclear plants, and other mission critical bussiness.
Most software is licensed to you as is, and containts no warrenty what so ever.
Registration for mission critcal software is already in place, it requires special licenses between you and the company, a special certification program for any software to be certified.
Really, certifing programmers is a bad thing, certfing software is good.
Reguluation is serious pain in the ass for programers, who are often free willed and libral.
IMHO, Open Source is the only way to go to avoid large technical bugs in the future (peer presure works!)
> I bet there will be some new kind of "warez" > sites. They will probably have "crackz" for all > this bannered software.
ehh... Banner blockers exist, and are not just limited to warez sites. There are major edits for most banner advertising to remove the banners, not just on warez sites.
It's not illegal to give directions to remove banners, according to most licenses.
Banner blocker's I've seens include the Stuff-It Expander Ad Blocker, Hotline Banner blocker, Web Banner Blocker. None of these patches are on warez sites, but on public sites on the internet, including sharware/freeware archieves.
> Well, perhaps it's Open Source software, and you > can change it, but the super cool license > says you can't redistribute the changes.
Not True Completely. You can redistribute patch files, but you may not redistribute any copyrighted code. Patch files contain none of the orginal code, so it is often legal to give away patches.
Also, ads are blockable by many ways on the computer, including Web Ad blockers like the Mac OS Shareware WebFree. Ads are pretty easy to edit out / block if you really want, but according to a recent NBC study, by NBC human relations, they found only 5% of people don't watch TV ads! Think how easy it is to go to the fridge while the commericals are on, or use your VCR to scan past ads. The fact is, very few people don't watch ads.
I have to agree with that. People want to be able to animate JPEG photos just like gif images. I know you can do this with javascript, but why spend time coding, when I format should support it natively.
JPEG and GIF are here to stay. Style Sheets have yet to prove useful for most websites.
People are afraid with backwords compatiblity, and even more afraid of things being supported poorly by browsers.
Copyrights will be a major issue with all formats in the future, which brings up a question: Is it ethnical to copyright a Internet Standard. Standards should be open and allowed so all can access it. Nobody has yet tried patenting HTML (then again, Microsoft or Netscape probally have a patent pending), so this is getting riduculusly stupid.
I'll Stick to plain HTML and GIF and JPEGs for the near future.
I really don't think Apple spends the time benchmarking other OS's, (except for lame presentations), they are more interested in trying to improve the OS and not waste time on benchmarking.
I have never heard of a OS being designed just to directly beat benchmarks, but I could understand the reason for this legalized cheating.
Their is several points you are missing here, about why Apple doesn't want to port it's properity OS to other platforms. For one, it would require a hell of alot of device drivers, just to support a few dozen different PC models. Their is also alot more x86 add-ons, so you would have to support them. That's a pain in the ass, because it would require a ton of resources (support personal, programmers).
Finally, Apple has always been a mainly hardware company (software makes up like 1.5% or less of the income). So Mac OS X on other platforms just doesn't make ecomonic sense.
Nextstep would be cool on more machines, but it's not going to ever happen again.
HFS+ support is in the works, people. Apple has presented us with the specs, it will released probally during the summer of '99.
Live installs sucks anyways. Get off your duff, and do a quick reformat / partion. It's not that hard, it can be done!
My partioning scheme:
1 gig - HFS+ (Mac System, Mac Apps and a few mac-only documents) 450 meg - HFS (My documents and other crap including way to many old versions of GNOME and lots of source code) 50 meg - Linux Swap / Virtual Memory Space for Linux. 500 meg - Linux main partion.
This works good for me. It's fast and full feature.
Okay this very hyped and stupid. The local Radio Show, "The Rick Michel Oldies Morning Show" on WTRY (http://www.wtry.com/), spotlights dumb system admins as they talk about Y2000.
Really, It's time to grow up and move past Microsoft vs. Gov, Pres vs. Gov, and 2yk.
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"Yes, it should be a big advantage of Open Source that it emphasizes portability."
It is a big advantage. Without Open Source any Linux for the PowerPC distro would not exist or have like 3 programs. Due to opensource, 1000s of programs can run on Linux for the PowerPC now!
"Why does it seem that Linux is so x86-centered?"
Linux is not x86 centered as you may think, any more. Many Linux developers use Alphas or PowerPCs now, hell their is even RedHat for Alphas. Yes, many binaries are x86 only, but guess what, many of those same companies are considering at least PowerPC/Linux ports (examples: IBM DB2, RealPlayer G2 (under consideration at Real)).
"Let's ask instead why the other low-end platform is so antagonistic to Linux."
I think that's kind of flame bait. But i'll bite. The x86 platform has the greatest choice of equipment and x86 machine can be built/bought really cheap. Many Linux developers are streched for cash as is it.
Thanks,
Andrew B. Arthur, aka AArthur
arthur99@global2000.net
"X was broken in both LinuxPPC 4 and in YellowDog
Server 1.0 after install on my iMac..."
Just to set the record straight. The iMac is a pretty new machine, only 1 year old.
The iMac uses different technology in it display / graphics card, so of course their will be issues.
Heck, The iMac didn't even work until October 1998, getting USB drivers have been a pain in the ass also.
Apple hasn't gaven us much help at all, and the systems are pretty complex.
LinuxPPC R4 was realeased before any support of the iMac in Linux, so of course it going to require a special kernel and patches and stuff to make it work.
Yellow Dog Server 1.0 has some problems with X since it is a new kid on the block (give it some slack), and the default X Server, Xfree86-3.3.1 is also a new kid on the block. (Older Powermac systems used Xpmac, a autoconfiguring server, that plug and play basically). Xfree86-3.3.1 is vastly better, but it needs work on the powerpc to up to snuff. This is one reason for LinuxPPC R5 delay, JCarr has been busy playing with, making it more user friendly, and plug and play. (No playing with crap like configuration files).
I hope you now understand.
Thanks,
Andrew B. Arthur aka AArthur
arthur99@global2000.net
Of course that link change is due to they are out of R4.1 CD's and don't want to make up more.
;-)
Bad News.
It won't be right away, from what I have heard. No CD have been pressed yet, nor have it been finalized. Yes, it is being finlized up, (last pre-R5 distro was May 13), but still work is being done.
Tonight Tom Rini (glibc2.1/ppc app developer/porter) was working on getting some more patches (on gnome-core and esd) to JCarr (LinuxPPC CEO). Also the next two weeks JHazz (Marketing Manger/WebSite/FTP) is on vacation, so I don't think he we will be seeing web site updates or any major updates.
Also, LinuxPPC R5 is suppost to be including Netscape Communicator 4.6, but Netscape hasn't gotten it's ass together enought to do a glibc2.1/ppc port of Netscape Communicator. We are waiting Netscape.
Anyways that MacOS Rumors article was summitted by BillyH, which nobody is really sure if he knows someting we don't know.
It will be at least 2 weeks till it goes off to the CD printer in California?, and that will take some time.
If you want to download, the lastest pre-R5 is stable and usable, but lacks Netscape Communicator.
Thanks,
Andrew Arthur aka AArthur
arthur99@gobal2000.net
Netscape also does the tempory memory crap to.. Visit a page with lots of tables and graphics and it will start using alot more memory then it was assigned.
This has something to do with the way web browser need more memory on complex pages..
At any rate Netscape nor Internet Exploiter don't release memory properly when done. (Until you quit the application).
Your probally forgeting some of the things (benefits) you get from Linux system that add bloat not found on Windows (Windows is bloated because of the code, Unix is bloated with optional functionality). You can definatly trim this down, since how much do you really use if you want a system the size or smaller then Windows?
/multiple desktop enviroments on Windows (Try running a non-Microsoft desktop on Windows!) and more. X11 isn't the fastest, that's why Berlin project is under the way.
1) X11 Windowing System, provides much more functionality then Windows, including remote Windowing (try that with a standard Win95 config), support for more flexable
2) More Services on by default. Do you have SendMail or Apache running? It's will to bitch if you have those services enabled under Linux, but disabled under Microsoft Windows.
3) Netscape Bloat. Most of that can be blamed on Motif, although Netscape Communicator 4.5.1 is bloated on all platforms (just as bad as Internet Exploiter too)! On the Mac OS Communicator wants around 13-16 megs of RAM, and on Windows it wants about the same. OF course Mozilla is soon ushering a whole new era of speed and smallness in web surfing... Also if you are using KDE check out Kommander, the intergrated browser in the KDE file manger. It's comming along nicely, although it's not yet even close to Windows Internet Explorer.
5) OLE on a 386/486(33mhz) is a joke... it's completely unusable unless you have alot of free time (importing OLE on a 386 machine can take a half hour in Word 6).
The fact is features require memory. Linux uses a fair chunk of memory for features, Windows just wastes memory on unefficent code.
Of course disable anything you don't need in Linux, upgrade to the lastest stable versions of everything, and watch your machine run faster, more stable, and better then a Windows machine.
I really don't think it's right to ban the host.
Sure their are jurks out their, script kiddies and the alike, but others probaly have the same host.
Give the kiddy a second chance. If he continues to spam, report it to the admin of his isp, but don't ban him. Talking to an ISP can often help such issues, but I would save banning him for a last resort.
It's a free country and their is free speech. Since some might consider this offensive, it's rated -1, blockable if your to imature for reading 'slashdot' hard and uncut.
AIX doesn't have Applixware yet (as far as I know, I have been known to wrong!), nor gnome on AIX doesn't seem to going anywheres fast, although it's probally not to much of a modification to run on AIX.
It's also a great attraction to develop on the Linux for the PowerPC platform... create binaries (for commerical software, that opensource cannot work pratically in), and run them on LinuxPPC, MkLinux, Yellow Dog Linux, Turbo Linux PPC and AIX.
That's cool.
While that does sorta make sense, it brings the really old question to mind: Why develop Linux at all?
Windows 98 is only $89 and comes without us people wasting time coding something that might only be used by 10% of the people and would be behind Windows in some ways.
Get Real. GNU software works pretty well, and is nipping on the heals of commerical software all the time, like KDE/GNOME vs. Windows desktop, like Apache vs. IIS, like bash vs. DOS.
The fact is that GNU software often out-preforms the best of commerical software, and yes commerical software needs serious competion from GNU, so we all can improve, and get better then GNU and commerical software.
It comes down to this: Freemware will spark vmware development, vmware people will need to work hard to keep up with free software's progress.
Thanks,
AArthur
Actually, I really doubt any (or little) of the code from Mac-on-Linux would be useful, since the systems are so drastically different, (at least from what you need to provide a OS to work). Yes some the kernel patches *might* be useful (if the makefiles were changed to change the i386 spefic parts of linus's kernel. Mac-on-Linux is quite different from vmware, since it is a kernel patch, not just remapping code.
I think the debate on vmware vs. freeware is basically the same as SheepShaver vs. Mac-on-Linux, one promises advanced features, sooner, while the other provides a powerful open-base of code that any one could use, and might even find it's way on to your favorite distro cds.
I think Freemware is a great consept, since it will be publicly shareable, unlike vmware, but vmware will remain one step ahead (just like wabi vs. wine, in the past).
That's My 52626262626161613616 of the issue,
AArthur
aarthur@h3o.net
Just like Copyprotection and the Macintosh, about 1986. Major comapnies came up with this 'wonderful' crack proof schemes that came up.
Example 1: You must run the program off the orginal disk to make it work (using invalid blocks not copied by the System 5.0 Finder), was cracked quickly by the event of bit-to-bit exact digital disk image copies. It hurt the honest Joe Blow, and didn't stop the pirtater. That's why that died around 1987. Then again Mac OS X is kind of like that, since it requires you to use a CD to install from (although a copied CD will work).
Example 2: Then their was the serial numbers, and that's when good ole' Crack Serial BBS(s) came populuar. This also hurt Joe Blow, since who the hell want to type a 11 digit serial number to register a product.... lame...
Example 3: Dongles, things that hook to your serial port to make software run. Of course they were cracked by crackers and made obsolete. They hurt honest Joe Blow since they were often incompatible with common hardware.
Really, Copy-protection doesn't work. Get real. The majority of people don't need copy-protection...
Same thing can be said with intellegal freedom, gun control, law, etc.
Thanks,
AArthur
aarthur@h3o.net
Internet in Albany, NY seems pretty damn expensive compared to even Utica or NYC.
1) Most dailup connections (not all 56k either) start at around $20 and the most populuar are about $25. This is much higher then other local areas. Connections are extermely on reliable, frequent disconnects and websites not loading is the norm (I've switch ISPs like 5 times and used other machines it seems to be a problem in general).
2) Cable Modems are both hard to get and are really expensive. Prices start slightly short of $45 a month on top of cable TV, only from Time Warner/RoadRunner. So if you don't have Time Warner, you don't get a cable modem, even people living a few miles from the city are screwed in that way.
3) ADSL is super expensive even for a cheap up 128/down 356 connection, starting at like $60-70, lacking features that other places throw in for free (like static ip). Only providor of this in the area is Bell Altantic, and again it doesn't reach far out of the city at all.
It's too bad the connections are so expensive and so unreliable.
> This is akin to verifying the correctness of code > (mathematically proving that it cannot fail), an > incredably extensive and expensive process. But
> sometimes it needs to be done. An exam such as
> the Professional Engineer exam is an attempt at > making sure the people who work on these projects > that affect the public know when and how to do
> this.
If you read the license to 99% of software out thier, including free and commerical software, their is no-warrenties and guarrenttes. Most software may not be allowed to be used in Nuclear plants, and other mission critical bussiness.
Most software is licensed to you as is, and containts no warrenty what so ever.
Registration for mission critcal software is already in place, it requires special licenses between you and the company, a special certification program for any software to be certified.
Really, certifing programmers is a bad thing, certfing software is good.
Reguluation is serious pain in the ass for programers, who are often free willed and libral.
IMHO, Open Source is the only way to go to avoid large technical bugs in the future (peer presure works!)
Thanks,
AArthur
> I bet there will be some new kind of "warez"
> sites. They will probably have "crackz" for all
> this bannered software.
ehh... Banner blockers exist, and are not just limited to warez sites. There are major edits for most banner advertising to remove the banners, not just on warez sites.
It's not illegal to give directions to remove banners, according to most licenses.
Banner blocker's I've seens include the Stuff-It Expander Ad Blocker, Hotline Banner blocker, Web Banner Blocker. None of these patches are on warez sites, but on public sites on the internet, including sharware/freeware archieves.
> Well, perhaps it's Open Source software, and you
> can change it, but the super cool license
> says you can't redistribute the changes.
Not True Completely. You can redistribute patch files, but you may not redistribute any copyrighted code. Patch files contain none of the orginal code, so it is often legal to give away patches.
Also, ads are blockable by many ways on the computer, including Web Ad blockers like the Mac OS Shareware WebFree. Ads are pretty easy to edit out / block if you really want, but according to a recent NBC study, by NBC human relations, they found only 5% of people don't watch TV ads! Think how easy it is to go to the fridge while the commericals are on, or use your VCR to scan past ads. The fact is, very few people don't watch ads.
"Advertising Works!"
Thanks,
AArthur
I have to agree with that. People want to be able to animate JPEG photos just like gif images. I know you can do this with javascript, but why spend time coding, when I format should support it natively.
JPEG and GIF are here to stay. Style Sheets have yet to prove useful for most websites.
People are afraid with backwords compatiblity, and even more afraid of things being supported poorly by browsers.
Copyrights will be a major issue with all formats in the future, which brings up a question: Is it ethnical to copyright a Internet Standard. Standards should be open and allowed so all can access it. Nobody has yet tried patenting HTML (then again, Microsoft or Netscape probally have a patent pending), so this is getting riduculusly stupid.
I'll Stick to plain HTML and GIF and JPEGs for the near future.
Thanks,
AArthur
I really don't think Apple spends the time benchmarking other OS's, (except for lame presentations), they are more interested in trying to improve the OS and not waste time on benchmarking.
I have never heard of a OS being designed just to directly beat benchmarks, but I could understand the reason for this legalized cheating.
Their is several points you are missing here, about why Apple doesn't want to port it's properity OS to other platforms. For one, it would require a hell of alot of device drivers, just to support a few dozen different PC models. Their is also alot more x86 add-ons, so you would have to support them. That's a pain in the ass, because it would require a ton of resources (support personal, programmers).
Finally, Apple has always been a mainly hardware company (software makes up like 1.5% or less of the income). So Mac OS X on other platforms just doesn't make ecomonic sense.
Nextstep would be cool on more machines, but it's not going to ever happen again.
HFS+ support is in the works, people. Apple has presented us with the specs, it will released probally during the summer of '99.
Live installs sucks anyways. Get off your duff, and do a quick reformat / partion. It's not that hard, it can be done!
My partioning scheme:
1 gig - HFS+ (Mac System, Mac Apps and a few mac-only documents)
450 meg - HFS (My documents and other crap including way to many old versions of GNOME and lots of source code)
50 meg - Linux Swap / Virtual Memory Space for Linux.
500 meg - Linux main partion.
This works good for me. It's fast and full feature.
GET LINUXPPC NOW - ftp.linuxppc.org !
Okay this very hyped and stupid. The local Radio Show, "The Rick Michel Oldies Morning Show" on WTRY (http://www.wtry.com/), spotlights dumb system admins as they talk about Y2000.
Really, It's time to grow up and move past Microsoft vs. Gov, Pres vs. Gov, and 2yk.
Thanks.