"In fact, they're far more Linux-friendly than nForce chipsets."
Sounds like you're supprised. Nvidia refuses to tell anyone anything, so we're stuck with driveres written without documentation. Via hands out documentation at hardware to developers, Nvidia doesn't. Of cause Via chipset is more Linux (and BSD) friendly.
Don't get me wrong, the Nvidia drivers are nice work, but there is a limit to what you can expect from drivers written by someone which doesn't have access to the documentation.
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Actually, the Via CPUs does have the entire required 686 instruction set. What they don't have is the optional cmov instruction. The problem is that gcc doesn't care about the "optional" in the Intel documentation an assumes that any 686 will have cmov, and most 686 cpus does... actually Via is the only one not to include it. They "fixed" this with C3 Nehemiah CPU.
The C3 is a nice CPU, a bit slow, which means that you'll have to run Linux or and older version of Windows, it isn't fast enough for Windows XP and OpenBSD... in my experience. I ran my 1GHz C3 with a Zalman copper heat sink, no fan, the temperatur never exceede 40 degrees. For a small home server its perfect.
You don't have to pay for it, but it's not free... crappy english language with its lack of clearity.
Oh, and Flash video is not cross-platform, doesn't run on my OpenBSD box, it could with linux-emul, of cause assuming that I have a i386 compatible CPU.
The slowest browser I've seen is IE on Windows running on a 2GHz Athlon XP with msn.com as a start page. I don't get why people are calling Firefox slow, okay so it's not blazingly fast, but still better than IE.
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BSD probably wouldn't exist if not for linux (correct me if I'm wrong but it uses the linux kernel right?)
Or maybe it's because the male brain understands math better. We already know that the male brain is better at understanding spacial objects.
There where tests a few years ago which proved that the male brain is a better at spacial think and the math involved.
That is however not saying that the male brain is better than the female, which handles language much better.
I think that the lack of women in technical fields are because their brains aren't naturally interested in math and engineering.
I hate that you can't point out that there are things that men do better than women without people calling you sexist. Mostly because I just have to sit back and take it when women claim that men are only good at lifting heavy things and that women are so much better than men. Women are more sexist than men and they still want speciel treatment.
Really OpenOffice is more compatible with Office than Office it self. I don't see it helping OpenOffice, so why should it help a potential Apple iWork.
I don't think the gratis element is a problem, Linux users will pay for music. The problem is getting the songs, Mindawn is a nice idea, but others have tried it already, they need to deliever the same music as iTunes to survive.
I don't know if this goes for the US, but in most countries you can't use other companies products for comparison. That's why the always use "Some other brandname". And morally you can't promote your own product by trashing the competitors.
No one is forcing you to think that OpenCVS is a good thing, in fact, Im pretty sure that the OpenBSD developers don't care about what you think.
If they like CVS, but not the GNU implementation, why shouldn't they write a new implementation?
I can't believe the number of people who think they are suppose to tell the OpenBSD developers what to do. If you don't like what they are doing, that's your problem. The developers can do what ever they want and right now they want OpenCVS, not Subversion, not Arch and not GNUs cvs implementation.
Yes, basicly ISO 9001 just states that your capable of producing the small shit over an over again. It's a more a proces standard than a quality standard. Oh, and in the UK, you can advertise that your product is good because it's ISO 9001 certified.
If they want to addresse the issue of quality in open source software, there is a lot they need to consider. Most importantly... what do they mean by quality? What represents good quality in one project, may not be relevant to others.
Good for us that Poland was accepted as an EU member state. Looks like they going to vote against it, making may other countries think twice. I look very much like software patents are not going to be an issue in the EU. But let us keep fighting until we're sure.
Neither does Debian nor Fedora users. Gentoo doesn't solve any dependency problems that either Red Hat or Debians package systems hadn't already solved. I know of many who didn't know how to use these tools correctly, but they still solved the problem.
The point is that not all software is available to all distros as precompiled packages. What Connectiva is doing is saying that if we agree on where the files go, no point in not being able to install rpm files on Debian system and the other way around.
Big enough? I should think you would want it to be as small as possible. Russia was never capable of making stuff small, didn't really matter as they knew how to make extremely large rockets.
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You can't blame Microsoft, it's in the EULA.
Ah okay, sorry, it just sounded like it was something people could go read right now.
And where may we find this chapter? I looked for it (or a link) on your website but didn't find it.
"In fact, they're far more Linux-friendly than nForce chipsets."
Sounds like you're supprised. Nvidia refuses to tell anyone anything, so we're stuck with driveres written without documentation. Via hands out documentation at hardware to developers, Nvidia doesn't. Of cause Via chipset is more Linux (and BSD) friendly.
Don't get me wrong, the Nvidia drivers are nice work, but there is a limit to what you can expect from drivers written by someone which doesn't have access to the documentation.
Actually, the Via CPUs does have the entire required 686 instruction set. What they don't have is the optional cmov instruction. The problem is that gcc doesn't care about the "optional" in the Intel documentation an assumes that any 686 will have cmov, and most 686 cpus does... actually Via is the only one not to include it. They "fixed" this with C3 Nehemiah CPU.
The C3 is a nice CPU, a bit slow, which means that you'll have to run Linux or and older version of Windows, it isn't fast enough for Windows XP and OpenBSD... in my experience. I ran my 1GHz C3 with a Zalman copper heat sink, no fan, the temperatur never exceede 40 degrees. For a small home server its perfect.
You don't have to pay for it, but it's not free... crappy english language with its lack of clearity.
Oh, and Flash video is not cross-platform, doesn't run on my OpenBSD box, it could with linux-emul, of cause assuming that I have a i386 compatible CPU.
WMV9, please tell me how. Oh and please assume that I use Linux on a Sparc CPU (I don't, but some people do).
The slowest browser I've seen is IE on Windows running on a 2GHz Athlon XP with msn.com as a start page. I don't get why people are calling Firefox slow, okay so it's not blazingly fast, but still better than IE.
BSD probably wouldn't exist if not for linux (correct me if I'm wrong but it uses the linux kernel right?)
NO
BSD is much, much older than Linux.
Or maybe it's because the male brain understands math better. We already know that the male brain is better at understanding spacial objects.
There where tests a few years ago which proved that the male brain is a better at spacial think and the math involved.
That is however not saying that the male brain is better than the female, which handles language much better.
I think that the lack of women in technical fields are because their brains aren't naturally interested in math and engineering.
I hate that you can't point out that there are things that men do better than women without people calling you sexist. Mostly because I just have to sit back and take it when women claim that men are only good at lifting heavy things and that women are so much better than men. Women are more sexist than men and they still want speciel treatment.
Just to bad you can't upgrade all your Windows applications with a command or two.
Point and Click installation, like exe og msi in Windows is actually amazingly stupid because they can tie it all into one update function.
Except that it's Keynote and not iKeynote
I can only support the parent post.
Really OpenOffice is more compatible with Office than Office it self. I don't see it helping OpenOffice, so why should it help a potential Apple iWork.
What I would like to know is when does Microsoft Office get better OpenOffice support?
Yep, if we could just get the music on REAL CDs... but NO.
Oh and it wouldn't hurt if they would lower the price to around half of what they currently cost.
I don't think the gratis element is a problem, Linux users will pay for music. The problem is getting the songs, Mindawn is a nice idea, but others have tried it already, they need to deliever the same music as iTunes to survive.
I don't know about you, but my PC runs Linux.
I don't know if this goes for the US, but in most countries you can't use other companies products for comparison. That's why the always use "Some other brandname". And morally you can't promote your own product by trashing the competitors.
No one is forcing you to think that OpenCVS is a good thing, in fact, Im pretty sure that the OpenBSD developers don't care about what you think.
If they like CVS, but not the GNU implementation, why shouldn't they write a new implementation?
I can't believe the number of people who think they are suppose to tell the OpenBSD developers what to do. If you don't like what they are doing, that's your problem. The developers can do what ever they want and right now they want OpenCVS, not Subversion, not Arch and not GNUs cvs implementation.
If you know better, you can do the work yourself.
"Petrol station cashier ... Auto mechanic's assistant"
Does sound fancy enough, just tell people you worked in the oil indutri.
So in communist North Korea, old licenses are for SCO people only.... or something.
Yes, basicly ISO 9001 just states that your capable of producing the small shit over an over again. It's a more a proces standard than a quality standard. Oh, and in the UK, you can advertise that your product is good because it's ISO 9001 certified.
If they want to addresse the issue of quality in open source software, there is a lot they need to consider. Most importantly... what do they mean by quality? What represents good quality in one project, may not be relevant to others.
Good for us that Poland was accepted as an EU member state. Looks like they going to vote against it, making may other countries think twice. I look very much like software patents are not going to be an issue in the EU. But let us keep fighting until we're sure.
Neither does Debian nor Fedora users. Gentoo doesn't solve any dependency problems that either Red Hat or Debians package systems hadn't already solved. I know of many who didn't know how to use these tools correctly, but they still solved the problem.
The point is that not all software is available to all distros as precompiled packages. What Connectiva is doing is saying that if we agree on where the files go, no point in not being able to install rpm files on Debian system and the other way around.
Big enough? I should think you would want it to be as small as possible. Russia was never capable of making stuff small, didn't really matter as they knew how to make extremely large rockets.