The GPL does state that any changes made to the kernel has to be open source but if you did everything as a modules(does not touch the kernel source just lets the kernel load this to extend the kernel) you could of kept it closed source and stuck with Linux. Many companies do this such as nvidia and ati. You should of done some research before spending time and money and planned to do this as a module.
I always wondered why Mac decided to change from PPC to x86 and not x86_64? You would think if there going to change they would go with a 64bit arch. I know Intel has 64bit desktop CPUs and the mobile 64bit CPUs should be out soon.
I do computer repair and I have put many people on OpenOffice. Mainly because most new computers nowadays do not come with it and cusomters forget to buy it. Everytime I set it up they love it. Remember most people dont do more the type up a few pages and maybe do a simple slide show or spread sheet which OpenOffice is great at. Frankly all the cons Ive read about OpenOffice vs MS Office have been either solved in OpenOffice 2 or are such rare, unused features no one cares about them. I would suggest switching them to Thunderbird as a mail client as well. I know most people do fine with Firefox Thunderbird and OpenOffice. Well I wish you secuess.
If you want your users to save in the Microcrap Formates you can change it to automatically secture them just goto Tools->Options->Load/Save->General. I would also suggest using the OpenOffice 2.0 beta. I havnt seen any bugs in it and it run soooo nice much better then anything else ive ever used.
While many users have been complaining that Win 64 has little support for their devices and many of their programs are still 32bit this is not the case on Linux. I have been running Linux 64bit for over a year now and have found that everything works with no problem. Every open source apps Ive seen works fine on x86_64 Linux. Infact the only reason why you need 32bit compatiblity on Linux is for closed source software(mainly games). Linux is years ahead of Win and probably any other OS in the 64bit OS area, and its all thanks to it being open source.
Im on a 64bit system now. Every open source app that I use has been ported to 64bit. The few 32bit apps that I have run fine in a 64bit environment, all I have to do is make sure I have 32bit libs availible for them. Recent versions of gcc and glibc offer the ablity to do this without any trouble at all. The User Land 32bit was when the AMD64 CPU first came out but things have changed.
I have switched many people to Firefox and have found that people I switched months and months ago will never update. They never look at the little red arrow on the top right. They stick with the same version they have unpatched. Other applications use auto update because users dont update programs, its a problem but if Firefox is to be known as the most secure, fastest, bug free browser on the internet then they have to make sure everyone updates.
Most of the people will be using three applications that are found on both Linux and Windows, OpenOffice, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird. Getting them used to OpenOffice(hopefully the beta its sooo nice), Mozilla Firefox, and Mozilla Thunderbird will help ease things out when they are finally on Linux and the users will have to get used to the Linux desktop environment(I would suggest KDE). Anyway if they are really afraid I know there are many skins to make Linux look like windows, they should consider that to.
All he said was you have to install it and download the patches. Well even with XP you need to install it, setup accounts, find all of your drivers install those. Many times you have to do that first because I have seen XP not see ethernet cards and it has no builtin drivers for wireless cards. Then you can download and install the windows XP patches which you need to do a couple of times because the patches need patches need patches... Now you have just an OS you still need to install all your apps like Office IMing apps a real browser and e-mail client and anything else you want to use. Now lets look on Linux all you need to do in the simple distros is pop in the CD install setup acconts, update the system and your good to go.
I know I know it was a poor chose in words. What I ment to say is its running a customized version of GNU/Linux. Its not gona be running Fedora, just the simple things to get it running.
I heard a rumor awhile back that the PS3 will be running a stripped down version of Linux, just like the XBox/XBox 360 run a stripped down version of Win 2k. It does seem to make sence since the Cell processor runs Linux and NVIDIA(the PS3 will use a NVIDIA graphics card) has been known for great Linux and OpenGL support(I also heard all PS3 games will use OpenGL).
No the only ATI card I have ever had is in my IBM Thinkpad which is for work and school, I never play games on that. I have a NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GT on my gaming machine which works great. If I recall correctly that card wouldnt even be great to game on in windows. Anyway I would check to see if DRI supports your card, I know it supports my Radeon 7500 in my laptop.
Honestly Ive never played City of Heroes or Evil Genius but I was just playing Half-Life 2 through cedega. Heres a list of my games
Doom III(native)
Half-Life II(via cedega)
Enemey-Territory(native)
Call of Duty(via cedega but could be native, its based on the Q3A engine)
Quake III(native)
Never Winter Nights(native)
Chromium B.S.U(native)
War Craft III(via cedega)
Starcraft(via cedega)
What are you talking about? Ive used Linux exclusivly for years. My girl friend has used it for at least two years with no problems, my dad(he actually showed me Linux when it came out in 91) only uses it, and my grandparents havnt had a problem since I switched them to it.
OpenOffice works perfectly, epscially the 2.0 beta there is nothing that MS Office does that OpenOffice dosnt. GIMP is great for the image manipulation for most people. As far as games go I havnt come across a game that dosnt work on Linux.
Actually no. We nuked Japan because we did not want the USSR to liberate Japan, like they did Germany(they were the first ones in Berlin and who killed all the remaining Nazis while we stayed about 60 miles away cleaning up any insurgents). We thought that it would make it look like the Soviets won the war and not the US. In fact many of the leaders in Japan were considering surrendering but would not surrender unconditionally like we wanted, they wanted to be able to keep there emperor who they viewed as God like. Many also believe that it was a race thing, many people hated the Japanese which is one of the reasons why we had interment camps for them. Now you go get your facts please.
I fix computers all the time and I NEVER look at my clients personal files. Infact the only time I even go near them is when I have to back them up to do a reinstall. That guy at Gateway should be fired for snooping around a customers files. Im not sure what kind of illegal files they were talking about but just yesterday I ran into a customer who had an illegal copy of XP and Office, all I told him was that I could not get upgrades for him and that he should get a legal copy by contacting Microsoft.
With Mac x86 on the horizon I definitly see someone porting wine or Transgaming selling cedega for Mac x86. I wouldnt be surprised if it was included in the Mac x86 release, its Applest best way to best way to gain market share from M$.
My gf and I bought a DS a few weeks ago and we love it. DS graphics are amazing! I bought Goldeneye today and its graphics are at the same level as Quake III. I did not expect the graphics to be this good. The stylus is a great addition and is useful in many games, in goldeneye you use it like you would a mouse when playing a FPS on your computer. Even when playing a game that dosnt use the stylus it uses the extra screen to display something useful like a map. We originally looked at the PSP saw it has no games that we liked and very few if any in the future. Most of them are sports games and ports of PS2 games not to mention the price of it! What it comes down to is that Nintendo made sure the DS had good games and as others have said Sony just ported PS2 games.
Funny I just tried that. On my machine and my dads machine SUSE would crash no matter what. We both run Linux full time and have never had a problem with Knoppix. We did finally get it to run on my IBM Thinkpad. After seeing it I think ill stick with Gentoo for my distro and Knoppix for my LiveCD.
I just looked at the package list and Knoppix is still using XFree. Is Knoppix the only distro that still uses that? Why havnt they done to X.org? When the hole licence thing happened I switched all my machines(im on gentoo) and I never had a problem. Anyway it looks like a great release and I look foward to getting it.
Being a student who has "tampered" with school computers many times myself there are three golden rules you MUST obey to stay clear of trouble.
1. If you hack it make it so they have to goto you to get it fixed(if you are caught) or pay massive amounts of money.
2. Make it so there is not enough evidence to charge you. Even if you are "caught" any punishment they try you just ask to bring it to a judge and if they dont have the evidence you're not guilty.
3. Just get around there rules, find loop holes.
Recently my school gave everyone sony craptops, eh I mean laptops. Being a huge supporter of open source I used knoppix. This goes ageinst there hole no installing non-approved software, hacking(had to crack WEP and I had a few novell cracking tools), and of course I had a few games on it. The admin of the school found out I did this and ignored it because he was to busy fighting kids who play games non-stop, fucked up other peoples computers, and who were looking at porn(I swear after we got these laptops ive never seen so much porn in my life). Basicly I didnt make his job harder or gloat about it at all.
I have never run into any limitations with OpenOffice infact I find MS office much harder to use. I see no reason to buy MS Office when I cannt run it on Linux without wine, its harder to use, I have to pay for it, and its just crap. If you dont belive me check this article out.
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While Apple dosnt OpenOffice does. NeoOffice is an OS X version of OpenOffice. I have read countless reports that OpenOffice 2.0 is an office killer, I would not be surprised if Apple bundled this with OS X or made their own Office suite based on it.
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The GPL does state that any changes made to the kernel has to be open source but if you did everything as a modules(does not touch the kernel source just lets the kernel load this to extend the kernel) you could of kept it closed source and stuck with Linux. Many companies do this such as nvidia and ati. You should of done some research before spending time and money and planned to do this as a module.
I always wondered why Mac decided to change from PPC to x86 and not x86_64? You would think if there going to change they would go with a 64bit arch. I know Intel has 64bit desktop CPUs and the mobile 64bit CPUs should be out soon.
I do computer repair and I have put many people on OpenOffice. Mainly because most new computers nowadays do not come with it and cusomters forget to buy it. Everytime I set it up they love it. Remember most people dont do more the type up a few pages and maybe do a simple slide show or spread sheet which OpenOffice is great at. Frankly all the cons Ive read about OpenOffice vs MS Office have been either solved in OpenOffice 2 or are such rare, unused features no one cares about them. I would suggest switching them to Thunderbird as a mail client as well. I know most people do fine with Firefox Thunderbird and OpenOffice. Well I wish you secuess.
If you want your users to save in the Microcrap Formates you can change it to automatically secture them just goto Tools->Options->Load/Save->General. I would also suggest using the OpenOffice 2.0 beta. I havnt seen any bugs in it and it run soooo nice much better then anything else ive ever used.
While many users have been complaining that Win 64 has little support for their devices and many of their programs are still 32bit this is not the case on Linux. I have been running Linux 64bit for over a year now and have found that everything works with no problem. Every open source apps Ive seen works fine on x86_64 Linux. Infact the only reason why you need 32bit compatiblity on Linux is for closed source software(mainly games). Linux is years ahead of Win and probably any other OS in the 64bit OS area, and its all thanks to it being open source.
Im on a 64bit system now. Every open source app that I use has been ported to 64bit. The few 32bit apps that I have run fine in a 64bit environment, all I have to do is make sure I have 32bit libs availible for them. Recent versions of gcc and glibc offer the ablity to do this without any trouble at all. The User Land 32bit was when the AMD64 CPU first came out but things have changed.
Just develop to standard, then it should run on any browser.
I have switched many people to Firefox and have found that people I switched months and months ago will never update. They never look at the little red arrow on the top right. They stick with the same version they have unpatched. Other applications use auto update because users dont update programs, its a problem but if Firefox is to be known as the most secure, fastest, bug free browser on the internet then they have to make sure everyone updates.
Most of the people will be using three applications that are found on both Linux and Windows, OpenOffice, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird. Getting them used to OpenOffice(hopefully the beta its sooo nice), Mozilla Firefox, and Mozilla Thunderbird will help ease things out when they are finally on Linux and the users will have to get used to the Linux desktop environment(I would suggest KDE). Anyway if they are really afraid I know there are many skins to make Linux look like windows, they should consider that to.
All he said was you have to install it and download the patches. Well even with XP you need to install it, setup accounts, find all of your drivers install those. Many times you have to do that first because I have seen XP not see ethernet cards and it has no builtin drivers for wireless cards. Then you can download and install the windows XP patches which you need to do a couple of times because the patches need patches need patches... Now you have just an OS you still need to install all your apps like Office IMing apps a real browser and e-mail client and anything else you want to use. Now lets look on Linux all you need to do in the simple distros is pop in the CD install setup acconts, update the system and your good to go.
I know I know it was a poor chose in words. What I ment to say is its running a customized version of GNU/Linux. Its not gona be running Fedora, just the simple things to get it running.
I heard a rumor awhile back that the PS3 will be running a stripped down version of Linux, just like the XBox/XBox 360 run a stripped down version of Win 2k. It does seem to make sence since the Cell processor runs Linux and NVIDIA(the PS3 will use a NVIDIA graphics card) has been known for great Linux and OpenGL support(I also heard all PS3 games will use OpenGL).
You could say the same thing about a book. Any information you get from any source could be false, thats why you should have more then one resource.
No the only ATI card I have ever had is in my IBM Thinkpad which is for work and school, I never play games on that. I have a NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GT on my gaming machine which works great. If I recall correctly that card wouldnt even be great to game on in windows. Anyway I would check to see if DRI supports your card, I know it supports my Radeon 7500 in my laptop.
Honestly Ive never played City of Heroes or Evil Genius but I was just playing Half-Life 2 through cedega. Heres a list of my games
Doom III(native)
Half-Life II(via cedega)
Enemey-Territory(native)
Call of Duty(via cedega but could be native, its based on the Q3A engine)
Quake III(native)
Never Winter Nights(native)
Chromium B.S.U(native)
War Craft III(via cedega)
Starcraft(via cedega)
What are you talking about? Ive used Linux exclusivly for years. My girl friend has used it for at least two years with no problems, my dad(he actually showed me Linux when it came out in 91) only uses it, and my grandparents havnt had a problem since I switched them to it.
OpenOffice works perfectly, epscially the 2.0 beta there is nothing that MS Office does that OpenOffice dosnt. GIMP is great for the image manipulation for most people. As far as games go I havnt come across a game that dosnt work on Linux.
Actually no. We nuked Japan because we did not want the USSR to liberate Japan, like they did Germany(they were the first ones in Berlin and who killed all the remaining Nazis while we stayed about 60 miles away cleaning up any insurgents). We thought that it would make it look like the Soviets won the war and not the US. In fact many of the leaders in Japan were considering surrendering but would not surrender unconditionally like we wanted, they wanted to be able to keep there emperor who they viewed as God like. Many also believe that it was a race thing, many people hated the Japanese which is one of the reasons why we had interment camps for them. Now you go get your facts please.
I fix computers all the time and I NEVER look at my clients personal files. Infact the only time I even go near them is when I have to back them up to do a reinstall. That guy at Gateway should be fired for snooping around a customers files. Im not sure what kind of illegal files they were talking about but just yesterday I ran into a customer who had an illegal copy of XP and Office, all I told him was that I could not get upgrades for him and that he should get a legal copy by contacting Microsoft.
With Mac x86 on the horizon I definitly see someone porting wine or Transgaming selling cedega for Mac x86. I wouldnt be surprised if it was included in the Mac x86 release, its Applest best way to best way to gain market share from M$.
My gf and I bought a DS a few weeks ago and we love it. DS graphics are amazing! I bought Goldeneye today and its graphics are at the same level as Quake III. I did not expect the graphics to be this good. The stylus is a great addition and is useful in many games, in goldeneye you use it like you would a mouse when playing a FPS on your computer. Even when playing a game that dosnt use the stylus it uses the extra screen to display something useful like a map. We originally looked at the PSP saw it has no games that we liked and very few if any in the future. Most of them are sports games and ports of PS2 games not to mention the price of it! What it comes down to is that Nintendo made sure the DS had good games and as others have said Sony just ported PS2 games.
Funny I just tried that. On my machine and my dads machine SUSE would crash no matter what. We both run Linux full time and have never had a problem with Knoppix. We did finally get it to run on my IBM Thinkpad. After seeing it I think ill stick with Gentoo for my distro and Knoppix for my LiveCD.
I just looked at the package list and Knoppix is still using XFree. Is Knoppix the only distro that still uses that? Why havnt they done to X.org? When the hole licence thing happened I switched all my machines(im on gentoo) and I never had a problem. Anyway it looks like a great release and I look foward to getting it.
Being a student who has "tampered" with school computers many times myself there are three golden rules you MUST obey to stay clear of trouble.
1. If you hack it make it so they have to goto you to get it fixed(if you are caught) or pay massive amounts of money.
2. Make it so there is not enough evidence to charge you. Even if you are "caught" any punishment they try you just ask to bring it to a judge and if they dont have the evidence you're not guilty.
3. Just get around there rules, find loop holes.
Recently my school gave everyone sony craptops, eh I mean laptops. Being a huge supporter of open source I used knoppix. This goes ageinst there hole no installing non-approved software, hacking(had to crack WEP and I had a few novell cracking tools), and of course I had a few games on it. The admin of the school found out I did this and ignored it because he was to busy fighting kids who play games non-stop, fucked up other peoples computers, and who were looking at porn(I swear after we got these laptops ive never seen so much porn in my life). Basicly I didnt make his job harder or gloat about it at all.
I have never run into any limitations with OpenOffice infact I find MS office much harder to use. I see no reason to buy MS Office when I cannt run it on Linux without wine, its harder to use, I have to pay for it, and its just crap. If you dont belive me check this article out.
While Apple dosnt OpenOffice does. NeoOffice is an OS X version of OpenOffice. I have read countless reports that OpenOffice 2.0 is an office killer, I would not be surprised if Apple bundled this with OS X or made their own Office suite based on it.