Im a huge fan of Linux and an even bigger fan of Gentoo Linux. I run fluxbox and I am incredibly fast with the prompt. The reason I say Gentoo and not just Linux is I like how I can really customize it and portage is amazing. Ive used many other distros but Gentoo is the best. Windows always crashes on(XP 2k what ever) and always has some kind of problem, and Mac OS X is more gui oriented while im more prompt. There isnt one single app on OS X that I would use instead of the apps I use on Linux.
There is a link to the firmware from the ipw2100.sf.net page. With other drivers on any OS it is the same thing. I have an SATA mobo and the one thing that alot of win users complained about is that you need to download the driver for it from asus put it on a floppy to install xp. Kind of a pain since most new computers dont have floppy drives and you cannt use your system at all without the driver. Out of the box linux has a ton of more drivers then what win comes with. I think the driver is included in some distros now and anyway the ethernet driver is a full open source driver that is in the kernel.
Well we can both agree ATI drivers suck. Ive had many problems with ATI drivers on windows and you have had many problems on linux. This is one of the many reasons I am a nvidia user. My laptop does have an ATI card which works right out of the box. This is because I use the open source drivers since its an ATI 7500 mobile and ATI does not support older ATI cards. I have heard that ATI driver support is getting better but it seems minimal at best. Still you had a working graphics card on linux, the hardware functioned. While it did not have full 3D support it wasnt like the card didnt work at all.
I have SATA and ATAPI(the new CDROM protocall) on my desktop. SATA was simple to setup its all in the SCSI subset as you said. SATA drives are viewed as SCSI drives on Linux, it took me all of 2sec figuring that out. Using ATAPI worked right out of the box.
I think you make a good arugment that things need to get easier in linux, and they have federoa is very easy. Driver support is no longer a problem, it may be hard to upgrade kernels and drivers. Anyway you should try gentoo, ive never had a problem with it but you do need to know what your doing.
Driver support on Linux is fine. I have always bought bleeding edge hardware I only run Linux and everything works fine. The last time I had a problem was when I bought my IBM Thinkpad T40, only the wireless card wasnt support, which wasnt even a problem for me since I didnt have a wireless router. It is now fully supported by an open source driver(ipw2100). I fix computers as a part time job and I run into driver hell more often on win then any other os. The other day I was updating a win xp computer and it said the ATI drivers had to be updated, so I let windows update update them. A few min later I could only get 4bit color. I had to uninstall the driver from windows update and revert to the old one. Going to ATI.com and downloading the offical driver said that I was getting a driver for the wrong graphics card. Even if a peice of hardware is reconized on win you have to track down the driver and many times if you lost the cd your screwed.
This will never happen for many reasons. First of all if MS made MS-Linux it would cause them to admit that windows sucks, and that they have been selling crap software all this time. MS will never admit a defeat. Second as many people have said currently linux is mainly run by geeks. Geeks wont welcome MS as he said they will keep far away from MS-Linux. Linux companies wont want to change distros and stick with redhat Suse or what ever else they use. All it will do is convert the desktop to MS-Linux. Infact I think this would kill M$. The word would get out M$ is selling something you can get for free. Most drivers on Linux work just fine. Fedora you can install and everything works without configing anything. Linux is the future, M$ can do nothing to stop it.
My mom had a job for awhile that used a mac and had been using firefox for awhile. I put camio(http://www.mozilla.org/products/camino/) on and it worked fine. It uses the mac gui, try that.
I have a 256meg card and I put it on the mode that said it needed 512megs of ram and it ran fine. Video memory is more for textures and when it fills up it goes onto ur system ram and that can hurt your fps. I had no problems on my gentoo AMD64 (3500+) 1 gig ram and nvidia fx 5900 ultra.
Wont someone figure out how to remove the finger prints? Isnt that law unconstitutional(invasion of privacy)? This hole thing seems like its going to fail horribly.
I get the same FPS in CoD as I do in Q3A ET and RtCW. All of these use the Q3 engine. HL2 I have at max settings and everything works great. I doubt I would have that much preformance gain on win because I have a nvidia card. The HL2 favors ATI cards and nvidia cards run much slower on HL2.
Im a game to and I only run Linux. Q3A, ET, D3, UT2K4 all have a native linux port. CoD and HL2 work great through cedega. You have no excuse to run win.
My public high school has given everyone in the school (teachers and students) laptops. The three main things they are used for is e-mail friends, playing games, and watching p0rn. Almost no one actually uses them for school work. Yet the administration says that its "the greatest achievement in the last 50 years of education." Schools really dont get technology.
Most Americans do believe all of that. Schools just enforce it by blocking everything they don't feel is appropriate and not letting you speak your mind. America keeps getting more and more oppressive.
Doom3 there is a native port which runs great. HL2 runs just as well through cedega. The latest games are being added to cedega support or being ported to Linux.
My GFs cousin works for Sun and at there Christmas party I was talking to her about it. She said shes never used Solaris or Linux at work. I was actually the first one to show her Linux. She said she had StarOffice a long time about and hated it. She now uses a Win 98 laptop with Office 2000.
Im wondering if Raven will have a Linux port. Im asking this because games based on idsoftware engines done by other companies tend not to have Linux ports even though it would be very easy to do. I love Call of Duty but the makers refuse to make a Linux port even though its based off the Q3A engine.
We tried that but he didnt understand the hole concept of changing colors and how to delete something. Of cource something happened to the wacom tablet and it now does not work, so I have to try and fix that.
heh I have my grandparents on Linux to. They really dont understand computers but they can run fedora and use e-mail and surf the web just fine. The only thing they do have trouble with is gimp(my grandfather is an artist), but hes tried a number of art programs and cannt get any of them.
Knoppix really needs fluxbox. I personally use it on my every day system(an AMD64 gaming machine) but when I am fixing computer at work I find KDE takes forever to load on knoppix, fluxbox would be really nice, and its small.
I for one am glad the gaming industry is going so well. Most of todays movies suck. If you see it in the theater you have to pay at least $6.50 per ticket and if your under 18 you can't see a rated R movie but they still want you to pay the adult price. Then you have to sit through 15min of ads, another 15min of previews just to see some crappy movie. Ive seen a few DVDs with ads on that you can not skip as well. Id rather spend $50 on a great game, play it for hours, then play it on line as much as I went, in most games for free! I can even sell the game after I'm done. Contrary to popular belief stories for games are getting better and better, there more then just a bang bang shot 'em up game. If you don't believe me play Call of Duty.
I honestly find OpenOffice ALOT easier and ALOT more powerful. When ever im on someone elses computer and I have to use M$ Office the most I cannt do a thing. Compatiblity is great, ive never had a problem. Most computers now do not come with M$ office and I always suggest OpenOffice instead of buying M$ Office, and people are always happy. Maybe M$ is superior in a few things but not in things the averge person uses day to day.
The number of users is much much higher, I would say that the number is at least 15million users. I have seen many web sites that offer firefox on there own websites and many people are getting firefox via bittorrent. I fix computers as an after school job and part of my fix for windows is to put firefox on, I do this from a CD I have. Everyone I have suggested firefox to has stuck with it.
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Im a huge fan of Linux and an even bigger fan of Gentoo Linux. I run fluxbox and I am incredibly fast with the prompt. The reason I say Gentoo and not just Linux is I like how I can really customize it and portage is amazing. Ive used many other distros but Gentoo is the best. Windows always crashes on(XP 2k what ever) and always has some kind of problem, and Mac OS X is more gui oriented while im more prompt. There isnt one single app on OS X that I would use instead of the apps I use on Linux.
There is a link to the firmware from the ipw2100.sf.net page. With other drivers on any OS it is the same thing. I have an SATA mobo and the one thing that alot of win users complained about is that you need to download the driver for it from asus put it on a floppy to install xp. Kind of a pain since most new computers dont have floppy drives and you cannt use your system at all without the driver. Out of the box linux has a ton of more drivers then what win comes with. I think the driver is included in some distros now and anyway the ethernet driver is a full open source driver that is in the kernel.
Well we can both agree ATI drivers suck. Ive had many problems with ATI drivers on windows and you have had many problems on linux. This is one of the many reasons I am a nvidia user. My laptop does have an ATI card which works right out of the box. This is because I use the open source drivers since its an ATI 7500 mobile and ATI does not support older ATI cards. I have heard that ATI driver support is getting better but it seems minimal at best. Still you had a working graphics card on linux, the hardware functioned. While it did not have full 3D support it wasnt like the card didnt work at all. I have SATA and ATAPI(the new CDROM protocall) on my desktop. SATA was simple to setup its all in the SCSI subset as you said. SATA drives are viewed as SCSI drives on Linux, it took me all of 2sec figuring that out. Using ATAPI worked right out of the box. I think you make a good arugment that things need to get easier in linux, and they have federoa is very easy. Driver support is no longer a problem, it may be hard to upgrade kernels and drivers. Anyway you should try gentoo, ive never had a problem with it but you do need to know what your doing.
Driver support on Linux is fine. I have always bought bleeding edge hardware I only run Linux and everything works fine. The last time I had a problem was when I bought my IBM Thinkpad T40, only the wireless card wasnt support, which wasnt even a problem for me since I didnt have a wireless router. It is now fully supported by an open source driver(ipw2100). I fix computers as a part time job and I run into driver hell more often on win then any other os. The other day I was updating a win xp computer and it said the ATI drivers had to be updated, so I let windows update update them. A few min later I could only get 4bit color. I had to uninstall the driver from windows update and revert to the old one. Going to ATI.com and downloading the offical driver said that I was getting a driver for the wrong graphics card. Even if a peice of hardware is reconized on win you have to track down the driver and many times if you lost the cd your screwed.
This will never happen for many reasons. First of all if MS made MS-Linux it would cause them to admit that windows sucks, and that they have been selling crap software all this time. MS will never admit a defeat. Second as many people have said currently linux is mainly run by geeks. Geeks wont welcome MS as he said they will keep far away from MS-Linux. Linux companies wont want to change distros and stick with redhat Suse or what ever else they use. All it will do is convert the desktop to MS-Linux. Infact I think this would kill M$. The word would get out M$ is selling something you can get for free. Most drivers on Linux work just fine. Fedora you can install and everything works without configing anything. Linux is the future, M$ can do nothing to stop it.
My mom had a job for awhile that used a mac and had been using firefox for awhile. I put camio(http://www.mozilla.org/products/camino/) on and it worked fine. It uses the mac gui, try that.
I have a 256meg card and I put it on the mode that said it needed 512megs of ram and it ran fine. Video memory is more for textures and when it fills up it goes onto ur system ram and that can hurt your fps. I had no problems on my gentoo AMD64 (3500+) 1 gig ram and nvidia fx 5900 ultra.
Wont someone figure out how to remove the finger prints? Isnt that law unconstitutional(invasion of privacy)? This hole thing seems like its going to fail horribly.
...that run perfect on cedega.
I get the same FPS in CoD as I do in Q3A ET and RtCW. All of these use the Q3 engine. HL2 I have at max settings and everything works great. I doubt I would have that much preformance gain on win because I have a nvidia card. The HL2 favors ATI cards and nvidia cards run much slower on HL2.
Im a game to and I only run Linux. Q3A, ET, D3, UT2K4 all have a native linux port. CoD and HL2 work great through cedega. You have no excuse to run win.
Well of course the games are warez and theres tons and tons of illegal music files.
My public high school has given everyone in the school (teachers and students) laptops. The three main things they are used for is e-mail friends, playing games, and watching p0rn. Almost no one actually uses them for school work. Yet the administration says that its "the greatest achievement in the last 50 years of education." Schools really dont get technology.
Most Americans do believe all of that. Schools just enforce it by blocking everything they don't feel is appropriate and not letting you speak your mind. America keeps getting more and more oppressive.
Doom3 there is a native port which runs great. HL2 runs just as well through cedega. The latest games are being added to cedega support or being ported to Linux.
and anyway if you goto the last one on the list it says "11 Dec 2001 Google offers 20-year Usenet Archive"
My GFs cousin works for Sun and at there Christmas party I was talking to her about it. She said shes never used Solaris or Linux at work. I was actually the first one to show her Linux. She said she had StarOffice a long time about and hated it. She now uses a Win 98 laptop with Office 2000.
Im wondering if Raven will have a Linux port. Im asking this because games based on idsoftware engines done by other companies tend not to have Linux ports even though it would be very easy to do. I love Call of Duty but the makers refuse to make a Linux port even though its based off the Q3A engine.
We tried that but he didnt understand the hole concept of changing colors and how to delete something. Of cource something happened to the wacom tablet and it now does not work, so I have to try and fix that.
heh I have my grandparents on Linux to. They really dont understand computers but they can run fedora and use e-mail and surf the web just fine. The only thing they do have trouble with is gimp(my grandfather is an artist), but hes tried a number of art programs and cannt get any of them.
Knoppix really needs fluxbox. I personally use it on my every day system(an AMD64 gaming machine) but when I am fixing computer at work I find KDE takes forever to load on knoppix, fluxbox would be really nice, and its small.
I for one am glad the gaming industry is going so well. Most of todays movies suck. If you see it in the theater you have to pay at least $6.50 per ticket and if your under 18 you can't see a rated R movie but they still want you to pay the adult price. Then you have to sit through 15min of ads, another 15min of previews just to see some crappy movie. Ive seen a few DVDs with ads on that you can not skip as well. Id rather spend $50 on a great game, play it for hours, then play it on line as much as I went, in most games for free! I can even sell the game after I'm done. Contrary to popular belief stories for games are getting better and better, there more then just a bang bang shot 'em up game. If you don't believe me play Call of Duty.
I honestly find OpenOffice ALOT easier and ALOT more powerful. When ever im on someone elses computer and I have to use M$ Office the most I cannt do a thing. Compatiblity is great, ive never had a problem. Most computers now do not come with M$ office and I always suggest OpenOffice instead of buying M$ Office, and people are always happy. Maybe M$ is superior in a few things but not in things the averge person uses day to day.
The number of users is much much higher, I would say that the number is at least 15million users. I have seen many web sites that offer firefox on there own websites and many people are getting firefox via bittorrent. I fix computers as an after school job and part of my fix for windows is to put firefox on, I do this from a CD I have. Everyone I have suggested firefox to has stuck with it.
And still no flash for AMD64 Linux...