I know, but the current copyright law still touches everyone. The one thing they do know is that you cannot copy Windows (even IE?) to your friends. Most do it nevertheless, but they know it is illegal.
They also are bound to notice notice that the latest version of Windows costs a lot of money.
The latter may be true for GNU/Linux as well, in some cases but the former makes it irrelevant.
Granted, this is only a very small part of the way the GPL works, but it's a start. The hard part is convincing people about the rest of them as well. The FSF has been trying to do that for a long time now.
Consumers can still buy someone to do the job even if they don't know how to do it themselves.
Especially when we are talking about a small company, the prospect of being able to hire someone to modify the code is a very attractive prospect. With proprietary systems they are left with whatever the big proprietary software companies wish to give them.
Also, the GPL doesn't stop at letting everyone be a developer. It's also about studying (some may actually become developers) and distributing. The freedom to redistribute in today's world of "piracy" and "stealing" seems particularly attractive to everyone.
The space is there because the BSDs generally (with the exception of Debian GNU/FreeBSD) try not to use GNU tools wherever possible.
I think people miss Stallman's point with the whole GNU/Linux thing more often than not. He started a project to assemble together a operating system called GNU in 1984. When Linux came around, thanks to the GNU projects efforts there was _everything_ ready to make a complete free operating system except the kernel. People then grabbed all the GNU tools and the ones GNU hadn't had to develop because they already were there and combined them with Linux to get an operating system. They then continued to call this Linux. Stallman had been working to achieve this from the 80's and now his project wasn't getting any kind of credit even though it had been a main player in making this possible.
Yes, but given back very little in comparison to what they've got. The projects Apple has "borrowed" from would exist without apple, OS X most likely would not without them. But then again, they've chosen their licenses so that they allow this, and it's entirely okay if Apple takes everything and never gives anything back.
The impression I get from Slashdot is that many GNU/Linux/BSD users are these day jumping to Apple because the only motivation they ever had for using it was the utility value (which the OSI advocates) and they see more of that value in OS X with all it's non-free programs. Fine if you'd like that to be the future of operating systems but I sure as hell wouldn't. Go ask someone who was around about the old UNIXes.
What we have with GNU (/Linux/*BSD/Hurd) is a free OS which can change the way people think about software completely and bring the copyright law (at least for software) eventually back to reality. Even if you can't do everything you can with Apple's proprietary stuff right now, if it feels like the right thing you should refuse to sponsor the software companies that choose to license their software non-free.
I for one think that a future where all software was free would be better for the society. Not necessarily for the same reasons Stallman has, I'm not sure I see how non-free software is "morally wrong" but you can accept that idea even on lighter grounds, just like the current copyright law has accepted that we should not have these freedoms by default.
Why in the world do they put the start thingy/taskbar/icon collector at the bottom of the screen? Because M$ put it there first. Take a look at your browser. See all the menus up top there? See the titlebar to move the window and close it etc? Shouldn't the taskbar be up there too?
Seems like an awfully small thing to pick on. I don't think "on the same side of the screen" alone amounts to a huge amount of copying. That said, you obviously don't know what you are talking about. Try a default install of GNOME CVS or in Debian or go download Ximian desktop and you'll see that they both have two bars that divide the functionality based on type to achieve a (arguably) cleaner result.
And MS has mostly copied it's GUI as well. There's no reason to throw all the UI development that dates back to the 80's and before just to be "original". MacOS had most of the stuff Windows has now well before them.
I don't know, but the only place I saw the window grouping feature before XP was KDE/GNOME. Is this possibly something MS decided to copy from them? When will we see virtual desktops in a standard MS gui? Also the spiffy transparent selectionbox is clearly from nautilus;)
For something really different, you could look at Slicker and of course everyone knows SuperKaramba. That's Open Source GUI innovation for easy to use desktops. There's a bunch of really good and interesting window manager ideas as well. Just check out Ion, for example.
Look at StarOffice and OpenOffice. They seem familiar. And there are plenty of others, but I think you get the point.
Except that MS didn't "invent" how an office suite is supposed to look like either. There were office suites before Microsoft's and they copied them. Lotus had one. As a result, much of the same functions as in Lotus 1-2-3 are present in Excel.
Another thing that M$ gets bashed on here is because they "embrace and extend". Many, many open source projects do exactly this.
Musicdisks are something that used to be very common in the demoscene. They were a self-made player and a collection of songs (mods) bundled on a diskette that would then be traded by mail (or at a demoparty) between the scene people.
Now, even if no-one was selling the expensive CDs (or non-CDs like is mostly the case nowadays) at stores, there would still be music like this example shows...
As long as the current copy protection mechanisms (of which Lawrence Lessig talks about in his excellent free_culture are in place, ebooks will not become common. Or I should say I hope people can see how useless they are and opt to not use them.
When you think of what the technology could do... You could have access to the digital version of any book, there would never be problems with acquiring a copy of a book. You could always get the book you wanted instantly from your local library, even through the net. Right now, the only thing they have is "gee-it's-new-technology"-effect, and they're really just severely restricted versions of real books.
But it's all inevitable. Even if every library in the world will decide to buy these pathetic excuses of a book, the unrestricted versions will come. They just won't be in the library. They'll be in p2p. Because we all know the ebook protection is fundamentally flawed.
which is really a shame, because right now, of all the popular distributions available out there, Debian most needs Ximian.
All the others have a pretty nicely set up default desktop that already offers most of the things Ximian has. Even worse, you can't argue that you can get Ximian independent of distribution anymore. They only support three releases of Red Hat and SuSe 8.2. Not supporting even *the* desktop distribution, Mandrake.
We have about 50 Debian desktops around running Ximian Desktop 1. I don't know what we're going to do with them now. GNOME 1.4 is really getting old and I'd like to get rid of it, but debian-desktop is nowhere to be found in woody and the default debian desktop setup leaves a lot to be desired.
Almost everyone uses hotmail these days, no matter how horrible it is. It's a result of advertising and maybe, lack of alternatives.
I often face a situation where I'm helping someone to open up an email account (working at a library) and usually end up going to Yahoo, but that one has been getting worse. The spam filtering is good, but all the banner-ad spam isn't and the user interface leaves a lot to be desired (why did they have to change it so that it takes you to my yahoo on login is beyound me)
There are lots of free e-mail providers. Most of them are better than Hotmail. The problem is, that even free e-mail account users would like to keep their e-mail address more than a few months and with the smaller providers you never know how long it's going to last.
I think that's the main reason for MSN Hotmail being so popular. It's crap, but at least people can count on it existing. The only other free e-mail I feel I can trust to always be there is Yahoo.
So my question is, does anyone know any good free e-mail services that have been here for a long time and will most likely also be here in a few years? I'd be really happy to help people go to something better than Hotmail (ugh) or Yahoo.
You can get Opera for free much in the same way you could perhaps get some free pizza (beer is a more commonly used example). Sure, there are some ads, but who cares?
The original poster almost certainly wasn't referring to that kind of freedom.
He wants the Pizza recipe. He wants to be able to give it to his friends too.
Free software is really worth paying much more than proprietary.
Cyberlore are also the guys who brought us Majesty which has been ported to Linux by Linux Game Publishing. Majesty is also an unusual game, but who would've thought.:)
With good relations in place and when we all know that this'll mostly apply to geeks, maybe LGP could pick this up too.
Why does absolutely everything have to be in 3D these days? I didn't see what Monkey Island gained by going 3D and I don't see what Sam & Max will.
They're freaking cartoon characters damnit!
I'd settle for more detailed animation and higher resolution. That way, it wouldn't even need the latest Geforce 10. The result would even be only better than these 2D characters to 3D transformations.
Now that I got that out of my system, I'm still really looking forward to this. Pity it won't be coming for Linux. But then, these days the only thing that sells seems to be brainless 3D-shooters (and RPGs) so the adventure game market is very small even in the Windows world. How I long for the time when Sierra and LucasArts were continuosly releasing high-quality adventures.
Those games haven't aged a bit and are still great to play. And as already mentioned, we can even play some of them in Linux thanks to ScummVM (and for the older sierra games Sarien and some others).
Well, Microsoft copied theming with XP and the fruit company also has considerably more eyecandy than in the pre-X days which I'd argue is a result of the theming frenzy too.
What about grouping in the taskbar?
Not sure these are the innovations of the free software desktop but I only hear about how it's all just copying. Windows/MacOS still hasn't got virtual windows or as nearly as flexible toolbars to date.
I've probably missed something since my XP use so far has been limited to about 5 minutes (and I'm quite proud of it;)) and I'm not any more familiar with OS X either but I do know for a fact that KDE/GNOME aren't just copies of either.
I was a little disappointed with the review as they we're already reviewing an alpha status codec and could've given some indication about how well will Theora fare against it's more patent-burdened codecs.<br><br> I for one am excited about the idea of getting my movie files on a really freely usable codec as well.
I love it when games attempt something like this. The excellent Uplink is an excellent example of an immensely capturing, yet simple game that has the "Is this real?" magic. It just makes you think "what if?" when you start it up and it says it's connecting, see the almost real IP, etc. Great stuff.
I'd argue that some of the attraction in the original Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn was also because of the movies between missions, where you'd be briefed directly by a game character and proceeded to make a tactical decision. They lost the magic already partially in Red Alert as there were more characters interacting together and it just didn't feel as involved for the player and lost it completely in later games such as Tiberian Sun where the movies mostly consisted of bad acting where the player wasn't involved in any way.
Are there more of these? I've played my share of games and I'm sure there are ones that I just can't remember right now.
First person shooters such as Unreal have been able to awe me by their detailed visuals and some games present an awesome storyline but very few manage to get the player so involved in the game world. Ironically, role-playing games that would seem the most obvious ways to attempt this are often just settle for presenting a story and getting the player interested in some stats-crunching.
Anyone see any parallels to what Hans Reser was suggesting just a few articles ago? Stallman wants credit for GNU (mostly to further his political agenda) and Reser wants them slapped everywhere for everyone.
I use GNU/Linux, but only in writing. Of all the distributions out there, only Debian and Mandrake seem to actually do that as well. Debian's obviously strongly attached to the free software philosophy. Mandrake, while a commercial entity, is struggling to keep everything in it's distribution free too. Their installer even sports a GNU logo.:)
Red hat is the only major distribution that has stayed truly free in addition to them.
You can deduce a lot from whether or not someone uses GNU/Linux in an official manner. It's instantly says something about their values. You won't see even Linux strapped on distributions like Lindows that want no part of the free software thing and would like to lead the public to believe that they're not even selling Linux, but something better they've come up with all by themselves.
You know, you better start changing your opinion on Linus then too. As what I've heard (read it from an interview in a finnish magazine) is that he uses console only too.
The story said he was proud to show off the various desktop environments available for Linux but had just gotten so used to the console so well that he didn't care for running XFree86.
I never thought CS was anything special and I can't believe that 9 out of 10 online gamers still seem to play it as reported by Gamespy stats.
At some point realism just became a big selling point (never mind that CS is by no means realistic, it doesn't even attempt to be). We had already seen tactical, team-based, more-than-just-a-fragfest play with Team Fortress (and even before that CTF...). Semi-realism and a world that comes from the brainless Hollywood action movies made CS the success it is IMO.
We've had plenty of great, innovative mods during the past few years after CS, but everyone just wants to play that. The only mods that manage to get some kind of a following are mods that mimic CS one way or another.
IMO, the current state of online gaming is pretty sad but it isn't because there's no innovation. It's because everyone just plays CS and gets on with their lives.
While reincarnating TF isn't extremely innovative (but if you've got a *great* game, why let it die with the old engines? why not develop it further?) I feel quite "alternative" when recommending that people should try out some of those: Quake 3 Fortress and Unreal Fortress are great mods, but unfortunately not at all popular...
I recommend checking out mod sites likeModsquad to see how much more than CS we have, if only someone would play them...
F. A. Porsche isn't "the guys who designed...." he is apparently the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche who originally founded porsche and is responsible for designs such as the 911 and Volkswagen Beetle. His son Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche apparently worked with him on the Beetle and was in charge of the company until he died in 1998. I think the FA Porsche we refer to these days is Ferdinand Alexander Porsche. I've also seen an espresso machine and a TFT monitor.
Could anyone give a comparison between Tradewars 2002 and Seth Able's less known great door game Planets: The Exploration of Space (or TEOS). I've never played Tradewars and Blacknova traders seemed a little... complicated last time I tried it. I'd really like to relive some of those memories but Blacknova just didn't seem as good for me with a brief attempt at playing it.
I'd like to see something else than web-based, maybe something like freeciv with separate server and client so we could get cool graphical clients and ones that would look like the old text-based door games. One of the coolest things was the real-time interaction with players simultaneously online and that doesn't work well in a web-based version. Even just a remake that'd work like a mud on the net would be great.
Oh well, maybe I'll just need to use lynx to play.;)
I play games occasionally. There's no way I'm buying Windows and booting to it just to play a few games sometimes. I'm happy with the Linux games currently available. In fact, they're more than I need.
I might not be a "real gamer" (used to be though), but I do play a bit and strongly object to "if you want to play games you need to run Windows". Sure, if you absolutely have to get all the latest ones that got 90%+ in game mags, then you need Windows, but the titles that you can purchase for Linux are just fine for someone who does more things than just gaming on his computer.
We've got Heroes3, Kohan, FreeCiv, Alpha Centauri, ASC, Lgeneral - all those games have a huge replay value so I think the strategists are covered.
We continuously get the latest in first person shooters thanks to Epic and ID.
And now, for those who like RPG's, there's NWN which has a great multiplayer, can be written mods for. Shouldn't get old too soon.
There's nothing wrong about saying that Linux isn't the best operating system out there, but what really is wrong with your post and what makes it tempting to mod it as a troll is that you list a fair number of operating systems that in your opinion are in some way better than Linux but then fail to give any reasons as to why this might be the case.
Saying just that FreeBSD is better in every possible way is worth nothing.
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I know, but the current copyright law still touches everyone. The one thing they do know is that you cannot copy Windows (even IE?) to your friends. Most do it nevertheless, but they know it is illegal.
They also are bound to notice notice that the latest version of Windows costs a lot of money.
The latter may be true for GNU/Linux as well, in some cases but the former makes it irrelevant.
Granted, this is only a very small part of the way the GPL works, but it's a start. The hard part is convincing people about the rest of them as well. The FSF has been trying to do that for a long time now.
Consumers can still buy someone to do the job even if they don't know how to do it themselves.
Especially when we are talking about a small company, the prospect of being able to hire someone to modify the code is a very attractive prospect. With proprietary systems they are left with whatever the big proprietary software companies wish to give them.
Also, the GPL doesn't stop at letting everyone be a developer. It's also about studying (some may actually become developers) and distributing. The freedom to redistribute in today's world of "piracy" and "stealing" seems particularly attractive to everyone.
The space is there because the BSDs generally (with the exception of Debian GNU/FreeBSD) try not to use GNU tools wherever possible.
I think people miss Stallman's point with the whole GNU/Linux thing more often than not. He started a project to assemble together a operating system called GNU in 1984. When Linux came around, thanks to the GNU projects efforts there was _everything_ ready to make a complete free operating system except the kernel. People then grabbed all the GNU tools and the ones GNU hadn't had to develop because they already were there and combined them with Linux to get an operating system. They then continued to call this Linux. Stallman had been working to achieve this from the 80's and now his project wasn't getting any kind of credit even though it had been a main player in making this possible.
Yes, but given back very little in comparison to what they've got. The projects Apple has "borrowed" from would exist without apple, OS X most likely would not without them. But then again, they've chosen their licenses so that they allow this, and it's entirely okay if Apple takes everything and never gives anything back.
/BSD users are these day jumping to Apple because the only motivation they ever had for using it was the utility value (which the OSI advocates) and they see more of that value in OS X with all it's non-free programs. Fine if you'd like that to be the future of operating systems but I sure as hell wouldn't. Go ask someone who was around about the old UNIXes.
The impression I get from Slashdot is that many GNU/Linux
What we have with GNU (/Linux/*BSD/Hurd) is a free OS which can change the way people think about software completely and bring the copyright law (at least for software) eventually back to reality. Even if you can't do everything you can with Apple's proprietary stuff right now, if it feels like the right thing you should refuse to sponsor the software companies that choose to license their software non-free.
I for one think that a future where all software was free would be better for the society. Not necessarily for the same reasons Stallman has, I'm not sure I see how non-free software is "morally wrong" but you can accept that idea even on lighter grounds, just like the current copyright law has accepted that we should not have these freedoms by default.
Why in the world do they put the start thingy/taskbar/icon collector at the bottom of the screen? Because M$ put it there first. Take a look at your browser. See all the menus up top there? See the titlebar to move the window and close it etc? Shouldn't the taskbar be up there too?
;)
Seems like an awfully small thing to pick on. I don't think "on the same side of the screen" alone amounts to a huge amount of copying. That said, you obviously don't know what you are talking about. Try a default install of GNOME CVS or in Debian or go download Ximian desktop and you'll see that they both have two bars that divide the functionality based on type to achieve a (arguably) cleaner result.
And MS has mostly copied it's GUI as well. There's no reason to throw all the UI development that dates back to the 80's and before just to be "original". MacOS had most of the stuff Windows has now well before them.
I don't know, but the only place I saw the window grouping feature before XP was KDE/GNOME. Is this possibly something MS decided to copy from them? When will we see virtual desktops in a standard MS gui? Also the spiffy transparent selectionbox is clearly from nautilus
For something really different, you could look at Slicker and of course everyone knows SuperKaramba. That's Open Source GUI innovation for easy to use desktops. There's a bunch of really good and interesting window manager ideas as well. Just check out Ion, for example.
Look at StarOffice and OpenOffice. They seem familiar. And there are plenty of others, but I think you get the point.
Except that MS didn't "invent" how an office suite is supposed to look like either. There were office suites before Microsoft's and they copied them. Lotus had one. As a result, much of the same functions as in Lotus 1-2-3 are present in Excel.
Another thing that M$ gets bashed on here is because they "embrace and extend". Many, many open source projects do exactly this.
Open source projects do this?
Musicdisks are something that used to be very common in the demoscene. They were a self-made player and a collection of songs (mods) bundled on a diskette that would then be traded by mail (or at a demoparty) between the scene people.
Now, even if no-one was selling the expensive CDs (or non-CDs like is mostly the case nowadays) at stores, there would still be music like this example shows...
As long as the current copy protection mechanisms (of which Lawrence Lessig talks about in his excellent free_culture are in place, ebooks will not become common. Or I should say I hope people can see how useless they are and opt to not use them.
When you think of what the technology could do... You could have access to the digital version of any book, there would never be problems with acquiring a copy of a book. You could always get the book you wanted instantly from your local library, even through the net. Right now, the only thing they have is "gee-it's-new-technology"-effect, and they're really just severely restricted versions of real books.
But it's all inevitable. Even if every library in the world will decide to buy these pathetic excuses of a book, the unrestricted versions will come. They just won't be in the library. They'll be in p2p. Because we all know the ebook protection is fundamentally flawed.
which is really a shame, because right now, of all the popular distributions available out there, Debian most needs Ximian.
All the others have a pretty nicely set up default desktop that already offers most of the things Ximian has. Even worse, you can't argue that you can get Ximian independent of distribution anymore. They only support three releases of Red Hat and SuSe 8.2. Not supporting even *the* desktop distribution, Mandrake.
We have about 50 Debian desktops around running Ximian Desktop 1. I don't know what we're going to do with them now. GNOME 1.4 is really getting old and I'd like to get rid of it, but debian-desktop is nowhere to be found in woody and the default debian desktop setup leaves a lot to be desired.
Almost everyone uses hotmail these days, no matter how horrible it is. It's a result of advertising and maybe, lack of alternatives.
I often face a situation where I'm helping someone to open up an email account (working at a library) and usually end up going to Yahoo, but that one has been getting worse. The spam filtering is good, but all the banner-ad spam isn't and the user interface leaves a lot to be desired (why did they have to change it so that it takes you to my yahoo on login is beyound me)
There are lots of free e-mail providers. Most of them are better than Hotmail. The problem is, that even free e-mail account users would like to keep their e-mail address more than a few months and with the smaller providers you never know how long it's going to last.
I think that's the main reason for MSN Hotmail being so popular. It's crap, but at least people can count on it existing. The only other free e-mail I feel I can trust to always be there is Yahoo.
So my question is, does anyone know any good free e-mail services that have been here for a long time and will most likely also be here in a few years? I'd be really happy to help people go to something better than Hotmail (ugh) or Yahoo.
How does this have anything to do with this?
You can get Opera for free much in the same way you could perhaps get some free pizza (beer is a more commonly used example). Sure, there are some ads, but who cares?
The original poster almost certainly wasn't referring to that kind of freedom.
He wants the Pizza recipe. He wants to be able to give it to his friends too.
Free software is really worth paying much more than proprietary.
Cyberlore are also the guys who brought us Majesty which has been ported to Linux by Linux Game Publishing. Majesty is also an unusual game, but who would've thought. :)
;)
With good relations in place and when we all know that this'll mostly apply to geeks, maybe LGP could pick this up too.
It'd probably even sell better than on Windows
Why does absolutely everything have to be in 3D these days? I didn't see what Monkey Island gained by going 3D and I don't see what Sam & Max will.
They're freaking cartoon characters damnit!
I'd settle for more detailed animation and higher resolution. That way, it wouldn't even need the latest Geforce 10. The result would even be only better than these 2D characters to 3D transformations.
Now that I got that out of my system, I'm still really looking forward to this. Pity it won't be coming for Linux. But then, these days the only thing that sells seems to be brainless 3D-shooters (and RPGs) so the adventure game market is very small even in the Windows world. How I long for the time when Sierra and LucasArts were continuosly releasing high-quality adventures.
Those games haven't aged a bit and are still great to play. And as already mentioned, we can even play some of them in Linux thanks to ScummVM (and for the older sierra games Sarien and some others).
so... GNU's Not Unix/Unix?
Heh, seems a little contradictory.
Would that become "GNU's Not One"?
Well, Microsoft copied theming with XP and the fruit company also has considerably more eyecandy than in the pre-X days which I'd argue is a result of the theming frenzy too.
;)) and I'm not any more familiar with OS X either but I do know for a fact that KDE/GNOME aren't just copies of either.
What about grouping in the taskbar?
Not sure these are the innovations of the free software desktop but I only hear about how it's all just copying. Windows/MacOS still hasn't got virtual windows or as nearly as flexible toolbars to date.
What about Karamba or Slicker?
I've probably missed something since my XP use so far has been limited to about 5 minutes (and I'm quite proud of it
Why not Ogg Theora?
I was a little disappointed with the review as they we're already reviewing an alpha status codec and could've given some indication about how well will Theora fare against it's more patent-burdened codecs.<br><br>
I for one am excited about the idea of getting my movie files on a really freely usable codec as well.
I love it when games attempt something like this. The excellent Uplink is an excellent example of an immensely capturing, yet simple game that has the "Is this real?" magic. It just makes you think "what if?" when you start it up and it says it's connecting, see the almost real IP, etc. Great stuff.
I'd argue that some of the attraction in the original Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn was also because of the movies between missions, where you'd be briefed directly by a game character and proceeded to make a tactical decision. They lost the magic already partially in Red Alert as there were more characters interacting together and it just didn't feel as involved for the player and lost it completely in later games such as Tiberian Sun where the movies mostly consisted of bad acting where the player wasn't involved in any way.
Are there more of these? I've played my share of games and I'm sure there are ones that I just can't remember right now.
First person shooters such as Unreal have been able to awe me by their detailed visuals and some games present an awesome storyline but very few manage to get the player so involved in the game world. Ironically, role-playing games that would seem the most obvious ways to attempt this are often just settle for presenting a story and getting the player interested in some stats-crunching.
Anyone see any parallels to what Hans Reser was suggesting just a few articles ago? Stallman wants credit for GNU (mostly to further his political agenda) and Reser wants them slapped everywhere for everyone.
:)
I use GNU/Linux, but only in writing. Of all the distributions out there, only Debian and Mandrake seem to actually do that as well. Debian's obviously strongly attached to the free software philosophy. Mandrake, while a commercial entity, is struggling to keep everything in it's distribution free too. Their installer even sports a GNU logo.
Red hat is the only major distribution that has stayed truly free in addition to them.
You can deduce a lot from whether or not someone uses GNU/Linux in an official manner. It's instantly says something about their values. You won't see even Linux strapped on distributions like Lindows that want no part of the free software thing and would like to lead the public to believe that they're not even selling Linux, but something better they've come up with all by themselves.
You know, you better start changing your opinion on Linus then too. As what I've heard (read it from an interview in a finnish magazine) is that he uses console only too.
The story said he was proud to show off the various desktop environments available for Linux but had just gotten so used to the console so well that he didn't care for running XFree86.
Thanks, I really appreciate the freenet link... When freenet works, it's SO much better. downloading now, hopefully it'll find the blocks too. :P
Also an edonkey link here.
Not my share, so no guarantees.
For *nix, there's at least Lmule and Mldonkey to get a hold of it.
I never thought CS was anything special and I can't believe that 9 out of 10 online gamers still seem to play it as reported by Gamespy stats.
At some point realism just became a big selling point (never mind that CS is by no means realistic, it doesn't even attempt to be). We had already seen tactical, team-based, more-than-just-a-fragfest play with Team Fortress (and even before that CTF...). Semi-realism and a world that comes from the brainless Hollywood action movies made CS the success it is IMO.
We've had plenty of great, innovative mods during the past few years after CS, but everyone just wants to play that. The only mods that manage to get some kind of a following are mods that mimic CS one way or another.
IMO, the current state of online gaming is pretty sad but it isn't because there's no innovation. It's because everyone just plays CS and gets on with their lives.
While reincarnating TF isn't extremely innovative (but if you've got a *great* game, why let it die with the old engines? why not develop it further?) I feel quite "alternative" when recommending that people should try out some of those: Quake 3 Fortress and Unreal Fortress are great mods, but unfortunately not at all popular...
I recommend checking out mod sites likeModsquad to see how much more than CS we have, if only someone would play them...
Ehm. Straight from "
This is the philosophy that underlies all the work of F. A. Porsche, the grandson of the legendary car designer, Prof. Ferdinand Porsche. The starting point for F. A. Porsches design activities was the Porsche car company in Stuttgart, where in 1963, he provided the body of the Porsche 911 with its inimitable lines. Then in 1972, F. A. Porsche began his own design firm, Porsche Design GmbH in Austria."
"
Porsche Design GmbH designed the entire vpr Matrix system, including notebooks, desktop CPU, monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers. The classic and angular look of vpr Matrix is in striking contrast to the current trend of rounded PC designs.
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F. A. Porsche isn't "the guys who designed...." he is apparently the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche who originally founded porsche and is responsible for designs such as the 911 and Volkswagen Beetle. His son Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche apparently worked with him on the Beetle and was in charge of the company until he died in 1998. I think the FA Porsche we refer to these days is Ferdinand Alexander Porsche. I've also seen an espresso machine and a TFT monitor.
Could anyone give a comparison between Tradewars 2002 and Seth Able's less known great door game Planets: The Exploration of Space (or TEOS). I've never played Tradewars and Blacknova traders seemed a little... complicated last time I tried it. I'd really like to relive some of those memories but Blacknova just didn't seem as good for me with a brief attempt at playing it.
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I'd like to see something else than web-based, maybe something like freeciv with separate server and client so we could get cool graphical clients and ones that would look like the old text-based door games. One of the coolest things was the real-time interaction with players simultaneously online and that doesn't work well in a web-based version. Even just a remake that'd work like a mud on the net would be great.
Oh well, maybe I'll just need to use lynx to play.
I play games occasionally. There's no way I'm buying Windows and booting to it just to play a few games sometimes. I'm happy with the Linux games currently available. In fact, they're more than I need.
I might not be a "real gamer" (used to be though), but I do play a bit and strongly object to "if you want to play games you need to run Windows". Sure, if you absolutely have to get all the latest ones that got 90%+ in game mags, then you need Windows, but the titles that you can purchase for Linux are just fine for someone who does more things than just gaming on his computer.
We've got Heroes3, Kohan, FreeCiv, Alpha Centauri, ASC, Lgeneral - all those games have a huge replay value so I think the strategists are covered.
We continuously get the latest in first person shooters thanks to Epic and ID.
And now, for those who like RPG's, there's NWN which has a great multiplayer, can be written mods for. Shouldn't get old too soon.
I'm tempted to mod you but I'll reply instead.
There's nothing wrong about saying that Linux isn't the best operating system out there, but what really is wrong with your post and what makes it tempting to mod it as a troll is that you list a fair number of operating systems that in your opinion are in some way better than Linux but then fail to give any reasons as to why this might be the case.
Saying just that FreeBSD is better in every possible way is worth nothing.