Not quite. Non-RPM distros comprise seven of the current top ten downloads on Distrowatch (http://distrowatch.com/.) Positions 4, 5 and 6 are Debian-based.
Were you doing any customization? I've had problems for sure, but never anything more than a poorly configured emerge failing. However Gentoo doesn't replace binaries until a compile has successfully completed so worse case the result is a bit of lost drive space in var and waiting for a package fix.
Where gentoo realy needs help is its insistence of generating new config files with every core emerge and sitting the user through a hundred questions via etc-update. Retain, replace or merge/etc/foo? At least they stopped doing this for trivial header changes.
This wan't your core complaint, but have you used a recent version? All those windows can be docked in a tabbed interface (just like Fluxbox) in the lower half of the Gimp main panel. Or you can choose to float some free. Nice feature.
Disproof by ad hominem? It doesn't matter if Kim Jong-il penned the study, all that does matter are the numbers on the paper. Anything else is worthless.
There's more to business than ERP client software, SQL report writers and legacy DOS apps too, popular but in the overall scheme of small/medium/large business use niche applications. In twenty years of working in a computerized industry we've never had need for the first two and the last were expunged years ago. Many would agrue Office is a show stopper as well for example, yet at least two of my suppliers converted to OpenOffice.
Not being suited for one business doesn't make Linux unsuited to all.
Impressive yes, but it still pales next to something like Far Cry. Cuting edge gameplay left the "world of tunnels with things dropping from the ceiling" behind.
No one's playing "numbers games". You miss the point entirely, which once again is: neither amp is 'scientifically' audible at normal listening levels. The grandparent post's claim that tubes are prefered for their high second harmonic content is wrong, even at face value. Most tube amps are push-pull, a topology which cancels even harmonic distortion quite effectively.
Your statement about distortion spectra is a funhouse mirror of the facts. Harmonic distortion is harmonically related. Transistor amps, having much higher open loop gain and therefore much higher feedback (which is how they achieve those low distortion numbers, some of the most linear simple gain devices every made are low gain 1930's direct-heated tubes) will have a harmonic distortion content shifted much higher because of it than typical tubes but it's still based on the excitation signal. Bass signals don't magically generate distortion between 10 kHz and 20 kHz. And this is far from an advantage, the least audible distortion is second harmonic. Higher odd-ordered harmonics are audible at levels much, much lower than second.
From the back panel of the near 50 year old McIntosh MC250 sitting on my floor:
Total Harmonic Distortion less than 0.5% at rated power (40 watts) 20-20,000 Hz
Intermodulation Distortion less than 0.5% at peaks twice rated power.
Distortion at normal listening levels of under 1 watt is well below 0.1% . Point me to any auditory studies which claim this is audible. Tube preamps do much better still.
Incidentally, the 2nd harmonic argument is generally incorrect applied to most mainstream audiophile tube components. An amplifier's harmonic envelope is determined by the linearity of the base amplifier and the amount of feedback applied. More feedback eliminates even order harmonics (that would be the second) faster than odd. It's a good bet the bulk of the MC250's distortion is odd-order.
On the other hand, maybe I should just shut up. It was another "rational mind" who told me I could have this amp gratis almost 20 years ago. The solid state receiver and 50 watt Bryston amp I had at the time have little to no value now, this one still commands well over $1000 US on the international market. You know, you're right! Toobs do suck!
You forgot the disruptive technology part and assumed that the glory days of companies such as Microsoft - a virtual monopoly capable of swallowing competitors - will last forever. The computer software market appears to be a strange one comparable to 19th century oil or rail. Neither disappeared but there was plenty of money to be made from disruptive technology like cars and planes.
You're talking about one specific form of audio production. There are many pro versions. Assuming it's solid I could see radio, for example, operating on a Linux program like Ardour. Most of the apps you mention have no relevance in that environment, and where I work they prefer external hardware for much of the rest.
I'm not sure what your professional specialty is, but I do know there are very many different pro-level needs. We (radio) have three production studios, two occupied 18+ hours a day, none running Pro Tools or Mac. Everything's done on Intel/Soundscape and at least one of the producers bugged me for months to get 'downgraded' to Soundforge, which he feels is more efficient. The department cranks roughly $25 mil in commercial inventory a year, plus promos and positioning. By any measure a 'pro' shop. These guys run on a deadline that would make most studio producers blanch.
BTW, Pro Tools ships a lot of Intel systems nowadays.
Some day I would like to meet the Most couple. I would like to meet these people who don't care the computer they dropped $1500 on is running 1/5 speed, who don't care their personal and financial information is being automatically distributed across the world with every log-on, and who don't care their eight year old child's machine is serving porn and warez. I would like to sell Mr. and Mrs. Most a bridge, but I fear they already hold title to a few.
What he ignores is that the consensus now says "yes" to all his examples and that's why they're now considered valid science. Breaking with consensus is a tool towards forging a new consensus, it doesn't undermine the principle of consensus.
Let me know when you're done squeezing eight-five 8x anti-aliased frames per second @ 1200x1024x32 on a P3 with that assembler version of Far Cry and I'm behind you all the way.:)
Has SCO filed legal proceedings against an end user based solely on using Linux? I know they've threatened, but I was under the impression the suits actually in process focused on former SCO Unix users, accusing them of retained some proprietary SCO code after migrated infrastructure to Linux. In essense the suits are about using SCO, not Linux. If this is the case it's the kind of thing that wouldn't be covered under the Microsoft indemnification anyway but, as in the SCO action, is designed to unfairly suggest using Linux is a legal liability.
What possible relevance could this have to core Microsoft products? Very clever actually, insulating MS clients from a non-existent risk in order to imply it's a valid concern. There's no legal path from seller code theft to client culpability. Microsoft's way once again of bolstering the SCO suit (unless they're genuinly worried their Shared Source Initiative unearthing skeletons.).
Huh? Wasn't an earlier World Trade Center attack under Clinton's watch? Clinton and Reno spent more time attacking freedoms and liberties in the guise of a War on Drugs (tm) instead of Terror (tm). The terrorists just achieved their most spectacular success under Bush.
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Finally, an end to all those highly publicized Fruit of the Loom lawsuits!
The rights and liberties of American citizens saw the greatest curtailment in generations over those two wars. I'm afraid you're right.
Not quite. Non-RPM distros comprise seven of the current top ten downloads on Distrowatch (http://distrowatch.com/.) Positions 4, 5 and 6 are Debian-based.
Where gentoo realy needs help is its insistence of generating new config files with every core emerge and sitting the user through a hundred questions via etc-update. Retain, replace or merge /etc/foo? At least they stopped doing this for trivial header changes.
That would make for hugely entertaining reading...
Expert A: "My study concludes X."
Balmer: "It's confirmed, a study released by Expert A shows not-X!"
Expert A: "Uhh, no, my study concludes not not-X, but X."
MS funded Expert B: "I'm sorry expert A, you really mean not-X. Incidentally, will the be the full argument or just the half?"
..and then straight into the Dead Parrot sketch.
This wan't your core complaint, but have you used a recent version? All those windows can be docked in a tabbed interface (just like Fluxbox) in the lower half of the Gimp main panel. Or you can choose to float some free. Nice feature.
And the Shah of Iran. Any wonder the area harbours hard feelings towards them?
Disproof by ad hominem? It doesn't matter if Kim Jong-il penned the study, all that does matter are the numbers on the paper. Anything else is worthless.
Not being suited for one business doesn't make Linux unsuited to all.
The surest cure is to give in to that craving. Nothing like a little negative reinforcement to stymie undesirable behaviour.
A sketch about trying to explain that distinction to America's Founding Fathers would be comedy gold.
Impressive yes, but it still pales next to something like Far Cry. Cuting edge gameplay left the "world of tunnels with things dropping from the ceiling" behind.
Your statement about distortion spectra is a funhouse mirror of the facts. Harmonic distortion is harmonically related. Transistor amps, having much higher open loop gain and therefore much higher feedback (which is how they achieve those low distortion numbers, some of the most linear simple gain devices every made are low gain 1930's direct-heated tubes) will have a harmonic distortion content shifted much higher because of it than typical tubes but it's still based on the excitation signal. Bass signals don't magically generate distortion between 10 kHz and 20 kHz. And this is far from an advantage, the least audible distortion is second harmonic. Higher odd-ordered harmonics are audible at levels much, much lower than second.
Total Harmonic Distortion less than 0.5% at rated power (40 watts) 20-20,000 Hz
Intermodulation Distortion less than 0.5% at peaks twice rated power.
Distortion at normal listening levels of under 1 watt is well below 0.1% . Point me to any auditory studies which claim this is audible. Tube preamps do much better still.
Incidentally, the 2nd harmonic argument is generally incorrect applied to most mainstream audiophile tube components. An amplifier's harmonic envelope is determined by the linearity of the base amplifier and the amount of feedback applied. More feedback eliminates even order harmonics (that would be the second) faster than odd. It's a good bet the bulk of the MC250's distortion is odd-order.
On the other hand, maybe I should just shut up. It was another "rational mind" who told me I could have this amp gratis almost 20 years ago. The solid state receiver and 50 watt Bryston amp I had at the time have little to no value now, this one still commands well over $1000 US on the international market. You know, you're right! Toobs do suck!
You forgot the disruptive technology part and assumed that the glory days of companies such as Microsoft - a virtual monopoly capable of swallowing competitors - will last forever. The computer software market appears to be a strange one comparable to 19th century oil or rail. Neither disappeared but there was plenty of money to be made from disruptive technology like cars and planes.
You're talking about one specific form of audio production. There are many pro versions. Assuming it's solid I could see radio, for example, operating on a Linux program like Ardour. Most of the apps you mention have no relevance in that environment, and where I work they prefer external hardware for much of the rest.
BTW, Pro Tools ships a lot of Intel systems nowadays.
Some day I would like to meet the Most couple. I would like to meet these people who don't care the computer they dropped $1500 on is running 1/5 speed, who don't care their personal and financial information is being automatically distributed across the world with every log-on, and who don't care their eight year old child's machine is serving porn and warez. I would like to sell Mr. and Mrs. Most a bridge, but I fear they already hold title to a few.
What he ignores is that the consensus now says "yes" to all his examples and that's why they're now considered valid science. Breaking with consensus is a tool towards forging a new consensus, it doesn't undermine the principle of consensus.
Hell, I'll wipe the drive and reload your software for a low, low $1699 during my November special. An extra $100 will Windex the case.
Let me know when you're done squeezing eight-five 8x anti-aliased frames per second @ 1200x1024x32 on a P3 with that assembler version of Far Cry and I'm behind you all the way. :)
Has SCO filed legal proceedings against an end user based solely on using Linux? I know they've threatened, but I was under the impression the suits actually in process focused on former SCO Unix users, accusing them of retained some proprietary SCO code after migrated infrastructure to Linux. In essense the suits are about using SCO, not Linux. If this is the case it's the kind of thing that wouldn't be covered under the Microsoft indemnification anyway but, as in the SCO action, is designed to unfairly suggest using Linux is a legal liability.
What possible relevance could this have to core Microsoft products? Very clever actually, insulating MS clients from a non-existent risk in order to imply it's a valid concern. There's no legal path from seller code theft to client culpability. Microsoft's way once again of bolstering the SCO suit (unless they're genuinly worried their Shared Source Initiative unearthing skeletons.).
Huh? Wasn't an earlier World Trade Center attack under Clinton's watch? Clinton and Reno spent more time attacking freedoms and liberties in the guise of a War on Drugs (tm) instead of Terror (tm). The terrorists just achieved their most spectacular success under Bush.
I work for one of the samll five and it always feels like I'm in stocks.