I own Myth II. Can't stand the game, but am just amazed by the quality of the port.
There are some other companies, but currently Loki is really the only company porting games to Linux on such a large scale. If they ever go public, it'll be a gold mine, I feel.
Also, they seem to be porting more and more games. Dare I hope that Starcraft or Diablo could be coming soon. That is, of course, if we're not stupid and spam Blizzard again....
Check your info. Crocodiles actually do have completely divided ventricles! But unlike mammels and birds, they still have the reptilian ability to shunt blood from the lung circuit. This allows crocodilians to regulate their metabolism to some extent between active and languid configurations.
As a closest paleontologist, I feel a little vindicated. As someone else pointed out correctly, this debate has been going on since the 70s, when John Ostrom unearthed Deinonychus, the speedy dromaeosaur that was the inspiration for Michael Cricton's Jurassic Park (Calling them Velociraptors is Gregory Paul's fault.) One could argue that the debate goes further back, all the way to Darwin's (the man, not the OS) friend Thomas Henry Huxley (the geologist, not the author [though he was the author's ancestor]), who first argued that Compsognathus Longipes could be an ancestor of modern birds. These are the little "Compy" dinosaurs that bite the girl at the beginning of Lost World.
But of course events in recent years have added to the debate. John Horner found evidence of dinosaur nesting and care, for example. Bob Bakker continued the crusade, and discoveries in China such as Sinosauropteryx or Caudipteryx zoui have more or less closed the debate, although purist Paleontologists like Larry Martin have yet to concede with grace.
The point is that this is old news, and nothing that everyone wouldn't know without moderate education. The media is obviously not properly educated in this, or anything.
What is interesting about this discovery is that it deals with a plant eater rather than a Theropod. Most of the evidence for warm-blooded in dinosaurs that I have read largely deals with the nature of the predators, whose active lifestyles lend themselves to a endothermic biology.
If an orinithiscian like Thescelosaurus is warm-blooded, it lends a lot of credit to the argument that Theropods were warm-blooded, as the groups share a common ancestor.
It's kinda of sad though isn't it? I mean, BeOS had some amazing features in regard to developement. It was the only popular client-OS to come with a fully-functional IDE. It had a completely Object-Oriented API (for those who like that sort of thing). And it was amazing that one could use this API to write code that would be compatible with both Intel and PPC architectures. I can't blame Apple. I really don't think they can afford much competition on the easy-to-use client-OS market for the Macintosh. But it is unfortunate. -- Lagos
It's also nice to know, that although I am a dedicated Linux/PPC user, YelloDog has an iso image, and Linux/PPC doesn't. Yellow Dog has also done neat work with Beowolf clusters. It also supported G3's before Linux/PPC, I believe.
Well, actually this is really not that good an idea. NetBSD is more efficent in some respects but it has several failings compared to Linux/PPC:
1) Poor user base. Hey, it's a good system, but more people with Power PC's use Linux/PPC than NetBSD and that means a lot, especially in terms of support for the macintosh hardware.
2) NetBSD can't read Apple Partition maps. That's right, kiddies! If you want to install NetBSD on your box you need a dedicated drive. No MacOS for you. Compare this to Linux/PPC which even gives you Mac on linux and it becomes obvious which one will get more users to migrate.
3) No support for Linux/PPC binaries. This is just a matter of no one getting around to doing it yet, but it illustrates an important point: There simply isn't as much support for Power PC users in the NetBSD community as there is in the Linux community.
4) 8-bit XServer - Blah.
If I had another drive, I would install NetBSD, but I don't think I am going to give up Linux/PPC any time soon.
Am I the only one who has noticed that the page has apparently gone missing? This coupled with the aforementioned shoddy workmanship of the HTML and imagery, along with a lack of mention elsewhere on the apple's site, suggests to me that this page was just an idea which apple was toying with, rather than an actual offical page of support.
You know, the Apple/Alternative OS relationship is an interesting one. Apple sells some great hardware, but seems to have concerns that it can only stay in business if it maintains a large base of consumers to purchase its products. To tell you the truth, I can't entirely disagree with that. My G3 has really never needed any new Apple Software because I could always get something free for Linux.
Apple has a warm relationship with YDL. This is obvious by YDL's many mention in various Apple articles. It has a nice one with Linux/PPC, largely I think because it likes the developement of hardware support that the Linux/PPC effort is doing. And they seem to have a cool one with BeOS.
I think it is obvious that ppclinux.apple.com was not an official site and I don't think it'll be back.
The long and short of the situation is that Apple doesn't want to lose its population of desktop users. It cannot survive just selling hardware. The reason it supports YDL is because it's mainly a server system rather than a desktop system. And I think this will stop as OS X becomes more popular. The reasons it helps Linux/PPC developers is because it likes the developement, but I doubt it'll ever advertise Linux/PPC on its site as an alternative OS. And Apple will never like BeOS because it's too close to its own Operating System: A mainly client OS, with a focus on multimedia capabilities.
This is all really a pity. BeOS is superior to MacOS in many ways. It's the only closed source Operating System I have ever used which matched up to and occasionally even surpassed Linux and BSD. I have no doubt that the creators of BeOS are smart enough to support the G3, but I understand their fear of what Apple might do if they tried. I think Apple will continue to support Linux developers because it knows that there are a lot of people who will find macs more attractive with better Linux support. But I think that sometime soon Apple's going to lose a lot of customers because Linux/PPC is more attractive and better than their own Operating System.
It's ultimately also a principle of stability and user base. More users are using Linux than OpenBSD. More importantly it's user base is growing faster than other. And user base counts for a lot in a UNIX-like environment where things are constantly being updated and improved.
The reason I would choose Linux in this situation over NetBSD, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD is simple: The open software principle has worked very well; however, it requires many developers in order for it to function. By using Linux, NASA ensures that it won't be stuck with legacy code or a lack of appropiate utilities, because chances are someone somewhere is developing it. Even though BSD systems are more efficent in some regards, they simply don't have the community to draw upon that Linux will have in another 2 years. And we'll see who's more efficent then....
I love linux. It's neat and fun and spiffy. I can keep it running for weeks on end and update every two minutes.
And yet....
I sometimes feel that all it's reliability and stability is ultimately derived from the way I *can* continually update, recompile, and reconfigure. In other words, my linux box has always been a kind of work in progress for me. And I think it always will be. Despite all the stories of "I got an old Slackware Box in the back room, for three years collecting dust and serving web sites, as free as contact as a leper", I always seem to be tweaking something.
Is this really what we want in our Space Shuttle? I mean, upgrades, bandwidth, and experts aren't exactly as common as space dust (despite the radio show of our intrepid founders, I still think it would be hard to find a geek in space). We want to use systems that are set up to run as is-- statically.
On the other hand, what's the alternative? Unlike most other operating systems, it *is* possible to configure Linux and BSD to support what you want and only what you want. This could lead to incredible stability. Maybe BeOS comes close. So I guess as long as NASA makes sure we're not going to have a "Hey, I got the angband package, but it looks like we forgot the math and science packages" situation, I guess this is good news.
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I own Myth II. Can't stand the game, but am just amazed by the quality of the port.
There are some other companies, but currently Loki is really the only company porting games to Linux on such a large scale. If they ever go public, it'll be a gold mine, I feel.
Also, they seem to be porting more and more games. Dare I hope that Starcraft or Diablo could be coming soon. That is, of course, if we're not stupid and spam Blizzard again....
Check your info. Crocodiles actually do have completely divided ventricles! But unlike mammels and birds, they still have the reptilian ability to shunt blood from the lung circuit. This allows crocodilians to regulate their metabolism to some extent between active and languid configurations.
As a closest paleontologist, I feel a little vindicated. As someone else pointed out correctly, this debate has been going on since the 70s, when John Ostrom unearthed Deinonychus, the speedy dromaeosaur that was the inspiration for Michael Cricton's Jurassic Park (Calling them Velociraptors is Gregory Paul's fault.) One could argue that the debate goes further back, all the way to Darwin's (the man, not the OS) friend Thomas Henry Huxley (the geologist, not the author [though he was the author's ancestor]), who first argued that Compsognathus Longipes could be an ancestor of modern birds. These are the little "Compy" dinosaurs that bite the girl at the beginning of Lost World.
But of course events in recent years have added to the debate. John Horner found evidence of dinosaur nesting and care, for example. Bob Bakker continued the crusade, and discoveries in China such as Sinosauropteryx or Caudipteryx zoui have more or less closed the debate, although purist Paleontologists like Larry Martin have yet to concede with grace.
The point is that this is old news, and nothing that everyone wouldn't know without moderate education. The media is obviously not properly educated in this, or anything.
What is interesting about this discovery is that it deals with a plant eater rather than a Theropod. Most of the evidence for warm-blooded in dinosaurs that I have read largely deals with the nature of the predators, whose active lifestyles lend themselves to a endothermic biology.
If an orinithiscian like Thescelosaurus is warm-blooded, it lends a lot of credit to the argument that Theropods were warm-blooded, as the groups share a common ancestor.
It's kinda of sad though isn't it? I mean, BeOS had some amazing features in regard to developement. It was the only popular client-OS to come with a fully-functional IDE. It had a completely Object-Oriented API (for those who like that sort of thing). And it was amazing that one could use this API to write code that would be compatible with both Intel and PPC architectures. I can't blame Apple. I really don't think they can afford much competition on the easy-to-use client-OS market for the Macintosh. But it is unfortunate. -- Lagos
Let's try to solve this mouse problem, shall we?
.Xmodmap and try Option-2 and Option-3 as middle and right buttons respectively.
Hmm. Well, in the 2.2.6 kernels I have used, I think you can use '=' on the keypad as the right click and 'clear' on the keypad as middle click.
Of course, you can also try these items:
1) Add the line "clear mod2" to your
2) option-click for middle and option-control-click for right. I think this is a KDE thingie, though.
Well, there is an old iso image at:
ftp://cwrulug.cwru.edu/linuxppc-R5.iso
But I don't know if they're going to post a new one.
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Lagos - White Rabbit of Linux
It's also nice to know, that although I am a dedicated Linux/PPC user, YelloDog has an iso image, and Linux/PPC doesn't. Yellow Dog has also done neat work with Beowolf clusters. It also supported G3's before Linux/PPC, I believe.
Well, actually this is really not that good an idea. NetBSD is more efficent in some respects but it has several failings compared to Linux/PPC:
1) Poor user base. Hey, it's a good system, but more people with Power PC's use Linux/PPC than NetBSD and that means a lot, especially in terms of support for the macintosh hardware.
2) NetBSD can't read Apple Partition maps. That's right, kiddies! If you want to install NetBSD on your box you need a dedicated drive. No MacOS for you. Compare this to Linux/PPC which even gives you Mac on linux and it becomes obvious which one will get more users to migrate.
3) No support for Linux/PPC binaries. This is just a matter of no one getting around to doing it yet, but it illustrates an important point: There simply isn't as much support for Power PC users in the NetBSD community as there is in the Linux community.
4) 8-bit XServer - Blah.
If I had another drive, I would install NetBSD, but I don't think I am going to give up Linux/PPC any time soon.
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Lagos - White Rabbit of Linux
Am I the only one who has noticed that the page has apparently gone missing? This coupled with the aforementioned shoddy workmanship of the HTML and imagery, along with a lack of mention elsewhere on the apple's site, suggests to me that this page was just an idea which apple was toying with, rather than an actual offical page of support.
You know, the Apple/Alternative OS relationship is an interesting one. Apple sells some great hardware, but seems to have concerns that it can only stay in business if it maintains a large base of consumers to purchase its products. To tell you the truth, I can't entirely disagree with that. My G3 has really never needed any new Apple Software because I could always get something free for Linux.
Apple has a warm relationship with YDL. This is obvious by YDL's many mention in various Apple articles. It has a nice one with Linux/PPC, largely I think because it likes the developement of hardware support that the Linux/PPC effort is doing. And they seem to have a cool one with BeOS.
I think it is obvious that ppclinux.apple.com was not an official site and I don't think it'll be back.
The long and short of the situation is that Apple doesn't want to lose its population of desktop users. It cannot survive just selling hardware. The reason it supports YDL is because it's mainly a server system rather than a desktop system. And I think this will stop as OS X becomes more popular. The reasons it helps Linux/PPC developers is because it likes the developement, but I doubt it'll ever advertise Linux/PPC on its site as an alternative OS. And Apple will never like BeOS because it's too close to its own Operating System: A mainly client OS, with a focus on multimedia capabilities.
This is all really a pity. BeOS is superior to MacOS in many ways. It's the only closed source Operating System I have ever used which matched up to and occasionally even surpassed Linux and BSD. I have no doubt that the creators of BeOS are smart enough to support the G3, but I understand their fear of what Apple might do if they tried. I think Apple will continue to support Linux developers because it knows that there are a lot of people who will find macs more attractive with better Linux support. But I think that sometime soon Apple's going to lose a lot of customers because Linux/PPC is more attractive and better than their own Operating System.
And I don't really know what to think about that.
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Lagos - White Rabbit of Linux
It's ultimately also a principle of stability and user base. More users are using Linux than OpenBSD. More importantly it's user base is growing faster than other. And user base counts for a lot in a UNIX-like environment where things are constantly being updated and improved.
The reason I would choose Linux in this situation over NetBSD, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD is simple: The open software principle has worked very well; however, it requires many developers in order for it to function. By using Linux, NASA ensures that it won't be stuck with legacy code or a lack of appropiate utilities, because chances are someone somewhere is developing it. Even though BSD systems are more efficent in some regards, they simply don't have the community to draw upon that Linux will have in another 2 years. And we'll see who's more efficent then....
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Lagos - White Rabbit of Linux
I love linux. It's neat and fun and spiffy. I can keep it running for weeks on end and update every two minutes.
And yet....
I sometimes feel that all it's reliability and stability is ultimately derived from the way I *can* continually update, recompile, and reconfigure. In other words, my linux box has always been a kind of work in progress for me. And I think it always will be. Despite all the stories of "I got an old Slackware Box in the back room, for three years collecting dust and serving web sites, as free as contact as a leper", I always seem to be tweaking something.
Is this really what we want in our Space Shuttle? I mean, upgrades, bandwidth, and experts aren't exactly as common as space dust (despite the radio show of our intrepid founders, I still think it would be hard to find a geek in space). We want to use systems that are set up to run as is-- statically.
On the other hand, what's the alternative? Unlike most other operating systems, it *is* possible to configure Linux and BSD to support what you want and only what you want. This could lead to incredible stability. Maybe BeOS comes close. So I guess as long as NASA makes sure we're not going to have a "Hey, I got the angband package, but it looks like we forgot the math and science packages" situation, I guess this is good news.
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Lagos - White Rabbit of Linux