This one's annoyed me too (PS files print finee, but show up as a big empty square).
But hold on a sec: how many people import vector graphics? How many people don't, but would only consider OpenOffice if it looked the same as all other apps?
Yes, its annoying. All software has annoyances. I'm confident the OOo guys will fix it. But just because an app doesn't fix your personal bug straightaway doesn't mean it's useless.
Red Hat does most of the work on Fedora. Report a bug in Fedora, and a RH engineer will fix it. RHEL uses the same packages as Fedora - no more, no less. It's just updated less often and supported for a longer time.
A good thing, as Linux binary compatibility tends to change more frequently than many folk would like.
Don't forget that Redhat's CEO Matthew Szulik Also recommended that desktop users use Windows instead of Linux around the time that they dropped their desktop distributions in order to focus on enterprise Linux.
Do you really, honestly think that Linux is ready for aunt tillie?
And no, Red Hat never dropped any distro. They've always had a desktop product and still do - RHEL3/4 desktop if you want to pay for support, and FC / CentOS if you don't.
The author is essentially blackmailing the F/OSS community by refusing to release the source unless a benefactor comes forward to fund him.
You're begging the question: how on earth does that equate to blackmail? Blackmail usually involves the perpetrator doing something negative. Fabrice has done something wonderful, which you can run without an non OSS apps. If you choose to however, you can use his other wonderful thing, which is prprietary until someone pays him for it. A pretty decent thing: having the ability to run Windows apps inside Linux is somethign a lot of commercial Linux distros would benefit from. Good on Fabrice for making some rent.
If he is successful it will only encourage others to try the same tactic.
Get paid for their work? Or Open Source cool apps if they're paid?
Awesome.
VMWare workstation is, BTW, incredibly overpriced.
1) Remembering windows size/positions. This drives me nuts. I've read that the reasoning behind this is for the most efficient use of the desktop (e.g. you launch a 2nd term and it positions itself beside the 1st term instead of overlapping). Sounds good, but in practice it makes me a less efficient user. Back in my windows days, I liked that whenever I launched the file browser it was always in the same position where I left it. I could rely on this and be ready to click whereever I needed. Same with the file dialog, calculator or whereever. I EXPECTED them to be in a certain position and thus I could work faster/more efficiently.
Are you saying that your desktop is rememberiong your window positions and you don't like it? or Are you saying it's not and you wish it did?
It doesn't even work properly with modems it supports. I have a modem with a proper Linux driver, and it still crashes all the time, and only connects at half speed.
I suggest your own personal experiences may not be universal.
No, it depends on the interface. OpenOffice looks like the programmers put the interface on as an afterthought when they'd rather be thinking about 'cool' features...
Because OpenOffice and Microsoft Office have such different interfaces.
By the way, here on Fedora OpenOffice has nice full color icons like any other Gnome app. And on a Suse box, it looks like a crystal KDE app.
Last time I checked, MacOS was black and white.
Wait, software can change? I don't understand...
Arguing whether Linux or the Mac are better for games is like arguing which dwarf is tallest.
Being that the games you can play on Linux PC that you can't play on Mac often sell more than any other game in a year...no.
You're still using a modem in 2005? OK, if you are, you'll have to fetch a driver package, but Linux works with most Winmodems these days.
The Red Hat default firewall is pretty damn reliable, and has been in place for years now. Your claim of it being lucky 'if it works' isn't borne from experience - mines, yours or others. If you want to reconfigure it, click System Settings -> Security. Not hard.
Whether MS Office or OpenOffice is better really depends on the features. Like OSX and Linux, really, which is the point of my troll response. If you want the ability to create PDFs out of the box, and not lose data when you export to XML, or save presentations in Flash, OpenOffice'd be better.
Er, as I mentioned earlier, Linux on a PC has the advantage of being able to play Windows games. HL2, Far Cry, etc.
For a dual booter, MaxOS definitely does updates worse - different tools for different apps, and updates sometimes requires. iTunes has weird rules about letting you upgrade your PC. You can play less games on it.
It has advantages too, but since this thread is being run by a bunch of drolling black and white OSX good Linux bad folk, I'm sure someone else will be able to point them out.
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This one's annoyed me too (PS files print finee, but show up as a big empty square).
But hold on a sec: how many people import vector graphics? How many people don't, but would only consider OpenOffice if it looked the same as all other apps?
Yes, its annoying. All software has annoyances. I'm confident the OOo guys will fix it. But just because an app doesn't fix your personal bug straightaway doesn't mean it's useless.
Sluggish to he point where the average user would think it has crashed, in my experience.
Crap. You're just biting the hand that rocks the cradle of love, anyway.
Red Hat does most of the work on Fedora. Report a bug in Fedora, and a RH engineer will fix it. RHEL uses the same packages as Fedora - no more, no less. It's just updated less often and supported for a longer time.
A good thing, as Linux binary compatibility tends to change more frequently than many folk would like.
Don't forget that Redhat's CEO Matthew Szulik Also recommended that desktop users use Windows instead of Linux around the time that they dropped their desktop distributions in order to focus on enterprise Linux.
Do you really, honestly think that Linux is ready for aunt tillie?
And no, Red Hat never dropped any distro. They've always had a desktop product and still do - RHEL3/4 desktop if you want to pay for support, and FC / CentOS if you don't.
You seem to be saying that being an Enterprise distro that people will pay money for is a conflict with being a production OS.
Right.
If you're saying something else, then beg your pardon, I've clearly missed something.
You know your retarded friend that always hears your joke subconsciously, then repeats the same thing two minutes later, thinking its new?
Slashdot is that friend.
The moderators are your retarded friend's even more retarded friends who missed it the first time and laugh.
The author is essentially blackmailing the F/OSS community by refusing to release the source unless a benefactor comes forward to fund him.
You're begging the question: how on earth does that equate to blackmail? Blackmail usually involves the perpetrator doing something negative. Fabrice has done something wonderful, which you can run without an non OSS apps. If you choose to however, you can use his other wonderful thing, which is prprietary until someone pays him for it. A pretty decent thing: having the ability to run Windows apps inside Linux is somethign a lot of commercial Linux distros would benefit from. Good on Fabrice for making some rent.
If he is successful it will only encourage others to try the same tactic.
Get paid for their work? Or Open Source cool apps if they're paid?
Awesome.
VMWare workstation is, BTW, incredibly overpriced.
It's a simple case of "You don't get a free gift unless you're our customer."
Of, you don't get what you're entitled to (since its nearly impossible to buy a PC without Windows) unless you use it the way we say.
Yeah, of course I'm whiny, I was actually complaining about something. Not sure where but if you say so I'm sure it's true.
You fucking idiot.
1) Remembering windows size/positions. This drives me nuts. I've read that the reasoning behind this is for the most efficient use of the desktop (e.g. you launch a 2nd term and it positions itself beside the 1st term instead of overlapping). Sounds good, but in practice it makes me a less efficient user. Back in my windows days, I liked that whenever I launched the file browser it was always in the same position where I left it. I could rely on this and be ready to click whereever I needed. Same with the file dialog, calculator or whereever. I EXPECTED them to be in a certain position and thus I could work faster/more efficiently.
Are you saying that your desktop is rememberiong your window positions and you don't like it? or Are you saying it's not and you wish it did?
Here (FC3), Gnome 2.8 remembers window positions.
Perhaps you should take a pass at reading your comment a second time.
Because its the technology being described in the article
Because your post is about different rendering systems and whether they use OpenGL. The thing I linked to is about X and OpenGL.
Er, not 'E17 won'. 'E17 won't be going anywhere'.
Nice typo.
E17 is software based rendering for Enlightenment and its apps only.
This is hardware based rendering for all X apps.
Getting rid of application size dependencies on screen resolution
Absolutely necessary for high-resolution displays, which may actually finally get to the same quality that peoper is in the next 10 years.
From what I've read, due to improper order in their rendering pipeline, OSX still doesn't do this acceptably. Cairo will.
XGL, also known as X they way it should have been (and will be)
A work around:
Ctrl Alt +, Ctrl Alt -
Fixes the rendering.
cat already accepts stdin on Unix.
;^).
What'd be more interesting is tac - which works like cat, except backwards
No, you don't. No, I wasn't.
Cedega. GIYF.
You fucking arrogant elitist bastard.
*chuckles* Yeah, I'm an arrogant elitist.
It doesn't even work properly with modems it supports. I have a modem with a proper Linux driver, and it still crashes all the time, and only connects at half speed.
I suggest your own personal experiences may not be universal.
No, it depends on the interface. OpenOffice looks like the programmers put the interface on as an afterthought when they'd rather be thinking about 'cool' features...
Because OpenOffice and Microsoft Office have such different interfaces.
By the way, here on Fedora OpenOffice has nice full color icons like any other Gnome app. And on a Suse box, it looks like a crystal KDE app.
Last time I checked, MacOS was black and white.
Wait, software can change? I don't understand...
Arguing whether Linux or the Mac are better for games is like arguing which dwarf is tallest.
Being that the games you can play on Linux PC that you can't play on Mac often sell more than any other game in a year...no.
You're still using a modem in 2005? OK, if you are, you'll have to fetch a driver package, but Linux works with most Winmodems these days.
The Red Hat default firewall is pretty damn reliable, and has been in place for years now. Your claim of it being lucky 'if it works' isn't borne from experience - mines, yours or others. If you want to reconfigure it, click System Settings -> Security. Not hard.
Whether MS Office or OpenOffice is better really depends on the features. Like OSX and Linux, really, which is the point of my troll response. If you want the ability to create PDFs out of the box, and not lose data when you export to XML, or save presentations in Flash, OpenOffice'd be better.
Er, as I mentioned earlier, Linux on a PC has the advantage of being able to play Windows games. HL2, Far Cry, etc.
For a dual booter, MaxOS definitely does updates worse - different tools for different apps, and updates sometimes requires. iTunes has weird rules about letting you upgrade your PC. You can play less games on it.
It has advantages too, but since this thread is being run by a bunch of drolling black and white OSX good Linux bad folk, I'm sure someone else will be able to point them out.
I am are more than willing to pay for... Counter Stike, Half Life and NFS Underground.
Bah, Linux has had NFS for ages. The latest Fedora even comes with version 4!
i mean seriously, who would buy a mac mini just to put on debian?
Dunno, I brought mine for Fedora. But the Shuttle PCs are about the size of five or six minis placed end to end. The mini hardware is much nicer.
Score -1, uses a dictionary definition rather than arguing a point.
Also it seems as if he's never used iTunes.