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Ok, so let's see: windows doesn't come with divx codecs, neither nvidia/ati accelerated drivers (at least not for the latest cards). So I'm sure this lack of multimedia stuff already suplied on the distro is not the major obstacle in the path to Linux world domination. And, btw, if this is so, why isn't Mandrake the king of Linux desktop distros?
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Do you guys think the Gentoo people form a community inside the slashdot community and they moderate each other in order to gain good karma and spread the "Gentoo gospel"? Because the above comment looks exactly like that to me.
Check out the future Longhorn:) I bet you will get an entire new understanding of the "bloat" concept... And don't tell me you'd rather download emacs, openoffice, kde (or gnome) and everything else, just because you want it all on one cd... (BTW, checkout Slackware 9.1, it's very nice distro on one cd...)
ECMA is not proprietary, Mozilla has Python bindings (among others) and communication with a webserver doesn't have to be only through the regular http protocol. An XML based protocol for marshaling data between application server / client application can be used to have a very rich client.
Not true. If you're a non-profit, like I am, then you can create a new station with 50$ (including monitor) and 15 minutes of your time (P2 266, 32-64 Mb Ram and a switched 100M network). You don't need a full Linux distribution. Upgrading apps on 20 stations is as easy as upgrading only one:) centralized management (through ltsp.conf), easy replacement if something fails, single point of backup, etc. It's really that good.
As long as the Mac reads and writes Jouliet, ISO and FAT, it has TCP/IP stack, SMB suport, can read and write standard office productivity files (PDF, Microsoft Word, etc), than it's not alone in its little world...
If you're a Linux user on dial-up conection, you probably don't need any security patches. You don't run Internet services, you don't expose ports to the world, etc. And there are only a few viruses and worms that can infect your linux box, and that takes a lot of coincidence (in libraries, services installed, etc).
If you're an XP user, you're out of luck. You have the Outlook Express that gets you infected every time a new virus is released, right now with Sasser you just have to be conected to the internet to get infected, etc. Microsoft is pushing at this time about 3 security patches/day, so I would say, yeah, the situation is quite a lot different.
I don't know about you, but to me it seems: Linux ~= Apple on the desktop market Linux > BSD & Apple on the server market. So it's clear that Linux wins.
In terms of init scripts, "light feeling", yes, it' s the best for a server. But for desktop, one might prefer Fedora, it has a lot more outside support (like ready made packages by various software developers, etc).
I hope you know about the great future ODE has:). Softimage has incorporated hard-body dynamics into the brand new version 4 of their flagship product Softimage XSI, by including ODE. One guy has worked on it and they are going to give back the changes. There was also talk about Softimage's customers (think ILM), who, having access to the source code, are going to modify and contribute to this library.
Actually those comercial softwares are a lot easier to use by those knowledgeble but beginers in bleder. Blender takes quite a lot to get used to (interface and quirks).
If i can read PDF on my screen, and I can write PDFs with my word procesors, means that I can potentially edit them also. Yeah, encapsulateed PostScript, but I'm sure someone could write an visual editor for Postscript...
Python is not that slow. Using psyco, you can get almost C-like speeds. I've seen benchmarks that showed this (right here on Slashdot). And for Zope there is a SpeedPack that integrates it with psyco...
Don't forget that you need a licence server and licences for every session of windows that runs through this server. If you have 4 clients, you need 4 licences.
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Ok, so let's see: windows doesn't come with divx codecs, neither nvidia/ati accelerated drivers (at least not for the latest cards). So I'm sure this lack of multimedia stuff already suplied on the distro is not the major obstacle in the path to Linux world domination. And, btw, if this is so, why isn't Mandrake the king of Linux desktop distros?
Do you guys think the Gentoo people form a community inside the slashdot community and they moderate each other in order to gain good karma and spread the "Gentoo gospel"? Because the above comment looks exactly like that to me.
Maybe because Inferno is not such a bad marketing idea. Discreet uses Inferno and Flame as names for some of its high end compositing applications.
Check out the future Longhorn :) I bet you will get an entire new understanding of the "bloat" concept... And don't tell me you'd rather download emacs, openoffice, kde (or gnome) and everything else, just because you want it all on one cd... (BTW, checkout Slackware 9.1, it's very nice distro on one cd...)
ECMA is not proprietary, Mozilla has Python bindings (among others) and communication with a webserver doesn't have to be only through the regular http protocol. An XML based protocol for marshaling data between application server / client application can be used to have a very rich client.
What if it has import/export capability for MS Office? And since when did Powerpoint became a standard for slideshows?
I bet even Microsoft know by now that this entire affair is stupid and for sure they would not waste any more money on this.
> Slashdot is dead. As long as you post here, not
Not true. If you're a non-profit, like I am, then you can create a new station with 50$ (including monitor) and 15 minutes of your time (P2 266, 32-64 Mb Ram and a switched 100M network). You don't need a full Linux distribution. Upgrading apps on 20 stations is as easy as upgrading only one :) centralized management (through ltsp.conf), easy replacement if something fails, single point of backup, etc. It's really that good.
It can boot of floppy. No rom or cd needed. Drive on! :)
As long as the Mac reads and writes Jouliet, ISO and FAT, it has TCP/IP stack, SMB suport, can read and write standard office productivity files (PDF, Microsoft Word, etc), than it's not alone in its little world...
You know, of course, that Opera has popup blocker, right?
What is so wrong with Sun keeping Solaris? It is, after all, a really good quality UNIX.
Why bother with MySQL? It only means one extra service running on the computer... Why not SQLite, Gadfly or even dbm?
True, but the situation is like this:
I don't know about you, but to me it seems:
Linux ~= Apple on the desktop market
Linux > BSD & Apple on the server market.
So it's clear that Linux wins.
In terms of init scripts, "light feeling", yes, it' s the best for a server. But for desktop, one might prefer Fedora, it has a lot more outside support (like ready made packages by various software developers, etc).
Is this a troll?
> Having never touched 3D software until Blender That is the problem. Coming from another package, the Blender interface and workflow is very weird.
I hope you know about the great future ODE has :). Softimage has incorporated hard-body dynamics into the brand new version 4 of their flagship product Softimage XSI, by including ODE. One guy has worked on it and they are going to give back the changes. There was also talk about Softimage's customers (think ILM), who, having access to the source code, are going to modify and contribute to this library.
Actually those comercial softwares are a lot easier to use by those knowledgeble but beginers in bleder. Blender takes quite a lot to get used to (interface and quirks).
If i can read PDF on my screen, and I can write PDFs with my word procesors, means that I can potentially edit them also. Yeah, encapsulateed PostScript, but I'm sure someone could write an visual editor for Postscript...
Python is not that slow. Using psyco, you can get almost C-like speeds. I've seen benchmarks that showed this (right here on Slashdot). And for Zope there is a SpeedPack that integrates it with psyco...
Try running Konqueror on Gnome without the Kdelibs and see how far you get. The grandparent post is right about this issue.
Don't forget that you need a licence server and licences for every session of windows that runs through this server. If you have 4 clients, you need 4 licences.