I take it you don't have a nForce motherboard? Because they work quite fine out of the box with 2.6.x kernels. As for the display drivers, yes, they take some extra fiddling upon install every now and then. While this is not ideal, at least you get good 3D performance (not like "that other manufacturer" in Linux;-). And you can use the default X driver if you don't need 3d acceleration, which is open source.
Our project is nearing completion and there is no way we will be porting it to Linux at the moment, because of time and monetary constraints.
Had you been using OpenGL and something like SDL for audio it would be quite trivial. Case in point, Doom 3. I'm not sure what they use for audio, but they certainly use OpenGL.
...which didn't have an analogue synth. The sound chip (the beloved SID) did include a multi-mode analogue filter (which could only be used on one oscillator out of three), but the oscillators were digitally generated waveforms, not even DCOs (i.e. analogue oscillators driven by a digital clock, like Juno-106 for example). Which is not to say it wouldn't sound nice, it certainly does. But analogue, hardly.
Mods, come on, that's hardly a flamebait. I for one found it informative, although I'd phrase it "more common metric system" (common as in the rest of the world, I do know most slashdotters are from the States)
4. Font compatibility with Microsoft Office and Openoffice.org and/or StarOffice.
I have no problems using TTF fonts should I want to.
7. Device management for hardware compatibility.
I'm not quite sure what this is supposed to mean, but there are several distributions that offer very good hardware detection and a "control panel"-type of view/configuration of your hardware.
8. Compatible Windows Media player Codecs.
Mplayer. Although their legal status can rightfully be questioned.
I'm sure someone with more experience on Windows<->Linux networking can fill up the rest. So I recon the question should be why use Windows, 'just because'? IMHO Linux would make a lot of sense on a corporate desktop (less fiddling with malware and viruses, no more solitaire). Home users, no, not yet. Soon though (I've heard next year is going to be _the_ year of the Linux desktop;-)
Why on earth would one want to download >4GB ISOs with a browser? I'm not questioning what you are saying as I've never tried to do such a thing with Firefox, but really, what's the point? Why not wget it?
Apparently yes. But that doesn't mean the situation is similiar in the rest of the world. I get full coverage (in Finland) in cities, and even in rural areas you can certainly make or recieve calls, albeit with a lower quality. And this country is certainly not densely populated. So blame your provider.
Another site (with over 450,000 votes so far) can be found here. Currently only Niger and Pitcaim are in favour of Bush. No, I did not forget Poland;-)
You're joking of course, but I recall a while back my gf's little brother (11 years old) asked what are the fastest computers on earth. So I decided I'd try to be educational, showed him the list on top500.org, and tried my best to explain what Gflops mean. And what does he ask?
"How fast would a machine like that load the front page of Google?"
"I don't think that Debian can really compete with Gentoo. Sure it might be okay, but when it comes to dependencies, you probably are still going to have to get them all on your own. Or is there something like portage in the Debian world as well?"
Just amazing:-) (for the record, I have nothing against Gentoo. It's the very vocal fanbase I have issues with)
Perhaps by looking at American television? We get our fair share of imported series. For example, CSI will start in an hour. Now granted, it's no "Battle Royale", but it still can be quite violent. I'm not saying most grotesk scenes wouldn't be edited, just saying that compared to the level of violence displayed, some partial nudity or swearing wouldn't be any worse. IMHO.
Whoever gains power in Iraq has an effect on the US. Whoever has power in China has an effect on the US. We have no say in those decisions
Hello? Reality check? Last time I looked you had quite a bit of say on who gains power in Iraq. Now I'm not saying Saddam wasn't bad, but a) the current situation seems to be worse and b) if you want to be the world police, at least be consistent. I mean really, Pakistan? Home of civil liberties and democracy? Not having any nuclear arms? (hint: in case you didn't know, they do) So why not "liberate" them as well? (yes, I know, they don't have any oil)
Regardless of how popular Stern is, the public is not well-served by his language or on-air antics.
This has always been very amusing for me about the US: you can't swear on broadcast media, nor can you show any nudity (a nipple, god forbid!). But it's totally fine to show violence as much as you like. Personally I'd find a nipple (or the occasional "fuck/shit/etc") to be much less harmful to children than showing people get shot/stabbed/axed/etc in most graphical ways. But then again, I'm not from the US.
It runs the Catamount Microkernel as the kernel, and uses SUSE for everything else (so we have SUSE Linux, without the Linux - all of a sudden that GNU/Linux stuff starts to make sense)
Funny should you mention, I _do_ use Mandrake. But I take it you tried 9.x series of the OS (since you were talking about a christmas) - the "forcedeth" drivers (i.e. nForce networking) are included in the 2.6 series of the kernel, but AFAIK they are not a part of the 2.4 series. Hmm, perhaps I should rephrase; with a 2.6.x kernel things worked out of the box. This is partially understandable; although nForce mobos are hardly new, kernel developers have to constanly play catching up with new hardware as the manufacturers aren't usually very supportive. As a result, the latest hardware isn't supported.
Which brings up another point. Yes, you have to be a bit selective about hardware, before you buy it's wise to check that it is supported. And you probably won't get the latest and greatest (I bet it'll take quite a while for example for the new nForce4 chipset to be supported). But once hardware is supported in Linux, I've found it to work extremely well and reliably - and yes, out of the box.
Nonetheless, the hardware support of even the latest Linux distributions is inferior to that of Windows or even Mac OS X
Huh? I don't know what you're smoking but pass it on, it seems like very decent stuff. Ever tried a fresh install of any OS, out of the box? Granted, I don't own/use Macs, but with Windows I have to install lots of drivers that are specific to my hardware. Case in point, I recently bought me a Shuttle SN41G2. When installing Windows not only had I to install drivers for my hardware (and reboot every fscking time in between), I had to use drivers that were supplied by the manufacturer. Linux, on the other hand, had the network, audio and video running immediately. So how exactly the hardware support inferior?
No one considered slavery to be bad until "very recently" (recently being a very relative term). Women had no rights until "very recently". Just because we've been stupid in the past doesn't mean we should be stupid in the future as well, right?
As someone who has a reasonable understanding of "modern security measures", I don't do any online financial stuff.
As someone who also has a reasonable understanding of "modern security measures", I do online bank transfers regularly. I don't know how it works on your side of the pond (the Atlantic, that is), but I log to my banks web site (via https, it will automatically redirect if you try regular http), type in my user code and passcode (the latter can be changed). Then, should I want to make a transaction, I'm prompted with a dialog telling me to enter a 4-digit code corresponding to an index. These are sent to you by mail, and are disposable; i.e. you first are prompted to enter digits at index #1, then #2 and so on. When you reach #100 you can delete the list, at #90 you are given an option to order more codes.
Now naturally there are idiots who keep the usedcode, passcode and disposable codes in one place. Hell, there are users who keep their passwords on one single file/piece of paper. "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." But I don't find it hard to remember my usedcode and passcode, so should I lose the disposable codes it wouldn't do much harm; the usercode is eight digits, and the passcode can be four to eight digits. By the time a possible attacker could have cracked them I will certainly have those disposable codes invalidated.
But then again, I don't know how these things are handled over there.
Not commenting about China or India, but see this
coverage on BBC. Notice the phrase "Brazil hopes the successful launch will push forward its plans to sell 15 of its VSV-30 rockets to the European Space Agency." Perhaps selling those rockets/renting launch facilities will provide more money to spend on social programs?
I'm affraid seeds won't do much good with hydroponics. However, a good batch of high quality cuttings would certainly make space travel much more interesting:-)
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I take it you don't have a nForce motherboard? Because they work quite fine out of the box with 2.6 .x kernels. As for the display drivers, yes, they take some extra fiddling upon install every now and then. While this is not ideal, at least you get good 3D performance (not like "that other manufacturer" in Linux ;-). And you can use the default X driver if you don't need 3d acceleration, which is open source.
Or if you like the originals and enjoy net radio, check out Kohina.
Mods, come on, that's hardly a flamebait. I for one found it informative, although I'd phrase it "more common metric system" (common as in the rest of the world, I do know most slashdotters are from the States)
This has probably to do with the fact that Galeon uses Gecko (the rendering engine in Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird/etc)
I'm sure someone with more experience on Windows<->Linux networking can fill up the rest. So I recon the question should be why use Windows, 'just because'? IMHO Linux would make a lot of sense on a corporate desktop (less fiddling with malware and viruses, no more solitaire). Home users, no, not yet. Soon though (I've heard next year is going to be _the_ year of the Linux desktop ;-)
Why on earth would one want to download >4GB ISOs with a browser? I'm not questioning what you are saying as I've never tried to do such a thing with Firefox, but really, what's the point? Why not wget it?
Another site (with over 450,000 votes so far) can be found here. Currently only Niger and Pitcaim are in favour of Bush. No, I did not forget Poland ;-)
"How fast would a machine like that load the front page of Google?"
I was speechless.
"I don't think that Debian can really compete with Gentoo. Sure it might be okay, but when it comes to dependencies, you probably are still going to have to get them all on your own. Or is there something like portage in the Debian world as well?"
Just amazing :-) (for the record, I have nothing against Gentoo. It's the very vocal fanbase I have issues with)
Perhaps by looking at American television? We get our fair share of imported series. For example, CSI will start in an hour. Now granted, it's no "Battle Royale", but it still can be quite violent. I'm not saying most grotesk scenes wouldn't be edited, just saying that compared to the level of violence displayed, some partial nudity or swearing wouldn't be any worse. IMHO.
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Which brings up another point. Yes, you have to be a bit selective about hardware, before you buy it's wise to check that it is supported. And you probably won't get the latest and greatest (I bet it'll take quite a while for example for the new nForce4 chipset to be supported). But once hardware is supported in Linux, I've found it to work extremely well and reliably - and yes, out of the box.
No one considered slavery to be bad until "very recently" (recently being a very relative term). Women had no rights until "very recently". Just because we've been stupid in the past doesn't mean we should be stupid in the future as well, right?
Now naturally there are idiots who keep the usedcode, passcode and disposable codes in one place. Hell, there are users who keep their passwords on one single file/piece of paper. "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." But I don't find it hard to remember my usedcode and passcode, so should I lose the disposable codes it wouldn't do much harm; the usercode is eight digits, and the passcode can be four to eight digits. By the time a possible attacker could have cracked them I will certainly have those disposable codes invalidated.
But then again, I don't know how these things are handled over there.
Not commenting about China or India, but see this coverage on BBC. Notice the phrase "Brazil hopes the successful launch will push forward its plans to sell 15 of its VSV-30 rockets to the European Space Agency." Perhaps selling those rockets/renting launch facilities will provide more money to spend on social programs?
I'm affraid seeds won't do much good with hydroponics. However, a good batch of high quality cuttings would certainly make space travel much more interesting :-)