...and yes, it is that cool. I checked out the cvs version about three weeks ago, looked at the demo application and was very impressed.
EVAS has three modes for rendering: Hardware Accellerated using OpenGL, Software only using various X windows extensions to speed things up, and X lib only for compatiblility with the lowest common denominator.
I'm away from my linux box right now, so the next paragraph is from memory, and by now raster might have added more features and speed.
The EVAS demo I looked at showed off all the features of evas like anitaliased text, alpha blending, image scaling, and so forth. When in Hardware mode, I was able to get around 80 FPS on my system with a Pentium 2 350 and a tnt 2 ultra (by todays standards, this is not an impressive system), in software mode the speed dropped to arounf 20 fps (comparable to the other canvases ive seen), xlib mode was slower, and the image quality was horrible, but the point of xlib mode is not for speed or quality but compatiblity.
Raster's plan is to use EVAS to accelerate E 17 and EFM (Enlightenment's intergrated file manager). With hardware acelleration, E 17 shoud slimply rock.
What I would like to see now, is for evas to be incorporated into other canvases, like the gnome canvas, whatever kde's canvas is, and java 2d. That would rock even more. --
While it would be cool to have linux running natively on curusoe, this would be very bad. If we can compile linux naviely, we can compile any other random program natively, and tmta ends up in the same situation that intel may get themselves into with merced^H^H^H^H^H^Hitanium, where they cant make large changes to their chips without breaking every program compiled for it.
Dave Ditzel [sic] discussed this at the press confrence in Jan. and he said that there is and there will never be a way for anything but the code morphing software to run natively
Excellent post, but just to nitpick: The only code that runs natively on curusoe is the code morphing software. Linux is compiled normally for the i386 ISA, and doesnt know that its running on a vliw chip.
So, whenever transmeta develops a new chip, they have to rebuild their code morphing software, but thats all.
IANAAE (I Am Not An Aeronautical Engineer), but I remember reading that most airliners are already strong enough to do loops and dogfight and stuff. The story i remember hearing is that when the 747 was being first tested, the test pilot took it through a barrel-roll after the prototype had passed all the normal tests. Now that's something i'd love to see! --
I saw X-Men, and I liked it alot even though I never got into comic books as a kid. I can tell from the movie that there is alot of stuff in the X-Men universe that wasnt explored by the movie, which makes me kinda want to start reading the comic books.
So here's my question for the/. comic book guys, how should I start reading the X-Men comics (or any other series)? Should I just pick up the current issue and start reading? Or would it be better to get some of the earlier issues in a book or something? (older issues of popular comics do get bound into large volumes right?)
I remember that there was one in Sewer Shock (if i remember the name right, it was one of the first (and only) Sega CD games) where if you put the cd into a cd player there was a track of voices saying "number nine" in reverse several times. --
Unfourtunately one of the rules of the breakup would be that if you own more than 4 or 5 percent of microsofts stock, you would only be allowed to own stock in one of the new companies, not both. --
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Agreed, Princess Mononoke (aka Mononoke Hime) is possibly the best anime i've ever seen. --
Great, just great. I have finals next week, and now instead of studying, i'm going to be playing with these drivers all week. Thanks alot nvidia.;)
Seriously, this a a Good Thing, i've been waiting more than a year for these drivers, and had almost lost faith in nvidia ever releasing them. I saw a demo of a geforce in linux with an earlyier verision of these drivers at LinuxWorld and it was were very very fast. Now i wont have to trade my tnt2 for a G400. --
It probably will be one big window that replaces your mac desktop. But it is possible to have X clients coexisting with native windows. The Xwin32 server for windows can do this. --
Actually i belive that John Carmack is working on a port of XFree86. He has a port for MacOS Server already working, and has said that once XFree86 4.0 comes out, he will work on a version for darwin and MacOS X. --
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...and yes, it is that cool. I checked out the cvs version about three weeks ago, looked at the demo application and was very impressed.
EVAS has three modes for rendering: Hardware Accellerated using OpenGL, Software only using various X windows extensions to speed things up, and X lib only for compatiblility with the lowest common denominator.
I'm away from my linux box right now, so the next paragraph is from memory, and by now raster might have added more features and speed.
The EVAS demo I looked at showed off all the features of evas like anitaliased text, alpha blending, image scaling, and so forth. When in Hardware mode, I was able to get around 80 FPS on my system with a Pentium 2 350 and a tnt 2 ultra (by todays standards, this is not an impressive system), in software mode the speed dropped to arounf 20 fps (comparable to the other canvases ive seen), xlib mode was slower, and the image quality was horrible, but the point of xlib mode is not for speed or quality but compatiblity.
Raster's plan is to use EVAS to accelerate E 17 and EFM (Enlightenment's intergrated file manager). With hardware acelleration, E 17 shoud slimply rock.
What I would like to see now, is for evas to be incorporated into other canvases, like the gnome canvas, whatever kde's canvas is, and java 2d. That would rock even more.
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Don't forget Street fighter 2 for snes, The Code puts you into ``championship mode'', where both players can play the same character.
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While it would be cool to have linux running natively on curusoe, this would be very bad. If we can compile linux naviely, we can compile any other random program natively, and tmta ends up in the same situation that intel may get themselves into with merced^H^H^H^H^H^Hitanium, where they cant make large changes to their chips without breaking every program compiled for it.
Dave Ditzel [sic] discussed this at the press confrence in Jan. and he said that there is and there will never be a way for anything but the code morphing software to run natively
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Excellent post, but just to nitpick: The only code that runs natively on curusoe is the code morphing software. Linux is compiled normally for the i386 ISA, and doesnt know that its running on a vliw chip.
So, whenever transmeta develops a new chip, they have to rebuild their code morphing software, but thats all.
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So when is Python 2.0 going into Woody? Anyone know? Right now all we have is 1.5.2
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IANAAE (I Am Not An Aeronautical Engineer), but I remember reading that most airliners are already strong enough to do loops and dogfight and stuff. The story i remember hearing is that when the 747 was being first tested, the test pilot took it through a barrel-roll after the prototype had passed all the normal tests. Now that's something i'd love to see!
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Bah, i an beat that user number.
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Nice .sig. That really cracked me up :)
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So here's my question for the /. comic book guys, how should I start reading the X-Men comics (or any other series)? Should I just pick up the current issue and start reading? Or would it be better to get some of the earlier issues in a book or something? (older issues of popular comics do get bound into large volumes right?)
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I remember that there was one in Sewer Shock (if i remember the name right, it was one of the first (and only) Sega CD games) where if you put the cd into a cd player there was a track of voices saying "number nine" in reverse several times.
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Unfourtunately one of the rules of the breakup would be that if you own more than 4 or 5 percent of microsofts stock, you would only be allowed to own stock in one of the new companies, not both.
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Agreed, Princess Mononoke (aka Mononoke Hime) is possibly the best anime i've ever seen.
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Seriously, this a a Good Thing, i've been waiting more than a year for these drivers, and had almost lost faith in nvidia ever releasing them. I saw a demo of a geforce in linux with an earlyier verision of these drivers at LinuxWorld and it was were very very fast. Now i wont have to trade my tnt2 for a G400.
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maybe, but there are three slashes in the url right now, so three dots give a nice symmetry :)
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Does anyone know if Quicktime 4.0 for windows runs well in wine?
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We're getting there people!
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It probably will be one big window that replaces your mac desktop. But it is possible to have X clients coexisting with native windows. The Xwin32 server for windows can do this.
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Actually i belive that John Carmack is working on a port of XFree86. He has a port for MacOS Server already working, and has said that once XFree86 4.0 comes out, he will work on a version for darwin and MacOS X.
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I think he may have meant to say ".5 Gighertz Per Athalon" and just left out the decimal point.
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I would have gone to the bazzar in a heartbeat, but it was timed poorly for many college students. The bazzar conflicted badly with finals week.