7zip is required to open.7z files which are superior to zip, rar, ace, etc. I also use it for.rar files, which the built in compression program in Ubuntu also cannot handle, or even suggest a plugin or upgrade.
I use Kubuntu (comes with KDE by default). If you install the 7zip console application, Ark (KDE's GUI compression utility) picks up on this and is capable of handling.7z files.
I've tried a FEW native snes emus, including zsnes. They all had pretty serious problems, and ran very poorly compared to zsnes on windows.
I have had superior performance with native znes under Linux actually.
Sue me! I'm really not trolling, but sometimes people get highly offended over honest constructive criticism for pride or emotional reasons.
Are you sure it's not over the name calling and vague criticism on that blog. Because I found the majority of 'stuff' on that blog were mostly just negative things to say out of spite rather than constructive.
I'm from Poland, I had the same pre-paid plan for....5 years now and you know what? I don't pay for recieving any sms.
Most countries don't require you to pay for recieving SMSes
What's more. I pay 0.4$ for sending sms to someone in my network and 14 to people in other networks. Ha! Now envy that! (and don't make fun of the fact that iPhones are 3 times as expensive here as in USA).
Nah, I'll stick to have unlimited skype calls on my mobile phone for free, along with free skype, yahoo and msn messaging. My plan which costs £12 gives me 100 SMSes a month too or phone minutes, along with 300 minutes of the first three minutes of every phone call being free - it's the only waste really, since I never use SMSes or regular phone calls.
Afaict, they don't have much of an "enterprise" market, and they don't have much of a "hacker" market... or am I wrong? What market is Mandriva serving these days?
What I really like best is I can use my Power pack (yes I'm a silver member) or I can use Mandriva-mini and, once I"ve set up the repositories, I can type "sudo urpmi mythtv-backend" and it all goes and works.
"sudo apt-get install mythtv" or if you want to dedicate the machine for mythtv stuff only.. you can use the packages mythbuntu-desktop / mythbuntu-diskless-client / mythbuntu-diskless-server / mythbuntu-diskless-server-standalone / mythbuntu-live depending on what you need.
Or if you prefer, download the specific Mythbuntu ISO images (it uses the ubuntu repositories for everything, it's just a different 'default setup' ISO).
I used to be a silver member in Mandrivaclub (two years back I think) - but I got a bit fedup having to pay for access to repositories that provide DKMS versions of proprietary nvidia drivers and such and I didn't like the 3rd party repositories for that stuff because they were messy. I stopped my subscription when I just got fedup of the whole thing and did my own packages. Then just started using Kubuntu instead of Mandriva on my desktops because installing those things was just a simple apt-get install command or using the graphical adept manager.
Ubuntu pretty much functions the same way with updates (bug fixes and security fixes) and upgrades (new versions of software).
For those who always like to be on the bleeding edge of everything, we have the backports repositories, which are probably the most extensive such of any distro.
Ubuntu has those too. The sad thing about Mandriva is that I had to use 3rd party repositories like Seer of souls because Mandriva doesn't supply the software I like to use - which I might add, Ubuntu has in their repositories.
So why don't we call it "KDE 4.0 Developer Edition" (as above post suggests) or "KDE 4.55" or "KDE Next"?
Personally - I don't care what you call it. I don't care what KDE names it either. The name and version isn't going to mean anything to me unless I find out what it is exactly.
Honestly, just taking a impression of what I'd think "KDE 4.0 Developer Edition" means, would mean it's something geared more towards of developers of some sort. Like movie developers or something.
"KDE 4.55" - New version of KDE?
"KDE Next" - A version of KDE that uses nextos stuff. Hell knows.
Perhaps proper "marketing" should of been in play, but then again KDE does not give directly to the user. They are upstream from Linux/BSD distributions and the distributions are the ones 'selling' the product.
Everybody sees the version number, but only those that read the KDE announcement understood that "4.0" really meant "not at all finished yet".
It's just a version number at the end of the day, it doesn't mean anything. I don't know why you people are attributing non-sense over version numbers. Even Microsoft does minor version changes like 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 for some major releases and that's considered a major OS release, even though if you were really following this logic of version numbers, it 'should' of been considered a minor release.
The official Kubuntu 8.04 CDs I have here come with KDE 3.5.9.
Kubuntu does not install KDE4 by default on their main Kubuntu distribution CD yet. They offer a alternative CD iso that gives it to you granted - But they even tell you that they don't support it and it shouldn't be used for production usage.
In my opinion, that doesn't count since the distribution does not ship it with their main distribution and use it by default (thank God, because I use Kubuntu and I don't want half functioning system).
More seriously, Apple does spend a lot of time thinking about user interface; much more than any open source project.
I'd like to see the evidence for this 'fact'.
Linux up until recent years is a fantastic example of what happens when coders have to design an interface (why do I want "gooey"?).
Every desktop application developer I have encountered (quite a few) really likes to use a GUI, so I don't agree here.
Now they're trying to ``sell'' it to the average user who's not interested in command line switches -- they want an intuitive graphical environment.
I've been a developer for god knows how many years and I wouldn't want command line switches over UI functionality. I get the impression you're just trolling Linux developers or you don't know what you are talking about.
The thing you don't understand about the majority of "average" users, is that they don't want a intuitive graphical environment, they want Windows (they can't tell you why - just feel more comfortable with something everyone else uses and what they are used to) and it to "just work" without any changes ever to the way they interact with the computer because they find it difficult as it is and tend to learn how to do things out of habit rather than anything else. They also, don't want to know about choices, they just want a appliance that works.
The OSS community have managed to build a better browser than IE, but how come they haven't been able to duplicate the Apple GUI experience?
There are OS X look-alikes and such in the FOSS world. It just seems people aren't interested in using them.
Or is there more to it than that, such as difference philosophies or lack of people with good a understanding of user psychology and graphic design principles?
A lot of Windows users I interact with on a daily basis have a extreme distaste for interacting with OS X (mostly because it's GUI seems so foreign). I have also heard plenty of complaints about the behavior of Apple applications under Windows (UI wise). So I think it might be Apple that lacks a good understanding of user psychology and graphic design principles. Hence why you don't see the majority of their GUIsh techniques used elsewhere.
Yeah, you could program most stuff on DOS. And put up with incompatible and glitchy graphics libraries just to have that arrow cursor and some minimal widgets for your app. You could write your own interrupt-based thread simulation, 'cause DOS didn't come with any support for that. And write your own spinlock semaphores at that, and wonder why your app deadlocks. You could still do your own pointer arithmetic to put up with 16 bit addressing in a world of gigabyte-sized data sets, and do your own shitty XMS/EMS block copying just to address more than 640 KB. You could even reimplement most of the network protocols and half the other libraries, because nobody else ported those libraries to DOS. Etc.
At least come up with a realistic implementation that someone would do. Such as implementing medical systems ontop of MontaVista or Lynuxworks and the problems you would have on those compared to doing it on Windows.
Right now, your 'argument' is just fluff to me.
Yeah, you could do that, just to willy-wave about your app not needing a full-featured OS at all.
I'm pretty sure people said 'bloat' not 'not needing a full-featured OS'. The systems I have mentioned are fully featured.
ok, so point out a central solution to have distribute calendaring, with email based appointment, shared address books, shared activities, and group management which could be installed in less than one day (which will basically rule out kolab, which is quite similar but offers a totally different user experience).
Some of the applications in the Windows suite are not available in the recent incarnations of the Mac version; but with the exception of Access, they're mostly niche applications.
I wouldn't consider enterprise and corporate functionality to be 'niche'. It's also another reason why Macs aren't adopted in the enterprise/corporations.
Looking at google analytics for some high traffic sites... No, don't really see that overwhelming majority of business users visiting to make a difference to be honest.
Looking at the browser versions, the amount of users that use IE6 definitely exceeds (by almost four times) the amount of users on business connections too. So I really doubt that this is something caused by big businesses.
Many financial houses have not upgraded to IE7. They will upgrade to IE7 when IE8 comes out. Really
I would say using a outdated version of IE is sad... But I find using IE is quite sad to begin with.
Most people in big companies cannot update their IExplorer. Updates come through when IT have verified them. It's a trade off between the security risk of an old browser and the risk of breaking the entire company if the update is bad. Most BIG COMPANIES use IExplorer. Nothing to see here folks.
Majority of website visitors tend to come from home internet connections, not business, so this is mostly irrelevant in my eyes. That said, I am not aware of any large companies that haven't upgraded IE to version 7.
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I use Kubuntu (comes with KDE by default). If you install the 7zip console application, Ark (KDE's GUI compression utility) picks up on this and is capable of handling .7z files.
I have had superior performance with native znes under Linux actually.
Are you sure it's not over the name calling and vague criticism on that blog. Because I found the majority of 'stuff' on that blog were mostly just negative things to say out of spite rather than constructive.
To the distribution you use.
I don't know of any average joe Linux users (and I know many) who use the terminal in Linux. They are quite satisfied though with it.
I will also note that there are users/developers like me who have no interest in 'mainstream'.
I wasn't aware that still went on (the lack of GUI for something). I can't even think of any specific cases at the moment.
Most countries don't require you to pay for recieving SMSes
Nah, I'll stick to have unlimited skype calls on my mobile phone for free, along with free skype, yahoo and msn messaging. My plan which costs £12 gives me 100 SMSes a month too or phone minutes, along with 300 minutes of the first three minutes of every phone call being free - it's the only waste really, since I never use SMSes or regular phone calls.
Have you tried the total commander layout in Konqueror?
Users who are still with us market.
"sudo apt-get install mythtv" or if you want to dedicate the machine for mythtv stuff only.. you can use the packages mythbuntu-desktop / mythbuntu-diskless-client / mythbuntu-diskless-server / mythbuntu-diskless-server-standalone / mythbuntu-live depending on what you need.
Or if you prefer, download the specific Mythbuntu ISO images (it uses the ubuntu repositories for everything, it's just a different 'default setup' ISO).
I used to be a silver member in Mandrivaclub (two years back I think) - but I got a bit fedup having to pay for access to repositories that provide DKMS versions of proprietary nvidia drivers and such and I didn't like the 3rd party repositories for that stuff because they were messy. I stopped my subscription when I just got fedup of the whole thing and did my own packages. Then just started using Kubuntu instead of Mandriva on my desktops because installing those things was just a simple apt-get install command or using the graphical adept manager.
Ubuntu pretty much functions the same way with updates (bug fixes and security fixes) and upgrades (new versions of software).
Ubuntu has those too. The sad thing about Mandriva is that I had to use 3rd party repositories like Seer of souls because Mandriva doesn't supply the software I like to use - which I might add, Ubuntu has in their repositories.
Personally - I don't care what you call it. I don't care what KDE names it either. The name and version isn't going to mean anything to me unless I find out what it is exactly.
Honestly, just taking a impression of what I'd think "KDE 4.0 Developer Edition" means, would mean it's something geared more towards of developers of some sort. Like movie developers or something.
"KDE 4.55" - New version of KDE?
"KDE Next" - A version of KDE that uses nextos stuff. Hell knows.
Perhaps proper "marketing" should of been in play, but then again KDE does not give directly to the user. They are upstream from Linux/BSD distributions and the distributions are the ones 'selling' the product.
It's just a version number at the end of the day, it doesn't mean anything. I don't know why you people are attributing non-sense over version numbers. Even Microsoft does minor version changes like 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 for some major releases and that's considered a major OS release, even though if you were really following this logic of version numbers, it 'should' of been considered a minor release.
The official Kubuntu 8.04 CDs I have here come with KDE 3.5.9.
Kubuntu does not install KDE4 by default on their main Kubuntu distribution CD yet. They offer a alternative CD iso that gives it to you granted - But they even tell you that they don't support it and it shouldn't be used for production usage.
In my opinion, that doesn't count since the distribution does not ship it with their main distribution and use it by default (thank God, because I use Kubuntu and I don't want half functioning system).
I'd like to see the evidence for this 'fact'.
Every desktop application developer I have encountered (quite a few) really likes to use a GUI, so I don't agree here.
I've been a developer for god knows how many years and I wouldn't want command line switches over UI functionality. I get the impression you're just trolling Linux developers or you don't know what you are talking about.
The thing you don't understand about the majority of "average" users, is that they don't want a intuitive graphical environment, they want Windows (they can't tell you why - just feel more comfortable with something everyone else uses and what they are used to) and it to "just work" without any changes ever to the way they interact with the computer because they find it difficult as it is and tend to learn how to do things out of habit rather than anything else. They also, don't want to know about choices, they just want a appliance that works.
I am pretty those distributions prompt you for what desktop environment you want to use, not use KDE4 by default.
There are OS X look-alikes and such in the FOSS world. It just seems people aren't interested in using them.
A lot of Windows users I interact with on a daily basis have a extreme distaste for interacting with OS X (mostly because it's GUI seems so foreign). I have also heard plenty of complaints about the behavior of Apple applications under Windows (UI wise). So I think it might be Apple that lacks a good understanding of user psychology and graphic design principles. Hence why you don't see the majority of their GUIsh techniques used elsewhere.
What distribution ships with KDE4 as the desktop by default? I'm not aware of any.
I didn't expect a feature complete KDE4.0, but that is because I actually read the announcements by the KDE team.
How does Vista have less features than XP and where does it lack functionality where XP has?
Why don't you just switch to Konqueror? KDE4 gives you that flexibility.
Maybe you should of quoted it then in your message like everyone else does.
Press button to receive bacon.
The iPhone is for a special kind of people. You aren't those people.
You need to be special.
At least come up with a realistic implementation that someone would do. Such as implementing medical systems ontop of MontaVista or Lynuxworks and the problems you would have on those compared to doing it on Windows.
Right now, your 'argument' is just fluff to me.
I'm pretty sure people said 'bloat' not 'not needing a full-featured OS'. The systems I have mentioned are fully featured.
Same here, I would choose Windows over Mac, because I really don't like the OS X interface. This is coming from someone who uses *nix stuff more.
Open xchange is my preferred solution.
I wouldn't consider enterprise and corporate functionality to be 'niche'. It's also another reason why Macs aren't adopted in the enterprise/corporations.
Looking at google analytics for some high traffic sites... No, don't really see that overwhelming majority of business users visiting to make a difference to be honest.
Looking at the browser versions, the amount of users that use IE6 definitely exceeds (by almost four times) the amount of users on business connections too. So I really doubt that this is something caused by big businesses.
I would say using a outdated version of IE is sad... But I find using IE is quite sad to begin with.
I just let my package manager worry about that.
Majority of website visitors tend to come from home internet connections, not business, so this is mostly irrelevant in my eyes. That said, I am not aware of any large companies that haven't upgraded IE to version 7.