If you look in the ~/.gvfs/ directory in a terminal you will find the mounts GNOME created. They would prefer you use GIO to access them but if your program doesn't support that just point it to the mount in there.
'In order to facilitate development, the files were uploaded to the ftp server (ftp.funet.fi) of the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) in September 1991. Ari Lemmke, Torvald's coworker at the HUT who was responsible for the servers at the time, did not feel Freax was a good name. Consequently, he dubbed the project "Linux" without consulting Torvalds.[citation needed] Later, however, Torvalds consented to "Linux": "After many arguments, he finally admitted that Linux was simply the better name. In the source code of version 0.01 of Linux, the name 'Freax' was still used in the makefile. Only later was the name Linux used. Thus the name actually not planned at all became generally accepted world-wide."'
The previous releases covered initializing the card, mode setting, 2D output, etc. That's a lot of stuff to cover. These docs are basically just on how to setup the 3D engine and feed it shaders.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
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I don't know about other bits of hardware but if you can make a video card that works flawlessly with the driver for nvidia or ATI cards both companies will be begging to give you large amounts of money.
The driver doesn't really tell you much, just how to interface with the hardware.
Sounds like about half of these are caused by you using compiz. This is really buggy in Ubuntu 7.04.
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Except that if you change an API you're responsible for updating all of the in tree users of that API as well. That's why getting your driver into the standard kernel is so important, it ensures API compatibility.
Wow, you got lucky. When I bought my dv8000t I had to pay extra to get a stock WinXP SP2 CD that doesn't even have drivers for my system. And when I got this laptop (April) it _was_ top of the line.
Broadcom should work in 6.06, will work better in 6.10, you just need to install the bcm43xx-fwcutter package and run the script that it installs.
If that Pavilion has nvidia (mine does) hibernate and suspend work much better in 6.10 (no hacks needed). You do have to disable "Native SATA Support" in your BIOS if you have that option though.
Most of the people with failed upgrades to 6.10 have used Automatix, EasyUbuntu, or compiz. These all come from 3rd parties and do things that break upgrades. Also, things can break if you installed your graphics drivers manually. You have to install the packaged version before upgrading. Otherwise things should go smoothly.
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That's not true, the Fall release of Ubuntu has always been in October. 4.10, 5.10, and now 6.10 are all October releases. I believe they started out releasing in the beginning of October but now wait until toward the end so they can get GNOME 2.x.1 instead of 2.x.0.
I was using Parallels on Linux on my Core Duo laptop and it was _fast_. I was very impressed. Then I tried vmware-server on the same machine and it ran just as fast if not faster. Later on I discovered vmware-server was actually not even using Intel's VT instructions, it was being done in software. Something to think about.
To be fair, the flash problem is macromedia's problem. The current version of flash for linux is rather half-assed. Supposedly the next version will be better, hopefully we'll see it this year.
Bad article (or summary). Phonon is an API a KDE app will use to do sound/video. Phonon is really just an abstraction layer. You can have an arts backend, alsa backend, gstreamer backend, even a windows backend. It's only purpose is to make audio/video easier for KDE developers and make it easy to port the whole thing to another system. It's kdelibs material, sure. But I can't see it being used by a Gnome app, they already have gstreamer (which can do arts, esd, alsa, oss, windows, etc too).
Acid2 is about worthless. Passing just shows that they took the time to make that page work, it doesn't say anything about the standards support of the browser.
I've got a G4 mini with 512MB and it's running fine. I've got Azureus, Adium, Colloquy, iTunes, and Firefox open and none of them slow down (except when azureus fills it's cache and hits the HD). Azureus and Firefox did take 8 and 5 bounces to start up, but then they run great. I could also probably fire up VLC and watch an episode of Lost with no problems. Either something is wrong with your machine or you're expecting too much.
When Firebird changed to Firefox they told you about the trademark policy. It's not like they were using the name for a long time then suddenly came up with this stuff.
Debian is larger than the FSF. If Debian doesn't like the GPLv3, no one will use it. No one wants to get shut out of the base for Linspire, Xandros, Ubuntu, knoppix, etc.
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If you look in the ~/.gvfs/ directory in a terminal you will find the mounts GNOME created. They would prefer you use GIO to access them but if your program doesn't support that just point it to the mount in there.
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'In order to facilitate development, the files were uploaded to the ftp server (ftp.funet.fi) of the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) in September 1991. Ari Lemmke, Torvald's coworker at the HUT who was responsible for the servers at the time, did not feel Freax was a good name. Consequently, he dubbed the project "Linux" without consulting Torvalds.[citation needed] Later, however, Torvalds consented to "Linux": "After many arguments, he finally admitted that Linux was simply the better name. In the source code of version 0.01 of Linux, the name 'Freax' was still used in the makefile. Only later was the name Linux used. Thus the name actually not planned at all became generally accepted world-wide."'
The previous releases covered initializing the card, mode setting, 2D output, etc. That's a lot of stuff to cover. These docs are basically just on how to setup the 3D engine and feed it shaders.
I don't know about other bits of hardware but if you can make a video card that works flawlessly with the driver for nvidia or ATI cards both companies will be begging to give you large amounts of money. The driver doesn't really tell you much, just how to interface with the hardware.
Sounds like about half of these are caused by you using compiz. This is really buggy in Ubuntu 7.04.
Except that if you change an API you're responsible for updating all of the in tree users of that API as well. That's why getting your driver into the standard kernel is so important, it ensures API compatibility.
Wow, you got lucky. When I bought my dv8000t I had to pay extra to get a stock WinXP SP2 CD that doesn't even have drivers for my system. And when I got this laptop (April) it _was_ top of the line.
Seeing how it took 5 years to get GNOME's icon changed I wouldn't hold my breath.
These are people who think they are geeky enough to need a location bar but not geeky enough to discover Ctrl-L, apparently.
Broadcom should work in 6.06, will work better in 6.10, you just need to install the bcm43xx-fwcutter package and run the script that it installs.
If that Pavilion has nvidia (mine does) hibernate and suspend work much better in 6.10 (no hacks needed). You do have to disable "Native SATA Support" in your BIOS if you have that option though.
Most of the people with failed upgrades to 6.10 have used Automatix, EasyUbuntu, or compiz. These all come from 3rd parties and do things that break upgrades. Also, things can break if you installed your graphics drivers manually. You have to install the packaged version before upgrading. Otherwise things should go smoothly.
That's not true, the Fall release of Ubuntu has always been in October. 4.10, 5.10, and now 6.10 are all October releases. I believe they started out releasing in the beginning of October but now wait until toward the end so they can get GNOME 2.x.1 instead of 2.x.0.
I was using Parallels on Linux on my Core Duo laptop and it was _fast_. I was very impressed. Then I tried vmware-server on the same machine and it ran just as fast if not faster. Later on I discovered vmware-server was actually not even using Intel's VT instructions, it was being done in software. Something to think about.
Actually all of those things are doable on Macs too, seeing how they run Windows and all. :)
as far as i know there is no support for broadcom chipsets in ANY non-windows OS
Except, you know, OS X (airport extreme is broadcom) and the 2.6.17 kernel.
My new laptop says Windows Vista Capable, no coupon.
To be fair, the flash problem is macromedia's problem. The current version of flash for linux is rather half-assed. Supposedly the next version will be better, hopefully we'll see it this year.
Bad article (or summary). Phonon is an API a KDE app will use to do sound/video. Phonon is really just an abstraction layer. You can have an arts backend, alsa backend, gstreamer backend, even a windows backend. It's only purpose is to make audio/video easier for KDE developers and make it easy to port the whole thing to another system. It's kdelibs material, sure. But I can't see it being used by a Gnome app, they already have gstreamer (which can do arts, esd, alsa, oss, windows, etc too).
Not true. When you use sudo you have to put in your password. But for (I think) 5 minutes after that sudo works without a password.
Or Ubuntu.
Acid2 is about worthless. Passing just shows that they took the time to make that page work, it doesn't say anything about the standards support of the browser.
I've got a G4 mini with 512MB and it's running fine. I've got Azureus, Adium, Colloquy, iTunes, and Firefox open and none of them slow down (except when azureus fills it's cache and hits the HD). Azureus and Firefox did take 8 and 5 bounces to start up, but then they run great. I could also probably fire up VLC and watch an episode of Lost with no problems. Either something is wrong with your machine or you're expecting too much.
When Firebird changed to Firefox they told you about the trademark policy. It's not like they were using the name for a long time then suddenly came up with this stuff.
Debian is larger than the FSF. If Debian doesn't like the GPLv3, no one will use it. No one wants to get shut out of the base for Linspire, Xandros, Ubuntu, knoppix, etc.