There wouldn't be a DMCA violation turning PlaysForSure into FairPlay though (if Microsoft was doing it). Real did something like that with Harmony. The only problem is they'd also have to transcode to AAC and could only do it for purchased songs.
1) I'm not a "Linux fanboy". I'm on OS X right now and think the NT kernel is one of the best in existance (it's that crap on top I don't really care for).
2) The kernel developers are against a standard kernel API/ABI for drivers because then it's easier for people to make closed-source drivers. As in, the best way to make sure your driver keeps working is to GPL it and get it into the kernel.
Unless you know something they aren't telling (or was in the video) not all of the drivers are moving to userland, only video drivers (which Linux has always had, the drivers run in X).
I always go for the purple ones right by Go. They're cheap, pay decent, and are cheap to get hotels on. Plus, people seem to either land on them or taxes when they pass by (we put tax money on free parking) so it's potentially a win-win.
That is practically an outright lie. breezy was broken for most of it's development period due to Xorg and GCC transitions. On an almost daily basis the universe maintainers (MOTU) would ask each other "is X broken today?".
Things tend to break more because more things are getting done in a shorter time period compared to sid. It was fun pulling files from a backed up hoary install and messing with pinning to get things consistently working so I could test my app with the latest Gnome releases though.:)
ubuntuguide.org is absolute crap. It tells you to do things without explaining what you're doing or warning you of any issues you might have. For example, it used to tell you (until hoary-extras filled the gap and we complained) to enable the marillat debian repository to get libdvdcss and such which caused upgrade issues and conflicts between package versions.
We get many people in the #ubuntu IRC channel who have followed this guide and broken things badly.
"Namely, the menu editor, disks manager, clipboard daemon, Evince document viewer, drag-and-drop preview, type-ahead-find for Epiphany and GNOME's help browser, and so on."
Actually, the menu editor is the one I wrote for Ubuntu. The GNOME one only lets you hide/unhide entries.
His idea of "unusable for video" is "doesn't play all my proprietary crap". This is a plugin problem, not a gstreamer problem. Also, gstreamer does releases like GNOME and the kernel, odd numbers are unstable. 0.9 will be 0.10 when it's finished.
Worse, maybe we could have had a few more Zelda games this hardware generation with new plots and content... But instead they had to waste time writing a new engine.
Except that they're using basically the same engine....
This is why Microsoft had to kill Netscape. They were afraid websites (using Java) would make the OS irrelevant. Now that it's starting to really happen they actually seem to be helping us get to that point (IE7 CSS improvements).
That's not the point. All the other browsers are a lot more compliant and the devs are always working to improve that compliance while Microsoft completely disbanded the IE team and stopped even trying.
Passing the Acid2 test doesn't mean you're completely compliant. The test just shows some common things browsers do wrong so they know what to improve. You're reading too much into such a small thing.
Now, what I would argue is that if the Linux community really wanted to hammer a point home, a third party solution that does not rely on SMB/CIFS be developed and deployed on a number of platforms, including Windows, and become a major contender.
Well, RedHat did just open up Netscape's directory server...
PearPC was never meant to be an "OS X emulator" but a PowerPC emulator. You'll have to look elsewhere to find something to run x86 OS X on your whitebox.
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There wouldn't be a DMCA violation turning PlaysForSure into FairPlay though (if Microsoft was doing it). Real did something like that with Harmony. The only problem is they'd also have to transcode to AAC and could only do it for purchased songs.
1) I'm not a "Linux fanboy". I'm on OS X right now and think the NT kernel is one of the best in existance (it's that crap on top I don't really care for).
2) The kernel developers are against a standard kernel API/ABI for drivers because then it's easier for people to make closed-source drivers. As in, the best way to make sure your driver keeps working is to GPL it and get it into the kernel.
3) Who said I was complaining?
Unless you know something they aren't telling (or was in the video) not all of the drivers are moving to userland, only video drivers (which Linux has always had, the drivers run in X).
They run in kernel space, there is a (small) difference.
I always go for the purple ones right by Go. They're cheap, pay decent, and are cheap to get hotels on. Plus, people seem to either land on them or taxes when they pass by (we put tax money on free parking) so it's potentially a win-win.
Most CRTs monitors you'd see these days (any made in the last 5 or so years, I guess) just turn themselves off when you set things too high.
That is practically an outright lie. breezy was broken for most of it's development period due to Xorg and GCC transitions. On an almost daily basis the universe maintainers (MOTU) would ask each other "is X broken today?".
:)
Things tend to break more because more things are getting done in a shorter time period compared to sid. It was fun pulling files from a backed up hoary install and messing with pinning to get things consistently working so I could test my app with the latest Gnome releases though.
I guess I just haven't had any of those problems. Then again, I use vlc most of the time because it's what I used on Windows.
:(. I use and enjoy gnome, but this really is a framework that isn't ready for general consumption."
;)
"It's typical horrible gnome bloat
Well, this "GNOME bloat" is coming to a KDE install near you!
ubuntuguide.org is absolute crap. It tells you to do things without explaining what you're doing or warning you of any issues you might have. For example, it used to tell you (until hoary-extras filled the gap and we complained) to enable the marillat debian repository to get libdvdcss and such which caused upgrade issues and conflicts between package versions.
We get many people in the #ubuntu IRC channel who have followed this guide and broken things badly.
"Namely, the menu editor, disks manager, clipboard daemon, Evince document viewer, drag-and-drop preview, type-ahead-find for Epiphany and GNOME's help browser, and so on."
Actually, the menu editor is the one I wrote for Ubuntu. The GNOME one only lets you hide/unhide entries.
His idea of "unusable for video" is "doesn't play all my proprietary crap". This is a plugin problem, not a gstreamer problem. Also, gstreamer does releases like GNOME and the kernel, odd numbers are unstable. 0.9 will be 0.10 when it's finished.
Don't forget about clearlooks using cairo. *drool*
Worse, maybe we could have had a few more Zelda games this hardware generation with new plots and content... But instead they had to waste time writing a new engine.
Except that they're using basically the same engine....
That's funny, I'm pretty sure they spent a lot of time and money trying to stop us from breaking their DRM and getting into their systems.
Sorry, drivers are still running in the kernel in Vista.
Java was publically released in 1994. Microsoft showed no interest in Netscape until mid 1995.
This is why Microsoft had to kill Netscape. They were afraid websites (using Java) would make the OS irrelevant. Now that it's starting to really happen they actually seem to be helping us get to that point (IE7 CSS improvements).
That's not the point. All the other browsers are a lot more compliant and the devs are always working to improve that compliance while Microsoft completely disbanded the IE team and stopped even trying.
Passing the Acid2 test doesn't mean you're completely compliant. The test just shows some common things browsers do wrong so they know what to improve. You're reading too much into such a small thing.
From the look of it you don't code at all.
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
Aye, IE, Opera, Konq, Safari, and Firefox all use custom widgets to do actual web page rendering. They couldn't do it any other way.
Now, what I would argue is that if the Linux community really wanted to hammer a point home, a third party solution that does not rely on SMB/CIFS be developed and deployed on a number of platforms, including Windows, and become a major contender.
Well, RedHat did just open up Netscape's directory server...
How does Apple switching to x86 make PearPC emulate a PowerPC on x86 any faster?
PearPC was never meant to be an "OS X emulator" but a PowerPC emulator. You'll have to look elsewhere to find something to run x86 OS X on your whitebox.
UNIX was written in the 60s and rewritten in C in 1973, according to wikipedia. So the BSDs and OS X all share a common ancestor that's 32 years old.