Does Windows have some kind of secret-magic-gaming-goodness-fairy-dust that nobody else knows about?
An operating system as open and portable as linux will have great gaming support if enough people want it and work toward it... the situation today is already much better than a year ago.
You really like to talk about things of which you know nothing, don't you?
Try using the Gimp to create a banner... use some True-Type fonts (which, by the way, work fine with older versions of X as long as you have a font server that supports them, like xfstt). OK, use the text tool, type in your message, press OK.
Oh look! Those letters in the image are antialiased! Gee, what a suprise, and here I was thinking that buttfucker2000 knew his ass from a hole in the ground.
Look, dipshit (and I wouldn't be so rude if you weren't obviously either a liar or a parrot), X can't antialias fonts that it draws directly (because the X protocol treats fonts as a 1-bit mask), but any application can take the task unto itself and antialias whatever the hell it wants to.
Linux will not die until no one is interested in playing with it anymore.
I would hesitate using the term 'extreme weakness' for the security model. It is simply the Unix security model which, while far from perfect, is at least reasonable with proper administration.
It's not realistic to expect a volunteer to write device drivers for harware they don't have access to either.
Seriously, and don't give me that "Well, Linux will never achieve world-domination with that attitude" crap. Hardware manufacturers generally write drivers for Windows, Microsoft doesn't even have to pay anyone to do it. Linux is a volunteer effort, if people can write a device driver for hardware they need, they do it.
If you really want a driver for a piece of harware, maybe you could ask one of the developers that wrote similiar drivers and send him or her a sample of the hardware. There is simply no other way, unless you expect driver developers to buy and write drivers for every piece of hardware in the world out of the kindness of their hearts.
No, I encourage everyone I know to write everyting to a plain text file first. Then, if they need further formatting, to copy the file, open the copy in Word and format it from there.
This advice after witnessing dozens of people lose hours of work when Word documents suddenly self-destruct.
Hint to Microsoft: try not to write unreadable data to the file.
But the question remains... what is the point of dynamic libraries if every program runs it's own private copy? It's a ridiculous workaround to a pathetic problem.
There is no <pre> anymore because some fsckwads abused it and posted really, really, really, wide sentences. Which, of course, allowed everyone else's non-preformatted posts to be really, really, really wide.
I would venture to guess that they predicted that because the x86 chips are becoming RISC processors with a CISC "interpreter" (for want of a better word, I'm no EE) bolted on.
As the RISC core gets faster and faster, the overhead of the CISC interpreter becomes less and less important, relatively.
Yes, I see what you mean... it is impossible to convince users to log out every time they leave their workstation unattended. Someone will fsck it up eventually.
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Yep. I have a yellow one. It is damn bright for its size, next to weightless, and can run continuously for days on a single battery.
I want one of the turquoise or white ones, although the turquoise/white/blue use a lot more juice and the batteries are expensive.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Microkernels are just a whole lot more work to implement... they don't have the resources or the interest.
I think OpenBSD just wants to produce a simple and secure BSD variant for uniprocessor micros... not be the Ultimate OS.
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And is it some kind of wonderful technology that no one could duplicate?
No. It's easy enough to come up with a similiar API.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Does Windows have some kind of secret-magic-gaming-goodness-fairy-dust that nobody else knows about?
An operating system as open and portable as linux will have great gaming support if enough people want it and work toward it... the situation today is already much better than a year ago.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
You can add true-type support to any X installation with xfstt.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
I have produced fine quality pdf's using Lout.
It ain't WYSIWYG, but then again, what is, really?
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Try Lout.
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man limit, man ulimit, in bash try 'help ulimit'.
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Linux has resource limits.
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heheheh... that was a good one.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
You really like to talk about things of which you know nothing, don't you?
Try using the Gimp to create a banner... use some True-Type fonts (which, by the way, work fine with older versions of X as long as you have a font server that supports them, like xfstt). OK, use the text tool, type in your message, press OK.
Oh look! Those letters in the image are antialiased! Gee, what a suprise, and here I was thinking that buttfucker2000 knew his ass from a hole in the ground.
Look, dipshit (and I wouldn't be so rude if you weren't obviously either a liar or a parrot), X can't antialias fonts that it draws directly (because the X protocol treats fonts as a 1-bit mask), but any application can take the task unto itself and antialias whatever the hell it wants to.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Linux will not die until no one is interested in playing with it anymore.
I would hesitate using the term 'extreme weakness' for the security model. It is simply the Unix security model which, while far from perfect, is at least reasonable with proper administration.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
It's not realistic to expect a volunteer to write device drivers for harware they don't have access to either.
Seriously, and don't give me that "Well, Linux will never achieve world-domination with that attitude" crap. Hardware manufacturers generally write drivers for Windows, Microsoft doesn't even have to pay anyone to do it. Linux is a volunteer effort, if people can write a device driver for hardware they need, they do it.
If you really want a driver for a piece of harware, maybe you could ask one of the developers that wrote similiar drivers and send him or her a sample of the hardware. There is simply no other way, unless you expect driver developers to buy and write drivers for every piece of hardware in the world out of the kindness of their hearts.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
No, I encourage everyone I know to write everyting to a plain text file first. Then, if they need further formatting, to copy the file, open the copy in Word and format it from there.
This advice after witnessing dozens of people lose hours of work when Word documents suddenly self-destruct.
Hint to Microsoft: try not to write unreadable data to the file.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
You should download a nightly build... they are already faster and more stable than M18.
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This is the best post I've seen on this subject in ages. Too bad I don't have any moderator points right now...
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
hmmm, shouldn't be too hard in Perl... submit a patch to Rob.
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But the question remains... what is the point of dynamic libraries if every program runs it's own private copy? It's a ridiculous workaround to a pathetic problem.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
There is no <pre> anymore because some fsckwads abused it and posted really, really, really, wide sentences. Which, of course, allowed everyone else's non-preformatted posts to be really, really, really wide.
Horizontal scrolling sucks.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
#linuxhelp on EFNet is usually very helpful if you're patient. It's currently 0wned by kiddies though... try #linuxhelp2
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Ahaaaa.
/me nods wisely.
I was just talking out of my ass. <grin>
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I would venture to guess that they predicted that because the x86 chips are becoming RISC processors with a CISC "interpreter" (for want of a better word, I'm no EE) bolted on.
As the RISC core gets faster and faster, the overhead of the CISC interpreter becomes less and less important, relatively.
Of course I am most likely completely wrong...
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Yes, I see what you mean... it is impossible to convince users to log out every time they leave their workstation unattended. Someone will fsck it up eventually.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
To be kept running? Please explain.
In my experience it takes more knowledge to set up, but all you have to do to keep it running is leave it alone...
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Actually, it seems that most people posting here didn't fall for it at all. Or are you somehow reading an entirely different set of posts than I am?
It is pretty pathetic that HeUnique (or whatever) believed it...
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