Yes unfortunately as magullo pointed out Jashaka is still in it's early stages, so at this time it is not a fully working program. the good news however is that although it is an open source project it does seem to be moving forward at a steady pace and seems to be staying on track with the designers time line. Iv also found that the news of the Nvidia release of Gelato was announced on Jashaka's.org page as well, but the note seems to indicate that the Jashaka project will not be using the Nvidia API but will still support the new cards. Unfortunately I am unable to clarify that point since the article discussion board seems to be discussing other things. worth a read all the same.
Is there any Free software capable of exploiting the general computing power of modern video cards?
Take a look at the Jashaka project. It is a real time video editing suit and the designers have been working with and have supposedly been getting support from Nvidia, so they may have had access and I would imagine certainly will have access to these video cards. I can't imagine them not taking advantage of this technology.
The other nice thing is if memory serves me correctly this program is being designed to work on Windows, Linux and OS X, so good news all around.
Just out of curiosity would you please explain how Flash is doomed, if Windows is doomed? It could just be me but I seem to be missing how the two are related.
Putting your interesting use of English aside, XP seems be different with every install, I've seen it act differently on three different machines that had the exact same hardware configuration, and the install was done using the same source CD. All three computers were previously running Win2000 and had worked fine, they had their hard drive f-disked and formated before installing XP so the odds of the issues being caused by Win 2000 residual is highly unlikely. Yet all three computers ended up running very differently, one upon install had all of the XP effects turned off, the other two had the effects turned on, one of them takes nearly three times as long to boot, just to cite a couple of examples.
XP definitely has some interesting uniformity issues, that may just as likely be the cause of the problems in this case, he never said his Linux was having issues. If this is a hardware issue the odds are that the issue is with his hard drive since that is the only piece of hardware that, based on his description, isn't shared between the OS's.
I agree completely. Outside of the "unsharp mask" and "dust and scratches" filters I rarely use filters, the exception being when I'm working on a Photo Illustration, or playing a round of Photoshop Tennis
Thanks for adding that in and clarifying the point I was trying to make.
SuSE's ISO issue seems to be a hot topic of late on/.
Just to clarify for those people interested if you go to SuSE's site they do offer the ability to install SuSE Linux via FTP online install, the only ISO's they offer for download are their Live-Eval. To those of us that are users this approach seems stupid, we want our CD's damn it. but from a business standpoint I can see where SuSE is coming from, if my memory serves me right, which it rarely does, SuSE use to offer their ISO's for download, but these take up an incredible amount of bandwidth, and since most of us never use all the apps contained in the SuSE Linux disto that becomes and large amount of essentially wasted bandwidth. The approach SuSE now uses allows someone to get SuSE Linux and just the apps they will use for free without wasting that bandwidth.
The down side to SuSE's approach is that many people don't always know exactly what they will use when performing an install, every time I perform an install I forget on or two apps that I need, using SuSE's online approach this equates out to a lot of time downloading where by having the ISO's I could simply pop in the disk and be done with it.
I would urge everyone that has a problem with this to take it up with Novell/SuSE directly because as good as it may make you feel complaining about it on/. it will most likely have a greater chance of changing the problem if SuSE know how many people want an ISO option. Make it worth SuSE's time and money to offer ISO's, they are a buisness after all.
Holding out till 64 bit may be less of a pressing mater when compared with the fact that many of MS's licenses are set to expire over the next year, I think a lot of their pressure is there to ensure that those licenses renew, and don't switch over to Linux or another OS.
Even if Adobe was to drop Mac upgrades/support for Photoshop (read, suicide) -- you can always run Gimp instead.
For many people this is true but for professionals that need good CMYK color seperation, Lab color and are on time restraints placed by deadlines, GIMP can't touch Photoshop (though I have heard that GIMP 2.0 does offer Lab color and possably CMYK). That said I still believe that professionals shoul keep a copy of the GIMP around to compliment Photoshop, Iv found that the base filters that come with GIMP far out shine the ones that come with Photoshop but that's just my personal opinion.
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No doubt photoshop is better, for professionals, but gimp also has it's place in the professionals arsenal.
I personaly work in a professional setting and I use Photoshop on a daily basis and Know it like the back of my hand, But I personaly prefer GIMP's effets filters to the base effect filters that come with Photoshop (currantly using PS7).
When working in a fast paced high number of images situation though GIMP can't compete and that's when the $600.00 price tag becomes acceptable. If you don't need the features offered by Photoshop over GIMP, by all means use the GIMP, don't wast your money on something you won't use.
I don't think you have to worry abou this with 9.1. the article says that we will first start these changes in a release that should be out at the end of the year. I think the only change you might see is the inclusion of Ximian in the professional version, but as usual if you don't like it, don't install it. This is just what Iv gathered reading different press releases and news articles over the last week.
I'm with you though I hope that whatever Novell does they leave us with the option of installing just the basics.
Recently Macromedia said that they will be working on a Linux port of Flash (the creator program not just the viewer)and my companies Adobe rep. has hinted that Adobe is working on porting all of their apps to Linux (how soon this will happen is unknown). Now I'm no programer but if Novells work or an effort into the use of GNUstep would help speed this up than I'm all for it and hopefuly one day when I get back to school and learn some programing I'll be able to help out the effort.
While I have to agree with you to some degree when you say that gnome is not the best looking GUI out there. Remember though that Novell will be approching the Gnome/KDE mix of thing with their newfound expertise in the form of Ximian desktop which in my humble opinion looks stunning, even though I found it slightly hard to configure in the short amount of time I played with it. Again I didn't play with it for long and it may have a nice config tool that I failed to find.
I think that the proof of Linux's expansion can be seen in fact that there are court cases against it (SCO). I'm not necessarily talking about the IBM and Novell cases though they do lend their support, but I speak more directly about the cases against Auto Zone as a Linux user as well as putting forth threats of legal action against government agencies, and thats just in the United States. Why would a company spend millions of dollars fighting legal battles against something that is not a threat.
Yes there are success stories, you may have heard of a small search engine called Google, though admittedly they are a company built on Linux, not one switching over. For a list of other success stories see IBM's website and yes it is true that some of these companies have only switched a portion of their computers to Linux, but I think you'll find that when any switch is being made it gets done a few computers at a time, I know of companies that do this even when upgrading their chosen OS ie. MS 2000 to MS XP.
When it comes to switching OS's two basic rules apply:
1. The switch will go much smoother if the technical knowledge base already exists in your company.
2. The larger number people the switch affects the larger the problem of switching.
I think the latter in particular applies to the case of the German government, though their IT guys may be well have experience with Linux, it may not be on the scale that they are working on now, and when you add in the training that need to be done to get the large number of users up and running on Linux it starts to become clear that there will be extra unforeseen expenses and delays.
The company I work for just switched a large number of people over from using IBM's OS2 to using Mac OSX an OS know for being relativity user friendly and we have had many unforeseen setbacks, so this is not just a Linux thing, it can happen with Windows, Unix, BSD, even Mac.
Change may be a good thing in the long term but it can have severe short term effects and the challenge is to not let the short term disrupt business for longer than is necessary.
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Take a look at the Jashaka project. It is a real time video editing suit and the designers have been working with and have supposedly been getting support from Nvidia, so they may have had access and I would imagine certainly will have access to these video cards. I can't imagine them not taking advantage of this technology.
The other nice thing is if memory serves me correctly this program is being designed to work on Windows, Linux and OS X, so good news all around.
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so. . . um Darl is really Schrodinger's cat?
that might explain why he's so angry.
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Putting your interesting use of English aside, XP seems be different with every install, I've seen it act differently on three different machines that had the exact same hardware configuration, and the install was done using the same source CD. All three computers were previously running Win2000 and had worked fine, they had their hard drive f-disked and formated before installing XP so the odds of the issues being caused by Win 2000 residual is highly unlikely. Yet all three computers ended up running very differently, one upon install had all of the XP effects turned off, the other two had the effects turned on, one of them takes nearly three times as long to boot, just to cite a couple of examples.
XP definitely has some interesting uniformity issues, that may just as likely be the cause of the problems in this case, he never said his Linux was having issues. If this is a hardware issue the odds are that the issue is with his hard drive since that is the only piece of hardware that, based on his description, isn't shared between the OS's.
Thanks for adding that in and clarifying the point I was trying to make.
Just to clarify for those people interested if you go to SuSE's site they do offer the ability to install SuSE Linux via FTP online install, the only ISO's they offer for download are their Live-Eval. To those of us that are users this approach seems stupid, we want our CD's damn it. but from a business standpoint I can see where SuSE is coming from, if my memory serves me right, which it rarely does, SuSE use to offer their ISO's for download, but these take up an incredible amount of bandwidth, and since most of us never use all the apps contained in the SuSE Linux disto that becomes and large amount of essentially wasted bandwidth. The approach SuSE now uses allows someone to get SuSE Linux and just the apps they will use for free without wasting that bandwidth.
The down side to SuSE's approach is that many people don't always know exactly what they will use when performing an install, every time I perform an install I forget on or two apps that I need, using SuSE's online approach this equates out to a lot of time downloading where by having the ISO's I could simply pop in the disk and be done with it.
I would urge everyone that has a problem with this to take it up with Novell/SuSE directly because as good as it may make you feel complaining about it on /. it will most likely have a greater chance of changing the problem if SuSE know how many people want an ISO option. Make it worth SuSE's time and money to offer ISO's, they are a buisness after all.
For many people this is true but for professionals that need good CMYK color seperation, Lab color and are on time restraints placed by deadlines, GIMP can't touch Photoshop (though I have heard that GIMP 2.0 does offer Lab color and possably CMYK). That said I still believe that professionals shoul keep a copy of the GIMP around to compliment Photoshop, Iv found that the base filters that come with GIMP far out shine the ones that come with Photoshop but that's just my personal opinion.
I personaly work in a professional setting and I use Photoshop on a daily basis and Know it like the back of my hand, But I personaly prefer GIMP's effets filters to the base effect filters that come with Photoshop (currantly using PS7).
When working in a fast paced high number of images situation though GIMP can't compete and that's when the $600.00 price tag becomes acceptable. If you don't need the features offered by Photoshop over GIMP, by all means use the GIMP, don't wast your money on something you won't use.
I'm with you though I hope that whatever Novell does they leave us with the option of installing just the basics.
Recently Macromedia said that they will be working on a Linux port of Flash (the creator program not just the viewer)and my companies Adobe rep. has hinted that Adobe is working on porting all of their apps to Linux (how soon this will happen is unknown). Now I'm no programer but if Novells work or an effort into the use of GNUstep would help speed this up than I'm all for it and hopefuly one day when I get back to school and learn some programing I'll be able to help out the effort.
While I have to agree with you to some degree when you say that gnome is not the best looking GUI out there. Remember though that Novell will be approching the Gnome/KDE mix of thing with their newfound expertise in the form of Ximian desktop which in my humble opinion looks stunning, even though I found it slightly hard to configure in the short amount of time I played with it. Again I didn't play with it for long and it may have a nice config tool that I failed to find.
Yes there are success stories, you may have heard of a small search engine called Google, though admittedly they are a company built on Linux, not one switching over. For a list of other success stories see IBM's website and yes it is true that some of these companies have only switched a portion of their computers to Linux, but I think you'll find that when any switch is being made it gets done a few computers at a time, I know of companies that do this even when upgrading their chosen OS ie. MS 2000 to MS XP.
When it comes to switching OS's two basic rules apply:
1. The switch will go much smoother if the technical knowledge base already exists in your company.
2. The larger number people the switch affects the larger the problem of switching. I think the latter in particular applies to the case of the German government, though their IT guys may be well have experience with Linux, it may not be on the scale that they are working on now, and when you add in the training that need to be done to get the large number of users up and running on Linux it starts to become clear that there will be extra unforeseen expenses and delays.
The company I work for just switched a large number of people over from using IBM's OS2 to using Mac OSX an OS know for being relativity user friendly and we have had many unforeseen setbacks, so this is not just a Linux thing, it can happen with Windows, Unix, BSD, even Mac.
Change may be a good thing in the long term but it can have severe short term effects and the challenge is to not let the short term disrupt business for longer than is necessary.
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