See our homepage for a GPL'd 4k for linux called Sesamstr, written in pure horrific at&t asm.
Requires svgalib (libvga.so, not libvga.so.1, saves 2 bytes) and eventually/dev/dsp for sound.
Sadly enough, you are right. I would have expected 99% of the replies to tell this, but we are probably all scared that the Cult will infiltrate our machines;)
The 'idiots' will drop patents eventually. It just takes some time and a bloody war we have to survive. It's pretty hard to explain that in this field communism is way ahead of capitalism.
Same here. I wanted to sign up right away. They should have named it ``www.li18nux.COM'' so I could just skip it. The local i18n projects are much friendlier.
I should have made clear that I didn't mean ALL gamers. Just the uninterested bunch (the ones who yell that "windoze is broken", not the ones who really want to know what's wrong). Sorry for that.
To start, comparing with music is way off; it has nothing to do with what is popular. Second, I'm not against ALL gamers, I just don't like the idea of annoying gamers to flood me with useless messages on how to get something running. When I was a newbie, I read books and asked gently. A lot of computer users nowadays just yell at you without patience. It's hard to keep motivated to work for that crowd.
Well there may be two, but there are little internets around..:)
There's a whole bunch of operating systems though, so I don't think one could compare phenomena occuring to the internet to linux nor vice versa. Linux can gradually die if core developers loose interest. As opposed to the internet, newbies (e.g. companies, blind governments) couldn't help Linux survive.
Personally I wouldn't like most gamers to use Linux. It would mean that I had to answer a lot more email for the products I'm developing, which of course aren't stable at the first release. There is a solution though - I could enter another OS scene and leave Linux behind. This is probably what most programmers will do. Either scare newbies away (as is the case with a lot of other open source operating systems) -- or leave when it's getting hard to find (really) interested people. Think about it.
our country got rid of patents as soon as the stupid idea proved wrong, and now we're stuck with them again. the country is holland, but nearly every other self-respecting country was fooled by egocentric bastards. it's making me insane. so much money's spent on war, couldn't we just spend $10 on a thought? sigh sigh sigh sigh BIG GROUP SIGH. (author drops dead after hitting submit button)
Some very good programmers are scared by the load of newbies entering Linux. Releasing a new program means that you'll have to filter a lot of email crap in order to find a patch; most people just yell for new updates and shout about bugs that you've mentioned yourselves in BUGS or TODO files. Sigh.
What would I want a closed source game for? To have it crash randomly (as nearly every other game does nowadays) and then not being able to fix it? All software I bought in the last three years (total worth over $100) was spent on open source software.:)
A lot of 4k intros have generated landscapes and objects too, and yes we have seen fractal based objects too. Why is zbuffering no 'math' by the way? This project just got too much attention because someone did not read more than the article.
never heard of the demoscene have you? there are even 4k's for linux now. this project is just plain shit and it should be removed from slashdot NOW. instead there should be a big link to ftp.scene.org (or perhaps www.error-404.com, which has some nice demos too)
just relabel your old keyboard or learn from a screen to touchtype (search for dvorak7min on freshmeat.net). See http://www.dvorakint.org/ for some more pointers.
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Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these...
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F12.html
first post!
See our homepage for a GPL'd 4k for linux called Sesamstr, written in pure horrific at&t asm. /dev/dsp for sound.
Requires svgalib (libvga.so, not libvga.so.1, saves 2 bytes) and eventually
smoke/ecfh (visit #demoscene on OPN)
weird license blurp
It's easy to start a new rockband that produces music. It's a lot harder to start a new OS that plays a prerecorded mp3.
Tcl, Perl, Python, C++ -- and then state that C++ is inefficient compared to other languages? :)
Redo the research
Sadly enough, you are right. I would have expected 99% of the replies to tell this, but we are probably all scared that the Cult will infiltrate our machines ;)
with DOS 5 (?) one could just INT 19, to reload config.sys
The 'idiots' will drop patents eventually. It just takes some time and a bloody war we have to survive. It's pretty hard to explain that in this field communism is way ahead of capitalism.
Same here. I wanted to sign up right away. They should have named it ``www.li18nux.COM'' so I could just skip it.
The local i18n projects are much friendlier.
try ``LANG=nl ls --help''
I should have made clear that I didn't mean ALL gamers. Just the uninterested bunch (the ones who yell that "windoze is broken", not the ones who really want to know what's wrong). Sorry for that.
To start, comparing with music is way off; it has nothing to do with what is popular. Second, I'm not against ALL gamers, I just don't like the idea of annoying gamers to flood me with useless messages on how to get something running. When I was a newbie, I read books and asked gently. A lot of computer users nowadays just yell at you without patience. It's hard to keep motivated to work for that crowd.
The ggi (general graphics interface) project has some thoughts along the same lines and thinks about security issues too. http://www.ggi-project.org/
There's tetris for the Linux console.
There's a whole bunch of operating systems though, so I don't think one could compare phenomena occuring to the internet to linux nor vice versa.
Linux can gradually die if core developers loose interest. As opposed to the internet, newbies (e.g. companies, blind governments) couldn't help Linux survive.
Personally I wouldn't like most gamers to use Linux. It would mean that I had to answer a lot more email for the products I'm developing, which of course aren't stable at the first release. There is a solution though - I could enter another OS scene and leave Linux behind. This is probably what most programmers will do. Either scare newbies away (as is the case with a lot of other open source operating systems) -- or leave when it's getting hard to find (really) interested people. Think about it.
our country got rid of patents as soon as the stupid idea proved wrong, and now we're stuck with them again. the country is holland, but nearly every other self-respecting country was fooled by egocentric bastards. it's making me insane. so much money's spent on war, couldn't we just spend $10 on a thought? sigh sigh sigh sigh BIG GROUP SIGH. (author drops dead after hitting submit button)
Some very good programmers are scared by the load of newbies entering Linux. Releasing a new program means that you'll have to filter a lot of email crap in order to find a patch; most people just yell for new updates and shout about bugs that you've mentioned yourselves in BUGS or TODO files.
Sigh.
What would I want a closed source game for? To have it crash randomly (as nearly every other game does nowadays) and then not being able to fix it? All software I bought in the last three years (total worth over $100) was spent on open source software. :)
Could someone PLEASE remove this item?
The idiots are getting way too much attention again.
A lot of 4k intros have generated landscapes and objects too, and yes we have seen fractal based objects too. Why is zbuffering no 'math' by the way? This project just got too much attention because someone did not read more than the article.
never heard of the demoscene have you? there are even 4k's for linux now. this project is just plain shit and it should be removed from slashdot NOW. instead there should be a big link to ftp.scene.org (or perhaps www.error-404.com, which has some nice demos too)
just relabel your old keyboard or learn from a screen to touchtype (search for dvorak7min on freshmeat.net). See http://www.dvorakint.org/ for some more pointers.