LOL no. Took about 24 hours to download and compile everything (3Mbs DSL, 1.7GHz Pentium 4 with 384 MB RAM). Longest Gentoo compile I ever did was two weeks on an SGI Octane (2x 400MHz MIPS R12K processors, 4GB RAM, 18GB SCSI drives).
nVidia is famous for rebadging. I'll give an example: the Geforce 8800GTX became the 9800 GTX, and then the GTS 250.
ATI on the other hand, has followed a different pattern. All cards of a series (HD 2xxx, 3xxx, 4xxx, etc) are based on the same tech. The 6xxx series cards were tuned versions of the 5xxx cards, and I think what's happening is the new R-series cards are tuned versions of the 7xxx series. nVidia does this with their cards now too - the Fermi family (4xx and 5xx) and Kepler family (6xx and 7xx) introduce a chip in the first gen, and refine that chip in the second.
I can play DOTA2 and L4D2 on Linux with a Radeon HD 7750 with about the same FPS the card would give me in Windows, if that would help. Only other ATI card I've had recently is a Radeon HD 5770, and that does about the same as the 7750 (slightly better or worse depending on the application - OpenCL performance seems better on the 7750, and the 7750 also supports DP FP).
I've got 2 SGI Octanes and an O2 sitting in my room now. Without an actual purpose. I might be restoring one of the Octane boxes just to annoy a friend of mine on support (hey, you guys don't have a build for IRIX!).
Except they don't. i386 was dropped a while ago. Red Hat/Fedora builds for i586, Slackware for i486, no idea for Ubuntu. But the kernel itself no longer supports i386.
Au contraire, I did do that. Just not all in one step. When it was time to upgrade, I ran 'preupgrade-cli $targetRelease' and let it go, until I got to Fedora 17, when it switched to using fedup instead.
Actually, quite a few old versions of stuff hangs around - some of it by my choice, like GRUB 1. There is a tool for cleaning those things up though, you may want to check out 'package-cleanup --orphans' which will clean that up.
I have laptops that have been running upgrades from Fedora 12 -> 19. Home server has gone from FC 7 -> Fedora 14 (actually the install moved hardware a couple of times, and sorta got phased out when I moved everything to an i7 and starting using SL). In work environments I don't use Fedora on servers (do on my workstations), we use RHEL, OEL, or CentOS.
Personal experience says Red Hat/CentOS and Fedora are the most widespread. I know a total of three Ubuntu users (one of which uses awesome instead of Unity), no Mint users, and a very large number of RH/FC users (through their workplace mostly). My friends (who do not share a work place with me) would report a similar statistic.
Which is why the X developers should be removed from the project. Not moved to a 'replacement' project, that won't do what we want it to do, but removed from Linux development period. And I miss the CTRL-ALT-+ too.
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Mine doesn't! (Sun Type 6 - right side has Meta, Compose, and Alt-Graph
Sun keyboards have both Compose and Alt-Graph (as I look down at my Type 6....)
I use SysReq in Linux. Other then that, never.
My experience with mobile GPU is greatly lacking, I'm afraid.
LOL no. Took about 24 hours to download and compile everything (3Mbs DSL, 1.7GHz Pentium 4 with 384 MB RAM). Longest Gentoo compile I ever did was two weeks on an SGI Octane (2x 400MHz MIPS R12K processors, 4GB RAM, 18GB SCSI drives).
nVidia is famous for rebadging. I'll give an example: the Geforce 8800GTX became the 9800 GTX, and then the GTS 250.
ATI on the other hand, has followed a different pattern. All cards of a series (HD 2xxx, 3xxx, 4xxx, etc) are based on the same tech. The 6xxx series cards were tuned versions of the 5xxx cards, and I think what's happening is the new R-series cards are tuned versions of the 7xxx series. nVidia does this with their cards now too - the Fermi family (4xx and 5xx) and Kepler family (6xx and 7xx) introduce a chip in the first gen, and refine that chip in the second.
I can play DOTA2 and L4D2 on Linux with a Radeon HD 7750 with about the same FPS the card would give me in Windows, if that would help. Only other ATI card I've had recently is a Radeon HD 5770, and that does about the same as the 7750 (slightly better or worse depending on the application - OpenCL performance seems better on the 7750, and the 7750 also supports DP FP).
Wow, I was looking at picking up a Radeon HD 7870 for $150 at Microcenter....
I've got 2 SGI Octanes and an O2 sitting in my room now. Without an actual purpose. I might be restoring one of the Octane boxes just to annoy a friend of mine on support (hey, you guys don't have a build for IRIX!).
Are you actually using VT-d though? Nothing in the Core 2 line supported VT-d. Don't confuse VT-x with VT-d.
Not the engine, but we found parts in a friends Acura that had AC Delco (GM) part numbers on them.
Except they don't. i386 was dropped a while ago. Red Hat/Fedora builds for i586, Slackware for i486, no idea for Ubuntu. But the kernel itself no longer supports i386.
Unless you're running HyperV or Xen, VT-d doesn't matter.
Au contraire, I did do that. Just not all in one step. When it was time to upgrade, I ran 'preupgrade-cli $targetRelease' and let it go, until I got to Fedora 17, when it switched to using fedup instead.
Actually, quite a few old versions of stuff hangs around - some of it by my choice, like GRUB 1. There is a tool for cleaning those things up though, you may want to check out 'package-cleanup --orphans' which will clean that up.
I have laptops that have been running upgrades from Fedora 12 -> 19. Home server has gone from FC 7 -> Fedora 14 (actually the install moved hardware a couple of times, and sorta got phased out when I moved everything to an i7 and starting using SL). In work environments I don't use Fedora on servers (do on my workstations), we use RHEL, OEL, or CentOS.
That is the path I took after trying Ubuntu back in 2007.
I know a couple Gentoo and Slackware users since you added them in...
Personal experience says Red Hat/CentOS and Fedora are the most widespread. I know a total of three Ubuntu users (one of which uses awesome instead of Unity), no Mint users, and a very large number of RH/FC users (through their workplace mostly). My friends (who do not share a work place with me) would report a similar statistic.
I'm pretty sure the historical Jesus would be aghast at all of the atrocities and hatred committed in his honor.
As a Catholic, I am quite sure he would too.
As a KDE user, I would prefer that to be true. Experience has shown me otherwise.
Which is why the X developers should be removed from the project. Not moved to a 'replacement' project, that won't do what we want it to do, but removed from Linux development period. And I miss the CTRL-ALT-+ too.
GNOME is the flagship Linux desktop, no matter how much we wish otherwise.
So would you also book someone whose car stalls at the light and has to put it in Park or Neutral to start it again?
If Larry Elison thought it would be profitable, we'd get FTL drive....
In case you didn't notice they don't have OO anymore.