I think it's more of many of us don't want to purchase a BluRay player. I don't have a PS3, and don't watch enough movies to make it worth my while to purchase a new drive. Streaming/Downloading (legally, of course) is simply much more convenient and easier.
Not so much. I've been quite happy using my Toshibas. The ath5k in my A105 and the rtl8192e in my A505D have served quite nicely. For the short period I had the HP (from Oct. 07 till Jan 08) I used NDISWrapper without too much hassle. That, and my sig also references my Desktop, all of which I've never had major driver issues. NDISWrapper took a whole 30 minutes to figure out. Considering that the rest of everything worked fairly smoothly (including fglrx), certainly closer to "Just works" then Windows ever came as far as driver installations go.
Maybe I'm about a year behind on Broadcom on Linux, but last I looked you had to use NDISWrapper with the Windows driver to get it to work, and Broadcom had no actual driver (was using a 2007 era HP Laptop).
The big thing isn't that they're open sourcing the driver - it's that Broadcom is releasing a Linux driver. Open Sourcing it is icing on the cake, but the main point is that the driver is from Broadcom for their hardware.
The article you site states an estimated development cost for the kernel. I requested evidence of something being stolen (usually refers to physical or intellectual property).
It would be nice to have a gaming standard as big as Steam available for Linux, but between spotty drivers and lack of Linux versions for most games, I can understand why Valve won't make the investment.
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First off, I am going to have to disagree with the driver statement. This isn't 2006 anymore. Secondly, that same statement can be applied to questioning Steam on Mac OS.
Depends on what you have and how you drive. I can get the 21MPG (Estimated 20 Highway) out of my Chevy Blazer when I drive to work at times that I'm averaging 2000RPM on the engine speed (~65MPH), which was usually the case before I started working 9-6 (or 8:30-5:30 on Fridays).
I'd still have that car had it not been wrecked. It drove fantastic (in 2008 w/ 160xxx miles on it). Oh the memories. Now I've got a 95 Saturn and an 88 Mustang. I4s just don't run as smooth as a V8
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As stated by others, this is not a kernel issue. This is a vendor issue.
I think it's more of many of us don't want to purchase a BluRay player. I don't have a PS3, and don't watch enough movies to make it worth my while to purchase a new drive. Streaming/Downloading (legally, of course) is simply much more convenient and easier.
I'd say WINE has done quite nicely. Remember when WINE emulated Win 3.11? WINE's biggest problem is that it will forever be playing catch up.
Check your machine? My old laptop (1.7GHz Celeron M, 1.5GB RAM, WinXP, ca 2006) saw no issues. Wish I could say the same for my 10 year old Mac.
For the record I disable NetworkManager anyway.
I hated that part of discrete math...
Guess you didn't try to see if your device was set to activate on boot.
Machine: Lenovo ThinkCentre with an Intel Core i5 660 (3.33GHz), 8GB DDR3 RAM, Windows 7 Profession x64, and nVidia Geforce GT310
Kraken Benchmark Results:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Beta
Google Chrome 6.0.472.59 Beta
Mozilla Firefox 4 beta 6
Most commercial software for Linux that I've seen uses it's own installer - Matlab, Oracle DB, C-Forge, etc.
I think you're picking the wrong analogy here. This is letting you get your keep duplicated at the hardware store instead of the dealership.
We have them now? Awesomeness.
Not so much. I've been quite happy using my Toshibas. The ath5k in my A105 and the rtl8192e in my A505D have served quite nicely. For the short period I had the HP (from Oct. 07 till Jan 08) I used NDISWrapper without too much hassle. That, and my sig also references my Desktop, all of which I've never had major driver issues. NDISWrapper took a whole 30 minutes to figure out. Considering that the rest of everything worked fairly smoothly (including fglrx), certainly closer to "Just works" then Windows ever came as far as driver installations go.
Maybe I'm about a year behind on Broadcom on Linux, but last I looked you had to use NDISWrapper with the Windows driver to get it to work, and Broadcom had no actual driver (was using a 2007 era HP Laptop).
The big thing isn't that they're open sourcing the driver - it's that Broadcom is releasing a Linux driver. Open Sourcing it is icing on the cake, but the main point is that the driver is from Broadcom for their hardware.
Your vehicle information is already in a database - tag, title, registration and insurance.
The article you site states an estimated development cost for the kernel. I requested evidence of something being stolen (usually refers to physical or intellectual property).
Let me ask you this Mr. Coward - can you show me what the free world has stolen from Microsoft?
Alt-0176 in Windows.
We placed one of them on the bathroom door in the college dorm. Someone else added Intel Inside to the toilet.
They've done that for years.
It would be nice to have a gaming standard as big as Steam available for Linux, but between spotty drivers and lack of Linux versions for most games, I can understand why Valve won't make the investment.
/quote> First off, I am going to have to disagree with the driver statement. This isn't 2006 anymore. Secondly, that same statement can be applied to questioning Steam on Mac OS.
Java and Javascript are related in name only. Whatever convoluted scheme Oracle comes up with for Java has no bearing on Javascript.
Depends on what you have and how you drive. I can get the 21MPG (Estimated 20 Highway) out of my Chevy Blazer when I drive to work at times that I'm averaging 2000RPM on the engine speed (~65MPH), which was usually the case before I started working 9-6 (or 8:30-5:30 on Fridays).
See ABRT (A Bug Reporting Tool) installed by default in Fedora Linux
I'd still have that car had it not been wrecked. It drove fantastic (in 2008 w/ 160xxx miles on it). Oh the memories. Now I've got a 95 Saturn and an 88 Mustang. I4s just don't run as smooth as a V8