Not true for "open source" OS X software. Developers on this platform are generally opposed to cross platform application development and Apple works hard to ensure that applications written to OS X will not easily be ported to other platforms.
If you disagree, can you name a single significant open source desktop application that originated on the Mac and is now cross platform (supporting Windows, Mac and Linux at least)?
I don't know whether Transmission works on Windows, but otherwise it fits the profile.
Maybe our interest cannot extend past the demo, because we've actually waited these 12 years.
I'm 25, so that means I was about 12 when DN3D was popular. Are you honestly saying that the 12-year-olds of today will not buy and play the game regardless of its development history?
And though the article calls the procedure "somewhat complicated," it's a lot simpler than was installing Linux from floppies not so many years ago.
In some respects, it seems exactly like installing Linux from floppies.
In the olden days, you swapped the boot and root floppies; here you swap the hard drives, which indeed is somewhat complicated, as in "I wouldn't trust my grandmother to do it right" (not grandfather, though!).
As for the rest... OK, I am one of the few people in the universe who actually read documentation, but nevertheless... a page-long manual, illustrations included, makes the procedure somewhat complicated?
Indeed, Linux has come a long way if not being able to simply pop a CD and install on anything, incuding a toaster, makes the install procedure "somewhat complicated".
Well, perhaps these notebooks won't have hardware powerful enough to boot Vista in less than a few minutes.
Besides, Linux can be tweaked. Acer may tweak both the kernel and the userland to optimize it just for their hardware; they would not be able to do that with Windows of any flavor.
Doesn't Slashdot's constant stream of "OMG M$ iz doing dis cuz of teh lunix!!!11!" seem a bit incredulous? Surely Microsoft must be making decisions, somehow, based on what they think is best for their company rather than based on what Linux is doing, right?
Not all of Slashdot is twitter and his sockpuppets, though in threads like this it sure seems like that.
Don't let yourself get fooled with appearances.
Next thing you know, you'll be installing Vista and loving the way it looks.
The change is permenant. Vendors have revolted, M$ won't be able to come back. Good riddance.
Now, now, I wouldn't go so far as to say that.
Vendors have seen a way to sell their low-end products cheaper with a lower-priced (OK, free) OS that can run better on lower-specced machines.
That's all there is to it.
And even as I become aware I'm replying to Yet Another twitter's Sockpuppet (YAtS) -- yes, all the M$s should have been a dead giveaway -- I still think this has to be said.
Linux on the desktop may be finally coming. Soon. We promise. Linux on the (low-end) laptop is already here.
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I don't know whether Transmission works on Windows, but otherwise it fits the profile.
Well of course he didn't.
Had he taken any physics, he would know he couldn't fly. Tell me, then, what would have happened to Metropolis?
I say it will be a nice turnabout. Usually I groan and snap when I read newspapers.
I just wonder... how come this wasn't invented in Soviet Russia?
I like the idea, too.
It's a shame I get nothing once I get past the login screen, though. Just a colored background upon a background image. Both from Firefox and Safari.
Whoosh.
Maybe our interest cannot extend past the demo, because we've actually waited these 12 years.
I'm 25, so that means I was about 12 when DN3D was popular. Are you honestly saying that the 12-year-olds of today will not buy and play the game regardless of its development history?
In some respects, it seems exactly like installing Linux from floppies.
In the olden days, you swapped the boot and root floppies; here you swap the hard drives, which indeed is somewhat complicated, as in "I wouldn't trust my grandmother to do it right" (not grandfather, though!).
As for the rest... OK, I am one of the few people in the universe who actually read documentation, but nevertheless... a page-long manual, illustrations included, makes the procedure somewhat complicated?
Indeed, Linux has come a long way if not being able to simply pop a CD and install on anything, incuding a toaster, makes the install procedure "somewhat complicated".
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
Whooosh.
Or they can submit their patches to the upstream.
Slashdot to steelfood: do try to pay attention. Where would a Slashdotter find a woman?
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Well, perhaps these notebooks won't have hardware powerful enough to boot Vista in less than a few minutes.
Besides, Linux can be tweaked. Acer may tweak both the kernel and the userland to optimize it just for their hardware; they would not be able to do that with Windows of any flavor.
The slower the worm propagates and the less it does in any noticeable manner, the lesser the chance it will be discovered by any means.
Hey, if Vigor was coded after appearing in UF, I don't see why this couldn't be done...
Dunno about pills, but if they implement condoms, it may prove to be a new antivirus solution.
Check among former Microsoft employees.
Or civil servants of various kinds.
Program an Asterisk system to do it for you and show them the power of Open Source.
/ducks
However, if you had one of the lucky configurations, ME worked just fine.
Then again, if you had one of those, you could just as well have played some lottery or bet some money on horse races.
Not all of Slashdot is twitter and his sockpuppets, though in threads like this it sure seems like that.
Don't let yourself get fooled with appearances.
Next thing you know, you'll be installing Vista and loving the way it looks.
Besides, the slimmed-down kernel that won't be getting into Windows 7 may well become a base for a light OS for low-end devices.
I wouldn't dismiss Microsoft as dead and buried, much as I'd sometimes like to.
Then again, we got hooked in twitter's thread, where normal things don't get posted very often.
The change is permenant. Vendors have revolted, M$ won't be able to come back. Good riddance.
Now, now, I wouldn't go so far as to say that.
Vendors have seen a way to sell their low-end products cheaper with a lower-priced (OK, free) OS that can run better on lower-specced machines.
That's all there is to it.
And even as I become aware I'm replying to Yet Another twitter's Sockpuppet (YAtS) -- yes, all the M$s should have been a dead giveaway -- I still think this has to be said.
Linux on the desktop may be finally coming. Soon. We promise. Linux on the (low-end) laptop is already here.
If the way things work in Croatia is any clue, money has Changed Hands in order for things to resolve this way.
I'd like to add Planescape: Torment to the list.
As robust and durable as a HDD?