Anything that requires a "Windows" key is a big, HUGE deal-breaking fatal flaw for people with Lexmark Model M13 keyboards (the ones with both buckling-spring keys AND a real Trackpoint), because they pre-date the Windows keys by a couple of years.
So fucking what. Should we really avoid the use of the Windows key in operating systems just because a bunch of museum keyboards that don't have it?
They used to accept unicode, some of the older stories still have it enabled. People were using the special unicode characters to modify their score to make it look like they were at +5 and stuff like that. So then Slashdot decided to limit it to plain ascii.
Oh, why does this silly argument come up every time the Slashdot Unicode support is discussed? Of course that kind of problem can be avoided, how else would all the zillons of websites using Unicode be doing just fine?
Does a desktop get a pass for instability, simply because it's aiming for a higher goal?
Nothing should get a pass for instability. But Openbox is a much simpler system and it's obvious that there is less things to go wrong. It's like finding some problems in Microsoft Office and then you rejoice how you find much more stability in Notepad. Not a fair comparison.
Of course, that being said, if Openbox provides you everything you need and it works well, then it's of course an excellent choice. Maybe you only needed a screwdriver and not the whole toolbox.
These spams are still here? Pseudo-randomly generated text with references often to BSD or GNAA. Link is to goat.cx. In topic there is usually something like "you fail it" or "mod down". Who maintains the system that sends these? Spooky!
By the way, have you guys noticed that when you open a Slashdot comment in a separate page (by clicking the message ID link) and then close that page, it shows "Working..." at the bottom for a while, possibly phoning home that you closed that comment.
While the talk about FORTRAN seems to be a bit confusing, may I remind that the (incomplete?) assembly source code for MS-DOS 6.22 was leaked, I think about a decade ago. I couldn't find it with quick googling but it's probably floating there somewhere. Just if you are interested. If someone has a link, I could be interested to take a peek at it again, too.
Unfortunately you are out of luck. Native ports do not exist and under Wine those two games have performance issues. Maybe we'll see the next Elder Scrolls or Civilization ported to Linux from the get-go.
Steam arriving on Linux has caused them to make significant improvements to the fglrx drivers. For example in the latest Linux beta driver changelog there's "up to 300% performance improvement in Team Fortress 2".
Do you still remember RHIDE? It was usually combined with DJGPP (C/C++ build tools for DOS). RHIDE was nifty and easy to use.
What I'd like to try out, and this does sound a bit silly, but some minimalist IDE for the Modern UI. I tried browsing the Windows Store but there wasn't much coding stuff available at all.
I would like a visual studio style ide for linux if I could get one.
I sometimes joke about a perverted hack where you would run Visual Studio inside Wine (modern versions of VS currently don't run) and somehow modify the tool chain settings to produce Linux binaries (MinGW?).
Anyway, how about QT Creator or KDevelop? They work great for non-qt work too.
That's true. The next increase will probably happen during the following years if and when the manufacturers get drives utilizing HAMR developed to real products.
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Anything that requires a "Windows" key is a big, HUGE deal-breaking fatal flaw for people with Lexmark Model M13 keyboards (the ones with both buckling-spring keys AND a real Trackpoint), because they pre-date the Windows keys by a couple of years.
So fucking what. Should we really avoid the use of the Windows key in operating systems just because a bunch of museum keyboards that don't have it?
The only difference is it's a start screen instead of a start menu. It's really not that bad once you give it a chance.
The start screen is much clunkier to use than the start menu. It just unnecessarily slows down my working.
This. I like to rant about OSS brokenness, but GIMP is one of the programs I really do not have much to complain about.
They used to accept unicode, some of the older stories still have it enabled. People were using the special unicode characters to modify their score to make it look like they were at +5 and stuff like that. So then Slashdot decided to limit it to plain ascii.
Oh, why does this silly argument come up every time the Slashdot Unicode support is discussed? Of course that kind of problem can be avoided, how else would all the zillons of websites using Unicode be doing just fine?
Does a desktop get a pass for instability, simply because it's aiming for a higher goal?
Nothing should get a pass for instability. But Openbox is a much simpler system and it's obvious that there is less things to go wrong. It's like finding some problems in Microsoft Office and then you rejoice how you find much more stability in Notepad. Not a fair comparison.
Of course, that being said, if Openbox provides you everything you need and it works well, then it's of course an excellent choice. Maybe you only needed a screwdriver and not the whole toolbox.
These spams are still here? Pseudo-randomly generated text with references often to BSD or GNAA. Link is to goat.cx. In topic there is usually something like "you fail it" or "mod down". Who maintains the system that sends these? Spooky!
I agree with this feedback. You could include the story summaries there and still have the mobile site fit nicely on a phone screen.
My long-time request has been to have a black color theme in the settings...
By the way, have you guys noticed that when you open a Slashdot comment in a separate page (by clicking the message ID link) and then close that page, it shows "Working..." at the bottom for a while, possibly phoning home that you closed that comment.
Same thing with IE10.
Eh? You're comparing a complete desktop environment to a window manager.
LORD2 was fun.
While the talk about FORTRAN seems to be a bit confusing, may I remind that the (incomplete?) assembly source code for MS-DOS 6.22 was leaked, I think about a decade ago. I couldn't find it with quick googling but it's probably floating there somewhere. Just if you are interested. If someone has a link, I could be interested to take a peek at it again, too.
DOS could really use a modern composited OpenGL accelerated desktop. Maybe call it "GL Accelerated Disk Operating System". What do you think?
Unfortunately you are out of luck. Native ports do not exist and under Wine those two games have performance issues. Maybe we'll see the next Elder Scrolls or Civilization ported to Linux from the get-go.
Oh and by the way, if you didn't know, HL1 beta for Linux is out. :)
Steam arriving on Linux has caused them to make significant improvements to the fglrx drivers. For example in the latest Linux beta driver changelog there's "up to 300% performance improvement in Team Fortress 2".
Sure, why not.
In Soviet Russia, the viruses scan YOU!
Do you still remember RHIDE? It was usually combined with DJGPP (C/C++ build tools for DOS). RHIDE was nifty and easy to use.
What I'd like to try out, and this does sound a bit silly, but some minimalist IDE for the Modern UI. I tried browsing the Windows Store but there wasn't much coding stuff available at all.
Meh. It's browser's job to keep some cap on the disk usage of the cache. Older stuff gets deleted automatically.
Come to think of it, the whole UNIX operating system, with all of its little tools, kind of encompasses a complete IDE inside it.
I would like a visual studio style ide for linux if I could get one.
I sometimes joke about a perverted hack where you would run Visual Studio inside Wine (modern versions of VS currently don't run) and somehow modify the tool chain settings to produce Linux binaries (MinGW?).
Anyway, how about QT Creator or KDevelop? They work great for non-qt work too.
Interesting. What is there to clean on Linux systems?
That's true. The next increase will probably happen during the following years if and when the manufacturers get drives utilizing HAMR developed to real products.