It depends. How about projects like PuTTY, OpenTTD, TrueCrypt, Mozilla Firefox, etc? They are quite polished software. I agree with the quality assurance of Linux desktops being in a bit sad state, but OSS in general is not necessarily the way to doom.
I mean, that type of statement COULD be construed as false advertising? Or am I completely wrong?
Most software is delivered "as is" and some kind of problems are bound to appear anyway. Otherwise you couldn't release almost anything. Apple has everything set up quite nicely compared to Microsoft boasting in their old installers how the new Windows 98 is more secure than ever...
There IS something capturing about the games of 1990 era. Maybe it's that computers were sufficiently advanced, but not too powerful, which set just the right artistic bounds. Especially in the indie scene there is some works that go back to the experience, check out Resonance, for example. I hope that "simpler" 2D games and complex 3D worlds like Skyrim can coexist.:)
You are absolutely correct. Currently the stuff that works best is the (OSS) drivers that can be continuously updated to match a recent kernel API and/or X.org ABI. In Windows world, you can create a driver which pretty much works the whole lifetime of a major OS version. Additional points for having a unified way for installing third party drivers instead of a vendor-written shell script.:)
Even then, all that would be needed to stop piracy
Well, I have to take back some of my bullshit by adding that while killing the public torrent scene might be possible, pirated files would probably still have a bright future in some other forms in Internet...
Or use Google to search for "stuffiwant.torrent" and the results will popup from Extratorrent, Isohunt, Kat, and such. There's even a.torrent search extension for Firefox. If people want to download it, THEY WILL...
Even then, all that would be needed to stop piracy is to make illegal distributing.torrent files containing copyrighted material. And while the sites themselves don't host the files behind a torrent, it's obvious that they are the vehicle which makes it possible to copy the warez. Then they just snipe down Extratorrent, Isohunt, Kat, etc. and ultimately there's not much to be found in Google results either.
The new version of their mobile operating system will bring support for processors with up to 64 cores, as well as resolutions higher than 800x480 — up to 1280x768. It will also include better support for NFC and microSD cards.
Those are the highlights? "Improvements" as small as that wouldn't justify much more than a version 7.1. Even a small update to the Linux kernel has more meat in the changelog.
Of course, but there is still big difference in the size and complexity of the modules. You just have to decide where to draw the line and define what counts as "cheating" and what doesn't.
Ok, if you wanted to go hardcore, I guess you could have a definition where you are not allowed to bring two or more materials attached to each other to the construction site, no pre-treatment of materials (shortening, painting...) and something like that.
I say it depends on what those libraries, etc., are.
Exactly. If you boast that you created a web browser in a weekend, but all you did was make a WebKit wrapper (prefab big building elements), is a whole lot story if the your modules are something like "iostream" (nails, 2x4 planks...).
windows 95 comfortably fit in 16mb of ram a few years later.
Not comfortably really. I had Win95 with 16MB and, unless you ran anything else than just the OS itself, it swapped like an animal. Maybe my installation was a bit bloated too, but still.
Although what every time comes up in my mind is a Slashdot message from maybe 5 years ago, where someone run 95 on a modern CPU. The core components of the OS could fit in the processor cache (maybe 4 megs or so), and he had some method to pull out the RAM out from the live system, after which the system ran happily for a while if you didn't do much. If someone can assist locating that post, it'd be awesome...
Ultrabooks in general and Mac laptops specifically are nothing more than vanity machines for people with more money than sense.
I have to agree. I'm otherwise cool with Macs, but they're a horrible choice if you actually want to invest your pennies smartly. Sure you get excellent quality, but even then it still leaves the price point too high.
Even life is risk. But when using some nice Intel or Samsung disk, you should be fairly safe in general and be able to do pretty much anything with the disk that you want.
Anyway they priced themselves out of the storage market with low capacities and too high prices. Wake me up when they have 1gb SSD's at 100 -150 Euro and come with a lifetime or 10 warranty.
True, but imagine the transfer speeds and random access times that you get for the price with SSD, compared to HDD.
The only trouble with SSDs is they die quickly from repeated read/writes. A swap heavy OS like Win7 will kill one in no time.
No. Typical SSDs these days are designed to tolerate even the heavy R/W of Windows just fine. Of course there's still crappy and unstable models on the market, but swapping shouldn't be a concern.
Any Distro but Ubuntu thanks.
There is far too much press whoring/fawning over the increasingly problematic releases that Canonical put out.
IMHO Unity set the UI bar very low. Its only saving grace is that Metro easily passed underneath.
Hey, even I think Unity sucks (my gripe is that it runs damn slow). But still, we could be forever arguing about which one is the best, and the situation wouldn't improve. I'll rather take a solid de facto Ubuntu rather than 10 distros broken in different ways. You could still use Slackware or CentOS, but Ubuntu would be the benchmark.
Thanks. Linux needs distro specific app development tools. Please, fragment Linux, that'll really help the Linux-on-the-desktop cause...
Or maybe it might be a good move to declare some distro (which, for practical reasons could be Ubuntu) the one mainline Linux distro. Then try to make that as compatible, supported and polished as possible. Sure, everybody wouldn't like every aspect of it, but we would just draw strict lines. This would be much more practical than the current unfocused pool of various desktops and development environments. Even in this scenario the other choices could still flourish (so that you can have the choice if you really want it).
We do not need much horsepower as the main use will be internet/email/word processing and whatever other apps come with edubuntu.
That could be written "internet/email/{word processing}" as it can otherwise be interpreted as "internet processing, email processing and word processing".
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I found Unity slow even on a Core 2 Duo. I seriously don't know how the implementation can be that bad.
It depends. How about projects like PuTTY, OpenTTD, TrueCrypt, Mozilla Firefox, etc? They are quite polished software. I agree with the quality assurance of Linux desktops being in a bit sad state, but OSS in general is not necessarily the way to doom.
This being C, 11 would mean that you can turn the volume from 0 all the way up to 10.
Not necessarily. Usually the "goes to 11" pun is applied to knobs which also go from 0 to 10 by default.
Suprising that no one has sued.
I mean, that type of statement COULD be construed as false advertising? Or am I completely wrong?
Most software is delivered "as is" and some kind of problems are bound to appear anyway. Otherwise you couldn't release almost anything. Apple has everything set up quite nicely compared to Microsoft boasting in their old installers how the new Windows 98 is more secure than ever...
There IS something capturing about the games of 1990 era. Maybe it's that computers were sufficiently advanced, but not too powerful, which set just the right artistic bounds. Especially in the indie scene there is some works that go back to the experience, check out Resonance, for example. I hope that "simpler" 2D games and complex 3D worlds like Skyrim can coexist. :)
That is just unimportant nitpicking. :)
Is the NVIDIA guy aware of this thread?
You are absolutely correct. Currently the stuff that works best is the (OSS) drivers that can be continuously updated to match a recent kernel API and/or X.org ABI. In Windows world, you can create a driver which pretty much works the whole lifetime of a major OS version. Additional points for having a unified way for installing third party drivers instead of a vendor-written shell script. :)
Exactly. The chick's question at Aalto University, which started the whole discussion, was about Optimus. Roll up your sleeves, NVIDIA. :)
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to those who keep saying..
"i wish linux were more like windows"
I don't see people saying that.
Even then, all that would be needed to stop piracy
Well, I have to take back some of my bullshit by adding that while killing the public torrent scene might be possible, pirated files would probably still have a bright future in some other forms in Internet...
Or use Google to search for "stuffiwant .torrent" and the results will popup from Extratorrent, Isohunt, Kat, and such. There's even a .torrent search extension for Firefox. If people want to download it, THEY WILL...
Even then, all that would be needed to stop piracy is to make illegal distributing .torrent files containing copyrighted material. And while the sites themselves don't host the files behind a torrent, it's obvious that they are the vehicle which makes it possible to copy the warez. Then they just snipe down Extratorrent, Isohunt, Kat, etc. and ultimately there's not much to be found in Google results either.
Fair enough.
The new version of their mobile operating system will bring support for processors with up to 64 cores, as well as resolutions higher than 800x480 — up to 1280x768. It will also include better support for NFC and microSD cards.
Those are the highlights? "Improvements" as small as that wouldn't justify much more than a version 7.1. Even a small update to the Linux kernel has more meat in the changelog.
Of course, but there is still big difference in the size and complexity of the modules. You just have to decide where to draw the line and define what counts as "cheating" and what doesn't.
Ok, if you wanted to go hardcore, I guess you could have a definition where you are not allowed to bring two or more materials attached to each other to the construction site, no pre-treatment of materials (shortening, painting...) and something like that.
I say it depends on what those libraries, etc., are.
Exactly. If you boast that you created a web browser in a weekend, but all you did was make a WebKit wrapper (prefab big building elements), is a whole lot story if the your modules are something like "iostream" (nails, 2x4 planks...).
windows 95 comfortably fit in 16mb of ram a few years later.
Not comfortably really. I had Win95 with 16MB and, unless you ran anything else than just the OS itself, it swapped like an animal. Maybe my installation was a bit bloated too, but still.
Although what every time comes up in my mind is a Slashdot message from maybe 5 years ago, where someone run 95 on a modern CPU. The core components of the OS could fit in the processor cache (maybe 4 megs or so), and he had some method to pull out the RAM out from the live system, after which the system ran happily for a while if you didn't do much. If someone can assist locating that post, it'd be awesome...
Ultrabooks in general and Mac laptops specifically are nothing more than vanity machines for people with more money than sense.
I have to agree. I'm otherwise cool with Macs, but they're a horrible choice if you actually want to invest your pennies smartly. Sure you get excellent quality, but even then it still leaves the price point too high.
I would rather NOT take the risk.
Even life is risk. But when using some nice Intel or Samsung disk, you should be fairly safe in general and be able to do pretty much anything with the disk that you want.
Anyway they priced themselves out of the storage market with low capacities and too high prices. Wake me up when they have 1gb SSD's at 100 -150 Euro and come with a lifetime or 10 warranty.
True, but imagine the transfer speeds and random access times that you get for the price with SSD, compared to HDD.
The only trouble with SSDs is they die quickly from repeated read/writes. A swap heavy OS like Win7 will kill one in no time.
No. Typical SSDs these days are designed to tolerate even the heavy R/W of Windows just fine. Of course there's still crappy and unstable models on the market, but swapping shouldn't be a concern.
Any Distro but Ubuntu thanks. There is far too much press whoring/fawning over the increasingly problematic releases that Canonical put out.
IMHO Unity set the UI bar very low. Its only saving grace is that Metro easily passed underneath.
Hey, even I think Unity sucks (my gripe is that it runs damn slow). But still, we could be forever arguing about which one is the best, and the situation wouldn't improve. I'll rather take a solid de facto Ubuntu rather than 10 distros broken in different ways. You could still use Slackware or CentOS, but Ubuntu would be the benchmark.
Thanks. Linux needs distro specific app development tools. Please, fragment Linux, that'll really help the Linux-on-the-desktop cause...
Or maybe it might be a good move to declare some distro (which, for practical reasons could be Ubuntu) the one mainline Linux distro. Then try to make that as compatible, supported and polished as possible. Sure, everybody wouldn't like every aspect of it, but we would just draw strict lines. This would be much more practical than the current unfocused pool of various desktops and development environments. Even in this scenario the other choices could still flourish (so that you can have the choice if you really want it).
Which 3rd party utility?
We do not need much horsepower as the main use will be internet/email/word processing and whatever other apps come with edubuntu.
That could be written "internet/email/{word processing}" as it can otherwise be interpreted as "internet processing, email processing and word processing".