What it has "become"? People bragging about their uptime is pretty much how it/started/... I really don't see what all the fuss is about.
That reminds me, talking about the uptime of a UNIX system has pretty much disappeared. Back in the day, it was some kind of pride (or maybe a pointless number) to have a long uptime -- months, even years. Not that much anymore. It's probably partly related to the OS and its updates being a more live and changing thing.
It also shows that Reddit nowadays is often much more interesting than/.
I don't read Reddit regularly but when I checked it now, it seemed to just be a similar "random crap" pool much like Digg.:)
I would LOVE to have stories like this on Slashdot, but all we get is some pro-piracy, anti-microsoft circlejerking.
Totally agree. It's a shame how one-sided the discussion regarding those topics is. You get nearly automatically downmodded if you oppose piracy, Linux is some holy water which makes everything good and, there's almost never any article related to solving some problem using MS environment. That said, this is still an awesome website...
It's funny to read that G+ post how Linus goes on ranting how sucky one of his own OS kernel's desktop flavor is. Maybe it's sad at the same time. Most of what he describes is similar to the brokenness of desktop Linux in general. The kernel itself seems to be in pretty good condition.
Again one of those websites which are sprinkled with links having only the text "here" or "this page". Go there, see here, this, that, everywhere. You don't as quickly see where the links are pointing, and it kind of feels like pushing the reader around. Just for a comparison...
For installation instructions, please go here. The free trial version is available for download on this page.
Windows just works on the desktop but some php and other code is only available or works much better on Linux unfortunately.
Then MacOS should be objectively the best OS, as it has good desktop and usable command line. I dunno. I've never had a Mac, but I've been thinking about it.
This might be because the fonts get fatter when using a lower resolution, improving readability. If you instead increase the font size, in many cases the font weight does not increase much at all.
It might be slightly more costy, but I would assume that manufacturing processes have advanced sufficiently already to make much smaller pixels for a reasonable price. The current DPI of screens is still lagging in the stone age, after all.
Indeed. We have reached a point where the current GUIs cannot be taken much further, so all there is left to do is to wank over little things like this.
Now if they would drop the silly numbering that would be the icing of the cake.
If it helps, you can now run the Extended Support Release. Currently it's FF10 which gets just security updates, next ESR will be version 17, and so on.
That doesn't change the fact that until the software people want to run are easily available on Linux, Linux isn't going "mainstream". Even supported software (like VMWare for example) is a relative PITA to install on Ubuntu (widely touted as being "easy mode" Linux) vs installing VMWare on a windows box.
I also have a recent experience of VirtualBox being harder to install on openSUSE than Windows 7. Not anything that bad really, just a bit of manual hacking setting permissions and stuff. But yes, there is some rough edges. It's good to take a close inspection at these cases as part of basic quality assurance. For some Joe Sixpack that kind of obstacles can be insurmountable or at least very frustrating.
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What it has "become"? People bragging about their uptime is pretty much how it /started/... I really don't see what all the fuss is about.
That reminds me, talking about the uptime of a UNIX system has pretty much disappeared. Back in the day, it was some kind of pride (or maybe a pointless number) to have a long uptime -- months, even years. Not that much anymore. It's probably partly related to the OS and its updates being a more live and changing thing.
It also shows that Reddit nowadays is often much more interesting than /.
I don't read Reddit regularly but when I checked it now, it seemed to just be a similar "random crap" pool much like Digg. :)
I would LOVE to have stories like this on Slashdot, but all we get is some pro-piracy, anti-microsoft circlejerking.
Totally agree. It's a shame how one-sided the discussion regarding those topics is. You get nearly automatically downmodded if you oppose piracy, Linux is some holy water which makes everything good and, there's almost never any article related to solving some problem using MS environment. That said, this is still an awesome website...
Nah.
It's funny to read that G+ post how Linus goes on ranting how sucky one of his own OS kernel's desktop flavor is. Maybe it's sad at the same time. Most of what he describes is similar to the brokenness of desktop Linux in general. The kernel itself seems to be in pretty good condition.
I think I'll stick to notepad++
Gedit's Windows version is also a very nice Notepad replacement.
Again one of those websites which are sprinkled with links having only the text "here" or "this page". Go there, see here, this, that, everywhere. You don't as quickly see where the links are pointing, and it kind of feels like pushing the reader around. Just for a comparison...
For installation instructions, please go here. The free trial version is available for download on this page.
To get started, please view the installation instructions. The free trial version is available for download.
So much nicer to read.
Windows just works on the desktop but some php and other code is only available or works much better on Linux unfortunately.
Then MacOS should be objectively the best OS, as it has good desktop and usable command line. I dunno. I've never had a Mac, but I've been thinking about it.
This might be because the fonts get fatter when using a lower resolution, improving readability. If you instead increase the font size, in many cases the font weight does not increase much at all.
It would be ridiculous to be sued just for having a certain DPI in your display.
It might be slightly more costy, but I would assume that manufacturing processes have advanced sufficiently already to make much smaller pixels for a reasonable price. The current DPI of screens is still lagging in the stone age, after all.
What about bit depth? A bazillion pixels is all well and good, but I still find it frustrating that those pixels are limited to 256 grey levels.
And even then you have a lot of panels on the market which only have 6 bits per channel.
It's a great term actually. Linux & OSS could be called the "broccoli technology" of Slashdot.
Indeed. We have reached a point where the current GUIs cannot be taken much further, so all there is left to do is to wank over little things like this.
Technically your sentences are not logical among themselves. ;)
I agree in the sense that aside the positive effects of coffee it also deserves much more criticism.
I (the submitter) also wondered, where is this Russian forum that is being talked about around the Internet.
Now if they would drop the silly numbering that would be the icing of the cake.
If it helps, you can now run the Extended Support Release. Currently it's FF10 which gets just security updates, next ESR will be version 17, and so on.
And that's only the Steam itself. What graphics, sound and input APIs the games should use is also problematic.
Valve probably has already cooked solutions for some of the problems, interesting to see how this turns out.
That doesn't change the fact that until the software people want to run are easily available on Linux, Linux isn't going "mainstream". Even supported software (like VMWare for example) is a relative PITA to install on Ubuntu (widely touted as being "easy mode" Linux) vs installing VMWare on a windows box.
I also have a recent experience of VirtualBox being harder to install on openSUSE than Windows 7. Not anything that bad really, just a bit of manual hacking setting permissions and stuff. But yes, there is some rough edges. It's good to take a close inspection at these cases as part of basic quality assurance. For some Joe Sixpack that kind of obstacles can be insurmountable or at least very frustrating.
Then how did you copy the misspelling of his name from the parent comment? Seems that you have not done that much of research.
Aahh...what's better than setting up a desktop environment with friends to have some good Wine and taste some Linuxes.
I see.
Coming soon in Ask Slashdot: "I was assigned to set up a school network (about 100Mbps for 1000 users)..."
Facebook is more of a service than software.
Then there's people who add extra camel case, such as writing "MicroSoft".