At this point I have no idea what you are smoking. First, the amount of free RAM does not affect graphics performance and even a shared video memory is allocated to a fixed size on bootup (for example 224 MB). Second, the GMA950 Linux driver is excellent.
The way of UNIX programs sprinkling around various config files in various locations and in various formats, is even more crusty than the old Windows.INI files. The Windows registry is a standardized and centralized hive for all the app settings, and it has been made binary to attain good performance. It probably would benefit from better management tools, but it is absolutely a step in the right direction.
IMO Windows Registry is way nicer than what Linux has got. In Linux, programs use text files, which are slow and unreliable to parse, and require a separate config file interpreter in each program. Then there are these desktop environment -specific directories like.config,.kde, and.gconf, which just add to the mess. In Windows, you just use the standard API for accessing the registry.
Linux has much nicer package management, Windows has much nicer configuration management.
I was burned out waiting, so I bought an nvidia Geforce 750 ti, and now I can play games in Linux using the nvidia drivers from the website. This newer nvidia card is about the same performance as my old 6850
Just getting facts straight: actually that NVIDIA card is 50% faster than your old AMD card. Still though, the GTX 750 Ti is a chip with reasonable price and fantastic performance/watt ratio, so congratulations on the upgrade.:)
In last week's testing of 65 GPUs on the open-source Linux drivers, the winner overall was the AMD Radeon graphics cards: they were the least problematic (though several Radeon GPUs still ran into different problems) and they delivered the best performance (including generally the performance-per-Watt).
Can confirm. The open source Radeon driver has been improving greatly. A bit surprisingly, Radeon hardware is actually starting to become a quite good choice for a Linux user.
Not necessarily. A strong will shall accelerate the development, but there's many areas of science where guys are really trying to push the envelope but still can't come up with a solution for a problem.
I am not pretending anything. I do not claim to understand almost anything about genetics, epigenetics (whatever that even means), or the causes of homosexuality.
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At this point I have no idea what you are smoking. First, the amount of free RAM does not affect graphics performance and even a shared video memory is allocated to a fixed size on bootup (for example 224 MB). Second, the GMA950 Linux driver is excellent.
The way of UNIX programs sprinkling around various config files in various locations and in various formats, is even more crusty than the old Windows .INI files. The Windows registry is a standardized and centralized hive for all the app settings, and it has been made binary to attain good performance. It probably would benefit from better management tools, but it is absolutely a step in the right direction.
It's a shame Microsoft doesn't include a "proper registry editor" in Windows.
Agree. The Registry Editor is quite rudimentary.
With a proper registry editor, editing a registry shouldn't be any more difficult than text files.
That's a completely different issue.
Lollerskatez.
It is a common thing in the Android platform.
Submitter here, thanks for the feedback.
There is this Android thingy.
There's also an interesting Fake Apple USB Charger Teardown by Dave Jones.
I dunno, the position just screams for a LED. The button "looks dead" without it.
A lot of Linux distros are derived from Ubuntu and -- presumably -- can use Ubuntu's system settings and its driver manager.
What driver manager? There's the "proprietary drivers available" tool, which is pretty neat, but I'm not aware of any full driver manager.
I don't know.
I got the numbers from videocardbenchmark.net. :)
What I found surprising is that the iPhone home button has no LED to illuminate it.
IMO Windows Registry is way nicer than what Linux has got. In Linux, programs use text files, which are slow and unreliable to parse, and require a separate config file interpreter in each program. Then there are these desktop environment -specific directories like .config, .kde, and .gconf, which just add to the mess. In Windows, you just use the standard API for accessing the registry.
Linux has much nicer package management, Windows has much nicer configuration management.
Yes, it can. Very easily.
Even a GMA950 can easily perform all those tasks.
Why's that?
I was burned out waiting, so I bought an nvidia Geforce 750 ti, and now I can play games in Linux using the nvidia drivers from the website. This newer nvidia card is about the same performance as my old 6850
Just getting facts straight: actually that NVIDIA card is 50% faster than your old AMD card. Still though, the GTX 750 Ti is a chip with reasonable price and fantastic performance/watt ratio, so congratulations on the upgrade. :)
I find this also a bit odd. A lot of Linux desktop environments do not ship with a proper "Device Manager".
In last week's testing of 65 GPUs on the open-source Linux drivers, the winner overall was the AMD Radeon graphics cards: they were the least problematic (though several Radeon GPUs still ran into different problems) and they delivered the best performance (including generally the performance-per-Watt).
Can confirm. The open source Radeon driver has been improving greatly. A bit surprisingly, Radeon hardware is actually starting to become a quite good choice for a Linux user.
If we really wanted to, we'd find a way.
Not necessarily. A strong will shall accelerate the development, but there's many areas of science where guys are really trying to push the envelope but still can't come up with a solution for a problem.
The world is analogue.
Really? the number of atoms that form an object isn't a positive integer?
Wiseass.
I am not pretending anything. I do not claim to understand almost anything about genetics, epigenetics (whatever that even means), or the causes of homosexuality.