User: martin_lovick

Re:A Good IDE is most important

On: What 2D GUI Foundation Do You Use?

also, when youve mastered one GUI toolkit its fairly straightforward to pick up others

A Good IDE is most important

On: What 2D GUI Foundation Do You Use?

Having used a variety of GUI toolkits under different OS (AWT, .NET, MFC, Qt, OpenGL). In my opinion the most important thing to have is a good GUI builder tool. Most of the IDEs these days come with GUI building tools and also the GUI tools can for the most part be plugged into IDE. That said, I have found Qt quit good when plugged into Eclipse.

Re:Why?

On: Saving Unix Heritage, One Kernel At a Time

regarding a 'History of the UNIX kernel' class, check out http://bitsavers.org/pdf/bellLabs/unix/ it has some interesting documents about the and unix kernel and some of the listings are being used as part of the current effort to resurrect the very early unix (ie v1 etc) also theres always lions commentary to be found on the net at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/

tar

On: MIT Releases the Source of MULTICS, Father of UNIX

It would be nice to have a tar of the whole lot, theres a LOT of files in there

old laptop

On: XP On 8-MHz Pentium With 20 MB RAM

i remember installing windows 95 from a pile of floppy disks onto an old greyscale laptop that someone gave me. It was a 486 SX 25 with 4MB RAM and a 120MB HD, it only left about 40MB to play with

support

On: The Portable Linux Based GP2X is Here

.....and where is the commerical support and release games?.....NEXT

SSSLLLLOOOOWWWW

On: Public Domain from Outer Space

archive.org may be a great idea.....but its crippled by bandwidth..... on a 2Mb line I expect more than 30kb/sec...... great idea guys ...but if your gonna put the news like that on slashdot.....get your bandwidth sorted FIRST

Re:Unix category revived

On: Open Solaris Derivative Available

Heres a utopian vision for the post-M$ era... OpenSolaris + OpenOffice + GCC (of course!)