FWIW, I've an 5800 XM too. It sucks balls. It's so slow, that just flipping the mobile over to rotate the screen takes seconds in some cases. Nothing is instant on this phone, you have to wait for everything. If this is even remotely comparable to the iPhone...
Seriously, not a joke: Flip the phone on its side, open the applications folder. Wait 7 seconds, and they show up. At least on my 5800. Did I mention that it hangs, occasionally?
I've been running beta5 and RC1 since it came out, this could very well be the final product from what I've experienced. Everything works, including all plugins (or are they called extensions, addons, or components...?).
Much faster startup time (yes, this matters) and switching between tabs seem faster than ever. It's almost Chrome-like in speed now.
Obviously you have never tried running Linux on a system with a ATI graphics card.
. One update and suddenly your graphics drivers won't work and X won't start. Then it's back down to the CLI to figure out why the fully supported drivers with full 6600GT support don't work with your 6600GT.
P.S. I've been jaded by automatic updates.
Wrong, dkms takes care of automatically (re)compiling the nvidia module if needed. This happens on boot, before X starts. All good.
I should have clarified; what I meant was that if the document doesn't look and behave exactly the same when opened in OO (including macros, VBA etc etc which are in use everyday at every corporation) then it's not an option.
Do you use the NVIDIA binary blob? I've a 8600M GT (mobile), the problem is poor performance in KDE compositing (moving a window isn't smooth, resizing a window results in less than 10 fps etc).
How is openSUSE with drivers? 190.53 was released today for example - is there a way to install it in SUSE with the package manager?
In Ubuntu you have PPA:s, which often contain the latest software of things. (I always need the latest software - hence liking rolling release distros...)
I am not a senior, but I would like this too. Sometimes it feels like there's too many choices of applications - granted, each distribution comes with its own default programs for (almost) everything (IM, browser etc), but it takes time to try out all the different apps, just to discover that the feature you liked in app x doesn't exist in app y, or it's too slow, or too ugly (the most common one).
Almost sounds like a netbook distro (very simple menu interface, just the most common apps easily accessible, yet still full blown Linux underneath) would suit me... Moblin perhaps?
I've jumped from Archlinux (love it, but in the end... it's too much manual work) to Ubuntu 9.10 recently. I was thinking of jumping to Fedora 12 since it's close to RHEL (which we use at work) in some aspects, but OpenSUSE looks really nice, I hear it's the best KDE distribution at the moment. Problem is my NVIDIA card - no matter what tweaks you use, performance is subpar in KDE compared to an integrated Intel card in all aspects (except gaming).
Open source drivers aren't an option since you can simply not play games with them. So I guess I'm stuck with Ubuntu for now. My next laptop will most likely have ATI or Intel in it, unless NVIDIA releases a magic KDE driver of some sort.
If the computer is shut down, and you've a BIOS password enabled - you wouldn't be able to do this, right?
You'd first have to enter the BIOS password to boot the system, then press a key to boot from external media and do your mischief. But, if you had physical access to the machine, I suppose you could take it apart and reset the BIOS password anyway.
Really, if you have physical access to the machine, it's got no chance.
Yeah, the brown theme really isn't very appealing... What is this dark theme I keep hearing about? Is it just the one from Ubuntu Studio? (I don't like that - not integrated good enough)
Yes. The soon-to-be-released OCZ Vertex is discussed in this forum, with a poll from an OCZ guy on how the firmware will be optimized... many IO/s or many MB/s?
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=186
Partition alignment is important, as is some registry tweaks. Disable prefetch and search indexing, probably some other services that are useless and/or just waste the SSD's life span instead of enhancing performance.
True, but meant in a more generic sense, not just this "benchmark". And as posted in earlier commments, the benchmark is flawed (some optimization during compilation was missing/wrong?)
I don't know the underlying problem either, but I'm guessing it's the entire X windows system.
We really need a slimmed down, optimized replacement for desktop users of Linux...
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Maybe you're right, it doesn't get better at this price.
FWIW, I've an 5800 XM too. It sucks balls. It's so slow, that just flipping the mobile over to rotate the screen takes seconds in some cases. Nothing is instant on this phone, you have to wait for everything. If this is even remotely comparable to the iPhone...
Seriously, not a joke: Flip the phone on its side, open the applications folder. Wait 7 seconds, and they show up. At least on my 5800. Did I mention that it hangs, occasionally?
Agreed!
I've been running beta5 and RC1 since it came out, this could very well be the final product from what I've experienced. Everything works, including all plugins (or are they called extensions, addons, or components...?).
Much faster startup time (yes, this matters) and switching between tabs seem faster than ever. It's almost Chrome-like in speed now.
Obviously you have never tried running Linux on a system with a ATI graphics card.
. One update and suddenly your graphics drivers won't work and X won't start. Then it's back down to the CLI to figure out why the fully supported drivers with full 6600GT support don't work with your 6600GT.
P.S. I've been jaded by automatic updates.
Wrong, dkms takes care of automatically (re)compiling the nvidia module if needed. This happens on boot, before X starts. All good.
There is an early 64-bit version of Adobe's flash plugin: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html (Linux only)
I should have clarified; what I meant was that if the document doesn't look and behave exactly the same when opened in OO (including macros, VBA etc etc which are in use everyday at every corporation) then it's not an option.
Because OO isn't compatible enough. If it doesn't look 100% the same, and I mean 100%, it's not good enough.
Do you use the NVIDIA binary blob? I've a 8600M GT (mobile), the problem is poor performance in KDE compositing (moving a window isn't smooth, resizing a window results in less than 10 fps etc).
I'm not the only one with these problems, check out http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=115916 for example. I might give openSUSE 11.2 a try later, hopefully things have improved since last time I tried it.
How is openSUSE with drivers? 190.53 was released today for example - is there a way to install it in SUSE with the package manager?
In Ubuntu you have PPA:s, which often contain the latest software of things. (I always need the latest software - hence liking rolling release distros...)
I am not a senior, but I would like this too. Sometimes it feels like there's too many choices of applications - granted, each distribution comes with its own default programs for (almost) everything (IM, browser etc), but it takes time to try out all the different apps, just to discover that the feature you liked in app x doesn't exist in app y, or it's too slow, or too ugly (the most common one).
Almost sounds like a netbook distro (very simple menu interface, just the most common apps easily accessible, yet still full blown Linux underneath) would suit me... Moblin perhaps?
I've jumped from Archlinux (love it, but in the end... it's too much manual work) to Ubuntu 9.10 recently. I was thinking of jumping to Fedora 12 since it's close to RHEL (which we use at work) in some aspects, but OpenSUSE looks really nice, I hear it's the best KDE distribution at the moment. Problem is my NVIDIA card - no matter what tweaks you use, performance is subpar in KDE compared to an integrated Intel card in all aspects (except gaming).
Open source drivers aren't an option since you can simply not play games with them. So I guess I'm stuck with Ubuntu for now. My next laptop will most likely have ATI or Intel in it, unless NVIDIA releases a magic KDE driver of some sort.
Well, VLC etc usually displays garbage of what kinda looks like the video stream it's supposed to be.
Like a corrupted MPEG stream played in most video players?
If the computer is shut down, and you've a BIOS password enabled - you wouldn't be able to do this, right?
You'd first have to enter the BIOS password to boot the system, then press a key to boot from external media and do your mischief. But, if you had physical access to the machine, I suppose you could take it apart and reset the BIOS password anyway.
Really, if you have physical access to the machine, it's got no chance.
There's NTL (UPC Chello), but they only provide Internet via cable (eircom = adsl).
Pulseaudio also gives you this. I think OSSv4 does it as well.
As someone without any education at all, I'd say go for the Masters, then get your experience after that. No?
It's only the CPU running at that speed - and the die is very small. I don't think this is an issue.
Yeah, the brown theme really isn't very appealing... What is this dark theme I keep hearing about? Is it just the one from Ubuntu Studio? (I don't like that - not integrated good enough)
So GCC is slow compared to the Intel compiler?
Yes. The soon-to-be-released OCZ Vertex is discussed in this forum, with a poll from an OCZ guy on how the firmware will be optimized... many IO/s or many MB/s? http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=186 Partition alignment is important, as is some registry tweaks. Disable prefetch and search indexing, probably some other services that are useless and/or just waste the SSD's life span instead of enhancing performance.
True, but meant in a more generic sense, not just this "benchmark". And as posted in earlier commments, the benchmark is flawed (some optimization during compilation was missing/wrong?)
I don't know the underlying problem either, but I'm guessing it's the entire X windows system. We really need a slimmed down, optimized replacement for desktop users of Linux...
With Vista, there's no (official, at least) way to disable UAC except by a user actively going to Control Panel and disabling it.
This breaks a lot of things - particularly a lot of stuff concerning scripted/automated installers.
Hm, that's strange, I've never used UAC and I've used Vista since SP1 came out. I've never had any issues with any installers.
What's wrong with virtual machines?
Yes, all games that requires DX10. Not that DX10 is much prettier than DX9 though.