Scott, thanks for your work, for publishing it and for wasting your time talking to this "rabid crowd of coffee spouting adolescents". As far as I know AMD has a working relationship with the Portland Group to optimize the PG compilers for AMD's new 64 bit architecture.
They replaced an old IBM SP2 with an Intel cluster running W2K. It doesnt show up very high on the netlib list but I would certainly call them and maybe pay them a visit.
Linux users, despite that fact that the sales person will tell you that, of course your OS is supported "no really, not kidding", are in fact not supported.
Tell me if I'm wrong, but does SBC say anywhere in written that Linux is a supported OS for the DSL service?
So what happens is the following: Everytime their service goes down, and that happens at least twice a month here in St.Louis, you will be told that a) Linux is not a supported OS and that b) you will reboot into Windows and then do the shutdown-powercycle-reboot dance of Level-1 support.
If you do not comply they will immediately hang up on you. SBC DSL tech support even once threatened to hang up on me because I called the "DSL router" a "DSL router" and not a "DSL modem".... Their Level1 tech support seems to be staffed by a bunch of "bitching teenagers".
SBC is a phone company and it is a big one so you have been warned. Tech-savy users should stay away from this offer. There is no way out of it once you signed up.
"Always on" internet connection is a flat out lie. The service will disconnect you once a day and assign you a different IP address. Now since you are not supposed to run servers of this service anyway, there is no reason to complain about this, is there? Of course you can reconnect automatically, reenter your IP in the DNS but hey dont tell them about it cause even sshing into your own box is not allowed. No servers!
All in all, there are other ISP's - it will cost you an additional $10 a month but you'll get a static IP or at least DHCP.
So think twice what you want to do with your DSL. Ahh yaaa you all use Windows I forgot...
Its good to hear that KLyX isnt all the way dead. I guess Matthias hasnt totally forgotten his old project:-) Anyway, in the true spirit of Open Source LyX will benefit from KLyX and vice versa.
Please review LyX instead of KLyX, there is lots of development effort for LyX and many new features. KLyX, which looks nicer, will very soon be reintegrated with LyX. Also, the goal of LyX is quite different from an Office suite or a Wordprocessor. More info on this great document processor here .
quite frankly, what engineers want is whatever gets the job done. That is an attitude but also a necessity since you get paid for what you design.
That said, there are two kinds of CAD in engineering, for less than 5k you get AutoCAD, for more than 10k you go with UG or Catia. The first is used mainly for 2D stuff but more and more also for design tasks in 3D. The first runs on PC's but without a GL accelrator performance in 3D is bad. UG and Catia and the likes run on high end workstations none of em run Linux but typically AIX or Solaris or HP-UX. If you have used UG on a new SUN you will not like anything running on an NT box.
2D CAD doesnt make much sense for todays design and construction demands so just forget about it. Any good 3D program will do 2D so you might as well.
For decent 3D you need OpenGL hardware and thats what Linux does not yet have - I do not count the alpha drivers yet.
To write a CAD application, there is much more involved then the 101st xpaint clone. Look e.g. at techsofts website where they actually have a Hoops and Parasolid implementation for Linux. These are the kind of software preliminaries that you need to write a CAD application that makes sense. And none of these are available as free or open software.
When XFree86-4 will come out with hardware GL support then we are talking Catia ME10 and UG, then we will at least see some commercial applications support Linux.
Somehow the results dont really fit together, do they ? For example take the answers to 9. and 11.. People want to develop for KDE but use Gtk+. Somehow this doesnt really go together.
Also with kdevelop progressing that fast and with the current integration of standard tools, who needs Borland anyway ?
Please Fred van Kempen, show that it is not true, show that you still support Linux, give up the domain linux.com and whatever else you have. I am shure Linus will take another kernel patch from you, maybe... please...
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...you have reinvented X11
This letter is the open source version of the letter you got two weeks before you got layed off. Remember the dot com area?
KDE developers: "Start looking for jobs."
Scott, thanks for your work, for publishing it and for wasting your time talking to this "rabid crowd of coffee spouting adolescents". As far as I know AMD has a working relationship with the Portland Group to optimize the PG compilers for AMD's new 64 bit architecture.
You need five essential tools.
Qt is all you need to build your UI. It is also all you need for a decent, dropin STL replacement.
Fortran is your language to make things fast. Unfortunately, this is a weak point on Linux. But I would give Intel's compiler a try.
Gcc is the only C++ compiler you need on all your Unix platforms.
MSVC6 or MSVC not.yet is your choice on Windows. It is not as good as KDevelop but it works.
KDevelop is your IDE on all Unix platforms.
Add Cervisia and WinCVS for you source code management and you are in business.
Now go code.
They replaced an old IBM SP2 with an Intel cluster running W2K. It doesnt show up very high on the netlib list but I would certainly call them and maybe pay them a visit.
is already great.
The next generation of KDevelop will make you forget Studio.
Linux users, despite that fact that the sales person will tell you that, of course your OS is supported "no really, not kidding", are in fact not supported.
Tell me if I'm wrong, but does SBC say anywhere in written that Linux is a supported OS for the DSL service?
So what happens is the following: Everytime their service goes down, and that happens at least twice a month here in St.Louis, you will be told that
a) Linux is not a supported OS and that
b) you will reboot into Windows and then do the shutdown-powercycle-reboot dance of Level-1 support.
If you do not comply they will immediately hang up on you. SBC DSL tech support even once threatened to hang up on me because I called the "DSL router" a "DSL router" and not a "DSL modem".... Their Level1 tech support seems to be staffed by a bunch of "bitching teenagers".
SBC is a phone company and it is a big one so you have been warned. Tech-savy users should stay away from this offer. There is no way out of it once you signed up.
"Always on" internet connection is a flat out lie. The service will disconnect you once a day and assign you a different IP address. Now since you are not supposed to run servers of this service anyway, there is no reason to complain about this, is there? Of course you can reconnect automatically, reenter your IP in the DNS but hey dont tell them about it cause even sshing into your own box is not allowed. No servers!
All in all, there are other ISP's - it will cost you an additional $10 a month but you'll get a static IP or at least DHCP.
So think twice what you want to do with your DSL. Ahh yaaa you all use Windows I forgot...
Its good to hear that KLyX isnt all the way dead. I guess Matthias hasnt totally forgotten his old project :-) Anyway, in the true spirit of Open Source LyX will benefit from KLyX and vice versa.
Please review LyX instead of KLyX, there is lots of development effort for LyX and many new features. KLyX, which looks nicer, will very soon be reintegrated with LyX.
Also, the goal of LyX is quite different from an Office suite or a Wordprocessor.
More info on this great document processor here .
quite frankly, what engineers want is whatever gets the job done. That is an attitude but also a necessity since you get paid for what you design.
That said, there are two kinds of CAD in engineering, for less than 5k you get AutoCAD, for more than 10k you go with UG or Catia. The first is used mainly for 2D stuff but more and more also for design tasks in 3D. The first runs on PC's but without a GL accelrator performance in 3D is bad. UG and Catia and the likes run on high end workstations none of em run Linux but typically AIX or Solaris or HP-UX. If you have used UG on a new SUN you will not like anything running on an NT box.
2D CAD doesnt make much sense for todays design and construction demands so just forget about it. Any good 3D program will do 2D so you might as well.
For decent 3D you need OpenGL hardware and thats what Linux does not yet have - I do not count the alpha drivers yet.
To write a CAD application, there is much more involved then the 101st xpaint clone. Look e.g. at techsofts website where they actually have a Hoops and Parasolid implementation for Linux. These are the kind of software preliminaries that you need to write a CAD application that makes sense. And none of these are available as free or open software.
When XFree86-4 will come out with hardware GL support then we are talking Catia ME10 and UG, then we will at least see some commercial applications support Linux.
Somehow the results dont really fit together, do they ? For example take the answers to 9. and 11.. People want to develop for KDE but use Gtk+. Somehow this doesnt really go together.
Also with kdevelop progressing that fast and with the current integration of standard tools, who needs Borland anyway ?
to bring shame to the name Linux.
It is so sad.
Please Fred van Kempen, show that it is not true,
show that you still support Linux, give up the domain linux.com and whatever else you have. I am shure Linus will take another kernel patch from you, maybe... please...
It is so sad.
the only glitch is, that it doesn't ask
which distribution you would like to install...
hehe