So you're saying that they should go with a proprietary solution to be sure they're safe in the "long run"? That's back asswards.
If they have open drivers for their Radeons, they will be able to have them work.. well, forever. If they have some proprietary Nvidia drivers, who's to say they will work in the future? You have no guarantee that Nvidia will continue to 'support' their current cards under Linux 2.6, 2.8, or Xfree 4.4, 5.0(!), etc. From a business standpoint, that's a Bad Thing(TM).
Enlightenment has nothing to do with Gnome! (common misconception). Yes, you can run Gnome apps 'under' E. You can run Gnome apps 'under' almost any WM.
The only common thread E and Gnome really have is that the two were commonly used together way Back In The Day(TM).
Sidenote: take a look at E17 development some day. Very cool stuff happening there. When E17 gets released (if ever! geeze..) people are going to be blown away.
Yes, unified free software drivers would be nice (however unlikely, due to the "Nvidia excuse" of third party proprietary technology...), but I'd rather have crappy free software drivers than no drivers at all (I don't use proprietary drivers).
Also, I got my G400 relatively early in the cards lifespan and there was functionality for it, both 2d and 3d (from the Utah GLX project) IIRC. The speed of Utah GLX was comparable to the windows drivers too (at least for me it was). "A good year or two when semi usable free software drivers...."?
Seriously, does anyone actually care anymore? Even the hardcore geeks I know couldn't care less, and don't even know what the 'fastest' processor out ATM is.
No troll, just wondering; is it just me losing interest or has the whole thing gotten old?
I work in a Library in a small town in Ontario (Canada). It's a pretty small library, but we have a computer books shelf, including a few books on Linux that come with CDs. I used one the other day to install a Linux box so I could actually get some work done.. damn Windows shop:)
If a Library this small has them, I'd think that most others would too.
Disclaimer: Yes, I do actually play guitar semi-seriously.:)
I don't see the point.. I mean, for mixing boards and all of the PA stuff, sending all the signals over one cable would be a huge help in reducing stage clutter and the general confusion of the system, but ethernet on a guitar? If you're going to be plugging your guitar into a digital modeller/amp and then going direct into the PA, then I suppose it makes sense, but who the hell is going to do that? Most players want to go through an amp; a large part of a 'guitar sound' is the amp, speakers, etc. You can't just plug a guitar straight into a sound card and get a Metallica album;). Yeah, you can emulate speaker cabs and amps digitally, but why emulate when you can have the real thing? (which _always_ sounds better, BTW).
In short, it's useless, and Just Not Rock N' Roll(TM). A guitar that outputs digital audio over ethernet does not go to 11 in any way shape or form.:)
SDL is a cross-platform game devel library, that (off the top of my head) works on Linux (X and fb), MacOS, Windows, and probably a bunch of other targets too:) )
The API is quite nice, and the whole thing is.. it's just nice:). I love it.
SDL has sound support, and 2d video. If you need 3d, you can use GL for graphics with SDL for everything else, which is a big plus.
SDL is, BTW, what Loki uses to port games from Windows to Linux (Like Civilization:CTP, etc).
GNU has a large list of projects 'needing doing', the GNU Task List. There are a number of different categories, so the range of tasks is quite diverse.
But both ATI and Matrox appear to have dropped the ball. I don't see any truly kick-ass cards coming out of them.
Hmm... the 64MB DDR Radeon counts as "kick ass" in my books..
Also, apparently a "Radeon 2" is supposed to be coming out soon. I commonly hear "Twice as fast as a Radeon" which is obviously complete and utter bullshit, but I still bet that thing's gonna be nice.
I use a single desklamp (incandescent) pointed at a wall for room lighting (thuis all ambient light is reflected, which is smoother and easier on the eyes). This is not very much light, so some people won't like it, but it's pretty easy to get used to.
For my monitor, I have the brightness at 20% and the contrast around 85%. You can also lower your colour temperatures, but I don't like the brownish tones this produces.
With a setup like this I never get eye fatigue, even after hours of staring at a monitor (although of course, breaks are still a good idea).
Imlib2 does do anti-aliased fonts, (maybe only truetype, I can't recall) and they look quite nice. Anti-aliased lines (and other primitives?) too. And then there's Evas (think: hardware accelerated everything.. yummy)
Well.. since this 'standard' is about binary compatibility, perhaps including a bunch of interpeted languages (and Java, which already has the binary compatibility thing covered) doesn't make much sense. Then again, you are a troll...
This also works the other way, ie I have had a whole lot of caffeine tonight (espresso + coffee) and would actually like to get to sleep.. no chance of that now, it's 4:30 and I aimed to be up at 7:00. Whoops.:)
Seriously, Once I can download this I actually plan to do something with it, because I have longed for a free OS like this wih a nice simple GUI with good API's and whatnot that isn't as fragmented as Linux (which is good and bad, but can be annoying at times). I can't do anything with Be (from a coding on the OS perspective).
I wonder how hard it would be to make it portable (Alpha?). Perhaps the author just thought saying that 'designed from the ground up for x86' sounded lke a good thing, but not much is arch specific.. who knows.
But I guess you side with RMS, where no one should profit from anything they produce.
If you could post a quote or link that shows RMS saying anything like that, I'd like to see it. You CAN profit from GPLed works... go sell them! Sell other people's GPLed works.. the distribs do it, they profit from the convenience they provide. Not only can you profit from your own work, you can actually profit from others'. Obviously, the freedom makes it more difficult because people can redistribute, but that's beside the point.
I suppose if M$ was to actually provide a near full implementation of a unix shell, filesystem, and command line utilities, it could be argued that NT would be, indeed, a UNIX. The one thing I wonder about is the kernel. UNIX kernels are just that.. UNIX kernels. I'm no kernel hacker by any means, but seems to me for a kernel to be a UNIX kernel, it has to have a certain structure and interface, which makes it a UNIX kernel. SO in that respect, NT could never really be a UNIX.
I'm curious why VA chooses to go with intel processors as opposed to AMD. I don't want to come off as an anti-intel psycho, but I think most of the people in the linux community prefer AMD (Athlon) over Intel (PIII) if not just because of sheer superiority, because of Intel's 'evil ways' (FUD + ID# to be exact). The reason I didn't buy one of your systems for my brother for Christmas is simply because you don't carry athlon models. I don't know what other people think, but if that is a common occurence, you could be losing business... and that is bad.:)
I don't mean to come off as an insane environmentalist, but the slashdot crowd is looking at this from the wrong perspective. I mean, it's a nifty technological idea, but think of the waste. Disposable things are very bad, we have way too much waste already, the last thing we need is to 'revolutionize' anything with disposable anything. Destroy the planet, we all die, and technology doesn't much matter anymore;)
Rogers @Home isn't upload-limited everywhere.. everybody living around me who has cable has no limitations on upload whatsoever.. Could be because I'm in Canada, but still...
I was amused that a Hurd system (the first public webserver?) got slashdotted as well, but when I couldn't connect to it I noticed something even funnier: the connection is an @Home Cable Modem!! Ah, to slashdot an experimental OS connected via a cable modem, thats just mean.:) I wonder what @Home thinks about this one..
The browser is by far linux;s most glaring weakness.. people browse FAR more than they do desktop productivity stuff.. browsing is what most people do most of the time, and linux doesnt have a good browser, period. And judging by all this mozilla support, the only good one we have will be a big bloated one:/ )
I think you are missing the point, saying only minors can download/USE this software is adding extra limitations to the software, most of which is covered by the GPL... you can't do that, it's not 'freely distributing' the software. THis is also, BTW, a fine example of how we have to point out we won't take this from big corporations who think they can do whatever they want without consequences.
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So you're saying that they should go with a proprietary solution to be sure they're safe in the "long run"? That's back asswards.
If they have open drivers for their Radeons, they will be able to have them work.. well, forever. If they have some proprietary Nvidia drivers, who's to say they will work in the future? You have no guarantee that Nvidia will continue to 'support' their current cards under Linux 2.6, 2.8, or Xfree 4.4, 5.0(!), etc. From a business standpoint, that's a Bad Thing(TM).
Enlightenment has nothing to do with Gnome! (common misconception). Yes, you can run Gnome apps 'under' E. You can run Gnome apps 'under' almost any WM.
The only common thread E and Gnome really have is that the two were commonly used together way Back In The Day(TM).
Sidenote: take a look at E17 development some day. Very cool stuff happening there. When E17 gets released (if ever! geeze..) people are going to be blown away.
Yes, unified free software drivers would be nice (however unlikely, due to the "Nvidia excuse" of third party proprietary technology...), but I'd rather have crappy free software drivers than no drivers at all (I don't use proprietary drivers).
Also, I got my G400 relatively early in the cards lifespan and there was functionality for it, both 2d and 3d (from the Utah GLX project) IIRC. The speed of Utah GLX was comparable to the windows drivers too (at least for me it was). "A good year or two when semi usable free software drivers...."?
Seriously, does anyone actually care anymore? Even the hardcore geeks I know couldn't care less, and don't even know what the 'fastest' processor out ATM is.
No troll, just wondering; is it just me losing interest or has the whole thing gotten old?
I work in a Library in a small town in Ontario (Canada). It's a pretty small library, but we have a computer books shelf, including a few books on Linux that come with CDs. I used one the other day to install a Linux box so I could actually get some work done.. damn Windows shop :)
If a Library this small has them, I'd think that most others would too.
I know UNIX far better than Windows, so a GNU/Linux system has a "significantly lower cost of administration" for me.
No shit.
Disclaimer: Yes, I do actually play guitar semi-seriously. :)
I don't see the point.. I mean, for mixing boards and all of the PA stuff, sending all the signals over one cable would be a huge help in reducing stage clutter and the general confusion of the system, but ethernet on a guitar? If you're going to be plugging your guitar into a digital modeller/amp and then going direct into the PA, then I suppose it makes sense, but who the hell is going to do that? Most players want to go through an amp; a large part of a 'guitar sound' is the amp, speakers, etc. You can't just plug a guitar straight into a sound card and get a Metallica album ;). Yeah, you can emulate speaker cabs and amps digitally, but why emulate when you can have the real thing? (which _always_ sounds better, BTW).
In short, it's useless, and Just Not Rock N' Roll(TM). A guitar that outputs digital audio over ethernet does not go to 11 in any way shape or form. :)
SDL is a cross-platform game devel library, that (off the top of my head) works on Linux (X and fb), MacOS, Windows, and probably a bunch of other targets too :) )
The API is quite nice, and the whole thing is.. it's just nice :). I love it.
SDL has sound support, and 2d video. If you need 3d, you can use GL for graphics with SDL for everything else, which is a big plus.
SDL is, BTW, what Loki uses to port games from Windows to Linux (Like Civilization:CTP, etc).
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GNU has a large list of projects 'needing doing', the GNU Task List. There are a number of different categories, so the range of tasks is quite diverse.
:)
Help out GNU, it's the right thing to do.(TM)
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Also, apparently a "Radeon 2" is supposed to be coming out soon. I commonly hear "Twice as fast as a Radeon" which is obviously complete and utter bullshit, but I still bet that thing's gonna be nice.
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I use a single desklamp (incandescent) pointed at a wall for room lighting (thuis all ambient light is reflected, which is smoother and easier on the eyes). This is not very much light, so some people won't like it, but it's pretty easy to get used to.
For my monitor, I have the brightness at 20% and the contrast around 85%. You can also lower your colour temperatures, but I don't like the brownish tones this produces.
With a setup like this I never get eye fatigue, even after hours of staring at a monitor (although of course, breaks are still a good idea).
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Imlib2 does do anti-aliased fonts, (maybe only truetype, I can't recall) and they look quite nice. Anti-aliased lines (and other primitives?) too. And then there's Evas (think: hardware accelerated everything.. yummy)
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Hmm.. I'm guessing you say 'P' because it is the next letter in BCPL?
... B evolved into C, which should evolve into P, and finally into L (or C+=2 :) )
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Metallica, One (...And Justice For All)
;)
If I had the time, I'd compile a list of 30 songs, but since you asked for just one (oh, haha, I'm so funny) there it is.
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Well.. since this 'standard' is about binary compatibility, perhaps including a bunch of interpeted languages (and Java, which already has the binary compatibility thing covered) doesn't make much sense.
Then again, you are a troll...
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This also works the other way, ie I have had a whole lot of caffeine tonight (espresso + coffee) and would actually like to get to sleep.. no chance of that now, it's 4:30 and I aimed to be up at 7:00. Whoops. :)
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Freedom. And we all know what kind of freedom. :)
Seriously, Once I can download this I actually plan to do something with it, because I have longed for a free OS like this wih a nice simple GUI with good API's and whatnot that isn't as fragmented as Linux (which is good and bad, but can be annoying at times). I can't do anything with Be (from a coding on the OS perspective).
I wonder how hard it would be to make it portable (Alpha?). Perhaps the author just thought saying that 'designed from the ground up for x86' sounded lke a good thing, but not much is arch specific.. who knows.
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But I guess you side with RMS, where no one should profit from anything they produce.
If you could post a quote or link that shows RMS saying anything like that, I'd like to see it. You CAN profit from GPLed works... go sell them! Sell other people's GPLed works.. the distribs do it, they profit from the convenience they provide. Not only can you profit from your own work, you can actually profit from others'. Obviously, the freedom makes it more difficult because people can redistribute, but that's beside the point.
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I suppose if M$ was to actually provide a near full implementation of a unix shell, filesystem, and command line utilities, it could be argued that NT would be, indeed, a UNIX. The one thing I wonder about is the kernel. UNIX kernels are just that.. UNIX kernels. I'm no kernel hacker by any means, but seems to me for a kernel to be a UNIX kernel, it has to have a certain structure and interface, which makes it a UNIX kernel. SO in that respect, NT could never really be a UNIX.
I'm curious why VA chooses to go with intel processors as opposed to AMD. I don't want to come off as an anti-intel psycho, but I think most of the people in the linux community prefer AMD (Athlon) over Intel (PIII) if not just because of sheer superiority, because of Intel's 'evil ways' (FUD + ID# to be exact). The reason I didn't buy one of your systems for my brother for Christmas is simply because you don't carry athlon models. I don't know what other people think, but if that is a common occurence, you could be losing business... and that is bad. :)
I don't mean to come off as an insane environmentalist, but the slashdot crowd is looking at this from the wrong perspective. I mean, it's a nifty technological idea, but think of the waste. Disposable things are very bad, we have way too much waste already, the last thing we need is to 'revolutionize' anything with disposable anything. Destroy the planet, we all die, and technology doesn't much matter anymore ;)
Rogers @Home isn't upload-limited everywhere.. everybody living around me who has cable has no limitations on upload whatsoever.. Could be because I'm in Canada, but still...
I was amused that a Hurd system (the first public webserver?) got slashdotted as well, but when I couldn't connect to it I noticed something even funnier: the connection is an @Home Cable Modem!! Ah, to slashdot an experimental OS connected via a cable modem, thats just mean. :) I wonder what @Home thinks about this one..
The browser is by far linux;s most glaring weakness.. people browse FAR more than they do desktop productivity stuff.. browsing is what most people do most of the time, and linux doesnt have a good browser, period. And judging by all this mozilla support, the only good one we have will be a big bloated one :/ )
I think you are missing the point, saying only minors can download/USE this software is adding extra limitations to the software, most of which is covered by the GPL... you can't do that, it's not 'freely distributing' the software. THis is also, BTW, a fine example of how we have to point out we won't take this from big corporations who think they can do whatever they want without consequences.