GNOME 2.0 was released in 2002.
Since then, what significant part of the Linux stack below GNOME hasn't been improved to a degree comparable to what has been improved in Vista or OS X?
Desktops can be defined with huge sweeping changes, but these often lead to delays and removals (see: Microsoft's Cairo.) By making a lot of little changes to the desktop, GNOME has changed as much in the last few years as have Vista or OS X. It's just hard to notice, because you haven't used GNOME 2.0 since 2.2 came out.
Gnome is default only in the enterprise releases, and that probably owes a great deal to how many Gnome developers they got from Ximian (it's easier to pay someone you already hire to do something than to hire someone entirely new). openSUSE will continue to keep the whole bleeding-edge KDE thing, because many desktop users desire that.
openSUSE (which I assume you're referring to as the free version) doesn't have a lot of things like the new Computer menu, easily enabled advanced graphics, and things like that. And it probably won't until 10.2 is released, which will be several months.
If RMS only meant the Royal Meteorological Society, it wouldn't matter; there would be no reason at all to suspect any design.
But with RMS being so prominent, especially to the type of people we're talking about here, there's a very good chance that at least some of them would notice.
They did. They called it "Darwin". It had everything that Linux has and had; it runs GNU software like everything else and is capable of GNOME or KDE. It hasn't performed very well.
I suggest checking out http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aig lx. Right now it doesn't look like Nvidia cards are supported by the AIGLX server- supposedly they should be coming along eventually, however.
I haven't tried it, but theoretically at least the Metacity compositor should work on Xgl, which is apparently supported on Nvidia. Your mileage may vary, of course; it probably requires some hacking at the code to get it working.
In FC5 it's a matter of installing the right packages; Metacity is built with support for the compositor by default (AFAIK), but you have to install the AIR server for it to work.
Actually, Metacity has an OpenGL compositor with libcm now- it's only really working on Fedora, but it has wobbly windows and a minimize effect and whatnot.
We base any number of beliefs and theories upon indirect evidence. We cannot directly measure the distance of a celestial object, nor do we have a machine in the deepest depths judging its speed. However, using what we know to be effects of distance and movement, we are able to infer these values.
I doubt you're going to complain about the "unproven theory" of Proxima Centauri's location.
>And before you say "its unix"... blah blah blah. You all said it wasn't "unix" a couple of weeks ago when the
>government released the unix/apple security holes, witch by the way were about triple the windows holes.
I take it you didn't take the time to actually look at the lists?
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GNOME 2.0 was released in 2002. Since then, what significant part of the Linux stack below GNOME hasn't been improved to a degree comparable to what has been improved in Vista or OS X? Desktops can be defined with huge sweeping changes, but these often lead to delays and removals (see: Microsoft's Cairo.) By making a lot of little changes to the desktop, GNOME has changed as much in the last few years as have Vista or OS X. It's just hard to notice, because you haven't used GNOME 2.0 since 2.2 came out.
Gnome is default only in the enterprise releases, and that probably owes a great deal to how many Gnome developers they got from Ximian (it's easier to pay someone you already hire to do something than to hire someone entirely new). openSUSE will continue to keep the whole bleeding-edge KDE thing, because many desktop users desire that.
openSUSE (which I assume you're referring to as the free version) doesn't have a lot of things like the new Computer menu, easily enabled advanced graphics, and things like that. And it probably won't until 10.2 is released, which will be several months.
If RMS only meant the Royal Meteorological Society, it wouldn't matter; there would be no reason at all to suspect any design. But with RMS being so prominent, especially to the type of people we're talking about here, there's a very good chance that at least some of them would notice.
He's being ignored?
I mean, I might be ignorant, but I've seen footage of the speech on, for instance, CNN.
It's the only part that competes with the Linux kernel.
They did. They called it "Darwin". It had everything that Linux has and had; it runs GNU software like everything else and is capable of GNOME or KDE. It hasn't performed very well.
Metacity's compositor right now requires either AIGLX or (maybe) Xgl. If you're asking for something else, you're not being terribly clear.
For Nvidia, AIGLX isn't ready.
I suggest checking out http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aig lx. Right now it doesn't look like Nvidia cards are supported by the AIGLX server- supposedly they should be coming along eventually, however.
I haven't tried it, but theoretically at least the Metacity compositor should work on Xgl, which is apparently supported on Nvidia. Your mileage may vary, of course; it probably requires some hacking at the code to get it working.
In FC5 it's a matter of installing the right packages; Metacity is built with support for the compositor by default (AFAIK), but you have to install the AIR server for it to work.
Actually, Metacity has an OpenGL compositor with libcm now- it's only really working on Fedora, but it has wobbly windows and a minimize effect and whatnot.
We base any number of beliefs and theories upon indirect evidence. We cannot directly measure the distance of a celestial object, nor do we have a machine in the deepest depths judging its speed. However, using what we know to be effects of distance and movement, we are able to infer these values.
I doubt you're going to complain about the "unproven theory" of Proxima Centauri's location.
>And before you say "its unix"... blah blah blah. You all said it wasn't "unix" a couple of weeks ago when the >government released the unix/apple security holes, witch by the way were about triple the windows holes. I take it you didn't take the time to actually look at the lists?
Given Oblivion's graphics, I don't think we have to worry too much about whether Bethesda will try.