In order to prompt him to program something other than games (and there's nothing wrong with that,) ban Windows from the house and suggest that he install Gentoo. Then he'll have all the source for all the software on his computer at his fingertips. It'd help him find things other than games, maybe he'd develop an interest in a particular area.
I can't be bothered reading all these comments to see if someone else mentioned it. Too many slashdotters seem to be stuck on linux. BeOS/Zeta boot hella fast. I don't know if you can get Zeta anymore, I think I read that Yellowtab went out of business. But on my old Celeron-600 machine it would boot in like 17 seconds, compared to WinXP booting in roughly 1:30. I believe it's built on GCC 2.95, and is POSIX compliant.
I'm not exactly trying to argue against you, but I get better performance playing Max Payne 2 under wine/cedega in linux than I do playing it natively in Windows.
At least, I did like 3 years ago, when I last played that game.
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In order to prompt him to program something other than games (and there's nothing wrong with that,) ban Windows from the house and suggest that he install Gentoo. Then he'll have all the source for all the software on his computer at his fingertips. It'd help him find things other than games, maybe he'd develop an interest in a particular area.
lol apparently there was a lot of beos discussion, and i should learn to read stuff thouroughly. My bad.
I can't be bothered reading all these comments to see if someone else mentioned it. Too many slashdotters seem to be stuck on linux. BeOS/Zeta boot hella fast. I don't know if you can get Zeta anymore, I think I read that Yellowtab went out of business. But on my old Celeron-600 machine it would boot in like 17 seconds, compared to WinXP booting in roughly 1:30. I believe it's built on GCC 2.95, and is POSIX compliant.
touche, sir.
please, the mach kernel was hacked to bypass TPM, it'll be hacked to bypass driver-signing.
I'm not exactly trying to argue against you, but I get better performance playing Max Payne 2 under wine/cedega in linux than I do playing it natively in Windows. At least, I did like 3 years ago, when I last played that game.
lol... calm down!