Actually they will but not in next quarter. Companies need to wait that children grows up and they start searching software or other products for their own computers.
Companies should do same thing what tobacco companies did what was to make a toy cigarettes and similar things for them to play. Later when children was a teen and wanted to try smoking, they toke the familiar brand.
The tobacco companies understanded the long run marketing and branding what will give big profits in years to come.
But computer world lives only in quarters and they do not understand that the brand needs to be made so strong that child remembers it when they are a teens.
Do you mean virtual desktops or desktop virtualization? The virtual desktop does not eat RAM more than one. We have had virtual desktops now over a decade. But desktop virtualization eats RAM and a lot if you run them from VirtualBox or similars.
I currently have a 512Mb RAM and I have 6 virtual desktops without problems. I could have 32 without problems. But because I only have 512 RAM, I can only run browser and music player at same time without heavy swapping with GNOME. And it does not matter how many virtual desktops I have enabled. But with that RAM I can not even have single desktop virtualized as it needs at least 1Gb of RAM.
Yes, demand is there, even it is small when compared to typical office/game use. Photographers, artists, 3D modeleres (hobbiest) etc. And of course gamers would already want 8-16Gb of RAM as it just makes everything so much nicer when you do not need to care about RAM use.
Try opening a 50 12Mpix RAW photos open at once and edit them in photo manipulation program...
It really is little strange how you could speak with 10 years old GSM phones even 5-10 hours and now with smartphones you can talk only a 3-5 hours. Even that screen, GPS/WiFi/3G etc are turned off and the phone has bigger battery.
Something in the GSM chips is changed so we do not get so great talk times. I could understand the difference if the displays would be turned on in smartphones when talking.
Like check out the Samsung Xcover 271 what gives you even a 19 HOURS talk time on 2G networks or 600 hours stand by time what is 25 DAYS! And it has a 1300mAh battery what is very similar for many smartphones and they give just a fractional talk- and stand by time when compared to that phone. Even that when the screen would be turned off and all other wireless functions than just 2G.
SOMETHING is very terribly wrong in smartphones. I would call todays "Smartphones" a "dumb phones" and GSM-only phones as "Smart phones" as they really acts like a MOBILE PHONE by smart way, while "Smartphones" throws all the juice somewhere else than PHONE functions.
My ZTE Blade (Super bright TFT, 512 RAM, 5Mpix cam) smartphone gives me a 9½ hour heavy use battery = 100% constant WiFi use by browsing web + installing apps and uninstalling them or 4-4½ hours of talk time. With light daily use I get 2-3 days use time = read every email what I get daily (about 30 from post-list + random emails about 7-10), make a few calls (30-45 minutes) and send a few SMS (1-3), browse web to check a few web sites over 3G/WiFi what takes about 30-40 minutes and in the background I have MSN/Skype and IRC running all the time for whats I spend maybe 30-50 minutes a day and listen music for 45-60 minutes (train takes 30 minutes to one way). All the times I have 3G(+) connected and when on school/office/home I have WiFi if the connection is over 10Mbits. Otherwise I use 3G what gives me a unlimited speed/amount (7.2Mbits/0.4Mbits) and usually the speed is full.
I dont play games or watch videos (youtube etc) daily, very rare cases for me.
But when I go camping, I get 8-9 day time when I dont talk more than few minutes every second day or send SMS once a day. So I can keep my phone on every day and with me in case of emergency.
And that is very well from 1250mAh battery for TFT screen what resolution is 480x800. Amoled could give me in heavy use a 30-60 minutes more or in daily use 6-12 hours and not change at all the camping time.
It really is nice phone when thinking that I can use phone almost anyway I want the whole day and I need to recharge it just on nights. But as I only do light use I need to recharge every second night. But by habits is going to be changed as now I added to the contract the service for having a unlimited talk time per day for max 0.99€ (~1.2 dollar) or just 6.6 cents a minute (what gives me 15 minutes until the max.99€ limit comes and then I can just continue talking). So I am expecting I need to recharge at evening because if I make a 2-3 hour talks at daytime.
I have seen Mac laptops what can last over month in sleep. But PC's what eats their battery in few days or even hours. Even that they do have same capacity on batteries and almost identical CPU model.
I have older memories (heh) of power consumes being in active use a 1-1.5W but in sleepmode something like 0.2W.
What if you would just simply drop all money metrics and say that the pleased client who gets working product is happy customer and happy customer brings more customers in long run.
If the boss can not understand how valued for customer is that they are happy from the product they buy, he (or she) ain't good boss. The company will go down when there comes competition whom gives better products. If you can not gain a monopoly or dominant market position or any other way to tie customers to your services and products. But that's it. No more new customers as what the company would get with happy customers.
And I have old Commodore CBM 3000 seriescomputer from 1978-79 what needs to be tested. (I have two that time commodore other was a PET) and all floppies and C-casettes stored fine. I have not restored anything from them lately but 2007 I tested and both machines worked perfectly and all stockmarket data from 1979 January was accessible. I could check again how well they work as there were few very funny game for them and there are some "important" data as well stored from bank accounts. If I do that it would mean I can restore data (but not to transfer anywhere as my PC 5½ floppy drive needs own port for the PC what I dont have) from 32 years behind.
In closet I do have a paper tape from 1968 and I think it is impossible to restore even by decoding the holes by myself.
Well, I do not know will it be counted but I just week ago restored a Win98SE system image from old backup to old P3 500Mhz computer just to get Microsoft Sidewinder Wheel work as meant with Need For Speed 5 Porche Unleashed game.
I had changed a 3D card from GF2 to GF4 card and I needed to search up drivers for it. Of course USB 2 memory stick did not work with the computer (Win98SE did not recognize it as it was 8Gb) and I needed to transfer driver with DVD-RW disk from other computer as win98 machine did not have internet (and will not have such).
It was fun to play a such great driving game with working wheel since that times. Even that the image was from 99 and from the need at that time to make a full system installation with all wanted apps and updates + drivers and then make a easy restore image as the Win98 (and SE) usually corrupted itself now and then so the restoration was then faster and easier than doing a re-install by typical way.
Do you understand that that is not rolling release but that is developing and testing?
In Rolling Release you do not put alpha/beta/RC software there. you keep latest stable versions from the software there. You get upgrades all the time. Usually just fixes when the upstream adds them and now and then newest versions when the upstream release new version.
Then there is totally different [testing] and [unstable] in rolling release schedules as well. From there you get the GIT/SVN versions from the upstream. The software what you otherwise in next version of Ubuntu would need to compile by hands.
Closer the next Ubuntu release is, slower the update comes. Only few packages gets anymore updated and they start to get behind a lot from the upstream and that can be for months.
In rolling release, the distribution lives right behind the upstream, still not by default giving alpha/beta/rc versions from the software but always the latest stable. Something what Ubuntu development release does not include.
How big is your Pacman cache? I have 12Gb and since installation (over 11 months) I have only used 5.5 GB from it. I could even roll back to the base level what I had after installation. It is not as "press this button", but easier than doing a fresh install with Ubuntu install image.
And do you know what you would gain with the snapshot features from the filesystems and joined it with LVM?
I upgrade system now and then (usually 2-3 weeks) if I can not find otherwise bugs. And so far I have not yet needed to do a roll back system upgrade. Once I have got bug what did not allow me to enter one application settings panel. But it was fixed in 2 hours and I got it updated.
It is very nice to go to pacman cache to check what was the earlier version of the software and downgrade it to that version. As Arch tools really gives the nice function for it.
You are only gaining problems if you do not have enough space for pacman cache or you clear it too often.
Mark has never listened the open source community saying that the community is already working together. Mark believes that the magical fix would tie everyone to same schedule. As everyone would work at same corporation and at same building and at same room with same working times and everyone would get paid from 8-16 hours working.
Open source has worked wonderfully now since the first mainframes were started at 50-60's in universities. And Linux community (big role in the OSS community) has proofed that current schedule thing works very flexible and powerful way.
We do not need Mark to ruin everything with his RDF talks.
The important thing is the users and their connection to developers and skills to discuss about changes between projects. Locked schedules would not change that at all.
+ It is very easy to roll back to state before upgrade if the upgrade did not work. And especially if user use btrfs the snapshotting comes very very handy. Just take a snapshopt, upgrade and if there comes problems, rever to snapshot.
I have found that rolling release distributions (like Arch Linux) being more stable and more pleasant to use than 6 months release scheduled distributions and definitely nicer than Debian's Stable and Canonicals LTS based to Debian testing branch. On servers the situation is different but on desktops the rolling release is nicer.
And this makes the development and testing much nicer when developers gets bug reports from the newest code what they itself can use, without solving so much possible problems caused by depencies to code what is older.
Well it must say that Canonical had it glory few years ago and now it is going down. Other distributors are already packaging their distributions in such manner they meed more casual and basic users needs than Canonical's Ubuntu does. But it does not make Ubuntu bad distribution, just not best one.
(this all after maintaining 15 computers with rolling release and all with custom upgrade schedules on different houses)
Tribes 2 had already very great netcode. It worked fine with 128 players (64vs64) with hacked engine, but the official 64player limit (32vs32) was already very smooth if you just got 10Mbits connection for the server! It was totally fine with ISDN connection to play on 64 player server! Been there, done that! I even today play with 1Mbits connection on 64players servers (single server actually!).
The bottleneck really is the hardware, T2 demanded at 2001 really much from 3D card (I had Geforce 2) and caused that many with Matrox G400 could not play game well. The graphic engine was laggy and caused lots of UE's from what the game got famous. The network code was almost perfect!
The community maded content and mods were terrible. Example the Classic mod what unbalanced the game where players did not have speed limit (you can yourself check the code about that) and could easily travel faster than any defender could ever do to catch the capper.
other mods like v2 and so on were as well very terrible what did not need skills more than classic. The vanilla T2 (base) was simply the best. The developers were balanced and tweaked it gameplay with players many versions since the release. I believe you did not remember the time when the patch cames and they made lots of changes to all kind functions, from disk speeds, range, damage amount etc again again and again. Just to balance the game. The classic mod makers (and the final 80+ MB patch makers) just did not have any clue about the true tribes (neither T1 players, sorry!) what made T2 just best FPS game ever!
Maps, anyone could make maps! It was very easy, you just hitted Ctrl+E in the single (LAN) game and you got editor open. You could easily spawn objects to map and go to tweak their specs easily with mouse. Rotate, scale and move them by their three diagonal points and edit their properties easily by ticking boxes, entering new settings or even editing the settings with text editor (maps.vl2 files were simple ZIP files with "XML" code on them). The only function what did not work correctly as marketed first, was the terrain editing. It was first told that you could modify the terrain (texture or edit terrain) and that datafile would get transferred as well to the clients who connected to server (about 500kb-1Mb to download) but it did not work. So only way to get custom maps with modified terrain was first to download and copy the vl2 file to base folder. There was the tribesmaps service what offered even a script what automatically downloaded the corresponding map from the service and then connected you to the server.
But it was already enough that you could simply edit the environment (sun, wind, fog... the whole weather) as you pleased and you got totally different maps maded from one single same terrain.
And the terrain was not one box where people were inside. It was endless. You could go as far away you wanted and it was just rendered as the map was just a heightmap (huge such) what got tiled with very fancy way. The only bad visual effect was that in the corners of the map there were about 5x5 meters size area where textures were joined. otherwise it was very good work!
So you did not need to make much to get get huge maps. As it was basicly infinite size. The only limitation for the gameplay came for the CTF and it was the bounce box. Where the flag could not get brought outside of it. Idea was to make sure that cappers in cases of the tie, would not fly 20km from the enemy but stay someway inside the arena. Non-cappers could of course move as they wanted.
And tribes was never meant to be about routes. T1 failed on that because the speed bug what players used, but original tribes developers wanted to make T2 perfect and they simply made it such that routes were never needed at all. The game was about gameplay and that is what made T2 greatest FPS game ever! But it was it weakest point at same time.
As to get gameplay very well work, you needed lots of skilled players. And I do not
I just asked from #archlinux channel and they said it is not in core. It will come there later but now if wanted to have it in Arch, you need to patch Linux OS yourself or get precompiled OS packages from http://pkgbuild.com/~ioni/ (They said he is a archlinux packager and trusted but still installation is risky. Example I had problems with pre-compiled package with nvidia driver).
First of all, Windows Vista and KDE SC 4.0 has lots of differencies. KDE SC 4.0 was first release of the fourth generation of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE Plasma Desktop, KDE Platform, KDE Applications, KDE Development Platform. Does not include OS, System libraries, application libraries and most of the KDE or Non-KDE Apps) and in other corner, Windows Vista was a software system with NT operating system, Desktop, Application programs, Application libraries, System programs etc.
It is like comparing a motorcycle and bicycle which one is faster!
Secondly, Amarok does not belong to the KDE SC. It does not neither follow the KDE's own release schedule or release numbering. KDE and Amarok developers are two different communities, where Amarok developers just use what KDE developes itself and release in KDE SC.
You should drop down that stupid "KDE 4.0" whining and about Amarok 2.3 whining as well.
KDE idea to mimic a Windows Vista or Windows 7 is as saying that Leonardo Da Vinci was copying a 2000 century modern artists when doing a Mona Lisa painting. Both use(d) paint and canvas and thats it.
No. Under GPL if I add something useful and extend the program, I have to also post those changes under GPL. I may not want to do that. BSD gives me the freedom to do as I wish. BSD is far more free than GPL.
Either something should be free or it should not. GPL simply pretends to be free while at the same time forcing you to adhere to a very specific philosophy.
Your ancestors gave the civil rights for you, and now you want to rip them off from your next generations. So of course you are maintaining civil rights and keeping the world free, right?
You are saying you are free citizen in your country, how you can be free if anyone can come and slave you and take your property? How anyone else can be free if you can slave them or take their wealth?
Yes there were competitors. Firefox and Opera and even few others. But they were not so well know among normal people at 2001-2003 time. 2003-2006 the other competitors started to rise as XP was having lots of security problems and if IE would been like IE8 by security and like IE9 by usability, others would not have had a change.
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He meant by number of models, not by number of sales. As sales iOS has over 95% market share.
Actually they will but not in next quarter. Companies need to wait that children grows up and they start searching software or other products for their own computers.
Companies should do same thing what tobacco companies did what was to make a toy cigarettes and similar things for them to play. Later when children was a teen and wanted to try smoking, they toke the familiar brand.
The tobacco companies understanded the long run marketing and branding what will give big profits in years to come.
But computer world lives only in quarters and they do not understand that the brand needs to be made so strong that child remembers it when they are a teens.
Do you mean virtual desktops or desktop virtualization?
The virtual desktop does not eat RAM more than one. We have had virtual desktops now over a decade.
But desktop virtualization eats RAM and a lot if you run them from VirtualBox or similars.
I currently have a 512Mb RAM and I have 6 virtual desktops without problems. I could have 32 without problems.
But because I only have 512 RAM, I can only run browser and music player at same time without heavy swapping with GNOME. And it does not matter how many virtual desktops I have enabled.
But with that RAM I can not even have single desktop virtualized as it needs at least 1Gb of RAM.
Yes, demand is there, even it is small when compared to typical office/game use.
Photographers, artists, 3D modeleres (hobbiest) etc. And of course gamers would already want 8-16Gb of RAM as it just makes everything so much nicer when you do not need to care about RAM use.
Try opening a 50 12Mpix RAW photos open at once and edit them in photo manipulation program...
So where are our cheap 8-16Gb blocks?
It really is little strange how you could speak with 10 years old GSM phones even 5-10 hours and now with smartphones you can talk only a 3-5 hours. Even that screen, GPS/WiFi/3G etc are turned off and the phone has bigger battery.
Something in the GSM chips is changed so we do not get so great talk times. I could understand the difference if the displays would be turned on in smartphones when talking.
Like check out the Samsung Xcover 271 what gives you even a 19 HOURS talk time on 2G networks or 600 hours stand by time what is 25 DAYS! And it has a 1300mAh battery what is very similar for many smartphones and they give just a fractional talk- and stand by time when compared to that phone. Even that when the screen would be turned off and all other wireless functions than just 2G.
SOMETHING is very terribly wrong in smartphones. I would call todays "Smartphones" a "dumb phones" and GSM-only phones as "Smart phones" as they really acts like a MOBILE PHONE by smart way, while "Smartphones" throws all the juice somewhere else than PHONE functions.
My ZTE Blade (Super bright TFT, 512 RAM, 5Mpix cam) smartphone gives me a 9½ hour heavy use battery = 100% constant WiFi use by browsing web + installing apps and uninstalling them or 4-4½ hours of talk time.
With light daily use I get 2-3 days use time = read every email what I get daily (about 30 from post-list + random emails about 7-10), make a few calls (30-45 minutes) and send a few SMS (1-3), browse web to check a few web sites over 3G/WiFi what takes about 30-40 minutes and in the background I have MSN/Skype and IRC running all the time for whats I spend maybe 30-50 minutes a day and listen music for 45-60 minutes (train takes 30 minutes to one way). All the times I have 3G(+) connected and when on school/office/home I have WiFi if the connection is over 10Mbits. Otherwise I use 3G what gives me a unlimited speed/amount (7.2Mbits/0.4Mbits) and usually the speed is full.
I dont play games or watch videos (youtube etc) daily, very rare cases for me.
But when I go camping, I get 8-9 day time when I dont talk more than few minutes every second day or send SMS once a day. So I can keep my phone on every day and with me in case of emergency.
And that is very well from 1250mAh battery for TFT screen what resolution is 480x800. Amoled could give me in heavy use a 30-60 minutes more or in daily use 6-12 hours and not change at all the camping time.
It really is nice phone when thinking that I can use phone almost anyway I want the whole day and I need to recharge it just on nights. But as I only do light use I need to recharge every second night. .99€ limit comes and then I can just continue talking).
But by habits is going to be changed as now I added to the contract the service for having a unlimited talk time per day for max 0.99€ (~1.2 dollar) or just 6.6 cents a minute (what gives me 15 minutes until the max
So I am expecting I need to recharge at evening because if I make a 2-3 hour talks at daytime.
I have seen Mac laptops what can last over month in sleep. But PC's what eats their battery in few days or even hours. Even that they do have same capacity on batteries and almost identical CPU model.
I have older memories (heh) of power consumes being in active use a 1-1.5W but in sleepmode something like 0.2W.
Basicly you just told why Mac OS X, KDE (3.x seris), Plasma Desktop (KDE SC), GNOME and so on have been more productive since the start.
What if you would just simply drop all money metrics and say that the pleased client who gets working product is happy customer and happy customer brings more customers in long run.
If the boss can not understand how valued for customer is that they are happy from the product they buy, he (or she) ain't good boss.
The company will go down when there comes competition whom gives better products. If you can not gain a monopoly or dominant market position or any other way to tie customers to your services and products. But that's it. No more new customers as what the company would get with happy customers.
And I have old Commodore CBM 3000 seriescomputer from 1978-79 what needs to be tested. (I have two that time commodore other was a PET) and all floppies and C-casettes stored fine. I have not restored anything from them lately but 2007 I tested and both machines worked perfectly and all stockmarket data from 1979 January was accessible. I could check again how well they work as there were few very funny game for them and there are some "important" data as well stored from bank accounts.
If I do that it would mean I can restore data (but not to transfer anywhere as my PC 5½ floppy drive needs own port for the PC what I dont have) from 32 years behind.
In closet I do have a paper tape from 1968 and I think it is impossible to restore even by decoding the holes by myself.
Well, I do not know will it be counted but I just week ago restored a Win98SE system image from old backup to old P3 500Mhz computer just to get Microsoft Sidewinder Wheel work as meant with Need For Speed 5 Porche Unleashed game.
I had changed a 3D card from GF2 to GF4 card and I needed to search up drivers for it. Of course USB 2 memory stick did not work with the computer (Win98SE did not recognize it as it was 8Gb) and I needed to transfer driver with DVD-RW disk from other computer as win98 machine did not have internet (and will not have such).
It was fun to play a such great driving game with working wheel since that times. Even that the image was from 99 and from the need at that time to make a full system installation with all wanted apps and updates + drivers and then make a easy restore image as the Win98 (and SE) usually corrupted itself now and then so the restoration was then faster and easier than doing a re-install by typical way.
What is the web browser?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3vv0_RNTM8
Is the Firefox really so much worse?
I suggest to check out a taskpanel widget called "Smooth task". You can find it from distribution repository or from kde-look.org.
It gives the Mac OS X dock like a icons or what Windows 7 has as well.
The missing thing is to get it work exactly like those two, as a quickstarter.
It is the small things what makes your life worth of living!
Do you understand that that is not rolling release but that is developing and testing?
In Rolling Release you do not put alpha/beta/RC software there. you keep latest stable versions from the software there. You get upgrades all the time. Usually just fixes when the upstream adds them and now and then newest versions when the upstream release new version.
Then there is totally different [testing] and [unstable] in rolling release schedules as well. From there you get the GIT/SVN versions from the upstream. The software what you otherwise in next version of Ubuntu would need to compile by hands.
Closer the next Ubuntu release is, slower the update comes. Only few packages gets anymore updated and they start to get behind a lot from the upstream and that can be for months.
In rolling release, the distribution lives right behind the upstream, still not by default giving alpha/beta/rc versions from the software but always the latest stable. Something what Ubuntu development release does not include.
How big is your Pacman cache? I have 12Gb and since installation (over 11 months) I have only used 5.5 GB from it. I could even roll back to the base level what I had after installation. It is not as "press this button", but easier than doing a fresh install with Ubuntu install image.
And do you know what you would gain with the snapshot features from the filesystems and joined it with LVM?
I upgrade system now and then (usually 2-3 weeks) if I can not find otherwise bugs. And so far I have not yet needed to do a roll back system upgrade. Once I have got bug what did not allow me to enter one application settings panel. But it was fixed in 2 hours and I got it updated.
It is very nice to go to pacman cache to check what was the earlier version of the software and downgrade it to that version. As Arch tools really gives the nice function for it.
You are only gaining problems if you do not have enough space for pacman cache or you clear it too often.
Mark has never listened the open source community saying that the community is already working together. Mark believes that the magical fix would tie everyone to same schedule. As everyone would work at same corporation and at same building and at same room with same working times and everyone would get paid from 8-16 hours working.
Open source has worked wonderfully now since the first mainframes were started at 50-60's in universities. And Linux community (big role in the OSS community) has proofed that current schedule thing works very flexible and powerful way.
We do not need Mark to ruin everything with his RDF talks.
The important thing is the users and their connection to developers and skills to discuss about changes between projects. Locked schedules would not change that at all.
+1
+ It is very easy to roll back to state before upgrade if the upgrade did not work. And especially if user use btrfs the snapshotting comes very very handy. Just take a snapshopt, upgrade and if there comes problems, rever to snapshot.
I have found that rolling release distributions (like Arch Linux) being more stable and more pleasant to use than 6 months release scheduled distributions and definitely nicer than Debian's Stable and Canonicals LTS based to Debian testing branch. On servers the situation is different but on desktops the rolling release is nicer.
And this makes the development and testing much nicer when developers gets bug reports from the newest code what they itself can use, without solving so much possible problems caused by depencies to code what is older.
Well it must say that Canonical had it glory few years ago and now it is going down. Other distributors are already packaging their distributions in such manner they meed more casual and basic users needs than Canonical's Ubuntu does. But it does not make Ubuntu bad distribution, just not best one.
(this all after maintaining 15 computers with rolling release and all with custom upgrade schedules on different houses)
Tribes 2 had already very great netcode. It worked fine with 128 players (64vs64) with hacked engine, but the official 64player limit (32vs32) was already very smooth if you just got 10Mbits connection for the server! It was totally fine with ISDN connection to play on 64 player server! Been there, done that! I even today play with 1Mbits connection on 64players servers (single server actually!).
The bottleneck really is the hardware, T2 demanded at 2001 really much from 3D card (I had Geforce 2) and caused that many with Matrox G400 could not play game well. The graphic engine was laggy and caused lots of UE's from what the game got famous. The network code was almost perfect!
The community maded content and mods were terrible. Example the Classic mod what unbalanced the game where players did not have speed limit (you can yourself check the code about that) and could easily travel faster than any defender could ever do to catch the capper.
other mods like v2 and so on were as well very terrible what did not need skills more than classic. The vanilla T2 (base) was simply the best. The developers were balanced and tweaked it gameplay with players many versions since the release. I believe you did not remember the time when the patch cames and they made lots of changes to all kind functions, from disk speeds, range, damage amount etc again again and again. Just to balance the game. The classic mod makers (and the final 80+ MB patch makers) just did not have any clue about the true tribes (neither T1 players, sorry!) what made T2 just best FPS game ever!
Maps, anyone could make maps! It was very easy, you just hitted Ctrl+E in the single (LAN) game and you got editor open. You could easily spawn objects to map and go to tweak their specs easily with mouse. Rotate, scale and move them by their three diagonal points and edit their properties easily by ticking boxes, entering new settings or even editing the settings with text editor (maps .vl2 files were simple ZIP files with "XML" code on them).
The only function what did not work correctly as marketed first, was the terrain editing. It was first told that you could modify the terrain (texture or edit terrain) and that datafile would get transferred as well to the clients who connected to server (about 500kb-1Mb to download) but it did not work. So only way to get custom maps with modified terrain was first to download and copy the vl2 file to base folder. There was the tribesmaps service what offered even a script what automatically downloaded the corresponding map from the service and then connected you to the server.
But it was already enough that you could simply edit the environment (sun, wind, fog... the whole weather) as you pleased and you got totally different maps maded from one single same terrain.
And the terrain was not one box where people were inside. It was endless. You could go as far away you wanted and it was just rendered as the map was just a heightmap (huge such) what got tiled with very fancy way. The only bad visual effect was that in the corners of the map there were about 5x5 meters size area where textures were joined. otherwise it was very good work!
So you did not need to make much to get get huge maps. As it was basicly infinite size. The only limitation for the gameplay came for the CTF and it was the bounce box. Where the flag could not get brought outside of it. Idea was to make sure that cappers in cases of the tie, would not fly 20km from the enemy but stay someway inside the arena. Non-cappers could of course move as they wanted.
And tribes was never meant to be about routes. T1 failed on that because the speed bug what players used, but original tribes developers wanted to make T2 perfect and they simply made it such that routes were never needed at all.
The game was about gameplay and that is what made T2 greatest FPS game ever! But it was it weakest point at same time.
As to get gameplay very well work, you needed lots of skilled players. And I do not
But does it run bootman? Not even Haiku works after installation if user does not manually run bootman to install boot manager!
I just asked from #archlinux channel and they said it is not in core. It will come there later but now if wanted to have it in Arch, you need to patch Linux OS yourself or get precompiled OS packages from http://pkgbuild.com/~ioni/ (They said he is a archlinux packager and trusted but still installation is risky. Example I had problems with pre-compiled package with nvidia driver).
You do not know what you are talking about.
First of all, Windows Vista and KDE SC 4.0 has lots of differencies. KDE SC 4.0 was first release of the fourth generation of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE Plasma Desktop, KDE Platform, KDE Applications, KDE Development Platform. Does not include OS, System libraries, application libraries and most of the KDE or Non-KDE Apps) and in other corner, Windows Vista was a software system with NT operating system, Desktop, Application programs, Application libraries, System programs etc.
It is like comparing a motorcycle and bicycle which one is faster!
Secondly, Amarok does not belong to the KDE SC. It does not neither follow the KDE's own release schedule or release numbering. KDE and Amarok developers are two different communities, where Amarok developers just use what KDE developes itself and release in KDE SC.
You should drop down that stupid "KDE 4.0" whining and about Amarok 2.3 whining as well.
KDE idea to mimic a Windows Vista or Windows 7 is as saying that Leonardo Da Vinci was copying a 2000 century modern artists when doing a Mona Lisa painting. Both use(d) paint and canvas and thats it.
No. Under GPL if I add something useful and extend the program, I have to also post those changes under GPL. I may not want to do that. BSD gives me the freedom to do as I wish. BSD is far more free than GPL.
Either something should be free or it should not. GPL simply pretends to be free while at the same time forcing you to adhere to a very specific philosophy.
Your ancestors gave the civil rights for you, and now you want to rip them off from your next generations.
So of course you are maintaining civil rights and keeping the world free, right?
You are saying you are free citizen in your country, how you can be free if anyone can come and slave you and take your property? How anyone else can be free if you can slave them or take their wealth?
But I want freedom to slave you! My choice is a BSD!
Yes there were competitors. Firefox and Opera and even few others. But they were not so well know among normal people at 2001-2003 time. 2003-2006 the other competitors started to rise as XP was having lots of security problems and if IE would been like IE8 by security and like IE9 by usability, others would not have had a change.