I second Okular, it does this wicked thing where while dragging a document to scroll, the mouse cursor wraps from the top of the screen to the bottom (or vice-versa). It seems odd when you hear about it, but once you use it you'll swear by it.
Blanket statements like this are nonsense. Until summer of 2007 I was using a 244 MHz PII with 256 MB RAM. The only thing that compelled me to upgrade (and buy a thinkpad) was that I decided a laptop would be nice for school. I honestly do not see myself buying a new computer for at least 5 more years, probably more. The specs on my thinkpad far exceed my actual usage, the only reason I'll get a new computer is when my current physically breaks.
Now, I don't game, the most I ask of my computers is that they run xterm, vim, and a handfull of other programs. Perhaps my usage isn't exactly typical. Then again, my almost 3 year old computer has far better specs than many computers sold today (you have heard of netbooks right?). Hell, my next computer might even be a "downgrade".
17" monitor wasn't.
My monitor is 15.4", I had no idea 17" was considered obsolete...
We've always been at war with Eastasia. We've always been at war with Eastasia. We've always been at war with Eastasia. We've always been at war with Eastasia. We've always been at war with Eastasia.
How about waiting to see what happens, then forking if needed? There really is no reason to fork ahead of time, all it will accomplish is fragmenting the userbase and cause tension in the community.
Honestly I'm getting tired of all of this "OMG Oracle bought MySQL, the sky is falling!!!" nonsense. If the sky does start to fall, then fork. Otherwise just stop, it's getting annoying.
The good trolls are often pretty funny, or at least clever in construction in my experiance. Generally I consider unintelligent trolls to be more flamebait.
No, I really don't think so, I often browse at 0 or -1 and even then the comments in general seem more intelligent. Sure there are a lot of offtopic trolls, but I still think that is far better than ontopic stupid people (though there are of course a far bit of them).
2d acceleration refers to things like textured video, for playing movies or whatnot. 3d acceleration refers to things like the rendering of 3d primitives on screen, stuff like Quake. Different sorts of math are used for each.
I certainly hope you are trolling because if not, this is a new level of ignorance that I was not aware existed.
I agree with most of this, but "But they only got compositing some weeks ago." is flat out false.
I remember playing with Beryl on my ATI card using fglrx back in 2007. Makes me question some of your other more specific claims. (I can't speak for much currently, I've been happily using the free radeon driver)
Video drivers are generally considered the thing most lacking in linux. Last I heard/tried, USB wifi cards are a nightmare, but besides those, most high-profile hardware is pretty well supported. You'll always find the odd usb controlled nerf gun turret or whatnot that lacks a driver, but that's not really an issue for most people.
Furthermore, it is in error to think that people reverse engineering video cards would otherwise spend their time reverse engineering other hardware. These people do not necessarily specialize in other sorts of hardware. In linux, more people working on A does not really mean less people work on B. It's not like there is a manager at the top assigning and moving people around from task to task.
If you need/want to use a Free driver, get an older ATI card. I have a card in the R500 series and the Free 'radeon' driver works wonderfully for what I ask from it (urban terror and mplayer). Anything up to the R500's have good support atm, the R600/700 support is getting there...
If you don't care about that, get an Nvidia card and use the non-Free driver. This option will also get you the best preformance.
As I understand it (I have an ATI card, not an Nvidia), Nouveau currently has 2d hardware support, and 3d support is in progress. Don't expect it to replace the proprietary driver for anything requiring preformance anytime soon, but this is good news for people who dislike the proprietary drivers, and for distros that cannot/willnot ship with them by default.
It's the closest you're going to get to a car analolgy.
Oh come on now, you can do better than that.
What they've done is create something that spins around, and in the process pushes off of something else, generating propulsion.
In other words.... They just invented the space-wheel! The question of powering the spinny parts is still up in the air, you'll need some sort of engine. The parallels to automobiles should be obvious to any experianced slashdotter.:)
If you would read the article (a high order, I know), you would realize that, with quantum mechanics taken into consideration, there is no such thing as a classical vacuum. Hell, you could probaby get that just from reading the summary.
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Actually, they were declared a state in 1947 by the UN.
But hey, sometimes facts just arn't as fun are they?
Slashdot doesn't make me preview comments prior to submiting, perhaps that's because I use the old commenting system.
Why would it strip out a link but allow the rest through unchanged? Why does it strip out the links in some spam messages, but not others?
You can't fix stupid.
I second Okular, it does this wicked thing where while dragging a document to scroll, the mouse cursor wraps from the top of the screen to the bottom (or vice-versa). It seems odd when you hear about it, but once you use it you'll swear by it.
Ok, you've convinced me.
Where do we start the drilling?
Blanket statements like this are nonsense. Until summer of 2007 I was using a 244 MHz PII with 256 MB RAM. The only thing that compelled me to upgrade (and buy a thinkpad) was that I decided a laptop would be nice for school. I honestly do not see myself buying a new computer for at least 5 more years, probably more. The specs on my thinkpad far exceed my actual usage, the only reason I'll get a new computer is when my current physically breaks.
Now, I don't game, the most I ask of my computers is that they run xterm, vim, and a handfull of other programs. Perhaps my usage isn't exactly typical. Then again, my almost 3 year old computer has far better specs than many computers sold today (you have heard of netbooks right?). Hell, my next computer might even be a "downgrade".
My monitor is 15.4", I had no idea 17" was considered obsolete...
I imagine the GP meant something more to the effect of "orders of magnitude more money".
*puts finger in ears and chants:
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
The main difference between China and the US is that an American could publically agree with everything you just said, and not be killed for it.
How about waiting to see what happens, then forking if needed? There really is no reason to fork ahead of time, all it will accomplish is fragmenting the userbase and cause tension in the community.
Honestly I'm getting tired of all of this "OMG Oracle bought MySQL, the sky is falling!!!" nonsense. If the sky does start to fall, then fork. Otherwise just stop, it's getting annoying.
Thankfully that will never happen, because I have health insurance.
Oh damn, this just became political didn't it? ;)
The good trolls are often pretty funny, or at least clever in construction in my experiance. Generally I consider unintelligent trolls to be more flamebait.
You are a humorless twat.
No, I really don't think so, I often browse at 0 or -1 and even then the comments in general seem more intelligent. Sure there are a lot of offtopic trolls, but I still think that is far better than ontopic stupid people (though there are of course a far bit of them).
Uhh..... No shit?
2d acceleration refers to things like textured video, for playing movies or whatnot. 3d acceleration refers to things like the rendering of 3d primitives on screen, stuff like Quake. Different sorts of math are used for each.
I certainly hope you are trolling because if not, this is a new level of ignorance that I was not aware existed.
I agree with most of this, but "But they only got compositing some weeks ago." is flat out false.
I remember playing with Beryl on my ATI card using fglrx back in 2007. Makes me question some of your other more specific claims. (I can't speak for much currently, I've been happily using the free radeon driver)
If I buy a car, then paint it myself, do I get a discount on the car since some of the cost payed for painting it originally?
I mean, give me a break, I'm probably considered huge FOSS appologist and proprietary software hater, but even I think that is stupid.
Gallium3d is the planned future of graphics drivers in linux. OpenCL is what is going to be used for general purpose computing on GPUs.
This area really isn't my forte, but you can find a bit more information at: http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2009/02/opencl.html
Video drivers are generally considered the thing most lacking in linux. Last I heard/tried, USB wifi cards are a nightmare, but besides those, most high-profile hardware is pretty well supported. You'll always find the odd usb controlled nerf gun turret or whatnot that lacks a driver, but that's not really an issue for most people.
Furthermore, it is in error to think that people reverse engineering video cards would otherwise spend their time reverse engineering other hardware. These people do not necessarily specialize in other sorts of hardware. In linux, more people working on A does not really mean less people work on B. It's not like there is a manager at the top assigning and moving people around from task to task.
If you need/want to use a Free driver, get an older ATI card. I have a card in the R500 series and the Free 'radeon' driver works wonderfully for what I ask from it (urban terror and mplayer). Anything up to the R500's have good support atm, the R600/700 support is getting there...
If you don't care about that, get an Nvidia card and use the non-Free driver. This option will also get you the best preformance.
As I understand it (I have an ATI card, not an Nvidia), Nouveau currently has 2d hardware support, and 3d support is in progress. Don't expect it to replace the proprietary driver for anything requiring preformance anytime soon, but this is good news for people who dislike the proprietary drivers, and for distros that cannot/willnot ship with them by default.
Oh come on now, you can do better than that.
What they've done is create something that spins around, and in the process pushes off of something else, generating propulsion.
In other words.... They just invented the space-wheel! The question of powering the spinny parts is still up in the air, you'll need some sort of engine. The parallels to automobiles should be obvious to any experianced slashdotter. :)
If you would read the article (a high order, I know), you would realize that, with quantum mechanics taken into consideration, there is no such thing as a classical vacuum. Hell, you could probaby get that just from reading the summary.
Why should anyone care one bit whether or whether not you like them?
I take it you don't get out very much.