In the Win 95 days, I was able to run Doom without shutting down X11 first. With Windows 95 itself, the GUI was too slow to run Doom at the same; exit back to DOS.
Old archos win all. If the disk breaks (which is extremely likely), you can just replace it with any old 2.5" laptop drive. No, seriously, that thing was built to last.
You facts are a few years out of date. They've had an audit since then to purge all code even remotely looking like it came from Microsoft without license.
Although it is common to speak of "GNU Emacs", it has been revealed that it was intended to be "GNU/Emacs"; no, not in the same sense of GNU/Linux, but rather to speak of them being one and the same. All it is missing now is a kernel, but I'm sure something will show up to allow GNU/Emacs be a standalone operating system.
As ridiculous as it may sound, it's theoretically possible for a Windows driver to be licensed under the GPL. Thus, no legal troubles when loaded by ndiswrapper:)
I can still buy hardware without being tied to any software, I don't know where you shop...
While it may seem grim with the lack of software choices at stores, are you aware there's plenty of quality operating systems available for free (legally)? Operating systems such as Ubuntu, OpenBSD, Solaris, just to name a few.
official Quake 3 on Vista doesn't display the videos, and a few other minor problems (game is still playable though). I switched brother, whom uses Vista, to using ioquake3 which takes care of these problems and some more enhancements; only downside is that there's no PunkBuster, but heh
haha... I haven't seen that show for a while, despite having all the seasons of it on DVD, plus three seasons of Atlantis. Now bear with me...
* Azguard (sp?)
* Ancients/forget-their-own-name
* Knox
* Furlings
Don't remember who DAn Shea is.
What Sysinternals was*
Microsoft bought Sysinternals (seems ironic, buying a company that reverse engineered Microsoft Windows)... so far no major ****ups, but a few Sysinternals have nearly disappeared from the net, probably because they expose too much of Microsoft's poor design decisions. There was a utility for Windows NT 4 that would change the optimized priorities for applications and daemons, it was tremendously useful for speeding up NT 4; Microsoft removed it from the acquired Sysinternals site.
I play Doom (Ultimate, Doom 2, Final Doom), Quake 3, and Doom 3 all natively on Linux. Those are about the only commercial games I care about and play. I don't even use Wine to play them; all of them besides Doom 3 have the engine source code published too, so bugs and such can be fixed by people OTHER than the company that originally made them.
If you're anything less than the hardcore state-of-the-art gamer, there are pretty much no problems.
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Microsoft's marketting team really sucks.
In the Win 95 days, I was able to run Doom without shutting down X11 first. With Windows 95 itself, the GUI was too slow to run Doom at the same; exit back to DOS.
Why something like Outlook? KMail beats it in every way.
Old archos win all. If the disk breaks (which is extremely likely), you can just replace it with any old 2.5" laptop drive. No, seriously, that thing was built to last.
You facts are a few years out of date. They've had an audit since then to purge all code even remotely looking like it came from Microsoft without license.
Although it is common to speak of "GNU Emacs", it has been revealed that it was intended to be "GNU/Emacs"; no, not in the same sense of GNU/Linux, but rather to speak of them being one and the same. All it is missing now is a kernel, but I'm sure something will show up to allow GNU/Emacs be a standalone operating system.
I'm still using pencil and paper workbooks you insensitive clod!
Shouldn't it be possible to make GPL drivers with MinGW? Surely you aren't saying ReactOS is using Microsoft headers :)
As ridiculous as it may sound, it's theoretically possible for a Windows driver to be licensed under the GPL. Thus, no legal troubles when loaded by ndiswrapper :)
Does it compile with Mono? I don't want to download 60MB to find out.
Before.
Were they ever worth something? Man, and to think of the hundreds of dollars I could've gotten from selling my modpoints.
Who modded this down? It should be +5 Funny
How modded this down? It should be +5 Funny :)
I can still buy hardware without being tied to any software, I don't know where you shop...
While it may seem grim with the lack of software choices at stores, are you aware there's plenty of quality operating systems available for free (legally)? Operating systems such as Ubuntu, OpenBSD, Solaris, just to name a few.
Why don't you refuse to buy the crap?
It never seemed to me that you were *forced* to walk into a store and buy Microsoft products.s
official Quake 3 on Vista doesn't display the videos, and a few other minor problems (game is still playable though). I switched brother, whom uses Vista, to using ioquake3 which takes care of these problems and some more enhancements; only downside is that there's no PunkBuster, but heh
Will it finally make sense for USB 3 flash drives? ;)
Next up: Microsoft blames Sony for masterminding the Anti-Vista Campaign.
Of course it's through no fault of their own, no sir. Any complains about Microsoft products are false.
haha... I haven't seen that show for a while, despite having all the seasons of it on DVD, plus three seasons of Atlantis. Now bear with me... * Azguard (sp?) * Ancients/forget-their-own-name * Knox * Furlings Don't remember who DAn Shea is.
What Sysinternals was* Microsoft bought Sysinternals (seems ironic, buying a company that reverse engineered Microsoft Windows)... so far no major ****ups, but a few Sysinternals have nearly disappeared from the net, probably because they expose too much of Microsoft's poor design decisions. There was a utility for Windows NT 4 that would change the optimized priorities for applications and daemons, it was tremendously useful for speeding up NT 4; Microsoft removed it from the acquired Sysinternals site.
Does it? Unless Wine has an emulator I'm not aware of, I can still run Win16 games on Linux x86_64
for someone who reads slashdot, it's amazing you never heard of Wikipedia or Google
I play Doom (Ultimate, Doom 2, Final Doom), Quake 3, and Doom 3 all natively on Linux. Those are about the only commercial games I care about and play. I don't even use Wine to play them; all of them besides Doom 3 have the engine source code published too, so bugs and such can be fixed by people OTHER than the company that originally made them. If you're anything less than the hardcore state-of-the-art gamer, there are pretty much no problems.
> (And do NOT say "WINE" or I will laugh because that software is largely a bad joke.
You've got it backwards. MS Windows is the bad joke; Wine is more like nicorette, it wanes your addiction to said bad joke.