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  2. EU Ambassadors vote to back Software Patents

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    This is worse than I thought.

     

    A proposal from a close-door meeting can sidestep a previous one with open discussion, negotiation, albeit compromised with understanding from both sides of the issues, what happened to the EU Parliament or her members' belief in democracy and legitimacy?

     

    Crap, let's support the Online Protest again, only this time it is not just about Patent issue; it has also become an issue of favoring close-door black box operation when rational and understanding discussions was conducted openly beforehand.

  5. Red Hat Announces New Desktop OS

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    "Support" has many meanings, but I doubt every vendor can provide the same level of support like IBM or Sun did for their UNIX/Solaris.

     

    I remember reading an article where the Solaris support team was helping ILM to hack the Solaris Kernel so that special effect rendering computation could be done faster to meet a post-production deadline. Could Red Hat have the same expertise for Linux Kernel? OK, maybe I drag off the topic a bit, but sometimes it is the little work that makes all the difference. Desktop customization is another realm to explore.

  7. The Linux Business Model

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by zero0w

    MS survives by stopping the customers talking to its partners and by threatening its partners. 

    Slowly the 'partners' realise they will be screwed long term and are looking for alternatives and the 'customers' especially big co's are already being screwed over...

    Microsoft is NOT trustable as a business partner, that's for sure.

     

    The question is whether we have real alternatives to the tool set and software chain people depending on for their business and daily operations?

     

    I don't see we have back in 1999-2001 (the time the anti-trust trial started, at one point Microsoft was threatening to pull Windows 9x and 2000 off the retail shelves if it is forced to separate IE browser from the OS). Now I clearly see we do have alternatives. The problem is the level of service, can we match Microsoft in the level of support? And can new software be developed faster using the open source tool chain?

     

    On the server side, the answer is probably yes (look at the Apache, Tomcat and the recent Geronimo opensource J2EE server release). On the desktop side, well that's a question we need to ask ourselves.

  8. The Linux Business Model

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    There is business who should work on customization now that you have the source and a set of management tools (albeit still configuring text files).

     

    For example, if you deploy Linux on Desktop in libraries or internet cafe, you should customize, say if you set it up as KDE, that users are not allowed to use console (so those Ctrl-T shortcut in Konqueror should be disabled); Or that he is only limited to browse the /home/username directory. If you have seen those customized IE (probably by Microsoft Technical support team), you cannot get new instance (by Ctrl-N) in IE as it is disabled, and in this way you can ensure cafe customers only do what you allow them without messing up the system.

     

    These are just examples, and perhaps you may not agree with such policy, but the point remains there is a lot of customization to be done for different sets of environments. Customers want things that work at an acceptable price. Pushing fancy and bloated features is probably for home users, but in many working environment users do not really need that, or prefer not to have that.

     

    There should also be new jobs for firms who have expertise in cross-platform development. No one is going to leave Windows market anytime soon. It is better, if possible, to manage the same codebase for two platforms (Windows and Linux). Bruce Perens is still using Quicken on Windows (the only application he needs on that platform), but to Quicken developers, maintaining two ports could be costly without revenue justification. If cross-platform toolkit and expertise is there, I see you can get a business from them (they are probably doing internal evaluation on Linux port right now).

     

    If you really think about how Linux can meet customer requirement, I am quite sure you can find business somewhere. Now, there is still some problems to be solved in internalization, otherwise Linux is able to gain support in multi-national enterprise. It just need to meet their demands on getting the job done.

  9. coLinux: Linux for Windows

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

    Posted

    What if you want to run GNU/Linux atop a Windows platform or try Linux without installing it on a partition itself, thereby preserving — and not even rebooting — your Windows system? Don't worry; VMware and Virtual PC are not your only choices. A new free software project called coLinux, or Cooperative Linux, lets you do nearly everything User-mode Linux does on Windows 2000 or XP:

     

    http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/...29/colinux.html

     

     

    Moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman

  13. Linus Torvalds mentioned in TIME magazine.

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    you mean 2.8, or 3.0. A 2.7 kernel is something that scares me (odd numbers mean development, pair numbers mean stable versions)

     

    call me purist, I don't care  :jester:

    It's always the stuff in development that's interesting. :D

     

    Yeah, nobody knows whether the next stable Kernel will be called 2.8 or 3.0, but 2.7 as the development Kernel is for sure.

  14. Linus Torvalds mentioned in TIME magazine.

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    In so far, it's not clear he has such influence to average mortals yet.

     

    However, I'll speculate if Kernel 2.7 can surpass the capability of Solaris or even High-end UNIX, then the computing scene will be changed forever. Linux, is no longer just cheaper, but the most powerful OS kernel in the world. Now then it will be clear that he (to be fair, with his team of Kernel hackers) will be one of the most influential person (or group) in this world.

  25. NWN Installed-- but it's slooooow

    in Games

    Posted · Edited by zero0w

    I'm sure my problems originate from my crappy AOpen Geforce 4 MX440 which religiously gives glxgears of 320 on every system I try it in.

    You should get score better than 320 FPS with GeForce 4 MX.

    However, it also depends on the resolution you are testing it with.

     

    My GeForce 2 MX shows 900 FPS with glxgears.

     

    Note: Some version of nVidia driver is buggier than others, this sucks. Make sure you test with glxgears when you upgrade to a new version. I remember using 1.0-4623 (beta), glxgears dropped to 500 FPS.....

     

    Also, set your desktop / in-game screen color depth to 24bit. It will speed up things as well.

     

    As for DRI s3tc patch, there is some progress in the making:

    http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@list...t/msg14895.html

    http://vayne.fdns.net/presario.html

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