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- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -33/+308This whole thing is ***** stupid, seriously.
Use which ever operating system you're comfortable with. I don't know when, or why this pissing contest started, but it's just stupid. - getrealnow, on 04/10/2008, -17/+224Buried as inaccurate, you should be able to run OVER NINE THOUSAND with Linux
- ChromaVita, on 04/10/2008, -20/+209THE OPERATING SYSTEM I USE IS TIED IN CLOSELY TO MY SENSE OF SELF-WORTH!!!
- insllvn, on 04/10/2008, -39/+195~165 apps ON A CUBE. Let me know when Mac and Windows catch up.
- 4321234, on 04/10/2008, -25/+160The real story was that of the 100 apps running on windows, only 93 of them were trial-ware.
- LanceSteele, on 04/10/2008, -9/+135it's a race to 256!
- ghee, on 04/10/2008, -7/+115Hmm, seems like youtube got a facelift.
- TacticalPenguin, on 04/10/2008, -12/+94I've opened every app in my ubuntu main menu before (including about 1/5 games from the add/remove programs interface) on a 1.86ghz pentium M and 1gb of ram with a 6400 go gfx card and it was fine. insert obligatory linux > all comment here
- pankirk, on 04/10/2008, -16/+87Next I'm going to do 100 wind0wz apps in wine :D that would just own them all. "100 windows apps in linux" instead of "100 windows apps in windows" :D
- Aeuta, on 04/10/2008, -13/+68Alright I bet if you turned off compiz and ran a less intensive UI (oh and used Firefox 3 instead of FF2 you could reach 250 ) but again this is just a big muscle show, the next thing we know some BSD user is going to post 300...
Dugg for beating both OSX and Vista...but a better show would have been running a 16+ sided "cube" with a vid running on each cube side in real time. - shrewduser, on 04/10/2008, -12/+66sometimes i wish i could vote comments down the the bottom.
- martalli, on 04/10/2008, -0/+50Don't feel constrained to just 8 bits.
- speedyrev, on 04/10/2008, -0/+49You need an OS that lets you type in lower case letters.
- ghm101, on 04/10/2008, -4/+46But it does speak to both the efficiency of the application authoring as well as the robustness of the operating system. Stability under such stress means even greater stability under normal conditions for the end user.
- crackah, on 04/10/2008, -21/+53Isnt that cute! linux is playing as well.
- chrismgtis, on 04/10/2008, -12/+43And yet... no one cares.
- fuzzlog, on 04/10/2008, -1/+31So true, there are tens of thousands
- breadfred, on 04/10/2008, -3/+33I surely miss my companion cube
- PueSi, on 04/10/2008, -7/+35This is probably the most useless benchmark, most apps when not being used just sit there idling, if you have enough RAM you should be able to run a lot more (on Linux, OS X and Vista)
It's also irrelevant considering it's being done on different computers. - ha1f, on 04/10/2008, -20/+45"ON A CUBE"
You're right. What operating system could ever be considered useful without a cube? - danconia, on 04/10/2008, -8/+32My penis is longer than your penis.
Seriously guys who the ***** needs to run this many apps? I bet my old Pentium 90 MGHz could run 100 apps of Minesweeper... - lamiaconfitor, on 04/10/2008, -4/+27You got some? Hey this ***** has cookies! Let him know we want some! He is holding out!
- chetanthaker, on 04/10/2008, -7/+30Someone kill me before another 'x number of apps on x OS' comes up !
- RoboDonut, on 04/10/2008, -3/+26You could have lots of users sharing the computer over thin clients.
- tnatharik, on 04/10/2008, -9/+31Come on, just try crysis on Ultra High.
- doctorfungi, on 04/10/2008, -30/+51Find me a plausible situation where someone needs to run over 100 applications and I'll express some interest. Until then, this is ***** lame.
- SANiK, on 04/10/2008, -4/+22Watch - in a week or so, someone's going to pop up with, "MUST SEE! 500 apps in Windows 3.1!!!"
- mysticalone, on 04/10/2008, -1/+18he used the scouter
- javaroast, on 04/10/2008, -2/+19And what would certification do for linux exactly?
- geekmansworld, on 04/10/2008, -3/+191. Unzip pants
2. Apply ruler
3. Make a note
4. Add to digg - lamiaconfitor, on 04/10/2008, -1/+17yeah, my fav script stopped working, that was my first clue :(
- RoboDonut, on 04/10/2008, -7/+23Bury this. I replied to the wrong post.
- ConorT, on 04/10/2008, -21/+37But can it run Crysis?
- IndianaJonz, on 04/10/2008, -7/+22This whole thing is stupid.
- Altotus, on 04/10/2008, -3/+18Most Windows PCs don't even do DX10, and DX10 performs much worse than DX9 (on the cards that support both).
Through WINE (or libwine), you can do DX9 too. But why? You've got native OpenGL, OpenAL, and SDL -- all of which are open standards, well, supported, and generally better performing than DirectX. Most of the game engines these days can target either (not that many people port to Linux right now).
DirectX support is simply not worth it. It's obtuse and a pain in the tuchas to write for (compared to the alternatives), and it's really peculiar to Microsoft Windows -- where support may be almost universal for video cards, but decent drivers are few and far between. - bj1989, on 04/10/2008, -1/+16Try running 200 apps in linux including two virtual machines, one windows, one osx each running 100 apps.
- Myztry, on 04/10/2008, -1/+16Any multi-tasking OS could run thousands of apps IF they were all in a wait state, up to the limits of RAM. The theory falls over a bit when OS's contain non multitasking legacy code and rely on things like 'busy polling', finite handle tables, secondary RAM (Graphics). Just time slicing software or OS api's that were designed for single task operation takes significant time.
The sheer lazy inefficient size of todays software severely limits the numbers of application and things like 4Gig RAM limits are easily reached. uTorrent is one of the few programs that actually appears to be written efficiently. And at 214k it's roughly the same size at the entire AmigaOS ROM API's. Even the most trivial software on Windows especially is rarely under 1Meg.
And it's not just foreground applications that run. That's Windows < 95 or Apple < OSX. With modern or antique (Amiga) computing, Running programs are all given a share of processor time, and programs 'sleep' while awaiting events (keypress, timer, etc) - silfiriel, on 04/10/2008, -3/+17"on a cube" means already using a lot of resources
- ControlcChris, on 04/10/2008, -22/+35But... Will it blend?
- Philluminati, on 04/10/2008, -0/+13I thought it would be fun to do this. I thought I could really show everyone up. But after 50 unique applications on 24 desktops and 7 movies running I got bored. After the 9th movie was running the harddisk was whirring like crazy and I gave up.
- murdockat, on 04/10/2008, -11/+23Alright! We get it! Everybody can run a lot of applications! Thank god!
- Myztry, on 04/10/2008, -12/+23Pfffttt.. The Amiga (1985+) could easily run dozens (if not hundreds) of 32 bit apps inside 512k on a 7Mhz processor. Extrapolate that out to modern hardware capacities and hundreds seems rather a fail...
Hardware has come a long way, but Operating Systems tend to work on the inverse of Moore's Law... - Sammi84, on 04/10/2008, -5/+16As a happy tripple booter of win/mac/linux I'm burying you.
Fanboyism is always just plain stupid. - inactive, on 04/10/2008, -6/+17It's completely masturbatory. Any modern OS can host thousands of processes with ease. In this case we have 150+ apps just sitting around, idling, waiting for events. No ***** you can still use the machine, the apps are hanging on input, doing absolutely nothing.
- blankman2g, on 04/10/2008, -4/+13what's funny though, is that his OS does it for FREE. His choice to use the awful Vista effects is a personal choice that I won't hold against him.
- ferrite, on 04/10/2008, -2/+11Lets just assume he's a bit more inclined to algebra than you, then x is a variable, replace it with Windows, BSD, Linux, Mac OSX, ReactOS, Solaris, etc... then his statement makes a lot more sense than yours.
- wigren, on 04/10/2008, -4/+13That would be nice.
- fallingfree, on 04/10/2008, -15/+24just get laid already.
- vertexoflife, on 04/10/2008, -7/+15Uh, no. Mac lifted it from compiz.
- balazsbela, on 04/10/2008, -1/+9Maybe /usr/bin would be better then /bin
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