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- dn11, on 03/12/2009, -3/+55Dvorak claims computer mouse will never catch on:
http://premiumblend.net/2009/01/13/flashback-to-fe ...
Dvorak says Apple will abandon OS X, adopt Windows:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1925239,00.as ...
Dvorak says Obama is unelectable:
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2008/01/28/the-billary- ...
.... enough said - EntropyFan, on 03/12/2009, -9/+54So when Dvorak talks trash about Linux or Apple he is an idiotic, out of touch old timer who has lost any relevance.
Now that he talks up Linux he's with it and brilliant, right? - inputname, on 03/12/2009, -4/+42That is a terribly formatted tittle.
- inactive, on 03/12/2009, -20/+57YEAR OF TEH LINUX DESKTOP!!!!111!!!11!!!1!
- Dustin00, on 03/12/2009, -10/+42Linux has hit critical mass every month for the last 8 years.
*yawn* - kilimangaro, on 03/12/2009, -23/+52I agree, I use Ubuntu now since 4 months and I can say that I'll never returns to Micro$oft. In the past, I've try other linux distributions (RedHat and Mandrake), but the material support and the UI was too disappointing. Ubuntu is a distribution of very high quality. The future is bright!
- mrsteveman1, on 03/12/2009, -2/+28What in the ***** are you talking about? You can't even use the correct contraction of "you are" and you want to call other people ignorant?
Digg is so amusing sometimes. - inactive, on 03/12/2009, -8/+31I've been using Linux since '95 and haven't dual-booted since '99 or so.
But this is silly. New Fedora and Ubuntu come with a little thing called "pulseaudio". This has to be the absolute dumbest thing in the world. Instead of consolidating or fixing the 50 other audio daemons, servers, libraries, APIs, or devices they decided we needed yet-another broken sound system.
OSS, ALSA, JACK, ESD, aRts, GStreamer, and now... pulseaudio!!
Come on people, sound is a solved issue. And none of these work properly because every application has to be rewritten to use them, so now we have one app that works with OSS, half a dozen working with ALSA, maybe 5 working with pulseaudio. And each of them fighting and conflicting because I only have one goddamn soundcard!
This is truly a step backward. - vofuse, on 03/12/2009, -3/+25Dvorak's predictions are like Jim Cramer's stock picks ... and Linux was doing so well until now.
- Charun, on 03/12/2009, -1/+21You can't call anyone ignorant until you learn to spell ignorance.
Hint: use an "a" - Hellahulla, on 03/12/2009, -1/+18Am I alone in being content for Linux to not be the top desktop OS?
Am I alone in not actually caring, and using Linux because it suits me and not really caring what others use? - regeya, on 03/12/2009, -1/+17"OSS, ALSA, JACK, ESD, aRts, GStreamer, and now... pulseaudio!!"
OSS is an older kernel driver framework, and is largely obsolete. There's a somewhat related commercial product which, in its day, was a darn good product, but ALSA is where it's at now.
ALSA is a newer kernel driver framework, the standard nowadays.
JACK is a userland media framework (audio & midi) aimed mainly at musicians.
ESD is an old, crappy userland sound daemon which GNOME used to use.
aRts is an old, crappy userland sound daemon which KDE used to use, which added "analog" synthesis capability on top of the sort of crappy functionality ESD had.
gStreamer is roughly analagous to QuickTime, offering audio and video codecs and various input and output plugins.
PulseAudio is a cross-platform, networked sound server, allowing those of us who don't have an SB Live to play multiple audio streams at the same time. As it sits between client apps and ALSA, it's a cross-desktop solution, and since it's not aimed at the same folks as JACK, it's not yet another reinvention of the wheel, but rather a solution. If it makes you feel better, you can connect PulseAudio to JACK.
If you're using GNOME, it's likely that if you're using a modern distribution and using a player like Rhythmbox or Banshee, it's using gStreamer to handle audio files and playback, and is transparently connecting to PulseAudio, which sits between the gStreamer-enabled app and ALSA.
I'm not sure why you lumped them all together, because they're only loosely related. Like ism70605 said, you have no idea what you're talking about, and sadly, people doing the rating have no idea what either of you are talking about. If you honestly believe that either Windows or MacOS X are any simpler than this, though, you're sadly mistaken. - ukblacknight, on 03/12/2009, -4/+20Bluetooth in 8.10 is still very broken though.
My Belkin bluetooth dongle v1 stopped working after I upgraded to 8.10 from 8.04. It wouldn't recognise the adapter at all! I've now got a new BT dongle, which worked fine for a few days, but now it refuses to send and receive files from my phone. Tried blueman, didn't make a difference. - AndrewMoyer, on 03/12/2009, -1/+15I bought a $300 PC from BestBuy, threw Ubuntu 7 on it, and had an impressive server at home with no effort. Even though I'm a technical person and a linux nerd, it was effortless and it just worked.
More recently, I took an old Dell laptop that I had sitting around and put Ubuntu 8.10 on it. Even with a WiFi card using Windows Drivers via NDISWrapper, it was as simple as could be. Now guests use it to browse the web through Firefox and they don't even notice it's not Windows until I point it out to them. It's nice not having to always remove viruses from the guest machine anymore.
If it was any simpler, the instructions would read, "Just add water."
EDIT: Oh yeah, and I have fairly extensive experience with RedHat/Fedora, Mandrake/Mandriva, and the BSD's, and for personal and mid-range server use, Ubuntu beats them all hands-down. - rohilsinha, on 03/12/2009, -2/+15His web host account is suspended.
Looks like his blog reached Critical Mass before Linux. - Wesside, on 03/12/2009, -3/+16uhm, in comparison to any windows distribution, ubuntu is significantly better. Over all normal user use, Ubuntu does everything for the most part that people want.
- bratterscain, on 03/12/2009, -1/+14- Endorsing open/public technologies
- MWeather, on 03/12/2009, -0/+13There's no laptop load cycle bug in Ubuntu. There never was. There's a bug in your laptop's ACPI.
They did fix it so Ubuntu works better with buggy ACPI, though. - cawpin, on 03/12/2009, -1/+14WTF are you babbling about? How is Ubuntu bloated? They all use the same kernel and Ubuntu is generally more user friendly. Plus, you can't beat the Ubuntu forums/community for support.
- MacParrot, on 03/12/2009, -1/+12It isn't up to the various creators of Linux distros to create gaming support. That has come from the game distributors and makers. This is like saying Linux sucks because it won't run Microsoft Office.
If Linux doesn't fill some basic computer need for YOU, then you shouldn't use it. However for basic needs (what most people use computers for) it works very well - djbon2112, on 03/12/2009, -1/+12- Believing that Open Source is the best way to get ***** done.
- erkokite, on 03/12/2009, -1/+12I didn't regret it. I guess it depends on what you want it for. Right now, though, I'm stuck using XP on my laptop, instead of my desktop with Linux as I don't have a wireless card for my desktop. It's no fun not being able to compile unixy software that I want (even under cygwin). A lot of scientific and engineering software I have found wants a unix-like environment. Windows does not provide this. So I rather regret not being able to use my Ubuntu machine right now.
- buddyw, on 03/12/2009, -4/+14*shakes head*
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
--Mahatma Gandhi - djbon2112, on 03/12/2009, -1/+11And guess what? They FIXED or are FIXING those bugs. That's the way open source is.
- DAVENP0RT, on 03/12/2009, -3/+13"This Account Has Been Suspended"
That's embarrassing. - inactive, on 03/12/2009, -17/+27http://www.howarddarkes.com/photos/linuxposter.jpg
- NTolerance, on 03/12/2009, -0/+10Authenticated share browsing has been fixed in Intrepid.
- 4321234, on 03/12/2009, -18/+27Linux = light,fast,stable,secure and flexible.
Windows = not even close. - sloppychris, on 03/12/2009, -1/+10In two years I've never edited a configuration file in Ubuntu. Times change homie.
- CoreyTamas, on 03/12/2009, -2/+11Don't be bitter, Mr. Ballmer.
- inactive, on 03/12/2009, -0/+9Netbeans works fine! Did you set the paths correctly?
I use Visual Studio 2005 under WINE and its ok though I haven't collected the new version.
WOW works and so does EVE...
http://img13.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot ... - magus_melchior, on 03/12/2009, -0/+9Whether Dvorak is right or not is irrelevant-- he's just doing whatever he thinks will score hits to his writings. Next month he'll predict doom and gloom for desktop Linux.
- MacParrot, on 03/12/2009, -0/+8JaceP
I'm not making fun of you here, but other than provide an OS to run on hardware with all the drivers required to have it operate, what more can Linux distributers do? They can't force companies to make games for Linux. Lack of games on Linux or OS X does not equal lack of support. - luchid, on 03/12/2009, -3/+11Gnome isn't a theme.
- MWeather, on 03/12/2009, -0/+8Here's a link about the fix:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/17/212 ...
And here's one about the original "problem":
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/ ...
Essentially Ubuntu wasn't doing anything wrong, the BIOS was. - ghast, on 03/12/2009, -1/+9more like Dvorak used to be a windows zealot, then he went out and tried other *****, and to his credit realized that there's better stuff out there.
I think this unwillingness to learn new ***** is a problem with a lot of people. They just assume what they do is the best, and never actually go out and see what's out there. - Wesside, on 03/12/2009, -2/+10The ONLY reason I dont use only Linux is because I game, and there's no native support for most games atm.
Also @ Erkokite, my HP laptop has Ubuntu 8.10 and it picks up the drivers for my wireless on its own now. Have you tried 8.10 yet? - bratterscain, on 03/12/2009, -0/+8angry, got benches to back this up? With a kernel loading up modules, you're only using slightly more memory. And in that odd chance you install a device that needs the module, you'll have it. I've compiled my own kernel before and saw no difference in speed.
- mrsteveman1, on 03/12/2009, -1/+9Once canonical figures out a way to get funding from home users stuff like that will work itself out.
Maybe they need more OEM deals.... - nbluth, on 03/12/2009, -0/+7...I only run linux now and I have never edited a configuration file...also Emerald is an amazing theme manager that makes my computer look 100x better then vista (desktop cube ftw).
You sound like you haven't used linux since it came out - have an open mind and try it again for a little bit, its actually quite nice. - no1joel, on 03/12/2009, -13/+20I'd love to find linux as an answer to the problems I don't even know I have. But it's not really got anything I that would make me change from Vista.
- sepelester, on 03/12/2009, -1/+8@tmcal: "...nothing ALSA can't already do or can't be made to do."
Software mixer allowing for per-application volume controls?
Sound routing transparency? (app doesn't need to know which device is used, or when - ie switching device including network device is possible)
Support for multiple legacy sinks? (use OSS, ALSA, Esound etc for older apps, with mixing, without locking)
If you did this with ALSA I'm disappointed you didn't share it. - desiv, on 03/12/2009, -0/+7I'm glad Dvorak's starting to like Linux.
Then again, he was a fan of my Amiga back in the day, that didn't help out that much..
Is this really a good sign? :-) - Samueul, on 03/12/2009, -2/+8I wish I could digg you up tenfold.... Took the words right out of my mouth.
- Joh739, on 03/12/2009, -0/+6Oddly enough I've seen Windows addicts using that too on my school.
- unorthodoxor, on 03/12/2009, -3/+9It's not Linux, it's you.
- foofightrs777, on 03/12/2009, -1/+7Hmm...my Motorola headset, Logitech mouse, and Motorola cell phone all connected flawlessly via bluetooth. Maybe it's your specific hardware? Have you asked on the ubuntu forums?
- jamesmcm, on 03/12/2009, -2/+8Well reading about the philosophy and history of GNU/Linux wouldn't hurt.
http://ww.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf - rchargel, on 03/12/2009, -0/+6This is a t
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ment - ism70605, on 03/12/2009, -5/+11You have no idea what you are talking about. Pulse audio is attempting to solve this problem.
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