Wow, that came unexpected. I've got a feeling hell just froze over...
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I think the stars have aligned for linux on the desktop. I know people say that a lot, to the point where it is a joke, but I think it just stopped being funny.
Basically every major application and piece of hardware can now run on linux without hassle. Even my X-Fi and Radeon cards have corporate-sponsored open source support! Now it seems like Nvidia is actually the hold out! And they were supposed to be the pinnacle linux support!
Whoever said that Sun's lack of official 64 bit support is irrelevant because of IcedTea is correct. Intrepid includes it by default and I have seen no problems. That is the beauty of open source. We don't need any corporation to compile code for us.
Even GLX, that last little piece of OpenGL was just open sourced. Now you could technically run gNewSense or some such purist distribution and have full compositing with any non-nvidia card, unless nouveau has improved in which case nearly any card.
With the recent opening up of some of Flash's specs, gnash should improve very quickly too.
Hopefully the stars will align again for DRI2 in Jaunty. Now we just got to get our OS installed by default by Dell, HP, etc. Perhaps a silver lining of this recent economic turmoil will be increased attractiveness of Open Source. I think netbooks, smartphones, and ultra-low-cost PCs are now proving to be a niche linux is very well suited for, and this will have network effects for the desktop.
I am having a hard time thinking of new goals. uhh improve boot times even more?
MP3 patents will expire by 2012, but getting broader Vorbis support is still a good idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Lic..._patent_issues
Cheers!Last edited by EmbraceUnity; 17 November 2008, 12:03 PM.
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Originally posted by Creak View PostI might be dumb, but what do I need to run a 64bits distro?
Originally posted by Creak View PostI've got a Pentium E5200, is it ok?
Originally posted by Creak View PostAuxiliary question: is 64bits better in any point? Or it's just for the fun? (which would suffice me to install one )
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The pentium E5200 exists, it's a perynn dual core, but with 2MB of L2 RAM.
But since it comes from perynn technology, I think it's good too for the 64bits distros
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Originally posted by Creak View PostAuxiliary question: is 64bits better in any point? Or it's just for the fun? (which would suffice me to install one )
Unraring is faster. And it sees all my 4GB of ram. Uses about twice the amount of ram compared to 32bit.
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Originally posted by Zhick View PostIf you mean a Core 2 Duo E5200 then yes, it supports amd64. Afaik there is nothing like a Pentium E5200, Intel dropped the Pentium-name with the introduction of the Core 2 Architecture and has only recently used it again for some very low-end dualcore cpus.
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