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[Luke_Wolf]

Yeah... the issue here isn't going to be thread management, or directory traversal. it's that attempting to read from and process a zillion files at once...

[Luke_Wolf]

Not quite. Debian and Mesa developers get all Valve games on steam for free and there may be a few other such deals in place but it's not all games on...

[Luke_Wolf]

Yes they have the patents, but unlike a certain fruit flavoured company they're not really in the habit of being malicious in this manner towards people...

[Luke_Wolf]

Why would you think such a thing? Microsoft isn't Apple and they wanted everyone using Ribbons as the new interface paradigm....

[Luke_Wolf]

Actually what bothered most people is that it wasn't just Tropico 4 but instead was a necessary evolution of the way the game was designed that some people...

[Luke_Wolf]

All of which work just fine even with old drivers on modern windows. I know it does. I've done it for many a person that's come to me to fix or set up...

[Luke_Wolf]

Except... No they don't. Again this has not been an issue since the 90s. The USB Mass Storage, Audio, HID, etc standards made all the usual cases rock...

[Luke_Wolf]

Ehem... Just what drivers for USB devices are you have an issue with breaking? This isn't the 90s this is absolutely not a problem anymore. Other buses...

[Luke_Wolf]

It's for the Make The Web an OS clowns, and we're going to continue to see this shit expand further and further and idiots continuing to push the expansion...

[Luke_Wolf]

TrueOS is based off of FreeBSD -CURRENT as opposed to the releases nowadays with mixins from Matt Macy's Branch, HardenedBSD, and a few other trees for...

[Luke_Wolf]

As Seen On AnandTech(TM)
Basically the 30% claim is comparing a dual core 15w laptop part with a 15w quad core part with presumably lower clocking...

[Luke_Wolf]

NetBSD really isn't interesting for the desktop user. You want to use DragonFly, FreeBSD (<- This one most likely), or OpenBSD (<- This one as second)...

[Luke_Wolf]

if you really really need it there's a fake pulseaudio that wraps OSS in the ports tree


So originally this is a feature from Solaris,...

[Luke_Wolf]

Well then your opinion is objectively wrong. The 1337 h@x0rs community is no more prevalent on BSD than it is on Linux, instead they have a community...

[Luke_Wolf]

As we can quite clearly see here not even close:
http://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/vendor

Apple had dropped to 10-15%...

[Luke_Wolf]

Just where exactly did you hear that? The TrueOS developers absolutely are running TrueOS on real hardware, the IXSystems guys are running it on Thinkpad...

[Luke_Wolf]

Their single thread performance is fine Haswell IPC at ~4GHz is plenty in today's market and if you're one of those jokers going "Buh Buh... Muh...

[Luke_Wolf]

You're exactly the target audience of Ryzen 7 and Threadripper, these are a dream come true for anyone doing dev or prosumer work, although I've got a...

[Luke_Wolf]

I fully expect that this is a more permanent price drop and that they're compressing their pricing structure in order to ensure better product segmentation...

[Luke_Wolf]

That's a nice split hair you have there, Do you also want to argue that people run Bytecode in a JVM instead of Java? You're arguing a distinction without...