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[kpedersen]

I don't believe the PS3 uses the entire kernel but PS4 does to a large extent. Neither of them use much of the userland (or at least the SDK certainly...

[kpedersen]

No amount of reading the man pages will fix the fact that a feature is missing and yet the codebase is far too heavy for a light window manager. Especially...

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Not to mention, these days the GPU isn't just about games. You can barely run a Wayland compositor or web browser effectively without a GPU driver stack....

[kpedersen]

To its defense, because it is based on i3 it is kinda "babies first tiler". It is very heavy for what it is and has too much "GUI"....

[kpedersen]

So is X11. It is just a protocol. So when people refer to the implementation they refer to Xorg.

When you refer to the implementation of...

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I think it boils down to the fact that Linux is not just a toy for kids and gamers. A high number of machines with this kind of hardware are still used...

[kpedersen]

Well so far, IBM has only dropped hardware that we might still use. Canonical would do that whilst displaying adverts on your apps menu for newer hardware...

[kpedersen]

Technically it isn't 4th. Because Minix in everyone's Intel processor XD...

[kpedersen]

Hmm, TrenchBroom currently looks a little primitive compared to the older GtkRadiant, however Dust3D looks pretty good. Thanks!


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[kpedersen]

https://www.redhat.com/en/store/red-...ux-workstation

Can you explain why that URL has "workstation" on the end?

Perhaps...

[kpedersen]

I have a labs worth of machines all running BOINC. Only problem is that the Nouveau driver is not as performant as it should be. Nice one NVIDIA XD

[kpedersen]

Not really if you count PS3s and PS4s. But just like iOS and Android, that is a bit of a scummy remix.

The FreeBSD userbase is also larger...

[kpedersen]

I expect this with something like Arch Linux but for an enterprise distribution? In my experience large companies make use of very aging hardware compared...

[kpedersen]

Hmm, I could have sworn Erlang compiled to bytecode for the JVM. That said, BEAM looks like very similar technology....

[kpedersen]

How is having to re-implement something like OpenGL 2.x support easier to handle?


Vulkan-only wouldn't just take out old hardware;...

[kpedersen]

For usability I agree but for maintainability and bug fixing I notice that the larger a project is; the harder it is to maintain on less common platforms...

[kpedersen]

This is obviously great news for Blender.

However I am getting a little worried that Blender is getting too big and professional for my uses....

[kpedersen]

True but even Microsoft Office 2010 is going strong and that is much older.

I wonder if the ancient Office 2010 still has a larger market...

[kpedersen]

DirectX works much better over RDP than OpenGL (and anything else). So I can see benefit here.

Afterall Microsoft's RDP is vastly better...

[kpedersen]

Well that is kind of the problem. Almost every Java project I have partaken in has involved the JNI. For example OpenGL, using high performance streaming...