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#26 2005-07-12 12:57 am
- mo' ron
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Re: Luminocity: Linux Bling
Enos Shenk wrote:
Too bad its linux. Maybe in 5 years it will be refined enough to where more than 1% of the population will ever be able to use it.
Linux does suck really badly as a desktop OS, but I think it still has a higher market share than OS X... I bet that changes once people start to pirate OS X86 
What is the difference between Vista and OSX?
- Microsoft employees are excited about OSX.
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#27 2005-07-12 2:12 am
Re: Luminocity: Linux Bling
Twisted Guy wrote:
Most of the webservers around the world run on various Unix systems and Windows NT/2000/XP, not Linux.
um - an incredible amount run Linux.
A huge amount run Linux.
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#28 2005-07-12 2:13 am
Re: Luminocity: Linux Bling
mo' ron wrote:
Enos Shenk wrote:
Too bad its linux. Maybe in 5 years it will be refined enough to where more than 1% of the population will ever be able to use it.
Linux does suck really badly as a desktop OS, but I think it still has a higher market share than OS X...
Not on the desktop it doesn't.
It certainly does if you count server installs, but not on the desktop.
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#29 2005-07-12 2:59 am
Re: Luminocity: Linux Bling
Yea, it has a quite a large (and increasing) installed server base.
Plus, I find it kinda sad that Mac users are trashing an OS becuase of market share. We should be a little more considerate of "alternate" operating systems.
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#30 2005-07-12 3:06 am
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Re: Luminocity: Linux Bling
We are trashing it for lots of reasons, not just market share. Also, it's such a segmented market, that no particular flavor has much share.
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#31 2005-07-12 4:28 am
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Re: Luminocity: Linux Bling
I'm not trashing linux. I like linux. It has it's issues though.
But I would take linux over windows any old day of the week.
You have an absolutely breath-taking... heiney. I mean, that thing's good. I wanna be friends with it.
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#32 2005-07-12 1:03 pm
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Re: Luminocity: Linux Bling
Twisted Guy wrote:
Most of the webservers around the world run on various Unix systems and Windows NT/2000/XP, not Linux.
Google is powered by a cluster of over 10,000 Linux servers.
That was some utterly useless iCandy though.
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#33 2005-07-12 2:13 pm
Re: Luminocity: Linux Bling
MacAddict4Life wrote:
Also, it's such a segmented market, that no particular flavor has much share.
That is not relevent.
Sure - there are many distros, but the distros contribute to the upstream source projects and to each other.
Use Fedora? Your audio is probably Alsa - which is largely developed by SuSE.
The biggest problem with LOTD (Linux On The Desktop) is cut-n-paste. It works fairly well for text, but needs work.
The second biggest problem is probably proprietary multimedia codecs. Fluendo is solving that problem with their gstreamer plugins, though the fluendo plugins are not available to the general public yet.
Third is IN KERNEL 3d acceleration for gaming video cards.
And fourth is lack of OEMS marketing it.
Solve the first two - and it will be much more apealing to OEM's - which can use Intel graphics which does have working OpenGL graphics (not quite what hard core gamers want, but good enough for most gamers)
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#34 2005-07-12 3:33 pm
Re: Luminocity: Linux Bling
Looks like the same stuff OS X and Konfabulator and any OS X app in general can/could do. Just with different effects.
BTW, I love eye candy. Especially the fruit flavored ones.
Also, if those are MPEG4 files, why are they named .avi and with smurfy quality video compression? Isn't MPEG4 supposed to be better looking than that.. and with a different extension? (Anyway, at least the .ogg files looked fine.)
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