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Linsux and Winbloze - There is no decent operating system for the PC!
WMD:
Not again!
quote:Not everyone is malignant enough or uses free software, there are still suckers who buy worse (zooi), whereas the (v
Aloone_Jonez:
I really can't be bothered to argue about Freeware vs Payware I wish I had never started the argument, as I didn't want this to turn into a troll thread.
Anyway I've managed to increase the speed of Linux to some degree by cutting down on the eye candy, now I now only use 2 effects:
Show window contents while resizing.
Use anti-alised fonts.
Now Linux runs at the same speed as Xpee with all it's crap effects on.
quote:"the generic S3 driver is probably your best bet"
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I have done some research and hardware support seems to be a real problem in Linux, I dosen't suport half the hardware that windows does. :( Unfortunately I will continue to use windows, at least for now.
There must be a work around to allow Linux to use Windows drivers, I know it can't be done with WINE, but the Captive project got me thinking.
Cheak it out:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive
It's way of using the windows NTFS.SYS driver file to give Linux read/write access to NTFS partitions, it's based on React OS - http://www.reactos.com - a free windows NT kernel clone.
If this can allow Linux to use the M$ Windows NTFS driver, then perhaps a Linux wrapper could also written for an NT printer or Winmodem driver. I am no professional programmer, I do know some Basic and 80386 assembler (NASM) though, so I would love to hear from anyone who's interested in such a project.
I personaly think the people at React OS are doing a good job, but they should realy be working on the WINE project rather than wasting their time on this.
WMD:
quote:There must be a work around to allow Linux to use Windows drivers
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Indeed! Linuxant has a wrapper for Windows wifi drivers. It doesn't work with USB ones (like mine :mad: ) but there's definately a market for this. WINE is a program/API emulator, there's no driver code there. WinModem drivers would be good, but as broadband takes over this will matter less over time.
The only problem is, how good ARE Windows drivers, and how would they affect overall stability?
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by WMD:
Not sure of the rest, but that's roughly what he said. :D
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Not even close.
quote: I wish I had never started the argument, as I didn't want this to turn into a troll thread.
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You could change the title.
quote:Anyway I've managed to increase the speed of Linux to some degree by cutting down on the eye candy, now I now only use 2 effects:
Show window contents while resizing.
Use anti-alised fonts.
Now Linux runs at the same speed as Xpee with all it's crap effects on.
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That's normal.
Gnome and KDE have just as much eye candy.
Give xfce4 a try.
Install it via apt/synaptic.
It looks like GNOME but is way faster (and just as easy)
quote:here must be a work around to allow Linux to use Windows drivers
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http://linmodems.org/
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Winmodems-and-Linux-HOWTO-1.html
Werre:
Insomnia, openoffices equation editor is hardly "the open source equivalent" to M$ offices one... Try "LyX", it has the best equation editor ever (hardly surprising, since LyX is basicly What-you-get-is-what-you-WANT-interface on top of LaTeX, which happens to be very good in handling equations).
That said, even the openoffices equation editor is quite usable for small stuff, it's just not as visual as the M$ one.
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