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Re: Which Linux Distributions Are Dying?

Baban Gaigole — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:33:14 -0000

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Re: The Linux GUI Editor Showdown Part Three: Mousepad (Yeah, really)

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Re: The Linux GUI Editor Showdown Part Three: Mousepad (Yeah, really)

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Re: Why I Dislike C++

Guest — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:53:03 -0000

In your dreams. Other than (unproven) academic credentials that are worth nothing in the world of coding, your prose brings no hard facts.

So much for the pertinence of your 'reply'.

Re: Why I Dislike C++

dasir — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:44:46 -0000

yes, I agree with you ...
C++ sucks :-D

Re: The Butterfly Effect

dgw — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:22:50 -0000

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Re: Why I Dislike C++

ivag — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:43:29 -0000

As I can see you did not learn C++ in Minnesota. For me that is the only explanation for what you said heare. I am C and C++ programer for a long time and when I have to debug some C code I have a migraine. For instance in C code I found situations where GOTO function is the only way to do something easy (and to kill the functionality of the code as well). Because of that for the last 2 years my job is translating C code in C++ in science institute I am workin at. We calculated that it is much cheaper to translate all the software to C++ then to maintain C code.
Debuging C code larger then 1000 lines is harder then writing all code from the begining. I have no problem with debuging C++ code larger then 30000 lines that I did not write.

Re: Which Linux Distributions Are Dying?

lulz — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:40:45 -0000

Well... Ubuntu IS Debian by and large :P

Re: Which Linux Distributions Are Dying?

Name — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:29:03 -0000

you missed Archlinux. Its growing really fast!

http://www.google.ca/trends?q=...

Re: Which Linux Distributions Are Dying?

David — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:52:36 -0000

You might want to look into the difference between correlation and causation. You can't infer that fewer search terms in Google equate to a distro dying off and expect to be taken seriously. You need to find better sources of data, otherwise your findings are meaningless. For instance, you could look at the number of downloads in a given period of time. But Google Trends in this case is useless data, as it can only possibly show a correlation, and even then, there may be no actual correlation to reality. For all you know, people are changing their search engine of choice, or simply don't feel the need to plug the term into a search engine any longer as they know where to go for help or information. There's no way to tell without solid statistics to back up your claims.

Re: Which Linux Distributions Are Dying?

zspace — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:22:34 -0000

Got to love those biyearly jumps in searches for ubuntu.

Re: Which Linux Distributions Are Dying?

moran — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:44:29 -0000

you are retarded if you think that Google trends is any indicator of how popular something it. get a brain moran!

Re: Why I Dislike C++

PierreGau — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:37:21 -0000

The current trend is Web Applications (PHP is seen as 'sexy').

But plain-old C can bring one thing or two in this area:

TrustLeap G-WAN is a Web Application Server which is faster (in user-mode) than IIS 7.0 (in the kernel).

G-WAN ANSI C89 ('edit & play') scripts are 5x faster than ASP.Net C#.

G-WAN C scripts are 120x faster than PHP.

G-WAN is up to 38x faster than Apache.
G-WAN is up to 25x faster than Nginx.

One of the reasons CPUs sold well was bloated code.

No longer: with the CPU frequency halt, inefficient code will not longer scale on new CPUs because by using more Cores they are more powerful, but not faster, see:

http://trustleap.ch/en_scalabi...

So, whether the world (including youngs) will learn how to code properly or, well, they will have to buy twice as much servers to make their Web Applications work twice faster.

Just adding CPUs (or CPU Cores) is a much less expensive proposition.

As a result, skilled C programmers have a bright future: the 'sexy' PHP will not survive without C.

Re: Prediction: Android Gains Strength against iPhone in Late 2009 to 2010

gauravM — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:23:35 -0000

Nice post. i like the information you have provide for iPhone. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Five Reasons FriendFeed Has Made Reading Personal Blogs Interesting

SEO Blog — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:53:57 -0000

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Re: Prediction: Android Gains Strength against iPhone in Late 2009 to 2010

bloggingis — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:55:37 -0000

I completely agree with you when you talk about the iPhone's App Store policies.
But I personally feel that it would make a potential advantage to Windows Mobile than for Andoid, atleast at this point of time i.e. in 2009! Check out this link to my blog where I mention the reasons for Windows to succeed
http://future-mobilez.blogspot...
Also, looking at its latest GUI here
http://future-mobilez.blogspot...
I feel that Microsoft has come a long way in taking on iPhone.

Re: Prediction: Android Gains Strength against iPhone in Late 2009 to 2010

k00pa — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:33:54 -0000

That looks so awesome that I think I will buy that. Only problem is that I am not sure if there is any delivery to Finland. :(

Re: Which Linux Distributions Are Dying?

harrybarracuda — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:46:45 -0000

It's an interesting article. Personally I try many distributions for fun as and when they come out. I discard anything that doesn't support the hardware OOTB (I include Live distributions and ones you have to install). Generally speaking, Ubuntu and its derivatives do, and the rest don't.

It's my humble opinion that this is what gives it the legs. The developers of Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, etc., should really put effort into broadening the base of hardware supported, and simplifying its installation. I boot up a live CD of something or other and it doesn't support my wifi, or I have to p*ss about to get the graphics card working, I'm not going to bother.

Re: Four Must-Do’s for Giving CDs to Potential New Linux Users

Rishabh Mishra — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:11:30 -0000

Thank you for your very informative comment.

While I'm not quite sure about Wubi specifically--I have never personally gotten the installer to not crash--I think that virtualization in general would probably be a good idea first. :)

Also good point about not removing Windows immediately. Setting up a dual-boot, even if the user plans on never using Windows again if things go well, is probably most advisable--like you suggest.

Re: Four Must-Do’s for Giving CDs to Potential New Linux Users

seoworkgroup1 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:34:36 -0000

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Re: Four Must-Do’s for Giving CDs to Potential New Linux Users

conradtheart — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:17:47 -0000

Great post. I'd tell them about the Wubi function on some distro's like Ubuntu that allows you to install it like any other program inside of Windows.

Also tell them not to remove Windows from the start, so that they can move over to Linux slowly. If a newbie wipes everything and completely moves over to Linux from the start, it might frighten them so much that they move back to Windows and never come back.

Re: Debunking Myths That Say Linux Won’t Reach the Desktop

Yaro — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:56:07 -0000

"The default UI - Why oh why does every linux distro I've tried look like it was designed for children? huge icons, even bigger ugly text in menus, it almost feels as if I've dropped down a screen resolution or 2."

Sounds to me like there's something wrong with your display. Are you using really old hardware? Or really obscure hardware? Maybe you're using nVidia cards without proprietary drivers? TRUST me, there's no reason why text and icons should be so large, so if it feels like you've lost resolution, you probably have. I'm able to use my full 1680 by 1050 resolution. To make things even smaller, I adjusted my text pitch to only about 88 DPI. Works really well.

As for the rest of the interface... it is EASILY changed.

"Sound - I have yet to get a distro that has good sound support, we have ALSA, OSS, the newer ones which I forget, seems like a mini-battle for sound support."

Actually, we just have ALSA... OSS is usually not even compiled into the kernel and OSS apps just get rerouted to ALSA. Sound usually works perfectly on Linux thanks to ALSA, but there is a new "kid" on the block that screws it all up called "Pulse Audio" that some distributions foolishly bundle by default. Ubuntu, SuSE, and Fedora do it. The others don't.

If you use those that install it by default your best bet is to remove it and get ALSA reconfigured. Believe me, ALSA works perfectly unless the distributor screws it up with PA.

"Until linux allows me to download and install a new program as easily as XP I doubt linux will make the mainstream, if I want to install a new application under linux, I download the equivalent of a zip file, extract it, look through for some kind of install instructions, create directories, change permissions and a bunch of messing about. With windoze you download to desktop and double click... if only linux was that easy."

What? Searching through tools like Synaptic is harder than picking through hundreds of spyware, shareware, commercialware and manually resolving libraries like .NET is easier than the one-command wonders that are apt-get, yum, and pacman? Perhaps you were left totally unaware of Linux package managers? Because trust me, most your Linux distros have massive software repositories that do ALL of that for you, so it sounds like you completely forgot about them or just weren't aware of them to begin with.

Trust me, with package managers and respositories, most Linux distros beat the software installation practices of Windows hands down.

Re: Debunking Myths That Say Linux Won’t Reach the Desktop

rev668 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:21:09 -0000

I dual boot XP and whatever flavour of linux I'm playing with at the time (currently ubuntu due to all the 'hype')

I've used linux from SuSE 6.4 and even in the latest distro's there are still many things that make me choose XP at boot time...

The default UI - Why oh why does every linux distro I've tried look like it was designed for children? huge icons, even bigger ugly text in menus, it almost feels as if I've dropped down a screen resolution or 2.

Sound - I have yet to get a distro that has good sound support, we have ALSA, OSS, the newer ones which I forget, seems like a mini-battle for sound support.

Until linux allows me to download and install a new program as easily as XP I doubt linux will make the mainstream, if I want to install a new application under linux, I download the equivalent of a zip file, extract it, look through for some kind of install instructions, create directories, change permissions and a bunch of messing about. With windoze you download to desktop and double click... if only linux was that easy.

Having said all that, I love linux and it's quirks (sound support apart). and use it regularly when not gaming :)

Rev

Re: Five Reasons FriendFeed Has Made Reading Personal Blogs Interesting

Rishabh Mishra — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:29:43 -0000

He must have predicted my remorse and forgiven me in advance.