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Re: NetBSD Explained: The Unix System That Can Run on Anything

ClaudioM — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:27:22 -0000

"OpenBSD supports AMD and Intel chipsets, but not Radeon, as the company doesn't provide any technical information to the developers."

I believe you meant NVIDIA, not Radeon. Radeon is the brand of AMD GPU cards and they are supported under OpenBSD. NVIDIA GPUs aren't supported in OpenBSD so they use the llvmpipe driver to provide unaccelerated graphics.

Re: They Hacked Their School District When They Were 12. The Adults Are Still Trying to Catch Up.

ClaudioM — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 08:16:51 -0000

No one's born knowing anything other than being able to exist. You learn by starting small and simple and you build from that. It's called potential and the district failed to see it in trying to cover its own hide.

Re: Happy 15th Birthday, Fedora Linux!

ClaudioM — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 10:39:00 -0000

That still tends to be the case, unfortunately. I fault BCM for that, personally. That said, I did have some experiences with BCM chipsets but at that time I was running Ubuntu/Debian/Slackware. The pain of using ndiswrapper. *shudder*

Re: Happy 15th Birthday, Fedora Linux!

ClaudioM — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 09:22:38 -0000

I was left with a bad taste in my mouth after RH Linux 7.x back in the day, so when I heard of Fedora Core spinning off from RH Linux back then, I scoffed at the attempt and continued on with Slackware and Debian, and eventually Slackware and Ubuntu. I tried FC at version 5(?) and I was unimpressed. Found it to be very slow in comparison to the distros I was using. I then decided to give it a try at (lucky?) 13, and I was surprised even though it still had its issues. I kept with it and was pleasantly surprised with every release, so much so that I'm currently running Fedora 29 on my laptop as my main OS (I still do use Slackware, but only because it still has a soft spot in my heart). Looking forward to more excellent releases down the road.

And boy does that old screenshot bring back memories! LOL!

Re: Introducing me!

ClaudioM — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:05:13 -0000

Oh, you....you stop that now. :-p

Re: Introducing me!

ClaudioM — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:58:38 -0000

Holy crap that looks to be a much better episode than it would have been with me. Things happen for a reason, you know! ;-)

Re: Day 1 Contest: Win a Nexus 4 8GB From Droid Life! #5daysofnexus (Updated: Winner Picked)

ClaudioM — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:09:21 -0000

Winning this would be more than enough for me to switch from my current provider. :-)

Re: Liliputing giveaway: G-Box Dyno mini PC + Ainol Novo Elf II tablet

ClaudioM — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:08:52 -0000

I'd love me one of these little guys. Would make a nice addition to the HDTV in my living room. :-)

Re: Engadget Giveaway: win one of four Nexus 7 tablets, courtesy of NVIDIA!

ClaudioM — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:34:23 -0000

The only Android tablet that I can, without a doubt, even as an Android fan, truly enjoy as a full fledged tablet and on that I can recommend to family and friends. Oh, how I would love to win a Nexus 7. Finally, something worthwhile in the tablet arena running Android, and a great version of Android to boot.

Re: Mountain Goat: Ubuntu on Apple Hardware - Shoby

ClaudioM — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:47:56 -0000

His performance experience on his Mac with Ubuntu compared to OS X is nothing new. It's not Unity that makes it seem fast. It's Linux that makes it fast. I've dual-booted Ubuntu from 9.04 to 11.04 along with Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard on my now-defunct iMac G5 (due to the bad caps issue) and the perrformance difference was quite noticeable. Ubuntu ran so much faster on that iMac G5 even with Compiz running, and the graphics chipset on it wasn't spectacular (Radeon 9600). So his experience with a Linux distribution on Mac hardware comes as no surprise when you have been with OS X on it for some time.

Re: Linux on the desktop: what went wrong?

ClaudioM — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:37:19 -0000

BTW, your reply to Noel's comment on your blog's About page blatantly contradicts what you say here about the compatibility advantage of Windows.

https://techingiteasy.wordp...

Screenshot of post included below as well.

http://i.imgur.com/yS38Z.png

Re: Linux on the desktop: what went wrong?

ClaudioM — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:18:59 -0000

You want an candid assessment from an average computer user (coming from a Mac even)? Take a listen to this podcast episode where the host's wife is interviewed on her recent switch to Linux.

http://thecommandline.net/2...

Much more honest than what you'll see on desktop Linux articles here and other MS-friendly news sites from authors claiming to be "Linux fans".

Re: Linux on the desktop: what went wrong?

ClaudioM — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:09:07 -0000

Um, pre-installations of Windows by hardware manufacturers is also the main reason Windows is on 95% of _reported_ desktops (some people do buy these cheap PCs and though they wipe them and put Linux on it, it counts as a Windows sale either way). BTW, your average person cannot handle installations of any kind, be it Linux, Windows, or OS X. This is why hardware manufacturers give people a restore disc that automates the whole process or have "Genius Bars" to do the installations for them. Hardware manufacturers could do the same thing with a Linux pre-installation but at this point in the game, they're too addicted to give up the Microsoft fix.

As for Windows working great on open architecture and being guaranteed to work, take that hard drive and move it from one "open architecture" configuration to another one. Let's see how Windows fares with that. This is something that, with most Linux distributions, is a transparent process. Everything under the hood on a Linux distribution today will detect the hardware and load the proper module (or "driver" if you will) with rarely an issue. It pretty much just works.

You mention Windows exceptional compatibility. If so, then how come I could not downgrade an HP system to Windows XP Pro from Vista Home due to drivers that were non-existent for XP? I couldn't use the Vista driver for it either. Neither HP nor the device manufacturer had an XP driver available for people looking to downgrade. So much for compatibility. However, the Linux installation that it eventually got detected everything without a problem, and no proprietary modules were even necessary. No more missing drivers and the machine was running like a champ. That's the compatibility I expect to see from an OS. And yes, even the upgrade.....the _in-place_ upgrade (something that most modern Linux distros do)... went smoothly.

Re: 8-bit PC can run Ubuntu… takes about 6 hours to boot

ClaudioM — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:19:05 -0000

I remember doing a Debian "potato" installtion on an old Mac Quadra 650 that ran at 33 MHz. Was fun when I didn't have life getting in the way to do stuff like this. Still, the 68040 on that one is a 32-bit processor so this is still very geeky-cool. :-)

Re: Why Linux on the Desktop is Dead

ClaudioM — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:36:01 -0000

This Linux-on-the-desktop user took the link bait and read the article. I didn't get irate, I didn't get bothered, I just yawned. Most Linux advocates have moved on from this "year of the desktop" mantra because there really is nothing to prove (nevermind that, as Apple and MS say, it's a post-PC-as-we-know-it world). It's there for people who want it, even without the marketing blitz and RDF, and it's doing quite well for itself. As you said, "So, move on. There's nothing to see here."

Re: How to Install Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) In Virtualbox

ClaudioM — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:53:19 -0000

Android 4.0-RC1 doesn't have Ethernet support yet (it's mentioned in the release notes: http://www.android-x86.org/... ).

Re: How to Install Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) In Virtualbox

ClaudioM — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:50:49 -0000

I hadn't thought of doing it like that. Thanks for the tip. :-)

Re: How to Install Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) In Virtualbox

ClaudioM — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:50:19 -0000

I installed the Eee ISO in VirtualBox 4.1.8 under Windows 7 x64 at work and it installed and ran just fine (sans Ethernet, of course). When prompted for partitioning via cfdisk, I partitioned just as I would do with any Linux distribution, though here it was a simple setup with one swap partition and one ext-based partition for the OS.

Re: Jailbreak Only: Linux - Coming Soon To Your iPhone, iPad

ClaudioM — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:59:39 -0000

It's called choice, and because they can. Once your proprietary OS vendor cuts you off after spending 400-500 bucks on the tablet, you at least have this option available to you (assuming it's made simple for users to install). iDroid is another project that would add another choice with Android as the OS. Plus, you're not limited to what the proprietary OS vendor says you should use your device for (which is what I would call "limited"), unless that's what you really want. As you said, to each his own.

Re: Jailbreak Only: Linux - Coming Soon To Your iPhone, iPad

ClaudioM — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:56:44 -0000

At least for the HP Touchpad, there is an Ubuntu port running on it that does use a soft keyboard, so I imagine it should also work on the iPad if something like Ubuntu were ported to it. Although Wayland would likely become the display server for such a project, another project called Multi-pointer X (or MPX) seems to have been merged into the Xorg project, and that would allow for multitouch gestures on touchscreen devices like the iPad and the Touchpad.

Re: Jailbreak Only: Linux - Coming Soon To Your iPhone, iPad

ClaudioM — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:06:16 -0000

OS X isn't Linux under the hood. It's actually Darwin, a BSD derivative. https://secure.wikimedia.or...

Re: LB - Episode 70 - Google+ or Minus

ClaudioM — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:20:31 -0000

Thanks for the comment, MaTachi, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Still, we'd like to make the audio as pristine as possible for listeners to enjoy. We should be better off for the next one. :-)

Re: LB - Episode 68 - Chad Likes Belts and Lord D Takes a Plop by Linux Basement

ClaudioM — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:42:44 -0000

Stealing from Peter to give to Paul might be a way to generate more revenue for yourself, but it's not going to make you trustworthy or garner you any good reputation amongst your peers. As Chad said, it sounds as though you didn't really listen to the show. There's nothing wrong with a company making money on open source software. I even mentioned how Linux Mint is trying to generate revenue for their project and how I thought that was admirable (despite someone I know saying it was rather underhanded...still not sure why). These projects have to survive in the real world. But the means don't justify the ends, and that's what Canonical does not see (or does not care to see). They aren't the only ones generating revenue (*cough*REDHAT*cough*), but they could be doing it in a way that respects the community that they are a part of, and not like Apple does to open source projects.

Re: Augen GenTouch78 Giveaway

ClaudioM — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:06:13 -0000

I had wanted one of these when they first hit the market, especially at the price point that they arrived. Hopefully this will become a reality if my name gets picked from the list. ;-)

Re: Mozilla launches Firefox 4 web browser for Windows, Mac, Linux

ClaudioM — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:27:24 -0000

I've been playing with the betas and the RCs under Linux and speed was greatly improved with the RCs. Glad to have a version of Firefox that competes toe-to-toe with Chrome and Chromium.