Comment Re:0.6? Are you serious? (Score 1) 229
Even if it had been released as 1.0 it would still be as useless and irrelevant as it is at 0.6. Hurd users can likely be counted on a single hand at this point in time.
Even if it had been released as 1.0 it would still be as useless and irrelevant as it is at 0.6. Hurd users can likely be counted on a single hand at this point in time.
USB support only a few years ago? And there are people who expect Hurd to be taken seriously? Mind boggling...
So its user base has doubled? Amazing!
Yes, hence why it said the owner of the company not the inventor.
The summary didn't say the inventor of the Segway but the owner of the company.
The summary didn't say the inventor of the Segway. It said the owner of the company. If you're going to try to be pedantic at least have an elementary school level of reading comprehension.
No, it wouldn't. This guy is completely delusional to think that Valve has any significant impact on what GPU someone buys.
Valve basically owns PC gaming marketshare.
Which is only around a couple of percent of all PC users. Translated to Linux that's a fraction of a fraction of one percent. And Nvidia's highest margin customers are those who buy their workstation and GPGPU cards.
They literally have more power than any other company, without exception, when it comes to mindshare of people who actually BUY PC games and games hardware.
The flaw in your logic is that you think that PC gamers are the reason Nvidia makes a Linux driver. It isn't and never has been. Consumers are supported by the fact that Nvidia shares source code between their drivers, but were not the prime motivation. As I said previously, Nvidia made their *nix driver for commercial and GPGPU computing customers.
Valve needs to use their clout
What clout? Is Valve some sort of major customer of Nvidia GPUs? Valve has no clout over Nvidia.
With Valve pushing for Linux gaming, they need to apply some inside pressure on AMD/Nvidia to make their shit work at 100% with Linux.
Nvidia's drivers do work 100% with Linux.
Since we know neither company is willing to do the work themselves, that means they need to release full documentation so the FOSS people can develop/maintain proper Linux support.
They don't need to do any such thing. Their important *nix customers are people doing CAD, rendering work or GPU computing not the tiny fraction of people playing games.
That sounds like they are doing you a favor. Java web plugin is an insecure pile of shit.
To add your claim that XNU does not follow any microkernel rules is simply false. XNU uses microkernel-style message passing.
Yep, XNU is a hybrid kernel. It has microkernel parts and monolithic kernel parts.
XNU contains thousands upon thousands of lines of assembly code for both x86 and ARM. Being a microkernel does not preclude the presence of assembly code
The only way to truly understand C code is to read the disassembly. Otherwise you are only assuming what the compiler is emitting.
You think this is all being created in order to save you money? You're joking, right?
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