Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:Games. (Score 1) 980

I did say most didn't I. But software that specializes is a different breed, with their platforms depending largely on what their business users are running. If all the businesses in a particular industry are running Windows, then what financial gain is there from making the tool cross platform? None whatsoever ... However, when you move out to more generalized software for the average consumer (i.e. productivity, graphics, entertainment, etc., essentially what the story submitter was originally polling), then the landscape changes. More Mac users means more financial incentive for companies to make their "can't-do-without apps" cross platform.

Amanda 2.5 Released 155

Anonymous Coward writes to tell us that a new release of the popular open source backup tool Amanda is now available fixing many of the limitations of previous versions. From the release: "Overall the focus of the release is on security of the backup process & backed up data, scalability of the backup process and ease of installation & configuration of Amanda."

Comment Re:It's an EPIC change, but what about heat? (Score 1) 329

Umm...OK. I live in Seattle and I think you'd have been better off picking Chicago, Minneapolis or some other American city for your joke. It rarely ever gets below freezing here, and has snowed all of...I believe twice in the city in the last three years. I've seen colder winters and more snow in Texas--literally.

Slashdot Top Deals

She sells cshs by the cshore.

Working...