If you want to make linux populair than...

[Skybuck Flying]

... you have to make it do something that the others can't do.

So far Linux has OpenShot Video which is really nice and lacking on windows,
video editing programs on windows are pretty crappy.

Here is my suggestion to make Linux do something that Windows currently
cannot do:

1. Reduce DirectX graphics.

2. Reduce DirectX textures.

3. Introduce other DirectX hacks.

You could for example:

Modify or hack drivers, or alter open source drivers.

So that these pieces of software can do things which Windows might never
otherwise do.

NVIDIA/AMD/INTEL all want to sell expensive/hot computer chips.

Those companies will never allow their drivers or chips to reduce graphics
or reduce textures.

That's why you Linux programmer have to introduce these features.

Then current and future bot users and hackers will flock to your operating
system.

If you want to make Linux attractive for farmers and such.

Make it capable of hacking the graphics of games.

Points, Wireframe models, replaced textures, replaced shaders, etc.

These should all be default capabilities in Linux.

If Linux had that today I would immediatly switch to it.

Unfortunately as far as I know it has nothing like this.

Bye,
Skybuck.

[Jens Stuckelberger]

Post by Skybuck Flying
... you have to make it do something that the others can't do.

I guess you mean "the desktop" - Linux already is wildly popular
in the server side.

I, for one, don't want to make it popular in the desktop. Such as
it is, it already does what I need in the desktop, it does it well and
unobtrusively (I use neither KDE nor Gnome) and, by virtue of the fact
that it is used by a minority, it is mostly left alone by criminals.

That, in my view, is Microsoft's biggest contribution to the
world: An OS riddled with exploitable loopholes, used by the vast
majority of the population who are clueless when it comes to these
issues, which enables the rest to use OSs that are already less prone to
attacks, and less widely attacked - a double benefit. For the sake of
this, I will happily pay the price of, say, not being able to play games
or use Microsoft Word on Linux.

Indeed, I hope Linux will never become popular in the desktop.

[Skybuck Flying]

I have never used Linux that much.

Does it have an update feature like Windows Update ?

Windows being under attack a lot does make it stronger though.

Bye,
Skybuck.

[[e-mail]]

Post by Skybuck Flying
I have never used Linux that much.

So why are you trying to poke holes in it??

Post by Skybuck Flying
Does it have an update feature like Windows Update ?

Yes, it does.

Post by Skybuck Flying
Windows being under attack a lot does make it stronger though.

If it was being made stronger, wouldn't that make it more immune to
attack?? Hasn't help Windows yet!

Post by Skybuck Flying
Bye,
Skybuck.

Daniel

[BGB]

Post by ***@teranews.com

Post by Skybuck Flying
I have never used Linux that much.

So why are you trying to poke holes in it??

can't say about him.

Linux doesn't natively support DirectX anyways, so the original post was
sort of broken.


bigger issues I see:
hit or miss with hardware compatibility sometimes, particularly with
newer higher-end hardware (such as graphics cards), or very obscure
hardware.

cheap/generic hardware seems pretty well supported though.


there are sometimes distro-specific issues with 'ld.so' (or
'dlopen'/'dlsym') and similar, which poses some very big annoyances
(such as an inability to load SO's from arbitrary locations, ...).

Post by ***@teranews.com

Post by Skybuck Flying
Does it have an update feature like Windows Update ?

Yes, it does.

yeah.

the specifics depend some on the distro.
many do it manually or automatically, via graphical tools.

for command-line only, it is generally manual, via tools such as
'apt-get' or 'yum'.

sometimes it is a mess though if one is using 3rd party kernel modules
(or "blobs"), and the update goes and updates the kernel, thus breaking
compatibility.

Post by ***@teranews.com

Post by Skybuck Flying
Windows being under attack a lot does make it stronger though.

If it was being made stronger, wouldn't that make it more immune to
attack?? Hasn't help Windows yet!

Windows security is better now than it was in the past at least.

and, for the most part, does not retain backwards compatibility with
older viruses and exploits (well, except MS Office macro-viruses and
similar...).

[Skybuck Flying]

DirectX support for Linux is being worked on.

Great time to include my desired features :)

Bye,
Skybuck.

[Richard Bos]

Post by Skybuck Flying
Windows being under attack a lot does make it stronger though.

Snigger. Yeah, like an iron railing being exposed to salt water a lot
makes it more resistant to rust...

Richard

[Skybuck Flying]

Post by Skybuck Flying
Windows being under attack a lot does make it stronger though.

"
Snigger. Yeah, like an iron railing being exposed to salt water a lot
makes it more resistant to rust...

Richard
"

No snigger, more like evolution constantly evolving, patching holes,
updating designs, getting strrrrrrongah ! :)

Bye,
Sskybuck.

[Rosario193]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2015 01:21:00 +0100, "Skybuck Flying"

Post by Richard Bos

Post by Skybuck Flying
Windows being under attack a lot does make it stronger though.

"
Snigger. Yeah, like an iron railing being exposed to salt water a lot
makes it more resistant to rust...
Richard
"
No snigger, more like evolution constantly evolving, patching holes,
updating designs, getting strrrrrrongah ! :)
Bye,
Sskybuck.

if someone has seen a bug on sys and not use it and reveal it...
it is possible that bug there is now too

[Rosario193]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 08:04:36 +0100, Rosario193

Post by Rosario193
if someone has seen a bug on sys and not use it and reveal it...
it is possible that bug there is now too

if someone has seen a bug on sys and not use it and not reveal it...
it is possible that bug there is now too

[Rosario193]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 08:08:04 +0100, Rosario193

Post by Rosario193
On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 08:04:36 +0100, Rosario193

Post by Rosario193
if someone has seen a bug on sys and not use it and reveal it...
it is possible that bug there is now too

if someone has seen a bug on sys and not use it and not reveal it...
it is possible that bug there is now too

anyone can write one OS bug free? or can be sure his/her *one* routine
is bug free?