And in what way were these different? I can't speak for the Atari, but the Amiga OS definately contained the interface components, the library was called "Intuition" if you don't remember. And there are lots of benefits in having common implementations and thus interpretations of the desktop metaphor. Of course, in the linux world it might have gone a bit out of control - a good thing with standards is that there are so many to choose from. :p
Regards,
Fredrik Bergholtz
Thankyou everyone, You made me realized that Linux is not an alternative. It's too much complicated for a lazy guy like me.
Id' rather give 400$ to Microsoft.
An operating is supposed to:
-Manage Drivers and Hardware
-Manage Files on Disk
-Manage cpu task and memory
Only that and nothing else. It's simple. No update needed every years. No SUPER User Interface Tool and services.
Each software should do It's own interface like the good old time.
The OS should be totally invisible all the time, only the software are important. Nothing else.
The videogame console model is perfect, you never see any operating system behind.
Instead we are stuck with Windows, MacOSX, Linux : They all fail to deliver the basic needs.
The amiga workbench and the os of the AtariST were just fine.
The star is not the Operating system but the application you start with them.
Note : With operating system managing the user interface of all applications, All the User Interface of all software look the same, so sad.
Jean-Sebastien Perron
De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] De la part de Russell Jones
Envoyé : Thursday, September 21, 2006 8:20 PM
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Objet : Re: What is the best LINUX distribution would you recommand for realsoft?
This is why Linux is not yet embraced by the mainstream: Large differences in supported features, hardware, etc. I'm surprised the Linux community hasn't established a minimum Linux standard that software manufacturers can write for...or maybe they have but no one knows about it? Something along the lines of MSX for the PC, which, although failed miserably to gain a user base (at least in the US), at least offered a 'minimum standard' for software companies to write for.
I'd like to see Linux succeed, but they have to do much better than they are.
Russell
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From: Marc Michael
To: ShaddamIV
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: What is the best LINUX distribution would you recommand for realsoft?
Hallo ShaddamIV,
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What is the best LINUX distribution would you recommand for realsoft?
Jean-Sebastien Perron
I have installed Realsoft3D on SuSE and Debian. At work I've installed Ubuntu. Ubuntu is based on Debian. Ubuntu is focussed on the graphical desktop user. Very easy to install. You insert the CD, boot into the live system, play around and then simply choose from the menu "Install on HD". Nice thing.
In my experience Realsoft3D doesn't need special features of the distribution. So, all Linux Distributions should work. There are three things which needs further investment. First is the GUI library. RS3D need the original Motif-Libs. As I installed it on a Debian Box, I simply copied the binary lib from a SuSE Box. It simply works. An important point is the window manager. RS3D uses extremely the left Alt-Key. But under X11, the left Alt-Key is traditionaly used for manipulating windows. I use BlackBox. BlackBox has the nice feature that I can simply press the Scroll-Lock-Key and the left Alt-Key will be directly routed to the application. That's a nice feature. Another point is the hardware-acceleration of OpenGL. There I have no experience. Ati and Nvidia provide more or less closes source driver for their cards. As I've heard, it's not so hard to install an Nvidia-Card.
The best advise on which Linux-Distribution you should use is simply: Use the distribution your friend uses. ;-)
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Viele Grüße,
Yogi Marc Michael
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