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| DATE | 2004-09-04 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Re: Advocacy vs. Zealotry vs. Who Cares?!?
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On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 01:04:41PM -0400, Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote:
> > > > It also has a camera that's
> > > > useless on Linux, and an internal Bluetooth adapter that's useless on
> > > > Linux (I think there's hope for that if I wanted to really work on it,
> > > > though).
> > >
> > > >The external display connector which I depend on for getting
> > > > real work done doesn't work on Linux except as a 1024x768 mirror of the
> > > > laptop screen (on Windows I can use it as a 1600x1200 desktop
> > > > extension).
> > >
> > > You can probibly use X in VESA setting. That's exactly what my sony did.
> > > I got the Xcongireation file from Emperorer Linux
> >
> > No. This is different.. Your picturebook was a Neomagic chip, right?
>
> It's not neomagic, but I called them up for a XConfig file for the
> external and it was a VESA driver. I'll look at it a bit later and
> tell you. It's not on the network at the moment.
>
> >
> > It's pretty easy on Windows.
> >
>
> And SUSe :)
>
> > > > I'm tired of struggling all weekend to get stuff like
> > > > that to work.
> > >
> > > Thats another issue, but at least you only need to do that once.
> >
> > No, this is EXACTLY THIS ISSUE!
> >
>
> Hey, I can understnad getting tired of treaking the system for a damn laptop.
> That's why I brought my laptop from Emperor, and paid them to do it :)
>
>
>
> > > > So what I'm doing is running Gentoo on colinux on WindowsXP Pro, with
> > > > lots of help from Cygwin (especially its ssh and X server). WindowsXP
> > > > handles all of the hardware, and Gentoo does all of my real work.
> > >
> > > I've been using that stuff lately at work and it so sucks, although it is
> > > much better than ity used to. Their X Server is much improved.
> >
> > Well, pure Linux sucks a lot worse on this laptop.
> >
> > > > If you don't know about colinux, it's a usermode Linux kernel running as
> > > > a windows process.
> > >
> > > Windows doesn't have processes. It must run as a Windows Thread.
> >
> > Ok, why the fuck did you clip my URL to the msdn site
> > defining the "Processes and Threads" API?
>
> Hey be Nice :)
>
> I didn't clip it purposefully.
>
> I've make you feel better and look at it. You look at the papers
> on cross compiling and porting GTK
I'll look at any link you provide.
I'm anxious to understand your argument.
> > > And apps crash alot.
> >
> > No they don't!
>
> Yes they do!
No they don't ... infinity!
> Xchat crashes when I just click on a button their X, Mozilla dies
> whenever it looks for a plugin, the gimp dies on filters, gvim dies on the
> make button etc etc etc ....
Are you talking about Cygwin or colinux?
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