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    Posted: 18 January 2009 at 5:11pm
Originally posted by El Cheapo El Cheapo wrote:

Lev, what did you do at uni? Surely assembler/machine code or whatever is not tought now? Was it AI by any chance? You lost me on the signal handling/MINIX, but I'll stay lostEmbarrassed


Think the question should be what didnt I do at Uni.. LOL

It was a Computer Systems Technology Degree, which basically means Computer Science, but with bias towards Operating System theory & Systems Programming/hardware, instead of application programming.

Was lovley coming out of UNI, with 4 years SunOS/Solaris Experience. LOL
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Lev, what did you do at uni? Surely assembler/machine code or whatever is not tought now? Was it AI by any chance? You lost me on the signal handling/MINIX, but I'll stay lostEmbarrassed
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Originally posted by cravings cravings wrote:

i have a sparcstation here... heh.. it's not up to much though heh.


That was back when Investment Banks still had enough money to put a Sparcstation and a PC on each Senior UNIX developer's desk. LOL
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Originally posted by nickyburnell nickyburnell wrote:

0ooh, you've been aroundLOL


You better believe it mate, my final year at uni, had me writing assemblers, and extending  signal handling in MINIX kernel for coursework.

No, I wont explain what that all means. Wink
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Originally posted by levyte357 levyte357 wrote:

Originally posted by cravings cravings wrote:

yeah games stops a lot of people. i don't play any games. makes me slightly sad when people blame linux systems, when it's the game companies who make their stuff work on limited platforms. i dont' really know anything about game development though tbh.


Its all about financial viability.

Unix/Linux folk tend to want software they either download and run, or download and compile.  Its usually only Corp setups that will spend thousands on maintenance contracts, and licensing fees.

So it is with games. Not many Unix folk will pay top dollar for games, unlike PC/PlayBox users.

So Unix/Linux only ends up with few ports by someof the really strong players.

However, 10 years ago it was unbelievable, playing network quake on a Sparcstation under X, and finding out, all the levels of the PC full game CD worked on the Sun box, just by copying them off. Big smile

 
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i have a sparcstation here... heh.. it's not up to much though heh.
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Originally posted by cravings cravings wrote:

yeah games stops a lot of people. i don't play any games. makes me slightly sad when people blame linux systems, when it's the game companies who make their stuff work on limited platforms. i dont' really know anything about game development though tbh.


Its all about financial viability.

Unix/Linux folk tend to want software they either download and run, or download and compile.  Its usually only Corp setups that will spend thousands on maintenance contracts, and licensing fees.

So it is with games. Not many Unix folk will pay top dollar for games, unlike PC/PlayBox users.

So Unix/Linux only ends up with few ports by someof the really strong players.

However, 10 years ago it was unbelievable, playing network quake on a Sparcstation under X, and finding out, all the levels of the PC full game CD worked on the Sun box, just by copying them off. Big smile



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yeah games stops a lot of people. i don't play any games. makes me slightly sad when people blame linux systems, when it's the game companies who make their stuff work on limited platforms. i dont' really know anything about game development though tbh.
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If I didn't ever want to play games on my PC I would have switched ages ago. As it happens I just dual boot these days.
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yeah.. if you can get your head around the concept of other software, and indeed.. other ways of things working, and if you enjoy the process of using computers.. it's interesting. tbh i think it's almost harder for a windows "power user" to move over.. you think you know a good bit about computers.. it can be hard to accept that you don't, and you've just learned your way around windows.

what's great is the amount of choice there is in ways of doing things, but even working out what all your options are can take time. how i run my computer wouldn't suit everyone, but i wouldn't want it to put anyone off either.

as is often said.. ubuntu is a good one to start with, or to look at. download and burn a live cd.. and you can boot it and play about in the enivronment without installing it / changing anything about your existing setup.
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Linux is the best option if you want a machine to sit in the corner and just do stuff all day/week/year.  Any kind of server type stuff and it's great.

For use on a desktop that depends what you want to do.  If you just want to browse the internet and basic office stuff you'll be fine.  It's a reasonable learning curve if you're not used to it because you'll have to find new applications for a lot of the stuff you want to do.

I keep meaning to change to Linux because Windows annoys me but it's quite a big step to use it on your desktop all the time.
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Base Unit, Box with all the gubbins in, thing that sits by you feet...etc etc.
 
I have acquired 2 of these boxes from my wifes closing office.
Both hp, core 2 with xp which is locked and cause the IT blokes been made redundant, we can't unlock them. So i have wiped the hd's and put linux on them.
 
Only problem is i aint getting on with linux.
 
So i have downloaded the beta Windows 7 to try on one of them.
 
And it does work, quite well i must add.
 
I was just looking for some feedback on why i should bother with linux.?
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