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computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP
microsoft then tried to bring this to consoles

it did not work as expected

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The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

pseudorandom name posted:

Valve is basically uninvolved. Less involved than Google, even, now that Vulkan is the replacement 3D API for Android.

they've been sponsoring lunarg to build the reference intel linux driver, the the api loader, the cross-platform debugger and the lunarxchange support site.

basically it's thanks to valve that vulkan will have good tools and support from day 1.

Korean Boomhauer
Sep 4, 2008

prefect posted:

it was like buying porno tapes from an adult store; racks and shelves of these boxes that were way bigger than their contents, decorated with pictures that did not accurately represent the contents and text that did not accurately describe the product

now you can buy pornos on steam http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Visual%20Novel/#p=0&tab=NewReleases

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

steamos ships with ancient nvidia drivers for some reason

all the games they tested are ancient tho so its fine. the problem is opengl blows and Linux blows.

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

celeron 300a posted:

There is too much institutional knowledge and infrastructure to support windows game development that seriously planning otherwise would be a waste of time. Literally it would take decades to erode the ecosystem to a point where new devs stop considering windows as a candidate platform to learn the craft and tool makers stop optimizing for windows.

If they are going to make a new push for more revenue from gaming, it will be for phones.

I think Valve is just hedging their bets and making sure that OpenGL has a place on the consumer desktop, particularly the Vulkan API. Apple is already trying to build out their new graphics API so I doubt they're seriously going to keep OpenGL up to date and optimized on their platform.

windows is the primary development platform for all games so it would make no sense to ever not deliver windows versions of your games.

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast

i see and raise you a

Symbolic Butt
Mar 22, 2009

(_!_)
Buglord
I'm Patrick Volkerding's autograph

mike12345
Jul 14, 2008

"Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."





I remember buying a SuSE distro with 5 cds and a big manual. That app were the eyes follow your mouse pointer really mesmerized me.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

lol if you didn't start with zip slack on umsdos

nosl
Jan 17, 2015

CHIM, bitch!

pram posted:

what is the point of steam os now that windows 8 and the windows app store are dead

I think to get people on their autist 'I still like games but LINUCKZ IS SO MCH BTTAR THN WIND0ze GUYZ' phase to keep buying games before eating a few bad ports and realizing that 99% of videogames are bad.

Jerry Bindle
May 16, 2003

nosl posted:

videogames are bad.

i forget this every once in a while and end up playing a video game. i like the ones where you just press a button on a box and then the video game pops up.

Sapozhnik
Jan 2, 2005

Nap Ghost

Barnyard Protein posted:

i forget this every once in a while and end up playing a video game. i like the ones where you just press a button on a box and then there's a mandatory 1.4GB firmware patch to download and then you install that and you have to reboot your gaming device which is totally not lame like a computer with all those updates and viruses and stuff and wait for it to apply and then you have to navigate past the link to the store where you can spend your money!! to the menu option where you actually play the game on your gaming device as intended and then you get a bunch of unskippable publisher and developer logo screens because muh ~*magical brand engagement experience*~ and then there's a title screen that just says "Press Start" and then it has to connect to the ShitBird Games(R) Cool Kids Club server and then load some more poo poo because we certainly couldn't have done that before the title screen and then the video game pops up

CPColin
Sep 9, 2003

Big ol' smile.

pseudorandom name posted:

lol if you didn't start with zip slack on umsdos

:respek:

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge

mike12345 posted:

I remember buying a SuSE distro with 5 cds and a big manual. That app were the eyes follow your mouse pointer really mesmerized me.

Jerry Bindle
May 16, 2003

lol

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE
Aug 1, 2004

whoa, what just happened here?







College Slice

lava sequel looking good

Wild EEPROM
Jul 29, 2011


oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.
remember even you coul order Ubuntu CDs and they would mail you a hundred at a time

ahmeni
May 1, 2005

It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.
Grimey Drawer

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE
Aug 1, 2004

whoa, what just happened here?







College Slice

now make the eyes follow the bike

ahmeni
May 1, 2005

It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.
Grimey Drawer

broken clock opsec posted:

now make the eyes follow the bike

it only does it when i has focus in osx so nope

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Shaggar posted:

all the games they tested are ancient tho so its fine. the problem is opengl blows and Linux blows.

all old graphics apis are raging dumpster fires. the dx drivers just have more people trying to keep the fire under control.

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

The_Franz posted:

all old graphics apis are raging dumpster fires. the dx drivers just have more people trying to roast marshmallows

Marsol0
Jun 6, 2004
No avatar. I just saved you some load time. You're welcome.

floppyless

Jerry Bindle
May 16, 2003
i never have a floppy when i install linux iykwim :mmmhmm:

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder
who is that signature? i can't read cursive

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

who is that signature? i can't read cursive

it's the literal next post lmarfo

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009

My first linux was a Slackware 1.2.13 on an 80mb partition in a 486dx66.

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge
lol

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb

ahmeni posted:

it only does it when i has focus in osx so nope

Wow thanks Steve, xeyes works great on Fedora 22

trilljester
Dec 7, 2004

The People's Tight End.
Can you still get Slackware 1.0?

moonshine is......
Feb 21, 2007

my first linux was slackware that i got from a used bookstore. then some really difficult to setup thing on an old 90's imac. powerpc linux or something crazy like that, i want to say mandrake? but who knows.

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
I just got rid of my fedora Linux ppc install discs :rip:

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
hm I wonder if I still have that boxed copy of Corel Linux, it would make a good yosmas present

BobHoward
Feb 13, 2012

The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull

moonshine is...... posted:

my first linux was slackware that i got from a used bookstore. then some really difficult to setup thing on an old 90's imac. powerpc linux or something crazy like that, i want to say mandrake? but who knows.

probably yellow dog linux since that was the main distribution targeted at powerpc and powermacs, although other options were available. it was basically "red hate, but ported to ppc" and it's lasting contribution back to mainstream red hate was the yum tool

before ydl was a thing, linux on powermac had two options iirc. one was mklinux, a weird linux/mach hybrid kernel with standard userland. the other was downloading shitloads of files by hand and hacking poo poo and getting kernels from paul mackerras (aussie dude who led the port to ppc). fun times, better be ready to submit kernel patches if you want it to not crash on your machine

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?
MkLinux was cool, I have the book on the shelf in my office next to the OpenDoc and Cyberdog books

you could run it as either a colocated kernel with Mach and Linux both in the kernel address space, or with Linux as a separate task and a peer to user processes

running them colocated added about 10% overhead because every Linux syscall became a mach_msg

that's pretty close to what CMU found when they did the same thing using BSD almost a decade previously

and that's why pretty much every system built on Mach makes the microkernel and kernel coresident: you still get all the other Mach advantages, without the performance hit that nBSD mistakenly thinks every Mach-based system takes

Sapozhnik
Jan 2, 2005

Nap Ghost
all those other advantages of microkernels such as

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE
Aug 1, 2004

whoa, what just happened here?







College Slice

Mr Dog posted:

all those other advantages of microkernels such as

we hold these truths to be self evident,

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Mr Dog posted:

all those other advantages of microkernels such as

decent in-kernel IPC beyond what UNIX domain sockets afford, including an extensible port namespace, flexible privileges under the service's control, zero-copy sends, and on-demand execution

real kernel threads at a time lots of systems still required entirely user-level threads packages (including Linux, with its hilariously awful "clone a whole process to make a thread" scheme that combined the worst of user-level and kernel threads into one steaming pile)

a very flexible abstraction for memory objects used not just for zero-copy mapping but also useful for things like, say, a window server that needs to safely share memory with an I/O device and client applications

the ability to use IPC and threads and dynamic memory allocation in-kernel, which will let you push some functionality to user level while still maintaining a syscall interface to them for clients (for example, directory services, security management, file systems, device drivers)

Sapozhnik
Jan 2, 2005

Nap Ghost

eschaton posted:

decent in-kernel IPC beyond what UNIX domain sockets afford, including an extensible port namespace, flexible privileges under the service's control, zero-copy sends, and on-demand execution

kdbus

quote:

real kernel threads at a time lots of systems still required entirely user-level threads packages (including Linux, with its hilariously awful "clone a whole process to make a thread" scheme that combined the worst of user-level and kernel threads into one steaming pile)

any mainstream kernel from 2001 onwards

quote:

a very flexible abstraction for memory objects used not just for zero-copy mapping but also useful for things like, say, a window server that needs to safely share memory with an I/O device and client applications

memfd, dma-buf

quote:

the ability to use IPC and threads and dynamic memory allocation in-kernel, which will let you push some functionality to user level while still maintaining a syscall interface to them for clients (for example, directory services, security management, file systems, device drivers)

this paragraph is incoherent. one does not follow from the other.

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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE
Aug 1, 2004

whoa, what just happened here?







College Slice

don't tread on me, man

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