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by gribbly 10y ago
What distro are you on ? As I recall, installing libdvdcss, libdvdnav, libdvdread from the official repos solved that problem and allowed me to painlessly watch dvd's through players like VLC and MPlayer.
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by gribbly 10y ago
That would likely be the only potential obstacle for AV1 when it comes to becoming the 'de facto' standard video codec. The video encoding patents are many, and of course written to be as broad as possible. That said, AV1 will be
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by gribbly 10y ago
That is about the X server, which is not some Linux specific component as it is also used by all the other *nixes as well. There is Wayland which aims to solve these security aspects mentioned in the blog post, it will be shipping by defaul
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by gribbly 10y ago
I agree, but then again the end result is another open source font family available for everyone to use, so I'm not complaining.
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by gribbly 10y ago
Any chance this is available as a pdf ?
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by gribbly 10y ago
Where is this list ?
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by gribbly 10y ago
I'm certain there are more, but here are a few platform native https://github.com/andlabs/ui gtk http://mattn.github.io/go-gtk/ qt https://github.com/therecipe/qt qml h
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by gribbly 10y ago
>It's easy to project hopes into something that doesn't exist yet. But this contender is coming late. I have to disagree, first off, it's not as if we've seen a massive shift over to HEVC, in fact the x265 developers
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by gribbly 10y ago
IIRC Google already use their own fork of webkit, called Blink.
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by gribbly 10y ago
Bryan Catrill says one thing. Danese Cooper who was responsible for drafting the actual license while at Sun says another thing. Obvious business sense stands firmly with Danese, it would be very stupid of Sun to hand over the best technolo
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by gribbly 10y ago
Linux was GPL licensed long before these projects were open-sourced under CDDL, and there are obvious reasons for why Sun at the time would not want to have their technology advantages incorporated into Linux (like it being their main compe
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by gribbly 10y ago
>ZFS, dtrace These are both using a incompatible license (CDDL), they can't be merged into mainline.
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by gribbly 10y ago
>On why Linus doesn't want to integrate it: Where have you read that Linus doesn't want to integrate it ? From the LKML response it sounded as if he wanted more explanation of how it solves certain things.
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by gribbly 10y ago
>Even the least patriotic people generally prefer not to be murdered by terrorists. What exactly in Snowdens leaks would increase the chance of terrorist attacks on the US ?
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by gribbly 10y ago
I've never understood patriotism, what is that make you identify with a piece of the earth's surface which has due to haphazard historical events fallen under a particular governance.
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by gribbly 10y ago
He went there because it was the safest route to Equador, once in Moscow, the US state department cancelled his passport. And just to drive home the dire situation he is in, when rumours were spread of Snowden being aboard the Bolivian pres
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by gribbly 10y ago
AFAIK Paint.NET makes use of .NET functionality only supported on Windows. Beyond that it's closed source, so it would require the Paint.NET developers to port it to Linux. Wine is probably going to be your best bet.
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by gribbly 10y ago
>I imagine you are not old enough to remember the yearly "The year of desktop Linux" on Slashdot. Sure I am, but that meme was (still is?) repeated as a joke, did anyone actually believe it ? >Also in the old days it was fas
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by gribbly 10y ago
Why would increasing the governments right to spy on their on populace protect them from a Russian aggression ?
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by gribbly 10y ago
>I also eventually got bored Not really sure what you mean here, I choose a particular WM setup which best serves my workflow, and that's pretty much it, it's not as if you have to continously tweak your setup. >This is yet
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by gribbly 10y ago
>It will take years and years for Go to achieve LLVM's level of optimization Looking at Rust vs Go over at 'benchmarksgame' (granted these are micro-benchmarks), Go seems to compare very well for tests that are mainly comp
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by gribbly 10y ago
>gccgo is much better. Actually I did a benchmark run not that long ago between Gccgo and Go with the latter winning most of the benchmarks, I believe this mainly has to do with Gccgo lacking escape analysis.
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by gribbly 10y ago
While I certainly agree that it would take time, I'm not so sure of 'decades' needed, I believe the scope of a Rust specific backend would be quite different from that of a everything-but-the-kitchen-sink backend like LLVM. A
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by gribbly 10y ago
Not sure how much is due to this, but LLVM has gotten much slower in recent releases, probably due to improved optimizations. I would not be surprised if down the line, the Rust devs decided to write their own Rust backend rather than relyi
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by gribbly 10y ago
>They were very popular in 3D modeling packages like Lightwave years ago. Actually I can't recall Lightwave ever having NURBS, it was all polygon/subdivision surfaces. Maya has NURBS, and there is NURBS oriented software like R
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by gribbly 10y ago
Well, AFAIK the author of this suggestion, Dmitry Vyukov, is the main architect of Go's runtime scheduling, so I doubt there is anything preventing him from implementing this should he so wish.
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by gribbly 10y ago
>I imagine the idea is to develop Lumina as part of a single-piece OS That makes no sense to me, given that it runs on Linux as well as BSD. From what I've read it relies on Qt, Fluxbox, XScreensaver etc, which are hardly BSD based
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by gribbly 10y ago
>What is the compression time for brotli to achieve compression ratios comparable to LZMA... Compression time is indeed the achilles heel of Brotli, which is why it's something I would only use for compress once (and preferably deco
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by gribbly 10y ago
>Our internal testing shows that it performs very poorly for binary 3D vector data. Uh ? What format of data was this ? I did a pretty large test (2gb+) on OBJ/STL 3d data and brotli compressed within ~5% margin of lzma, and this ho
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by gribbly 10y ago
>The vendors won't do that because there's no stable ABI That only causes problems for vendors who only supplies proprietary drivers, of which there are very few these days (only ones I've personally come across are NVidia

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