I think there’s some misunderstanding here. Several points: For FC4 specifically, there are some hard limits on the size of Core. So lots of stuff had to be moved to Extras — including many things besides AbiWord and Gnumeric — for practical reasons. This is just reality, and I don’t think it’s fair or reasonable […]
One of the more annoying properties of the Internet is that no matter what you post to your blog (or mailing list, or chat) people add comments like: “that isn’t new, the Amiga had it in 1987” or “that isn’t new, we did that with punch cards in 1953” or “Longhorn has that already” or […]
Jeff, the thing to remember about terminal performance is that you can trade off update rate with throughput to your heart’s content. That is, to make a really fast terminal, never update the screen until the child process stops outputting. To make a really slow terminal, update the screen every time the child process outputs […]
Two simpler approaches to the theme thing: Like OS X, just scrap the idea of themes and hardcode an application-specific design into each app. Limit the problem to layout. So have a layout widget that looks up the layout of an entire window from resource files, and allow themes to intercept the lookup to modify […]
What an exhausting week; XDevConf last weekend, LWE, then FUDCon. Really enjoyed FUDCon today, I thought it went really well. Big thanks to the organizers. We also had a very productive meeting yesterday with some of the major external contributors and some Red Hat people; decisions were reached and action items assigned on a variety […]
Dan Williams posted a comprehensive (and prioritized) summary of kernel fixes needed to make desktop wireless support work well. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2005–01.html#26.2)
From Planet Classpath, Andrew Overholt jumps on the flash demo bandwagon showing 100% open source Eclipse from Fedora Core 4 Rawhide. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2005–01.html#26)
I’m sure everyone else already talked about this but I was just watching the Daily Show from yesterday, and they had a screenshot of Gnomine as a news graphic. Apparently from ancient Red Hat, the one with the Red Hat logo in the window titlebars, not sure if that was in 7.x or all the […]
Miguel, I’m not sure interested is the right word in the context of that 94-page document. 😉 For years here is my mental model of floating point: To test numeric equality don’t use the == operator If I ever write any numeric code, learn a lot more So recently I changed Havoc’s Floating Point Fact […]
Elijah, I think you may be even more screwed than you think. I recently went through some pain because I assumed that “a == b” would do a bitwise comparison of two doubles a and b. It turns out that this isn’t true, and I bet that even if the compiler doesn’t drop the i […]