Various geeky news!

[Newby]

Apple unveils the new Mac OS X Leapord. What is sad is that they claim it's the new Vista (Vista 2.0 at WWDC), yet it looks the exact same as the previous version. Vista is leaps and bounds ahead of XP in terms of looks and features.

Linus Torvalds is a fan of Visual Basic? Apparently it did more for programming than object-oriented programming did. Heh.

AMD dropping the ATi brand. Now you can brag that your processor is AMD and your graphics card is AMD as well! "omgz my amd radeon x850 xt pro roxx0rz joor nvidia".

Let's just hope they're gonna drop the horrible driver coding habits that ATi had for their graphics card, and will start coding good drivers for Windows and hopefully Linux.

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[Warrior]

Leapord will flop. It has Virtual desktops (*woo*)

[Newby]

The thing about Leapord is that it has nothing innovative or impressive. Hell, they're advertising iChat as one of the features. When you are advertising a chat program in your new OS (I don't even think M$ does that with their "new" Live Messenger) and advertising features that aren't new ("Multiple Personalities", multiple logins for multiple networks has been done (gaim), and setting your status to invisible has been done as well (gaim) (gee, the same product too, cross-platform!)) you're running out of things to advertise as selling points.

[MyndFyre]

LOL, check this out.  I liked the CodingHorror website:


LOLOLOLOL

[deadly7]

LOL, check this out.  I liked the CodingHorror website:


LOLOLOLOL

Dude, that's awesome... I want to know how they did that.

[iago]

While Vista is supposed to be flashy and feature-heavy, whereas Leopard is supposed to be slimmed down and faster.  I posted about that a long time ago. 

[Newby]

Leapord is definitely going about their advertising and campaigning the wrong way then. "Vista 2.0", "look at the widgets!!!", "iChat upgraded", "iCal added more features!" that's all useless crap that just bloats the OS IMO.

[iago]

Marketing people tend to suck, so I'm not surprised

[d&q]

I wish they would let you download the utilities seperately, instead of all of it coming with the OS.

[iago]

I wish they would let you download the utilities seperately, instead of all of it coming with the OS.

I wish Windows would, too, but that's not going to happen.

That's one thing I like about Linux/BSD over everything else -- customized installs. 

[Ergot]

I'm caught in a dilemma... I love AMD but I hate ATi... would an ATi card with AMD written on it still be just an ATi? I really like nVidia... nForce and SLi is pretty cool, pair that with Athlon X2's seems like a dream. arg .

[Sidoh]

I'm caught in a dilemma... I love AMD but I hate ATi... would an ATi card with AMD written on it still be just an ATi? I really like nVidia... nForce and SLi is pretty cool, pair that with Athlon X2's seems like a dream. arg .

I don't think that this means AMD will be any less compatable with nVidia.  When Linksys was bought by Cisco, I noticed a significant improvment in their products, but the ones I'd seen before the change were pretty old... it could have been a coincidence.

[zorm]

I wish they would let you download the utilities seperately, instead of all of it coming with the OS.

Dunno most of the stuff that comes with OSX is the best you can do or atleast from what I've seen. I guess I should rephrase that to be people use it unlike the stuff that ships with Windows which no sane person uses.

But this is just my experience from my school and they made us use IE5 for web development on OSX. It was like a crime against humanity.

[Warrior]

While Vista is supposed to be flashy and feature-heavy, whereas Leopard is supposed to be slimmed down and faster.  I posted about that a long time ago. 

Vista comes in different versions suiting the needs of the user, if you want a feature packed beast you got it. If you want a customized install, Install Home Basic and upgrade to Ultimate later.

Leapord is Mac trying to get some attention, Steve Jobs is a master of getting people hype with less than great features. It's sad when the highlight of WWDC is their Virtual Desktops and "Time Machine".

Hell, this is so bad it might make the programmers at Microsoft relax even more. I'm dissapointed in Leapord, I think SUSE 10 has a better chance against Vista. (Yes, I fell in love with SUSE 10 it's amazing)

Jesus christ.

[Newby]

According to Wired, Steve Jobs wasn't even able to hype the crowd at Leapord successfully. They pitied him and clapped randomly.

SuSE 10 is really nice, actually.