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PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE.....GROUP PROJECT?
voidmain:
I don't want to run Win apps under Linux. I would rather have those apps ported to linux and run them natively. Send mail to the vendors. They do read them and I find most of them are on the fence with it. The more requests they get the more likely they are to port. But then I would rather use an open source app if at all possible.
Sleeping Dog:
VoidMain...You good kind soul...We all AGREE with your sentiment. That is the purpose of this project.
If we can SHOW DEFINATIVELY that intelligent people are willing to exert REAL EFFORT to run Win versions of apps under LINUX because LINUX is faster, friendlier and more stable, then maybe the goobers who control the development bucks at some of the software companies like Adobe and AutoDesk will loosen the pursestrings a little and start porting this stuff to LINUX for their own good and ours too.
(Sorry for the long sentence. My high school English teacher would have pulled out her whip after reading that one.)
Again....the intent of this experiment....make Win versions of Pro software run fast and clean under LINUX.
If this really works good....we can send the info out and have even more people transitioning their OS to LINUX that much sooner. Do you see now?
This project for all of us is just a micro-step toward changing the world. At least it is a step in a positive direction.
Keep the faith, Amigo.
Sleeping Dog
Sleeping Dog:
Just a thought about how hard drives work (and you folks probably know this already.)
The fastest access to any data on a HD will be what gets written first on the outer edges of the plates. Needless to say, we probably want the boot sector on the outer edge....or do we? If it is small....between 15 and 50 as some have suggested, then the time necessary for the RW heads to move to the INSIDE of the platter becomes a minor consideration during boot. After that, the major functions of the OS and BIOS are cashed in the RAM so it should not be a killer slow down during the functioning of the app that we are running.....or will it?
Should the swap area designated for a swap-intensive application like PhotoShop be placed on the outer (fastest) edges of the HD? On a hardware speed level, I would say YES....but there is so much that I don't know about how LINUX really works that I totally leave this question for you folks to answer.
This is beginning to feel like what we used to do tuning a small displacement race-car engine.
Sleeping Dog
Sleeping Dog:
PS
choasmaster I apologise for mis-typing your name earlier in the thread.
I looked at it and saw chaos...master and thought " Wow....cool name"
See what I get for being dislectic....
What does Choas mean? I am culturally illeterate and need to be educated about these things so that I don't offend people. Please let me know....usually when I have a "leg-up" it's because I have my own foot in my mouth.
Be kind to Old People - they now have all of the money.
Sleeping Dog
choasmaster:
ahh, thats ok,
the story behind the name, involve's chaos/*with the a first*/ in action that me being a touch typist at over 60 words a minute UNCORRECTED. i happend to think up of chaosforages and went to reqister it on aim. but i misplace the a with the o. infact, i used to be choasforages on this board too, untill my passwd screwed up and wouldn't let me log back on. im trying to get the webmaster to help sort this out.
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