Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 26th Jul 2006 08:38 UTC
In the Linux land 99% of the applications are open source. It is part of the nature of the GNU/Linux community ecosystem to endorse open software. But there are a few applications that are not open and as they fill up a niche, they are pretty popular. Come in and vote for your favorite.
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2005-09-10
Is Desktop eyecandy really that important to everyone?
Its not just eye candy. There are many FOSS OpenGL games that cleary benefits from good OpenGL acceleration (jDoom, neverball, planet penguin racer [former tuxracer], cube, the patched SEGA genesis emulator generator-gtk comes to mind) and a pile of commercial ones (UT2004, Quake3/4, Neverwinter Nights, X2, Darwinia...).
Moreover, the multiple-screen extensions, HDTV resolutions or on-the-fly switching between different screen configurations are nice and progressing, sort of (these things are somewhat broken in different ways and combinations in each binary release from both companies as far as I know - try setting up a 1080i modeline with a 6200 card the latest nvidia driver and you'll [not] see).
I use my operating systems to get real work done.
Me too. About 8-9 hours a day. But I also use GNU/Linux for desktop/games machine and HDTV multimedia machine at home as well, so I need more than a database, text editor, ftp and lynx for my computing. I can see no reason not to expect or aim for this functionality when using FOSS.
That said, I think most of us FOSS buffs would benefit a lot from community driver improvements if the driver sources were released...