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pram: Jun 10, 2001

pseudorandom name posted:

yeah, lemme just serialize my graphics operations to a PDF blob and pass that to the display server, said nobody ever

i think someone might consider it if they wanted to build an advanced os

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# ? May 6, 2024 19:46

pseudorandom name: May 6, 2007

I seriously doubt OS X generates, stores or parses a textural PDF command stream anywhere in Core Graphics (except in actual PDF file output), that would be idiotic.

On the other hand Display PostScript literally sent PostScript source code to the X server.

# ? Mar 2, 2015 01:18

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

pseudorandom name posted:

I seriously doubt OS X generates, stores or parses a textural PDF command stream anywhere in Core Graphics (except in actual PDF file output), that would be idiotic.

it doesn't, because that would be idiotic.

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On the other hand Display PostScript literally sent PostScript source code to the X server.

I don't know about the X DPS extension or NeWS, but Display PostScript on NEXTSTEP was a tokenized representation. if you wanted to include PostScript code in your app you had to process it before sending on, kind of like shaders these days.

# ? Mar 2, 2015 01:51

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

steve jorbs

# ? Mar 2, 2015 01:54

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

51 posts, anything good?

# ? Mar 2, 2015 02:00

pram: Jun 10, 2001

absolutely

# ? Mar 2, 2015 02:01

MrMoo: Sep 14, 2000

BobHoward posted:

would you get rid of silly wrappers if the linux driver api and abi were stable? no. would you get rid of massive user pain? yup.

AMD needs a lot more than a stable kernel ABI to make their drivers not poo poo.

# ? Mar 2, 2015 02:04

Soricidus: Oct 21, 2010; freedom-hating statist shill

SYSV Fanfic posted:

51 posts, anything good?

what does your heart tell you

# ? Mar 2, 2015 02:04

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

30 posts were from NBSD.

I can reminisce about the bad old days too.

I remember when I popped my linux cherry. I was 16 and had saved up mad stacks to build my own PC. Didn't budget for windows, so I bought mandrake linux because it was $20 at wal-mart. Later that day I learned about hardware compatibility by going to comp usa to buy a whitebox ethernet adapter. It wasn't even fast. That evening consisted of applying a kernel patch so the driver for my sound card would load.

I really knew nothing about linux. All I had seen was a picture on a box that was $30 cheaper than the box marked red hat. poo poo was off my computer as soon as a friend's dad took pity on me and gave me an unused win 98 cd from his work.

In college that changed when I got sucked into a cult that resided in a basement and worshiped RMS. We would get together and watch Revolution OS in the morning and at night before reciting the GPL and auditing each other for license violations.

# ? Mar 2, 2015 02:37

pram: Jun 10, 2001

lol

# ? Mar 2, 2015 02:40

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

pram posted:

lol

The lol was that I thought Linux would ever be used on the desktop by anyone normal.

# ? Mar 2, 2015 02:58

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

Guess we all believestupid poo poo when were young.

# ? Mar 2, 2015 02:59

Phoenixan: Jan 16, 2010; Just Keep Cool-idge

my first linux was that ubuntu cd with the smiling people on it

# ? Mar 2, 2015 03:07

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

The best lol from that was telling my friends that my k6-3 was faster than their pentiums*

*(on certain MS Office benchmarks)

# ? Mar 2, 2015 03:10

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

Phoenixan posted:

my first linux was that ubuntu cd with the smiling people on it

did u ever wonder why they were smiling?

# ? Mar 2, 2015 03:11

Forums Terrorist: Dec 8, 2011

Phoenixan posted:

my first linux was that ubuntu cd with the smiling people on it

mine was i think lindows

# ? Mar 2, 2015 03:18

pram: Jun 10, 2001

my first linux was slackware and then i moved to crux because it wasnt adequately sadistic

# ? Mar 2, 2015 03:19

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

SYSV Fanfic posted:

30 posts were from NBSD.

I can reminisce about the bad old days too.

I remember when I popped my linux cherry. I was 16 and had saved up mad stacks to build my own PC. Didn't budget for windows, so I bought mandrake linux because it was $20 at wal-mart. Later that day I learned about hardware compatibility by going to comp usa to buy a whitebox ethernet adapter. It wasn't even fast. That evening consisted of applying a kernel patch so the driver for my sound card would load.

I really knew nothing about linux. All I had seen was a picture on a box that was $30 cheaper than the box marked red hat. poo poo was off my computer as soon as a friend's dad took pity on me and gave me an unused win 98 cd from his work.

In college that changed when I got sucked into a cult that resided in a basement and worshiped RMS. We would get together and watch Revolution OS in the morning and at night before reciting the GPL and auditing each other for license violations.

lol

# ? Mar 2, 2015 03:21

Maximum Leader: Dec 5, 2014

i have literally never ever paid for windows, nor do i know anyone who has
why would anyone do such a thing

# ? Mar 2, 2015 03:40

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

Maximum Leader posted:

i have literally never ever paid for windows, nor do i know anyone who has
why would anyone do such a thing

lol if you bothered with getting an oem refund for your laptops.

# ? Mar 2, 2015 03:57

pram: Jun 10, 2001

i have purchased osx many times, and i would gladly do it again too. if it wasnt truly free, like freedom

# ? Mar 2, 2015 03:59

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

Maximum Leader posted:

i have literally never ever paid for windows, nor do i know anyone who has
why would anyone do such a thing

I bought windows 7 home at best buy

# ? Mar 2, 2015 04:52

Phoenixan: Jan 16, 2010; Just Keep Cool-idge

i bought 2 copies of win7 on newegg what seems like ages ago now

i later on sold one to a coworker who wanted to bootcamp their mac

# ? Mar 2, 2015 04:56

Maximum Leader: Dec 5, 2014

Smythe posted:

I bought windows 7 home at best buy

if anyone ask u : deny, deny, deny, deny. there is no proof, ur safe pal

# ? Mar 2, 2015 05:09

Phoenixan: Jan 16, 2010; Just Keep Cool-idge

best buy? more like WORST BUY

# ? Mar 2, 2015 05:18

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

best buy: amazon.com's IRL showroom

# ? Mar 2, 2015 05:30

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

SYSV Fanfic posted:

The lol was that I thought Linux would ever be used on the desktop by anyone normal.

i never thought this

my goal for linux on the desktop is that it remains usable for, and used by, people who work with linux in other contexts

it is horrible to walk into a room at a linux conference and see a field of osx and evernote windows

# ? Mar 2, 2015 05:32

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

it is horrible to walk into a room at a linux conference

also: SLS was a great distribution, along with whoever's boot/root

# ? Mar 2, 2015 05:51

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Subjunctive posted:

also: SLS was a great distribution, along with whoever's boot/root

tom's root/boot owned

# ? Mar 2, 2015 06:03

Cocoa Crispies: Jul 20, 2001; Vehicular Manslaughter!; Pillbug

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

it is horrible to walk into a room at a linux conference and see a field of osx and evernote windows

so fix wifi and power management already

# ? Mar 2, 2015 06:11

BobHoward: Feb 13, 2012; The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull

Phoenixan posted:

my first linux was that ubuntu cd with the smiling people on it

my first linux was a beautiful disaster cobbled together by crazy australians for mid-1990s powermacs. not mklinux tho, it was the early mainline kernel port. it was everything you might imagine it was, and worse.

i was young and stupid and actually thought it was great fun getting it working, but in retrospect it clearly planted the seeds of bitter linux cynicism which flowered in older-me

# ? Mar 2, 2015 06:14

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

eschaton posted:

somebody needs to re-read The X-Windows Disaster

not related but found this on the same site:

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/nevrstep/blow-jobs.html

quote:

Blow Jobs

Sorry, but an obsolete version of Unix isn't going to save Apple.

ahahahahahahahahah oh god i'm dying

e: in before "it didn't, steve jobs did"

yeah, but it's still funny okay

# ? Mar 2, 2015 06:51

ahmeni: May 1, 2005; It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.; Grimey Drawer

my first Linux was Gentoo and it owned

# ? Mar 2, 2015 07:12

Flat Daddy: Dec 3, 2014; by Nyc_Tattoo

ahmeni posted:

my first Linux was Gentoo and it owned

# ? Mar 2, 2015 07:17

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE: Aug 1, 2004; whoa, what just happened here?; College Slice

carry on then posted:

not related but found this on the same site:

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/nevrstep/blow-jobs.html

ahahahahahahahahah oh god i'm dying

e: in before "it didn't, steve jobs did"

yeah, but it's still funny okay

the ipod saved apple

the verdict is probably still out on os x

# ? Mar 2, 2015 08:52