Mastercam on Linux

[Allan]

Good video on PC vs Mac Vs Linux

 

 

Allan

[neurosis]

I dont vilify Bill Gates. I do however vilify MS for letting a severe exploit go unpatched for several days or even weeks in a row.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/...ory/961051.mspx

[Mjölnir]

Here's a good video on the fate of Microsoft. Enjoy!

 

http://force.power-net.org/swf/kimble_themovie.swf

[Mjölnir]

quote:

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Maybe 5 years from now Mac will more mainstream.

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If Microsoft's next release of Windows is as "succesful" as Vista has been so far ::chortle::, that may not be as far fetched as it sounds today. We'll see.

[Rob @ Target Machine]

I like the southpark mac-ms-linux clip. Good stuff.

 

Kind of missed on the games dig. There's a Gamer distro out there, as well as a Studio distro.

 

Eventually all OS's would find themselves on even ground.

Bill Gates just had a head start, and a lot of money to delay the inevitable. After all, how much more can an OS do anyway?

 

I won't lose hope for linux just yet...

 

But for now.....

 

Hurry up Mac - I know you can do it.

 

 

http://live.linux-gamers.net/

 

http://ubuntustudio.org/

[Mjölnir]

Graphics drivers are a major issue with Linux gaming today. For example my PC at home has dual GeForce GPU's running in SLI mode on Windows but the Nvidia driver for Ubuntu Linux on the same machine doesn't offer that option. The only way to do a fair framerate benchmark (measuring rendering performance) between Windows and Linux on that hardware with say America's Army is turn off one of the features in Windows the computer was explicitly built for.

 

The reason I mention this is that CAD/CAM developers would be faced with this and many things like it in a Linux port.

 

Richard M. Stallman's worshipers and the hardest core Linux faithful do not help this cause either. If they had it thier way companies like CNC Software would put themselves right out of business by giving away thier intellectual property and trade secrets in the form of source code for Mastercam.

[Rob @ Target Machine]

I had the same problem with the SAX Gamer distro -- limited drvers. For the amount of money I spent on X2 I'd gladly go get a new graphics card. I wish it was so simple for my laptop.

 

Obviously that would be a big issue, but it hasn't even been fixed in windows yet. My resellers' fix was to turn off harware acceleration to make Mcam stop tweaking out.

 

That worked fine on my tower, but not my laptop. I've tried upgrading my drivers, but that didn't change anything. Maybe a framebuffer problem? I don't know laptops well.

 

Anyways I never meant to suggest that CNC Software go Open Source. Than would be crazy.

 

I was only looking to stir up some thoughts that might lead us thinking about a multi-platform direction.

[Tyler Robertson]

Everytime anyone mentioned FreeBSD I shudder .. not because it's a bad system, it's great, but I have terrible memories of long nights developing mouse drivers

[Zoober]

Kinda like building drivers in the old P system for windows 2.0.