Comments on: Links 05/01/2009: FreeBSD 7.1 Released, Freescale Likely to Make GNU/Linux Devices http://techrights.org/2009/01/05/freescale-likely-to-make-gnu/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2009/01/05/freescale-likely-to-make-gnu/comment-page-1/#comment-57503 David Gerard Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:24:44 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/05/freescale-likely-to-make-gnu/#comment-57503 Link for you: http://microsoftfires.blogspot.com/ - a single anecdote rather than data, but it was from the Mini-Microsoft layoffs thread ... Wine for games development is fine - Wine has quite a following amongst WoW players afraid of their b0x0r getting haxx0r3d by someone they piss off, which won't happen with Linux. And I'll tell you: if gamers get 2 FPS better performance in Wine than on Windows, they'll be over in a trice. Also, there's now a page on the Wine wiki for software that expressly supports Wine: http://wiki.winehq.org/AppsThatSupportWine With DTrace in FreeBSD, open sourcerers might wake up to it. It's on OpenSolaris, but only embittered old Solaris admins like me use that (and I don't either). DTrace really is INCREDIBLY COOL. Link for you: http://microsoftfires.blogspot.com/ – a single anecdote rather than data, but it was from the Mini-Microsoft layoffs thread …

Wine for games development is fine – Wine has quite a following amongst WoW players afraid of their b0x0r getting haxx0r3d by someone they piss off, which won’t happen with Linux.

And I’ll tell you: if gamers get 2 FPS better performance in Wine than on Windows, they’ll be over in a trice.

Also, there’s now a page on the Wine wiki for software that expressly supports Wine: http://wiki.winehq.org/AppsThatSupportWine

With DTrace in FreeBSD, open sourcerers might wake up to it. It’s on OpenSolaris, but only embittered old Solaris admins like me use that (and I don’t either). DTrace really is INCREDIBLY COOL.

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