End of the World is Near - CCC for Linux

"First of One" root@localhost wrote in message
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Interview with ATi's Terry Makedon. Included are some interesting
statistics, for example:

"Traditionally, ATI's Catalyst driver updates are downloaded 2 million
times a month with a break down of 5% Linux downloads, 5% XP 64-bit and
90% or so for XP 32-bit."

Apparently that 5% Linux is enough to warrant its own version of Catalyst
Control Center, probably to satisfy the FireGL workstation users. Wonder
if it will run as slowly as the Windows version. Hehe.

2 things wrong with the CCC version on windows
it's built on .net
it doesn't integrate with the display settings errr tab/window/whatever

(as far as i know anyway, i'v avoided it since day 1)

i can't see the linux one being as bloaty as .net
so prob won't be 'quite' as bad

"Geoff" wrote in message
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"First of One" root@localhost wrote in message
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Interview with ATi's Terry Makedon. Included are some interesting
statistics, for example:

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2 things wrong with the CCC version on windows
it's built on .net
it doesn't integrate with the display settings errr tab/window/whatever


I just downloaded NASA's newest update to World Wind v1.4. It's one quarter
the size of it previous version, 16meg verses 64meg. Apparently from an
article I read, NASA dropped .net and went with active-x for its code base.
What a huge difference, and I see only improvements in responsiveness.
(Could be wrong, maybe they dropped some images in the original installed
package or something else?)

Maybe ATI needs to get a clew and drop .net and go active-x too. Seems .net
has a huge overhead and performance hit when used.

William

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:06:28 -0800, "William"
wrote:

Apparently from an
article I read, NASA dropped .net and went with active-x for its code base.
What a huge difference, and I see only improvements in responsiveness.
(Could be wrong, maybe they dropped some images in the original installed
package or something else?)

Maybe ATI needs to get a clew and drop .net and go active-x too. Seems .net
has a huge overhead and performance hit when used.

William


active x ?

That would just be silly. ActiveX was Microsoft's big sin before .NET
Framework. Better would be a simple C-program like the old Control Panel.

Of course, on the fruity-looking Vista, .NET is probably the sensible way
forward.

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"William" wrote in message
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I just downloaded NASA's newest update to World Wind v1.4. It's one
quarter the size of it previous version, 16meg verses 64meg. Apparently
from an article I read, NASA dropped .net and went with active-x for its
code base. What a huge difference, and I see only improvements in
responsiveness. (Could be wrong, maybe they dropped some images in the
original installed package or something else?)

Maybe ATI needs to get a clew and drop .net and go active-x too. Seems
.net has a huge overhead and performance hit when used.

William