[ale] Do people still roll their own Linux desktops?

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 03/17/2010 10:09 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
> I'm looking at CentOS for the new build and run VM's to replace
> Windows (until I get Netflix talking to Linux) and whatever else I
> want to run for a Linux desktop and development environment.

I've been trying to get the plugin to work under Wine with only a little 
bit of success; there seem to be some pretty strange (and seemingly 
undocumented---surprise, shock, horror!) APIs that are not yet 
implemented by Wine that the Silverlight version of the CLR uses.  I 
have had to temporarily shelve that for the past couple of weeks, 
unfortunately, but I am hoping to return to it and get a chance to 
figure out what those missing APIs are and do.  The downside is that I 
will likely only be able to write the specification for the API 
calls---someone else will very likely have to write the code to 
implement them.

Assuming, that is, I get that far.  I am not terribly great at reversing 
binary systems.  Why would I be?  I don't use that sort of software.

It actually occurs to me as I am writing this, that I am not even using 
a proprietary graphics driver anymore.  The only proprietary thing that 
I have left on this system---and the biggest CPU hog!---is Adobe's 
Flash.  Too bad they don't care about us 64-bit desktop users.

	--- Mike

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Michael B. Trausch                                    ☎ (404) 492-6475