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

[Rich Faulkner]

Indeed!  Adobe Flash and 64-bit...sigh...you would think...

Figuring-out the missing API's would be a great project...too bad
my bench is full at the moment.  If/when I get to the point that I could
do some investigation I'd be happy to post findings here -- maybe
someone could pick-up the ball and run with it.  But first I must get
CentOS running on my box...won't even boot from the Live disk
right now (reserved memory error).  I may post that here and see
what shakes-out later today...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Do people still roll their own Linux desktops?


> 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
>
> -- 
> Michael B. Trausch                                    ☎ (404) 492-6475
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