Developers Looking for Something to Develop?

[Jay_Mattis]

[Jay]

[Malmer]

[TBone]

[Jaybot]

Wow, I didn't think anyone had spare time to code.<br><br>Thomas I have a better idea than Jay Mattis  If you want to do something useful, like an application that the PPC still doesn't have, and really needs.<br><br>But if you want to do another game, you can do that.<br><br>Email me if you're intrigued.

[Matt Keys]

lol

[Chris Edwards]

i think we need a good OS... wait.. nevermind. their's linux.

[TBone]

No thanks. Linux on a handheld? I can see it on a server, but so far it's done pretty piss-poor as a portable OS, and I can't say that I could see any advantages over Win2KPro for my desktop.

[Chris Edwards]

linux is awesome on my laptop..

[TBone]

The one thing I want that Linux would have and PocketPC/WinCE doesn't is a compiler. Even GCC would work, but not having a compiler on my PPC? That sucks! I could even compile on the go with my Palm, but now that I'm on a processor 10x as powerful, with a heap hundreds of times bigger, I can't write a single program? ¡Que horrible!

[TBone]

My desktop is a laptop. I still don't see any reason to go to Linux. <br><br>Lemme put it this way: unless I can run Half-Life, a decent replacement for Word, and Internet Explorer on Linux, all without upgrading my harddrive from the 4 gigs I'm currently at, I'm not interested. Even then I'm not sure. It's not that I wouldn't like to run Linux, because there are a lot of things about it that appeal to me and I can see why some people are wild about it. But Win2K is so f ucking incredible I just can't imagine it being much of an improvement, or worth the hassle of learning a new OS.

[Chris Edwards]

Halflife: yes ()<br><br>Word: yes ( or or )<br><br>Email: is best IMO<br><br>Web Browsing:<br> (better/faster than IE) supports CSS/Javascript/Flash, etc..<br><br>that would take up less than 1GB for all of that...<br><br><br>

[TBone]

Holy jumping mother of God in a sidecar with chocolate jimmies and a lobster bib! Half-Life on Linux!<br><br>...Bah. I'm still not convinced. Sorry to lead you on like that, but it's still not worth the trouble of reformatting, copying all my files across switching from Photoshop to the Gimp, replacing Word, replacing ActiveSync, replacing VisualStudio (gotta have VisualStudio to write for PPC, right? Last I checked the ARM cross-compiler wasn't nearly as advanced), unlearning all my DOS commands to replace them with Linux, dropping the ability to browse people's network shares when MS changes SMB again, grabbing KDE, getting my gamepad to work, facing the indignity of being a newbie again after 10 years of working with computers, replacing Reader, finding something as good as MusicMatch for my .mp3 files...<br><br>See what I'm up against? I just don't think it's gonna happen any time soon, until Microsoft pries my copy of Windows 2000 from my cold dead hands and replaces it with something that doesn't make me shiver in joy.

[Chris Edwards]

[TBone]