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11-07-12, 05:34 AM
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Steam and nVidia go serious in their reaction to Windows 8
As they already announced in reaction to the licensing scheme of Windows 8, Steam has just released the closed Beta of Steam for Linux. Simultaneously, nVidia released serious optimizations of drivers for Linux. While nVidia may be happy to run on both trains, Steam's action must be seen as a direct reaction to Microsoft preparing to turn the open PC platform into a closed app-world.
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3676732/ http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nvi...ing-2012-11-06
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11-07-12, 06:12 AM
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Chief of the Boat
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Didn't Microsoft doing something of a similar nature a few year back and get penalised in the courts?
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11-07-12, 06:22 AM
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Soaring
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Cannot remember a legal case, but they tried tablets before, and it also is not the first time they predict that desktop computers will disappear within very short time. Financially, they got sunk over both claims. Their current "Surface" tablet gets very mixed feedback. Enthusiasm looks and sounds differently.
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11-07-12, 06:48 AM
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Admiral
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Finally!
NVidia hasn't had useable Linux drivers in years. Mind you, I still don't think gaming can move to Linux (one of the core technologies is DirectX), but I would like to see more CUDA in the datacenter.
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11-07-12, 08:23 AM
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Yeah a unified API for multimedia like DirectX is for Windows would probably help a lot to get games from bigger developers to Linux.
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11-07-12, 08:24 AM
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OpenGL will take over from DX unless Microsoft goes back on this as it is already more efficent than DX, the main reason for DX dominance is that gaming is done on Windows machines, that will change in light of Microsofts blunder, though the change will not be overnight.
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11-07-12, 08:39 AM
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Ace of the Deep
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Well DirectX isn't only Direct3D, but yeah OpenGL can look just as pretty as Direct3D
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11-07-12, 09:16 AM
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Admiral
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Just read more about it, can it says that for now, steam is Ubuntu only?!
 ever since kubuntu wound down, centos became my distro of choice. Steam better bring it to the other distros quickly. You really don't want to target 20% of the 1% of users.
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Thete is a lot of work peaple do for which tablets are too weak and the touch only interface is unsuitable. Yet tablets are great as substitute for regular everyday web browsing or as media device... You totaly miss the point here.... |
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