Posts by Daniel Carrera

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't see graphics on Linux version (Message 48015) Posted 25 Oct 2007 by Daniel Carrera Post: Q: Why are graphics are disabled in Linux? A: "We haven't added the graphics version because it would only work on newer linux versions due to graphics library dependencies and the fact that Rosetta will not build using older versions of gcc (3.3 and older) necessary for graphics on older linux versions." Linux runs on a hundred platforms and there are a hundred distributions. Are you going to hold off developing graphics because you can't get them to work on Slackware 2.0 running on an PlayStation 2? Rosetta can ship with needed libraries if static compilation is not an option. I don't understand what this has to do with gcc. It's not like 3D graphics on Linux only came out 4 years ago. All the 3D software I use has been around a lot longer than 4 years. But anyways, make a graphics version with gcc 3.4 or later and a non-graphics version with gcc 3.3 and let people download what they want.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't see graphics on Linux version (Message 48014) Posted 25 Oct 2007 by Daniel Carrera Post: dude your giving examples of commercial companies, Btw, I can give examples of amateur projects too that have no problem doing 3D graphics on Linux.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't see graphics on Linux version (Message 47849) Posted 19 Oct 2007 by Daniel Carrera Post: so when you stopped, there is no need for you to come here and whine... There is a problem with that reasoning: (1) If I don't stop you can say "this issue doesn't make people stop Rosetta, so there is no need to fix it". (2) If I do stop you can say "the guy stopped, so we don't need to listen to him anymore".
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't see graphics on Linux version (Message 47836) Posted 18 Oct 2007 by Daniel Carrera Post: dude your giving examples of commercial companies, and please change your tone, it cant be to hard to ask a question in a normal way, can it? After all this time, yeah it's getting pretty hard to not be mighty annoyed. Why should I believe that they are even looking into it? Nobody is posting updates here, it's just silence. I stopped running Rosetta months ago out of frustration over being ignored.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't see graphics on Linux version (Message 47827) Posted 18 Oct 2007 by Daniel Carrera Post: This is so frustrating. It's not like "graphics on Linux" is a new concept. How hard can it be when so many applications can pull it off. If a games company can make Linux-native versions of popular games like Descent, why can't Rosetta do a basic set of graphics for Linux? Take a look at the Simple DirectMedia Layer for a sample library you could use.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Where can I find my team ranking? (Message 19581) Posted 30 Jun 2006 by Daniel Carrera Post: Thanks everyone for the help! I'll spend more time looking at these pages. But I can see that there's lots of information :) Oh, wow, I've gone up 46 ranks in the last day! Whoo hoo!! Cheers, Daniel.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Where can I find my team ranking? (Message 19550) Posted 30 Jun 2006 by Daniel Carrera Post: Hello, I want to know my position inside Team Canada, and I'd like to see other members positions and credits (you know, friendly competition). I'd also like to see the position of the teams relative to each other, and their credits. I'd also like to see my position among all users, regardless of the team. The problem is that the only links I've found are cross project. They include SETI, Climate Prediction, etc. I want to see my position inside just Rosetta. If we put all groups together, it's harder to see your position improve over time. Help? Cheers, Daniel.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't see graphics on Linux version (Message 19544) Posted 30 Jun 2006 by Daniel Carrera Post: A Linux graphics version is in the works.We finally got some more manpower on our development team. Look for it on ralph in the next month! Excellent. Graphics are important to motivate people to use Rosetta. We're still checking whether the memory requirements might be too high (we seem to have a lot of outstanding users who crunch with Linux boxes with <256Mb Ram). But you are not going to make the graphics mandatroy, so what's the problem? Anyone who thinks they're slow can turn them off. In fact, I wouldn't have them on 24/7 (that'd spend CPU cycles I'd rather spend getting credits) but I'd turn them on when I want. Btw, 256MB of RAM is not bad. My laptop has 384MB and it's fine for most things you'd want to do (using GIMP is painful though, so I use my desktop for that). If you think about it, that's how big hard drives used to be. If people run an entire OS on 4MB of RAM, why do you suddenly need 512MB for Rosetta?
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't see graphics on Linux version (Message 19431) Posted 28 Jun 2006 by Daniel Carrera Post: Hi! Thanks for the welcome :-D It's good to feel welcome. Hmmm... I guess I could wait for a while to see if a Linux version with graphics is in the works. Cheers, Daniel.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't see graphics on Linux version (Message 19412) Posted 28 Jun 2006 by Daniel Carrera Post: AFAIK, the graphics-display is "Windows only". I know that the "screen saver" is, but with other BOINC projects I can get a window that shows the graphics. I hope that the graphics window is not Windows only. That would really suck. So much so that I'd quit Rosetta and contribute to another BOINC project that is more interested in supporting Linux. Daniel.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't see graphics on Linux version (Message 19408) Posted 28 Jun 2006 by Daniel Carrera Post: Hello. I'm running Rosetta now on a Linux system (Ubuntu, btw) and the "show graphics" option is greyed out. I can't get the graphics. Does anyone know about this? Is there a way to get the graphics? Cheers, Daniel.