[PD] Gem: can't load library

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 4, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Arie van Schutterhoef wrote:

>> they installed Ubuntu.They were getting very frustrated with this  
>> idea
>> that >they should have to spend weeks figuring out how to get things
>> working that >worked fine on Windows.
> -I spend this summer trying to get Ubuntu work on an iMac and was  
> rather
>  astonished by the discovery that it had trouble with something simple
>  like video-card (ATI) drivers. In the end I gave up... I've got  
> more om my
>  mind than figuring out these kind of things. As long these  
> elementary problems
>  aren't addressed, Linux won't make onto the desktop. As an OS it  
> might be
>  suited for servers, but that's where it will probably stay.

That one is a tough one.  Its not for lack of people trying.   
Companies like ATI and NVidia refuse to release the docs to the  
developers, so they have to reverse engineer things.

.hc


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