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Killing the process should free up any memory used by that process.

I entirely agree.

There's nothing inherently wrong about many of the things you mentioned, but pseudo-Christianity is a problem... and the surrounding of Christian imagery into one's life can...

Someone made a toaster than ran one of the BSDs.


Here it is (NetBSD): http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2005/08/11/toaster-pc-runs-bsd-and-makes-toast

What games are they?

If they are DOS, I'd recommend using DOSBox over Wine.

Yeah, your best bet is to use a while-loop.

Syntax looks something like this:



while(condition){
//do something;
}

IIRC, it would be against the EULA (thus illegal in many places) to run OSX in a virtual machine.

I've come across this... I've got crackling on games like Neverball/Neverputt, almost all emulators... really ruins these games.

This happened on Ubuntu when I used it (up through Edgy or Feisty)...

Games don't work in VMs very well... if at all. They definitely should not be seen as the benchmark of usefulness of a virtual machine environment.

As long as you aren't going to need to code...

For programming practice, this looks useful. As I learned to program, I mostly did exercises that were mostly useless in the real world.

As an actual 'distro chooser', there are a lot more things...

Sure it does.

I worked on a project a while back that dealt with a lot of text manipulation and system calls in C++ (something I would call relatively clumsy and messy). I was able to break down...

I'm really not sure what installing DX through Wine would do, as Wine already has (many) DX functions implemented.

If I recall correctly, DX interfaces to the video card through the Windows driver...

VMware uses software emulation to create and run the OS. Emulation will always be slower than native speeds.

Cedega/Wine are extremely close to 'native' speeds (it's a compatibility layer) as...

I don't see the built in terminal being very useful... at least not for me. I prefer to code with a text editor (usually gedit) and then I just keep a terminal handy. I always use another workspace...

And just to clarify why this happens, when a command is executed in the terminal/BASH, it looks for that command in various locations on the computer (/usr/local/bin, /bin, etc.). To execute a local...

I think you're confusing terms.

In the sense of the system, the kernel and OS combined handle the 'low level' operations that interface to the hardware. The kernel does the hardware interfacing...

Yeah, that's what I've been noticing. I tried the demo at http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson36/index.php and checked the max FPS with it, and it is upwards of 900. :D Plenty of overhead there....

Good catch. As I said before, this is basically a copy of one of their examples, but _very_ much stripped down.

I have been able to boost it up around 210 FPS (depending on processor activity),...

Yeah. I took the one of the examples (TestGfxPrimitives.c) and stripped it down (it is now C++ now too).

I think I've got it down to the basics. It sped up a little when I took out the unneeded...

Ok. I'm looking at doing some hobbyist game programming, and I'm looking at starting with porting an asteroids game of mine from VB.

So, I've been looking at SDL, and it looks promising. ...

It is in the repositories as well.

Take a look at Synaptic ('System' > 'Admin' > 'Synaptic Package Manager'). There is a ton of software you can install from the Ubuntu repositories (and you can...

I already have.

Really, it isn't that big of a deal. It's been stable for me when I installed it as Herd 5, which reminds me that I need to do some updates.

I've noticed many people that are...

Meh. VS was nice in some aspects. I learned how to program in VB6, and it was excellent to be able to throw a GUI together and just run it. Next, I toyed with VC++6 to learn C++, never any GUI...

Have you tried not using the virtual desktop mode?

No. There _can_ be a lot of math in programming, it depends on what it is.

Most programs I write (basic apps) don't have much more math than iterating through loops and the such. However,...

I'm curious -- what did you use to get IL-2 working and what version of IL-2?