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Re:bdale garbee?
See http://wiki.gag.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/2006/08/15#20
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bdale garbee?
I'd be interested to know how much this gentleman had to do with it:
http://www.gag.com/~bdale/
He's a former Debian Project Leader and now Linux/OSS CTO at HP. -
How Business benefits from Open Source.At Debconf 5 there was a good talk by Bdale Garbee about how Hewlett Packard benefits from Open Source.
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How Business benefits from Open Source.At Debconf 5 there was a good talk by Bdale Garbee about how Hewlett Packard benefits from Open Source.
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Re:Not to be a trollNo, wan't going for +anything, just responding with what I *thought* about HP, and as I said to whoever responded to me, their post made me think, google, and check their links.
That said, HP printers have always WorkedForMe (and for linuxprinting
[snip...]There are two brands worth considering for use with free software...Hewlett-Packard
Most of the HP inkjet line is supported using a driver provided by HP. Most newer HP models produce very good photo and text output. Duplex printing on paper sizes up to A3 are also supported.
on top of that:
- the hpijs driver has worked out of the box on 'most every distro and on the BSDs that I've tried it on
- I didn't say 'most laptops work with Linux' (oh, brave new world) but rather that ' latest laptops' do, and can be shipped with them
- They certainly *did* sponser/employ Bruce Perens, do still employ Bdale as their Linux CTO
- The esr quote you mentioned is from December 2000 and I think they've addressed a lot of those issues
god, this sounds like i work for/love them - Neither's true, I just think they aren't the worst by any means, and that's all I was trying to point out with my first post
- the hpijs driver has worked out of the box on 'most every distro and on the BSDs that I've tried it on
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I dunked Bdale!
The big man with an even bigger heart stepped up to the plate for the cause. My bid was $70, but I bet against myself raising it to $80. After that I spent lunch talking to him about his satellite interests, which are pretty cool.
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If you write free software, get a 64 bit platform!
There is this wonderful thing that people say when their package doesn't compile on another platform...
"But it works on my Pentium!"
So many apps out there are not 64 bit clean, and they will need to be in the not so far future. A hell of a lot of the Debian package people have been doing a brilliant job to make the packages available compile and work on 64 bit platforms. Bdale Garbee is probably the most well known identity working on this effort and has put a lot of effort into porting to Debian to new architectures.
Not all packages are destined to get ported to every architectures (eg: there is no sound device on an S/390, so no real need to have certain sound packages: But don't forget things like network sound architectures!), but most are, and a lot of it is developers who have no understanding of the issues caused by a 64 bit environment.
"But who cares about Alpha?"
If you think Alpha is the only platform that will benefit from 64 bit clean code, think again! There are a fair number of 64 bit platforms, like ia64 and PA-Risc. Fixing such problems will make such software work on all 64 bit platforms.
One last thing to note is that sometimes it's good to have a different perspective on things occasionly. Not everything revolves around the ia32 (i386, etc) platform like everyone generally seems to think.