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Audio Indrema Presentation

Posted by Hemos on from the i-just-want-my-copy! dept.

bigal3du writes: "Hardware Unlimited has posted an audio archive from last week's BALUG (Bay Area Linux User Group) with guest speaker John T. Gildred of Indrema. John talks for just under an hour about their upcoming Linux Console gaming system that is coming out in Spring of 2001. Be sure to check this out! The audio archive is in streaming audio and he gives away new information on the system in this presenation!"

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  1. Who cares about the OS in a console? by Junks+Jerzey · · Score: 3

    The immediate problem with is that this is being called "the Linux-based console." Mentioning Linux is completely irrelevant, as would marketing Excel as "the Spreadsheet written in C++." Nobody cares that it runs Linux.

  2. Transcription of the talk... by Time+Doctor · · Score: 4

    http://www.LinuxGames.com has a log... why would anyone want to sit through the whole talk in audio only when you can grep it?

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  3. I should have read the 2nd 8 questions... by Glowing+Fish · · Score: 3
    So I could answer my own question.

    [JG] Tweak ability is really restricted. Anyone can join the overall scheme of developing, but only Indrema can issue "Tuning packs" and they have to be certified and heavily tested for QA. You can not get into a command line on the system or tweak it from any of that standpoint I suppose by this that he means that people are not suppose to tweak it or get to a command line. Someone will, though, I am sure. But how can you have Linux without a Command Lin? , but you will be able to skin your environment eventually and minor changes like that. I am sure that Linus was sitting around one day, saying "Damn! I wish I could skin DOS! I'll have to program a new OS so I can make some minor changes! The menus and interface will features awesome gnarly dude 3D graphics when you move around the interface. For example, you click on a menu or select an object and you will hear sound effects and see an explosion or something of that nature. WHOA!!! EXPLOSIONS OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE. Whenever I know that I can get exploding menus, or something of that nature, things like kernels and commandlines and OSes fade from my mind...as I am sure is true if all of us.

    Yep, I think this confirms it...this guy is a corporate drone...or else he was just reading from a press release. Of course, none of that means the machine is bad.

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