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Where Linux Gained Ground in 2007
christian.einfeldt writes "Computer scientist and media maven Roy Schestowitz takes a look at platforms where GNU Linux gained the most ground in 2007. In a thorough review which is the first of a two-part series, Schestowitz looks at trends in supercomputers, mobile phones, desktops, low-end laptops and tablets, consoles, media players and set-top boxes. Schestowitz finds that GNU Linux solidified its dominant grip on supercomputers; made huge gains in low-end laptops and tablets; won major OEM and retail support on the desktop; gained new entries into game consoles; and also spawned new businesses in set-top boxes while holding its ground in pre-existing product lines. He sums it all up by saying that '2007 will be remembered as the year when GNU/Linux became not only available, but also properly preinstalled on desktops and laptops by the world's largest companies.'"
running homebrew in wii mode was demonstrated at the CCC congress. check the video about the xbox360 security breakeage
it doesn't (yet) run linux, though.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
I'm not a follower of Stallman. I only know what I see as the result of OSS. The FOSS movement in Thailand when I lived there did real good for the country. OSS gave the country a way out of piracy, putting it back in the good graces of the WTO. The software offered real opportunities for localization so that young people who had never studied English could learn to use a computer without a dictionary. Before the Linux movement there, even adults with the standard, required education had real difficulty using MS Windows. The IT industry began creating software which made them (instead of MS) money. The government saw a way to stop sending the citizens' money overseas for basic operation.
This was all real. This was in stores. There were Linux desktops on sale in every hypermarket. There was local software for these desktops on the shelves.
Then MS came in, and in a back-room agreement with BCAA-style blackmail or who-knows-how-much money as palm grease, reversed the government policy so that it officially supported MS solutions, filled the school with half-asses localized copies for nothing, offered virtually free copies of MS for everyone, and killed the opportunity.
Yeah. I'm bitter about it. I don't put all the blame on MS. The Thai people carry at least half the guilt for selling themselves out for a few free copies of Win98, only to lose them six months later when it was EOLed. Thailand is now in exactly the same situation that it was it eight years ago, without a real IT industry of its own and a center for software piracy. Sure, the fabs are there. The little bit of outsourcing they get continues. That's it, though.
Still, for six months or a year, I saw what could happen. I saw the way it could be. I'll never forget it.
Put identity in the browser.
"If you're choosing low-latency professional audio recording, which one do you pick?"
Jack. As none of the other servers are intended for low latency professional audio recording.
"SAE is behind Ardour? Great. But who's behind them, who's doing the back-end that makes low-latency multitrack possible?"
No one needs to do the back end because it's already been done.
I've been doing low latency audio on Linux for about five years or so. The first RT patches for Linux appeared some time in the 2.4 series.
If you want to do professional audio on Linux, you use Jackd. It's as simple as that. There is not a combination of solutions, there is only one solution. If you had used Linux for audio, you would know this already.
One of the reasons for this is that the different sound servers fill different needs. Jackd is callback based and clients run synchronously. This is important for latency, but demands that all the audio apps should be real time safe. The other sound servers are for much less critical situations and work somewhat differently.
On Windows, it's a bit more complicated as there are a number of competing sound standards (ASIO,MME,DirectX,WDM,GSIF,EASI,KStream etc). There is unfortunately no equivalent to Jackd (the Windows port is not finished yet), but you can sort of do some of the same stuff with Rewire.