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CNN LinuxWorld Preview
Sean kennedy sent us a link to
an article over at CNN which is a brief
Preview of LinuxWorld.
Talks a bit about (and LinuxPPC porting) as well as Corel
and Oracle.
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Why be so upset by this reportage? In a time when many things are changing ever more quickly, the mainstream press follows the familiar rules and their instincts which say: "as it has been, so shall it ever be."
They mostly just can't think out of their little boxes. But we can, and do, and must. Have faith, and either ignore these shallow thinkers, or simply be wise: this is a new technology and business model, and a new world that the suits and the journalists can't (or won't) yet fully understand.
We do well to remember this about the conventional media -- they propagandize and entertain in favor of those who benefit from the statu quo ante; they deliver eyeballs to advertisers; they provide news and diversions, but mostly try not to say or show that which would put consumers into a non-buying mood. And we shouldn't hope for consistent accuracy. It's not necessarily in their interest.
joshua writes "DOES ANYONE HAVE A CLUE? Linux is already ported to the PowerPC. It already runs on the RS/6000!"
yeah, but ptf treats mklinux like a hobby and linuxppc inc is a bunch of fuckups. if i were them id do the same thing.
course, they might mean different things by the word port. could be theyre just gonna port drivers and shit from mkl or lppc.
I find it so funny that Linux is getting such attention now. Every since the 2.2 kernel was released BAM we have people reporting on Linux and its actually good. Kinda makes me sick since a year or 2 back most of these company's were on there knees doing u know what to Microsoft. Now that M$ is in trouble and could go down, there like...hey Linux is awesome! There just money hungry creeps. The only good I can see that this may do is convince big software companies to release vital applications to Linux! We need more music apps! Hope the people that make Cooledit, SoundForge and Cakewalk are paying attention and release there apps in LinuX!!!
Natas
http://www.mp3.com/pedophagia
and yes we now make all of our music in Linux!!!
M$ is going down!
Am I missing something here? IBM is
offering to port Linux to the PowerPC,
but the LinuxPPC folks have already done
just that. What's Big Blue up to??
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Coverage in the mainstream press is nothing new anymore, and nothing mentioned in the story is new, either. Oh, well.
I think what the earlier AC said about IBM porting "drivers and shit" is probably true. My prediction: IBM *is* going to use an existing PPC-based Linux, but also work to make sure there are no RS6000-specific bugs or gaps.
As for IBM coming out with their own distro... Hey, there's no reason they can't -- that's the beauty of the GPL! If that happens, I'd guess that IBM decided the two biggest existing PPC Linux distro companies (Prime Time Freeware and LinuxPPC Inc.) just don't have the resources to support them, and that it would be unwise to stake something this important on someone else's distro. I'd probably make the same decision, to tell the truth.
Interestingly, RedHat already sells mkLinux as part of its "Rough Cuts" CD . I'm curious to see whether their "port of RedHat" will be mkLinux or LinuxPPC. The envelope please...
--Tom Geller
Tom Geller
GraphOn will unveil a Linux Playpen at the show for attendees to test
GraphOn's products that provide remote access to Linux applications from
Windows, Java, and multiuser NT systems.
GROAN! Why would anyone want to run Linux programs on a multiuser NT system? It just makes me ILL!
The playpen will feature Go-Between, a thin-client PC X-Windows server;
Go-Joe, a thin-client Java X-Windows server; and Go-Global, a thin-client
PC X-Windows server designed for low-bandwidth connection over the Internet.
Haven't these guys heard of LBX? It's probably all ripped off from the xc or XFree86 code, and it probably costs $100 or more a licence. Talk about abusing Linux—selling windows Xservers. YECK.
IBM will announce its intent to port Red Hat Linux to its PowerPC chip. The
company already said it will bundle the operating system with its servers.
DOES ANYONE HAVE A CLUE? Linux is already ported to the PowerPC. It already runs on the RS/6000!
If this is world domination, I don't want it. I'm about to run crying and screaming to my OS/2 diskettes, and perhaps take a sidetrip to the judgment La-Z-Boy of "Bob".
No cheers,
Joshua.
--jon. Postel is dead. May we all mourn his, and our, loss.
It just makes me ill, seeing companies selling all this Windows software to ride the GNU/Linux wave.
Cheers,
Joshua.
--jon. Postel is dead. May we all mourn his, and our, loss.