This poster mentioned audio -- my demo version didn't seem to have any audio.
Hopefully when my pre-order copy arrives it doesn't have sound problems.
Incidentally, I also own the Win32 version of this product and am actually pleased that the Linux enhanced version maintains a consistent interface.
The.net platform will include a new layer of abstraction for developers - a Common Language Runtime. A variety of languages will be implemented in this framework (including VB and C#) and presumably we will be able to extend this to include Java, PHP, etc. What this should mean is the MS visual development tools can be leveraged to develop in any of these languages once they support the CLR. The great thing for Microsoft is this is a win-win situation. Even if CLR doesn't "take-off" it can be used to maintain their own products. SOAP and XML are interesting, but this model doesn't eliminate the need for other data transport mechanisms like OLEDB. ASP+ has some neat scalability features, along with some new handy programming API's (eg; server-side redirects).
The invention of the computer is highly debatable. Although an American was granted the credit for this invention, the first operational digital computer was the EDSAC (Cambridge, England).
Linux was also not an "American" thing, Linus wrote the first versions while going to school. That was in Helsinki, Finland.
There are a lot of problems with this, however, not the least of which is quality-control. To get around that, either a prominent Linux vendor needs dominate or hardware vendors will start bundling custom versions. This is what has been killing UNIX for as long as I can remember, and Linux will be its next victim if this landscape doesn't change. Imagine - Dell Linux, IBM Linux, Compaq Linux... and then when IBM adds a new peripheral or component technology (let's imagine MCA2.0 for example), they'll build a beefy IBM Linux distro that supports this new technology but nobody else will be onboard with that. Now what? With my PPC based MCA2.0 IBM box, I won't be installing Debian anytime soon.
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A typically American point of view.
The invention of the computer is highly debatable. Although an American was granted the credit for this invention, the first operational digital computer was the EDSAC (Cambridge, England).
Linux was also not an "American" thing, Linus wrote the first versions while going to school. That was in Helsinki, Finland.
There are a lot of problems with this, however, not the least of which is quality-control. To get around that, either a prominent Linux vendor needs dominate or hardware vendors will start bundling custom versions. This is what has been killing UNIX for as long as I can remember, and Linux will be its next victim if this landscape doesn't change. Imagine - Dell Linux, IBM Linux, Compaq Linux... and then when IBM adds a new peripheral or component technology (let's imagine MCA2.0 for example), they'll build a beefy IBM Linux distro that supports this new technology but nobody else will be onboard with that. Now what? With my PPC based MCA2.0 IBM box, I won't be installing Debian anytime soon.