Hehehe. You make it sound like people would want to go to that site in the first place. What for? To run into a few links? There's no reason for either advocating or boycotting the site. Quite pointless.
Still, I think Mr. de Joode is being quite silly as well in retaining the domain. It's not doing him any good, nor any one else in its current form.
Think about it, this chip, although not quite as fast as say, a P3, is capable of that nifty code-morphing thing. That means, as someone said earlier, I can theoretically run x86, PowerPC, arm, alpha, etc. software on a single machine.
So what, you ask? Let's say they make the Crusoe emulate the PowerPC. Bam. Apple no longer has a monopoly on the mac arena. Ever wanted to play with an amiga but couldn't find one? Here's your chance. You could load these things into those webpads with Gameboy code-morphing. Your browser becomes a gameboy. Or even better, load it with SNES code-morphing. You're got a portable Super Nintendo.:)
And those are just trivial things. The whole Crusoe thing brings up a lot of possibilities. People don't have to alienate an entire market by coding for a single platform. The consumer can just grab an update to the instruction set, and a copy of their favorite OS. This would be great for schools, especially. Windows *and* OS 9 all on the same machine. Double the learning, half the cost.:)
Mmm.. right... that's why windows is everywhere, because Debian's default installer sucks.
Get a grip, man. Debian isn't Linux. It's a linux dist. If the installer were the only thing about the distributions that keeps it behind Microsoft, why are Suse and Redhat and Corel just as far behind? Your whole statement (if you pardon my saying so) is just stupid. Linux as it stands, is not meant for the average consumer. It's just not built like that. So stop complaining about how debian makes Windows the dominating OS.
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Still, I think Mr. de Joode is being quite silly as well in retaining the domain. It's not doing him any good, nor any one else in its current form.
Think about it, this chip, although not quite as fast as say, a P3, is capable of that nifty code-morphing thing. That means, as someone said earlier, I can theoretically run x86, PowerPC, arm, alpha, etc. software on a single machine.
So what, you ask? Let's say they make the Crusoe emulate the PowerPC. Bam. Apple no longer has a monopoly on the mac arena. Ever wanted to play with an amiga but couldn't find one? Here's your chance. You could load these things into those webpads with Gameboy code-morphing. Your browser becomes a gameboy. Or even better, load it with SNES code-morphing. You're got a portable Super Nintendo. :)
And those are just trivial things. The whole Crusoe thing brings up a lot of possibilities. People don't have to alienate an entire market by coding for a single platform. The consumer can just grab an update to the instruction set, and a copy of their favorite OS. This would be great for schools, especially. Windows *and* OS 9 all on the same machine. Double the learning, half the cost. :)
Mmm.. right... that's why windows is everywhere, because Debian's default installer sucks.
Get a grip, man. Debian isn't Linux. It's a linux dist. If the installer were the only thing about the distributions that keeps it behind Microsoft, why are Suse and Redhat and Corel just as far behind? Your whole statement (if you pardon my saying so) is just stupid. Linux as it stands, is not meant for the average consumer. It's just not built like that. So stop complaining about how debian makes Windows the dominating OS.