.. in this post they reported on a project supposedly aiming at breaking down single threads into multiple threads so as to better utilize core utilization beyond the fourth core.
It supposedly involve Intel. I personally think both rumors are just that, but the timing is curious. Same source behind both? AMD PR people not wanting to lose out in imaginary rumored technology to Intel?
Although CHRP was supposed to be a non-PC platform, whereas Apple's new approach is "PC Plus": you can run things a PC can run, and youc an run Mac OS too.
It is robust. GStreamer, aRts, etc - these media player frameworks have always given me problems in the past. I hear GStreamer 0.10 is supposedly very solid, but I haven't tried that yet.
GStreamer 0.10 is actually really good (modulo DVD playback, which hasn't made it way in yet). RealPlayer is good, but would have been much nicer when it moves from OSS to ALSA: on some crappy laptop audio chipsets, it produces stuttering sound (and if you're running Linux/x86-64, the simple alternative of using alsa-oss does not work)
I'd be happy to get a Mac mini - Intel graphics, so no ATI driver hell, and it's easy to tote around. I'll wait until the mainstream Linux distributions boot out-of-the-box on EFI machines, though.
Would it be legal for the 'hacker release' to repackage the Apple drivers? I believe the original solution posted a few months ago did not have accelerated graphics, among other things.
The two desktop environments use very different core libraries with different licensing schemes (Qt is GPL, gtk is LGPL)
Qt is triple-licensed, no? If you choose to license it under the QPL, you can probably create wrapper APIs that are LGPL-ed. The problem with KDE and pre-GPL'ed Qt is that the legality of GPL programs (KDE) linking against a QPL program is in question.
You can install iTunes 4.7 on Crossover Office, so you might be able to do that too with regular Wine. Of course, this does not help people who have the latest version of iTunes installed on their Windows/Mac machines - once you logged on once using iTunes 6, I believe you cannot authorize songs on other computers running older iTunes versions (so if you bought that shiny new single, copied it to your Linux machine and tried to authorize it (up to 5 machines allowed), it would not work).
... and OpenOffice. OK, Sun bought it off a German company (and then graciously open-sourced it), but Google bought off the company that originally wrote Picasa too (surprisingly, Apple did the same for iTunes). Neither are open-source.
(Though I'd use a Picasa port before I use F-Spot, the latter is still too incosistent for me.)
There's also Borland Kylix, the half-baked port of Delphi to Linux. The IDE uses libwine, the programs it compile are native (linking against Qt). It looked bad enough that people won't get a good impression of Wine from that, unfortunately - I'm really curious to see how Picasa would port. It's one of the best-looking app on Windows.
Windows is the glue that holds that enterpise together and unless windows runs on it, people wont buy it and dell wont sell it unless there's a market.
If only that were true. I'd be running an AlphaPC happily then..
I have two in-use Gmail account, the older account starting with 'M' and the newer one starting with 'L'.. the 'L' account has Chat support, the 'M' one, not yet.
DragonFly BSD lead Matt Dillon is planning to integrate ZFS support. The core kernel being BSD-licensed, integrating files with CDDL (or GPLv3) licenses are OK. The problem with including ZFS support in Linux (unless Sun, being the copyright owner, dual-licensed ZFS under GPL2) is not allowed because GPLv3 is likely to be more restrictive than GPLv2, and thus GPLv2 would disallow the ZFS code from being linked against the kernel.
Legacy BIOS support is not enough, since the new Macs use the new GUID partition table instead of MBR. Unless you install Windows on an external/second hard drive..
OpenOffice uses GTK (or Qt) the way Firefox and Seamonkey can be compiled against GTK.
So, if OO can use GTK for all its displayed components, and GTK can run without X11 on OS X, you can run OO without requiring X, which is an improvement over the current situation.
I'd be surprised if Apple doesn't have a skunkworks office suite under development (quite possibly based on OpenOffice)
Or the iWork suite. They already have a Word replacement (Pages), a Powerpoint replacement (Keynote), so it's just missing a spreadsheet and an Entourage clone.
OO.org is apparently hard to Cocoa-ize; though Sun claims they're working on it.. with the recent progress of GTK for Mac, though, perhaps soon the standard Unix version of OO would feel less awkward to use.
Funny that. They also get to avoid getting proselytized to at the overly-proselytizing Anglo-Chinese School there. It seems that under Singaporean law some minorities are more equal than others (and this is not to disparage, I wish I could have skipped the twice-a-week sermons).
At least Singapore is even-handed about it: you'd be happy to know that conscientious objectors to military service there get jailed regardless of whether they raise a religious objection or not (normally applied to Jehovah's Witnesses).
Same rule applies in South Korea, I think. You cannot cite Buddhism to get out of the Army.
And yet Sun, because they dropped the "2", is now at Solaris 10... and OS X *is* at version 10 (it's Mac OS X 10.4.3, with point release and all to boot). Will make it funny when OS X v11 comes out..
The Turion 64 CPU powering my laptop is quite decent - not exactly Pentium M level yet, but not too far off. The way AMD is finally paying more attention to the mobile market, who knows, they might even come out with a competitive dual-core model before Intel's next-generation Pentium M gets 64-bit support.
apt still does not handle multilib install, even when using RPM as the package format - on x86-64, with yum you can have glib2.i386 and glib2.x86-64 installed side-by-side, so you can run 32-bit apps (like OpenOffice) without resorting to having a parallel chroot install, or a custom-packaged OOo RPM (which is how Ubuntu does it)
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.. in this post they reported on a project supposedly aiming at breaking down single threads into multiple threads so as to better utilize core utilization beyond the fourth core.
It supposedly involve Intel. I personally think both rumors are just that, but the timing is curious. Same source behind both? AMD PR people not wanting to lose out in imaginary rumored technology to Intel?
Although CHRP was supposed to be a non-PC platform, whereas Apple's new approach is "PC Plus": you can run things a PC can run, and youc an run Mac OS too.
GStreamer 0.10 is actually really good (modulo DVD playback, which hasn't made it way in yet). RealPlayer is good, but would have been much nicer when it moves from OSS to ALSA: on some crappy laptop audio chipsets, it produces stuttering sound (and if you're running Linux/x86-64, the simple alternative of using alsa-oss does not work)
I'd be happy to get a Mac mini - Intel graphics, so no ATI driver hell, and it's easy to tote around. I'll wait until the mainstream Linux distributions boot out-of-the-box on EFI machines, though.
Would it be legal for the 'hacker release' to repackage the Apple drivers? I believe the original solution posted a few months ago did not have accelerated graphics, among other things.
Qt is triple-licensed, no? If you choose to license it under the QPL, you can probably create wrapper APIs that are LGPL-ed. The problem with KDE and pre-GPL'ed Qt is that the legality of GPL programs (KDE) linking against a QPL program is in question.
You can install iTunes 4.7 on Crossover Office, so you might be able to do that too with regular Wine. Of course, this does not help people who have the latest version of iTunes installed on their Windows/Mac machines - once you logged on once using iTunes 6, I believe you cannot authorize songs on other computers running older iTunes versions (so if you bought that shiny new single, copied it to your Linux machine and tried to authorize it (up to 5 machines allowed), it would not work).
... and OpenOffice. OK, Sun bought it off a German company (and then graciously open-sourced it), but Google bought off the company that originally wrote Picasa too (surprisingly, Apple did the same for iTunes). Neither are open-source.
(Though I'd use a Picasa port before I use F-Spot, the latter is still too incosistent for me.)
There's also Borland Kylix, the half-baked port of Delphi to Linux. The IDE uses libwine, the programs it compile are native (linking against Qt). It looked bad enough that people won't get a good impression of Wine from that, unfortunately - I'm really curious to see how Picasa would port. It's one of the best-looking app on Windows.
If only that were true. I'd be running an AlphaPC happily then..
I have two in-use Gmail account, the older account starting with 'M' and the newer one starting with 'L' .. the 'L' account has Chat support, the 'M' one, not yet.
DragonFly BSD lead Matt Dillon is planning to integrate ZFS support. The core kernel being BSD-licensed, integrating files with CDDL (or GPLv3) licenses are OK. The problem with including ZFS support in Linux (unless Sun, being the copyright owner, dual-licensed ZFS under GPL2) is not allowed because GPLv3 is likely to be more restrictive than GPLv2, and thus GPLv2 would disallow the ZFS code from being linked against the kernel.
The interesting things in Solaris are kernel-related (DTrace, zones and ZFS), I believe.
They want to keep AMD at less of a disadvantage, by throwing away the extra profits they're making from their x86 lines..
Not the most serious threat, but I've seen one too many spread-by-email trojans to say a local privilege escalation exploit is not serious.
Legacy BIOS support is not enough, since the new Macs use the new GUID partition table instead of MBR. Unless you install Windows on an external/second hard drive..
OpenOffice uses GTK (or Qt) the way Firefox and Seamonkey can be compiled against GTK.
So, if OO can use GTK for all its displayed components, and GTK can run without X11 on OS X, you can run OO without requiring X, which is an improvement over the current situation.
Or the iWork suite. They already have a Word replacement (Pages), a Powerpoint replacement (Keynote), so it's just missing a spreadsheet and an Entourage clone.
OO.org is apparently hard to Cocoa-ize; though Sun claims they're working on it.. with the recent progress of GTK for Mac, though, perhaps soon the standard Unix version of OO would feel less awkward to use.
Funny that. They also get to avoid getting proselytized to at the overly-proselytizing Anglo-Chinese School there. It seems that under Singaporean law some minorities are more equal than others (and this is not to disparage, I wish I could have skipped the twice-a-week sermons).
Doctors earn more in the States, but have to pay out more in malpractice premiums.
At least Singapore is even-handed about it: you'd be happy to know that conscientious objectors to military service there get jailed regardless of whether they raise a religious objection or not (normally applied to Jehovah's Witnesses).
Same rule applies in South Korea, I think. You cannot cite Buddhism to get out of the Army.
s/2.12/2.14. Just in case people thought Fedora is woefully behind the curve
And yet Sun, because they dropped the "2", is now at Solaris 10... and OS X *is* at version 10 (it's Mac OS X 10.4.3, with point release and all to boot). Will make it funny when OS X v11 comes out..
The Turion 64 CPU powering my laptop is quite decent - not exactly Pentium M level yet, but not too far off. The way AMD is finally paying more attention to the mobile market, who knows, they might even come out with a competitive dual-core model before Intel's next-generation Pentium M gets 64-bit support.
apt still does not handle multilib install, even when using RPM as the package format - on x86-64, with yum you can have glib2.i386 and glib2.x86-64 installed side-by-side, so you can run 32-bit apps (like OpenOffice) without resorting to having a parallel chroot install, or a custom-packaged OOo RPM (which is how Ubuntu does it)