It is a journal file system. I think you might have took "clock speed doesn't matter" the wrong way. I think he meant going for average processor and give him a good file system. He rather not have the top processor with crappy file system.
GNU has so far created nothing but quality free alternatives to commercially available software. If HURD live up to its claims, it will only get better with time. This is a perfect alternatives for people who insisted on using the Mach microkernel unix.
I can see HURD be used in larger server workstation with slower adaptation to new hardwares and devices. Whereas Linux, on the other hand, will continue to thrive on smaller systems and desktops. This should be a win-win for everybody. Cheers!
Trademark is a very funny thing. Many things are not trademarkable, e.g., commonly used terms, words that has other special meaning (this makes me wonder how windows get trademarked, or is it not trademarked?). I believe Linux fall into a commonly known terms that cannot be trademark, i.e. if registration office do their homework.
Patiently... So far many good movies aren't being released. Indiana Jones, Starwars, etc. No matter how long they waited, I'll get them when they come.
This.18 micron Aluminum beast should be potentially overclockable to 1GHz.
AMD has traditionally been playing catch-up and follow Intel footstep with a limp, but this Athon is beginning to change all that. Hope they also release a reduced cost model, because I certainly cannot afford the ridiculously high prices new processor is costing these day.
Cutting down the compile time so you can do more testing->make changes->re-compile. And if you want to play DVD in Linux, you will need as fast a processor as you can get because the code is not very optimized.
They are very smart to acquire stategic market technology that is hard to come by but essential if Linux is to be used in a commercial environment.
Although many would see this as big company eating up smaller company, what they are doing is openning up market for Linux. More people will be able to use Linux as a solution, and this can only be a good thing.
I hope you are saying this jokingly because in shorting stocks, timing is everything. If the prices didn't go down before your contracts expire, you are toasted.
Those pozo at www.poso.com don't even have their own mail server but use a hotmail account instead. The form aren't encrypted and served from etailprice.com running off a Microsoft web server and is currently in "under construction" stage. The www.poso.com itself is served by a ISP named web.provide.net which is also under construction.
Looks like some newbies trying to build a vapour company on the web to scam money. This "Power Source" definitely do not have the $500,000 in cash.
I feel extremely uncomfortable with everything that surround this new company. I'm not sure they intend to stay in business in the long run, they could be just trying to pull a fast one from clueless investors.
I see two possibilities that can come out of this:
1. They want to be in the Linux game by getting venture capital in place before hiring expertise to actually work on the product. Normally this is investor beware because they (first) don't have the expertise, (second) don't have enough confident to invest their own money in it to create a worthy product before IPO.
2. They are just interested in inflating their stock and continue the hype until the time comes when they (or he) can sell some of their stock (more than 40% belongs to him alone I believe) and cash in. Objectives being to milk as much as possible out of this and move on to their next project.
With so many more establish Linux company that potentially can do IPO this year, we won't lose any sleep passing up this one.
Right now it isn't in 2.2.x nor 2.3.x kernel tree yet. There is a patch out there that can add this feature. My best guess is that it is not stable enough to be included yet.
Going from 2.2.13 to 2.2.14 took unusually long but not unexpected; not only there are plentiful of changes, but bugs that came out were very closely tied to various hardware. All the hard work Alan and others who have put in finally pay off. Being a bystander that follow the development on the side, I can only watch in awe.
There are so many fixes in many areas and some significant re-design which took time to debug. Some of the new goodies that interest me include PCI parallel port handling (for your parallel port cdrom/cdrw), Matrox G400 frame buffer support and Network Telephone support.
I hope a lot of people can try out this release. And remember, if you find bugs, report them:)
People who love to drive love the freedom of driving. This may be not true in a huge traffic jam, but driving in general is fun. The main feature of the system is control, but who do you trust? You or a computer system that is 15 mi in space. A small bug in the software or during solar flare can cost thousands of life.
How quickly does he forget the advancement we made in this century? The World Wars, Civil Right movement and Human Right movement. Moreover, I think it is oximoron to presented his ideology on why technology is more important. Shouldn't we be playing with our gizmo instead of listening to him?
Enough said, I would not want to live in a world that do not care about anything but the latest gizmo. Rights, Liberty, Humility and Compassion, not one should give it up for any gizmo.
Looks like the company is desperate in trying to regain some market share in the database market. This is the kind of things we expected and will see more of: Companies which used to ignore any other platforms beside Windows suddenly embrace Linux. Too bad it came from a company that is already half dead...
Stangely, there isn't any pointer to the actual source from that page! If it is really open source, no string attached, why can't developer download a snapshot of the source from them right then and now? Why the wait till some time in "the first part of 2000..." I think I can smell some fish here.
Have to give them a small credit in at least trying this though. We just have to wait an see the rest of the story when the source is released.
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It is a journal file system. I think you might have took "clock speed doesn't matter" the wrong way. I think he meant going for average processor and give him a good file system. He rather not have the top processor with crappy file system.
I can see HURD be used in larger server workstation with slower adaptation to new hardwares and devices. Whereas Linux, on the other hand, will continue to thrive on smaller systems and desktops. This should be a win-win for everybody. Cheers!
Trademark is a very funny thing. Many things are not trademarkable, e.g., commonly used terms, words that has other special meaning (this makes me wonder how windows get trademarked, or is it not trademarked?). I believe Linux fall into a commonly known terms that cannot be trademark, i.e. if registration office do their homework.
Patiently... So far many good movies aren't being released. Indiana Jones, Starwars, etc. No matter how long they waited, I'll get them when they come.
AMD has traditionally been playing catch-up and follow Intel footstep with a limp, but this Athon is beginning to change all that. Hope they also release a reduced cost model, because I certainly cannot afford the ridiculously high prices new processor is costing these day.
Cutting down the compile time so you can do more testing->make changes->re-compile. And if you want to play DVD in Linux, you will need as fast a processor as you can get because the code is not very optimized.
Although many would see this as big company eating up smaller company, what they are doing is openning up market for Linux. More people will be able to use Linux as a solution, and this can only be a good thing.
I hope you are saying this jokingly because in shorting stocks, timing is everything. If the prices didn't go down before your contracts expire, you are toasted.
Looks like some newbies trying to build a vapour company on the web to scam money. This "Power Source" definitely do not have the $500,000 in cash.
I see two possibilities that can come out of this:
1. They want to be in the Linux game by getting venture capital in place before hiring expertise to actually work on the product. Normally this is investor beware because they (first) don't have the expertise, (second) don't have enough confident to invest their own money in it to create a worthy product before IPO.
2. They are just interested in inflating their stock and continue the hype until the time comes when they (or he) can sell some of their stock (more than 40% belongs to him alone I believe) and cash in. Objectives being to milk as much as possible out of this and move on to their next project.
With so many more establish Linux company that potentially can do IPO this year, we won't lose any sleep passing up this one.
Right now it isn't in 2.2.x nor 2.3.x kernel tree yet. There is a patch out there that can add this feature. My best guess is that it is not stable enough to be included yet.
There are so many fixes in many areas and some significant re-design which took time to debug. Some of the new goodies that interest me include PCI parallel port handling (for your parallel port cdrom/cdrw), Matrox G400 frame buffer support and Network Telephone support.
I hope a lot of people can try out this release. And remember, if you find bugs, report them :)
People who love to drive love the freedom of driving. This may be not true in a huge traffic jam, but driving in general is fun. The main feature of the system is control, but who do you trust? You or a computer system that is 15 mi in space. A small bug in the software or during solar flare can cost thousands of life.
Enough said, I would not want to live in a world that do not care about anything but the latest gizmo. Rights, Liberty, Humility and Compassion, not one should give it up for any gizmo.
Stangely, there isn't any pointer to the actual source from that page! If it is really open source, no string attached, why can't developer download a snapshot of the source from them right then and now? Why the wait till some time in "the first part of 2000..." I think I can smell some fish here.
Have to give them a small credit in at least trying this though. We just have to wait an see the rest of the story when the source is released.