Nevermind that that particular OSS core sucks donkey cock except for the driver system. Imagine what would happen if someone takes this shit seriously, and gets a descent core... *drools*
We jokingly refer to ourselves like that. Wasn't a good idea, but going through someone like a steam roller just for bad choice of words, especially on a site known for its linguistically challenged members seems... out of place.
Not UNIX enough for a lot of people's tastes. It can be certified 6 ways to Sunday, going out of their way to brake reasonable assumptions, like a working/etc/fstab, puts them in the "me-too" category, and not the true *NIX vendor one. There are old-skool companies that did that trick too (HP and IBM, lookin' at you). Treating X11 as non-native apps? Screw, 'em, there are better *nixen systems around for those who can look.
Electricity can wipe the floor with oil. Nuclear generated electricity, more precisely. For organic precursors, biomass - treated in a (possibly solar) furnace.
Send them a photo. It's not the end of the world. I never really got the point of webcams (the grapes are sour, I know, I know), but I truly hope support improves.
Better idea - make Open Firmware compatible chipsets (like the ones in the OLPC XO-1), and include the drivers in the bootstrap firmware chip. That way the kernel devs don't have to deal with every fly-by-night operation in Taiwan, and still get the same compat as Windows. A USB meta-driver should fix the issue entirely (face it, most drivers are, when stripped down, under a megabyte, thereby having the same marginal cost for embedding in a flash chip as pressing a CD).
Not if the driver is limited to only certain IO port and PCI address ranges. It would have to be compiled on load with verification, but it seems reasonable to me.
What do you think databases are trying to do these days? If a basic, general purpose data structure is desired, a filesystem equivalent - then put it in the system library. But the OS's job is resource arbitration - not forcing data models on applications.
Mod parent up +infinity. They may be SUS2k3 certified, but have made it a royal pain to run true *nix apps on it./etc/fstab not working? WTF? Some vendors are worse (HP-[S]UX and A[in't UN]IX, looking at you), but that doesn't excuse them.
20 MB for a graphics system is fraking HUGE. WTF? People run Full OSes with a complete GUI, i.e. with a window and login manager of a floppy, X11 can't do anything without a gob of RAM? I don't give shit how cheap it is, that's plain too much. Heck, a Linux kernel with everything + the kitchen sink doesn't hit 15MB, IIRC. I value X11 as a system, and it's heritage, but it needs to go on a diet ASAP.
Just replace MicroXwin's kernel module with a Apache licensed one, and you're ready. That specific license is both GPL and BSD compatible, and, considering the code's nature, it'll be resistant to commercial hijacking.
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Nevermind that that particular OSS core sucks donkey cock except for the driver system. Imagine what would happen if someone takes this shit seriously, and gets a descent core... *drools*
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We jokingly refer to ourselves like that. Wasn't a good idea, but going through someone like a steam roller just for bad choice of words, especially on a site known for its linguistically challenged members seems... out of place.
Not UNIX enough for a lot of people's tastes. It can be certified 6 ways to Sunday, going out of their way to brake reasonable assumptions, like a working /etc/fstab, puts them in the "me-too" category, and not the true *NIX vendor one. There are old-skool companies that did that trick too (HP and IBM, lookin' at you). Treating X11 as non-native apps? Screw, 'em, there are better *nixen systems around for those who can look.
How about you get an external drive enclosure, and a descent enough phone to act as a USB host controler?
s/netbook/notebook/g
Netbooks don't get that kind of storage.
Dude, S-expressions are out, and XML is in. Ya dig that?
I'm a pessimist as well, I was just hitting the crack pipe. Cheers!
So we'll need some oil to bootstrap everything. Better than sitting on our hands hoping for the best.
Read the links you post, idiot. The parent is correct.
Electricity can wipe the floor with oil. Nuclear generated electricity, more precisely. For organic precursors, biomass - treated in a (possibly solar) furnace.
Isn't installation an outdated concept? Loop-mount some glorified tarballs and get done with it.
+1 Good Pot
And that's why we need hardware managed code, ala Unisys B5000 or IBM AS/400. With some ideas from the PDP-8 and TTA CPUs.
*wonders*
Send them a photo. It's not the end of the world. I never really got the point of webcams (the grapes are sour, I know, I know), but I truly hope support improves.
Better idea - make Open Firmware compatible chipsets (like the ones in the OLPC XO-1), and include the drivers in the bootstrap firmware chip. That way the kernel devs don't have to deal with every fly-by-night operation in Taiwan, and still get the same compat as Windows. A USB meta-driver should fix the issue entirely (face it, most drivers are, when stripped down, under a megabyte, thereby having the same marginal cost for embedding in a flash chip as pressing a CD).
I say make tarballs executable, with a simple XML file for all the dependencies and where to get them. Integrate that in the basic GNU tools.
The optimal size antenna is that size. Your car antenna isn't optimal, so it captures very little. The human body - even less.
Nightwish?
Not if the driver is limited to only certain IO port and PCI address ranges. It would have to be compiled on load with verification, but it seems reasonable to me.
...carve out sections of the hard disk...
What do you think databases are trying to do these days? If a basic, general purpose data structure is desired, a filesystem equivalent - then put it in the system library. But the OS's job is resource arbitration - not forcing data models on applications.
Mod parent up +infinity. They may be SUS2k3 certified, but have made it a royal pain to run true *nix apps on it. /etc/fstab not working? WTF? Some vendors are worse (HP-[S]UX and A[in't UN]IX, looking at you), but that doesn't excuse them.
20 MB for a graphics system is fraking HUGE. WTF? People run Full OSes with a complete GUI, i.e. with a window and login manager of a floppy, X11 can't do anything without a gob of RAM? I don't give shit how cheap it is, that's plain too much. Heck, a Linux kernel with everything + the kitchen sink doesn't hit 15MB, IIRC. I value X11 as a system, and it's heritage, but it needs to go on a diet ASAP.
Just replace MicroXwin's kernel module with a Apache licensed one, and you're ready. That specific license is both GPL and BSD compatible, and, considering the code's nature, it'll be resistant to commercial hijacking.
...hold Adobe at gunpoint...
Yes.