Windows has no touch screen support out of the box either. I do not understand why it is acceptable and expected to install all sorts of third party drivers on a Windows system, but as soon as you have to do it on any Linux distribution it's "Not ready for prime time." I'm guessing that people who make comments like this fall in to one of 3 catagories:
Microsoft or Apple schills.
Windows or Apple zealots who have never tried Linux themselves.
People who are presented with a slightly different way of doing things and can't be bothered to learn since it's easier to spread FUD around.
Lightning generally enters a building in one of two ways. Either it enters through the power grid or through the phone lines (I suppose it would be possible to enter through cable lines as well but I have never heard of this happening.) Since phone lines aren't often connected directly to computers anymore, lightning entering this way will kill your DSL modem rather then your computer. Generally lightning doesn't find it's way through the DSL modem and in to your NIC. Nowadays the most common way for lightning to kill a computer is through the power grid. Since photovoltaic cells have not progressed to the point where we can get grid power over fiber optics, this tech won't do anything to alleviate the problem.
Just thinking of all the worthless-when-they-were-new E-machines out there makes me think it might just be a really good idea.
Sadly, E-machines and old P2-Socket 478 P4, full tower, ugly, beige gateways are the only ATX complaint name-brand cases I've seen in a long while. I have a friend who has a strange hobby of building nice gaming rigs in these E-machines cases (with vantec tornado's for cooling) and taking them to LAN parties just to get funny looks.
If by "Flavor of the month" you mean "flavor of the last 5 years" I might agree. OSS was marked deprecated in the kernel tree when 2.6.0 came out. Luckily, ALSA--which has been the audio implementation that has been standard since then--supports OSS emulation. That way old OSS apps still have working sound.
The fact that it is 2009 and there are still audio issues on Linux is telling, however.
The problem isn't with Linux, it's with old, unsupported applications taking exclusive control of the sound card (Teamspeak, I'm looking at you.) This new feature should help fix that problem while still maintaining backward compatibility.
IMHO, if you really want humanity to have a backup plan, long-term space-based habitation makes far more sense... either way, you're gonna have to build an artificial biosphere, but at least with mobile habitation, you can take people to the resources, rather than the other way 'round. But, of course, no one's really seriously talking about long-term space habitation. They're talking about planetary colonization, which, given the nature of the moon, Mars, and other bodies in our solar system, is absurd... why trap ourselves in yet another gravity well, and this time a sterile one?
Planetary colonization is also going to require an artificial biosphere. IMHO it's a lot easier to build the biosphere on a planet and be sitting right on the resources you will need as opposed to flying around space to get them. The tech needed to build the biosphere on Mars can help develop the tech for long-term space habitation. How is colonizing another planet where there are available resources any less absurd or sterile than colonizing the vacuum of space?
When you consent to the EULA you're consenting to WGA. Don't like what WGA does? Don't consent to the EULA (and consequently, don't use Windows). Simple.
Switching to Linux or a Mac may be simple for you or me, but "average" users don't always have that luxury...especially if they are stuck using legacy applications with no easy way to migrate to FOSS. Personally, I don't agree with the Windows EULA and therefore don't use Windows. I wish it was that simple for everyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage#Data_collected
To summarize:
* Computer make and model
* BIOS checksum.
* MAC address.
* A unique number assigned to your computer by the tools (Globally Unique Identifier or GUID)
* Hard drive serial number.
* Region and language settings of the operating system.
* Operating system version.
* PC BIOS information (make, version, date).
PC manufacturer.
* User locale setting.
* Validation and installation results.
* Windows or Office product key.
* Windows product ID.
A more reasonable list would be the last 3 things on that list and the GUID. What does Microsoft need my BIOS information for? Why do they need my hard drive's serial number? Please explain to me why it is unreasonable to be prompted and notified what information is being sent before hand. Since only Microsoft can see the code for the WGA how do we know that is the only information collected? Bottom line is that most of the information on that list is none of Microsoft's business--the collection and transmission of this data is a security risk since we do not know what it is being used for.
Microsoft is using their position of a monopoly to corner a majority of computer users into putting their privacy at risk.
No -- they're just defending themselves against piracy.
No -- they're putting users at risk. If you don't accept the EULA you don't get critical patches and upgrades leaving your system wide open. If you do accept the EULA Microsoft is mining data from your PC that is really none of their business.
No, that's a flagrant lie. By installing Windows/WGA you are explicitly giving WGA your consent to dig through your property.
It DOES NOT prompt or tell the user when the WGA is running or sending back information. It does not ask permission at the time it sends the information. Whether or not I give permission, the fact that it does (or wants to) dig through my property at all is the problem. Some of us have no choice but to have a Windows box laying around. Not accepting the license for the WGA prevents that computer from being patched and it becomes a privacy concern. Since none of us really know the information the WGA sends back to Microsoft, it is a privacy concern. Microsoft is using their position of a monopoly to corner a majority of computer users into putting their privacy at risk.
That analogy doesn't hold water. You go through metal detectors when you enter say, Best Buy. You aren't even their customer at that point but they've already 'treated you like a criminal'.
Your analogy does not hold water either. When I am in Best Buy walking through the detectors I am on their property. When the WGA is digging through my computer without my consent it's running on MY property...the hardware I paid for.
Bottom line -- suggest a better way of preventing piracy, maybe then you'll have some moral high-ground for your complaint.
The best option I can think of would be to open source windows and change to a support-type model. Since this will never happen the next best option would be not to bother. This DRM does not work anyway. All the WGA does is force the pirates to find a volume licensed copy of Windows to pirate instead. It's really more of an annoyance than anything else. Although what's more annoying is when there are false positives (like any form of DRM I suppose.) Besides, if Microsoft does too good a job of preventing piracy I suspect many of the pirates would switch to Linux or another free OS. I'm pretty sure Microsoft wouldn't want to loose all of that market share.
That's funny. I have an old Fujitsu tablet PC at home with those specs. Firefox 3.5 runs fine on it. I can use modern rich web pages fine. Flash is a little on the laggy side but that's because Flash on Linux isn't the best anyway. The GIMP works perfectly. Obviously you can't game on it but that's not the point. The point is that Windows 7 or Vista won't run on it, and even if they did there wouldn't be any resources available to run *ANY* applications. Ubuntu 9.04 with Firefox, OpenOffice, the GIMP, vlc, etc... runs well.
Yes. That's exactly what it does. Just like you can run modern applications on Windows XP on the same machine. I don't have to run a Linux distribution from 2001 to use that computer. One would need to use a version of Windows from 2001--it is nearly 2 versions out of date--just to get the same functionality from the same machine.
I'm pretty sure you missed the point here, but the argument could have been worded better. I'm pretty sure the FSF was referring to Microsoft's nasty habit of breaking compatibility between versions of Office. They also have a habit of breaking support for installing older versions of Office on newer versions of Windows. If you don't believe me, try installing Office 97 on Windows XP some time. Remember, Office 97 was only 4 years old when XP came out and it worked fine on Windows 2000.
Now please, list for me, the free software OS distributions that are provided with security fixes for 10-12 years after release?
You missed the point here as well. Pretty much any *Modern* FOSS distribution will run (albeit slowly) on a 700MHz P3 with 512MB RAM. Try that with Vista or Win 7.
Is it really a sin for microsoft to try and find out if you are stealing from them?
Is it a sin for someone from WalMart to break in to your house every couple of weeks and check the items in your house against what you have purchased from them? After all, they are just making sure you didn't steal anything from them. And that gift you received that didn't come with a receipt...likely story. You clearly stole it and won't be allowed to use it to it's fullest extent anymore.
So you have ruined the global economy through frivolous waste and fraud, perpetrated wars that have caused the deaths of over a million people in recent years, and now just when you elect someone to be your leader who has the semblance of common sense, there is a push by "the usual suspects" to push back human progress by decades.
I know it's trendy for you Europeans to sit there, drink your tea and eat crumpets (beer and wurst, Merlot and veal or whatever) and pretend your shit doesn't stink. This ripping on America trend is getting really old. If you Europeans are so enlightened why do you feel the need to put other people down. People who are different than you only in that they were born in a different location. If you want to start talking about waste, fraud and lost lives let's look at the last 200 years of European history. From the 15th century until WW1 many European nations exploited most of the continent of Asia and the Indian subcontinent. When they were done there, they moved to Africa and South America. Instead of merely installing a government of their liking (as the US has been known to do on occasion) these nations decided to make them colonies. The natives of these colonies were often exploited or used for slave labor. This mostly came to an end when the nations of Europe got sick of fighting over territory and killed over 40 million people in WW1.As if this wasn't enough, they decided to have an encore performance a couple of decades later. This time between 61,798,600 and 77,788,600 lives were lost. In both of these cases the US had to step in to help end these wars. When the wrongs of the US can add up to half of the imperialism and warmongering that the members of the EU have done in the last 200 years you can start being snobby and complain. In the mean time I'm going to sit here in the good 'ol United States and be thankful for the personal freedoms I still have and hope and pray that this country does not go the way of Europe and take those freedoms from me.
It is true that the US is the last best hope of humanity, for China builds the equivalent of a coal plant every week. If the US does not act to reduce the 'carbon footprint' of humanity, we are all going to be fucked.
So you obviously hate the US. You think the US is imperialistic and meddle other nations affairs. Why, then, do you think the US is responsible for the "carbon footprint of humanity." You state that China pollutes more than the US so why aren't you ripping on them?
Will Americans overcome their innate fear and ignorance to reclaim leadership of the free world? Stay-tuned.
Since when did Americans ask to be your leaders? How do you know the average American has an innate fear and ignorance? You sound pretty ignorant to me. You start your post complaining about American warmongering and now you want us to take over the world?
I think people are missing the point here. It has very little to do with binary blobs and licensing, and everything to do with the amount of work involved (cost) and the potential sales (benefit).
How many people using Linux as a serious gaming platform?
It's a chicken and egg problem. I know a lot of people who would jump ship to Linux if their favorite 5 or so games had a native Linux port.
Heh, I'm going to go home and give quake live a try on my linux box tonight. I was enthusiastic about it at first, but when there was no Linux port even a couple of months after release I just sort of forgot it even existed. A quick google confirmed it works on Linux now. I wonder how many other Linux users gave up hope on this game when there wasn't a port available in a reasonable time frame.
...or that Linux drivers do not really exist as the frequent kernel changes makes vendor software drivers invalid, lots of people got alienated over the years and even enthusiast now say something like that they've stopped worrying about Linux and love Windows. A sad story.
It's a well known fact that the kernel devs will write and/or maintain a driver and include it in the kernel tree if the vendor asks and provides them with documentation on how to implement it. It's a sad story that many vendors are stuck in the windows rut and don't take the kernel devs up on this offer.
Linux is also a giant pain in the ass to support, and that's undoubtedly factored into their cost/benefit analysis too.
Well, I must admit they've done a pretty good job in the past. I can still fire up the original UT (Not ID but still) or Quake 3 on my Linux box and they still work fine. Besides, how much support do they really provide to either Linux or Windows users?
In which imaginary world would half the Linux users all buy the same game?
They don't have to. TFA is talking about an engine, not a specific game. ID's last engine had all sorts of games using it. Quite a few had Linux ports.
Realistically, given the state of gaming on Linux in the past, I doubt many Linux users are also hardcore gamers.
That may be the case, but I know a lot of hardcore gamers that are not happy with Windows and would happily jump to Linux if there were more native games. I also know quite a few people who dual-boot and keep the windows partition around only for games.
I'd rather have to tap the little button to bring up the onscreen keyboard than have my IM client advertise at me constantly. To each their own I guess.
You're right, I use the on-screen keyboard. I never really thought it was that big of a deal. Your claim that GTK apps do not "Support tablet input" is still incorrect. The GIMP on supports the tablet perfectly on both of the tablets I use...including the pressure sensitivity. GTK stands for Gimp Toolkit so I'd say that it's a GTK application:-).
Actually, that part is left out for OEM versions of Windows. The part of the EULA regarding returning it is exactly:
By using the software, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not
use the software. Instead, contact the manufacturer or installer to determine their
return policy for a refund or credit./quote
I'm running pidgin on my work PC right now. It's a Fujitsu Lifebook T-series running XP tablet PC edition. Pidgin and every other gtk app work just fine. The other tablet I use here is running linux with Xfce as the WM. (Xfce uses GTK as it's toolkit.) The GIMP, Pidgin and every other app run fine.
TFA is talking about an embedded CPU. Last time I checked EXA and OpenGL are graphics-related, V4L2 is for video devices and GStreamer is a cross-platform multimedia framework that talks to hardware via plugins for alsa, oss or whatever it is that OSX uses. These CPU's shouldn't "support" any of this stuff. If you are referring to the chipset these chips will be used with, they already support EXA and OpenGL with both the proprietary and oss drivers. The onboard sound has also been supported by ALSA for well over a year now. I'm not sure where V4L2 fits in here...I've never heard of a chipset with a built-in TV tuner or webcam.
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Scooters are probably easier because people can sit on them. Segways are too much work because you have to use your legs to stand.
Lightning generally enters a building in one of two ways. Either it enters through the power grid or through the phone lines (I suppose it would be possible to enter through cable lines as well but I have never heard of this happening.) Since phone lines aren't often connected directly to computers anymore, lightning entering this way will kill your DSL modem rather then your computer. Generally lightning doesn't find it's way through the DSL modem and in to your NIC. Nowadays the most common way for lightning to kill a computer is through the power grid. Since photovoltaic cells have not progressed to the point where we can get grid power over fiber optics, this tech won't do anything to alleviate the problem.
(for example, flash just crawls when I am viewing it thru firefox in ubuntu).
This is mainly because Adobe doesn't spend nearly as much time or money on the Linux port of flash.
Just thinking of all the worthless-when-they-were-new E-machines out there makes me think it might just be a really good idea.
Sadly, E-machines and old P2-Socket 478 P4, full tower, ugly, beige gateways are the only ATX complaint name-brand cases I've seen in a long while. I have a friend who has a strange hobby of building nice gaming rigs in these E-machines cases (with vantec tornado's for cooling) and taking them to LAN parties just to get funny looks.
If by "Flavor of the month" you mean "flavor of the last 5 years" I might agree. OSS was marked deprecated in the kernel tree when 2.6.0 came out. Luckily, ALSA--which has been the audio implementation that has been standard since then--supports OSS emulation. That way old OSS apps still have working sound.
The fact that it is 2009 and there are still audio issues on Linux is telling, however.
The problem isn't with Linux, it's with old, unsupported applications taking exclusive control of the sound card (Teamspeak, I'm looking at you.) This new feature should help fix that problem while still maintaining backward compatibility.
IMHO, if you really want humanity to have a backup plan, long-term space-based habitation makes far more sense... either way, you're gonna have to build an artificial biosphere, but at least with mobile habitation, you can take people to the resources, rather than the other way 'round. But, of course, no one's really seriously talking about long-term space habitation. They're talking about planetary colonization, which, given the nature of the moon, Mars, and other bodies in our solar system, is absurd... why trap ourselves in yet another gravity well, and this time a sterile one?
Planetary colonization is also going to require an artificial biosphere. IMHO it's a lot easier to build the biosphere on a planet and be sitting right on the resources you will need as opposed to flying around space to get them. The tech needed to build the biosphere on Mars can help develop the tech for long-term space habitation. How is colonizing another planet where there are available resources any less absurd or sterile than colonizing the vacuum of space?
When you consent to the EULA you're consenting to WGA. Don't like what WGA does? Don't consent to the EULA (and consequently, don't use Windows). Simple.
Switching to Linux or a Mac may be simple for you or me, but "average" users don't always have that luxury...especially if they are stuck using legacy applications with no easy way to migrate to FOSS. Personally, I don't agree with the Windows EULA and therefore don't use Windows. I wish it was that simple for everyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage#Data_collected To summarize: * Computer make and model * BIOS checksum. * MAC address. * A unique number assigned to your computer by the tools (Globally Unique Identifier or GUID) * Hard drive serial number. * Region and language settings of the operating system. * Operating system version. * PC BIOS information (make, version, date). PC manufacturer. * User locale setting. * Validation and installation results. * Windows or Office product key. * Windows product ID.
A more reasonable list would be the last 3 things on that list and the GUID. What does Microsoft need my BIOS information for? Why do they need my hard drive's serial number? Please explain to me why it is unreasonable to be prompted and notified what information is being sent before hand. Since only Microsoft can see the code for the WGA how do we know that is the only information collected? Bottom line is that most of the information on that list is none of Microsoft's business--the collection and transmission of this data is a security risk since we do not know what it is being used for.
Microsoft is using their position of a monopoly to corner a majority of computer users into putting their privacy at risk.
No -- they're just defending themselves against piracy.
No -- they're putting users at risk. If you don't accept the EULA you don't get critical patches and upgrades leaving your system wide open. If you do accept the EULA Microsoft is mining data from your PC that is really none of their business.
No, that's a flagrant lie. By installing Windows/WGA you are explicitly giving WGA your consent to dig through your property.
It DOES NOT prompt or tell the user when the WGA is running or sending back information. It does not ask permission at the time it sends the information. Whether or not I give permission, the fact that it does (or wants to) dig through my property at all is the problem. Some of us have no choice but to have a Windows box laying around. Not accepting the license for the WGA prevents that computer from being patched and it becomes a privacy concern. Since none of us really know the information the WGA sends back to Microsoft, it is a privacy concern. Microsoft is using their position of a monopoly to corner a majority of computer users into putting their privacy at risk.
That analogy doesn't hold water. You go through metal detectors when you enter say, Best Buy. You aren't even their customer at that point but they've already 'treated you like a criminal'.
Your analogy does not hold water either. When I am in Best Buy walking through the detectors I am on their property. When the WGA is digging through my computer without my consent it's running on MY property...the hardware I paid for.
Bottom line -- suggest a better way of preventing piracy, maybe then you'll have some moral high-ground for your complaint.
The best option I can think of would be to open source windows and change to a support-type model. Since this will never happen the next best option would be not to bother. This DRM does not work anyway. All the WGA does is force the pirates to find a volume licensed copy of Windows to pirate instead. It's really more of an annoyance than anything else. Although what's more annoying is when there are false positives (like any form of DRM I suppose.) Besides, if Microsoft does too good a job of preventing piracy I suspect many of the pirates would switch to Linux or another free OS. I'm pretty sure Microsoft wouldn't want to loose all of that market share.
That's funny. I have an old Fujitsu tablet PC at home with those specs. Firefox 3.5 runs fine on it. I can use modern rich web pages fine. Flash is a little on the laggy side but that's because Flash on Linux isn't the best anyway. The GIMP works perfectly. Obviously you can't game on it but that's not the point. The point is that Windows 7 or Vista won't run on it, and even if they did there wouldn't be any resources available to run *ANY* applications. Ubuntu 9.04 with Firefox, OpenOffice, the GIMP, vlc, etc... runs well.
Yes. That's exactly what it does. Just like you can run modern applications on Windows XP on the same machine. I don't have to run a Linux distribution from 2001 to use that computer. One would need to use a version of Windows from 2001--it is nearly 2 versions out of date--just to get the same functionality from the same machine.
Now please, list for me, the free software OS distributions that are provided with security fixes for 10-12 years after release?
You missed the point here as well. Pretty much any *Modern* FOSS distribution will run (albeit slowly) on a 700MHz P3 with 512MB RAM. Try that with Vista or Win 7.
Is it really a sin for microsoft to try and find out if you are stealing from them?
Is it a sin for someone from WalMart to break in to your house every couple of weeks and check the items in your house against what you have purchased from them? After all, they are just making sure you didn't steal anything from them. And that gift you received that didn't come with a receipt...likely story. You clearly stole it and won't be allowed to use it to it's fullest extent anymore.
So you have ruined the global economy through frivolous waste and fraud, perpetrated wars that have caused the deaths of over a million people in recent years, and now just when you elect someone to be your leader who has the semblance of common sense, there is a push by "the usual suspects" to push back human progress by decades.
I know it's trendy for you Europeans to sit there, drink your tea and eat crumpets (beer and wurst, Merlot and veal or whatever) and pretend your shit doesn't stink. This ripping on America trend is getting really old. If you Europeans are so enlightened why do you feel the need to put other people down. People who are different than you only in that they were born in a different location. If you want to start talking about waste, fraud and lost lives let's look at the last 200 years of European history. From the 15th century until WW1 many European nations exploited most of the continent of Asia and the Indian subcontinent. When they were done there, they moved to Africa and South America. Instead of merely installing a government of their liking (as the US has been known to do on occasion) these nations decided to make them colonies. The natives of these colonies were often exploited or used for slave labor. This mostly came to an end when the nations of Europe got sick of fighting over territory and killed over 40 million people in WW1.As if this wasn't enough, they decided to have an encore performance a couple of decades later. This time between 61,798,600 and 77,788,600 lives were lost. In both of these cases the US had to step in to help end these wars. When the wrongs of the US can add up to half of the imperialism and warmongering that the members of the EU have done in the last 200 years you can start being snobby and complain. In the mean time I'm going to sit here in the good 'ol United States and be thankful for the personal freedoms I still have and hope and pray that this country does not go the way of Europe and take those freedoms from me.
It is true that the US is the last best hope of humanity, for China builds the equivalent of a coal plant every week. If the US does not act to reduce the 'carbon footprint' of humanity, we are all going to be fucked.
So you obviously hate the US. You think the US is imperialistic and meddle other nations affairs. Why, then, do you think the US is responsible for the "carbon footprint of humanity." You state that China pollutes more than the US so why aren't you ripping on them?
Will Americans overcome their innate fear and ignorance to reclaim leadership of the free world? Stay-tuned.
Since when did Americans ask to be your leaders? How do you know the average American has an innate fear and ignorance? You sound pretty ignorant to me. You start your post complaining about American warmongering and now you want us to take over the world?
I think people are missing the point here. It has very little to do with binary blobs and licensing, and everything to do with the amount of work involved (cost) and the potential sales (benefit).
How many people using Linux as a serious gaming platform?
It's a chicken and egg problem. I know a lot of people who would jump ship to Linux if their favorite 5 or so games had a native Linux port.
Heh, I'm going to go home and give quake live a try on my linux box tonight. I was enthusiastic about it at first, but when there was no Linux port even a couple of months after release I just sort of forgot it even existed. A quick google confirmed it works on Linux now. I wonder how many other Linux users gave up hope on this game when there wasn't a port available in a reasonable time frame.
...or that Linux drivers do not really exist as the frequent kernel changes makes vendor software drivers invalid, lots of people got alienated over the years and even enthusiast now say something like that they've stopped worrying about Linux and love Windows. A sad story.
It's a well known fact that the kernel devs will write and/or maintain a driver and include it in the kernel tree if the vendor asks and provides them with documentation on how to implement it. It's a sad story that many vendors are stuck in the windows rut and don't take the kernel devs up on this offer.
Linux is also a giant pain in the ass to support, and that's undoubtedly factored into their cost/benefit analysis too.
Well, I must admit they've done a pretty good job in the past. I can still fire up the original UT (Not ID but still) or Quake 3 on my Linux box and they still work fine. Besides, how much support do they really provide to either Linux or Windows users?
In which imaginary world would half the Linux users all buy the same game?
They don't have to. TFA is talking about an engine, not a specific game. ID's last engine had all sorts of games using it. Quite a few had Linux ports.
Realistically, given the state of gaming on Linux in the past, I doubt many Linux users are also hardcore gamers.
That may be the case, but I know a lot of hardcore gamers that are not happy with Windows and would happily jump to Linux if there were more native games. I also know quite a few people who dual-boot and keep the windows partition around only for games.
I'd rather have to tap the little button to bring up the onscreen keyboard than have my IM client advertise at me constantly. To each their own I guess.
You're right, I use the on-screen keyboard. I never really thought it was that big of a deal. Your claim that GTK apps do not "Support tablet input" is still incorrect. The GIMP on supports the tablet perfectly on both of the tablets I use...including the pressure sensitivity. GTK stands for Gimp Toolkit so I'd say that it's a GTK application :-).
By using the software, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the software. Instead, contact the manufacturer or installer to determine their return policy for a refund or credit./quote
I'm running pidgin on my work PC right now. It's a Fujitsu Lifebook T-series running XP tablet PC edition. Pidgin and every other gtk app work just fine. The other tablet I use here is running linux with Xfce as the WM. (Xfce uses GTK as it's toolkit.) The GIMP, Pidgin and every other app run fine.
TFA is talking about an embedded CPU. Last time I checked EXA and OpenGL are graphics-related, V4L2 is for video devices and GStreamer is a cross-platform multimedia framework that talks to hardware via plugins for alsa, oss or whatever it is that OSX uses. These CPU's shouldn't "support" any of this stuff. If you are referring to the chipset these chips will be used with, they already support EXA and OpenGL with both the proprietary and oss drivers. The onboard sound has also been supported by ALSA for well over a year now. I'm not sure where V4L2 fits in here...I've never heard of a chipset with a built-in TV tuner or webcam.