Finally the last few hardware manufactures have joint the Linux game. Like the wifi-drivers by Broadcom ( http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/ ) and the last printer-manufacturer also finally released something (I think it was brother).
1. I'm not sure how soon that will happen. I do see some things, but nothing which will take away that problem soon. But I can tell you, having a Windows 7 64-bit on my desk at work is a total software-compatibilty nightmare as well. There is a lot of stuff which just doesn't want to work. There is other stuff which doesn't want to work on Windows 7/Vista in general and there is stuff which doesn't run on Windows 2000 or XP anymore. So yet there is fragmentation on Linux, but Windows isn't doing so well either.
2. It's actually a 2 way street. The creators of these systems don't seem to be interrested in releasing their products for Linux.
3. That could be changing soon, because Linux recently got native Direct3D 10/11 support:
Just like to add, IE9 is only available on Windows Vista and 7, not on XP, XP will be around for years to come. Sales of Windows 7 haven't been al that great. It is only on new computers sold and if you look at the current systems out there, they are fast enough for most.
Microsoft also does not think Windows 7 is useful for iPad-like devices, so they won't be sold on that either.
So IE9 isn't gonna have a lot of impact in the next few years.
euh... your kidding, right ? Firefox 4 (which is in Beta right now) will be out with hardware support before IE9 (not beta or release candidate) proper will be released.
Firefox has also had 64-bit support for years, Chromium/Chrome does too.
Standards support should be highest on the list for everyone and IE9 when released will have the least of all.
Well, a large part of LibreOffice came from the http://go-oo.org/ project, which had a lot of patches for OpenOffice which didn't (yet?) get accepted to OpenOffice.org.
The version at go-oo was actually the one that was used by most Linux-distributions, it is pretty much the code-base for where LibreOffice started.
In (western) europe everything is so well inter-connected, I think if you shutdown the tier-1 networks in Europe, most ISP's would not have connections problems with anything else in Europe.
Only the customers who are directly and only connected to the tier-1 providers.
Atleast in theory. Only if they can handle the extra traffic ofcourse.
Actually I think, if I understand it correctly, it was the neighbour plot where the datacenter will be. We don't know what plans Apple has for the plot that this story was about.
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I read the article, but blocked the ads.
You probably want this:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
Finally the last few hardware manufactures have joint the Linux game. Like the wifi-drivers by Broadcom ( http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/ ) and the last printer-manufacturer also finally released something (I think it was brother).
1. I'm not sure how soon that will happen. I do see some things, but nothing which will take away that problem soon. But I can tell you, having a Windows 7 64-bit on my desk at work is a total software-compatibilty nightmare as well. There is a lot of stuff which just doesn't want to work. There is other stuff which doesn't want to work on Windows 7/Vista in general and there is stuff which doesn't run on Windows 2000 or XP anymore. So yet there is fragmentation on Linux, but Windows isn't doing so well either.
2. It's actually a 2 way street. The creators of these systems don't seem to be interrested in releasing their products for Linux.
3. That could be changing soon, because Linux recently got native Direct3D 10/11 support:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mesa_gallium3d_d3d11
I've found Ubuntu comes much closer to 'just works', Fedora feels more like a technology preview to me.
I think he means netbooks (really crappy keyboard, possible not with an Intel-compatible CPU).
Funny, I haven't had any problems with hardware/drivers when I bought the PC pre-installed with Ubuntu.
This is what Apple does too, so where is the problem ?
You don't need to use a commandline in Ubuntu. There is a GUI for pretty much everything.
Funny you should mention that, did you know that last September Direct3D 10/11 went native on Linux ?:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mesa_gallium3d_d3d11
And they are putting hooks into Wine to use it.
There is no denying, there are more IPv4 /8's allocated this year, then there are left in the pool for the RIR's.
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg13209.html
'In the next couple of years' is a pretty good prediction:
http://www.ipv4depletion.com/?page_id=147
Most companies and providers are not realising it:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/092010-companies-starting-to-get-ipv6.html
Just like to add, IE9 is only available on Windows Vista and 7, not on XP, XP will be around for years to come. Sales of Windows 7 haven't been al that great. It is only on new computers sold and if you look at the current systems out there, they are fast enough for most.
Microsoft also does not think Windows 7 is useful for iPad-like devices, so they won't be sold on that either.
So IE9 isn't gonna have a lot of impact in the next few years.
euh... your kidding, right ? Firefox 4 (which is in Beta right now) will be out with hardware support before IE9 (not beta or release candidate) proper will be released.
Firefox has also had 64-bit support for years, Chromium/Chrome does too.
Standards support should be highest on the list for everyone and IE9 when released will have the least of all.
Think about that.
"I thought many distros used Go-oo anyway, not OO.o proper. So they already supported a fork."
The codebase for LibreOffice is practically Go-oo.
Let me guess development on OpenOffice will mostly stop, Oracle keeps selling StarOffice ?
Which was already using go-oo.org (not-(yet?)-accepted-patches-to-openoffice), on which LibreOffice is based.
Well, a large part of LibreOffice came from the http://go-oo.org/ project, which had a lot of patches for OpenOffice which didn't (yet?) get accepted to OpenOffice.org.
The version at go-oo was actually the one that was used by most Linux-distributions, it is pretty much the code-base for where LibreOffice started.
Maybe it would have stuck at that 90% if their acceptence policy for patches wasn't such a mess.
WordPad on Windows creates RTF, if that gives you an idea what RTF is like.
Well, it depends how you look at it.
In (western) europe everything is so well inter-connected, I think if you shutdown the tier-1 networks in Europe, most ISP's would not have connections problems with anything else in Europe.
Only the customers who are directly and only connected to the tier-1 providers.
Atleast in theory. Only if they can handle the extra traffic ofcourse.
In the US the situation is not that good though.
That is not where it originates.
It originates at the edge. That is whole point.
Webservers, mailservers, are all at the edge. The users are too. The users/designers, etc. are the creators.
The Tier 1 providers (which are less and less relevant) just relay packets.
That is why I said, define it and tell me where it originates. Because it does not originate from just one point.
It is all over the place.
"Not to mention the internet service does not originate with them."
So define the internet and where does it originate, then ?
I hope you noticed the irony in my post, because that was my point exactly. :-)
Yes, big warnings work really well. Bombard them with a lot of warning, all the time, I'm sure that will really help.
Actually I think, if I understand it correctly, it was the neighbour plot where the datacenter will be. We don't know what plans Apple has for the plot that this story was about.