I know there will probably be some people who will complain that this move will allow RedHat to have more control over the free software community (by controlling more of the core software developers) but I think that overall this is good news - wherever the people obtain their funding or venture capital from it all benifits the community. Also, being seperate companies from RedHat it is unlikely that they will control them directly at all.
Funding for new companies has been one area which has been relatively neglected. Although hobbyists do an excellent job (kudos due) I think that to penetrate into the mainstream market Linux/BSD/whatever needs companies to both write software at an increased rate with better resources, but also to direct resources into areas such as documentation which traditionally has recieved little attention (compared to say the technical aspect of the software which is nigh on excellent).
Money was well used IMHO when Keith Whitwell received a donation from id software to enable him to take further leave from work to finish writing a section of the Mesa project. Similar funding in the future, in a similar vein to contract work to work on a certain part of a piece of software, would be benificial to the community as well.
In short - the more funding the better. And there is more of it around than there used to be, which is generally A Good Thing (tm).
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IMHO the current drive towards having one power-hungry-but-fast CPU in most commercial systems is not the best approach for delivering high-power and low-cost systems. A large gain in computing power could be made by changing the machine design to one based around several low power CPUs. A CPU design such as the ARM architecture, if modified to support multi-processing (the StrongARM does not support it as-is, I do not know how the situation is with other ARM chips) would be good for this as ARM CPUs are sufficiently fast and are power-friendly. (see http://www.arm.com for more details).
It would then be possible, once the chipset and motherboard have been designed and manufactured (not a small task by any means) to have a system with a lot of processing power but not costing a great deal more than a typical high-end system today. Also the power requirements for such a system would be on a par with a current system as well, if not less (depending on the number of CPUs employed and the system with which it is being compared).
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Does this release go any way as to bridge the gap between the native GUI and applets which are being run under the JVM? I'm not expecting full support for all the features KDE/Gnome/whatever provide, just the option of using the Widgets from the relavent toolkits, hence inheriting Theme support and the like.
This story is good news for the Save Iridium project. If the technology can be transferred to run on the Iridium satellites they could be used to enhance the internet backbone. Any idea what the ping is to a satellite from earth? AFAICT it will be in the 1 to 2 seconds range, which isn't terribly ideal but would suffice for large downloads with large packet sizes, making the ping time have little effect.
It would beat BOCHS speed wise - it does it's job completely differently to bochs, ie. virtualization, not emulation. And BOCHS doesn't require an x86 CPU.
There is Dynamic Translation code currently being written into BOCHS which will convert the x86 code into native bytecode on-the-fly, increasing speed quite a bit.
IMHO your comment would be valid if it was a new innovative idea - then the company would need as much support as it could get from the Linux community.
Also, FreeMWare is not just being written because people like the idea of VMWare but don't want to pay cash for it. FreeMWare being an open source product gives greater flexibility: it has the potential to be very useful for developing and/or debugging operating systems as developers can tinker with the source code to make it fit their needs.
ARM Ltd (the firm who originally thought of the whole ARM idea and co-developed the StrongARM with DEC) are planning to release the ARM10 core sometime this year. Complete with a FPU. Check out
http://www.arm.com/Pro+Peripherals/Cores/ARM10/
for more details. IMHO it looks better than the planned StrongARMs.
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However, quite a few 'geeks' were / are being abused at school and it should be good to have a site they can visit.
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I know there will probably be some people who will complain that this move will allow RedHat to have more control over the free software community (by controlling more of the core software developers) but I think that overall this is good news - wherever the people obtain their funding or venture capital from it all benifits the community. Also, being seperate companies from RedHat it is unlikely that they will control them directly at all.
Funding for new companies has been one area which has been relatively neglected. Although hobbyists do an excellent job (kudos due) I think that to penetrate into the mainstream market Linux/BSD/whatever needs companies to both write software at an increased rate with better resources, but also to direct resources into areas such as documentation which traditionally has recieved little attention (compared to say the technical aspect of the software which is nigh on excellent).
Money was well used IMHO when Keith Whitwell received a donation from id software to enable him to take further leave from work to finish writing a section of the Mesa project. Similar funding in the future, in a similar vein to contract work to work on a certain part of a piece of software, would be benificial to the community as well.
In short - the more funding the better. And there is more of it around than there used to be, which is generally A Good Thing (tm).
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"Registry error. Switch off or install Linux to continue......"
IMHO the current drive towards having one power-hungry-but-fast CPU in most commercial systems is not the best approach for delivering high-power and low-cost systems. A large gain in computing power could be made by changing the machine design to one based around several low power CPUs. A CPU design such as the ARM architecture, if modified to support multi-processing (the StrongARM does not support it as-is, I do not know how the situation is with other ARM chips) would be good for this as ARM CPUs are sufficiently fast and are power-friendly. (see http://www.arm.com for more details).
It would then be possible, once the chipset and motherboard have been designed and manufactured (not a small task by any means) to have a system with a lot of processing power but not costing a great deal more than a typical high-end system today. Also the power requirements for such a system would be on a par with a current system as well, if not less (depending on the number of CPUs employed and the system with which it is being compared).
Does this release go any way as to bridge the gap between the native GUI and applets which are being run under the JVM? I'm not expecting full support for all the features KDE/Gnome/whatever provide, just the option of using the Widgets from the relavent toolkits, hence inheriting Theme support and the like.
This story is good news for the Save Iridium project. If the technology can be transferred to run on the Iridium satellites they could be used to enhance the internet backbone. Any idea what the ping is to a satellite from earth? AFAICT it will be in the 1 to 2 seconds range, which isn't terribly ideal but would suffice for large downloads with large packet sizes, making the ping time have little effect.
Just my 2c.
It would beat BOCHS speed wise - it does it's job completely differently to bochs, ie. virtualization, not emulation. And BOCHS doesn't require an x86 CPU.
There is Dynamic Translation code currently being written into BOCHS which will convert the x86 code into native bytecode on-the-fly, increasing speed quite a bit.
The idea of virtualization is far from new.
IMHO your comment would be valid if it was a new innovative idea - then the company would need as much support as it could get from the Linux community.
Also, FreeMWare is not just being written because people like the idea of VMWare but don't want to pay cash for it. FreeMWare being an open source product gives greater flexibility: it has the potential to be very useful for developing and/or debugging operating systems as developers can tinker with the source code to make it fit their needs.
FYI - I knew that.
This message is written under an Acorn Risc PC with a StrongARM processor inside it. I've got an A5000, with an ARM3, in the next room.
When I said 'ARM Ltd designed the whole ARM thing' I meant the people who transferred from Acorn to ARM thus becoming the ARM people.
ARM Ltd (the firm who originally thought of the whole ARM idea and co-developed the StrongARM with DEC) are planning to release the ARM10 core sometime this year. Complete with a FPU. Check out
http://www.arm.com/Pro+Peripherals/Cores/ARM10/
for more details. IMHO it looks better than the planned StrongARMs.
However, quite a few 'geeks' were / are being abused at school and it should be good to have a site they can visit.
IMHO you can't beat a nice large mug of Java coffee or a pint of Murphys, depending on your mood.