Right after the ENIAC and UNIVAC port. Then soon after NetBSD shall be ported to the EMU10K1. Not to operate the sound card -- an actual port to the EMU10K1.
There are some of us too that don't want to pony up the $200 for a half-decent Windoze XP Pro -- that just for the upgrade, or in my case, $300 because I dumped Windoze a few years ago and since I don't have 98, ME, or 2000, I'm not eligable for the upgrade. XP Home just doesn't cut it. There are those that don't want Windoze because of the privacy concerns, the security concerns, etc. For what I'd have to pay in Windoze software to help guard my system, plus the cost of the licence (which if I don't upgrade when MS wants, I pay for dearly) I can get a hell of a lot more hardware!
One thing's for sure: TG has the balls to come out and make their product for those who would much prefer not to deal with a MS product for whatever reason. I've seen MS give the shaft to a lot of people and business in my professional carrer, and they rightfully deserve the "M$" monkier. Give TG time, and issues with it will hammer out. They've expanded the Linux gaming library quite a bit more than Loki has, along with icculus.
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
And it is not emulation -- it is an alternate API implentation. WINE on x86 requires no virtualization or emulation of machine instructions. WINE loads the EXEs directly into RAM and locates the various DLLs so that the machine can properly run the Windoze program. This is not emulation.
I don't think TG as a company will go away; I would be very suprised if they did. WineX and the focus of the company may change over time, but TG as a company is going to be strong. TG did the right thing; Loki did the popular thing. One's dead; the other is at version 3.0 and is really gaining attention. Of course hindsight is 20/20.:-)
And an IBM exclusive (heh, Big Blue sure learned), but one of the largest selling points was Windoze compatability. They got Win16 going but Win32 and the flooding of APIs...
BTW, don't get me wrong here; I'm a TG subscriber, but I'd still hate to see companies pass on Linux development "because WineX can run it". Right now WineX is a Good Thing, but it could become a Bad Thing if Linux becomes popular.
I'm wary of wine making various Unix and Unix clones going the way of OS/2. So far it has only helped, and people that weren't intrested in Linux for example "because it doesn't run my Wintendo games" are now intrested. This is good, but we must focus on getting native titles out for Unix and Unix clones. Remember what happened to OS/2...
What M$ is doing here is just leeching; per usual off of other people's efforts. This time however it is made to look like they're actually sharing source, but altercations that is really your copyright have to be licenced royalty-free to M$ yet to sell those changes you have to pay M$ as well as your engineers!? That's not in the spirit of OSS.
It will make Open Office more attractive, especially for proprietary ("We hates proprietary! Hates it, hates it!") extensions. Seriously, both OSS licenced and proprietary/commerical modules will make for better file formats and more functionality. I have seen in my Sys Admin experience having to deal with M$ Office licenses solely for the reason of M$ Office API's integrated with the properietary software.
Another Mac product... oh wait... *hears Switch commercial music playing in the background* "And like, I was watching this great show on TV, and suddenly the TV was like going *beep beep beep beeeppp beep* That's when I switched to iTV."
However, like most companies that love controlling things, they don't want a middle man to deal with. The current model of their sales deals in a middleman which in turn does mark up CD sales. Having both the retail end (along with the wholesale end) and you cut out the middle man. For the "middle man" on the net so far has been the various P2P programs (Napster, Gnutella, Kazaa, etc). The RIAA would love to seize this chance of a new medium I'm sure -- just they want to be the only distributers out there. Having someone like a P2P (even if it's a legal download!) would not only cut off their chances of monopolizing the net model of sales, but also make it so that artists don't have to scramble to the whim of the RIAA looking for the star of the month.
They took radio along with Clear Channel -- let's not let them take the net.
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Right after the ENIAC and UNIVAC port. Then soon after NetBSD shall be ported to the EMU10K1. Not to operate the sound card -- an actual port to the EMU10K1.
I'm going to have to call her later on. She's like, into Lord of the Rings and other geeky stuff. BTW, what's Linux???
password: slash1
Simple enough.
Then you'd have a stroke, be knocked offline, and if you're lucky you'd be back surfing as Windows XP Home.
Poor me; I have to implement it in COBOL :-(
One thing's for sure: TG has the balls to come out and make their product for those who would much prefer not to deal with a MS product for whatever reason. I've seen MS give the shaft to a lot of people and business in my professional carrer, and they rightfully deserve the "M$" monkier. Give TG time, and issues with it will hammer out. They've expanded the Linux gaming library quite a bit more than Loki has, along with icculus.
Thank you for playing!
And it is not emulation -- it is an alternate API implentation. WINE on x86 requires no virtualization or emulation of machine instructions. WINE loads the EXEs directly into RAM and locates the various DLLs so that the machine can properly run the Windoze program. This is not emulation.
I don't think TG as a company will go away; I would be very suprised if they did. WineX and the focus of the company may change over time, but TG as a company is going to be strong. TG did the right thing; Loki did the popular thing. One's dead; the other is at version 3.0 and is really gaining attention. Of course hindsight is 20/20. :-)
BTW, don't get me wrong here; I'm a TG subscriber, but I'd still hate to see companies pass on Linux development "because WineX can run it". Right now WineX is a Good Thing, but it could become a Bad Thing if Linux becomes popular.
I'm wary of wine making various Unix and Unix clones going the way of OS/2. So far it has only helped, and people that weren't intrested in Linux for example "because it doesn't run my Wintendo games" are now intrested. This is good, but we must focus on getting native titles out for Unix and Unix clones. Remember what happened to OS/2...
A cooling solution for the Opteron!
"You see? Our WMP on Linux Embedded Devices is 33% slower than on Windows CE!" "Uh... what? We're causing to be slower on purpose? No habla ingles?"
What M$ is doing here is just leeching; per usual off of other people's efforts. This time however it is made to look like they're actually sharing source, but altercations that is really your copyright have to be licenced royalty-free to M$ yet to sell those changes you have to pay M$ as well as your engineers!? That's not in the spirit of OSS.
Go Open Office!
Wait wait wait you have a wife? Dude, this is Slashdot; are you sure you're not a misdirected user???
IANAL, nor an immigration specialist. :-P
It is supposed to be temporary for a quick need to fill skilled positions; in this case I don't think H1-B is being used properly.
feh who needs hard drives larger than 540 MB anyway? A 386 with a 387 FPU with 8 MB RAM is more than enough for me! Sheesh all this bloat... for what?
Poor docs, now they'll have to carry Medical DoS Insurance...
Another Mac product... oh wait... *hears Switch commercial music playing in the background* "And like, I was watching this great show on TV, and suddenly the TV was like going *beep beep beep beeeppp beep* That's when I switched to iTV."
This program has commited a General Protection Fault and will fire ICBMs at DC. If the problem persists, quit calling Microsoft a monopoly.
But they couldn't figure out how to convert US dollars to Euros...
No I'm pretty sure the NetBSD team is all ready porting to this chip, and should be expected soon right after they get done with the UNIVAC I port.
They took radio along with Clear Channel -- let's not let them take the net.