If I'm not mistaken - with GPRS you're "always on" - meaning you're connected always, and you pay by amount of data transmition. So if you're willing to play MP3's by data transmition - be my guest, just take a 2nd mortgage to pay the bills;)
I think he meant to compare a Linux embedded + GUI compared to the new Windows OS for the cellular phones (forgot it's name)..
As much as I know - you'll need to do MUCH more to tweak Linux kernel to work on a cell phone, add a new GUI (QTopia won't fit - too big, but thats just my guess), and I hardly see why people want to use Linux there - it's not like you're sticking a free copy of debian into it - you'll need lots of closed source apps & support for it (think browser, calendar, and don't forget - all the modem stuff and the hardware talking)...
In short - as it stands now - I didn't see any company sells a Linux solution for cell phone, and there's already some competition - Windows solution, Symbian Solution, GEOS solution (the one that comes with Communicator 9100), and others...
RedHat 7.3 is simply an update and it's binary compatible to all previous 7.x versions - so you cannot play with file locations and binaries to be fully LSB compliant on an updated version..
So if I want to use 3D apps with a Geforce 2 card? what should I do? cry and beg to nVidia? What about my Conexant WinModem that I have? (hey, it's cheap, it does the job great on Windows and Linux) they don't release driver for FreeBSD either...
Lets make a long story short - FreeBSD is GREAT for servers (umm, with open source server applications, I dare you to run Oracle 11i on FreeBSD), but it's horrible for workstations IMHO.
And besides - whats the point to run BSD again? Linux had a shitty VM in terms of performance compared to FreeBSD - it's over dude, kernel 2.4.9-pre6 (that I'm using now) or RedHat's 2.4.18 kernel (which INCLUDES the low latency support) makes Linux runs as fast as FreeBSD or faster + I got more drivers support on the Linux side, so I hardly see the point to run BSD.
Exchange connector costs almost $70 - which means your Redhat 7.3 package will costs you something around ~$130..
Another thing - Ximian RPMS simply break things (although I heard from one of the developers there that this will be fixed very soon) - try to install the Ximian RPMS for mozilla (for example), and then upgrade them with a newer version of Mozilla, not from Ximian.. bzzt - RPM will tell you that Ximian RPMS are newer, despite the fact that it's wrong..
Also, don't forget - they ARE competitors - both sell competing services (up2date VS. Red-Carpet) to their clients at the same prices, so why would RedHat bundle their competitor stuff into their distribution? that doesn't makes any sence..
If you have MS Office CD - then I would suggest you go and buy CrossOver Office from CodeWeavers..
If you don't have the Office CD - then either give Hancom Office a try or Open Office. Buying Star Office 6 will give you support + other nifty stuff..
Unless you forgot, MS is a public company, which needs to satisfy their share-holders - and they have tons of share holders..
So, even if Steve Ballmer wants to keep pouring money on XBox even after all report tells its a failure product - he'll have to explain the share holder why he's dropping money to a "dead" product..
Who knows, maybe XBox can defeat Nintendo selling numbers, although it will be a real tuff - specially in Japan. As for Sony - their machine is damn cheap now - I've seen it being solder at some web sites for $150!
I don't want to call people liars, but Eazel didn't have ANY business plans as far as public people could see. Even when they were approach to bundle commercial software through their services - they replied with a polite email that only their 3rd version of their product will handle infrastructure to sell apps through...
And as for KDE butt ugly - each person and his opinon...
You're talking about RandR support. It's coming (maybe in XFree86 4.3.0 - don't know for sure), but it will allow you this exact feature, and you can also rotate your screen (90, 180,270 degrees)..
Today the situation seems to be in reverse when it comes to features. I remember a friend of mine wanted to by Xi driver for his card (don't remember which card), and was surprised that their X server doesn't support full screen modes for his VMWare and the Xv support simply sucks in their servers...
They do however have a much faster 3D X server for ATI then whats available freely today, although for a high price (when was the last time you payed $100 for a 3D driver?)
There are some still (rare) cases that you need to modify XF86Config by hand. I had such a case few months ago when a friend of mine wanted to make Linux work on his P133 Toshiba Libretto. It was fun to see X running with WindowMaker..
Can u give me a URL for full accelerated driver for my Geforce 2 card? how about some fast 3D graphics please? good XvMC support? umm, perhaps XFT-2 support please?..
And neither of them got the vast driver support that XFree got, and neither of them does video and 3D as XFree offers. BeOS surely offers 3D - but the drivers it got was good 3 years ago. DirectFB doesn't give you 90% of your card's features (maybe accelerated 2D if you're lucky, and some video support - nothing like XvMC extension)..
Want to read Office EULA (End User License Agreement) again?
You can install office on 2 machines - AS LONG as only one of the copies is running at the same time.
Which means in simple language - you can have your office installation on your windows partition AND on your linux partition - since only 1 of them is running at any given time - you're clear.
Lets face it - check almost any Windows user - and you'll find the 2nd most installed application on his/her windows after windows itself - is office. Whether he/she buys it or warez it, or copied from work, or loaned from a friend. Lets be real here - I know it, you know it, MS knows it pretty well...
Also - when you buy a Dell, HP, Gateway, Compaq - 90% chances is that if you bought it with Windows installed - then you got office also in a special pricing deal with the machines - go check some OEM deals how Microsoft "encourage" OEMs to sell Windows+office aggressively.
Hancom Office costs $59.95, cannot export to Word.doc format, cannot do fonts anti aliasing, and works only with standard (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake) Linux distributions.
On the other side - CrossOver Office costs $54.95, and it's running your own copy of Office 97 & 2000 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, even Outlook and Explorer!), does fonts anti-aliasing, runs on all Linux distributions, reads/writes.doc formats perfectly, and your money supports the biggest code contributions to WineHQ tree.
Now - could someone explain to me why would I need to buy Hancom Office?
Lets see - according to the article, one of the first albums that will be available with this Dataplay media - is Britney Spears's new album (with her new hit - yuck, I wish I was dead)
Do you really think that the record labels will release her album on this format alone exclusivly and miss all prime sells to those stupid kiddies who buy her album? no friggin way, sir!..
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Well, there isn't a DMCA law in Canada maybe, but it will be the last thing a business will do (to release copy protection support code) if they want to sign game companies as partners (like they worked on the code of The-Sims).
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Sony & Microsoft - friends? hardly...
Do you think Microsoft liked the fact that the Sony games development machine is running Linux? I hardly think so...
Rumor on the street that the PS3 console itself will be running miniture version of Linux..
If I'm not mistaken - with GPRS you're "always on" - meaning you're connected always, and you pay by amount of data transmition. So if you're willing to play MP3's by data transmition - be my guest, just take a 2nd mortgage to pay the bills ;)
Is there a way to "un-lock" those GSM phones? I have Communicator 9110i and 8210 - any chance for those phones to be un-locked? how?
I think he meant to compare a Linux embedded + GUI compared to the new Windows OS for the cellular phones (forgot it's name)..
As much as I know - you'll need to do MUCH more to tweak Linux kernel to work on a cell phone, add a new GUI (QTopia won't fit - too big, but thats just my guess), and I hardly see why people want to use Linux there - it's not like you're sticking a free copy of debian into it - you'll need lots of closed source apps & support for it (think browser, calendar, and don't forget - all the modem stuff and the hardware talking)...
In short - as it stands now - I didn't see any company sells a Linux solution for cell phone, and there's already some competition - Windows solution, Symbian Solution, GEOS solution (the one that comes with Communicator 9100), and others...
As an owner of Nokia 9100i Communicator - I know you can get the SDK and develop your application as much as you like..
I hardly belive it isn't the case with the 92xx series - so you can get the SDK and write your own import/export filter..
RedHat 7.3 is simply an update and it's binary compatible to all previous 7.x versions - so you cannot play with file locations and binaries to be fully LSB compliant on an updated version..
I guess they'll be LSB compliant on 8.0
ahhm, yeah...
So if I want to use 3D apps with a Geforce 2 card? what should I do? cry and beg to nVidia? What about my Conexant WinModem that I have? (hey, it's cheap, it does the job great on Windows and Linux) they don't release driver for FreeBSD either...
Lets make a long story short - FreeBSD is GREAT for servers (umm, with open source server applications, I dare you to run Oracle 11i on FreeBSD), but it's horrible for workstations IMHO.
And besides - whats the point to run BSD again? Linux had a shitty VM in terms of performance compared to FreeBSD - it's over dude, kernel 2.4.9-pre6 (that I'm using now) or RedHat's 2.4.18 kernel (which INCLUDES the low latency support) makes Linux runs as fast as FreeBSD or faster + I got more drivers support on the Linux side, so I hardly see the point to run BSD.
Why would they??
Exchange connector costs almost $70 - which means your Redhat 7.3 package will costs you something around ~$130..
Another thing - Ximian RPMS simply break things (although I heard from one of the developers there that this will be fixed very soon) - try to install the Ximian RPMS for mozilla (for example), and then upgrade them with a newer version of Mozilla, not from Ximian.. bzzt - RPM will tell you that Ximian RPMS are newer, despite the fact that it's wrong..
Also, don't forget - they ARE competitors - both sell competing services (up2date VS. Red-Carpet) to their clients at the same prices, so why would RedHat bundle their competitor stuff into their distribution? that doesn't makes any sence..
If you have MS Office CD - then I would suggest you go and buy CrossOver Office from CodeWeavers..
If you don't have the Office CD - then either give Hancom Office a try or Open Office. Buying Star Office 6 will give you support + other nifty stuff..
Unless you forgot, MS is a public company, which needs to satisfy their share-holders - and they have tons of share holders..
So, even if Steve Ballmer wants to keep pouring money on XBox even after all report tells its a failure product - he'll have to explain the share holder why he's dropping money to a "dead" product..
Who knows, maybe XBox can defeat Nintendo selling numbers, although it will be a real tuff - specially in Japan. As for Sony - their machine is damn cheap now - I've seen it being solder at some web sites for $150!
already done :)
hmm...
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$120 for the NIC card, $50 for the firmware/software, and $1000 for a license server...
Where's those grandparents who need/afford that? and for what reason?
I don't want to call people liars, but Eazel didn't have ANY business plans as far as public people could see. Even when they were approach to bundle commercial software through their services - they replied with a polite email that only their 3rd version of their product will handle infrastructure to sell apps through...
And as for KDE butt ugly - each person and his opinon...
You're talking about RandR support. It's coming (maybe in XFree86 4.3.0 - don't know for sure), but it will allow you this exact feature, and you can also rotate your screen (90, 180,270 degrees)..
Today the situation seems to be in reverse when it comes to features. I remember a friend of mine wanted to by Xi driver for his card (don't remember which card), and was surprised that their X server doesn't support full screen modes for his VMWare and the Xv support simply sucks in their servers...
They do however have a much faster 3D X server for ATI then whats available freely today, although for a high price (when was the last time you payed $100 for a 3D driver?)
There are some still (rare) cases that you need to modify XF86Config by hand. I had such a case few months ago when a friend of mine wanted to make Linux work on his P133 Toshiba Libretto. It was fun to see X running with WindowMaker..
Oh really?
Can u give me a URL for full accelerated driver for my Geforce 2 card? how about some fast 3D graphics please? good XvMC support? umm, perhaps XFT-2 support please?..
Apparently not...
And neither of them got the vast driver support that XFree got, and neither of them does video and 3D as XFree offers. BeOS surely offers 3D - but the drivers it got was good 3 years ago. DirectFB doesn't give you 90% of your card's features (maybe accelerated 2D if you're lucky, and some video support - nothing like XvMC extension)..
Want to read Office EULA (End User License Agreement) again?
You can install office on 2 machines - AS LONG as only one of the copies is running at the same time.
Which means in simple language - you can have your office installation on your windows partition AND on your linux partition - since only 1 of them is running at any given time - you're clear.
Come on...
Lets face it - check almost any Windows user - and you'll find the 2nd most installed application on his/her windows after windows itself - is office. Whether he/she buys it or warez it, or copied from work, or loaned from a friend. Lets be real here - I know it, you know it, MS knows it pretty well...
Also - when you buy a Dell, HP, Gateway, Compaq - 90% chances is that if you bought it with Windows installed - then you got office also in a special pricing deal with the machines - go check some OEM deals how Microsoft "encourage" OEMs to sell Windows+office aggressively.
Hancom Office costs $59.95, cannot export to Word .doc format, cannot do fonts anti aliasing, and works only with standard (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake) Linux distributions.
On the other side - CrossOver Office costs $54.95, and it's running your own copy of Office 97 & 2000 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, even Outlook and Explorer!), does fonts anti-aliasing, runs on all Linux distributions, reads/writes .doc formats perfectly, and your money supports the biggest code contributions to WineHQ tree.
Now - could someone explain to me why would I need to buy Hancom Office?
Hmm, any suggest for a good Linux motion detecting program?
The backing was from Sony and Philips - when those 2 work together on a new medium formats - most of the time it becomes success..
When they work alone.. well, it's partial success (Sony's MiniDisc compared to Philips Digital tape [not DAT] - anyone remembers?)
Oh really?
Lets see - according to the article, one of the first albums that will be available with this Dataplay media - is Britney Spears's new album (with her new hit - yuck, I wish I was dead)
Do you really think that the record labels will release her album on this format alone exclusivly and miss all prime sells to those stupid kiddies who buy her album? no friggin way, sir!..
Well, there isn't a DMCA law in Canada maybe, but it will be the last thing a business will do (to release copy protection support code) if they want to sign game companies as partners (like they worked on the code of The-Sims).
Get it?