the vids on his site are amazing! the theme he's got on there is ugly as sin, but seeing through that and looking at the tech behined the whole thing, and you see what the future could be.
all the nice effects that mac and longhorn will be doing next year could be tied into xorg/gnome within 6 months.
all rasters stuff is on freedesktop.org, so it's all open.
in a perfect world, someone like novell would hire raster to work with the gnome xorg devs. get evas+cairo into the desktop stack, and have gnome 2.12 running with some amazing eyecandy.
huh? it's as easy as it is on debian. as the other poster said, on hoary add the multiverse repo(in synaptic or your sources.list) and apt-get it. on warty, just add the universe repo, and apt-get install xine-ui(or whatever you want).
The first release of ubuntu live cd used xfree, which lacked support for a few ati chipsets. that, and the fact that the binary drivers dont come on the cd could be the reason.
the newer ubuntu uses xorg, which supports more cards.
i couldn't get the first release to use my video properly, but hoary works fine with the xorg driver, and the ati binary one.
this looks pretty good. their other broadband offerings are good too. my housemate signed up to aol broadband (512k service) because it was the only one with no monthly download cap. these guys have the same thing for the same price, so i might check it out. good stuff
The problem is, how to make money from IM? There's not much money in defining a standard and letting people produce an ad-free version of what you offer.
excuse my ignorance, but does Linux actually CODE stuff that goes into the kernel, or does he just say who gets to put stuff in it, and manage the source?
Lets say he's not technically knowledgeable enough to understand ALL the code in there, who's to say he's the best person to say what does/doesnt get in?
reiser will never make it i'm afraid. document stores are where it's at because they work transparently, on any filesystems. which is what gnome/kde etc need for these nifty meta-data search features. see beagle/storage from gnome.
nobody is saying that this new chip following a standard is bad. it's just that intel don't clearly say that they're following an amd 'protocol' here. not credit is given to amd...which is why there's a kick-off over this.
the kernel build system (make xconfig,for example) has nothing to do with the distro, other than that they include it with their kernel-source package.
"hotplugging" is already a feature of linux. once you've shoved your usb pen/mouse/kb into the port, the kernel will see it(try running tail -f/var/log/messages and watch the output as you add/remove devices). the problem here is implementing the interface in userland(Gnome tools for example). The next version of gnome will support this through "Project Utopia". Read Robert Love's blog for more info on that: here
...hardware detection. the boffins at the top secret Linux dev HQ could write their own lib(or fork kudzu,discover etc etc) which probes your hardware, tells you what its found, and if you accept the softwares proposal, it would write you a.config file.
also, a section at the start of menuconfig called "Basic Features" would be nice. in it would be things like: DVD Support: Y/N Clicking yes would then enable all options in the kernel which are need for watching/wring dvd.(UDF filesystem, MTRR, DMA etc etc). if later on in picking your kernel modules, if you try to unselect a requrement(like UDF filesystems), you'd get a prompt saying this is needed for such and such a reason. This would help quicken the process of getting a stock kernel for a desktop built by the noobs.
on systems with a lot of modules loaded, having them in userland would be slower than it is right now. you'd have to have another layer inbetween them clogging things up.
i do think removing modules from the kernel package would be good - so you can download a barebones kernel(with ext filesystem only,for example) which would build and run on a VERY basic system. but things like reiser,vfat etc etc modules should be put into a separate package for downloading.(eg kernel-2.6.1-filesystems.tar.gz). you could then have a separate package for each subsystems modules. a package for networkcard drivers, a package for usb stack and modules, and so on.
those of us who need filesystems other than ext2/3 just grab the other source tarball and extract it into/usr/src/modules/'subsystem'.
thats my idea, everyone...if you dont like it - you're probably in the wrong. heh.
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fully deployed? we're talking end-user desktop stuff with this, not enterprise/terminal use.
people could be using this on the desktop in 6 1/2 months time.
it's all well and good saying it's in osx now, but the majority of people are on x86, and osx is CLOSED. this is all open standards and open code.
the vids on his site are amazing! the theme he's got on there is ugly as sin, but seeing through that and looking at the tech behined the whole thing, and you see what the future could be.
all the nice effects that mac and longhorn will be doing next year could be tied into xorg/gnome within 6 months.
all rasters stuff is on freedesktop.org, so it's all open.
in a perfect world, someone like novell would hire raster to work with the gnome xorg devs. get evas+cairo into the desktop stack, and have gnome 2.12 running with some amazing eyecandy.
i thought it was:
fool me once...shame on me. fool me twice...erh..., i can't be fooled ageean
huh? it's as easy as it is on debian. as the other poster said, on hoary add the multiverse repo(in synaptic or your sources.list) and apt-get it.
on warty, just add the universe repo, and apt-get install xine-ui(or whatever you want).
The first release of ubuntu live cd used xfree, which lacked support for a few ati chipsets.
that, and the fact that the binary drivers dont come on the cd could be the reason.
the newer ubuntu uses xorg, which supports more cards.
i couldn't get the first release to use my video properly, but hoary works fine with the xorg driver, and the ati binary one.
this looks pretty good. their other broadband offerings are good too. my housemate signed up to aol broadband (512k service) because it was the only one with no monthly download cap. these guys have the same thing for the same price, so i might check it out. good stuff
story from december? pah! thats old news...you want the story from january!
with jokes like that, i'm surprised you ever had one.
:)
kidding
does 10 not come after 8?
it's 2.10, not 2.010 or 2.01
but RMS founded gnu, and he pronounces it guh-noo. Are you going to tell someone who invented the name that he pronounces it wrong?
Oh, and the G in gnome stands for gnu, therefore is pronounced in the same way.
of course, i dont actually care either way, but you were on a high horse...mine is higher.
does it really exist?
AOL EXEC1: oh fuck, look the horse has bolted!!!
AOL EXEC2: someone, anyone, shut the stable door!!
HAPPY CUSTOMERS: too late, guys. next!
The problem is, how to make money from IM? There's not much money in defining a standard and letting people produce an ad-free version of what you offer.
Compared to KDE you mean?
Honestly, what a ridiculous statement!
When my company started putting "Best Viewed in Firefox/Mozilla" on the intranet . I knew that the browser wars are over .
unless you work for Microsoft, I think you're jumping the gun a little bit.
excuse my ignorance, but does Linux actually CODE stuff that goes into the kernel, or does he just say who gets to put stuff in it, and manage the source?
Lets say he's not technically knowledgeable enough to understand ALL the code in there, who's to say he's the best person to say what does/doesnt get in?
reiser will never make it i'm afraid. document stores are where it's at because they work transparently, on any filesystems. which is what gnome/kde etc need for these nifty meta-data search features. see beagle/storage from gnome.
nobody is saying that this new chip following a standard is bad. it's just that intel don't clearly say that they're following an amd 'protocol' here. not credit is given to amd...which is why there's a kick-off over this.
dont be in love man! there's loads of girls who use linux on tribe.net and orkut - but they're ugly as sin. /joke ;)
Yeah, this works...but while it's only gonna be available as a patch.
for some obsurd reason, the gnome people rejected this patch for gnome 2.6(why?!?)
i still cant cut/paste between apps with any reliability.
the kernel build system (make xconfig,for example) has nothing to do with the distro, other than that they include it with their kernel-source package.
in the years i've been reading /. - i think this is the only time i've EVER clicked "Read the rest of this comment...".
Well done, you funny bastard!
"hotplugging" is already a feature of linux. /var/log/messages and watch the output as you add/remove devices).
once you've shoved your usb pen/mouse/kb into the port, the kernel will see it(try running tail -f
the problem here is implementing the interface in userland(Gnome tools for example).
The next version of gnome will support this through "Project Utopia".
Read Robert Love's blog for more info on that:
here
...hardware detection. the boffins at the top secret Linux dev HQ could write their own lib(or fork kudzu,discover etc etc) which probes your hardware, tells you what its found, and if you accept the softwares proposal, it would write you a .config file.
also, a section at the start of menuconfig called "Basic Features" would be nice. in it would be things like:
DVD Support: Y/N
Clicking yes would then enable all options in the kernel which are need for watching/wring dvd.(UDF filesystem, MTRR, DMA etc etc).
if later on in picking your kernel modules, if you try to unselect a requrement(like UDF filesystems), you'd get a prompt saying this is needed for such and such a reason.
This would help quicken the process of getting a stock kernel for a desktop built by the noobs.
on systems with a lot of modules loaded, having them in userland would be slower than it is right now. you'd have to have another layer inbetween them clogging things up.
/usr/src/modules/'subsystem'.
i do think removing modules from the kernel package would be good - so you can download a barebones kernel(with ext filesystem only,for example) which would build and run on a VERY basic system. but things like reiser,vfat etc etc modules should be put into a separate package for downloading.(eg kernel-2.6.1-filesystems.tar.gz).
you could then have a separate package for each subsystems modules. a package for networkcard drivers, a package for usb stack and modules, and so on.
those of us who need filesystems other than ext2/3 just grab the other source tarball and extract it into
thats my idea, everyone...if you dont like it - you're probably in the wrong. heh.