Actually, that might be exactly why they did it. If you look at the results of the survey that they did prior to releasing the distro, the majority of the reponses indicated that they would use it as a hobby instead of for some professional reason. (can't find the link right now and its not appearing on the PS2 linux site).
Besides, the main source of revenue for Sony on the PS2 is royalties - from what I recall, the unit is basically sold at or below cost. So they have to have to restriction to still make money. If they don't make money then they won't make the PS2 anymore.
And if you were a commerical software company and you had choice of:
A) Fork big bucks over to Sony to write games for the PS2. B) Pay $200 for the linux kit and nothing else.
True, solaris scales well. One box can handle more of a load than an equivalent intel box (or at least til the sun runs out of memory and you die a painfull death of swap-storm). But, by speed I meant on a process level - the same request will finish faster on intel all else being equal - the sparc hardware just isn't as quick as intel in terms or processing speed. But of course that depends on what you are running on the box, its memory usage, how it uses resources, etc. That and sparc hardware isn't cheap, esp for what you get.
All in all, I think I would rather have linux on a mainframe then a high end sun machine.
People these days seem to forget about the overhead of interpretters and virtual machines. If the article is correct, then the z800's running zVM emulate Intel x86 architecture in order to run Linux. Heck, even poorly written native compiled code generally has advantages over such a set up.
I don't think that's the type of virtual machince the article talks about. The VM in this sense is like VM Ware were it controls access to the actual hardware and gives the OS a "virtual" machine to run on. However, it doesn't "emulate" x86 architecture to run linux, linux runs natively on the hardware of the mainframe. It iss not a Java VM.
1) Sun still has SunFire servers, which are QUITE powerful.
Uhm, yes, they are powerful. They can juggle more things at once and keep plugging. BUT, and this is the important part, on individual processes (apache) that don't multi-thread (a lot of commerical apps) they are SLOW.
When you have a GUI, make sure that you test that it looks the same with different resolutions and smaller/larger fonts that you developed with. Make sure the GUI looks good from 800x600 small fonts to 1280x1024 large fonts...
Unless I am missing something here, Komodo is a commercial product (at least version 1.2+ appears to be) with only one non-commercial license and that applies to "teaching or learning environment only". The regular cost is ~ $300.
Um, the only type of dll that vb 5.0/6.0 can create is a COM/ActiveX/Automation Server DLL (whatever it is being called this week). There is no way to create other types in vb and there isn't a check box to turn it off.
If you need generic dlls make them ActiveX Dlls & talk to them via COM or use a different language (such as delphi).
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Let me see if I understand this correctly:
1. Don't include the check and you are circumventing a protection mechanism, which is illegal.
2. Include the check and you obviously reverse engineered the protection mechanism, which is illegal.
So is this a case of damned if you do and damned if you don't?
Actually, that might be exactly why they did it. If you look at the results of the survey that they did prior to releasing the distro, the majority of the reponses indicated that they would use it as a hobby instead of for some professional reason. (can't find the link right now and its not appearing on the PS2 linux site).
Besides, the main source of revenue for Sony on the PS2 is royalties - from what I recall, the unit is basically sold at or below cost. So they have to have to restriction to still make money. If they don't make money then they won't make the PS2 anymore.
And if you were a commerical software company and you had choice of:
A) Fork big bucks over to Sony to write games for the PS2.
B) Pay $200 for the linux kit and nothing else.
which would you choose?
Call me weird, but I *like* mozilla. It may have been slow in development, but it is getting there now. It is decently fast and stable at this point.
However, if you had a problem with the project, why didn't you volunteer to help with it instead of just bashing it?
Its that not cold in Pittsburgh (where CMU is located). It should be at least -10 degrees by then.
True, solaris scales well. One box can handle more of a load than an equivalent intel box (or at least til the sun runs out of memory and you die a painfull death of swap-storm). But, by speed I meant on a process level - the same request will finish faster on intel all else being equal - the sparc hardware just isn't as quick as intel in terms or processing speed. But of course that depends on what you are running on the box, its memory usage, how it uses resources, etc. That and sparc hardware isn't cheap, esp for what you get.
All in all, I think I would rather have linux on a mainframe then a high end sun machine.
People these days seem to forget about the overhead of interpretters and virtual machines. If the article is correct, then the z800's running zVM emulate Intel x86 architecture in order to run Linux. Heck, even poorly written native compiled code generally has advantages over such a set up.
I don't think that's the type of virtual machince the article talks about. The VM in this sense is like VM Ware were it controls access to the actual hardware and gives the OS a "virtual" machine to run on. However, it doesn't "emulate" x86 architecture to run linux, linux runs natively on the hardware of the mainframe. It iss not a Java VM.
1) Sun still has SunFire servers, which are QUITE powerful.
Uhm, yes, they are powerful. They can juggle more things at once and keep plugging. BUT, and this is the important part, on individual processes (apache) that don't multi-thread (a lot of commerical apps) they are SLOW.
When you have a GUI, make sure that you test that it looks the same with different resolutions and smaller/larger fonts that you developed with. Make sure the GUI looks good from 800x600 small fonts to 1280x1024 large fonts...
It appears to be here
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Unless I am missing something here, Komodo is a commercial product (at least version 1.2+ appears to be) with only one non-commercial license and that applies to "teaching or learning environment only". The regular cost is ~ $300.
Eclispe is free.
Expense is bad, Cheap is good, but free is better
Um, the only type of dll that vb 5.0/6.0 can create is a COM/ActiveX/Automation Server DLL (whatever it is being called this week). There is no way to create other types in vb and there isn't a check box to turn it off.
If you need generic dlls make them ActiveX Dlls & talk to them via COM or use a different language (such as delphi).