I don't think that that would be a goos idea because Postscript is a format for quality printing. JPEG compression is not meant for quality printing and I suspect PNG isn't either. Anyone heard about PNG coding? I read somewhere that it used a logarithmic scale which I think reduces the quality of the image and that could be noticeable on the printed image. Please, anyone correct me if I'm wrong.
Last time I tried to upload a PNG at geocities (that's years ago) they didn't allow me 'because it wasn't a supported extension'. So, you get the idea of the quality of their site.
They have recently released version 3.5 of the (old) operating system. Maybe they are trying not to disturb 3.5 sales. On the other hand, it's been a long time since Amiga released the last version of the OS (before 3.5). Maybe they have released 3.5 just to make an estimation of what could be the coverage of the new OS and now they are waiting to see the market's reaction for later making the necessary changes to the new OS and machine to make it success.
> what patchlevel is glibc at in the latest release of Mandrake?
Why should they care. Just link statically. Have you ever downloaded Netscape Communicator? They have an executable with the motif library linked statically and another dynamically. So the question is why do they make two tarballs, one for libc5 and one for libc6? Maybe it's a matter of space. But in essence if you link your application statically you won't depend on what's installed in the machine, just the kernel.
> what patchlevel is glibc at in the latest release of Mandrake?
Why should they care. Just link statically. Have you ever downloaded Netscape Communicator? They have an executable with the motif library linked statically and another dynamically. So the question is why do they make two tarballs, one for libc5 and one for libc6? Maybe it's a matter of space. But in essence if you link your application statically you won't depend on what's installed on the machine, just the kernel.
Finally, there will be a suite of end-user workspaces, including a new Amiga Workbench being designed at Amiga. There are already a number of interesting desktop environments available for Linux, and it is our intent to contribute the Amiga workbench to the open source movement, and encourage the creative Amiga and Linux communities to modify, enhance, replace, and generally get creative when it comes to next-generation desktop environments (we believe that one of the disadvantages of today's Windows and Macintosh personal computers is the "closed" nature of their desktop environments).
I think they want a Window Manager and a File Manager. They have choosen him because he has experience on window managers.
Maybe if the Transmeta CPU can change it's instruction set on the fly they could use an instruction set to decode DVD, decode MP3, MPEG-2 encode MPEG-2 on real time,... I think this would be great. The next step would be making an SMP machine replacing the graphics accelerator, sound, etc with those Transmeta's. It would be terrific.
The point is, maybe they can't contribute back the DVD support, etc because it is done in hardware.
From what I've seen so far no one considered this: Is the Transmeta chip as good at emilation as suggested? Will Transmeta be able to keep up with the demand? Will Transmeta be able to offer apropiate clock frequencies? Is the performance of the Transmeta CPU relative to frequency comparable to other CPU's in the market?
Why do they allways make non disclosure agreements?:(
>Of course, that won't happen unless they're using X, the same libraries, etc., etc.--in other words, if it is "just another distribution."
Maybe they can execute x86 out of the box with the transmeta CPU. They just add an X server on the Amiga GUI and they can run common linux packages. That doesn't mean that they won't be using an Amiga GUI, etc.
>Comments by users about Linux bloat (I laughed out loud when I read that), and lethal instability, should be attributed to the individuals making them, and in a perfect world -- completely ignored as undereducated prattle.
I have an A3000 and I can understand why they think linux is bloated. You have a 32 bits multitasking OS with a GUI in a 512K ROM, if you haven't seen anything else (er windows) and then someone presents you Linux you'll think it is bloated. In fact the Amiga is really efficient in space. As for stability he's just spreading some FUD he heard somewhere.
If someone is wrong and doesn't want to change his mind, hey he has the right to be wrong.
We separate integer benchmarks from floating point benchmarks because they reflec different situations. Why don't we separate static and dynamic web pages in different benchmarks?
Except loading at boot time the contents of the HD to mem, this is what good OSes do. When data is required they load it to the buffer cache, serve it and leave it in the buffer cache till it is replaced by other data because there's not enougth memory for other services or because that data hasn't been used for a long time. Writting data is done as you described: updating to HD when necessary and periodically.
So to improve HD caching performance you do as if it were normal memory (and cache): - Reduce first instance misses using prefetch. - Reduce conflict misses incresing main memory size. - Increase the data bandwidth using RAID.
> The interpretations change with every judge and every prosecutor, because there is no rational basis for deciding what is and is not a crime.
That's right. Let's create a formal language based on algebra to formalize the law!
(this time rigth)
Example: foreach c1: company ( ((exists c2: company) and (exists p1, p2: product) and (makes(c1, p1)) and (makes(c2,p2)) and (kind_of_product(p1) = kind_of_product(p2)) and (exists p3: product) and (makes(c1,p3)) and (integrates_into(c3, c1)) and (date_of_release(c2) date_of_integration(c1,c3)) and dominates_market_segment(c3,market_segment(c2))) implies must_be_punished(c1) )
> The interpretations change with every judge and every prosecutor, because there is no rational basis for deciding what is and is not a crime.
That's right. Let's create a formal language based on algebra to formalize the law.
Example: foreach c1: company ( ((exists c2: company) and (exists p1, p2: product) and (makes(c1, p1)) and (makes(c2,p2)) and (kind_of_product(p1) = kind_of_product(c2)) and (exists p3: product) and (makes(c1,p3)) and (integrates_into(c3, c1)) and (date_of_release(c2) date_of_integration(c1,c3)) and dominates_market_segment(c3,market_segment(c2))) implies must_be_punished(c1) )
Why is everyone talking about Merced? That chip doesn't exist, we know nothing about it. Why should we care about Merced when we have nice Alpha's, MIPS', Sparc's, PowerPC's... that already do the job? We don't need another RISC chip just because Intel made it. On the other hand 7 execution units isn't a good idea on a plain RISC because you can't avoid instruction dependencies regardless of how good the compiler is. But they are useful on vectorial chip. I guess they are making a vectorial CPU that can be scaled up adding more chips to the system.
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I don't think that that would be a goos idea because Postscript is a format for quality printing. JPEG compression is not meant for quality printing and I suspect PNG isn't either. Anyone heard about PNG coding? I read somewhere that it used a logarithmic scale which I think reduces the quality of the image and that could be noticeable on the printed image.
Please, anyone correct me if I'm wrong.
Last time I tried to upload a PNG at geocities (that's years ago) they didn't allow me 'because it wasn't a supported extension'. So, you get the idea of the quality of their site.
They have recently released version 3.5 of the (old) operating system. Maybe they are trying not to disturb 3.5 sales.
On the other hand, it's been a long time since Amiga released the last version of the OS (before 3.5). Maybe they have released 3.5 just to make an estimation of what could be the coverage of the new OS and now they are waiting to see the market's reaction for later making the necessary changes to the new OS and machine to make it success.
Just my 0.02 Euro.
Or maybe they're just trying to convince themselves.
:)
Absolutely not!
> what patchlevel is glibc at in the latest release of Mandrake?
Why should they care. Just link statically. Have you ever downloaded Netscape Communicator? They have an executable with the motif library linked statically and another dynamically.
So the question is why do they make two tarballs, one for libc5 and one for libc6? Maybe it's a matter of space.
But in essence if you link your application statically you won't depend on what's installed in the machine, just the kernel.
> what patchlevel is glibc at in the latest release of Mandrake?
Why should they care. Just link statically. Have you ever downloaded Netscape Communicator? They have an executable with the motif library linked statically and another dynamically.
So the question is why do they make two tarballs, one for libc5 and one for libc6? Maybe it's a matter of space.
But in essence if you link your application statically you won't depend on what's installed on the machine, just the kernel.
From the technology brief:
Finally, there will be a suite of end-user
workspaces, including a new Amiga Workbench being designed at Amiga. There are already a number of interesting desktop environments available for Linux, and it is our intent to contribute the Amiga workbench to the open source movement, and encourage the creative Amiga and Linux communities to modify, enhance, replace, and generally get creative when it comes to next-generation desktop environments (we believe that one of the disadvantages of today's Windows and Macintosh personal computers is the "closed" nature of their desktop environments).
I think they want a Window Manager and a File Manager. They have choosen him because he has experience on window managers.
Maybe if the Transmeta CPU can change it's instruction set on the fly they could use an instruction set to decode DVD, decode MP3, MPEG-2 encode MPEG-2 on real time, ... I think this would be great. The next step would be making an SMP machine replacing the graphics accelerator, sound, etc with those Transmeta's. It would be terrific.
The point is, maybe they can't contribute back the DVD support, etc because it is done in hardware.
From what I've seen so far no one considered this:
:(
Is the Transmeta chip as good at emilation as suggested?
Will Transmeta be able to keep up with the demand?
Will Transmeta be able to offer apropiate clock frequencies?
Is the performance of the Transmeta CPU relative to frequency comparable to other CPU's in the market?
Why do they allways make non disclosure agreements?
the NASA will be sued for patent infringment really soon by the makers of SimCity2000.
>Of course, that won't happen unless they're using X, the same libraries, etc., etc.--in other words, if it is "just another distribution."
Maybe they can execute x86 out of the box with the transmeta CPU. They just add an X server on the Amiga GUI and they can run common linux packages. That doesn't mean that they won't be using an Amiga GUI, etc.
>Comments by users about Linux bloat (I laughed out loud when I read that), and lethal instability, should be attributed to the individuals making them, and in a perfect world -- completely ignored as undereducated prattle.
I have an A3000 and I can understand why they think linux is bloated. You have a 32 bits multitasking OS with a GUI in a 512K ROM, if you haven't seen anything else (er windows) and then someone presents you Linux you'll think it is bloated. In fact the Amiga is really efficient in space.
As for stability he's just spreading some FUD he heard somewhere.
If someone is wrong and doesn't want to change his mind, hey he has the right to be wrong.
We separate integer benchmarks from floating point benchmarks because they reflec different situations. Why don't we separate static and dynamic web pages in different benchmarks?
Except loading at boot time the contents of the HD to mem, this is what good OSes do.
When data is required they load it to the buffer cache, serve it and leave it in the buffer cache till it is replaced by other data because there's not enougth memory for other services or because that data hasn't been used for a long time.
Writting data is done as you described: updating to HD when necessary and periodically.
So to improve HD caching performance you do as if it were normal memory (and cache):
- Reduce first instance misses using prefetch.
- Reduce conflict misses incresing main memory size.
- Increase the data bandwidth using RAID.
> The interpretations change with every judge and every prosecutor, because there is no rational basis for deciding what is and is not a crime.
That's right. Let's create a formal language based on algebra to formalize the law!
(this time rigth)
Example:
foreach c1: company ( ((exists c2: company) and (exists p1, p2: product) and (makes(c1, p1)) and (makes(c2,p2)) and (kind_of_product(p1) = kind_of_product(p2)) and (exists p3: product) and (makes(c1,p3)) and (integrates_into(c3, c1)) and (date_of_release(c2) date_of_integration(c1,c3)) and dominates_market_segment(c3,market_segment(c2))) implies must_be_punished(c1) )
Is this formal enougth?
Please, any TEX fan?
> The interpretations change with every judge and every prosecutor, because there is no rational basis for deciding what is and is not a crime.
That's right. Let's create a formal language based on algebra to formalize the law.
Example:
foreach c1: company ( ((exists c2: company) and (exists p1, p2: product) and (makes(c1, p1)) and (makes(c2,p2)) and (kind_of_product(p1) = kind_of_product(c2)) and (exists p3: product) and (makes(c1,p3)) and (integrates_into(c3, c1)) and (date_of_release(c2) date_of_integration(c1,c3)) and dominates_market_segment(c3,market_segment(c2))) implies must_be_punished(c1) )
Is this formal enougth?
Please, any TEX fan?
And they are not adequate to mesure performance.
Why is everyone talking about Merced? That chip doesn't exist, we know nothing about it. Why should we care about Merced when we have nice Alpha's, MIPS', Sparc's, PowerPC's... that already do the job? We don't need another RISC chip just because Intel made it.
On the other hand 7 execution units isn't a good idea on a plain RISC because you can't avoid instruction dependencies regardless of how good the compiler is. But they are useful on vectorial chip. I guess they are making a vectorial CPU that can be scaled up adding more chips to the system.