It is nice that gdk has been ported to fb, it will help get all the X depndencies out of it (which made the Windows port so hard). But gtk+ is not really ready for embedded systems as all the widgets are based on floating point. Arm systems (for example) have to emulate this in software so it is going to be really slow unless we write a whole new set of integeer based widgets...
Obex is ok. It is what Palm pilots etc use for beaming, and mobile phones. It can run over IrDA, TCP/IP, bluetooth, SMS etc. It is just mime-type wrapped data. It passes data intelligently between my Pilot and my Linux box.
It isn't anthing like Ethernet and TCP/IP. It is a wire replacement protocol. You can run ppp over it to get TCP/IP. It is similar to IrDA say. Except that it is a radio standard without a broadcast protocol (stupid or what?) and is unnecessarily complex. And vapourware.
As of now, Precision insight is working on DRI for 3dfx and ATI 128 cards, for inclusion in XF86 4.
The Utah GLX project has working under the XF85 3.3.X series writing drivers for Matrox, ATI Rage, S3 Virge, Nvidia, and i810 cards, outside the DRI framework. These will need to be converted to DRI to be included XFree86 4.
So XFree86 4 is going to be released with virtually no cards supported (for 3D) then, as we are talking about a few weeks to release. While the Utah glx project has excellent hardware support for a wide range of cards, including developing the agpgart kernel module, in less time with less funding. Why? An open development process is the obvious answer. Precision Insight provides companies with a driver development model that they understand, but they and XFree86 need to open up.
Absolutely. Slashdot needs to go back to its roots and not become a money obsessed site for other people. Being bought was clearly a bad thing. Look what happened to Wired after they became obsessed by large piles of cash, it turned into an unreadable waste of space.
And the adverts suck. Maybe its time to fork slashdot. Or rename it slashdot.com.
Given Redhat's record of contributing back to the community, I think this could be a really good thing for Linux as a whole.
It seems to me likely that Redhat would probably open up some of the proprietary parts of Cygnus and release stuff under GPL sooner, as it would fit with the rest of the business. Cygnus would just expand their range of service business (which they would probably swing slowly towards Linux).
Since gcc now has an open development process nothing much would change there.
Apart from Alan that is. I thought the RedHat stand was good, actually having interesting people there but generally the Expo was small and not very well attended. The big corporate booths (esp. IBM and Intel) had little to do with Linux (IBM man said to me "Linux is not enterprise ready).
Nice looking slot B Alpha 21264 mobo maid entirely by AMD for launch in November, looking not disimilar to the Athlon mobos.
State of UK Linux doesnt seem that healthy if this is all thats going on (which of course it isnt...)
The reason that America and the UK never switched to the metric system
Er, the UK pretty much has except for the minor areas of beer (we like it in pints thank you, exceot if it is served in bottles), milk, and the legacy roadsigns because they would be very confusing unless all changed at once. We certainly dont use that funny Fahrenheit stuff.
Er, 6.1 is on their ftp site, with an ISO image; see for exeample mirror at http://sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/ftp.suse.com/pub/s use/i386/evaluation-6.1.iso
I dont know what the difference between the evaluation version and the normal one is, presumably all the commercial software on it.
gigabit ethernet just increases the bandwidth, doesnt do much for the latency. Most of the latency is in software (TCP/IP etc) that shared memory systems avoid.
The article strongly implies that somehow they are going to enforce key escrow. If everyone in your company uses PGP then clearly you will know if your encryption key has been given up, because they will have to ask you for it.
Maybe the specification is going to be in the form of code. It would probably be more useful like that. Wasn't the ISO Pascal standard a program to convert Pascal to C?
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It is nice that gdk has been ported to fb, it will help get all the X depndencies out of it (which made the Windows port so hard). But gtk+ is not really ready for embedded systems as all the widgets are based on floating point. Arm systems (for example) have to emulate this in software so it is going to be really slow unless we write a whole new set of integeer based widgets...
IBM is only releasing binaries. How useless. Try the Linux Bluetooth page for source code under GPL.
Obex is ok. It is what Palm pilots etc use for beaming, and mobile phones. It can run over IrDA, TCP/IP, bluetooth, SMS etc. It is just mime-type wrapped data. It passes data intelligently between my Pilot and my Linux box.
It isn't anthing like Ethernet and TCP/IP. It is a wire replacement protocol. You can run ppp over it to get TCP/IP. It is similar to IrDA say. Except that it is a radio standard without a broadcast protocol (stupid or what?) and is unnecessarily complex. And vapourware.
As of now, Precision insight is working on DRI for 3dfx and ATI 128 cards, for inclusion in XF86 4.
The Utah GLX project has working under the XF85 3.3.X series writing drivers for Matrox, ATI Rage, S3 Virge, Nvidia, and i810 cards, outside the DRI framework. These will need to be converted to DRI to be included XFree86 4.
So XFree86 4 is going to be released with virtually no cards supported (for 3D) then, as we are talking about a few weeks to release. While the Utah glx project has excellent hardware support for a wide range of cards, including developing the agpgart kernel module, in less time with less funding. Why? An open development process is the obvious answer. Precision Insight provides companies with a driver development model that they understand, but they and XFree86 need to open up.
They are not required to defend it. It is not going away.
Actually I belive you do have to enforce patents. Why this wasnt used in the Unisys/GIF case is odd (though did anyone challenge them?).
IANAL
Absolutely. Slashdot needs to go back to its roots and not become a money obsessed site for other people. Being bought was clearly a bad thing. Look what happened to Wired after they became obsessed by large piles of cash, it turned into an unreadable waste of space.
And the adverts suck. Maybe its time to fork slashdot. Or rename it slashdot.com.
Given Redhat's record of contributing back to the community, I think this could be a really good thing for Linux as a whole.
It seems to me likely that Redhat would probably open up some of the proprietary parts of Cygnus and release stuff under GPL sooner, as it would fit with the rest of the business. Cygnus would just expand their range of service business (which they would probably swing slowly towards Linux).
Since gcc now has an open development process nothing much would change there.
Apart from Alan that is. I thought the RedHat stand was good, actually having interesting people there but generally the Expo was small and not very well attended. The big corporate booths (esp. IBM and Intel) had little to do with Linux (IBM man said to me "Linux is not enterprise ready).
Nice looking slot B Alpha 21264 mobo maid entirely by AMD for launch in November, looking not disimilar to the Athlon mobos.
State of UK Linux doesnt seem that healthy if this is all thats going on (which of course it isnt...)
The reason that America and the UK never switched to the metric system
Er, the UK pretty much has except for the minor areas of beer (we like it in pints thank you, exceot if it is served in bottles), milk, and the legacy roadsigns because they would be very confusing unless all changed at once. We certainly dont use that funny Fahrenheit stuff.
Er, 6.1 is on their ftp site, with an ISO image; see for exeample mirror ats use/i386/evaluation-6.1.iso
http://sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/ftp.suse.com/pub/
I dont know what the difference between the evaluation version and the normal one is, presumably all the commercial software on it.
gigabit ethernet just increases the bandwidth,
doesnt do much for the latency. Most of the latency is in software (TCP/IP etc) that shared memory systems avoid.
The article strongly implies that somehow they are going to enforce key escrow. If everyone in your company uses PGP then clearly you will know if your encryption key has been given up, because they will have to ask you for it.
Hopefully this bill will die soon.
Maybe the specification is going to be in the form of code. It would probably be more useful like that. Wasn't the ISO Pascal standard a program to convert Pascal to C?
As the NPL is not compatible with the GPL, is
this allowable? I wondered about this a while back
and decided that it is not.