The point is that the biggies are just saying "NO!" to M$. In case you missed it, the previous DOJ v M$ trial was about resellers being forced to charge for Windoze whether it was installed or not.
Since www.lunarembassy.com has apparently been/.'d I'll go ahead and post without reading the article.
In the 1970's there was a guy who made his living by going around the college circuit selling deeds for 1 acre parcels on the moon for $1. He was dressed in boots, cape, etc all spray-painted silver. I bought 1 acre. I hope I won't have to kick off any claim jumpers from this upstart Lunar Embassy.
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Thanks for the info. I might have gone through life thinking OpenBSD was only for servers. Maybe I'll give it a try.
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I recently attempted to configure a dual boot machine, with Slackware 4.0 and FreeBSD 3.2. (I bought the econo 6-pack from LinuxMall and they included the insidious FreeBSD.) They could never agree on disk partitioning (or slicing in BSD lingo). Then I realized that I didn't really need a Linux boot if FreeBSD could run Linux binaries. So, when I get enough time to get back to it, I'll install FreeBSD only, with Linux support. Anyway, to get back to your question, I don't think OpenBSD has support for Linux, so I think you are even more limited in applications. Also, I don't think OpenBSD has KDE or Gnome. I think OpenBSD is more appropriate for a server, with its better security, and FreeBSD for a workstation.
Real time doesn't necessarily mean real fast. It just needs to be fast enough for the application. You would want a RTOS in a STB if, for instance, you want to change channels when you click the remote, not several seconds later. This would be on the order of tens of milliseconds. You would also like it to be able to show the video as it comes in, etc.
Here's what I think. WinCe is circa late Win3.1 or early Win95. Win98 is mostly bloated Win95. NT has always been a different source tree, and I think Win2k is based on that (even more bloat, 30-40 million lines of code). I don't think M$FT has rewritten WinCe, so they would be giving away mostly obsolete stuff.
Wow, Anonymous Coward has yet another inane first post. Why don't you people get a life instead of refreshing/. every 15 seconds to see if there is something new?
Hey/.-dudes, why not just include the first post nonsense every time you put up a new story? (OK, so then these kiddies would do "First real post", or "Second post".)
I think if you review your Information Theory 101 notes you'll realize there are some serious limits to this. Better wait for broadband. *commercial plug mode on* There IS a company that HAS TV, POTS, and data service over VDSL today - Next Level Communications, a subsidiary of General Instrument, who is soon to be bought by Motorola. US West is deploying the service now. *commercial plug mode off*
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The point is that the biggies are just saying "NO!" to M$. In case you missed it, the previous DOJ v M$ trial was about resellers being forced to charge for Windoze whether it was installed or not.
Does this give you an idea for a reader poll?
Yeah, what Khalid and MrSippery said. Plus he's done (and is doing) a lot more including non-computer related stuff. Check out his WWW site:
http://www-cs-staff.Stanford.EDU/~knuth/
So he oughtta know what he's taking about.
I'd say you own a piece of Mars, not the moon.
Since www.lunarembassy.com has apparently been /.'d I'll go ahead and post without reading the article.
In the 1970's there was a guy who made his living by going around the college circuit selling deeds for 1 acre parcels on the moon for $1. He was dressed in boots, cape, etc all spray-painted silver. I bought 1 acre. I hope I won't have to kick off any claim jumpers from this upstart Lunar Embassy.
Thanks for the info. I might have gone through life thinking OpenBSD was only for servers. Maybe I'll give it a try.
I recently attempted to configure a dual boot machine, with Slackware 4.0 and FreeBSD 3.2. (I bought the econo 6-pack from LinuxMall and they included the insidious FreeBSD.) They could never agree on disk partitioning (or slicing in BSD lingo). Then I realized that I didn't really need a Linux boot if FreeBSD could run Linux binaries. So, when I get enough time to get back to it, I'll install FreeBSD only, with Linux support. Anyway, to get back to your question, I don't think OpenBSD has support for Linux, so I think you are even more limited in applications. Also, I don't think OpenBSD has KDE or Gnome. I think OpenBSD is more appropriate for a server, with its better security, and FreeBSD for a workstation.
Correction:
#1. Windshield goes BSOD, with the message "Car performed an illegal operation", and you drive off road trying to click "OK?"
a light operated device available for emergency vehicles to get a favorable traffic signal?
Isn't "well-adjusted geek" an oxymoron?
Don't you know - nerds shy away from mirrors.
OK, infojack, here is a smiley face just for you (this is so 80's) (:-). Now do you get it?
I'll bet if you hadn't taken the time to type "Oh, yeah...first post" you would have been first.
to add ports for a real keyboard and a video screen. Then I might consider getting one.
Real time doesn't necessarily mean real fast. It just needs to be fast enough for the application. You would want a RTOS in a STB if, for instance, you want to change channels when you click the remote, not several seconds later. This would be on the order of tens of milliseconds. You would also like it to be able to show the video as it comes in, etc.
Here's what I think. WinCe is circa late Win3.1 or early Win95. Win98 is mostly bloated Win95. NT has always been a different source tree, and I think Win2k is based on that (even more bloat, 30-40 million lines of code). I don't think M$FT has rewritten WinCe, so they would be giving away mostly obsolete stuff.
why did M$FT have to pay AT&T $5 billion to agree to use it in set-top boxes? And it's not even an exclusive deal.
Wow, Anonymous Coward has yet another inane first post. Why don't you people get a life instead of refreshing /. every 15 seconds to see if there is something new?
/.-dudes, why not just include the first post nonsense every time you put up a new story? (OK, so then these kiddies would do "First real post", or "Second post".)
Hey
So the rest of you can get by with just the zeroes.
I guess it must be cheaper to buy a few congressmen than a lot of lawyers. Whatever happened to the M$ bid to buy the DOJ a few years ago?
In fact, I just traveled 30 seconds into the future waiting for /. to respond.
who said "Time is what it says on the clock", or something to that effect?
I think if you review your Information Theory 101 notes you'll realize there are some serious limits to this. Better wait for broadband. *commercial plug mode on* There IS a company that HAS TV, POTS, and data service over VDSL today - Next Level Communications, a subsidiary of General Instrument, who is soon to be bought by Motorola. US West is deploying the service now. *commercial plug mode off*
than their press release server, since I can't read the story. Must be running NT.