1. Chrome on Android is way, way slower compared to Chrome on Chrome OS. Go ahead, run any benchmark and see the numbers. 2. Chromebooks are locked down to prevent end users damaging their system. nothing prevents you from pressing a combination of keys and switching to developer mode, and then you can format the machine, install Linux or anything else that you want (although not Windows since the firmware doesn't support it). 3. The hardware sucks? I beg to differ. The whole point was to make cheap machines so you can grab it, log-in and start browsing, and you can do it without a problem on those machines. Sure, more memory would help (4GB instead of 2GB) and hardware vendors starts to "get it" (most of them used to offer only 2GB machines, now you got 4GB version and on devices like ASUS Chromebox, you can open it without voiding your warrenty and expand up to 16GB, and replace the SSD. 4. Android has support for keyboard and mouse, but that support is an "afterthought". It really sucks, almost no keyboard short support, and the mouse support is horrible (go ahead, press the right mouse button while doing some work...) and I haven't mentioned yet issues like landscape/portrait mode (try to open Dolphin browser on a PC running Android, see what I mean)
Android on ChromeOS runtime will let the ChromeOS have access to tons of Android apps, but only after the developers of those apps will add some UI that reflects the situation where you cannot switch display modes, there is no touch screen, etc.. It's not some "emulator" which you can stick an APK and run the app.
I'm typing this reply on Asus Transformer TF701T, and I've checked Bay Trail. If this is Intel's answer, then they better get back to the drawing board, yesterday! This tablet has 2560x1600 resolution and from my experience the battery holds for 14 hours (it got 2 of them). On many occasions I use it without keyboard and I get around 5.5 hours of battery, try that with Bay Trail (without dimming the screen to an unreadable condition!).
Performance: look at this link (http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/08/intel-bay-trail-benchmarks/) - nVidia's Tegra 4 beats it on almost any test. Try 3D Mark for tablets/smartphones and you'll see that both Tegra 4 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 beats it by a very wide margin.
Tegra 4 is more of an "evolution" of Tegra 4 and nVidia is changing it in the upcoming chip, the Tegra K1, and according to early benchmarks (http://www.extremetech.com/computing/174592-tegra-k1-benchmarks-show-better-cpu-and-gpu-performance-than-snapdragon-800-and-apple-a7) it beats every mobile processor available today including Apple's A7, and what Intel is doing? still working on the garbage Atom processor and improving it. Someone should tell intel that they need to bring the big guns and also do something about the battery. The upcoming tablets will be using QHD & up resolution (wait till next year when you'll see LG shows 4K resolution tablets, they already have prototypes) - Atom has issues with those resolutions.
The competition this time is different. Yes, Intel got the fab technology 2 generations ahead of the competition, but it doesn't matter much! with the current technology the competition is beating Intel and the gap will only wide. Intel cannot stick some i5 because it will kill the battery. They'll have to come up with something different.
It really depends on which ROM you have on your phone/Phablet/Tablet..
If you have an official ROM from your vendor and it's 4.2.x, then you might have a problem which can be overcome by unlocking/rooting your device and install 3rd party ROM like Cyanogenmod 10.1 or anything else that has Android 4.2.x as a base for that ROM.
Once you have it installed, all you have to do is go to the Settings on your device, scroll down a bit and you should see "Users", there you can do all your management.
Fedora (the "Core" part of the name was removed in Fedora 7 IIRC) IS MEANT to be a DEVELOPMENT version. Version X has ABC, Version Y - the ABC has been kicked out of the window. Red Hat team mention it in big letters!
My guess (based on past experience with RHEL road) is that you may see RHEV 3.x versions with fixes (like RHEL 6.x), but RHEV 4 will probably be Open Stack (or Open Stack based solution). Red Hat is already working hard on Open Stack and you can see it in the Fedora releases.
Regarding the bandwidth: take a look at the left side of the video, it shows the needed info.
One thing many people missed: Almost at the end of the demo, he shows Photoshop CS4, and then he moves the windows. Take a good look at the cursor, specially when the cursor is out of the window it shows something which might be familiar to any Linux user:)
I'll give you my local example: Here in Israel, my Cable service provider decided to "play muscles" with Warner Brothers, and decided that they don't want/can't pay the price for new seasons of TV shows like The West Wing (they did it cause they, stupidly enough, invested in things that caused them to loose huge amounts of money). Me, the consumer, was left watching only seasons 1,2,3 and I couldn't watch anything newer since they didn't buy the newer seasons. Do they care about the subscriber? not at all, and there isn't any other cable provider that I can switch and watch this series..
To make a long story short: the only way for me to watch TV shows that aren't aired around here, is to use those torrents. I cannot buy season 4,5,6 in DVD's because they're still not available here (and each of the old seasons costs around US $60 to buy!)..
If someone at the MPAA was smart enough, they would have created some shop to buy a chapter for $2 (or $1 with 3-4 commercials inside) with DRM. I'm sure many people would love to buy this kind of stuff, but hey, it's easier to sue then to think out of the box, isn't it?
Just wait few more weeks - and you'll be able to talk using yuor Net2Phone accounts WITH Linux native client, and you'll be able to use better codec than Speex..
I use KDE all the times + XChat + XMMS - so I don't have much to do with GNOME...
However - it's Ximian full right to do what they wish to do with their money...
Selling Connector for $70 while there is no justification for this price? (you pay for client access twice! one when you buy MS exchange and one when you buy MS Office - read the papers) - it's their right...
They're going implement MS.Net (while they KNOW MS is not naive and MS will add tons of proprietary stuff to it which will hold Ximian 18 months back) and Ximian doesn't seems to learn from computing history [regarding competition with MS]? fine - its their money, and their right!
So why do people moaning and bitching about GNOME? are Ximian now the sole writers of GNOME? (judging by the popularity of Red Carpet - I would think that it looks like Ximian is doing the major work of GNOME) last I heard - GNOME is written by volunteers from all over the world - or has it changed that everyone now counts on Ximian regarding GNOME?
As the review says - this is a Preview release, which I'm sure Lindows people will read (and probably pissed off since someone broke NDA).
I'm sure that they will react and will change stuff - and if I'm not mistaken, they have stated to their Lindows testers that the file system is still under change and future previews WILL NOT be as this version which had been reviewed..
So first we didn't belive that Lindows exists and it's only a photoshop mock-up. Now it looks like it's real, but with a problem with users - lets wait another version AND THEN decide whether to use it or not.
I really don't know if that wouldn't affect their financial bottom line - look at the upcoming ATI Q4 profits - they made nice amount of money with their contract with Nintendo about the graphics chip.
Case in point - SGI got some great hardware, totally impressive machine, and I haven't heard many flames about Irix. Yet it reminds me what was written by a british computer magazine about the Amiga 1000 - Dream machine - Nightmare price - I guess it's the same for SGI.
So - you could think "ahh, market conditions now are not the best, they'll lower their prices on their workstations/servers" - well, you are more then welcome to look at the prices of their Visual Workstation machine's prices - FAR and ABOVE any competition! who would be nuts to buy at those prices?!?!?
How much Visual studio costs? lets be modest and say $500? now you know thats for only 1 platform, so if you want you app, for Unix for example - you need something like umm, this? (hint - the price is MUCH more then $1000).
So yes, if you're writing commercial applications for Windows - then you really don't need QT, and MS solution would be much cheaper.
However - if you want a multi platform solution (Linux, Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, SCO, Mac OS X, Windows [95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP]) along with the best documents - then GTK will be thrown out by any serious developer and they'll go with QT.
Of course - IMHO QT should make what I call a "student" edition - but you'll have to write it to them. Maybe if lots of people will write to them they'll do something about it.
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Few things, AC:
1. Chrome on Android is way, way slower compared to Chrome on Chrome OS. Go ahead, run any benchmark and see the numbers.
2. Chromebooks are locked down to prevent end users damaging their system. nothing prevents you from pressing a combination of keys and switching to developer mode, and then you can format the machine, install Linux or anything else that you want (although not Windows since the firmware doesn't support it).
3. The hardware sucks? I beg to differ. The whole point was to make cheap machines so you can grab it, log-in and start browsing, and you can do it without a problem on those machines. Sure, more memory would help (4GB instead of 2GB) and hardware vendors starts to "get it" (most of them used to offer only 2GB machines, now you got 4GB version and on devices like ASUS Chromebox, you can open it without voiding your warrenty and expand up to 16GB, and replace the SSD.
4. Android has support for keyboard and mouse, but that support is an "afterthought". It really sucks, almost no keyboard short support, and the mouse support is horrible (go ahead, press the right mouse button while doing some work...) and I haven't mentioned yet issues like landscape/portrait mode (try to open Dolphin browser on a PC running Android, see what I mean)
Android on ChromeOS runtime will let the ChromeOS have access to tons of Android apps, but only after the developers of those apps will add some UI that reflects the situation where you cannot switch display modes, there is no touch screen, etc.. It's not some "emulator" which you can stick an APK and run the app.
I'm sorry sir, but I disagree with you.
I'm typing this reply on Asus Transformer TF701T, and I've checked Bay Trail. If this is Intel's answer, then they better get back to the drawing board, yesterday!
This tablet has 2560x1600 resolution and from my experience the battery holds for 14 hours (it got 2 of them). On many occasions I use it without keyboard and I get around 5.5 hours of battery, try that with Bay Trail (without dimming the screen to an unreadable condition!).
Performance: look at this link (http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/08/intel-bay-trail-benchmarks/) - nVidia's Tegra 4 beats it on almost any test. Try 3D Mark for tablets/smartphones and you'll see that both Tegra 4 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 beats it by a very wide margin.
Tegra 4 is more of an "evolution" of Tegra 4 and nVidia is changing it in the upcoming chip, the Tegra K1, and according to early benchmarks (http://www.extremetech.com/computing/174592-tegra-k1-benchmarks-show-better-cpu-and-gpu-performance-than-snapdragon-800-and-apple-a7) it beats every mobile processor available today including Apple's A7, and what Intel is doing? still working on the garbage Atom processor and improving it. Someone should tell intel that they need to bring the big guns and also do something about the battery. The upcoming tablets will be using QHD & up resolution (wait till next year when you'll see LG shows 4K resolution tablets, they already have prototypes) - Atom has issues with those resolutions.
The competition this time is different. Yes, Intel got the fab technology 2 generations ahead of the competition, but it doesn't matter much! with the current technology the competition is beating Intel and the gap will only wide. Intel cannot stick some i5 because it will kill the battery. They'll have to come up with something different.
Need MS office on Android? use CloudOn, it's on the play store, free.
It really depends on which ROM you have on your phone/Phablet/Tablet..
If you have an official ROM from your vendor and it's 4.2.x, then you might have a problem which can be overcome by unlocking/rooting your device and install 3rd party ROM like Cyanogenmod 10.1 or anything else that has Android 4.2.x as a base for that ROM.
Once you have it installed, all you have to do is go to the Settings on your device, scroll down a bit and you should see "Users", there you can do all your management.
Good Luck.
Try CloudOn (available in the play store)
Fedora (the "Core" part of the name was removed in Fedora 7 IIRC) IS MEANT to be a DEVELOPMENT version. Version X has ABC, Version Y - the ABC has been kicked out of the window. Red Hat team mention it in big letters!
Want stable? either buy RHEL or use CentOS.
My guess (based on past experience with RHEL road) is that you may see RHEV 3.x versions with fixes (like RHEL 6.x), but RHEV 4 will probably be Open Stack (or Open Stack based solution). Red Hat is already working hard on Open Stack and you can see it in the Fedora releases.
Regarding the bandwidth: take a look at the left side of the video, it shows the needed info.
One thing many people missed: Almost at the end of the demo, he shows Photoshop CS4, and then he moves the windows. Take a good look at the cursor, specially when the cursor is out of the window it shows something which might be familiar to any Linux user :)
Nope,
It's flash.
Mind checking the price Again? it's $189 these days - for Windows or Linux.
Wait for Crossover 5.0 :)
OK, I'll bite..
I'll give you my local example: Here in Israel, my Cable service provider decided to "play muscles" with Warner Brothers, and decided that they don't want/can't pay the price for new seasons of TV shows like The West Wing (they did it cause they, stupidly enough, invested in things that caused them to loose huge amounts of money). Me, the consumer, was left watching only seasons 1,2,3 and I couldn't watch anything newer since they didn't buy the newer seasons. Do they care about the subscriber? not at all, and there isn't any other cable provider that I can switch and watch this series..
To make a long story short: the only way for me to watch TV shows that aren't aired around here, is to use those torrents. I cannot buy season 4,5,6 in DVD's because they're still not available here (and each of the old seasons costs around US $60 to buy!)..
If someone at the MPAA was smart enough, they would have created some shop to buy a chapter for $2 (or $1 with 3-4 commercials inside) with DRM. I'm sure many people would love to buy this kind of stuff, but hey, it's easier to sue then to think out of the box, isn't it?
Looking at the screenshot of the upcoming word perfect for Linux, and what-do-you-know... MOTIF again all over?!?
Anyone at Corel ever heard of QT? GTK? how about some common interface with KDE or GNOME? (or both? I could always hope...)
It looks like someone took the old version (6? 7? and just doing some touch ups...)..
Just wait few more weeks - and you'll be able to talk using yuor Net2Phone accounts WITH Linux native client, and you'll be able to use better codec than Speex..
;)
Patience..
But what would you do with z900?
Computatiational jobs? z900 doesn't fit in that case, no matter what you'll do - it's great in I/O - not in computations..
Of course - putting few cheap SMP boxes could help a lot...
I use KDE all the times + XChat + XMMS - so I don't have much to do with GNOME...
.Net (while they KNOW MS is not naive and MS will add tons of proprietary stuff to it which will hold Ximian 18 months back) and Ximian doesn't seems to learn from computing history [regarding competition with MS]? fine - its their money, and their right!
However - it's Ximian full right to do what they wish to do with their money...
Selling Connector for $70 while there is no justification for this price? (you pay for client access twice! one when you buy MS exchange and one when you buy MS Office - read the papers) - it's their right...
They're going implement MS
So why do people moaning and bitching about GNOME? are Ximian now the sole writers of GNOME? (judging by the popularity of Red Carpet - I would think that it looks like Ximian is doing the major work of GNOME) last I heard - GNOME is written by volunteers from all over the world - or has it changed that everyone now counts on Ximian regarding GNOME?
You tell me...
People, come on!
As the review says - this is a Preview release, which I'm sure Lindows people will read (and probably pissed off since someone broke NDA).
I'm sure that they will react and will change stuff - and if I'm not mistaken, they have stated to their Lindows testers that the file system is still under change and future previews WILL NOT be as this version which had been reviewed..
So first we didn't belive that Lindows exists and it's only a photoshop mock-up. Now it looks like it's real, but with a problem with users - lets wait another version AND THEN decide whether to use it or not.
There's also a flip to that coin...
How many projects have actually moved to Savannah? 517.
How many projects there are either frozen, dead, or running? who knows?
SourceForge is still with us, and despite complains, works pretty well...
Oh yes, that reminds me...
When SGI bought Cray super computers corp., they sold some parts, one of the parts was sold to Sun microsystems, and Sun renamed it to Sun E10000...
I'm sure that few people know about Sun E10K, and I'm sure Sun sold tons of these machines at huge prices and got a very nice profit from them...
Who the hell made this stupid decision to sell it to Sun???
Go ahead and ask Sun, HP, Compaq, IBM about the server market share and who are their competitors - SGI is listen way down in the bottom...
This sounds just like old Digital - great products (ok, not the Digital PC's that they tried to sell - yuck!) - horrible sales division.
I really don't know if that wouldn't affect their financial bottom line - look at the upcoming ATI Q4 profits - they made nice amount of money with their contract with Nintendo about the graphics chip.
Case in point - SGI got some great hardware, totally impressive machine, and I haven't heard many flames about Irix. Yet it reminds me what was written by a british computer magazine about the Amiga 1000 - Dream machine - Nightmare price - I guess it's the same for SGI.
So - you could think "ahh, market conditions now are not the best, they'll lower their prices on their workstations/servers" - well, you are more then welcome to look at the prices of their Visual Workstation machine's prices - FAR and ABOVE any competition! who would be nuts to buy at those prices?!?!?
The ZZZZZZZZZZZ series ;)
Yes, you're right, I think the dude meant the P series...
How much Visual studio costs? lets be modest and say $500? now you know thats for only 1 platform, so if you want you app, for Unix for example - you need something like umm, this? (hint - the price is MUCH more then $1000).
So yes, if you're writing commercial applications for Windows - then you really don't need QT, and MS solution would be much cheaper.
However - if you want a multi platform solution (Linux, Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, SCO, Mac OS X, Windows [95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP]) along with the best documents - then GTK will be thrown out by any serious developer and they'll go with QT.
Of course - IMHO QT should make what I call a "student" edition - but you'll have to write it to them. Maybe if lots of people will write to them they'll do something about it.
Umm, you forgot something: there is a special chip that DECODES MPEG-1 & MPEG-2 streams. Want to try MPEG-2 playback on Pentium 266? be my guest