Actually, some people believe that the 2.0 series is the most recent quality Linux kernel.. While obviously that's open for debate, there are people hard at work backporting 2.2.x and even 2.4.x subsystems to make kernel 2.0.40. which I imagine will be released some time this year.
Personally though, I can't wait until 2.6... I know someone who's working on some of the new graphics stuff in his spare time (the new graphics layer is code named "Ruby"), and there will be some sweet stuff. The DRI, framebuffer, Video4Linux, etc. systems will all be made into one unified kernel interface, which will be user friendly and capable enough to (almost) program graphics applications in bash! Imagine (device names are changed to protect the innocent;p):
# set video format echo "640x480x24" >/dev/gfx/camera/cam0.mode echo "640x480x24" >/dev/gfx/video/vid0.mode
Not to mention we'll finally be able to ditch X on the desktop for the framebuffer without losing OpenGL support, and let X do what it was meant to do: thin clients and network terminals.
I do believe I recall a friend telling me there's an arm stashed in there somewhere, or maybe it was an sh... anyway, he's one of the guys who's doing the ps2 linux port for kernel 2.4/2.5 in his spare time, vs. the "antiquated" and messed up 2.2 tree that ships with the linux kit.
Have you heard of Click-N-Run? It's full of -- guess what -- Linux apps, with the exception of AOL. They're adding a publisher interface soon so that all of us developers out there can start putting our own open or closed source software on their site, in a user-friendly, one-click-install database of applications.
Although I'm sure that Robertson was very excited to hear that Microsoft was suing him, just because of all the publicity he would get, it does seem like he wants to revolutionize the software industry with a place for software similar to what mp3.com is for music.
Somewhat obviously this is just the result of an overworked, underpaid, tech support guy, accidentally confusing one three letter acronym for another as he hurriedly typed in questions and answers to rush whatever he was working on out the door before his boss gets mad...
If you had taken the time to read the site more thoroughly, you'd have seen that it indeed states that LindowsOS is based on the Linux kernel.
Furthermore, upon correctly reading the paragraph you quote, you will understand that it states that LindowsOS is the core of Lindows.com's business model.
I know I sound rude, that's not my intention, but sheesh.. Can't people read before they flame?
...not enough characters in the "Subject:" line to write "twice"
But yeah, they've been in the WSJ twice, and this is post-dot-com era mind you.
ZD-Net? Bah... They've got the friggin WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Actually the huge other chips in the PS/2 are also not proprietary; there's an ARM CPU, and two MIPS CPU's, all three of which are fully compatible with the standard ARM and MIPS instruction sets for their respective CPU models, and there's the graphics chip, which is Sony proprietary, but as I recall modified from some SGI designs. Some of these things I refer to as chips are on the same die.
There's a tax on gasoline to pay for roads, but that's not very fair to those people who live on the water 100% of the time either, is it? Or what about social security and medicare?
On the bright side of things, though, a lot of the testing equipment was taken over by Agilent when they split. Hopefully, if HP stops producing quality 80grand test equipment, Agilent will fill that gap. The thing that upsets me the most though, was that they simply dropped the calculator division!!! Their calculator division was profitable, and had excellent market penetration. What the heck were they thinking??!?
Of greater significance, however, is the percentage of Jews that were slaughtered. Yes, there are many non-Jews that were killed, far more than Jews, but at the same time there's like a 500:1 ratio of non-Jew to Jew. A majority of European Jews died in WWII. Can you say the same thing about European or American or Oriental or whatever non-Jews?
Actually, non-commercial distribution of GPL or LGPL software requires merely a link to the source code at a public repository; it's commercial distribution that mandates redistribution of the source code.
Agreed -- I'd even go back to 128k ISDN if it meant the Internet felt free again. It's all too corporatized and commercialized and polluted now. I long for the days when spam was a lunch meat, popup was only used in reference to books, and the extent of IM was IRC.
In response to two sibling posts, you wouldn't have to know China's IP addresses... You just need to unplug the land/sea line and/or sat link that China is attached to at each major router on the Internet that China is directly connected to.
Uh well, the first dead giveaway this is a hoax is that it contains the word "coders." Lawyers always refer to them as software developers, programmers, or software engineers, but not coders.
Secondly, if you read the rest of that forum, you'll find that nobody there even seems to know what they're talking about when it comes to legal matters, with one or two exceptions.
Wouldn't that require a lens and strip for each bit on the CD? I mean, at 650MB plus file system size... You're looking at between 5.5 and 6 billion little lenses... How are you going to control them individually?
One way around the limitation is to increase the spatial density of the data stored on the disc, like DVD for example. A DVD spinning at the same rate as a CD can be read almost 4 times as fast, because the data is packed 4 times as tight. Hard disk drives can read incredibly fast at 10k-15k RPM because of their incredible spatial density. Of course, also mentioned in the article was the multiple lasers method, to read and cache multiple tracks simultaneously. The point is, the CD format was designed in the 1970's; we've come a long way since then. It's about time to stop using CD's and go to DVD's or whatever the next gee-golly medium is.
This is hardly anything new. IRIX has been using OpenGL and/or IrisGL for everything since... a long time ago. OpenGL isn't just for 3D fancy pants games, you know. Also, DirectFB harnesses 3D acceleration of several video cards through the Linux framebuffer to draw its 2D interface. Alas, Microsoft is going to once again claim that they're the first ones ever to use a real graphics library to draw the user interface.
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Personally though, I can't wait until 2.6... I know someone who's working on some of the new graphics stuff in his spare time (the new graphics layer is code named "Ruby"), and there will be some sweet stuff. The DRI, framebuffer, Video4Linux, etc. systems will all be made into one unified kernel interface, which will be user friendly and capable enough to (almost) program graphics applications in bash! Imagine (device names are changed to protect the innocent
Not to mention we'll finally be able to ditch X on the desktop for the framebuffer without losing OpenGL support, and let X do what it was meant to do: thin clients and network terminals.
I do believe I recall a friend telling me there's an arm stashed in there somewhere, or maybe it was an sh... anyway, he's one of the guys who's doing the ps2 linux port for kernel 2.4/2.5 in his spare time, vs. the "antiquated" and messed up 2.2 tree that ships with the linux kit.
Have you heard of Click-N-Run? It's full of -- guess what -- Linux apps, with the exception of AOL. They're adding a publisher interface soon so that all of us developers out there can start putting our own open or closed source software on their site, in a user-friendly, one-click-install database of applications.
Although I'm sure that Robertson was very excited to hear that Microsoft was suing him, just because of all the publicity he would get, it does seem like he wants to revolutionize the software industry with a place for software similar to what mp3.com is for music.
Somewhat obviously this is just the result of an overworked, underpaid, tech support guy, accidentally confusing one three letter acronym for another as he hurriedly typed in questions and answers to rush whatever he was working on out the door before his boss gets mad...
Heheh...
If you had taken the time to read the site more thoroughly, you'd have seen that it indeed states that LindowsOS is based on the Linux kernel.
Furthermore, upon correctly reading the paragraph you quote, you will understand that it states that LindowsOS is the core of Lindows.com's business model.
I know I sound rude, that's not my intention, but sheesh.. Can't people read before they flame?
Dude, it's all there for crying out loud! http://www.net2.com/lindows/source
...not enough characters in the "Subject:" line to write "twice" But yeah, they've been in the WSJ twice, and this is post-dot-com era mind you. ZD-Net? Bah... They've got the friggin WALL STREET JOURNAL.
But the bags of cereal cost a dollar less and taste the same!
MPEG-4 found to cause cancer in laboratory animals. Animal rights agencies were barred from the laboratory during this test.
Actually the huge other chips in the PS/2 are also not proprietary; there's an ARM CPU, and two MIPS CPU's, all three of which are fully compatible with the standard ARM and MIPS instruction sets for their respective CPU models, and there's the graphics chip, which is Sony proprietary, but as I recall modified from some SGI designs. Some of these things I refer to as chips are on the same die.
There's a tax on gasoline to pay for roads, but that's not very fair to those people who live on the water 100% of the time either, is it? Or what about social security and medicare?
On the bright side of things, though, a lot of the testing equipment was taken over by Agilent when they split. Hopefully, if HP stops producing quality 80grand test equipment, Agilent will fill that gap. The thing that upsets me the most though, was that they simply dropped the calculator division!!! Their calculator division was profitable, and had excellent market penetration. What the heck were they thinking??!?
Of greater significance, however, is the percentage of Jews that were slaughtered. Yes, there are many non-Jews that were killed, far more than Jews, but at the same time there's like a 500:1 ratio of non-Jew to Jew. A majority of European Jews died in WWII. Can you say the same thing about European or American or Oriental or whatever non-Jews?
I thought Family Man was pretty good.
Actually, non-commercial distribution of GPL or LGPL software requires merely a link to the source code at a public repository; it's commercial distribution that mandates redistribution of the source code.
Agreed -- I'd even go back to 128k ISDN if it meant the Internet felt free again. It's all too corporatized and commercialized and polluted now. I long for the days when spam was a lunch meat, popup was only used in reference to books, and the extent of IM was IRC.
In response to two sibling posts, you wouldn't have to know China's IP addresses... You just need to unplug the land/sea line and/or sat link that China is attached to at each major router on the Internet that China is directly connected to.
Adobe Premiere... The best amateur, prosumer, and semi-professional video editing tool available.
And what ever happened to broadcast 2000? Wasn't there supposed to be a successor to it?
Uh well, the first dead giveaway this is a hoax is that it contains the word "coders." Lawyers always refer to them as software developers, programmers, or software engineers, but not coders.
Secondly, if you read the rest of that forum, you'll find that nobody there even seems to know what they're talking about when it comes to legal matters, with one or two exceptions.
Just get everyone who visits slashdot to donate 1 or 2 or 10 dollars to the EFF, then have the EFF run a public service ad campaign.
Wouldn't that require a lens and strip for each bit on the CD? I mean, at 650MB plus file system size... You're looking at between 5.5 and 6 billion little lenses... How are you going to control them individually?
One way around the limitation is to increase the spatial density of the data stored on the disc, like DVD for example. A DVD spinning at the same rate as a CD can be read almost 4 times as fast, because the data is packed 4 times as tight. Hard disk drives can read incredibly fast at 10k-15k RPM because of their incredible spatial density. Of course, also mentioned in the article was the multiple lasers method, to read and cache multiple tracks simultaneously. The point is, the CD format was designed in the 1970's; we've come a long way since then. It's about time to stop using CD's and go to DVD's or whatever the next gee-golly medium is.
No clock radio? xdaliclock and xmms!
Um, linux already has this, Mr. Troll. http://www.directfb.org/ http://www.berlin-project.org/ IRIX has been doing it for years on SGI hardware.
This is hardly anything new. IRIX has been using OpenGL and/or IrisGL for everything since... a long time ago. OpenGL isn't just for 3D fancy pants games, you know. Also, DirectFB harnesses 3D acceleration of several video cards through the Linux framebuffer to draw its 2D interface. Alas, Microsoft is going to once again claim that they're the first ones ever to use a real graphics library to draw the user interface.