People keep mentioning QNX and VxWorks as if there are no other popular microkernels. There is another commercial microkernel, EKA2(derived from EKA morphed from EPOC) used as a base for Symbian in current/upcoming generations of Nokia and Sony Ericson smartphones. Given that the phones run on low power CPUs, symbian performance is pretty good. Since it is a microkernel the current EKA2 generation has an extensive(and simple) security model where every process is marked with a privilege such that security-crucial servers can easily ignore IPC from servers deemed to be less secure. This feature of isolating various processes in the system without serverely restricting the APIs would be very difficult to model in a monolithic kernel.
Additionally because Symbian is based on a microkernel architecture, there is very little coupling between system components, so one can replace the filesystem, ip stack, etc, without recompiling the kernel avoiding the need for vendors to maintain giant patches and having to fix them with every new release as is done with linux.
iRATE has can be run without any Sun crap. It is designed to compile to native code with GNU gcj compiler which comes with gcc. Additionally it uses SWT to have a native look on the platform of your choice (OSX, Linux or even Windows).
Yes, I'm surprised more people aren't complaining about him. The guy was clueless and yet would keep interrupting smarter people with his dumb comments.
Leo was the most annoying thing about techtv. Him and the annoying young fella(his son?).
mkdvd rocks. It's a handy little script to reencode any mplayer-playble movie into a dvd. Works like a charm.
Very convenient for those those movies that need to be watched on the big screen.
Porn industry is quite responsive to new technology. Subscription models, streaming video, mobile content, all of these seem to make it in porn, but not the rest of the industry(not as easily).
ISPs also love hosting porn sites due to the highbandwidth, expensive accounts that these sites get. It's quite at how successful porn business is as compared to "decent" business models.
iRATE gets you free & legal mp3s without disriminating in regards to your location in the world. It also promotes the little guys and tries to save the world from sucky radio.
Lycoris used to be called Redmon Linux. I even planned to install it at some point because it looked like some ridiculous parody of windows. At least one of the main lycoris devs worked for microsoft, so they have been throughly brainwashed.
Anyways, ever since they renamed to Lycoris, I no longer wanna install the distro. It went from funny to sad. How can someone be so serious about looking like a cheap copy of xp?
That project certainly deserve the "coolest name" award. Basicly it's the freebsd equivalent of ndiswrapper to get wireless chips to work.
It's remarkable how applicable this name is:)
Here is a more detailed description.
Problem is that linux phones haven't even appeared on any major markets yet. The motorolla phone is for Asian markets only and aparently it still has issues to be worked out. I know trolltech announced that they had several deals with cellphone companies, but so far none of them surfaced. Does anyone have details on what other manufacturers are working on linux phones and when those might be released?
This is a kickass laptop. Also very innovating with their act-as-a-usb2-harddrive-for-your-desktop mode:)
The shoving laptop into docking thing to charge is cool too.
I might snag one of these babies once they stick the new transmeta cpu into them. The one in it is getting kinda dated. I heard sharp has nice screens too. Do you find that the screen on that laptop blows away most other laptops of the same generation?
Very funny. I belive their design goal was to squish the laptop into ridiculous dimentions. Hence the carbon fibre frame, weird kb placement, etc.
This laptop isn't meant to be a everything-for-everyone model. It's a marvel of engeneering exploring new ways of achieving portability in laptops to come. It's common that first generations of skinny laptops miss non-essensial hw.
Sony TR2 has a much better screen(but smaller). It's MUCH lighter and thinnier than any apple shit.
In fact compared to the panasonic r, t,w series or sony tr, vr, x series, fujitsu, jvc, etc apple isn't even in the same class. All of the above PC manufactures have laptops that have AT LEAST the same features, but generally more & often for less money. I repeat, apple doesn't have anything to compete with in ultraportable market except marketing and hordes zealots.
And don't give me that slot loading crap. PC laptops like panasonic w2 got way more innovative cdrom designs.
Why do people say sony sux and then don't mention the model that they broke. Fact is that sony has a lot of cheap feeling plastic laptops with big megaherz, ram, hd and no quality. Perhaps you had the p4 vr505 or whatever they call it?
Anyways, I hate it how people say that macs are better. Everybody made fun of me for buying a vaio sr19(10" & 2.9lb) instead of a "portable"(5lb?) ibook. Well, since then at least 2 of my people had to RMA their laptops due to mobo failure and screen issues.
Don't believe me? Check nice ibook stories here.
So to each his own. Sony can make good laptops and apple might too. Know what you are buying instead of just betting your buck on brandnames. But for god's sake, stop this whole "Apple is holy, ppc is better bullshit".
Oh yah recently my laptop experienced a big weight dropped on it from over a meter. As a result there is a crack on both sides of it, but it still functions(except for the bent memory stick slot).
Hey, that's the problem. If you are comparing it to the majority of the laptops on the market, it's thin and light. However, the fact remains that the majority of the current laptops aren't designed with portability in mind. Just compare the current breed of monster aims at desktop-booters to the old PII-200 laptops. The current ones are just too big.
I killed a good number of days on that game. It trully rocks.
Nothing like having a horde of Arab Armors invading israel or having the zulus pound americans with ironclads.
Dude, are you a giant? How else would you call 2.7kg is thin and light? What have you been smocking? That's a heavy laptop. And with a 15.2" whalebook like this, you probably have issues finding room for it in the backpack.
For your info, to qualify as thing and light laptops generally have to weight around 2.7lb, not kg!!!
Checkout Panasonic R1, the little Fujistus, sharp actius or even the old school sony vaio sr* laptops. Those are thing and light, yours is a monster. Admit it!
ps. Some manufacturer needs to start adding pullout handles + little wheels to their whalebook lines of laptops. That way people wouldn't have to strain their backs. Another option would be to add 4 retractable feet to the laptop, so you be useful as a desk too.
You bought the wrong computer man. Those g5 towers are damn nice looking, but they aren't very easy to carry around for the purposes of flashing. Perhaps you should've choosen something more portable? Like maybe a laptop?
I'm not joking. My tiny vaio SR17 gets rave reviews from university girls. "Oh wow that's so cute" "It's so little"
And no, I'm sure they were reffering to the laptop:)
What a great idea. Lets speculate about possible lawsuit targets for SCO. Why don't we get financial info of linux companies, probability of them settling out of court, etc. This way sco will just have to read slashdot to find their next target. Yes, lets save time and effort for SCO.
That's way cool. Does that mean that we'll finally be able to run headless boxes without guessing of what's going on and having to steal a monitor to diagnose problems? I know *some* BIOSes have serial support, but having tcp access to the bios and hopefully main linux console would absolutely rock. At that point monitors at my house would become obsolete since I'd be able to do everything from my laptop:)
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People keep mentioning QNX and VxWorks as if there are no other popular microkernels.
There is another commercial microkernel, EKA2(derived from EKA morphed from EPOC) used as a base for Symbian in current/upcoming generations of Nokia and Sony Ericson smartphones. Given that the phones run on low power CPUs, symbian performance is pretty good. Since it is a microkernel the current EKA2 generation has an extensive(and simple) security model where every process is marked with a privilege such that security-crucial servers can easily ignore IPC from servers deemed to be less secure.
This feature of isolating various processes in the system without serverely restricting the APIs would be very difficult to model in a monolithic kernel.
Additionally because Symbian is based on a microkernel architecture, there is very little coupling between system components, so one can replace the filesystem, ip stack, etc, without recompiling the kernel avoiding the need for vendors to maintain giant patches and having to fix them with every new release as is done with linux.
iRATE has can be run without any Sun crap. It is designed to compile to native code with GNU gcj compiler which comes with gcc.
Additionally it uses SWT to have a native look on the platform of your choice (OSX, Linux or even Windows).
QEMU can't run windows very well yet, but it runs Linux, ReactOS and handful of others already.
Yes, I'm surprised more people aren't complaining about him. The guy was clueless and yet would keep interrupting smarter people with his dumb comments. Leo was the most annoying thing about techtv. Him and the annoying young fella(his son?).
mkdvd rocks. It's a handy little script to reencode any mplayer-playble movie into a dvd. Works like a charm.
Very convenient for those those movies that need to be watched on the big screen.
Porn industry is quite responsive to new technology. Subscription models, streaming video, mobile content, all of these seem to make it in porn, but not the rest of the industry(not as easily).
ISPs also love hosting porn sites due to the highbandwidth, expensive accounts that these sites get. It's quite at how successful porn business is as compared to "decent" business models.
iRATE gets you free & legal mp3s without disriminating in regards to your location in the world. It also promotes the little guys and tries to save the world from sucky radio.
Anyways, ever since they renamed to Lycoris, I no longer wanna install the distro. It went from funny to sad. How can someone be so serious about looking like a cheap copy of xp?
That project certainly deserve the "coolest name" award. Basicly it's the freebsd equivalent of ndiswrapper to get wireless chips to work. :)
It's remarkable how applicable this name is
Here is a more detailed description.
Problem is that linux phones haven't even appeared on any major markets yet. The motorolla phone is for Asian markets only and aparently it still has issues to be worked out.
I know trolltech announced that they had several deals with cellphone companies, but so far none of them surfaced.
Does anyone have details on what other manufacturers are working on linux phones and when those might be released?
This is bad news. Arnie shouldn't have been allowed into the NASA press conference. He's a martian spy!
Does the modeline form http://www.vanbuer.net/~darrel/p2040.html help?
Sony laptops are also lighter & have considerably better screens :)
I think the ibook/powerbooks are about 2x as heavy.
This is a kickass laptop. Also very innovating with their act-as-a-usb2-harddrive-for-your-desktop mode :)
The shoving laptop into docking thing to charge is cool too.
I might snag one of these babies once they stick the new transmeta cpu into them. The one in it is getting kinda dated. I heard sharp has nice screens too. Do you find that the screen on that laptop blows away most other laptops of the same generation?
Very funny. I belive their design goal was to squish the laptop into ridiculous dimentions. Hence the carbon fibre frame, weird kb placement, etc.
This laptop isn't meant to be a everything-for-everyone model. It's a marvel of engeneering exploring new ways of achieving portability in laptops to come. It's common that first generations of skinny laptops miss non-essensial hw.
Sony TR2 has a much better screen(but smaller). It's MUCH lighter and thinnier than any apple shit.
In fact compared to the panasonic r, t,w series or sony tr, vr, x series, fujitsu, jvc, etc apple isn't even in the same class. All of the above PC manufactures have laptops that have AT LEAST the same features, but generally more & often for less money. I repeat, apple doesn't have anything to compete with in ultraportable market except marketing and hordes zealots.
And don't give me that slot loading crap. PC laptops like panasonic w2 got way more innovative cdrom designs.
Anyways, I hate it how people say that macs are better. Everybody made fun of me for buying a vaio sr19(10" & 2.9lb) instead of a "portable"(5lb?) ibook. Well, since then at least 2 of my people had to RMA their laptops due to mobo failure and screen issues.
Don't believe me? Check nice ibook stories here.
So to each his own. Sony can make good laptops and apple might too. Know what you are buying instead of just betting your buck on brandnames. But for god's sake, stop this whole "Apple is holy, ppc is better bullshit".
Oh yah recently my laptop experienced a big weight dropped on it from over a meter. As a result there is a crack on both sides of it, but it still functions(except for the bent memory stick slot).
Kickass!
Hey, that's the problem. If you are comparing it to the majority of the laptops on the market, it's thin and light.
However, the fact remains that the majority of the current laptops aren't designed with portability in mind. Just compare the current breed of monster aims at desktop-booters to the old PII-200 laptops. The current ones are just too big.
I killed a good number of days on that game. It trully rocks. Nothing like having a horde of Arab Armors invading israel or having the zulus pound americans with ironclads.
Dude, are you a giant? How else would you call 2.7kg is thin and light?
What have you been smocking? That's a heavy laptop. And with a 15.2" whalebook like this, you probably have issues finding room for it in the backpack.
For your info, to qualify as thing and light laptops generally have to weight around 2.7lb, not kg!!!
Checkout Panasonic R1, the little Fujistus, sharp actius or even the old school sony vaio sr* laptops. Those are thing and light, yours is a monster. Admit it!
ps. Some manufacturer needs to start adding pullout handles + little wheels to their whalebook lines of laptops. That way people wouldn't have to strain their backs.
Another option would be to add 4 retractable feet to the laptop, so you be useful as a desk too.
You bought the wrong computer man. Those g5 towers are damn nice looking, but they aren't very easy to carry around for the purposes of flashing.
:)
Perhaps you should've choosen something more portable? Like maybe a laptop?
I'm not joking. My tiny vaio SR17 gets rave reviews from university girls.
"Oh wow that's so cute"
"It's so little"
And no, I'm sure they were reffering to the laptop
Why was the above rated as insightful?
Lets see, if one follows the following:
*troll here*
Then says:
Oh I'm just kidding (insert opposite statement here)
So that gets people moderated up. Great!
Good start slashdot!
That's way cool. Does that mean that we'll finally be able to run headless boxes without guessing of what's going on and having to steal a monitor to diagnose problems? :)
I know *some* BIOSes have serial support, but having tcp access to the bios and hopefully main linux console would absolutely rock. At that point monitors at my house would become obsolete since I'd be able to do everything from my laptop