Soon as Microsoft surrenders language and library development to a 3rd party that operates in an open manner and allows any and all uses without royalty requirements.
As it stands? No way. That's just handing Microsoft what they've always wanted.
A unrewriteable loader checks the UEFI image, confirms it is unmodified. Starts UEFI. UEFI checks the bootloader, confirms it is unmodified. Starts the bootloader. Bootloader checks the kernel and system files, confirms they are unmodified. Starts the kernel. Kernel boot process confirms an integrity checker is unmodified, which then scans the entire OS to ensure the state of the system and all drivers.
If at any point it fails, it either attempts recovery (overwriting files with a failed signature check) or halts boot.
Yes, cheap hardware will be locked down and your only options will be $5K-$10K workstations and servers.
That's exactly what they want: to push open computing outside the affordable range and outside the reach of most people. Thus they can keep people trapped in the Windows monopoly.
Well, it is about preventing you from running another OS. If they don't control that then they control nothing, and control is what this is all about, right?
A VM (surely VMWare would be happy to play along) could easily extend the chain of "trust."
you can still install whatever OS you like on an Apple Mac.
I could see Apple adding Microsoft's keys to their EFI boot sequence, as well as adding theirs. They could allow for Windows installs, lock out Linux, and kill/severely hinder the Hackintosh world in one swift blow.
There is almost always a smaller slower "modem processor" (often called the DSP)
No, that's the "baseband processor" which can be ARM or MIPS, and never handles user tasks, only communications on the GSM network. Most decent SoCs include a DSP for handling things like h.264 decoding (or even WebM.) Virtually nothing on the high end uses the DSP for playback as the power savings are negligible.
Maybe on lower end phones they use the DSP for mp3 playback, and only on the lowest end phones do they share a core between the GSM stack and user applications.
The kernel community's interest in the problems you have with old versions of the kernel is pretty much non-existent unless you can show it exists in the current version. They also release on ~13 week schedules. But if you need long term kernel support, you go to a 3rd party like Redhat.
Maybe instead of bitching on Slashdot and shitting on the honest efforts of the Mozilla team, someone should step up and make a long term support release of Mozilla (like Debian does)?
Nah. Slashdot would rather spew vomit in the face of people who do good work and demand they kowtow to the schedules of others, instead of stepping up and ensuring they get what they want.
Perhaps addon writers shouldn't be lazy. Noscript has not once broken for me, despite having gone from FF5, to Aurora, to Nightly on my personal system.
* no, don't start on what Stallman thinks - it's the closest you'll get to a phone that will has a global reach without closing it up entirely. A truly open system would be so fragmented that one would become completely unrecognisable from the other.
Bullshit. By this logic it's impossible to write software that runs on Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and SuSE all at the same time, yet it happens every day. Google's success has nothing to do with reinventing the entire userspace, and everything to do with throwing money and hype behind it.
People bitch about "fragmentation," but quite frankly that's a vendor and carrier induced problem that has no real good reason for existing aside from wanting to force you to upgrade.
Android is not open. It is a closed source project that was hyped as being "open" but instead uses the AOSP as a dumping ground, whose community they treat like crap by pulling what they did with Honeycomb.
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Soon as Microsoft surrenders language and library development to a 3rd party that operates in an open manner and allows any and all uses without royalty requirements.
As it stands? No way. That's just handing Microsoft what they've always wanted.
Indeed, we should never ever venture anywhere that isn't perfectly hospitable to us. It's just too dangerous and too scary.
No, this is about MS potentially abusing a feature of UEFI to shut out competitors.
It's a chain of trust.
A unrewriteable loader checks the UEFI image, confirms it is unmodified. Starts UEFI.
UEFI checks the bootloader, confirms it is unmodified. Starts the bootloader.
Bootloader checks the kernel and system files, confirms they are unmodified. Starts the kernel.
Kernel boot process confirms an integrity checker is unmodified, which then scans the entire OS to ensure the state of the system and all drivers.
If at any point it fails, it either attempts recovery (overwriting files with a failed signature check) or halts boot.
Because they'd revoke the key as soon as the FSF published it?
Well, they'll make it work with Windows 7. But they'll make no effort to ensure it works with Linux.
Yes, cheap hardware will be locked down and your only options will be $5K-$10K workstations and servers.
That's exactly what they want: to push open computing outside the affordable range and outside the reach of most people. Thus they can keep people trapped in the Windows monopoly.
Well, it is about preventing you from running another OS. If they don't control that then they control nothing, and control is what this is all about, right?
A VM (surely VMWare would be happy to play along) could easily extend the chain of "trust."
I could see Apple adding Microsoft's keys to their EFI boot sequence, as well as adding theirs. They could allow for Windows installs, lock out Linux, and kill/severely hinder the Hackintosh world in one swift blow.
Don't go questioning the arguments of the Apple lock-down defenders. You'll get shouted down.
Sure. You will have the choice to buy a computer, or to do without.
No, that's the "baseband processor" which can be ARM or MIPS, and never handles user tasks, only communications on the GSM network. Most decent SoCs include a DSP for handling things like h.264 decoding (or even WebM.) Virtually nothing on the high end uses the DSP for playback as the power savings are negligible.
Maybe on lower end phones they use the DSP for mp3 playback, and only on the lowest end phones do they share a core between the GSM stack and user applications.
I just realized that that's the perfect analogy.
The kernel community's interest in the problems you have with old versions of the kernel is pretty much non-existent unless you can show it exists in the current version. They also release on ~13 week schedules. But if you need long term kernel support, you go to a 3rd party like Redhat.
Maybe instead of bitching on Slashdot and shitting on the honest efforts of the Mozilla team, someone should step up and make a long term support release of Mozilla (like Debian does)?
Nah. Slashdot would rather spew vomit in the face of people who do good work and demand they kowtow to the schedules of others, instead of stepping up and ensuring they get what they want.
Quick, someone tell the Kernel community that they need to stop doing frequent releases IMMEDIATELY.
They have?
How exactly have they lost sight of where they started? That would suggest that Firefox is bloated in some way, yet I'm not seeing how.
You don't have it automated?
Perhaps addon writers shouldn't be lazy. Noscript has not once broken for me, despite having gone from FF5, to Aurora, to Nightly on my personal system.
Indeed, so people are leaving a browser that is moving to rapid release and going to a browser that does... rapid release. Wait, what?
Because Chrome is special and exempt from the petty hate being directed towards Mozilla.
Yeah, we should sit for years between versions to keep cranky IT workers and the corporations they inhabit happy.
I'm amazed at how hateful and petty people are towards Mozilla over this. Google gets a pass though.
I guess the notion of "release early, release often" is dead?
Bullshit. By this logic it's impossible to write software that runs on Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and SuSE all at the same time, yet it happens every day. Google's success has nothing to do with reinventing the entire userspace, and everything to do with throwing money and hype behind it.
People bitch about "fragmentation," but quite frankly that's a vendor and carrier induced problem that has no real good reason for existing aside from wanting to force you to upgrade.
Android is not open. It is a closed source project that was hyped as being "open" but instead uses the AOSP as a dumping ground, whose community they treat like crap by pulling what they did with Honeycomb.
And I've got DirectX 6 games that don't run at all on my system. That means nothing.
Ah, the good old Anonymous Coward insult. Because anecdotes == data, amirite?
Impressive. Ten years later we have people defending Microsoft's anti-competitive actions.
I'm trying to narrow down what Z2 you are referring to. Certainly it is not one I can find.