They're *REQUIRED* to Provide GPL'd Kernel Sources
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The kernel falls under the GPL, and they're legally required to provide you with all the sources!
It's been a while, but for comparison ...
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It's been a while since I tried SuSE; I use Fedora Core 1 right now and soon to follow with Fedora Core 2. Despite the hype, I still believe in Red Hat.;) Some of the things I love the most about my Fedora system include:
Beautiful boot screen and polished feel.
Easy installation from freely available CD-ROM images.
Automatic hardware detection via kudzu, at install time and when adding new devices.
Updates released regularly with the Fedora Legacy Project providing updates for older distributions.
Many pre-built RPM packages are available on-line from projects such as Samba and otherwise.
Many great console & X11-based applications included by default.
Files and configurations are in logical places.
How does SuSE compare on some of these points? If I recall correctly, their installer made me select my network card myself, whereas Fedora did it on its own without me having to open up my machine.
Computer Science is so much more than programming. Artificial intelligence, complex adaptive systems, learning algorithms, efficient distributed systems, systems, usability, algorithms and computability, image and pattern analysis, scientific computing, and more. A good computer science student will have the mathematical background to be able to work with any information in an efficient and intelligent way.
A friend of mine was working on the Music Analysis Toolkit (MAT) while he was still thinking of pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science. The toolkit does just this kind of music recognition stuff, and he was working a lot with the psychoacoustic model and using LAME to filter out inaudible stuff. It's been a while since I've talked with him about it, but it's definately interesting.
I'd be willing to bet this is based on lots of the same stuff.
Apparently, there's an official industry consortium for the technology, with the list of on-board companies including Dell, HP, Hitachi, Pioneer, Sony, and many more. I also found this short intro on the underlying technology, which explains:
Large recording capacity up to 27GB:
By adopting a 405nm blue-violet semiconductor laser, with a 0.85NA field lens and a 0.1mm optical transmittance protection disc layer structure, it can record up to 27GB video data on a single sided 12cm phase change disc. It can record over 2 hours of digital high definition video and more than 13 hours of standard TV broadcasting (VHS/standard definition picture quality, 3.8Mbps)
These screenshots are amazing. Does anyone know more about the fact that "textures are procedural" and how they're able to use this method to compact things down into such a little distribution?
Google now has all sorts of information on hand. They have the Google search engine to index web pages, various offshoots to index news, images, and similar, Orkut to index people, and Gmail to index peoples' communications. With all this information at their fingertips, the sky is the limit (and it is good to know they seem responsible in the way they use their information, separating advertisements from search results, for example). I know that Google has some exceptionally brilliant researchers on staff, and I expect to see even more excellent services from their camp in the future. Does anyone else think that Google is on the cutting edge of Computer Science research?
We are planning to host the event in Columbus again this year, although the specific location within Columbus is TBA -- we'll announce more details to those who are registered for the event, in part to make sure we don't have any overcrowding.:)
We're you able to sign-up for future announcements?
For what it's worth, the event was entirely free last year, and we're planning the same for this year, too. I guess that travel expenses can be a bit costly sometimes, but that's what organized carpools are for!;)
Somewhat unrelated but nonetheless on-topic with the Fedora release, Fedore Core 1 server/minimal UML images are available at http://myturl.com/000pz/ (Linux Users Group site) for public consumption. I'm going to try to wait until the official Fedora Core 2 (not a test Core 2 release as this is but rather the real thing) is available before making UML images for that, as well. But using this UML image provides a good way to test and play with Fedora without reinstalling your system, just so you can see how much you like it. More info on UML in general can be found a the User-Mode Linux website on SourceForge, of course.
I'm going to establish some mailing lists for those who want to get one of these and share stories, findings, ideas, and the like. If you're interested in getting in on the action, please send a blank email to actiontec@express.org, and I'll get you subscribed.
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The kernel falls under the GPL, and they're legally required to provide you with all the sources!
- Beautiful boot screen and polished feel.
- Easy installation from freely available CD-ROM images.
- Automatic hardware detection via kudzu, at install time and when adding new devices.
- Updates released regularly with the Fedora Legacy Project providing updates for older distributions.
- Many pre-built RPM packages are available on-line from projects such as Samba and otherwise.
- Many great console & X11-based applications included by default.
- Files and configurations are in logical places.
How does SuSE compare on some of these points? If I recall correctly, their installer made me select my network card myself, whereas Fedora did it on its own without me having to open up my machine.Computer Science is so much more than programming. Artificial intelligence, complex adaptive systems, learning algorithms, efficient distributed systems, systems, usability, algorithms and computability, image and pattern analysis, scientific computing, and more. A good computer science student will have the mathematical background to be able to work with any information in an efficient and intelligent way.
A friend of mine was working on the Music Analysis Toolkit (MAT) while he was still thinking of pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science. The toolkit does just this kind of music recognition stuff, and he was working a lot with the psychoacoustic model and using LAME to filter out inaudible stuff. It's been a while since I've talked with him about it, but it's definately interesting.
I'd be willing to bet this is based on lots of the same stuff.
Apparently, there's an official industry consortium for the technology, with the list of on-board companies including Dell, HP, Hitachi, Pioneer, Sony, and many more. I also found this short intro on the underlying technology, which explains:
Large recording capacity up to 27GB:
By adopting a 405nm blue-violet semiconductor laser, with a 0.85NA field lens and a 0.1mm optical transmittance protection disc layer structure, it can record up to 27GB video data on a single sided 12cm phase change disc. It can record over 2 hours of digital high definition video and more than 13 hours of standard TV broadcasting (VHS/standard definition picture quality, 3.8Mbps)
These screenshots are amazing. Does anyone know more about the fact that "textures are procedural" and how they're able to use this method to compact things down into such a little distribution?
Google now has all sorts of information on hand. They have the Google search engine to index web pages, various offshoots to index news, images, and similar, Orkut to index people, and Gmail to index peoples' communications. With all this information at their fingertips, the sky is the limit (and it is good to know they seem responsible in the way they use their information, separating advertisements from search results, for example). I know that Google has some exceptionally brilliant researchers on staff, and I expect to see even more excellent services from their camp in the future. Does anyone else think that Google is on the cutting edge of Computer Science research?
So should "Verizon, We Never Stop Working For You" now be changed to "Verizon, We Never Stop Working For You Except When You Need Us The Most"? ;)
I wonder if this could benefit Stephen Hawking? Good thing he's got friends at NASA. ;)
We are planning to host the event in Columbus again this year, although the specific location within Columbus is TBA -- we'll announce more details to those who are registered for the event, in part to make sure we don't have any overcrowding. :)
We're you able to sign-up for future announcements?
For what it's worth, the event was entirely free last year, and we're planning the same for this year, too. I guess that travel expenses can be a bit costly sometimes, but that's what organized carpools are for! ;)
We actually had another article posted to the Linux Users Group of Cleveland website way back on February 11th. Full text of the article can be read here.
Somewhat unrelated but nonetheless on-topic with the Fedora release, Fedore Core 1 server/minimal UML images are available at http://myturl.com/000pz/ (Linux Users Group site) for public consumption. I'm going to try to wait until the official Fedora Core 2 (not a test Core 2 release as this is but rather the real thing) is available before making UML images for that, as well. But using this UML image provides a good way to test and play with Fedora without reinstalling your system, just so you can see how much you like it. More info on UML in general can be found a the User-Mode Linux website on SourceForge, of course.
I'm going to establish some mailing lists for those who want to get one of these and share stories, findings, ideas, and the like. If you're interested in getting in on the action, please send a blank email to actiontec@express.org, and I'll get you subscribed.