I started with Reportlab (the open source parts), found it to low level so I considered using the commercial edition because it has a templating language. As I was not very fond of investing time in learning yet another templating language, I reconsidered, and gave HTML with CSS a try for printing. I used wkhtmlpdf for a while but switched to WeasyPrint in the end: it was created for using HTML with CSS for printing, seemed to be more actively developed when compared to wkhtmlpdf.
Some distro's provide kernel packages for various CPU's. No need to recompile it.
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on 386. kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. kernel-image-2.6.8-1-6 86-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP. kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K7. kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K7 SMP. kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-generic - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on generic x86_64 systems. kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-k8 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD64 systems. kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-k8-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K8 SMP. kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-xeon - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on Intel amd64 systems.
When I was in Saint Louis, Missouri, I found it amazing that the top speed was 55 while the roads had five or six lanes on each side... I live near Germany, where on some highways there is no speedlimit at all.
Oh yes, and basically, it is based on Linux and MPlayer and displays using the framebuffer device (so no X needed). MoviX2 uses X though and has a bigger footprint.
eMoviX/Movix are minidistros which are focused on multimedia display. You can boot and and it'll show audiofiles and movies which are on the same medium.
I assume it can also show pictures, but haven't tried it though...
I could be interesting as it is rather small and they describe setting up CompactFlash in their tutorials/docs.
Rasterman actually did the same thing before. I think it was 6 years ago when Evas used OpenGL for its compositing of pixmaps to be used for Enlightenment 0.17.
Unfortunately, E0.17 still isn't there yet.
.Net+C# or even J# is similar enough to Java to attract former Java developers and to leverage the marketing done by Sun for Java.
Sun promoted portable bytecode as being essential, JIT compiled code as being competitive with native compiled code and these same advantages Microsoft is using now to promote its.Net.
So, they are actually using Sun's effort already and imho you could already consider.Net as a Java fork.
GPLing Java has nothing to do with Java having unportable extensions. Microsoft added COM-bindings to Java which obviously were not portable.
The reason I would strongly vote for Sun to GPL its Java implementation, is that it would mean a full Java implementation finally would be available under the GPL license. The good thing about this is, that Java could finally be portable and not just in theory. Now, it isn't really, since the freely downloadable JVMs are only portable across some operating systems.
For embedded systems having a GPL full JVM implementation is very interesting, since you can port it yourself to any platform thus making the Java platform truly portable.
Yes, but it has to be licensed using the GPL. Which means it has to be open sourced. And for a lot of companies that's a no-go.
Furthermore, (and unfortunately) there aren't that many companies around that develop software only released using the GPL and still are profitable. Eazel went bankrupt, Netscape well, doesn't really get any money from software, StarOffice maybe... but then they have closed sourced extensions and other non-free extras (fonts, clipart).
So, yes, you can develop commercial software using Qt without paying if you release it using the GPL. But, chances are that no-one will buy your goods. The case changes if software sales aren't your real income, if you provide services or sell machines, then it can make a lot of sense to throw the software on the Net and try to get contributions and thus free development.
In what sense are they breaking licenses? They are doing things _very_ similar to Wine regarding the usage of Windows DLLs. And Wine has commercial spinoffs so apparantly, there is no problem in using Microsoft's DLLs.
The Linux kernel was never intented to compete with QNX or any other realtime operating system.
Try RTAI. It's a patch to allow hard realtime performance on GNU/Linux systems.
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I started with Reportlab (the open source parts), found it to low level so I considered using the commercial edition because it has a templating language. As I was not very fond of investing time in learning yet another templating language, I reconsidered, and gave HTML with CSS a try for printing. I used wkhtmlpdf for a while but switched to WeasyPrint in the end: it was created for using HTML with CSS for printing, seemed to be more actively developed when compared to wkhtmlpdf.
Some distro's provide kernel packages for various CPU's. No need to recompile it.
6 86-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP.
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on 386.
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K7.
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K7 SMP.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-generic - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on generic x86_64 systems.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-k8 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD64 systems.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-k8-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K8 SMP.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-xeon - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on Intel amd64 systems.
Ouch... so Douglas Adams was off by 3...
When I was in Saint Louis, Missouri, I found it amazing that the top speed was 55 while the roads had five or six lanes on each side... I live near Germany, where on some highways there is no speedlimit at all.
But unfortunately, for learning pronounciations, a book isn't that interesting...
Thanks! Great site!
Oh yes, and basically, it is based on Linux and MPlayer and displays using the framebuffer device (so no X needed). MoviX2 uses X though and has a bigger footprint.
eMoviX/Movix are minidistros which are focused on multimedia display. You can boot and and it'll show audiofiles and movies which are on the same medium. I assume it can also show pictures, but haven't tried it though... I could be interesting as it is rather small and they describe setting up CompactFlash in their tutorials/docs.
Rasterman actually did the same thing before. I think it was 6 years ago when Evas used OpenGL for its compositing of pixmaps to be used for Enlightenment 0.17. Unfortunately, E0.17 still isn't there yet.
.Net+C# or even J# is similar enough to Java to attract former Java developers and to leverage the marketing done by Sun for Java. Sun promoted portable bytecode as being essential, JIT compiled code as being competitive with native compiled code and these same advantages Microsoft is using now to promote its .Net.
So, they are actually using Sun's effort already and imho you could already consider .Net as a Java fork.
GPLing Java has nothing to do with Java having unportable extensions. Microsoft added COM-bindings to Java which obviously were not portable. The reason I would strongly vote for Sun to GPL its Java implementation, is that it would mean a full Java implementation finally would be available under the GPL license. The good thing about this is, that Java could finally be portable and not just in theory. Now, it isn't really, since the freely downloadable JVMs are only portable across some operating systems. For embedded systems having a GPL full JVM implementation is very interesting, since you can port it yourself to any platform thus making the Java platform truly portable.
Yes, but it has to be licensed using the GPL. Which means it has to be open sourced. And for a lot of companies that's a no-go.
Furthermore, (and unfortunately) there aren't that many companies around that develop software only released using the GPL and still are profitable. Eazel went bankrupt, Netscape well, doesn't really get any money from software, StarOffice maybe... but then they have closed sourced extensions and other non-free extras (fonts, clipart).
So, yes, you can develop commercial software using Qt without paying if you release it using the GPL. But, chances are that no-one will buy your goods.
The case changes if software sales aren't your real income, if you provide services or sell machines, then it can make a lot of sense to throw the software on the Net and try to get contributions and thus free development.
No, GTK is licensed using the LGPL license. Meaning that you can develop GPL software with it and commercial software without paying a dime.
In what sense are they breaking licenses? They are doing things _very_ similar to Wine regarding the usage of Windows DLLs. And Wine has commercial spinoffs so apparantly, there is no problem in using Microsoft's DLLs.
The Linux kernel was never intented to compete with QNX or any other realtime operating system.
Try RTAI. It's a patch to allow hard realtime performance on GNU/Linux systems.