Wouldn't it be less work to
- get kvm/xen working on your phone or tablet? The ARM v7a architecture defines virtualization extensions, paving the way to run Android AND Gnu/Linux simultaneously with minimal performance overhead (relative to one's 2GB quad core smart phone)
- run android-x86 in a window via virtualbox? Less mucking around than porting desktop Linux to Android or Dalvik to Xorg?
OpenJDK under the GPL ain't free enough for you? You suggest Harmony was 'freer', with reference to some obscure website that rejects the Apache license as well. Hmmm.
Indeed, like any client GUI, an 'app' will only run faster to the extent that its logic is parallelized.
I thought a main benefit of multiple cores was potentially to achieve the same amount of work at lower clock speeds. i.e. by delegating background processes to the secondary/tertiary/quaternary cores, the OS can run with fewer battery-draining CPU spikes.
Agreed, 'revolutionary' makes me envisage Ernesto Guevara with a scruffy beard and a beret. Nevertheless...
To be honest, the hardware looks rather mundane - borrowing none of the sleek lines that Samsung "stole" from Apple.;-)
But amongst OS aficionados, QNX is the business - a real-time embedded kernel that supposedly would leave Linux/XNU in the dust on phones (whoops, is such a statement considered blasphemy in these parts?!) A revolution? probably not but providing souped up multi-tasking of Android apps, continuing the Qt legacy of Meego/Symbian and providing enterprise services that made it the original BB a hit is at least a challenger to the bring-your-own-phone culture that has seen BB lose market share.
Yes, it has POSIX compatibility and uses netbsd's pkgsrc ports collection. Thus subject to compatible licensing and 'linuxisms', it should be possible to re-package software written for other Qt-based platforms (open webOS, Nemo, Plasma Active, Ubuntu Mobile).
Hmmm, my Brother wifi enabled laser printer has been chugging along for 5+ years.
your usage may vary but it was definitely a selling point all those years ago. Having to hook up a legacy desktop PC via USB just to share a printer via samba/wifi just because an iPad can't print directly represents a significant downgrade.
it only works on Intel and AMD compatible machines
Wine runs Windows applications compiled for a compatible CPU architecture. So if one were to cross-compile a Win32 program (e.g. Notepad++) using MinGW to produce an ARM exe then it ought to happily run under wine on one's ARM linux installation (e.g. Ubuntu on a Nexus 7.)
MS would be keen to become totally 64bit clean for Windows 9. Intel (aside from a few Atoms) and AMD migrated to x86-64 half a decade ago. Let IA-32 die already - it's nearly 10 years since the Athlon 64 came out...
[even if the machine I'm typing on is a P4 running ubuntu 12.10, I don't expect I'll be upgrading it to Windows 9!]
I'd be surprised if MS and ARM aren't working on AArch64, for a subsequent generation Surface RT, as we speak.
Windows 8 has been out for less than 3 months. A bit early to calling it a failure?
Intel have mandated touchscreens for their lastest Ultrabook spec. So all premium wintel laptops (>$999) will have touchscreens by Christmas.
This will drive down the cost where Apple customers will be asking why their macbook is the only $1000 laptop on the market without touch input. At which point Apple will announce a compatibility layer to run all one's favourite iPad apps inside OS X at WWDC 2014, along with the first macbook air with a detachable keyboard. At which point developers will marvel at the lower cost of entry - in being able to run Xcode on the same device you're targetting.
They're being built by Geeksphone, a Spanish company.
They used to operate a web store for their Android phones so, in theory, direct from their website?
Failing that, the development was largely done against the Samsung Galaxy S II, which has better specs than the 'Keon' they're peddling as a developer phone. The S2 should drop in price once the S4 is released real soon now...
The specs quoted for these devices are 2010 era Android specs - single core 1GHz, 512GB. Any (decent) Android phone released in 2013 and beyond will come with a quad core Cortex A15 with 2GB RAM.
JIT-compiled dalvik bytecodes should run no better or worse than JIT-compiled JS running on IonMonkey. They both use a FFI to C/C++ dynamic libraries.
Hmmm, socialist alliance members have their own parliamentary candidates. My experience of them at uni - those that take 7 years to finish a 3 year degree - they seem far more 'loony left' than Dr Brown.
Nevertheless that Lee Rhiannon from NSW seems out of step with Bandt, Milne and Hanson-Young. "St Bob" reprimanded her at least once for her extremism.
Agreed. Johnny Depp as a creepy old perv lusting after Keira Knightley is hardly a wholesome image. Heath Ledger's portrayal of Ned Kelly on the other hand... The Bushranger Party would have more local resonance if you're seeking icons of murderous thieving subversives.
if, as reported here recently, Watson can master Urban Dictionary then the literature for the grand unified theory shouldn't cause 'it' too much problems.
Hook Hawking's wheelchair up to Watson via wifi/3g and you're all set...
Well as someone else noted, they had to enable JS to get the site to work, by which some would regard as opening an attack vector in running untrusted scripting.
With RMS as an unlikely guardian angel, Kim DC could use existing crypto libraries at least ensure the integrity of client-end encryption. If "They" were to try and inject covert monitoring code into the process, tampered scripts would refuse to run...
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Virtualization?
Wouldn't it be less work to
- get kvm/xen working on your phone or tablet? The ARM v7a architecture defines virtualization extensions, paving the way to run Android AND Gnu/Linux simultaneously with minimal performance overhead (relative to one's 2GB quad core smart phone)
- run android-x86 in a window via virtualbox? Less mucking around than porting desktop Linux to Android or Dalvik to Xorg?
efforts were underway by KDE to port Calligra to Android.
http://blogs.kde.org/node/4521
Possibly the core libraries are GPL. So any linkage becomes a derivate work.
By contrast, gcc is GPL but the the gnu libc contains a linking exception so that the resulting binary is exempt. Similarly with openjdk.
OpenJDK under the GPL ain't free enough for you? You suggest Harmony was 'freer', with reference to some obscure website that rejects the Apache license as well. Hmmm.
Well there was an implementation of Direct3D 11 on Linux but it died due to lack of interest in maintaining it.
Indeed, like any client GUI, an 'app' will only run faster to the extent that its logic is parallelized.
I thought a main benefit of multiple cores was potentially to achieve the same amount of work at lower clock speeds. i.e. by delegating background processes to the secondary/tertiary/quaternary cores, the OS can run with fewer battery-draining CPU spikes.
Agreed, 'revolutionary' makes me envisage Ernesto Guevara with a scruffy beard and a beret. Nevertheless...
To be honest, the hardware looks rather mundane - borrowing none of the sleek lines that Samsung "stole" from Apple. ;-)
But amongst OS aficionados, QNX is the business - a real-time embedded kernel that supposedly would leave Linux/XNU in the dust on phones (whoops, is such a statement considered blasphemy in these parts?!) A revolution? probably not but providing souped up multi-tasking of Android apps, continuing the Qt legacy of Meego/Symbian and providing enterprise services that made it the original BB a hit is at least a challenger to the bring-your-own-phone culture that has seen BB lose market share.
Yes, it has POSIX compatibility and uses netbsd's pkgsrc ports collection. Thus subject to compatible licensing and 'linuxisms', it should be possible to re-package software written for other Qt-based platforms (open webOS, Nemo, Plasma Active, Ubuntu Mobile).
Isn't R-pi a UK company? That could be a factor. Shuffling £ from one british org to another and all the money stays in the country.
Hmmm, my Brother wifi enabled laser printer has been chugging along for 5+ years.
your usage may vary but it was definitely a selling point all those years ago. Having to hook up a legacy desktop PC via USB just to share a printer via samba/wifi just because an iPad can't print directly represents a significant downgrade.
Mac os x will run fine on Apple machines!
Wine runs Windows applications compiled for a compatible CPU architecture. So if one were to cross-compile a Win32 program (e.g. Notepad++) using MinGW to produce an ARM exe then it ought to happily run under wine on one's ARM linux installation (e.g. Ubuntu on a Nexus 7.)
Wow, your post shows up as the first search result. Congrats!
MS would be keen to become totally 64bit clean for Windows 9. Intel (aside from a few Atoms) and AMD migrated to x86-64 half a decade ago. Let IA-32 die already - it's nearly 10 years since the Athlon 64 came out...
[even if the machine I'm typing on is a P4 running ubuntu 12.10, I don't expect I'll be upgrading it to Windows 9!]
I'd be surprised if MS and ARM aren't working on AArch64, for a subsequent generation Surface RT, as we speak.
Windows 8 has been out for less than 3 months. A bit early to calling it a failure?
Intel have mandated touchscreens for their lastest Ultrabook spec. So all premium wintel laptops (>$999) will have touchscreens by Christmas.
This will drive down the cost where Apple customers will be asking why their macbook is the only $1000 laptop on the market without touch input. At which point Apple will announce a compatibility layer to run all one's favourite iPad apps inside OS X at WWDC 2014, along with the first macbook air with a detachable keyboard. At which point developers will marvel at the lower cost of entry - in being able to run Xcode on the same device you're targetting.
Oops, it was the Nexus S...
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Firefox_OS_build_prerequisites
They're being built by Geeksphone, a Spanish company.
They used to operate a web store for their Android phones so, in theory, direct from their website?
Failing that, the development was largely done against the Samsung Galaxy S II, which has better specs than the 'Keon' they're peddling as a developer phone. The S2 should drop in price once the S4 is released real soon now...
The specs quoted for these devices are 2010 era Android specs - single core 1GHz, 512GB. Any (decent) Android phone released in 2013 and beyond will come with a quad core Cortex A15 with 2GB RAM.
JIT-compiled dalvik bytecodes should run no better or worse than JIT-compiled JS running on IonMonkey. They both use a FFI to C/C++ dynamic libraries.
Katter Party?
Hmmm, socialist alliance members have their own parliamentary candidates. My experience of them at uni - those that take 7 years to finish a 3 year degree - they seem far more 'loony left' than Dr Brown.
Nevertheless that Lee Rhiannon from NSW seems out of step with Bandt, Milne and Hanson-Young. "St Bob" reprimanded her at least once for her extremism.
They should just provide Java based installer :-)
Visit steam.com, browser exploit downloads linux iso, flashes image to usb key. Reboots system.
On bioses set to boot from usb, it's a zero-click install!!!
Agreed. Johnny Depp as a creepy old perv lusting after Keira Knightley is hardly a wholesome image.
Heath Ledger's portrayal of Ned Kelly on the other hand... The Bushranger Party would have more local resonance if you're seeking icons of murderous thieving subversives.
if, as reported here recently, Watson can master Urban Dictionary then the literature for the grand unified theory shouldn't cause 'it' too much problems.
Hook Hawking's wheelchair up to Watson via wifi/3g and you're all set...
Wouldn't it be nice if someone wrote a browser plugin to whitelist only trusted free software scripts ?
With RMS as an unlikely guardian angel, Kim DC could use existing crypto libraries at least ensure the integrity of client-end encryption. If "They" were to try and inject covert monitoring code into the process, tampered scripts would refuse to run...
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