Paris would have a few flights to Montreal, Madrid to Mexico City and Havana, no?
Anyway, as far as 'no-fly' lists go, I'd be shocked if UK and USA intelligence services weren't sharing databases already. This theatre just serves to piss off anyone buying tickets within 3 days of travel when existing controls such as immigration, checkin and boarding serve to validate one's passport electronically 3 times before boarding a flight.
Huawei already supplies 3G USB dongles, cheap android phones and tablets to the Aussie consumer. If that's the case, isn't the Chinese govt already harvesting data from our private citizens? Hmmm, paranoia much?
Conroy might partner with the Chinese on his great firewall of Australia - apparently they have expertise in such matters.;-)
Spain got upset during the Davis cup once. The national anthem from the 30s before Franco was played. Though I suspect if you'd made such a cock up in Barcelona, Catalunya there'd be bemusement and muffled applause. When I was there a few months ago, the republican flag replete with purple was visible among 'occupy' protesters.
Ubuntu doesn't run because of Canonical's compilation settings. During a recent fosdem talk, an ARM/Linaro representative expressed dismay that 'armel' is defined differently between debian and Ubuntu.
Ubuntu are focussing on performance over 'legacy' CPUs - the latest debian ought to run - no speed demon, naturally.
As for firefox, well, gecko's not the only browser in town and until recently 256MB was commonplace on webkit-based Android and iOS (iPhone 3GS) devices. Some browsers optimise for performance, others memory usage.
There used to be a registry key for the 'Shell'. Standard that's historically been set to explorer.exe. Is it the same on Windows 8, or is there some metroui.exe or similar in its place?
Having recently finished backpacking across Europe and South America for 6 months, my experience of wifi users in hostels is
(a) iPads are more commonly owned US travellers than other nationalities. More hipsters? (b) It's rare to see Android tablets (c) Netbooks are more common than full size laptops by a factor of 3:1 - portability (d) Netbooks outnumber iPads by 10:1. (d) smartphone users check a couple of things but jump on a full sized desktop whenever a machine becomes free.
So netbooks are still popular with the traveller. Keyboards haven't gone the way of the dinosaur for those that want to type lengthy messages to folks back home. Netbooks predating the iPad craze and the cost of choosing a new machine is also a factor, obviously.
The future, for Apple competitors, is to reinvent the netbook as Asus have done with the Transformer. Tablet AND lightweight laptop in one device. Stick Win 8 on these things and MS have a touchscreen tablet that runs Word and Excel when docked.
The gap in the price of capacitive touchscreens over regular netbook displays just narrowed with the new iPad's retina display. As soon as MS have Office ready on ARM, it's game over for the Atom as Transformer-like devices running Win8 retail at netbook prices ~ $US300.
So MS is releasing this preview for x86 desktops but the real prize is claiming a share of the tablet+keyboard market from Android and wooing business customers that a Win8 tablet can run Office when you need to 'get real work done'.
Um, dalvik isn't Java(TM) - the whole point of Larry Ellison's lawsuit.
Blame Google, rather than Oracle for any laggy performance. In fact, benchmarks comparing Hotspot to Dalvik (froyo) some time ago showed Google had some catching up to do.
Well, as I understand it, embedded SoC vendors only provide basic drivers for the linux framebuffer and apis to access stuff like embedded opengl. So historically Google was forced to kludge software based rendering.
Linaro and TI, through its Beagleboard/Pandaboard communities may have developed suitable drivers to power X11 on the OMAP-based Maemo devices such as N9 but have other vendors like Qualcomm, Nvidia, Samsung, etc?
So the scenario for accelerated X11 and Android seamlessly integrated on the same device seems to require:
(1) Port android graphics (skia) to Wayland - Chromium already uses an X11 backend for skia? (2) Have ARM SoC vendors release drivers for all the usual KMS/DRM/Gallium3D goodness. (3) Render X11 and Android with Wayland.
Hardware fails and businesses expand to require additional desktops. New hardware (e.g. 'Designed for Windows 8') might not even be capable of booting to XP in several years time.
So the user/sysadmin is then forced to consider a choice of different operating systems on new hardware. The choices as he said: Mac OS, the new version of Windows or some Linux variant.
A drop-in replacement for XP on new hardware, providing a very similar user experience to existing installations may prove useful to a number of organisations. Running an XP-clone on low cost hardware is the promise ReactOS on ARM provides.
As for continuing to use XP on existing hardware after support ends is a security risk waiting to happen.
Except that many cooperations continue to cling to XP as staff retraining on 7 and the cost of upgrades aren't justified in a struggling economy. Purchasing new hardware for which only Win7 drivers exist is problematic. When you have the source to the OS, writing drivers that can be possibly based on other platforms such as Linux or BSD may be a blessing. A free stable clone is a migration path.
Further, not every platform is x86, nor does every use case require binary compatibility. e.g. Can Windows XP, not this shiny new Win8, run natively on ARM? Booting into ReactOS to run libreoffice on an 'Android' tablet such as the Asus Transformer is a possibility in the not too distant future. The OP suggested he had no desire to run a different Windows, Mac or Linux.
This project scratches an itch for a number of people. That it might not be personally beneficial to you is no cause for skepticism.
Alpha quality doesn't mean unsuitable for a certain purpose, if it supports a minimal subset.
One particular use is in software support where an external client may have a certain configuration of XP/Vista/7 that is unable to be deployed on the company's network for licensing, availability reasons.
Having a free clone is another implementation of 'Windows' that may demonstrate a particular fault not detectable on a developer's machine. On more than one occasion my bacon has been saved by running wine on linux in a VM for a flaw that didn't show up in a particular service pack of XP or as the client had migrated to Win7.
Having ReactOS deployable without licensing or activation concerns would be another option and closer to the XP experience that wine in an X11 context.
Sure, but Fedora is a Red Hat sponsored project. Thus it's only natural a Red Hat employee take the reins. I'm not saying we shouldn't celebrate her appointment, clearly she's risen through the ranks.
Nevertheless, to open source it may like admitting female priests in Rome but in the context of a work environment it's hardly unusual and why I question why it's headline news.
A bigger question would be why outside of employer sponsored projects, participation rates are so skewed in favour of blokes.
Like the volunteer efforts to get Ubuntu running on the Asus Transformer series, perhaps there's a niche for a device that can run iOS and Mac OS - AT THE SAME TIME! The next-gen ARM chips support hardware virtualization.
Dock a keyboard and your iPad becomes a mobile OS X workstation for those who need to 'get real work done'. Not all of us need 'legacy' amd64 apps like Photoshop.:-) All the iApps would seamlessly share settings from a common home directory - surprising? not really, same code underneath, just reskinned.
Developing iOS apps in Xcode on the same CPU architecture via a hypervisor should be trivial. Apple would instantly double their iOS developer base, as the disincentive to have to additionally buy a $1000 Mac disappears. And yeah, these quad core CortexA15 ought to be grunty enough to run Xcode provided they're partnered with a decent amount of RAM.
I haven't owned any Apple products since the days of 68k but I'd strongly consider a device that supported seamlessly running both OSes rather than fiddle getting desktop Linux running on a tablet designed for Android (no acclerated drivers for Xorg etc.)
Any PPCisms were stripped out during the transition to x86-64 so the code is 32/64bit clean.
Port any assembly based performance-specific libraries, run it through gcc and llvm, remove any compiler warnings and subject to drivers for ARM SoC - you're done.
Agreed, I work in IT and have had several top level managers who are female. It's the 21stC and should be no surprise that a woman should have risen through the ranks of Red Hat.
Android apps will not run on Linux because there is no Android runtime environment for Linux.
Yet.:)
There's a project called IcedRobot implementing Android compatibility atop the Java SE. Early days but eventually Android applications should run on any platform that runs Java.
The lead, a Red Hat employee, has some clout in the OpenJDK world but progress is slow given the developers volunteer their time.
To reach critical mass, running webOS on existing Android devices would be a start. Many Android vendors are now promising to ship with unlocked boatloaders. Is HP willing to support a cyanogenmod like community?
HP needs to bite the bullet and state its hardware intentions. So long as it only targets existing discontinued devices it will remain on life support as just another obscure Linux distro running on proprietary hardware, cf. Maemo.
Today's announcement should be welcomed by web developers.
Enyo is supposed to be fairly bleeding edge in terms of being a web toolkit optimised for touch-screen devices that yet can scale up to a standard browser. Whether that makes it a better choice for development than, say, RoR/JSF or whichever Java web framework of the month, is another matter.
While webos may have failed to gain market share overall, it could live on as components. RIM's playbook, Samsung's bada and Tizen are all based around the HTML5 UI (with native support). Enyo could be that killer HTML layer!
Doomed perhaps but Symbian and Meego were/are open source.
If Nokia cared about homebrew, they'd stick to a common hardware roadmap for all their future devices. Providing WP7 with an open boatloader and employing a skeleton staff to assist with driver development for meego/symbian/webos/android would go a long way to regaining the trust of those burnt by the 'Qt4 on everything' about face.
Do Cyanogenmodders represent anything of a market share? My next phone will likely be an HTC but if Nokia were to provide any sort of commitment to the N9 community, perhaps I'd reconsider.
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This only applies to UK-departing flights so far?
Paris would have a few flights to Montreal, Madrid to Mexico City and Havana, no?
Anyway, as far as 'no-fly' lists go, I'd be shocked if UK and USA intelligence services weren't sharing databases already. This theatre just serves to piss off anyone buying tickets within 3 days of travel when existing controls such as immigration, checkin and boarding serve to validate one's passport electronically 3 times before boarding a flight.
Who needs a 'TV' with a camera and internet access anyway?
Do it yourself with a usb web cam, DVB-T USB adapter, raspberry pi and any old 1080p monitor with HDMI inputs, a USB hub and speakers?
Huawei already supplies 3G USB dongles, cheap android phones and tablets to the Aussie consumer. If that's the case, isn't the Chinese govt already harvesting data from our private citizens? Hmmm, paranoia much?
Conroy might partner with the Chinese on his great firewall of Australia - apparently they have expertise in such matters. ;-)
Spain got upset during the Davis cup once. The national anthem from the 30s before Franco was played. Though I suspect if you'd made such a cock up in Barcelona, Catalunya there'd be bemusement and muffled applause. When I was there a few months ago, the republican flag replete with purple was visible among 'occupy' protesters.
Ubuntu doesn't run because of Canonical's compilation settings. During a recent fosdem talk, an ARM/Linaro representative expressed dismay that 'armel' is defined differently between debian and Ubuntu.
Ubuntu are focussing on performance over 'legacy' CPUs - the latest debian ought to run - no speed demon, naturally.
As for firefox, well, gecko's not the only browser in town and until recently 256MB was commonplace on webkit-based Android and iOS (iPhone 3GS) devices. Some browsers optimise for performance, others memory usage.
meh, Martha Jones...
There used to be a registry key for the 'Shell'. Standard that's historically been set to explorer.exe. Is it the same on Windows 8, or is there some metroui.exe or similar in its place?
Having recently finished backpacking across Europe and South America for 6 months, my experience of wifi users in hostels is
(a) iPads are more commonly owned US travellers than other nationalities. More hipsters?
(b) It's rare to see Android tablets
(c) Netbooks are more common than full size laptops by a factor of 3:1 - portability
(d) Netbooks outnumber iPads by 10:1.
(d) smartphone users check a couple of things but jump on a full sized desktop whenever a machine becomes free.
So netbooks are still popular with the traveller. Keyboards haven't gone the way of the dinosaur for those that want to type lengthy messages to folks back home. Netbooks predating the iPad craze and the cost of choosing a new machine is also a factor, obviously.
The future, for Apple competitors, is to reinvent the netbook as Asus have done with the Transformer. Tablet AND lightweight laptop in one device. Stick Win 8 on these things and MS have a touchscreen tablet that runs Word and Excel when docked.
The gap in the price of capacitive touchscreens over regular netbook displays just narrowed with the new iPad's retina display. As soon as MS have Office ready on ARM, it's game over for the Atom as Transformer-like devices running Win8 retail at netbook prices ~ $US300.
So MS is releasing this preview for x86 desktops but the real prize is claiming a share of the tablet+keyboard market from Android and wooing business customers that a Win8 tablet can run Office when you need to 'get real work done'.
Steer him clear of a Karaoke machine but as an actor he wasn't too bad in In Time. :-)
Um, dalvik isn't Java(TM) - the whole point of Larry Ellison's lawsuit.
Blame Google, rather than Oracle for any laggy performance. In fact, benchmarks comparing Hotspot to Dalvik (froyo) some time ago showed Google had some catching up to do.
Well, as I understand it, embedded SoC vendors only provide basic drivers for the linux framebuffer and apis to access stuff like embedded opengl. So historically Google was forced to kludge software based rendering.
Linaro and TI, through its Beagleboard/Pandaboard communities may have developed suitable drivers to power X11 on the OMAP-based Maemo devices such as N9 but have other vendors like Qualcomm, Nvidia, Samsung, etc?
So the scenario for accelerated X11 and Android seamlessly integrated on the same device seems to require:
(1) Port android graphics (skia) to Wayland - Chromium already uses an X11 backend for skia?
(2) Have ARM SoC vendors release drivers for all the usual KMS/DRM/Gallium3D goodness.
(3) Render X11 and Android with Wayland.
Upgrade paths.
Hardware fails and businesses expand to require additional desktops. New hardware (e.g. 'Designed for Windows 8') might not even be capable of booting to XP in several years time.
So the user/sysadmin is then forced to consider a choice of different operating systems on new hardware. The choices as he said: Mac OS, the new version of Windows or some Linux variant.
A drop-in replacement for XP on new hardware, providing a very similar user experience to existing installations may prove useful to a number of organisations. Running an XP-clone on low cost hardware is the promise ReactOS on ARM provides.
As for continuing to use XP on existing hardware after support ends is a security risk waiting to happen.
Except that many cooperations continue to cling to XP as staff retraining on 7 and the cost of upgrades aren't justified in a struggling economy. Purchasing new hardware for which only Win7 drivers exist is problematic. When you have the source to the OS, writing drivers that can be possibly based on other platforms such as Linux or BSD may be a blessing. A free stable clone is a migration path.
Further, not every platform is x86, nor does every use case require binary compatibility. e.g. Can Windows XP, not this shiny new Win8, run natively on ARM? Booting into ReactOS to run libreoffice on an 'Android' tablet such as the Asus Transformer is a possibility in the not too distant future. The OP suggested he had no desire to run a different Windows, Mac or Linux.
This project scratches an itch for a number of people. That it might not be personally beneficial to you is no cause for skepticism.
Alpha quality doesn't mean unsuitable for a certain purpose, if it supports a minimal subset.
One particular use is in software support where an external client may have a certain configuration of XP/Vista/7 that is unable to be deployed on the company's network for licensing, availability reasons.
Having a free clone is another implementation of 'Windows' that may demonstrate a particular fault not detectable on a developer's machine. On more than one occasion my bacon has been saved by running wine on linux in a VM for a flaw that didn't show up in a particular service pack of XP or as the client had migrated to Win7.
Having ReactOS deployable without licensing or activation concerns would be another option and closer to the XP experience that wine in an X11 context.
Sure, but Fedora is a Red Hat sponsored project. Thus it's only natural a Red Hat employee take the reins. I'm not saying we shouldn't celebrate her appointment, clearly she's risen through the ranks.
Nevertheless, to open source it may like admitting female priests in Rome but in the context of a work environment it's hardly unusual and why I question why it's headline news.
A bigger question would be why outside of employer sponsored projects, participation rates are so skewed in favour of blokes.
Like the volunteer efforts to get Ubuntu running on the Asus Transformer series, perhaps there's a niche for a device that can run iOS and Mac OS - AT THE SAME TIME! The next-gen ARM chips support hardware virtualization.
Dock a keyboard and your iPad becomes a mobile OS X workstation for those who need to 'get real work done'. Not all of us need 'legacy' amd64 apps like Photoshop. :-) All the iApps would seamlessly share settings from a common home directory - surprising? not really, same code underneath, just reskinned.
Developing iOS apps in Xcode on the same CPU architecture via a hypervisor should be trivial. Apple would instantly double their iOS developer base, as the disincentive to have to additionally buy a $1000 Mac disappears. And yeah, these quad core CortexA15 ought to be grunty enough to run Xcode provided they're partnered with a decent amount of RAM.
I haven't owned any Apple products since the days of 68k but I'd strongly consider a device that supported seamlessly running both OSes rather than fiddle getting desktop Linux running on a tablet designed for Android (no acclerated drivers for Xorg etc.)
I guess I'm not the target market though...
Any PPCisms were stripped out during the transition to x86-64 so the code is 32/64bit clean.
Port any assembly based performance-specific libraries, run it through gcc and llvm, remove any compiler warnings and subject to drivers for ARM SoC - you're done.
Agreed, I work in IT and have had several top level managers who are female. It's the 21stC and should be no surprise that a woman should have risen through the ranks of Red Hat.
Yet. :)
There's a project called IcedRobot implementing Android compatibility atop the Java SE. Early days but eventually Android applications should run on any platform that runs Java.
The lead, a Red Hat employee, has some clout in the OpenJDK world but progress is slow given the developers volunteer their time.
To reach critical mass, running webOS on existing Android devices would be a start. Many Android vendors are now promising to ship with unlocked boatloaders. Is HP willing to support a cyanogenmod like community?
HP needs to bite the bullet and state its hardware intentions. So long as it only targets existing discontinued devices it will remain on life support as just another obscure Linux distro running on proprietary hardware, cf. Maemo.
Today's announcement should be welcomed by web developers.
Enyo is supposed to be fairly bleeding edge in terms of being a web toolkit optimised for touch-screen devices that yet can scale up to a standard browser. Whether that makes it a better choice for development than, say, RoR/JSF or whichever Java web framework of the month, is another matter.
While webos may have failed to gain market share overall, it could live on as components. RIM's playbook, Samsung's bada and Tizen are all based around the HTML5 UI (with native support). Enyo could be that killer HTML layer!
Doomed perhaps but Symbian and Meego were/are open source.
If Nokia cared about homebrew, they'd stick to a common hardware roadmap for all their future devices. Providing WP7 with an open boatloader and employing a skeleton staff to assist with driver development for meego/symbian/webos/android would go a long way to regaining the trust of those burnt by the 'Qt4 on everything' about face.
Do Cyanogenmodders represent anything of a market share? My next phone will likely be an HTC but if Nokia were to provide any sort of commitment to the N9 community, perhaps I'd reconsider.
Well that's the strategy of ChromeOS. The browser is, effectively, the OS.
Yes, it's an about-face for us MS-haters!
I've read some of his articles on humanitarian causes and if he can lobby Congress to do something practical in Africa then all the best, Bill.
I thought Ian Maxtone Jones invented the iPod. ;-)