This 2.4-fold increase would give Linux a 7.8 percent share of the overall server operating system market in 2000, compared to a 4.0 percent share the previous year, IDC Japan said.
Windows CE is trying to cram everything it can and is creating bloatware on handhelds. Bloatware on handhelds....that is a REAL bad thing.
Actually, I was thinking just the opposite:-)
Redmond-based bloatware is what has made the handhelds so ludicrously powerful (a 200Mhz StrongArm in an iPaq), just to overcome the inherent bloatedness of the OS. Why is this good? Well, would we seriously be considering running Linux, X11, emacs, whatever on a handheld with maybe 8Mb of ram? No. 32Mb of ram, maybe. Without WinCE, this wouldn't have happened (ok, maybe there would have been something else which could have had the same effect, but there's nothing else doing that atm).
I am glad that WinCE is so bloaty and sucks (I have used it quite a bit, and I have to say that I don't like it. Give me a minimal window manager and I'll configure it how I like, thanks), as it means that my next palmtop/PDA can be running Linux+X11. Or microwindows, or Nano-X, or whatever.
Just keep those WinCE "ROM"s in flash and I'll be a happy puppy.
Well, actually, an RPM is just a tarball with dependency information. How primitive.
Debian packages, on the other hand, are tarballs with dependencies and configure/uninstall scripts. Now there's a tarball you can take home to mom
RPMs can have configure/install/uninstall scripts, and more besides. And it has done since version 2 (probably before then, I can't remember right now).
I like Debian too, but please know what you are posting is actually correct before proclaiming Debian as having the best packaging system (which it may have, but not for this reason).
Many of the features of older versions of RPM can be found in the freely downloadable book `Maximum RPM' at rpm.org, where there is some documentation. But not for rpm 4.0, as the poster mentioned.
I would expect more and more games companies to try and jump on this bandwagon, as they are trying hard to increase the revenue generated by games, through `services' and extending the audience to games -- and multi-player online games seems to be the way things are headed.
Besides, games are moving to different platforms (set-top boxes as well as handheld devices) and so the business models are being set-up for that now...
I guess that many companies are thinking : "It works for mobile phones, so it'll work for ".
Haven't you noticed how _everything_ is marketed in Japan only to start with, as they have much more of a gadget market than most other places in the world. There's a lot of cool stuff that doesn't even make it outside their borders, unfortunately.
...Linux is missing (or semi-missing) several pieces to make it an excellent gaming platform: easy to install/configure high-end graphics
Well, I guess that the little `Use 3D Acceleration' checkbox wasn't there when I installed SuSE 6.4, on several different machines with different graphics cards, in the past week. And booting from the CD was _really_ tough too (/sarcasm)
I'd assume that the other major distro's are up to that standard of easy to install/configure now, if not then better.
From the article:
But Dave Ditzel, Transmeta's CEO, has said that Crusoe-based notebooks will perform just as well as competing chips in real-world circumstances. A 700-MHz Crusoe 5600 will perform just as well as a 700-MHz Pentium III, he said.
Weren't they saying not so long ago that the 700Mhz TM5600 would give `comparable performance' to a PIII at 500Mhz[1]? Looks like their Code Morphing{tm} software is morphing the marketing figures as well as the x86 code...
[1] And the Transmeta Vaio Picturebook is going to be of `similar performance' to the 400Mhz PII in the current Picturebook, using a 500Mhz TM5600...
From near the end of the article :
ICH3 - Integrated Controller Hub 3 adds six USB 2.0 ports. From what we saw at IDF, USB 2.0 is going to revolutionize external I/O on consumer systems. We just wish we could see IEEE 1394 instead.
Intel will never support IEEE1394, and continue to push USB 2.0+ instead, because of the peer-to-peer nature of IEEE1394 - meaning you dont need a PC to connect compliant devices together. They like their own closed standard, which unfortunately is likely to become the de facto standard due with their weight behind it.
So, don't expect IEEE1394 in Intel chipsets. Ever.
You have been able to buy radio-referenced clocks (and watches) for quite a while now, in both the UK and US. I think that a radio-referenced watch running an ntp _server_ would make more sense, and set all of your other devices from that instead of the other way around..
Btw, it says :
- IrDA, Radio Frequency wireless connectivity
on the site, so you can avoid the line-of-sight problems of IrDA by using a wireless RF link to serve those ntp packets:-)
Ok, so I'm a geek. And I kinda collect watches. But I have to say that I think this is cool.
I've been waiting for a watch with RF wireless connectivity (bluetooth, 802.11, whatever) so that I can use it as an ntp server for all of my other wireless devices which have no need to have an accurate clock in them when I am wearing one on my wrist.. Syncronizing the clocks on my phone, watch, computer, pda etc would be made a lot easier that way. Maybe a radio-referenced watch too, so that I wouldn't ever need to set it:-)
Enough rambling.
As for it being too big and heavy, it's probably lighter than my Casio DEP-600 which I'm wearing now;-) (can't find any other pages on it atm)
A fast compression algorithm is not as important as a fast decompression, because compression is only used while creating the image, while decompression is used every time one displays the image. Because of this, the compression algorithm was probably not that much optimized.
I completely agree, as this is pretty obvious. However, the amount of math involved in generating the compressed images was prohibitive, and so the bits saved transmitting or storing the image(s) could easily be overcome by the additional costs of compressing the image to achieve that saving.
Besides, at the time the algorithm they were using was supposed to be `highly optimized' by some very clever maths types, but still needed several days of runtime on a Cray (this was a good few years ago) to compress a single image. I'd call that prohibitive cost;-)
I seem to remember reading (maybe even on Slashdot) that the inventor of the fractal compression scheme had got a patent (or several), and decided that he just wanted to sit on that patent and not do anything with it. Hence, nothing has happened recently with fractal compression.
I also remember that the _compression_ algorithm was, erm, slooooow. So slow that it needed some huge machines chugging for a long time to spit out one fractally-compressed image. But the decompression was pretty quick (although slower than jpeg).
There was a floppy with a quiz using JFIF pictures a few years back on one of the UK PC magazines.. shame I haven't still got the floppy, as the pictures were _very_ nice quality and incredibly compressed.
Right side ports (Video out (?), Audio, USB, power, something else, wheel-thingy, and modem)
Looks like they traded off the IrDA port (if my eyes serve me right).
The left-most port is a line-out for the audio and the `something else' is the video out via a small dongle which (on my C1XE) has a regular VGA and a phono video socket on for plugging into a TV (PAL/NTSC).
And I guess there was no use for an IrDA port, so anyone hoping to use this to connect to their mobile phone and get online whilst mobile (remarkably common for Picturebook owners) can forget it. Until *cough* Bluetooth, at least.
Btw, the same page also says that the battery life is `2.5 to 5.5 hours' on the standard (S) battery... Who thinks that the 2.5 hours is the more likely of the figures, as the PII/400 version has `1.5 to 2.5 hours' of battery life and usually only gets 1.5 hours (as far as I know).
I'm not sure who will wind up being more influential in getting Linux into businesses - Dell or Loki.
I'd say Micro$oft have been more influential than either of them. Check out those licencing fees for Win2k (esp server-side) alone and you'll know why...
Funny that I was just looking at that Sony music Clip that plays mp3 and ATRAC3
I bought one of those. Doh.
I was foolish enough to not read all of the stuff about it too carefully _before_ I bought it... *sigh*
Now I have a very nice mp3-ish player, which of course only works with the windows software to download to it...
Is anyone working on a Linux client for the Music Clip, or any of the other SDMI players? (Are there any other SDMI players?) A first feature should be an `About' box which reminds you not to buy any Sony hardware ever again if you wish to do something non-consumer-hardware-like with it;-)
/rant
Close up pictures of mp3 player and phone
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(Bypasses pointless `registration' on research page)
Does this jacket remind anyone else of the jacket Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future 2? he puts it on, it resizes to fit him, he get's wet, it blows him dry... when this thing has THAT functionality, I want one.:)
On TV last night in the UK, the BBC had a feature on this very jacket on `NewsNight', and one of the planned features for future versions was touted as being `automatic drying'...
Looks like it will be sooner than you think;-)
A wired network? How retro...
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Why would anyone want to pay 600 quid for a jacket which has wires to connect their phone and mp3 player when every man and their dog will have bluetooth devices all over them `real soon now'?
Besides, I already have a phone and a smaller mp3 player, so why would I want one of these? To look `geek chic'? Please...
Less cynically: Does anyone actually _want_ one of these jackets?
OK, Mozilla is big and bloated and Opera fits on one floppy (still?), but I was kinda hoping that Mnemonic would get closer to being stable... at least to the point of being able to use it for reading Slashdot;-)
However, now www.mnemonic.org seems to have turned into something else entirely... I've been away for a week, but I can't find this mentioned on any news sites...:-(
Doesn't anyone care about Mnemonic anymore? Has it been dropped because of this? Is everyone flocking to Mozilla instead?
Slashdot Mirror
Dreamcast does not run Linux. Dreamcast can run two os which are on your game disc...
;-)
Although it doesn't run RedHat Linux, there is a port of BSD to the Dreamcast: (previous slashdot article)
It's not Linux, but I'm sure that someone will have a GNU/Linux distro on a CD or GD for the DC soon enough
:wq
This 2.4-fold increase would give Linux a 7.8 percent share of the overall server operating system market in 2000, compared to a 4.0 percent share the previous year, IDC Japan said.
;-)
2.4, eh? Coincidence? I think not
Windows CE is trying to cram everything it can and is creating bloatware on handhelds. Bloatware on handhelds....that is a REAL bad thing.
:-)
Actually, I was thinking just the opposite
Redmond-based bloatware is what has made the handhelds so ludicrously powerful (a 200Mhz StrongArm in an iPaq), just to overcome the inherent bloatedness of the OS. Why is this good? Well, would we seriously be considering running Linux, X11, emacs, whatever on a handheld with maybe 8Mb of ram? No. 32Mb of ram, maybe. Without WinCE, this wouldn't have happened (ok, maybe there would have been something else which could have had the same effect, but there's nothing else doing that atm).
I am glad that WinCE is so bloaty and sucks (I have used it quite a bit, and I have to say that I don't like it. Give me a minimal window manager and I'll configure it how I like, thanks), as it means that my next palmtop/PDA can be running Linux+X11. Or microwindows, or Nano-X, or whatever.
Just keep those WinCE "ROM"s in flash and I'll be a happy puppy.
</rant>
This site clearly shows that Dogbert invented this ages ago, and his patent has already been granted :-)
Well, actually, an RPM is just a tarball with dependency information. How primitive.
Debian packages, on the other hand, are tarballs with dependencies and configure/uninstall scripts. Now there's a tarball you can take home to mom
RPMs can have configure/install/uninstall scripts, and more besides. And it has done since version 2 (probably before then, I can't remember right now).
I like Debian too, but please know what you are posting is actually correct before proclaiming Debian as having the best packaging system (which it may have, but not for this reason).
Many of the features of older versions of RPM can be found in the freely downloadable book `Maximum RPM' at rpm.org, where there is some documentation. But not for rpm 4.0, as the poster mentioned.
pastie
As far as I know, Suse sells Sparc Linux versions.
:~(
;-)
Yep, they do.
At the moment, they have SuSE 7.0 for x86, PowerPC, Alpha and S390 (prerelease). And they have announced SuSE 7.0 for SPARC too.
However, I don't think that my old Sparc 5 clone will be supported..
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong though
Clearly your processor has made the Right Choice{tm}, saving you the bother.
Apologies, I meant:
"It works for mobile phones, so it'll work for (insert product/service here)"
Yes yes, I know, preview. *grumble*
I would expect more and more games companies to try and jump on this bandwagon, as they are trying hard to increase the revenue generated by games, through `services' and extending the audience to games -- and multi-player online games seems to be the way things are headed.
Besides, games are moving to different platforms (set-top boxes as well as handheld devices) and so the business models are being set-up for that now...
I guess that many companies are thinking : "It works for mobile phones, so it'll work for ".
How well will this work though? Will people pay?
Haven't you noticed how _everything_ is marketed in Japan only to start with, as they have much more of a gadget market than most other places in the world. There's a lot of cool stuff that doesn't even make it outside their borders, unfortunately.
...Linux is missing (or semi-missing) several pieces to make it an excellent gaming platform: easy to install/configure high-end graphics
Well, I guess that the little `Use 3D Acceleration' checkbox wasn't there when I installed SuSE 6.4, on several different machines with different graphics cards, in the past week. And booting from the CD was _really_ tough too (/sarcasm)
I'd assume that the other major distro's are up to that standard of easy to install/configure now, if not then better.
Btw, IANASE (I Am Not A SuSE Employee)
From the article:
But Dave Ditzel, Transmeta's CEO, has said that Crusoe-based notebooks will perform just as well as competing chips in real-world circumstances. A 700-MHz Crusoe 5600 will perform just as well as a 700-MHz Pentium III, he said.
Weren't they saying not so long ago that the 700Mhz TM5600 would give `comparable performance' to a PIII at 500Mhz[1]? Looks like their Code Morphing{tm} software is morphing the marketing figures as well as the x86 code...
[1] And the Transmeta Vaio Picturebook is going to be of `similar performance' to the 400Mhz PII in the current Picturebook, using a 500Mhz TM5600...
From near the end of the article :
ICH3 - Integrated Controller Hub 3 adds six USB 2.0 ports. From what we saw at IDF, USB 2.0 is going to revolutionize external I/O on consumer systems. We just wish we could see IEEE 1394 instead.
Intel will never support IEEE1394, and continue to push USB 2.0+ instead, because of the peer-to-peer nature of IEEE1394 - meaning you dont need a PC to connect compliant devices together. They like their own closed standard, which unfortunately is likely to become the de facto standard due with their weight behind it.
So, don't expect IEEE1394 in Intel chipsets. Ever.
You have been able to buy radio-referenced clocks (and watches) for quite a while now, in both the UK and US. I think that a radio-referenced watch running an ntp _server_ would make more sense, and set all of your other devices from that instead of the other way around..
:-)
Btw, it says :
- IrDA, Radio Frequency wireless connectivity
on the site, so you can avoid the line-of-sight problems of IrDA by using a wireless RF link to serve those ntp packets
Ok, so I'm a geek. And I kinda collect watches. But I have to say that I think this is cool.
:-)
;-) (can't find any other pages on it atm)
I've been waiting for a watch with RF wireless connectivity (bluetooth, 802.11, whatever) so that I can use it as an ntp server for all of my other wireless devices which have no need to have an accurate clock in them when I am wearing one on my wrist.. Syncronizing the clocks on my phone, watch, computer, pda etc would be made a lot easier that way. Maybe a radio-referenced watch too, so that I wouldn't ever need to set it
Enough rambling.
As for it being too big and heavy, it's probably lighter than my Casio DEP-600 which I'm wearing now
A fast compression algorithm is not as important as a fast decompression, because compression is only used while creating the image, while decompression is used every time one displays the image. Because of this, the compression algorithm was probably not that much optimized.
;-)
I completely agree, as this is pretty obvious. However, the amount of math involved in generating the compressed images was prohibitive, and so the bits saved transmitting or storing the image(s) could easily be overcome by the additional costs of compressing the image to achieve that saving.
Besides, at the time the algorithm they were using was supposed to be `highly optimized' by some very clever maths types, but still needed several days of runtime on a Cray (this was a good few years ago) to compress a single image. I'd call that prohibitive cost
I seem to remember reading (maybe even on Slashdot) that the inventor of the fractal compression scheme had got a patent (or several), and decided that he just wanted to sit on that patent and not do anything with it. Hence, nothing has happened recently with fractal compression.
I also remember that the _compression_ algorithm was, erm, slooooow. So slow that it needed some huge machines chugging for a long time to spit out one fractally-compressed image. But the decompression was pretty quick (although slower than jpeg).
There was a floppy with a quiz using JFIF pictures a few years back on one of the UK PC magazines.. shame I haven't still got the floppy, as the pictures were _very_ nice quality and incredibly compressed.
Right side ports (Video out (?), Audio, USB, power, something else, wheel-thingy, and modem)
Looks like they traded off the IrDA port (if my eyes serve me right).
The left-most port is a line-out for the audio and the `something else' is the video out via a small dongle which (on my C1XE) has a regular VGA and a phono video socket on for plugging into a TV (PAL/NTSC).
And I guess there was no use for an IrDA port, so anyone hoping to use this to connect to their mobile phone and get online whilst mobile (remarkably common for Picturebook owners) can forget it. Until *cough* Bluetooth, at least.
Btw, the same page also says that the battery life is `2.5 to 5.5 hours' on the standard (S) battery... Who thinks that the 2.5 hours is the more likely of the figures, as the PII/400 version has `1.5 to 2.5 hours' of battery life and usually only gets 1.5 hours (as far as I know).
Just a thought...
I'm not sure who will wind up being more influential in getting Linux into businesses - Dell or Loki.
I'd say Micro$oft have been more influential than either of them. Check out those licencing fees for Win2k (esp server-side) alone and you'll know why...
Funny that I was just looking at that Sony music Clip that plays mp3 and ATRAC3
I bought one of those. Doh.
I was foolish enough to not read all of the stuff about it too carefully _before_ I bought it... *sigh*
Now I have a very nice mp3-ish player, which of course only works with the windows software to download to it...
Is anyone working on a Linux client for the Music Clip, or any of the other SDMI players? (Are there any other SDMI players?) A first feature should be an `About' box which reminds you not to buy any Sony hardware ever again if you wish to do something non-consumer-hardware-like with it
/rant
Warning! Pictures are > 500kb each!
(Bypasses pointless `registration' on research page)
Philips Rush mp3 player
Philips Xenium 939 mobile phone
On TV last night in the UK, the BBC had a feature on this very jacket on `NewsNight', and one of the planned features for future versions was touted as being `automatic drying'...
Looks like it will be sooner than you think
cynicism_mode=on
Why would anyone want to pay 600 quid for a jacket which has wires to connect their phone and mp3 player when every man and their dog will have bluetooth devices all over them `real soon now'?
Besides, I already have a phone and a smaller mp3 player, so why would I want one of these? To look `geek chic'? Please...
Less cynically: Does anyone actually _want_ one of these jackets?
OK, Mozilla is big and bloated and Opera fits on one floppy (still?), but I was kinda hoping that Mnemonic would get closer to being stable... at least to the point of being able to use it for reading Slashdot ;-)
:-(
However, now www.mnemonic.org seems to have turned into something else entirely... I've been away for a week, but I can't find this mentioned on any news sites...
Doesn't anyone care about Mnemonic anymore? Has it been dropped because of this? Is everyone flocking to Mozilla instead?
pastie
I need more sleep. I read it as :
;-)
"Attention! : Sensitive User Interface"
and as such assumed it was just an article advertising an emotionally-deficient Win2010. Or whatever..
Pastie