While I understand a merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, cannot see why T-Mobile and Sprint want to join. T-Mobile use GSM networks, while Sprint uses CDMA. Is not like the two networks can magically get together into a bigger one, or fill missing spots. And the customer list, well they got in Sprint for one reason and probably was they were not happy with the other carriers.
https://www.pcmag.com/article2...
1. Google bought Android.
2. Java is used for the Apps, the core OS is not in Java.
3. You as a developer can use the NDK and native compilers like gcc (and soon clang) to compile native apps...
but that means losing the portability to any Android device independent of CPU in the process.
Arch has made some changes that required user interaction. And if those are done correctly and following the steps, is really minimized the chances to actually not break the system.
I ran it for like 2-3 years, and hardly had any problem in it.
Rob like someone mention earlier, C# along with the whole (or many of the) Microsoft products portfolio is heavily used on the Enterprise. There are a couple of exceptions like many ISP which use Open Source alternatives to reduce operational costs, like thousands of Outlook licenses for example.
And when a company operates on Microsoft systems, then is very common that they look to non Microsoft products with a little doubt. Because those smaller companies have sometimes gone bankrupt, or products get discontinued and unsupported. Also there is a more common belief that under Windows MS products will be more stable and will endure the test of time better than non MS software. And maybe is true, considering examples like Visual Basic 6 that still works these days. Outdated, but gets the job done.
Only companies that work with mixed environments will actually have a need to look for other multi platform solutions like PHP, Python, Lua, Ruby, etc.
Consumer products have moved to Android and for a couple of reasons. Beginning with the bad history of old Windows Phones crashing around, and the reject of the tile system. But that's on personal devices. Still companies use computers, and computers are either Windows (about just everyone), Macs (artists), and Linux (Developers, and IT). Since Android (1) is not self hosting, and (2) do not run efficiently and good enough on computers, there is nowhere there to be found. Like I said in another thread, while Android requires another OS to develop, those legacy OS are going nowhere. They will lose market in consumer products, yes, but became extinct no. If they do, then also the Android market will stale, because there will be nothing to develop Android OS or apps with. Also haven't seen any Android Server edition, so in the enterprise Android will have only 2 roles... a digital notepad & remote email.
For C# to be a serious multi platform alternative Microsoft needs to make serious changes like:
* Open sourcing the whole.Net and opening the patents related to it. Not limited chunks like they have done
* Releasing same version for all desired platforms. No more.Net for Windows first, and a year later for everyone else by Xamarin.
Doubt any of them will happen, and that's why C# along with.Net is destined to fail as a standard.
But standard or no standard, at the end it depends on what OS platform the company you get contracted uses. But there is a very big change that if they use Microsoft products, you will end using either Visual Basic, C#, or both (or even Windows shell or VB scripts) to develop.
So that means that other big programs that are spread in different subprograms, each doing a different job does not feel UNIX. Then X does not feel UNIX too where I got installed on my system drivers that will never use, neither do the bloat load of Debian packaging tools, when compared to the smaller rpm equivalents.
Article said they plan to drop the support only for external devices. That means the kernel driver will still be there, and the OS partition itself will probably still be using ext.
Also any OS has to develop thinking on upgrades to their old user base, so the ext support will not just disappear. Very likely even if they switch the primary OS to something else like Btrfs, they will have to code, and include a ext3/4 to whatever becomes the default in their setup for old systems.
While the project has a nice goal, I'm pretty sure this project will fail in the long term, and will not be able to catch up. And that's because of the fast pace of Linux kernel development.
Linux kernel 3.15 was released in June 8, kernel 3.16 was released in August 3, and already kernel 3.17 is in rc-7. Probably will be released in a week or two at most. That means every kernel is released around 2 months difference. Again, sadly doubt it that company will be able to keep up with the kernel development.
If they want to modernize something that doesn't evolve that fast, they should try BSD instead.
Omg, this is really archaic. I remember a PC-BSD forum discussion like 3 years ago, around the development of their 2nd release if I'm correct, where they where discussing about a feature that was different on laptops and desktops, and where looking at ways to automate that detection, instead of showing a button.
If at the end, they succeeded on that, is shameful MS with all it's resources can't find a sensible automatic detection approach.
I'm sure only the 4% "Geek Audience" of the whole billions of phone users world wide knows Nokia sold to Microsoft.
Nokia have done very good phones in the past, and even some Lumias (taking the WinPhone 8 away) are nicely designed. I know they can do a good, if not great Android phone. Probably not in the first try, but neither LG, Samsung, HTC made awesome phones in their 1st try.
My doubt is about the company itself.... Do they sold to Microsoft? Microsoft has the exclusive rights to the Lumia design? Do we have 2 Nokias, one MS controlled, one independent making Android phones?
I only hope Nokia don't become the Atari of the 2010+ era. Where only their respective employees knew which company do what, since both have the same logo and name.
Probably they are going to either automatize the vending machines, or the commerce distribution (or both) so they will not need to rely on external distributors for that. In other words, more control and revenue for them.
I notice that like 2 months ago, after upgrading from a Radeon 5850 to a 7850. Since my CPU is an old Core Duo 2.4GHz I didn't expect that much of a performance boost, but expected a noticeable change. When comparing the Haven benchmark results with the previous card, the higher frame rate went up as expected (15-25 fps not remember now), but the lower frame rate went down too from 18 fps to 6 fps on new card. Tried with some driver revisions, being 10.10 the last one tested having same behavior on the 7850. So I guess is an architecture glitch (or driver to architecture bug) since don't affected my old 5850.
During games (usually play SWTOR) I notice the lag spikes, but always blame SWTOR, but now looks like the problem is somewhere else.
At which point the Justice department steps in and kicks MS's balls into mid-jowl. Microsoft just got burned for this in Europe, and was almost broken up by Justice in the 90s. Maybe they want to test the line -- see what they can get away with today -- but the answer is probably "not much."
For this???? for the app market??? are you sure????
Unlike the MS Explorer issue which is the one they got kicked as you said, they are not the first company to implement an App Market, so any accusation will go nowhere since Mac OS has one, Android has one, iOS have one, Blackberry have one, hey even Ubuntu has one market.
Even more, the last Mac OS do not allow any software installation outside the app market, something that Windows 8 still allows, but probably Win9 will follow Mac example if app market is accepted by people. In other words, there are more restrictive markets for personal computers than the one Windows 8 came with.
Also these days the disadvantage inclusion of IE can be discussed. Again Apple includes it's own Browser Safari, most Linux desktop distributions include a default web browser (usually Firefox). Smart phones include a web browser (depends on the phone OS)
Users will be able to install software outside the MS App Market for Windows 8, but eventually (WIn 9?) they will very likely go the Apple way and disable any outside Market app installation.
... is DRIVERS!!! Good luck getting real open source drivers out of Nvidia, ATI/AMD, and Intel for their graphics hardware.
And why they have to be open source?
Canonical as a company made ATI/AMD improve the rate of support for new X releases. Everyone knows that before Canonical, ATI drivers where behind X releases as long as 6-8 months. Now that Valve is working closely with them it only means more pressure to AMD and NVIDIA and better binary blobs.
I know Nvidia drivers are not perfect. No closed or open source driver is perfect, but they are far better than AMD binary ones. My point is since they provide "good" drivers and "support", they use that as an excuse to not provide documentation on how their chips work internally.
You are really dumb.
The woman ask about Nvidia Optimus that is not supported on Linux. He said they are the worst...can't you think why.... Then go back and read my post.
Brief reply for short minded (dumb) people.... No binary drivers from Nvidia + No hardware developer docs = NO SUPPORT (open, closed or whatever).
I haven't watched the video, but probably Torvalds is pissed about the lack of contribution to open source projects (kernel, drivers). While their proprietary drivers are top notch. What will happen if one day Nvidia decide that making a Linux driver is too cost effective. Answer: a lot of unsupported video cars and SoC.
I understand the (bla bla bla) Intellectual Property they paid millions in research (bla bla bla) they don't want to give that information for free. But if the current architecture is so different than previous one, then why don't make public development information for previous generations of their chips as soon a new (different) generation is out.
While Intel graphics is still lacking, they are the only intelligent ones that have the brilliant idea of working the support for their next generation chips before those chips become available for sell.
You should check a Hacking/security book that covers your installed OS. In terms of knowing any security issues, that is a little more complicated. Most Linux distributions are tied to version freeze where they do not include new version of packages, they only back-port security patches. For example, in Debian 6 (Squeeze) the latest (as today) version of php5 is 5.3.3-7+squeeze13, which in fact may give the assumption is outdated (latest in 5.3 branch is php 5.3.14), but it have been patched with all known released security patches. The problem with that approach (which RedHat Enterprise and clones also do btw), is that some security apps that check for vulnerabilities in packages may report false positives.
In short, you should trust the distribution you use, keep updated, and read both distribution site, and lwn.net for new vulnerabilities on a daily basis.
Also the server is more about maintenance than installation. You need to keep an eye on resources, logged sessions, watch logs, list of process running, updates.
The author of the article mention a couple of distributions found vulnerable to this bug. In one of them is Arch Linux. But he also said that systems with versions up to 5.1.61, 5.2.11, 5.3.5, 5.5.22 are vulnerable. Then...
How the heck can Arch (a rolling release distribution) be affected if they have an updated version of the package already in place, lol. The article is dated June 11, Arch fixed upstream release was committed May 13. So it has been already fixed for nearly 2 months.... wow
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk?h=packages/mysql
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While I understand a merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, cannot see why T-Mobile and Sprint want to join. T-Mobile use GSM networks, while Sprint uses CDMA. Is not like the two networks can magically get together into a bigger one, or fill missing spots. And the customer list, well they got in Sprint for one reason and probably was they were not happy with the other carriers. https://www.pcmag.com/article2...
1. Google bought Android.
2. Java is used for the Apps, the core OS is not in Java.
3. You as a developer can use the NDK and native compilers like gcc (and soon clang) to compile native apps...
but that means losing the portability to any Android device independent of CPU in the process.
Arch has made some changes that required user interaction. And if those are done correctly and following the steps, is really minimized the chances to actually not break the system. I ran it for like 2-3 years, and hardly had any problem in it.
Rob like someone mention earlier, C# along with the whole (or many of the) Microsoft products portfolio is heavily used on the Enterprise. There are a couple of exceptions like many ISP which use Open Source alternatives to reduce operational costs, like thousands of Outlook licenses for example.
And when a company operates on Microsoft systems, then is very common that they look to non Microsoft products with a little doubt. Because those smaller companies have sometimes gone bankrupt, or products get discontinued and unsupported. Also there is a more common belief that under Windows MS products will be more stable and will endure the test of time better than non MS software. And maybe is true, considering examples like Visual Basic 6 that still works these days. Outdated, but gets the job done.
Only companies that work with mixed environments will actually have a need to look for other multi platform solutions like PHP, Python, Lua, Ruby, etc.
Consumer products have moved to Android and for a couple of reasons. Beginning with the bad history of old Windows Phones crashing around, and the reject of the tile system. But that's on personal devices. Still companies use computers, and computers are either Windows (about just everyone), Macs (artists), and Linux (Developers, and IT). Since Android (1) is not self hosting, and (2) do not run efficiently and good enough on computers, there is nowhere there to be found. Like I said in another thread, while Android requires another OS to develop, those legacy OS are going nowhere. They will lose market in consumer products, yes, but became extinct no. If they do, then also the Android market will stale, because there will be nothing to develop Android OS or apps with. Also haven't seen any Android Server edition, so in the enterprise Android will have only 2 roles... a digital notepad & remote email.
For C# to be a serious multi platform alternative Microsoft needs to make serious changes like:
Doubt any of them will happen, and that's why C# along with .Net is destined to fail as a standard.
But standard or no standard, at the end it depends on what OS platform the company you get contracted uses. But there is a very big change that if they use Microsoft products, you will end using either Visual Basic, C#, or both (or even Windows shell or VB scripts) to develop.
Linux kernel may be monolithic, but people who build their kernels never build the whole thing. Do I need EISA slots.. hell no.
So that means that other big programs that are spread in different subprograms, each doing a different job does not feel UNIX. Then X does not feel UNIX too where I got installed on my system drivers that will never use, neither do the bloat load of Debian packaging tools, when compared to the smaller rpm equivalents.
Article said they plan to drop the support only for external devices. That means the kernel driver will still be there, and the OS partition itself will probably still be using ext.
Also any OS has to develop thinking on upgrades to their old user base, so the ext support will not just disappear. Very likely even if they switch the primary OS to something else like Btrfs, they will have to code, and include a ext3/4 to whatever becomes the default in their setup for old systems.
Whenever Chromebooks and ChromeOS comes up, somebody always points out those Amazon stats.
But are they actually legitimate sales?
And what gets Amazon by lying in sales numbers. nothing, nada, nichts
While the project has a nice goal, I'm pretty sure this project will fail in the long term, and will not be able to catch up. And that's because of the fast pace of Linux kernel development.
Linux kernel 3.15 was released in June 8, kernel 3.16 was released in August 3, and already kernel 3.17 is in rc-7. Probably will be released in a week or two at most. That means every kernel is released around 2 months difference. Again, sadly doubt it that company will be able to keep up with the kernel development.
If they want to modernize something that doesn't evolve that fast, they should try BSD instead.
And looking at the code examples like 90% of the cases where in the Java sources.
btw, the switch should be there in case someone wants to turn it on or off at will, but at install time touch UI should be automatically detected
Omg, this is really archaic. I remember a PC-BSD forum discussion like 3 years ago, around the development of their 2nd release if I'm correct, where they where discussing about a feature that was different on laptops and desktops, and where looking at ways to automate that detection, instead of showing a button.
If at the end, they succeeded on that, is shameful MS with all it's resources can't find a sensible automatic detection approach.
That is all.
Is never too late, and with the vast amount of crappy Android phones in mid/low markets, the have a couple of segments where they can be a hit.
And even in the high end, I'm sure many of the Samsung Galaxy, and HTC users are already bored of the lines and want something fresh.
I'm sure only the 4% "Geek Audience" of the whole billions of phone users world wide knows Nokia sold to Microsoft.
Nokia have done very good phones in the past, and even some Lumias (taking the WinPhone 8 away) are nicely designed. I know they can do a good, if not great Android phone. Probably not in the first try, but neither LG, Samsung, HTC made awesome phones in their 1st try.
My doubt is about the company itself.... Do they sold to Microsoft? Microsoft has the exclusive rights to the Lumia design? Do we have 2 Nokias, one MS controlled, one independent making Android phones?
I only hope Nokia don't become the Atari of the 2010+ era. Where only their respective employees knew which company do what, since both have the same logo and name.
Probably they are going to either automatize the vending machines, or the commerce distribution (or both) so they will not need to rely on external distributors for that. In other words, more control and revenue for them.
I notice that like 2 months ago, after upgrading from a Radeon 5850 to a 7850. Since my CPU is an old Core Duo 2.4GHz I didn't expect that much of a performance boost, but expected a noticeable change. When comparing the Haven benchmark results with the previous card, the higher frame rate went up as expected (15-25 fps not remember now), but the lower frame rate went down too from 18 fps to 6 fps on new card. Tried with some driver revisions, being 10.10 the last one tested having same behavior on the 7850. So I guess is an architecture glitch (or driver to architecture bug) since don't affected my old 5850. During games (usually play SWTOR) I notice the lag spikes, but always blame SWTOR, but now looks like the problem is somewhere else.
At which point the Justice department steps in and kicks MS's balls into mid-jowl. Microsoft just got burned for this in Europe, and was almost broken up by Justice in the 90s. Maybe they want to test the line -- see what they can get away with today -- but the answer is probably "not much."
For this???? for the app market??? are you sure????
Unlike the MS Explorer issue which is the one they got kicked as you said, they are not the first company to implement an App Market, so any accusation will go nowhere since Mac OS has one, Android has one, iOS have one, Blackberry have one, hey even Ubuntu has one market.
Even more, the last Mac OS do not allow any software installation outside the app market, something that Windows 8 still allows, but probably Win9 will follow Mac example if app market is accepted by people. In other words, there are more restrictive markets for personal computers than the one Windows 8 came with.
Also these days the disadvantage inclusion of IE can be discussed. Again Apple includes it's own Browser Safari, most Linux desktop distributions include a default web browser (usually Firefox). Smart phones include a web browser (depends on the phone OS)
Users will be able to install software outside the MS App Market for Windows 8, but eventually (WIn 9?) they will very likely go the Apple way and disable any outside Market app installation.
... is DRIVERS!!! Good luck getting real open source drivers out of Nvidia, ATI/AMD, and Intel for their graphics hardware.
And why they have to be open source?
Canonical as a company made ATI/AMD improve the rate of support for new X releases. Everyone knows that before Canonical, ATI drivers where behind X releases as long as 6-8 months. Now that Valve is working closely with them it only means more pressure to AMD and NVIDIA and better binary blobs.
Either open or closed is a win/win for end users.
I know Nvidia drivers are not perfect. No closed or open source driver is perfect, but they are far better than AMD binary ones. My point is since they provide "good" drivers and "support", they use that as an excuse to not provide documentation on how their chips work internally.
You are really dumb.
The woman ask about Nvidia Optimus that is not supported on Linux. He said they are the worst...can't you think why.... Then go back and read my post.
Brief reply for short minded (dumb) people.... No binary drivers from Nvidia + No hardware developer docs = NO SUPPORT (open, closed or whatever).
Do I said you are really dumb?
I haven't watched the video, but probably Torvalds is pissed about the lack of contribution to open source projects (kernel, drivers). While their proprietary drivers are top notch. What will happen if one day Nvidia decide that making a Linux driver is too cost effective. Answer: a lot of unsupported video cars and SoC.
I understand the (bla bla bla) Intellectual Property they paid millions in research (bla bla bla) they don't want to give that information for free. But if the current architecture is so different than previous one, then why don't make public development information for previous generations of their chips as soon a new (different) generation is out.
While Intel graphics is still lacking, they are the only intelligent ones that have the brilliant idea of working the support for their next generation chips before those chips become available for sell.
You should check a Hacking/security book that covers your installed OS. In terms of knowing any security issues, that is a little more complicated. Most Linux distributions are tied to version freeze where they do not include new version of packages, they only back-port security patches. For example, in Debian 6 (Squeeze) the latest (as today) version of php5 is 5.3.3-7+squeeze13, which in fact may give the assumption is outdated (latest in 5.3 branch is php 5.3.14), but it have been patched with all known released security patches. The problem with that approach (which RedHat Enterprise and clones also do btw), is that some security apps that check for vulnerabilities in packages may report false positives.
In short, you should trust the distribution you use, keep updated, and read both distribution site, and lwn.net for new vulnerabilities on a daily basis.
Also the server is more about maintenance than installation. You need to keep an eye on resources, logged sessions, watch logs, list of process running, updates.
My bad, the update was not committed May 13, was April 13. so yes, nearly 2 months.
The author of the article mention a couple of distributions found vulnerable to this bug. In one of them is Arch Linux. But he also said that systems with versions up to 5.1.61, 5.2.11, 5.3.5, 5.5.22 are vulnerable. Then... How the heck can Arch (a rolling release distribution) be affected if they have an updated version of the package already in place, lol. The article is dated June 11, Arch fixed upstream release was committed May 13. So it has been already fixed for nearly 2 months.... wow https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk?h=packages/mysql