I want an APU with an integrated ARM core that works as a service processor and low power auxiliary CPU when the big CPU is powered off. Good enough for email and browsing and if the GPU has good power management the battery should last forever.
and having a unified standards compliant driver irrespective of the vendor (like USB)
the KDE on Windows distribution of Calligra due to problems launching VBscripts on my XP box. However I installed it and launched from the command line. It is very nice and opened some.docx files.
I believe Linux is their future. I cannot see any reasoning behind their acts. Personally I would take people from windows business to work on linux/bsds and illumos and even help qnx people to have a decent port and invest more on R&D. Those who laid him off do not know what hard work means.
uKernel and Virtualization folks will buy. I really don't care about performance. I care about documentation and standards compliance. My next PC will be AMD.
I agree with you completely. Open must start from API and end to the metal. Drivers could stop to the metal but vendors do not help here unfortunately.
I would be more happy if Apple released a Darwin CD for generic PC with their open source packages , even if they charged it for 50$. I have no need for Cocoa or Appstore or Quicktime. I am fine with macports or pkgsrc.
I am a Greek and when I see such stories I keep remembering the situation in my country. On the other hand where there is shiny expensive products you see such attitudes. Apple please make us a favor and start releasing Darwin CDs at cheap prices to boot the OS on commodity hardware. 50$ sounds a good price. Not everybody needs Quartz or Quicktime.
that they are in need of ObjC without garbage collection. Why use C++ and artificially constrain its capabilities? There is also GnuStep project and ObjC has a clearer and simpler syntax than C++ with single object inheritance, and C99 extension (easy migration path). I cannot understand their reasoning for C++ if they are targeting a single subset and not the full standard. The only plus for C++ is the extensive use of IDEs. Otherwise it makes no sense.
It would make sense if they developed a spec with a common access API to the HW instead of using wrappers like OpenGL/DX on proprietary drivers. HW should expose a platform-independent API so driver could be written by Microsoft or apple or who ever. And by the way, why should I put two different vendors cards on the same machine instead of using the native single vendor solution? It is only useful when OpenGraphics comes out.
Me too (on Windows). Actually I prefer to give a donation to FSF or LinuxFoundation or download NetBSD and donate to this project. Anyway, even QNX is free these days and I have no problem to give them a small amount to customize it for x86 desktops. Or even better OpenSolaris does everything for free and giving 20$ to Oracle or SUN is a better alternative.
I share my PERSONAL thoughts on the issue :
200$ is way too much on a non standards-compliant OS that cannot play music, print, scan, sometimes connect to the internet or self-host out of the box. I believe Syllable is more advanced than this product.I'm also angry because I have to use it here for work and crashed without AntiVirus in 4 days after installation. Everytime I have to use a device I must download blob that in the setup.exe form replaces half of the OS to make it work. Microsoft is a hostage of the vendors and it pretends it has the most advanced OS. It is a big wrapper of nonstandards compliant HW and it says that GFX cards are DirectX ready, but they are not, you have to download a driver/wrapper. The GFX cards are not DirectX standards compliant, they implement no DirectX logic in HW. The best you can have without blobs is Vesa. Multifunction printers scanners faxes are not supported out of the box because there is no standards compliance. A cryptic (reminds of the ancient Egypt) procedure make us believe that windows magically talk to HW, but it is not done by windows, not a stack but a vendor driver. Vendors make the OS talk. Moreover IE should not be there. It is a product whether it is free or commercial. Windows supports lack of intelligence and autoconfiguration for the devices, to kill competitors and this is a political issue that should have been addressed years ago. I cannot understand why EU allows such a product to enter Europe. AHCI, Firewire, USB, PJL are standards which allow to an OS to use devices in the form of Stack/Profile pairs. We are in 2009 and a printer / GFX card or MPEG2 cannot present itself to the OS , provide its capabilities and be ready to be used without a profile (or driver if you prefer). Windows is partially responsible for keeping us to the Stone age of computing. It maybe legal (I personally doubt) but hazardous to innovation and diversity of products. I also observe that Unix vendors have their share in this deadlock but not the bigger one.
This how I see things, maybe others don't see that way but I personally feel that my opinion is supported by arguments.
We had bought a nice box from an OEM with 3core Phenom II at the lab for the above reasons. A friend of mine told me that they don't assemble Phenom desktops because they have incompatibilities. Indeed, we tried to install WindowsXP and the corresponding drivers and PC failed immediately and peformance was good with the installation of absolutely necessary drivers (VGA was useless with th existing drivers). Since I am a die hard Unix fan, I burned an OpenSolaris 2009.06 live-cd and booted with it. Absolutely no problems and performance was amazing, though no 3D (not an issue in a lab). I can say that if you want affordable performance and a 3core machine, use AMD. No match for the price (serious these days).With Unix/Linux and BSD you are fully productive in short time in 32bit/64bit. If you decide to use Windows be careful with the drivers and you will have a very good experience. I have not used QNX yet.
why not try QNX which is a commercial offering? This is very suspicious. Sounds like the most closed useless thing ever. I go for N270/GMA950. Possibly if VIA really helps openchrome I have no problem to give it a try. Moreover the whole thing smells like early adopters saga. First version would be totally experimental, save for the calculator and notepad (I can suggest vi).
STREAMS are also suitable for Bluetooth. The proliferation of networking either in IP or BT calls for a unified solution. STREAMS can provide the lower level of this solution. And I believe everything should run on user space leaving buses and physical layer in the kernel.
Personally I have no problem in running them also to User Space.
I like Alternative CPUs with emphasis on MIPS but an ARM model with 128MB is not a platform for desktop computing , but has its merits. MIPS and PPC have better desktop orientation.
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I want an APU with an integrated ARM core that works as a service processor and low power auxiliary CPU when the big CPU is powered off. Good enough for email and browsing and if the GPU has good power management the battery should last forever.
and having a unified standards compliant driver irrespective of the vendor (like USB)
I hope they support mingw via devkit tdm. Julia tries to use libuv to be cross-platform.
the KDE on Windows distribution of Calligra due to problems launching VBscripts on my XP box. However I installed it and launched from the command line. It is very nice and opened some .docx files.
I believe this is the ultimate solution to parallelization. A total realization of actors.
I believe Linux is their future. I cannot see any reasoning behind their acts. Personally I would take people from windows business to work on linux/bsds and illumos and even help qnx people to have a decent port and invest more on R&D. Those who laid him off do not know what hard work means.
uKernel and Virtualization folks will buy. I really don't care about performance. I care about documentation and standards compliance. My next PC will be AMD.
Have you ever used Eric or Eclipse PyDev? both work in Linux/windows.
I agree with you completely. Open must start from API and end to the metal. Drivers could stop to the metal but vendors do not help here unfortunately.
and as an orthodox I demand the ecumenical patriarch to do the same.
Like providing puredarwin with KDE. Yummy.
is the multi-compiler support. Mingw should be the only solution.
I would be more happy if Apple released a Darwin CD for generic PC with their open source packages , even if they charged it for 50$. I have no need for Cocoa or Appstore or Quicktime. I am fine with macports or pkgsrc.
They offer an X11 package.
I am a Greek and when I see such stories I keep remembering the situation in my country. On the other hand where there is shiny expensive products you see such attitudes. Apple please make us a favor and start releasing Darwin CDs at cheap prices to boot the OS on commodity hardware. 50$ sounds a good price. Not everybody needs Quartz or Quicktime.
we claim we love Microsoft.
that they are in need of ObjC without garbage collection. Why use C++ and artificially constrain its capabilities? There is also GnuStep project and ObjC has a clearer and simpler syntax than C++ with single object inheritance, and C99 extension (easy migration path). I cannot understand their reasoning for C++ if they are targeting a single subset and not the full standard. The only plus for C++ is the extensive use of IDEs. Otherwise it makes no sense.
I would like a cheap smartbook (an updated HIVISION) with this one inside and 512MB RAM. 3D is not a must for me and winCE is also undesired.
It would make sense if they developed a spec with a common access API to the HW instead of using wrappers like OpenGL/DX on proprietary drivers. HW should expose a platform-independent API so driver could be written by Microsoft or apple or who ever. And by the way, why should I put two different vendors cards on the same machine instead of using the native single vendor solution? It is only useful when OpenGraphics comes out.
Me too (on Windows). Actually I prefer to give a donation to FSF or LinuxFoundation or download NetBSD and donate to this project. Anyway, even QNX is free these days and I have no problem to give them a small amount to customize it for x86 desktops. Or even better OpenSolaris does everything for free and giving 20$ to Oracle or SUN is a better alternative. I share my PERSONAL thoughts on the issue : 200$ is way too much on a non standards-compliant OS that cannot play music, print, scan, sometimes connect to the internet or self-host out of the box. I believe Syllable is more advanced than this product.I'm also angry because I have to use it here for work and crashed without AntiVirus in 4 days after installation. Everytime I have to use a device I must download blob that in the setup.exe form replaces half of the OS to make it work. Microsoft is a hostage of the vendors and it pretends it has the most advanced OS. It is a big wrapper of nonstandards compliant HW and it says that GFX cards are DirectX ready, but they are not, you have to download a driver/wrapper. The GFX cards are not DirectX standards compliant, they implement no DirectX logic in HW. The best you can have without blobs is Vesa. Multifunction printers scanners faxes are not supported out of the box because there is no standards compliance. A cryptic (reminds of the ancient Egypt) procedure make us believe that windows magically talk to HW, but it is not done by windows, not a stack but a vendor driver. Vendors make the OS talk. Moreover IE should not be there. It is a product whether it is free or commercial. Windows supports lack of intelligence and autoconfiguration for the devices, to kill competitors and this is a political issue that should have been addressed years ago. I cannot understand why EU allows such a product to enter Europe. AHCI, Firewire, USB, PJL are standards which allow to an OS to use devices in the form of Stack/Profile pairs. We are in 2009 and a printer / GFX card or MPEG2 cannot present itself to the OS , provide its capabilities and be ready to be used without a profile (or driver if you prefer). Windows is partially responsible for keeping us to the Stone age of computing. It maybe legal (I personally doubt) but hazardous to innovation and diversity of products. I also observe that Unix vendors have their share in this deadlock but not the bigger one. This how I see things, maybe others don't see that way but I personally feel that my opinion is supported by arguments.
We had bought a nice box from an OEM with 3core Phenom II at the lab for the above reasons. A friend of mine told me that they don't assemble Phenom desktops because they have incompatibilities. Indeed, we tried to install WindowsXP and the corresponding drivers and PC failed immediately and peformance was good with the installation of absolutely necessary drivers (VGA was useless with th existing drivers). Since I am a die hard Unix fan, I burned an OpenSolaris 2009.06 live-cd and booted with it. Absolutely no problems and performance was amazing, though no 3D (not an issue in a lab). I can say that if you want affordable performance and a 3core machine, use AMD. No match for the price (serious these days).With Unix/Linux and BSD you are fully productive in short time in 32bit/64bit. If you decide to use Windows be careful with the drivers and you will have a very good experience. I have not used QNX yet.
why not try QNX which is a commercial offering? This is very suspicious. Sounds like the most closed useless thing ever. I go for N270/GMA950. Possibly if VIA really helps openchrome I have no problem to give it a try. Moreover the whole thing smells like early adopters saga. First version would be totally experimental, save for the calculator and notepad (I can suggest vi).
If Microsoft is behind I suggest Microsoft to opensource it and base Windows8 on Unixware ala Apple.
STREAMS are also suitable for Bluetooth. The proliferation of networking either in IP or BT calls for a unified solution. STREAMS can provide the lower level of this solution. And I believe everything should run on user space leaving buses and physical layer in the kernel. Personally I have no problem in running them also to User Space.
I like Alternative CPUs with emphasis on MIPS but an ARM model with 128MB is not a platform for desktop computing , but has its merits. MIPS and PPC have better desktop orientation.
can implement the decoder in Unichrome Pro III and release documentation