I interviewed several college students for intern
positions here at Sun last summer and we're always looking for
more. (I'm in the SF Bay Area, but Sun has offices all over the world, including sizable
campuses in Colorado, Massachusetts, Ireland, Germany, India, etc.)
If you're looking for an internship (or a permanent position), check out http://www.sun.com/jobs/
According to our patent lawyers at work it depends on the bylaws of the organization in question and any agreement the company signed to join the process - some "standards bodies" allow companies to patent their submissions, but most that do so require some sort of licensing scheme that allows other companies to implement the standard (although sometimes at a quite healthy profit to the patent owner).
It was actually released by X.org, a new organization created by the Unix vendors to further the X standard after the Open Group took over. The actual central CVS repository is being maintained by Metro Link, with changes being submitted by all the X.org members, including XFree86.
As for the original X developers, Jim Gettys has been mentioned recently on/. for his work with Compaq's handheld computers, and Bob Scheifler is working for Sun on Jini technology.
XFree86 4.0 was released earlier this year, not X11 4.0. XFree86 4.0 was based on the X.org X11R6.4 sample implementation. This is a new release of the core X code, to which XFree86 adds support for the various video cards, and other additional features.
Other than X hackers, most users are best waiting for their particular X vendor (XFree86 for most Linux/*BSDs, Xig for some, Sun/IBM/Compaq for users of their Unixes) to incorporate the X.org
changes into their release.
As for license differences, the licenses are basically the same, with just the copyright owners
changed.
Under the X version number model, the number would be updated to X12 only if it was incompatible with X11. X.org (the current replacement for the X Consortium) isn't likely to do that any time soon - they are still working on new extensions and updates to the specs though.
Besides, leaving non-essential bits as extensions makes projects like putting an Xserver on a handheld easier, because they don't have to support them, and clients can easily check whether or not they do.
The $20 Solaris 7 kits included 3 cd's (sparc OS, intel OS, & docs for both) and a boot floppy and was limited to non-commercial use. The $75 Solaris 8 kits include many more CD's including Oracle 8i, StarOffice, precompiled freeware, etc., and are no longer limited to non-commercial use.
If TOG acknowledges the OpenMotif license does not meet the OSI definition, but changes it to limit OpenMotif to operating systems that do meet the OSI definition, then won't including OpenMotif in an OS distribution then make it an non-OSI-compliant OS and illegal to include OpenMotif?
(As RMS sort-of points out, "operating system" isn't defined in the license - does StarOffice count as part of the OS if it's bundled in the distribution? If so, add those distributions to the non-OpenMotif-allowed list.)
Perhaps you should have those lawyers add a definition of OS that doesn't include software like OpenMotif itself and StarOffice as long as they're changing the license.
It's fantasy, not SF, but the Running with the Demon trilogy from Terry Brooks is excellent, and the main character/heroine is a teenaged girl. I also think it's his best series (compared to the innumerrable Shannara books and the Landover series) See the publisher's web site for the Demon trilogy for excerpts, reviews, and more info.
It's starting to show up here. The radio that came in my Chevy Impala last summer supports RDS. Here in the Bay Area, KOIT & KPFA are the only two stations I've found that broadcast it.
c2 was founded in Berkeley, California and their headquarters are still here in Oakland. (Yes, export restrictions suck, but C2 has found ways to work with/around them.)
The question implies you don't really understand what this is - there's not really any CPU or memory to use for Beowulf. Think of this more like a big server with dozens of monitors, keyboards and mice scattered around, since basically, that's all the SunRay is - another "seat" to use the computer from.
Instead of Beowulfing together everyone's PC's, this just gives one big multiprocessor machine that they all share without having to distribute jobs over the network.
Even NT already conforms to POSIX - it's mostly useless though, since POSIX misses many of the important functions many applications use. (For instance, until the recent addition of POSIX.1g, there were no networking calls in POSIX, and there is no GUI at all since X Windows is not part of POSIX.)
The X/Open standards from the Open Group which are used to determine which products can truly call themselves UNIX(tm) are more complete, but still would not ensure complete compatibility with all Linux apps. (Just look at the problems many apps written for Linux have when they are first ported to other Unixes.)
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According to our patent lawyers at work it depends on the bylaws of the organization in question and any agreement the company signed to join the process - some "standards bodies" allow companies to patent their submissions, but most that do so require some sort of licensing scheme that allows other companies to implement the standard (although sometimes at a quite healthy profit to the patent owner).
It was actually released by X.org, a new organization created by the Unix vendors to further the X standard after the Open Group took over. The actual central CVS repository is being maintained by Metro Link, with changes being submitted by all the X.org members, including XFree86.
/. for his work with Compaq's handheld computers, and Bob Scheifler is working for Sun on Jini technology.
www.x.org has more details.
As for the original X developers, Jim Gettys has been mentioned recently on
XFree86 4.0 was released earlier this year, not X11 4.0. XFree86 4.0 was based on the X.org X11R6.4 sample implementation. This is a new release of the core X code, to which XFree86 adds support for the various video cards, and other additional features.
Other than X hackers, most users are best waiting for their particular X vendor (XFree86 for most Linux/*BSDs, Xig for some, Sun/IBM/Compaq for users of their Unixes) to incorporate the X.org
changes into their release.
As for license differences, the licenses are basically the same, with just the copyright owners
changed.
Besides, leaving non-essential bits as extensions makes projects like putting an Xserver on a handheld easier, because they don't have to support them, and clients can easily check whether or not they do.
I remember it being on akebono.stanford.edu but don't remember if it was the top level page or /yahoo.
Y windows is already the name of yet another attempt to replace X (which based on the dates on
their web page, isn't going to be here anytime soon).
The $20 Solaris 7 kits included 3 cd's (sparc OS, intel OS, & docs for both) and a boot floppy and was limited to non-commercial use. The $75 Solaris 8 kits include many more CD's including Oracle 8i, StarOffice, precompiled freeware, etc., and are no longer limited to non-commercial use.
(As RMS sort-of points out, "operating system" isn't defined in the license - does StarOffice count as part of the OS if it's bundled in the distribution? If so, add those distributions to the non-OpenMotif-allowed list.)
Perhaps you should have those lawyers add a definition of OS that doesn't include software like OpenMotif itself and StarOffice as long as they're changing the license.
X isn't just for monitors - with the X Printing
extension, it also handles printers, and with
a 2400dpi printer, 2^15 pixels is only 13 inches.
It's fantasy, not SF, but the Running with the Demon trilogy from Terry Brooks is excellent, and the main character/heroine is a teenaged girl. I also think it's his best series (compared to the innumerrable Shannara books and the Landover series) See the publisher's web site for the Demon trilogy for excerpts, reviews, and more info.
It's starting to show up here. The radio that came in my Chevy Impala last summer supports RDS. Here in the Bay Area, KOIT & KPFA are the only two stations I've found that broadcast it.
c2 was founded in Berkeley, California and their
headquarters are still here in Oakland. (Yes,
export restrictions suck, but C2 has found ways
to work with/around them.)
The question implies you don't really understand what this is - there's not really any CPU or memory to use for Beowulf. Think of this more like a big server with dozens of monitors, keyboards and mice scattered around, since basically, that's all the SunRay is - another "seat" to use the computer from.
Instead of Beowulfing together everyone's PC's, this just gives one big multiprocessor machine that they all share without having to distribute jobs over the network.
Even NT already conforms to POSIX - it's mostly useless though, since POSIX misses many of the important functions many applications use. (For instance, until the recent addition of POSIX.1g, there were no networking calls in POSIX, and there is no GUI at all since X Windows is not part of POSIX.)
The X/Open standards from the Open Group which are used to determine which products can truly call themselves UNIX(tm) are more complete, but still would not ensure complete compatibility with all Linux apps. (Just look at the problems many apps written for Linux have when they are first ported to other Unixes.)