And you are among those ignorant users who do not understand it is not *Linux* which forces you to open your hardware.So you can use Linux and avoid any tinkering till you publish the changes in Linux.
FYI Linux is not RMS's property and yes it is the *kernel* which does not forces you to open the hardware.
And yes, don't flame me on unless you are a kernel developer, are you?I bet not.
Ok, Virtual Iron is exclusively for Vt-x and SVM enabled processors.
This means it makes use of the hardware assisted virtualization provided by these two techniques by Intel and AMD respectively.
Xen on the otherhand takes a paraivirtualization approach. It includes a hypervisor which shields the hardware access from guest domains(unless you are running a driver domain).
So Virtual Iron can run unmodified guests from its first release, as opposite to Xen which started in era when there were no SVM and Vtx capable processors
So, you cannont strictly say adavntage over Xen.
OTOH Xen though predominantly a PV hypervisor can still make use of VTx and SVM processors, to run unmodified Guest Operating Systems but performance hit is there.
So, Xen is a great product which needs a lot of grooming before it can be considered a dependable virtualisation solution.
It is better than VmWare in the sense of end usability, and that means throughput, latency and responsiveness.
Incidentally perhaps you are misunderstanding Plan9.
It is not the kind of OS *we* are used to. That said it includes L/unix and family and Windows et all.
It serves a different purpose of OS all together, in other terms its a distributed Operating system which incidentally is not designed purposefully to run on your standalone machine.
Feel like running it, you are welcome to the world of wmii, acme and acid. In short Firefox or for that matter any other application comes lower in hierarchy, a lot of things need to be done to make it first Posix complaint, which i guess they are not planing to so soon.
As far as the people who think it is only for research yes it is and this is what Plan9 on Blue Gene is aimed at. As a research project.
The Linux community isn't silent about anything. Novell has experienced a backlash, and the CEO had to go so far as to address it publicly. That's not insignificant, in my mind.
Does it deters Novell or for that matter did it made any difference? I think not much. Still Xandros and Linspire falling prey following Novell's footsteps.
Seriously Novell knew from start it will face a backlash from the community and they know how to cope up and this is what they actually did.
In the haste to get profits these rampant business policies of Linux companies is going to disturb the gentle ecosystem balance in the FOSS world for sure.I wish someone can change their greedy mind.
Red Hat , Ubuntu please do the rest of the honours.
I have no freaking idea what MS has in his pocket that all these companies have agreed to MS terms of so called *patent* protection.Hell yes, i am paranoid but that so only because MS is involved in all of these pacts, i am not at all comfortable taking the bullshit.
Why is Linux community silent on a whole? Only thing they can do is host a site called as showusthecode.com and challenging Mr Balmer. And MS responded by making one more Linux company its ally. Now i am really getting worried about my submitted code as GPL. Is this just me or something is really cooking up at Redmond?
Guys, thing is what kind of feud is this we are talking about?
Forget it,what Linus means is not what Jonathan wants to hear. What Linux is saying is if you really want to open source please open source the whole solaris code. Please be open when it comes to your in house designed chips which communicate with Ultrsparc processors.Why such disparity between opening too?
Linus may be wrong in saying Sun wants Linux drivers wealth and what not.But that is a truth Solaris sucks at device drivers it needs them desperately.Linux is telling that straight on face that is it.
Jonathan talks about communities fracturing and companies competing, bullshit i must say.There are enough examples in the real world where companies have vanished without a trace from the software map but communities have continued to exist.If Jonathan is right, why is MS afraid of Linux dominance?why did they open source solaris to make a community? Doesn't he know it pays to work with a community, developers come and go but community lives.
Being a kernel developer, i suggest you change the way you think.
This "version 2 or later" is crap.
It means version 2 or later for *you* to choose and some of the people preferred version 2 and want to stick to it.There is no obligation to upgrade to GPL version 3 whatsoever the case may be.
Plus imagine 100 developers contributing to your project, don't you think this "version 2 or later" clause is utterly confusing for the original author, if he decides to upgrade the GPL license. He 'll have to take permission from all the 100 developers some of whom may *not* agree.What then?
I personally feel it is confusion if looked as it is.Rather in reality it is simply go use version 2 or later if you feel like when you can upgrade the license. And indeed a crappy clause.
Hope this cleared the or later fiasco confusion.
thanks
The problems as i look at it is loosely like this. Nouveau being a reverse engineered driver misses to harness complex Nvidia specific GPU features.Yes, mod me down if you feel like but that is the truth, a reverse engineered software for a complex GPU is not simple.And now please don't give me example of Samba and et all, i know it. The way hardware evolves in today's hardware industry Nouveau will find it extremely difficult to sustain the pace to match it.
Moreover reverse engineering being a difficult task, it will take time.
Here is the alternative IMHO, AMD open sources ATI drivers. ATI 3D driver gets into mainline kernel. Nvidia will *have* to open source their driver, which can be possibly merged with the nouveau project to make sure it is constantly up to date with the Nvidia's cutting edge technology advances.
Well not intentionally but accidentally when i mistype a web address i do get directed to extremely pesky web pages which offer me hundreds of alternatives to what i type.
It may be a source of information but to me it is more of a frustration.
Eventually many times i figure out the best way is - Google it.
Whatever the case may be, these sites are sometimes set on Windows machines over cafes as default pages to attract customers.
Business indeed, just IMO spamming in a more holistic way.
The document also says this - Universities are increasingly graduating developers that are familiar with open source technologies and development methodologies. However a concern was expressed that due to the popularity of open source development at universities, graduates may be lacking key skills such as sound architecture, defining customer needs and product management.
What the...?Business and tactical way of saying open source development methodologies are inferior to closed source ones.Balls to you,pansies. Linux kernel is an example which is designed better than any of your closed source binary blobs called as Vista and what not. Being an year old University grad myself, i think they need to study in universities once again or better reconsider this insipid argument.
1. The cost of starting an Internet company plummeted by over 80% from 1996 to 2004. This trend
was largely enabled by open source software and powerful, cheap hardware.
2. IM is the preferred method of communication (with friends) for those under 25 by a wide margin
and email is the preferred communication method for those over 25 by a significant percentage.
This represents a major generation gap in communication modes.
3. User generated content is vastly increasing in both supply and demand, driven by such popular
online properties as MySpace, FaceBook, YouTube, blogs
o Written content: 55M blogs today, up 800% in past year
o Visual content: homemade videos, mashups
4. Traditional media is losing authority with the younger generation, who are increasingly turning to
"open" media for advice about music, products and services.
5. Companies are following these trends
o Adopting corporate blogs, especially by CEOs
o "Always-connected" management
o Rise of SaaS
o Virtualization of workforce
o Outsourcing
o Mobility solutions
How is this all related to Open source and its effects? I don't seem to get the point here.Is it just me or ridiculously off agenda?
FTA, Mihir Shah, from the company Infrascanner, said the American Navy has invested up to $1 million in the device.
I wonder when there is such a breakthrough device in progress, isn't it unfair to have $1 million for a life saving cheap device research? I differ with people who sat CT/MRI scan is still to be carried out.So what? A CT/MRI scan minutes late can prove fatal and this is exactly this device is supposed to do , reduce this highly critical time gap to find out when actually to look for a scan as an option.Hell yes it is no way a replacement but an aid to save precious human life.
Some may argue 1$ million is hell lot of money.Indeed it is.But shouldn't we be spending more money on projects like this rather than on researching weapons of mass destruction and warfare.
I wish the team of doctors and researchers my best wishes for such a breakthrough device.
This as it seems, is yet another legal puns MS has up its sleeves.MS struck a deal with Novell months back, which obviously created a fury among free software zealots.Now this seems to be a Red signal for Linux users, who uses OpenSuse or any other free Linux distribution, as it implies IMO _you_ being a non SUSE(and means even OpenSUSE i guess) users are infringing on MS's so called intellectual property.
Is this the start of the hide and seek of infringement legalities?
Lets hope SUSE understand this can be just the beginning. Novell people should put in some thinking into not getting pawned once again by MS.
Whatever i am better off without them on my Edgy Ubuntu machine.:)
I always find it amusing when a virus that requires the user to activate it is considered news. By definition it's more social engineering then a vulnerability
Right.But most of the viruses(in reference to Windows), infected EXEs can harm your PC only if you execute them.Isn't this a kind of user involvement? Ironically if you don't run some XYZ untrusted EXE, you don't mess it up..simple. If you run it, thinking your AntiVirus will save you all the times, then sorry you are in soup.Not always you 'll be saved.Rather i should also add, not all AntiVirus will save you.I used to run WinXP without any AntiVirus installed and still managed to keep my PC safe from my viruses.
OK even if i accept this as this looks like having some truth, perhaps the researchers of the article forgot to mention that radiation from the monitors can affect your eyes and therefore your eyesight.
Anyway i am in... i better go search for my Quake III for the darker side of computing:)
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Wait... or wmii ... crap too much choices :(
Lets hope this makes people think about Ubuntu atleast :-).
Competition is good, for a technological ecosystem and this is an example of it. Ultimately finally customers benefit and are more free to choose.
FYI Linux is not RMS's property and yes it is the *kernel* which does not forces you to open the hardware.
And yes, don't flame me on unless you are a kernel developer, are you?I bet not.
Let them try and realize whats wrong with this *cheap* PR stunt[if it is indeed].
This means it makes use of the hardware assisted virtualization provided by these two techniques by Intel and AMD respectively.
Xen on the otherhand takes a paraivirtualization approach. It includes a hypervisor which shields the hardware access from guest domains(unless you are running a driver domain).
So Virtual Iron can run unmodified guests from its first release, as opposite to Xen which started in era when there were no SVM and Vtx capable processors
So, you cannont strictly say adavntage over Xen.
OTOH Xen though predominantly a PV hypervisor can still make use of VTx and SVM processors, to run unmodified Guest Operating Systems but performance hit is there.
So, Xen is a great product which needs a lot of grooming before it can be considered a dependable virtualisation solution.
It is better than VmWare in the sense of end usability, and that means throughput, latency and responsiveness.
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No wonder Windows Vista is best in his review.
I am not convinced, next please Mr Jones.
Feel like running it, you are welcome to the world of wmii, acme and acid. In short Firefox or for that matter any other application comes lower in hierarchy, a lot of things need to be done to make it first Posix complaint, which i guess they are not planing to so soon.
As far as the people who think it is only for research yes it is and this is what Plan9 on Blue Gene is aimed at. As a research project.
My 2 cents :-)
1. Novell
2. Xandros
3. Linspire
You do your bit of supporting the community and see many more results like this in future.
Amen :-)
was that intentional or ....
Does it deters Novell or for that matter did it made any difference? I think not much. Still Xandros and Linspire falling prey following Novell's footsteps. Seriously Novell knew from start it will face a backlash from the community and they know how to cope up and this is what they actually did. In the haste to get profits these rampant business policies of Linux companies is going to disturb the gentle ecosystem balance in the FOSS world for sure.I wish someone can change their greedy mind.
Red Hat , Ubuntu please do the rest of the honours. I have no freaking idea what MS has in his pocket that all these companies have agreed to MS terms of so called *patent* protection.Hell yes, i am paranoid but that so only because MS is involved in all of these pacts, i am not at all comfortable taking the bullshit.
Why is Linux community silent on a whole? Only thing they can do is host a site called as showusthecode.com and challenging Mr Balmer. And MS responded by making one more Linux company its ally. Now i am really getting worried about my submitted code as GPL. Is this just me or something is really cooking up at Redmond?
Linus may be wrong in saying Sun wants Linux drivers wealth and what not.But that is a truth Solaris sucks at device drivers it needs them desperately.Linux is telling that straight on face that is it.
Jonathan talks about communities fracturing and companies competing, bullshit i must say.There are enough examples in the real world where companies have vanished without a trace from the software map but communities have continued to exist.If Jonathan is right, why is MS afraid of Linux dominance?why did they open source solaris to make a community? Doesn't he know it pays to work with a community, developers come and go but community lives.
It means version 2 or later for *you* to choose and some of the people preferred version 2 and want to stick to it.There is no obligation to upgrade to GPL version 3 whatsoever the case may be. Plus imagine 100 developers contributing to your project, don't you think this "version 2 or later" clause is utterly confusing for the original author, if he decides to upgrade the GPL license. He 'll have to take permission from all the 100 developers some of whom may *not* agree.What then?
I personally feel it is confusion if looked as it is.Rather in reality it is simply go use version 2 or later if you feel like when you can upgrade the license. And indeed a crappy clause. Hope this cleared the or later fiasco confusion. thanks
Moreover reverse engineering being a difficult task, it will take time.
Here is the alternative IMHO, AMD open sources ATI drivers. ATI 3D driver gets into mainline kernel. Nvidia will *have* to open source their driver, which can be possibly merged with the nouveau project to make sure it is constantly up to date with the Nvidia's cutting edge technology advances.
But thats just optimistic me. :-)
It may be a source of information but to me it is more of a frustration.
Eventually many times i figure out the best way is - Google it.
Whatever the case may be, these sites are sometimes set on Windows machines over cafes as default pages to attract customers.
Business indeed, just IMO spamming in a more holistic way.
In short Sun is feeling the competition from the Open Source Linux. And Jeff's blog entry shows that pretty well
I don't know much about Sun but certainly they are not very happy with the way Linux is eating up Sun's share of servers.
At this juncture such an announcement does not come to me as a surprise.
~psr
The document also says this -
,pansies. Linux kernel is an example which is designed better than any of your closed source binary blobs called as Vista and what not.
Universities are increasingly graduating developers that are familiar with open source technologies and
development methodologies. However a concern was expressed that due to the popularity of open
source development at universities, graduates may be lacking key skills such as sound architecture,
defining customer needs and product management.
What the...?Business and tactical way of saying open source development methodologies are inferior to closed source ones.Balls to you
Being an year old University grad myself, i think they need to study in universities once again or better reconsider this insipid argument.
2. IM is the preferred method of communication (with friends) for those under 25 by a wide margin and email is the preferred communication method for those over 25 by a significant percentage. This represents a major generation gap in communication modes.
3. User generated content is vastly increasing in both supply and demand, driven by such popular online properties as MySpace, FaceBook, YouTube, blogs
o Written content: 55M blogs today, up 800% in past year
o Visual content: homemade videos, mashups
4. Traditional media is losing authority with the younger generation, who are increasingly turning to "open" media for advice about music, products and services.
5. Companies are following these trends
o Adopting corporate blogs, especially by CEOs
o "Always-connected" management
o Rise of SaaS
o Virtualization of workforce
o Outsourcing
o Mobility solutions
How is this all related to Open source and its effects? I don't seem to get the point here.Is it just me or ridiculously off agenda?
What a waste of time ?... my time offcourse :-)
But...hey what is this MS was a platinum sponsor?
May be tomorrow they will sponsor Suse for Enterprise ...huh
Read man pages or if you are on a Red Hat/Fedora system info and pinfo are great.
Choose a distro you feel comfortable with, see what you can change and how this affects the system.
Good luck
I wonder when there is such a breakthrough device in progress, isn't it unfair to have $1 million for a life saving cheap device research? I differ with people who sat CT/MRI scan is still to be carried out.So what? A CT/MRI scan minutes late can prove fatal and this is exactly this device is supposed to do , reduce this highly critical time gap to find out when actually to look for a scan as an option.Hell yes it is no way a replacement but an aid to save precious human life.
Some may argue 1$ million is hell lot of money.Indeed it is.But shouldn't we be spending more money on projects like this rather than on researching weapons of mass destruction and warfare.
I wish the team of doctors and researchers my best wishes for such a breakthrough device.
~psr
Is this the start of the hide and seek of infringement legalities?
Lets hope SUSE understand this can be just the beginning. Novell people should put in some thinking into not getting pawned once again by MS.
Whatever i am better off without them on my Edgy Ubuntu machine. :)
~psr
Right.But most of the viruses(in reference to Windows), infected EXEs can harm your PC only if you execute them.Isn't this a kind of user involvement? Ironically if you don't run some XYZ untrusted EXE, you don't mess it up..simple. If you run it, thinking your AntiVirus will save you all the times, then sorry you are in soup.Not always you 'll be saved.Rather i should also add, not all AntiVirus will save you.I used to run WinXP without any AntiVirus installed and still managed to keep my PC safe from my viruses.
~psr
Anyway i am in ... i better go search for my Quake III for the darker side of computing :)