Kristian Hogsberg (Red Hat) has been hacking on Compiz and AIGLX to run them together and has managed to do it with impressive performance. "With a bit of hacking, I managed to get compiz (and glxcompmgr) running on aiglx. I'm running it on my i830 laptop, and the performance is actually quite impressive."
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Member since:2005-07-06
If this technology is marketed well ( and you can bet Novell will do their best )
You're obviously new to Novell and their lack thereof of marketing grunt; what the Linux world needs is a Steve Jobs like person who can hype, evangelise whilst at the same time, not come accross as some sort of elitist wanker - which, sorry, alot of IT oriented guys come accross, with their, 'we're better than normal people!' complex.
Hmm, I could probably do what Steve Jobs does, but it would require at least two bottles of the Naper Valleys finest Pinot Noir ;-)
Member since:2005-07-10
"...what the Linux world needs is a Steve Jobs like person who can hype, evangelise whilst at the same time, not come accross as some sort of elitist wanker - which, sorry, alot of IT oriented guys come accross, with their, 'we're better than normal people!' complex. "
Yes, thank god the typical Mac users aren't elitist wankers, and that they don't give you the "we're better than normal people!" attitude. Your statement must be one of the most ironic statements I've ever seen. ;-)
PS! I'm a Mac user, BTW.
Member since:2005-11-14
I'm speechless. Just when I have given up on the OSS community being inovative they really come arround and create something icredible
Even though it's not that innovative, and is underway since a long time.
Anyway, what I wanted to say, is that thinkings like yours seem recurrent with people that follow FOSS from the outside.
I use FOSS exclusively for a long time, and I remember there was a time where I was amazed every week at what I could do, that I could on no other system, and discovered new features every week. Now I'm spoiled, so I'm not amazed, but not surprised either.
If this technology is marketed well linux might actually have a chance on the desktop. The next year ot 2 might turn out to be really good years for the comunity
Since 1999 when I started using Linux, I've yet to see a year that wasn't very good for the community, despite episodes like SCO.
To the contrary, I remember having to find arguments to say Linux is viable (even on the desktop), while now, I just have to break the regular FUD that says Linux is not as better as we see.
with MS releasing another batch of even more overbloated software ( Vista + Office 12 ). Well OSS doesn't yet provide an office suite that is quite as good or as capable as MS Office but the current offerings are not that much off
Here for example. Before, when I started using FOSS in 1999, people were comparing Linux to Win1995, then quickly to 1998, and the desktops where just starting on Linux. We did not talk about the clueless end user, Linux was just too hard for them at the time. Now, people have to compare current Linux OSs with "Vista + Office 12", products of MS that are not even out yet and cost a LOT more !!!! I find this really amazing ! Especially given the fact that the desktop and OSs are the main field of MS.
Several times, I've seen people write how they were surprised of the state of FOSS that they've given up one year before.
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Google added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."
"It was the only moment I heard regret slip into Otellini's voice during the several hours of conversations I had with him. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'" The world would've been a much different place - Apple would have been less dependant on Samsung for its chips, which probably would've meant less money for Samsung to develop its Galaxy business.Glass is getting some love at Google I/O as well. New applications have been released - Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Elle, Tumblr, and CNN. Perhaps more interesting: the newly announced Google Glass Developer Kit will allow offline applications and direct hardware access - great for hacking and expanding Glass' potential. This kit will really allow hackers to put Glass through its paces.
"But Beck and Merrill decided that simply banning toxic players wasn't an acceptable solution for their game. Riot Games began experimenting with more constructive modes of player management through a formal player behavior initiative that actually conducts controlled experiments on its player base to see what helps reduce bad behavior. The results of that initiative have been shared at a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on panels at the Penny Arcade Expo East and the Game Developers Conference." Absolutely fascinating stuff. I'm a League of Legends player, and to be honest, the community isn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be. I'm happy Riot games has the guts to employ science to address the issue.
"Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems worldwide, combined for 92.3% of all smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013 as Windows Phone crept past BlackBerry for 3rd place. According to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Android smartphone vendors and Apple shipped a total of 199.5 million units worldwide during 1Q13, up 59.1% from the 125.4 million units shipped during 1Q12." Windows Phone doubles from a few to twice few, iOS loser market share as its growth is slower than that of the overall market. BlackBerry continues slide into irrelevance."According to the latest research from our Wireless Smartphone Strategies service, global Android smartphone profits reached US$5 billion in total during the first quarter of 2013. Samsung dominated and captured an impressive 95 percent share of all Android smartphone profits." Wow."During its Keynote today, Google announced new features coming to its flagship search function - you know, that thing we all started using Google for. VP Amit Singhal spent some time discussing what Google's search functionality will eventually morph into. Google's strategy is summarized by three words: answer, converse, and anticipate. Singhal explained that many of the pieces of these upcoming changes can already be seen in products that Google has recently introduced - namely, Google Knowledge Graph and Google Now, with perhaps a splash of Google Glass, too." I hold on to my hat every time Google changes Search. It's such a vital product in my daily life.
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2006-02-12
I'm speechless. Just when I have given up on the OSS community being inovative they really come arround and create something icredible. If this technology is marketed well ( and you can bet Novell will do their best ) linux might actually have a chance on the desktop. The next year ot 2 might turn out to be really good years for the comunity with MS releasing another batch of even more overbloated software ( Vista + Office 12 ). Well OSS doesn't yet provide an office suite that is quite as good or as capable as MS Office but the current offerings are not that much off.
Man I am really happy about xorg and all the development going arround it. Way to go Novell and RH!