With the imminent release of Windows Vista to consumers this month, Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, has claimed Microsoft's latest desktop effort is over-hyped and not a revolutionary advancement. "I don't actually think that something like Vista will change how people work that much," Torvalds told Computerworld. "I think it, to some degree, has been over-hyped as being something completely new and I don't actually think it is."
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Member since:2005-10-02
Vista wasn't developed from scratch either. Windows was from the very beginning an (more or less) illegal ripoff of Mac OS Classic.
SkyOS is more stable than Win9x, but is however rather mature. Stability is still an issue, but so is userfriendliness and performance in Windows.
FF managed to make designers follow standards and make users make their own decisions - IE managed to ruin the work on international standards, taking the freedom away from users, and creating a market for the phishing-gangsters (probably Microsoft's sole original contribution to mankind).
Yes, I like Ubuntu, but it is just another distribution.
Yeah, and Vista is just another version - nothing new, nothing better, nothing good. Lie down boy and wash your face.
On top of that, who the hell cares how long it took to come out? That has nothing to do with anything.
It has a lot to say. Considering all the things Vista should have been, and how much it actually isn't and how little it is, it's embarrasing for Microsoft that they cannot do better. All that time for nothing. It's funny though, that "Communist Hobby Coders" (according to your beloved Master) can do MUCH better than Microsoft. The lack of a properly controlled development process ought to make everybody think twice about buying Vista.
Member since:2005-07-06
Please point me where hobby OS coders have done better.
And please, while early versions of Windows were based off of an early copy of the Mac, they were actually nothing alike. NT is also definately not a copy of MacOS Classic... heck, Classic MacOS (including OS9) was right around Win 3.11 as far as technology goes. But again, why are we even debating this? It has nothing to do with what Vista is.
So you are saying that Microsoft and IE is the cause of phishing? Are you kidding me? You think that FF is magically secure from phishing? If you don't know that phishing is a problem between the keyboard and the chair then you clearly no next to nothing about what you are talking about.
How is Vista nothing new? I point you back to my original post. There is very little in Vista that hasn't been changed.
"Lie down boy and wash your face"? Are you kidding me?
I say that you haven't even used Vista, nor do you know exactly how well Vista really works, you would be suprised, heck, I am suprised even by the final build compared to RC2.
Vista is missing ONE piece of promised technology, and that is WinFS, which, I would like to point out, was replaced by a true indexer and desktop search. Not a great replacement for what WinFS is, but still great to have that desktop search finally built into the OS.
The new WebKit Opera for Android has been released. "Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!"The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
"This is my NeXTstation Turbo Color booting the Mac System 7.1 Operating System using a hardware add-on called 'Daydream'. The Daydream has a Mac ROM and a few custom ICs in it and hooked up to the NeXTs DSP port. Turns your NeXT into a full fledged 68k powered Mac." So cool.
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
"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.
Appfour 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."
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2005-07-06
Haiku is a copied OS that was NOT developed by scratch (based off of the NewOS kernel, which has been in development longer).
SkyOS is nowhere near ready, or even somewhat mature.
How exactly has Firefox encouraged a rethink of the web? Yeah, Firefox is a decent browser, certainly no where near the best (though, the 3.0 alphas are promising, and take up much less RAM).
So you are saying that in 5 years Ubuntu got a good name for itself? Wow, what an accomplishment. Yes, I like Ubuntu, but it is just another distribution.
On top of that, who the hell cares how long it took to come out? That has nothing to do with anything.