* Posts by Drak

55 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jul 2008

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Sub-prime 'woes' infect world’s laptop market

Drak

more like Vista woes

Its a lot more difficult to find drivers for XP on laptops than desktops. Which is why Im no longer buying new laptops, as I dont want to get stuck with a $2000 laptop that wont run XP properly. People who do these statistics really should not be coming up with there own conclusions.

The PSP: what's its future?

Drak
Jobs Horns

the iPhone is waking up the competition

The potential to combine a mobile game console, cellphone, PDA, internet browser and music/movie media player has finally been realized with the iPhone. Now everyone is trying to play catch up. The Nokia N810 already has the hardware to handle everything the iPhone can with its more powerful 400mhz processor, but Nokia is just asleep at the wheel and not taking advantage of its ability to run games. What the Nokia N810 needs to kill the iPhone is a cellphone(I cant believe Nokia forgot to include that, it only has bluetooth/wifi access now)and a keyboard integrated into a clamshell form factor. And making it a clamshell would allow it be carried in the pocket a lot easier. Touch screens are just not a solution for data entry or gaming.

Ubuntu man challenges open source to out-pretty Apple

Drak

linux drivers and linux kernal

It should be pointed out that Linux has a monolithic kernal rather than a microkernal like most other OS's. What that means is that most all the functionality of the kernal is in the kernal itself, including drivers. Whereas in a microkernal, only core OS functionality like file handling and process multitasking is handled by the kernal itself and all the rest of the functionality is handled by seperate utilitys. To get past this, there may be a need to fork a new version of LInux. Maybe some big companys like Sun and IBM could sort this out.

Drak

so why doesnt Shuttleworth buy Borland IDE

Everyone knows that the Gnome/KDE GUI toolkits are a mess, so why doesnt Shuttleworth put his money where his mouth is and create a common GUI standard for Linux. Borland has been trying to sell their IDE product division for a long time, that could be a pretty high end starting point. Its already proven as fast and streamlined. And maybe it could be integrated with Eclipse.

a Reg article about Borland can be seen here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/10/david_intersimone_embarcadero/

@Edward Rose

----"Likewise, have a common db that local installs can list what files they use, so the package manager can check it's own db (regardless of format) and the 'local install' db to see what files are loose. It would be simple to write a script to handle the install of ANY software then."------

OK, sounds good, so why doesnt someone in the Linux community do it? I say someone (like Shuttleworth) and not everyone because the average open source dev is only interested do-it-yourself geeky devtools, and not serving the general public. Shuttleworth is going to have to shoulder the burden himself if he wants anything serious to get done.

Drak
Linux

how about attracting non-open source apps on Linux first

Linux is never going to take off and attract serious development until they can create a common software installation standard. As of now most software that runs on Linux is open source so that there is no problem porting it to whatever distro. But commercial software companys can only make software that can only run on one distro. And then there is the problem of dependencys, Linux's version of DLL hell. Thats something that Apple has solved quite well, you dont even have to install software on the Mac, you just paste the app on the HD and it runs. Now that is something that the Linux crowd could learn from.

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