Transmeta Releases Midori Linux 89
_Upsilon_ writes "Transmeta announced today that they have released under the GPL their mobile linux as "Midori Linux". It is an x86 compatible version of Linux for internet appliances, residential gateway appliances, wireless web pads, and home audio components." They've got SourceForge project setup for discussion and usage. As well, the download page is ready - the current version is 1.0.0-beta1. And be careful not to drink too much of the distro.
Re:It coult be faster ... (Score:3)
Re:Software or Hardware? (Score:1)
A good way to spice up an old PC (Score:1)
"It's theoretically possible... but it wouldn't be a practical use of your computer. "
To me it seems like the perfect choice if you have an old PC with a slow processor.
Anyone know anyting about if this might be good, easy or how to do it and such things?
Re:Software or Hardware? (Score:1)
You want to know what Linus is doing for Transmeta? I can assure you that he isnt re-naming tarballed applications to make them look cute. He's most likely re-writing kernel code to make it run natively on the Cruesoe.
Re:so... screenshots? (Score:1)
It also says that the Touch Pad uses AOL. Does that mean there's an AOL program available for the Linux OS? Maybe AOL now stands for AOL On Linux
Re:Transmeta Motherboards: 55,000Yen (Score:1)
55,000 yen ~= $456.43
Re:The advertising campaign... (Score:1)
I believe all this will change in the next few months due to the regional Open Source labs being sponsored by the computer companies who produce the big iron. These guys are hardware vendors. Not having to put R&D into their own OS makes a lot of sense to them.
Re:Totally OT... (Score:1)
Re:So finally, is this what Linus has been doing ? (Score:1)
They copied the concept from Netscape's pioneering use of Marc Andreesen in the same fashion.
Re:Will he now leave transmeta? (Score:2)
That said, I'd like to see a little more Big Iron development work... but that is (as other folks have pointed out) as much a factor of hardware availability as anything else, I think. We'll see, I s'pose...
Re:Who led the porting effort? (Score:1)
What's MISSING that's in standard Linux? (Score:2)
Midori is best known as... (Score:2)
But why on earth would anyone name a distribution after her?
Re:Midori (Score:1)
Re:Software or Hardware? (Score:2)
Full babe pic here: (Score:2)
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Software or Hardware? (Score:2)
But wait, what business line is Transmeta in? Software or Hardware? Or is this a sign that they are having a hard time with their CPU (hardware) line of business?
I want to know what such a project that takes away valuable resources from the company has to do with their bottom line when it is not aimed directly at their core business line and product.
They better stay focused on their key business line, otherwise they could be history pretty soon.
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Re:Totally OT... (Score:1)
Amusingly enough, her home page [fetishdiva.com] shows an anime picture of her.
I wonder if the good folks at Transmeta... nah, never mind.
-Mark
Another success story for BusyBox too (Score:2)
Re:The advertising campaign... (Score:1)
Re:A good way to spice up an old PC (Score:1)
Re:Midori (Score:1)
So wrong... (Score:1)
2/ Linus certainly isn't much interrested in user-space stuffs. (kernel is like 1% of the distro)
the next james bond movie... (Score:2)
Re:The advertising campaign... (Score:2)
Forks are good when it makes needed functionality that wouldn't be appropriate to put in the mainstream kernel available to those that need it.
Forks are bad when the people forking doesn't try to keep their fork as closely synced with the official kernel, and/or doesn't try to get as much as possible reintegrated back into the official kernel when/if it makes sense.
This is certainly a milestone. (Score:1)
I wonder how this distro will run when sour, hmmm...
Re:Midori (Score:1)
Re:Midori is best known as... (Score:3)
Don't all porn actresses have an infection from their sense of fun?
Re:Midori (Score:2)
Re:so... screenshots? (Score:1)
Re:Will he now leave transmeta? (Score:1)
Re:A good way to spice up an old PC (Score:1)
Re:Midori (Score:1)
Re:Webpads (Score:1)
Midori means green in Japanese (Score:1)
Re:Transmeta Motherboards: 55,000Yen (Score:1)
ttyl
Farrell
Re:It coult be faster ... (Score:1)
Re:Totally OT... (Score:1)
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker with an extensive pr0n archive
Totally OT... (Score:3)
Am I sharing too much?
FP?
OK,
- B
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It coult be faster ... (Score:1)
That would be a lot faster, and a lot geekier =)
Oh wow, it has an anime logo ... (Score:1)
http://midori.transmeta.com/midori_logo_face.jpg [transmeta.com]
Midori (Score:4)
Just my ni-en.
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Webpads (Score:2)
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FillIn: Network Upgrader (Score:1)
They're going to fork Linux!!! (Score:2)
The advertising campaign... (Score:4)
Re:It coult be faster ... (Score:2)
You can't make a native Cruseo Linux the Cruseo does
code morphing for the x86 you defeat the Cruseo design
by attempting to make a native OS I don't undestand the details
but it just don't work that way
Re:The advertising campaign... (Score:1)
- - - - -
Re: (Score:2)
Re:Webpads (Score:1)
Now you TOO can have banner ads streamed to you...even in the bathroom!
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker who turns his computer off every now and again.
url.. (Score:2)
Caino
Don't touch my .sig there!
Re:Webpads (Score:2)
Re:Midori (Score:1)
linux and such are already doing a lot in the economical and political aspects of our societies.
why stopping there?
i easily imagine myself choosing a computer and its os if it respects environment also.
noise also matters. and eyes friendly screens.
I want a nature, society and to-myself friendly computers.
Transmeta Motherboards: 55,000Yen (Score:5)
In Japanese, but has pictures [impress.co.jp]
Manufacturers page, with english specs [ibase-i.com.tw]
Now what is 55,000 Yen in decent currencies? Is it around $500? This board also has two Intel network chips, which would cost about $200 for a dual network PCI card. Also has 64MB of memory installed. One PCI slot and one micro-PCI. Two parallel, 2 USB, 2 IDE, 1 floppy and audio. No graphics, you will have to use a PCI card, like a Voodoo5500, if you want graphics.
Re:The advertising campaign... (Score:1)
What's Next? Do-Re-Mi Linux, of course... (Score:2)
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Re:Webpads (Score:1)
Scary, but it's there, and ppl do buy them.
Re:A good way to spice up an old PC (Score:1)
Re:Software or Hardware? (Score:1)
Re:The advertising campaign... (Score:1)
Re:Webpads (Score:1)
More realistic in the short term are devices like the Clio [clio.com], which has a (more realistic) 640x480 screen. But developers could replace the 200Mhz MIPS cpu with a 700Mhz Intel-compatible one, which would probably be not only faster but also have wider software compatiblity (if you go the Windows route).
Midori Linux??? (Score:2)
Er, Linus isn't even listed as a developer... (Score:3)
I'm sure he had input, but I guess he's not the only programmer at Transmeta. Maybe he finds the low-level x86 translation code more interesting, who knows?
Jon Acheson
Re:I like this... (Score:1)
I like this... (Score:3)
However, if Dell, for example, were to do a distribution for Dell computers, they would only include support for the chipsets that they were currently shipping. There would be no need to include code that would make sure that there wasn't a SuperCollosalXX00 Video Controller installed before checking for a VIA 200KX Romtroller (just to make up a bogus example).
People keep saying that 'Linux' can't do everything, but then they don't define 'Linux'. KDE/Gnome may not go everywhere, but there is no reason that the kernel can't be used in most computers, be they server, destop or appliance. And with that basic foundation, computing in general is simplified because all the systems will start behaving similarly. Where we need to differeniate is at the DISTRIBUTION level. Red Hat Linux isn't the solution to all problems. Maybe Mandrake is better for your home destop, Red Hat fits the corporate desktop and Suse is best for the server. (No flame wars please. All examples are contrived.) Currently Red Hat, Mandrake, et.al., have tried to be all things to all people, leading to the idea that Linux is complicated. Linux is not ocmplicated and can do everything if the distributers would catch a clue, define a market, and then design their distribution as a solution for that market.
The point is that all distributions should take the parts of what's being developed out there and package them in an appropriate way for the appropriate application. It will still be Linux, it will just be the parts that apply to the problem space.
So here's KUDOs to Transmeta and any other hardware vendor building a problem space specific distribution. May you live long and prosper.
No no no... (Score:1)
Webpads (Score:1)
I am a Visor owner and love it. It's replaced my newspaper or magazine on my morning treks to the restroom thanks to Avantgo. As soon as someone develops a wireless ethernet Springboard module I will evolve into a super cyber being as I will be able to roam freely and access anything whenever I want.
I was kind of hoping for a nice magazine size "pad" that would allow me to surf, send mail, read news, and everything else internet related without needing to use a keyboard or mouse for input. I remember seeing them when Crusoe first came out. What happened? Is this AOL terminal it? I am depressed.
Re:Transmeta Motherboards: 55,000Yen (Score:1)
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/20010 310/etc_ib750.html [impress.co.jp]
GPL Terms (Score:1)
transmeta webpad (Score:1)
transmeta webpad i saw @ comdex [fica.com]
it did not feel like vapor when i was holding it in my hands =)
test my linux powered robotic camera streaming video chat thingy [vidcard.com]
-mind different...
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Re:The advertising campaign... (Score:5)
Makes me a little skittish, that's all.
-Nev
Re:so... screenshots? (Score:1)
Following the link to Gateway's Touch Pad [gateway.com], it doesn't even say anything about Midori Linux on the thing...Someone do this privately or something?
As for Hitachi's Flora-ie 55mi [hitachi.co.jp]...well, I'm an ignorant American and can't Japanese...but I did notice it's being billed as a "mobile linux" device.
It just doesn't look to portable to me
Caino
Don't touch my .sig there!
Re:Midori (Score:3)
From BusinessWire:
The story [businesswire.com]Midori (Score:1)
Kinda low on the alcohol though. ;>
Just curious (Score:1)
Re:Another success story for BusyBox too (Score:1)
Will he now leave transmeta? (Score:4)
Not Just for Transmeta (Score:2)
Re:Transmeta Motherboards: 55,000Yen (Score:3)
Apparantly "HTTP fGf[ 404" is Japanese for "Slashdotted."
Re:Midori (Score:1)
No (Score:1)
colors!! (Score:1)
Just what I need for... (Score:3)
Re:Transmeta Motherboards: 55,000Yen (Score:1)
Re:Just curious (Score:1)
I don't think Transmeta is trying to become a Linux Distro per se, since that would remove the focus from their hardware manufacturing operations.
IBM uses a version of Linux for their mainframes, but no one accuses THEM of trying to be a Linux Distro.
Linux, as it stands, is the cheapest, most complete, stable, recognizable, cross-platform OS out there. I think it's going to become the IBM AT of the software industry...
"Midori Linux for anime fans" (Score:2)
Who exactly are they marketing this new distro to? Anime fans?.
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Re:The advertising campaign... (Score:1)
Re:Webpads (Score:1)
Yes, it's a WinCe device, but it works for general web browsing. Before ePods tanked in August 2000, we had been testing and running the "Little Fella" for about a year.
The devices are coming, but flat-panel touch screens need to come down in price first before they really hit big. The Ezex machine costs far more to manufacture (Right now) then most folks are willing to pay for the conveninence of a web pad.
Re:Webpads (Score:1)
If only these companies would get off their asses and actually MAKE some of the good stuff...all these demo/prototype units are good for is a good corporate prick waving contest in my mind. They sure aren't doing me any good other than showing me the cool stuff they aren't going to sell me for years to come.