Comment Re: I appreciate the effort.... (Score 1) 11
With CRT shaders?
The Pi has composite out - plug it into an old CRT TV!
Submission + - Haiku R1/beta1 released (haiku-os.org)
GuerillaRadio writes: "Itâ(TM)s been just about a month less than six years since Haikuâ(TM)s last release in November 2012 â" too long. As a result of such a long gap between releases, there are a lot more changes in this release than in previous ones, and so this document is weightier than it has been in the past. The notes are mostly organized in order of importance and relevance, not chronologically, and due to the sheer number of changes, thousands of smaller improvements simply arenâ(TM)t recognized here.
Please keep in mind that this is beta-quality software, which means it is feature complete but still contains known and unknown bugs. While we are mostly confident in its stability, we cannot provide assurances against data loss."
Please keep in mind that this is beta-quality software, which means it is feature complete but still contains known and unknown bugs. While we are mostly confident in its stability, we cannot provide assurances against data loss."
Submission + - Ubuntu to switch to systemd (markshuttleworth.com)
GuerillaRadio writes: Following the decision for Debian to switch to the systemd init system, Ubuntu founder and SABDFL Mark Shuttleworth has posted a blog entry indicating that Ubuntu will now follow in this decision. "Nevertheless, the decision is for systemd, and given that Ubuntu is quite centrally a member of the Debian family, that’s a decision we support. I will ask members of the Ubuntu community to help to implement this decision efficiently, bringing systemd into both Debian and Ubuntu safely and expeditiously."
Comment Re:Steam Box OS is Linux? (Score 5, Interesting) 224
Shuttleworth recently said the target for Ubuntu was 200 million users in four years and hinted at some upcoming hardware partnerships...
What if the SteamBox's official OS is going to be Ubuntu and Steam is to be heavily integrated into Unity?
What if the SteamBox's official OS is going to be Ubuntu and Steam is to be heavily integrated into Unity?
Submission + - Doctorow: The coming war on general-purpose comput (boingboing.net)
GuerillaRadio writes: Cory Doctorow's keynote at 28C3 was about the upcoming war on general-purpose computing driven by increasingly futile regulation to appease big content. "The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes are the freedom, fortune and privacy of the entire human race. "
Submission + - Ubuntu Linux heads to smartphones, tablets, and sm (zdnet.com)
GuerillaRadio writes: Mark Shuttleworth is to announce that Canonical will be taking Ubuntu Linux to smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, FL starting today. Shuttleworth said, “This is a natural expansion of our idea as Ubuntu as Linux for human beings. As people have moved from desktop to new form factors for computing, it’s important for us to reach out to out community on these platforms. So, we’ll embrace the challenge of how to use Ubuntu on smartphones, tablets and smart-screens.”
Comment Not really a newspaper... (Score 1) 316
I get the New Scientist weekly instead. It contains much more interesting news and articles, and I continue to read bits of it all week which I don't tend to do if I ever buy a Sunday paper.
Comment Works well (Score 1) 82
Just installed Firefox 4.0.1 on Debian Squeeze seconds after reading about this. Seems like a good way to get updated apps on a stable base.
Comment Re:Interesting times (Score 3, Insightful) 121
I think I must be a desktop Luddite, because none of the new developments you mention appeal to me at all, with the possible exception of Wayland.
I'm now running Debian 6 with XFCE after years of running Ubuntu (since it started in fact - I was running Debian Unstable before then and this new Ubuntu was just that with some bugs ironed out and some polish).
Comment Re:BBC for SciFi? (Score 1) 292
The last Brit sci-fi I remember that was any good was Red Dwarf back in the '80s, and that was Channel 4.
Nope, was BBC 2 in fact. Later, Dave.
It's been downhill with science in general at the beeb since Tomorrow's World was canceled...
Comment Re:As always... (Score 4, Insightful) 325
Yeah, because corrupting the ISO process was soooo 1990's... no wait!
Comment Re:Patented Standards (Score 5, Insightful) 204
Unfortunately it's going to be harder for Free software going forward. Try writing an opensource point-of-sale or e-commerce program that can directly process credit cards. You can't without spending around $20,000 for PA-DSS auditing. And I see more of these types of industry barriers to entry popping up.
It won't be harder, it will be impossible - it destroys the mechanism of Free / Open Source software. The way you put it is as if the rise of FOSS is just some kind of unfortunate minority part of the computing world that will be affected, rather than one of the most important, game changing event in the recent history of computing.
Comment Patented Standards (Score 5, Insightful) 204
It seems an obvious requirement now to me that any 'international standards', as H.264 is described in TFA, should not be written by a consortium that have a collection of patents on the only possible implementation of the standard!
I'm not sure how this would be ensured - maybe the same consortium that pool the defensive patent pool for Linux could start a standards body based around this simple idea.
Comment SuperSpeed USB... (Score 5, Funny) 322
...seriously? Will USB 6.0 be super-hyper-megaspeed USB?
Comment Re:Not ready as a gaming platform (Score 2, Insightful) 520
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/entrepreneurs/articles/20100518/0844299463.shtml
"The other interesting tidbit, as many noted, is that despite suggestions from some that the "open source" world are folks who "just want stuff for free," the average amount paid by Linux users ($14.52) was significantly higher than those paid by Mac ($10.18) or Windows ($8.05) users."
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