The obvious answer is malware. Google has done the same thing with Android, and there was a lot less paranoia - because apparently Google is so much more trustworthy.
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The obvious answer is malware. Google has done the same thing with Android, and there was a lot less paranoia - because apparently Google is so much more trustworthy.
Pretty sure it'll have programming support for both Windows and Linux.
Remember, it's not really a general-purpose CPU - it's a PCIe co-processor card, like a Tesla or a GRAPE-DR or any number of...
That's only relevant if you have a workload that will be meaningfully accelerated by multithreading. That isn't most of them.
This argument again...
What cell phone workload, ever, can you think of that provides three compute-intensive threads? I'm skeptical that any real one - not something vague like "gaming" - does or...
Market capitalization is well-known to be a completely meaningless indicator of company value. Look at the deeper numbers (revenue, net income, equity...)
You sound like a fanatic.
Just to be clear, I wasn't saying that reverse-engineering whatever driver or similar tool you're talking about is unethical. I was referring to the guys talking about RE'ing Windows, which is...
How is that unethical? Nobody is forced to buy a new operating system. It's their choice.
I also fail to see how illegally disassembling someone else's commercial product would possibly be...
I'm quite a fan of Arora.
HP-UX and AIX are both assuredly not free, and they run on custom high-performance RISC hardware (HP Integrity and IBM Power Systems.)
Generally, Linux will be reasonably close to the UNIX systems...
Not close. AXP was just DEC's codename for the Alpha processor. Windows 2000 was written by MS, it was actually a fairly minor revision to NT4. If you go back far enough, NT does have DEC roots, but...
Probably RSX-11 or RSTS/E. I also like old OS's that are still actively developed and in some ways very advanced, namely OpenVMS, z/OS, and z/VSE.
How is that not bashing? Can you tell me the major architectural flaws in the WinNT operating system? It seems like a pretty straightforward and decent RSX-11/VMS derivative to me.
The current FF 3.7 (soon to be rebranded 4.0) nightlies support VP8...
I have a Backflip. It's definitely not one of the greatest phones around, but AT&T's Android lineup just isn't that good. The problems are numerous and frequently very annoying; for one thing, it...
Do not use killall! This is Bad News and rather nonstandard! If you try this on a Unix system, it can result in it killing every process on your computer, so it is generally wise to use "pkill"...
The point of Minix was never to teach people how to use Unix, it was to be a simple Unix-like operating system to teach OS design and development.
Not close.
The owner of Unix is either Novell or SCO, probably Novell. That being said, SCO makes the closest thing to a pure Unix distribution that exists (UnixWare and OpenServer.)
And it's worth reading, if you take the extra time to parse the language. Definitely a great classic of English literature
Mine is just my first and middle names - Kira Alexis - pushed together.
I'm boring like that.
Happy birthday!
Wow, I feel old.
Microsoft doesn't hate UNIX or Linux. If they did, they wouldn't offer a UNIX layer for Windows, or sponsor the Mono project to create interoperability with .NET across platforms. Don't forget that...
If a third party intentionally rewrote all current Linux code and distributed it as "Linux-like" with slight incompatibilities... it would not longer be Linux.