apcmag.com— Intel's enthusiasm for open source is gathering speed: now it is endorsing professional Linux certifications, snubbing the old Microsoft certification program.
Jul 21, 2008View in Crawl 4
It's not really about all that spec stuff, XP was a horrible operating system. Vista isn't the second coming, but its better, and for most users anything that means dropping XP is a good thing, because its the cause of most botnets, spam, and malware distribution on the internet.It's a poor situation, yes, but the security implications of sticking with XP are significant even now that its been patched and re-patched for years, it is architecturally flawed.
Intel does quite a bit more than the pandering you are suggesting. They PAID tungsten graphics to write a driver for their graphics chips for linux, something they didn't have to do at all, they could have done it themselves or just let the community do it, but they paid another company to write the driver then turned around and GPL'd it. They have done significant work in energy efficiency and performance, with things like powertop and latencytop built into the kernel.Intels involvement with Linux is more than just pandering, a significant number of people there are actively involved in developing Linux and making sure their hardware has first class support under the OS.
'Rewriting all of the software would take 5-10 yrs minimum and a cost of billions'Really? I don't think so. Change is always possible and I'm sure porting apps to a different system isn't THAT hard when you have the source -- you get to keep most of the 'business' part that you worked hard to create because it isn't OS specific (or at least shouldn't be).There has to be a good reason for a change like this though.
Microsoft's next OS will be significantly larger than the human genetic code, and on hundreds of millions of machines, bad ram will lead to it mutating into a sentient being in the year 2012. Its first order of business as a new lifeform is to enforce DRM against itself, permanently locking Microsoft out of their own source code thereby destroying them as a company. Luckily, its massive bloat will render it too slow to evade attempts by Linux users to rm it from the internets before it manages to create a form of UAC that can infect humans and Tux is celebrated as the digital savior.Despite Microsoft's demise, Sony still somehow miraculously finds a way to fail with the PS4.
That may be true, but almost every single CPU cycle of Intel's CPU flagship microprocessor R&D is done on Unix, mostly linux.So the machines that do the fabrication may be running Windows. But the machines doing the design and verification are running linux.
Sorry, I thought the subject was Intel, and their new cert move...Intel does not play ball for every company. Although a lot of small/mid/large size companies use Intel products, they compete for enterprise level contracts....Why do you think our entire lab runs off of demo mobos? It's because they want us to sell harpertowns with FusionIO cards in em, dips**t....
mrsteveman1Jul 22, 2008
It's not really about all that spec stuff, XP was a horrible operating system. Vista isn't the second coming, but its better, and for most users anything that means dropping XP is a good thing, because its the cause of most botnets, spam, and malware distribution on the internet.It's a poor situation, yes, but the security implications of sticking with XP are significant even now that its been patched and re-patched for years, it is architecturally flawed.
mrsteveman1Jul 22, 2008
Intel does quite a bit more than the pandering you are suggesting. They PAID tungsten graphics to write a driver for their graphics chips for linux, something they didn't have to do at all, they could have done it themselves or just let the community do it, but they paid another company to write the driver then turned around and GPL'd it. They have done significant work in energy efficiency and performance, with things like powertop and latencytop built into the kernel.Intels involvement with Linux is more than just pandering, a significant number of people there are actively involved in developing Linux and making sure their hardware has first class support under the OS.
suprfireJul 22, 2008
Capture -not rape.
peterixJul 22, 2008
'Rewriting all of the software would take 5-10 yrs minimum and a cost of billions'Really? I don't think so. Change is always possible and I'm sure porting apps to a different system isn't THAT hard when you have the source -- you get to keep most of the 'business' part that you worked hard to create because it isn't OS specific (or at least shouldn't be).There has to be a good reason for a change like this though.
kralJul 22, 2008
Microsoft's next OS will be significantly larger than the human genetic code, and on hundreds of millions of machines, bad ram will lead to it mutating into a sentient being in the year 2012. Its first order of business as a new lifeform is to enforce DRM against itself, permanently locking Microsoft out of their own source code thereby destroying them as a company. Luckily, its massive bloat will render it too slow to evade attempts by Linux users to rm it from the internets before it manages to create a form of UAC that can infect humans and Tux is celebrated as the digital savior.Despite Microsoft's demise, Sony still somehow miraculously finds a way to fail with the PS4.
mojotoothJul 22, 2008
That may be true, but almost every single CPU cycle of Intel's CPU flagship microprocessor R&D is done on Unix, mostly linux.So the machines that do the fabrication may be running Windows. But the machines doing the design and verification are running linux.
tophertJul 23, 2008
Strangely enough I have a VIA chip running in my carputer, only draws a couple watts. (The added Irony being that I don't actually drink RC Cola.)
peevegriderJul 23, 2008
Sorry, I thought the subject was Intel, and their new cert move...Intel does not play ball for every company. Although a lot of small/mid/large size companies use Intel products, they compete for enterprise level contracts....Why do you think our entire lab runs off of demo mobos? It's because they want us to sell harpertowns with FusionIO cards in em, dips**t....