“*ERROR* pipe is still busy with an old pageflip”
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro
I’ve been hitting an occasional display freeze that matches this
description <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7675146.html>. Looks
like a known problem with the 3.16 kernel. I thought things had got
better with a system update I did 11 days ago, but this afternoon the
freeze recurred.
Unlike the previous times, killing all my user processes succeeded in
unfreezing the display, so I was able to log in again without rebooting.
5 years
New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches
by Peter Reutemann
'Coming in at the same $35 price-point that has come to be expected
from the Raspberry Pi, it looks like the new Model 2 will be packing a
quad-core ARM processor with a GB of RAM. From the article: "The
Raspberry Pi Foundation is likely to provoke a global geekgasm today
with the surprise release of the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B: a
turbocharged version of the B+ boasting a new Broadcom BCM2836 900MHz
quad-core system-on-chip with 1GB of RAM – all of which will drive
performance "at least 6x" that of the B+."'
-- source: http://build.slashdot.org/story/15/02/02/0134211
And also in the news:
"Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2
Microsoft is expanding their Windows Developer Program for Internet of
Things by delivering a version of Windows 10 that runs on the
Raspberry Pi 2. This release of Windows 10 will be free for the maker
community through the Windows Developer Program for IoT. With an
official partnership with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Microsoft is
bringing development tools, services and ecosystem to the Raspberry Pi
community. More details will be shared in the coming months. You can
already join the program and be amongst the first to receive product
information and beta software releases."
-- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/02/02/1326225
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
5 years, 1 month
Android-x86 -- the story continues
by Ian Young
Who knew? Android doesn't play nicely with a 2nd display. However
investigation continues. Some say the internal display should be
turned off, before the outside screen will go. Watch this space.
Meanwhile some may like to read an interview with English as not the
primary language featuring Chih-Wei Huang, main man of Android-x86.
Snip >
Why Android-x86?
Runs on PC(x86).
Original Android runs on ARM.
Android - Teoreticaly could run on every present and future device,
PS4 and Xbox one included (in pure theory).
Is everytime better develop for only one OS (even with some platform
differences), that for bunch of them.
Mac OS or iOS are too closed and fixed on Apple device and its
unlikely to change it.
Linux market is realy fragmented and its development is relatively slow.
Android - is without doubt OS with faster development speed and it counts.
Android is open and free.
Today, when i can buy good living room pc for 200$ i realy dont wan to
pay next 100 bucks to Microsoft for crippled OEM licence, or 200$ for
retail (HW independed licence) .... > How many of users know you think
that tried Android-x86, at least through live distro and how many
installed it into physical computer? Do you have some stats about
usage?
I don't have the stats and I don't really care about that. Just
checked. The 4.4-RC1 release has 584,441 downloads and the 4.3-test
release has 1,365,182 downloads.
> Are you in contact with Google? Do you know why Google isn't
developing Android-x86 for desktops itself? Is affair of Microsoft or
something else? ChromeOS looks like duplicity.
I have no official contact window of Google. But I have many friends
in Google including the android team. I'll also contact Google android
engineers directly for issues clarification or patches submission. I
don't know Google's plan. But as you said, ChromeOS is probably the
right one for its desktop roadmap.
This is a common guess. < stop snipping
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RuthanielVandenNaar/20140612/219170/Curren...
5 years, 3 months
“SSL hijacker” behind Superfish debacle imperils large number of users
by Peter Reutemann
I know, this is not strictly Linux related, but scary nonetheless and
worthy of sharing, IMHO:
"Thursday's revelations that Lenovo PCs ship with adware that
intercepts sensitive HTTPS-protected traffic have focused intense
scrutiny on Superfish, the company that markets the intrusive
software. But lost in the furor is the central role a company called
Komodia plays in needlessly exposing the passwords and other sensitive
data of not just Lenovo customers but also a much larger base of PC
users."
-- source: http://goo.gl/KhA4KT
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
5 years, 3 months
Empire of the Gates
by Ian Young
Better snap back to reality. On Arstechnica I see the following data
as of 11/2014.
OS share worldwide -- Windows allsorts 91.28%, OS X 7.27, all others
[weeps] 1.45.
Windows breakdown XP 13.57%, Vista 2.65, Win 7 56.41, Win 8 6.55, Win 8.1 12.1.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/you-can-offer-people-windows-10-fo...
All hail his Billness. Though the figures for systems other than
desktops must show a different story, and in phone and tablet world
Windows is pretty well a joke apart from some misguided corporate
purchases. (I stand to be corrected on that).
Meanwhile back in the day, I had GEOS installed and it was passable.
Even ran it within OS/2, freaky or what? Speaking of OS/2 last time I
looked there were still some zealots keeping it working after a
fashion.
-quote- Unfortunately, OS/2 had a crucial flaw in its design: a
Synchronous Input Queue (SIQ). What this meant was that all messages
to the GUI window server went through a single tollbooth. If any OS/2
native GUI app ever stopped servicing its window messages, the entire
GUI would get stuck and the system froze. OK, technically the
operating system was still running. Background tasks continued to
execute just fine. You just couldn’t see them or interact with them or
do anything, because the entire GUI was hung. Some enterprising OS/2
fan wrote an application that polled the joystick port and was
supposed to unstick things when the user pressed a button. It rarely
worked.
Ironically, if you never ran native OS/2 applications and just ran DOS
and Windows apps in a VM, the operating system was much more stable.
-quote-
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/half-an-operating-system-the-triu...
And now we return to our normal programme and wonder whether Linux v4
is soon to arrive. 19 million lines in the kernel and counting.
http://linuxgizmos.com/is-linux-heading-toward-the-big-4-0/
5 years, 3 months
