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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob Wells who wrote (1473)	4/22/1999 8:23:00 AM
From: D. K. G.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2615

Transmeta redherring.com Look back on this thread about 2 months ago for more articles. It's a very secretive company. dkg

To: Bob Wells who wrote (1473)	4/22/1999 2:01:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 2615

Transmeta. One rumour is that Transmeta is building a machine or machines that can run by any operating system. The other game is that they are building an OS that can be run on any machine.. ie high speed emulation through libraries that can be adapted to new machines. Embedded technology has been mentioned. If one could install a board in your PC that would run MAC Os's or Unix simultaneously with your WIN2000, that would be a seller. If it were effective speed wise. It might be if the chip or chips took care of native system calls and did not do translation. How would it get by copyright? By clean room system calls the same way Phoenix "emulated" the PC with its BIOS. Program calls can be modeled the same way the Japanese Purple code was decoded by the US. Chips in your Rumanian toaster that would accept network system commands to make cinders out of wheat from Linux system commands is an application that comes to mind. Obviously it is cheaper to run a toaster on rubber boots and control it from a 2000 dollar computer than to laboriously stand over the flip lid kind with an olafactory oxidation detector. Time is money. Got Applixware 4.4.1 from Su.S.e installed and it looks slick. Better than Corel WP8 offering from Corel (clunky). Corel has all sorts of printer drivers but no LQ-2550 which drives the Canon Bubble jet family well according to Canon. The manual in Applix leaves much to be desired. Gloss-over style. Corel would drive my sick laser from hell very poorly (Windows did a much better job) in emulation but would not drive my BJC-4000. (Not even a bjc-600 driver which GS has! BTW Canon says BJC-600 or 800 is not a good driver for the 4000. They say do Epson LQ-2550) Applix leaves it to Ghostscript! And you have a difficult configure with some filtering utility to handle. Manual leaves you scratching as to how to install Applix from the SUSE box for Slackware. Translation from German no doubt. Well at least its point and click. rpm2cpio worked in slackware but setting up Applix permissions after is not a task that they explain well at all. A lot assumed by the SUSE manual. All in all we are still in ghostsript hell in hardcopy output. Perhaps Post Script is a better output format but so what? Net cost to get a printer working correctly in Linux with good WP software? a: S.u.S.e. Applix $100.00 CDN b. Ghostscript Commercial for your actual printer (hope) $150.00 CDN c. Unix manual to install the mess. $ 80.00 CDN d. 8 hours of your time shopping for new printer or manual and/or ten days to get commercial Ghostscript plus hair tearing install time: aggravation factor in dollars --> $250.00 CDN Total BS ---> $580.00 Learning curve is either very steep, (its hairy and you learn lots in a short time) or flat (you don't learn much but how high your blood pressure can go trying to get things done.) Linux is a work in progress. I would shell out certain large sums to get it working right given what I know now after 3 years of screwing around with it. But what do you buy software wise with the hardware you got? I would say S.U.S.E is a good step forward. They are getting closer. They need to write 5 times the manual, and 400 megs of officeware that runs like Applix with it limitations is rather large programming. I would recommend at least 2 giges of disk to run S.U.S.E office to have room to spare in a full Linux install. EC<:-}