Our 64 bit sidux Linux systems are AMD quad core based.
This what we
currently
use as of today the 21 of June 2010 Pictures soon of the
installed system, it is still warm to the touch... fresh out of the
oven, so to speak.
Below: Descriptions of some of the Icons on the desktop.
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It is slightly aged by about six months but still helpful descriptions of this computer.
Keep in mind that even though this is a "release" of sidux... The
nature of this particular Linux distribution is based on a rolling release cycle
of an unstable (high evolution and volatile
Still
In
Development)
Debian GNU Linux base. The mindset is change and evolution... sidux is
a boomtown on the frontier of Linux capabilities... It is also the most
advanced version of Linux I have encountered.
Literally this is the opposite of enterprise Linux... the kind of Linux
used in mission critical roles were stability/security is the absolute
path and that is eventually bug-less in nature.
sidux keeps on the move for the adventurous user of computers and
requires a kind of desire to fly with knowledge and experience if one
is to use it as a dependable system. Which it certainly can be.
Current as of today, new sidux 2010-1 fully
functional- Migration from old drive (same computer) done, perfect (use ext4 journaling file system format)
This is todays screen shot... Virtual desktop switching
I have 4 virtual desktop workspaces now and the picture above is a switch in progress.... Its called a cube... Linux is
multitasking by design, from the beginning of time, really hard to
overload.
Time is accurate to the millisecond as it is direct to web all of the time.
Here is a you tube video of what this means.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGY9cwSjZsU&feature=fvw
That brings up a point that I addressed today with an old friend and
for me its was so obvious in my neglect on these pages that I should
stress it just a bit more.
The connection to the Internet is the computer, some would say that the
desktop is dead... No that is somewhat inaccurate, it is the static
desktop that is dying.
The computer on this page is not a static desktop in the old
sense. These pictures are static, not the computer. Nor is
it a thin client. (dumb terminal connected to a powerful server)
Many of the applications are dynamic to the connection with the
web. It is something of a hybrid... The future is leaning to more
dynamic connectivity, that is the trend.
This PC is a somewhat rich in capabilities as a computer with muscles
that is also a client with web based applications with a GUI interface.
Most powerful desktops today have a good connection to the internet in
some way. For some it is a constant connection to Microsoft,
making sure that the user is permitted to do something or a constant
vigil of a virus protection program (both of those qualifies as
internet based dynamics even if totally intrusive and disgusting one
way or another.) That is the dark side as far as I am concerned.
FireFox 4 was fast and easy to download and build:
. Modern Linux, tomorrows computing today.
latest build of GoogleEarth:
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An example of a web based application.
Older picture of its usefulness below:
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What does the text say? I am practicing my Icelandic language skills... which are not very good,
yet.
"This world, full of danger to the spirit of all that is life. Everything is not set in stone. Nor is it fate.
Enlightenment and knowledge is the way, a spiritual self-created goal.
The water in translation is like a mirror in time not yet set, the
future is fluid.
Voyage with me towards a just and humane nature of the will, where
knowledge and wisdom drives our future beyond evil and ignorance .."
Which came first the English or the Icelandic. Neither, it was
simultaneous as I worked with an on line translator and a dictionary, I
created the text in Icelandic and observed the English, change a comma
and many words in English will change as the words in Icelandic change,
Many words in modern English just don't exist. It is a spirit
filled language of emotions and inflected meanings in how it is spoken.
I am trying to get a deeper understanding with a complex language were
even a slight misspelling of the exact word intended will produce a
cascade of different words before and after the misspelled error.
35 ways to say green and none to spell
please as it does not exist as such. it is in how one says something.
A very precise inflected language with all of its
grammar fully intact from over a thousand years ago. My
translation to and from English is not very good but until I understand
the language better with a ton of practice it is going to be a little
rough.
Icelandic (
Íslenska) still
lives very well in one of the most linguistically astute cultures in
the world. A small country of 300,000 descendent's of Vikings and
Celts are the keenest readers and writers as a population on Earth.
Modern Icelandic will if necessary adopt loan
words... but there is also an organization to generate native words
relevant to their culture that tries to minimize the disintegration of
native Icelandic as much as possible.
And on the other hand there is English... The most powerful language in
existence, unlike "pure" Icelandic there is an attribute to English
that gives it the world....
Ah... you are asking yourself, what does this have to do with Linux?
Its freedom, not free beer but capital letter Freedom... you see
what I wrote above... a little original thing was a combined statement
in two free languages, no royalties, no fees to use the words which are
there for all to see and explore, to combine and express, to create
something new with common tools of language. Oh My... its Open
Source! If I wanted to, I could copyright it... or not... would
not make any difference to anyone who wanted to write something else as
the words are free to use... thats the point. what I did with
them is copyright able... but not the words themselves alone and apart
from the quoted element that made a phrase or story or a book.
Lets try something a little more blunt. I am using language, lets try English as an example of open source code.
Something I wrote some years ago as a way to show how powerful an Open Source idea is.
It has nothing to do with computers but the general model is the same.
a collection of people need a tool to communicate, something a
little more useful than clubs and stones and a tad bit more polite than
swords.
No One entity owns it. Those who use it find it growing and changing the more it is used.
It is also available just for the trouble to learn it. If you are reading this, then you are already there...
It makes thought as we know it possible.
Language... lets try English, almost any will do.. but this one like Linux, comes in many flavors.
What is this Idea... I think that I can safely call it open community design by collaborative effort for a common goal.
English is a pretty good example of what happens with an open
source model. (Open source is not a free for all developmentally, it is
a meritocracy, this is just to express the idea of growth by common
cause.) The English language is a common wealth concept, always was...
it just developed over a thousand years of progressive change to be the
worlds most communicative and dominant spoken language with no absolute
owner... It dominates because it works and changes with the
culture that speaks it. Not just the English or American culture but
any culture that uses it, anywhere in the world.
Is English owned? No.
Is English developed in a closed and secret environment with proprietary tools? No.
Is English controlled by powers from on high that dictate a license to use it, or is it demanding of fees to use? No.
Is English perfected? It is in perpetual development... by its users.
Do the people who use English self improve the existence of English by constantly improving the manor of its use? Yes.
Why? English is used for communication between people in multiple
modes of use, such as verbal, written and it can be transmitted
electronically, Optically and by other means.
Can you make money speaking English? Yes.
Do you have to make money to speak English? No.
Is it a secret to know what the words are and what they mean? No.
Is it a secret to develop new words for English? No
Is English breakable... I mean to say, Is it dependable and reliable for its intended purpose? Yes.
Why? It is Open Source in order for it to be usefully developed
by those who would like to use it... It is free to use as you wish to
use it.
Why? Because it makes universal communication possible.
It is not breakable? ... Not as long as the source code remains
open to all to see and keep a community check on it in the light of
day, so to speak.
The analog in Computing terms is Open Source
and its largest collective project is this social phenomenon called
Linux
Linux is an Idea made manifest into a way of doing something tangible and in the light of day.
If you think a commonwealth notion is not useful
thing in a capitalist world, think again. Are the roadways of
America unimportant to its existence?
Are public schools without any value to society?
The powerhouse of Linux is twofold and it is changing the world for the better (hopefully)
1. The usefulness of Linux is reactive to the
needs of the culture that develops it towards perfection if possible.
Yes that is the goal.
2. The GPL that is its license in law is
specifically designed to keep it incorruptible by any agency,
corporation, company or individual.
The net effect is overwhelming desire to keep building it better on a global basis.
Here is the bombshell fact in the reality of computing right here right now.
Linux, the kernel alone... Just the Kernel of Linux
is the largest, fastest moving single project in the history of
computing.
There are over 700 companies involved and thousands
of individuals employed (about 78% paid) or gifting their effort,
making contributions to this juggernaut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw
What is just one indicator of this fact in the world...
From the BBC: Top 500 Supercomputers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10187248.stm fun to check it out.
. Pretty good statement about what works better than anything else.
Specific machines are all listed planet wide, countries, operating system, its very cool...
Ok so with my hammer of obvious truth, I put the question to you dear
reader... People and entire countries around the world with
bright computer geeks can and do pretty much use, whatever they want.
With mega budgets and the will of global power to back their every whim
from making movies to designing thermonuclear weapons, build, with what
they want, what they did and do.
Was it with a viral infested, broken by design operating system
platform with a single minded megalomaniac monopoly company, nobody trusts, ..
Or was it with a system created to be the best of the best ideas in
math and language that nobody owns... because it is too important to
humanity, collectively, have available.
This freedom, this tool of self determination is right in front of
you... its your computer.
Set it free with Linux. Set
yourself free with something you control. your mind.
All that you need to do is learn
that Linux is easy to use because it runs on a common plain PC not just Supercomputers.
Your "PC" Computer is just hardware... The
Operating system on it is not mandated by any law or even rational need
other than it makes it run as a computer.
If you bought it from a store, it was conveniently
sold to you as a functional machine with what most people think that
they want... there is no law that mandates anything specific about what
it runs.
Are you surprised to find this fact out?
Simple and matter of fact truth... most people will never know how to
install any OS... so they buy one that is all ready to use...
Thats fine, just the facts.
Android - Droid, the mobile handset...
This is most likely to be the first Linux most people in the general
public will actually touch directly with their hands as an operating
system... Many Automobiles use Linux as the engine management and dash
gauges but that is indirect use... also as it is primary as a server
many people go through Linux without seeing it on the internet...
Google is Linux. I think this may begin to be seen as what
it is... Linux is replacing Unix and going were Unix never could.
It has been this way for some years but outside of some
IBM ads on TV (
and more) many people still are just unaware of it... frankly that is most likely the way it should be.
Intel’s creation of the Moblin OS...
Moblin is a Linux-based operating system
designed from the ground up to run on Netbooks.
MeeGo is Linux -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo
Linux is beginning an everywhere now migration to the betterment of communications and computing in general...
The PC itself is the smallest effect and it is massive
http://distrowatch.com/
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"Any technological culture that invests its future
in irresponsibly developed technology... will experience the effects of
irresponsible technology".
M. Crock
I wrote that about 30 years ago and it seemed like a
truism of the obvious, who would do that... Now I look at the
world and it becomes obvious that nobody in power was paying attention.
Follow that road to the end ? ... It does not need to be that way.
plenty
More soon..
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