Want a Fast Computer 1344

Again, someone is presenting their views on Linux :

The new flashcards from Sony are about the size and weight of a fingernail, and carry half a gigabyte of data. When a friend came over to show pictures I pulled out a firewire cable, connected it to a laptop; and mounted the flashcard as a remote drive. It works by simple pointy-clicky both in Windows and Linux. (See; I wasn't pushing Linux!).

Taking a CD copy was a simple mkisofs and cdroast command set; where the mkisofs pulled directly from the mounted camera. All on a fingernail. The camera was actually so small we had to secure it with a bungee cord.

It would take around 10 minutes to configure it as a RP07+RP06 for KLH10. And, it that isn't enough :

Likewise ARM processors are now powerful and small enough to run KLH at around KL10 speeds; and still fit in a small mobile phone. (250 Mhz, 4x6cm board, less than 5 watts sustained power, 50 mW hibernating.)

Likewise, I take archive copies on 2.5" drives now, and send them away for safe storage.

Frankly, the interesting stuff doesn't happen on the desktop anymore; so the windows-linux debate is a dead end. I don't care if the end consumer sticks with windows. The person apps are elsewhere. It may look to the consumer as if it is all on the desktop, but it is the network stuff that are the person apps; the desktop is just a shallow front end.

Gamers are breaking out into special hardware, so are media (video-audio) people, And server-network folks never placed many bets of the desktop anyway. Process control people have discovered operating systems.

-- mrr