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Originally posted by Trinux@Jan 9 2005, 02:02 PM
Why do you use the names, Minux and Trinux?
The war affected computers a good deal, and small, but flexible operating systems became extremely important. Both Minux and Trinux play a great deal in the future, as does another operating system. I will not disclose which ramdisk distribution becomes the ?standard?, but one of them does and it used in a tremendous amount of embedded devices and servers--both private industry and government.
Both Minux and Trinux are of course very small distributions of the linux operating system, using kernels designed for the x86 processor series. I find it strange that these in particular would be important in the future. I've used trinux quite a bit, and while its a great toy for causing network havoc, it seems less than ideal for embedded devices since most embedded devices dont use x86 procs.
With minux, it seems to be unmaintained, since the last development work on it took place in 2000. Perhaps you were referring to minix, the inspiration for the linux kernel? While minix itself is long dead, its impact in terms of inspiring linux makes it an important footnote in computer history.
Linus Torvald's annoucement of the creation of linux on Usenet
When considering embedded devices, what about the future role a projects like
uClinux, an alternative linux kernel which is designed for embedded processors, or perhaps the work that the
Metrowerks company has been doing, since both projects have very active participation, and are both currently involved in several upcoming embedded devices, most notably work involving a spinoff from Motorola,
Freescale. I think their Coldfire series has huge potential for the embedded industry.
But, thats just some background info for other board members who are less into this subject. My question for you involves the future of computers: You referred to 'linux and unix' as being future paradigms? First of all, what about Microsoft. I hate them, but I don't expect them to just disapear. What about Apple? I believe Apple to be in perhaps their strongest position in company history. They have dominated the amazingly fast growing music device industry with the iPod. They are sitting on a mountain of cold hard cash, $6 billion. And will soon unviel their cheapest computer ever, a sub $500 machine. I believe this will give them tremendous market advantage, and would personally predict for Macs to finally gain significant desktop share.
And finally, what do you refer to with the term 'unix' that makes it seperate from linux ? HP-UX, Irix, Solaris, SCO (god forbid), the BSD family ?
What about the future of Open Source Software vs Patent law?
Any further insights in the future of computing?
Personally I find future wars and disasters less interesting than future computers. Doom and gloom have always been around in human history, theres no reason to expect the future to be any different except in terms of who precisely the wars and disasters affect. But computers have a lot of potential to truly change the way the entire world operates and communicates. Any stories on what becomes big and why would be very interesting to me.
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