Here is an alternate version of this video, which one reader had a problem with. "I had some problems playing the Multiseat Ubuntu ogg you posted," he wrote. "Debian Lenny plays a second and barfs. I downloaded and transcoded the unfriendly flash video with "ffmpeg2theora -v6" Nothing made the audio work but the video attached shows the system booting up." That's this video (Ogg).
your_friend
2010-01-09 18:29:28
The Linux Terminal Server project has been doing this for years but I like this video of accelerated systems booting up. It is a shame they used Nvidia's non free video drivers to do this. Someone should make an Xorg splash screen to advertise free software video acceleration for people who want to show it off.
We have three strategies in the consumer space. One is multi screens so moving off of just being a PC player and moving across multiple digital screens. ... with things like multi-touch for Windows 7 or Natal, which is a project we have been working on just to use human movement to play games and things like that.
It is difficult to tell what this actually means, but non free software policies are intentionally wasteful and environmentally harmful. For the last 10 years, Microsoft and Apple have stubbornly refused to give people virtual screens. The solutions they are finally delivering are slow and cumbersome compared to interfaces that have been available from free software all along. It is sometimes nice to have more than one monitor for a computer, but it's an environmentally disastrous thing to essentially double the demand for monitors by making computer systems with the limits Windows has. More economically and environmentally harmful is the electricity demands and hardware churn that non free software inflicts on users. Many people are discovering that a 400 MHz, 5 watt smart phone takes care of most of their computing needs. If it were not for Wintel and Apple collusion, a free market would have had delivered power efficient computing with free software a decade ago.
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Roy Schestowitz
2010-01-09 18:56:21
your_friend
2010-01-09 18:29:28
It should be noted that Microsoft brags about going in the opposite direction. They have long wanted all users to buy many monitors for themselves. At CES, they confirmed "multiscreen" as one of three major "strategies" for the company:
It is difficult to tell what this actually means, but non free software policies are intentionally wasteful and environmentally harmful. For the last 10 years, Microsoft and Apple have stubbornly refused to give people virtual screens. The solutions they are finally delivering are slow and cumbersome compared to interfaces that have been available from free software all along. It is sometimes nice to have more than one monitor for a computer, but it's an environmentally disastrous thing to essentially double the demand for monitors by making computer systems with the limits Windows has. More economically and environmentally harmful is the electricity demands and hardware churn that non free software inflicts on users. Many people are discovering that a 400 MHz, 5 watt smart phone takes care of most of their computing needs. If it were not for Wintel and Apple collusion, a free market would have had delivered power efficient computing with free software a decade ago.