CNR.com and World Domination
Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 02/23/2007 - 16:28.
The GNU/Linux community is facing a great opportunity that it must take advantage of, the turn of the tide of 64bit computing over an increasingly obsolete 32bit computing. The time is ticking away and if we want our operating system to dominate on the desktop we must act now, even if that means making some compromises.
This is pretty much the premise behind the paper known as World Domination 201, an elaborate analysis of this opportunity, current status of the operating systems market with regards to GNU/Linux and what needs to be done for GNU/Linux to take advantage of the opportunity and come out as a winner.
Its authors, Eric Raymond and Rob Landley are taking the conclusions they posed in this paper quite seriously. The scene is already being set and the plot for world domination has already begun. And as far as they are concerned, this is the only or the best way forward. What I see as signs of the plan being put in motion are the promised release of Linspire's CNR software installation service to other major distributions through CNR.com, Eric Raymonds involvement with the Freespire project, Linspire's recent partnership with Ubuntu and ESR's recent adoption of Ubuntu as his distro of choice.
There were also some talks about the "codex" CD mentioned in the paper, a package of legally obtained easily installable proprietary codecs that were to be sold by Linspire.
So let's go over this situation again.
Everyone knows multicored 32bit faster than consolidated 64bit ?
Digital software is not efficient using 64bit data across. The instructions and address switching do not fill out all the spaces 64bit allow, wasting the extra power of 64bit CPU. Long instructions are a dream demonstrated long ago by 32bit predictive branching using 18/23 stages to accomplish short instructions(part of an instruction, one word) by prediction in the same clock cycle.
Analog data software uses larger numbers and can take advantage of more data bits across such as video processors using 256bit data.
Codecs are DRM(digital rights management). It uses large conversion of analog/digital data compression. Data compression is repeated words or analog rhythm. So, improvement of compression ratio depends on newly discovered repeated words or rhythm. Lacking constant upgrade such as Adobe Flash on the net, your webpage or music will be less than 100% compliant. Any website should inform their users of codec version in use, even tho backward compatibility is maintained.