Re: berlin hosting matters

Hello all,

I have a strong interest in applying the gnu/pub-domain principles to hardware
esp thinclients, largely to help networking the 4.5 billion humans still
ungraced by linux.

I feel that Xwindows might not be the appropriate windowing system for such
isolated client boxes where each and every byte will count for a lot. Hence my
interest in seeing berlin reach the desktop sometime soon.

I have a simple website, http://www.thinman.com, which has some of my ideas but
it is a little lame and I am redesigning most of my efforts because, after a
year, all I have are complaints about corporate dishonesty. I have been in the
mountains for the past two months, so I am somewhat out of the loop, any
insider info would be greatly appreciated.

I just bought the Sega Dreamcast, and all I can say is that it is a real shame
that the best client h/w is relegated to gaming toys (lucky kids).

It is very unlikely that the gaming big 3 will share their cpu chips. Sega
will very likely head in the super reduced risc direction, Sony PlayStation's
EmotionEngine is 3X faster the the PIII 500Mhz, and the Nintendo/IBM Dolphin is
still shrouded in secercy. Ninetendo has made >6 Billon $ on Pokemon, so they
have deep pockets indeed. Amiga ?? :)

Cobolt is using 64bit MIPS chips similar to the last generation of gaming
stations and I wonder if they may give momentum to creating a publicly
available cpu on par with the above three.

The h/w specs and board designs for client devices could be publicly available,
and small contract shops would manufacture the electronics for custom design
houses who in turn would find all the applications. Every where I look I see
some poor trades people getting ripped off by arrogant suppliers, ex. car
engine performace scanners, you name it, the markets are there. In the end the
whole philosophy would be applied to every form of manufacturing design
basically ending monoplism.

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John van Vlaanderen

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