Go here whenever the MS noise gets to be too much, or the advertising interruptions to your day begin to aggravate you too too much.



Running your computer is supposed to be a pleasant thing, not an arm wrestling contest with an over-controlling MS OS  "supplier" ......

Minty green, peaceful and beautiful, that's what can make your day better ......

         

Why is Google working on a new OS that is intended for "FAST processors that utilize non-trivial amounts of memory"?


Intel processors actually haven't gotten much faster at all for years now, but the ARM processors certainly have gotten MUCH FASTER in the meantime.   Apple and Qualcomm have an ongoing competition for processor/graphics speed -- with the octa-core A-72/A-53 Kirin from Haewai and the big Deca cores from Mediatek both moving up mightily on the traditional speed leaders.

ARM has been sold now to a banking consortium out of Japan, so we expect some changes to come from the now Apple-less controlled ARM.    Apple orchestrated things pretty completely, and insisted that ARM hold back their progress so Apple could milk each new ARM design level in turn, yes, that Apple shite that should end now.  

Some of the Consortium members have been demanding better processing speed and much better GRAPHICS GRAPHICS GRAPHICS out of ARM for several years now.    Now they may get just that.

Google sees CHANGE coming, with very fast systems type memory measured in 10's of gigabytes available on all mobile devices.   We see the first wave of this memory shipping right now, and it won't be hyper expensive for very long at all as you have 2-3 sources coming on line right now.

We see both Huawei /Kirin and Mediatek forcing the current generations of ARM right up to the upper edges of its designs and asking for MORE, please !!!!


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Fuchsia is still in its early stages. Google has it up and running on an Acer Switch Alpha 12, a laptop-tablet hybrid, but apparently also wants to get it running on a Raspberry Pi, a much less powerful machine. It also runs on devices powered by ARM chips, the type that powers almost all phones and tablets.


Fuchsia team


Some notable developers are contributing to the project. Among them:

Travis Geiselbrecht, who worked on a failed but influential operating system from the 1990s called BeOS, the iPhone and the OS for the Danger Hiptop operating system, which T-Mobile sold as the original Sidekick.
Brian Swetland, who worked on BeOS, the Hiptop OS and who spent many years toiling on the core parts of Android.
Chris McKillop, a member of the original iPhone team and the original WebOS team who also worked on the QNX operating system used in cars and some BlackBerry devices. He also worked on the Danger Hiptop.
Adam Barth, a longtime member of Google's Chrome team who more recently has been working on a Google tool designed called Flutter to make it easier for programmers to write software that runs on Android and iOS. He also built an operating system of his own called Tau.


This is a team picked for succeeding in past attempts to "redo the whole thing" as that seems to be a part of Fuchsia's bottom to top intentions.

This may be an attempt to ditch the inherent limitations of Java and several other traditional Linux/MS designs such as Flash, which have been tweeked to do multi core processors but still there is a strong need for a clean sheet of paper concerning what is going to be happening pretty soon.    

Google gets that.  Design an OS to run cleanly on what is coming .....   ditch the historical legacy stuff if need be.   Design for a new type of OS that lives naturally in a 100+ gigabyte fast live systems memory space, in other words.   Where graphics speed is the real functioning limitation, not processor or memory access or anything else.  

Design something that by nature is VR ready, in other words .....

ARM will move in concert, using the capabilities exposed by the new OS and new fast memory space to make their processor generations and associated hardware fit the new capabilities better and better.

Intel just finished a week of "save the company" announcements, the big brown vapor siege cannon firing every morning for a week, with one major brown vapor blast per day.

Intel is hurting, their existing lines are partially idle and they have nothing going on in mobile at all --- and this is with more and more industry volume is going in mobile's direction.

IoT out of Intel is a poorly crafted joke, with the Intel "IoT modules" being much bigger than the watches that the tech has to go into.

Today, Intel announced plans to produce 10nm chipsets for LG off their experimental 10nm plant.

If Intel runs true to form in doing foundry work for others, the chipsets will be late (plagued with production problems) and will cost far more than anticipated.   LG will take it in the neck, and will eventually move their orders to someone else (Samsung or TSMC) who can actually make the production chipset runs in a timely fashion.    But the screwing around will cost LG their market niche for that particular generation of phone .... 

Same story as Altera, you remember them don't you?   Sucked down by non-delivery, destroyed, killed, slaughtered by competition actually shipping things that were actually made by other foundries.

What makes anybody think Intel can make a system on a chip for anybody?   They have never done so, not even for themselves ....



Huawei as a two year old start up foundry has made better system on a chip progress than Intel  has done in the past 8 years.

LG, does the term "Rockchip" mean anything to you at all ????   Partnering with Intel is suicide, dude, you know that, right?

Hey, Oldfeller, what do you think?

Microsoft is moving to Windows 10-style cumulative updates for Win7 and Win8.1. No more choice to pick and choose which updates to install.

I assume this means that on my Win7 box, I will no longer be able to skip patches that install phone-home telemetry or that "prepare your computer for later updates" (like Win 10).

I also assume this means that I can't back out a single poorly-behaving patch.

Will this lead to the 3rd-party driver hell found in Windows 10, where 3rd-party drivers are replaced by generic MS drivers that may or may not work with 3rd-party hardware?

I've already decided I'm done with MS and Windows, but I wish they would keep my older Win7 box as it is. Just give me security patches until support is scheduled to go end-of-life. At that point I will be moving to Apple and Linux.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3108407/windows/windows-7-and-8-1-updates-swit...

Done the Adblock Plus and it's good, I just don't get ads. Done the Chrome thing and had password issues, now fixed I hope. So I will have to start learning to use it, might be difficult

Something good about Chrome is that you create a G-Mail account as your Google home base.  Most of us did this a long time ago as a home base was required for your Android Phone as well.

Google will ask if you want all your settings and such preserved on your Google Drive (part of your G-Mail home base).   Tell it yes and it will keep a constant record of your settings, etc. such that if you have a crash or change machines you will get a little pop up saying "Do you want Chrome to restore your settings and your favorites?" when first you log into Chrome on the new machine.   Google can do what it says, click yes and your world simply reappears.   I've done it on new phones and after MS attacks on my gaming partition.

I like this feature a lot, painless recovery .....

   
http://liliputing.com/2016/08/google-ditching-support-chrome-apps-windows-mac...

Google is ditching support for Chrome apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux (but not Chrome OS… yet)

Google gives out a tentative schedule for rolling Chrome into Android ??? then into Fuschia ???  (well, sorta -- mebbe)

You’ve got about a year and a half to find alternatives to the Chrome apps you’re currently using. Google is going to phase things out slowly:

In late 2016 new Chrome apps will only show up in the Chrome Web Store if you’re using Chrome OS.

In the second half of 2017 you won’t see Chrome Apps in the Chrome Web Store at all if you’re using Windows, Mac, or Linux.

Sometime in early 2018, Windows, Mac, and Linux users won’t be able to run Chrome apps at all anymore.

Google is encouraging developers to convert existing Chrome apps into web apps that can be used across platforms.

While Chrome apps will continue to run on Chromebooks indefinitely, I suspect that has more to do with the fact that it doesn’t make a lot of sense to fire up a web app to play a local video or perform other activities that include local data.

But now that Google is bringing Android app support to Chrome OS, I wouldn’t be surprised if the days are also numbered for Chrome Apps on Chrome OS.


Contrast, MS locks you in, twists your arm and shites on you with no prior warning at all.    

Google develops its new software in the open, using FOSS principals, and gives you a year and a half's worth of warning that change is on the way.

I hope they tested them against m/c's