[LUAU] Intel Doubles Down on Linux

[Tim Newsham]

> What makes you think its not Intel-dominated now?    Show of hands, please, 
> how many in the audience here
> run linux on anything other than an x86 processor?

I have a sparc running BSD and solaris (and more off topic, a parisc 
running hpux), does this count?  No, they're not in wide use.. the x86 
boxen plus vmware is so much more useful :)

> Oh phleze.... X must die.

Hear!  Hear!

> Seriously, if linux had managed to carry gnome onto raw hardware, rather than 
> surfing the packets through an "X server", then they might have had 
> something.   Better, if *nix had aligned around something like NeWS, then 
> Windows would seem completely creaky in the GUI department.

Plan 9 got it right.  Provide a generalized system for resource access 
(including devices), allow it to be accessed over the network, and provide 
a device for performing graphics operations. Then its just a matter of 
writing a simple graphics interface and it can magically be used remotely 
(and even recursively) where ever you want it.  All at miniscule sizes (by 
comparison). Here's to good design.

> Any computer architecture that needs "anti-virus" software has failed.

I'm sorry.  I have to take issue with this.  The need for anti-virus 
software doesnt prove anything other than popularity.  There is no 
existing security technology that can prevent virii.  Abstinance is the 
only solution.

> And all of this in the service of writing documents, (typically in some 
> proprietary binary format (Word)), reading email, and surfing the web.

Jim, please don't stifle Bill's ability to innovate.  ;-)

> jim

Tim Newsham
http://www.lava.net/~newsham/