[Sussex] Distros

[Geoffrey J. Teale]

"Chris Jones" <cmsj at tenshu.net> writes:

> In those circumstances it seems fairly unlikely that you're going to get
> much co-operation from anyone for replacing the DRM bios with your own.
> Are we suggesting that at some point distros are going to offer people a
> chance to reflash their bios? that's quite scary ;)

Well we'll see, we're not alway successful but we try hard :-)

>
>> though BIOS _is_ software these days then you'd have an issue.
>
> The best thing about BIOSes is that most of their work is thrown away by
> the kernel when it re-initialises all hardware ;)

Hmm, the times they are a-changing though.

> I thought classpath still needed a JVM of some kind to run on?
> http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/stories.html#jvm

Short answer, I'm not sure.  I don't do anything with Java if I can
help it.

>> There are many, many non Ximian developers helping out, and Ximian are
>> just as much a part of the community as you or I.
>
> My point was that Mono exists because of money, that is why there is no
> GPL JVM yet.

Fair.

-- 
Geoff Teale
CMed Technology            -   gteale at cmedresearch.com
Free Software Foundation   -   tealeg at member.fsf.org

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