Does the fast computer boot off of a "smart card" like the ones in
digital cmeras?
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
Aloha everyone. This news came from Linuxtoday:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/3/55433/41738
There are a bunch of other similar news articles in my archive, but
most of them are written in Chinese.
One of the most noteworthy part is that the Taiwanese government is
going to immediately train 120,000 Linux users and 9600 Linux experts
("seeds").
I don't think anyone in the US knows the true story behind this (to an
insider) relatively surprising development. ("Surprising", because
politicians, those who have the power to make the needed changes,
don't really think the same ways as we do. Yes, Linux has all the
advantages--especially for Hawaii's schools, but try to sell those
ideas to Cayetano. Will he really care? Or to Joe Blanco, he'll
think you're an idiot.)
This move is indeed very political, and initially had nothing to do
with technology and/or economic reasons whatsoever. In a nutshell,
Chen Shui-Bei, President of Taiwan, is running for his political life
now after his government began a Microsoft-sponsored (yes,
Microsoft-sponsored) crackdown on software piracy, causing huge public
outcries, resentment, and rowdy protests (30,000 in one protest alone)
in Taiwan campuses. Opposition parties have seized this opportunity.
And President Chen got the message.
President Chen was a classmate of mine at National Taiwan University.
He is a very smart guy, and I knew he will not stop at just slowing
down the piracy crack-down (which will show that he had made a
mistake, no politician would admit that). The only way for him to
move out of this totally unexpected deep political trouble is to hitch
onto Linux and move into it.
Taiwan not controls hardware manufacturing, it now also controls
hardware design. With AMD now moving the manufacturing of Athlon XPs
into Taiwan (UMC), (I am sure Warren knows this story better than I
do) they can make and design everything in a PC except harddrive. But
I always consider harddrive a nuisance for desktop PCs. There will be
more exciting developments.
A client of mine showed me a fully blown Linux PC which can be booted
up and ready to work in less than 10 seconds. Can Windows do that?
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