Re: ELF loading

On Aug 28, 3:51 am, "Jim Carlock" <anonym...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is there anything like ActiveX on a Linux system, where the OS recognizes
a data source and can convert from one data source to another transparently?

I believe that ActiveX-style functionality has more to do with tool-
chain implementation than OS features. What the OS provides would be
best described as the 'skeleton' or 'grid-iron' facilities ( which any
serious modern OS contains ) while the developer tools provide the
'meat' which builds on this. No matter what the marketing hype,
Microsoft does not have any 'magic hoola-hoop' to hold over its
competitors.

Type libraries and objects? That's the ONLY thing Windows might have that
is possibly holding Linux back (for instance, can you drag a picture to a pic-
editing program?).

I just tried dragging a desktop icon representing text ( an HLA source
in this instance ) to an open window of OOo's word processor. It
worked! So, I can safely testify that Linux supports "drag-and-drop"
functionality. You really should try it for yourself though:

http://www.knoppix.org/
http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1


All the talk about the KDE and Gnome reminds me of an old Windows
competitive OS... GEOS was the name I think. America Online bought the
company out shortly after I stopped beta testing AOL (and the original AIM)
for DOS. Or was it GeoWorks? Lotus 123 was owned by the Lotus company,
dBase was owned by Ashton-Tate.

Yes, niche marketing! That is a good analogy for describing the
current state of affairs of the Linux distro and application
landscape.

And I owned a 286-12MHz that out-
performed 486DX systems (all because the video card worked as fast as the
cheap Packard Bell 486 computers I compared it against).

Yes, there was a time when one needed to make good sub-system ( video,
HD, RAM, NIC, etc. ) choices to maintain optimum performance
benefits. Not so much the issue anymore as the quality tech trickles
to the low-end. Recently, though, Vista's "Aero Glass" option trys
to make this an issue again so that video vendors might get a boost of
high-margin niche money.


Those were the days of BBS (Tomcat was a common BBS at the time) and the
days of Excalibur, Delphi and CompuServe. Then along came the Internet...


Always a good idea to start with a 'prototype' or two or three before
unleashing the real thing. :)

Perhaps I've gone too much off topic here. :-) It's just that all the talk here
reminded me of GEOS. I think GeoWorks was something to compete with
Microsoft Works (I never used it, but I did notice that America Online used
some GEOS software in the making of some of their software at one point).


Looking at history is a great help for "seeing the big picture" of
things. But it can also lead to a 'myopic' viewpoint since we tend to
only remember 'certain' items and events that involved 'our'
experience. Don't forget to keep up with the "stepping out of the
box" struggle.

Nathan.

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