Re:Is it time for open processors?
by weego on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:23AM
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Interop relies on a single standard as a benchmark and history tells us that people are incapable of being content with a standard that isn't exactly how they imagined it and would rather fragment and live and die on their own hill than play nice.
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> Interop relies on a single standard as a benchmark
Not so! Imagine that each processor is made by their own company (to simplify it) and has its own ISA. Thus, processor A can emulate processors B and C, B can emulate A and C, and C can emulate A and B.
I'm just amazed how we have two clipboards when I use Linux. Like we can't decide something so stupidly simple.
The two different clipboards are fantastic! Select then middle click is one of the things I miss most on Windows, and it's really convenient that that preserves the copy-paste clipboard.
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1172/
I am so glad to hear they are fixing this in wayland and there will be only one clipboard by default going forward.
Re:Is it time for open processors?
by andrew3726 on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:44AM
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Well, that's been fixed with Wayland, right?
How?
You just have one.
I'm running on Wayland at this moment (Gnome 3 on Fedora), and just tested on the terminal. It has two: I can copy something with Ctrl-Shift-C, then select something else, then paste with Ctrl-Shift-V, then paste with middle-click; the selection didn't override what I had copied, and middle-click pasted what was selected.
So you still have two, at least with Gnome 3 on Wayland.