[Technical Comment] dragon core computer

(2006-10-12)

At last, I came out with a dragon core computer, or "China sinomanic dragon core student notebook". At first glance, this is good news. At last, longcore has achieved industrialization. But when you think about it, something is wrong: either a desktop or a notebook, it uses an unknown Chinese Future Alpha operating system. Suspicious.

This means that this "industrialized" Dragon core hardware platform is actually a closed system. In addition to the manufacturer "Sichuan guoxin", no one wants to touch it. More than two decades ago, IBM was defeated by the attempt to close the rules of the PC. After more than 20 years, the Chinese environment is still much happier than the environment IBM was facing at that time. I guess that "Sichuan guoxin" still has a certain viability ability by means of administrative monopoly.

However, I do not like this method.

To have a better future, godson still needs a standard hardware platform and supports general Linux (a dedicated kernel and compiler based on the hardware platform, and the peripheral software is compiled by source code ).

The most critical point here is that the dragon core needs to publish a hardware platform specification. As in the current ia32 (32-bit intel architecture) specification. With such a specification, it makes sense to have a hardware product market based on this specification and maintain a Linux version based on this hardware platform. In addition, to maintain such a version of Linux, as long as it remains open source, it does not violate GPL.

I have discussed this topic in the Gtalk group, and I think this self-closed approach is no different from suicide for Godson.

At the reminder of Ling Hu, I found this article "qianyuan longcore book and the ultimate big secret of the desktop", which describes the future Alpha, it confirmed my "malicious guesses" about them ". Let's look at what they said:

Linux is not customized for the dragon core, nor is it officially compiled for the dragon core, so it is more difficult to provide technical support ......

Linux is not specially customized for any CPU. Since Sichuan guoxin is a hardware platform vendor for Godson, it is their obligation to compile and maintain the Linux version for this platform, what else is "official "? They are "official ". This is an attempt to fool others with ulterior motives.

However, as a desktop operating system, it is complex and difficult to control when applied to popular computer users.

This is also P. What makes the future Alpha simple and easy to use, and now the use of Linux is very simple, for people who have never learned a computer, learning to use Linux is almost the same as learning to use Windows, as Ling Hu said: If he first came into contact with Linux, he would say, "How is windows so difficult to use ......". But what about future Alpha? I don't report any optimistic thoughts. It may seem easier to use, just because it provides too simple functionality.

Maintaining an existing mature operating system is definitely more effective and beneficial than developing a new one. Not to mention developing a lot of Application Software on this operating system. As:

However, some international information tells us that the operating system is only designed by itself, otherwise it still cannot grasp the core of the software system,

It is purely a matter of inciting nationalism.

The facts have been quite clear. They just want to use this closed hardware and software platform to monopolize this market, especially by looking at the positioning of these two machines. Here we have clearly revealed a piece of information: their foundation is administrative monopoly.

I very much hope that godson will have a unified specification as I previously imagined to lay a good foundation for the industrialization of godson.

Sichuan guoxin certainly won't support this.

If they are in a mature and standardized market, they are definitely not competitive, because it is too costly to develop a new operating system. In that case, they can only choose to support existing operating systems and compete fairly under an open software and hardware platform. In this way, they will lose their monopoly benefits and will be able to use the open-source Linux kernel version to deliver godson to other hardware manufacturers. This is because the godson chip is not produced by Sichuan guoxin, and it is only a hardware manufacturer, now it's just "An intentational agreement with Beijing and Shenzhou on the industrialization of godson ". If Sichuan guoxin invested resources to develop a hardware platform and the corresponding open-source Linux version, but the result was a wedding dress for others, they certainly did not do it.

However, they live happily in China, and they have the condition to seek help from the administrative monopoly status. It is none of their business if they are good or bad for the future development of godson.

Of course, it is unlikely that godson will sign an agreement with them. However, this is not important for Sichuan guoxin. as long as their systems are closed and there is no unified Hardware Platform specification, even if other vendors want to do this, they just need to make another one, it will not affect Sichuan guoxin.

People who want to make a fortune and have conditions in China can always find a solution.

BTW: added a gossip "group chart: internal structural exposure of the dragon Core 2 desktop", which seems to be an acquaintance in this report. ^ O ^

10.19 add another paragraph:

The latest csdn report: "Dragon core officially denies fraud and counterattacks against media criticism"-The csdn editor has made another mistake. The two are the same: Dragon core and guoxin.

No matter what the guoxin official saying goes, an unknown and unique operating system is essentially a learning opportunity-even if it provides a lot of software. Historical experience has long proved that learning opportunities are not sustainable.