Any plans to add support for new features of laptops targeting Vista?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Thu Jan 25 14:13:37 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 08:48 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:05:25AM -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
> 
> > This article introduces a bunch of new laptop technologies that
> > Microsoft is supporting in Vista.  According to the article,
> 
> > Is there any hardware specs are out there for these
> > new chunks of hardware?
> > 
> > Here's an article discussing the new gizmos:
> > http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/23/windows_vista_laptops/page3.html
> 
> Sounds kinda cool.  ReadyBoost sounds to me like a wizard for
> using memory cards as swap space.  ReadyDrive sounds like it could
> be self-contained in new hard drives, but I suppose it might need
> some OS support or enablement.  SuperFetch sounds like an actual OS
> component -- something to make their VM more purposely aware of the
> ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive features.
> 
> SideShow sounds cool, but it really does just look to be a built-in
> PDA.  It would be good get some specs to see if we could get Opie
> or somesuch ready for it, and Fedora ready to sync with it "out of
> the box".
> 
> Anyone have more technical information?  I wonder how much the vendors
> are allowed to share with us?

I recommend exercising caution and doing your homework when thinking
about implementing these things.

josh




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list