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Linux Of the Future May Be About Which Environment, Not Which Distribution

Posted by timothy on from the mo'-zilla-mo'-zilla dept.

itwbennett writes "In its 2012 roadmap, the Mozilla Foundation highlights plans to create its own soup-to-nuts mobile platform, known as Boot to Gecko. With this move, the Mozilla Foundation 'is finally shaking off its dependence on browser revenues and treading where Google, with ChromeOS; Canonical, with Unity on Ubuntu; and (most recently) the Plasma community's Spark tablet have already started: the creation of standards-based platforms that rely on robust web applications (in varying degrees) more than native-run apps to provide the user experience,' writes blogger Brian Proffitt. 'I very much think that we are heading for a time when Linux flavors will be identified by environments, not distributions.'"

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  1. Re:Is the desktop still gonna suck? by ilguido · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Try again - Simcity2000 (Win9x) works fine under vista in 1920x1200

    Ah, that's why GOG sells the dos version of SimCity2000SE bundled with DosBox. /sarcasm

    but crashes under WINE whenever you try to save anything - which is more than a "small bug."

    The same bug hits Vista/7, however in Wine you can set Windows version to NT3.5 and bypass it.