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

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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Re:Is the desktop still gonna suck?

[Barbara, not Barbie]

WINE is a joke - it can't even run Simcity 2000 without crashing.

BTW - even Linus Torvalds says that Android isn't going to run natively under linux until ~2016 - I think I'll trust him more than you.

Until the fud ends, nobody will want to acknowledge that in the long term, OSX and windows are simply not going to last. It's absolutely guaranteed. This doesn't mean that somehow they aren't in full use - just that people like to deny reality. Same line of thought as creationists, politicians, and anyone else anti-science.

The reality is that the window of opportunity that Vista provided was lost. While everyone was going "Ubuntu! Ubuntu! Ubuntu! Nyah nyah nyah!!!" Microsoft pulled up their socks, and are now good enough for the masses. Ubuntu? Shuttleworth has become a joke - every year he makes a new announcement while abandoning another project. Not just Kubuntu - there's the smartphones that were supposed to be on shelves over a year ago, the android execution environment that was promised almost 3 years ago, etc.

The reality is we dropped the ball big time, and don't want to admit it.