At least the language problems can be solved by using another language that compiles to Java byte code. Scala for example, which should be somewhat better in term of bloat size.
Sailfish is more like a traditional GNU/Linux distribution. The Android compatibility is a useful feature, but the idea is not that most apps should need it. It's very much a continuation of Meego.
Jolla is a very small company and doesn't have the resources to ship to the entire world from day one. I'm sure they will ship to North American customers as soon as they can.
From what I've heard from the X developers themselves is thta the code base is doing a lot of things it wasn't designed for and is in need for some major refactoring and rethinking, to the point where it makes sense to just start over with something completely new.
It can but you really want to use native programs. Android compaitibility will get things started, but it's like running Wine on Linux. It works, but it's not what you want to use unless you have to.
Maybe on Ubuntu, but I don't know of any other distribution that is looking into replacing X with it. Most of them seam to be interested in Wayland instead.
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So what you basically do is interfacing between C++ and C, and then between C and some other language.
That actually sounds really cool. Must take a closer look at .NET now. :-)
At least the language problems can be solved by using another language that compiles to Java byte code. Scala for example, which should be somewhat better in term of bloat size.
Better as long as you don't want to cross it with a different language I suppose.
Absolutely, but only as long as you cross languages that all compile to CIL which is a language in itself.
Then someone will invent a new currency and the cycle repeat itself.
If the machine isn't very old it's often easier to get XP x64 to run well rather than the 32 bit version.
Sailfish is more like a traditional GNU/Linux distribution. The Android compatibility is a useful feature, but the idea is not that most apps should need it. It's very much a continuation of Meego.
Jolla is a very small company and doesn't have the resources to ship to the entire world from day one. I'm sure they will ship to North American customers as soon as they can.
You should. Most BSDs are compatible with x86 and I don't see anything in the spec list that would be a showstopper.
From what I've heard from the X developers themselves is thta the code base is doing a lot of things it wasn't designed for and is in need for some major refactoring and rethinking, to the point where it makes sense to just start over with something completely new.
It can but you really want to use native programs. Android compaitibility will get things started, but it's like running Wine on Linux. It works, but it's not what you want to use unless you have to.
C89 doesn't web scale.
I think you mean Ubuntu, because Debian isn't doing that.
Inconvenient but not a problem in general as long as the version provided in Ubuntu's archive has support for it.
Maybe on Ubuntu, but I don't know of any other distribution that is looking into replacing X with it. Most of them seam to be interested in Wayland instead.
Then you may want to take a look at BeagleBone Black. Costs $10 more but uses a much more modern and powerful chip.
Not almost, you can. The cheapest MacBook costs just $999, so you even get a little over.
Keeping them down does not mean you shouldn't watch out for them. They are still fairly high for most people.
Unless I run my own DNS, which is far easier than running a CA.
At this point, no "good" geek would work for the NSA.
You can actually do quite a lot of good things at the NSA. Research and development of cryptography and cyber attack preventions for example.
"The things that happen here at NSA really have national and world ramifications."
Like making the rest of the world distrust and hate the USA.
They actually do quite a lot of other things as well there, like research into improving cryptography for example.
Of course you can change it but then that will onlyt apply to your distribution of Ubuntu, not upstream Ubuntu.
So if Android is Linux and Linux is just a kernel then Android must be a kernel, right?
Windows on IA-64 has always been running native.