Well, it is a collection of software built around the Linux kernel. They have their own packaging system, periodic releases etc. So it looks like a distro to me. It certainly behaves like one, they glue software and distribute it.
(In fact, one of the things I'm missing in Android the devices is the lack of competence from another distros, because only the android distro is available. Where is my Gnome and my KDE Mobile Edition packed by some distro to replace Android in my phone?)
More importantly, I can't use the web without flash. But AFAIR in all these years I have only visited one page which needs silverlight. Oh, wait, make that two - the Microsoft download center also asks you to install that thing.
MS is onboard - they just won't ship it by default. But you will able to install a plugin for it (something that I think you won't be able to do with other formats)
Btrfs might catch up eventually, but for now it's a loss.
It's working quite nice here in my desktop. I miss the extra RAID modes (which have been available as patches for ages but for some reason haven't been merged), the ability to reconfigure chunks on fly, the possibility of setting different compression/size limits to each volume, the rewrite-corrupted-blocks feature and the fix for the hard link limit with backrefs enabled, but since I don't need them for everyday usage I can live without them.
I think this is a proof of how dangerous is to bet your future in platforms controlled by companies like Oracle or Microsoft. I don't care if mono it's a bit safer to use, it's still dangerous if it's in the hands of a company that can change its opinion depending of what Wall Street does. I think opensource should avoid platforms "owned" by companies in some way and bet into open plataforms like python. Python could be sued for patents, but python itself will never sue anyone.
For decades, Portugal didn't embark in projects of any kind, that's why it's the poorest country of western europe. It won't harm them to bet their future in technology,
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Linux sound works perfectly for me now that Pulseaudio is stabilized. And it is great, I no longer use the system volume like I did in the past, I have a pulseaudio plasmoid which shows a volume bar for every app streaming audio and I tweak the bars as I like. I still see many people who like to bash Pulseaudio, but most of them seem to talk about the Pulseaudio of one or two years ago. In the latest releases of Ubuntu and Fedora I did google for any review that would talk about pulseaudio or any kind of sound problems. It turns out I found several reviews talking about how the new release had fixed the audio problems they had in previous releases, and only one talking about new audio problems. So it seems to me that Linux audio has got fixed and greatly improved with PA, but I don't think the PA haters will admit it.
If you never heard of the thing it's because nobody cared. IIRC Gmail didn't have great marketing, but many people wanted for gmail invitations. After they got one, they continued using it. There were also a lot of people asking for wave invitations at some point, Wave was a HOT topic for a while (which is the best marketing you can have), but after people got an invitation and logged in, they stopped using it. IMO Wave is crap, it makes phpbb look good.
If Microsoft made its own phone all the other phone manufacturers would quit using windows mobile. Yeah, that's a great idea, convert your partners into enemies.
Just because Apple looks "cool" doesn't means that Microsof has to imitate them. In fact Android seems to be able to kill iPhone relevance in the next years. Yet Android is not the product of a company that does software + hardware.
We don't really need wikileaks. In the past it was the contrary situation, governments feared journalism, and journalists could be very powerful. Journalists were able to do things like what wikileaks does today (and journalism was done by for-profit companies). That's how the world got to know about Nixon involvement in Watergate thanks to "Deep Throat". But at some point journalism lost its power.
I'm not sure it's possible to work around the patent in this case. It seems that TrueType fonts (invented by Apple) include some sort of "program" that once it gets interpreted by the font renderized it makes fonts look better, but the TrueType format is not patent-free. The options are to invent a new font format or to use the ttf format and avoid the features that are patented.
Yeah, usability is great. But I'm afraid that normal people love it. Guess why there are a lot of people who would rather buy iPads instead of netbooks with the awesome touchpad input interface?
It seems they are giving vague answers instead of answering the real question. Steve Jobs played videos where you can see clearly how Blackberrys lose signal depending how you hold them. Are the videos true? If they are, how must I hold a Blackberry to avoid losing signal? If they aren't true, why RIM isn't suing Apple? That is the question I want to see answered.
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Well, it is a collection of software built around the Linux kernel. They have their own packaging system, periodic releases etc. So it looks like a distro to me. It certainly behaves like one, they glue software and distribute it.
(In fact, one of the things I'm missing in Android the devices is the lack of competence from another distros, because only the android distro is available. Where is my Gnome and my KDE Mobile Edition packed by some distro to replace Android in my phone?)
More importantly, I can't use the web without flash. But AFAIR in all these years I have only visited one page which needs silverlight. Oh, wait, make that two - the Microsoft download center also asks you to install that thing.
MS is onboard - they just won't ship it by default. But you will able to install a plugin for it (something that I think you won't be able to do with other formats)
Not just extensions, the Firefox UI is written in javascript.
HTML5 isn't just video either.
In other words, they have become a toolkit.
Portability has never been critical to the success of a filesystem.
Btrfs might catch up eventually, but for now it's a loss.
It's working quite nice here in my desktop. I miss the extra RAID modes (which have been available as patches for ages but for some reason haven't been merged), the ability to reconfigure chunks on fly, the possibility of setting different compression/size limits to each volume, the rewrite-corrupted-blocks feature and the fix for the hard link limit with backrefs enabled, but since I don't need them for everyday usage I can live without them.
I think this is a proof of how dangerous is to bet your future in platforms controlled by companies like Oracle or Microsoft. I don't care if mono it's a bit safer to use, it's still dangerous if it's in the hands of a company that can change its opinion depending of what Wall Street does. I think opensource should avoid platforms "owned" by companies in some way and bet into open plataforms like python. Python could be sued for patents, but python itself will never sue anyone.
For decades, Portugal didn't embark in projects of any kind, that's why it's the poorest country of western europe. It won't harm them to bet their future in technology,
Because Akonadi needs a RDBMS to do what it does.
Linux sound works perfectly for me now that Pulseaudio is stabilized. And it is great, I no longer use the system volume like I did in the past, I have a pulseaudio plasmoid which shows a volume bar for every app streaming audio and I tweak the bars as I like. I still see many people who like to bash Pulseaudio, but most of them seem to talk about the Pulseaudio of one or two years ago. In the latest releases of Ubuntu and Fedora I did google for any review that would talk about pulseaudio or any kind of sound problems. It turns out I found several reviews talking about how the new release had fixed the audio problems they had in previous releases, and only one talking about new audio problems. So it seems to me that Linux audio has got fixed and greatly improved with PA, but I don't think the PA haters will admit it.
But it's not illegal. So I'll keep using it.
if google sticks by its loyalty to privacy
Too late.
If you never heard of the thing it's because nobody cared. IIRC Gmail didn't have great marketing, but many people wanted for gmail invitations. After they got one, they continued using it. There were also a lot of people asking for wave invitations at some point, Wave was a HOT topic for a while (which is the best marketing you can have), but after people got an invitation and logged in, they stopped using it. IMO Wave is crap, it makes phpbb look good.
Sun was already doing this with HP, Dell, IBM...
He is one of the main programmers of gnome-shell.
By the way, do you know what language did they use to program gnome-shell? Javascript.
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Kopete is being ported to work on top of Telephaty
If Microsoft made its own phone all the other phone manufacturers would quit using windows mobile. Yeah, that's a great idea, convert your partners into enemies.
Just because Apple looks "cool" doesn't means that Microsof has to imitate them. In fact Android seems to be able to kill iPhone relevance in the next years. Yet Android is not the product of a company that does software + hardware.
We don't really need wikileaks. In the past it was the contrary situation, governments feared journalism, and journalists could be very powerful. Journalists were able to do things like what wikileaks does today (and journalism was done by for-profit companies). That's how the world got to know about Nixon involvement in Watergate thanks to "Deep Throat". But at some point journalism lost its power.
I'm not sure it's possible to work around the patent in this case. It seems that TrueType fonts (invented by Apple) include some sort of "program" that once it gets interpreted by the font renderized it makes fonts look better, but the TrueType format is not patent-free. The options are to invent a new font format or to use the ttf format and avoid the features that are patented.
Configure your setup properly. I can see the videos, and I'm using Fedora...
a company that prioritizes looks and simplicity
Yeah, usability is great. But I'm afraid that normal people love it. Guess why there are a lot of people who would rather buy iPads instead of netbooks with the awesome touchpad input interface?
It seems they are giving vague answers instead of answering the real question. Steve Jobs played videos where you can see clearly how Blackberrys lose signal depending how you hold them. Are the videos true? If they are, how must I hold a Blackberry to avoid losing signal? If they aren't true, why RIM isn't suing Apple? That is the question I want to see answered.
Firefox 4 also puts the JS engine in its own thread.