Why do you need to put apps, or even a WM/DE on the distribution download? Let users chose for themselves.
Debian has it right, create a plain vanilla ISO, and let users decide. Makes much sense than having a separate distro for whatever WM/DE you might want to use.
You can always install LO later, it's a dirt simple install. Sames goes with a lot of other apps. It's easy to install apps, they don't need to be on the distro CD.
You don't have to jailbreak the current Nook. Just install CM7 to an external micro-SD. The original Nook software is untouched.
But, today, you are much better off buying a real android tablet, instead of buying an ebook reader and trying to use that a make-believe andorid tablet.
You can get a real android tablet for under $200. A real android table will have features like GPS and cameras, etc. No sense in fussing with ebook readers anymore.
Today, it's silly to fuss with rooting/hacking an ebook reader to get a sub-standard Android tablet. Just buy an Android tablet, it's better, and cheaper.
Today, it's silly to fuss with rooting/hacking an ebook reader to get a sub-standard Android tablet. Just buy an Android tablet, it's better, and cheaper.
One big difference: the kindle has no micro-sd slot.
I can pull the micro-sd out of my color nook, and it's right back to factory condition. You will never be able to do that with a kindle fire.
But today, for my money, I would get a real Android tablet. Then I can read any ebook format, and I don't have to fuss with rooting and/or hacking. Plus, I get way more features like GPS and cameras.
Real Android tables are cheap. For example the Lenovo Ideapad A1 is only $199 at Amazon. And you can get a Vizio 8" at Costco for $189.
I have a B&N Color Nook. I have set up to boot from CM7 on a micro-SD chip.
In some respects, it is an okay tablet. But the performance, especially for web-browser, is not very good. I suspect the the kindle fire is much better for web browsing.
Also, the B&N Nook Color lacks many features that are common in tablets, such as GPS, or cameras.
Check the specs, and features, of those cheaper tablets, and compare then to the Nook. You will find the Nook is clearly overpriced.
The new Nooks at $300 - $350 are a total joke. Spend a little more and get an iPad.
The idea of the scox-scam was never to win a jury verdict. Nor was the idea to collect fees for Linux (I called twice, and asked to be invoiced, scox refused to do so).
The idea behind the scox-scam was to smear linux, and intimidate some people away from using linux, and to scare some companies away from contributing to linux.
Think about it: why did scox (really Microsoft) sue IBM? Why not redhat? IBM is not even have a linux distribution. The reason is: IBM had just contributed a file system to Linux. And Microsoft wants other companies to know that if they contribute to Linux, they better be ready to spend $100 million defending that decision. I would bet this tactic actually worked.
Follow the money. Who stands to benefit from smearing Linux? Caldera/Scox was a linux company. But scox made a lot more $$ accepting MS loot, than from trying to sell Linux.
Way more bad than good, IMO. Now, Microsoft used their lessons from the scox-scam to file bogus IP lawsuits all over the place. It's practically all MS does anymore. Bogus lawsuits work, they work like all hell.
Because Sun was schizophrenia. Sun loved linux, then sun hated linux, then sun claimed to own linux. At one point McNealy said something like: "of course we are pleased to own the only legal version of linux." Soon afterwards, Novell made the same claim about SuSe. The scammers want to say that only their version of linux is legal because it has been blessed by Microsoft.
Classic extortion: pay us not to sue you, or your customers; then you can say you have the only legal version. MS is still pulling the same scam all over the place.
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Microsoft financed the entire scam. And doesn't it fit the MS MO perfectly? MS is always abusing the legal system to hurt it's competition.
It also fit's the MS MO to pull these legal system scams by proxie. A US federal judge once accused MS of using "Tonya Harding" tactics. At least somebody in the US justice system gets it.
In a recent interview, Linus expresses his opinions on patents and copyrights and made the following remark about SCO and the US justice system
"SCO was a classic example of that. Where they tried to use copyrights, which turned out to be completely bogus in so many ways, and made it into a nasty legal battle. They lost badly. What was irritating about the whole thing, as an insider knowing about what they claimed was completely bogus, was that it took them 10 years to lose. It is scary. 10 years! I don't know how many hundreds and millions of dollars IBM and Novell spent on fighting completely bogus crap stuff; fighting lawsuits that made no sense. Literally it made no sense what so ever. To the point that it ended up turning out that they did not even own the copyrights that they were claiming, never mind the copyrights they were claiming weren't actually true. Christ what a chaos!"
There are decent tablets out there for under $200 - such as the Vizio 8" ($189 at Costco). Or the Lenovo Ideapad A1 ($199 on Amazon, and includes GPS, cameras, and many other features).
With Black Friday coming up, there will probably be even better deals.
With a tablet, you can read any format. Plus use it for games, etc.
Why even mess around with something that can only read one format? You can get an 8" Vizio at Costco for $189. Or you can get a Lenovo IdeaPad A1 with GPS for $199.
Here is my quick-n-dirty review of sub-$300 Android tablets.
Funny that a study like this would come out at the same time as Apple's battery problems were exposed. Finding out who sponsored the study could be significant.
Although MS does not compete by building a better product. Rather MS competes by bribing Mozilla, and forcing that bing-bar, and other such stunts. Does bing still use google's search engine?
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Why do you need to put apps, or even a WM/DE on the distribution download? Let users chose for themselves.
Debian has it right, create a plain vanilla ISO, and let users decide. Makes much sense than having a separate distro for whatever WM/DE you might want to use.
You can always install LO later, it's a dirt simple install. Sames goes with a lot of other apps. It's easy to install apps, they don't need to be on the distro CD.
Me too. But I would not do that today. Real Android tablets are cheaper, and better, than a converted Color Nook.
You don't have to jailbreak the current Nook. Just install CM7 to an external micro-SD. The original Nook software is untouched.
But, today, you are much better off buying a real android tablet, instead of buying an ebook reader and trying to use that a make-believe andorid tablet.
You can get a real android tablet for under $200. A real android table will have features like GPS and cameras, etc. No sense in fussing with ebook readers anymore.
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3500884
As I said in a previous post:
A few years back, an Android tablet for $249 was a BFD.
Today, you can get a real Android tablet, with GPS, and cameras, etc., for under $200.
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3500884
Today, it's silly to fuss with rooting/hacking an ebook reader to get a sub-standard Android tablet. Just buy an Android tablet, it's better, and cheaper.
A few years back, an Android tablet for $249 was a BFD.
Today, you can get a real Android tablet, with GPS, and cameras, etc., for under $200.
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3500884
Today, it's silly to fuss with rooting/hacking an ebook reader to get a sub-standard Android tablet. Just buy an Android tablet, it's better, and cheaper.
Get a real Android tablet. Then you can use ePub, or Kindle, or whatever format. Plus real tablets have features like GPS, and cameras.
Here is a list of sub-$300 Android tablets:
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3500884
One big difference: the kindle has no micro-sd slot.
I can pull the micro-sd out of my color nook, and it's right back to factory condition. You will never be able to do that with a kindle fire.
But today, for my money, I would get a real Android tablet. Then I can read any ebook format, and I don't have to fuss with rooting and/or hacking. Plus, I get way more features like GPS and cameras.
Real Android tables are cheap. For example the Lenovo Ideapad A1 is only $199 at Amazon. And you can get a Vizio 8" at Costco for $189.
I did the same with a $149 refurbished Color Nook that I bought from overstock.
It's okay, but just barely. Performance is sluggish, and web browsing is horrible. I suspect the kindle fire is far superior for web browsing.
Also, the B&N Color Nook lacks features like GPS, and cameras.
I have a B&N Color Nook. I have set up to boot from CM7 on a micro-SD chip.
In some respects, it is an okay tablet. But the performance, especially for web-browser, is not very good. I suspect the the kindle fire is much better for web browsing.
Also, the B&N Nook Color lacks many features that are common in tablets, such as GPS, or cameras.
Check the specs, and features, of those cheaper tablets, and compare then to the Nook. You will find the Nook is clearly overpriced.
The new Nooks at $300 - $350 are a total joke. Spend a little more and get an iPad.
I called scox two times, a few months apart, and asked to be sent an invoice. Scox refused to do so.
The first time I called, scox seemed bewildered that anybody would even call about it.
The idea of the scox-scam was never to win a jury verdict. Nor was the idea to collect fees for Linux (I called twice, and asked to be invoiced, scox refused to do so).
The idea behind the scox-scam was to smear linux, and intimidate some people away from using linux, and to scare some companies away from contributing to linux.
Think about it: why did scox (really Microsoft) sue IBM? Why not redhat? IBM is not even have a linux distribution. The reason is: IBM had just contributed a file system to Linux. And Microsoft wants other companies to know that if they contribute to Linux, they better be ready to spend $100 million defending that decision. I would bet this tactic actually worked.
Follow the money. Who stands to benefit from smearing Linux? Caldera/Scox was a linux company. But scox made a lot more $$ accepting MS loot, than from trying to sell Linux.
Way more bad than good, IMO. Now, Microsoft used their lessons from the scox-scam to file bogus IP lawsuits all over the place. It's practically all MS does anymore. Bogus lawsuits work, they work like all hell.
Because Sun was schizophrenia. Sun loved linux, then sun hated linux, then sun claimed to own linux. At one point McNealy said something like: "of course we are pleased to own the only legal version of linux." Soon afterwards, Novell made the same claim about SuSe. The scammers want to say that only their version of linux is legal because it has been blessed by Microsoft.
Classic extortion: pay us not to sue you, or your customers; then you can say you have the only legal version. MS is still pulling the same scam all over the place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Microsoft financed the entire scam. And doesn't it fit the MS MO perfectly? MS is always abusing the legal system to hurt it's competition.
It also fit's the MS MO to pull these legal system scams by proxie. A US federal judge once accused MS of using "Tonya Harding" tactics. At least somebody in the US justice system gets it.
In a recent interview, Linus expresses his opinions on patents and copyrights and made the following remark about SCO and the US justice system
"SCO was a classic example of that. Where they tried to use copyrights, which turned out to be completely bogus in so many ways, and made it into a nasty legal battle. They lost badly. What was irritating about the whole thing, as an insider knowing about what they claimed was completely bogus, was that it took them 10 years to lose. It is scary. 10 years! I don't know how many hundreds and millions of dollars IBM and Novell spent on fighting completely bogus crap stuff; fighting lawsuits that made no sense. Literally it made no sense what so ever. To the point that it ended up turning out that they did not even own the copyrights that they were claiming, never mind the copyrights they were claiming weren't actually true. Christ what a chaos!"
http://www.muktware.com/news/2866
There are decent tablets out there for under $200 - such as the Vizio 8" ($189 at Costco). Or the Lenovo Ideapad A1 ($199 on Amazon, and includes GPS, cameras, and many other features).
With Black Friday coming up, there will probably be even better deals.
With a tablet, you can read any format. Plus use it for games, etc.
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3500884
Why even mess around with something that can only read one format? You can get an 8" Vizio at Costco for $189. Or you can get a Lenovo IdeaPad A1 with GPS for $199.
Here is my quick-n-dirty review of sub-$300 Android tablets.
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3500884
It's like saying that PC hardware running Linux breaks more often.
Funny that a study like this would come out at the same time as Apple's battery problems were exposed. Finding out who sponsored the study could be significant.
Quite an accusation. Care to back up your claim? I don't suppose you have any evidence or anything?
But doesn't MS use the google search engine? Didn't google prove that?
MS is a shameful example of US capitalism. These days, MS is little more than a patent parasite, same as Apple.
Although MS does not compete by building a better product. Rather MS competes by bribing Mozilla, and forcing that bing-bar, and other such stunts. Does bing still use google's search engine?