The general applications can be done as a rolling release or whatever the user wants. Separate from the core.
Which is exactly what Chakra Linux is trying to do.
Unfortunatelly, it is a very quirky distro, which not only focus on KDE (which would be great), but actively excludes gtk+ and every gtk-based application (not only Gnome, but also Chromium, Firefox and others), moving them to a bizarre "bundle-system".
"and is now one of *the* big names in smartphone manufacture world-wide"
Y'know, AFTER they became the partner-of-choice for the first batches of Android phones? HTC nowadays mostly pays lip-service to Microsoft, but it is an Android shop now.
The growth is with mobile devices. The leaders among them is Apple with iOS, and Google with Android, both of which come with hardware support for H.264, and no WebM hardware support (future support in... theory, but I can say, count Apple out).
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The standard of writing at "Ars Technica" have declined far more than AMD's relative performance to Intel.
That article was written by Peter Bright -- he is the Ars Technica's John Dvorak. Yeah, the decline of Ars Technica is _that_ bad.
The general applications can be done as a rolling release or whatever the user wants. Separate from the core.
Which is exactly what Chakra Linux is trying to do.
Unfortunatelly, it is a very quirky distro, which not only focus on KDE (which would be great), but actively excludes gtk+ and every gtk-based application (not only Gnome, but also Chromium, Firefox and others), moving them to a bizarre "bundle-system".
"and is now one of *the* big names in smartphone manufacture world-wide" Y'know, AFTER they became the partner-of-choice for the first batches of Android phones? HTC nowadays mostly pays lip-service to Microsoft, but it is an Android shop now.
The Boss? Do you work for Bruce Springsteen?
Also, I don't know why no one here remembers the h264 camera patents fiasco: http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA
The growth is with mobile devices. The leaders among them is Apple with iOS, and Google with Android, both of which come with hardware support for H.264, and no WebM hardware support (future support in... theory, but I can say, count Apple out).
Wrong, Android 2.3 Gingerbread (already avaliable in Nexus S) already supports WebM.