License is not what keeps BSD where it is - it's inertia. Linux himself admitted that had something like FreeBSD or NetBSD existed during the time he was looking for an OS, he may have used that and not developed Linux.
If anything, the license is what's encouraged companies to adapt it in preference to the GPL licensed software. It's the reason companies like Juniper, Sony (w/ Busybox) have gone w/ BSD. It's why Android uses a BSDL licensed userland instead of GNU. It's why the consoles have gone w/ BSD based OSs as well, rather than Linux. Yeah, Linux is still acceptable to companies who can live w/ GPL 2, but the GPL is not what's been driving Linux's acceptance. Rather, it's the mindshare as well as the size of the community that sees to it that Linux is well supported.
I get your point if you were referring to NetBSD, but FreeBSD does have a bit of mindshare, even if dwarfed by Linux. It's the underpinnings of network OSs like Juniper, its NAS is widely used, it's used by pFsense, and its typically the most pioneering of the BSDs. As far as packaging system, PC-BSD/TrueOS has PBI, which takes care of library dependencies - something I'm not aware that.deb or.rpm do.
I do agree that calling Linux legacy is out of place, and that some things, like TrueOS, have stalled since the re-branding. I've tried updating the latest version of TrueOS and have given up - every attempt has choked. (I do plan to buy one more DVD since the update would let me play Steam games). But the comments about the community that you made may be true about just OpenBSD - I've not heard anything about that in the FreeBSD or NetBSD communities
FreeBSD uses jails: is that what NetBSD uses? Also, does NetBSD have a way of supporting Steam?
Also, wonder whether NetBSD borrows any concepts from Minix, such as the reincarnation server, since Minix uses NetBSD userland. Looks like NetBSD can explore microkernel approaches
It would also be nice if NetBSD incorporated Lumina, instead of KDE and others.
There is no 'Russian people' here. In Yeltsin's time, it was privately owned, under Putin, while it's still nominally private, it's executives have to be on good terms w/ Putin to avoid being arm twisted or bullied.
This applies to Android phones, and it would seem the Kitkat and earlier ones. I recently updated my Lollipop tablet w/ an update which allowed me to store and run apps from the SD card - a Marshmallow feature that seems to have been backported. Yeah, for all previous phones or tablets - up to kitkat - it was up to the carrier to provide updates. Same for Windows 8 phones.
Apple was the exception, and both Google and Microsoft realized the damage not having updates ready was doing to their brand. So they pulled in control in Lollipop and beyond, and W10M and beyond.
If it is a smartphone, people have the choice of backing up their data to the respective cloud platform - be it iCloud, Google Drive or OneDrive. That's one of the first things I set on any phone I get. One primary reason for that - on 2G phones, one could either save meaningful data on a phone or limited data on a SIM, and every time we got new phones, it was a pain migrating the numbers. My parents had the habit of entering a person's name and type both in the name field, so that saving on a SIM was easy. Whereas I had the habit of saving on the phone, and populating different fields for one's home number, work number, cell number and so on.
The other thing to that - by backing my entire configuration profile to 'the cloud', the moment I get a new phone b'cos the previous one was lost, or I wanted to upgrade, I just enter my email during setup, and it retrieves everything I had - apps, wallpaper and so on, and I'm good to continue where I left off.
On securing the phone, I would just use PINs previously, but now, I've included my thumbprint since I did enable Apple Pay and some banking apps.
I just go to my nearest Wells Fargo and deposit it at the counter. Most secure that way. I rarely get checks though nowadays - my salary is often directly wired.
Not just Android, in iOS, updating in a lot of cases just meant more of my storage getting eaten - and here, there are no SD slots for me to make that irrelevant. That's what I ran into w/ my iPad mini, which is now stuck on 9.3. I had to delete all the photos from that tablet and put them up on OneDrive, so that I wouldn't miss them. My iPhone probably won't have that issue, having as it does 128GB storage, but my iPad mini is something I'll have to figure out.
Actually, that doesn't apply for certain low end configurations. Just like in PCs, if you happen to have a WinBook w/ 1GB RAM and 16GB storage, you won't be prompted to upgrade to Windows 10 from 8. Similarly, a year ago, I tried updating an old Lumia 520 that I had passed down to somebody else w/ Windows 10, and it wouldn't let it: the configuration of 512MB RAM just wouldn't support it. I currently have a Lumia 550 which comes w/ Windows 10 preinstalled, and where it has 8GB flash drive and 1GB RAM, and it runs just fine. However, that low end thing doesn't.
That said, you are right in that in Windows 10, Microsoft has taken over the updating job. It took for ever for the Lumia Icon for Verizon to get an update from 8 to 8.1, thanks to Verizon. For their W10M phones, Microsoft took over that job. Of course, it's another thing that neither Verizon nor Sprint has any Windows phones. With AT&T and TMo, one at least has the option of buying a SIM and putting it into the phone, and it'll work seamlessly.
Doesn't Marshmallow or at least Nougat have that? Is the internal flash drive something that has to become secondary storage, or can it be programmed to be a non-volatile cache?
I bought a Bluetooth keyboard from Microcenter that has 3 settings that I can use w/ 3 separate OSs - iOS, Android and Windows. You can use something like it whenever you are doing extensive typing on the phone, like say text or email
Fully agree w/ you here. Like I have a number of music videos that I downloaded from YouTube in Windows, and which I copied onto an SD card that I use on my Ellipsis tablet. If that could be read by the iPhone in iOS, I could set up a playlist of music videos on the iPhone and play it in my car, which only recognizes iPod players from the console (anything else must be Bluetooth connected). But if it can't, it's totally worthless.
Actually, that's how the Obama administration may have spied on Trump Towers w/o involving any of the agencies that now report to Trump. They must have realized that had Trump won, all the secrets of their chicanery would have been there at his fingertips, enabling him to toss their sorry asses in jail. So they may have had UK's GSHQ to spy on Trump and report back directly to Obama or the Hilary campaign, keeping US Intel totally out of it so that they'd have credible deniability when Trump tweeted what he did 2 weekends ago about Obama wiretapping him
I have heard about some Chinese company having an iPhone w/ 2 SIM cards, and other great features. Totally illegal in the US, but legal elsewhere. If one can get one of those, and get 2 SIMs from AT&T or T-Mo, then one would be good to go
This contraption would have been more useful for an iPhone 4 or 5, than for a 6 or 7, as it is. The 4 or 5 had limited storage, so there, the SD extension would have made sense. But the 7 comes w/ 32, 128 or 256GB, so it only makes some sense for the 32. Same for the battery or camera. Only thing that might be useful - if the 100 or so songs I downloaded from YouTube can be transferred to the iPhone and played from there using this setup, it would be ideal, bypassing Apple's DRM.
In the days of $350 Nexus devices I wouldn't think about it at all. Now in the days of $650 Pixel devices I might briefly think about it.
You realize there are tons of good sub-$200 phones now, right?
The advantage of Marshmallow or Nougat is that if one has a low end phone that has an SD card slot capable of, say, 128GB, then one can define that as the primary memory, and then pack that phone w/ as many apps, and media as they want. But a lot of those phones or tablets are artificially crippled - not only do they come w/ something as low as 8GB storage, but to make things worse, they only support 32GB of SD, making it painful. As a result, they can only be upgraded as high as Gingerbread or Kitkat
I'm hoping for a team of EE, CS and ME students who want to take something from idea to reality so that they have something on their CV beyond attending required classes. For such projects showing that you can take an idea and build something that works, in a cross discipline team environment, is more important than that thing being useful.
I have an idea that would be more worthwhile. Build a car navigation unit that comes w/o its own maps (for which they right now charge $200 every time the map changes), but w/ all the software hooks to any platform - iOS, Android or even Windows 10. So if an iPhone owner gets into the car, Apple Maps will project itself to the screen, and not just that, the iPad set-up will work so that one can play one's playlists directly, as well as the ability to do FaceTime, normal calls, et al. If it's an Android user, same thing - the screen acts as a Chromecast, and Google Maps is projected there, as well as a few others, like Waze, Play Music, Hangouts, Duo, and other apps that could work w/ those things, such as Yelp! Same for Windows 10: enable Bing Maps there, as well as Groove, and one would be set.
Right now, some cars have stereo systems that are Apple compatible, some have Apple CarPlay, some have Android Auto. With something like this, one could get any smartphone and play it seamlessly with the system. Also, connect it directly via USB, instead of Bluetooth, so that instead of draining the battery, the phones can charge while the person is driving.
There are quite a lot of people that own both an iPhone and an Android device. This would cater to those who would want to use two devices but only carry one cellphone.
That said, yes, It doesn't look very practical. If butt dialing was a problem, this is double the trouble.
I have both, and if I wanted only one phone, I'd have gotten a dual SIM phone. In the past, there were some killer apps on iOS that were not there on Android, such as FaceTime, but that's been levelled both w/ Duo/Hangouts as well as WhatsApp. So there is no reason to get this contraption. I use one phone for work and another for family, and keep them very separate: my kid can play w/ the iPhone, but not the Android, while the other can be used in a BYOD environment, but not the iPhone. Otherwise, DavidinAla is right: get the phone you want.
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Well, it was a while since OpenBSD forked off NetBSD, so it would be interesting to see how much they diverged (aside from security features)
License is not what keeps BSD where it is - it's inertia. Linux himself admitted that had something like FreeBSD or NetBSD existed during the time he was looking for an OS, he may have used that and not developed Linux.
If anything, the license is what's encouraged companies to adapt it in preference to the GPL licensed software. It's the reason companies like Juniper, Sony (w/ Busybox) have gone w/ BSD. It's why Android uses a BSDL licensed userland instead of GNU. It's why the consoles have gone w/ BSD based OSs as well, rather than Linux. Yeah, Linux is still acceptable to companies who can live w/ GPL 2, but the GPL is not what's been driving Linux's acceptance. Rather, it's the mindshare as well as the size of the community that sees to it that Linux is well supported.
I get your point if you were referring to NetBSD, but FreeBSD does have a bit of mindshare, even if dwarfed by Linux. It's the underpinnings of network OSs like Juniper, its NAS is widely used, it's used by pFsense, and its typically the most pioneering of the BSDs. As far as packaging system, PC-BSD/TrueOS has PBI, which takes care of library dependencies - something I'm not aware that .deb or .rpm do.
I do agree that calling Linux legacy is out of place, and that some things, like TrueOS, have stalled since the re-branding. I've tried updating the latest version of TrueOS and have given up - every attempt has choked. (I do plan to buy one more DVD since the update would let me play Steam games). But the comments about the community that you made may be true about just OpenBSD - I've not heard anything about that in the FreeBSD or NetBSD communities
FreeBSD uses jails: is that what NetBSD uses? Also, does NetBSD have a way of supporting Steam?
Also, wonder whether NetBSD borrows any concepts from Minix, such as the reincarnation server, since Minix uses NetBSD userland. Looks like NetBSD can explore microkernel approaches
It would also be nice if NetBSD incorporated Lumina, instead of KDE and others.
There is no 'Russian people' here. In Yeltsin's time, it was privately owned, under Putin, while it's still nominally private, it's executives have to be on good terms w/ Putin to avoid being arm twisted or bullied.
This applies to Android phones, and it would seem the Kitkat and earlier ones. I recently updated my Lollipop tablet w/ an update which allowed me to store and run apps from the SD card - a Marshmallow feature that seems to have been backported. Yeah, for all previous phones or tablets - up to kitkat - it was up to the carrier to provide updates. Same for Windows 8 phones.
Apple was the exception, and both Google and Microsoft realized the damage not having updates ready was doing to their brand. So they pulled in control in Lollipop and beyond, and W10M and beyond.
The multi SIM is, however, useful for people who have a home in one country and extended family in another, and who travel in b/w.
Uh, they already had that during the Soviet era
If it is a smartphone, people have the choice of backing up their data to the respective cloud platform - be it iCloud, Google Drive or OneDrive. That's one of the first things I set on any phone I get. One primary reason for that - on 2G phones, one could either save meaningful data on a phone or limited data on a SIM, and every time we got new phones, it was a pain migrating the numbers. My parents had the habit of entering a person's name and type both in the name field, so that saving on a SIM was easy. Whereas I had the habit of saving on the phone, and populating different fields for one's home number, work number, cell number and so on.
The other thing to that - by backing my entire configuration profile to 'the cloud', the moment I get a new phone b'cos the previous one was lost, or I wanted to upgrade, I just enter my email during setup, and it retrieves everything I had - apps, wallpaper and so on, and I'm good to continue where I left off.
On securing the phone, I would just use PINs previously, but now, I've included my thumbprint since I did enable Apple Pay and some banking apps.
I just go to my nearest Wells Fargo and deposit it at the counter. Most secure that way. I rarely get checks though nowadays - my salary is often directly wired.
Not just Android, in iOS, updating in a lot of cases just meant more of my storage getting eaten - and here, there are no SD slots for me to make that irrelevant. That's what I ran into w/ my iPad mini, which is now stuck on 9.3. I had to delete all the photos from that tablet and put them up on OneDrive, so that I wouldn't miss them. My iPhone probably won't have that issue, having as it does 128GB storage, but my iPad mini is something I'll have to figure out.
Actually, that doesn't apply for certain low end configurations. Just like in PCs, if you happen to have a WinBook w/ 1GB RAM and 16GB storage, you won't be prompted to upgrade to Windows 10 from 8. Similarly, a year ago, I tried updating an old Lumia 520 that I had passed down to somebody else w/ Windows 10, and it wouldn't let it: the configuration of 512MB RAM just wouldn't support it. I currently have a Lumia 550 which comes w/ Windows 10 preinstalled, and where it has 8GB flash drive and 1GB RAM, and it runs just fine. However, that low end thing doesn't.
That said, you are right in that in Windows 10, Microsoft has taken over the updating job. It took for ever for the Lumia Icon for Verizon to get an update from 8 to 8.1, thanks to Verizon. For their W10M phones, Microsoft took over that job. Of course, it's another thing that neither Verizon nor Sprint has any Windows phones. With AT&T and TMo, one at least has the option of buying a SIM and putting it into the phone, and it'll work seamlessly.
Doesn't Marshmallow or at least Nougat have that? Is the internal flash drive something that has to become secondary storage, or can it be programmed to be a non-volatile cache?
The last point is BS, but the 2nd one is plausible - they may have had go-betweens in order to have plausible deniability
Also, correction to my above statement - I should have typed GCHQ rather than GSHQ - forgot the exact initials
No, she originally claimed that she used her personal phone for official work so that she'd only have to carry one device
I bought a Bluetooth keyboard from Microcenter that has 3 settings that I can use w/ 3 separate OSs - iOS, Android and Windows. You can use something like it whenever you are doing extensive typing on the phone, like say text or email
Fully agree w/ you here. Like I have a number of music videos that I downloaded from YouTube in Windows, and which I copied onto an SD card that I use on my Ellipsis tablet. If that could be read by the iPhone in iOS, I could set up a playlist of music videos on the iPhone and play it in my car, which only recognizes iPod players from the console (anything else must be Bluetooth connected). But if it can't, it's totally worthless.
I have all 3. The Android for work, the iPhone for home and the Lumia for when I travel abroad and need something to stick a SIM in
Actually, that's how the Obama administration may have spied on Trump Towers w/o involving any of the agencies that now report to Trump. They must have realized that had Trump won, all the secrets of their chicanery would have been there at his fingertips, enabling him to toss their sorry asses in jail. So they may have had UK's GSHQ to spy on Trump and report back directly to Obama or the Hilary campaign, keeping US Intel totally out of it so that they'd have credible deniability when Trump tweeted what he did 2 weekends ago about Obama wiretapping him
I have heard about some Chinese company having an iPhone w/ 2 SIM cards, and other great features. Totally illegal in the US, but legal elsewhere. If one can get one of those, and get 2 SIMs from AT&T or T-Mo, then one would be good to go
This contraption would have been more useful for an iPhone 4 or 5, than for a 6 or 7, as it is. The 4 or 5 had limited storage, so there, the SD extension would have made sense. But the 7 comes w/ 32, 128 or 256GB, so it only makes some sense for the 32. Same for the battery or camera. Only thing that might be useful - if the 100 or so songs I downloaded from YouTube can be transferred to the iPhone and played from there using this setup, it would be ideal, bypassing Apple's DRM.
In the days of $350 Nexus devices I wouldn't think about it at all. Now in the days of $650 Pixel devices I might briefly think about it.
You realize there are tons of good sub-$200 phones now, right?
The advantage of Marshmallow or Nougat is that if one has a low end phone that has an SD card slot capable of, say, 128GB, then one can define that as the primary memory, and then pack that phone w/ as many apps, and media as they want. But a lot of those phones or tablets are artificially crippled - not only do they come w/ something as low as 8GB storage, but to make things worse, they only support 32GB of SD, making it painful. As a result, they can only be upgraded as high as Gingerbread or Kitkat
I'm hoping for a team of EE, CS and ME students who want to take something from idea to reality so that they have something on their CV beyond attending required classes. For such projects showing that you can take an idea and build something that works, in a cross discipline team environment, is more important than that thing being useful.
I have an idea that would be more worthwhile. Build a car navigation unit that comes w/o its own maps (for which they right now charge $200 every time the map changes), but w/ all the software hooks to any platform - iOS, Android or even Windows 10. So if an iPhone owner gets into the car, Apple Maps will project itself to the screen, and not just that, the iPad set-up will work so that one can play one's playlists directly, as well as the ability to do FaceTime, normal calls, et al. If it's an Android user, same thing - the screen acts as a Chromecast, and Google Maps is projected there, as well as a few others, like Waze, Play Music, Hangouts, Duo, and other apps that could work w/ those things, such as Yelp! Same for Windows 10: enable Bing Maps there, as well as Groove, and one would be set.
Right now, some cars have stereo systems that are Apple compatible, some have Apple CarPlay, some have Android Auto. With something like this, one could get any smartphone and play it seamlessly with the system. Also, connect it directly via USB, instead of Bluetooth, so that instead of draining the battery, the phones can charge while the person is driving.
Not to go off-topic, but she had something like 6 or 7 devices
Eh.
There are quite a lot of people that own both an iPhone and an Android device. This would cater to those who would want to use two devices but only carry one cellphone.
That said, yes, It doesn't look very practical. If butt dialing was a problem, this is double the trouble.
I have both, and if I wanted only one phone, I'd have gotten a dual SIM phone. In the past, there were some killer apps on iOS that were not there on Android, such as FaceTime, but that's been levelled both w/ Duo/Hangouts as well as WhatsApp. So there is no reason to get this contraption. I use one phone for work and another for family, and keep them very separate: my kid can play w/ the iPhone, but not the Android, while the other can be used in a BYOD environment, but not the iPhone. Otherwise, DavidinAla is right: get the phone you want.
A pretty lame thing to add on an iPhone: just get an Android if that's what one wants. Otherwise, the iPhone is good as it is