If you are Libre, then whatever you choose in the Office will be OK.
If you are Open, then you have a few choices, usually dealing with the Sun.
In the remaining case you are. you have to sign the EULA first.
We already have not less than four Linux ports to phones/tablets, with Android getting 99.9% of the market.
The rest is somehow shared between WebOS, MeeGo and Boot2Gecko!
The chances that Ubuntu really makes its way to the mobile phone market is the same as the ones for you to get the Higgs Boson in your microwave owen.
As the bad guys are always ahead! It's trivial!
The antivirus company can only react to new virus technologies. So the time to reaction is the actual measurement we need first. Only later we need the accuracy.
Ubuntu will focus on a *few* tablets and the cloud. Tablet are more similar to (smart)phones than to PCs.
First, they have different hardware and, even with the same "model", they can have different variants in order to accommodate different mobile networks (mainly 3G (aka UMTS) vs 4G (LTE) or different SoCs. So I would say Ubuntu won't focus on the whole tablet market.
Second, they have limited resources. Not the CPU, but the "internal" storage. Yes, it can be grow up to 64GB. But the I/O performances are far from spindles and SSDs.
Third, they don't have a keyboard. It's trivial, but keyboards are still important.
But OK. Let's say Ubuntu will focus just on ASUS Nexus 7/10 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7/10. Will the "rich" experience Ubuntu promotes fit into a tablet? Let's say "yes". And then?
What do you use your Ubuntu box for? Email? Browsing? Documents? Development? would you do the same on a tablet? Likely not. Email and web bropwsing needs a fairly high amount of input (unless you just read email and browse only by clicks).
In the end, yes Ubuntu will provide a distribution for tablets. But that will not be the real Ubuntu we all love. It'll be a stripped down version for a limited usage. I would not call the latter "Ubuntu" any more.
And I've not yet put on ther table the issues with installing a modded firmware on a 300/400+ USD tablety. Because Ubuntu for tablets will be seen as a modded (aka aftermarket) firmware by manufacturers, thus no support nor warranty anymore. And even so, you can rely on a rock solid Linux distribution like Cyanogenmod, that's much more mature than any other. No, I don't think Ubuntu will REALLY focus on tablets. It will more likely "officially" focus on tables for marketing purposes.
It depends on what else is going to be put on the table.
A uniform, ubiquitous, documented coding standard can be of great help. But it's still just a help or a tool, not a solution.
You still need to know how to effectively program, you have to get a fairly good knowledge about the underlying system, the environment and, of course, the problem the program is meant to solve. I would say it's just like following a precise order in company bookkeeping. It helps a lot, but you still need to follow the rules and the law.
As far as I have experienced so far, programmers don't use the mouth to speak a program. They type it.
When programmers need to discuss about the bowels of a program, they usually write down a code snippet either in the actual language to be used or in a pseudo-language. Using C or Pascal has been a very common choice, in my past 25+ years of experience.
And about the Indian language, yes, I mean whatever they speak in India.
First spoken language should be English.
Second spoken language can be a choice between Indian and Chinese.
Third spoken language should be C or Pascal.
I need a very simple communication medium that can maximize the chances to work at any time, in any place.
Even when I'm in the data center in the basement. I call it "plain old telephone".
Probably more than what Ubuntu derivatives are giving to Canonical, Amazon to Anroid developement, BLAG to Fedora, or Debian to various sub-projects...
I fear Debian is not getting much money from (commercial) derivatives. I think they use the money in some other way. What would be Ubuntu without Debian? A Gentoo or Fedora or Slackware derivative? Probably yes. With the same issues and my very same question!
I have tried Ubuntu. I found a (show stopper) bug in Ubuntu. I filed it to Ubuntu. It got re-filed upstream. Then nothing happened fro two years.
In the meanwhile I had switched back to my previous distro. Full stop.
You found a bug in Ubuntu and you correctly filed it to Debian. In order to do the same I should have been able to reproduce it on Debian first. But I'm too lazy for that.
And, I'm sorry, here it's just noi due. None else. Slashdot audience is 99.999 American, not even Anglophone.
I understand than relying on someone else hard work saves your company a lot of resources.
But it also brings bugs, disputable choices and uncomfortable legacy into Ubuntu.
Why not cutting that umbilical cord once and forever and start walking on your own legs?
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If you are Libre, then whatever you choose in the Office will be OK.
If you are Open, then you have a few choices, usually dealing with the Sun.
In the remaining case you are. you have to sign the EULA first.
We already have not less than four Linux ports to phones/tablets, with Android getting 99.9% of the market.
The rest is somehow shared between WebOS, MeeGo and Boot2Gecko!
The chances that Ubuntu really makes its way to the mobile phone market is the same as the ones for you to get the Higgs Boson in your microwave owen.
As the bad guys are always ahead! It's trivial!
The antivirus company can only react to new virus technologies. So the time to reaction is the actual measurement we need first. Only later we need the accuracy.
Ubuntu will focus on a *few* tablets and the cloud.
Tablet are more similar to (smart)phones than to PCs.
First, they have different hardware and, even with the same "model", they can have different variants in order to accommodate different mobile networks (mainly 3G (aka UMTS) vs 4G (LTE) or different SoCs.
So I would say Ubuntu won't focus on the whole tablet market.
Second, they have limited resources. Not the CPU, but the "internal" storage. Yes, it can be grow up to 64GB. But the I/O performances are far from spindles and SSDs.
Third, they don't have a keyboard. It's trivial, but keyboards are still important.
But OK. Let's say Ubuntu will focus just on ASUS Nexus 7/10 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7/10.
Will the "rich" experience Ubuntu promotes fit into a tablet?
Let's say "yes". And then?
What do you use your Ubuntu box for? Email? Browsing? Documents? Development?
would you do the same on a tablet? Likely not.
Email and web bropwsing needs a fairly high amount of input (unless you just read email and browse only by clicks).
In the end, yes Ubuntu will provide a distribution for tablets. But that will not be the real Ubuntu we all love. It'll be a stripped down version for a limited usage.
I would not call the latter "Ubuntu" any more.
And I've not yet put on ther table the issues with installing a modded firmware on a 300/400+ USD tablety. Because Ubuntu for tablets will be seen as a modded (aka aftermarket) firmware by manufacturers, thus no support nor warranty anymore.
And even so, you can rely on a rock solid Linux distribution like Cyanogenmod, that's much more mature than any other.
No, I don't think Ubuntu will REALLY focus on tablets. It will more likely "officially" focus on tables for marketing purposes.
It depends on what else is going to be put on the table.
A uniform, ubiquitous, documented coding standard can be of great help.
But it's still just a help or a tool, not a solution.
You still need to know how to effectively program, you have to get a fairly good knowledge about the underlying system, the environment and, of course, the problem the program is meant to solve.
I would say it's just like following a precise order in company bookkeeping.
It helps a lot, but you still need to follow the rules and the law.
They are the Government. They can do it. If they are now allowed, they'll make a law. Period.
As far as I have experienced so far, programmers don't use the mouth to speak a program. They type it.
When programmers need to discuss about the bowels of a program, they usually write down a code snippet either in the actual language to be used or in a pseudo-language. Using C or Pascal has been a very common choice, in my past 25+ years of experience.
And about the Indian language, yes, I mean whatever they speak in India.
First spoken language should be English. Second spoken language can be a choice between Indian and Chinese. Third spoken language should be C or Pascal.
Thanks, now I understand! So the Cheops' Pyramid is 230,400x230,400x138,800 mm! Correct?
20 cm thick?
They won't return it!
For a simple question: why should they?
I need a very simple communication medium that can maximize the chances to work at any time, in any place.
Even when I'm in the data center in the basement.
I call it "plain old telephone".
I woyuld recommend MMIX (thanks Knuth) with a GPU alongside.
So I won't ever understand the fun with the GPS in a moving vehicle. Sorry.
I'm not against that. Just surprised! ...
Of course I bet those devices are banned from math exams and the likes
I'm not arguing anything. Just asking. To know.
There is still people using desk calculator!
Quoque, Marcelle, tu!
Are you insane? Slashdot is not Angloamerican, it's just American.
Well, it used to!
Probably more than what Ubuntu derivatives are giving to Canonical, Amazon to Anroid developement, BLAG to Fedora, or Debian to various sub-projects...
I fear Debian is not getting much money from (commercial) derivatives. I think they use the money in some other way.
What would be Ubuntu without Debian? A Gentoo or Fedora or Slackware derivative?
Probably yes. With the same issues and my very same question!
I have tried Ubuntu. I found a (show stopper) bug in Ubuntu. I filed it to Ubuntu. It got re-filed upstream. Then nothing happened fro two years.
In the meanwhile I had switched back to my previous distro. Full stop.
You found a bug in Ubuntu and you correctly filed it to Debian. In order to do the same I should have been able to reproduce it on Debian first. But I'm too lazy for that.
And, I'm sorry, here it's just noi due. None else. Slashdot audience is 99.999 American, not even Anglophone.
Mr. Shuttleworth, do you know someone that can hunt down parent poster and shred his geek card into tiny pieces?
Perché mai? Hai mai riportato un bug per Ubuntu?
Prooova!
Gundam is not an exoskeleton!
When they'll slice also the prices of printed books.
How much money you devolved to Debian organisation in the past three years?
I understand than relying on someone else hard work saves your company a lot of resources. But it also brings bugs, disputable choices and uncomfortable legacy into Ubuntu. Why not cutting that umbilical cord once and forever and start walking on your own legs?