Yeah, I wish it was the only focus of the Linux community. Too bad, Mint team has few resources and periodically suffers from many regressions coming from upstream often with no possibility of full recovery.
Yeah, overpopulation is a real problem, it creates more problems than solving. But we are getting closer and closer to creating humans with improved genome. More and more new babies will have enhanced intelligence, immunity to many diseases, long live, etc. Such thing already done in China.
As if Mozilla (and others which usually make browsers based on Chromium) is much better. I remember I couldn't paste a quite large piece of JS code in Firefox dev console since Mozilla thinks that it's very insecure to execute something from an unknown source. Actually it's uncommon for an average clueless user to open browser dev tools, paste and execute a JS code. This is just an example of ruining the developers' experience. And many similar things are can be said for user experience. Others aren't significantly better, they're doing almost the same things.
Chromium is "evil" by default. There is no reason for Google to maintain code that they don't need. Edge will be based on Chromium and won't have the flag for that reason. But I wonder if extensions, such as Ublock, will be still able to block pings even with the removed flag since Ublock blocks the pings even when the flag is enabled. Also ping attributes in DOM are trivial to detect and remove, unlike obfuscated JS codes.
Can't this be fixed with extensions? Currently Ublock doesn't let the browser to ping even though the feature is enabled. Also ping attribute is trivial to detect and remove compared to obfuscated JS code.
I think this has more to do with Google's flagship Chromebooks rather than with Chrome OS. Chromebooks are quite popular in the US, especially in the education market, they're very simple and idiot-proof. Android isn't really suitable for laptop-like devices. So I don't see any reasons for Google to kill Chrome OS.
I guess the point is to just notify the specified website that a certain link was opened, that's it. It's much more complicated and costly to do this with Javascript because browsers block a XMLHttpRequest to other domains (cross origin policy). With just JS it can be done, for example, by creating an iframe of the advertiser website and sending a message to it, or send a request to the same domain and then that domain server will send the message to the advertiser. More complicated and also less acceptable.
If we consider Chrome OS as a Linux distribution then it seems to be happening, especially with the recent improvements: better file management, android/Linux app support. As for GNU/Linux, it hasn't any serious commercial support on desktops, it's primarily volunteer driven with so many different projects trying to do the same thing. People want something that is supported and meets their requirements.
This would rather be good news from some point of view.
As for data corruption, some changes might be made to libraries, file manager and kernel FS subsystem in order to wait for the complete data flush to the removable device.
Strangely Chrome OS has gained more desktop features such as Android/Linux (in beta) app support and a better file manager recently. A plenty of Chrome extensions run locally. Also is the internet speed and server computing power enough to serve to billions of people?
The last pinnacle of desktop Linux was Ubuntu 10.04. That's it, every distro released after it is a mess. Canonical was the last company that invested so much resources for desktop Linux, now they run out of money and their enthusiasm is waning. There is no money with FOSS on the desktop, so they're investing more money for servers and enterprise but unfortunately they're not big players there either. Yet it's still the most desktop Linux devoted company but not doing right (for example the switch to Unity and now Gnome 3, the insane 6 month release cycle). And do you seriously expect a small team (Mint) to fix all the shit coming from upstream and Canonical? Desktop GNU/Linux is a mess, everyone is pulling it in his own direction, there is no visionary who would control all the development process. It has no future as long as we don't consider Chrome OS as a Linux distro.
Saying "they're only ideology driven" is idiotic. Some probably driven by ideology, but many think that open source is the best way to develop software in technical sense.
I'm talking about the vast majority of FOSS software which exist just because the commercial counterpart isn't completely free (in freedom sense).
Things like browser are essential, and Microsoft is crushed in that arena.
Because of Google's dominance more and more sites are optimized for Chrome, but Firefox which is considered more free than Chrome/Chromium loses its user base. Just being commercial does't completely protect the software from being a failure, failures are just far less common in commercial world.
Have you tried Blender, Krita, Inkscape?
I didn't say there are no exceptions. Blender is indeed the closest and FYI it wasn't initially open source. But even then many people have reported that it still lacks some essential features from its commercial counterparts and has lower performance. Blender is usually used by individual people and small companies which have limited money. Large organisations prefer to buy licenses since stability is very critical for them.
FOSS projects which try to mimic/replace commercial non free counterparts are often failures, since they're only ideology driven. Software development isn't always fun, especially debugging, regression testing, human interface guidelines, etc. So the vast majority of developers need financial motivation for their hard work otherwise they'll only scratch their itches. Of course, there is money for support but this won't cover all the expenses when it's only guaranteed to sell only the first copy of the hard work since some freeloader will soon distribute it for free. Also with support model there is little motivation to polish the product since no bugs means no profit. Now it shouldn't be surprising why so many untested things like systemd are often released. See, GIMP is not only not an alternative to PS, it's even hard to recommend to average users. LibreOffice is a semi decent alternative to MS Office and it's used only by people who just don't want to pay money and can't pirate MS Office. And why is Munich ditching open source? Because for serious things it isn't free, actually the support costs are much higher.
Different Android forks are mostly compatible with each other. Linux is pulled in so different directions, Android fragmentation is nothing compared to the mess happening in Linux world. Apart from compatibility issues, Linux fragmentation is a waste of, even without that, limited resources. And fragmentation isn't the only issue, there is lack of polish and many usability issues.
If you'd never used Linux and you read it, you'd probably think Linux is basically unusable on the desktop.
Don't worry, I've used it for 2-3 years, so I know what I am talking about.
A lot of problems come from people not choosing the right equipment to begin with; folks try to install Linux on some $300 piece of substandard hardware and gripe when things don't work. Do some research, get yourself a laptop known to work with Linux and surprise! a lot of those problems go away.
What about other numerous non hardware related bugs and usability issues, will they go away too? BTW most of the bugs I experienced were not hardware related.
However, the two researchers said they found several methods of enabling VISA and abusing it to sniff data that passes through the CPU, and even through the secretive Intel Management Engine (ME), which has been housed in the PCH since the release of the Nehalem processors and 5-Series chipsets.
The year of Linux on the desktop will never arrive simply because the age of the desktop computer is coming to a close. Most people don't want computers and can now do everything they ever needed them for on their phones and tablets.
Not quite. Smartphones/tablets are only good for content consumption, they can't fully replace PCs/Laptops at least if they lack laptop capabilities (for example tablet keyboard, mouse). PC/Laptop sales are falling because fewer people upgrade their computers. GNU/Linux on the desktop will unlikely arrive because it's not good enough for average people and has serious issues with quality, usability and backward compatibility. For people who just want to browse, watch videos or do simple document editing there is Chrome OS.
The difference is that the vast majority of people will agree that W7 is better than W10 in almost every regard, but in Linux world there is no clear consensus.
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Yeah, I wish it was the only focus of the Linux community. Too bad, Mint team has few resources and periodically suffers from many regressions coming from upstream often with no possibility of full recovery.
I think we'll start to improve our genome before this happens. It's still possible to keep our genome healthy without cruel natural selection.
Yeah, overpopulation is a real problem, it creates more problems than solving. But we are getting closer and closer to creating humans with improved genome. More and more new babies will have enhanced intelligence, immunity to many diseases, long live, etc. Such thing already done in China.
As if Mozilla (and others which usually make browsers based on Chromium) is much better. I remember I couldn't paste a quite large piece of JS code in Firefox dev console since Mozilla thinks that it's very insecure to execute something from an unknown source. Actually it's uncommon for an average clueless user to open browser dev tools, paste and execute a JS code. This is just an example of ruining the developers' experience. And many similar things are can be said for user experience. Others aren't significantly better, they're doing almost the same things.
Chromium is "evil" by default. There is no reason for Google to maintain code that they don't need. Edge will be based on Chromium and won't have the flag for that reason. But I wonder if extensions, such as Ublock, will be still able to block pings even with the removed flag since Ublock blocks the pings even when the flag is enabled. Also ping attributes in DOM are trivial to detect and remove, unlike obfuscated JS codes.
Can't this be fixed with extensions? Currently Ublock doesn't let the browser to ping even though the feature is enabled. Also ping attribute is trivial to detect and remove compared to obfuscated JS code.
I think this has more to do with Google's flagship Chromebooks rather than with Chrome OS. Chromebooks are quite popular in the US, especially in the education market, they're very simple and idiot-proof. Android isn't really suitable for laptop-like devices. So I don't see any reasons for Google to kill Chrome OS.
I guess the point is to just notify the specified website that a certain link was opened, that's it. It's much more complicated and costly to do this with Javascript because browsers block a XMLHttpRequest to other domains (cross origin policy). With just JS it can be done, for example, by creating an iframe of the advertiser website and sending a message to it, or send a request to the same domain and then that domain server will send the message to the advertiser. More complicated and also less acceptable.
Chrome's application stack is a web browser
Most Chromebooks support Android apps and Linux support is coming soon.
If we consider Chrome OS as a Linux distribution then it seems to be happening, especially with the recent improvements: better file management, android/Linux app support. As for GNU/Linux, it hasn't any serious commercial support on desktops, it's primarily volunteer driven with so many different projects trying to do the same thing. People want something that is supported and meets their requirements.
MS does not care about your data at all
This would rather be good news from some point of view.
As for data corruption, some changes might be made to libraries, file manager and kernel FS subsystem in order to wait for the complete data flush to the removable device.
Strangely Chrome OS has gained more desktop features such as Android/Linux (in beta) app support and a better file manager recently. A plenty of Chrome extensions run locally. Also is the internet speed and server computing power enough to serve to billions of people?
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The last pinnacle of desktop Linux was Ubuntu 10.04. That's it, every distro released after it is a mess. Canonical was the last company that invested so much resources for desktop Linux, now they run out of money and their enthusiasm is waning. There is no money with FOSS on the desktop, so they're investing more money for servers and enterprise but unfortunately they're not big players there either. Yet it's still the most desktop Linux devoted company but not doing right (for example the switch to Unity and now Gnome 3, the insane 6 month release cycle). And do you seriously expect a small team (Mint) to fix all the shit coming from upstream and Canonical? Desktop GNU/Linux is a mess, everyone is pulling it in his own direction, there is no visionary who would control all the development process. It has no future as long as we don't consider Chrome OS as a Linux distro.
The date of this article is 1 April 2019.
Saying "they're only ideology driven" is idiotic. Some probably driven by ideology, but many think that open source is the best way to develop software in technical sense.
I'm talking about the vast majority of FOSS software which exist just because the commercial counterpart isn't completely free (in freedom sense).
Things like browser are essential, and Microsoft is crushed in that arena.
Because of Google's dominance more and more sites are optimized for Chrome, but Firefox which is considered more free than Chrome/Chromium loses its user base. Just being commercial does't completely protect the software from being a failure, failures are just far less common in commercial world.
Have you tried Blender, Krita, Inkscape?
I didn't say there are no exceptions. Blender is indeed the closest and FYI it wasn't initially open source. But even then many people have reported that it still lacks some essential features from its commercial counterparts and has lower performance. Blender is usually used by individual people and small companies which have limited money. Large organisations prefer to buy licenses since stability is very critical for them.
FOSS projects which try to mimic/replace commercial non free counterparts are often failures, since they're only ideology driven. Software development isn't always fun, especially debugging, regression testing, human interface guidelines, etc. So the vast majority of developers need financial motivation for their hard work otherwise they'll only scratch their itches. Of course, there is money for support but this won't cover all the expenses when it's only guaranteed to sell only the first copy of the hard work since some freeloader will soon distribute it for free. Also with support model there is little motivation to polish the product since no bugs means no profit. Now it shouldn't be surprising why so many untested things like systemd are often released. See, GIMP is not only not an alternative to PS, it's even hard to recommend to average users. LibreOffice is a semi decent alternative to MS Office and it's used only by people who just don't want to pay money and can't pirate MS Office. And why is Munich ditching open source? Because for serious things it isn't free, actually the support costs are much higher.
Different Android forks are mostly compatible with each other. Linux is pulled in so different directions, Android fragmentation is nothing compared to the mess happening in Linux world. Apart from compatibility issues, Linux fragmentation is a waste of, even without that, limited resources. And fragmentation isn't the only issue, there is lack of polish and many usability issues.
That's such a funny article.
A funnier comment from a Linux zealot.
If you'd never used Linux and you read it, you'd probably think Linux is basically unusable on the desktop.
Don't worry, I've used it for 2-3 years, so I know what I am talking about.
A lot of problems come from people not choosing the right equipment to begin with; folks try to install Linux on some $300 piece of substandard hardware and gripe when things don't work. Do some research, get yourself a laptop known to work with Linux and surprise! a lot of those problems go away.
What about other numerous non hardware related bugs and usability issues, will they go away too? BTW most of the bugs I experienced were not hardware related.
I hope this is a joke.
I think Intel should switch its employees' PCs/laptops to AMD.
However, the two researchers said they found several methods of enabling VISA and abusing it to sniff data that passes through the CPU, and even through the secretive Intel Management Engine (ME), which has been housed in the PCH since the release of the Nehalem processors and 5-Series chipsets.
I think not only with physical access.
Yes, it's also true. Fragmentation is just one of the problems.
Not quite. Smartphones/tablets are only good for content consumption, they can't fully replace PCs/Laptops at least if they lack laptop capabilities (for example tablet keyboard, mouse). PC/Laptop sales are falling because fewer people upgrade their computers. GNU/Linux on the desktop will unlikely arrive because it's not good enough for average people and has serious issues with quality, usability and backward compatibility. For people who just want to browse, watch videos or do simple document editing there is Chrome OS.
The difference is that the vast majority of people will agree that W7 is better than W10 in almost every regard, but in Linux world there is no clear consensus.