Windows Services for Linux, as originally invisaged, would have run Android inside a container. But that was too hard, so MS partnered with Canonical to get Ubuntu running.
It would then behove this hacker community to get Anbox running inside WSL - Android apps on your Windows phone!:)
But having a web standard compliant Chromium engine embedded in the OS on 3 platforms (Windows 10, Android, Chrome OS) allows the next generation of desktop web apps to take off - without the Electron boat-anchor.
Which as a developer it may be your cup of tea or a completely useless security hole; touch wood with Google writing the code, sandboxing issues that plagued IE6 and Windows 98 should hopefully be a thing of the past.
Google partnered with Rockchip to rebadge the RK3399 as the 'OP1' SoC blessed for ChromeOS. That design is now 2 years old; if a newer ARM tablet chip is around the corner then I can understand them dumping Celeron.
(Or maybe it's just the Celery models weren't selling due to dud performance.)
Good point but the prevailing orthodoxy Linus alludes to is doing everything on a highly spec'd developer laptop with containers. So you max out the RAM and because you're kitchen-sinking, the computer slows to a crawl!:)
If it were me I'd be buying one of those sub-$100 4GB RAM Armbian boxes equipped with a mainline 5.0 kernel with a Rockchip, Allwinner or Amlogic. The server image you cross-compile on your laptop then runs bare metal on a fanless sandwich-sized box on your desk, stowed away neatly under your external monitor shelf. With gigabit ethernet and remote debugging you're running on a real computer as opposed to a container. Plus, your laptop fan doesn't continually sound like a jet engine!
Office 365 on Android tablets, iPads or in a browser.
The market has spoken; consumers don't want to abandon their primary OS just to run an office suite. And MS learned the hard way by betting the farm on Windows Phone and their stillborn UWP-based Windows Store for desktop.
Microsoft are now emphasising the cloud and transitioning their customers away from Windows via their WSL offering whilst abandoning their own web browser tech for a half-arsed Chrome clone. Windows is now a platform for legacy software and high end gamers who demand better performance than an XBox can provide.
Mac users were telling us for years that macos didn't need touchscreen support because that would result in gorilla arm. Apple then release a touchscreen laptop - the iPad Pro with keyboard accessory but no trackpad. Yay, gorilla arm!
So now Apple's solution is Marzipan - porting your favourite iOS app to the desktop. But still no touchscreen convertible macbook Air, nor mouse input for the iPad Pro.
It's a strategy that avoids the debacle of Windows 8 but the elephant in the room is Google: tablets running Chrome OS - PWA, Android, Gnome/KDE in a Wayland container with the option of dualbooting into Windows 10 if you need to get "real work done".
It's all wormfood and they didn't seem to mind the birds, rodents and small marsupials I put in the compost bin. Any odor is getting the balance right in terms of other compostable material such as prunings, manure, grass clippings and vegetable scraps.
Burying someone 6 feet under in a box merely slows decomposition. OTOH, this method accelerates the process and if they provide an optimal mix of 'tinder', I wouldn't expect a scent.
The only concern is what they died of. I'd have my misgivings about contagion.
I have a Windows 10 laptop that I have used Edge on, I just spend most of my time in KDE and Android. So I'm less likely to use a technology that doesn't work on all my platforms.
Support for Windows 7 ends in January, 2020 so developing for a platform that will have less than a year until EOL seems counterproductive.
Developers are more likely to test their webapps in Edge if they can run it on their development machine. Surely there's a Windows 10 engineer at MS that sees the value in getting its GUI working in WSL, at least.
Chakra is open source. What do MS have to lose by githubbing the rest of the browser?
By the "many eyes" theory, security bugs would be dealt with greater expedience if a version of (let's call it) 'Edgium' were available in fedora and debian repositories. And the benefit for Windows 10 is web site compatibility that people might actually test for Edge cases, pun intended, if they could still develop under Linux/macos.
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Windows Services for Linux, as originally invisaged, would have run Android inside a container. But that was too hard, so MS partnered with Canonical to get Ubuntu running.
It would then behove this hacker community to get Anbox running inside WSL - Android apps on your Windows phone! :)
Edge is pretty meh.
But having a web standard compliant Chromium engine embedded in the OS on 3 platforms (Windows 10, Android, Chrome OS) allows the next generation of desktop web apps to take off - without the Electron boat-anchor.
Which as a developer it may be your cup of tea or a completely useless security hole; touch wood with Google writing the code, sandboxing issues that plagued IE6 and Windows 98 should hopefully be a thing of the past.
VSCode already has its own deb repository.
This is another attempt by Canonical to make their pointless Snap platform a thing.
Google partnered with Rockchip to rebadge the RK3399 as the 'OP1' SoC blessed for ChromeOS. That design is now 2 years old; if a newer ARM tablet chip is around the corner then I can understand them dumping Celeron.
(Or maybe it's just the Celery models weren't selling due to dud performance.)
Good point but the prevailing orthodoxy Linus alludes to is doing everything on a highly spec'd developer laptop with containers. So you max out the RAM and because you're kitchen-sinking, the computer slows to a crawl! :)
If it were me I'd be buying one of those sub-$100 4GB RAM Armbian boxes equipped with a mainline 5.0 kernel with a Rockchip, Allwinner or Amlogic. The server image you cross-compile on your laptop then runs bare metal on a fanless sandwich-sized box on your desk, stowed away neatly under your external monitor shelf. With gigabit ethernet and remote debugging you're running on a real computer as opposed to a container. Plus, your laptop fan doesn't continually sound like a jet engine!
Office 365 on Android tablets, iPads or in a browser.
The market has spoken; consumers don't want to abandon their primary OS just to run an office suite. And MS learned the hard way by betting the farm on Windows Phone and their stillborn UWP-based Windows Store for desktop.
Microsoft are now emphasising the cloud and transitioning their customers away from Windows via their WSL offering whilst abandoning their own web browser tech for a half-arsed Chrome clone. Windows is now a platform for legacy software and high end gamers who demand better performance than an XBox can provide.
to commit career suicide by admitting you backed the wrong horse.
Gecko, for all its warts, is now the only non-Safari option (sorry, Tim, I don't own any Apple hardware) to avoid a Google monoculture.
David Tennant, Scottish deity?
android4lumia.github.io/
Vlad offered Santa a deal he couldn't refuse to move the workshop to Eurasia.
Mac users were telling us for years that macos didn't need touchscreen support because that would result in gorilla arm. Apple then release a touchscreen laptop - the iPad Pro with keyboard accessory but no trackpad. Yay, gorilla arm!
So now Apple's solution is Marzipan - porting your favourite iOS app to the desktop. But still no touchscreen convertible macbook Air, nor mouse input for the iPad Pro.
It's a strategy that avoids the debacle of Windows 8 but the elephant in the room is Google: tablets running Chrome OS - PWA, Android, Gnome/KDE in a Wayland container with the option of dualbooting into Windows 10 if you need to get "real work done".
It sounds like it's basically tofu infused with 'meat' flavouring.
The bun would contain most of the carbs, I would guess.
Composted matter smells like dirt. It is dirt.
It's all wormfood and they didn't seem to mind the birds, rodents and small marsupials I put in the compost bin. Any odor is getting the balance right in terms of other compostable material such as prunings, manure, grass clippings and vegetable scraps.
Burying someone 6 feet under in a box merely slows decomposition. OTOH, this method accelerates the process and if they provide an optimal mix of 'tinder', I wouldn't expect a scent.
The only concern is what they died of. I'd have my misgivings about contagion.
I believe 'Chrome' derives from an ancient African word meaning "Can't install firefox".
China has no interest in the US-Russia proxy war over Iran.
Konqueror has more or less been superseded by Falkon - a browser based on Chromium?
I have a Windows 10 laptop that I have used Edge on, I just spend most of my time in KDE and Android. So I'm less likely to use a technology that doesn't work on all my platforms.
Support for Windows 7 ends in January, 2020 so developing for a platform that will have less than a year until EOL seems counterproductive.
Developers are more likely to test their webapps in Edge if they can run it on their development machine. Surely there's a Windows 10 engineer at MS that sees the value in getting its GUI working in WSL, at least.
Gotta start somewhere.
Latin had 3 genders but Asturian in northern Spain is one of the few Romance languages that preserves neuter.
As a Linux user, I can't fathom why MS would support a dead platform like Windows 7 but not RHEL or Ubuntu.
in the town square with the cardboard sign that said Free Hugs.
Shouldn't that be Libre Hugs?
I wouldn't have thought too much of that code was OS specific. Surely it already exists for ARM64 on Chrome OS and Android.
Try adding some gin to your tonic water!
Certainly liberating the code won't itself form a community overnight but Chromium and Gecko have found uses beyond Google and Mozilla respectively.
Chromium is open source but Google adds whatever special sauce they please to Chrome downloads.
MS would be free to pursue a similar policy.
Chakra is open source. What do MS have to lose by githubbing the rest of the browser?
By the "many eyes" theory, security bugs would be dealt with greater expedience if a version of (let's call it) 'Edgium' were available in fedora and debian repositories. And the benefit for Windows 10 is web site compatibility that people might actually test for Edge cases, pun intended, if they could still develop under Linux/macos.