well yes but given nokia's reluctance to offer a successor amidst several s^3 releases, meego's future seems more precarious each month - despite a promise of something big this week.
i realise locked down bootloaders are about control, but a brave hacker-friendly vendor would say 'here are the keys, no support offered but if you happen to brick your phone, here's how to factory restore'.
except if your connection is 'micro' usb. Many people I know have a metric shitload of mini usb cables but micro usb, not so. Maybe in a couple of years when this newish connection reaches saturation.
Well I guess I'm "not the target market".:( I have a 720p capable phone and I'm sure that's the baseline for current standalone digital cameras.
The inability to view, in widescreen, my own content and with the rise of social media, that of friends and family on facebook and youtube strikes me as an annoyance.
i'm not sure why this is marked as flamebait, the word evil perhaps? It's sensible for Apple to sell at or below cost, since other manufacturers don't have the established content market.
but how responsive is it? With an advanced threading model you'd hope it would max out the CPU(s) more often. So long as it's doing something useful with those cycles and doesn't slow down the user, surely it's a good thing?
it seems entirely technically feasible to, for instance, replace Gtk+ and large parts of Gnome's libraries with Qt and some KDE libraries, create a new theme that looks like today's Gnome's
It was announced nearly 3 years ago. Still no word on a release date!
Anyway, they do collaborate on various projects at freedesktop.org
The point is X will be an *optional* service that runs on top of wayland. Qt and Gtk+ will support wayland from day one by the time Ubuntu ships it. Those who "ssh -X" can download a bunch of optional packages. I won't miss it on my home desktop and won't bother to install and run X just to load up xpdf when wayland-native alternatives such as Okular exist.
Naturally distros will include X for the reasons you mention. Once wayland is sufficiently mature, don't expect a consumer oriented distro like Ubuntu to turn it on by default when equally as many people as you cite won't even notice it's gone.
Gnome and KDE merge? unlikely, they're chalk and cheese.
"X11 will still be there"? Nope, the idea of wayland is X11 won't need to be included at all by default. Gnome and KDE will be wayland native via their respective GTK+ and Qt backends. Adding Xpdf will seem bloated because you'll have to start an X11 process on top of wayland - whereas today that comes for free.
I have no idea if this is the case but an iPhone simulator should have little need to emulate *anything*.
Sans ARM assembly, the Xcode environment should transparently cross compile objective-c. Darwin is the common platform, so ios libraries on OSX would be trivial to implement. The main difference being that ioswrites directly to the screen whereas the simulator would write to an OSX window. Hence a good simulator would run your iPad app *natively*.
And since Mach-O supports multiple CPUs, don't be surprised when the app store starts selling apps that work on both OSX and iOS from a single download.
I use Gnome (haven't been back to KDE since 3.5) but I think Okular is a better document reader. I don't complain about the download size because I accept that a more sophisticated, polished UI brings in a bunch of dependencies that just using X won't provide.
On Windows, plenty of applications don't using the native Win32 toolkit. As an example, develop using Visual C++, with a toolkit such as MFC? A bunch of libraries need to be distributed with your app, even if the installer hides them under c:\windows. No, they don't come with XP SP3.
Xpdf uses primitive X11 widgets, not even Gtk+ or the abovementioned Qt. No surprise that it has a small binary size but don't expect it to run natively on wayland! I can think of a number of reasons why Adobe Reader might be considered bloated but comparing its binary size to Xpdf is way down on the list.
Does acrobat reader use the native toolkit in c:\windows? If not then I think it is fair. Gnome doesn't include Qt either, so if I want to use Okular...:)
Also, you're comparing apples and oranges. xpdf is ugly and, last I checked, lacking features. A fairer comparison would be with the flagship open source pdf reader, namely Okular. The file size may still be smaller but remember the Qt/KDE shared libraries it loads.
i cringe whenever I come across statements like "you're not the target market". ARM SoC designs might never replace today's core i7 behemoths but they're quickly reaching sufficiency for many computing tasks. Slap a 2nd hdmi port in and there's no reason why multi-monitors couldn't be driven by a smartphone or tablet (on ac power, as required). I'm talking the next-gen cortexA15 for performance reasons. Anything else is just software. If android won't scale up to a desktop experience, fingers crossed meego will.
paid support with canonical? Debian isn't a corporate entity like red hat. Another reason being adoption of ubuntu having a desktop mindshare (Of % of linux desktops) so it's a single platform to support for workstation and server - for dell techs
damned if you do, damned if you don't. the US sinks further into the abyss of insolvency caused by the GFC and a decade of war. it's time the rest of the world declared its independence from America, the land of patent trolls. Ship international versions with included codecs and let Obama question why hyperlinks from the 'free world' won't play in firefox or his motorola smartphone.:-)
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well yes but given nokia's reluctance to offer a successor amidst several s^3 releases, meego's future seems more precarious each month - despite a promise of something big this week.
i realise locked down bootloaders are about control, but a brave hacker-friendly vendor would say 'here are the keys, no support offered but if you happen to brick your phone, here's how to factory restore'.
except if your connection is 'micro' usb. Many people I know have a metric shitload of mini usb cables but micro usb, not so. Maybe in a couple of years when this newish connection reaches saturation.
Well I guess I'm "not the target market". :( I have a 720p capable phone and I'm sure that's the baseline for current standalone digital cameras.
The inability to view, in widescreen, my own content and with the rise of social media, that of friends and family on facebook and youtube strikes me as an annoyance.
How exactly do you play 720p content on an XGA screen without scaling?
i'm not sure why this is marked as flamebait, the word evil perhaps?
It's sensible for Apple to sell at or below cost, since other manufacturers don't have the established content market.
but how responsive is it? With an advanced threading model you'd hope it would max out the CPU(s) more often. So long as it's doing something useful with those cycles and doesn't slow down the user, surely it's a good thing?
Robo Earth only runs on Android?
It was announced nearly 3 years ago. Still no word on a release date!
Anyway, they do collaborate on various projects at freedesktop.org
Cool, thanks. That of course would explain the vast performance difference if Android emulates an entire phone!
As for simulating Android on desktop Linux sans emulator, stayed tuned for IcedRobot which is set to be announced this weekend at Fosdem.
The point is X will be an *optional* service that runs on top of wayland. Qt and Gtk+ will support wayland from day one by the time Ubuntu ships it. Those who "ssh -X" can download a bunch of optional packages. I won't miss it on my home desktop and won't bother to install and run X just to load up xpdf when wayland-native alternatives such as Okular exist.
Naturally distros will include X for the reasons you mention. Once wayland is sufficiently mature, don't expect a consumer oriented distro like Ubuntu to turn it on by default when equally as many people as you cite won't even notice it's gone.
Gnome and KDE merge? unlikely, they're chalk and cheese.
"X11 will still be there"? Nope, the idea of wayland is X11 won't need to be included at all by default. Gnome and KDE will be wayland native via their respective GTK+ and Qt backends. Adding Xpdf will seem bloated because you'll have to start an X11 process on top of wayland - whereas today that comes for free.
I have no idea if this is the case but an iPhone simulator should have little need to emulate *anything*.
Sans ARM assembly, the Xcode environment should transparently cross compile objective-c. Darwin is the common platform, so ios libraries on OSX would be trivial to implement. The main difference being that ioswrites directly to the screen whereas the simulator would write to an OSX window. Hence a good simulator would run your iPad app *natively*.
And since Mach-O supports multiple CPUs, don't be surprised when the app store starts selling apps that work on both OSX and iOS from a single download.
I use Gnome (haven't been back to KDE since 3.5) but I think Okular is a better document reader. I don't complain about the download size because I accept that a more sophisticated, polished UI brings in a bunch of dependencies that just using X won't provide.
On Windows, plenty of applications don't using the native Win32 toolkit. As an example, develop using Visual C++, with a toolkit such as MFC? A bunch of libraries need to be distributed with your app, even if the installer hides them under c:\windows. No, they don't come with XP SP3.
Xpdf uses primitive X11 widgets, not even Gtk+ or the abovementioned Qt. No surprise that it has a small binary size but don't expect it to run natively on wayland! I can think of a number of reasons why Adobe Reader might be considered bloated but comparing its binary size to Xpdf is way down on the list.
I think okular uses a fork of xpdf.
Does acrobat reader use the native toolkit in c:\windows? If not then I think it is fair. Gnome doesn't include Qt either, so if I want to use Okular... :)
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IPv6 was dreamt up in December 1998, so it's 12 years and counting.
Bells and Whistles take up space.
Also, you're comparing apples and oranges. xpdf is ugly and, last I checked, lacking features. A fairer comparison would be with the flagship open source pdf reader, namely Okular. The file size may still be smaller but remember the Qt/KDE shared libraries it loads.
i cringe whenever I come across statements like "you're not the target market".
ARM SoC designs might never replace today's core i7 behemoths but they're quickly reaching sufficiency for many computing tasks. Slap a 2nd hdmi port in and there's no reason why multi-monitors couldn't be driven by a smartphone or tablet (on ac power, as required). I'm talking the next-gen cortexA15 for performance reasons.
Anything else is just software. If android won't scale up to a desktop experience, fingers crossed meego will.
sorry for trolling, i left off the smiley face earlier. I thought it was obvious 6 wouldn't fit.
guilty as charged, your honour.
First we have a story on 'apps'.
How spelling standards have obviously fallen in the USA. 'Six' is the preferred spelling.
really? I've seen at least 1 doco claiming it was Leo da vinci.
paid support with canonical? Debian isn't a corporate entity like red hat.
Another reason being adoption of ubuntu having a desktop mindshare (Of % of linux desktops) so it's a single platform to support for workstation and server - for dell techs
damned if you do, damned if you don't. :-)
the US sinks further into the abyss of insolvency caused by the GFC and a decade of war. it's time the rest of the world declared its independence from America, the land of patent trolls.
Ship international versions with included codecs and let Obama question why hyperlinks from the 'free world' won't play in firefox or his motorola smartphone.