Install an X server and run your konsole of choice.
You'd still need an xserver for raw clients like rxvt. But my idea would be that they can work on integration with the popular cross-platform toolkits such as Qt/GTK+ etc so that a dynamically linked Linux GUI binary would render using Win32 native widgets, without need for an X11/Wayland server. (A.so acting as a shim for a windows.dll)
It's a value-add for those 'forced' to use Windows. Your options otherwise are maintain a Linux box (in a VM, dual booting or a dedicated machine) use ported applications which mightn't receive the love their Linux-native cousins do or use cygwin.
What Windows lacks is a decent package manager (and I've tried Chocolatey). So the alternative is that every major vendor, from Google to Mozilla to Adobe runs there own crapware background updater service. Synaptic and apt-get would be a huge improvement, so if they can make GTK+/Qt applications run seamlessly, I'd gladly use the Ubuntu versions.
Understood and you're most welcome to build your own runtime.
The author is just choosing the well worn path of, say, clojure - which started life on the JVM but runs to varying maturity on the commonly deployed platforms of Javascript (in browser) and CLR (windows).
But yes, I would expect HTC and LG to stop producing phones within 3 years as more recent entrants such as Huawei and xiaomi conquer the lower end. Moto will probably live on in the US market as rebranded Lenovo devices.
Fast forward ten years and Apple will release the iJect, a cybernetic implant. No handset required as drones receive stimuli direct to their mind's eye and information is shared with your fellow collective via a 6G cellular data connection embedded within the subcutaneous device.
Batteries degrade. But perhaps you get a new phone every 2 years on contract and don't notice...
I'm running a four year old phone and just paid $10 on ebay for a new battery - the phone is good as new. My neighbour, otoh, pays an extra $35/month for the privilege of the new shiny Galaxy S model every 2 years.
Charging via USB vs swapping in a spare battery at the end of a long day - both have their +s and -s.
I just replaced the battery on a Nexus device. Even after watching multiple youtube videos and using the supplied tools from a battery 'kit' I bought on ebay, it still took me minutes of frustration to jimmy the case open.
$10 provided me with an hour of 'fun' and will extend the life of the phone for another 18 months.
But if the phone I had was deemed a fire hazard as a battery, there's no way I'd have been tinkering around with a Torx screwdriver to replace it.
As a cartoonish supervillain, he's pretty tame. If he wanted to do something for humanity he'd hand out free coffee and banish evil multinational Starbucks out of Pike Place!
The San Bernadino gunman had an iPhone. The Fort Lauderdale rampage was foiled by Macbook. Coincidence? I think Apple are taking this product placement thing too far.
OTOH, I should be safe from a gun-related homicide with my 4 year old LG phone and 8 year old Toshiba laptop.
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It was Swiss watches in a Ming Dynasty grave
I remember playing Donkey Kong on a split screen Game and Watch back in the 80s.
Prior art goes back 30+ years!
Install an X server and run your konsole of choice.
You'd still need an xserver for raw clients like rxvt. But my idea would be that they can work on integration with the popular cross-platform toolkits such as Qt/GTK+ etc so that a dynamically linked Linux GUI binary would render using Win32 native widgets, without need for an X11/Wayland server. (A .so acting as a shim for a windows .dll)
It's a value-add for those 'forced' to use Windows. Your options otherwise are maintain a Linux box (in a VM, dual booting or a dedicated machine) use ported applications which mightn't receive the love their Linux-native cousins do or use cygwin.
What Windows lacks is a decent package manager (and I've tried Chocolatey). So the alternative is that every major vendor, from Google to Mozilla to Adobe runs there own crapware background updater service. Synaptic and apt-get would be a huge improvement, so if they can make GTK+/Qt applications run seamlessly, I'd gladly use the Ubuntu versions.
The intellij guys.
Don't forget Ceylon :)
Understood and you're most welcome to build your own runtime.
The author is just choosing the well worn path of, say, clojure - which started life on the JVM but runs to varying maturity on the commonly deployed platforms of Javascript (in browser) and CLR (windows).
And the author is choosing to avoid 2 years by bootstrapping an established platform.
In the meantime, there's LuneOS, which is crying out for developers to port it to YOUR smartphone.
If MS implemented Wayland support in their display server, they'd out-buntu Ubuntu fairly quickly.
That'd cause only a minor dent in Macbook sales, admittedly.
Don't worry, he'll be out of office in a few days.
Al is short for Alfred, yeah - Bruce Wayne's butler?
Pixel is a Google-branded HTC phone.
But yes, I would expect HTC and LG to stop producing phones within 3 years as more recent entrants such as Huawei and xiaomi conquer the lower end. Moto will probably live on in the US market as rebranded Lenovo devices.
We are Borg!
Fast forward ten years and Apple will release the iJect, a cybernetic implant. No handset required as drones receive stimuli direct to their mind's eye and information is shared with your fellow collective via a 6G cellular data connection embedded within the subcutaneous device.
Ironically the cheaper phones seem to have all the goodies such as headphone jacks, FM radio, MicroSD and removable batteries.
It's flagship devices removing 'em...
No.
But the developers have started a fork named LineageOS and will resume nightly builds as soon as they procure hardware.
Batteries degrade. But perhaps you get a new phone every 2 years on contract and don't notice...
I'm running a four year old phone and just paid $10 on ebay for a new battery - the phone is good as new. My neighbour, otoh, pays an extra $35/month for the privilege of the new shiny Galaxy S model every 2 years.
Charging via USB vs swapping in a spare battery at the end of a long day - both have their +s and -s.
Rendering speed isn't great for any of the in-browser viewers.
But my Windows 10 laptop is a Core 2 Duo, so it may perform acceptably fast on your hardware! :)
I just replaced the battery on a Nexus device. Even after watching multiple youtube videos and using the supplied tools from a battery 'kit' I bought on ebay, it still took me minutes of frustration to jimmy the case open.
$10 provided me with an hour of 'fun' and will extend the life of the phone for another 18 months.
But if the phone I had was deemed a fire hazard as a battery, there's no way I'd have been tinkering around with a Torx screwdriver to replace it.
Generally when you're sitting at a desk, your laptop and phone are connected to mains power.
Anyhow, desktop Linux has had a system tray widget for bluetooth screen locking for a number of years.
As a cartoonish supervillain, he's pretty tame.
If he wanted to do something for humanity he'd hand out free coffee and banish evil multinational Starbucks out of Pike Place!
"every language that inherited C style syntax"
Swift's aesthetics, as you describe. come from ML - not C. Just as Mozilla's rust began life bootstrapped by OCAML.
Apple's previous adventure in creating a programming language - Dylan - originally was a LISP.
Stephen Elop is an employee.
But in an ancient Norse language that nobody could decipher, so it never caught on.
But what brand of backpack was it?
The San Bernadino gunman had an iPhone. The Fort Lauderdale rampage was foiled by Macbook. Coincidence? I think Apple are taking this product placement thing too far.
OTOH, I should be safe from a gun-related homicide with my 4 year old LG phone and 8 year old Toshiba laptop.