Don't underestimate the choice of programming language for Android's success - Java has a huge developer base (and a history with J2ME).
i.e. Apple has enough of a cult following with objective-c but would the Play app model have succeeded if the technology had been C++ or open source darling python?
I'm running jessie with sysv init/openrc right now. Systemd *is* installed but not as an init daemon and only pulled in by KDE as a dependency.
Thus systemd hasn't *yet* taken over debian but it's up to Mint and others to 'upstream' the required manpower to keep alternatives afloat if the core debianistas only focus only on systemd.
systemd is Linux only, so Hurd and freebsd will require an alternative so long as they're port targets.
I met several young Anglophone Canadians doing summer jobs in regional Quebec, which meant leaving their families and friends for a month or two in order to experience a 'foreign' culture within their own country.
Their experience is that you have to work at it. But such an occurrence is atypical, with vacations more likely to be taken in, say, the Okanagan Valley rather than Gaspe Peninsula.
(Forgive the intrusion; I mention this as a citizen of a fellow commonwealth realm, even more monolingual.)
Well another post suggests that Gimp *no longer* has an X11 requirement. So perhaps it's the skill and dedication of the porter not to bring in a kitchen sink of dependencies.
I've used several Gtk+ applications on Windows XP such as Geany, Pidgin and GIMP. All integrate more than adequately without issue, save preferring a weird file dialog instead of the Windows native one.
I'm not saying there aren't use cases just that whether supporting those interests strategically benefits Oracle enough to continue development at anything more than a snail's pace.
If Oracle make there money on _the_server_ then a FOSS desktop application isn't going to receive priority unless a paying customer demands shiny new features. That's the difference with the stewardship of Sun, who acquired various pieces of software and open sourced them for $0 revenue.
If you're saying 'java is evil' then yes, it's distributed by an 'evil' corporation.
But the fact still remains it's a deployment issue rather than a technological one. What Windows needs is a decent package manager.
chocolatey.org
If the standard method for installing software such as libreoffice were using a package manager with a 'private JRE' dependency built from openjdk sources then there would be no need for Oracle crapware.
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Mir uses Android drivers via libhybris, and possibly reuses other parts of aosp to bootstrap the platform
Give firefox os a try - it's simple to install as an emulator in your browser by selecting WebIDE
Choice of OS is irrelevant to Dell's web checkout business model. Common x86_64 hardware enables the following:
(1) System RAM
(a) 1 GB [ ] default
(b) 2 GB [X] add $25
(c) 4 GB [ ] add $50
(d) 8 GB [ ] add $75
(2) OS
(a) Android [X]
(b) Windows 10 [ ] add $50
(3) Storage
(a) 4GB eMMC [ ] (Android only)
(b) 64GB SSD [X] add $50
(c) 128GB SSD [ ] add $100
(d) 256GB SSD [ ] add $150
Don't underestimate the choice of programming language for Android's success - Java has a huge developer base (and a history with J2ME).
i.e. Apple has enough of a cult following with objective-c but would the Play app model have succeeded if the technology had been C++ or open source darling python?
You have your timeframe wrong; SVGA dates from the dos era of 1987 - several years before Windows 3.x
Please don't compare a piece-of-shit $35 phone, with abysmal specs, running an ancient build (1.3) from March 2014 with a 170euro device.
Firefox OS 2.1 is decent on Mozilla's developer phone, the Flame.
I'm running jessie with sysv init/openrc right now. Systemd *is* installed but not as an init daemon and only pulled in by KDE as a dependency.
Thus systemd hasn't *yet* taken over debian but it's up to Mint and others to 'upstream' the required manpower to keep alternatives afloat if the core debianistas only focus only on systemd.
systemd is Linux only, so Hurd and freebsd will require an alternative so long as they're port targets.
Maemo did that 5 years ago.
The HTML5 pdf viewer, audio player, image gallery and video player built into my Firefox OS phone all function offline.
True, they're "apps" but there is no concept of "native" where everything is a webapp.
The video API is cross-browser, viz webrtc which appears in Chrome too.
I met several young Anglophone Canadians doing summer jobs in regional Quebec, which meant leaving their families and friends for a month or two in order to experience a 'foreign' culture within their own country.
Their experience is that you have to work at it. But such an occurrence is atypical, with vacations more likely to be taken in, say, the Okanagan Valley rather than Gaspe Peninsula.
(Forgive the intrusion; I mention this as a citizen of a fellow commonwealth realm, even more monolingual.)
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Well another post suggests that Gimp *no longer* has an X11 requirement. So perhaps it's the skill and dedication of the porter not to bring in a kitchen sink of dependencies.
I've used several Gtk+ applications on Windows XP such as Geany, Pidgin and GIMP. All integrate more than adequately without issue, save preferring a weird file dialog instead of the Windows native one.
dd if=myinstaller.iso of=/dev/sdX
works for me...
I'm not saying there aren't use cases just that whether supporting those interests strategically benefits Oracle enough to continue development at anything more than a snail's pace.
If Oracle make there money on _the_server_ then a FOSS desktop application isn't going to receive priority unless a paying customer demands shiny new features. That's the difference with the stewardship of Sun, who acquired various pieces of software and open sourced them for $0 revenue.
It possible VirtualBox isn't receiving much love because MS are including virtualization tools out of the box in current versions of Windows?
Thus what incentive do they have to continue funding it?
Dairy cattle survive just fine eating grass.
Revisit in Android 5.0 where dalvik is replaced by an AOT compiler.
If you're saying 'java is evil' then yes, it's distributed by an 'evil' corporation.
But the fact still remains it's a deployment issue rather than a technological one. What Windows needs is a decent package manager.
chocolatey.org
If the standard method for installing software such as libreoffice were using a package manager with a 'private JRE' dependency built from openjdk sources then there would be no need for Oracle crapware.
You may say I'm a dreamer...
You do know the JVM and the browser plugin are two separate things?
Oracle may choose to bundle them together in a fancy installer for Windows but the plugin itself is unnecessary unless you load Applets.
e.g. on debian, 'Java' is packaged as openjdk-7-jre, while Applet functionality is provided by icedtea-7-plugin.
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Well that's good for the presidential budget - plenty of cheap spare 747 parts for decades!
NPAPI is on life support, with Mozilla whitelisting some plugins temporarily
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugi...
B2G doesn't support NPAPI and I doubt servo will either.
Wow you have ANSI color on your terminal?
luxury.
I once marked CS homework and uncovered cheating for an 'individual' assignment.
A group of students had debug comments in their code - the giveaway? spelling mistakes.