Didn't BlackBerry already try this? Did it help them? I don't think so.
RIM was in demise long before BB X was released. It was never about the technology - the current BB OS is arguably the most advanced smartphone platform, with the Qt goodness of Harmattan (aborted by Elop) and the QNX platform underneath. (Android is just a bonus to make up the shortfall in verb conjugators and fart apps)
The real problem was that blackberry's handset business has been declining due to the rise of iOS and Android and the subsequent BYOD culture. Traction to lure casual consumers to the platform was never going to happen when, for a song, one can pick up a 2nd hand 2011-era handset that will happily run the nightly build of CM11 (in my case). They simply don't have the models to compete at the low-mid end, where they should be aiming rather than the iPhone 5/Galaxy S4 market.
NB: It's a chicken and egg re: Android on x86 (the native-code on ARM argument). However, Intel has been murmuring about running kitkat on x86-64, so it's up to them to promote the platform and convince app-developers to port any ARM-specific native code for an alt architecture.
I do wish them success if they dump any PowerVR nastiness they had in previous Atoms in favour of their own Linux-friendly GPU arch. (Hopefully pressuring Mali, Tegra and Adreno to officially support open drivers)
It depends on Intel's latest efforts with the Silvermont SoC - if they can get 10-15 hours battery life...
Phones might remain ARM-only but a $300 x86-64 device that can undercut the Surface Pro 2 with both Android and Windows is the future (MS stupid locked-down UEFI pending...)
Forget wine, sketchy compatibility and using qemu to emulate x86 on ARM - the next-gen Atoms include virtualization extensions. Either dual-boot or just port Virtualbox, accessing the physical disk on the other partition and you're done.
Yes, I've heard the 'real-time' arguments in embedded but for consumer devices are there tangible benefits to QNX vs Linux?
I'm just thinking, hypothetically, of when Blackberry.com goes under - whether the assets be sold off again to a standalone QNX entity.
Or would it be useful for a company like Samsung re-basing their Android and Tizen efforts on their own proprietary kernel to differentiate their offerings from HTC and LG etc?
Last I checked, KDE ran on Open/Net/FreeBSD and even Windows and OS X. Gnome, which seems to be largely a Red Hat driven technology these days, couldn't give a rat's arse about portability but why should other desktop environments be steered to Linux-only?
The userspace application compatibility is shared with wine and will thus target whichever APIs that modern applications require.
Last I checked, they were basing their compatibility of the underlying OS on XP 5.2 (Windows Server 2003). Developing an NT clone is a moving target, when you consider MS have had several evolutions since in the form of Vista, 7 and 8. They wanted to get to a point where their OS core was stable (XP compatible) and worry about Windows 9 driver compatibilities when the product was mature enough to re-base, rather than shifting goalposts every few years.
I take a gander every couple of versions. I filed a bug report a while back, which hasn't been fixed, or at least for the ancient version of the software I was trying to run, so I'll test myself when I get the chance.
You could always try installing to a usb thumb drive.
The problem is the tender system is broken. Government projects in Australia are contracted to the consulting company who promises to deliver a solution in the shortest time and the smallest budget. They then sign a blank cheque based on the expected initial phase of development and then the company puts its hand out until completion.
What happened here is that the company promised to deliver a solution at $2.5million a year and has managed to milk the system for an additional $30m ! So it's a government department, certainly, but the contractor exaggerated its ability to deliver.
I've worked for a government IT project, directly employed by the department, where years after the original company did handover, we were still cleaning up the mess. No documentation, no code comments, some of the worst anti-patterns I've ever seen. Too many cowboys in the industry and it's a pity the government just don't have an in-house development team.
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I like the idea of BB10, but as I said in another comment, the handsets aren't compelling. e.g. a Q10 is way overpriced relative to a Nexus 5.
Interesting... Is that similar to the way the BSDs implement compat_linux ?
RIM was in demise long before BB X was released. It was never about the technology - the current BB OS is arguably the most advanced smartphone platform, with the Qt goodness of Harmattan (aborted by Elop) and the QNX platform underneath. (Android is just a bonus to make up the shortfall in verb conjugators and fart apps)
The real problem was that blackberry's handset business has been declining due to the rise of iOS and Android and the subsequent BYOD culture. Traction to lure casual consumers to the platform was never going to happen when, for a song, one can pick up a 2nd hand 2011-era handset that will happily run the nightly build of CM11 (in my case). They simply don't have the models to compete at the low-mid end, where they should be aiming rather than the iPhone 5/Galaxy S4 market.
It was faked, why should the Chinese care about a little 'space-junk' littering the Gobi Desert?
Of course, I don't think the Mongolians would appreciate you calling them 'aliens', you insensitive clod! :-)
imperial units explain why the death star blew up twice.
Yet the emperor blames contractor shoddiness on those pesky rebels.
Oh crap, Slashdot.
You redesign the UI, yet a heading I paste from wikipedia gets mangled by the text encoding???
"Trap-bath split"
axe and the 'misspelling' of ask (aks) are homophones?
Not where I live (Trapâ"bath split)
Of course in other English-speaking countries, the punctuation mark you're thinking of is called a "full stop".
There's always debian IceWeasel; Firefox minus Mozilla branding.
Not even close. The Shat isn't even 90 yet.
Betty White and Christopher Lee are still going strong...
NB: It's a chicken and egg re: Android on x86 (the native-code on ARM argument). However, Intel has been murmuring about running kitkat on x86-64, so it's up to them to promote the platform and convince app-developers to port any ARM-specific native code for an alt architecture.
I do wish them success if they dump any PowerVR nastiness they had in previous Atoms in favour of their own Linux-friendly GPU arch. (Hopefully pressuring Mali, Tegra and Adreno to officially support open drivers)
It depends on Intel's latest efforts with the Silvermont SoC - if they can get 10-15 hours battery life...
Phones might remain ARM-only but a $300 x86-64 device that can undercut the Surface Pro 2 with both Android and Windows is the future (MS stupid locked-down UEFI pending...)
Forget wine, sketchy compatibility and using qemu to emulate x86 on ARM - the next-gen Atoms include virtualization extensions. Either dual-boot or just port Virtualbox, accessing the physical disk on the other partition and you're done.
Ah, the old Useless Serial Bus.
Win9x gained USB support but I remember around 2003/4 enterprises were still using PS/2 mice and keyboards on NT 4 workstation.
Yes, I've heard the 'real-time' arguments in embedded but for consumer devices are there tangible benefits to QNX vs Linux?
I'm just thinking, hypothetically, of when Blackberry.com goes under - whether the assets be sold off again to a standalone QNX entity.
Or would it be useful for a company like Samsung re-basing their Android and Tizen efforts on their own proprietary kernel to differentiate their offerings from HTC and LG etc?
Running wine with qemu is nothing new - ppc linux users were doing that a decade ago.
A whole week without a bunch of whiny Americans? Bliss! :-)
'uniform Linux plumbing system' ?
Last I checked, KDE ran on Open/Net/FreeBSD and even Windows and OS X. Gnome, which seems to be largely a Red Hat driven technology these days, couldn't give a rat's arse about portability but why should other desktop environments be steered to Linux-only?
Maybe not in YOUR timezone.
The userspace application compatibility is shared with wine and will thus target whichever APIs that modern applications require.
Last I checked, they were basing their compatibility of the underlying OS on XP 5.2 (Windows Server 2003). Developing an NT clone is a moving target, when you consider MS have had several evolutions since in the form of Vista, 7 and 8. They wanted to get to a point where their OS core was stable (XP compatible) and worry about Windows 9 driver compatibilities when the product was mature enough to re-base, rather than shifting goalposts every few years.
I take a gander every couple of versions. I filed a bug report a while back, which hasn't been fixed, or at least for the ancient version of the software I was trying to run, so I'll test myself when I get the chance.
You could always try installing to a usb thumb drive.
Weren't you folks supposed to be on some boycott this week?
The problem is the tender system is broken. Government projects in Australia are contracted to the consulting company who promises to deliver a solution in the shortest time and the smallest budget. They then sign a blank cheque based on the expected initial phase of development and then the company puts its hand out until completion.
What happened here is that the company promised to deliver a solution at $2.5million a year and has managed to milk the system for an additional $30m ! So it's a government department, certainly, but the contractor exaggerated its ability to deliver.
I've worked for a government IT project, directly employed by the department, where years after the original company did handover, we were still cleaning up the mess. No documentation, no code comments, some of the worst anti-patterns I've ever seen. Too many cowboys in the industry and it's a pity the government just don't have an in-house development team.
I was never a DS9 fan. All that benjamin messiah nonsense...
http://pullup.herokuapp.com/
It is by pull request only, so you have to be able to program Node.js in order to become a user.
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Barrapunto.com if you speak Spanish.