What the? do a search for 'tivoization'. It's a sticking point with Linus and RMS regards GPLv3.
Want to know why Nexus phones are so popular? Because historically numerous Android vendors supplied locked bootloaders, so if you wanted to install Cyanogenmod on them you required an exploit and even then couldn't compile your own kernel.
Aside from being '64 bit clean', why would you care about RAM?
Doesn't each Chrome tab run in a separate process, i.e. say each tab addresses 2GB, if you're have 8 tabs open you're maxing out your 16GB workstation??
Running a 32bit browser on a 64bit OS can be a blessing - Running Chrome on Windows means I don't have to disable (for security reasons) the 64bit Java Plugin the JDK installs.
Sorry I didn't mean to imply that Canonical was going to take over driver development, merely that things might (conveniently for Canonical) fall into place in terms of your timeframes, appreciating that you both do this unpaid in your spare time (and kudos for doing this!) Though it would be a nice gesture on Shuttleworth's part were he to fund such things essential for hardware support, rather than piggybacking on the efforts of volunteers.
Do either of you have a paypal or similar? Were I to purchase compatible hardware in order to run X11/Wayland then I'd strongly consider a small contribution in appreciation, even if the paltry sum total of donations enables one to buy better beer at fosdem:-)
p.s. I have no affiliation with Canonical! just a curious observer of the regular updates on Phoronix.
Planet Earth, circa the first stable release in April 2014.
This week is only a preview launch, followed by a 13.10 general release with many of the kinks worked out and 14.04 being rock solid, including mature reverse-engineered FOSS drivers for adreno and mali. (with TI and Nvidia producing vendor supported drivers for OMAP 5 and Tegra 4 respectively)
By which time Apple will have had 2 hardware refreshes of the iPad.
FWIW, the Nexus 10 already ships with such specs at $US399. Expect that to be commonplace in 6-12 months at lower price points, though probably not on a 'junk' $100 Chinese Android tablet...
Probably the best strategy for tablet manufacturers regarding Linux is to release them under some base, useful enough OS (i.e. Android) and let all drivers/boot/etc open enough to enable users to install on them the Linux flavor they want if need something better, be this Ubuntu, openWebOS, Mer, KDE Plasma Active or another.
Ubuntu tablet edition, openWebOS, Nemo (formerly-known-as Meego Handset Ux), Plasma Active are all Qt-on-Linux solutions. So since the basic libraries are common, installing a 'flavor' ought to be as simple installing a package from an ubuntu mirror - accessed much in the same way that a user can select a desktop environment from LightDM's login screen.
The extent to which they lock it down and make a Canonical Store the sole vehicle for loading QML app$ onto the device will determine its appeal.
As long as it's a standard ARM-based distro that one can run, say, GIMP and emacs under E17 (via external inputs and display) then everyone should be happy. But if it's akin to Windows RT, where only store-purchased apps can run then it's appeal is limited.
The preview release has nothing to do with high or low end. The Nexus 4 devices have community support through AOSP and are targets for community development such as replicant and freedreno. It's a hacker phone, a shipping product that provides a base platform on actual hardware. Such that first-world nerds such the average Slashdotter might possibly own and thereby try out Ubuntu and contribute to the ecosystem.
By targeting the Nexus 4, they support one of the more popular SoCs in Snapdragon. Coincidentally, Snapdragons are found in the both the developer phones that Geeksphone are producing for Firefox OS, neither of which are super high end by flagship Samsung/HTC/Apple standards.
Current figures (greater melbourne, wikipedia) have more than 4miliion.
Your definition of the city of Melbourne extending only to 10 km is moot as a fair number of people commute each day along suburban train lines, a number of which in the E/SE extend beyond 35km from the CBD. And not just workers heading into the city - Try studying at La Trobe or Monash unis by a combination of bus, tram or train and see how long one's cross-town journey takes...
By car, there are peak hour traffic jams - despite succesive state governments building freeways in every direction...
I don't know what size your screen is but a portrait A4 sheet of paper doesn't fit on *my* 1920Ã--1080 monitor.
A4 is about 29.7 cm long. On my 21.5" 1080 widescreen monitor, that's about 27 cm high. So that's nearly 3cm short. Subtracting the OS task bar, window decorations, menubar, toolbar, footer etc of my PDF reader and there's a miniscule 22.7cm of actual viewable area to display the actual page. So on my screen, an A4 page renders at 76%
So a 'big monitor' in 16:9 widescreen isn't that big... That's why we read them fullscreen, or rotated to portrait mode. Your experience may differ, according to the aspect ratio.
Caveat emptor re linux support for USB adapters. I needed a solution in a hurry from the local electronics store for a Windows 7 laptop but unsurprisingly drivers were lacking for Ubuntu.
Which is kind of a shame when today's Android smartphones include USB OTG support, e.g. for plugging in external displays. Perhaps I'll learn some C and hack together a driver by 2015!
For programming? Writing code *is* a desk-bound activity. Or occupying a table at your local Starbucks cafeteria, if you prefer a hipster-coffee analogy.:)
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What the? do a search for 'tivoization'. It's a sticking point with Linus and RMS regards GPLv3.
Want to know why Nexus phones are so popular? Because historically numerous Android vendors supplied locked bootloaders, so if you wanted to install Cyanogenmod on them you required an exploit and even then couldn't compile your own kernel.
ISO is just plain wrong.
Consider Northern Ireland - a part of the United Kingdom. Neither .gb nor .ie (Republic of Ireland) would apply.
I believe the post referred to closed-source binaries from Google Play.
Sun open sourced a bunch of stuff but held the patents and copyright. Oracle now owns those.
In webos' case HP are selling only a software division, not themselves as Sun did.
Lol. Damn Hippies!
I turned off DS9 when Benjamin became some sort of intergalatic Dalai Lama.
Perhaps the decision of OS was delayed until shortly before release.
So the hardware might have targetted WinRT, Android or open webOS (now sold to LG, according to cnet)
A number of news agencies were quoting cnet, who have pulled the story???
The story mentioned only tvs but you'd think the (ex-palm) LG folks would port openwebOS to the LG Nexus 4 fairly quickly if management requested it.
(On windows)
I thought the default builds for Firefox were still 32 bit?
Turn off swap? Chrome can't write to what doesn't exist.
It's explained in this video
Does it understand non-NorthAmericans yet?
The speech recognition was completely useless on my Android phone unless I delivered a fake US accent.
Aside from being '64 bit clean', why would you care about RAM?
Doesn't each Chrome tab run in a separate process, i.e. say each tab addresses 2GB, if you're have 8 tabs open you're maxing out your 16GB workstation??
Running a 32bit browser on a 64bit OS can be a blessing - Running Chrome on Windows means I don't have to disable (for security reasons) the 64bit Java Plugin the JDK installs.
Touchscreens are part of the latest ultrabook spec, so get used to it...
Sorry I didn't mean to imply that Canonical was going to take over driver development, merely that things might (conveniently for Canonical) fall into place in terms of your timeframes, appreciating that you both do this unpaid in your spare time (and kudos for doing this!) Though it would be a nice gesture on Shuttleworth's part were he to fund such things essential for hardware support, rather than piggybacking on the efforts of volunteers.
Do either of you have a paypal or similar? Were I to purchase compatible hardware in order to run X11/Wayland then I'd strongly consider a small contribution in appreciation, even if the paltry sum total of donations enables one to buy better beer at fosdem :-)
p.s. I have no affiliation with Canonical! just a curious observer of the regular updates on Phoronix.
Planet Earth, circa the first stable release in April 2014.
This week is only a preview launch, followed by a 13.10 general release with many of the kinks worked out and 14.04 being rock solid, including mature reverse-engineered FOSS drivers for adreno and mali. (with TI and Nvidia producing vendor supported drivers for OMAP 5 and Tegra 4 respectively)
By which time Apple will have had 2 hardware refreshes of the iPad.
FWIW, the Nexus 10 already ships with such specs at $US399. Expect that to be commonplace in 6-12 months at lower price points, though probably not on a 'junk' $100 Chinese Android tablet...
Ubuntu tablet edition, openWebOS, Nemo (formerly-known-as Meego Handset Ux), Plasma Active are all Qt-on-Linux solutions. So since the basic libraries are common, installing a 'flavor' ought to be as simple installing a package from an ubuntu mirror - accessed much in the same way that a user can select a desktop environment from LightDM's login screen.
The extent to which they lock it down and make a Canonical Store the sole vehicle for loading QML app$ onto the device will determine its appeal.
As long as it's a standard ARM-based distro that one can run, say, GIMP and emacs under E17 (via external inputs and display) then everyone should be happy. But if it's akin to Windows RT, where only store-purchased apps can run then it's appeal is limited.
Plasma Active, Nemo, Cordia HD etc are all just touch screen environments running on top of the ruins of Meego.
There's nothing stopping anyone repackaging those rpms as debs. Which is probably Canonical's starting point, plus a Unity skin.
As for hardware, aren't they using the Google Nexus devices for developer images, i.e. Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4 for phones and Nexus 7 for tablets?
The preview release has nothing to do with high or low end. The Nexus 4 devices have community support through AOSP and are targets for community development such as replicant and freedreno. It's a hacker phone, a shipping product that provides a base platform on actual hardware. Such that first-world nerds such the average Slashdotter might possibly own and thereby try out Ubuntu and contribute to the ecosystem.
By targeting the Nexus 4, they support one of the more popular SoCs in Snapdragon. Coincidentally, Snapdragons are found in the both the developer phones that Geeksphone are producing for Firefox OS, neither of which are super high end by flagship Samsung/HTC/Apple standards.
Current figures (greater melbourne, wikipedia) have more than 4miliion.
Your definition of the city of Melbourne extending only to 10 km is moot as a fair number of people commute each day along suburban train lines, a number of which in the E/SE extend beyond 35km from the CBD. And not just workers heading into the city - Try studying at La Trobe or Monash unis by a combination of bus, tram or train and see how long one's cross-town journey takes...
By car, there are peak hour traffic jams - despite succesive state governments building freeways in every direction...
I don't know what size your screen is but a portrait A4 sheet of paper doesn't fit on *my* 1920Ã--1080 monitor.
A4 is about 29.7 cm long. On my 21.5" 1080 widescreen monitor, that's about 27 cm high. So that's nearly 3cm short. Subtracting the OS task bar, window decorations, menubar, toolbar, footer etc of my PDF reader and there's a miniscule 22.7cm of actual viewable area to display the actual page. So on my screen, an A4 page renders at 76%
So a 'big monitor' in 16:9 widescreen isn't that big... That's why we read them fullscreen, or rotated to portrait mode. Your experience may differ, according to the aspect ratio.
Single-column PDFs and Word documents are invariably formatted for Portrait and yet the majority of displays are Landscape-only.
If governments were truly conscious of 'saving a tree', they'd mandate use of pivotable monitors.
Caveat emptor re linux support for USB adapters. I needed a solution in a hurry from the local electronics store for a Windows 7 laptop but unsurprisingly drivers were lacking for Ubuntu.
Which is kind of a shame when today's Android smartphones include USB OTG support, e.g. for plugging in external displays. Perhaps I'll learn some C and hack together a driver by 2015!
For programming? Writing code *is* a desk-bound activity. Or occupying a table at your local Starbucks cafeteria, if you prefer a hipster-coffee analogy. :)