I have a Xoom running Ubuntu in a chroot and have been fiddling with it since it first went up a couple of months ago. It works for very basic applications like xeyes and xterm but it's missing too many X extensions to run practically anything else. I test it out every so often in hope though. I will say that the performance for what does work absolutely stomps any vnc solution I've tried so far.
Hell, if nothing else, just do what Canonical suggests third party devs do and just install your binaries/libraries to/opt, put an icon in/usr/share/icons and put a.desktop file in/usr/share/applications. Problem solved. It ain't that hard, people.
Unfortunately, even if every Steam user switched entirely to Linux it would still only have a few percentage points of market share. Linux users waaaay overestimate how much of an impact ths will have.
And? Linux can be legally had for free and the source is open to anybody that wants to hack it and rerelease changes. It pretty much exists outside of the scope of marketshare that Windows and OSX (and BeOS and DrDOS) exist in. If those OS's don't sell to more than a certain critical mass of consumers, they fail. Linux could not be used by a single person for years and then somebody could just pick it up and continue. Maybe if you spent less time bashing (your username wtf?) it you would have a more rational sense of perspective about it.
The N9 barely sold more than the Lumias have. So, no, it wasn't a homerun.
Considering it was dumped on by the CEO of Nokia, had next to no marketing budget compared to the Lumia line, wasn't sold in the biggest markets like the Lumias were/are, and out sold multiple phones, I'd say it wasn't a home run either. It was a freaking miracle and the fact that Nokia isn't running with it is a mistake of legendary proportion.
Some of you may have noticed the same thing happening to Google over the past few years. I see more and more negative news stories on them every year. Soon, they'll be hated too.
That has more to do with the fact that Linux isn't targeted with malware like Windows is. If that situation changes you can expect things like AppArmor and SELinux to be made default about 5 minutes later. The technology to make Linux extremely secure is built in it's just a matter of the situation warranting people bothering to flick the switch and so far it hasn't been necessary.
This isn't true at all. It's just that there are so many more exploits via trojans OS exploits aren't getting as much press. But that doesn't mean that new ones aren't discovered everyday because they are.
And no, repositories on Linux wouldn't solve this problem. If Linux had the market share, there would need to be a way to install programs and games from other than the distro repos. Such system works fine for servers and small amount of geeks who use Linux on desktop, but on large scale it doesn't work. Even most FOSS people are actually against this model - just look at the "walled garden" comments against iOS and WP7 on Slashdot.
I assumed it was obvious that I wasn't responding to the submitter. If I had been I would have suggested a Blackberry if security is the overriding concern.
How many unpatched remote exploits exist for Android vs the competition? When you have physical access to the device all bets are off no matter what OS is on it.
You mean Linux itself isn't better security wise either, it's just that the (desktop) market share is so low?
Linux has a total install base in the hundreds of millions on various types of computers from embedded to smartphones to desktops to servers to supercomputers. Saying it has a "small" market share is extremely disingenuous.
So, if you want to get a smartphone that is safe against exploits and malware, Windows Phone 7 is your only answer.
On the contrary, wp7 lack of exploits probably has more to do with its lack of market penetration than anything else. I would go with Blackberry if security was my main criteria as it has sizable share and has been on the market long enough and in enough users hands to prove itself.
Back when I used to travel all over the country, I had an external gps that I mounted in the middle of the dashboard. After a couple of near misses over the span of a year, I relocated it to the middle of the instrument cluster right below the speedometer so that even if I was glancing at it, I could still see the road directly in my periphery. That was the end of the near misses. This is a good idea and I don't know why it isn't SOP.
try some things out at an interactive prompt, and cut-n-paste the stuff that works
I find using Beanshell gives me this advantage in Java as well. I do a lot of work in Python and Java and having an interactive interpreter for both environments is immensely helpful.
When you try and fail to unlock an Android device enough times and fail it just asks for your gmail password. I doubt Google will do anything more than give them that which would be pretty worthless against any other Android phone.
This isn't the first or only way to code for Android on Android. See TerminalIDEc4droid for your C compiling needs, and the scripting layer for Android for Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, beanshell, etc. There have been many ways to code for Android on a device for years it's just this one is coming to popular attention right now because it is so good.
For people that can't hear, sign language is pretty nice. For those times when inspiration hits and you are nowhere nearyour laptop, this is great news. Not to mention the fact that not all Android devices are constrained to touch only input and AIDE features comprehensive keyboard shortcuts for Transformer style devices.
I've had this installed on my tablet and phone for a couple of weeks now and its actually pretty amazing. I was in Chili's a couple of nights ago and was waiting on my girlfriend to show up when inspiration struck. I have a project that I've been working on that was sitting in my Drop box so I just pulled my GNex out and went to work. In about 10 minutes, I had made the changes to my source code, compiled the app and tested it right there at the table. It was practically surreal. A real Android app edited and installed right on my phone. Will I start using my phone as my dev station from now on? Of course not but damned if AIDE didn't come through in a big way the other night.
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So, telling the truth is shilling now? Take off the tin-foil nutball.
Hairyfeet is a lot of things but "shill" isn't one of them. Save it for the real thing.
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I have a Xoom running Ubuntu in a chroot and have been fiddling with it since it first went up a couple of months ago. It works for very basic applications like xeyes and xterm but it's missing too many X extensions to run practically anything else. I test it out every so often in hope though. I will say that the performance for what does work absolutely stomps any vnc solution I've tried so far.
The Linux freetards are definitely not whiny assholes, as you've so eloquently demonstrated in your profound post.
Yeah, you're really setting the example here, AC.
Hell, if nothing else, just do what Canonical suggests third party devs do and just install your binaries/libraries to /opt, put an icon in /usr/share/icons and put a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications. Problem solved. It ain't that hard, people.
Unfortunately, even if every Steam user switched entirely to Linux it would still only have a few percentage points of market share. Linux users waaaay overestimate how much of an impact ths will have.
And? Linux can be legally had for free and the source is open to anybody that wants to hack it and rerelease changes. It pretty much exists outside of the scope of marketshare that Windows and OSX (and BeOS and DrDOS) exist in. If those OS's don't sell to more than a certain critical mass of consumers, they fail. Linux could not be used by a single person for years and then somebody could just pick it up and continue. Maybe if you spent less time bashing (your username wtf?) it you would have a more rational sense of perspective about it.
The N9 barely sold more than the Lumias have. So, no, it wasn't a homerun.
Considering it was dumped on by the CEO of Nokia, had next to no marketing budget compared to the Lumia line, wasn't sold in the biggest markets like the Lumias were/are, and out sold multiple phones, I'd say it wasn't a home run either. It was a freaking miracle and the fact that Nokia isn't running with it is a mistake of legendary proportion.
Some of you may have noticed the same thing happening to Google over the past few years. I see more and more negative news stories on them every year. Soon, they'll be hated too.
The anti-Google bias on many tech sites is a lot of manufactured controversy.
You might not like Mickie-D's fair but nobody in their right mind wouldn't call them successful. That's what we're talking about here.
Nokia decided not to embarrass their Lumia models in the USA, UK, Japan, Germany by releasing the N9 in competition.
Isn't that the truth. My last check was that the N9 was outselling the Lumia series 3:1 despite being gimped by Elop.
That has more to do with the fact that Linux isn't targeted with malware like Windows is. If that situation changes you can expect things like AppArmor and SELinux to be made default about 5 minutes later. The technology to make Linux extremely secure is built in it's just a matter of the situation warranting people bothering to flick the switch and so far it hasn't been necessary.
True exploits against OS are rare now a days.
This isn't true at all. It's just that there are so many more exploits via trojans OS exploits aren't getting as much press. But that doesn't mean that new ones aren't discovered everyday because they are.
And no, repositories on Linux wouldn't solve this problem. If Linux had the market share, there would need to be a way to install programs and games from other than the distro repos. Such system works fine for servers and small amount of geeks who use Linux on desktop, but on large scale it doesn't work. Even most FOSS people are actually against this model - just look at the "walled garden" comments against iOS and WP7 on Slashdot.
This is pure unsubstantiated sophistry.
I assumed it was obvious that I wasn't responding to the submitter. If I had been I would have suggested a Blackberry if security is the overriding concern.
How many unpatched remote exploits exist for Android vs the competition? When you have physical access to the device all bets are off no matter what OS is on it.
You mean Linux itself isn't better security wise either, it's just that the (desktop) market share is so low?
Linux has a total install base in the hundreds of millions on various types of computers from embedded to smartphones to desktops to servers to supercomputers. Saying it has a "small" market share is extremely disingenuous.
So, if you want to get a smartphone that is safe against exploits and malware, Windows Phone 7 is your only answer.
On the contrary, wp7 lack of exploits probably has more to do with its lack of market penetration than anything else. I would go with Blackberry if security was my main criteria as it has sizable share and has been on the market long enough and in enough users hands to prove itself.
Back when I used to travel all over the country, I had an external gps that I mounted in the middle of the dashboard. After a couple of near misses over the span of a year, I relocated it to the middle of the instrument cluster right below the speedometer so that even if I was glancing at it, I could still see the road directly in my periphery. That was the end of the near misses. This is a good idea and I don't know why it isn't SOP.
try some things out at an interactive prompt, and cut-n-paste the stuff that works
I find using Beanshell gives me this advantage in Java as well. I do a lot of work in Python and Java and having an interactive interpreter for both environments is immensely helpful.
When you try and fail to unlock an Android device enough times and fail it just asks for your gmail password. I doubt Google will do anything more than give them that which would be pretty worthless against any other Android phone.
What device and OS version are you using? I have an Apple bluetooth keyboard coupled to a Xoom running ICS and have never had this issue.
This isn't the first or only way to code for Android on Android. See TerminalIDE c4droid for your C compiling needs, and the scripting layer for Android for Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, beanshell, etc. There have been many ways to code for Android on a device for years it's just this one is coming to popular attention right now because it is so good.
Okay, maybe I exaggerated that part but the rest still stands! AIDE is awesome if unfortunately named. /s
For people that can't hear, sign language is pretty nice. For those times when inspiration hits and you are nowhere nearyour laptop, this is great news. Not to mention the fact that not all Android devices are constrained to touch only input and AIDE features comprehensive keyboard shortcuts for Transformer style devices.
I've had this installed on my tablet and phone for a couple of weeks now and its actually pretty amazing. I was in Chili's a couple of nights ago and was waiting on my girlfriend to show up when inspiration struck. I have a project that I've been working on that was sitting in my Drop box so I just pulled my GNex out and went to work. In about 10 minutes, I had made the changes to my source code, compiled the app and tested it right there at the table. It was practically surreal. A real Android app edited and installed right on my phone. Will I start using my phone as my dev station from now on? Of course not but damned if AIDE didn't come through in a big way the other night.