they're ALREADY doing that - asus, acer et al did it with netbooks, and now that it worked, they are backing off linux like it is an ugly schoolboy with aids. the one OEM who is NOT backing off is Dell, oddly enough.
1) possibly a valid criticism
2) replicating good, often used functions is a GOOD thing.
3) bullshit. there are a lot of good OSS dev tools.
4) strawman
5) commercial developers do this too, only they get paid not to do it in public.
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wiiware.
I didn't. The iPad is pretty much what I wanted, only it runs a closed source OS and has a closed ecosystem, and no SD card slot.
haha
if the interface was the only real barrier, the Pre would have probably knocked the iPhone off its perch
what IS a good kde distro? they don't seem to exist (aside from maybe fedora)
yes
there's no text client?
pretty fucking sweet :) thanks Wildfire!
wish it ran on eee 701 models, perfect for that heh
and the amount of people who don't care what MS is doing with their browser is growing very, very fast. Doesn't matter what MS does.
it really is not much of a loss not being able to access content made for profit.
this is old news, the beta's been out for a while now. nice linking too!
looks just as bad as the original UI.
yes, every story before this one.
they're ALREADY doing that - asus, acer et al did it with netbooks, and now that it worked, they are backing off linux like it is an ugly schoolboy with aids. the one OEM who is NOT backing off is Dell, oddly enough.
no it doesn't. popular myth among the antigovernment types though.
it is i386
not to mention 8.10 is a load of buggy crap that isn't being fixed.
Long Term Support.
LOL great source there, worldnutdaily
Opera's rendering engine probably can.
Is either icedtea6 or openjdk going to make it for lenny?
bugbuntu indeed
they didn't do that. they based it on 3.5 and then refused to service it long term, and offered a "remix" with 4 in it. THAT was stupid.
1) possibly a valid criticism 2) replicating good, often used functions is a GOOD thing. 3) bullshit. there are a lot of good OSS dev tools. 4) strawman 5) commercial developers do this too, only they get paid not to do it in public.