I'm sure they'll be willing to spend bucks polishing Linux, since they don't have to buy the OS to begin with. Especially if it means doubling their sales, or more.
It's impossible to buy iPad OS in the first place. What you can do is
- Ship Android (Linux kernel, rest is Googlestuff)
- Ship Moblin (real Linux, will turn to MeeGo)
- Wait for MeeGo/ChromeOS (real Linux)
- Ship Windows CE
It's apps that sell hardware, not operating system awesomeness.
Funny, I thought a cheap device with a good browser would land a purchase or two.
Sure linux is free and all that but you tend to have to have a gun to a linux developer's head to get him to spend time on polishing the UI.
We have people paid to do that, you know. No weapon needed.
Adapting a mouse app for touch control has two major steps: 1. eliminate anything requiring a hover, and 2. make the controls big so that they're easier to hit. Or what am I missing?
You'll have to enable flicking (in order to not suck).
Good that you brought this up. I have given up on wine ages ago, since I am satisfied with the 2-3
The rat is there because python is still learning.
Maybe HTML5 in Firefox should mean that I can right click and "save as". Then it won't really matter.
You don't need to do even that. Clicking on a video could just send the file to external video player (which always has all the warez codecs you need). Actually, that's the way I want to view my video anyway, I don't want them inside the browser, crashing and hanging all over the place.
Great news. I'm using Tear on my n810 mostly, let's see if this can top it...
KDE & QT are under LGPL, which, unlike GPL, avoid this vulnerability. The only reason for getting a commercial license for otherwise LGPL'd software is that either 1) you need static linking or 2) you need to make secret modifications to the library.
It means a custom window manager on top of X.
Then build something better.
HTML5 should be enough.
The problem is not being sued.
The problem is that we don't necessarily want this MS-driven environment to become popular among devs.
if the official Google announcements stating that Chrome OS will not run X11 don't convince you,
They have never announced anything to that effect.
I'd love to see a citation straight from the horses mouth that X won't be used. Notably, the following says nothing about X:
Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.
Gnash is an open source implementation of a closed source virtual machine (Flash Player). And yet they are largely held up as heroes because they are making it possible to use a full open source environment and still see flash content. How is this any different from what Miguel is doing with Moonlight?
I guess the difference is that Gnash guys hate Flash with passion, whereas Miguel & friends recommend the technology they work with as reasonable choice for new development.
Why would anyone want to use a glorified VB clone? I am sick and tired of seeing 'rock-star' Python and Ruby programmers trying to shove the new shiny toy in everyone's face. People have been using Perl for 20+ years, and they'll still be using it for 20+ years after Ruby and Python are a distant memory.
The GP mentioned trying Ruby (and as such is not afraid of shiny toys) and disliking it because of bad implementation. In that light, Python would have been a great match.
Please don't drag down Python in the "rockstar programmer" mire, it's a time-honed language that is being used for serious (non-web 2.0) stuff all the time. We all got beards, even.
The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization. -- Alan Coult
