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Bird Reporter: This just in! Humans now claiming ownership of our musical scales.
Bird Reporter: This just in! Humans now claiming ownership of our musical scales.
Or maybe someone might just want to run Linux on mobile hardware without being shackled to Android? Or maybe someone is planning on coming out with some new non-Android mobile hardware and they want the graphics performance not to suck...
I can think of several possible reasons for this right off the top of my head. You drank too much of the Kool-Aid.
But Debian's existing sysv-style init in wheezy already does that without needing to be swapped out for systemd. How could it have escaped everyone's notice that systemd's primary justification isn't even new functionality?
Noah wasn't also trying to build a theme park to go with it.
I think you meant shudder, and if you've only ever compiled Linux kernels I think will find that the recompile time of the OpenBSD kernel when applying patches is shockingly quick; quick enough to make you wonder why they'd have ever bothered with loadable modules in the first place.
For whatever its worth, I've been using OpenBSD primarily for firewalls for the past 15 years and in that time I have never once needed to either add a module not already installed on the system to a running system or load a module at any time other than at boot time. For me and the entirety of my use cases (and, I suspect most other people as well) the only effects this change will have will be to increase theoretical security significantly and increase performance slightly.
Because they don't bother to shut down. They just power it off, or unplug it.
I don't see how any of your complaints are relevant to Firefox OS. It seems like you're bitching about (admittedly valid) problems with the Raspberry Pi and their corporate overlords handling of the project but trying to pin it on FFOS somehow.
It won't be long before you can get a full x86 Atom board with [everything you want] for the same price as a [leading low-power-consumption competitor]. There's Atom tablets coming out soon that include Windows and will only cost $100 with screen, case, storage, and charger included...
Don't get me wrong, the Pi is crippled by a number of software development, hardware design, and corporate policy defects, but I've been hearing for almost as long as there have been Atoms that "soon" there will be ones released that are cheap enough and low enough in power consumption to justify their existence, without actually seeing any evidence of that being likely to ever happen, popular opinion notwithstanding.
no, that is vertigo
Use mumble for voice chat. Its free and its not spyware.
I use mine for video playing primarily. It makes a surprisingly good low-power HD media center to hook to, say, a digital home theater projector, so long as your gear is all HDMI enabled and your video is all h264. Its really shit for anything that needs more bandwidth than a USB bus though; because that's all it has; a USB bus. Even a PC from 1998 can easily blow the doors off it for general I/O throughput to disk and ethernet due to this somewhat unfortunate limitation. If all the on-board parts were interconnected with a PCI bus it would actually be a really great little machine for general purposes.
The *primary* problem with it though is that the closed-source binary components and the Linux kernel customizations are done incredibly sloppily and there is just about zero sense of transparency or trustworthyness in that part of the development process. There are *frequent* regressions in core functionality of these components, especially with regards to the HDMI capabilities and some of the cooler features such as CMA which hasn't actually worked as far as I can tell since late 2012, but I couldn't find anyone else, officially affiliated with the project or otherwise, to admit to having ever tested it. So that's what I'd fix first; OPEN SOURCE ALL OF IT.
Oh, and the Raspbian support community is full of pretentious asshats.
Incidentally, that's actually not far over the speed limit on the I5, but the distance from Los Angeles to Seattle is 1827.09 kilometers
I'm impressed by the TGV too, but trains in the US don't go nearly that fast. Its actually *much slower* to travel the US Pacific coast by train than it is to simply drive I-5.
Not if they have only one parking spot...
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson