Internally windows system calles work a lot like WINE on linux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

But unlike windows Linux doesn't have to drag along all the legacy binary support for some of the lower layers.

Umm, I do believe there is expirimental ARM support, for ARM Windows binaries (windows CE and windows RT) http://wiki.winehq.org/ARM You really need to read more carefully.

But yes the idea is to be a translation or compatibility layer to expose windows API's to windows PE's.

Actually I can relate. Got my fiancee off Windows and into Ubuntu (latest stable at the time). Initial install was a nightmare to get a bootable installer but once the hurdle gone, installed just fine. Then it was the carrousel of packages, getting het what she needed. Mandarin music player, OpenOffice (the easiest one to get IMO) and other things so she could enjoy a virus-free setup. It just meant days of screwing with a system she just wanted to USE. Not build.

She eventually got a Mac Mini because of house influence. She's been quite happy with it so far. Her last gripe is her Android phone not satisfying. I'm trying not to push her but... this is also an iOS house...

Enters Robonaut.

Oh come on! There are only 6 hundred distributions.

Can I say Yyggdrasil?

Assuming I could pronounce it.

It used to work quite well for me, till I discovered where to buy a *BSD CD.

Unity killed Ubuntu. I am busy Migrating the family from Ubuntu to Mint.

When someone says "Megacorp", they typically mean this. There are a few companies on that list that will pay that (GS, INTC, JPM, MSFT), depending on where you work. But the majority will not.

You can made decent money outside the big tech areas, in the smaller cities where quality of life tends to be higher. The trade-off is that you have to be willing to uproot and move to a completely different small city to chase other job opportunities. The demand for tech workers (and the commensurate pay) exists -- they just are not concentrated in a small area. But if you are unwilling to move (and your potential employer knows this), then they have a huge advantage when its comes to negotiating salary.

If it is open source (and a cursory look around the web site didn't show me any links to the source), it's a shame that it isn't in F-Droid.

Here's what we used at Clearwire for OOB management of radio sites.

http://www.digi.com/products/w...

ARM exists largely because of Apple. They didn't want to buy mobile chips from a competitor (Acorn), so invested in a joint venture so that Acorn would spin off their chip division into a company that would sell to both. They then ignored ARM after killing the Newton though. Many of the people working on the current ARM cores at Apple formerly worked on a PowerPC processor at PA Semi. I think, if IBM and Freescale, had been serious about selling desktop chips that Apple would have been happy to avoid a load of software costs by having a single CPU family for their entire product suite. IBM didn't want to compete with Intel in mobile chips and Freescale kept promising exciting parts and never quite bringing them to market.

We definitely need a place for these dinosaurs to roam freely. It is really the perfect solution. They will build their own zoo. We can keep an eye on them from a distance.

You try offering agile services in a cyclical correlated market that requires multi-year massive upfront capital investment, smarty-pants.

X2

Pebble won that race. unfortunately lacks the marketing power of Apple and thus, they will become moot in not so long. Sad, because they already do what Apple's watch promises. Right down to SDK.