Comment )avascript (Score 1) 296
How about plain old javascript? I heard it's pretty cross platform as well.
How about plain old javascript? I heard it's pretty cross platform as well.
I really can't get anyone who considers themselves a tech enthusiast being too close minded to try one for themselves.
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Boycotting EA and Draconian DRM. Supporting 2dboy.com, gog.com.
See the contradiction here?
It's not suitable for application developers either, there are no application development frameworks unless you count x libs.
If you want to make apps for future MeeGo, you can start now by making Qt apps for N900.
Upgrading phones should "just work" without any fear of breakage. Using apt this is known to work and it is not known that yum is superior. I would add that I have seen only unconvincing arguments that yum is even as good as apt, so I call it inferior.
Whether upgrade works or not is the result of hard work of people preparing the upgrade, not some "magic" provided by apt/yum.
I cannot imagine that switching to a Fedora base will make anything better, and I expect it will make many things worse.
MeeGo is not using Fedora base, it's a new distribution that happens to use RPM.
While it probably was not reason for the switch (they cite existing infrastructure and people intel have in place), RPM packaging is allegedly easier than Debian packaging (only need to edit one file and you are good to go).
Seems that the good ol' Limuxwatch troll woke up again:
I won't read the rest of the article.
New here?
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...
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
