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Ubuntu Mobile Looks At Qt As GNOME Alternative 262

Derwent sends along a Computerworld piece which begins: "The Ubuntu Mobile operating system is undergoing its most radical change with a port to the ARM processor for Internet devices and netbooks, and may use Nokia's LGPL Qt development environment as an alternative to GNOME. During a presentation at this year's linux.conf.au conference, Canonical's David Mandala said Ubuntu Mobile has changed a lot over the past year... 'I worked on ARM devices for many years so a full Linux distribution on ARM is exciting,' Mandala said, adding one of the biggest challenges is reminding developers to write applications for 800 by 600 screen resolutions found in smaller devices. 'The standard [resolution] for GNOME [apps] is 800 by 600, but not all apps are. For this reason Ubuntu Mobile uses the GNOME Mobile (Hildon framework) instead of a full GNOME desktop, but since Nokia open sourced Qt under the LGPL it may consider this as an alternative.'"

Comment Scapegoats (Score 1) 1087

Almost every kid goes through a period (or even periods) in their teenage years where they feel unloved and unwanted. I'll go out on a limb here and say that this is a product of their environment (the being unloved bit) not their warped psychopathic minds. Mostly this environment improves (new friends or finally leave school and hang out with adults, whatever). Sometimes there can seem no end to the environmental causes of this "adolescent depression" (for the kid in middle of it anyway).
Sometimes they end up in such pain they take their own lives.
Often the child has identified the elements in their environment causing them pain (correctly or incorrectly). It seems that in some cases they decide to do society a favour (in their minds) by removing these elements (in this case killing the people at their school who hated them) as well as themselves.

That's what I think anyway.

john

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