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2010-07-15
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Originally Posted by w00t
I'm with you, my man.
This, was exactly what I was saying, is the great thing. Someone can come take MeeGo, butcher it with their own proprietary crap, and it'll sink like a stone because - I sincerely hope - it won't be able to keep pace with working in the open.
Never has there been a better time to show that OSS can shine.
How about a religion analogy? Android is John the Baptist and MeeGo and/or Ubuntu is Jesus. Android will hopefully keep fighting fragmentation and continue to blaze a trail on Cortex A-[89] platforms that will then allow a real GNU/Linux distribution to smoothly slip-in to say a Motorola Droid or Droid X. That's when we'll know that an OSS handset/tablet OS has arrived.
TI OMAP[34] is the Intel/AMD x86
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Imagination Technologies is the NVIDIA.
And the in-line kernel changes that MeeGo and maybe Ubuntu will bring will support more and more hardware.
The End of the Beginning.
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2010-07-15
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#193
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Originally Posted by daperl
hallelujah, and then you will be able to buy a mobile computer just like you do a desktop or laptop one now, same hardware, different os possibilities. mix and match your processor, screen size, hard keyboard or no, and have your choice of windows, ios, linux, java(android),bada, symbian, whatever. just like now i can buy some dell models off the shelf and install windows, various linux, opensolaris, macosx, whatever.
I'm with you, my man.
How about a religion analogy? Android is John the Baptist and MeeGo and/or Ubuntu is Jesus. Android will hopefully keep fighting fragmentation and continue to blaze a trail on Cortex A-[89] platforms that will then allow a real GNU/Linux distribution to smoothly slip-in to say a Motorola Droid or Droid X. That's when we'll know that an OSS handset/tablet OS has arrived.
TI OMAP[34] is the Intel/AMD x86
and
Imagination Technologies is the NVIDIA.
And the in-line kernel changes that MeeGo and maybe Ubuntu will bring will support more and more hardware.
The End of the Beginning.
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2010-07-15
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#195
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Originally Posted by daperl
Correct. No custom kernels, no custom ROMs.
I just read that the Droid X bootloader was locked. Does that mean a boot will fail if something such as the kernel-to-be-loaded isn't properly signed?
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2010-07-15
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#196
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Originally Posted by attila77
Palm did that when they started selling devices with wince. Didn't stop them from dying though
How do you push your platform by shipping devices with the platform you want to capture market share FROM ?
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2010-07-15
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#197
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Originally Posted by daperl
Hope you don't mind me linking to this in my signature (slightly paraphrased for maximum impact ;-).
Android is John the Baptist and MeeGo and/or Ubuntu is Jesus.
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2010-07-15
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Originally Posted by kureyon
To be fair, I'd not exactly call being purchased by HP 'alive'.
Palm did that when they started selling devices with wince. Didn't stop them from dying though
A zombie, even if it still produces phones, is still a zombie.
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2010-07-15
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#199
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Originally Posted by w00t
Just remember... shoot it in the...faceplate?
To be fair, I'd not exactly call being purchased by HP 'alive'.
A zombie, even if it still produces phones, is still a zombie.
From what I have seen of WebOS though.. I do like it. Hopefully HP can keep WebOS alive... even if Palm is now zombified.
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2010-07-15
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint
Heh.. not so much daddy issues as much as maybe trust and abandonment issues with Nokia.
I'm not saying positive or negative. Just different. Dan obviously has HUGEdaddyNokia (
Originally Posted by fatalsaint
I haven't had a lot of exposure to Intel in the way I did with Nokia--but I've seen Intel go both ways. I've seen them work AGAINST open-source sometimes, then work FOR it other times. So, I'm not sure what to think about Intel's involvement.
I'm saying what does he expect from Intel? Cuz that's the presence we mostly see (right now, not future) - Now, if he has a specific objection to hating both Intel AND Nokia.. then he can hate on MeeGo too .
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Why did we go with their chassis though... (I know, I know.. whole other debate...)
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