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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 07:36 AM EDT |
I certainly hope so, but maybe it has just begun. The
battle is being fought
on many fronts, and the outcome is as
yet undecided on the IP front. Microsoft
and Apple are still
attacking Linux and Android with patents, and last I
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| Authored by: Nick_UK on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 07:42 AM EDT |
I agree, GNU/Linux is now everywhere, sometimes in places
you do not think of
(greenhouse temp/light controllers etc.
- I have a Kobo e-reader, and that runs
GNU/Linux).
Microsoft do not stand a chance now - even after trying to
play catch-up for several years. Win8 is
was a failure in
that for some reason, due to the mobile
market (phone, tablets etc.) they
decided that touch screen
was the future NOW.
Heh, people still need
'proper computers' to work with
though, and MS forgot that (I wonder what
systems their
programmers use?).
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 05:10 PM EDT |
And I'm not talking about the HP/MS campaign to move their pile
of W8/ElitePads with the slogan "Finally, a Tablet With a Work Ethic"
I'd buy a tablet tomorrow, any tablet, any OS, if it would import
movies from a real camera with an app for assembling and editing
clips into at least daily rushes. All tablets I've seen so far, and yes
I'm looking at you Apple, assume you only want to edit movies on
the camera roll of their internal plastic toy camera.
Set aside Android and go for a workhorse Linux, and cinelerra needs
as much horsepower as FinalCutPro. When I go on a location shoot
I don't take a generator truck.
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| Authored by: mvs_tomm on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 08:04 AM EDT |
GNU is an operating system
Android is an operating system
Both of these operating systems use the Linux kernel.
Don't get me wrong. The Linux kernel is important. GNU would not be anywhere
today without it. But neither would Linux be anywhere without the GNU operating
system.
Many other devices also use the Linux kernel without either of these operating
systems, and so Linux is indeed ubiquitous.
By all means give Linux the credit that it is due, but don't forget the great
contributions made by GNU.
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