Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th May 2009 08:49 UTC, submitted by Paul
There has been a lot of talk about Android maybe making its way to various netbooks. However, thanks to the boys and girls at Canonical, Android might be taking a completely different direction when it comes to these little laptops: they're building an execution environment which will allow Android applications to run on normal Linux distributions.
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2006-12-22
Sincerely, being an high placed manager, I would pick Ubuntu choice. Vista for instance have driver problems for more than an year. In the same way of thinking, OS X 10.5 have .7 version of fixes.
Focusing on fixing one driver, when the X architecture is not well defined, I think that should not be the focus of Ubuntu, but Intel's one. The biggest problem of Ubuntu in itself is not that goes with bad drivers for anyone's component, but the fact at least that it did not yet make possible for game developers to develop on Ubuntu, but they develop on OS X which are technologically close. Having supported more platforms at the level of OS, for me sounds really amazing. What I would really want, is that Ubuntu to do it every time. My best wish is also that Ubuntu to come with 2CDs, the second to be optional, but in the second one to add more applications that most users download from first time on Ubuntu: more drivers, codecs, Java JRE, Sanba sharing packages, wireless packages to all network cards, flash and at least as my option, to add Wine. Wine? Yes, because it could make the difference for a "stupid user" that will want to run or not Linux. I will add also a DosBox for users that need it's old FoxPro application that they still use it to run (unmodified) on Ubuntu! Many users cannot adapt as can do techincal users. Also, exposing Wine to users, in Ubuntu will give to it a strong QA session to it, and will make most users happy.
Also, adding this second CD, it will make Ubuntu less high bandwidth internet dependent and will make it to be a great platform in what it exposes to developers and users alike!
Edited 2009-05-27 16:02 UTC