Comments on: 20 years ago today, Linux was released

By: Fabio Fumi

Fabio Fumi — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:28:00 +0000

thanks Charbax for reminding us this birthday

By: Maventwo

Maventwo — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:19:00 +0000

Yes, Linux is too problematic for many users, for example sound in Ubuntu.

My friend Yrjo (Yrjo and the o with two dots up as we have in Sweden and Finnish spelling) who lives in Jaffna in Sri Lanka who nowadays use Ubuntu can´t hear anything throw Ubuntu OS, even if ALSA and JACK files are for sound install, my friend Yrjo still can´t hear anything on his laptop with Ubuntu.

Ordinary computer users that is not fond of doing a lot of installations on their computer will rather use Microsoft Windows than Linux distro untill it will be much easier to install files for such things like sound.

By: Maventwo

Maventwo — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:32:00 +0000

The Singapore based company FusionGarage have developed Grid-OS based on Android OS.

Grid 4 is made for Smartphones and Grid 10 is made for tablet pc.
See, what GridOS looks like on:
http://www.fusiongarage.com/

By: Maventwo

Maventwo — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:35:00 +0000

Mozilla Foundation have recently announced that they shall develop an OS for Smartphones and tablet pc based on theirs Layout Gecko and Mozilla Foundation want also that webAPI shall be implemented in all kinds of web browsers where probably Googles initiative webRTC will be the telfony program type of the webAPI shell.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:44:00 +0000

In reply to Charbax. face it. android is a fork. It is still forked. Google has not contributed anything back to the upstream. BTW, Meego is more open than android

By: Maventwo

Maventwo — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:17:00 +0000

In reply to Charbax.

Just like your argument “how can one know if Nokia and Intel didn´t develop big parts of MeeGo behind their own closed doors” are South korean state and industry afraid of when it comes to the development of Android now when Googles have decided to aquire Motorola Mobility.

See, here from The Korean Herald:
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110822000719

By: Tactilofan

Tactilofan — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:02:00 +0000

I think the Linux Desktop Question cannot be solve without the help of device constructors. If there were more official printer drivers for instance, I think Linux would already be more adopted.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:35:00 +0000

In reply to Maventwo. Everyone wants to use Android and nobody cares about meego. Not really directly comparable. And also, how can one know if Nokia and Intel didn't develop big parts of meego behind their own closed doors, experimenting different designs secretly before selectively releasing stuff later to that community. I don't think meego gives you a direct access to see in real-time everything that goes on at Intel's R&D offices, same thing.

By: Maventwo

Maventwo — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:08:00 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. Isn´t the development of MeeGo OS more open than the developing of Android OS? MeeGo OS develops mostly through the community behind MeeGo but Android OS is msotly developet by the company behind Android that Google aquired.

By: Maventwo

Maventwo — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:03:00 +0000

Another interesting thing about Linus Thorvalds is that his grandfather (his mothers father) was Finlands first professor in Mathematics, which you can read in the book Just for Fun written by David Diamond together with Linus Thorvalds.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:03:00 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. That link is from February 2010, haven't they fixed that stuff about feeding their improvements back to kernel since then?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:39:00 +0000

You do know Android got ejected out of the Linux in Kernel 2.633
1.14. Android removed from the Linux kernelRecommended article: Android and the Linux kernel communityGoogle doesn’t seem to have interest in improving the Android drivers to have minimum quality standards which could allow to merge them in the main Linux tree and share them with the rest of community. Of course, that’s totally legal, but it’s sad that a project that is doing so much to bring open source to the masses has become an example of how not to interact with an open source community.LINKs: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux-Kernel-2-6-33-No-Longer-Supports-Android-135930.shtmlhttp://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_33andhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/03/android_driver_code_deleted_from_linux_kernel/