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Last edited by shmerl; 22 February 2013, 01:55 PM.
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Not so much a complaint
When I came to Linux, I was birthed into the notion that X was "it" and nothing more, everything graphics will use it, and you're stuck with it's huge install base and memory footprint (80MB to my phone's 8MB Resident Set Size). Then you see Mac OS X using something different, as well as Linux-based phones (surfaceflinger) and tv set tops (Roku using some qt-based server) using something lean developed just recently. Are graphics servers not that that hard to make as the X folks made it out to be? I'll avoid further complaining, but us Linux desktop users deserve something better!
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Originally posted by yourfriendarmando View PostX11 has had how long to be lean mean graphics machine? SurfaceFlinger and QT's mobile graphics server have little amount of time out there and are on many phones and set top boxes.
Do anyone know which sound daemon Canonical plan to use, is it audioflinger?Last edited by Akka; 22 February 2013, 02:40 PM.
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Originally posted by shmerl View PostComparing this to work that Mer/Jolla-Sailfish/PlasmaActive folks do, I'd say that Canonical deserted the fight to gain short term benefits. Mer/Jolla-Sailfish/PA however go along the way that desktop Linux is going - i.e. X.org -> Wayland shift. And they are working with hardware vendors. Not easy - but they are doing it instead of chickening out to grab some market. Canonical just decided to take a shortcut, but a bad one. By the way, libhybris which is apparently used by Canonical now was created by the Mer architect who also works in Jolla. For me all this is a good reason to stick with Sailfish and PA, rather than jumping to Ubuntu's train.
The strategy seems to be working. One day after the release ubuntu touch has already been ported to the galaxy S III...Last edited by Figueiredo; 22 February 2013, 03:21 PM.
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Android is preferable IMO. This thing is going to be niche market at best. I'd be surprised if they even line up any hardware partners.
Then again it's hard to get excited about Ubuntu now that Canonical has gone deep into the crazy.
It went from, "Oh cool, a new version of Ubuntu!" to "Dear God a new version of Ubuntu already? How long can I hold off an upgrade?"
Nobody will want this thing other than geeks who don't know better.
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Originally posted by nej_simon View PostIf distributions move to wayland Nvidia and AMD will eventually support it. Supporting Linux is very important due to its' use in HPC.
No Linux distribution is going to force the hands of NVIDIA or AMD, since your average Linux distribution makes up about zero percent of the consumer market.
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