Shuttleworth Closes Bug #1, Microsoft's Market Share

[brosis]

You should complain to nvidia for not providing viable/sane/OSS drivers for their crappy hardware.

Either that or upgrade to a radeon.

There is no sane driver for nvidia, except closed. What they should have done, is to create support channels for such opensource projects like nouveau and similar. Or ship closed source working drivers. Instead they shipped broken drivers without any support.

[johnc]

What if MS is looking to bring Office 365 to Linux with an exclusive release for Ubuntu? MS seems to be eager to get on the subscription services bandwagon.

[GreatEmerald]

No, they have not changed anything. Desktops stayed, parts of it are attacked by consoles. Tablets just tried to replace notebooks, but failed in some ways - show me tablet with exchangable battery xD. This whole modern roar is about nothing, exactly like roar of stereo 3D that comes and goes every decade. How is messaging gadget supposed to replace PC experience?

Mine's one: http://www.shopfujitsu.com/Q550/ Mind you, it uses a PowerVR chip... And no, it's not supposed to replace the PC experience in the slightest. It's supposed to replace the notebook experience. The actual notebook, paper and all, not notebook as in laptop.

[Calinou]

It would be a genius move! Hopefully it will happen. Office on Ubuntu would be great. Fuck that LibreOffice POS.

People still pay ?600+ for software?

[Vim_User]

Especially if it works. Most people are used to Office. Getting it on Ubuntu would be great. A great blow would be if they got a way of making it work only on Ubuntu and not any other distro. Ubuntu would skyrocket while the rest would...well... nothing.

Yeah, of course, as if Microsoft intentionally would abandon the huge installation base of RHEL machines. And if serious companies would change from their stable Red Hat or Suse base to something as buggy as Ubuntu. Dream along, this won't happen.

[timothyja]

Especially if it works. Most people are used to Office. Getting it on Ubuntu would be great. A great blow would be if they got a way of making it work only on Ubuntu and not any other distro. Ubuntu would skyrocket while the rest would...well... nothing.

I think time would be better spent making your comments only work with Windows forums where they belong.

[brosis]

Android did just perfect by breaking away from linux and only using parts of it along with linux kernel. And also they had the great idea of not using the word linux. The fact that most applications are closed source is another big plus. If they were open nobody would have actually built apps for it and iPhone would have won. Playing nice with closed source is the way to go. Idealism is to be put aside in businesses and Google has to make money.

Open source video drivers are shit when it comes to performance. Closed source still rule and will continue to do so in the forseeable future.

It would be a genius move! Hopefully it will happen. Office on Ubuntu would be great. Fuck that LibreOffice POS.

LOL! You are like girl! I need a vocabulary to translate you!
Disassembling "BO$$":
What BOSS says = What he means

"No" = "Yes"
"Yes" = "No"
"Genius move" = "Huge trouble"
"* great" = "* will be catastrophe"
"* perfect" = "* huge mistake"
"Fuck that" = "Very compelling project"
"POS" = "killer software"
"Shit" = "works very well, very impressive"
"big plus" = "huge minus"
"closed source" = "microsoft and goons"
"make money" = "lie, lie, lie, li-ke me"
"Idealism" = "Freedom"

I think time would be better spent making your comments only work with Windows forums where they belong.

+1 to that, plus he should take birdie, ворот93, sonadow, that guy - with him; quite a collection of microsoft turfers we have here. : )

[yogi_berra]

This comes no long after this headline was released.
Man From Microsoft Runs the Ubuntu Project Now: http://techrights.org/2013/05/15/ubu...osoft-veteran/

In other news: random person links to Dr. Roy Schitforbrains and expects to be taken seriously.

[timothyja]

In other news: random person links to Dr. Roy Schitforbrains and expects to be taken seriously.

In other news: random person users a baseball players name their user id and expects to be taken seriously.

[John123]

Ain't gonna happen

Phoronix: Shuttleworth Closes Bug #1, Microsoft's Market Share

Interestingly, this morning Mark Shuttleworth decided to close Ubuntu's Bug #1 on Launchpad, the bug report created by him in 2004 about Microsoft having a majority market-share. He feels that the Windows creator is no longer commanding the market, but neither is Ubuntu...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTM4MTU

Hi there,

Letter not for ADD folks.

I've been tracking what some major graphics companies have been doing for some time now and the state is appalling, not only for any Linux kernel based distribution, but for everyone.

First the Nvidia goes on war with that Intel graphics based on P III (amazing performance),that requires SLI by refusing the patents or license, so Intel won't compete with Nvidia in corporate segement. Intel responses to Nvidia (and thus AMD) by "attaching" the graphics to the CPU, which basically means Nvidia (and AMD) have to reverse engineer Intel graphics and the drivers (on any OS), which is illegal. That means Nvidia or AMD are forbidden to provide proper drivers for their own product, thus making them not to perform at full capabilites and always being crappy. All pictures or videos have to go through Intel CPU/GPU in the end.

That means that the Nvidia or AMD graphics are at best of a second sort. Moreover it questions the legality of their dirvers, because for example on laptops with Windows- AMD provides unassigned Intel graphics drivers inside subfolder of subfolder of their own driver. If they don't AMDs graphic will not work at all. Not only that- they cannot do it legally so they don't offer drivers for laptops on their support website. They make the vendors like HP and DELL to do that, thus making the drivers extreme old and buggy for the laptops these vendors sell. And HP or DELL are absolutely in no interest or position to change it. Why would they? The product is out and sold. The money is in the bank account. Who cares!

Moreover. It got to the point that even Windows users know now what graphic power management and sync to vblank is. It was unheard of a few years back.

Another thing is that Nvidia is not intersted in doing the drivers for any platform. First its the same stroy as with AMD: making drivers is a cost. Once GPU is out, nobody cares. Drivers do not generate sales. Only framerates and demos on computer shows/fairs. But reality is different. And they get the money elsewhere.

For example Nivia recently build a complete new system from scratch that is selling very well. It functions as a game streaming service so people can play games on thin clients and everything is rendered on that system. If they make tons of money by selling content (royalties, like 3 dollars of every game title that is rendered on that machines) they will make amazing money. So why would they need any drivers for some shitty laptops? Why would they hire bunch of programmers, when they hire two and they make the drivers for their system. The system that makes the money, not the laptops that don't. They may be selling GPUs to vendors, yes- that makes money, but the drivers don't. And once the hardware is out it does not generate any revenue stream. So why generate additional post sale cost? No f... way.


So will Linux based distros receive working graphic drvers? Ever?. No! Who cares about sync to vblank for Linux (and now even for Windows!!!). Keep dreaming about waylands, mirrs or desktop acceleration. It ain't gonna happen. Never. Linux is a post sale cost. There has never been a proper support, there always was video and desktop tearing for nvidia, complete lack of working drivers for AMD and shit for Intel working 3 times slower than on Windows and without OpenCL, wich renders programms like GIMP 2.8.x unstartable on Intel machines. Pair it with non working AMD and you're out. Not to mention VAAPIs, NVDPAUs and other stuff like renering videos on GPU. Keep dreaming.


PS. And now Linux got that amazing gift from Intel, called UEFI and awesome present from Microsoft called Banned Boot without USB. Hoorraaay!