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  • #61
    @Deanjo

    It seems someone just addressed remaining issues:



    Please hurry!

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    • #62
      Originally posted by Remco View Post
      Linux reaches 5% market share
      Linux has actually had a 5% usage share for a few good months now.

      W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.


      (Please don't look at the market shares, still not that many linux pc's are sold these days. )

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      • #63
        Distros support a common package format with platform independent binaries like LLVM bitcode or MSIL.

        Autodesk software on linux.

        Skype protocol completely reverse-engigeered or open sourced.

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        • #64
          Originally posted by cician View Post
          Autodesk software on linux.
          Autodesk Maya runs on some Linux distros since quite a few years now.

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          • #65
            Originally posted by M1kkko View Post
            Linux has actually had a 5% usage share for a few good months now.

            W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.


            (Please don't look at the market shares, still not that many linux pc's are sold these days. )
            Selection bias. That figure is 4-5 times the figure from other statistics sources. I bet you don't encounter a Linux box for every 20 computer users you meet.

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            • #66
              Originally posted by dsmithhfx View Post
              Autodesk Maya runs on some Linux distros since quite a few years now.
              Maya ran on linux long before Autodesk acquired them. Had there not been a linux version already in place it is unlikely Autodesk would have decided to have a linux version. I wouldn't be surprised if one day they take Maya and 3dsMax and merge them into one windows only product.

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              • #67
                Originally posted by deanjo View Post
                Maya ran on linux long before Autodesk acquired them. Had there not been a linux version already in place it is unlikely Autodesk would have decided to have a linux version. I wouldn't be surprised if one day they take Maya and 3dsMax and merge them into one windows only product.
                That wouldn't surprise me as well. In fact, I'm still surprised they did a Mac version of autocad. About Maya, they do sell it, and it costs as much as the other versions, but unlike the other versions they don't offer any kind of support, so it probably won't be long until they discontinue it.

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                • #68
                  What I'd really like to see would be a success of the ongoing efforts in standardization of the mobile/embedded space (there was this linaro foundation, and other bodies, trying to get some order in the chaos of embedded systems, IIRC).
                  Because I guess a lot more stuff is going to happen on smaller, low-powered, more heavily integrated devices, probably SOCs. Right now, the engineering of those devices comes from the embedded sector, which (to me as an interested observer) seems to be the antithesis of anything open:
                  - No open, official standards (since tight integration drives everyone to make up their own, slightly different implementation),
                  - Secrecy about components and even more closed-mindedness about drivers.

                  Resulting from this, there's now a huge fragmentation of largely different devices, which makes it difficult for FOSS projects to even start somewhere, and port code once it's working somewhere. Plus, devices do have a crazily high turnover rate, so it's unlikely that a large community can form to work on the same device.

                  There are already some devices shipping with a desktop-linux-style OS and even the possibility to install Debian-distros: Nokia's Maemo devices, like the N900. Sadly, Nokia has failed with its strategy and teamed up with Microsoft... Yes, the N900 is a dead horse, but it's such a pretty one

                  Also: An organized effort out of the FOSS community to financially support graphical development. Since graphical drivers appear to be among the most mind-boggling software in existance, the number of people actually able to write such code seems not to be overly large; especially not if they have to do it in their spare time.
                  Hiring some high-profile coders like Marek for a year to code FOSS drivers, based on community-raised donations, would advance things quite a bit

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