Ubuntu For Tablets Announcement A Let Down

[dstaubsauger]

at 2:00 he says the "side-stage" was unique to ubuntu. isn't that the exact same feature that windows 8 has already?

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Well, you only have to wait until Thursday...

Like when we could download the ubuntu phone image two days after they showed it off?

[F i L]

Not a let down, just and odd coincidence with HP. And I enjoy seeing their design for the Tablets, thanks. Plus, I think the designs look good, and everyone saying "it's all just smoke" and "he shows MS Office and not LibreOffice" doesn't know a thing about marketing. He doesn't have time to walk through all the great free software, so he chooses to show off multiple technologies at once using a very commonly used commercial software (you know, something that will gain a lot of _commercial_ interest). How do you think this project is ever going to get anywhere? He has to gain interest by showing that "your favorite apps" will run out-of-the-box.

[blackout23]

Well, you only have to wait until Thursday...

But that's like... two days! OMG let down!

[ethana2]

You could cure AIDS and Michael Larabel will find a way to be 'let down' over it. Just promise us you'll seek help before you do anything irreversible, k?

[LinuxID10T]

Yeah it's not a let down in that sense, but it was that I couldn't download the image to flash.

Well, you only have to wait until Thursday...

[blackout23]

He even said that Windows Apps can be streamed. Why the hell would you start thinking ZOMG WINE!!! .....n00bs

Also flashable images on thursday.

[Rigaldo]

It's thin-client ability so one can connect to business server to access their network software, like Excel from Microsoft-Office. Not Wine.

That's kind of what I meant to say, but mainly that no Wine was used(because someone said so).

[dalingrin]

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Microsoft Office 2010 using Wine/CrossOver? LOL, he's showing clearly about not caring a shit about Free Software at all. He did not put LibreOffice in the video. It seems he's using rdesktop or something like that, but I find it quite anti-Linux in my opinion.

Also, how to run a X86 app on an ARM in an efficient way? This is just smoke and mirrors.

lol @ anti-Linux

He's showing Linux as a thin-client...Oh, the humanity!(pun intended)

[e8hffff]

What Wine and Crossover, he was talking about thin clients and stuff.

It's thin-client ability so one can connect to business server to access their network software, like Excel from Microsoft-Office. Not Wine.

[d2kx]

iBuntu, now with more spyware

HAHAHA that was funny!

Microsoft Office 2010 using Wine/CrossOver? LOL

LOL this is nowhere shown in the video nor thought about.

What concerns me is the speed parameter. Google and Apple spent too much time to speed the UI where Ubuntu still runs on top of X11 with an un-maintained compositor. This doesn't look very promising.

Ubuntu for Phones/Tablets is not going to use X11, at least not when it is closer to being finished. Also, Compiz is not un-maintained.

Yeah it's not a let down in that sense, but it was that I couldn't download the image to flash.

Thursday.