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>I use Ubuntu every day and all the pieces are in place for Ubuntu-based fully-functional (as in "you can work exclusively on it") ARM devices What's stopping
by recoiledsnake 14y ago
>I use Ubuntu every day and all the pieces are in place for Ubuntu-based fully-functional (as in "you can work exclusively on it") ARM devices
What's stopping anyone(including OEMs) now or later when Windows RT launches from making "Ubuntu-based fully-functional" tablets? Why the obsession with trying to shoehorn Linux onto Windows RT tablets?
- rbanffy 14y agoBecause until OEMs start manufacturing tablets with sensible bootloaders that can boot anything, Windows RT devices will be the only game in town. These tablets will be built in volume. Up until now, with x86 PCs, alternative OSs enjoyed an ecosystem of mass produced, cheap computers that could run competitive OSs. Microsoft is trying to stop this from happening in the ARM device space.
- recoiledsnake 14y ago>Because until OEMs start manufacturing tablets with sensible bootloaders that can boot anything, Windows RT devices will be the only game in town. WindowsRT tablets the only game in town? What? Whatever will happen to the iPad and all the Android tablets and why?