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Ubuntu is already takin huge market in the desktop and server space. I have made the full switch. It will be very interesting to see how it tackles smartphone .
by ibudiallo 14y ago
Ubuntu is already takin huge market in the desktop and server space. I have made the full switch. It will be very interesting to see how it tackles smartphone .
Just thinking 'Sudo Apt-get install Apache' gives me the shivers
- zanny 14y agopacman -S apache! That presents an interesting prospect - once Ubuntu hits phones, and there is a proven infrastructure for "mobile" distros, will we see the mass proliferation of such OSes? There is nothing inherent to the phone that makes it harder to have distro like behavior on, just that since it is mainly a media consumption device it would probably be less fun to tinker with. Hell, Plasma Active even presents a viable interface that isn't the mobile Unity that Canonical probably won't be all sunshine handholding open contribution with already.
- claudius 14y agoI don’t think my N9 is less fun to tinker with just because it is mostly a ‘media consumption device’ and given appropriate support (i.e. SDK and all such things), it’s not even harder to tinker with it than with the OS on my laptop. I would still prefer a truly open system where I don’t have to circumvent silly kernel modules (aegis, I am looking at you) every other day, though.