willholloway

57 ms·

421.
by willholloway 14y ago
Cost isn't the biggest benefit, the biggest benefit is exposing kids to the operating system (Linux) that runs the majority of servers. Those servers increasingly run our world. It doesn't matter if the teachers are clueless, some of the cu
422.
by willholloway 14y ago
The best kind of non-coding cofounder is a brilliant showman.
423.
by willholloway 14y ago
I have busybox and bash on my android phone, how is it not the same at all? That's why they call it GNU/Linux. Linux is the kernel, and GNU a set of tools and libraries. Right now Android has the Linux part, and the GNU part is increasingly
424.
by willholloway 14y ago
The Linux kernel and Android kernel have already become one again, and I suspect that the community will narrow the gap further. Right now they mainly just share the kernel. If the GNU tool chain is included and you can compile and run linu
425.
by willholloway 14y ago
> If I'm working with more than three or four windows (which is common) I've basically got my active window and a stack of non-active, tiny, non-useable windows. In other words, it becomes difficult to combine even a medium-size set of
426.
by willholloway 14y ago
This is the direction Android will go in. I am pretty sure that in five years most people will have one smart phone that they dock at home to have access to large screens and keyboard/mouse. The laptop as we know it will be replaced by lapt
427.
by willholloway 14y ago
People said the same thing about Apple in the 90's when it had 5% market share. Have you noticed that Linux is taking over the mobile market?
428.
by willholloway 14y ago
Post points out very well how inferior products that charge can beat superior products that are free. It's quite sad that Linux already has the best experience if you care about getting things done. In order to save the desktop we must kill
429.
by willholloway 14y ago
Creative types have cool new ideas all the time. Some have an idea and think "it would be cool if someone did that", others do it. The problem most doers have when they get a new idea is they are already working on a cool idea. These new id