i concur with you Simon, Its all just an apt-get away. The fellow is probably laying down the ground work for the "Touch and Pinch" boom that will hit the desktop market sooner or later
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Simon Vass <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe it mainly based on X Windows unsuitability for mobile > architecture such as tablets and ARM based devices, which probably quite > rightly they see as a big part of the market. I also don't know why people > love to panic over this, we already know anything removed will always be a > apt-get away ;-) Pidigin/GIMP anyone? > > Simon Vass > Technical Manager > E-Tech Uganda Ltd > http://www.etech.ug > Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 > Email: [email protected] > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Bagyenda" <[email protected]> > To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, 9 November, 2010 1:29:46 PM > Subject: Re: [LUG] Canonical axing X Windows > > > Slashdot commentariat weighed in a few days back: http://bit.ly/dq4rMO > As usual, quite a few interesting ones. > > > > P. > > > > On Nov 09, 2010, at 12:41, [email protected] wrote: > > > http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1969 > > Seems like Shuttleworth has got some major plans up his sleeve for the > Ubuntu Desktop platform. I mean why would he first take up Unity in favour > of Gnome and now X windows is out of favour and in comes Wayland. These are > really major changes. I simply cant wait to have a taste of the 11.04 > release. > > > Baldwin > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > >
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