On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Jean Jordaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Since I made my purchase of the Neo1973 > > It just depresses me too much to read: > > OpenMoko therefore isn't a new "open phone," it's merely a version of > Linux designed to run on a specific vendor's proprietary > implementation of Windows Mobile. Buying an FIC phone to run OpenMoko > is like buying a Dell Windows PC to run Linux. You're not changing the > world, you're merely funding development of Microsoft's platform while > giving yourself the opportunity to work with community software. > > > http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/08/23/apple-iphone-vs-the-fic-neo1973-openmoko-linux-smartphone/ > I'm still reading through this now, but the writer can hardly be said to be "in the know", and hardly "linux-y" at all: <quote>In addition to these two main branches of Linux' graphical application development, there are also variants such as ROX and Xfce, bare bones versions of the X Window System such as Blackbox, and much fancier versions of desktop environments such as Enlightenment, which adds its own extensive support for customizable themes, advanced graphical effects, and user interface ideas. The problem with all these choices is that they shatter the already limited Linux user base into smaller rival camps. Since Linux users see this factionalism as a feature, there have been few efforts to standardize on any single reference platform. The result is that different application developers pick the environments they want to target, forcing users to either run multiple window managers, or choose between different groups of Linux apps. </quote> WOW, i certainly didnt know that if i run Blackbox, i could never ever run KDE, or GNOME apps! very informed opinion, i say. -jf -- In the meantime, here is your PSA: "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help." -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
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