One of the "things" about Unity Gnome etc. to me was, and still is, that they are trying to somehow get ahead of the curve on the move by hardware people to ARM .
Please get one thing straight, I don't like EITHER of them and do not plan to use them. I like classic and Kubuntu the whole plasma thing.
I have been taken to task on this by many people and the general gist of the task taking was that ARM would "never happen" it is for small devices.
THat is the kind of comment that was prevalent when "all the experts" said that "software will never be faster than hardware"... so much for that dismissal...
Microsith is forging full tilt to ARM and here is a breaking article:
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News Analysis: Microsoft is working to make sure its Windows 8 OS can run on ARM chips.
For the tech industry, this is the best news coming out of Redmond yet.
With the BUILD Conference in full swing, much of the talk surrounding the tech industry right now has to do with Microsoft. And as of late, quite a bit of the attention has surrounded Microsoft’s partnership with ARM. Under the terms of the deal, Windows 8 will work with ARM processors, paving the way for mobile-device makers to use Windows in a new way.
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Now, the point of this post is that what will run on a "little" thing (mobile -device) will ALSO run on a "big thing" a tower or a laptop.
ARM is ideally positioned to be the "latest new thing" it can be promoted as "green" or "small" or "fast" or whatever....
Both GNOME and Unity will, relatively quickly, be able to be scaled from a mobile device to a tower.....
We may not LIKE it, but it can be done.
So.........the obvious question that is hanging like a ton brick is .....what about the "other interfaces"....Plasma, etc. ?
I dunno.........
The thread about Unity "driving people to Kubuntu" is a valid question.......
I've also suggested that the move to GNOME and Unity could also force people:
a) higher up the tree to pure Debian
b) BSD
So.....dunno.... It is fascinating, and in some ways also depressing, to consider that
a) MS could actually grab the whole pie with ARM
b) Linux could morph into two completely unexpected camps, (new interfaces) and ( old interfaces)
any thoughts?
The article discusses many projected changes with the advent of ARM as opposed to Intel, low power consumption, new form factor devices. etc.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-...atters-658818/
woodsmoke
Please get one thing straight, I don't like EITHER of them and do not plan to use them. I like classic and Kubuntu the whole plasma thing.
I have been taken to task on this by many people and the general gist of the task taking was that ARM would "never happen" it is for small devices.
THat is the kind of comment that was prevalent when "all the experts" said that "software will never be faster than hardware"... so much for that dismissal...
Microsith is forging full tilt to ARM and here is a breaking article:
**************************************
News Analysis: Microsoft is working to make sure its Windows 8 OS can run on ARM chips.
For the tech industry, this is the best news coming out of Redmond yet.
With the BUILD Conference in full swing, much of the talk surrounding the tech industry right now has to do with Microsoft. And as of late, quite a bit of the attention has surrounded Microsoft’s partnership with ARM. Under the terms of the deal, Windows 8 will work with ARM processors, paving the way for mobile-device makers to use Windows in a new way.
****************************************
Now, the point of this post is that what will run on a "little" thing (mobile -device) will ALSO run on a "big thing" a tower or a laptop.
ARM is ideally positioned to be the "latest new thing" it can be promoted as "green" or "small" or "fast" or whatever....
Both GNOME and Unity will, relatively quickly, be able to be scaled from a mobile device to a tower.....
We may not LIKE it, but it can be done.
So.........the obvious question that is hanging like a ton brick is .....what about the "other interfaces"....Plasma, etc. ?
I dunno.........
The thread about Unity "driving people to Kubuntu" is a valid question.......
I've also suggested that the move to GNOME and Unity could also force people:
a) higher up the tree to pure Debian
b) BSD
So.....dunno.... It is fascinating, and in some ways also depressing, to consider that
a) MS could actually grab the whole pie with ARM
b) Linux could morph into two completely unexpected camps, (new interfaces) and ( old interfaces)
any thoughts?
The article discusses many projected changes with the advent of ARM as opposed to Intel, low power consumption, new form factor devices. etc.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-...atters-658818/
woodsmoke
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