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Portable, yes, I do, although it's now almost two years old and the age shows when compiling. But on the other hand, I whip out my core i7, compile something and the battery is drained after an hour and a half.

Disclaimer: the two year old machine is one our company used to make, and my version of development is on the Linux kernel or various packages like the MATE desktop.

It's easy to notice the difference in the map app. Click the bus route button. Instead of the normal times listed, you get rerouted to a blank page on the App Store.

Forgive me, but how exactly do you "teaser" 140 characters? Or am I misunderstanding and you are more meaning they show a few of the users tweets so you know kind of what they talk about.

I don't spend much time on any of the social sites so I am not familiar what was pulled, this just happened to stick out to me.

I'm on the fence myself. And yeah, when the most used app is the maps for transit directions it does leave a bad taste to go from something that worked great (most of the time) to something that doesn't work for your needs at all. Am I still able to take phone calls? Sure, as long as I'm not at the office though I blame that more on AT&T and working right near the river walk in San Antonio, but the local bus company has said their maps addon won't be out until October at the earliest, March of 2013 at the latest.

And how many people have switched to Mac due to an inferior product feeling? Sure you can still use the computer but if one of the main purposes of having it doesn't work for your needs, why keep using it?

While I agree that people are people, they are also consumers. And he's talking about the consumer market, not enthusiasts adding it to their own systems so in this context it makes sense.

The new quad core ARM boxes are actually quite good. My own personal use case is different but as a Gentoo developer it's nice to see something like Firefox "only" take 3 hours to compile. Which is really good when trying to debug issues because an mx51 it takes 18-20 hours.

I've been using the same vimrc (and gvimrc) for at least 4 years (minor tweaks when something breaks, of course). But 99% of the time, it's identical and set up exactly how I like it, versus the magical GUI IDEs that change where options are, or what they are called. I don't have time for that (and I use the same vimrc on windows, Mac and Linux).

Sure the initial set up is difficult. But once it's done, it's done.

I didn't take it as a joke based on his phrasing of all the other criticisms of the site. Perhaps I over reacted, but immediately jumping on it being a scam because the site isn't pretty enough (and isn't ready to actually take orders) seems rather odd to me. Perhaps because I work with ARM devices all day I'm just used to sites that look like that and it doesn't scream scam to me.

Chromium maybe. I'm not sure there are any Chromebooks based on ARM yet although there seems to be a profile for building tegra2 devices. I know the Trimslice is supposed to be able to run it but I haven't actually seen a software release of Google Chrome for it. Hexxeh does seem to be working on it for the Pi but I haven't used the Pi so I can't say (I personally need a little more power than armv6 has)

There are no ARM with complete open source because they all have the GPU integrated. The Mali is probably the closest to open due to the LIMA project with the Freedreno project backing Qualcomm's Adreno (and maybe work with the Freescale mx5x) getting access to the sources isn't particularly hard (but does require an NDA) but you still won't get the most important part, which is the source to the shader compiler library in there

Mostly because he hasn't actually announced it yet. The website is still in process and cnx-soft found it recently. Thus all the hubbub.

He has shared the info with people who are friends on G+. But ripping in to someone for their choice of nickname? Seriously? I've seen many worse nicknames by people in this so called startup community that seems to be more and more filled with cynicism and negativity.

Apparently if you don't use a Mac/rails/js it isn't worth looking in to.

Wow. As someone who is actually active in the A10 community, I know Tom and this is not a scam. Some people focus more on developing cool shit than on their website.

Lynx? Links -g possibly as well. Though yeah most of the web would be broken, I would hope documentation sites would work in it.

It does use X11, but ChromeOS uses its own WM (chromewm). If you check out the sources for ChromiumOS, you can see what all it uses, although there are parts that Google add on top.

There are ways to run native apps on it, but they are definitely tucked away for normal users/uses.

Actually it's Gentoo based, not OpenSUSE.

Wait what? People search on Facebook for content? Maybe for content of what their friends are up to. I've never considered a social networking site to be a search engine, and considering Facebook's abysmal attempts at targeted marketing (their ads SUCK at relevance) no matter how many time I tell it that a certain ad is of no relevance. I just don't see how Facebook is "winning the web war". Maybe I have different friends than most, but pretty much everyone I know uses a search engine to find things. Even my mom, who isn't what I would call computer savy.

Forgive me, but I fail to see how this is related to 3.0. Everyone creates their own branch but they don't always include everything in a pull request. I don't have a Kinect myself, but even so, wouldn't it be bigger news if Microsoft wrote the driver instead of $randomdev who based it off another $randomdev's work?

Nothing in the GPL states that the source has to be posted online at the time you release a binary, what it states is that you must provide it to customers (people who have/use your binaries) at their request.

I'm not entirely sure why you would... My boss doesn't know what kernel version we run, all he cares is that it works.

Greg is an all around stand up guy. I personally like his presentation style and even though I've been hacking on the kernel for a while now at my current job, I never realized some of the things he presented. The checkpatch script is great, except that a lot of companies still ignore it. Freescale's BSP patches are extremely poor by checkpatch's standards, and that's what I spend most of my days fixing

Flash sucking on tablets, phones, or even netbooks (at least ARM based), isn't entirely Adobe's fault. The SoC manufacturers are tasked to get Flash working on their chipsets. That means nVidia, Freescale, TI, Samsung, Apple. Adobe's NDA for working on Flash is... well, restrictive. I'd bet that anyone who has signed it isn't going to be one of the companies top programmers, due to the nature of some of the restrictions in it.

Actually, the GPL and LGPL portions of Honeycomb have been in the repositories for a while. What most people are clamoring for, is actually the portions that aren't GPL/LGPL.

Actually he isn't violating the GPL. The GPL states that you have to make it available when requested, and as a mechanism of your choosing. It doesn't say you have to put the source code on the web so that others can access it easily.

I'm tired of people screaming GPL violation because the source code isn't posted online for their perusal.

Edit to add:

Also of note, in the tarball that he provides is the patch to the Linux 2.6.20 sources that he uses. Which... is the sources for the clipboard. Did you even look to see if the sources were available?

Deleting the comment that this was in (the new iPhone app doesn't let me edit my comment unless I missed something)

I just bought the app. The one I was previously using cost 2.99 and has many many issues, like not showing usernames of comments as well as once I've logged in to the app I can no longer see comment counts on the stories.

I'm still getting used to the differences between the way stories and commenting works but my initial impression is that I like it a lot more.

Choice is bad? Polymaps (I haven't looked at Leaflet's ability) seems to be able to use more than just cloudmade's maps, and it would appear that Leaflet is more cloudmade specific

I've re-installed various versions of the iOS software. You just go in to iTunes and shift-click the Restore or Check for Updates button and choose any version. I am not an iOS developer and have had no issues in going between 4.2 and 4.3 versions of the iOS software.

Umm, the system was open when we first bought it...

Empathy (the default IM client) uses webkit to render it's themes. It is quite likely to be a shared library. On natty, webkit is fairly hefty at 24MB but it doesn't take Empathy long to load at all. And by the time your login manager has started /usr is already mounted, assuming you are not using their default partitioning which is one huge partition.

The company I work for. We are a fairly small ODM, and while I don't want to say our name I'm not hard to find on the Internet, and I know I bragged about getting my job (I get paid to work on Linux, still can't believe my luck)

I'm not quite sure how changing the login manager counts as a controversial decision unless you were meaning just the unity issue. The login manager has one main job and really shouldn't be a huge convoluted mess of code (from experience GDM is). I'm excited about this change although I've never heard of lightdm until this story.