decoration decoration
Stories

GROKLAW
When you want to know more...
decoration
For layout only
Home
Archives
Site Map
Search
About Groklaw
Awards
Legal Research
Timelines
ApplevSamsung
ApplevSamsung p.2
ArchiveExplorer
Autozone
Bilski
Cases
Cast: Lawyers
Comes v. MS
Contracts/Documents
Courts
DRM
Gordon v MS
GPL
Grokdoc
HTML How To
IPI v RH
IV v. Google
Legal Docs
Lodsys
MS Litigations
MSvB&N
News Picks
Novell v. MS
Novell-MS Deal
ODF/OOXML
OOXML Appeals
OraclevGoogle
Patents
ProjectMonterey
Psystar
Quote Database
Red Hat v SCO
Salus Book
SCEA v Hotz
SCO Appeals
SCO Bankruptcy
SCO Financials
SCO Overview
SCO v IBM
SCO v Novell
SCO:Soup2Nuts
SCOsource
Sean Daly
Software Patents
Switch to Linux
Transcripts
Unix Books

Gear

Groklaw Gear

Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog.


You won't find me on Facebook


Donate

Donate Paypal


No Legal Advice

The information on Groklaw is not intended to constitute legal advice. While Mark is a lawyer and he has asked other lawyers and law students to contribute articles, all of these articles are offered to help educate, not to provide specific legal advice. They are not your lawyers.

Here's Groklaw's comments policy.


What's New

STORIES
No new stories

COMMENTS last 48 hrs
No new comments


Sponsors

Hosting:
hosted by ibiblio

On servers donated to ibiblio by AMD.

Webmaster
Things are already not that bad | 118 comments | Create New Account
Comments belong to whoever posts them. Please notify us of inappropriate comments.
the number of distros
Authored by: mcinsand on Friday, February 22 2013 @ 03:40 PM EST
I fail to see how the number of distros is really relevant, except to
demonstrate a healthy community. Speaking of relevance, how many distributions
matter beyond Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, Debian, and Mint? I really hesitate to
consider the 'buntu's as a family of distributions, but as a single distribution
with a series of tailorings. From Debian to Ubuntu is a bit more of a gap,
though.

Anyway, let's say for the sake of argument that there are a dozen distributions
of significance. That's not a bad thing, at all, no matter how much a big
proprietary tries to FUD us into believing that we need one OS to rule them all.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

That's not My worry: I like Android :-)
Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, February 23 2013 @ 06:47 AM EST
And I use Xubuntu on my PC

Android on my Note and Nexus 10.

And Chrome Everywhere including my works windows machine.

No My worry is that the Pixel is screaming for Android
integration with that touch screen... and I its not there
yet...


Why not?

---
RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Things are already not that bad
Authored by: marcosdumay on Sunday, February 24 2013 @ 02:49 PM EST
Android is Linux, you just have to root it and install any userland you want (in
any configuration - replacing android, in a chroot, alongside - you choose).

Yes, locked computers and proprietary drivers are a problem, but those can only
get better as Linux gets more popular and several manufacturers try compete.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Groklaw © Copyright 2003-2013 Pamela Jones.
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Comments are owned by the individual posters.

PJ's articles are licensed under a Creative Commons License. ( Details )