Interesting Links for 31-08-2012
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andrewducker- What Killed the Linux Desktop
- Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes. Huzzah for censorship!
- Antarctic may host hundreds of billions of tons of methane.
- Why Johnny can’t stream: How video copyright went insane (loopholes inside loopholes inside loopholes)
- Fox News calls Paul Ryan a liar.
- Stanley Kubrick likes it when things line up. (Nicely effective video)
- Why "Hard-Working Families" is a toxic phrase
- How difference academic subjects say "I'm not dating anyone".
- HBO brings streaming-only service to Europe (well, Nordic countries so far)
- Apparently people just don't want Microsoft Windows phones.
- How the turtle got its shell
- Most Online Journalism Is Rotten to the Core
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Technically Linux did make it to the desktop
Date: 2012-08-31 10:55 pm (UTC)No maker of desktop Linux distros like SUSE and Red Hat ever bothered trying that, and Ubuntu sucks because of the owner's arrogance. I suspect taking that kind of risk of dumping X11 outside of mobile might have required an investment and resources that would require a lot of corporate support no single distro company could attract if they weren't involved in mobile, but I'm not an IT person so I'm just speculating.
Re: Technically Linux did make it to the desktop
Date: 2012-09-01 08:45 am (UTC)I guess it goes down to how you define desktop
Date: 2012-09-01 11:45 am (UTC)Re: I guess it goes down to how you define desktop
Date: 2012-09-01 01:49 pm (UTC)