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Why Linux Sucks - 2020 Version
Diesel wrote:
Joel Sat, 04 Jan 2020 19:46:17 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote: roach wrote: On Sat, 04 Jan 2020 14:23:52 -0500, Joel wrote: nospam wrote: In article , William Poaster wrote: Linux environment, the basics are still there. ... Android is a Linux operating system because, at it's base, it uses the standard Linux kernel and basic operating system. only the base. the rest of android is not. Reply after reply after reply, you still don't get it - even though it's been explained clearly to you. Linux *IS JUST THE* kernel of "desktop Linux" which is properly called GNU/Linux. Android and Chrome OS are just as much what is correctly called "Linux" as Ubuntu/ etc. are. Linux was never imagined to be a complete implementation of Unix, that's where "GNU" and other components come in. So, you could say that Android isn't Unix, but not that it isn't Linux. What does Linus Torvalds say about Android vs Linux? I didn't ask him. I'm quite sure he would acknowledge that Linux is a kernel, though, since that's what he designed it to be. Que nospam informing us all that Linus would be using the wrong definition to kernel. G Yeah, some people love to argue for the sake of arguing - that is the most charitable way I could put it, in this case, because multiple people explained these distinctions to nospam. -- Joel Crump |
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On 05/01/2020 01.16, AnonLinuxUser wrote:
On 1/4/2020 5:09 AM, Melzzzzz wrote: On 2020-01-04, Carlos E.R. wrote: On 02/01/2020 18.34, nospam wrote: In article , John Wesley Harding wrote: And, with mobile phones, Linux has taken over the world. no it hasn't. android is not a full linux distro. it's the linux kernel, with android built on top of it. all apps are written to android apis, not linux. It is just Linux with a different desktop :-P Android is not GNU. Then again it is Linux. There seems to be a division of opinions on all of this. So, who would be the authority on this topic? The creators of Android, which is google. They are not the authority. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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On 05/01/2020 03.52, nospam wrote:
In article , Jonathan N. Little wrote: from google i/o a while back: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/android-dev/android_not_linux.png No mater how often you say it don't make it true. Even in the age of "alternate facts". The Linux kernel is the kernel. My servers don't have a windows manager but they are still Linux, glibc is not the kernel but GNU C library, and the utilities are part of the shell not the kernel. It modular, whatever you wrap around the kernel doesn't nullify that it is Linux. i'm not the one saying it. *google* states that android is not linux. They're wrong. Not the first time. because you say so? the engineers who work on android are in a far better position to know what it is and is not. Not really. The rest of the engineers have a say. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 07:27:28 -0000 (UTC), Diesel
wrote: Joel Sat, 04 Jan 2020 19:46:17 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote: roach wrote: On Sat, 04 Jan 2020 14:23:52 -0500, Joel wrote: nospam wrote: In article , William Poaster wrote: Linux environment, the basics are still there. ... Android is a Linux operating system because, at it's base, it uses the standard Linux kernel and basic operating system. only the base. the rest of android is not. Reply after reply after reply, you still don't get it - even though it's been explained clearly to you. Linux *IS JUST THE* kernel of "desktop Linux" which is properly called GNU/Linux. Android and Chrome OS are just as much what is correctly called "Linux" as Ubuntu/ etc. are. Linux was never imagined to be a complete implementation of Unix, that's where "GNU" and other components come in. So, you could say that Android isn't Unix, but not that it isn't Linux. What does Linus Torvalds say about Android vs Linux? I didn't ask him. I'm quite sure he would acknowledge that Linux is a kernel, though, since that's what he designed it to be. Que nospam informing us all that Linus would be using the wrong definition to kernel. G Linus talking about Chromebooks. Interesting video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHFdoFKDuQA |
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On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 08:03:20 +0000, David
wrote: On 05/01/2020 07:43, Diesel wrote: David Fri, 03 Jan 2020 22:36:28 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote: On 03/01/2020 21:46, Diesel wrote: What of the post did you understand? That I'm FAR better off with Apple macOS :-D How so? "The integration between applications on the desktop, with each other and the OS services, and the integration with my iOS devices, is a huge plus." I couldn't phrase things any better than Snit! Thanks, Snit! :-D Snit's actually on point about this. Example for me, I use Windows, however I do have an iPhone and last year purchased an Apple Watch 4 which BTW is an amazing device. So, getting it working involved charging the watch and placing it near the iPhone. It picked up and configured networking, applications, configuration options as they were set on my iPhone and so forth. I was impressed. Now would I pay 3x the going rate for a Mac as compared to a PC for that type of integration? Or even more since I build my own systems. Probably not, but the Apple watch is not much more expensive than the other alternatives and it's the only one, currently, with an approved ECG measuring capability, at least in USA. However there is no denying that Apple has the integration between devices down to a science, as long as the user is willing to fork over the cash for that option and many do. |
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On 2020-01-05, flatfish+++ wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 08:03:20 +0000, David wrote: On 05/01/2020 07:43, Diesel wrote: David Fri, 03 Jan 2020 22:36:28 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote: On 03/01/2020 21:46, Diesel wrote: What of the post did you understand? That I'm FAR better off with Apple macOS :-D How so? "The integration between applications on the desktop, with each other and the OS services, and the integration with my iOS devices, is a huge plus." I couldn't phrase things any better than Snit! Thanks, Snit! :-D Snit's actually on point about this. Example for me, I use Windows, however I do have an iPhone and last year purchased an Apple Watch 4 which BTW is an amazing device. So, getting it working involved charging the watch and placing it near the iPhone. It picked up and configured networking, applications, configuration options as they were set on my iPhone and so forth. I was impressed. Now would I pay 3x the going rate for a Mac as compared to a PC for that type of integration? Or even more since I build my own systems. Probably not, but the Apple watch is not much more expensive than the other alternatives and it's the only one, currently, with an approved ECG measuring capability, at least in USA. However there is no denying that Apple has the integration between devices down to a science, as long as the user is willing to fork over the cash for that option and many do. If Apple didn't have that it would be pointless. Their hardware their software, what else? -- press any key to continue or any other to quit... U ničemu ja ne uživam kao u svom statusu INVALIDA -- Zli Zec Svi smo svedoci - oko 3 godine intenzivne propagande je dovoljno da jedan narod poludi -- Zli Zec Na divljem zapadu i nije bilo tako puno nasilja, upravo zato jer su svi bili naoruzani. -- Mladen Gogala |
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nospam wrote:
In article , Diesel wrote: from google i/o a while back: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/android-dev/android_not_linux.png No mater how often you say it don't make it true. Even in the age of "alternate facts". The Linux kernel is the kernel. My servers don't have a windows manager but they are still Linux, glibc is not the kernel but GNU C library, and the utilities are part of the shell not the kernel. It modular, whatever you wrap around the kernel doesn't nullify that it is Linux. i'm not the one saying it. *google* states that android is not linux. No, you misunderstood them. there's nothing to misunderstand. it's very clear. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009...ion-to-google- andro id-for-developers/ Although Android is built on top of the Linux kernel, the platform has very little in common with the conventional desktop Linux stack. In fact, during a presentation at the Google IO conference, Google engineer Patrick Brady stated unambiguously that Android is not Linux. They admit it's Linux. First sentence. first sentence says it's built *on* *top* *of*, not is. Okay. Linux is the kernel. What you make of it to use for servers, desktops, routers, toasters, or your phone requires additional components, shells, tool kits, etc. to provide the "interface" with us, the humans. In other words *on* *top* *of*, i.e. addition to, not *in place* of. The reason Android apps don't run on GNU/Linux distributions is not because of the kernel but the *stuff* in between the application layer and the kernel. the stuff *on* *top* *of* the kernel. Not like the almighty Mac of Independence Day that can instantly interface with an extra-terrestrial OS to hack it. Only in the movies not in reality. -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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On 2020-01-05, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
nospam wrote: In article , Diesel wrote: from google i/o a while back: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/android-dev/android_not_linux.png No mater how often you say it don't make it true. Even in the age of "alternate facts". The Linux kernel is the kernel. My servers don't have a windows manager but they are still Linux, glibc is not the kernel but GNU C library, and the utilities are part of the shell not the kernel. It modular, whatever you wrap around the kernel doesn't nullify that it is Linux. i'm not the one saying it. *google* states that android is not linux. No, you misunderstood them. there's nothing to misunderstand. it's very clear. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009...ion-to-google- andro id-for-developers/ Although Android is built on top of the Linux kernel, the platform has very little in common with the conventional desktop Linux stack. In fact, during a presentation at the Google IO conference, Google engineer Patrick Brady stated unambiguously that Android is not Linux. They admit it's Linux. First sentence. first sentence says it's built *on* *top* *of*, not is. Okay. It's not ok. Android is Linux, you can get to command line and execute commands, manage processes. It's Linux. It is userland that is not GNU.... just different set of commands and hieararchy, while filesystem processes everything is same... -- press any key to continue or any other to quit... U ničemu ja ne uživam kao u svom statusu INVALIDA -- Zli Zec Svi smo svedoci - oko 3 godine intenzivne propagande je dovoljno da jedan narod poludi -- Zli Zec Na divljem zapadu i nije bilo tako puno nasilja, upravo zato jer su svi bili naoruzani. -- Mladen Gogala |
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Melzzzzz wrote:
On 2020-01-05, Jonathan N. Little wrote: nospam wrote: In article , Diesel wrote: from google i/o a while back: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/android-dev/android_not_linux.png No mater how often you say it don't make it true. Even in the age of "alternate facts". The Linux kernel is the kernel. My servers don't have a windows manager but they are still Linux, glibc is not the kernel but GNU C library, and the utilities are part of the shell not the kernel. It modular, whatever you wrap around the kernel doesn't nullify that it is Linux. i'm not the one saying it. *google* states that android is not linux. No, you misunderstood them. there's nothing to misunderstand. it's very clear. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009...ion-to-google- andro id-for-developers/ Although Android is built on top of the Linux kernel, the platform has very little in common with the conventional desktop Linux stack. In fact, during a presentation at the Google IO conference, Google engineer Patrick Brady stated unambiguously that Android is not Linux. They admit it's Linux. First sentence. first sentence says it's built *on* *top* *of*, not is. Okay. It's not ok. Android is Linux, you can get to command line and execute commands, manage processes. It's Linux. It is userland that is not GNU.... just different set of commands and hieararchy, while filesystem processes everything is same... That was not *okay* as an affirmation of what proceeded but an *Okay...wait a minute* type of okay. -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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On Sun, 05 Jan 2020 15:27:31 GMT, Melzzzzz wrote:
On 2020-01-05, flatfish+++ wrote: On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 08:03:20 +0000, David wrote: On 05/01/2020 07:43, Diesel wrote: David Fri, 03 Jan 2020 22:36:28 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote: On 03/01/2020 21:46, Diesel wrote: What of the post did you understand? That I'm FAR better off with Apple macOS :-D How so? "The integration between applications on the desktop, with each other and the OS services, and the integration with my iOS devices, is a huge plus." I couldn't phrase things any better than Snit! Thanks, Snit! :-D Snit's actually on point about this. Example for me, I use Windows, however I do have an iPhone and last year purchased an Apple Watch 4 which BTW is an amazing device. So, getting it working involved charging the watch and placing it near the iPhone. It picked up and configured networking, applications, configuration options as they were set on my iPhone and so forth. I was impressed. Now would I pay 3x the going rate for a Mac as compared to a PC for that type of integration? Or even more since I build my own systems. Probably not, but the Apple watch is not much more expensive than the other alternatives and it's the only one, currently, with an approved ECG measuring capability, at least in USA. However there is no denying that Apple has the integration between devices down to a science, as long as the user is willing to fork over the cash for that option and many do. If Apple didn't have that it would be pointless. Their hardware their software, what else? But they do, which is the point. That's what differentiates Apple from the others. |
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On 2020-01-05, flatfish+++ wrote:
On Sun, 05 Jan 2020 15:27:31 GMT, Melzzzzz wrote: On 2020-01-05, flatfish+++ wrote: On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 08:03:20 +0000, David wrote: On 05/01/2020 07:43, Diesel wrote: David Fri, 03 Jan 2020 22:36:28 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote: On 03/01/2020 21:46, Diesel wrote: What of the post did you understand? That I'm FAR better off with Apple macOS :-D How so? "The integration between applications on the desktop, with each other and the OS services, and the integration with my iOS devices, is a huge plus." I couldn't phrase things any better than Snit! Thanks, Snit! :-D Snit's actually on point about this. Example for me, I use Windows, however I do have an iPhone and last year purchased an Apple Watch 4 which BTW is an amazing device. So, getting it working involved charging the watch and placing it near the iPhone. It picked up and configured networking, applications, configuration options as they were set on my iPhone and so forth. I was impressed. Now would I pay 3x the going rate for a Mac as compared to a PC for that type of integration? Or even more since I build my own systems. Probably not, but the Apple watch is not much more expensive than the other alternatives and it's the only one, currently, with an approved ECG measuring capability, at least in USA. However there is no denying that Apple has the integration between devices down to a science, as long as the user is willing to fork over the cash for that option and many do. If Apple didn't have that it would be pointless. Their hardware their software, what else? But they do, which is the point. That's what differentiates Apple from the others. Yes, and that's main reason to go Apple... -- press any key to continue or any other to quit... U ničemu ja ne uživam kao u svom statusu INVALIDA -- Zli Zec Svi smo svedoci - oko 3 godine intenzivne propagande je dovoljno da jedan narod poludi -- Zli Zec Na divljem zapadu i nije bilo tako puno nasilja, upravo zato jer su svi bili naoruzani. -- Mladen Gogala |
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On Sun, 05 Jan 2020 15:57:19 GMT, Melzzzzz wrote:
On 2020-01-05, flatfish+++ wrote: On Sun, 05 Jan 2020 15:27:31 GMT, Melzzzzz wrote: On 2020-01-05, flatfish+++ wrote: On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 08:03:20 +0000, David wrote: On 05/01/2020 07:43, Diesel wrote: David Fri, 03 Jan 2020 22:36:28 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote: On 03/01/2020 21:46, Diesel wrote: What of the post did you understand? That I'm FAR better off with Apple macOS :-D How so? "The integration between applications on the desktop, with each other and the OS services, and the integration with my iOS devices, is a huge plus." I couldn't phrase things any better than Snit! Thanks, Snit! :-D Snit's actually on point about this. Example for me, I use Windows, however I do have an iPhone and last year purchased an Apple Watch 4 which BTW is an amazing device. So, getting it working involved charging the watch and placing it near the iPhone. It picked up and configured networking, applications, configuration options as they were set on my iPhone and so forth. I was impressed. Now would I pay 3x the going rate for a Mac as compared to a PC for that type of integration? Or even more since I build my own systems. Probably not, but the Apple watch is not much more expensive than the other alternatives and it's the only one, currently, with an approved ECG measuring capability, at least in USA. However there is no denying that Apple has the integration between devices down to a science, as long as the user is willing to fork over the cash for that option and many do. If Apple didn't have that it would be pointless. Their hardware their software, what else? But they do, which is the point. That's what differentiates Apple from the others. Yes, and that's main reason to go Apple... Yep. As long as you are willing to pay the price. |
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In article , flatfish+++
wrote: Probably not, but the Apple watch is not much more expensive than the other alternatives and it's the only one, currently, with an approved ECG measuring capability, at least in USA. However there is no denying that Apple has the integration between devices down to a science, as long as the user is willing to fork over the cash for that option and many do. If Apple didn't have that it would be pointless. Their hardware their software, what else? But they do, which is the point. That's what differentiates Apple from the others. Yes, and that's main reason to go Apple... Yep. As long as you are willing to pay the price. prices are similar for similar specs. |
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In article , Carlos E.R.
wrote: There seems to be a division of opinions on all of this. So, who would be the authority on this topic? The creators of Android, which is google. They are not the authority. they are for the products they create. |
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In article , flatfish+++
wrote: That I'm FAR better off with Apple macOS :-D How so? "The integration between applications on the desktop, with each other and the OS services, and the integration with my iOS devices, is a huge plus." I couldn't phrase things any better than Snit! Thanks, Snit! :-D Snit's actually on point about this. Example for me, I use Windows, however I do have an iPhone and last year purchased an Apple Watch 4 which BTW is an amazing device. So, getting it working involved charging the watch and placing it near the iPhone. It picked up and configured networking, applications, configuration options as they were set on my iPhone and so forth. I was impressed. Now would I pay 3x the going rate for a Mac as compared to a PC for that type of integration? Or even more since I build my own systems. prices for macs are similar to pcs with similar specs. the only way it's '3x the going rate' is to compare wildly different specs. Probably not, but the Apple watch is not much more expensive than the other alternatives and it's the only one, currently, with an approved ECG measuring capability, at least in USA. ecg is currently approved in 32 countries: https://www.apple.com/lae/watchos/feature-availability/#branded-ecg However there is no denying that Apple has the integration between devices down to a science, as long as the user is willing to fork over the cash for that option and many do. there is no need to 'fork over the cash' since again, prices are competitive for similar specs. |
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