Linux Of the Future May Be About Which Environment, Not Which Distribution 214
itwbennett writes "In its 2012 roadmap, the Mozilla Foundation highlights plans to create its own soup-to-nuts mobile platform, known as Boot to Gecko. With this move, the Mozilla Foundation 'is finally shaking off its dependence on browser revenues and treading where Google, with ChromeOS; Canonical, with Unity on Ubuntu; and (most recently) the Plasma community's Spark tablet have already started: the creation of standards-based platforms that rely on robust web applications (in varying degrees) more than native-run apps to provide the user experience,' writes blogger Brian Proffitt. 'I very much think that we are heading for a time when Linux flavors will be identified by environments, not distributions.'"
Re:Is the desktop still gonna suck? (Score:5, Funny)
Is the desktop still gonna suck?
Nope, not this year. If you hadn't heard, 2012 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop.
Re:Is the desktop still gonna suck? (Score:5, Funny)
Want a real shock? Grab a 20 year old copy if Windows XP. I's still usable! (at least as usable as a Windows OS can be)
Good luck finding one.
Re:Is the desktop still gonna suck? (Score:5, Funny)
20 years ago the world was eagerly awaiting the release of Windows 3.1 in March, which would finally bring us colour icons, 386 Enhanced (protected mode) windows apps and the ability to run MSDOS programs in a window. Oh, and Minesweeper, no more stupid MS Reversi for us!
Man, I can just feel CANYON.MID playing through my head as I think about the coming excitement.