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, Informative)
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Re:Is the desktop still gonna suck? (Score:4, Informative)
WINE is a joke - it can't even run Simcity 2000 without crashing.
Try harder: Simcity 2000 (DOS) works perfectly with DOSBOX (Linux, Win etc.), Simcity 2000 (Win95) does not work with windows Vista/7, while it runs under Wine (although with a few bugs).
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