<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 April 2010 18:23, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arifsaha-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">arifsaha@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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What a "common Linux system" means is a mighty elusive thing;<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br>At one level, it isn't. The Linux Standard Base group (now a part of the Linux Foundation) has a fairly well-defined standard of what a minimum core "Linux OS" should look like... kernels, libraries, core apps, etc. (<a href="http://www.linuxbase.org">http://www.linuxbase.org</a>)<br>
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IMHO Linus is partly to blame for this. :-) Obviously Linux refer to the Linux kernel. However when asked about naming the OS which were built on top of the Linux kernel, Linux preferred to call it Linux as well. Well, now everything that have a little part of Linux in it, is being call Linux. :-)</blockquote>
<div><br>Generally these days, in my travels "Linux-based system" has been accepted to means anything with a Linux kernel and other stuff built on that. A "Linux (operating) system" these days generally means something that is LSB compliant of very nearly so.<br>
And calling something a "GNU/Linux system" describes more about the person talking than about the system.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Which actually have very little in common with Linux OS. Same with WebOS, I guess.</blockquote><div><br>The may have little more than kernels and core libraries, but that's a reasonably common foundation.<br><br> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Well, actually I guess common Linux applications may be able run trivially in Meego x86s phones. :-)</blockquote>
<div><br>Yeah, I just can't wait for the ability to run KDE and OpenOffice and Gimp and Seamonkey on my 3.5" touchscreen. :-P<br><br>Just because they can be done doesn't necessarily mean that they should.<br>
<br>There are very few standard apps that I can run on my Kubuntu desktop -- or the Netbook Remix on my EeePC, for that matter -- which I'd like to see duplicated on my smartphone. If there was any lesson learned from the rampant success of the iPhone and the parallel miserable failure to date of Windows Mobile, it's that the entire user-centric paradigm needs to be different on mobile devices. Not only the interface but the entire relationship between user and device. For similar reasons, the iPad (which I find boring) is the hype-darling-du-jour while previous mobile devices, from the early Windows attempts to the OQO and the Nokia NX00, are treated as if they never existed. It's why nobody really gives a damn about the HP Slate, which is little more than a conventional Windows netbook with some touchscreen features instead of a keyboard.<br>
</div></div><br>For all its warts, IMO Google seemed to do what was necessary to fully adapt Linux to mobile devices to provide a credible iPhone alternative -- keep the Linux core but overhaul substantial chunks of the periphery to suit the needs of tiny device users and developers, and keep the ecosystem open. We can already start to see some of the same fragmentation-on-top issues based on the different front ends that Moto and HTC have been adding to the stock OS, not too unlike the KDE/GNOME desktop rivalries. It is indeed an ecosystem of its own, enabled by a Linux core but with a very different direction from the LSB. By contrast, the Google ChromeOS looks to be a more conventional "Linux OS" (though stripped down and with a new UI).<br>
<br>- Evan<br>