Re: Development question

2014-02-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 02:54:54PM -0700, CS DBA wrote: > It seems to me that the "marriage" that Microsoft & Apple enjoy per > hardware designed for their software gives them a huge advantage. I > see that the Linux community is quite good at coming up with > drivers, software, etc for hardware af

Re: Development question

2014-02-07 Thread Frank Murphy
On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:54:54 -0700 CS DBA wrote: > We'll be setting up some infrastructure around community involvement > and feedback, however I'd be interested in any initial feedback you > all have. > Talk to the @devel list, around the whole Fedora.next thing. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Development question

2014-02-07 Thread CS DBA
On 2/7/14, 5:17 PM, Doug wrote: On 02/07/2014 04:54 PM, CS DBA wrote: Hi All; It seems to me that the "marriage" that Microsoft & Apple enjoy per hardware designed for their software gives them a huge advantage. I see that the Linux community is quite good at coming up with drivers, software

Re: Development question

2014-02-07 Thread CS DBA
On 2/7/14, 3:27 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 02/07/2014 01:54 PM, CS DBA issued this missive: Hi All; It seems to me that the "marriage" that Microsoft & Apple enjoy per hardware designed for their software gives them a huge advantage. I see that the Linux community is quite good at coming up wit

Re: Development question

2014-02-07 Thread Doug
On 02/07/2014 04:54 PM, CS DBA wrote: Hi All; It seems to me that the "marriage" that Microsoft & Apple enjoy per hardware designed for their software gives them a huge advantage. I see that the Linux community is quite good at coming up with drivers, software, etc for hardware after the fact

Re: Development question

2014-02-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:54:54 -0700 CS DBA wrote: > I wonder, what could be accomplished if a Linux based distro had the > same advantage? If someone would add an internal driver API in linux with one that could instead load and run native Windows drivers, then Linux would have the same advantage

Re: Development question

2014-02-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/07/2014 01:54 PM, CS DBA issued this missive: Hi All; It seems to me that the "marriage" that Microsoft & Apple enjoy per hardware designed for their software gives them a huge advantage. I see that the Linux community is quite good at coming up with drivers, software, etc for hardware aft

Development question

2014-02-07 Thread CS DBA
Hi All; It seems to me that the "marriage" that Microsoft & Apple enjoy per hardware designed for their software gives them a huge advantage. I see that the Linux community is quite good at coming up with drivers, software, etc for hardware after the fact. I wonder, what could be accomplishe