Not to be a killjoy, but may I ask exactly what this has to do with [Unity-design]? I love the idea as well, would just like to keep this in the appropriate place. :)
On Feb 8, 2012, at 7:47 AM, Omar B. <estela...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Mainstream and mission critical apps/games? > > What keeps users in windows ? Exactly those apps. > > Ubuntu has indeed made some advances getting a few more apps and games, but > is still very far far away from actually being near to solving bug #1? > > Google has also undertaken this mission (specially for their chromeOS), so > they have been working on part of the solution that is called Native-client > (NaCl) technology. > > This is a huge step and some adopters already include Square Enix, Unity > Technologies, and Bungie (video explaination and presentation): > http://blog.chromium.org/2011/12/games-apps-and-runtimes-come-to-native.html > > Originally it was intended for google chrome/chromium browser and chromeOS, > but is open source and anyone can adopt or integrate it. > > How powerful is it? (from the link above): Native Client allows you to port > your existing apps (C, C++, C#, etc.) to the web while maintaining just one > code base. Spacetime Studios ported their multiplayer online game Star > Legends in less than two weeks from an existing code base of more than half a > million lines of code.) > > They are also working on a Portable Native client (PNaCl). > http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/08/native-client-brings-sandboxed-native.html > > Ubuntu has become a lot better and has a new interface, but that alone is not > going to get those mission critical apps that many Enterprise and users need, > so growth is not as fast as it could be because of the chicken/egg problem. > > ChromeOS (even if its very new and suppose to be just a "cloud" OS) already > starting to showcase more Popular apps than ubuntu and they also feel > integrated... > > So how can we leverage the huge potential of NaCl and make it feel more > "native" in ubuntu? Can we integrate it into ubuntu or USC ? make those apps > searchable without having to install chrome first? > > Maybe we wont get Msft Office early on ;) , but we could get many others to > make the transition quickly and easier than ever. > > Maybe say goodbye to the need for WINE in a few years?! > > We have to accept that the big players are not going to support us unless we > fix the chicken/egg problem and get big momentum behind us. All tweaks to the > UI helps , but is not going to do it. Preinstalled greatly helps but is also > not the magical bullet > > Ubuntu mainstream? there is more hope! > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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