Linux, kill it or save it.

It's more profitable to kill Linux than to save it. And I'm going to prove you that. I posted two news about Linux at todoUMPC. The first one was quoting my friend Daniel's article "Why Mobile Linux is Doomed" and another one about Ubuntu Mobile published at Linux Planet. This last one was asking for help to make Ubuntu fully work in a Q1 Celeron UMPC. Guess what happened, the negative article about Linux is breaking traffic records while the positive one asking to work for a full version of Linux has been completely ignored.

We, bloggers, are some sort of entertainers,  we need traffic in our sites. What is the fun of having a blog if nobody reads it? Did you get my point? So, now do you understand why I said that is more profitable to kill Linux than to save it.

And that's part of the problem with Linux. There is a lot of people defending it but just a few working on it.

ThoughtFix: Why Mobile Linux is Doomed

Our friend Daniel from ThoughtFix has published a very good article about Linux and why he think that it's doomed. And that made me remember and old Greek saying "Split and you will win". Too many flavors that the only thing they do is to get newbies confused.

It's a shame. I will miss the excitement of mobile Linux systems. I hope some company is strong (or wealthy) enough to provide developers with the tools, distribution channels, and incentives to provide a rich application directory for their devices. Failing that, mobile Linux is doomed.

Ubuntu in a HTC Shift

Well, there is not too much info that I can say about it but what you can see in this video. Apparently this person installed Ubuntu got everything working on his HTC Shift.

And... He is even having a good time on it...

TabletKiosk is experimenting with Linux

Here is a video of a TabletKiosk i440D running openSuse 10.3 Linux.

I was surprised to see how well the on screen keyboard works and the presence of Xournal a replacement for Journal an application to takes notes in "Ink" that comes with TabletPC 2005 Edition OS. Even the screen rotation and the fingerprint reader work perfectly.

Are we going to see Linux as an option for this machine? That's the question I'm leaving in the air to TabletKiosk. I hope so, even when I'm happy with Microsoft OS, competition is what's needed to see improvements in any OS.

OpenArena and Mandriva on Intel MID

 What can I say about this video? No much.

OpenArena and Mandriva Linux on Intel MID prototype

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GeeXboX, a substitute for AVSNow?

I have to confess that the only thing that I know about Linux is thanks to my few hours of experience with Ubuntu. This is why I have to depend here on those readers of mine that really love Linux. My question is, can this GeeXbox be and to replace our AVSNow partition?

GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. Being a standalone LiveCD-based distribution, it's a ready to boot operating system than works on any Pentium-class x86 computer or PowerPC Macintosh, implying no software requirement. You can even use it on a diskless computer, the whole system being loaded in RAM.

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Linux and Ink Support

As for as I know, ink is very poorly supported in Linux. And when I said "poorly" take it as almost "Null". There is not any handwriting recognition so far and a few applications can handle any kind of "ink".

But Today I had a very short but interesting conversation with a "very well informed person" whose name I can't reveal who told me that this was about to change very soon. So it seems to me that no only Intel is looking for other OS to put their money to work.

Sounds good to me, but I want to tell about something that happened to me Yesterday. I was working with a guy who take cares of some at my pages, and we ran into a situation where we needed to change something in a page that was created in FrontPage. On that moment I had to wait for my friend to switch from his Mac PC to his Windows XP PC to continue with what we were doing. Conclusion: Want it or not, we live in a Microsoft World. So far as an IT person that I'm, I can see me having a companion PC using Linux or Mac but never in a situation where I do not have close to me a PC running Windows. I can't function fully without Windows.