On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:23 PM, CS DBA <[email protected]> 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. > > I wonder, what could be accomplished if a Linux based distro had the same > advantage? I'm in the early stages of researching just such a company.
Quite a bit. Vertical integration is all the rage now. So, it would be great to be able to have an accord between GNOME and a hardware vendor. > > We'll be setting up some infrastructure around community involvement and > feedback, however I'd be interested in any initial feedback you all have. > You have a challenging road ahead of you. Like we are working on a product, likewise you will need to come up with a laptop or desktop that has the kind of appeal that Apple has. Of course that means having some designers and engineers that know how to create a compelling laptop shell with the right mix of features. > I'm thinking that the OS would remain fully open source (GPL) and we'd > license the hardware specs in the same way. > Can you go into some detail on licensing the hardware spec? > Then we could release laptops & desktops that truly have an advantage. The > company would couple a solid Linux distro with it's own tweaks (polish & > branding & such) coupled with our own hardware. > I suggest you contact the folks at Zareason who have been also been making laptops and desktops specifically for GNU/Linux. It would be really great to see a joint venture, maybe one person comes up with a design and the other creates them? I'm not sure having competing companies at this venture is a good idea given how small the market is. > I suspect that instead of waiting for the current HW vendors to release new > hardware and then quickly figure out how to interface with it we can put > effort into polish and functionality and quickly become the trend setters > for MS and Apple to follow. You're not really out of the woods. You'll always be one generation behind as support for new hardware will initially be for Windows (or I suppose Apple, but they dont' have that problem) and it's always been hard to get Linux support for non-main line hardware. Unless of course you can leverage a large number of customers to be able to use the market to force them to make drivers. Anyways, good luck! For further reading, please consider reading here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS sri > > Thoughts? > > Thanks in advance > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
