An observation;
I just acquired a Lenovo 300e Chromebook which was developed for the
education market [schools]. I wonder what grade level? It includes a text
editor which I assume is used for writing code because it has a word
processor also. A whole new generation of "code talkers" is on it's way!
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 8:08 AM
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> Hi Don, at the risk of making this thread even longer...
>
> Yes, ebook readers tend to use Linux. Nicer brands even
> publish development kits ;-) But Linux is a whole OS. So
> as long as Amazon publishes any changes to the kernel
> with sources, they can run any of their closed source,
> DRM protected document viewers they want on their box.
> Or you just buy another brand without DRM, of course.
>
> Another "fun case" was the modem chip in some smartphone,
> I think even one by Apple. It took some GPL enthousiasts
> some lengthy discussions to get ENOUGH sources for the
> firmware to be able to understand their embedded Linux.
>
> Seems it was some Qualcomm Quectel module, also used in
> iPhone 5, among others (EC20 MDM9615). There is a talk
> about it: "Dissecting Modern (3G/4G) Cellular Modems".
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> Cheers, Eric
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> Thanks Gents!
> You ave shed additional light on a rather complicated subject.
>
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 6:24 PM Eric Auer wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Don, at the risk of making this thread even longer...
>>
>> Yes, ebook readers tend to use Linux. Nicer brands even
>> publish development kits ;-) But Linux is a whole OS. So
>> as long as Amazon publishes any changes to the kernel
>> with sources, they can run any of their closed source,
>> DRM protected document viewers they want on their box.
>> Or you just buy another brand without DRM, of course.
>>
>> Another "fun case" was the modem chip in some smartphone,
>> I think even one by Apple. It took some GPL enthousiasts
>> some lengthy discussions to get ENOUGH sources for the
>> firmware to be able to understand their embedded Linux.
>>
>> Seems it was some Qualcomm Quectel module, also used in
>> iPhone 5, among others (EC20 MDM9615). There is a talk
>> about it: "Dissecting Modern (3G/4G) Cellular Modems".
>>
>> Cheers, Eric
>>
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> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 12:15:45 +0200 (CES)
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 11:22:47 -0400 dmccunney wrote:
> >
> >> There is a new commercial OS/2 variant now, ArcaOS from arcanoae.com .
> >
> >I missed that one. Thanks!
> >
> >> 32-bit, no 64-bit, no GPT, no refund it it doesn't work.
> >
> >64-bit can be lived without. 32 bit is nice. The question is what 32
> bit apps?
>
> Well, the existing OS/2 ones for starters, but of course the number of
> those
> is just a fraction of what you have on Windows.
>
> But there is a reasonably recent FireFox/Mozilla browser, OpenOffice etc.
>
> Then there are loads of ported Linux applications as well, and they also
> include
> a YUM/RPM packagemanager so they are not hard to install.
>
> That said, if you do not have any existing OS/2 apps, there is not that
> much reason
> to pick ArcaOS over Linux, macOS or Windows, apart from the WorkPlace
> shell,
> which still is one of the best object-oriented desktops around.
> (Allthough I am mainly a command line guy myself :)
>
> >The problem that did in OS/2 was lack of support for 32 bit *Windows*
> >apps. The native OS/2 apps ecosystem wasn't broad/deep enough, and it
> >needed to be able to run Win apps to compete with Windows.
>
>
